Author's Note:
Claire: FINALS ARE NEXT WEEK! FUCK!
FuckfuckfuckfuckFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! I am screwed. God, I hate physics. So, so very much. FUCK! And my history teachers a fag-whore too.
FIGS!
Figs is my new cuss word…Well, actually it's an old one, but I resurrected it. I'm kind of surprised at myself though, I only said it once so far in this story.
By the way, WHY DOES EVERYONE KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO?! ARE WE THAT PREDICTABLE?! Do the spirits that you see spy on us and tell you what we're writing?! Is there some random bystander named Jen that was in Konoha that we didn't notice?! Do you do wolf voodoo and the wolves go and…okay no I can't really make something out of that one…
Hokay, here's the deal. This story has a much better plot than the last one. We kind of had a bunch of loose ends and we weren't as good at writing as we are now. Point is, this one has three parts. We're almost done with the first one, AND THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL ANY OF YOU ARE GUESSING THE NEXT ONE!
Hee hee. It's unpredictable.
Eva: Guh. Thanks for reminding me about the finals…
You suck.
Really.
I had actually forgotten for twenty minutes….
Damn you.
I'm going to fail half of my finals, which means I'm going to fail half of my classes. And I'm really depressed about it.
And I've been writing more!!! It makes me happy!!! (Claire still says I haven't been. But I have. I swear.)
Merp. Don't really no what else to say…so…yeah.
Leah: I'm sick…and it sucks…I had three tests today.
Japanese: I accidentally said "yeah" instead of "hai" during interview thing.
History: Nice teacher. I get to take that test next Monday at lunch.
Math: Either I did really good or really bad.
I hate being sick! MY BRAIN HAS TURNED INTO GAY FLUFFY CLOUDS.
Shikamaru: Ooh…pretty.
Eva, Leah, Claire: …
Chapter 3:
Around nine o'clock the next day, Naruto woke up, only just now aware of the noise which had been going on for the past three hours. When he looked around, however, he immediately jumped up and drew a kunai, thinking he had been captured. He surveyed the room, extremely shocked that he was not bound, and had been allowed to sleep on a surprisingly comfortable mattress, similar to the one at his own apartment. Not allowing himself to dwell on trivial details such as this when escape was called for, he quickly formulated a plan to suit the circumstances.
This plan consisted of crawling out through the window.
He had one foot through when Claire walked into the room, carrying an armful of bulging plastic bags. "Oh good, you're finally awake. You must not have very good ninja senses if you could sleep through all the noise I was making," she commented dryly. She held up the bags for him to see, "Where should I put these? I'm running out of room by the door in the kitchen."
Naruto blinked stupidly, still halfway out the window. "I haven't been captured?"
"No, idiot, your house is clean," she informed him irritably. She sighed and turned around, stomping back into what he now realized was his kitchen. "I'll just pile them up here and let you figure it out later." There was a sound of plastic bags crinkling against each other.
Naruto finally climbed down from the windowsill and surveyed his dwelling. There were now very few objects cluttering up the floor, and several of them appeared to be plastic bags filled with more junk Claire had collected. The floor looked like it had been washed, too, save for the spot around his bed. The contrast against the floor was pretty noticeable. He ambled into the kitchen after Claire, looking up at down and remembering what it looked like clean; except, Naruto doubted that his room had ever looked this clean before. The placed looked strangely bare, and he couldn't exactly place why. "Um...you didn't throw out any of my stuff, did you?" he asked awkwardly.
"Of course not, I'm not stupid. I just got rid of all the trash," she snapped.
"Then...why does it look so empty?"
Claire exhaled and set down the bags she was carrying. "Most people think that if things are arranged all pretty or can't be seen at all then the room is clean. And I say that's bullshit. I organized things. I put stuff you don't need out in the cupboards and the closet."
"But they're all full of stuff too..." Naruto grinned sheepishly.
"Not anymore. I organized them too. Take a look."
Naruto walked over to the closet, cautiously. He generally gave it a wide berth when passing from room to room, in case it overflowed with all the junk he occasionally shoved in there in order to make the room presentable. But when he tapped the closet door opened and hastily jumped back, he noticed there was no need. The floor was visible, except for a few small boxes in the back. All the clothes that had lain crumpled on the floor were now hanging neatly on hangers, too.
