Chapter 7: Mr. Spencer
Allie (Sasha)
I detached myself from the door and ran to the front room. "Hey, guys." I said trying to gain their attention but their eyes stayed glued to the TV. Ana and Kakuzu were now playing Borderlands 2 and the only one who seemed to notice me was Itachi, who came over to stand next to me.
"What is the matter?" He asked in his mono tuned voice.
All I said was "We have a visitor." Pinpointing my target I cut in front of the TV, earning a 'hey' from everyone. I quickly took the TV's power cord and unplugged it. As the TV's screen went blank a bunch of glares turned my way.
Addressing everyone I said "We have a visitor. His name is Mr. Spencer." I could tell by the blank stares that no one either cared or knew who Mr. Spencer was. "He is here to evaluate us on whether or not we can take care of the Akatsuki and he can and will take them away." I elaborated and while some got up and began to clean others, Ana and Hidan mostly, stayed seated. "That means clean. NOW!" The rest jumped up and scattered about to get ready. As I left the room I noticed for the first time that the vase in the corner of the room was on the floor shattered. 'That was what most made that crashing noise.' I left the room vaguely noting that Itachi was following me. I opened the door and meet Mr. Spencer with a hesitant smile.
"Is something the matter?" Mr. Spencer asked.
"No nothing." I responded. When Mr. Spencer made a move to go inside I blocked his way. He raised an eyebrow. "Well you see-"cough "-ahh...How are you today?" I asked with a nervous laugh.
"Fine thank you." He gave me a calculating look. "Would there be some reason that we are still outside?" I tried to think up an answer but my mind was blank. I failed to notice when Itachi suddenly said "Hello." gaining the man's attention.
"Who might you be?" Mr. Spencer asked and it took me a moment to figure out that he wasn't talking to me but to Itachi, who stood besides me.
"This is Itachi." I said. Mr. Spencer bent down so he was eye level with Itachi and asked "These girls aren't mistreating you are they?" I sputtered.
"No they are not." Itachi answered not even flinching. Mr. Spencer nodded and standing up wrote on his clip board.
"Sasha." Ryxer said from behind me. I turned and she gave a small thumbs up then disappeared around the corner. I step out of Mr. Spencer's way and said "Sorry for the wait." He just walked past me into the house. Closing the door I watched Mr. Spencer out the corner of my eye and whispered to Itachi "Thanks." Itachi just 'hn'ed and started down the hallway. I watched him for a second then with a shrug followed.
Ryxer
We had managed to clean up the front room of all trash, including the broken vase, and had gotten Ana to go up to her room so as to not make any trouble. In the process the others had scattered around the house after a warning to behave. I felt the nerves rage through my body and as Mr. Spencer walked into the room they only got worse. I always got nervous when I was put under pressure like this or got in front of a group of strangers. I took a few breathes trying to calm myself. The sound of a throat being cleared made me look up, straight at the face of Mr. Spencer. He continued to look at me, waiting. I peaked at Pain with a questioning look and he responded by making a 'go on' motion.
'Crap he most have asked me a question and I didn't hear it.' Feeling my nerves take over I said "No?" uncertainly and saw Pain literally face palm. Mr. Spencer then wrote on his clip board and walked away.
I looked down at Pain. "What was that about?"
"He asked you if you liked children." I fell to my hands and knees and aura of depression surrounded me.
"Do you think it is to late to go tell him the truth?" I asked not looking at Pain. Pain didn't respond and I felt the sudden urge to cry. 'Dammit. Stupid nerves.'
Lilith
I sat in the Kitchen with Gaara. I gave a sigh and figuring that I would see what could be for dinner tonight, I got up and headed for the fridge. Before I could however, Mr. Spencer walked into the room and opened the fridge and search through the cabinets.
Turning to me he asked "Is it always normal for you to be out of food?" With out even waiting for an answer he left writing down on his clip board. Looking in the fridge I saw that it was indeed nearly empty.
'I guess we forgot to go shopping for food this past week.' I sat with a thumb back into my set besides Gaara and let my head hit the table with a loud thwack. After a second of pain I felt a tingling down the base of my spine as Gaara began to softly pat my on the head as a sort of comport. Sparing him a glance I gave a small smile.
Naomi
I sat in my room with Kakuzu and Kakashi. I was feeding my pet rat, Freya. Taking her out of her cage I turned to Kakuzu and Kakashi seeing if one of them wished to hold her. As I did so a man came into my room, who I presumed was Mr. Spencer. He took one look at Freya and I could see the disapproval and disgust in his eyes. I cradled Freya in my arms as if to protect her from the offending man.
