Operation Essentially Doom Young Ninja Is A Go
Chapter 5
They had accepted Hidan's offer. Well, Ino had accepted Hidan's offer. Shino hadn't really had a say in it to be quite honest.
Hidan, now, was sitting back regarding his students with a large grin and a devilish glint in his eye.
"So you guys want to become Jashinist's-"
"We want to become immortal!" Ino interrupted excitedly.
"Yeah you do," Hidan replied, his grin taking on a nasty appearance. "Right, well, first of all, you're going to need the right outfits; Jashinists have a very strict uniform."
"They do?" Ino questioned, blinking at this newfound information.
Hidan nodded grandly, getting to his feet with his hands on his hips.
"So!" Tenten exclaimed leaping back from her new Sensei, grinning. "What can we do to make up for our horrible behaviour earlier?"
"Make up for it?" Kakuzu repeated, looking dumbfounded. In all his years, he'd never been this confused...and he'd lived a lot of years.
"Y...yes Kakuzu Sensei," Hinata intoned, shyly ducking her head as she moved forward. "We made you feel very bad earlier and it wasn't fair of us."
"Exactly!" Tenten nodded, she cocked her head and smiled at the Akatsuki member. "Please tell us you'll accept our apology and allow us to make up for it?"
Kakuzu blinked and then stared at the older of the two girls blankly. "I..." he managed one syllable and then he stopped himself, resorting to simply swill the confusion in his head about.
Suddenly the sound of sniffing hit his ears, even more confused than before Kakuzu looked down to see that Tenten and Hinata were filling up, their eyes brimming with tears. Alarmed, the man took a step back, this turned out to be unwise as, with this movement, the tears began flowing properly.
"Ka...Ka...Kakuzu Sensei hasn't forgiven us," Hinata whimpered.
Tenten nodded along with these words and sniffed heavily.
"I...um..." Kakuzu trailed off; he was honestly at a loss, he had no clue what he was supposed to say.
As the two girls bawled in front of him, Kakuzu realised he was going to have to come to a decision. He coughed slightly, clearing his throat, and then spoke. "Um...ok...no. Don't worry girls, I have...um...forgiven you."
Never had the Akatsuki member ever been so taken aback in all his 91 years. As soon as he had finished speaking, the tears had dissolved, now both girls looked maniacally happy.
"Yay!" Tenten whooped and then both she and Hinata grabbed Kakuzu into a hug again. "What can we do to make it up to you?" she demanded.
"Anything!" Hinata added insistently.
"I..." Kakuzu coughed awkwardly. "I guess you could just make it up to me by being...quiet?" he suggested, unsure as to what the girls were aiming for.
This suggestion resulted in both girls laughing crazily, shocking Kakuzu no end. He really hated teenagers.
"Don't be silly Kuzu!" Tenten cooed.
Kakuzu's brow drooped at this nickname, he frowned behind his mask. I preferred it when they were calling me sensei he thought moodily.
"I know what we could do!" Tenten continued as she turned to smile at Hinata. "Let's take Kuzu to a restaurant and pay for his meal!"
Hinata responded to Tenten's cooing with more cooing and the deal was, seemingly, set. Kakuzu had to resist the urge to slap himself in the face. He'd been so stunned by the rapid mood changes that he'd lost control of his 'students'.
"Where are we going?"
That was the sixty-sixth time that Kankuro had whined out this question and Sasori still didn't reply. The puppet man had decided that he was going to simply ignore his annoying student and just keep walking until the sand ninja got tired...this was taking a long time however, as Kankuro was still as chatty as ever.
"I swear the Akatsuki are weird," the sand sibling was saying now. "Don't you think Shikamaru? Shikamaru, don't you think the Akatsuki are weird?"
"Mm," Shikamaru seemingly had less time for Kankuro than Sasori did and was answering his supposed ally with only bit responses, so as to shut him up.
"They are," Kankuro decided. "Because this guy's just been leading us around and around for ages, and we're going in circles."
Sasori stopped dead, causing Kankuro to bump into him and to trip right up onto the floor.
"Oww-" Kankuro began to complain, but he was interrupted by the Akatsuki member getting right into his face.
"What do you mean we've been going around in circles?" he questioned harshly.
Kankuro rubbed the back of his head and gave Sasori a reproachful look as he answered. "We've been going around in circles for ages now, I thought you knew."
As a matter of fact, Sasori hadn't known that, the puppet man had been working on the assumption that, eventually, they would end up out of the forest; he hadn't ever considered that they might get lost...
The ginger turned to look at Shikamaru who was watching the clouds, a bored expression on his face.
"Is this true?" the Akatsuki member hissed, nodding his head at Kankuro.
"Yes," Shikamaru nodded. "I just figured your plan was to lead us round and round until we were exhausted."
Sasori went quiet...they were lost.
"And...and let me tell you about taxes!"
Naruto and Gaara sniggered drunkenly as they watched Pein slur his words, leaning over the table as he launched into yet another rant.
As Pein ranted and raved, a waiter approached the table.
"Another bottle of Rosé sir?" he questioned, addressing Naruto.
"Yeah, sure! Why not!" Naruto grinned, waving the waiter away.
Said waiter nodded, flashed Pein a disgusted look and then sauntered off. Naruto and Gaara watched him go before Gaara reached for Pein's wallet.
"How much-" the sand ninja interrupted himself with a hiccup before continuing. "How much is this going to come to Naruto?"