Naruto stood standing there, mouth open, as Claire smirked and picked up the bags again. "It was mostly just clothes and empty ramen cups. Not that difficult to fix," she admitted casually.
The dumbstruck ninja slowly turned around to face the direction of her pacing. "Um I don't want to sound ungrateful or anything...but why did you clean my apartment?"
"Because I'm OCD."
He blinked again. "What's that?"
"It means I'm crazy and I clean stuff. Now help me get rid of these bags!" she ordered, pointing the pile of bags towering almost halfway up to the door. The blond peered at the bags, their contents (consisting mostly of a shocking number of ramen containers) attempting to escape their plastic captors and clutter the floor again. Suddenly Naruto's hand reached out and he snatched one of the ramen cups.
"You're throwing this away? This is my favorite type of ramen ever! It's really rare and really expensive!" he shouted, appalled.
Claire narrowed her eyes disbelievingly at him. "It's full of holes, so it's probably filled with dust! It looks like it's about a thousand years old! I found it under the sink next to the cleaning supplies, and they were leaking soap bubbles all over it!"
Aside from the thought briefly crossing his mind that he had had no idea he even owned cleaning supplies, Naruto only responded as was true to his ramen-loving nature. "I bet it tastes fine. I'm having it for breakfast."
"That's revolting," she scoffed, walking back into another room to collect more junk.
She returned a few minutes later with another full plastic bag as Naruto was happily stirring the no doubt radioactive ramen in a pot on the stove.
"By the way, did you know you had a toaster?" Claire noted idly, pointing to a shiny, clean, and apparently un-used toaster.
"No...," he replied truthfully. The timer on the stove dinged and Naruto turned it off, pouring the putrid stuff into a bowl that was equally as shiny as the toaster and sitting down at the table. "This is great, by the way," he sneered triumphantly after taking the first mouthful. Claire stuck her tongue out in disgust and went back to work.
xXx
"Naruto?" Sakura was at the door to his apartment, not knocking due apparently to something in her arms.
"Sakura-chan? Is that you?" Naruto wondered, opening the door.
Sakura's eyes grew wide on the scene laid out before her. "Um...Claire?"
"Don't talk. Cleaning," Claire ordered as she ran across the bedroom to the kitchen for probably the thousandth time that morning.
"What's she doing?" Sakura asked Naruto, raising an eyebrow curiously.
"She's been cleaning my room since six in the morning, apparently. I woke up an hour ago. I offered to help but she just told me to shut up and stop buggin her," Naruto laughed, rubbing the back of his neck with his left hand. His attention was drawn to the thing that Sakura held in her arms. "Leah?"
"She won't wake up," came the sighed response. "I've tried everything. I even poured water on her head."
Claire perked up. She stopped what she was doing and ran to the door with a rag and mopped up the drips that had collected under her, muttering irritably.
"Can I come in?" Sakura requested, still awkwardly standing in the entryway.
He blinked, processing. "Sure," He moved for them, and Sakura sat Leah down on the couch, where she slept soundly on.
"What do we do?" Sakura inquired, looking to her yellow-haired friend for answers to this unique problem.
"Have you tried shaking her?"
"I ran with her in my arms this entire way."
"Noise?"
"It's pretty loud in here," she spared a second to glance at the frantic Claire.
They pondered upon their interesting predicament for several minutes, and it was when Claire ran by with a pile of dirty laundry in her arms that an idea struck Sakura. "Claire lives with Leah, right?" She didn't wait for an answer. "She must know how to wake her up!" She jumped in front of Claire, who completely ignored her in her quest to clean Naruto's room. Sakura blinked, and then tried again. "Claire?"
"Can't talk. Cleaning."
"How do you wake up Leah?"
Claire gave her an annoyed look, then paused and looked at her straight in the eyes, saying deliberately and articulately, "Can't talk. Cleaning."
"It'll only take a second," Sakura said again.
The girl on a cleaning-rampage kept walking, ignoring any and all of Sakura's followed attempts.
Naruto decided to have a go. He walked up to Claire and opened his mouth to say something.
"No," Claire cut him off.
"But--"
"No."
"Can I just--"
"No."
She kept cleaning, making Naruto's bed now that he was up.
"What do we do now?" Naruto whined.
Sakura blinked. "Do you think she's okay? I've seen people in comas have this level of responsiveness before," she gasped, beginning to become concerned.
Naruto gaped. "She's in a coma? This is bad..."
