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Author's POV
"No reason." Sasori said. "Just wanted to see how you would aquaint with Konan."
"Okay, what is going on, un?!" Deidara asked, just wanting to go inside her house and change.
Sasori released the strings and helped her back up.
"Anyway," Konan said, interupting the two's stares. "Seeing that your safe, Pein and I were alerted by Sasori here, about you and we want you to join A.K.A.T.S.U.K.I."
"Akatsuki?" the blonde questioned. "You mean the dawn, un? What's that?"
"Are you coming or not?" Sasori teased.
Deidara blushed. "Yeah, sure, why not, un."
The hiding sound nin silently cursed at being to late and disappeared to alert their master. Without another word, Konan grabbed one of both their hands and teleported to headquarters. (If you guys don't mind, I'll just put the name of the oganization in caps, the periods are annoying!)
"Wow, un." Deidara said, looking around the building. But she winced afterwards and saw that her gloves were slit in places and her hands were bleeding slightly. "What happened?"
"Sorry." Konan apologized. "I don't like to travel with other methods besides my gekigenkai. So, only naturally, travelling with me will give you paper cuts."
Deidara was going to make a comment, but stopped when Sasori took her hands and inspected them, all the while leading her to the black door that lined up with white ones along the hallway. It read: "Meeting Room, KEEP OUT!" But the three were to occupied with other things to even notice. Konan plucked out one of her blue hairs and put it and a scanner, then was body, eye, and fingerprint checked by the mechanism and the door opened. She ushered them inside the dim room, where they were greeted by Tobi, Zetsu, Itachi, Kisame, Hidan, and Kakuzu.
"Pein I brought the newcomer." Konan chirped.
"Yeah, I got it." the man on the end said. "Sit down, Konan, Sasori."
"Welcome, Deidara." Pein said.
Deidara noted his many piercings, orange hair, and strange eyes. They were spirals, so she assumed they were the new 'contact lenses' that she heard about, but even so, they were hypnotizing and commanding.
"I've been informed that you know everybody here?"
She nodded.
"Itachi-san, Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu, Tobi, and Sasori-kun."
"Good" Pein said. "To put it shortly, we are AKATSUKI. It stands for: Attendance Keepers of All Teenage Students Under Keeper's Institute. Keeper's Institute was the name of Shinobi Highschool for Gifted Individuals before it changed. To save some trouble, we kept the company title the same. Although the attedance keeping is only the base of our work. There are special assignments given to selected students that are more advanced than even the intellectually gifted and physically gifted children, ah, teens. After those students graduate, they may work as an extension of this company, or rise up to hunters, advanced joinins, medics, kages, or ANBU, and the like. AKATSUKI is also an adoption agency and insurance company that take in any orphaned minors and insure elder orphans and families with widowed or single parents."
"We were just dicussing one of our special assignments, before you three joined us." Itachi stated. "About the extraction of bijuu from jinchuriki."
"Itachi," Pein said. "I assume you have gathered enough information for the capture?"
"Correct."
"What about you? Hidan? Kakuzu?"
"Hidan, the dumbass nearly got himself killed so we had to withdraw." Kakuzu started.
"What are talking about asshole? It's your fault!" Hidan retorted. "Just because you're older doesn't mean that you get to boss me around and blame me for stuff."
"Che. Whatever." The other teen replied. "Basically we failed. But we managed to keep Orochimaru away from our target."
"Great." Konan sighed. "Now he's after them too. At least-"
They all turned to Deidara who had suddenly frozen up. A small light shone through her bangs, but the picture projected was only visable to Deidara, even though the noise wasn't. An image of her elder cousin. It held a fist in warning that she had missed a curfew.
"Oops. I'm in trouble, un..." she mumbled. "Err... gotta go!"
Pein raised an eyebrow, but regardless, sent her home in an instant. Running into her own home, Deidara fought the urge to pant as her cousin appeared with a meanacing knife held in her hands.
