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Chapter 81

Note: Dinner parties and ninjas don't mix.

~Kahlan's POV

Mr. Wilson grins while his wife smiles. John is looking around, but that doesn't matter. What matters is the lock of shock on Laura's face. With a squeal I rush over to her and give her a bone crushing hug.

"Happy birthday," I say with a huge grin as I pull away.

"You…I…."

I laugh at her still shock face and lack of words. Turning to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson I say, "Thanks so much. That stuff can be set in the dining room with the food and presents."

"It's my birthday," Laura finally asks as her parents head to the kitchen.

"Of course silly," I reply. Her lips form into and O probably indicating that she forgot her own birthday. "How does it feel to be eighteen?"

She shrugs with a smile and I once again laugh. She then says, "I don't feel any different."

"That's fine," I say taking her to the living room. "We have so much to do before the night ends."

"Laura-chan," Tobi wells bounding over to us as we reach the living room. "Mr. Ward brought a bouncy house and it is outside. Tobi is having lots of fun. And, Tobi thinks you should try out Tobi's piñata course."

"Uh…." She says which reminds me of her fear. Damn I will ask her about that tomorrow night, or when I get the chance.

"Baka," Deidara says. "That is not your piñata everyone had taken part in it, yeah."

"What piñata course," John asks seeming a bit interested. Can't the jerk be a little more excited for his sister or do I need to break his nose?

"Well instead of having one piñata to destroy they thought it would be better to have multiple to destroy," I reply. "It's outside along with the bouncy house my dad brought over for whatever reason that eludes me."

"I did it so she and whoever else to have fun," dad says coming up from behind us.

"Okay," I say waving some of the people away, "Let Laura get a look at our work."

Laura gasps looking around the room. There are balloons, confetti and silly-string (thanks to Tobi) everywhere. Deidara brought it upon himself to spray paint one of the walls with an explosion. I went off on him but left the painting, besides the paint thankfully washes off. There are a few paper lanterns around the room. Konan made some origami butterflies and has them fluttering around the room. Some of the balloons are in the form of an animal thanks to Sasori. Hidan had taken some left over spray paint and painted the Jashin symbol on the other wall and was able to write 'Jashin says fucking happy birthday bitch.' Kisame had Sasuke forcefully help him into making cut-outs of sharks and strung them around the room. Kakuzu and Itachi placed up the 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' sign. Leader did his leader duties and Zetsu…well I have no idea but he's here for now.

"Wow…this is one birthday party no one else would have," Laura says with a grin.

"When will we be fucking able to eat the fucking food?"

"Later," I say giving Hidan a glare. Kakuzu then smacks Hidan on the head and probably whispers some evil threat to him. I turn back to Laura and grin. "With the help of everyone here minus Hidan, we made a huge feast for you. But you can worry about that later after playing the games that are set up outside."

We all then escort Laura to the backyard catching her parents on the way. The backyard is full of more silly-string (Tobi had gone haywire crazy), Deidara's non-explosive clay animals running around (otherwise he would have been castrated from Konan), more origami fluttering butterflies thanks to Konan and wonderful paper lanterns. There's a huge water slide thing that Kisame had somehow gotten. Not far from it is the bouncy house my dad brought home. There is some game course without a name that Leader set up that secretly deals with Laura's training, but when a family member goes to try it he'll modify it for them. There's the piñata course, twister that was brought out by Tobi, there is some sort of treasure hunt course done by my father and possibly Zetsu. Sasuke had brought out the radio and it is playing music.

"I say we do twister first," Laura shouts rushing over to said game.

"You heard her," I shout. "It is twister time everyone!"

The ones to play are Laura, Deidara, Kisame, Hidan, and Sasuke with Leader as the one to spin. Hidan is the first to lose and twenty minutes later Kisame is after him. It becomes a really long game between the last three, none of them willing to lose. This soon brought boredom to a few of the members and they were going throw water on the three but were threaten by Konan. It is a really long time until Laura loses making her pout and leaving it to Deidara and Sasuke. Everyone else was pretty much done waiting to see who would win so moved onto the next game.

"So what the fuck is next," Hidan asks.

"Hmm," Laura says tapping her finger against her chin. "The water slide!"

So the rest of us go there except Tobi who is in the bouncy house. Kisame, with whoever helped him, must have modified the slide because it's huge and eventually leads into…a large probably deep pond/lake that was never on the property before. That better be gone tomorrow, but I say nothing for now. My parents sit the slide out, which hey whatever floats their boats is fine by me. I had no problem joining in on the slide, since it felt like the heat was rising. I was having fun and hopefully Laura was having a blast.

When we finished with the slide about an hour or so later is about the time Deidara loses to Sasuke. It did not make him happy at all but Leader just gave Deidara a warning glare. The next course was Leader's game course. You really had to be quick on your feet and know how to react. For the ninjas it was easy, lucky them. It seemed it was a bit of a challenge for Laura but she had fun. I on the other hand thought I was going to fail. There were fake people (probably clones) that would come out and do a surprise attack; there were traps and all other sort of ninja stuff. I wanted to curse Leader for making this, whatever gave him the idea this was a game. I freaking hate the stupid clones, fling projectiles and invisible trip wire that if it wasn't for Laura would have gotten me into something.

After that it became about the time for piñata course. It's a small course that Sasori has control over. The piñatas actually come at you from any direction. You have to be ready with a blindfold on, to hit and break them open. Sometimes, you'll have more than one come at you.