It seemed Claire was fed up, she walked over to them. "She's fine. God, you people are pathetic. You knock on something," she said, knocking on the table near the couch, "and say JAMBO!" They all waited for any reaction from Leah. Her right ring finger twitched slightly. Claire shrugged. "Ask Eva."
Naruto ran to his window, shoving it open and jumping out. He ran all the way to Sai's apartment, which he had seen a few times when they met to discuss missions there. Not bothering to knock on the door, he kicked it open. "Eva!"
She looked up from her spot on the floor, where she had been cleaning her sword with a spare rag of Sai's. "Hm? Oh, Naruto, what's wrong?"
"How do you wake Leah up, dattebayo?!"
She blinked. "You knock on something and yell JAMBO!" she demonstrated. Sai's head poked into the room, and the rest of his body followed. While fully clothed, Sai's hair was wet, suggesting he had just finished with a shower.
"Why are you in my apartment?"
"I came to get Eva." He sounded a bit exasperated.
"Why?"
"Leah won't wake up."
Eva carefully sheathed her sword, which was difficult at the angle she was in, and with it in hand, and said, "Meh, let's go." She began walking towards the door, and Sai raised an eyebrow. Eva hung her head down. "What?"
Without answering, he walked up and, grabbing her sword, threw her over his shoulder. He and Naruto ran and jumped down the stairs, and sprinted to the Jinchuuriki's apartment. They jumped in through the window, and Claire stopped long enough to snort at Eva's situation, and then got back to work. She slid down onto the floor, sending a small glare at the smiling Sai, who was holding her sword out of her reach. She walked over to Leah, knocked on the table, and knelt down next to her, yelling "JAMBO!" into her ear. Not checking to see if it had worked, she walked back over to Sai and held out her hand, "Can I please have my sword back?"
He handed it to her, and his eyes flicked over to Leah as she moved.
The girl who refused to wake up was propping herself into a sitting position, blinking and yawning as she woke up. "Did we move?" she wondered out loud, clenching and releasing her eyelids in an attempt to clear her sight of fuzzy specks.
"We're in Konoha, dork. Naruto's house," Claire said bluntly, plopping herself down on the couch next to her friend. For the first time, Eva looked around.
"Wow...clean." She looked at Claire. "You?"
"Yeah."
"Ah."
Naruto frowned defensively. "How did you know?"
"She did this to my room once."
Naruto nodded his head in understanding.
"Plus there's no way that someone without a dick the size of yours can keep his room clean," Sai said with a friendly smile.
A small giggle escaped Eva, and when Sakura looked at her curiously, Claire was happy to explain. "Eva is a complete pervert. She even admits it."
When Team Kakashi looked questioningly towards the Goth, she said without sarcasm, "Oh yeah, I'm a complete perv."
Naruto blinked. "Didn't expect that one..."
"No one ever does," Claire shook her head. "Ignorance really is bliss…"
Sakura nodded, dismissing the subject with that simple motion. "Well, since everyone is awake now, we should probably head over to Tsunade's office and get it over with."
Naruto and Sai nodded in agreement, though the girls cringed inwardly, not looking forward to encountering the scary Hokage woman again.
XxX
The large red office was starting to become very familiar, even though they had only seen it once before in person. They were learning that it was not as harmless as it looked on TV, and it was turning into a symbol of their imminent demise. After all, they knew they couldn't fool her forever. Eventually she would be able to prove their association with the Akatsuki. And who knew what would happen then?
She looked just as sinister as she had the day before, sitting among her mountains of paperwork. Shizune was also trying to look menacing, but was basically failing. Naruto, Sakura, and Sai stood dutifully in the background, while the girls were forced to assume a position closer to Tsunade's desk.
"Team Kakashi, you are dismissed," Tsunade said stuffily.
"What?" Naruto yelled, forgetting his formal demeanor. "Why do we have to leave?"
"Because I said so!" she barked. "Now, LEAVE!"
Naruto flinched and the three of them scampered away. Tsunade turned to Shizune. "Make sure they aren't listening outside the door," she sighed knowingly, having dealt with this routine many times before. Shizune nodded and followed them out the door. None of the people in the office spoke. The only sound was the muffled yells of Shizune as she swatted Team Kakashi outside.
"Are you ready to tell me anything?"
