Chapter 46: Up Up Up
The next morning all of Kure-Ji-Kira was silent and calm. Even the rowdy children slept in, seemingly persuaded by the atmosphere of peace. It was quite plainly the calm before the storm. Only Leader was aware of the aura surrounding the building. He watched Konan as she slept next to him in the bed. It would begin any moment.
The morning guards were arriving outside to switch places with the night guards, yet none of the night guards were awake to trade places. The arriving guards patiently waited outside for some sign as to what they were supposed to do.
Slowly the inmates and guards began to awake. The pairs of lovers in bed awoke in the arms of the ones they had gone to bed with the night before. Naruto sat up first and stretched as the run rose in the sky above the fence locking him inside. Next to him, Sasuke seemed determined to soak up the last bits of sleep and night that he could. Naruto smiled and felt once again that he made the right choice in sticking by the person most important to him.
Kakuzu stared down at Hidan as a bit of drool dripped out of the Jashinist's wide mouth. Kakuzu snorted as a smile swiftly passed across his face. He traced a finger across Hidan's bare chest and muttered the word, "Mine..." quietly to himself.
Karin awoke in exact time with Tomoe, the guard she had fallen for. Just as they locked lips in a gentle morning after kiss, the door of their room was busted open and the other night guard, Morinaga, broke into the room, screaming frantically,
"The twins are gone!"
Konan leapt out of bed, a fierce, passionate anger growing in her eyes. No one messed with her children. After searching as much as she could throughout the prison she threw open the door to the blue room and cranked the lights on. Kisame sat up blearily but Suigetsu continued snoozing his way on the bed.
"Wazwrong?" Kisame asked through blurry eyes. Karin ignored him and grabbed Suigetsu by the shoulders, shaking him viciously and yelling,
"WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN!?"
"Huh?" Suigetsu finally muttered when he awoke. She just shook him harder and repeated,
"WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN YOU USELESS FATHER!?!"
"Calm down woman!" Suigetsu finally grumbled when he noticed he was being screamed at first thing in the morning. "What the hell are you going on about?"
"Aki and Ueno!" She shrieked, "They're gone!"
"I bet they're just playing hide and seek somewhere. Stupid bitch, you worry to much!" Suigetsu yawned as he tried to lay back down.
"Who're you calling a bitch you lazy piece of crap!? I looked everywhere for them and I can't find them! Ueno would never be able to hide for me for this long, even if Aki made him! Something's up! It's a mother's intuition!" Karin yelled.
"Oi, oi, oi!" Suigetsu muttered as he stood up and tried to put his pants on as quick as he could. "Don't blow a gasket you whack-job. We'll go look for 'em, alright?"
"Who's we?" Kisame asked as he laid back down.
"You're coming too!" Suigetsu said as he threw a shoe at Kisame. Kisame groaned but got out of bed anyways.
"I'm going to go ask if anyone else has seen them." Karin muttered nervously as she exited the room. A few moments later when Kisame and Suigetsu finally left the Blue Room they heard a collective gasp coming from the main room of the prison. They glanced down the hallway just in time to share shocked and nervous glances with Kakuzu and Hidan, both of whom had just left their room as well. All four men started running down the hall. They busted into the Main room just in time to hear Mei scream,
"HELP!"
Hidan and Kakuzu's eyes shot open just as they beheld the sight before them: Sono Yamada was in the center of the common room, standing on top of a table, and holding a gigantic butcher's knife dangerously pressed against the fragile flesh of Aki, Ueno, and Mei's throats. Mei's scream for help died away the second he pressed the blade closer to her skin.
Sono gave a sickening smile before he glanced up and noticed that Kakuzu and Hidan had just entered the room. He chuckled as he said,
"Hidan? Kakuzu? Glad you could join us! Did you have a nice night?"
Hidan clenched his fists and opened his mouth to scream, "You basta-!"
Sono cut him off. "Oh no. No cussing in front of the children."
Hidan readied himself to rush forward and save his daughter, ignoring Sono's warning, but then he felt Kakuzu's hand on his shoulder. When he glared up at his husband Kakuzu just nodded towards the sides of the room. Hidan turned his head to see around 50 armed guards, all pointing their guns at the crowd of prison inmates. He even noticed that the two guards who had become friends with the members of Akatsuki were being held captive by some of the other men.
Hidan bit his tongue and glanced back up towards Sono, whose smile just grew wider. All of the room was silent, waiting for the prison warden's next move. The was a collective gasp when he pushed Aki and Ueno away from him and they feel off the table and into the people. Kisame caught them both before they hit the ground, and then they instantly turned around and yelled in panicked voices,
"Mei!"
They tried to reach out to her but Kisame held them back for fear of Sono's retaliation. As he held the knife even closer to her throat he stared down at the twins and spoke in a voice thick with depravity.
"Neither of you twins ever did anything to me, and I truly have nothing against your parents, besides the fact that they are sick individuals. No... I just hated looking at you, because you reminded me of what this little bitch's father cost me! My dear brother. My twin. Murdered, for no reason except an attempted escape. And from what? My brother created a heaven for you cretinous, filthy, disgusting criminals, and yet you still wanted to escape? I tried, really I did, to keep my brother's dream alive. To keep you all happy and keep the prison and website running smoothly. I continued his work, and didn't even seek vengeance for his death, because he instructed me not to! This child-"
He shook Mei in anger and both Hidan and Kakuzu jumped forward a little,
"-this abomination of science, was Seiji's greatest achievement. He barely cared that he died for it. But I did care! My brother was the only thing important to me! He was my only reason for living! HE WAS EVERYTHING!!!!"
