A/N: Sorry for not updating in a while. I've been supa busy. Anyways I'm a little iffy on this chapter too, so please review and tell meh what ya think, yeah.
"anata"- this word is basically means "honey" or "sweetie", it's usually used between boyfriend/girlfriend, or husband/wife, and other couples like that.
Chapter 4
Hidan led me into a room, which looked to be the sitting room. There was a television, a couple of jet black sofas and a matching love seat; in the center was a rectangular dark brown coffee table. It looked very…boring, but it was better than staying in a room with Hidan. I snuck a peek up at the white haired man beside me and felt rather guilty. I don't think I've ever felt a certain dislike for anyone before, until I met him. Just because he curses, yells, and very rude every time he opens his mouth, doesn't mean I should dislike him. What would Kami-sama say about my behavior?
Forgetting where I was, I closed my eyes and folded my hands in prayer. What should I do about Hidan? How should I act around him? Just because he's rude doesn't mean I should be rude back, right Kami-sama?
"Hey…" I opened my eyes when I felt someone poking my head. Hidan stood in front of me with a bit of a scowl on his face. "Stop acting so fucking weird and listen to when I'm talking to you."
"Alright, Hidan-san," I answered, adding the honorific to his name.
He looks at me strangely. "Why the hell is up with the honorific? You didn't call me that before." I shrugged, suddenly feeling embarrassed. "Well I don't like it."
I blinked, a bit surprised. I didn't know it really mattered to him. "Should I just call you Hidan then?"
He smirks and I move back unconsciously. "Ha, don't worry. I'm not going to do anything to ya. Hmmm…" He rubs his chin as though in deep thought. "I want you to call me 'Hidan-sama'!" He exclaims and begins to laugh like a triumphant king. Pretty soon I begin to laugh too; he stops. "What are you laughing at bitch?"
"You…you act like a child," I said, stopping my laughter almost immediately, but couldn't wipe the smile off my face.
I expected him to get mad, but instead he shook it off. "Hn, any woman who's been in bed with me knows that I'm a man." I still look at him, not knowing exactly what he meant and he laughs at me. "Who's the damn kid now? You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?" I didn't see what was so funny and continued looking at him as I shook my head no.
"There she is!" Came a loud childish voice and the next thing I knew, I was knocked down the ground. Opening my eyes, I see a man wearing an orange swirly mask. "My name is Tobi! What's yours?"
"A-Aiko," I managed to say. I was rather shocked from the sudden surprise attack.
"Aiko! What a pretty name for a pretty girl!"
"Th-Thank you." I felt bashful. No one has ever complimented me like that before. This Tobi is really nice.
"You fucking bastard!" This coming from none other than Hidan himself. "Stop being a fucking suck up and the hell off of her."
Tobi, who seemed unaffected by Hidan's cruel language, nodded and got off me, also pulling me up to my feet in the process. "Tobi's sorry, Aiko. You'll forgive Tobi right?"
I nodded. "Of course." I now had to look up to see Tobi face…I mean mask. I didn't notice before, but he's almost as tall as Hidan, which surprised me. That'd probably mean Tobi is a full grown man, why does he act so childishly?
"Yay! Aiko can bake right?"
"Uh…yes." I answered, wondering why he wanted to know something random like that.
"Good! You can make me cookies!"
"Tobi will you leave her the fuck alone? She was about to go sleep!"
I shook my head. "It's alright. As a servant of Kami-sama…"
"I didn't know you were a servant too, un." The three of us turned our heads to see a blond teen walk into the room. Some of his hair was pulled back in a pony tail and a part of it covered his left eye, hiding it. He was a little shorter than Hidan and Tobi. "I thought you were just our new medic…"
"Well I am, but…"
The blond cut me off again and stood right in front of me, his face freakishly close to mine. "I think I have this cut on my lip. Can you kiss it to make it better, un?"
"I…what?" I began to blush at such a request and from what I could tell his lips looked fine.
"Will stop fucking around Deidara?"
"What? I was only making a simple request." He asks innocently.
~*~
Fucking brat. My eyes twitched after Deidara "innocently" said he was only making a simple request when asking Aiko to kiss his damned lip. "That's a fucked up simple request if you ask me!" I yelled and turned to Aiko. "Hey Bitch!" She jumped in her spot, probably surprised that I was yelling. "Weren't you going to go make cookies with Tobi!?"
She nodded and Tobi said, "Yay! Let's go Ai-chan! This way!" Tobi began to pull the poor girl away to the kitchen.
As soon as they left Deidara spoke. "I know that you get ticked off easily…but I think you're overreacting a bit. There was no need to get so angry about what I said to that girl."
"I fucking know that and I wasn't angry, you bastard!"
"Then why are you getting so angry about me thinking that you were angry, un?"
"I…what?" I asked, not really understanding whatever the hell he was trying to say.
He smirked at me as though he knew something I didn't and I glared at him. "Well, I'm going to go to the kitchen."
"Why?"