The three girls said nothing, also trying to look sinister (but possibly failing as miserably as Shizune). Eva, knowing she would just come off retarded, had a smile on her face.
"Why do you insist on being the allies of evil?" Tsunade asked them, a slight note of disappointment in her voice.
Again, no response.
The Hokage sighed, feeling frustrated.
"You know," Claire started, causing her to look up again hopefully, "usually when people do interviews or interrogations, they have more questions prepared."
Tsunade glared at her. "I have more ques—"
"—Ring. Ring, ring."
"What was that?" the Hokage asked, referring to the annoying gremlin voice that had suddenly spoken.
"Ring! RING, RING!"
"Shit…shit!" Claire muttered, trying to press her arm against her pocket to muffle her phone.
"Claire…" Eva hissed quietly, "You didn't turn it off?!"
"I forgot!"
"I demand you answer me right now!" Tsunade yelled, "What is that noise?!"
"RING, RING, RING!"
"It's Claire's phone! It's probably my brother wondering where we are," Leah said, panicking under pressure.
"Answer it now! Don't tell him anything about your situation."
Claire hesitantly pulled the White Chocolate phone out of her pocket and slid it open.
"Where the hell are you guys?"
Leah nodded, unsurprised. "Jason."
"You're friends are here and they want to talk to you."
Crap, the three thought in unison.
"Well tell them we don't want to talk to them!" Eva yelled.
"They don't want to talk to you," they heard Jason relay to someone.
"Bitches! Gimme the phone!" said another very familiar voice.
"Don't you have something to go amputate, Jason?" Claire said quickly.
"Oh shit, you're right! I'm late for that open heart surgery! Gotta go, bye!"
There was a static click as Jason hung up. Leah shrugged, facing Tsunade again. "Yep, that was Jason. The only doctor who could ever be late for an open heart surgery."
Tsunade was facing her desk in thought, hands crossed and thumbs nearly touching the purple diamond on her forehead. "Who were the friends he mentioned?"
"Figs…" Claire whispered, cursing again.
"Probably Edward and Kenneth. Leah and I both dated Edward. He's very whiny and he keeps coming back to pester us," Eva said casually.
"Funny, I don't believe you. How did you know that you didn't want to talk to them? You didn't even know who it was. What if it was someone you liked?" Tsunade countered sneakily.
"Because, we do so enjoy talking to you!" Claire said, feigning a cutesy voice.
Tsunade retained her un-amused scowl.
xXx
She asked a few more questions, though she did not receive many answers that were more informative than the previous ones. She called Shizune and Team Kakashi back after a while, having giving up for the day. Tsunade told them to keep watching the girls, and that she wanted to see them again the next day.
"So, why are you guys here anyway, dattebayo?" Naruto asked, suddenly curious.
"None of your beeswax," Claire muttered.
Naruto stopped walking. "Why not? Did you kill someone or something?"
"No…" Eva said wistfully, as if imagining the blood that would be involved.
"Then why can't you tell us?"
"Naruto, give it a rest! If we needed to know, Kakashi or Tsunade would have told us," Sakura reasoned, though she didn't really sound convinced by her own words.
Sai, blunt as always, put on his fake smile that contradicted his words. "I disagree. I've been suspicious of you guys from the start."
The three girls stared at him. "Do you honestly think we could do something really dangerous?" Claire asked flatly.
Sai surveyed them for a moment. "Not really. But I still don't trust you."
XxX
"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiya!"
Thunk.
Eva tugged at the sword, trying to free it from the tree. "Eh…eh…crap!" She turned around and ambled over to where Team Gai was training.
"Leeeee…" she whined, shuffling her feet innocently.
Lee his head around, looking very strained as he was also upside down doing crunches in mid-air. He jumped down seeing who it was. "Yes, Eva-san!" he saluted in his quirky manner.
"I got my sword stuck in a tree again," she grinned, "Can you get it out?"
"Of course!"
The eccentric ninja darted over to the tree, surveying the thirty-eight inch slab of metal sticking from its side. He poked it gingerly and it fell in a cloud of dust to the ground. Eva stared at it.
"Anything else?" he asked helpfully.
She shrugged, picking it up again. "Nope!" She swung it again, this time at the other tree. It made a similar thunk. After a pull or two, Eva hung her head. "Leeeee…" she called again, making him stop halfway back to his training spot.
