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"For the last time, it's not here," I said impatiently, leaning my head against the wall in exasperation.
The Akatsuki had searched our house from the very top of the attic to the darkest corner of the cellar and had found nothing.
Five times.
And yet they still seemed bent on uncovering a secret that Emily and I were sure wasn't there.
"So you say, but what if you're lying," Itachi replied. He was searching the kitchen, looking for something that wasn't there. The rest of the Akatsuki were spread out all over the house.
"Aren't you suppose to know when someone is lying, can't you just do that mangekyou thing and make me tell you?" I asked, not realizing what the implications of that sentence were.
Itachi stood up and looked me in the eye, a weird gleam entering his red eyes. Suddenly it hit me what he was about to do.
"I didn't really mean it!" I yelled, coving my eyes with my hands and turning away from him.
"You're the one who suggested it, and it's not such a bad idea." He replied. I was now cursing myself at my own stupidity. "Anyway, how do you know you're not already in an illusion?"
He was right, in the manga he could cast an illusion with a glance, what's to say he hadn't already done that?
"You suck!" I growled at him, angry at myself.
I swear I heard a slight chuckle before he replied, "Perhaps, but you're the one who got caught."
Mumbling a string of curse words I began to walk away, my hands still covering my eyes. I walked towards the direction of the front door, needing some fresh air. I thought I was almost there when SMACK!
I ran straight into a wall.
"Ow," I said, rubbing my head with my hand. Behind me someone erupted in a fit of laughter.
I spun around to find Kisame bent over in laughter clutching his stomach. "I can't believe you just did that! You're so stupid." He said between his laughter.
My face grew hot in anger and embarrassment, "Shut up fish boy, you're just as bad," I said, anger creeping into my voice.
Of course, this just made him laugh harder. I was about to say something else when I heard a small chuckle from my right. Glancing over I saw Itachi smirking, trying to hold in his amusement.
"What are you laughing at, you're the one that caused this!" I said in protest.
An innocent expression came over his features, "I did no such thing," he said, "you're the one who covered their eyes and started walking away."
I was about to reply when I remembered the reason of covering my eyes in the first place, "shit," I muttered, I dropped my gaze and tried not to look at him.
He chuckled again, "you really are hopeless."
Suddenly the room around me shifted, and I was once again over the other side of the room, near Itachi. I looked around; Kisame was nowhere to be seen.
"Wha-" and then I realized what had happened. I glared at Itachi, being careful not to look in his eyes, "You really do suck." I said, annoyed that he really had caught me. I walked out of the room and to the front door, this time with no wall collisions.
"And thanks for the headache," I said over my shoulder as I walked out the door.
The air outside was starting to cool down, the sun was lazily making its way towards the horizon. I breathed in a deep breath of fresh air, willing my headache to disappear.
Although he had made me make a fool of myself and had given me a headache, Itachi had stopped looking at me like I was the devil. Perhaps this search had taken his mind off the fact that I could quite possibly know the truth behind his past. I just hoped that he would keep forgetting, although in all reality, that was wishful thinking.
Even though we were being held as suspects, even though our house was being ransacked at the moment, everything was alright. In some weird way, it was peaceful at the moment, like a brief calm before the storm.
Looking up at the sky I tried to think about what our lives would be like if the Akatsuki hadn't shown up on our door step, if everything was normal. I tried my best, but I couldn't imagine it, somehow it felt right that things were like this.
I took in another deep breath, but nearly choked when the sound of tires on gravel reached my ears. Looking at the drive way the worst possible scene came before my eyes.
A police car was making it's way toward our house, inside was the very unwanted Jake and a fellow police officer.
Shit
My hand went to my pocket, but unfortunately came back empty; I must have left my phone inside.
With dread rising in the pit of my stomach I looked at the kitchen window, hoping against hope that Itachi would look out and see his impending doom.
He didn't.
And as the police car pulled up I was starting to panic. How was I supposed to hide the Akatsuki this time?
"Hey Crissy," Jake called out as he stepped out of the car. The policeman who got out the other side gave me a nod. All I call do was stand there while my mind raced.
"W-what are you doing here?" I asked, trying to think of a plan.
"We've come to get a statement from you, and plus the rest of the taskforce wanted to make sure you really are trustworthy so I bought Jerry with me." Jake replied, a huge smile lit up his face as if he was doing the right thing.
I managed a nod at Jerry and then thought of the only thing that would get me to the house quicker than these two. "Crap, I think I left the stove on!" I exclaimed before turning towards the house and running as fast as I could.