"You're late..." Ino whispered quietly, yet somehow she still retained her evil aura. "Now as punishment... What shall we serve?"
Deidara whimpered and cowered behind a couch.
---ten minutes later---
"You're mean Ino-chan, un." Deidara whined. She accidentally slit open her finger with the cutting knife. Ino bandaged it up with a seal that Deidara couldn't be able to open. "You're MEAN!!!"
"Well too bad." the elder blonde replied. "First of all, it's a week before Christmas. Second of all, YOU MISSED YOUR CURFEW!"
Her yell echoed through-out the house, and possibly the whole neighborhood. Deidara winced, but tossed the vegetables in the stew anyway.
"But, I just went with- OW!" Deidara explained, but was interupted by a flying ladle.
"NO BUTS!" Ino exploded, then catching the ladle. "Now, eat emo kid."
Deidara groaned in frustration before taking the plate of stew from her cousin and muttering.
"If I am emo you are, un."
Ino just rolled her eyes and sat in front of the younger one and watched her eat.
"The superintendant called while you were gone. He said he wanted me to come to a conference concerning you."
At that comment, Deidara vaguely remembered the meeting with Pein and the gang as she continued to half-mindedly spoon the hot liquid into her mouth. It scalded her tongue, but at the moment, she didn't notice.
"And?" Deidara questioned. "Was it for my good grades, or horrible dress attire?"
"Both. And it's Tuesday next week."
"But that's CHRISTMAS!!!" the other complained.
"Would you rather spend it shopping?" Ino retorted. Deidara was silenced.
"Good." she said, undoing the seals as Deidara finished.
Upon reflex, she started licking them as they bled slowly and then healed.
"ARGH!" Deidara yelled. "Wai? Did you put a healing seal on them, un?"
Snickering, Ino, with some difficulty, sent Deidara to her room to do her own homework.
"Meh." the blonde said.
None of her teachers had assigned her homework that she hadn't finished in class.
"Meh." Deidara said again. She let her mind wander about random thoughts.
'I STILL haven't served that detention... and it's almost the end of the semester, so maybe tomorrow I should start on that. I still haven't gotten Sasori his Christmas present or anybody else's for that matter...'
As random as they seemed, (or not) the thoughts kept her occupied as a silver headed teen sat on the ledge outside of her window, silently filed through them. And as much as that teen wanted to burst through the window and yell at her stupid thoughts, he sat there and obeyed his master's orders. But at last, Deidara had decided to make herself take a shower and go to sleep.
"I wonder why he always sends me on these missions." Kabuto sighed, before disappearing. "It lead to me realizing I work under a pedofile."
"Ino-chan left for work already..." Deidara said, reaching up for a non-existant hairband. "Oh well, un."
While over at the meeting, Sasori was watching a battle unfold.
"Yes he is!" Itachi yelled.
"No he's not!" Konan yelled in response.
"Yes he is!"
"No he's not!"
"Yes he is!!" their argument was speeding up...
"No he's not!!"
"Yes He Is!!"
"No He's Not!!"
"YES HE IS!!"
"No, he's hot."
"YES HE IS- wait what?"
Itachi rubbed his temples, not believing what just happened. Konan was in Pein's chair, holding her stomach in a fit of giggles.
"Okay, okay, I get the point." The raven haired teen said. "But Pein IS totally distracted, and I KNOW what it is."
"Yeah." Konan said taking deep breaths. "I totally agree, but that was FUNNY! I couldn't help doing that!!"
She burst out laughing again.
"Err..." Sasori said, reviewing the scene. "That was odd... One moment she was completely serious, and now she almost going to blow her guts laughing."
Pein walked back to the meeting room.
"Did something happen?"
Sasori shook his head and packed his stuff up. Itachi was standing over Konan who was taking deep calming breaths, looking like he was about to kill her.
"Boo." he muttered.
