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Chapter 18

Note: Kakuzu makes a great shield against Hidan

~Laura

Shopping, shopping, shopping~ is fun with more people~ but yeah I guess it kinder depends on who you're going with to make it fun, I mean if it's with a boring person its boring… but how will it be with ninjas?! Heehee we'll see today~

"Aww it stopped raining," I say while pouting, I wanted to use my umbrella.

Kahlan laughs slightly while holding onto my wrist and pulling me towards the shops, probably making sure I don't wonder off like I normally do, hey I don't normally go outside unless for work or shopping so everything is still pretty new to me.

"Ahh this is soo fucking boring," Hidan moans like a child while crossing his arms behind head kinder like Naruto does.

"I don't care," Kakuzu and Kahlan say at the same time which results in them looking to each other before looking towards the path. I giggle slightly at their awkwardness after their twin moment and Hidan just groans and then kicks a lamppost but not hard enough to break it but hard enough to leave a pretty deep dent in it.

"How much fucking longer this is fucking taking forever," Hidan groans and makes me think 'we're only been walking for five minutes' and like that Kakuzu grabs his ear and starts dragging him faster towards the shopping center seeing as we can see it from here.

"Shut your mouth before I sew it shut," Kakuzu threatens as Hidan starts yelling his head off and swearing a lot. I roll my eyes slightly as people staring and walk beside Kahlan like we do not know them seeing as many people are whispering which is pretty funny to watch.

I think they are whispering about their strange outfits which are the Akatsuki cloaks and they weird hairstyles or in Kakuzu's situation his mask hat thingy.

"So where first Kahlan?" I ask while looking up to her, she looks down to me for a second before looking ahead. I see many shops though some names are different to the ones in England, like there isn't a 'Hot topic' in England, I only know about it from Fanfiction. Com. and that's about it from what I know about it.

"Any normal shop like Wal-Mart… we're going there," I nod my head while looking ahead to the big shop, Kakuzu and Hidan follow us which makes me grin, we are the leaders in this shopping trip.

"I call the cart!" I say and quickly go to get a cart. I love pushing the cart it is fun and it's easy. Plus when we're done I get to put it away meaning I get the least things to carry home.

"Okay we're start with the food," Kahlan yells while I grab a cart and start pulling it from the line of carts, its stuck pretty bad. After a while of me pulling the cart it finally comes loose and I get the cart free, I grin happy and walk off with the cart, heading towards where Kahlan, Kakuzu and Hidan went off to.

Looking round I see lots of new deals from half off to buy one get one free. Kakuzu would like this store, it's nice.

"Hidan we're not buying that," I hear Kakuzu say and I automatically head for that direction. Follow the voice is what I am doing because following the voice has always worked in the past.

"Why fucking not everyone fucking loves ribs!" Hidan whines more as Kahlan rubs her forehead, she seems a little bit irritated, and then again… it's Hidan and just standing near him can be a little bit irritating.

"NO you love ribs everyone else doesn't mind them, no," Kakuzu says while glaring at Hidan, "you better shut your mouth for the rest of the trip here or I swear to Kami I will kill you, Hidan," he threatens while watching Kahlan start filling the cart with cheap normal food.

"I see you found food~" I hum while watching Kahlan put food into the cart. Kahlan laughs a little as I hold onto the cart since I love using them.

"Yeah it was hard to find," she jokes which makes me grin, it's almost like the other two aren't in here which is hard to feel since Kakuzu is standing right beside me.

"We got the food; how about the other stuff?" I ask as Kakuzu looks over the stuff we have like he's seeing what we need and don't need. I nod and starts pushing the cart to another section, we start with the bathroom stuff then other things we will need and what Konan will need. Once we've gotten everything we head for the checkout which seems to have a huge line.

"This is gonna take for-ev-er," I sound out while pouting; I hate lines almost as must as I hate transport. Kahlan taps my shoulder, while giving me a smile, I smile back but look to the line sighing. I really hate lines.

"This is fucking going to fucking take forever Kakuzu, can't we just fucking kill everyone?!" Hidan whines more then gets whacked round the head by none other than Kakuzu who is glaring with a scary aura behind him.

I cower slightly as it gives off an 'I'll kill you' kinder vibe and like that I am behind Kahlan with a 'hide me' look on my face.

