Chapter 22

Hey! I told you guys didn't I? I got it up quickly! Well, fairly, but I kept getting distracted with yaoi videos on youtube...

I hope that you all enjoy this chapter and I do own Inara and her so called family.

By the way, Madara is back! 8D

~Dedara~

"What the fuck has gotten you pissed off this morning?" Hidan asked crossly as he glared at me. I was siting right across from him, waiting for school to start like most mornings. I wasn't in the best mood, and my friends could tell. Not just because I looked angry – which I was sure I did look angry – but it was mostly for a different factor.

"My uncle is a bastard, un."

"You fucking think so? Really?" Hidan's sarcasm didn't help me in any way, shape or form. "No shit, you dumb ass."

"Maybe you guys shouldn't swear so much. I have a feeling that there are a lot of people staring at us right now. I would rather that they stopped." Itachi said in his monotone voice that he always used. I didn't think I could think of a time when he didn't use it. I mean, he either acted so stoic, or he acted like a sarcastic asshole. Normally the ladder was Hidan's job though.

"What did the asshole do?" Madara asked from where he was – which was sitting right beside his twin brother. He had returned from Japan yesterday - still being extremely secretive about where he went. He didn't tell anyone: not even his family. Itachi said that he didn't know, and neither did his parents or younger brother for obvious reasons. Then there was Tobi, who also knew nothing, but seriously: who would tell Tobi something secretive?

"Tried to pull some stunt and say that I am forbidden to see you guys anymore, un. It's total bull-shit."

"Deidara, that isn't fucking possible when we go to the same goddamned school! Doesn't he know this? That idiot."

"I know, but he's an ass, un."

"Both of you stop swearing. Deidara, you are sounding as bad as Hidan today, and he is just being his normal self." Itachi said with a sigh.

"Itachi, stop acting like a mother." Madara frowned, making the weasel frown at his cousin.

"I'm not. I am just simply stating a fact that should be well known. We don't need another Hidan today, especially with you back."

"I still say you're acting motherly."

"Tobi thinks that Itachi is right and that Deidara doesn't need to act like Hidan. He needs to avt like himself." Tobi spoke up, and his words had his cousin nodding at him.

"Thank you, Tobi."

"Alright, now that we are done with the fucking family quarrel-"

"Big word for you, isn't it?"

"Fuck you, Uchiha. Fuck you." The albino scowled. "As I was fucking saying, Haki is a dumb ass. Ignore him Dei, he's a stupid man that couldn't do shit even if he tried."

"Who would want to anyway?" A different voice spoke – one that was now easily recognizable. I looked up to see one of my cousins, though it still felt odd to call him that. Dean was standing right behind Madara and Marcus was right next to them. I could swear that those two were now inseparable.

"Ha ha, un." I commented dryly. "I'm not going to listen to his sorry ass and in a couple weeks I will no longer have to."

"Calm down, Dei. You're starting to sound like Hidan." Dean commented.

"That is what I said." Itachi said with a sigh.

"Seriously, you both can't say you are on his side on this matter, un!"

"I don't even know what this matter is..." Dean said. "So, I guess I'm agreeing with you because I don't know what we are talking about."

"We are talking about how Haki is an ass, and how he needs to fucking burn in hell."

"Why didn't you say so?" Dean said in a fake sarcastic manner. "Of course I'm with you! The ass must die!"

"I think they're killing the ass tomorrow." Marcus commented, leaving Dean to comment in amusement.

"Sweet. It's been alive for too long. It's about time it got killed."

"They're going to fucking kill Haki?" That made all eyes turn towards our little group.

"Um... No..." I looked at the raven standing next to Dean with a frown.

"Then what were you talking about, un?

"You see, the zoo shall be killing their donkey tomorrow." He said.

"You lying smart ass!" Hidan growled.

"A smart ass is better than a dumb ass." He countered.

"Ignore them, Deidara, and ignore Haki. He can't really do anything about it. Besides, what's he going to do?" Dean said with a smile. I looked at him. I still wasn't that happy, but I was starting to get into a better mood.

"Stalk my ass, un." I deadpanned.

"No, I don't think he would. I think that might be Orochimaru that would do that." Madara commented, bringing smiles to all of our faces.

"Of course, un."

"No fucking doubt about it."