Claire and Leah watched from the shade of a nearby building as Eva attempted to train with the other ninjas. Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Neji, TenTen, Lee, Hinata, Ino, and Kiba were also present, though they were making much more progress than the Californian.
"She's an idiot," Claire said.
"Yep," Leah agreed.
They watched as she gave up on murdering the trees and decided to do forms instead. After doing a warm up of fifty of the most basic technique; simply bringing her sword above her head and bringing it down, she made her way through all the techniques she knew.
Neji was watching her out of the corner of his eye, Byakugan activated. His frowned deepened as she continued her numerous forms. "It's bothering me…" he murmured. "Those forms look extremely familiar."
Eva froze, realizing that out of habit she had started practicing the techniques that Kisame had taught her. She hadn't thought that after only one fight with him they would be able to recognize them being copied. If she stopped now she risked making them suspicious, but if she kept going she improved the chance of Neji recognizing the style of swordsmanship she had learned. She decided to stop.
Not bothering to sheath her katana, she walked over to Leah and Claire and sat down next to them, resuming her basic technique of hitting the air. They scooted away from her, so she sighed and put it away.
Leah stood up. "Let's go bother Hinata."
Claire and Eva joined her, and they walked over to the Hyuuga. Hinata saw them coming and stopped practicing with her Byakugan. "Hi!" she greeted.
Eva walked up to her, smiling. "Why don't you come sit with us? We haven't gotten to talk to you yet."
"Um…okay," she agreed quietly, following them back to the side of the building.
Eva looked straight at her, not bothering to say it in hints. "You have a crush on Naruto. We want to help."
She squeaked, turning bright red and falling to the side, since her back was sitting against something. "W-what did you say?"
Claire intervened before Eva said something that would make Hinata faint. "So there was this bee, right? And there was also a bird—"
"—I never got the whole birds and the bees thing anyway…It promotes interspecies breeding and that's very inappropriate," Leah noted.
"Wait, are you saying you want to get Hinata laid?!" Eva squeaked.
This time, Hinata did faint. Claire and Leah both hit Eva at the same time.
"No dumb-shit, I was just trying to make sure you didn't say…well, something like that!" Claire yelled at her.
"But why did you go to birds and bees! Everyone knows that's code for—"
"—KIDDING! Okay, now how do we wake her up…?"
Still not understanding, but letting it go, Eva poked the unconscious ninja. Her face was still bright red, though it was fading a little. "Wow…it's really hot."
"Maybe we should pour water on her," Claire offered.
Leah got up and walked over to Sakura. "Is there any water over here?" she asked.
"Yeah, it's on the other side of that building," Sakura told her, not anticipating the use.
Leah darted off and filled up two cups that were available next to the water jug. She brought them back to Claire, Eva, and Hinata. Claire took one and immediately threw it in Hinata's face. She woke up, coughing and sputtering. She looked up and suddenly her face turned red again.
"Naruto-kun…"
"Why is Hinata all wet…?" Naruto asked.
"Hey, hey, hey! Get out of here, we're talking about you!" Claire yelled, getting up and pushing him away.
"Well why should I leave if you're talking about me?! What are you saying?" he demanded, trying to stop Claire from pushing him away.
"Leave or I'll throw away all your ramen!" she screeched in his ear, giving him a final shove before darting back to the others.
He stood in the middle of the training ground, receiving questioning looks from Sakura and Sai. He huffed angrily, arching his shoulders. "You better be saying nice things at least!"
Claire stuck her tongue out at him.
"Claire…that wasn't nice…" Hinata said timidly, "And I don't think you should have said…that…we're talking about him…"
"Well, now he has a hint!" she smirked.
Eva laughed. "Perfect!"
"You guys are so meddlesome," Leah sighed, holding her hand up to her eyes.
xXx
A while later, the girls were forced to abandon their attempt; Neji, who was still somewhat afraid of them, edged over and informed them that it was time for them to leave. Hinata waved goodbye to them as she was dragged off, though she did not seem too disappointed to be leaving the awkward conversation.
After Hinata left, the others started finishing their training for the day. Ino and Sakura bounded up to the three American girls that sat in the shade of the trees. A maniacal smile on both of the ninja's faces told Eva, Claire, and Leah that they were up to something.
"Guess what?" Ino exclaimed excitedly.
"Chicken butt!" Claire finished.
They laughed.
