Chapter 18. I only own Jeen and Hadder and Ren and the house and you. Enjoy~
I sat there with a sad expression on my face as I tended to Ren's hair. It was matted with blood, covered in sweat and dirt. I ran the brush through her brown locks and stopped when I caught sight of the strings attached to her eye bandage.
"Stop looking at it and it'll be fine." I sighed and continued to bush. More blood flakes fell to the floor.
We had jumped home with Ren in Kisame's arms and me in Madara. She was already unconscious by the time we had arrived and Konan started to tend to her wounds. Madara had to hold my hands behind my back as I tried to get to my sister who was in critical condition. It had been clarified that she had lost her left eye.
I sucked in a breath as I combed through another tangle of knots by her right ear.
"Don't worry so much, Jeen. It's not your fault. It simply-"
"Happened to be a bad time, yes, but what if you died?" Silence. I felt the swelling of anger in my chest, tears pressed at the back of my eyes. My teeth gnawed themselves together and I thrust the brush in my hand through the wall. It went all the way through, hitting Hidan on the other side.
"OH YOU BITCH!"
"Shut the f*ck up Hidan, I will not tolerate your idiotic bastard-like talk right now so if you don't want to forcibly become Kakuzu's Man whore, I suggest you turn your skinny ass the other way and leave me along you jackass slut." Ren sweat-dropped and another person whistled.
The bathroom door to my right opened.
"You have such a way with words, Jeen. Glad to know you can back them up or you'd be screwed." Hadder cooed as he sat beside Ren who leaned onto his shoulder.
I sent him a glare before thrusting the door open and stomping down the hallway, past a shocked Hidan, and into my own room.
The tears fell from my eyes as soon as the door slammed. My shoulder throbbed from the throw and I knew the gash had been reopened. I cringed as crimson liquid spilled down my side.
"Let me help you." I looked up to Madara's face, without the mask. I shook my head.
"Do you really think I'd let you bleed out right now?" I glared and slid my shirt down, exposing both of my shoulders and holding it around my chest. I blushed as I felt his rough fingers grip my better arm.
"Sit." He helped me to the floor where he took a corner of cloth and wiped the blood away, washing it with water from the sink.
"Hold still!" He growled as I flinched.
"This isn't the ideal situation I'd like to be in thank you very much." I hissed, trying to focus on the blank wall.
"Well, hold on. I'm going to pour something on your wound. Hold still!"
"Make it quick." I gasped when the stinging liquid hit my shoulder, the burning sensation filled my arm and brain which throbbed a warning for an incoming migraine. A crackling sound rang in my ears.
"Is that peroxide?" He shrugged.
"Hadder gave it to me." He ran a hand down my skin and I shivered.
"What are you doing?" I asked and he shrugged again.
"Doing what most men would do when they see their girlfriend's exposed skin like this. It's just natural." I could feel my face turn red as he continued to move his hands around, ending up to caress my cheek.
"Pervert." I hissed.
"As old as they come, brat." My palm connected with his cheek.
"Asshole." He chuckled.
"You know you liked it. Now wrap this around your shoulder. Your wound is closing." Still glaring, I took the cloth from his hands and tied it around my shoulder.
"You need to get a better past time then touching younger girls like a pedophile." He laughed at me as I slid my shirt over my shoulders and re-adjusted my black chain necklace.
"That's funny considering you're my girlfriend. You seem to be totally insecure." He sighed, standing up and brushing off his shirt.
"I am your… girlfriend, but it was a kiss. Not a total make-out session. Get used to it, bitch." I gasped. He was in front of me, holding my hand and gripping my neck with his own hand.
"I might be your "boyfriend," but I am still Madara, you still have to respect me." I laughed at him.
"You might be Madara and my boyfriend, but I'm still the regular, aggressive, high tempered Jeen you knew from the beginning. So let me go." His grip on my neck tightened until I could no longer breathe. A second later, the door burst open to reveal a very happy Hadder.
"Jeen you- oh, hello Madara." I was on the floor now, gasping for air and Madara had his mask on his face once more.
"Oh shit, is she having another attack? SASORI~!" Hadder yelled.
I coughed one more time before gasping out; "N-no I'm fine…"
He looked down at me and then at Madara.
Then he whistled.
"Oops, you two were 'busy'," he made air quotes around busy… screw him. "Sorry about that." He closed the door, just like that. Madara offered me a hand and I took it, being lifted to my feet at the same moment.
