Hello everyone!
wow look at the lenght of this chapter! not even i thought i would be able to put out something this long, pitty i can't do it with school work haha. anyway, i am happy to present to you all the longest chapter of any of my stories so far. oh and speaking of my other story, to all you guys out there who are reading it, no i haven't abandoned it. the way i work is to switch between stories for a time, and at the moment i'm working with this story, i'll probably go back to my other one after the christmas part in this one is over, although i can't make any promises.
yay its the school holidays! fianlly, although now it means work, work and more work :( oh well, work is fun and the money is good, pitty it takes up valuable writting time though.
*gasp* guess what? go to deviant art and on my profile (same name as this one) i have put up a picture of what Crissy and the necklace thing looks like!
anyways, i hope you all enjoy this chapter as much as i did writting it :) and christmas should come within the next few chapters, oh the suspense!
haha anyway, enjoy :)
oh and i don't own the whole naruto concept or sesame street or sea monkeys or whatever else is in this chapter (I always forget to do these things.)
thanks,
BlueBB
"You still suspect them?"
"Yes, the signs are everywhere."
"Are you sure? I mean we searched the whole house and found nothing, as far as we can tell, they're innocent."
The voices swam on the edge of my consciousness, barley understandable.
"Not everything is as it seems, remember when we caught them in Emily's bedroom? They were definitely hiding something."
"That's true, but still..."
My mind felt like it was surrounded in fog, every sense was dulled and the only thing that felt real was the dull throb in my shoulder. Through my foggy mind I could just make out the voices to be male and female, but even they sounded like a dream.
"Listen, we'll wait until we find leader before we make any decisions."
"But? I'm guessing you have a plan until then, you usually do…"
"We need to keep a close eye on them, catch them at their own game."
"What about the others, should we involve them?"
"No, it will only alert the girls and make them suspicious, it should be just us two."
The female seemed to debate this for awhile, and in their silence my mind nearly sunk back into the black abyss of unconsciousness.
"Fair enough," she finally stated, "I'll take Emily, you watch Crissy."
"Right."
I barely heard their footsteps fade into the distance. Watch us? The fog around my mind refused to budge, and I couldn't comprehend what that conversation was about, and who it even was that was talking.
The dull throb in my shoulder got worse, and the more I thought about the conversation the more the fog closed in around my mind until finally I couldn't hold it off any longer, and I sunk below to the world of unconsciousness.
"Sunny days, sweep'n the… clouds away… on my way to where the air is sweeeet!"
"aaarrgghh, shut up!" I growled, as the sound of really high pitched singing reach my ears.
"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to sesame streeeeet."
Sesame street? What kind of wake up call was this? I tried opening my eyes, but the searing sun made me shut them straight away, "argh, why do I live in a mad house?" I asked myself.
Now, I hope you noted the 'I asked myself' so let me tell you I definitely wasn't expecting an answer.
"Don't worry, he usually stops around twelve."
"Argh!" I screamed, jumping into a sitting position, my eyes flying open. I really wished I didn't do that. As soon as I sat up a searing pain shot through my shoulder, making me gasp. Looking around for the owner of the voice who had put me in such pain I was extremely surprised to find Itachi standing beside my bed with a glass of water.
"Here, I thought you might need a drink when you woke up," he said, handing me the glass.
"Why are you being so nice? And why are you in my room," I asked. An Uchiha being this nice? I don't think so.
"I told you, I thought you might have been thirsty when you woke up." he said with a straight face. Yeah right. A memory played in the back of mind, but it was too far away for me to see, something told me it had everything to do with the way Itachi was acting though.
"You didn't answer my first question though," I told him, taking the glass of water and looking at it suspiciously. "What have you put in this?"
He sighed, "Its just water."
"That still doesn't answer my question," I said, glaring at him, what was he up to?
"Well you got us out of trouble, even though you nearly killed us, so I guess that counts for something," he said, he sounded sincere, but I still didn't trust him. What was that memory that I couldn't quite catch?
"Hm, right," I muttered, taking a sip of the water, it didn't taste funny, and I didn't die then and there so it must have been alright. "I guess, thanks, then," I said unwillingly, what was he up too?
"No, problem."
"Come and play, everythings, aaaaa-ok. Friendly neighbours there, that's where we meeeeet!"
The singing was getting louder.
"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame sreeeeet!"
