Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas Edison
This goes out to Anon, Thunder Krystal littleXmissXwolfyX and AkatsukiTomboyKid. Thanks for giving me the strength to go on with this! You saved my story, thanks!
Then after an hour of awesomeness there was a knock at the door "Zetsu-kun Tobi is here, and I brought out friends!" came a loud and hyperactive voice.
"Let us the hell in you little fucker!" came a more annoying and colorful voice.
"Come in," Zetsu yelled at them.
The next thing that happened was a complete surprise to everyone…..well to the people who walked into the door
"Sup' un," came the blonde who was sitting on the couch, who now had a hand slapped over her mouth. "Ha-ha and here I thought I got rid of that habit hehe." She giggled to herself and went back to racing Zetsu.
"Don't just stand there, morons" The brown eyed girl with short hair mumbled in that none caring way.
"Whatever," came the other red head, who rolled his eyes and walked into the room sitting by ,actually a little closer than necessary, by the blonde known as Strom, who seemed to not notice or care about how close they were, as she continued to play her racing game with the oddly colored teen on the arm chair beside the love seat she was sitting in.
"I won!" Storm jumped up pumping her fist into the air scaring everyone as they all walked in and sat on the ground, in chairs, or just stood…well Pain walked back in forth at a brisk pace. Konan leaned against the wall acting cool.
"Beginners luck," mumbled Zetsu as he stood up to stretch and pop his back.
Emerald scoffed from beside Deidara, who was sitting by her and stealing glances at her secretly, if only she didn't notice, she just didn't say anything to the boy. "Storm plays all the time. All she does is game most of the day"
"Things are boring at home, I have to have fun somehow," the blue eyed girl pouted and crossed her arms.
"Don't pout brat," Emerald sneered.
"I'm not pouting, I'm frowning with style," she said looking away teasingly.
"Whatever," Emerald looked around to the people staring at her and her blonde friend. "I'm to use to being ignored for this," she sighed to herself. Only Deidara heard her.
"Should we leave," Storm said shifting uncomfortably from foot to foot as she glanced at her friend with green hair.
"Shut up and sit down, there is no reason to leave," The light half seemed to smile as the darker half growled in frustration, for he did not want to start this conversation over again.
"Why are you here," came a soft, yet hard voice of the only other female in the group. Her blue hair shinning as she looked at the blonde and red head.
"Zetsu-kun is our friend," Storm stated with a shrug; as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Storm's dad is a bastard," Emerald told them at the same time, the two girls glared at each other.
"He's not that bad," Storm mumbled while looking to the side and finally sitting back down on the couch by Sasori stubbornly.
The red head just rolled her deep brown eyes, "Sure, whatever helps you sleep at night."
"It does," the blonde shrugged and laughed at her own joke; tho it was a pitiful and sad laugh.
"We went to the cemetery yesterday and Zetsu chilled with us till my dad came in and we all ran like crazy. His face was so red when he saw Zetsu-Kun shirtless," Storm laughed leaning agonist Sasori for support she was laughing so hard, Sasori just blushed lightly as her hand was on his biceps to keep from falling.
"Tobi thinks Storm-Chan looks cute in Tobi's cloths. They fit so well!" he cheered.
Storm blushed slightly. "Heheh yeah, sorry about that Tobi,"
"It was really early in the morning when we jumped out her window, our cloths wouldn't fit her." Zetsu explained quickly to the boy.
"Oh, Tobi don't mind," the masked teen told the taller one of the group.
"So….what'd your mom think of Zetsu being in your room?" Came a monotone voice in the back.
Everyone turned to look at the Uchiha who stood with his back on the corner one foot on the wall. Just as soon as they looked at Itachi they turned to look at a wide eyed blonde, well they could only see one eye for her hair covered her other eye.
"Or your older brother?" The black eyed man went on raising an eyebrow at the now silent girl directly across from him. She looked horrified and Emerald opened her mouth to say something then something really unexpected happened, or more like a line of events right after each other.
