For anyone who also reads Faerytales Don't Come True should know that the characters in that story have no effect on this story; they are two different scenarios and plot lines. Also Ken (Hidan's father) who is in Faerytales will be taking part in the sequel to this story. What Ken did in the other story will have nothing to do with the sequel to this, it will be like he was created all over again except he's keeping his personality.
Anyways, 1zara-uchiha1 and I don't own the Naruto cast or anything else you might recognize. 1zara-uchiha1 owns Laura and I own Kahlan. Together we own the plot.
Chapter 38
Note: Ditching the Akatsuki is like a stab to the back.
~Laura's POV
I slowly get up from my bed once I have swallowed the horrible nasty medicine. I really hate the medicine here, back home it tasted nice since it could be any flavour like apple or orange or even lemon! But I really hate Cherry… I really-really do.
I stretch my arms above my head as small clicks are heard. I hear yelling from the living room as I stand up from my spot beside my bed, it sounds like the Akatsuki are yelling about something and I do not hear Kahlan arguing back… meaning she… maybe… isn't in the room.
I slowly walk out of my room, still a little bit dizzy but I feel much better now. I walk out of my bedroom and head to the living room but stop in front of it, the door is closed which means they are doing something in there which must be important.
I listen against the door as they continue their talk.
"Hidan, you've become one step closer to me breaking your neck, ripping out heart out and burying it twenty feet underground!" Pein yells angrily, meaning Hidan has done something to seriously piss him off this time… maybe he drunk all of Pein's coffee!
"I'd like to fucking see you fucking try!" Hidan yells back as I hear someone jump to their feet so I guess Hidan jumped to his feet. I also hear two people stand up and I take one of them to be Pein.
"Leader-san this really isn't the time for a spar," I hear Konan say with concern in her voice. "We do not know if the Konoha ninjas saw Hidan while he was chasing the woman," she says with a sigh in her voice as I hear someone drop down onto the sofa with a 'thump' so I take it out to be Hidan.
"Yes," Pein says as two more people take a seat onto the sofa, "this is serious, if they knew we were here, a war could break loose and we do not know how many ninjas are here in this world right now," he says in a serious tone as I take a step away from the door and slowly back away down the hallway.
I cough slightly to see how clear my voice is and nod to myself, its way better than before but it does hurt a bit.
"Kahlan? Where are you~?" I call throughout the house, pretending I didn't hear anything from the serious meeting they are having. I hear their talking come to a halt as I walk towards the living room door and once again see it's closed. "Hmm? It's closed," I say softly while turning the handle on the door and push it open to see only Pein, Konan, Sasori and Kakuzu are in the room.
"Ello," I say with a small smile as Konan gets up from her seat and walks over to me, placing her cold hand on my forehead before sighing a tiny bit.
"It seems your fever has gone down," she says with a small smile as I nod a tiny bit, I do feel better, and I could probably do a handstand if I tried hard enough. I look round the living room and see Kahlan lying on the sofa; she is curled up in a ball and seems to be sleeping.
I tilt my head a tiny bit while walking over to her and kneel down beside her. "Kahlan," I say softly as she shifts a tiny bit in her sleep, Kahlan would never sleep in the same room as the other Akatsuki members which are everyone but Konan. "Hmm…you were sleeping?" I ask softly while poking her arm softly.
"I guess…" Kahlan murmurs while sitting up very slowly, she gives a small smile before holding her head, a tiny groan escaping her lips.
I glance round the room and see that the vase which was beside the sofa is gone.
"Where'd the Sakura Vase go?" I ask while staring at the spot where it was… its no where to be seen. I look round the room as Sasori gives me a blank look before giving a glance to Kahlan.
"Kahlan threw it across the room and destroyed it," Sasori says as I look to Kahlan with a confused look; don't tell me Kahlan really can't take the Akatsuki much longer?
Kahlan gives Sasori a small blank look before patting my head softly, "I'm fine, just a little stressed," she says with a small smile to me as I nod shortly, unsure of what to say now.
"Well… can we order a take-away tonight?" I say with a small grin, I soo want pizza or maybe Chinese or maybe Italian! Kahlan gives a slightly bigger smile to me before ruffling my hair.
"Yeah we can," she says as I pull away from her hand, a frown on my face as I fix my hair. Kahlan gives a small laugh before sitting up a little more.
"Ahh~" I hum before jumping to my feet and turning to Pein and Konan who are watching us both. "Can we have a take-away tonight~ please~" I hum with a smile as Konan gives a small smile back before looking to Pein who is leaning his chin on his palm, staring at both Kahlan and I, probably thinking about the ninjas and such.
"No," he says with a monotone in his voice while now staring at me with a blank look.
I pout at him while crossing my arms over my chest and yukata which I am wearing loosely. "Why not? We can get it delivered so we don't need to leave this house so no ninjas can see any of us," I question with a frown as Pein looks to Konan who gives him a nod before he looks back to me and Kahlan.
"Fine," he says bluntly while looking to us both, "call for help and I will kill the witnesses myself," he says with a serious tone as Kahlan pulls me closer to her, a panicked look in her eyes. I look to Kahlan and tilt my head a little.