The singing got louder and louder, a tension built up in the pit of my stomach.
"How to get to sesame streeeeet!"
Now I was really freaking out, the song sounded more like a high pitched curse than a children's show theme song. "What the hell," I muttered, looking at the space of the hall outside my room.
"How to get to sesame streeeet!"
Beside me Itachi sighed, "He's been doing this every morning ever since he first saw the show."
"How to get to Sesame Stree- oh Crissy you're awake!" the black haired, orange masked Tobi of all Tobi's stopped in mid step outside my door.
"Now I am," I muttered under my breath.
"Tobi's sooo happy you're awake! When Crissy fainted we were all so worried," Tobi said in an overly loud voice, almost bouncing into the room.
"Hang on, what day is it?" I asked, wondering how long I had been out of it.
"It's Thursday silly," Tobi told me happily. "Are you sure Crissy's alright, she seems to not remember much." Tobi whispered to Itachi, although I could hear every word of it.
"Tobi I'm fine," I sighed, rubbing my bandaged shoulder, trying to massage the pain out of it.
"Oooh and Crissy got shot!" Tobi wailed, jumping on the bed and flinging his arms around me, needless to say, the pain only got worse.
"Argh, Tobi!" I gasped, I didn't do too well when it came to pain, and being smothered by someone didn't help things either.
"Tobi's sorry!" he squeaked, jumping back.
"Its ok, just give me warning next time," I told him, trying not to think about the pain shooting through my shoulder.
"Hey Crissy guess what!" he asked, starting to jump up and down.
"What?" I asked suspiciously, these guessing games never turned out to be anything good.
"Christmas is only two days away!"
What! Was he serious, I hadn't even worked out how to do his cake, let alone what to get everyone else! "heh that's great Tobi," I said, trying not to show my surprise.
"Yeah! Tobi can't wait until Christmas day, cause Mr and Mrs Santa are coming to visit Tobi this year! You'll be there too Crissy won't you?" Tobi asked me.
"Uh, actually Tobi," Itachi cut in, "Crissy, Kisame and I won't be joining you for Christmas."
"What!" he sounded devastated, uh oh.
"We have something that we need to take care of, it's for the mission, and can't be missed," he said, I don't know how he did it, but every word sounded like the truth.
"Oh."
"Yeah, sorry Tobi, but we will be back later," I said, trying to cheer him up.
He seemed to perk up at this, "When later?"
"About dinner time," Itachi put in.
"So you'll be there for our Christmas tea?" Tobi asked hopefully.
"You can count on it!" I told him, as happily as I could.
"yay! Thankyou guys heaps!" he said, bouncing back out of the room.
"I hope you realise once we arrive in our costumes, he's never going to let us leave." Itachi told me.
"Yeah I know, and anyway, that's what I have you for. I'm sure a great Uchiha like you wouldn't be stopped by something as trivial as dressing up as Santa now would you?" I said, grinning up at him.
He just gave me a blank look, "Right."
I chuckled, "So Tobi's taken to sesame street now?"
"Yeah, he's transfixed by it."
I cringed, this could get really annoying if he stuck with it, "How transfixed?"
"Well Deidara got annoyed with him and tried to turn the TV off, it didn't go down to well."
"As in?"
"As in I don't think Deidara would have survived if we hadn't all stepped in." he stressed the word all, I guessed it meant the whole Akatsuki had to stop him. Wow this was worse than I thought.
"Dam," I murmured, thinking about this new problem that had arose. I noticed Itachi was still standing silently beside my bed, what was he up to? It was really bugging me, I knew he was up to something but I just couldn't quite grasp the memory that was playing in the back of my mind.
"Anyway, I need to get dressed, so off you go," I said, trying to make him leave.
The look he gave me was one I didn't understand, it was like he was waiting for me to slip something. As soon as he left I got up and closed the door, my shoulder already protesting from the movement; if it kept this up it was going to be a long day.
As soon as the door was shut I frantically searched for the one thing I had been worrying about since I woke up. The necklace, where was it? I searched my whole room, but it wasn't there, Emily must have it, I thought to myself as there was no way Itachi would have been that calm if the Akatsuki had come across it. Hang on, speaking of the necklace and the Akatsuki, weren't they talking about it earlier? Voices speaking quietly… nope I lost it, the memory slipped out of my grasp just as I thought I was about to uncover what it was, dam, it seemed important too.