Storm smiled even tho It didn't reach her eyes; a smile that seemed so dull and clouded over right now "Oh they are both de-"
The door busted open before she could finish her statement, she let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding and looked to Emerald who only shrugged and looked back at the pale new comer, to whom stood a pale man they knew all to well.
"Ah, Ssstorm and Emerald, my pretty little girls where have you been?" The pale, black haired boy with strange purple make up on his face asked while walking in and standing in front of Emerald.
"What do you want snake breath, un?" Deidara asked the man in front of him.
Orochimaru took a strand of red hair in between his index figure and thumb. "Only to see Storm and her friend here. Pity tho, you were so much prettier last time we met." He spoke so nonchalantly, it made storm sick.
Emerald on the other hand just rolled her eyes and slapped his hand away "You're a creeper, I don't see why Kabuto hangs out with you." She shrugged and turned to Storm.
Kabuto whipped around and took Storm's hand "Sorry about your family," he looked up at her and his glasses glint "The anniversary of their death was yesterday am I right?"
Storm took her hand away and wiped it on her borrowed shirt with disgust "Umm, yeah it was?" she more so asked as she was unsure of wither to tell them or not.
"You know you're not allowed back here," Pain told him with a glare, finally standing still; he towered over the snake by about a 2 inches.
"Ohh I'm only here for my ssssweet Ssstorm," he smiled and walked over to the confused blonde girl, yanking her hard out of her seat by one arm and pulling it behind her back. Sasori and Zetsu jumped up and tried to lung at Orochimaru only for him to side step and Kabuto to block Deidara and Emerald.
Storm blinked a few times before stating with no emotion in her voice, which was scary and unusual for her, "You're a creeper cus. How are we related?" She did a swift kick to his knees and turned in a painful way to push behind his knees, to make his knees bend and get him on the floor with her on top, tho he did still have her arm.
"Cousin?" Sasori said while standing with wide eyes.
"Yeah, one that's all for incest," The red haired girl rolled her eyes then frowned "And likes to drink and drive." Her brown eyes where turned into such an intense glare it could melt rock.
"I still haven't forgiven you, you're not wanted here obviously, so are you only here to mess with my head or to mess with them," she looked at him and smiled "Oh I get it, both!" She put a figure to her lip as she thought "You know you should leave." The next thing the snake knew the blonde on top of him elbowed him hard in the chest.
Orochimaru growled and pulled her arm, she made a muffled moan of pain, "Worthless. And here I thought family cared." He got up and she fell on the floor in the process.
Storm had that weird smile on her face again "But technically we are not related" She stood and dusted her jeans off.
Orochimaru whirled around and stared at her in horror. Kabuto stepping out of the shadows of the forgotten minds pushed his glasses up so they had a glint to them before revealing dark brown...more like black eyes. "You're not supposed to know that, both your parents where going to tell you after high school, and if I'm right you're only in" he thought for a moment "10th grade?"
"I'm smarter then I look," she giggled and skipped over to her best friend, "this place blows, let's go chill somewhere."
"There's a new showing at the art fair today, there are going to be fireworks at the end so we will both enjoy it." The red head informed her friend with little emotions.
"Don't ignore me, Sssstorm," Orochimaru glared at his cousin as she jumped up and down with excitement, saying something about pretty lights and throwing her ups while saying "I can't wait to see and hear the bang that is the awesome-ness of fireworks!". She turned and looked at him, still smiling but no longer jumping.
"How did you know?" He said with a stern voice. The other people in the room were finally coming out of their shocked states.
"What the hell his he talking about bitch?" Hidan yelled from where he laid on the floor.
"Don't cuss" Storm told him then her smile left and she looked at Orochimaru with hard eyes "They told me in the car un."
"Great." Emerald mumbled and crossed her arms.
"what's going on hmmm?" Deidara asked while taking a hold of the girl's upper arm to get her attention.
Emerald turned to look at Deidara with worried eyes "She's tried really hard to get rid of the verbal tick of hers and she only uses it when she is scared, surprised, or extremely mad."
Deidara's heart broke seeing her so worried, but there was nothing to do other then watch this family feud.
