how dare you think I'd possibly be able to come up with something as marvelous as Naruto, let alone the Akatsuki?
Enjoy.
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Chaos groaned. She set her head in her hands and massaged her temple, head ache growing by the minute.
Apparently, sizes are different in the Narutoverse. So, before they could even think of buying anything, Chaos had to send each member in with a crap ton of different clothes to try to figure out what their size would be. She found out Konan's on the first try, since she ended up being the same size as Brise. However, being a girl who doesn't understand the reasoning behind male pants sizes, she was stuck going on a wild goose chase.
Nearly an hour had passed before they finished that, and then she had to actually shop for them. After making them memorize their sizes, she sent some of the more capable members out on their own, making them promise to stay in the store. That left her with Deidara, Hidan, Kisame (who was just as confused as Chaos), and Sasori. She highly doubted that if the red head would cooperate, he would need help. But, when she tried to set him loose, he decided he didn't want to shop any longer.
He tried to leave the store.
After Chaos had a mental break down because she thought she lost a murderer, she found him wondering around a sunglasses stand. There wasn't much she could do to a puppet, so she resorted to death threats and told him she'd make him ride in the bitch seat if he ever did that to her again.
While it had taken them forever to get done with one store, and they had a whole mall to go through.
At one point, Konan made Pein go into Claire's with her so she could pick out earrings and new piercings. Chaos laughed at how Konan dragged him around and earned a glare in her direction. She then tried to convince Deidara and Kakuzu to pierce their ears, which earned her a middle finger and a threat of being blown up. Chaos literally had to drag Hidan out of Spencer's when he decided to go into the back even though she specifically said not to. Most of them seemed to have great interest in Victoria's Secret, which lead to Hidan asking if he could buy Chaos lingerie. That resulted in all of them getting kicked out because Chaos tried to choke Hidan with a bra.
About halfway through their shopping trip, Chaos and the others had collapsed at the food court. Their bags were set on the floor under the table and they all sat, each having their own conversations.
"Alright," Chaos said, grabbing all eight of their attention. "On a scale from one to ten, how hungry are you?" when a chorus of different numbers met her ears, she sighed. She resisted the urge to chuckle when Sasori said ten and stood up, making Kisame follow her. "I'll just get some pizzas then."
When the two approached the counter, she was greeted with the familiar face of one of her old friends.
"Hey Vincent," she said happily, leaning forward on the counter. The snow blonde turned, dark green eyes lighting up, along with a smile.
"Hey Chaos," he said, leaning onto the counter as well. The red and black uniform he had to wear crinkled slightly, hiding his name tag. "How's my favorite destructive midget doing?" Chaos scowled at him.
"Fine. I made some new friends, and we're currently shopping. This is one of them," she gestured behind her to Kisame, who smiled. Vincent blinked.
"Dude. You're blue."
Kisame rolled his eyes and his smile turned into a smirk. "Dude, I had no idea."
Chaos smiled at Kisame and leaned back. "I'm gonna need two pepperoni pizza's and two cheese pizza's. Think you can handle that?" Vincent quirked an eyebrow.
"How many new friends are with you?"
"Eight."
"Wow. I didn't think you had the social skills."
Chaos scowled. "Just because I'm not a social butterfly like Brise doesn't mean I'm not capable of finding people to hang out with."
Vincent waved her off. "Yeah, whatever you say. Four pizza's on their way. Just give me a sec," he turned back towards the kitchen part of the pizza stand and yelled out the order before turning back to the two. "Anyways, how is Brise doing? I haven't seen her since her graduation." Chaos sighed.
"She's doing her model thing. She has a couple weeks off after this photo shoot, and then she had to do one for an upcoming clothing line. It's ridiculous. I can't really complain though, since it brings in most of the money." Vincent nodded in understanding.
"Yeah, but you still have the money that your grandma left you, right?"
Chaos nodded. "Yeah. She was a pretty shitty grandmother, but in the end she treated me pretty well. Perks of being a favorite, I guess."
Kisame casted her a confused look. "What are you talking about?"
