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Chapter 75

Note: Ninja men are great pack mules…I mean helpers.

~Kahlan's POV

When we reach the anime con there is a long line in front of us. People of all ages are dressed up in cosplaying outfits. I flatten my hands against my outfit a bit more comfortable with the fact that it isn't revealing as some of the other outfits here.

All of the people seem to be extremely happy and talking to one another, no one is judging anybody. Mrs. Wilson is taking pictures, which is cool because there are some really cool Cosplay outfits.

"Wow y'all look great as the Akatsuki," a man in front of us says. He's dressed up as Gandalf. "You girls look cute, and that's an awesome zombie outfit."

"Zombie and the Akatsuki where," asks a girl next to Gandalf as she turns around. The girl is dressed up as a maid. "Oh look they also have Sasuke. Where's your secret lover Naruto?"

"Excuse me," Sasuke says looking a bit disgusted and shocked. Laura chuckles while I'm a bit confused.

"She doesn't really mean it," Gandalf says.

"Of course not because I only support Hinata and Naruto; sorry Sasuke but you just have to be alone. Anyways, I'm Madelyn but you can call me Mad."

"Hello Mad-chan, I'm Tobi and Tobi is a good boy."

"Yeah okay," Mad says. "I don't really care. I think you need to die."

"Thank you someone understands, yeah."

"Why Tobi did nothing wrong," said man cries.

Gandalf chuckles then says, "Mad here has never liked Tobi. By the way I'm Luke."

"It's nice to meet the both of you," Mrs. Wilson says with a smile. And for the next five minutes everyone is introducing each other. This causes Mad and Luke to laugh.

"You guys can use your real names," Mad says. "I'm sure everyone here knows your character. After all the Akatsuki is the most loved criminal organization."

"We are fucking using our real names."

"Ignore Hidan," Leader says. "Want to explain why the Akatsuki are 'the most loved criminal organization?'"

"No idea,"" Luke says. "I never did see the big deal about them. I'm much more of a Konoha fan."

"The answer is simple," Mad says pushing Luke behind her. "When you have characters that are bad guys that are kick ass amazing in addition to being hot, you're going to have a huge fan base. Add ninjas into that equation then almost everyone loves you because ninjas are epic."

"Oh look the line is moving," I say not liking how this conversation is turning out. Thankfully for the moment we start moving.

"I think the entire Naruto show is lame," John says. "I don't mind playing the games."

"Are you insane," Mad says. "The entire show and manga is pure epic-ness. That is my freaking drug."

"Can we talk…." I go to say but get interrupted by a group of people.

"Hey can we take pictures with you guys," says one of the boys.

"Read the sign," Kakuzu says. "Pictures are not free."

"This is some weird fucking shit," Hidan says.

I let out a sigh, as the group of kids actually pays to take pictures. It doesn't take long for there to be a crowd around our group, all of them willing to pay for pictures. I swear Kakuzu looks like he has died and gone to heaven. By the time we make it to the door we have a bunch of money, and so Leader orders Kakuzu to split the money for every group. That did not make Kakuzu happy, but he did as he was ordered. Leader then had each group have their own sign so we could make more money. Personally, I wasn't going to complain because that meant that money could be used for here but all left over money is going towards bills.

"Everyone is to meet up in two hours where the contest is being held," Leader says. "Does everyone understand?"

"Fuck yeah."

"Tobi does."

Then there is a chorus of 'Hai' and 'yes.'

"Good," Leader says then starts walking off with his group. The others start leaving as well.

Waving Laura calls out, "have fun."

"So what are we going to do first, un?"

"Eat some Japanese food," Laura says with puppy eyes.

Sasuke shrugs and says, "I don't care."

"We get some food then start shopping," I say. I gotta see if I can buy any instruments and weapons. Plus I wonder what other kind of stuff they sell.

"I like that idea," Laura says with a grin.

"Let's go," I say with a smile then start walking.

"Onward Sasuke," Laura orders then giggles.

The five of us walk in a random direction. My eyes scan over the people and different types of stalls. Even though we're not with the rest of the Akatsuki we do get people coming up to our group asking to get pictures, which they pay for. It doesn't take long for us to come across a food stand. Since I don't know much about Japanese food I put my trust in Laura and the others by letting them order.

