(A/N: Hey all! I'm glad you all have been enjoying my ficcy! So here's the next chappie! Enjoy!)
The Naru-tachi rose, bright and early, feeling fine.
After some early morning excercises, the groups met up for breakfast at Ichiraku.
"HANDS OFF MY MISO YOU TURD!" Kiba snarled, switching the bowl away from Kazuo.
"GETCHER PAWS AWAY FROM MY ANPAN, ASS MASTER!" Takaomi shouted at Chouji and stomping a foot down in his massive gut.
"LAY OFFA MY RICE, BASTARD!" Neji cried, Gentle Fisting Suo's jaw.
"YOU HAVE YOUR OWN RAMEN, NARUTO! LEAVE MINE ALONE!" Ino shrieked, smacking him in the head with an empty bowl.
"Hey…where's Akane-chan? She's missing breakfast." Sora asked, giving up on trying to glomp Gaara after his sand repelled her for the umpteenth time.
"Didn't she come up with you guys, Kazuo?" Hinode asked the raven haired teen.
"Nuh-uh." Mannen shook his head affirmatively, "She's not feelin' all that well."
"Wuh-what?" Sora yelped worriedly, "Sh-she didn't REALLY catch an anime disease…did she?"
"Oh GOD no!" Suo laughed.
"She's just goin' into withdrawl!" Takaomi snickered.
"Wihdrawl?" Hinata asked, "From what?"
"It's pretty obvious, Hinata." Sakura smirked superiorly, "She's completely addicted to cigarettes and booze and she's gone without for three days!"
"Cold Turkey I might add." Kazuo grinned.
"Fact she ain't eating or drinking anything isn't helping matters either." Kankuro smirked.
"Whadda stubborn little cuss!" Temari said, shaking her head.
"Bet it isn't doing wonders for her attitude either." Shikamaru muttered.
"…wonderful." Shino grumbled.
"Perfect. Just perfect." Gaara mumbled.
Akane lay on her side in the windowless room.
Her head was pounding.
Her joints ached.
She was at the point now where she would KILL someone for the nicotine under their fingernails (ya hear that, Asuma?)
Akane was even beginning to hallucinate that bottles of her favorite liquors were floating around her futon, always just out of reach, taunting her.
If you thought she had a bad attitude before, think again.
Her hair-trigger temper was set to go off at even the slightest remarks.
Even if they weren't directed at her.
In fact, if anyone so much as opened that door, they were going to find themselves looking down the barrel of her .425 Casull Taurus Raging Bull Revolver!
And who was the first unfortunate sap to open that accursed door?
Kiba of course.
"Yo Monkey!" he called jokingly, "Kazuo said I should-!"
-ch-klk-
"Get-OUT!" Akane roared.
-P-KAM-
A bullet blazed past his cheek and into the wall next to it.
Akamaru quickly darted forward and shut the door.
"Wow." Naruto whistled, sauntering up (they've become accustomed to the sound of gunfire…aint it sad?), poking the smoldering hot bullet hole next to Kiba's eara few times with is index finger, "Only off by a millimeter."
"Any closer and we wouldn't be talkin' here." Chouji nodded.
"…whaddid I do?" Kiba squeaked, sitting hard.
"NEVER FEAR, COMRADE!" Lee (obviously) boomed, "I, THE HANDSOME BLUE BEAST OF KONOHA, SHALL INVESTIGATE THE MATTER!"
He flung open the door.
-P-KAM-
-P-KAM-
-P-KAM-
Lee crabwalked out of the room and slammed the door shut.
Back in the room, Akane lay on her side on the futon, Raging Bull smoking, eyes glazed with an insane light.
"She…she…she almost took out my leg again!" Lee cried, clutching the appendage defensively with his newly healed arm, "These things have barely recovered from the last time I fought Gaara!"
"Could she have known somehow…" Ten Ten trailed off.
"No way." Hinode said dully.
"Pure coincidence." Sora drawled listlessly.
They knew of Akane's hatred for all things Animanga FAR too well to even HOPE of her reading the portion in the manga or watching the segment in the anime where Gaara crushed said limbs.
Back in the room, Akane was getting very woozy and lightheaded.
She could endure weeks without food.
It was the days without water that were kicking her ass.
Not to mention, withdrawl was reeeeally a bitch.
She'd tried to quit drinking andsmoking several times before giving up.
"So this is hell." Akane mumbled blearily.
Her vision was getting verrrrry blurred.
-FWMP-
Hearing the sound, the half-brother quartet strode forward.
"Finally." Mannen sighed, strolling up with the rest of the Freakish Foursome.
Sakura, hand quaking in fear, tremulously opened the door.
Nothing.
They chanced a peek inside.
Akane lay sprawled on the floor unconscious.
"...she put up a good fight." Shino shrugged, still fending off Hinode glomp attempts with a wall of bugs.
"Well, let's hurry up and do this before she wakes up." Takaomi grumbled.
Sake'!
Wonderful, glorious SAKE'!
Oh, how she reveled in it's splendor.
It wasn't often Akane got a dream THIS good, the kind of dream where you can smell and taste things!
It was awesome!
Waaaaaaaaait a sec…
Taste things?
Akane's eyes snapped open…
…to discover her brother's force feeding her semi-consconscious body.
"Uh…eh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!" Mannen chuckled nervously.
"M-mornin' sis." Suo stuttered.
"Youuuuuuuuuuuuu Assjaaaaaaaaaaaacksss!" Akane hissed.
"N-n-now Monkey! Let us explain!" Takaomi stammered as his younger sister slunk out of the futon like Sadako from Ringu.
"Th-they were just worried about-!" Kankuro sputtered, until Akane fixed her artic gaze in his direction, silencing him.
Remember that black case from earlier?
Well, Akane kicked open sharply, twirled a rather long thin gun around her ankle before flipping it into her hands; a sniper rifle
"CHEW ON THIS YOU TARDS!" Akane shrieked, cocking the gun and taking aim.
-P-KAM-
A hand had suddenly closed around the barrel and redirected it's trajectory at the ceiling.
"Hello there." A voice said mildly, "Quite the party you've got going on here."
"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto cried.
"Yo." The perverted ninja said serenely, trademark Icha Icha Violence in his hand.
-FWHMF-
Akane rammed the Jounin in the stomach with the butt of the rifle.
"Stupid interferin'ASSHOLE!" she ranted, "Was only loaded with rubber SLUGS! Shoulda let me gun'em DOWN!"
Akane continued to rant in this vein as he collasped to his knees, stuggling for breath (she hit him a little...koff-low)
"That had ta hurt." Ino noted as Kakashi struggled to regain his breath.
"No…shit." Kakashi wheezed.
(A/N: Maito Gai makes his appearence, the return of the Super Perv andmore fun things emerge from the black case! And...AKANE HAS A WHAT? R&R!)