Konan's howling laughter echoed throughout the room. Sighing, Pein crossed the room and carried the maniacal woman from the room as Itachi and Sasori left for home. The red haired teen jumped from one lamppost to the next thinking about things. His mind carried his thoughts from his younger siblings. It was nearly eight P.M. Temari probably had put the lights out in both her brothers by now. He forgot to go to work today... A meow brought him out of his musings.
"Mrew mrew mrew!" came a cats slightly muffled meows. "Mwert."
Sasori got down from his lamppost as he saw a kitten in the light of it. It was nearly completely white, except for it's head. The kitten's perfectly round head was half black going in a diagonal line and colored one of its ears as well. It's eye's were perfectly round and a slight grey, only noticable if one were to examine the shadows of it. It had no front paws and was sitting on it's plump bottom and circular feet that had no legs. The tail it had looked of a dog's, but not quite. The last trait it contained was a mouth that resembled an upside-down three.
"Mwerk." the kitten said again.
"What a strange one you are." Sasori said. In fact, if the kitten had not made a sound, he would have thought it to be a cute widdle plushie. "Are you lost?"
It stood up on it's two feet and walked over to him, staring at his face. The kitten raised it's head to show that it had no collar on its unnoticable neck.
"Mrou!" it jumped up and down. If it had arms, it would look like it wanted to have Sasori pick it up. The kitten's tail short little dog-like tail twitched from side to side as it stood waiting at Sasori's feet.
"Er..." the red head picked it up and it sat in the palm of his hand.
"Mwerrrr." it purred.
The kitten was small enough to fit in his palm and it sat dangling it's feet of the edge of his hand and swinging them slightly. The little thing could be felt through the Sasori's hands. It was soft, almost squishy, but had a form that kept instead of wobbling every which way. It only wobbled as its feet twitched in its own swinging motion. Sasori put a hand in front of the kitten, shielding it from the wind as he sped home. He arrived at his front door and got the key from his backpack and opened the door. Walking in, Sasori closed the door behind him and placed the kitten on the table in the kitchen.
"We can't keep you forever you know." Sasori told it. "But I think there is somebody I know who will want to. I'll introduce you to her on Christmas."
"Mrwep!" it replied in understanding.
"I guess I'll have to give you a name won't I?"
The white kitten sat on the table waiting.
"I shall call you..." he thought for a moment. "I guess for all the sounds you make, strange one, I shall call you Mwe." (That's pronounced: Muweh. One syllable.)
"Mwe!" it called back, seemingly liking the name.
"Well, Mwe?" the red head replied. "How about some milk?"
The little thing shook its head in distaste.
"Fish?"
It seemed to frown at him.
"Well, what DO you want?"
The smile on its face replaced as it took a small leap onto the counter, and jumped up and down, staring intently on the cupboard.
"Something in there?" Sasori asked.
Mwe kept jumping so Sasori assumed it was a yes. So he opened the cupboard and took everything that a kitten could possibly eat down. Mwe kept jumping and ignored the stuff surrounding it.
"What is it?" Sasori said, slightly annoyed. The only thing left in there was a pouch of ground coffee beans. He took it down, sat the kitten on the palm of his hand, and put both the kitten and the now opened pouch of ground coffee on the table. Gleefully, Mwe bounded over to the bag and hopped in. After putting the other stuff away, Sasori went to check on the little kitten. He found it eating the ground beans like rice and then snuggling in the rest and falling asleep.
"Funny," Sasori said to himself. "I wonder if it ate coffee before this. It is unusually small for a kitten. Stunted growth, and yet no difficulty sleeping. What a strange little one you are Mwe. Just like another one I know."
He took Mwe, who was still in the coffee bag, into his room and set it on the table top next to his bed gently. He undressed, redressed, checked his homework, and put himself to sleep, just as another person was at the exact same moment. Deidara. Sasori. The two had peaceful dreams that would perhaps would come true, in the next week to come.