A.N: Woo hey everybody. This chapter is a bit angsty so be warned. You know how sometimes you don't see how much people really care about you or how much you care for another person until something bad happens? This is kind of what this chapter is all about.
Anyway in other news for the people who want to know the date for'Curse of Curves' the sequel of 'Be My Bad Boy' its going to be relesed the 7th.
And lastly please check out my good friend Mellos-In-My-Closet and her brand new fan fiction 'Stud Lee.' For those of you who like 'The Academy' you'll love 'Stud Lee.' It's about Rock Lee who moves from Southern California to New York City and must try to survive life with his rather emberressing adptive father Guy. Making friends with the gothed out Sand Siblings and the radical art group called the Akatsuki. Oh and lets not forget his rather akward love life. 'Stud Lee' is modern, angsty, humorous and very different.
Chapter Twelve: An Out of Body Experience and Akatsuki Brotherhood
"Eh you want me to do what again?" I asked looking at the earth dragon scroll.
"I've told you five times already," Pein said annoyed "It's tiger, dragon, ox, then boar hand seals then call out 'spirit transformation jutsu' then the name of the dragon."
"You know that sounds like something from Power Rangers right?" I said raising a brow at him and Itachi glared at me from behind Pein. "Right hand seals..." I clasped my hands together in the seal of the tiger then did the rest not as quickly as it would have been but I wanted to be sure I did it correctly. Then with both hands I opened the scroll pulling the two ends apart so the drawing faced outward. "Spirit Transformation Jutsu: Ao Run!" I said releasing chakra into the paper. The dried blood changed into a soft yellow light blinding me and perhaps Pein, Itachi, and Konan who were standing a few yards away.
I opened my eyes and found myself on dark cool earth. Looking around I found myself on a small island floating in dark space.
"This is the Shinobi?" a voice asked. It was deep and a bit scratchy like Kisame's. "Looks more like a little girl to me." I looked up and four giant serpent-like heads with long whipping whiskers and lovely manes of feather or fur.
"That would be because she is a little girl Ao Run," said the light blue and lavender scaled head. Its head was of that of a camel with fleshy lips and small white eyes. "Don't be stupid."
The ivory colored serpent head hissed and snapped at the blue one with short jaws and small teeth. "Don't call me stupid," snapped the scratchy voice of the white dragon.
"Stop it both of you," said a small child-like voice "your frightening her."
"Anyway who are you girl?" a fourth voice said as a red serpent head came very close an over-sized wooden pipe hung from his lips.
"J-Jenny," I squeaked trying to lean away from the giant nose that was nearly touching my own. "Who are you?"
"Who am I?" the red dragon chuckled but his mouth didn't move around the pipe. "Hmm the world has changed a lot when anyone can not guess my name. I little girl am Ao Qin and these are my brothers."
"You're the Dragon Kings?"
"Obviously," said the blue dragon that I guessed was Ao Shin the water dragon. "Anyway what do you want with us Shinobi?"
"Um well it's kind of a jutsu that my mentors and me have been working on," I murmured. I'm not usually so meek looking but these were spirits each that were at lest a hundred feet tall from the shoulders up! You'd crap your pants too!
"A summoning?" asked Ao Qin tilting his head to the side.
"Kind of," I said "but I take the form of you guys."
The eldest king snorted, "A summoning transformation?"
"That's mock-foolery," growled Ao Run pulling his lips up from over his teeth. "I say we just eat her now and be done with it." The others hummed as if thinking it over.
"I vote no," said the black dragon that must have been Ao Guang. He had a long mane of feathers around his face and down his neck. He had soft angular brown eyes that oddly stood out from his glossy black scales.
"I also vote no," said Ao Shin "just to piss Ao Run off." The white dragon growled furiously and looked to Ao Qin.
"Hmm let her speak," said the eldest and I sighed with relief and stood up gaining a bit of confidence.
"Well for what I know the summoning will a low me to take your forms and posses your powers," I said and bit the corner of my lip "with a price of course. Your spirit would need to take up room in my mind making me lose some of my memories."
"Exactly how much?" asked the red dragon.
"I'm not sure," I said "but I'm sure enough to really mess me up for a while." The dragons hummed and glanced at each other.
"Alright we except your offer and your gifts of blood and mind," Ao Qin stated with a slight nod and a puff of his pipe.
"Goodie," I said not thrilled about the memory loss I was going to get but it is way better then being ripped limb from limb by four dragons.
"But for now you rest, your visit here has drained your chakra," said the soft voice of the youngest dragon.
"Jeez how many times am I going to end up in the hospital wing this year?" I muttered to myself as the seen darkened and my vision blurred.
"Err," I grumbled cracking my eyes open. "Wha-Ahh!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as to there was a large blue eye and a yellow mane of hair only inches from my face.
