A/N: This is so far my favorite chapter. Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: Once again I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 4: Petco

Allie (Sasha)

I punched in the number on the piece of paper in my hand into my phone and waited for someone to pick up.

"Hey whatcha doin?" Eve said over my shoulder making my jump. I gave her a look and she mumbled a 'sorry'.

"I'm calling..uh.-"I looked down at the paper "-Mr. Spencer."

"Who's that?"

"I don't know. Someone that Mrs. Miller said I should call about monthly payments."

"Payments for what?" I felt tempted to yell at her to go away but I held it in.

"For supporting the Akatsuki. It's not cheap to take care of thirteen kids you know. Now I'm on the phone."

"Oh, ok." Silence ensued as I waited. Music, the annoying elevator kind, had started on the other end of the phone and a shrill voice said it would just be a moment till someone picked up.

"Well how much are we getting a month?" Eve asked literally bending over my shoulder.

"I don't know Eve, that is why I'm calling." I said shrugging her off my shoulder. Again all I heard was the aggravating music.

"How may I help you?" Now I blame the combination of the music, and the fact that the Akatsuki had been running ramped through my house all day and that we had run out of food when Hidan had eaten the last pieces of ham in the fridge, meaning I had nothing to eat all today since breakfast and I still had yet to go to the store, which all lead to me not being in a fantastic mood. Eve was also not a good add to the mix. All of this lead up to me screaming "I swear to GOD Eve, if you do NOT stop asking me questions I'll stuff you in the closet!"

Eve looked confused and said "But I didn't say anything." at the same time I heard a shaky voice say "E-Excuse me?" on the phone. 'Well shit.'

"Oh! I'm sorry. I uh...you see..ah..-" I took a deep breath "-Is Mr. Spencer available?" There was a long pause and for a second I thought that the women had hung up until I heard a rather small voice say "Yes. I'll just be a moment." I gave a sigh of relieve and turning towards Eve I said "Here's a dollar now go bother Kakuzu." Her eyes lit up and taking the dollar she sprinted down the hallway to find her intended victim.

"Hello this is Mr. Spencer." Upon hearing the male voice I focused back on the conversation on hand.

"Yeah. This is Alexandra Hathaway, Mrs. Miller told me to call you."

"Oh yes. Ms. Hathaway, Mrs. Miller called me in advance and told me of your situation."

"And?"

"Well currently the children are Mrs. Miller's charges but with the transfer there is much paperwork that must be done and I have to a make visit to make sure that you and your housemates are adequate when it comes to taking care of the children then after all that is done then we will talk about monthly payments."

"Oh ok. When are we to expect you?" My question was met with silence and the every now and then faint rustle of paper.

"A week from today. Does that work for you?"

"Yes."

"Good then I'll see you next week. Have a nice day Ms. Hathaway."

"Yeah you too." I hung up the phone and thought about what I had just heard. All of a sudden a loud 'CRASH!' came from the front room. 'Yeah, the visit with Mr. Spencer is going to go real well.'

Dawn

I sat between a sulking Hidan and Kakuzu on the couch in the front room. The only other person in the room was Ana, who was dozing off in one of the recliners. Hidan was grouchy because I had came in while he and Kakuzu, mostly Hidan, were watching some bloody show about murder, I don't know what it was but I could hardly care. So, I took the remote and changed the channel. At first Hidan had cursed me out and threatened me with the wrath of his god Jashin-sama. I just ignored him until he gave up and just sat there pouting.

Eve suddenly came into the front room drawing my attention from the TV. I saw that she was giving Kakuzu a look that could only mean mischief. I gave a small smile and said nothing wanting to see where things would go. Kakuzu and Hidan had yet to noticed Eve's presence.

I watched out of the corner of my eye as Eve settled in behind the couch. 'Is that a fishing pole? Where did she get that?' Eve took out a dollar from her pocket and put it on the hook and positioned the dollar over Kakuzu. I smirked as Kakuzu finally noticed the dollar. He seemed a bit confused at first and when he tried to snatch it, Eve gave a sharp tug on the fishing pole, sending the dollar just out of his reach. I struggled not to laugh with the look that was on Kakuzu's face. The dollar crept back down within reach and Kakuzu glared at it with narrowed eyes.

Hidan finally realized what was going on and started laughing as Kakuzu once again jumped for the dollar. I couldn't contain my own laughter. Kakuzu glowered at Hidan and me. I glanced at Eve and saw that she was trying not to laugh, for she would give herself away. This little game of keep away lasted for about two minutes before Kakuzu stopped. He then looked straight ahead and ignored the offending currency. Hidan and I shared a look. I however quickly looked away. 'Oh my god. I can't believe that I just shared a look with Hidan.'