Anyways I would worry about it later, but for now, I think a long hot shower is in need.
Ok, so you know how it's only two more days until Christmas? Well you see the problem with that is to keep up the pretence of Christmas the rest of the Akatsuki members need a present too. So, with only a couple of days to go and a tight budget to work with, Emily and I were up in the attic. The family history in this house goes back quite awhile, so believe me when I tell you we found many interesting things in the attic that day, not all of them what we'd expect to find either.
"What the hell is this suppose to be?" Emily asked me, holding up something that looked like a fox cross a rabbit.
"I think it's suppose to be a hat." I told her, pulling another box closer to look through it.
"Haha, maybe we should keep it for Naruto," she said, pulling it down on her head. It was one of those really old hats that were made out of skinned animals, this one just so happened to be a fox, its head sat right on top of the hat while the tail dangled down the back.
I laughed with her, "Maybe we should give it to Pein and say we found the nine tails."
"Hey, that's a good idea, and this could go with it," she said, holding up a long necklace with a big chunky peace sign on it. It looked like something out of the 60s.
"Haha yeah, well he is all about bringing peace to the world isn't he?"
"Well, that's one down, lets jut hope we find him before Christmas so we can give it to him." Emily said.
"Yeah…" I murmured, thinking how much harder it would be to hide the necklace with Pein around. I had got it back off Emily earlier that day, but with eyes on us seemingly all the time it wasn't easy.
"Hey do you know why Konan and Itachi seem to be watching us lately?" Emily asked, thinking along the same lines as me.
"I don't know…" I said thinking, that annoying memory that I couldn't quite grab coming back.
"Well I wish they would stop, cause its really annoying," Emily muttered.
"Yeah I know what you mean," the feeling of someone watching you all the time was not very pleasant, "It's a wonder we managed to slip up here with out them noticing."
Emily grinned at the memory, "Yeah, that was a good plan." We had managed to distract them with Tobi while we slipped up to the attack so we could talk things over.
"Hey look, its great grandma's glasses and wig," I said, pulling out bright purple Dam Edna look alike glasses with a matching purple wig.
Emily burst out laughing, "Haha I can't believe she used to wear those things all the time."
"Hehe, she even used to wear them out," I said, laughing with her. "Hey, you know how Itachi is going blind?" I asked Emily, an idea suddenly coming to me.
"Uh yeah," Emily said, trying to remember that part in the manga.
"Well, we could give him these for Christmas, the glasses might help with his eye sight." At this we both burst out laughing, I mean Itachi in dame Edna glasses and wig? Now that was something to see.
"Gee, looking for Christmas presents is actually turning out to be fun," Emily said with a big smile on her face.
"What are you guys up to?"
"Um, scratch that," Emily murmured as Konan came up the stairs.
"We're looking for Christmas presents," I told her, double checking my necklace was well and truly hidden.
"Oh, what have you guys found so far?" we showed her our awesome findings. "Haha, that's pretty good."
"Thanks, hey any ideas on what to get the others?" I asked hopefully.
"No sorry guys," she said apologetically.
"Dam…" I muttered, we really had to get a move on if we were going to find everyone a present.
"Hey look," Emily said. Konan and I turned towards her, she had a hand puppet on and was waving it around.
"What's it suppose to be?" Konan asked, looking at it curiously.
"I think it's supposed to be a scorpion," Emily said. We looked a bit harder and could finally make out the legs dangling down the side and the tail which was sitting up in the air thanks to wire in its tail.
"A scorpion…" I said, thinking while Emily moved it's pincers with her fingers.
"Sasori!" we all cried out at the same time.
"Perfect," Konan laughed.
"That's three down all ready, only six more to go." Emily said happily.
"And I think I just found the fourth," I said, pulling out a big, gold bling dollar sign with fake dimenties.
"Kakuzu," Emily and Konan said together smiling.
"Well it will certainly suit him," Konan said.
"Haha, who knows, he might even like it," Emily said laughing, putting the hand puppet in a box with Itachi's glasses and wig, and Pein's peace symbol and fox hat.
"Any thoughts on Tobi's Christmas present yet?" Konan asked.
"No… we've got the car and mask, but I have no idea what to do for the cake." I said, my mind being brought back to the problem of Tobi's life sized cake.
"All I know is that its going to take a lot of cake, and yummy chocolate icing…" Emily said, her mind picturing all the yummy chocolate that was sure to result from this experiment.