The first to go was obviously Laura. Out of…I don't know how many piñatas she was able to break five. I cheered and gave her a hug. Next was Hidan but Tobi decided he wanted to go as well. It turned out they ended up hitting each other more than the piñatas and then it just turned into a fight caused by Hidan with Tobi screaming and running away. They did hit a few of the piñatas before their game of cat and mouse started. After them was John and he only hit two. Kisame went next and he hits like ten of them, but I blame his height for that. Mr. Wilson happily went next and came close to hitting the same amount as Kisame. Curse the damn tall people.

Itachi decline to take part in it as did my parents, Leader and Konan. Mrs. Wilson decided to give it a go and she ended up hitting five just like Laura. It became Kakuzu's turn but he was going to sit out until Hidan mention that one of the piñatas was full with money. A bright gleam had taken hold in Kakuzu's eyes as he decided he wanted to take part in the game after all. That resulted in him making sure he hit every last damn piñata that came his way. Was Hidan telling the truth? Actually Hidan was kidding, but it turned out someone did fill one of the piñatas full of money. Where they got it, I don't know nor do I care to know. Kakuzu was extremely happy, and walked off glaring at anyone who dared to stop him or try to take a single dollar.

With all of the piñatas destroyed it became dinner time. The dinner was supposed to be nice. Nothing was supposed to go wrong, but it did probably because it is the Akatsuki. This is what happens:

I watch as Mr. Wilson, Tobi, Deidara, Kisame, John, and Laura are scrambling about collecting the candy from Kakuzu's destroyed piñatas. With a chuckle I go inside to sit up the table of food with plates. It takes a few moments then I'm back outside.

"It's time to eat," I yell out.

"About fucking time I'm fucking starving," Hidan yells as he comes running towards the house.

"Yay Tobi can't wait to eat the cake," said man says following after Hidan while placing the candy into his cloak.

Everyone makes their way into the house. Closing the door I grab Laura's hand and take her to the dining room. I hear slightly gasp getting a good look at the table. The table has chicken, different types of veggies, pot roast, pizza, salad, mashed potatoes, ramen and other Japanese foods. While I made the Western foods that I know, Konan was the one to make the Japanese foods since I know nothing on how to make them.

"It looks awesome," Laura says with a grin.

Smiling I say, "Konan and I made it."

"Thanks you two," Laura says and proceeds to give us both a huge hug.

"You're welcome," Konan replies returning the hug with a small smile.

"It was nothing," I reply with a grin also returning the hug.

Everyone settles in at the table with the exception of Sasori and Zetsu. Food gets passed around; people are actually behaving nicely to one another. There is chatting going on along with laughter and it seems everyone is actually having a good time.

With a smile I go and lift my glass to my lips, and as the liquid hits my tongue I make a face swallowing. I remove the glass from my lips as there is a slight burning sensation running down my throat. I take a sniff of the drink and wrinkle my nose placing the cup down. Someone had spiked the freaking drink.

Sighing, I grab Laura's drink before she can grab it. She looks at me confused as I take a whiff of it. Yep, it's spiked as well; I think all of the drinks out on the table have been spiked besides the alcohol that Mr. and Mrs. Wilson brought over since well it is alcohol.

"I'll be right back with some juice for you instead," I say giving her a small smile.

"Why," she slightly whines with a pout.

"This is not safe to drink," I reply standing up and head to the kitchen with both of our glasses. After all, as far as I know we're the only ones that are actually underage to drink this stuff. Plus, I don't want to go through the experience ever again of drinking alcohol.

I empty the glasses into the sink, pull two new ones out and fill them up with juice. Walking back into the dining room I stop to see that dinner seems to be slightly going downhill. Hidan and Deidara are ganging up on Tobi for some unknown reason. My mother, who is reaching for the pitcher to refill her glass is looking tipsy. She can never hold her alcohol well, plus…she becomes a completely different person. As in a really happy giggly person and speaks a little bit as if she was a prep, no offense. It is scary to see. John seems to have gotten into an eating competition with his father as well as Kisame. Kakuzu is making bets on who will win.

Shaking my head I head back to my seat placing Laura's and my cups down. She smiles and I smile in return going back to my food. Then not too long after sitting down my mother is smiling, and giggling and I know her drunken side is coming out. She actually starts talking to Mrs. Wilson as if they have been best friends forever.

"So," I say trying to keep things from going crazy. "Is everyone enjoying dinner? Make sure to leave room for the cake."

"Yeah fucking whatever," Hidan says.

"I'm enjoying it," Laura says with a smile. "I can't wait for the cake."

"Good," I reply smiling back.

"This is such lovely food," mom says smiling then giggles. Turning to father she places her head on his shoulder and looks up at him with puppy eyes. "Don't you think so too dear?" Okay…that is a bit scary.

"It's good," father replies giving her a pat on the head. This causes her to pout letting her lower lip tremble. "Don't cry." Oh yeah, she tends to be emotional when drunk…and sometimes clingy depending on how much she had to drink.

"What's going on with your mom," Laura asks never seeing her like this before.

"She gets drunk very easily," I reply.

"You two stop it," Leader orders and I look over to see what he is talking about.

"Fuck you," Hidan yells and actually has the nerve to throw his plate of food at Leader.

And Tobi being the moron he is shouts, "food fight!" And sure enough Tobi joins in on throwing food hitting Deidara. Pissed, Deidara throws food at Tobi but misses and hits Kisame. And it just really goes downhill. My hands clench watching as this unfolds. This should not be happening on Laura's birthday.

"Fucking stop this damn instant," I yell over everyone as I stand up from my seat glaring. How dare they do this.

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