"Hmm," Naruto stroked his chin before glancing down at their table, which was overflowing with empty plates, bowls, glasses and numerous bottles of wine. "I'm not too sure, but hey! Pein's paying. Aren't ya Pein?" Naruto cocked his head and smiled in the direction of where the Akatsuki leader had been. The jinchuriki's face dropped when he realised that Pein was nowhere to be found. "Holy crap," he cursed, jumping up from the table.
"Is something wrong sir?"
Naruto turned to see the waiter looking at him suspiciously, a bottle of wine in his hands. The leaf village ninja smiled sheepishly. "No...no, nothing's wrong. Just...you know..." the blond trailed off before turning to Gaara. "Gaara, could you check Pein's wallet for me?"
Looking bewildered, Gaara slowly extended a hand and reached for Pein's wallet. Naruto watched him wide-eyed, his heart beating in his chest.
Gaara glanced inside the wallet and then his eyes widened, he looked up at Naruto. "There's only 200 Ryo in here," he announced.
The whole atmosphere immediately became tense. Naruto stiffened and kept his eyes on Gaara, aware that the waiter's eyes were now boring into him. Gaara stayed staring at Naruto too, obviously willing his ally to come up with something. The three stayed silent, until Pein appeared wobbling into the scene.
"Hiya guys, what's goin' on!" he shouted loudly, smiling dopily.
"RUUUNNNN!" Naruto screamed suddenly before pushing the waiter to the floor and sprinting out of the restaurant.
Gaara let out a yelp of terror before rushing to grab Pein and following Naruto's example. Pein laughed wildly as he was dragged along.
"Are you two tired?"
Choji blinked at this question and Neji, instead of answering, glanced up at the sky, noting that it was obviously still only early afternoon.
"It's still daytime," he said, looking at Konan, who was gazing at them expectantly.
"Yes, but you two are still young!" Konan exclaimed. "I think you should go to sleep."
Neji and Choji stared at her unsurely.
"I'm not actually tire-" Choji began, but Konan quickly cut him off.
"I think you should go to sleep," she repeated. She was smiling, but the smile seemed off.
"Rea-" Neji went to ask, but again Konan cut him off.
"Go to sleep," she insisted.
Neji and Choji exchanged a glance of confusion and worry before both boys slowly -and awkwardly- lay down upon the ground.
"Where're we going?" Temari asked irritably.
The three of them had been flying for a while now and the sand ninja had begun to get fed up of the constant whipping of cold air against her face, despite her main element being wind.
"Deidara Sensei is searching for Sasori!" Rock-Lee reported excitedly, turning away from his new favourite person in the world briefly. "He wants to show him how cool his new students are!"
Temari sighed heavily and leant over the bird's tail, looking down at the ground below, considering jumping. If she leapt off, she could simply use her fan to glide down safely.
"So Sakura, what would you like for lunch?"
Sakura glanced up at Itachi and hummed in thought. "Well, I wouldn't mind a-" the pink-haired girl was cut off when Sasuke came swooping at them from the trees, a kunai aimed at Itachi's head.
Itachi sidestepped his brother neatly before smiling back at Sakura. "Yes?" he prompted.
Since the beginning of their walk, Sasuke had been launching a number of attacks, all aimed towards Itachi. With this current attack failed, Sasuke quickly melted back into the woods surrounding the path, leaving Itachi and Sakura together once more.
"I was going to say I wouldn't mind some dumplings," Sakura confided.
Itachi's smile widened before he quickly jumped out of Sasuke's way, leaving his little brother breathing heavily in a crater of his own creation.
"Well then we'll get some dumplings," the older Uchiha promised.
"Ooh, your dog is so cute!"
"He's so well behaved!"
"Does your dog want some ice cream?"
Kisame sat slumped in his seat, glowering at Akamaru and Kiba as the two of them soaked up all the attention the all female staff showered them in. He hated dogs and he hated Kiba, that was the conclusion the fish man had came to. He also hated these stupid trilling waitresses.
"Hello sir, are you ready to order?" one arrived next to him, carrying a pencil and a notebook.
"I hate ice cream," Kisame grumbled moodily in reply.
The waitress cocked her head. "What would you like sir?"
"I hate ice cream," Kisame repeated before fixing the waitress with an angry glare.
The waitress squeaked in fear and was about to run away, but Kiba promptly stopped her, coming up behind her and catching her at the elbows.
"Hey, hey!" he cooed. "What's going on here? Kisame Sensei, are you bullying these poor waitresses?"
The waitress risked a glance at Kiba's face, obviously confirmed to herself she liked the look of him, and then buried herself into his chest.
Kisame glowered at Kiba. "No," he replied stonily.
"Aw, but you've upset..." Kiba trailed off and glanced down at the waitress snuggled into him.
She peeped up quickly. "Akemi," she provided.
"Akemi!" Kiba repeated as the woman snuggled herself back into his chest. "We can't have that! I'm sure you want to do something to make up for that, right?" his voice was sympathetic, but the Inuzuka couldn't help grinning, a cheeky glint in his eyes as Akamaru came up next to him.
Kisame stared at him helplessly. "...what do you want me to do?" he croaked.
AN: RIGHT! SO! Sorry for being away for so long! But, I'm actually in the middle of exams exams exams. Shiiiiit. So, I eventually managed to take enough time out to write this! I hope it's ok :\