"Haha, that's for sure, although I'm starting to think we might need to get some experts in to help us." I said, I honestly didn't know how we were going to pull this off, especially on such sort notice.
"Professionals, like who?" Konan asked.
"I have no idea, but we're going to need a miracle to pull this off," I told her, noticing that Emily seemed to be thinking of something. "What's up?"
"Oh nothing," Emily replied, "I was just thinking…" she trailed off.
"Hmm, anyway, is Itachi's and Kisame's costume ready?" I asked Konan.
"Yes, all the preparations are set, although your costume is the only one we haven't seen." She said pointedly.
My face instantly grew hot, "Um, that's because, uh, I haven't got one yet." I said, trying to make up an excuse.
"What! Yes you have, remember I found one up here for you," Emily cut in.
"Shhh!" I hissed at her, giving her a death stare.
"Oh so you have got one, where is it?" Konan asked, seeming to take notice of my reaction.
"I told you, I don't have one," I said defiantly. The costume Emily had picked out for me was more than a little revealing, every time I thought about it I got really embarrassed.
"Yes you do, oh look, here it is here," Emily said, picking up the red paper it was wrapped in. dam I thought I'd hidden it well.
"Haha oh my god," Konan said laughing while my face got hotter, and probably redder. "I can't wait for the guys reactions."
Now this was what I was worried about, being dressed up in a skimpy outfit while in a room full of guys was not on my list of things to do, and I was really dreading Christmas day when I would have to live it.
"Oh don't look like that, it's perfect," Emily said with a huge smile on her face.
"Yeah, you'll look just the part," Konan put in, matching Emily's smile.
"Yeah, if Santa's wife was a stripper," I muttered.
"Oh come on, it really isn't that bad," Konan tried to reassure me, trust me, it didn't work.
"Well I think you'll look beautiful, and anyway, as long as I get to do your hair, anyone will think so," Emily told me happily. She was right though, she really did do a good job when it came to hair styles.
"Hey what's this?" Konan asked, picking up a thick hard covered book from beside her.
"I don't know, what does it say on the cover?" I asked.
She blew the thick layer of dust off the top, "It says, The Bible," she said.
Hmm, The Bible? Emily and I looked at each other, grins lighting up our faces, "Perfect."
"What is it?" Konan asked curiously.
"Something that I think Hidan will like very much," I told her.
"Good bit of light reading for him," Emily put it.
Konan just gave us a blank stare.
"The Bible is a book on a religion from our world," Emily quickly explained.
Understanding lit up Konan's face in the form of a smile, "Oh…"
Well that was five down, only four more to go. We searched the attic for a while longer, although we didn't find anything else of help. So with some ideas in mind we headed to our last resort, the one place we were sure to find what we needed. Even though the last time we had been there we had caused more action than I think this small town has ever seen. Yep, it was back to the shopping mall, for better or for worse.
"Are we there yet?"
"Tobi, don't you dare start this again," I growled at him from the driver's seat.
"But-"
"No buts, remember what happened last time?" Emily asked him from beside me, also not wanting a repeat of last time.
"Hmph, Tobi guesses you're right," he mumbled from behind his mask. His mask by this stage was in a very sorry state indeed, after its episode with the concrete floor last time we were here, it hadn't faired too well. There were cracks running through it all over the place and only thing holding it together was four bottles of super glue.
"Aw, Tobi got shut down, hm," Deidara sniggered from the back beside Itachi who had to sit in the middle to keep Deidara and Tobi from ripping each other apart.
"Deidara," Konan warned from beside me and Emily, yes, my car had a bench seat in the front, handy for situations like these. Now you may be asking why there are so many of us in the car, well (other than plot reasons) they had insisted upon coming, and being the Akatsuki, unfortunately we didn't have the muscle strength to resist.
"Look! We're here," Tobi cried from the backseat as we pulled up in the car park.
"Now, Deidara, Konan and Tobi you guys are going shopping for food supplies," I told them as we headed inside, "Itachi, you're with us." Only because they wouldn't let us go by ourselves, I thought unhappily.
"Right lets go!" Tobi cried happily walking down the mall towards the supermarket, Deidara and Konan following.
"So why do I get stuck with you again?" Itachi asked.
"Because we only trust Konan when it comes to our food," Emily told him simply.
