Author's Note: Well… I feel kind of weird writing a story about my birthday… Kind of pathetic actually, but hey, I'm bored XD

Hell of a Birthday

New Years passed by rather quickly, as did Chinese New Years while Kakuzu literally drooled over the piles of red envelopes filled with money. Currently, everyone was resting quietly in their room while Amaya, Konan and Karasu were in the living room discussing an upcoming event.

The blue haired woman sighed in ignorance, "For the last time, why can't we have a party?"

Karasu sighed as well, "Because, I'd like to stick to my clan's custom of not having a party."

Amaya snorted rather un-ladylike, "Psh, clan, shlan. You Kaguyas are so… so high and mighty like the Uchihas!" It was fact that Karasu was a Kaguya, though her brother, Kimimaro had inherited more of his mother's features instead of his fathers. Karasu's mother had silvery white hair with piercing red eyes, while her father had onyx black hair and glassy green eyes.

Karasu rolled her red eyes, "Whatever… We can't have a party. That's final."

"Can we at least give you presents? A birthday isn't without presents." Konan pointed out.

"Fine, but only you three… I don't want Hidan to give me a dead rat like he did for last year's Christmas…" The shoulder-length black haired girl shivered at the thought of a dead rat lying under the tree for weeks on end scared her slightly.

Amaya glared, "Hey, at least he got you something! Besides, it's better than getting a pebble from Kakuzu." They all started laughing after telling them some hilarious gifts they all received from last year's Christmas, then moved onto New Years resolutions.

Karasu yawned tiredly and looked at a large grandfather clock she thought was beautiful and mumbled; "It's 2:23 in the morning… I think I should go to bed." She sighed.

"Good night." They all said in unison as they headed towards opposite directions. When Karasu finally reached her room, she closed and locked it. It's been long since anyone has ever celebrated her birthday. It wasn't true what she said back in the living room about her clan avoiding parties. She remembered her first party where she invited all her friends, but they all never came. Another birthday party was when a couple of her friends did come, but they tore open her presents and kept what was inside the colorful boxes and bags. To that day, she thought no one should know when her birthday was. It was too much of a hassle anyways.

'Besides, I'm like a party animal like Amaya and nearly everyone else.' She nodded as she pulled her covers up close to her chin as her head laid against a pillow. Karasu remembered a birthday that broke her heart into millions of pieces. She silently fell asleep, letting the usual nightmares sink in.

Flashback

The sun was shining bright as usual, but the snow wouldn't melt in Yukigakure (snow village). Another peaceful and war-free day has passed and gone as did today like any other day. A five year-old girl with hair down to mid back and her wide happy red eyes glowing with excitement and hope skipped down the shoveled streets of the village as she waited by the Academy's gates for her crush to come out.

As the bell rang, a flurry of students Karasu's age came bursting out of the doors and passed the gates of where she was standing. While she stood there, she closed her eyes with a smile and her hands swinging against her white and red kimono. She imagined his perfect complexion and his mischievous smirk and strange laugh, how his dark purple hair would dance with the wind and his gray eyes would look around aimlessly. He was blind, but wanted badly to prove to others that he could take care of himself by become a strong shinobi.

"Why are you just standing there smiling with your eyes closed?" a soft five-year-old boy's voice was heard.

Karasu's eyes opened and tried to hide her blush, "How did you know I was closing my eyes?"

"Because I send chakra waves to you and when I receive it back, I get an image of your face." He explained it as if it were the weather. "Why don't you want to become a kunoichi Karasu-chaaaan?" he complained as he stomped his right foot on the ground annoyed.

Karasu giggled and mocked him, "Just because I'm from a clan doesn't mean I must be a kunoichi Moumoku-kuuuuuun!" She stuck her tongue out.

"Hey! I 'saw' that!" He laughed and started chasing after her as they played tag throughout the village. They chased, but they also yelled at each other, "Come back!"

"Why would I?" Karasu smiled as she continued running slowly like a five-year-old should. "Oh yeah! It's my birthday today!!!"

Moumoku smile grew wider, "Really?! That gives me another reason for you to come here because I want to give you a birthday present!"

Unfortunately, they didn't read a warning sign that said, "WANTED: Yakusho Motori… For murder, escape of prison in Yukigakure, and robbery Note: S-class criminal"

The village didn't have many shinobis, and certainly not a lot of kunoichis. As Karasu finally stopped, Moumoku sensed her and stopped in front of her as well. He went near her ear to whisper, "Happy Birth—"

The purple haired boy was cut off, as a knife was drove into his beating heart and the criminal yelled, "Out of the punk!" Now, he lay there lifeless and dead while Karasu screamed on the top of her lungs. By that day, she has sworn to be the best kunoichi and seek revenge.

End Flashback

Karasu shuddered as she fell into a deep slumber, not excited about tomorrow. After only five minutes of silence, a small knock was heard on her door. Fortunately, Karasu was usually a light sleeper, but she had just finished a mission and was extremely tired. As the door's lock clicked, a white haired girl with brilliant blue eyes smirked and snuck inside her room, taking a peek at her open diary on a nearby desk. 'Always keep your journals locked up!' Amaya snickered. Though, as soon as she saw her past written in the pages with tearful ink, she now understood why a birthday party was absolutely unacceptable. Her childhood crush was killed that day, and it was no happy matter.

She immediately left the room and put the diary in place and sprayed it with a not-so strong perfume to cover up her scent. After two hours another knock was heard by the undisturbed Karasu as she only flipped over to face the door but still peacefully asleep. The door's hinges squeaked open as Itachi entered with a soft whisper, "Karasu-san?" He knew better than to disturb her like a certain foolish clay artist did once.

