-- I don't own Naruto. . . or Fire. . . but I own Mel. . . cuz, well. . . it's me . Fire is my real best friend, not a charachter. . . and these are our actual personalities and appearances and stuff ^.^" yeah so enjoy! R&R!--
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Chapter 1: School just got better
I walked down the hall tiredly to my first period class. Math. That was one thing I didn't need first thing in the morning. I dropped my binder on my desk and sat down, my head immediately dropping onto my binder as I tried in vain to sleep before the announcements. Normally, I wasn't one to be so tired, as I was probably the most hyper person in the entire school, but I wasn't a morning person. At all.
I was starting to fall asleep when the announcements started, and I groaned, not paying attention as always, but the noise was keeping me awake. It was strange how a noisy classroom couldn't keep me awake but the announcements could. I waited until they were over and listened through the class, not taking in a word of it. Completely normal. I finished my work relatively quickly though, and began to doodle on a spare sheet of paper. The bell finally rang and I rushed to my next class. Gym. Greeeaaaaaat.
I walked into the big gym after changing, and I noticed a new girl sitting on the floor. She had blue hair with an origami flower in it, which automatically struck me as familiar, even though I couldn't see her face. I raised an eyebrow and stared until I heard a familiar voice behind me. "Oh my fucking god I just saw the STRANGEST thing . . . there's a new kid in my Geo class that looks EXACTLY like Itachi!" I turned around to see Fire walking towards me. My eyes widened slightly.
"Holy crap. . . I just saw the strangest thing too . . . there's a new girl that looks JUST like Konan. . . and she's RIGHT THERE!" I pointed at the girl sitting there, and Fire and I exchanged a confused glance. I grinned. "That's kinda really creepy. . . but I'm gonna find out what her name is" I walked over to her quickly, hearing Fire's laughter behind me as I went. I sat down beside the blue-haired girl on the dirty floor with a big smile. "Hey you're new here right? I'm Melanie. Who are you?" my voice was almost too friendly as I tried not to laugh at how stupid and preppy I sounded. She looked up at me and I could have stared. She looked EXACTLY like Konan.
"Um hi. I'm Konan. Nice to meet you" she gave me a smile which faltered as I jumped up and screamed.
"OH MY GOD IT'S ACTUALLY YOU!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!" I felt a hand cover my mouth and I glanced sideways to see Fire glaring at me.
"Idiot" she muttered. I sat back down beside Konan and Fire did as well, and we bombarded her with questions.
Despite the basketball game we were supposed to be playing,, we had learned by the end of the class that the entire Akatsuki had come to Pine Ridge. Of course Konan didn't just blurt it all out. . . we had to convince her how much we knew about them before she finally told us. Fire and I both fangirl squealed, though mine was louder and I jumped up and down as I did so, and it attracted a lot of strange looks, as Fire and I aren't really the squealy type. . . except when it came to the people from the Akatsuki that we adore.
When the class ended Fire and I attempted to follow Konan to the rest of the Akatsuki, down the crowded hallways and through the warm sun outside, but we figured she knew as she deliberately led us elsewhere. "Damn" I muttered after we followed her for the entire hour. "I'm hungry now".
"Stop complaining I didn't eat either" Fire said as she smacked me in the back of the head. I rubbed my head as we headed to the next class that we had together. Science. This semester we had every period with each other except for first, which was pretty awesome. We headed to science and took our seats, which were next to each other. We were just discussing if any of the Akatsuki would be in any more of our classes when the bell rang and the teacher started role-call. My name was near the beginning and I answered with a lazy 'here'. As we got to the middle of the list two people burst into the room out of breath.
Fire and I glanced up at the two people and froze. I jumped out of my seat and was about to run to the blonde who had walked in when Fire grabbed my arm and pulled me back into my seat. "Baka-chan, do you want them to be scared of us already?!" she hissed. I looked at her with a frown.
"My name isn't baka-chan and I'm sorry for being so excited. Bitch" I whispered back. The only empty seats were right in front of us, which made us both grin. Ms. Dignem
smiled and motioned to the two now looking at the class.