"That, and we're going to take all of you shopping for clothes so you don't stick out so much in the crowd. People here are getting a bit nervous," Sakura explained.
"Yay!" Eva squeaked.
"Great," Leah groaned under her breath.
"I hate shopping with Eva. It takes her two years to pick out socks," Claire pointed out blatantly. "And Leah's indecisiveness is worse than ever…."
Ino rolled her eyes, "Don't care. You're coming anyways."
With that, the blonde and bubblegum haired girl grabbed their newly acquired friends by the wrists and yanked them to their feet.
They dashed off to the site of the festival. It had transformed back into the main shopping area overnight, though pieces of confetti and other trash. Several nameless ninjas were walking amidst the crowd with those trash pokers people that people on highway clean-up duty always had. They walked through the streets, equally satisfied with the atmosphere of the foreign town during the day as they had been at night, and gazing in awe at the various shops.
Eva squealed in delight when she spotted a sword care shop, but Leah and Claire grabbed her arms and dragged her away from it, chorusing: "NO."
The inside of the store Ino and Sakura brought them to had a very wooden, almost tropical looking interior. It almost looked like the inside of a Hollister, only they actually had lights and there were no preps. Not to mention the fact that the clothes couldn't be more different. This was definitely a ninja-oriented town, capable of catering to their needs.
"Is this place okay?" Sakura asked nervously.
"Are you kidding? It's great!" Eva squealed, rushing off between the clothing racks. The others followed her, Claire and Leah in awe. Despite their mild opposition to shopping, this was definitely the coolest trip they were going to experience.
Even though Claire had remarked that Eva would take for ever, she ended up eating her words, as they were all there for hours. It was almost impossible to choose between any of the outfits. Though they were simple in design, they were all so comfortable! And though they knew it was extremely nerdy, it made the girls feel closer to their favorite anime than ever before.
"I can't decide between this one and this one!" Eva complained to her friends, holding up two black shirts.
"They look the same to me…" Claire said, giving Eva a skeptical look.
"Me too…" Leah agreed.
"No, no, they aren't!" Eva protested, "This one has two buttons on the neck and this one has one!"
"Go with one, two might confuse you," Leah sighed, turning back to her own selection of clothes. Claire snorted again and knocked over a shirt from a display table.
Eva glared at them. "I just decided I like the design with the two buttons better," she huffed. She set down the rejected outfit and stomped away from them. Leah and Claire shrugged, and returned to their shopping. They still tended to stick to their preferred color schemes. Claire had a variety of black and blue-ish purple colors, while Leah had found a black and red shirt.
In a few more minutes, Sakura and Ino asked them if they were ready, and they were.
Eva was clad in a black shirt; it fit her skin snugly and had only straps as sleeves. Except for the design on the center of it, which was the kanji for blood, it almost looked like a regular cami, except it stopped a bit above her belly-button, showing an inch or two of skin before going into her bottoms. She had on shorts, that weren't so short that they were slutty, but weren't so long that they were nerdy. One of the legs was a dark blue color that matched her sword, and the other was black. She had netting that covered her stomach and her legs down to her knees. The store, much to Eva's delight, had also been an accessory store. Along with a hair-tie or two, she had a loose leather belt that hung around her hips, with a place for her sword to hang at her side. She had always wanted to wear the sandals with the two platforms supporting it, but they turned out to be extremely uncomfortable, so she wore the (extremely comfortable) regular ninja shoes.
Claire had a short-sleeved T-shirt on, which was dark purple, almost blue, in color. It fit her snugly enough for easy moving, but wasn't as tight as Eva's. It slightly overlapped her black Capri's. Her arms had been covered in white wrappings, and it stopped at her wrists. She, also, had on the basic ninja shoes. She had also gotten a small ninja bag, with kunai and shuriken to practice with when she was bored.
Leah's ensemble was a red kimono like shirt, similar to Tenten's. It had wide sleeves that hung down to her elbows, and had a v-cut neck with clasps in the front to hold it together. The shirt dragged down her he mid thighs, like a skirt except that it was slit on either side from the hip down. There was a black boarder going around the cloth, and the sash that wrapped around her midsection was black as well. And it was on sale and due to habits she kept when she didn't have a lot of money, she only bought inexpensive clothing. She wore the black Capri's underneath, which she had wearing that day previously, but they matched the outfit and she didn't like making people buy more than necessary. She had opted for her regular tennis-shoes, which she said were extremely comfortable, and had skulls on them. She had only gotten one accessory—a head-band, black of course, with white clouds on it. Eva had been amazed that they were selling something so close to the Akatsuki symbol at the store, but hadn't complained. The head-band was awesome.