"Gee thanks," he muttered.
"Haha, that's ok, but you need to help us with the Christmas presents," she told him as we started to head towards an art shop.
"Do you have any clay?" I asked the lady at the cash register, she had bright purple hair and a vague look on her face.
"Hm, I don't think so…" she drawled, not looking at me. So helpful.
"Do you know anyone that would?" I tried again.
"No." wow this was going great.
I heard I sigh from behind me and suddenly Itachi stepped up to the counter.
"Where do you store the clay in your shop?" he asked, his voice smooth.
The lady behind the counter looked at Itachi, her vacant eyes suddenly lighting up as she leaned forward. "Well, I suppose I might," she said, her voice becoming suggestive, oh great here we go.
Itachi seemed unfazed, "Where is it then?" his question coming out blunt but not quite rude.
"Hm let me show you," she said, coming around from behind the counter to reveal really short shorts. Brushing against Itachi on her way past she said, "follow me."
We did as she asked, me and Emily exchanging glances and smirks as we went.
"Oh dear," the lady said in mock dismay, "It seems we only have plasticine, but if you come out the back with me I'm sure I could find you some clay," her eyes sparkled at Itachi as she winked at him.
Suddenly, and definitely surprising, a wave of jealousy washed over me. I had no idea where it came from, and I sure wasn't expecting it, I mean, since when did I become jealous over Itachi? No, never, I would call it a weak moment and move on, yes, just a weak moment.
Itachi's voice snapped me out of my thoughts, "The plasticine will be fine," his voice was firm and his eyes were slightly narrowed.
"Hmph, fine," the lady muttered, grabbing the plasticine and heading back to the counter.
"Oh look," Emily said on our way back, picking up an origami set.
"Good idea, that's perfect," I said laughing.
"Well that's another two down," I said happily as we left the shop with our purchases, leaving the unhappy cashier behind. Seeing her face sent a happy tingle through my body, one that I quickly dismissed.
"Oooh, looks like Itachi has an admirer," Emily said smugly.
Itachi narrowed his eyes but didn't say anything.
"Oh come on, you have to admit it was a little bit funny," I said laughing.
"I mean, it's a wonder you don't have a girlfriend in the manga, cause from what I've seen, the girls here practically throw themselves at you. I mean, you even got asked to go out back with her, now that's something special." Emily said teasingly. "Or is it that you do have a girlfriend but it just doesn't show that?"
I pushed down the ting of jealously, replaced it with a smile and waited for answer.
"Of course not," he replied, face stony.
"Aw, poor wittle Uchiha… nobody to love" Emily said in mock sadness. I had to laugh at this, it was kind of funny too see Itachi try to dodge these sorts of questions.
He sighed, "Just hurry up and find what you're looking for," man he had a lot of patience; if that was any other Akatsuki member they would have had us by the throat by now.
Emily sighed, "Gee you're so hard to crack," she muttered as we continued our search.
"Hey look, a pet store!" Emily cried, rushing straight in to look at the kittens and puppies.
I sighed, "We might as well have a look," I said to Itachi as we followed her in.
"Aw, they are soooo cute!" Emily said, fawning over the small animals.
"You guys have monkeys that live in the sea?" Itachi's voice came from behind us.
"What? Of course we don't," I told him.
"Then what are these?" he turned around holding a cylindrical like container. The word Sea Monkeys printed across the front in big blue letters.
"Oh, they're not real monkeys, there some kind of shrimp that people keep as a pet." I told him, remembering that last time we had sea monkeys, they didn't last long.
"Oh," was his only answer.
"Wait!" Emily said, spinning around just as Itachi was going to put them back on the self. "Sharks live in the sea right?" she asked, a smile forming on her face.
"Yeah…" Itachi and I both answered wondering where this was going.
"Well, maybe for Christmas Kisame would like some friends from his real home for a change, I mean it can't be easy living with all these land dwellers. Poor thing, he's probably so lonely…" she trailed off.
"You are brilliant," I told her simply as Itachi picked the sea monkeys back up off the shelf.
We went up to the counter to pay for the sea monkeys, "Is that all today?" the cashier asked us.
"Wait, and this," I said, putting a plant down on the counter.
"Oh that's great!" Emily said, realising what kind of plant it was.
Itachi looked from the venus fly trap and back to me, "You have a bad sense of humour," he told me simply.