"We won't call for help," Kahlan says while pulling me into her lap, not letting me go as I look to the Akatsuki members with a bewildered look on my face. What's up with Kahlan? Is she okay? I'm not really sure but Kahlan is shaking so I guess they may have scared her a little.
"Can I order the Chinese now?" I ask with puppy eyes as Kahlan slowly lets go of me and passes me the home phone which is beside her. I smile to her and run to the kitchen to get the leaflet which has the phone number and food on it. I see Deidara, Hidan, Tobi and Itachi in the kitchen. Itachi is at the table drinking some drink with Deidara across from him who seems to be glaring glances at Itachi who is ignoring him. Tobi is running in and out of the room from the garden to the kitchen then the living room and repeat. Hidan has his head on the table, grumbling something to himself.
"Yo people," I say cheerfully while jumping over to kitchen drawers and take out a Chinese leaflet from one of them. I get a 'hello Laura-chan~' from Tobi. A 'Yo, yeah' from Deidara. A groan from Hidan and an 'Hn' from Itachi.
I send them a grin while walking back into the living room while looking over the leaflet. I think fifteen orders of rice, six orders of pork cutlets, three orders of egg rolls and six orders of chicken curry will do.
I start writing on a piece of paper that amount it will cost.
One order of rice is 99 cents so times that by fifteen is $14.85. Okay one order of pork cutlets are $1.20 so times that by six is $7.20. One order of egg rolls are $1 so times that by three is $3. And one order of curry is $1.50 so times that by six is $9. Okay if I add that all up it comes to $34.05~ I think that is right.
Nodding to myself I dial the number and order the food. They say it will be $34.05 so I was right and they also say it will take twenty minutes to cook and ten minutes to bring it to us. If it takes an hour we get it free!
I look to Kahlan as she smiles to me a little, "I'll pay for it okay," she says and I quickly shake my head. No we are going halves.
"No its half each like always," I say while crossing my arms to her. Kahlan sighs knowing I won't change my mind so she nods softly. I grin to her and hug her tightly as Konan starts to read an origami book.
I watch as Kakuzu turns to the news and it seems they are still repeating what happened at Wal-Mart and how Deidara blew it down to the ground. I frown slightly at that memory but jump to my feet as the doorbell is rung. I grin to Kahlan and walk to the coffee table where my wallet is and pull out $20 since it's the only note I have, once I am aloud outside again or wherever we go shopping or I go to work I'll get some more money.
Kahlan follows me to the door where two men are, they seem to be struggling to hold all of the boxes of food.
"Here is your food," the taller man says while handing some of the food to Kahlan who seems to struggle just to carry three boxes.
"Umm… Sasori or Kakuzu can you help maybe?" I call into the front room and only five seconds later we see both Kakuzu and Sasori walk to the front door and take the remaining boxes of food with ease.
"That will be $34.05 please," the smaller man says and I notice that both of the men are Chinese. I nod with a smile and hand him my $20 and Kahlan hands him another $20. The taller man takes the two bills and hands Kahlan our change before nodding to us both.
"Thank you and please come again to the Dragon Temple," he says with a smile before walking away from our door, his friend following shortly after him. I grin and wave a little to him while walking back into the apartment where Sasori and Kakuzu are opening the boxes to see what is in them.
It took another half an hour to get everyone into the room and to separate the food to everyone without a fight starting out with Hidan and Deidara but Kisame and Tobi didn't seem to mind what they got while everyone didn't really give a damn about what they got.
I went for the pork cutlets and the rice while Kahlan went for a little bit of everything. After dinner we all went to bed since it was about eleven in the evening now meaning that its bedtime for us all.
Once I get my yukata on, I look to Konan who is changing with a small smile on her face as Kahlan is sitting on my bed, her face in her hands. I tilt my head a little while walking over to her and sit down beside her.
"Kahlan are you okay?" I ask softly as she looks up from her hands and gives me a small sad smile.
"I'm fine," she says while tightening her yukata before lying down on my bed, pulling her teddy bear, Rellik, while pulling the covers over herself. I give her a small smile while sitting down on my bed.
"Good night Kahlan," I say with a small yawn.
"Good night," she says back as I watch Konan lie down on her bed, pulling the covers over herself and saying goodnight to us both. I sigh to myself while sitting down on my part of my bed. Kahlan doesn't seem to be very happy like this and… well things seem to be getting worse and worse each and every day. I get the feeling we may need to go to the other ninja's side. They seem to care about us more than the Akatsuki do when the Akatsuki know us way better than they do.
I take a deep breath while pulling the covers over myself after I lie down, it's decided then. Tonight I'll sneak out and go to the Konoha's side and see if they can get Kahlan and me away from the Akatsuki since Kahlan doesn't seem to be herself these last few days, hopefully she can cheer up more when she's with the Konoha ninjas.
I fall asleep soon after I think that and wake up about four am and I can't fall back to sleep after that.
