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Hey guys, sorry for the super late update, but I've been working on my Join the Drama Club! fic and its taking me longer then I originally thought. Well, enjoy!
Chapter 4: Looking Glass
As night settled in on the beautiful red mansion, hundreds of people began to pour out of the magnificent palace. They all began to disperse into smaller little groups while some rode in carriages to get home. Inside the castle, on a throne at the very end of the grand hall, sat the Red Queen and the Red King.
"Oh that was a marvelous party darling. We should have those more often." Konan drawled out in a tired manner to the man sitting beside her.
"Yes it was quite refreshing seeing so many faces again. It's wonderful that we're living in peace again. Oh, but my lady, we didn't see the Mad Hatter boys or the White Queen." Pein spoke quietly as some maids began to file into the room to clean up from the party.
"Oh yes. I was with the White Queen earlier in the day and she had this massive hangover so her absence is perfectly acceptable. But those damned brothers! Why must they be so anti-social? Making hats everyday must be so dreary and the older brother helps in patrolling all the kingdoms! It must be absolutely horrid to see the white rabbit everyday!" Konan dramatically clung onto her husband's arm.
"Wow thanks Queen. I'll remember that the next time you're holding a gathering and you're too lazy to give out invitations so I do it." Both Konan and Pein's heads swerved around to see the White Rabbit Hidan walking over to their thrones from a hole in the wall.
"Oh White Rabbit! You missed the most spectacular ball of the week! And Cheshire Cat gave me the most wonderful piece of gossip that you are going to love to hear!" Hidan raised his eyebrow at this but Konan continued. "He told me that Caterpillar had finally found himself a lady! Oh, and that's not the best part either! Apparently it was a beautiful pink haired girl and she was asleep in his arms! Kyahahahaha! What wonderful news, but tell me White Rabbit, as the Caterpillar's best friend do you already know this young girl?" Konan pondered slightly as she looked at Hidan for any change of reaction.
"I'm sorry my queen but no news has reached me recently. I haven't seen Kakuzu in awhile but I will see him right now after hearing that." Hidan said as he clenched his fists together. "By the way, before I leave a message from Caterpillar the last time I did see him. Keep your heart safe King and Queen of the Red Hearts. Something wicked is approaching." He told them cryptically before stepping through the hole in the wall.
Once Hidan had left Konan stared at Pein as he shrugged.
"I suppose I'll call my heart back if Caterpillar said so. His predictions are normally correct after all." Konan smiled ruefully as she remembered what happened the last time he had made prediction. That was the day that the King of the White Hearts had died.
"Go my love. Call your heart back before something terrible occurs. My heart is already safe in me." Her husband's soothing words made her smile slightly in affection.
She stood up on the platform connecting to her throne while extending her hand out toward the chandelier. "Come my beautiful red heart. It is time we joined together yet again."
The gleaming heart floated effortlessly through the chandelier and floated down onto Konan's hand.
Alice nothing has been right ever since you left. Please come back. Alice I accept you.
The heart slowly sunk into her chest as she took a deep breath. "Well what's done is done! Come along love let's get to bed! And tonight you won't be going back to your kingdom!"
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"HEY FUCKING ASSHOLE WHERE ARE YOU?" Hidan screamed loudly as he sauntered into the mansion of Caterpillar Kakuzu on his island of Kane. He searched the first two floors of the huge estate before finally going to the final room on the third floor. As soon as he reached the door to the room however, it was locked.
"Dammit! Kakuzu I know you're in there with Alice!"
He began to sulk as no one made any movements to open the door. "I know you're in there with my queen!" His body started to change color as his anger increased. His upper half was now fully black with white marks that resembled a skeleton. His vibrant pink eyes kept getting darker and darker until they turned a bloody red. "Bloody hell, I'm now in my ritual state! Fuck you man hurry up and open this door before I break it down!"
That got whoever was inside to move around and unlock the door. Hidan heard a faint click as the door opened slowly. "Finally, I was waiting here forev- "He trailed off as he noticed that Kakuzu had not opened the door. It was Alice.
"My queen! You're safe! I can finally rest without worrying!" He quickly said while she was cautiously opening the door fully.
She looked up at him with confused eyes but said nothing as someone delivered a punch to his head from the back. "Ow! Mother fucking Kakuzu!" He yelled in pain as Kakuzu handed a tray to her with food on it.
"Shut up. You know that the people in my kingdom sleep in now. We don't party all night like Mad Hatter Brothers Itachi and Sasuke or like Dormouse Sasori with Cheshire Cat Deidara." He sternly told off Hidan before pushing him out of the way and entering the room. "Sakura, how are you doing?"
