I do not own Naruto but I DO own all of the OCs and this fanfiction.

Chapter 33: Aliens?

Erena placed a cool rag on Hidan's forehead.

Hidan was in a deep sleep in his bed as Erena tended to him.

"He seems better already," Erena smiled. "It's probably just a 24-hour virus or something; nothing severe."

"Good," replied Sasori who was standing near the door.

Kakuzu nodded and simply left the room.

Sasori followed him.

Erena decided it would be best to let Hidan rest so she left to the kitchen to prepare supper.

Sasori crossed in front of Kakuzu as he headed for his room.

Kakuzu stopped short. "If you're thinking about arguing with me Sasori-"

"I'm not," Sasori said simply.

Kakuzu looked at him, inquiringly.

"I just want to know what was going through you head," Sasori said calmly.

"What was going through my head?" Kakuzu looked at him confusedly.

"When you found the witches in the park, yet Hidan got sick. You brought Hidan home for a reason. That reason was…?"

"The reason was there was no use in letting something go wrong just for three annoying little witches."

"So you're saying you care?"

"No. I'm saying I'd never get paid if something happened to Hidan or the baby, now would I?"

Sasori looked at him for a moment, silently.

"I'll take that as you caring about him then," Sasori said, conclusively.

Kakuzu looked at him incredulously. "You just won't agree with anything I say, will you?"

"Maybe, maybe not," Sasori replied simply. "But, I suppose, since you're seemingly not going to try to intentionally hurt Hidan I have no reason to argue with you anymore."

With this Sasori turned and began walking away.

"Is this some weird way puppets apologize?" Kakuzu asked.

"No," Sasori smirked, turning back towards Kakuzu. "I have no reason to apologize to you. It's just useless for me to use my energy for arguing with someone as stubborn as you when I can just save it for settling a certain score with two certain people."

"I forgot the two, bratty, twin witches kicked your butt the other day."

"Shut it."

"Fine, fine. But what do you plan to do? Are you going to go searching for them?"

"Possibly, but not alone. As unfortunent as it is, I'll need help. The problem is there's no way we could possibly leave Hidan alone especially since we have no idea what happened to him from that time yet."

"True. So then you have no plan?"

"Not really."

Kakuzu smirked.

Sasori crossed his arms defiantly. "But I will think of something."

Hidan held still as he could. He didn't want Sasori and Kakuzu to hear him sneaking about. He could hear them clearly from behind the door. Hidan had no problem understanding that he was in danger somehow and that the others didn't want him to know about it. Which was prety annoying but he knew they meant well, so he decided to go with it. After all, there was no need in telling them what they didn't need to know and the fact he was actually spying on them wasn't a important factor (in his book, anyways). He felt way better than he did a little while ago but he was still extremely tired so he crawled into bed and went back to sleep.

The next morning, Hidan felt way better than he had the day before. He woke up smelling Erena's pancakes and that lured him out of bed.

Erena gave him a cordial "good morning" and told him breakfast would be ready in a few minutes. Hidan decided to go outside for a little while to wait. As he got to the bottom of the stairs, he noticed a snowman nearby. He remembered having built one when he was a kid. The snowman in front of him was cute and sought of small; he figured it had been built by a small child.

Then, suddenly, something grabbed his leg.

About this moment Kakuzu came down the stairs looking for Hidan and was thoroughly surprised to see what he did.

A cute little girl who couldn't have been more than 4 years old was hugging Hidan's leg with her little hands. Her brown hair was tied into long, twin tails. Her hair color matched her bright eyes and a sweet smile was on her face.

"Hidan, what are you doing?" Kakuzu asked, flatly.

"Nothing, I swear," Hidan said. "She just came over to me."

"Hi," the little girl chirped. "I'm Cho!"

She giggled and smiled cutely.

"Aw, she's so cute," Hidan smiled.

Kakuzu looked at him, questioningly. "Wait, what?"

"Sorry, I have no idea where that came from."

"Maternal instincts."

"Shut up."

"What exactly are you doing with my sister?" a voice said.

Hidan and Kakuzu turned to see four other girls who were definently older than the little brown-haired girl. They were most likely 5th graders.

The girl who had spoken-a girl with dark hair, dark eyes and a sour facial expression-grabbed the little girl, leading her away.

A girl with auburn hair tied into messy pigtails stepped forward. "Now I've got you!"

"What?" Kakuzu and Hidan stared in confusion.

"Please ignore my retarded friends," the dark-haired girl sighed.

"I'm am right!" the pigtailed-girl insisted.

The two other girls just looked on.

One was a glasses-wearing girl with long, blonde hair and the other a girl with messy, dirty-blonde hair.

"Right about what?" Hidan asked.

"That you guys are aliens," the pigtailed girl said, matter-of-factly.

Kakuzu and Hidan felt like they'd had a rock dropped on their head.

"Like I said before," the black haired girl plucked her pigtailed friend in the forehead. "Retarded. C'mon, let's go get a soda or something."

Suddenly, the messy-haired girl started relaying introductions.

According to her, her name was Kei. The little girl with the glasses was named Michiko. The girl with the messy pigtails was Mari, the dark-haired girl was named Chie and her sister, as we know, was Cho. Hidan and Kakuzu failed to see how this had any relevance to anything that had just happened.

"So what planet are you guys from?" Mari asked.

With this Chie roughly dragged Mari away.

Odd.

The two other girls began walking as well and Cho simply followed behind waving a happy goodbye to Hidan and Kakuzu.

Even more odd.

Which left Hidan and Kakuzu extremely confused.

Completely confused, really.

Either way, these girls figured they were aliens. Even though they were wrong, they were on the right track and that made it all the worse.

A/N: Yosh! I've got it! I think I finally relieved myself of my writer's block! I've got a fixed ending set in place and am working towards it. Please continue to cheer for me: "Ganbatte! Ganbatte!" (^v^)v And as I said before, if anyone has any ideas for this fic or it's side fic, PM me. Thank you for reading! :)