Pushing his glasses up his nose he said "You let the children play around a rat?" I felt a stab of anger and I feeling the need to defend Freya I began "Well-"
Mr. Spencer cut me off. "Do you know how many diseases rats carry? They are vermin." He left jotting down a few notes on his clip board. 'Uhh. How I would like to break that clip board over his head.'
Ana
I laid down on my bed as I watched Tobi play with Zetsu. Needless to say it was one way to beat boredom. I yawned. Mid way through my yawn a man with blocked glass came into my room. In a instant all sleepiness left my body. 'Who the hell does this guy think he is?'
He glanced at Tobi and Zetsu playing on the floor with toy baseball bats to me. Currently Zetsu was hitting a crying Tobi in the side with a foam baseball bat. I almost told the Tobi to suck it up except for the look that glasses was sending my way.
"Can I help you?" I said unable to keep the venom from my voice. He ignored my and just wrote on that clip board of his, making my even angrier. He turned to leave but I stopped him by asking "What exactly did you just write down just now?" He looked over his shoulder at me and pushing up his glasses from the bridge of his nose and said "Inadequate." then left closing the door behind him. 'Inadequate? Inadequate!? Inadequate my ass!' I gave a low growl and threw the alarm clock into the wall.
Sarah
I was in my room reading a book as Diedara played with some of his clay. I had warned him earlier that he shouldn't do any big explosions in the house and so far Diedara had managed to keep all of them relatively small.
Diedara was so caught up in his clay and setting off tiny little explosions, about the size of his hand, and I was so caught up in my book that neither of us noticed the man with glasses peak inside the room. We also didn't notice the look of shock on his face as he saw Diedara setting off one of his little fire works and my lack of attention. Neither of us saw him fiercely writing down notes on his clip board.
He left as silently as he came.
Olivia
Sasuke and I were setting in the game room with Konan, Joe and Kisame. We were all playing a game of Apples to Apples. Joe was currently winning with Sasuke in close second. As the game progressed I could see Sasuke becoming more and more competitive.
While in the middle of a round a middle aged man entered the room and stood off to the side. 'That must be our visitor, Mr. Spencer.' I gave a friendly wave but Mr. Spencer just ignored this and left the room.
Turning back to the game I saw that the others had stopped in the middle of the game to also look at Mr. Spencer.
After a few moments of silence I asked no one in particular "How do you think the others are doing?"
"Fine I'm sure." Joe answered. I continued to stare at the door the 'visitor' left through. With a shrug I turned my focus back to the game.
Dawn
Hidan, Eve, Sasori and me were clustered into the back yard. Hidan and Eve were wrestling while Sasori and me were off to the side watching. Eve had Hidan pinned to the ground and Hidan didn't look to happy about that fact.
As the back door banged squeaked open behind me I turned and saw our guest Mr. Spencer standing on the back porch. Aggravated Hidan started yelling "You son of a Bitch! Get the fuck off of me!" He was wiggling under Eve. I glanced from Hidan to Mr. Spencer with growing urgency.
"Hidan I think you should shut up." I whispered to him. He sent me a glare and said "Why the fuck should I?" His struggles were growing more urgent and yet Eve still managed to hold him down. Peaking at Mr. Spencer I saw him shake his head and writing on his clip board walked back into the house. Both Eve and a still yelling Hidan were oblivious to the fact and Sasori looked uncaring.
'So much for keeping Hidan in line.'
Allie (Sasha)
I caught Mr. Spencer in the hallway. He was headed for the front door. I felt a weight settle in my chest.
"Leaving so soon?" I asked.
He didn't even bother to look friendly. "I believe I have seen enough."
"Enough?"
"Yes. Ms. Hathaway if I may say so you and your companions are quite possible the worst caretakers I have seen in all my years." I said as he adjusted his glasses.
I gave a nervous laugh "That can't be true."
He gave me a sharp look. "Violence, swearing, hazardous explosions, rats, and you don't even have enough food." I had no response. I mean what was I to say? That these children were actually from another world and were really older then they looked and hey not to mention criminals.
He said "Now if you don't mind I have to return to the office and do some paper work as that we can transfer these children as soon as possible." As he started back down the hall the door bell sounded again. I walked past him mumbling 'excuse me' and stood before the door. I had a moment of hesitation were I had the urge to run from the door and just forget that there was anyone on the other side. Just run from Mr. Spencer and the Akastuki.
I shoved that urge aside and opened the door. Oh. How I wish I had follow that urge and ran, ran as far away from that door as I could. Because on the other side of that door was hell.