A/n HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! CHA BABY! Sorry, I love Halloween! It's the holiday that comes with all the best movies and TV specials so I'm writing a STORY special! Woohoo! This will probably stray from the story a bit and it's a timeskip… so yeah enjoy ^^
(Temporary) TIMESKIP-23 YEARS OLD
"Butterfingers, Snickers, Hershey's, Milky Ways, Pixie Stix, Reese's Cups, Twix… I'm not missing anything, am I?" Hidan turned to look at Kakuzu over his shoulder. In front of him lay a pile of candy that he had just purchased at the grocery store for trick or treaters. Based on the chocolate on his lips, Kakuzu inferred that it was also the candy he had just eaten.
"Yeah, where's all the beer I'm gonna need by the end of the night?" Kakuzu asked dryly, walking over to his boyfriend and kissing him gently, licking chocolate from both of their mouths. Hidan laughed and began emptying the candy into an orange and black bowl.
"I swear Kakuzu, you hate kids almost as much as I hate Christmas." Hidan noted. Obviously he hated Christmas, who wanted to celebrate the birth of some made-up Jesus guy? Not Hidan, that was for sure. Kakuzu scowled and grabbed a Snickers from the bowl, unwrapping it and throwing the wrapper at Hidan.
"I don't hate kids Hidan." Kakuzu popped the Snickers in his mouth. "I hate greedy kids." The miser clarified. Hidan shrugged his shoulders.
"Same difference."
"Not at all." Kakuzu responded, grabbing a treasured bottle of beer and sitting on the couch, flipping the TV onto football. Hidan shook his head at his lazy boyfriend and got started carving his pumpkin.
Carefully he plunged the knife in, carving one eye, then the next. Then the nose, with a slightly sloped bridge. Next he made the mouth, curved upwards at the corners in a pensive grin. As he plunged the knife in and out, sawing and forming and creating, Hidan found himself drawing more of a picture than doing a carving with simple triangles. His natural way with sharp objects made him completely forget what he was doing as he cut in sharp, precise strikes.
Pulling his knife away from the pumpkin Hidan froze and looked into the den at his boyfriend… then back at the pumpkin. The almond-shaped eyes, slanted nose, and angry grin bore a strange resemblance to Kakuzu. But, the stitches winding around the jack-o-lanterns face were a dead giveaway.
"No way…" Hidan murmured, looking warily at the knife in his hand, feeling the pound of candy he had eaten churn in his stomach. For the life of him, he couldn't remember carving a single stitch into his pumpkin's face. But there they were, clear as day. As clear as the memory, eternally fresh and burning in Hidan's mind.
Rushing, as to get rid of the strange pumpkin ASAP, Hidan lit a candle and stuck it in. He carried it onto the porch of the couple's suburban house and placed it next to their front door. He stood there a moment, transfixed at the way the light seeped out of the stitches he had carved as if they were burned into Kakuzu- or rather, the pumpkin's face.
Then, creeped out as hell, Hidan bolted back inside, not liking the agonizing face the pumpkin seemed to be making. Instead, he snuggled up with Kakuzu on the couch, trying to keep from staring at his lover's stitches.
And there they sat for hours and hours. When the clock finally struck 10 Hidan and Kakuzu shared a confused look.
"Today is Halloween, right?" Hidan asked Kakuzu. The elder shrugged his shoulders, not wanting to care but finding himself entirely too suspicious.
"I'm not sure Hidan… Why don't you go outside and see if there are any trick-or-treaters." Kakuzu suggested. Hidan got up from him position on the couch and grabbed a Butterfinger out of the bowl on the counter before walking out the front door.
"Kakuzu I think that-" Hidan began before his whole body went numb. Kakuzu jumped up when he heard Hidan's bloodcurdling scream and ran to his side.
"Hidan what's… wrong…" Kakuzu trailed off. He found himself unable to speak as he looked across their lawn, then back at their house. The grass was pierced dozens of times by (hopefully) fake knifes. There was a disgusting mixture of shaving cream and ketchup globbed onto their bushes, windows, lawn, and front door. Toilet paper littered the yard as well as various Halloween decorations such as shrunken heads and dead baby dolls.
"I… I don't… understand…" Hidan struggled to speak as he began to cry. But they hadn't even seen the worst of it. Kakuzu took Hidan's pale and clammy hand and the two walked down their driveway and back at their house, getting a complete view of the damage.
"Oh Jashin no…" Hidan whispered. Kakuzu put his arm around the zealot protectively as they read the message spray-painted onto their walls and windows: 'Happy HOMO-ween'. As ugly as the message was, the pair was confused as well as devastated. There wasn't a single person in their neighborhood besides Sasori and Deidara who knew they were gay. For obvious reasons regarding their past, the couple wanted to ease into their new lives and not tell anyone until they had settled in.