Eve however would not be deterred. She started swaying the dollar back and forth in front of Kakuzu, who just ignored it. Eve appeared about to give up when Kakuzu, in one quick swipe, snatched the dollar out of mid air. He pulled hard sending Eve flying straight into the back of the couch with a solid thumb. All three of us looked over the edge of the couch, Kakuzu with dollar still in hand, to see Eve moaning and rubbing her soar nose. I glanced at Kakuzu. 'Oh. If looks could kill.' Eve saw the look on Kakuzu's face and shrieked. I covered my ears to keep them from bleeding, sparing a quick peek in both Hidan's and Kakuzu's directions I see that they both also had there ears covered and where scowling. Eve's scream had managed to wake up Ana, who thrashed in the chair for a second from the surprise wake up call. Ana ended up accidentally knocking over a lamp on the stand next to the recliner in her struggles. The lamp hit the floor with a loud 'CRASH!'

Eve wisely ran from the room before Ana fully woke up. Wiping her eyes she turned to us and asked "Who the hell made that god awful noise?"

Not knowing what to do and not wanting to face a grumpy and pissed off Ana I did the first thing that came to me. I pointed to Hidan. Hidan glares at me and says "Why the fuck are you pointing at me Bitch?!"

Ana, not even questioning what had happened, punched Hidan full force in the face, sending him off the couch and onto the floor. She grumbled incoherently and then walked out the room, presumably up to her own room. Kakuzu then got up and stuffing the dollar in his pocket left the room as well leaving me with a pissed off Hidan. Once Kakuzu was gone I turned to the angry immortal with a sheepish smile.

Allie (Sasha)

I stopped walking down the hallway when I saw Ana come from the direction of the front room. I was about to ask her what that crashing sound had been until I saw the look on her face. I let her pass and gave a her a small pat on her back. She mumbled something and kept walking and disappeared up the stairs.

As I was about to make my way to the front room when Ryxer come out from the game room, where most everyone had been hanging out. She saw me then come up to me grabbed my arm and hauled me into the empty kitchen.

Turning to me she said "Ok we need to talk."

"About what?" I asked wearily.

"The Akatsuki of course."

"What about them?"

She gave an exasperated sigh. "You really can't be thinking of letting them stay here are you?"

I gave a shrug "Well we can't just kick them to the road." Guessing her next question I said "And no we can't give them back to Mrs. Miller."

"Why not?"

"She..uh left yesterday."

Ryxer didn't say anything for a moment then "Where did she go?"

"I don't know. All I know is is that she probably isn't coming back."

"Well shit."

"Come on Ryxer there just kids."

"Kids? Kids?! Have you forgotten that they are criminals? You've watched the anime with me, you know what they are capable of."

"Well we don't know exactly if they can even us chakra in our world yet."

"Yeah. Just another thing they are keeping from us." She was rubbing her temples now. Ever since this morning she seemed to have a permanent migraine.

Settling my hands on her shoulders I gave a small squeeze "I know that they are criminals and I promise you the first time they hurt anyone of the girls they will be out. Besides in a week we have a man from child services coming over to check if we are adequate or not."

"Adequate my ass." She sighed. "I guess they can stay for now. Oh. When exactly are you going to the store?"

'Crap' I had totally forgotten. "I'll go right now actually."

"Were are you going?" At the arrival of the new voice we both about jumped out of our skin. We turned to see Pain, arms crossed, waiting for an answer.

"I'm going to the store to buy some food that will last us hopefully till next week or so." I responded.

"I'll send someone with you." Pain said.

"What? Why?" I asked bewildered. Pain didn't answer. I knew however that I wouldn't be able to persuade him at all. He had the same look in his eyes that Ryxer gets when shes made up her mind and there is nothing you can do to change it.

"Fine." I said. Pain looked satisfied while Ryxer kept opening her mouth like she wanted to say something but ended up closing it again. She looked oddly like a fish out of water.

"So who will it be?" I looked at Pain trying to think who he would send with me.

Pain said "Zetsu" and not going to lie I was a little surprised. I had not thought at all that he would choose Zetsu, of all people, to go with me. And as they say speak of the devil and he shall appear, Zetsu said, behind Ryxer and me "Yes Pain-sama." making Ryxer and me once again nearly jump out of our skin. 'I swear if this keeps up I'm going to have a heart attack before this week is over.'