"Well these are our two new students" she said with a smile. She looked down at her sheet to introduce them, but decided against it, probably not wanting to mispronounce their names. The two made their way to the seats in front of us and sat down, though Hidan was in front of me, and Deidara in front of her.
No matter how hard Fire and I tried to work on the chemistry experiment we were supposed to be conducting, we both kept looking up to the two in front of us. Near the beginning of the class Fire reached out to the blonde ponytail in front of her and giving it a big tug, causing Deidara's head to snap back. He whipped his head around and glared at Fire.
"What the fuck was that for, un!?" he asked, voice low and angry. Fire pointed at me and stated her answer immediately.
"She did it!". What are best friends for but to make the person you love hate you? I looked at Deidara and shook my head.
"No! I didn't do anything Deidara-sama! I would NEVER do something like that to you!" I said earnestly.
Fire laughed nervously and pushed her chair back a little.
"Hidan-sama! Save me!" she threw her arms in the air and looked pleadingly at Hidan who had turned around to see what would happen in their little 'misunderstanding'. Deidara looked at me funny for a moment, not paying attention to Fire anymore.
"Wait. . . how the hell do you know my name, un?" he looked kinda creeped out. Hidan looked at Fire with the same look as the blonde gave me.
"And how the hell do you know mine, bitch?" Fire and I exchanged a glance as we both laughed nervously.
"Um. . . we're just magical like that" Fire said with the familiar grin she gave when in a slightly awkward situation. I nodded in agreement, trying not to laugh. I always laughed at the wrong moments. Deidara and Hidan still looked creeped out as they turned back around.
"Yeah. . . sure. . . " I heard Hidan mutter and I tried still to hold in my laughter as we worked on the experiment.
Class proceeded almost normally after that, other than our constant staring, until Hidan picked up a certain vile containing a bright green chemical.
"Ow fuck this is hot" he said. He turned his head to look at Deidara so we could see him smirk. "Hey Blondie, watch this". He threw the vile across the room where it hit a nerdy kid who sat in the first row and shattered, the hot chemical drenching the kid and going all over the floor. The albino burst out with his insane laughing as Brett screamed in pain. "THAT WAS FUCKIN' AWESOME!!" Hidan yelled. Ms. Dignem got one of the students to escort Brett to the nurse and then turned to Hidan angrily.
"In the hall. Now" she commanded as she pointed at the door. Hidan snorted and crossed his arms.
"No"
"Now Hidan"
"YOU CAN'T MAKE HIDAN GO IN THE HALL!!" that was Fire.
"You in the hall too!" the teacher sounded appalled as she pointed at the door again.
"Fine, Hidan come on we're going in the hall" she walked to the albino and grabbed his arm to pull him out of the room with her.
"But I thought you just said that she couldn't make me go in the hall!"
"But I CAN make you go in the hall. Now come" Fire dragged the still protesting albino into the hallway, leaving the classroom in silence.
I broke the silence, waving my hand in the air frantically, though I didn't wait for Ms. Dignem to notice before I asked my question.
"Since I don't have a partner anymore and neither does Deidara can I be his for today!?" I asked excitedly.
"Um, sure Melanie" she replied.
"Yes!" I exclaimed as I ran around the cluttered desk and sat in Hidan's seat. "So where were you guys in the experiment?" I tried to sound normal, but I don't think it was working very well. He explained where, and we continued with it, though I did A LOT of staring. The class was over too soon, and I grudgingly grabbed my stuff while Fire and Hidan came and got theirs, having been lectured on swearing for a bit. Fire looked pretty happy, and Hidan didn't look too pissed, which made me wonder how it all turned out. "Bye Deidara!!" I said, waving hyperly as he walked down the crowded burgundy and white hall in the opposite direction. He waved back and I grinned. We hadn't gotten along too badly, which made this even more of the best day of my life than it already was. Fire and I quickly made our way to our music class, both of us wondering who if any, of the Akatsuki would be in that class, as it was an easy course.
I saw the silver hair as Hidan disappeared into the music room but I didn't tell Fire, though she found out as soon as we walked into the room with our instruments. She waved to him and he waved back with a smile, and I asked her for the millionth time what they had done in the hallway, but she hadn't told me. All I knew was that they were friends now, as were Deidara and I. Hidan was standing next to the music teacher, Mrs. White, and another familiar person who had blue hair and tinged blue skin, and what looked like gills on his face. They were probably talking about what instruments they played.
