Sorry I've been dead my cute lil readers, nut here you go~!
(P.S. Don't be confused by the start, it makes sense later)
Waking up was the flick off a switch, and she shot upright, hair sticking out in odd directions, clutching her bed sheets in a death grip.
The hell…?
She ground her palms into her eyes, trying to erase the sleepiness. Her chest ached as she remembered her dream.
Another one, she realized sourly. Another dream to torture me.
Ah well.
She could take out her aggression on others once she reached school.
She tossed away the blankets and padded out of her room, wood floors cool on her bare feet. She tugged absentmindedly at the hem of her nightshirt.
Funny, she had been positive she had worn her Bugs Bunny nightgown last night…
When she was done questioning her sanity, she was cooking some eggs, trying to prevent the burning that was bound to come.
"Noooo!" she whined when she realized that there was no orange juice in the fridge.
Well…off to the store!
Once she was dressed like a normal human (aka: t-shirt and jeans), she grabbed her wallet and grabbed her shoes.
The ring off the doorbell resounded through the house. Followed by a heavy fist pounding in the door.
She rounded the corner, fuming.
"Cool it, your gonna break the damn door!"
The knocking only increased in volume.
That little...!
She threw open the door, ready to fling some insults (and her fist), and froze.
Lavender ringed eyes and a hell of a lot of piercings stared back emotionlessly.
"Tenshi," The man began in a dark tone, and she shivered.
Sexy…
"You have no idea, what kind of hell we had to go through to find you."
He was shoved aside, and a streak of orange tackled her to the ground, and she wheezed pathetically in his bear hug.
"Tobi found you, Sakura-chan!"
"What-?" she rasped, squirming uselessly. The body was thrown off her, and heaved off the floor and into a new set of arms.
"Tobi, be careful, yeah! We just found Sakura-chan, we don't want need you killing her!"
She peered up at her new molester, and a handsome face with blue-gray eyes smiled at her, his blond hair pulled up high, a chunk hanging in front of one of his eyes.
It was a familiar face, even his baby fat was gone, and the wounds were long since gone. His hair was longer, and of a richer, healthier coloring, eyes brighter.
"Deidara?" came her small voice, after an eternity of silence.
The man's smile became even brighter.
"Sakura, un! You remember me!"
And she was crushed to his chest, in a bear hug that rivaled-
"Tobi?!" she gasped disbelievingly, and squirmed until she could see the boy with shaggy black hair, single red eye and eye-patch, pouting on her white carpet. He instantly perked up.
"Flower-chan remembers Tobi?" He gasped dramatically.
Than that means…
She turned he gaze to the open door.
A incredibly tall man ducked through the doorway, his light blue skin and a darker blue shock of hair.
"Kisame?" she asked faintly, although she already had her answer by the twinkle in his bronze eyes.
"Hey, kitten." He winked. A pale hand reached out and smacked him upside the head.
"Don't overwhelm her." Itachi commanded, his long hair tied at the nape of his neck, eyes filled with a light that the young boy had been missing. Itachi inclined his head gracefully to her shock and pleasure.
The tall fish-man grumbled incoherently, and she turned her gaze to the violent red hair in the doorway.
"Did you really have to run away screaming when you realized what was going on?" Sasori grumbled, his cinnamon eyes half-lidded. Sakura merely gaped at him, mouth opening and closing without a sound.
"Why don't you just shut up." A new voice grumbled, and the odd split skin and glowing gold eyes were an instant give away.
Zetsu, for that was his name, was shouldered aside. The next man's stitched and scarred skin as familiar as her own. He met her viridian eyes locked with electric green.
"Nice to see you." Kakuzu intoned, and she couldn't help but feel none of this was real.
"The hell, stitch face, our first time seeing the bitch and you push me in a freaking bush?!" The silver-haired man that lumbered in looked around with burning lavender eyes until he spotted her. He gave her a once over.
"Yes!" Hidan crowed, looking ecstatic.
"This bitch is as sexy as I told you she would be!"
Oh…so it hadn't been a dream.
"Guys!" she screeched, and all heads swiveled to look at her. She shrunk visibly.
"Um…hi?"
Rape girl, rape!
"So let me get this straight," Sakura began voice heavy with disbeleif, cradling her mug of hot chocolate protectively. "You joined the Amegakure Rebels."
"Yeah,un."
"And than you were put in the 8th division, which you nicknamed Akatsuki after the orphanage."
"That's what we fucking said, bitch."
Smack.
"Ow!"
"Shut the fuck up, Hidan."
"So than you kicked ass, got promoted, overthrew a dictator, and replaced said dictator?"