The weasel only came inside to borrow a book Karasu was reading that he thought was rather interesting, but as soon as he saw it on her bookshelf, he also caught notice of her open diary. He quickly scanned the inky words and sighed as he closed it shut and put it safely inside her drawer. "She never told me it was her birthday tomorrow… Or that she had a childhood crush." Itachi muttered darkly at the end. Before he locked and closed the door quietly, he couldn't help but sneak a miniscule smile at the sleeping Karasu.

5:30 AM

Knock! Knock! Kno— "What the hell do you fucking want?!" Amaya muttered as she rubbed her eyes and opened the door to be greeted by the dark haired Uchiha. "What?"

"Tomorrow is Karasu's birthday. I read it in her diary—" he was quickly interrupted.

Amaya slapped her forehead and slid it down slowly, "She's really got to put it in a drawer or something… But, we can't throw a party, Moumoku's death isn't something to be laughing or happy about."

"But, wouldn't Moumoku be happy if he knew that Karasu was enjoying her birthday? Even if he is dead?" Itachi pointed out as Amaya's blue eyes widened as if to say, 'Duh!'

She started rushing towards everyone's room except for Karasu's, "We've got to put up the decorations! Hurry up everyone!"

Tobi was desperately to put up the streamers, but everyone else insisted that Karasu was too old for streamers and other childish decorations such as silly string and a couple of random balloons that says, "It's a girl!" from when Kakuzu was too cheap to buy real balloons during Deidara's birthday.

Amaya and Hidan started putting up a large stereo they somehow found in the cleaning supplies room, Konan baked her famous black forest cake while Pein just watched, Sasori and Itachi were both wrapping the few presents, Deidara made a quick random sculpture of something that looked like a disfigured little boy that was supposed to look like Moumoku. Kakuzu just sat on the couch and continuously counted on how much the presents were all together.

Just as soon as the birds chirped near Karasu's window, she noticed they were doves and glared at them. How she despised other birds and their bright feathery colors… They eventually flew off, and then she started feeling the guilt of what happened yesterday. She moved towards her desk of where her diary should be, but instead she found it in a drawer and decided to shrug it off as she opened the back of the hardback and her red eyes softened as soon as she saw Moumoku's picture. 'If I would've been a kunoichi that time, I might have warned you and maybe gave you my life…' she sighed as she slammed the book shut and headed towards the bathroom to get ready for the day. As she put on her Akatsuki cloak, she looked both sides of the hallway to find it unusually and eerily quiet.

She decided to walk towards the living room to see if Itachi got the book he wanted to borrow. "SURPRISE!" the surprised scared her thoughtless as Karasu screamed and hid behind a couch where Tobi was.

As soon as she got over her fright, she looked around to see a party. "No… Amaya, Konan, I specifically told you no—"

Before she could finish, she felt a tall shadow loom over her with a glare. Karasu quickly turned around to see Itachi as he muttered, "You really should keep your journal somewhere safer. Besides, Moumoku would've wanted you happy instead of moping." He tried his hardest to crack a small smile but what seemed to look like a petrified grin of amusement.

The black haired girl looked around to see everyone's nervous smiles, then turned back to see a "happy-go-lucky" Itachi trying so utterly hard to be "happy". She sighed for the sake of it, "Did anyone make dango?" They all cheered as Amaya brought out the sake and alcohol as she and Hidan started a competition while Kisame played winner.

When if finally came to the part where Karasu cut the cake there were a bit of difficulties, "Uh, Konan-chan? Did you make black forest?" Karasu asked. The blue haired woman nodded. "Baka! When it comes to baking, you always forget the yeast, or you mistake the yeast for flour and put too much!" Everyone laughed at Konan's embarrassment, but either way, they all ate the frosting on the cake and some of the dark cherries hidden inside.

"PRESENTS!!!" Deidara smirked as he handed her his beautifully wrapped present.

As she unwrapped it, she saw it was a clay figure of… something… "Uh, thank you Deidara-kun." She smiled.

"But wait! There's a part two. Kai!" as he said so, the figure exploded and created a small firework that said 'Happy Birthday!' Karasu opened the rest, and she got a sweater Konan knitted, bracelets from Amaya, an extremely dirty penny from Kakuzu, a nearly dead goldfish from Kisame, a cute doll from Sasori, earrings from Pein, a dandelion picked off the training grounds from Tobi, a "Happy fucking Birthday" from Hidan, a red rose from Zetsu, and lastly a memory book of the first year Karasu joined Akatsuki from Itachi.

It was late at night and everyone was exhausted while Hidan carried a drunk Amaya to her room (A/N: Don't think he'll do anything you perves!), Sasori dragged a snoring Deidara to a closet so that he can prank Deidara, Pein helping Konan to their room, Kakuzu and Zetsu both went to their rooms, and Tobi yawned all the way to his room. All was left a mess and a sleeping Karasu and a wide-awake Itachi. 'Should I?' he thought. 'Fine, only this once.' He huffed.

The weasel was kind enough to carry Karasu back to her bed, but not gently dropped the heavy sleeper onto the bed and slammed the door shut. Though, just as he left, Karasu couldn't help but smile and hold onto the memory book.

Next Chapter:

Bloody Valentine

Author's Note: Well, there you go =] I hope you liked it! I'd really appreciate if you readers just review at least once! That'd be my b-day gift and a hell of an awesome one XD