I laughed, "But its still good isn't it?" he didn't answer as I paid the man behind the desk.
"Well I think Zetsu will love it," Emily said, backing me up.
"Hm," was our only reply.
"Hey I think that's everyone," I said, ticking off the list in my head.
"I think it is," Emily agreed, "Hey lets put these in the car and then find the others."
"So have you figured out Tobi's last present yet?" Itachi asked.
"Um, no, we haven't," I said defeated, I still had no idea of what to do.
"Hm, I think I have an idea," Emily told me.
"What! Why didn't you say anything before," I asked in shock, "What is it?"
She laughed, "I'll tell you when we get home, although I'm not sure if it will work."
"Trust me, at the moment anything could work." I told her, wanting to get home so I could find out her idea.
"Haha yeah, anyway lets get this all in the car before Tobi sees and then go and find them." Emily said.
We headed back out to the car and put all our stuff in the boot, looking up I noticed the sky was getting darker and the western sky was glowing red and orange. It was almost night time, and then tomorrow it would be Christmas Eve. My stomach grew tight at the thought of Christmas, what if it didn't work out? What if something went wrong? I tried to calm my nerves as I rubbed my shoulder where it was starting to ache again.
"Hey guys!" a cry sounded out from behind us. Turning around we saw Konan, Deidara and Tobi heading towards us with bags full of food swinging by their sides. "Whew, that was really heavy," Tobi said sighing in relief as he put the bags he was carrying in the boot.
"Gee, how much did you guys get?" Emily asked, amazed at all the food.
"Probably only enough for Christmas," Konan told her. And she was right, the Akatsuki seemed to be eating us out of house and home, over the past few weeks I had spent more money on food than I had for a whole year when it was just Emily and I.
"What are we having for tea?" Tobi asked happily, bouncing around the car.
"I have no idea," I said, I honestly hadn't thought about it yet.
"We should get take out, it'll be easy," Emily suggested.
"Yeah good point," I really didn't feel like cooking tonight, especially since my shoulder had started aching again.
"Yay!" Tobi cried, we had only gone out once before for tea and ever since that day he had been nagging us to go again. "Can we please go to MacDonalds?" he asked.
"I suppose so," I said reluctantly.
So with that we all piled in the car again and headed off down the road to MacDonalds.
"Hello and welcome to MacDonalds, what can we get you?" a male voice asked us through the speaker order box as we made our way into the drive through.
"Um, what do you guys want?" I asked them all.
hmm, maybe I shouldn't have asked that.
"Well! Tobi wants two happy meals and an orange juice!"
"I'll have two of those things."
"Second that, oh and I'll have these as well…"
"I want all of those burger things, they look really nice, un,"
"I'll have some fries and one of those burgers."
"Hey we better get some of those for the others!"
"Oh, and get them some of these as well."
"Did you get all of that?" I asked who ever was on the other end of the line, as the others finished yelling out their orders.
"Uh, could you please repeat that?"
10 minutes later…
"Ok please drive around to the next window to pay for your orders," the person told us through their head set, it sounded like a male voice, and strangely familiar.
So, preparing to empty my wallet once again I drove around to the next window, the sound of car horns following me. As we approached the next window I sensed konan tense up beside me.
"Konan, whats wr-"
I didn't see it coming, so I wasn't prepared for the explosion that nearly tore my ear drums apart.
"OH MY GOD!"
"What the hell, un!"
"Holy Shit!"
"Bloody hell!"
"Pein, what the hell are you doing here!" Konan screeched in my ears, as she nearly clambered over me to reach the window.
Pein? Wait, what?
Trying to look past Konan's head out the window, my mouth nearly fell to the floor when I saw who was standing next to us in the window of the MacDonalds drive through. It was Pein. The almighty 'God' of the Naruto world.
What. The. Hell.
He seemed more shocked than we all were, his mouth was silently hanging open in amazement and the look on his face was priceless. Although personally I think he was surprised to see us because he thought he had gotten rid of the Akatsuki for good.
Everyone was pressed up against one side of the car, trying to get a better look at their leader who was wearing non other than the MacDonalds uniform. Haha oh man, where was the camera. Ah here it is, click!
"Man, that is awesome," I said grinning as I pulled my phone back in the car and looked at the photo I had got, yep, priceless.
"What the? Where in gods name have you guys been!" he exploded, an angry, annoyed and happy expression came over his face. What a happy reunion.
