Title: This Just Isn't My Day: Chapter 5
Author: Ice-Eagle Y'siri
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, the Akatsuki, or any other associated characters. So far, I own Aya, Rian, and Catherine.
Summary: Normally, I'm a very calm person. So just imagine me coming home with my friends and the Akatsuki in my living room. And all I wanted was a simple vacation annoying the preps next door. Great. Just. Great.
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Shrugging into my thin, hood-less black jacket (I had worn cargo pants, a black tanktop with a lion on it, and black flip-flops) with my wallet in my pocket, I got out of the car after the others exited (more like Hidan nearly hit me in the face with the side door) we all embarked through the parking lot to Catherine's car. Rian was on my left side, Tobi on my right, and the rest (Hidan, Deidara, Pein, and Konan) ranged out behind us. Rian wore flip flops, dark blue jeans, and a dark green t-shirt that said in white "Thousands of plants are killed by vegetarians every day. Help end the violence."
I rolled my eyes at my best friend, "You know, Zetsu's gonna love you now."
"What?"
I pointed at her shirt. "He's a plant. Well, sorta, anyway."
She looked horrified. Hee, hee. I'm so good. Catherine's going to fall down laughing when she figures it out.
"Duh-un!" Our conversation was temporarily halted as we all stared at Deidara.
"What was that?" Deidara shrugged, "Well, un. It's like, duh-un."
"Were you saying that for emphasis or was that just how you spoke?"
He blinked at me. "Emphasis."
"Jashin kill us all. He's such a damn blonde." My rolled back to Hidan, "You're one to talk, Hidan. The bleached-blondeness? Yeah. It's called PLATINUM."
Rian snickered. We finally reached Catherine and the others and trooped into the mall.
"Well, Catherine, clothes first? Or shoes?" She mock-punched me.
"Clothes. Rian'll take too long with shoes." The aforementioned girl looked dumbfounded.
"Say what?" My eyes rolled so far back I nearly fell down.
"Come on, girl. We all know about your shoe-fetish. You see, Catherine had to clean the house-"
"-yeah, my OCD spring cleaning-"
"-and she opened the door-"
"-not expecting much-no offense, girl, but you're practical when it comes to clothes. Or supposedly-"
-and what do you know, an avalanche of shoes fell down on top of her-"
"-so I was kinda stuck-"
"-and I spent at least an hour getting her out-"
"-so now we know." We finished together. Rian just looked back and forth from Catherine to me.
"That was...creepy. So I have a shoe-fetish. Let's not even talk about you guys, okay? Wait-where are the others?" We looked back to see the Akatsuki at the entrance to the mall. We started walking back and began to laugh at their expressions. They looked around the place, open-mouthed, taking in the glory that is the Gainesville Mall. Or, as known by everyone else, The Oaks.
Which, I do have to admit, is pretty dang nice. The only thing they don't have is a Kohl's, but hey. Not every mall is perfect.
"Sooooooooo...," I looked around at everyone, "Where do people want to go first? And we're going in 2 or 3 main groups."
Pein and Konan pointed to the Hot Topic, and I rolled my eyes. I should've known, them being depressed/angsty ninjas and all, "Catherine, you up for it?"
My best friend waved a hand, "Sure, sure. Anyone else wanna go with me? Mind, we won't spend the entire time there, but-" She was still talking as Kisame, Pein, and Konan detached themselves from the group. Which left myself, Rian, Hidan, Tobi, Zetsu, Deidara, Itachi, and Sasori. 'How convenient' I thought dryly 'we can each take three.'
"Who wants to go with me?" Rian looked slightly nervous and I grinned in glee, "Rian, do you want me to take the troublemakers?"
The aforementioned girl looked skeptical.
"Aren't they all troublemakers?" I tried to cover my laugh and failed. Miserably.
"You do have a point. Well, who would you rather have shop with you?" All the shinobi rolled their eyes and Hidan could be seen mumbling under his breath. I tilted my head a little to the side and cupped my ear pointedly.
"Excuse me?"
"Nothing, dammit." I beamed.
"Well, you're going with me, then. And I"ll take...Tobi and Deidara. Sound good?" Rian looked relieved.
"Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. Thanks. I don't like them much, anyway. Alright, plant-eater, puppet-boy, and depressed Uchiha, y'all coming? And Aya, I'll call when we're done...or something."
We watched them walk away, Rian bopping Sasori's head and laughing. She's braver than me, that's for sure. I snorted and we turned to move in the other direction, towards the Belk. I I looked up at the sign that was a lot bigger than me, and wondered.
"Tobi is new here, Aya, but Tobi thinks that that is a very strange name for a store," Tobi bounced around, looking at all of the stores and their respective mannequins. I smiled at him.
"Yes, Tobi, I'll admit that it's a very odd name for a store. I don't know why they've come up with it, but well, they seem do well in their business."
"So why're we here, un?" I just stared in blank amazement.
"Have you totally missed what we were talking about for the past DAY, Deidara? Good Lord. And I thought Hidan was special, " I shook my head as we walked inside, then headed back towards the men's section.
"What did you just say, bitch?"
"Nothing, nothing. Come on, let's get started." I browsed among the racks and racks of pants and shirts, and began throwing things at them to hold on to. I trusted in their shinobi reflexes to not drop them, and they thankfully didn't. Contrary to popular belief at my school, I was a very good (if I did say so myself) shopper, and was had a fairly good idea of what one should and shouldn't wear.
The hardest out of the three was Hidan, of course, because of his hair and total immodesty. Tobi was a close second because of his beloved orange mask, then Deidara was a walk in the park. Even if, you know, he did look like a transvestite, or something pretty close. But that was Deidara for you. If it wasn't for the hair...
I steered them towards the dressing rooms and waited patiently outside. I had instructed them to try on one set of clothes at a time, so I could inspect them and do the whole "turn-around-and-see-if-the-clothes-bunch" thing. This should be interesting...oh, yes. I'm sure my face is glowing with unholy glee.
And then I realized.
I could see if they were ticklish. Yes. YES.
"Aya-chan? Are you out there?" I snapped out of my mild doze and peeked around the corner to see what Tobi had decided to put on. My mouth nearly--nearly, mind--dropped.
But in a good way. For guys, I believed in the casual look, so I was pleased with how this had turned out for the orange-masked ninja.[1]
His head was normal, and then the rest...well. He had khaki-colored cargo pants on (I didn't dare try to go outside of utility colors, which go with everything [2]), with his ninja sandals (he wouldn't part with them) and a simple black long-sleeved shirt that clung slightly to his body. Another t-shirt (in dark grey) went on top with a silvery skull on the back. He was standing with one of his hands in his pockets, and the other rubbing his head sheepishly.
"Tobi."
"Aya-chan?"
"You look freaking awesome. I am the best shopper EVER. By the way, you can take the long-sleeved shirt off and just leave the t-shirt on, you know. It's going to get hot."
His shoulders slumped in relief, "Really, Aya-chan? Tobi looks good?" I got up to straighten out his shirts and "accidentally" poked him in the side. With a squeak, he jumped away, and I laughed. 'One down, two to go.'
"Yes. Go ahead and change back, Tobi. I'm sure the other clothes I got for you will be fine."
Deidara peeked his head around his stall's door, "I think I'm ready. I don't know if I got the shirt on right, un." I motioned to him with a hand.
"Well, come out and let me see."
Deidara was extremely...interesting to try to outfit. I had gotten him dark-rinse jeans (not pencil jeans; I don't do emo kids) and a dark red t-shirt with a gold dragon face on the front, and the body on the back. Several of his shirts were similar in style, so if this worked, I was done shopping for him. It wasn't skintight (that would've made girls faint) and he kept his ninja sandals. Thank heaven their shoes are black...I would've had a serious problem otherwise.
I made him turn around and try walking up and down the aisle, "accidentally" poking again in the process. Deidara didn't flinch. Unfortunately. 'Not ticklish. So I've only got Hidan left...maybe I shouldn't try it. Actually, that sounds like a very good idea.'
"Well, do you like what you're wearing? Is it comfortable?"
"Enough, un. No fighting in it, though. It wouldn't last, un." I nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, these would be your 'public' clothes. Only to blend in." Deidara ambled back to his stall and began to change out of his clothes, and Hidan stepped out.
"These clothes feel so damn weird dammit..."
