Chapter Five: The Room Of Dawns
Deidara cheerily put down my bowl in front of me. I took the chopsticks and fiddled with them until I got them in the correct position. I wasn't a pro at it but I somehow stuffed the noodles in my mouth.
"Mmm," I moaned happily swallowing down the ramen. "This is really good."
"Uh huh," Deidara gave a typical guy grunt and went back to eating.
"Why aren't you having anything?" I asked looking over at Sasori in the corner of my eye. He shrugged and looked away as if I had said nothing. I glanced back at my bowl and felt the awkward silence fall over us. I finished up my bowl with little difficultly except making myself into a total moron when a big glob of noodles fell from my lips and onto the table. Deidara had laughed and Sasori smiled as I tried to laugh it off and inwardly picking up whatever was left of my dignity.
"We should go," Sasori muttered seeing a group of Fire Tower students coming over to our booth.
"To late un," Deidara muttered.
A group of five or six or something like that (I suck at math) came over to our table. We sat promptly up and kind of just rolled our eyes upward to look at them. Well that's what the boys did and it was pretty hot. I just tilted my head up and looked at the Fire students quizzically like a moron.
"What are you guys doing here?" questioned a kid with short spiky blond hair and aqua blue eyes. His hands were on his hips and he seemed really pissed.
"Our new roommate was hungry and she just happened to pick this spot to eat hmm," Deidara stated then sneered "not that it's any of your business Jinchuuriki un!"
The Fire Students growled back and I was very suddenly completely and utterly lost. I looked from Deidara to 'Jinchuuriki' as they glared daggers at each other.
"Guys lets just go," I murmured and Sasori nodded in agreement as we both got up, but the two blonds stayed glaring at each other. I pressed my brows together annoyed. "Deidara c'mon."
"Were you going?" a girl wearing purple and yet another Blondie asked. I looked up at her and blinked.
"To the Akatsuki temple," I answered "duh."
"Don't 'duh' me!" she growls stepping forward.
"Well don't ask retarded questions," I scolded here pushing my glasses up like a nerd. The next thing I knew I was being pressed up onto the wall with a knife thingy at my throat. I looked back at the Barbie girl want-to-be as she smiled. "What the hell?" I squeaked but before she could say anything she was pulled backwards and smashed into the bar. I dropped to the floor and looked up seeing Sasori with his hands out his fingertips glowing a light blue.
On the other side of the room Deidara was fighting hand to hand with those weird-o knives. No one other then the people battling seemed to notice the squabble, which surprised me since well, were on school grounds and such. I quickly got to my feet and looked around wondering what the hell I should do.
"Jenny-Chan," Sasori said looking at me "come over here!" I nodded and sprinted over. "I'm going to place charka strings on you so you can be my puppet. I'll make sure you don't get hurt."
"What?" I gasped the thought of fighting scared me.
"If you stand around you will be hurt," Sasori growled, "now turn around." I did as he told and slowly became very numb. I watched my arm move up and down but it wasn't me doing it. Before I knew it I was running over to Deidara. The blond looked at me and throw over a knife that I somehow caught.
My knife clashed with one of the pink haired girl I'd seen on the bus. She punched but my body moved out of the way. I looked over to where Deidara was fighting with a dark haired boy who looked a lot like Itachi. My legs were on the move again as Sasori moved me out the front door then let go of me. I feel to my hands and knees onto the sidewalk. Loren was soon out the door also and knelt down next to me a worried look on her face. That Gaara kid was right behind her.
"You all right?" she asked as I straightened. I just nodded in reply. "How did you do that?"
"It wasn't me…Sasori was using my body like a puppet," I said my head spinning.
"You know that sounds kind of kinky," she said helping me to my feet. I blushed and shrugged. I looked over her shoulder at Gaara. His already narrow eyes narrowed even more and I quickly looked back at Loren.
Soon Deidara and Sasori had somehow gotten themselves out of the ramen place without getting killed. Each of them took one of my wrists and they pulled me off. I attempted to say a good-bye to my friend but my roommates were running inhumanly fast.