"Here you go," Laura says handing me a plate that has three sticks. On each stick are three color ball like food.

"Thanks," I say taking it from here. "What is it?"

"Dango, you'll like," she replies with a smile.

"Okay," I say with a small smile. I take a small bite and slowly chew on it moving it around. After swallowing I smile. "You're right I do like it."

"So where will we be shopping at first," Sasuke asks.

"Any place that catches our attention," Laura says.

"Wherever they sell weapons," I reply.

"Don't you think you have enough weapons, yeah?"

"Nope," I reply. "I'm a weapons collector waiting for the zombie apocalypse."

"It's already here," Laura says. "My brother is one of them."

Chuckling I reply, "The real zombie apocalypse."

"We'll be on the lookout for a weapon stand, but until then we can take a look around the other stands," Itachi says.

"Yeah," Deidara says slightly glaring at Itachi.

"Well," I say with a small smile. "Let's get this shopping trip on a roll." I start leading the way, happy to actually shop. I've actually missed shopping.

We come across many stands. One of the stands we come across is one on jewelry. I end up buying a few…several pieces of jewelry. One of the jewelry pieces I bought was meant for friends. It was two pieces of a puzzle piece. On one piece there was B with 4 under it while the other one had F and E under it. Put the two pieces together and you have best friends forever. So I kept one and gave the other to Laura. I bought a pair of earrings for Mrs. Wilson of paintbrushes and a swan necklace for Konan. I also bought a bracelet that has an owl; if I ever see Hinata again I plan on giving it to her.

The next stand we came across was one that dealt with paintings. There were beautiful scenery paintings of people, places and nature. The man running it painted most of the pictures and said for twenty dollars he would paint us anything. Laura asked if he would paint a group picture of us and he said yes. With puppy eyes she begged if we could have it done and I agreed. We didn't really ask for the guys' permission, we just had the man paint the picture of us. The man was done within a half hour.

As we went from stall to stall we bought stuff. Well Laura and I mostly bought stuff. She started buying stuff for everyone in the Akatsuki and I was having so much fun I didn't mind joining in on buying stuff for them as well. It was getting kind of hard to carry all of the stuff so Deidara became one of our pack mules…I mean helpers with carrying everything. Well Laura and I did carry some of our own stuff Deidara just had a majority of it.

Then we came across a large stand that dealt with music. I admit that I squealed like a little girl and dragged everyone over. There isn't a music store in town anymore, sadly, so when I buy stuff it has to be online which sucks sometimes because you never know if the instrument is good enough. Seeing the music stand reminded me of the ones I bought which are probably at the post office though I'm sure they sent it back because if you don't pick something up within a certain amount of time you don't get it. So coming across the large music stand was amazing…well heaven for me.

I was at awe with the string instruments. Some of them were of Asian origin so I didn't know much about them and probably wouldn't be able to play. I had picked up a violin and tested it out. It played well, but it really isn't one of the instruments I love playing like the electric and acoustic guitar, cello and piano. So after playing a few tunes on the violin I put it down and moved over to the guitars. My eyes lit up when they fell upon an electric guitar that was shaped as a butterfly. It was purple, which is my favorite color, and had what look like red glitter but it didn't come off so I guess they used some kind of coating to keep it on. I fell in love with it because I also happen to secretly like butterflies. But then I saw the price and pouted. It was close to a thousand dollars. So with a very, very, very sad sigh I put it down lowered my head and walked away. If I was to stay I would have blown most of our money on it.

As we were finally coming across the weapon stand I saw a stand saying something about a talent show. I walked over but saw no one there so picked up one of the broachers and headed back to our group. I started reading over it. The talent show would be held tomorrow. People signed up around eight tomorrow for the category they wanted to enter. The four categories are dancing, singing, voice acting which meant you voice act as some character from a movie or show, and theater where you could do monologues. Each category would start at a certain time and whoever won first place in each one would receive a hundred dollars or more. With a smile I had placed it in my pocket to show it to Laura later.