"What do you mean, in the car?" the pale teen growled at the smaller blonde girl.
"They told me un," She threw her hands in the air and did a 360 before glaring at him again "In the car, they told me I was adopted before you crashed into their car while drunk! un" She was huffing for air when her yelling stopped. Everyone stared at her, surprised by this new piece of information.
"I told yo-"Orochimaru started.
"No!" she yelled as tears ran down her cheeks like sparkling diamonds, or that's what Sasori thought; sad yet beautiful, everlasting. Sasori was taken out of his thoughts when she began to speak again "They cared for you. My Mother and brother took care of you when your parents disowned you. My mother, and brother took you in when my dad was against it. We cared…and now they're gone, all because they were kind. Nice people die faster…why did you have to drink, why?" She was trying to desperately hold in her tears and sniffles.
Orochimaru rushed out of the house with Kabuto on his heels; to avoid the humiliation and sadness of seeing his cousin cry. The rest of the house was silent; absorbing all of the information they had just accidently received.
Storm took a deep breath and turned to Emerald with her false happiness "So let's go to your house then the Art Fair okay?" She looked at the others "See ya later."
Emerald nodded numbly and walked out of the house with Storm.
"What the hell just happened?" Hidan screamed into the silence that was suffocating them all. No one was mad; he simply just said what everyone else was thinking.
Kakuzu slapped him on the back of the head, grunting something incoherent.
"What the hell was that for you fucker!" The albino screamed at the overly tanned man beside him.
"I like hitting you," the stitched up man explained with a shrug "it's good to release stress and have fun." His rough voice made him sound mean and hostile, even tho it was only a simple explanation.
" You're a mean old fucker aren't you?" Hidan growled with a menacing look in his eyes.
"To your question earlier, Hidan," Itachi began, so he could prevent a fight from breaking out "I believe we are learning more about our new friends without even trying."
"Girl's will tell you everything you need to know, if you just listen to them," Konan explained as she pushed herself up off the wall. "Now then I have a plan if you are willing to listen to it." Her calmness brought down the rest of the groups nervous. So that just proves that someone's emotions are contagious. (So smile and be happy for others will be happy because of it)
"Okay, explain away." Sasori sat on the couch, yet again with no emotion dectectable in his voice, but this time there was a strange intensity in his deep brown eyes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~With the snake and snake helper~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Orochimaru was pacing the room back and forth while Kabuto sat on the couch and tried to keep his friend calm.
"Why would she think that!" Orochimaru screamed throwing his hands in the air only to tangle them back into his hair and tug at it.
"Orochimaru please calm down, I know you didn't do it on purpose, and she knows you didn't do it on purpose," he tried to explain calmly to his frustrated friend.
"Ssshe blamessss me!" He told his friend as he fell on the couch with his feet on Kabuto's lap, and his arm covering his eyes.
This was the worst part, Kabuto thought, being the voice of truth and further frustrating his friend. It had to be done tho "Sir….it is your fault." Kabuto started out slow and he was hesitant to tell him this.
"What do you mean Kabuto?" Orochimaru glared as he sat up to look at his friend.
"I'm not betraying you Orochi," he told him quickly so the other wouldn't get the wrong idea "But you should know better than to drink and drive. It' stupid and dangerous; It's your fault, because you got behind the wheel." Kabuto put his hand on his best friend's shoulder in a comforting manner.
"I didn't mean for them to die. I didn't know that would happen!" the older man put his face in his hands as his body moved with a shudder. Orochimaru was crying, for Kabuto was right and he lost the only people that ever cared for him. "If I could go back, I would have stopped myself from getting in the car."
Kabuto looked at him with a sad expression, "But then we would have never met." Kabuto looked to the side, feeling guilty about bring this up, he shouldn't bring that part up. Not when his friend was suffering because of his mistake.
Orochimaru looked at his friend "We would have meet sssooner or later," The snake man told the smaller boy with confidence.
-Flash back time! (eat ice-cream while reading this!)-
"See you guys at school tomorrow!" A young looking teen staggered to his truck, cheeks painted pink from the alcohol he had drank earlier.