We were back in the safety of the temple walls in only a few minutes. Deidara and me were painting form the adrenalin rush; Sasori didn't seem to have shed a sweat drop. I looked up and about four other pairs of eyes stared back at me from a small table in the middle of a black room with red clouds painted on it. They sat in front of a large fireplace and over the mantle of the fireplace a red moon was painted.
"This is the new girl?" a boy with an orange mask and only one eyehole in it asked. "Tobi thought she'd be prettier."
"Shut up Tobi!" Deidara spat standing up straighter "That's real rude un!"
I blushed and looked away. I felt Itachi's cold gaze on us as he stirred a cup of tea.
"Ooh Deidara-sempai likes her?" Tobi said in a childish mock.
"Say another word and I'll choose your death hmm!"
"Hum again? That's getting rather boring " the masked boy asked. Everyone except Itachi and me sighed as Deidara chased after Tobi who had run out the door. Still blushing I fallowed Sasori to the low chair-less table were we kneeled down next to Itachi and the odd plant man Zetsu.
"Hello girl we did not catch your name," said Zetsu in a sweet gentlemen's voice.
"Yea hurry up and tell us!" Zetsu said again only his voice was deeper and darker then the first.
"I-um Jenny," I muttered looking up.
"Don't mind Tobi," the gentlemen Zetsu sighed. "He's a freaking idiot!" growled the darker voice.
I smiled a little beginning to catch up to what was up with the plant man. He was literally spite in two. One side of his face white and the other black and the two voices could only mean that he had a split personality also. Nothing could surprise me.
"Tea?" asked a low voice and I looked up to meet Itachi's black shine less eyes. I just stared dumbly at him; his voice and eyes had such a sensual danger to them I couldn't bring myself to speak. "Is that a no?"
"No!" I squeaked, "I mean yes, I'd love some tea." Kisame cracked a smile seeing my nervousness. Itachi didn't even blink as he looked away from me and poured the tea from a small silver kettle into a china cup. "This room is beautiful," I said looking at the other chairs and tables that sat in the room.
"Sasori painted it two years ago," Kisame said ginning his sharp teeth. God whatever my 'power' is I sure as hell hope I don't become a plant or a fish!
"Oh?" I asked looking at the red head next to me he just shrugged. "It's very pretty," I complemented again Sasori said nothing.
"Here," Itachi said handing me a cup of tea. It was scalding hot and I nearly dropped it.
"Thanks," I muttered looking down at the sweet smelling tea. "There are a lot of guys here," I said randomly.
"Your observational skills are amazing," Itachi said before sipping from his cup. "Yes, this temple is made up of mostly males but you aren't the only girl. Konan is a fifth year student here but she doesn't leave her room often."
"Yea she is kind of a loner," Kisame sighed.
"Why is it that Kage lady seemed upset that I came into the Akatsuki?" I challenged hoping to get more answers about this school.
"Fire Tower doesn't like this temple," gentleman Zetsu said. "Yea they're a bunch of wimps who can't take a loss!" Growled his other half.
"What Zetsu means is that they don't like the way Pein-sama picks who stays and who goes," Sasori interjected before I got confused. "At the end of the year we all get a test and if you fail they kick you out of the school or you die."
I was about to laugh but Sasori's face had all seriousness in it. I quickly shut my mouth and looked at the red head who just looked straight ahead blankly. My eyes darted back to my cup of tea that had cooled in the oddly breezy room. Nothing here made any sense.
"Die?" I said to myself meekly.
"It's not for me to explain," Sasori quickly snapped.
"Of course," I replied taking a sip of the warm tea. "All will be told by this Pein-sama I keep hearing about."
"All will be told to you in time," Itachi said and I looked at him "it is only just the beginning, this is only just your Akatsuki."
The room fell into a cold silence which seemed to last forever until Kisame stirred up conversation with Sasori and Zetsu. I was gazing at Itachi in the corner of my eye and he was looking back with cold almost dead eyes. His words seemed to sink into my chest and carve themselves into me. My Akatsuki. My dawn.