A.N: I'm so sorry there was such a long gap but I'd had the biggest just white out for a while and then when Trials and Tribulations of a Stuborn Blond came to mind I couldn't stop writting that. So yeah we are really almost done with The Academy! Amazing yes?
disclamer: I do not own any of the Naruto characters in this plot
Chapter Forty: Mending the Divided
When I got out of the shower and into my pajamas I found an interesting sight, Kakuzu, Sasori, and Kisame where all holding a cursing and screaming Jashinist down on the floor. I kind of didn't want to ask what was going on but it seemed important though I was to sore and to tire to really give a damn.
"What the hell is going on?" I yelled and the four boys looked over at me.
"He's Sphere!" Kisame yelled pointing at the white haired Akatsuki. "The ring was sitting right next to him!"
"What?" I demanded looking at Hidan wiggling and cursing the most colorful cussing I'd ever heard in a weird Japanese and French mix.
"It's not true!" He yelled in between his curse fest "My ring is in my pocket damn it! Get the fuck off me Kakuzu or I'll rip your head off!"
"I don't think so!" Kakuzu growled twisting the other's arm harder behind his back.
"Let go-Well hmm no do that again that actually felt pretty nice," Hidan commented making Kakuzu give a look of distaste.
"Guys get off of him," I said and the three holding Hidan down glared at me. "He's got no where to go," I said before taking out my katana from the coffee table "and if he really is Sphere I'll just cut his head off."
"You're a nasty woman," Hidan said with a smile as the others slowly let go of him. He got up slowly from the floor and reached into his pocket. We we're all wary however; it could be a weapon he was reaching for rather then a ring. But in fact he did pull out a ring. A pretty amethyst was held in the silver ring and on it three little dashes. Now I don't read Japanese but I could guess that the three lines really did mean 3 and not Sphere.
"See!" Hidan yelled at the others showing each person his ring. "I'm as much Sphere as Jen-Chan is!"
"Well then who's Sphere?" I murmured as Kisame pointed out the blue gray ring that sat on the floor near Hidan's bed.
"I don't know!" Hidan growled as if I'd asked him.
"That question was hypothetical," I sighed picking up the ring and putting it on my night table. "Anyway it doesn't matter. We know one of us if Sphere so that narrows it down to Kisame, Kakuzu, or Sasori," I glared at the three guys who had been holding Hidan down, one of them knowing that Hidan wasn't Sphere just to save his own neck. "Hidan can you keep watch tonight I'm about to pass out?"
"Yeah sure I can do that," he grumbled getting onto his bed as the others found there places mumbling and grumbling. I slipped under the sheets and stared up at the ceiling my whole body just feeling like one big hurt. It felt kind of good. Sadistic yes?
I woke up last. The sun shown bright through the window and it must have been at lest two in the afternoon but that didn't bother me as much as the silence did. The dorm was completely empty except for me and the wreckage that was left over from what looked to be a tornado that had ran threw the room, but I know better. I sat up, my back ripped with pain from the dry burns but I ignored it and looked around.
The walls dripped with deadly purple poison and as the furniture was flipped and disturbed except for my bed as if the fight had hit everything else but saved my bed in fear of waking me. Which what was probably exactly what had accord. I hated the thought of being left out of a fight so I quickly dressed and headed out the door into the hall.
What I found was disturbing. The whole Akatsuki, both black team and red where all ganging up on Sasori who only had his own body left for weaponry, the torn and mangled bodies of puppets littered the black marble floor all had been completely destroyed by the Akatsuki boys and of course Konan as well. My sleep drenched brain tried to register what was going on. Why was everyone fighting Sasori?
"Jen-Chan! Come on yeah! We need to capture Sasori!" Deidara called from the battle area. He said that just as a jet of high presser water was about the cut me right in half. I ducked and the wall was suddenly adorned with a sharp scar.
"Hurry up!" someone else called "he's almost finished!"
Getting my wits I unsheathed my double swords and pounded my feet on the ruined marble as I neared the battle. I heard the high speed whizzing of Sasori's blade wings and the swish of the deadly cable that came down near me nearly stabbing Tobi in the head. In fact it would have stabbed into the Uchiha's head unless Tobi hadn't let the attack just pass threw him. I was going to have to ask what kind of amazing jutsu that was later.
I stopped about 50 meters away from our enemy, I stood along side Itachi, Tobi, and Hidan who where the best at short rang fighting, as was I. Behind us stood Kakuzu and Kisame who where mid range and in the back where Konan and Deidara since they where long range attackers. (In other words they stayed back there for last minute use if someone in the higher ranks where injured. I'd never been told what sort of range attacker I was so I just assumed I would to be staying with Itachi since he was my teacher. (Even if I was still mad at him.)
"Get back," Tobi commanded making me lose focus for about a second.
"No!" I yelled as we both jumped up to not get hit by the assaulting cable. "I'm short range aren't I?"
"Whatever just get out your going to get hurt," Tobi growled from behind his mask and I could see the flicker of red from within the blackened eyehole.
"Oh shush I'll be fine," I said landing beside my raven-haired teacher. The masked Uchiha landed to my other side. "We need a plan by the way. Sasori is a puppet so it's not like stabbing him will hurt him, unless it's in the heart but I'm not planning on killing my friend."
"The only way to make him completely helpless is to get him out of the body," Itachi said in a harsh whisper.
"What can I do guys?" Hidan asked from a little behind us as Kisame was assaulted by high presser water, easily blocking with his massive sword.