I burst through the door and nearly leapt into the kitchen. Itachi gave me the strangest look and was about to say something but I cut him off. "For a powerful ninja you're awful at knowing when to hide."
A confused look came over his face but I pushed him down behind the counter before he could say anything.
"Crissy are you ok?" Jake came running through the door, not a second too early.
"I'm fine," I said, turning around to face the two police. "It's all good; I did turn the stove off."
"Oh good, I was worried there for a moment. I mean if Emily was in the house she could have been burned alive." Jake said, laughing slightly. "Where is Emily anyway?" he said, turning towards the stairs.
"I'll get her," I said quickly, who knows what could be up there.
Giving Itachi a meaningful look I crossed the room to the stairs and called out, "Emily! Jake's here with a friend and needs us to answer some questions!" hopefully the rest of the Akatsuki heard that as well.
Crossing the room I stood beside Itachi again, hoping against hope Jake and his buddy wouldn't come over our side of the counter.
"So any luck with you're search?" I asked, trying to distract them from the tapping sound which was coming from upstairs.
"Not as yet, but we have our suspicions," Jerry said, giving me a meaningful look, I really hoped he didn't mean what I thought he meant.
"But we are still keeping our leads open," Jake cut in, glaring slightly at Jerry.
"Of course." I could tell he didn't believe his own words.
Suddenly Emily came bounding down the stairs, not two seconds after the tapping sound stopped.
"Emily!" Jake's mood brightened immediately. I could almost hear Itachi roll his eyes beside me.
Emily and Jake got talking, much to Emily's dismay. Jerry seemed to be looking around the house very closely, especially watching our reactions to everything that was said.
I felt something poking my legs and looked down to see Itachi trying to tell me something. He was pointing to the opposite counter and saying something but I couldn't work out what it was. I looked over and my heart nearly died where it lay.
There was an Akatsuki cloak sitting on the counter, and the only thing blocking it form view was my body.
I looked back down at Itachi who was looking back up expectantly, waiting for me to do something.
"What are you looking at?" Jerry asked, trying to peer over the counter.
"Uh, it's my cat," I said, saying anything that came to mind. Needless to say there was a very sharp jab to my leg.
"You have a cat?" Jake asked, looking up from his conversation with Emily. "Since when?"
"Since this morning," Emily put in; looking at me as if I'd lost it.
"Can I see? I love cats." Jake said, turning towards me.
I looked down at Itachi for some sort of support, he rolled his eyes at me.
Great, heaps of help there.
I turned back to Jake to make up some excuse when I heard a small pop beside me. Looking down I saw something that made me eternally grateful to Itachi forever. There, sitting in his lap, was a small tabby cat.
I looked wordlessly down at Itachi, how the hell? He didn't say anything; he just held the cat up to me. I took it gratefully, marvelling at something which just saved mine, and the entire Akatsuki's but.
"Here he is." I said, handing it over, the cat meowed slightly.
"Aw, it's so cute," Jake said swooning over it. Jerry was looking at it suspiciously, probably trying to determined how real it was like I was.
Emily was looking at it as though some mighty god had just turned up.
Making sure they were distracted by the cat, I slowly edged my way over to the opposite bench to where the Akatsuki cloak lay. I didn't know whose it was, but once I found out they wouldn't be safe for long. Quickly grabbing the cloak I threw it down to Itachi to keep it away from prying eyes.
Turning back to our company I saw they were all still interested in the cat and apparently hadn't seen the cloak. Breathing out a sigh of relief I relaxed against the counter, maybe we really could pull this off.
"So anyway, back to the main reason we're here, we need a statement out of both you guys." Jerry said, turning away from the cat.
"Of course, what would you like to know?" I asked, eager for them to be on their way.
"We just have a few questions, it should only take a few minutes," he said, a false smile plastered to his lips.
One hour later.
"So can you go over again what these criminals looked like?"
It felt more like an interrogation than a statement. Jerry had us sitting down at the dinning room table and was asking us questions that asked for the tiniest details. It was ridiculous.
Meanwhile Jake was out searching the property; apparently it would be best if the police did it themselves. I just hoped the failing light outside and Jake's lack of intelligence would prevent him from finding anything.
Needless to say as the interrogation continued, so too did the noises from upstairs. At first we had blamed it on the cat, which had disappeared up stairs, but I think jerry was starting to get suspicious. You'd think that S-rank criminals would at least know how to stay quiet for a while.
Once again I went over what the 'criminals' looked like, giving him a vague picture of Itachi and Deidara.
"Hm yes so you say, and which direction were they heading in?"
"I've already told you, they were heading out of town, that's all I know." I let out a breath of frustration; I was ready to punch this guy in the face. By the looks of it so was Emily.