"Certainly." We all were agreeing on it. Just because it was true. We all were sure that he was a pedophile.

"So, is that why you are here earlier than normal?" Dean asked. It was true, I had gotten to the school about 30 minutes before I normally did. For that same exact reason.

"Yes, un. I didn't want to put up with him this morning."

"Sucks that you have to live with him."

"It does. Hey, did he give you that money, un?" Dean blinked his grey eyes at me before they filled with understanding.

"Oh, that money. Yeah, he did. Too scared to lose his 15 minutes of fame."

The others all knew about, except for Madara. He probably had no clue what we were talking about, but he didn't ask about anything as we talked. We filled him in on some things that had been happening, at school as well as within the group.

"Where are your damn brothers?" Hidan asked the other blonde after a while. There was still a good 5 or 10 minutes before classes started, and, frankly, I would rather just stay out here talking.

"They are both at home." He replied with a shrug. He was leaning against Marcus for some reason. I sensed sexual tension in the air, and for once it was not coming from Hidan.

"Why, un?" It was surprising how easily my bad temper went away when I was talking with my friends. I was willing to bet money that if I hadn't been near them today, I would've been pissed off all day long. Odds are I was going to be pissed again when I actually went to my house, but that wouldn't be for a while. I was still going to go back to Sasoris' house.

"They are under house arrest."

"How can you put your own brothers on house arrest, un?"

"It's quite simple really. You just tell them not to leave the house and then enforce it."

"I know that, un. I'm not stupid."

"No, you're blonde." Itachi commented. I turned a glare on him.

"Shut up. Just because I am blonde doesn't mean anything, un."

"Whatever you say, Deidara."

"So, why are the little monsters not here again, and how do you intend to keep them there?" Madara asked lazily. His black hair was hanging in his pale face.

"I've got a friend watching them. Lucifer should be keeping an eye on them, as long as he doesn't fall asleep again." I had never really met Lucifer, but from what I had heard he was really lazy. I'd only heard certain things about him, but one of the reasons that I had never met him was because he was already out of school.

"Yeah, yeah. Enough talk. I have a very fucking serious question here." Hidan said loudly, so that all of us would look at him.

"What is it, un?" I asked, and I had noticed Itachi sigh – as though he was expecting something stupid to come out of the zealots' mouth. Which – I had to admit – I somewhat did too.

"Have you," He pointed at me in a dramatic like fashion that almost made me want to laugh, "gotten into Sasori's pants yet?"

~Sasori~

"If she's here why am I here?" I asked my friends as they walked back into the room, each carrying a baby. Following them was Inara, and somehow I had known that I would be seeing her again very soon. I realized that yesterday, without even knowing what was going on.

"You will be helping her with the girls, and you need practice when taking care of them. You haven't really done it that much." Konan said with a smile on her face as she handed me Amaya – the blue haired one – while Pein was still holding onto Akane.

"You never asked me to watch them before."

"That's true, but that's because Inara has been watching them. She said that she wanted to."

"Well, I am used to younger children, and I like them. They're so cute." The 16 year old said with a smile.

"So, she can do it again." I said. "I fail to see how I am needed."

"I told you already." Konan sighed.

"No, you just told me that I was going to help her watch the babies, and 'learn' how to take care of them."

"Konan, he is right on that." Pein told his wife before turning to me once more. "The truth is that we will most likely be gone most of the day, and we don't want Inara to do anything illegal."

"You mean that you don't." Konan said gently. "I trust her completely."

"Either way, it will be good for you both."

"I disagree." I said.

"And why is that?" Konan asked and she looked at me with a skeptical expression.

"I had enough of her the other day. I don't need anymore of her today. Besides, shouldn't she be at school?"

"Sasori, just let it go and deal with it." Pein said as he handed Akane to the teen. I looked down at the baby in my own arms to see her looking at me, her blue eyes seemed to be studying me. I rolled my eyes at that. A baby couldn't study anything.

"We will be home whenever we can be, so all of you be good." Konan said, sweeping her gaze across Inara, Akane, Amaya, and it finally landed on my face. "And that means you too, Sasori."

"What do you think that I will do? If anything happens it will most likely be the fault of her." I jerked my head in the direction of Inara, who was undoubtedly frowning at me.

"She's meaning that you will probably get so annoyed that you will kill the girls." She said.