"Where have we been! Don't you mean where have you been? We've been searching for you forever!" Konan yelled out the window at him, wow she could get really fired up when she wanted to.
"I've bee trying to look for you guys!" he said, a bemused look came across his face.
"Well you haven't been doing a very good job," she growled at him, wow she really was getting stuck into him.
"Hey I've been doing the best I could," he told her, a frown forming on his face.
"Wel-"
"Aaaaah that's enough," I gasped as Konan's elbow dug into my thigh, I really didn't need anymore bruises, the pain in my shoulder was enough. "Look, tell me how much all this is, add what you want for tea and then we'll park and come inside."
He sighed, "Don't worry about paying, unless you want to pay over a hundred dollars, just come inside and get it and then we'll make a break for it." He told me seriously. Wow I didn't realise Pein was so badass.
"Okay, sounds good with me," I said, my wallet feeling heavier already. I gave him a big smile (which he didn't return), pushed Konan back over her side and then drove around to the car park.
"Right, you guys stay here, I'll go in and get Pein and the food, be ready for when we have to get out of here." I told them, opening my door and getting out. "Oh, and try not to draw attention to yourselves," I said before closing the door, as if that would ever happen though.
I walked into the store and waited in line, I saw Pein wandering around in the back of the store, he was probably trying to get all our food ready. We were in for a long wait.
Finally after 20 minutes of waiting all of our food was ready, "wow must be a big party," the lady behind the counter laughed.
"Yeah, something like that," I said, having the Akatsuki living in your house was like a party 24/7.
"Here I'll help you take that out," Pein said, coming out form the back, his cloak under one arm.
"Oh, but what about payment?" the lady asked.
"She payed earlier," Pein lied, wow he was a smooth liar.
"Oh ok, have a nice night," she told me with a big smile.
"Yeah thanks," I said, my night was going to be anything but nice, more like hectic.
There were so many bags of food it wasn't funny. "Do they always eat this much?" I asked Pein as we walked out the front doors.
"You have no idea," he replied. "Hey who are they?" he asked me.
"Hm?" I looked over towards the car. My heart nearly stopped in dread. "Oh shit."
"You fuckin arse wipe how dare you look at me like that!"
"I can look at you any way I want, un."
"Oh yeah, well bring it on then, think you're so tuff."
"Heh, you have no idea what I can do to you, hm." A smirk lit up Deidara's face.
"Deidara stop!" Emily yelled at him.
I gave them one order, one thing to do, to stay out of trouble, and what have they done? Deidara, Itachi, konan and Emily were standing out side the car, Tobi was cowering inside. Infront of the others were non other than five bogans, each with angry looks on their faces.
"Quick," I muttered to Pein, as we raced across to the car.
"Oh yeah, an just what is that, think you can take us down?" one of the bogans asked.
"I don't think, I know I can, un," Deidara told them smugly.
"Deidara shut up," Emily pleaded with him as Pein and I threw all the food into the boot of the car and stood with the others.
"Oh, so your little girlfriend's getting involved now is she?" they all laughed.
"Hey leave her out of this, hm," Deidara told them. "Anyway I bet I could take you down in under a minute, un."
"Shut up," I hissed at Deidara, things were getting from bad to worse and we definitely didn't need anymore attention being put on us.
"Why, they started it, hm." He hissed back.
"Yeah, and you're not going to finish it," I told him sternly.
"Heh, we'll see about that!" I turned around at the sound of a blade being unsheathed.
"This is bad, this is really bad," I muttered as the bogans started pulling out knives.
"Come on then, show us what you've got."
"Ok, we're leaving now, everyone in the car." I told them, trying to push Deidara back in the car.
"I don't think so, hm." Deidara said.
At the same time the bogans realised what was happening, "Don't think you're running away now, come on boys!" and suddenly they were running at us, knives held out infront of them.
"Get in the car now!" I shouted at the Akatsuki.
"Get out of the way, hm." Deidara pushed Emily and I behind him. Konan, Itachi and Pein stood and faced the oncoming bogans with Deidara, kunai appearing in their hands.
"What are we going to do?" Emily asked me in panic, "They've probably called the police by now, and once they see who it is…" she didn't finish her sentence, but I knew full well we were already being watched by the police, and after the incident in the mall I was surprised we weren't all in jail.