Then both of us hear: "TOBI AND JEEN WERE MAKING OUT!" and then: "WHAT!" I almost fainted.
"Shit. Holy shit." Madara, once again without a mask, grimaced and mimicked my expression.
"Oh you're screwed." I said, turning to him. He raised an eyebrow.
"Me? Innocent Tobi? Do you know of how many excuses I could pull with being-"
I cut him off, "Ahh! Ren help me! Tobi was taking advantage of my wounds!" He glared at me and gripped my shoulder, causing a seizure to rack throughout my body and send me sprawled against the floor once more. The door flew open to reveal a very pissed off Hidan.
"Jeen jumped on Tobi, Tobi didn't like it!" He waved his arms around as if to look frantic. One look at me, the poor girl on the floor caressing her hurt shoulder, and Hidan laughed. Oh the f*cker.
"Looks like the bitch got handled!" He laughed. One more growl and I hooked my leg around his and kicked his legs out from under him. He back flipped but wound up hitting the wall. I chuckled at him and Tobi pointed at him.
"Is Hidan-kun even a ninja?" He asked, trying to suppress laughter. I shook my head.
"Ninja drop out maybe. HEY! Maybe he's a pure blond!" I laughed, shaking my black hair out of it's ponytail. My combat boots slammed in Hidan's family jewels before I went up to Hadder and hooked him in the jaw.
"Asshole. You know that could have gotten us in trouble." I hissed. He shrugged and kissed the top of my head. I hissed.
"I already know you two kissed, stop hiding it." I raised an eyebrow in question.
"How-?" He lifted a hand.
"I've been watching you two for a while now. So sweet. Madara has a nice face for a hundred year old man." He chuckled, patting my head.
"I also know," He started to raise his voice, "you find him SEXY LIKE A FOX!" Cue another round of 'What?'s'. I punched him into the wall and he just laughed.
"You annoying little brat." Madara hissed from behind me, taking my uninjured hand and pushing me behind him.
"You know that she can be killed if they find out we're in a relationship." Hadder rolled his eyes.
"Baka, she won't die. You know why?" He whistled, draping an arm around Madara's shoulders. A vein pulsed in his temple.
"Because the lovely Jeen," he paused, extending a hand to me. I took it, "is your girlfriend, dick-head." Madara looked like he was about to snap.
"Now, if you excuse me, I must go untangle the beautiful Ren's hair. Come help me Kakuzu." Kakuzu sighed from the bottom of the stairs. When he passed us, he turned and glared.
"Leader wants to see you two, now." Tobi bounced up and down in excitement while I let my smile of amusement droop into a frown.
"Don't pounce on my sister Kakuzu." He rolled his Christmas colored eyes at me.
"I'll try not to. Hint my sarcasm." I laughed before trailing behind Madara's down the stair and into the living room, rubbing my shoulder tenderly.
"Ow." I said as I cracked it.
"Shh." He cooed, leading me into the living room.
On the couch sat Pein, Konan, and Zetsu and on the arm chair was Itachi with Kisame sitting on the arm. Deidara and Sasori occupied the other couch, playing a game of chess which I taught them to play.
"Sit." Pein said, gesturing to the smaller couch by Deidara and Sasori. We both took a seat, ignoring the growling from Deidara as he continued to lose to his Danna.
"So, what is this I hear about an affair?" Shit, he heard. Well, I wouldn't be surprised; he's down here, so close to the stairway where we were standing there talking openly without whispering. Yeah, I think he heard.
"Tobi does like Jeen-chan." Shoot, is he actually admitting it? Oh man, if this fails, I'll die. Eh, death can't be that bad can it? You die and you never come back. Everyone finds you eventually. It's just the type of death that I'm afraid of.
Konan chuckled. "I never thought Tobi would be the one to fall for Jeen. Kakuzu owes me twenty."
Hidan scoffed from the entry way. "That greedy old bastard won't give you anything. That money fetish of his is ridiculous."
"I never knew you had that big of a vocabulary, Hidan. Or did you learn something from Itachi and Pein?" Sasori asked from the game board, moving his queen to kick Deidara's bishop out of his checker square.
Deidara groaned. "Dammit Sasori-no-Danna. I was finally getting to you, hm." Kisame laughed from the other side of the room.
"What fish-face?" He growled, flashing a glare from behind his yellow hair.