I didn't really hear what he was saying because, to be honest (which can be a pretty rare occurrence) I was staring at him.
And he looked fine. God-DANG.
Not that he was wearing totally different clothes from everyone else, but--wow.
I got him a pair of light-rinse jeans and he picked out his own long-sleeve shirt. In black, there was a hazard sign that said "Warning! Comments may be laced with sarcasm!" Like the other two, he kept his ninja sandals. And, thankfully, his shirt didn't cling. I snapped out of it when the object of my interest waved a hand in front of my face.
"Dammit, Aya, anyone in there? What is it? By Jashin, I've been calling you for five minutes!" I quickly covered up my staring at him by saying brightly,
"You're pretty!"
"Well, shit, then, I sure as hell am not going to wear-" I interrupted hastily,
"I meant you look good. Jeez, Hidan, can't you calm down?"
He smirked and I looked towards the other stalls absentmindedly, "Well, girl, ya coulda just said so, dammit."
I shrugged and, while wating for my other two charges, called Catherine to check on her progress.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Catherine. How's it going?"
"Alright so far. My parents are going to have a cow, though. This stuff's expensive."
"I said that we could pay for it ourselves, Catherine-san-"
"I will be damned if you guys use stolen money to pay for things. No, we'll do this honestly."
"Catherine, you're picking up Hidan's bad habits," I said dryly.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"Your sarcasm is absolutely wounding, dear. Well, I'll leave you to your fun. I'm about done with my charges, so I'll call if we head to the food court."
"By the way, Aya, which card are you using?"
"The platinum."
"Alright. That should work. Bye. And wish me luck."
"Good-bye, Aya-san."
"Bye, Catherine and company." I hung up and redialed for Rian. By now, Tobi and Deidara had emerged and we waited in the checkout line.
"Yo."
"Sasori, why do you have the phone?" The line inched forward as I spoke.
"Rian was being unpleasant, Aya-san. So I am keeping out of her reach as we speak. Zetsu and Itachi-san--I dare say it--are somewhat amused."
"Don't tell me Itachi's smiling. And I missed it. But what did you do to Rian? Please tell me you haven't killed her."
"Not yet. Unfortunately for us, Sasori is being adamant that she doesn't die."
"Well, skippy for him, then. She is the only one that can pay for your things. Speaking of clothes--"
"Hello, Aya-san. Yes, we have clothes. Your friend nearly fainted when Itachi brought her one of the shirts he wanted, though..."
"Hi again, Sasori. Why?"
"Well, he got something called a-a-something with a turtle-"
"Turtleneck?"
"Yes. And she wasn't very happy. It was by someone named Ralph Laur-laur"
I snickered, "Ralph Lauren? I didn't know Itachi had it in him. He does have expensive taste, after all."
I finally reached the front of the line, swiped my card, and made the ninja carry their respective bags.
"They're quite expensive, Sasori, so I'm not surprised. But Rian is alright?"
"Yes, Aya-san. She's quite well. We will be finished soon. Rian wants to know what you'll be doing."
"We'll probably go up the elevators to the food court. Tell her that, please. And we'll see y'all there, if you're going."
"Goodbye, Aya-san."
"Bye, Sasori." I hung up and we started to walk out of the store. The ninjas trailed behind me, and I suddenly had the feeling of being a mother goose or duck with her chicks following after her. I chuckled and moved to the left, pressing the button for the elevator to come down.
Hopefully, nothing was going to happen this time...
HELLO!! Anyway, I hope people liked this chapter...this is only part 1. Part 2 I think people will find much more entertaining.
Again, I apologize for not updating sooner. Yes, I know I really suck cuz I hadn't. I hope all y'all lovely readers will forgive me.
So.
[1] I going to say this now; TOBI AND AYA WILL NOT BE GETTING TOGETHER. We all know who Tobi really is, people. I've already had people ask about my main OC's attitude towards him, and the answer is a big fat NO. If you couldn't tell, I'm thinking about setting her up with Hidan. As for the others, well...
...you'll just have to wait and see. HEE HEE!! :P
[2] Utility colors (for those who do not shop much, or are guys in general) are those that "go" with everything and are considered okay for almost every occasion. They are (from what I remember): White, black, grey, and beige. There may be more; if there are, PM me, please!
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Regards,
Ice