"When you say it like that, Kitten, it sounds less worse than it is."
Sakura resisted her urge to kill, and instead took a sip of her cooling hot coco.
Well, hot damn.
"This is tasty." She stated, and she watched Tobi (who had been lying on the floral print couch next to her, clutching her wrist like she would evaporate) squealed.
"Tobi is glad Sakura-chan likes it!"
Deidara (who was on her other side, and although he wasn't grabbing her, was watching her like a hawk) snorted, but made no comment. Zetsu, bless his soul(s?), took that moment to look up from the gardening book Sakura had given him for entertainment.
"Sakura-san? Do you have a garden?"
She took the question in stride.
"Yeah, there's one out back." Not that I can grow anything that's not weeds… "Why?"
The multi-colored man gave her a hesitant smile, and she immediately understood. She sighed.
"It's to bad though," she sighed again, looking like a kicked puppy (which automatically made the boys began to panic internally), "I can't grow anything…Do you think you could help me?"
Zetsu looked surprised, that gave her a larger, steadier smile.
"That would be perfect."
Must…resist…urge…to glomp…
She cleared her throat.
"So, um…" she let the question that had been burning into her thoughts for the last few hours. "Why did you come here?"
All she got was a bunch of blank stares.
"I mean," she corrected hastily, "You guys are important to me, and there is always a home for you here, but you had so much in Ame. You were practically kings there!"
And it was true.
Ame may not have been the most peaceful, but it had a booming fish market, and was wildly popular for it's national parks and protected forests. They were the largest in the world. It was no secret that the previous ruler, albeit a cruel and merciless man, he had lived in the lap of luxury.
She was brought back to earth by a warm hand dropping on the crow of her head. She tilted her head back, and was confronted by Pein's pained expression.
"Sakura you are our reason for fighting." Pein grimaced. "We may have done what we did to help those people, and prevent even more war, but we lived through it all for you."
Deidara, his hair shading his expression, broke in.
"We had to kill people. Fathers, mothers, husbands and children. We saw the dirt stained with blood. People knew who we were."
"We were Akatsuki." Kisame declared, expression sour. "People wouldn't look us in the eye, and children would hear the stories, and look at us with fear."
"But Sakura isn't like that," Tobi whispered earnestly, tugging on her hand. "Sakura knows that Tobi is Tobi and that Tobi is a good boy."
"You saved us from a life of poverty and abuse when you were but a child yourself." Sasori told her, and her ached to think of what had happened to them if she had not come into their lives.
"We came home to you." Itachi murmured, and when she looked around at all of them, she couldn't help but to smile like a goof.
"Yeah," she agreed, "Welcome home."
And for a single second, they all sat there, in a tacky, floral print living room, with empty mugs and mismatched furniture, and they were together, all grinning like fools (except for Itachi and Pein. They just grinned.)
Her stomach grumbled.
"Tobi will make dinner!" Tobi shouted, and was off the couch and into the kitchen like a bullet.
"Damn it, Tobi! Your gonna burn down the house, yeah!" Deidara cursed, and he raced into the kitchen where off key singing had begun.
"Brats…" Sasori sighed, and he sagged into the couch.
"I'll set the table." Itachi rose from the couch and glide into the dining room.
"Got any sake?" Kisame asked, already half way to the fridge.
"Tobi's a Barbie girl, in a Barbie woooorllllllld!"
"What the hell, un!"
Kakuzu had disappeared, but soon reappeared with her messy purse, which was spilling credit cards and loose change. He emptied the contents on the table, and began to sort through her assortment of debit, credit, and cash.
"It's the CIRCLE OF LIFFFFEEEE!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP, UN!"
"I'm going to go check the garage for- human flesh- gardening supplies." Zetsu padded off, arguing with himself.
"It's going to rain soon." Pein declared, staring stonily out the window. It was sunny, birds chirping, not a cloud in the sky. Pein narrowed his eyes like taking the nice weather as a personal challenge.
"Sempai looks like a lady!"
"THAT'S IT, YEAH! YOU'LL BE A SMEAR ON THE SIDEWALK WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU!"
"That's not very lady-like, Deidara-sempai."
"ARGGHH!"
Sakura laughed.
My boys…
SORRY SORRY SORRY!
I know I suck and that I haven't updated in forever, but I'm so busy, my dog is sick, I'm moving, and I have finals soon and AHHHHHHHHHH!
I shall try and upload more often, and PM me with any concerns!
Okay, so did you get it? Sakura had a Your back! wait... HOLY SWEEt BABY JESUS...YOUR BACK?! moments, flipped out and ran home like a spazz, than went to bed cause she thought she was crazy
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