A/N: Thanks for the reviews. :) Anywho on to chapter two. Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter 2: I hate children... Ana
I watched, from the front lawn, the scene unfold in front of me. Sasha and Ryxer were talking to what looked like a very distressed Mrs. Miller. I absently wondered what they were talking about as I looked around and noticed that Joe and Dawn had gone back inside having grown bored already.
"She looks like she has been through a tornado." Olivia muttered with concerned. We just nodded in agreement. Suddenly Mrs. Miller gives Sasha a hug and even from here I can see her stiffen. I chuckled.
Olivia turns towards me with a frown "Don't you feel sorry for her? I mean knowing how she hates to be touched by strangers." Even though we lived next to Mrs. Miller we do not socialize with her often and personally I rather hated the old bat, but hey there are few people I actually do like.
I snorted "No way. Sasha's a big girl." Olivia glares at me and I glare back.
"Ohhhh. That can't be good." says Eve. I abruptly turned to see what was wrong. The first thing I see is Ryxer who is facepalming and then I see Sasha, who was looking off into space and has a curtain look on her face. 'Oh Shit, I know that look.' I quickly look to Mrs. Miller, instead of look like a wreck like before she now had a look of pure bliss. I mentally cursed.
"No Eve, that's not good at all." I could feel the venom in my voice. The others sent me a worried look and simultaneously they all took a step away from me, Olivia took two. I tried to keep my rapidly rising temper in check as I waited for the two traitors to come back and tell us what happened, even though I'm pretty sure about what Sasha had told the old bat.
After a few moments later Mrs. Miller went back inside and Sasha and Ryxer started back towards our house. As they got closer Ryxer suddenly said "Meeting. Front room. Now." and walked past us with an exasperated look on her face. Ana followed and refrained from looking at any of us. After a moment of awkward silence and a soft 'uh-oh' from Eve we followed them inside. As everyone got situated and seated Sasha and Ryxer stood in the middle of the room.
"So what is this about?" asked Naomi, from her spot on the couch.
Ryxer looked at Sasha "Go on, tell them."
"Why can't you do it?" Sasha whined.
"Because, you were the one that went and said such a thing out of the blue." Ryxer gave Sasha a hard look.
Sasha sighed "Fine. Listen gu-" she was cut off by Eve asking questions like rapid fire "What is it? Does it have to do with what you guys were talking about? And what was that sound earlier?" She stopped to take a big breath and opens her mouth to continue but is cut off by Joe "Eve. Calm down."
Eve pouts. Sasha answers "Yes, Eve it does have to do with what we talked about with Mrs. Miller and I'm not really sure what the sound that we heard was ...uh...we kinda got distracted by other things. Now-"she clears her throat "-you all know how Mrs. Miller had adopted thirteen children." The tension in the room thickens and Sasha clears her throat, again. "Weeell, it seems that we are all now going to be their caretakers." There was a moment quiet then chaos.
"What?!" shrieked Lilith.
"We can't take care of kids!" said Olivia. Next to her stood Joe with a frown on her face, shaking her head sighing. Sarah, sitting in her little corner on the couch, puts down her book and groans as if in pain.
"This can't be happening." whispered Dawn.
"I wish I was back in bed." Naomi said while rubbing her forehead.
As the yelling continued as my body tightened. Did I mention that I hate children. No, well I do. Me and kids do not mix well, and if I do say so myself kids just plain don't like me. I almost hit a kid at Mcdonalds one time, I accidentally bumped into him making him drop his burger, which I might add was still wrapped, and right when I was going to apologize he started yelling and whining. The kids mom just stood there wide eyed and the one time she tried to calm her son he told her to shut up. I ended up shoving my sandwich into his hands and told him to 'grow up', although I don't think I said it that nicely, then left before I lost my control. It took me about an hour at the gym before I had worked out my anger.
"Sasha." My voice quivering from my anger. Somehow, even though Sasha was fending off an upset Eve, she managed to hear me but by the time she pushed Eve away and turned in my direction it was too late. I tackled Sasha sending us soaring and we landing on the wooden table. I couldn't help by smirk as she grunted when hitting the table.
Ryxer
I resisted the urge to facepalm as Ana and Sasha started fighting. Eve, the closest to the wrestling duo squeaked as she ran to get out the way. 'Man. With the rate they are going there is going to be a huge mess to clean up.'
Ignoring the two idiots Joe turned to me and asked "When are the kids coming over?" Everyone looked at me for the answer, except for Ana and Sasha who had taken their fight into the hallway.