At the weapon stand I only bought one weapon. It is from the Assassin Creed games and it's called a hidden blade I believe. It was the only weapon they had that I don't have so I got it for about one hundred and fifty dollars. Sasuke, Itachi and Deidara had looked at the weapons checking them out for a little while. Deidara and the Itachi were the only ones not to buy any of them but Sasuke did buy a double edge sword about arm length in size.

Finished there we went back to shopping heading to the place where we are to meet the others. Laura and I were buying more stuff. Laura was buying a lot of plushies and I was buying almost everything that caught my attention. Though sometimes I would look back wishing I was able to buy that guitar. Sasuke became the next victim and then finally Itachi to hold our stuff. Any money we lost by spending we easily made up with taking pictures.

We get to the destination of meeting up with the others. Sasori and his group are the first ones there. Laura runs over and gives each one a hug until Kisame tried to ruffle her hair. She slightly pouted while glaring and swatting his hand away.

"You guys sure got a lot of stuff," Kisame comments with a chuckle.

"Yeah…what's your point," I ask.

"Who plans on telling Kakuzu," Sasori asks.

"Not me," Laura says hiding behind Deidara.

Holding up his hands Deidara says," I'm not telling him, yeah."

"I'll do it," I say slowly.

"Promise Kakuzu more money."

"Promising Kakuzu money always works," Kisame says. The next group arriving is Leader and his group.

"Konan," Laura says and goes to hug her.

"Did you have any fun," she asks with a small smile returning the hug.

"Yep we even had someone do a painting of our group want to see," Laura asks.

"I'd like that," Konan replies.

"I want to see as well," Mrs. Wilson says.

I take the painting from Deidara and hand it over to Laura. Everyone takes a look at it. Mrs. Wilson comments on the colors and shading and other art stuff I have no idea about. That then started a conversation between her, Sasori and Deidara. While they started talking Kakuzu and his group show up.

"Now that everyone is here," Leader speaks up. "We should enter the contest."

"Yay Tobi hopes we win!"

"We'll sit this out and take pictures," Mr. Wilson says.

"Well then," I say with a smile. "Let's go enter the contest."

Grabbing Laura's hand, all of us minus Mr. and Mrs. Wilson go to enter the contest. We end up entering as a group. During the contest they would call up names and people get on stage and kind of act like models for about a minute then they would call the next person or group. People were always cheering and clapping once someone got on stage. The crowd would even scream. When our group got on stage there was loud screaming along with cheers and clapping.

Hidan being Hidan had said, "Fuck yeah bitches we're fucking awesome, now fucking bow to us."

Leader wouldn't be Leader if he didn't do some bodily harm. So he had hit Hidan beside the head…pretty hard because Hidan went flying off the stage landing in the crowd. A bunch of girls started screaming like major fangirls, which I wouldn't doubt if they were.

At the end of it all our group won first place. Kakuzu had snatched the check away from the man as if he might have taken off with it. We then all went back to looking around some of us even bought some stuff letting the guys carry almost everything until it was getting late.

That brings us to the hot springs and the hotel. The place looks amazing and very oriental looking. It's also very calming, but before any of us split up Leader calls everyone to him.

"Before we split up for the hot springs," Leader says. "There are four rooms and each room will have four people in it. To decide who gets what room with whom, I've put everyone's name into this hat. I will pull out the names and assign the rooms."

"In room 201 I'm assigning," Leader starts to say then starts picking out names from the hat. "Kisame, Tobi, John and Hidan." He places his hand back into the hat pulls and pulls out four more names. "Konan, Kahlan, Mr. Wilson and Itachi will be in room 202." Again he does the same thing. "Laura, Mrs. Wilson, Deidara and I will have room 203. In room 204 will be Kakuzu, Zetsu, Sasuke and Sasori. Now everyone is dismissed."

We all start going our separate ways. Us girls in one section the guys in another section. As we near the hot springs I give Konan and Mrs. Wilson the jewelry I bought for them.

"Thank you," Mrs. Wilson says with a smile giving a huge hug.

"Not a problem," I reply giving the hug back.

"Thank you as well," Konan says with a small smile.

"You're welcome," I reply giving a smile in return and then give her a hug. Now time to enjoy my first time at the hot springs. I'll have to call my parents soon to let them know we're staying at a hotel for the night.

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