I hadn't heard anything from behind the kitchen counter, at least one person in this house knew how to keep quiet.
"Right, right, well that just about covers it. Just one more question before we leave though, are you harbouring these criminals?" he said it so smoothly that it was like part of an every day conversation.
"What? Of course we're not, we're not that stupid." I replied, surprised that he came right out with it.
"Or insane either," Emily replied, "How could we harbour criminals when we're so close to you guys, that would have to be the dumbest thing anyone could do." She sounded so believable that I almost laughed.
Just then Jake came through the door. "Find anything?" Jerry asked, a hopeful gleam in his eyes.
"Nah, nothing out there. I checked all the tracks and hiding places but not so much as a foot print anywhere." Jake said, seemingly proud of himself.
Jerry looked disappointed, "right, well I've finished here, we'll head back to the police station now and review our notes."
"Ok, bye Emily," Jake said going to give her a hug, it looked like he was chocking her to death, "Come on Jerry lets get out of here."
"You go on ahead; I just need to get a drink of water before we leave." Jerry said, looking at the kitchen bench which Itachi was hiding behind.
"Right ok, see you guys," Jake said, with a wave he walked out the door and headed for the car.
"I'll get that glass of water for you," I said, turning towards the counter.
"Oh no, I've got it." And before I could reach out a hand to stop him he was walking around the edge of the counter, straight towards Itachi.
It was the worst thing that could possibly happen, we were going to be caught out and there nothing we could do to stop it. Emily reached out her hand as though to try and stop him, I went to scream out no, but it was too late.
Jerry stopped dead, his eyes looking straight at where Itachi would be. His face lit up in a malice filled smile, eyes shining with triumph.
He turned to look at Emily and I his grin growing wider at our shocked faces, "Looks like I win, girls." He said in victory.
We knew he was right, we were doomed, and there was no way of getting out of this now. It was either jail or go on the run, we had been defeated, caught out and we both knew it.
This was it. I prepared myself for what would come next, it was either a fight or handcuffs. I wasn't looking forward to any of them, but they were our only options. Our civilized lives were over.
Jerry looked back to Itachi, who had by now stood up, there was no point hiding.
"Sir, you are under arr-" but Jerry didn't get to finish his sentence. Suddenly he went as stiff as a board, his eyes locked onto Itachi's, and he fell over backwards.
Emily and I stood there, not knowing what had happened and too shocked to do anything. Itachi bent down and put his finger on Jerry's head, closed he eyes and muttered something which I didn't hear.
He stood back up and looked at our still frozen bodies. "I've erased his memory of seeing me, but that's all, he'll wake in a few seconds, I suggest you come up with a good excuse." And with that Itachi quickly made his way up the stairs.
As soon as he went out of sight Jerry started to stir. Emily and I looked at each other, hardly able to believe how the events were unfolding.
Finally able to unfreeze ourselves we rushed to jerry's side.
"What happened?" he asked groggily as we helped him to sit up.
"You fainted," I said, thinking of the most logical explanation.
"Yeah you must have really needed that water, here I'll get you some." Emily said, rushing to the sink.
"Uh, my head really hurts, and my memory seems have gone fuzzy." He said, sounding really confused.
"It's just from fainting, I feel like that too when I faint." I said, trying to make it seem normal.
"Here," Emily said, handing him the glass of water.
"Ah thanks," he said after drinking it, "That feels much better."
"Are you ok to walk?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, I think so." So we helped him up and outside to the car.
"What happened?" Jake asked as we lead Jerry over to him.
We explained what happened and told Jake to make sure Jerry drank lots of water in case he was dehydrated.
"Don't worry, I'll take good care of him." Jake said as he got in the car and began to drive away.
Emily and I stood there for a couple of minutes, trying to take in everything that had just happened.
Letting out a big breath Emily said, "We almost blew everything, didn't we?"
"Yep, just about." I replied, realizing that if it hadn't been for Itachi, we would be in the back of that police car wearing handcuffs.
"That's not the last time we'll see them though, so we need to be prepared next time." Emily said, determination lighting up her eyes.
I wish I could have felt that determine, but I just felt drained. "Next time, we need to make sure he doesn't suspect us of anything." I said, thinking up of a plan.
"Definitely." Emily replied.
Behind us the house erupted in noise, it seemed the Akatsuki had realised they weren't in danger now. Somewhere within the house there came a booming sound, followed by Tobi running outside screaming with his hair on fire.
Now that the danger was gone, everything seemed to be back to normal. Well as normal as you could get with the Akatsuki living under one roof.
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