"See you Orochimaru!" A girl with breast far to big waved to him, also drunk and hanging off a(n) older man with white hair.
"See you in class Jiraiya and Tsunade!" The man said as he backed out of the drive way and down the road.
It was now 15 minutes into the drive home and Orochimaru turned his favorite song on so he could sing along loudly. Quickly there was a bright light and Orochimaru swerved to miss the car in front of him only to swerve onto the opposite road and right into the car in other lane.
The crash was over with quickly, maybe a few seconds, but it felt like an hour had passed before the slamming, the pain of impact, and sounds stopped; the screams of horror. Everything happened in slow motion, Orochimaru's head hit the glass windshield, but other than that he came out unscratched.
He staggered out of his truck and to the other car that looked beat up pretty badly, but then again his truck didn't look to good either. Hey what do you expect from a head on collision at 60 miles per hour?
At further inspection you could see it was a minivan, seeing this Orochimaru quickly, as quickly as his drunken state would allow, went over to the van and opened the side door. First he pulled out the girl in the very back seat; he wasn't thinking only doing at this point, as he laid her down on the grass a good distance away from the van.
Next he grabbed the mom that was in the driver seat, who had a smashed head with blood all over her black hair and cuts covering her body. Un-doing the buckle was difficult with his wobbly hands but he managed to pull her out, when he got her half way out he noticed a boy in the back corner. He laid the mom next to the daughter and went back for the boy only for the van to combust into flames when he got into arm reach of it.
Orochimaru sat on the ground next to the unconscious bodies, when he heard sirens he finally looked at the face and saw his adoptive mother, his aunt, and sister/cousin, lying next to him.
He was drug away before he could ask question or see if they were alright. His head pushed into the back seat as he drove away he watched the flames be put out, helplessly watching and forever knowing he killed his own family.
At the police office he was pushed into a seat beside a Silver haired kid with glasses and a black hoody covering his face.
"What are you in for?" asked the stranger who turned to show blackened eyes behind the glasses.
"I killed my family by driving," Orochimaru told him while slumping back into his chair hiding his face with his hand. "What about you?" he only asked because he needed to be distracted from what just happened.
"I hacked into the school system to change the schedules around along with the lunch menu." The kid smirked at his own intelligent.
"Sssmart kid, I'm Orochimaru." He informed the teen while extending his hand to him.
"Kabuto, nice to meet you," he shook his hand "So you're not wasted are you?"
"Nope, only a little drunk, enough to ssscrew up my balance." He informed the kid, no the teen, right in front of him ….more like beside him.
"Sucks to be you right now," he smiled back.
"Yeah it does." Orochimaru agreed.
A cop came and took Kabuto's arm roughly and jerked him out of his seat "See ya later Orochimaru." He said with a wave as he was dragged away.
_END FLASH BACK!_
Kabuto smiled back at his friend "you really think so?"
"Yesss Kabuto I do," Orochimaru smiled at him "I would have found your talents any way."
Kabuto rolled his eyes "I have a plan to get your sister back." He grabbed his coat and started to walk out the door "I'm driving." He joked and they both exited the house.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~With Emerald and Storm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Look at this Emerald!" A hyper blonde jumped and pointed to a painting while laughing.
"Never thought I would see that." Emerald smirked at the painting they were in front of.
The Art Fair was packed today, the roads full of people and different colors, but more importantly different types of art. It goes from dolls, to paintings, to clothes, singing, dancing, and anything you can think of that could be considered an art. The food is amazing and so are the people…most of them.
"Looks like an eternal explosion!" The blue eye girl explained while laughing.
Right now the two best friends are looking at an electronic sign that has explosion going on it then leaving. So the explosion would last forever, or as long as it was plugged in.
The two were looking at hand made clothes and smiling when they heard a shout "Hey bitches we need to talk!" most people turned to stare at the two and the ten people walking toward them. Most people turned around and went on looking at the different types of art, after all they were here for art not the drama of two teenage girls they don't even know.
"I told you not to cuss, what do you want?" Storm asked after glaring at Hidan for his colorful language.