"To help them bake cookies, what else, un?" Deidara left the room and I stood there alone; I admit I was a bit confused. I wasn't angry, was I? I don't think I was…just because I yelled doesn't mean that I was angry. I walked out of the room and down the hall, heading for my room. To get there I had to pass the kitchen along the way and I couldn't help but go in.
Deidara sat on top of the kitchen table and watched Aiko search the bottom cupboards for something. Tobi stood next to Aiko, looking down at her. "Do you want Tobi to help you look for the bowls?"
Aiko emerged from the cupboard with a bag of flour, salt, sugar and brown sugar. "Yeah, that'd be nice."
"No fucking way!" I yell, causing Aiko to drop the flour. "You let Tobi touch anything, he'll fucking break it and the last thing we need is Kakuzu on our case."
"Kakuzu?"
"Yeah. He got really mad at Hidan for making the microwave explode, un," Deidara just had to chime in.
"You made the microwave explode?" Aiko asked me her eyes wide.
"So what!? It's better than trying to put explosives in the fucking oven and trying to make the whole damn kitchen explode!" I shouted, looking at Deidara.
He looked away. "Strange I don't remember doing anything like that, un."
"You fucking liar!"
"Hidan-sama, it's okay. Just go find a…"
"No way! You got her calling you 'Hidan-sama', un?" Deidara asked, whipping around to look back at me.
I smirked. "Of course, the bitch knows her fucking place."
"That's…just strange."
"What about you!? You call Sasori 'danna', don't you find that a bit strange you fucking bastard?"
"I got it!" Deidara snapped his fingers. "Hey servant girl, I want you to call me 'Anata', alright, un?'
Aiko blushes, but she nods anyways. "Okay…A-ana…"
I covered her mouth. "What the hell are you trying to make weird things, you bastard!?"
"Hmph…I'm not the one making her call me 'Hidan-sama', un."
"Tobi wants to make cookies now!" Tobi's annoying voice sort of brought me back to reality and I removed my hand from Aiko's mouth.
I swear if Deidara smirks at me one more time, I'm going to fucking castrate him. "Hidan-sa…Hidan-sama, will you please find a bowl for me?" I nod and go to one of the upper cabinets to pull one out. "I was a bit surprised to find the kitchen so clean," Aiko mentions as she takes eggs, cream, vanilla, butter and chocolate out of the fridge.
"Well no one uses it except for Itachi…not after Hidan…" I shoot him a glare of death. "Calm down Hidan, I was just going to say after you proved how much you suck at cooking, causing soup to somehow shoot out of the pot and all over the kitchen, un."
I set the bowls down hard on the counter. "So you're not good at cooking?" Aiko asks, grabbing one putting some flour, baking soda and salt in it.
"I can fucking cook if I want to! And I already told you Deidara that it was Tobi's fault soup was all over the kitchen!"
"Right."
"It's alright Hidan-sama. Just put some cream, butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in the other bowl."
"Alright…uh, how much of each?" I heard Deidara cough.
"Well, I'll measure it out and you can pour it in alright?"
"Yeah…"
"No fair, Tobi wants to help too!"
"Don't worry Tobi," she said with a smile. "You can stir okay!"
I couldn't help but wonder why I was even helping the little bitch bake cookies, but whatever. After adding whatever the fuck we were putting in the bowl, she told me to add the eggs into the bowl, so I placed them inside. Deidara burst out laughing and I looked at Aiko to see her fighting to keep from laughing. "What the hell is so damn funny?"
"Y-You're suppose to crack them," She took the eggs out of the bowl and hit one of the eggs on the side of the counter, causing it to crack. She then separated the shell so the yolk came out and into the bowl. "Like that see?"
I could feel a strange heat rise to my face. No fucking way….there's no fucking way that I'm feeling…embarrassed. I take the other egg and hit it against the counter. And well…I guess I hit it to fucking hard because it smashed. The yolk covered my hand and the counter. Deidara started to laugh hysterically again and Aiko was biting her lip.
"It's okay Hidan! Tobi can't crack eggs either!"
"Don't worry about it, Hidan-sama. We can just get another." Aiko tried to reassure me.
"Hidan….you seriously can't cook for shit, un!"
"Gah! Forget this!" I shout and storm out of the kitchen to my room.
~*~
Hidan left the kitchen pretty angry, but I don't see why. Completely destroying an egg wasn't that big of a deal. I began to clean up the egg and its shell. I suddenly felt Deidara standing next me, holding an egg. "I got another one, un."
"Thank you." I take the egg and add it in. "Here Tobi, you can stir it now." He began to stir slowly. "Good, now I'm going to add the dry mixture…" I slowly added the mix of salt, flour and baking soda. "Go faster Tobi."
"Alright Ai-chan!" He began stirring so fast that some of the cookie dough flung out of the bowl and onto my face. He freezes and looks at me as though I'm about to start yelling or something. "Tobi's soooo sorry Ai-chan!"
I wiped off my cheek. "It's alright. Just keep stirring okay? And maybe not so fast this time."