"Hidan… I warned you, when we get back to our temporary base I will kill you," Kakuzu threatens which makes me hide behind Kahlan more, he's scarier in real life but not so scary that I would hide in fear, acting this is acting.

"Like you can kill me," Hidan says while acting very cocky like, Kahlan rolls her eyes as do I as we pay for all the stuff and I go to put the cart away. Best not to watch a fight break out but knowing Kakuzu he will save it to when we get home, home sweet home.

I take my time by taking a very slow walk like the ones you do to the classes you hate at school. When I get back to the checkout I see Kahlan with two bags, Kakuzu with six bags meaning there are 3 in each of his hands… whoa tough skin… and Hidan with four bags meaning two in each of his hands.

"I got one then," I say then pick up a pretty heavy but its only one bag. I smile a little as Kakuzu kicks Hidan out Wal-Mart's doors and into the bust streets ahead. I can hear his bad mouth from inside the store which is new for me.

"Because your weak bitch," Hidan says as I stick my tongue out at him, he glares and just when he's about to walk over to me Kakuzu glares and gives a 'touch her and Leader and I will kill you', I giggle at Hidan as he glares at Kakuzu then looks away like he found something more interesting.

"Let's go before the leader goes ape crazy on us," Kahlan says while heading for the doors before stopping, I run up to her and starts walking as she continues, tonight is gonna be busy I can just tell.

Kakuzu is just ahead of us and a question comes into my head, "hey Kakuzu," I say and get a grunt in return… well at least he's listening, I grin, "are you gonna tell Hidan off to leader just to get him beat up again?" I ask with a grin as he glances backwards to the two of us. I grin and wave with my spare hand and he looks forwards again… meanie duck.

"Yeah, that's the plan," Kakuzu says while looking to Hidan who is walking ahead of us, probably sulking like a kid like he was before.

I nod and Kahlan sighs for some reason, "What's the matter?" I ask while tilting my head to the side slightly.

Kahlan smiles while looking ahead then to me, "it's nothing really," she says while looking ahead again, Kahlan's eyes seem to wonder round the area which is our neighborhood.

"Almost home~" I hum with a grin as I see Hidan, who is like half a mile ahead of us, bang on our door and is then let in by Konan who glares at Hidan, it seems she's trying to keep quiet for our landlord.

"Yeah, going to do anything when we get home?" Kahlan asks and I make my thinking face which is more or less me looking off into the sky with a blank look on my face. It scared my classmates and teachers when I did that during tests.

"I think I'll go to my room and sing to some music~" I say with a grin, I'm okay I think though Kahlan says I should keep singing though she's the one with the great voice. Great awesome super good, there many words to describe her voice.

Kahlan nods as I grin happily. "I'll be doing my normal stuff I guess… well after we put everything away first," Kahlan says while looking up from the ground, we're almost home.

"I'll help~" I say while doing a super grin, it's fun to put things away since you know where it is when you want it.

"Okay," Kahlan says as we get to the door, me, having a spare hand, I unlock the door and let ourselves in.

As we walk in we are welcomed by Konan who is near the living room door, she looks up to us with a light smile.

"Welcome home," she says which makes me smiles, Kahlan is the only person who has ever welcomed me home before, now Konan has welcomed us both home, it feels really nice.

"we're home~" I say then run into the living room with my bag and straight to the kitchen where all the other bags are, Hidan is in the backyard from what I can see and Kakuzu just walks pass me into the living room.

"Pein we're back~!" I yell into the house as he comes out from the backyard with a 'pissed off' look on his face. I give a smile as if trying to get rid of it.

"I see that," he says as I pass him the spare money that will probably be used for clothing.

He then looks to the many bags then raises a brow at them. "how did you get so much with so little," he asks softly which I think that only I could hear, I tilt my head to him which he sees, he then shakes his head like trying to forget what he asked. "I'll get you two some help," he says then leaves for the backyard to get some help to put this stuff away.

"Wonder who's gonna help," I say then start putting some stuff away and see Kahlan has already put a bag and its stuff away. She shrugs as Deidara and Kisame enter from the backyard, they seem to have some dirt on them and it looks like they have been play fighting.

"Hey," I greet as they walk over to us both, hopefully they are good help.

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