"Jen-chan calm down it's just me un," said a low voice that I recognized as Deidara's. As my vision cleared the pieces of blue, yellow, and tan that made up Deidara's face also cleared. He had leaned back away from my face and I was able to take him in, in detail. His hair was in the ridicules ponytail that he only wore while fighting and his face was scratched and covered in soot. For some odd reason his bangs were flying around as if he were being hit by a fan and I could see his scope that was hooked into the skin over his left eye.
"Whatever you do don't scream and don't look down hmm," he said and stood up onto…wait what was on anyway? I shifted my hand that felt like it weighed ten tons and carefully touched the cool surface. It was malleable and a bit damp.
"Were am I?" I coughed my voice raspy and my throat swore from screaming so hard.
"Heading to the hospital un, you should relax whatever happened to you in training it sucked a lot of chakra," he said looking down and me and I just blinked tiredly.
"I'm such a weakling," I whispered but my voice was drowned out by the wind.
I don't remember much after that, but when I opened my eyes again I was lying in a bed with a few IV needles in my arm and a healing scroll stretched over my forehead.
"Ah your awake," said a voice I recognized as being Sakura's. Why she was always my medic I would never understand. I made a small sound in reply. I couldn't see her because of the scroll in my view. "Freshmen like you are always coming in because of jutsu backup," she said, "you have to be careful how much chakra you use or you'll end up in here a lot."
I really wanted to tell her off but my mind didn't feel like getting angry and my mouth couldn't seem to form words. I just made a low grumble to show my dislike of her words.
"Seems that you got stuck in an odd genjustu or rather a total chakra removal then replacement which is rather…strange," she said, "it seemed to have broken some receptors in your brain."
Brain damage? I wanted to scream but again I could only muster a moan, damned dragons, damn Akatsuki. Anger flushed within me to an uncontrollable amount and I finally screamed and trashed in the bed much to Sakura's surprise.
"Ah Jenny calm down," she yelped trying to hold me down. I ripped the scroll from off my face and sat up my eyes wide and filled with tears. "Calm down," Sakura said again rubbing my arm carefully. "Its okay your alright, we still don't know how bad the breakage is and when we find out its very easy to fix," she added giving me a smile. I could see she was being true to me and I could see she really cared and that made my emotions totally flip. I began to cry and really hard too. I leaned on the medic nin's shoulder and cried, she rubbed my shoulder tenderly. "There," she murmured, "would you like to see your teammates they are awfully worried about you."
I nodded slowly rubbing the tears from my eyes that felt oddly ruff. Sakura smiled again and left while I continued to rub the skin under my eyes.
Soon most of the Akatsuki, Loren, and Gaara were in my room. I smiled seeing Zetsu, Kakuzu, Kisame, Tobi and even Hidan had come to visit. The only two missing were Pein and Konan.
Loren put some flowers on my bedside table and smiled at me and I smiled back. "It's good to see your okay," she said. "Your going to worry me to an early grave you know that?" I just blinked still rubbing my eye.
"Hey this hospital care is getting expensive so be more careful," Kakuzu muffled from behind his mask.
"Huff your such an annoying bastard Kakuzu," Hidan grumbled. "By the way I sacrificed a lamb to be sure you'd be okay Jen-Chan."
I nearly rolled my eyes at that. Poor lamb.
"Ah Zetsu-san can we go now?" Tobi asked and I heard some yelling from Deidara.
"Shut it Deidara," said the darker half of Zetsu.
"Let me just give Jen-Chan her gift," said the gentlemen half. The plant ninja walked over to me and place a Venus flytrap on the end table. "From us and Tobi too." I smiled at Zetsu but his expression didn't change.
As my friends began to leave I glanced at the now full end table. There was the flowerpot from Loren, the Venus flytrap I decided to call Jeff from Zetsu and Tobi, a scale from Kisame's sword that had been strung on a chain from of course Kisame. Another necklace of Hidan's religious symbol from Hidan and Kakuzu since Kakuzu either didn't know what to get me or was too cheap to buy me anything. Either way I didn't mind since he came to see me anyway no matter how troublesome. Gaara had gotten me a pair of earrings with little chibi raccoons on them, which I found odd but cute. Sasori had given a small puppet that he told me to practice with even if I wasn't a puppeteer, but I guess it would be good for chakra training. Itachi had given me a slight tilt of his head and patted my own head in approval.
Deidara was the last to give a gift and well…
"Watch this Jen-Chan it will be a great expression of art un," he said throwing a small butterfly into the air. "Katsu!" he said and the butterfly exploded inside the hospital room lighting the curtains on fire and getting Deidara kicked out.
Looking everything over I realized how much the Akatsuki boys cared about each other and me. Sure they bickered with each other but don't all families do that? I thought about this as I put on my two necklaces and the little raccoon earrings and playing with the little puppet that had a striking resemblance to Sasori.
"You've been mute all day," said Sasori who was again the one picked to watch me over night.
"I've just had a lot on my mind," I said quickly rubbing the now itchy skin under my eyes.
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