Another pretty short chapter. This is more just a link between the last and the next that I wanted to do but couldn't work into either chapter. I had to retype the entire thing too as I accidentally deleted the entire file just before i finished it. Still, it's here now, which can only be a good thing, right? Also, I'm ridiculously happy as they finally got to the deidara and sasuke fight in shippuden! yay! I feel like I've been waiting forever :) Enough about me, here's chapter twelve
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, the Akatsuki or anything Disney related.
Konan stared speechless at the sight before her. Itachi, knowing that nobody recognised him, allowed himself to laugh at the four men sprawled across the old bed. Then he spotted Zetsu and laughed louder, his dragony tones resounding through the forest. Suigetsu hadn't really let the situation sink in. He'd freed himself from the painful grip of Karin's pincers and thrown her to the floor, knocking the crab out. Kisame on the other had was laughing the loudest of them all. He clutched his sides, tears running down his fishy face.
"You, you guys are wearing skirts!" he guffawed, "and tights! And what is with that girly shirt Kakuzu?" Kakuzu glared at him, Hidan swore at him, Sasori ignored him and Deidara was incensed.
"It's not like we chose this, un," he yelled at the swordsman, " so shut the hell up, we don't make fun of you for having blue skin,"
"Not to his face," Hidan whispered to Kakuzu.
"Wait, wait, wait," Suigetsu but in, "you're a guy?"
"Of course I'm a guy you bra wearing freak!" Deidara seethed.
"Oh, it's just, the hair, and the long cloak sort of hides things, and that dress," Suigetsu stammered out. Deidara's temper continued to rage, until he just burst into tears. He tried to lean on Sasori's shoulder as he did so, only to be pushed onto the ground by the irate redhead.
"If I said you looked pretty in the dress would it cheer you up?" the white haired one said weakly. It was a valiant effort to try and quieten the blonde's ear splitting sobs. Sasori glared at Suigetsu.
"Don't even try it brat," he spat at the boy. Ignoring Deidara's wails the rest of the Akatsuki gathered around Konan.
"So boys," she began, "I'm going to assume that some of you have worked out that we are no longer in our own world and are travelling through several different ones. We still have three members to find, and I suspect if we find Tobi we'll be able to get back home." Several of the others grimaced at the sound of the masked man's name.
"Well then, I suggest we all try to find a way into the next world," the blue haired kunoichi spoke calmly.
"Yeah, but how the fuck are we supposed to do that?" Hidan grumbled, "that shitty excuse for a bed has disappeared now," they all looked around. Sure enough the double bed had vanished once again.
"Then we should walk," Sasori suggested, "in my experience whenever we've kept walking or flying, without the bed, we pass into new worlds. My guess is that the others aren't here in this world, and so we should keep moving to find them." Suigetsu and Kisame nodded in agreement, they'd had a similar experience. Hidan grimaced.
"Fuck walking, this leather chafes you know," he sneered. Kakuzu quirked his eyebrow up, fighting his gut reaction to make a nasty comment at this. Itachi began to snicker at this, small tendrils of smoke winding into the air from his nostrils.
"Fine, you can stay here then, un" Deidara had seemingly perked up and rejoined them. Hidan opened his mouth to protest, but found the others had already marched off.
"Lousy bastards," he cursed to himself, jogging to catch up.
They were a funny sight to behold several hours later, marching down an ever changing pathway. Deidara and Sasori were in the skies, avoiding everyone. Konan was at the front of the group, Sasuke dozing on her shoulder, while Kisame strode along proudly next to her. Itachi and Zetsu came nest, plodding along in silence, each green creature eyeing the other up warily. Kakuzu and Hidan followed. Kakuzu was trying to walk ahead of Hidan, and failing. This was as the Jashinist was doing what he did best, swearing, complaining and generally being a nuisance. Suigetsu brought up the rear of the group, Karin's bowl in his arms. He had actually been talking to her, but only because his team-mate was passed out, and no one was paying any attention to him.
It was then the next curious event of their little excursion occurred. Kakuzu stopped walking. He came to an abrupt halt, fed up with Hidan's constant bitching. Hidan, seeing him stop had also stopped and was now getting up in Kakuzu's face. In less than a second, the stitched man had pulled something from one of his many belts, pointed it at Hidan without even looking, and something exploded. There was a loud bang and everyone looked at the blonde.
"It wasn't me it was Kakuzu!" protested the bomber. Suigetsu who had seen the whole thing was amazed. Deidara and Sasori came to a land beside the tall man, the blonde's eyes shining at the new toy.
"It explodes!" he squealed in admiration. Sasori looked curiously at the weapon, as did the others, none of them had ever heard of a gun before, let alone come across one like this.
"What the fuck is that 'kuzu," Hidan groaned, standing back up. There was an open wound in his chest. They all shrugged it off, this was a minor thing for the immortal. "it hurt so fucking bad...do it again?"
Kakuzu scowled at him and shoved the gun back into his belt. The damn thing had only made the other worse. Seeing as he refused to speak, the others left Kakuzu to it and they continued their march. None of them were surprised when the trees around them began to blend into one that were well maintained, and uniform. The background became altogether more industrial, and they realised quickly, they were moving on to the next world.
