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Chapter 17

Note: Leader does not play around

~Kahlan's POV

Pausing my music I look up with a blank expression. I heard Leader yell so he's obviously pissed off. The other members come into the room probably to watch what is about to take place. Saving the song I was editing (one of the songs I have written), I close my computer.

"What the fuck is your fucking problem," Hidan asks yelling as he walks into the room from the kitchen.

Leader grabs Hidan's front collar and lifts him up in the air glaring. "You tried to start a fight with Laura out in public. What you did was uncalled for."

"The bitch fucking pulled my chair to the fucking ground knocking me down with it," Hidan yells in reply.

Standing up I stretch my muscles pretending to be bored with the entire affair. Laura looks up at me and I give her a very small smile. Giving her a slight nod, I walk out of the room out of sight. I then lean against the wall closing my eyes as I ball my free hand into a fist while closing my eyes. Hidan calling Laura a bitch does not make me happy.

"You expect me to believe that," Leader replies. "You're an S-ranked criminal ninja and she is nothing but a weak civilian." Great we are housing ninja demons who are criminals.

"I'm just fucking telling you what fucking happen," Hidan yells in reply. "I'm telling the fucking truth."

Unclenching my fist and opening my eyes I walk back into the room. My anger bottled away. Walking over to Laura, I grab her arm as Leader throws Hidan into the wall making a crashing noise and leaving a dent in the wall.

"Follow me," I whisper in her ear. "We're not safe if a fight breaks out."

"I wanna watch though," she says with a slight pout.

"What the fuck asshole," Hidan yells picking himself up off the ground. "I'm going to fucking kill you."

"You can try," Leader taunts him.

"Let's go now," I say picking her up off the couch.

"You're fucking on," Hidan yells and starts running towards Leader.

Leader just lifts his hand up and, bam, Hidan goes flying across the room into another wall. I start dragging Laura out of the room. Then suddenly there's a knock on the door. Everyone becomes frozen.

"I'll answer it," I call out changing direction and heading for the door.

"Konan and Kakuzu follow them," Leader calls out. I roll my eyes.

"Who is it," I ask as the four of us get to the door.

"It's me Mr. Owen," comes the reply of our landlord.

Opening the door just a bit, I stand in front of the opening and look out. Mr. Owen is taller than me by two feet and some odd inches. He's like a little over seven feet tall with mocha skin tone, no hair and dark brown eyes. He's wearing a white business suit with a red tie and in his hand is a black umbrella. No idea why but that's how he likes to dress.

Taking a deep breath, I smile a large unnoticeably fake smile and make my voice softer as I start speaking. Yeah that's right I have not come across anyone who has been able to tell the difference between my fake and real smiles. "Hello Mr. Owen it's nice to see you. How are you? Is there something you need?"

"I've been hearing a lot of noise coming from your apartment and the other occupants are starting to complain. What is going on in there?"

I give him a small sad smile as I look down for a moment then look back up making my eyes look watery. I make my voice a tad bit softer as I lower it and say, "I'm so sorry Mr. Owen. A few friends of ours have come over for a visit last night. See they're a family and they just got the horrible news that their parents died from a drunk driver. At first Hidan had gone in shock but now he's just having a problem accepting the news and is now going through the anger process of grieve. We're really sorry for any disturbance of peace; all we're trying to do is help our friends."

Mr. Owen nods with a sad look on his face. "I understand what it's like to lose someone you care about. I give your friend my condolences and hope he can move past his anger. Now I don't mean to sound rude, but please inform your friends to try and keep it down. God bless you and your friends. Have a nice day."

"Thank you," I reply back. "I'll tell them and have a nice day yourself."

Mr. Owen nods and turns around. As he starts walking away I close the door. With a sigh I turn around remove the fake unshed tears and sad smile. I blink slightly confused wondering why everyone is looking at me and how did they all come to watch so fast.

"What," I ask using my normal voice again.

"You just played that dude, un," Deidara says with a slight chuckle.

"Whatever," I say with a shrug not caring. "I got to go get my wallet so the shopping can get done. Also, I'm sure you all heard what he said. Be lucky it was him and not the cops."

With that said, I grab Laura's hand and start taking her with me in the direction of my room. Forget about leaving her alone in the room of psychos. When we're alone in my room I let go of her hand and walk over to my closet.

"I didn't know you knew how to act," she says as I open the closet.

Standing up on my tiptoes reaching towards the top shelf I reply, "I guess, I don't really think I'm good at it. I was hoping that I didn't have to cry to try and prove I was right to Mr. Owen. Forcing myself to cry is something I can't do to save my life."

Finally I pull down my wallet which happens to be in the way back on the top shelf. I must have thrown it back there last time to hard. Closing the closet door I turn to Laura with a smile. Yes it's a real smile; she never gets any fake smiles.

"You're a way better actress than me and I was going to call you in to do any crying scene," I say with another smile.

"Acting can be fun," she says with a grin.

"I guess," I reply with a shrug. "Let's go get the shopping done. You can buy yourself some sweets."

"Okay," she answers with a grin and heads out the room.

I chuckle as I follow her. When we return, Kakuzu and Hidan are by the door. Hidan is grumbling something under his breath. Kakuzu gives an annoyed glare at Hidan then tells him to shut up. Leader walks over and hands me the three envelopes of money.

"Only buy what is needed and save the rest for clothes," Leader says as I take the envelopes from him. I nod my head in a 'yeah, whatever' type of fashion. He glares then continues. "Hidan and Kakuzu will be going with you. So don't try to make a run for it or get help they have permission to catch you and kill anyone you try to get help from."

"Okay," I say grabbing Laura's hand. "Laura is coming with as well.

"Bye," Laura says with a grin and waving.

I don't pay attention to any of the member's reaction nor do I say goodbye to them. I just quickly slip on my converse knee-length boots, and open the door. I grab my keys and the shopping list. Laura grabs her umbrella and Kakuzu grabs the other one. The four of us walk outside. The sun pokes out from the clouds letting us know for now the rain has stop.

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