The second Yamada's voice echoed off the stone walls of giant common room. No one knew what would happen next. Naruto's hand tightened around Sasuke's, and they glanced towards each other. Sono closed his eyes for half a second, and continued speaking,
"I tried... brother. I need to get revenge now. I need-"
"RAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
From inside the crowd burst Chibi-Oro, who screamed at the top of his lungs as he leapt through the air and tackled Sono off the table, knocking all three of them to the floor in a second. Hidan's heart leapt through his chest. He couldn't see Mei anymore! What had happened? He tried to push his way through the crowd, but it was almost impossible.
The second Orochi had let loose his scream, all hell had broken loose.
Guns were firing, people were running and screaming, smoke was filling the room and Hidan was lost. He felt someone grad his arm and turned to see Kakuzu nod to him and pull him in an unnamed direction. Hidan followed, dodging fist fights and falling bodies as he went.
Pein was the only one who seemed to understand what to do. He kept a cool head and tried to help any member of Akatsuki he could; the other inmates were on their own. He held Konan under his arm as he made his way, followed quickly by Tobi and Zetsu, to the exit. A guard stepped in his way, blocking the path, but when the guard lifted his head, his piercings glinted in the fluorescent lights. Pein and Konan smiled as the guard led them safely outside.
"We always knew you had an inside man." Zetsu muttered as he passed Pein on his right. Pein just smirked and replied, "I have a few, actually."
The second the first gun had been shot, Sasuke tackled Naruto and made sure he was safe on the ground, now they were both crawling across the floor and through people's legs, trying to find a way out of the madness. A guard stopped them, and Sasuke prepared to defend himself and Naruto if he had to. But the guard smiled and led them until they met up with Sasori and Deidara, who had been led by one of Pein's guards as well. They had almost been caught as they left the room, but their enemy was nearly blown up by Deidara and poisoned by Sasori before he could do anything to them.
Suigetsu, Kisame, Karin, Juugo, the two guards, with Aki and Ueno, found a way out themselves, and ran from the prison as fast as they could, not looking back once. The twins worried endlessly about their friends but every time they brought it up their grandfather told them that no child of Hidan's would die by a knife.
When Hidan and Kakuzu finally reached where Orochi had knocked Sono, they witnessed the two children on top of the insane prison warden, beating the crap out of him. Mei even had a slightly wicked look in her eye and reached for the knife. Suddenly, and before Hidan and Kakuzu got through the struggling inmates and guards, Kabuto reached them and tore Orochi off of Sono. He picked up his child and rushed through the smoke until he was out of sight. Now with only Mei fighting him, Sono had the strength to stand again. Mei glared blood-red eyes at him as she held the butcher knife in defense.
Sono towered over the child of only 8 years old and smirked before tensing his muscles in preparation for a deathly kick. Then, his face fell, and his eyes glowed with real fear when both Kakuzu and Hidan stood full force behind their daughter, seething anger and the intensity only a criminal could produce. Oh, they wanted to hill Sono Yamada more than anyone had ever wanted to kill anyone. This bastard had threatened their daughter. That was not okay.
In the back round they all heard gunshots, then Kakuzu crumpled over, holding his leg and his side as blood rushed out of the wounds.
"DADDY!" Mei screamed.
Yamada used this distraction to turn and flee, but Hidan would not tolerate that. He instructed Mei as he ran after Sono,
"I'll be back ina seck, look after your Dad! Don't let that asshole die!"
Hidan rushed through the swarms of people and saw a few of the inmates had been caught and put in handcuffs, while others still fought. Some had just been mercilessly killed, and lay dead on the floor. Hidan ignored this and followed Sono until he was close enough to tackle him, sending him crashing to the ground, and breaking his jaw as he did.
Sono's face screwed up in pain, but Hidan just held him down and yelled,
"OPEN YOUR EYES YOU MOTHER FUCKER! YOU'RE GONNA SEE ME AS I KILL YOUR PATHETIC ASS!"
Sono's eyes widened and his heart almost stopped before Hidan had a chance to plunge the knife he had grabbed from Mei into said heart. Hidan bent down to whisper into a dead man's ear,
"You're fucking lucky I had to do this quick, cuz usually, I like to make it hurt a whole hell of a lot more."
Hidan somehow avoided guards and bullets as he ran quickly back to where Kakuzu lay bleeding on the ground. Mei had tears streaming down her cheeks as Kakuzu quietly tried to comfort her. Hidan was out of breath and panting when he almost collapsed on the blood covered floor next to his family.
"Get up!" His strained voice cracked as he tried to command Kakuzu.
Kakuzu just smiled and pulled the collar of Hidan's jumpsuit down so he could whisper into his lover's ear. Hidan's eyes widened and his voice somehow returned enough to yell,
"No! Hell no am I-"
"Yes!" Kakuzu growled. "Now!"
"Not without y-!"
"Over there! There's a few more over there!" Hidan glanced up to see a few guards point at them from across the room. He cursed to himself as he pulled Mei into his arms.
"Go!" Kakuzu commanded gruffly.
Hidan felt tears rolling off his face in puddles as he bent down and kissed Kakuzu once more before standing up and running towards the exit without looking back.
He didn't really know how he made it out of the prison and far enough away for them to be safe without getting caught. He just remembered Kakuzu's last, whispered message to him, and it kept him going.
"As long as it's beating, I'm still alive."
Hidan stroked Mei's hair as he clutched the wooden box Kakuzu had given him just the night before tightly in his bloodied hand. Inside... was Kakuzu's still beating heart.
Well isn't that just dandy? Don't question how its still beating... it just is.
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