Stupid Geniuses Ch 14

Oh AP classes… How I hate you so. Then it's the evil Plot Bunny that sneaks up and steals any plot I even thought I might have. *twirls finger* Yay.

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I hate being on the run. It's been a week since Itachi and Kisame joined us but it feels like a lifetime. But, I must say, I've learned a lot.

Like:

Itachi has a drinking problem.

Kisame is allergic to bananas.

Tobi sneezes whenever you say melons.

Deidara has dirty dreams.

Itachi likes sweets. A lot.

Kisame cries when he sees dead animals on the side of the road.

Tobi tells the best scary stories.

Deidara has gone cliff-diving fourteen times.

Kisame knows all the gossip about everyone in the Akatsuki.

I must say, it's been a really fun week besides the whole running for our lives thing.

"Melons," We're also made a bet to see if Tobi ever stops sneezing when you say 'melons.' Four hundred and fifty-seven sneezes later and he hasn't stopped.

Ah… CHEE!

Make that fifty-eight. Kisame grins and holds his hand out to Deidara, who grumbles and pulls a wad of bills out of his pocket, shoving it into his hand with what looks like an unmistakable pout.

"So…" I say crossing my arms across my flab, kicking a dirt clod across the ground in front of us. "What are we doing?" The four guys I'm with stop suddenly and I slam into Tobi's back, my nose groaning under the contact. I've already broken it twice on this trip. No, wait… three times. Yep… Fun times here.

They all exchange looks as if saying "I thought you knew" with their eyes and I slump against a tree, grabbing my head in my hands.

"You mean we've been wandering around this hell hole of a forest for over a week with no real place to go?!" Kisame plops down beside me and Tobi rests his head on my shoulder, a sleeping/resting arrangement we long ago made up. Deidara and Itachi usually sit across from us, facing outward. I'm the stupid one but they need to keep me safe for some reason. I don't really understand it but whatever.

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Insert a mental shrug here.

Kisame yawns loudly and stretches, Samehada flailing around in the air carelessly, as if it's light. I tried to pick it up once when nobody was looking. That's how I broke my nose the second time. One of the spikes kinda…went through my nose. It hurt. A helluva lot.

I yawn and Tobi snuggles into me a little, wrapping his arms around my waist.

"'Mori-chan?" Tobi asks, sounding a lot like a little kid.

"Mmm?" I yawn again, slumping against Kisame's muscled arm.

"Tobi wants to be your partner," He says sleepily. I look to Kisame, who shrugs and crosses his arms.

"We'll consult with Leader-sama," The demon shark says carelessly, shooting a disapproving look at Itachi, who's opened up a bottle of sake. "He's gotten so much worse since he saw his brother…" He adds under his breath and I almost blush at the concern tainting it.

I know Kisame's not gay. He mentioned something about a wife before. I glance down to see his ring finger has neither wedding band nor any sign of one being there.

Motion catches my eye and I see Deidara rubbing his arms against the cold. Wordlessly, without even looking at him, Itachi uses a small fire jutsu on the wood we'd gathered earlier. The blond's head slowly moves down, then up. A thank you. Itachi doesn't show if he's noticed it or not, but reclines back, his eyes sliding shut over his Sharingan. Believe it or not, everyone in the Akatsuki is pretty close. A family, as I see it.

See, Leader-sama is the dad and Konan-san is the mom, though I've never met either of them, that's how I see it. Zetsu is the creepy uncle nobody talks about. Kakuzu and Hidan are the feuding twin brothers, though they get along when nobody's looking. Kisame's the oldest brother, keeping an eye on the younger three. Deidara's the middle child, not really sure what to do with himself so I guess he's the troublemaker too. Itachi's the prodigy, of course. Tobi's the youngest, the comedy of the group. He's the baby.

I haven't thought of where I am in the group. No point, really. I'm just here until they get bored and kill me.

"You never told us why you came to us, yeah," Deidara says without opening his eyes as Tobi's breath evens. He would just freak out if he knew the truth, I guess.

"You never asked," Itachi says coolly, his eyes slowly sliding to the half-way position on his eyes. I can see one comma and the other two kind of.

"Are now, un," He grunts opening his good eye.

"Leader-sama is dead," Kisame's words hit me like a ton of bricks. My eyes widen and I sit up so fast my glasses fly off into the dirt, almost into the fire. That would have been really bad. "So is Konan-san." Deidara's jaw sets and I can see the pain in his eye. He told me that he respected both of them as ninja very much. They weren't as ruthless as people made them out to be, he insisted. He looks down and I can see both of his lips disappear into his mouth as Itachi takes another drink of sake, this one longer and deeper.

Twin streams run down either of his cheeks and he puts the bottle in the dirt, wiping his mouth on his sleeve.

"How…?" I find myself asking dubiously, unable to believe someone so cautiously talked about is dead.

"The Kyuubi brat and his friends killed him," Kisame says looking down, his eyes turned downwards in respect for his fallen comrade. "We were there,"

Itachi's eyes close again as he drains the rest of his bottle, though it was more than half-full. He's going to have a major hangover in the morning but I know that wants the pain. Emo as it sounds, that's his reminder that he's still alive, I think. He seems to crave pain.

"What are we going to do now?" I ask softly, rubbing my arms and feeling my heart sink. They're going to kill me now that their leader isn't here to keep me safe.

"We're going to find the others, see if they're alive," Kisame says quietly as Itachi settles again, knowing this conversation is close to a close. "Try to keep us all alive, I guess,"

"Are you going to kill me?" I look up at him and I can see his eyes softening in the slightest way. Which is really weird.

"No. I think we're going to need you alive."