"I wouldn't kill these two, but you on the other hand is a different matter."

"Enough." Pein said as they headed out the door. "I want this house in one piece when we get back." With that they were gone, and left me starring at a 16 year old girl that I wasn't entirely fond of. I didn't know her, so how could I? Plus, she was annoying on Saturday.

"Can we agree to disagree on this matter?" She asked after a while. The baby in her arms was playing with her hair. It didn't seem to bother her. I don't see how it couldn't. I walked farther into the room and sat down on the couch. Then I looked back down at the smiling baby in my arms. Inara had followed me and sat down right beside me. "Well?" She prompted.

"I guess we can." I said. "I have a feeling we will be disagreeing on a lot of things."

"Like what?"

"You talking, for one thing."

"You're so mean." She pouted as she started bouncing Akane on her knee.

"No, I'm practical." I said and then looked down when I felt small fingers wrap themselves around my pointer finger. Amaya giggled happily as she played with my finger, and the sight – despite my will – made me let out a small smile. "How are you so good with children?" I asked the teen sitting next to me, as she made the baby laugh.

"I'm used to them. I'm the second child of my fathers eight kids." I looked at her in surprise. Eight? I'm hoping that he stopped having kids now. That family is so big already. I thought.

"All from one woman?"

"No." She said as she stood up and carried the baby to a playpen that was a little ways off from the couch. "From two different women." When she came back she took the other baby from me and put her in the pen with her sister.

"It must get tiring listening to all the children, then." I commented as she sat down next to me again.

"It is – I have to admit that, but I'm used to it. As I should be, considering my fathers new wife is pregnant again."

"How many children does he think he needs?" I ask in shock. Seriously? Who would want that many little brats running around. She just shrugged in response.

"I don't know. Lucifer, me, and Azazek were the only children that our mother had. She died giving birth to her fourth child, but the child didn't make it either. Azazek is the youngest of the three and he just turned 15."

"What about the other children?" I asked. I had to admit that I was a little interested in her family, just for the fact that nobody should have that big of an immediate family.

"Yori is the oldest of the others. He's 10 and he wishes that he was our full brother, because he likes us. He looks nothing like any of us. Then there is Crystal, who is 8 and then the twins Sapphire and Ruby who are just turning 7."

"What about the last one? You said there were eight."

"Yeah. His name is Korey. He looks more like Yori. He's 2."

"Your father has too many children."

"I agree, and I think that he has had too many wives."

"You don't like her then?"

"Of course not. Now, what about you?"

"I haven't met the woman." I said with a frown.

"That's not what I meant." She said with a roll of her eyes. "I told you about my family, now what about yours?"

"You don't need to know anything about my family." I said, tensing up a little.

"I can say the same to you, yet I answered your questions." She countered.

"Nobody said you had to."

"But I did, because I didn't see the point of hiding it. It's a part of what makes me me, and the way I figure it is that if people can't handle it, they can't handle me. Tell me."

"If you truthfully want to know you won't get very much."

"I can just as easily ask Chiyo, Sori-sensei." I frowned at the nickname that she had taken to calling me. She called me that at school, she called me that on Saturday, and now she was calling me it. It was too annoying.

"Fine. My parents died when I was younger and I was forced into the care of Chiyo. Happy?"

"Um... I'm sorry..." She said quietly as I fixed her with a glare. She seemed nervous for a few minutes before she seemed to compose herself. "I didn't know that you had lost both of your parents."

"That is why you have no reason to go into my personal life." I practically growled at her. "Nobody does. Now, next time just drop it."

"Alright." She said curtly before standing up and going over to check on the little girls in the pen.

"Are they asleep?" I asked. I was still angry with her, but I had agreed to stay here and watch Akane and Amaya with her, so I had no choice but to be civil.

"Yes." Her voice was still quiet – as if I had scared her. If I did, it's what she gets. Nobody had the right to drill me for information on my past, and especially not someone that I barely talk with. The only way people could get information out of me was if I gave it willingly.

I wouldn't give anything away to her willingly. I only knew her from school, and there I was her teacher. Even if I wasn't, I wouldn't have told her. She doesn't need to know a thing about me. She was somebody that I wasn't close to, so she didn't need to know a thing about me. Especially not about my past.

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