"Tomorrow. We told Mrs. Miller to drop them off at around ten in the morning."
"Phew. At least we can sleep in." Dawn said as she went upstairs to her room. I flinched when I heard a loud crash come from the kitchen area. 'Guess I better go break up the fight before they break anything else.' I waved night to the others as I left. As soon as I walked into the kitchen I ducked avoiding a potted plant, poor thing. I looked at the fighting pair and notice that they had commenced to throwing things at each other. They were grabbing utensils and such off the counter, food from the cabinets and even the occasional magnet or so, from off of the fridge. I tried to think of any peaceful way to break up the fight and thinking of none settled for picking up two plastic cups and throwing one at each of their heads. They both turned to me with a 'hey'. I put my arms up in surrender before the could start pelting me to death.
Ana voice was sharp as she said, "What." and man if looks could kill.
"I'm just came to tell you guys to pick up when you're done with your little makeshift food fight and to try not to stay up too late we need to get up early so we're ready when Mrs. Miller drops the kids off." I said. When it came to Ana and Sasha you could never just tell them to stop fighting, you had to give them a valid reason to do so.
"Only if you help us clean up." responded Ana with a smile and her face. I looked at Sasha who shrugged her shoulders in a 'what can you do' type of way.
I rolled up my sleeves while laughing and set to work. Needless to say we did not finish cleaning till around midnight.
Joe
A few minutes after Ryxer had left the room Eve, Naomi, Lilith and Olivia started talking in hushed tones and I could really care less what they were talking about, but after a minute or so Naomi growled, similar to that of a wild animal. She whirled suddenly and stomped past me and I vaguely hear her mutter "That is so not true." The others are quick to follow the foaming girl giggling like mad men. I then notice that me and Sarah are the only ones left in the room and Sarah had again gone back to ready her book, it looked as if she was almost done with it.
I squashed the impulse to twitch as minutes ticked by in silence. I don't know what it was but I had a bad feeling about tomorrow and just this whole 'take the kids in' situation in general. I felt a hand on my shoulder, nearly jumping out of my skin I look and see Sarah standing next to me. She looks me in the eye for a few seconds and I was about ready to finally look away when she said "I'm sure everything will be fine." Giving me a small smile she left to go to bed. Sarah always did have a way of knowing what people were feeling at times.
However, even long after I had gone upstairs, laid down in bed and triedto fall asleep the sensation that something was going to happen tomorrow did not go away, even in the early morning. 'So much for sleeping in.'
Allie(Sasha)
I woke up stretching and looked at my alarm clock. It was only eight thirty in the morning. I looked over and saw Ana still asleep on her bed and got a devilish idea. Getting up I got dressed as quietly as I could then took my alarm clock and set the alarm for 9:00, turned the volume to high and put it on Ana's bed right next to her head. Famished I raced downstairs, and as always, setting at the table in the kitchen was Sarah.
"Is that a new book?" I asked as I searched the kitchen for something to eat. I saw Sarah give a nod out of the corner of my eye.
"Have you had breakfast yet?"
"No." I saw her shut her book and put in her bag, she almost always has hat bag on her. That was another thing about Sarah, she could read books for days and then not ready any for a week straight it just depends on her mood.
"Good. I'll make pancakes." I said giving her a smile as I got out the pancake mix and started making batter. Hearing rustling to my right I move and see Sarah getting out the pans and turning the stove on. By the time we were done with all the pancakes everyone was up and downstairs. I couldn't help myself from laughing when at nine ten Ana come down looking rather not so happy. When she sees me she flips me off, which in turn only makes me laugh harder. I could feel Sarah giving me a weird look but I just shrugged it off. It was around nine thirty we were all done with breakfast. Before anyone had the chance to scatter and go do their own things Ryxer speaks up "Ok guys. We need to clean up before Mrs. Miller comes over with the kids and we only have a half hour, so chop to it."
With that we all spread throughout the house and help clean where we could. I was stuck cleaning the front room with Eve, which wouldn't be so bad if she would just stop singing. She was currently on Whip My Hair by Willow Smith and this would make her eighteenth song. Oh yes I've been counting. Before I could tell her to shut up, for the twelve time, the doorbell rang.
Everything stopped. I locked eyes with Ryxer who had just came into the front room and she made a 'shoo' motion with her hands, wanting me to go answer to it. I got up and walked to the front door, I look behind me and see all the girls looking around the corner, and smiled just little pit. 'Well here goes nothing.' And I opened the door.