Tobi nods happily and continues stirring away. That's when I felt something moist sucking on my cookie dough covered fingers. A jolt runs up my spin as I turn to see Deidara licking away the dough on my hand. "Tastes good, un," he whispers and I have an urge to pull away, but I don't.
"Deidara-senpai! Don't eat off Ai-chan's hand!" Tobi yells, seeing Deidara and hitting him with the spoon he was previously stirring the cookie dough with.
Deidara disappears from my side and appears behind Tobi in a flash, taking poor Tobi into a head lock. "What the hell do you think you're doing!? You don't go hitting people with spoons!"
"But Deidara-senpai goes around trying to blow Tobi up all the time!" Tobi whines, struggling to escape Deidara's death lock.
"That's a totally different, un!"
Unable to find any words to respond to the two men's sudden actions, I decided to start cut out cookie shapes to put in the oven.
After 9 minutes of Deidara yelling, Tobi yelling, and me simply waiting for the cookies to finish baking, I was relieved when I heard the chime of the timer and practically flew off my chair to take out the sweet sweet soft mounds of chocolate goodness. "Yummy! Can we eat them now?" Tobi begged like a child.
"No, you have to wait for them to cool first."
"Oh…I'll wait then!" Tobi puts his face level with the counter to keep an eye on the cookies, as if they would suddenly sprout legs and walk off somewhere.
Deidara was leaning back in a chair, balancing it on its two back legs. "Doesn't Tobi annoy you, un?" He asks nonchalantly.
I shook my head. "Not really. I find Tobi to be sweet, like a child."
He sort of scoffed at my response. "You know he is a grown man right? Sometimes I think he's just retarded or something."
I felt my face frown slightly. "You shouldn't say things like that. I think Tobi is a good person."
"He's part of an S-rank criminal organization. How did a person like that get into an organization like this? I don't know, but he must be able to do something if Leader-sama allowed him to become a subordinate, un." I had nothing to say to his last statement and he smirked, knowing that his logic proved a valid point. "Besides that, you know you'll actually be living with a bunch of S-rank criminals from now until….you pretty much die right? Now that we have you, you won't be able to leave, un."
"I…I…" In fact I didn't really realize that until he told me. "I can't possibly stay here forever. I need to go back to Maho…my people need me there."
"From what I heard, you've never left your country before…let alone the country's capital," Deidara mentioned, examining his fingernails. "Then again, it's probably better that you're gone from that place anyway. You wouldn't want your people to become so dependent on you and your healing abilities. Then they won't be able to survive on their own, un."
"I…never thought of it like that," I admitted, surprised that everything that Deidara was saying was logical.
"These cookies are the best!" Tobi cheered. He held a bitten cookie in his hand.
"T-tobi!" I was a little mad that he ate them without my permission. But then again it was he who was the S-Ranked Criminal, not me…even though he behaves like a child sometimes.
"They're not too bad." Deidara comments, also eating a cookie.
I smiled, happy that they both enjoyed my cookies and began to put a few cookies on a plate. Deidara reached for one, but I moved the plate out of his reach. "Just eat them off the rack. These one's for Hidan-sama."
His eyebrow seemed to twitch. "Hi-hidan-sama, un?"
I nodded and walked off with the plate.
~*~
I was lying on my bed, face down. Stupid egg…stupid cookies…stupid Tobi…stupid Deidara….how the hell would I know how to crack a fucking egg? I don't cook and I doubt Deidara could crack a fucking egg better than I can! "Gah! The mother fucking androgynous bastard is pissing me the fuck off! It wasn't that fucking funny!" I shout in despair to no one in particular.
The sound of knocking drew my attention to my door. Swinging the door open, I sort of yelled at the person on the other side, "What the hell do you want!?"
"Hidan-sama?" I looked down surprised to see the young blond woman looking up at me, holding a plate of cookies.
"What?"
"The cookies finished backing and I thought you'd like some."
"I don't want any of your damned cookies!" I shouted and slammed the door in her face. Stupid girl, why the hell would she bring those damned cookies here anyway? So…fucking troublesome. I ran a hand through my hair. Jashin…
I opened the door again to see that the girl had left, but on the floor was the plate of cookies. Did she realize that if I hadn't open the door until morning, that the cookies probably wouldn't be good anymore? Picking up the plate, I sunk my teeth into what I admit to be chewy goodness. Damn, these didn't turn out very bad.
Sighing to myself, I walked back to the kitchen to find it empty. On the counter was a box of cookies, which I was surprised, was still there. I was pretty damn sure Tobi would the whole damn thing. The little bitch must have stopped him. Placing the now empty plate onto the counter, I left the kitchen to look for the girl and found her lying on the couch fast asleep.
Her hair was tousled and her white dress exposed a fairly large amount of her legs. Her face was calm and her pink lips were slightly parted. Suddenly I wanted to know her name…she mentioned it before didn't she? I crouched down and examined her face closely, as though that'd help me remember her damned name. Damn, I knew it before…my face was now really close to hers. So close that I could feel her breath on my face. In and out. In and out. My hand involuntarily moved to stroke her cheek when it finally came to me. I whispered her name, "Aiko…"
