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Chapter 49: Connected

In the middle of a once busy plaza, in Tokyo...

Hidan, Katamaru, Tenko and little Hikari were now surrounded by thugs. How they were capable of attracting such odd people, creatures and phenomena no one could figure out. All they knew was that it was annoying. Very annoying.

"Katamaru-kun, are you good at running?" Hidan asked.

"If I need to," Katamaru replied matter-of-factly. "Although I prefer not to."

"Okay then, your job is to take Hikari and run." Hidan handed the unaware baby boy to Katamaru.

"What?" Katamaru glanced between Hikari and Hidan. "But-!"

"Now."

"…Oh fine."

Katamaru took off running calculating in his head how much Hidan owed him.

So that left Tenko and Hidan faced with a pack of thugs and a crazy stalker girl.

"It wouldn't be best to use weapon would it?" Hidan asked reluctantly.

Tenko sighed, taking her hand off a gun she had strapped under her skirt. "No."

"Okay then," Hidan smirked, knocking down a nearby thug in one blow. "Taijutsu it is."

"I have no idea what the heck that means, but if it means kick butt I'm on it!"

Around that time, Yumi was window shopping with Nobuyuki and Genmaru.

"I would love to have that," Yumi said, pointing to a bright, yellow and pink hat in a shop window.

"You want most every cute article of clothing," Genmaru commented.

"Not everything…"

As his friends chatted, Nobuyuki silently snacked on a strawberry crepe.

At that moment a thug came crashing to the pavement two feet from where they were standing.

"Sorry!" Hidan called from the plaza. "Got ourselves into a bit of trouble!"

"Looks like fun," Genmaru grinned. "Let me join in."

Genmaru cheerfully went to pummel people as Nobuyuki and Yumi went back to window shopping as if were another normal day. In a way, it was.

Sorami was a genuine fujoshi, a female otaku. One of the biggest yaoi and yuri otaku in the area. Even though she was a major fangirl, she knew her anime and manga across the board. She had heard once, in an anime called Durarara! that in big cities like Tokyo everything was connected. A lot of people thought that such superfluous speeches in anime were lot of junk just to lengthen episodes but recently, she had learned to trust anime and manga. She had learned that magic exists, ninjas exists, male pregnancy is possible and that those weird things that happen in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya aren't so unbelievable. Now, as she stood on the sidewalk of a street in Tokyo she watched as a man, seemingly a thug, came whizzing past on a diner cart.

She decided she wanted to follow it. So she took off after the yelling man.

About this moment, Kakuzu was headed towards the place he needed to go to complete his "errand". As you may have guessed, his errands aren't entirely legal. Sasori was in tow, at this moment not understanding how he had ended up pushing Inako and Nashiko in a stroller. They were walking over a sturdy, old bridge in the neighborhood.

"Didn't Hidan ask you to baby-sit, Kakuzu?" Sasori asked, displeased.

"But however would I run an errand while pushing a stroller?" Kakuzu smirked.

Sasori rolled his eyes.

Nashiko and Inako didn't seem to care the least bit. They seemed to be entertained by Sasori's displeasure.

That was when they heard an odd noise. It sounded like the rolling of wheels on a sidewalk mixed with a person's fearful voice. Also, they could hear footsteps, quick ones, like a person running. They turned to see what was probably the oddest site a person could process in 5 seconds. There was a man coming down the street on a diner cart, screaming and Sorami was running down the hill after him, her blonde hair blowing in the light breeze.

"Watch ou-!" was all Sorami could manage before the speeding cart crashed into the stroller and sent Nashiko and Inako flying. About that moment, time seemed to stop for a split second of tension and fear and then start again at breakneck speed. Somewhere within those few confusing, tense moments, Kakuzu was able to catch the two baby girls before they fell of the bridge. As everyone else breathed a sigh of relief, the thug rose to his feet, happy to be alive. As he rose, he noticed Kakuzu's wallet in his back pocket.

Nashiko and Inako were unharmed and more angry than scared. Inako was literally fussing at her guardians, cooing and babbling angrily. The thug inched over and attempted to grab Kakuzu's wallet. At this moment, Nashiko decided she would express her displeasure to the man. Little black wings appeared on her back and her nails grew into long claws. She preceded to slash the man across his chest in a rather violent fashion. Sorami, Sasori and Kakuzu stared in awe as Nashiko smiled triumphantly and then went back to normal.

"What just happened?" Sasori asked.

"I have no idea what went on in this past minute," Kakuzu replied.

Sorami stared at the baby girl for a moment and then perked up excitedly. "She's a succubus!"

Sasori and Kakuzu stared at her in silence.

"Well she did just grow long claws and black wings. And she has a thing for the opposite sex. Or was I the only one to notice?"

Before Kakuzu could even answer, Inako started licking the blood splatter off Kakuzu's arm.

"Hmm," Sorami pondered. "I guess she's a vampire."

Kakuzu put the two little girls back in their stroller. "You should push the stroller Sorami-chan."

With this, he turned and began to walk away. He did not want to be involved in whatever the heck was going on. Sasori followed behind him.

Sorami, unphased simply nodded an "okay" and started pushing the stroller.

"You want to have some fun with Sorami-onee-chan?" she smiled at the girls.

The girls just cooed in a way so cute that made them seem as innocent and vulnerable as any other child. Of course, they weren't like other children...

A/N: Hi everyone, it's been a while! Thank you for reading. I've been busy so I haven't been able to write much recently. Not to mention, this fic is coming to a close so I'm trying to make these last chapters the best they can be. It takes some thought on where to put what and what to leave out. I guess these last chapters are soughta like bonus chapters? LOL. Thanks again for reading this far! \(^-^)