I slowly sit up in bed and see it's about twenty minutes pass four. Taking a deep breath I slowly and softly get out of bed and head over to the closet, press the small button on the side of it and open it up, take out my bag, walk back over to my bed and put my favorite plushies into the bag. I put Sasori, Deidara, Hidan and Pein into my bag though I shake my head softly at why I am taking Pein with me. I don't know… he seems to give me some strength for some reason.
After I put my plushies into my bag I write Kahlan a small note 'Kahlan, I'm really sorry, I'll come back for you since you seem to be getting more and more sad each day since the Akatsuki came. Love from Laura' I write before softly putting the note on my pillow with the Konan plushies beside the note
I cast Konan and Kahlan a small sad smile while walking over to the bedroom door and head down the hallway but stop at Kahlan's room where Pein is sleeping in.
"Sorry… Pein… Nagato," I say softly to the door before walking pass it, pulling my backpack further onto my back. I get to the front door and put on my zori shoes. I look back into my house and can only think ONE thing… what horrible ninjas these people are.
I softly unlock the door and as I close it I hear another door open from inside the apartment. I take a deep breath while running away from the apartment. I give it one last look before running ahead into the main part of town. The sun isn't coming up and it's still night-time as the only light is from the full moon and the street lights.
I sneeze again as my cold makes itself noticed.
"At least the Akatsuki won't know I'm gone till morning… hopefully," I say to myself while walking into town, no one is about and it seems like a ghost town right now.
"What are you doing up so late, it's dangerous for a child to wonder around at night," I hear a male voice say from behind me and a connection clicks in my head. I KNOW THAT VOICE!
I spin round to see Jiraiya standing about two feet from me with a smile on his face.
I blink to him and watch as a white flash appears beside him.
"It is dangerous to walk alone at this time of night," he says and I see its Kakashi! YES COOL PEOPLE! I tighten my backpack on me as I am still wearing my yukata.
"What are you doing out this late, little girl," another voice says as I look behind me and jump back, epp-ing. IT'S SAI! I slowly back away from him and bash into Kakashi who is watching us both.
"I… um…" I shudder slightly. If I tell them I ran away from the Akatsuki then Kahlan could get hurt when they fight and they will question me where are they.
"Laura!" my name is yelled as I slowly turn to where it came from, its Pein, Itachi and Kakuzu and it seem the others are not with them. Oh and Pein yelled my name.
I shiver a little and freeze on my spot as Kakashi pulls me behind him as Sai pulls out his scroll and makes two birds and some fighting doggy thingies.
"Stay away!" Kakashi yells at them while pulling out a kunai from nowhere. I watch as Jiraiya pushes me to Sai as a he picks me up easily and puts me onto an ink bird before jumping on himself.
"Sai get the girl away from here!" Jiraiya yells as Itachi brings his Sharingan and Kakashi looks down from his eyes. I watch as Pein jumps above the two ninjas to Sai and I as he shows his palms to Sai.
"Almighty push!" he yells as Sai goes flying in the other direction, a groan of pain as he flies. I take a sharp intake of breath while watching Sai go flying and hang onto the ink bird as it flies very high into the sky as Pein uses his push power to go after the bird and me.
"Akatsuki!" another voice yells from behind me as sand starts to spin. I watch as Gaara comes out of the sand with a glare to Pein who stops in the middle of flying up. "Stand down! You're outnumbered!" Gaara yells and I see him in his Kage outfit from Shippuden. I take another sharp intake as Pein glares at Gaara before flying towards him which becomes a fight of punches and kicks.
"Are you okay?" Sai asks as I look to him, he's flying on another bird. I nod to him and look down to see Kakashi fighting Itachi and Jiraiya fighting Kakuzu, I look down to them as Kakashi yells something up to Sai and I.
"Sai! Get her out of here!" Kakashi yells again as he crashes kunai with Itachi as sparks fly between them.
I look to each battle that is going on. Kakashi seems evenly matched with Itachi and Jiraiya seems to be winning somehow and Gaara… well I think he may be losing this battle.
"Understood!" Sai yells back while jumping onto 'my' bird as it flies off so fast that I have to hold onto Sai so I don't go flying off.
"Laura!" I hear both Pein and Itachi yell which surprises me but soon I get an idea why. They probably think I'll spill secrets but I won't. I promise to Jashin himself that I won't.
Sai soon lands on a rooftop and jumps off of it. "Jump," he says with a small fake smile as I shake my head. I will DIE if I jump from this height! I am no ninja!
Sai gives a small look of realization before jumping back onto the bird, picking me up and jumping back down onto the roof as the rain starts spitting down.
"Are you okay?" he asks with a small smile as I nod. I am not hurt though my heart stings a little bit for some reason. I hope a ninja gets Kahlan away from the Akatsuki soon… but knowing fate… it will be evil and won't do that for some time now.
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The information about the pairing has not change. So you can always look back at the last two chapters. For Laura the votes are two for Pein and three for Deidara. AshXChan suggested Sasori or Kakuzu for Laura because their serious personalities might work for the happy carefree girl that is Laura. We are taking that suggested into consideration and if anyone else agrees feel free to say so. As for Kahlan she has five votes for Itachi.
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