"Not much," I said to Hidan "Sasori has no blood. You can't offer poison to Jashin-sama right?"
"Jashin-sama would be most insulted," the white haired man sighed.
"Right so we have to do this forcefully hmm," Deidara said from behind me making me almost have a heart attack.
"No, planning!" Sasori screamed as a blast of fire came our way. The group scattered away from the flames. The puppet had the ultimate defense by not being human. He could never tier and stabs to his body wouldn't slow him down. We needed to pop the canteen out of his chest and lock the thing in a safe till the test was over. Easier said then done. Just like everything else in this crazy high school.
"Guys!" Zetsu's voice cried from somewhere in the walls "We've got very unexpected company. There is an army of Sound students at our front door! It's kind of important that we abandon the Akatsuki temple. LETS GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"
Right after the message there was a banging on the double doors. It sounded like someone was trying to break them down with a giant log like in the movies. I wouldn't be surprised if that was exactly what they where doing!
"We have to get out of here," Kakuzu said looking over our shoulder.
"Hell with Pein's orders! Sasori isn't our enemy! All of Pein's instructions are knell and void under the rules of the exam!" Hidan screamed angrily. "We where screwed over by Pein the very first day!"
"Shit," I swore because Hidan was completely right. We'd fallen into Pein's game like pawns on a chess set. "Zetsu! How big is the army?"
"Probably the full Fourth, Fifth and Sixth grades. Perhaps some lower classmen also. It's hard to tell!"
"We are so badly out numbered," Itachi murmured.
"If we don't get out they are going to have us trapped like rats," Tobi said with a bit too much excitement in his voice.
"The Morning Meeting room!" Konan said making us all look at her "we can escape from up there threw the balcony."
"Yeah! Let's get going," Deidara said already molding clay "I'll make some clay birds for us to travel on yeah. They Sound morons wont catch us from the skies."
So that was the plan. Freed from any false rules we became one and headed up the stairs to the Morning Meeting area. We could still hear the pounding on the doors down stairs as Deidara worked feverously to create two giant birds that would hold five people each.
"Tobi you fly one and I will the other hmm," he said and the masked Uchiha nodded before staking clam to one of the giant birds. We divided ourselves again into groups of five but we knew we where together again. We where Akatsuki and nothing would ever break us apart again, not even our own leader.
From high above we could see the Sound army finally knock down the doors to our home and fill themselves into it. We knew that our things where probably being trashed and run threw. It was like rape. I looked away burying my face into Deidara's back; we all felt the horror, disgust, and pain of being figuratively raped by our most hated enemy.
"Did you bring them?" I asked the person who sat behind me cross-legged on the cool clay bird.
"No, I leaked the information to the Wind Tower knowing Loren wouldn't cause us harm," Sasori said. Even as a traitor he was still more honorable then any man of flesh and blood. I was happy for Sasori's logical ways. "I told her this morning that I was probably going to get caught soon anyways and speak of the devil Kisame woke up at the same time I was climbing back threw the window this morning."
"Very ninja," I said hugging Deidara tighter as he steered the bird away from the horror going on in the temple. Tobi flew just behind our bird. "I missed you," I whispered to him over the wind.
"Missed you too yeah," the blond said with a chuckle.
"Statues report?" Kakuzu grumbled looking into our campfire.
"Homeless, hungry, and annoyed so shut your trap Kakuzu," Hidan snapped from a tree branch he was resting in. Itachi, Deidara, and Kisame had gone off to go fishing in the pond and had been gone since five o'clock, it was about five forty something now and the sky was beginning to darken slowly as the sun neared the horizon.
"Was there a need to tie Tobi to a tree Hidan?" Konan asked walking back over to us with firewood in her arms, I was walking behind her with more wood.
"Yes," Hidan said "but I don't remember what that need was."
"Help!" Tobi squeaked looking completely miserable tied to the tree Hidan was currently resting in the branches of. I would have felt bad if it wasn't so amusing to watch Konan unbind him. Madara could have simply let the ropes go threw him but he would rather be dramatic and I didn't feel like helping.
After a chuckle I chucked the sticks in my arms into the fire. The smoke would have been a worry to us but thanks to Tobi we had a nice little genjutsu protecting our camp. The only people who would be able to see threw it would be people with Sharingan. So we where pretty safe unless Sasuke was popping someone's cherry near by.
This thought disturbed me greatly because thinking about Sasuke doing it made my mind wonder to Itachi. I shook my head my dirty hair feeling very limp. I needed to wash it badly but I needed privacy for that. No, way I was going skinny dipping alone with so many guys around, family or not. I'd have to ask Konan if we could bath after we ate something. I'm sure she wouldn't mind. I wasn't too bashful about it anyway; naked girls did nothing for me, not any need for embarrassment, I just want to be clean.
Food came soon after in the form of three large carp that Kisame cooked over the open flame careful to cook every last bit of flesh so no one would get sick from under cooked fish. I ate with Deidara who shared his cloak with me since I didn't have mine (again) which wasn't at all a bad deal. I mean really who wants their own cloak when you can share one with Deidara? My face went hot but not because of the steaming food. Just the fact that my dad would probably kill Deidara for me not having said to my parents how well our relationship was going.
Oh well I had a whole summer to explain things…a whole summer without Deidara.
A.N: I sware we are almost done! I'm thinking maybe five more chapters or so (maybe more you never know). But yeah I want to get this done soon! It's been such a crazy ride but the funs not over just yet!