"Well if you want him to go he's going to have to henge, or something to look normal." I said. Zetsu gave a small nod then doing a hand sigh muttered some words then with a 'poof' he changed. Woow. He actually looked normal. The fly trap was gone from his body, thank goodness, and instead of his body being two different colors it was now one pale white. His hair however, although darker, still had a tint of green to it and his eyes were an odd shade of yellowish gold. 'Like Ana's eyes but more yellow in nature.'

"Ok. That will have to do. Follow me." I said motioning to Zetsu, who fell in step behind me. I waved to Ryxer behind me saying "We'll be back in an hour or two." Leaving her and Pain alone in the kitchen.

Lilith

Walking down the hallway I quickly got out of Ana's way. Half asleep as she was, she didn't acknowledge my presence. I watched as she walked straight into her bedroom door. I winced as she rubbed her forehead and opening her door disappeared into her room, slamming the door behind her. 'I feel sorry for who ever woke her up.'

I gave one last glance at Ana's door before going into my own room. Sitting on the floor exactly were I left him was Gaara.

"Ok now I'm ready." I said as I sat down in front of Gaara and put my paints I had grabbed from the attic down besides me. "Try not to move to much." Gaara said nothing. He just kept starring at me with his unwavering pale eyes. I simply smiled and picking up my canvas, I started painting.

Allie (Sasha)

The store wasn't as busy as I though it was. Besides me there were maybe only three or four other people. Loading up our cart I kept an eye on Zetsu to make sure he didn't do anything to get us into trouble. So for he's been well behaved. Grabbing a few frozen pizzas for tonight I headed to the check out line, with Zetsu right behind me. As the cashier rang up all the food I watched the price go up and up. 'All this food better last more then one week.' I don't think my bank account would be able to survive a few more trips to the store like this one.

As we loaded all the food into the trunk of my car, a red jeep wrangler with a convertible top, I spotted out the corner of my eye a Petco. 'Oh. That reminds me.' I turned to Zetsu.

"We need to make one more stop before we can go home." I said as Zetsu put the last of the grocery bags into the car.

"What for?" Zetsu asked.

I pointed to Petco "Naomi owns a rat and she told me yesterday that she was running out of food."

"Ok. Whatever." Zetsu said both sides of him answering at the same time. I stood for a second and just stared down at him. Hearing the two personalities in real life was a lot creepier then when you hear it on the show.

"Try not to do that in the store, please." Zetsu only shrugged his shoulders as if saying he had no control over it. I just shook my head. Walking into Petco I was greeted by a friendly worker. Instantly I asked about what type of food they had for rats and we talked for a few minutes on which would be the best food for Freya, Naomi's pet rat. Paying for the pet food I turned expecting to see Zetsu behind me, like he had been all afternoon, but I find that he is not. Panicking, thinking that I had lost the cannibal, started to call his name when I heard of scream. 'Shit. Shit. Shit a thousand times over.'

Turning the corner of an aisle, where I though the scream came form, I halted at the scene before me. An women, in her mid forties, who was holding onto a book in one hand was standing there with a look of disgust and revulsion on her face. And Zetsu, oh Zetsu, he was biting and I mean full on munching on this woman's free

hand. I think I even saw a hint of blood.

A employee had came to investigate the situation but seemed unable to comprehend what was going on. Not missing a beat I snatched Zetsu from the poor women, who had yet to stop screaming. The employee was now trying to comfort her.

Suddenly the women smacked the employee's hands away and yelled "Devil spawn! He's a demon!" She turned her eyes to me and pointed a accusing finger "What are you teaching this child?! I'll report you! I swear I-I'll-" She was cut off by Zetsu, once again, biting her finger. 'Oh god. Why me?' The already hysterical women screamed again and fainted. The employee barely caught the heavy women before she hit the floor. He turned to me, as I now had Zetsu in a tight grip so he couldn't jump on the women. Although I was eying him wearily. After all I didn't want him to start biting me.

"What the hell is wrong with him?!" The employee, Robert his name tag said, asked.

"I'm sorry. He just not..uh..quit right in the head. I'll uh just be going now." I said and high tailed it out of there hearing Robert say "Hey wait!" behind me. I ignored him. I shoved Zetsu into the car and gunned it out of the parking lot. On the drive home I turned to Zetsu and asked "What the hell was that all about?"

Not even glancing in my direction he said "I was hungry. She looked tasty." I shuttered. Silence engulfed the car.

Then I couldn't help but ask "Was she?" Zetsu looked to me surprised. He just smirked and said "She was ok. Not the best I've had."