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Chapter 29

Note: Shopping with ninjas can be a bad idea.

~Kahlan's POV

An hour later I finished with practice. I was so happy and proud when I finally got the last piece of the music correct. For the past month and a half it had been giving me some trouble because it's meant for an orchestra, but I'm the only one at practice. So I have to imagine all the other imaginary players and instruments playing to know when to stop for a certain short amount of time or when to start for the solo piece.

It's something that my teacher had written and she said it was a good way for me to learn. Since she is my teacher I didn't question and gladly took the challenge. It was a bit frustrating, but I had finally gotten it right. Hopefully during next practice I will get it right.

I said my farewell to my teacher. Laura was still asleep so Konan had picked her up. I lead the way home as Konan carried Laura. Konan may have been nice to us, but I wasn't going to just immediately trust her so I kept glancing at her making sure she didn't try to secretly do anything.

When we returned home Laura had woke up. Some of the members were missing and Leader said he sent them out to find a place to train. I didn't care and I went with Laura to her room. While she did whatever she was doing in her free time until work, I was busy working on commissions. She eventually left for work with Kakuzu and Hidan.

A week passes with not a lot of trouble. Everyday four member would leave to go wherever to train for the day and would come back to the apartment for dinner. I had taken the steak out of the freezer, placed it in hot water for two hours then in a drawer for a day. The next day I had cooked it and fed it to Hidan. Sadly nothing happen to him.

Anyways, enough money has been saved up to shop for clothes. It bugs me to no end that our money has to go towards these people, but I'm sucking it up and dealing with it. If I make a fuss no doubt Laura's life as well as mine could be gone.

So, I'm walking back and forth in the living room waiting for some people to get ready so we can leave. Laura has already told everyone what normal people look like, so some of them are altering their looks with something called genjutsu or ninjutsu I forget. It doesn't matter to me; that just goes to prove that they're not humans at all.

Zetsu will be staying behind for whatever reasons. He did tell Laura and I not to bother buying him clothes he'll continue to wear his Akatsuki cloak. He's either naked under the cloak because he doesn't like wearing clothes or, he just really loves wearing it and refuses to wear anything else.

Since, I'm waiting I decide now is a good time to call my parents to give them their stupid update about my life. Pulling my cell phone out of my small purse, I scroll through the contacts until I reach the one saying 'parent's home.' I hit the call button then place the phone to my ears and wait.

The phone rings about six times as I tap my foot getting annoyed until finally it goes to voice mail. "You have reached the Ward residents. We are unable to reach the phone. When you leave a message please indicate if the message is for Dr. Ward or Mr. Ward. Then state your name, how you can be contacted then you can leave your message. Thank you and have a good day."

"Well that's no surprise," I angrily say into the phone. "If you can't tell who this is, then it's not my fault. I bet you guys have over a hundred messages because you are NEVER HOME." Shouting the last two words, I then proceed to slam the phone into the table a few times before placing it back to my ears. I just want my parents to hear how upset I am.

"When you finally decide to be home and hear this message, if you listen to it at all, just know that I will not pick up any of your calls. I'm done with calling and neither of you two picking it up but I have to pick up when you call. Not anymore, and don't bother with sending anyone to drag me back to that empty house you both call home. Bye; have a nice life," I sneer into the phone then press the end button. Sure my parents make me angry and stuff, but I don't hate them. I just wish that they didn't always put their work before me.

"Kahlan," I hear Laura say and turn to look where I hear her. "Are you okay?"

"I'll be okay," I reply giving a small reassuring smile.

"What the fuck was that all about," Hidan asks.

I turn to look at him and see the other Akatsuki members minus Zetsu. They sort of alter their looks and clothes somehow. My eyes slightly narrow noticing that the tall blue guy is missing.

"Nothing to concern yourself with," I reply placing my phone back in my purse. "Well let's get going."

"We can get the badge maker," Laura says with a grin and rushes to the door.

"Wait Laura," I call out and she looks at me. "Where's that Kisame guy?"

"I'm right here," is the reply and I turn to see a guy with black beady eyes, messy blue hair and pale skin.

"I'm not even going to ask how," I reply turning away and head to the door. That's it, hands down, none of them are human. "We can go now."

I wait for everyone to walk out. With everyone outside I lock the door not caring if Zetsu is staying behind. Laura and I lead the way to Wal-Mart. It's better to shop there first then go to the mall if anything else is needed like the badge maker. Plus Wal-Mart is cheaper and I don't want to go to a thrift store.

Placing my arm around Laura I say, "I think seven outfits for each of them is good enough. What do you think?"

Laura nods and smiles, "That's good and if they ever need any more we can get them later."

With a smile I nod in reply. My eyes look ahead and soon I just start daydreaming about how our life was before the Akatsuki showed up. We didn't have to worry about the apartment being crowded or our food being stolen or eaten from certain members *cough* Hidan *cough*. Then yet again there were a lot of things we didn't have to worry about like losing our lives when they showed up. Now, it's a different story and I can only hope that they are gone soon.

My daydreams then move away from the past to what the future may hold for us. I slightly smile at the hope of me and Laura achieving our dreams. Those daydreams change to me being on stage and hearing the crowd roar, but they quickly ends when I feel something tug me backwards interrupting the daydreams.

"What," I ask confused.

"You almost walked into a pole," Laura says with a giggle.

"Oh," I reply and can feel my cheeks slightly heat up in embarrassment.

