I do not own Naruto but I DO own all of the OCs and this fanfiction.
It was around noon. Hidan awoke with a start, disarrayed and uneasy. His heart was beating rapidly and he was completely out of breath. As he began to calm down he realized he was in the living room on the couch. He must have fallen asleep. It was all very confusing since the cause of his panicked awakening was "that dream". It couldn't be Kanjou and Seishin, could it? He looked around. Kakuzu was still in his room, typing on the computer; Hidan could see him through the cracked door. If it had been Kanjou and Seishin the tracker would have gone off. Because of where the tracker was located on Kanjou, Seishin and Shinzouko they wouldn't have found the tracker. Hidan figured the dream had come from all the tension at the moment. What was "that dream"? It was a dream that would contain memories of his childhood. Like reliving it in high definition. It would begin with him being in his bedroom, alone, in total solitude. His room was relatively empty, nothing was there but a closet, a futon and his few toys but he wasn't unhappy. Then…his mother would enter the room.
Hidan pushed the thought out of his mind.
That's when he looked up to see Kakuzu, staring at him.
"Um, what?" Hidan asked.
"I'm seriously starting to question your sanity," Kakuzu raised a brow.
Hidan rolled his eyes. "Why?"
"I'm not."
"What? Wait…what?"
"I wanted to know what you would say. Most of the time you'd defend yourself. So my question for you is, why are you having a pity-party over here?"
"I'm not. I was just waking up from a dream. It took a second to wake up."
"A dream about what?"
"About nothing, Kakuzu," Hidan said, firmly.
Kakuzu wasn't interested in invading in Hidan's personal business at the very moment, so he didn't bother. Instead he though for a second about what he was interested in.
"What?" Hidan asked. "Is something bothering you?"
"You're extremely annoying," Kakuzu replied. "And sometimes you are a problem."
"Ugh! You're such a-!"
"But you're not completely useless. You're not a waste of time and you have a lot of determination. If you actually put thought into it and believed in yourself a little more you could probably do a lot more than you think you can. But, wait. You probably see those last comments as irrelevant?"
Hidan thought for a second. It suddenly dawned on him. He laughed. "You're really bad at compliments and stuff."
Kakuzu smirked. "Was it a compliment?" He headed back to his room.
Hidan smiled.
A few moments later, a thought came to Hidan. He peeked his head into Kakuzu's room.
"Kakuzu, I just remembered I had to go to Katamaru's house for something," Hidan said.
"As long as Katamaru's picking you up, it's fine," Kakuzu replied, typing on his laptop.
"Okay then. Oh, and Kakuzu? Thanks."
Mari was staring at the ceiling in her friend Michiko's room. Was she spying on Kakuzu and the others again? Not this time. Surprisingly, she and the girls were actually attempting to be helpful; she was trying to think of a way to help Kakuzu and the others. For it was her destiny. (Or so she believed.) Chie was a pessimistic as ever.
"It's useless, Mari," she said. "There is no way we can help them."
"There's gotta be a way," Mari said. "Absolutely!"
"I think we should try," Kei said.
"There's no harm in doing so," Michiko agreed.
Chie sighed.
"Witch!" Cho chirped.
The older girls jumped. "Where?"
Cho pointed to a illustration in the storybook she was reading.
The older girls sighed in relief. Thank goodness it wasn't a real witch.
Michiko snapped her fingers. "That's it!"
"What's it?" Kei asked.
"The library!"
"Huh?" Chie asked.
Michiko adjusted her glasses. "I just remembered that Kakuzu-san found the information he needed at the library. There could be books on witches there that are true to fact!"
Mari jumped up. "Alright then! To the library!"
"Really?" Chie groaned.
"Yes, really! Let's go!"
People have different ways of helping people. For example, while Mari and her friends were at the library, Akako and Kuromi were in an underground base, pummeling a smuggler. Not for justice, but for his goods.
"Okay, okay!" the smuggler pleaded. "I'll give you whatever you want! Just please, don't hurt m-!"
The man didn't get to finish his sentence before Akako had kicked him across the room.
Kuromi pointed her gun at his head. "I can't promise you won't get hurt, unless you give us free service."
The man nodded rapidly. "See those crates?" He pointed to the far side of the warehouse.
"What of 'em?" Akako asked.
"They contain all soughts of smuggled weapons. Anything you could want. May I recommend the poisonous darts? They kill in a matter of minutes. They contain an illegal poison but you might wanna get the antidote too. It's in a separate crate. They're both marked."
"Good," Kuromi replied. "Perhaps you have a chance of living. Akako."
"I'm going, I'm going," Akako said, as she made her way over to check the contents of the crate.
Meanwhile, Erena was busy talking with her favorite underground business about illegal guns, Tenko was using her seductive abilities to score a couple of knives and other small weapons. Everyone else was covering several odds and ends.
Hidan, for example, was now at Katamaru's house, helping him get smuggled military weapons by way of an underground site.
"Never once have I been involved in such, Hidan-kun," Katamaru massaged his temples. "If this gets out-"
"It probably won't," Hidan replied. "That's why I'm helping you. Otherwise you could've gotten involved in something really bad instead of just moderately bad."
"I guess an S-rank criminal would know so I'll trust you. You're awfully peppy today. Did something good happen with your boyfriend?"
"Kakuzu is not my boyfriend!"
"I know," Katamaru grinned. "He's too mean to you to be your boyfriend anyways. I'm just teasing you; at least you know who I'm talking about. It keeps me from having to say the idiot's name."
"I still don't get why you two hate each other."
Katamaru dismissed the last statement with some comment about how annoying he was. Then he turned to Hidan, nicer now, "You know, you're being a big help."
"No I'm not," Hidan thought it over. "Well then again..."
Katamaru smirked. "I guess if you're gonna try so hard to be helpful maybe I could try to work better with Kakuzu."
"Wait, really?"
"I'm not gonna make any promises!"
Hidan chuckled. With everyone actually putting forth an effort like they were this could really work.
A/N: All right! Thanks for reading everyone! :) And a special thanks to Witch-sama, my faithful anonymous reviewer, and Yu-chan (KuroTenshiAkuma)!