The clang of metal upon metal rang in my ears as the bogans clashed with the Akatsuki. It was five against four, and as they got into one on one fights there was one bogan who wasn't engaged in a fight with the Akatsuki. He looked around for a second before spotting Emily and I. uh oh.
"Move!" I screamed at Emily, pushing her out of the way as he came running at us.
Crack! The sound of glass cracking sounded in my ears. The bogans knife was sticking out of the car's side window where Emily and I had been only seconds before. Tobi's wail came from the car as the bogan pulled out his knife with a growl and turned to face us. "You're not getting away that easily."
He came at us again, slashing the air with his knife, missing us by inches. "Get behind the car," I gasp to Emily as my shoulder started to throb in pain again.
"No," she told me as she pulled me back, "I'm not leaving you."
"Emily!" I yelled at her as we dodged another blow. My worst fear was Emily getting hurt, and I was not about to let that happen.
We took another step back and were met with a solid wall. "Haha, no where to run now hey kiddies." The bogan laughed.
I growled as he raised the knife, "Crissy no!" Emily shouted at me as I pushed her behind me.
He bought his arm down, the knife slicing through the air with precision. I raised my arm, my hand out stretched; I would rather loose my hand than my life. I closed my eyes and prepared for impact, prepared for the pain that would rip my skin apart.
You know how people always say that your life flashed before your eyes? Well it wasn't my life, but the memory that had been playing at the back of mind all day finally came back to me, crystal clear in its foggy detail. The conversation I had overheard while being semi unconscious came rushing back into my mind and I now knew the voices to be that of Itachi and Konan. So that was why they had been acting all weird during the day.
All this passed through my mind in under a second and I was immediately bought back to the present by the sound of clanging metal right above my head. My eyes flew open at the sound, shock and relief racing through my body. The bogan also had shock written across his face as he looked down at his knife which had been stopped by Itachi's kuni. I tried to start breathing again as I looked up at Itachi, I was met by a very angry glare.
"What the hell are you thinking!" he hissed at me.
My jaw dropped in shock, why was he so angry?
"Hey shit head, hm." Deidara came up behind the bogan and grabbed him by the back of his collar, picking him up off the ground. "Who the hell do you think you are, picking on defenceless girls, mm," Deidara growled in his face.
The bogan didn't know what to say, he seemed too shocked to speak. "Hmph," Deidara muttered, throwing the guy to the ground and kicking him in the stomach. The bogan curled up in a ball and didn't move.
"Come on, hm." Deidara said grabbing Emily's arm and walking her back over towards the car.
I looked around the car park, the bogans were all lying on the ground, some out cold, the others too scared to get up. Wow the Akatsuki really kicks butt.
"What the hell were you thinking," Itachi repeated, "do you want to die?"
"No, I don't," I told him with a pout on my face, why was he being so up tight?
"Well it sure looks like it, you're always getting into trouble," he said, the anger not leaving his eyes.
"hmph what ever," I muttered walking back towards the car, I didn't feel like arguing with him.
"Arrgh! Tobi was so scared for you guys!" Tobi was wailing when we reached the car.
"Yeah, thanks for all your help, hm," Deidara said sarcastically.
"Just get in the car," Konan told him sternly, getting in the front seat, followed by Emily.
"Hmph" Deidara muttered, pushing Tobi across and getting in.
"How-"
"Just get in, don't worry about seatbelts." I said as Pein looked at the full car with a frown.
Seeing the Akatsuki quashed in the back seat brought a smile to my face as I looked in the review mirror on the way home. We had finally found everyone, but something told me it would have been better if we didn't find Pein, the leader of the organisation, well the supposed leader anyway.
I knew the day was coming when Emily and I would be found out, I didn't know when, but it was coming. The looming prospect of Christmas seemed to be connected to all this, but I couldn't explain how, I guess we would find out though. All I could hope for was that it wouldn't turn into a catastrophe. Heh, yeah right, with my luck?
wew, another chapter finished. So what do you all think? make sure you let me know! oh and make sure you tell me if you like the longer chapters, if so i'll try harder from now on to add some more random stuff in there :)
also be sure to check out my deviant art page, but, if you don't like spoiling your own image of Crissy then don't worry about it, i know what its like to have that kind of this happen...
but anyways, happy holidays to all those who have them, i know not eveyone does, haha, but whether you do or don't write hard fanatics! many more worlds await you!