"You were daydreaming," she states.

"Yeah," I reply rubbing my arm and start looking around. "We're already here."

"Yep yep yep," Laura say with a laugh and starts skipping to the entrance of Wal-Mart.

"Ducky," I call out laughing and follow her, ignoring the stares of the Akatsuki and anyone else. 'The Land Before Time' movies were awesome when I was growing up and Ducky was and still is my favorite character.

"I got a trolley," Laura shouts.

"I'll get another one just in case," I reply and do just as I say.

"Should we split in half," Laura asks.

"I think it's fine if we stick together," I reply. "They have the middle of the store dedicated to the clothing section."

"Okay," she answers with a smile.

"What the are those things, un?"

"They're shopping carts," I reply as I start walking with Laura while pushing said carts. "It holds your load of stuff you plan on buying, or as Laura called it a trolley."

Laura and I lead the way to where the clothing section is. As we're walking, a lot of people keep looking at our group. There's this one group of people that whispers to each other and point towards our direction. My hands clench onto the cart a little tighter, the only thing showing my annoyance.

"Okay the men's section is over there," I point to the other side of the woman's section. "Only buy seven outfits and one pair of shoes." Shoes are expensive. "Take this with you."

I hand my cart over to Sasori. He's the only one who hasn't done anything weird yet. He takes the cart and goes onto the other side with the men of the Akatsuki leaving. That leaves me and Laura alone with Konan.

Taking a few steps forward, I start looking through the women's section of clothing. It's always better than looking at the men's section. I scan through the section grabbing a teal and navy blue tank top. The teal tank top has a silver scattered flower petals design and the navy blue one is plain.

Draping the tops over my left arm I head back to the cart. Okay, I know this shopping trip is for the Akatsuki, but I can't help but want to buy some stuff for myself. I secretly like shopping, and since we're shopping for the Akatsuki it wouldn't hurt to indulge just a little on myself.

"Hey," I say to Laura and Konan. "How is it going?"

"Good," Laura replies with a smile.

"Just fine," Konan answers.

I nod and give a smile to both of them. Walking over to the cart I place the tops in the back. I go to help Konan find some outfits she might like with Laura when I hear yelling.

"I fucking saw that first you fucking girl, now fucking give it back!"

"There are more copies of the shirt right there; and I'm not a damn girl, un!"

"I don't fucking care, I fucking want that one!"

"Deidara-sempai there's a girl who won't stop following Tobi around!"

"Get the hell off me I don't care, un."

"What is with these outrageous prices?"

"What the fuck you staring at; want me to fucking sacrifice your fucking ugly face to Jashin?"

"But Tobi is scared sempai!"

"I'm about to blow you up if you don't get off me, un!"

"Yeah, fucking run, Jashin doesn't want you as a fucking sacrifice, he says you're not fucking good enough to be one."

I face-palm hearing them yell and at the same time glad that I'm with Konan and Laura. At the same time I can only imagine we'll be kicked out soon. Now I'm starting to wonder why Leader hasn't done anything yet.

"Hey you look Konan," I hear a girl say from behind us.

All three of us girls turn around to see another small group of girls and two guys who are holding hands. My head slightly tilts wondering how they know about Konan. Laura's eyes slightly widen.

One girl has long straight blonde hair with pink streaks blue eyes, and is wearing a short blue skirt and yellow blouse. Another girl has medium length curly dark brown hair and green eyes, wearing skinny jeans and an Evanescence band t-shirt. The other girl has short red hair also with green eyes and is wearing a short purple dress with a black belt. As for the guys, one is wearing purple skinny jeans while the other one is wearing shorts and they're both wearing black shirts. Both of them have brown hair, the one with the purple skinny jeans has hazel eyes and the other guy has brown eyes.

"Isn't Konan that chick from Naruto," one of the guys asks. Turning away I look up at the roof thinking. The name Naruto sounds familiar.

"Yeah," I hear one of the girls reply. "It's the best show ever."

"You must be a cosplayer," I hear the other guy say.

My eyes slightly widen as I look back down at the group then over at Konan. The men of the Akatsuki still yelling in the background reaches our ears. Now, I remember the name Naruto from a game I've only played a few times, but I'm pretty sure it's an anime that Laura watches. How is it even possible that characters that shouldn't exist are in our lives?

"Shut the hell up Tobi, un!"

"Deidara-sempai is sooooo mean to Tobi!"

"Stop yelling or I'm going to almighty push all of you into next week, then after giving you to Kisame's sword Samehada, I'll feed you to Zetsu!"

"Whoa is that the rest of the group," asks the girl with the blonde hair. "They're really good at staying in character."

"I never imagined hearing Pein yelling something like that," says the redhead.

"He doesn't; at least not in the anime or mange," says the guy wearing the purple skinny jeans.

Konan's eyes slightly narrow as she asks, "How do you know our names?"

"AHHH! Sempai there are the girls that won't stop following Tobi!"

"Fucking kill the bitches."

Somehow, I just know all of this is going to go downhill at any moment and our lives will be changed forever. Turning to Laura I whisper, "I think maybe we should run for it before anything bad…." Before I can finish there is a loud blood curling scream. "Happens," I say to finish the sentence.

"Bitch I didn't fucking do anything to you yet."

"You threw your kunai at her," Tobi says.

"Shut the fuck up stupid fucking lollipop." We are so screwed.

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