She politely bowed and stepped back to allow Kakuzu into the room he had given her. It was a small, purple colored room with green polka dots. Which Sakura thought was quite strange but didn't say anything in fear. There was a king sized bed on one side and a closet on the other. A small table stood by itself in the center of the room with a teapot and cookies on it.
"Wow Kakuzu, you gave her your heart's room?" Hidan asked curiously before plopping himself down on the bed.
"His what?" She asked wondering what significance this peculiar room held.
Kakuzu glared at Hidan before muttering something about not wanting to explain the situation yet. He sighed before snapping his fingers.
Sakura gasped in surprise as the room started shifting and morphing. The colors were blending in and the room's size was shrinking and growing. She felt as if her whole body was being stretched and compressed and vice versa. She finally let out a large breath when the room turned into the same room which she had first arrived in when falling down that wondrous hole.
"What? But I was here earlier, and you told me that this room was in Hidan's kingdom?" Sakura also sighed before pushing away all her questions from her mind. "Actually, you know what; this is not the strangest thing I've ever seen. Please just explain to me why this is your heart's room or whatever." She said dismissively as she walked over to the bed and sat next to Hidan while Kakuzu leaned against the small table.
"Okay Sakura." Hidan raised his eyebrow at how he was addressing their queen but said nothing. "Ten years ago a girl named Alice and saved Wonderland from collapsing from an all-out war. There were two main kingdoms then called Akatsuki and Konoha. Hidan and I were part of the Akatsuki kingdom and there were many others in the kingdom with us as well as many people in the Konoha kingdom. I'm sure you'll meet some of them sooner or later. Well, when Alice arrived, she was able to find the looking glass. The looking glass is an object that can change all the rules and rulers and lives of everyone in Wonderland."
He paused and looked at Sakura to see if any of this rang a bell before continuing on.
"After Alice found it, she rewrote Wonderland to make it so each individual general during the war was the king/queen of their own kingdom and was assigned a role. I'm king of my island of Kane but my official role if the Caterpillar. So, when Alice had to leave, because she was a magician from your world, she broke the looking glass into 21 pieces. 20 of the pieces are the hearts of each ruler of a kingdom. It's said that she hid the last piece somewhere in Wonderland so no one would ever be able to ruin the peace and tranquility bestowed upon us by our queen Alice."
The three remained quiet before Sakura finally spoke up. "That's a nice story, but why are you telling me, and what does it have to do with this room?"
"Every heart that was given to each ruler has some power in it. Hidan's is to receive the power of immortality." Sakura shuddered slightly while remembering about the Hidan from her dimension. "Mine allows me to harden my skin and control the strings in my body." Sakura shuddered again while remembering the fight between him and Naruto in her dimension. "So, because each heart is special, a ruler cannot carry it around with them for too long or it'll drain them of their life force and eventually kill them." He said ruefully. She looked at him with questioning eyes while Hidan stared at Kakuzu with a frown. "The last King of the White Heart Jiraya died because he used his heart's power too much."
"Jiraya?" She exclaimed in disbelief. He wasn't alive in this dimension either?
"Yes, he died as well as Asuma. So they must keep the heart in this room which is protected by the magic Alice used to make each room as well. But moving on from the gloomy stuff. I'm telling you all of this because we need your help. Someone in Wonderland is trying to rewrite what Alice wrote on the looking glass. I'm not sure who yet, but they must have found the 21st piece which Alice had hid and is trying to rewrite the laws with that. With that in mind, we believe that you can solve all of this. If you go around to each kingdom and gain the trust of each one, you will have the power to use their heart to exploit the evil one within our group of rulers and banish them for good."
"Wow hold on there. Like you said, this isn't even my dimension! How am I supposed to help you if no one even knows who I am? And I don't even know how to gain their trust anyway!" She quickly put her hands in the air and tried to snap some sense into Kakuzu.
"Hahaha but they know you." Both Kakuzu and Sakura snapped their eyes over to Hidan who was smiling goofily.
"What do you mean White Rabbit?"
He smiled deviously. "Cheshire Cat Deidara saw you holding her and walking out of my kingdom. He's spreading rumors all over Wonderland that she's your mistress or something."
Sakura's face turned a bright shade of crimson. "What? That's so embarrassing!"
Kakuzu coughed and tried to bring them back into a professional mood. "Even so, this could work to our advantage. Hidan and I will bring you to each kingdom and introduce you to each ruler. It will be your job to get to know each of them and gain their trust." She looked at both Hidan and Kakuzu with doubtful eyes. Why did they even think that she could help them?
"Please Sakura." They said in sync and bowed graciously to the girl who was beginning to realize how important this truly was.
"Okay…..I'll do it…" She trailed off as she fell face-first onto her bed and completely missed Hidan and Kakuzu giving each other a high five.
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That took awhile…..