Extremely happy with their new outfits and accessories, they walked out of the store with Sakura and Ino, whom where moaning about how they should have brought Hinata and her credit card. Sakura offered to ask Tsunade to pay for it, and after that Ino had brightened up some.
XxX
Pein was sitting on the couch, having a staring contest with Durham. The short, white, fluffy dog had taken an odd liking to the Akatsuki leader over the months, and was now following him almost anywhere he went—inside the house. Pein had given up on shooing him away, as it never worked anyway. Now he was content to just stay still and attempt to make the dog uncomfortable by staring at him with his strange, ringed eyes.
Durham was un-phased. He wagged his tail and growled playfully.
Hidan wandered down the stairs, looking bored. He noticed the Akatsuki leader and the dog from behind the couch.
"What the hell are you doing?" he asked.
Pein sighed and looked at the silver haired immortal indignantly. "I am teaching this animal discipline."
"Discipline?" Hidan repeated dumbly.
"Yes," Pein confirmed, "I taught him a trick."
Hidan scoffed. "That dumb mutt? I doubt it."
"I'll show you then." He stood up, and the dog mimicked him, looking up intently, his curly tail wagging furiously. "Durham, sic him."
Durham faced Hidan suddenly. His teeth barred and a low growl emitting from his throat as the fur down his back stood on end.
"Aw fuck…."
xXx
"Where's Hidan?" Konan wondered aloud as she encountered Pein coming up the stairs. Her hair was down and she had changed into some baggy clothing. Pein could only assume that she was getting ready to go to bed since it was almost eleven o'clock.
"On the counter where Durham can't reach him," Pein said with a small grin. He passed her on the stairs as she had stopped moving, confused by his words. "I forbade him to hurt the dog, and so all he can do is avoid it until I call him off," he explained without looking back, sensing Konan's incomprehension.
She nodded and continued down the stairs. Upon hearing the dog snarling, she decided to see the scene herself. But not before going to the refrigerator in the garage and getting a bottle of water. She took her time looking at the two cars in the garage, the Jeep and a big pick-up truck that everyone knew as Big Red.
It was strange, she thought, that both cars that Eva, Claire, and Leah owned were still parked in the garage. Usually if they were just out somewhere, they would drive Big Red. At a neighbors house perhaps? No, it's too late. Maybe a sleepover with a friend? None of their friends lived close enough to walk to their house with sleepover stuff. Also Jason would know where they were, and he didn't. She shrugged; she'd tell Pein about it tomorrow. Remembering that she still wanted to see Hidan being attacked by a mad dog, she left the garage.
When she managed to move into the kitchen to confirm the story with her own eyes, Hidan was sitting cross-legged on the counter, eating an apple from the basket of fruit as the small but angry dog hopped up and down trying to conquer the three foot vertical challenge.
"Fucking mutt! Fuck off!" he yelled, throwing his apple's core at the dog.
Durham yelped and shook his head. His eyes glinted with renewed fury and determination not only to follow Leader's orders, but to get revenge on the apple-throwing bastard. He then looked up and started barking again.
Konan blinked. "Yeah…I'm just gonna leave…" she muttered to herself.
Author's Note:
Claire: Um…yeah, this chapter kind of failed. It was good at first, and then…plane crash. Actually, helicopter crash. Helicopters are more fun.
We hate shopping and fail at describing it and…well the truth is I just can't fucking imagine ninjas shopping. Ninjas and guys. I've never seen a guy shop. The only people I can imagine shopping are preps. I can't even imagine myself shopping, it's embarrassing. I embarrass myself while shopping…-glance-
My tongue hurts. It feels splintery. Leah has too much fucking junk food at her house so I have to chew toothpicks to stop my compulsive eating.
Leah: Jason loves shopping…one time he went with one of his girlfriends and she dragged him into Victoria Secret.
Claire: And he bought more than she did?
Leah: No. He left after she said, "What's the hole for?" when looking at underwear.
Eva: -up until now has been spazzing about finals-
Lmao…
-back to spazzing-
Claire: …I like my version better. –MINDSOAPMINDSOAPMINDSOAP-