"What the hell happened back at Zetsu's house?" The blue one of the group asked with an amused smile playing on his lips.
"What, the family feud?" Storm asked with a tilt of the head "That happens with every family smart butt." She snickered at his glare.
"Storm's parents were killed in a drunken car accident 3 years ago, her brother died in flames, mother on the way to the hospital." Emerald started to explain to the group of boys (And girl) in front of them.
"I was in the hospital for a week unconscious. When I finally came to they told my Orochimaru did it and he was put in jail for two years." She watched the group as she continued on with more information "Orochimaru has a weird skin thing, as you can see by his paleness."
"He is allergic to the sun," Emerald explained further for them to understand "That's why he always has on long sleeves and Hoodies"
"And my mother and brother took him in," Storm started out again "then he killed them…Not on purpose but still it happened and could have been prevented." She shrugged.
An awkward silence evolved around the group as it started to get dark outside "so the fireworks will start soon if you want to go get some good seats?" Sasori asked Storm who was pushing her feet into the ground and staring at the pictures and drawings, which was only a bunch of circles.
She smiled "That sounds great! There's this hill about half a mile away, maybe about 20 minutes away from here if we walk!" She told them while pointing to a hill with a bunch of wild flowers.
Deidara turned to Emerald "We can check out the museum of paintings then we can all meet up again at the ice-cream shop and go watch the fireworks." Deidara's cheeks where dusted with a light pink.
Emerald smirked at him "Sure sounds fun," she turned to Storm "Don't do anything stupid." She warned.
"Me, do something stupid, psh, who do you think you're talking to?" she rolled her eyes and smiled childishly.
"A brat." Emerald smirked at her friend.
"What about you guys?" Storm asked the others in the group who were standing there.
"Me and Itachi have double dates tonight." Kisame explained as he walked away from the group with Itachi at his side silently.
"Those poor girls." Emerald said with sarcasm.
"How do you know their fucking girls," Hidan laughed then looked at them "I can't stay either, mom needs help at home tonight." He walked off after saying this.
"I just don't want to stay." Kakuzu grumbled and walked home.
"Pain is having dinner with me and my family today, sorry." Konan told the four before taking Pain's hand and skipping off with a blushing man in her arms.
"Come on let's go." Storm grabbed Sasori's hand and ran off with the bag; she had been caring for the fireworks, in hand. While Emerald and Deidara walked off in the different direction.
Storm was half way to the walking path when someone jerked her arm away from Sasori's. "Hey!" She yelled at the unwanted hand on her upper arm.
"We need to talk," came a hissing voice "now."
"Orochimaru let go of my date." Sasori told him with a blank face.
Storm blinked as a dark blush formed on her cheeks "d-date?"
"Storm, listen to me. We need to talk." Orochimaru told her after turning her around and taking ahold of both her arms with a vise grip. The seriousness in his voice, as it was stern had an almost needy sound to it.
"You can talk to me in front of Sasori" Storm pulled her arms away and crossed them looking her cousin dead in the eyes.
"I'm sorry okay! I'm sorry I took your mom and brother away from you. And it being your birthday made it worst. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!" He went to his knees so he could be eye level with her.
She softened a bit at hearing him apologize "Orochi," she sighed "I forgive you. It's all cool okay?" She smiled at him.
"What?" he asked with wide eyes.
"I forgive you. Can I please get back to my date?" She asked giggling at calling it a date much to Sasori's amusement.
"A date?" he asked while taking her hand and walking away with her the rest of the way up.
Storm had her cell phone out "You called it a date first!" She blushed deeply "What ice-cream do you want?"
"Strawberry. I did say it first." He smirked as they reached the top of the hill.
"So…this is a date?" She asked him with a blush in a non-caring voice while sitting down and pulling a blanket out of her bag and laying it down on the soft grass.
"Yes it is." He helped get it straight and lay out the food.
"You cocky Bastard, You didn't think of telling your girlfriend you were on a date together?" She scolded and took a grape and popped it into her mouth.