"You weren't getting anywhere. Sasori had you occupied with his knights and pawns while some of your own pieces were wide open. He was going easy on you." Itachi yawned, looking up from the book on… Naruto.
"ITACHI! DON'T READ THAT!" I sprinted forward to grab the book but he moved it out of reach. I fell on top of Kisame who laughed at my attempts.
"NO! Give it now!" I reached for it again.
"Why do you want that so bad, hmm?" He took it from Itachi in a flash and started to read it.
"Anyways, why do you feel attached to this girl Tobi? You know the rule for this." Pein lolled. I could see it in his eyes, almost too clear, 'In fact Madara, you were the one who came up with this rule and yet you are the one to break it.'
Dammit.
"All relationships are to be terminated, Tobi knows. But Tobi wants you to make an exception for Jeen-Chan." The rest of the Akatsuki raised an eyebrow.
"And why is that?" Konan sighed. Oh you bitch, you just want Madara to die. You can go to hell.
"Because Jeen-chan can use chakra." Holy crap. I can? That's new. I concealed my shocked look under a calm, quiet expression. Pein looked at me and raised an eyebrow.
"You can, can you? Show me." F*cker. You stupid son-of-a-bitch. I looked at Madara.
"Go ahead and punch Hidan-kun, Jeen-chan." I started to panic. What was he thinking! I knew he was going to do something but what?
"Uh, sure." Hidan's head snapped up.
"Oh f*ck no, get away from me you bitch. If you punch me I will sacrifice you to Jashin." I ignored his warnings and stepped forwards, raising my left hand and driving it to his chest. He blocked it and I swung around with my right leg. He blocked it again and I had no choice but to use my broken hand. It hit him square in the chest and he flew backwards, making another hole in the wall. My mouth dropped open.
"Whoa, un. Someone's got one hell of a punch." Deidara whistled, patting my shoulder from the couch. Kisame chuckled.
"That's proof enough for me. What about you, Pein-sama?" His face was impassive, his eyebrows creasing into a tight knot.
"Tobi, come here." Tobi nodded before walking up to him. I stood there, the intensity of their pressing auras smashing down on me. My breath caught in my throat but I remained upright. The two whispered back and forth and I immediately knew by the look on Pein's face that he found out what Madara had done. I chuckled at Itachi's bored look, knowing he knew as well.
"Jeen! Ren wants to see you!" Hadder called from the stairs. I swore under my breath.
"Tell her I'm busy!" I yelled back, rubbing my hands together. Hadder's loud footsteps thudded down the stairs, stopping when he took sight of Madara and Pein.
"Naughty, naughty Jeen. Did you blackmail them to do Yaoi or what?" I gave him a flat stare.
"Baka, I'm not that deprived. What does she want?" Hadder sighed.
"She wants you to go talk to her. Don't be a bitch, go talk." Now glaring, I turned to face him. He was at least 2 heads taller than me and probably stronger too, but those small details didn't stop me. I stood in front of him.
"Ok, one thing. I will not talk right now because I happen to be in a complicated position in which you have no idea. If you don't tell her that I will talk to her later then I swear I will explode and there will be another hole in the wall for us to repair. Get your face out of my business and leave me the f*ck alone, Hadder." Ok, so maybe I went a little too far but my bitchy side is roused. No way am I going to juggle more than four things at once. The Akatsuki, injured Ren, Madara and Pein, and the creepy stalker guys at the park that Zetsu is still tracking! Oh f*ck no.
"Ok, ok. I understand~." He said in a soft, cooing voice, twisting his hands together in a tight knot and batting his eyelashes. I laughed.
"You weirdo." I choked out. He gave me a tilt of his head before pounding up the stairs.
"Jeen, un. There's someone at the door." Deidara said, lifting his eyes off the board and to the door.
"But there's no-" There was a pound on the door. I strolled over and opened it. The boy in red from the park stood in front of me, knife in hand.
"Hello, Jeen-bean. Long time no see." He hissed before taking the knife and swinging it down.
Answer: I do, but his last chapter made me fume.
Question: What are you going to be for halloween?
SotD: Stereo Hearts; Gym Class heros. This song is the only exception to my rock/metal/hardstyle music.
I will be participating in the November write athon thing. Forgot the name, NANO or something :P It's where you write a total of 50,000 words in the whole month of November. I heard about this from my friend. :) Anticipate a lot of chapters.
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