But, according to the 'Fag-pires' and 'Queer-wolves' that also decorated the house, someone knew.
"Kakuzu why… who… I don't understand!" Hidan sobbed, clutching at his boyfriend for support. Kakuzu wrapped his arms tightly around Hidan, looking down the street both ways cautiously.
"We should go inside." Kakuzu said carefully, as to not alarm his shaky lover.
"But wait!" Hidan exclaimed in that way that Kakuzu knew meant Hidan was about to make things 100 times harder than necessary. "What about Sasori and Deidara!" The Jashinist whimpered. Kakuzu paused with a frown. He hadn't thought of that…
"We have to go make sure they're okay!" Hidan argued.
"But Hidan… it may not be safe to-"
"Oh fucking shut it! They're our best friends! Need I remind you that they risked their lives for us in high school?" Hidan asked with a deep scowl. Kakuzu knew he had lost and followed Hidan closely down the street. Sure enough, three doors down the pair was met by a similar sight. In the yard a redhead could be seen with his hand on a blonde's shoulder.
"Sasori! Deidara!" Hidan shouted running up to the two. Kakuzu walked over to Sasori as Hidan and Deidara recounted their horrible nights to each other.
"Who could have done this?" Sasori asked, his eyes trained on his destroyed house. "Who could have known?" He specified. Kakuzu shook his head disdainfully.
"I'll go back and check my house for any evidence." Kakuzu offered. Sasori nodded, implying that he and Deidara would do the same.
"Hidan! Let's go!" Kakuzu called. Hidan patted Deidara on the back before running to his boyfriend's side. They held hands, walking down the dark street, unspoken fears being passed between them with the simple contact.
"Look around for anything… strange or suspicious." Kakuzu told Hidan who nodded and headed to the porch to look for any footprints in the shaving cream-ketchup mixture.
"Jashin-damnit." He hissed under his breath. "Why does this always happen to… us…" Hidan felt his blood run cold as he ran up the steps of the porch to his demolished jack-o-lantern. The Kakuzu look-alike was in pieces and chunks all over the ground. Hidan wiped tears from his eyes as he collected the pieces numbly. He made a weak attempt to put two pieces together when he noticed something that was, in Kakuzu's words, strange.
His pumpkin had been destroyed almost as artfully as it had been created. Hidan traced the edges of the scattered remains, feeling the sharp and precise cuts. Any neighborhood hoodlum would've simply smashed the entire pumpkin in one or two swings with a baseball bat or hammer. But whoever had vandalized them had skillfully slashed Hidan's pumpkin into almost puzzle-like pieces.
Then Hidan saw it. The knife in question was wedged in between two bricks of the house. A knife with a half-circle and a full-circle cut out of it. A knife that made Hidan see red as he turned and walked over to Kakuzu, scarily slow and calm.
"'Kuzu?" Hidan said in a quiet voice that made Kakuzu nervous. "I know who it was. It was him." Hidan's eyes were wide and he was visibly shaking all over. Kakuzu's heart pounded painfully in his chest.
"W-Who, Hidan?" Kakuzu asked, even though he knew exactly who it was.
"Zabuza."
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"What's the note say?" Kakuzu asked Sasori grimly. The redhead handed the note to Kakuzu and spoke.
"It basically gives an address and says that… they have people of importance to us. It all seems like a scam if you ask me." Sasori and Deidara had rushed over as soon as Deidara found the note speared into the ground with a senbon needle. Hidan had swallowed his pride and broken down crying into Kakuzu's arms, telling their friends what he had found.
"And what if it's not a scam?" Deidara demanded, hugging himself for warmth.
"Dei, it's highly unlikely that-" Sasori tried to reason with his boyfriend.
"I… I tried calling Itachi and Kisame!" The blonde blurted. Everyone was quiet. Itachi and Kisame had grown up a grade above the four friends and had had a huge impact on their lives. They were like their mentors and idols, paving the way for them. One could say that the younger four looked up to them like big brothers.
"Did they… answer?" Hidan gulped. Deidara shook his head with his eyes shut tightly, fighting back tears.
"Let's not jump to conclusions here. Maybe they're… out to dinner." Kakuzu rationalized. Hidan snorted.
"At midnight?" He asked Kakuzu patronizingly.
"I called their cellphones too, anyway." Deidara added grimly.
"Well then it's decided!" Hidan announced, surprising everyone.
"What's decided?" Kakuzu asked suspiciously.
"We go to this address place and find out what these fuckers are planning!" Hidan declared with a triumphant grin on his face and a dangerous glint in his eye.
No one messed with Hidan Gisei twice and got away with it.
A/n EEEEEEK! I have such great plans for this special! Halloween pt. 2 will be up tomorrow and I will hopefully be continuing the regular story by this weekend… I have finally found the medicine for Writer's Block! I'm thinking of selling it and making a fortune…
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