Hidan was on the snare drum, and Kisame played the flute apparently. Fire sat behind me in music, and we were on the ends of our rows, until Kisame pulled a chair up next to me. I found it hilarious that he played flute. He grinned at me and Fire when he sat down.
"Hey. I'm Kisame, as I'm guessing you two know" he said with a laugh. I looked at Fire, guessing that she'd told Hidan how much we knew about them, and the albino had told Kisame.
"I'm Mel" I said, waving slightly.
"Fire" I looked at my friend as she said it, and we both grinned. This would be interesting.
"So you and Hidan are taking this as an easy course aren't you?" I asked with a laugh.
"Pretty much" he said with a shrug.
Music was my second favourite class, and I was pretty good at it, though I soon found that so was Kisame, which made me laugh in the middle of playing, causing my flute to squeak. Fire laughed at that, though she had taken her mouth off of the mouthpiece so that her clarinet didn't squeak as well. I stopped laughing quickly and continued to play, every once and a while glancing sideways as if still not believing that the Akatsuki had actually come to Pine Ridge. Although, the school's nickname was also Crime Ridge, which might have had an influence and Pein's decision on what school they moved to.
The class went pretty much normally, well, as normal as it could be with two idiots, an insane immortal, and a fish-man in the class. The bell rang and I got up and put my instrument away, my mind going over the day's events excitedly. School definitely just got better. I looked at Hidan and Kisame, who were by the door, apparently waiting for Fire and I. I just realized now what they were wearing, as I hadn't been paying attention before, but really, what had I been expecting, that they would wear their cloaks to school? Kisame was wearing black baggy jeans and a dark blue t-shirt that had 'The terror that lurks in your bathtub' written across the front and a picture of a sharks fin next to it. Ironic. Hidan was wearing dark blue jeans and a white t-shirt with the name of a store on it in purple, but the name was cut off by the black sweater he wore over top, half done up.
Fire and I hurried over to the two waiting at the door and we walked down the hall together, discussing how confusing the layout of Pine Ridge was. The stairs don't all go to the third floor, the third floor wasn't completely connected, and the numbers on the doors didn't go in order. What the fuck. By grade 11, Fire and I knew our way around, and we didn't get confused anymore, but I had a feeling all of the Akatsuki were suffering from the confusion as much as we had in grade 9. We all headed off to our lockers, which were all in different parts of the school.
I opened my locker quickly, eager to be walking home with Fire so we could talk about our AMAZING day. The locker beside me which had been vacant until today, opened. I turned my head to look at my new 'neighbour ' but I saw nothing until I glanced down. There stood a short teen with fiery red hair and brown eyes, which I immediately recognized as Sasori. He seemed to notice me looking at him since he looked up at me, face emotionless.
"Are you in my math class?" I asked confusedly. He raised an eyebrow but nodded. I looked him up and down quickly, looking at the black jeans and black t-shirt with a red band logo on it. "Wow I completely didn't notice that. I'm Mel by the way" I gave a small smile, and he nodded again.
"So you're the girl Deidara was talking about. . ." he started to get his books out of his locker and shove them into his backpack.
"Yeah he's in my science class. . . but he was talking about me?" I grinned.
"Yes. He wouldn't shut up actually. . . apparently you're good at chemistry even when you're staring at him most of the time" he chuckled slightly and I scratched the back of my head, laughing. Well that was good to know.
"Well, I gotta go. BYE!" I slammed my messy locker shut and sprinted down the hall, people parting to let me through, as they always did. People were used to me running down the halls like an idiot by now.
I met Fire where I usually did, and we walked home together, all going as it always did, including the conversation topic: the Akatsuki. But this time we actually had the real thing to be talking about. I tripped more than I usually did while we walked, probably because I was so excited and hyper. We got home after the long walk, but we stopped to talk on the corner of our two streets, as we always did. Life would be quite different with the Akatsuki around, especially since we were getting along with the few members we had met so far.