"Girlfriend?" Sasori raised an eyebrow at the blonde beside him.
"If you can assume we're on a date, then I can assume you're my boyfriend." She said with a matter-of-fact tone in her voice and a small smile lifting the corners of her lips.
Sasori smirked as a plan formed in his head "If you can assume I'm your boyfriend then I assume I can do this." Sasori leaned in and kissed her softly on her plush pink lips, placing his hand on her smooth cheek softly. Sasori quickly pulled back when after a few seconds Storm was still stiff and hadn't relaxed into the kiss. "Sorry" he mumbled after looking away.
"You know what they say assume means; make an ass out of you and me (ass u me)," she looked at the red head beside her, who looked mad, and smiled "But this wasn't one of those times. Sorry" She giggled again.
Sasori turned to look at her with his deep brown eyes "What for?" his voice was soft and sweet, yet still held little emotion, tho all she needed was his eyes to see what he felt.
"That was my first kiss," she blushed and looked away from him as she continued "I wasn't expecting it and I don't know what to do. Well I know what to do, but I'm not sure of what to do" She started going further on about her confusion of trying to explain what she meant only to stop when she heard Sasori chuckle. "What?"
"Nothing brat," he lend in and kissed her again only this times he paid attention to what his lips where doing and copied him. She hesitantly put her hand in his hair.
Storm couldn't explain how she felt, but her body tingled and it felt nice; she wasn't going to lie. She liked his soft hair, the way Sasori was gentle yet still passionate, and how his hand felt on her hip. Storm was hoping this would never end; but sadly she heard a coughing noise and pushed Sasori away from her and turned away with a dark crimson blush on her cheeks.
"Oh don't let us ruin your time" came laughter from her right.
When storm looked over she saw Emerald and Deidara standing on the path with their ice-cream in hand.
"Oh shut up and give me my ice-cream!" She yelled and took her strawberry ice-cream with sprinkles on it and sat down and licked absently while the blush on her cheeks never left.
"Great timing brat." Sasori said with sarcasm and a roll of his eyes as he got up and took his ice-cream from Deidara.
"Sorry un. Would have taken longer with it if I knew you were going to be down her throat." The blonde boy tried to hold back his laughter but failed miserably.
"There was no tongue," Sasori rolled his eyes and sat down beside Storm "But she is my girlfriend."
Well if she wasn't sure before now Storm knew they were dating and her blush reached her ears as she fiddled with her ice-cream.
"Pity me and Emerald had tongue un." Deidara told his Friend in fake sympathy as he sat down beside him, and a blushing Emerald beside Deidara.
"Nice," Storm said as she rolled her eyes and finished up her ice-cream "The fireworks will start in five minutes." She informed them.
"Whatever." Emerald rolled her eyes and looked at Storm who was absently touching her lips, the blush now half gone and only a soft pink hue.
"I wonder if my body still supposes to tingle like this." Storm asked herself in a whisper.
"What'd you say?" Sasori asked looking over at her as he rested backwards propped on his elbows.
"Nothing!" Storm said quickly and she lay down with hands behind her head.
The fireworks went up and Storm, and Deidara, was staring in awe at all the colors and bright lights that lit up the sky one minute then was gone the next. Storm's view was blocked by deep brown eyes and lush red hair. All she could do was star in to Sasori's brown captivating eyes as her heart beat grew faster. Soon their lips were locked together again in a(n) innocent kiss; her eyes automatically closing.
When Storm looked over at Deidara and Emerald she saw the same thing was happening to her. Only more intense and scary like, seriously it looked like they were eating each other.
Storm mad a muffled giggling sound at the thought only to bust out laughing when Sasori pulled away to look at her. "Nothing, nothing" she repeated over and over again as she tried to regain air into her lungs.
And that is the end of this chapter! Yeah, so the death of the family goes out to my dead Uncle, sorry I never met you Uncle Marvin! He was killed by a drunk driver, him on his motorcycle, it was a hit and run and the other guy was never found. Please I ask you, DON"T drink and drive. Accidents happen but if you are drunk then it is your fault, for you were behind the wheel.