"Grandma Carter who used to be a movie star," Vincent said, gaining Kisame's attention. He moved some of hair out of his eyes before he continued speaking. "She was never really popular, but she had a few good roles. She was pretty bitter though, and was pretty shitty to anyone who tried to help her out. Though, she thought Chaos was funny and the least annoying, so when she died, she left everything to my main bitch right here. That started a family feud between everyone she was related to, and she eventually told them to fuck off and moved out. Then she let Brise move in with her and BOOM! The oh-so fabulous sister-like friendship formed."
Kisame blinked. "Your last name is Carter?"
The blonde and pinkette face palmed. "That's all you got out of that?" Vincent asked, groaning. Chaos rolled her eyes and noticed that a tall girl stood next to Vincent, holding four pizza boxes. Chaos paid and made Kisame hold the boxes, and the two made it back to their table—err, three tables smooshed together.
x x x
"That is not art, un."
The group stopped walking to turn back and see Deidara and Sasori staring at the sculpture in the middle of the mall. They stared at it in distaste, getting ready to criticize it. Chaos ran a hand over her face and gave a slight sigh.
"Guys, come on."
Chaos's words seemed to have no effect against the two. Sasori pointed at part of the sculpture that had began to rust.
"The 'artist' didn't even use appropriate materials. How can you show the eternal beauty if begins to show characteristics of aging? Pathetic."
The Akatsuki face palmed.
"There's no explosion, no fiery heat and color, yeah! It's just there, and not even nice to look at either, un!"
With a groan, Chaos noticed that people had begun to crowd around the two who criticized the statue openly. "Guys, come on."
"Shut up for a second, brat," Sasori grumbled. He and Deidara continued to point out flaws and judge the artist.
"Oh for fucks sake," she said. She walked up to the shortest of the Akatsuki—though, they're still taller than her—and grabbed a handful of their hair, yanking them away from the statue. Deidara let out a a noise of discontent as he tried to pull Chaos's fingers out of his bright yellow strands, whereas Sasori was unaffected and continued his speech on art as she pulled them away. The crowd was full of murmurs, which Chaos ignored. She didn't let go of them until they entered the next store, which happened to be Journey's.
"You know, I think that was the first time they agreed on something," Kisame said, looking at a pair of DC's. Chaos rolled her eyes and ignored the glare Deidara gave her, instead going off into the store to look at the shoes. The Akatsuki spread out, Konan and Chaos on one side of the store, the boys on the other. Once they had all picked out a pair of shoes and bought them, they left the store, more bags in their hands. They were walking through the crowd when a voice yelled out, freezing Chaos in her tracks.
"Oh my God, is that Anna? It is! Anna, over here!" the voice yelled, catching everyone's attention. Chaos froze, mouth hanging open slightly as she thought over her chances of being able to outrun the girl, who was currently making her way through the crowd to her. Sadly, she hadn't done anything physical since she graduated high school, so she doubted that she could possibly break out into a sprint.
A hand made its way onto her shoulder and forced her to face the girl, who was smiling rather brightly. Chaos ignored the instinct to groan and forced a small smile onto her face as well. Behind her, the Akatsuki watched with confused faces as the girl before them continued to fangirl over the short pinkette.
"Oh, uh, hi Alex. It's been a while."
"Oh my God, it's been so long! I missed you so much! Did you miss me? Oh, I bet you did! Still as short as ever, huh? I'm gonna guess you haven't even signed up for college classes yet, have you? Are you still going by that weird nickname 'Chaos'? How's Brise? Is she still doing the model thing? That's our Brise for you!"
Chaos glanced back at the group and mouthed "help me" before being forced back into the conversation.
"I should come over soon! It'd be just like in high school, you know! I'm free this weekend, so I'll make sure to stop by! Oh, who are they?" she left the confused shortie and went straight for, much to everyone's humor, Itachi. The black haired girl stared up at him happily, flashing a bright smile and batting her eyelashes. To the trained eye, you could tell that Alex was trying to make her chest look bigger and see that she had pulled down her tank top slightly. Chaos nearly blanched when she realized Alex was trying to flirt with Itachi.
Only one person got to flirt with Itachi, and that was going to Chaos.
One day. Maybe.
"It's so nice to meet you. My name is Alex. What's your name? Anna didn't tell me she had so many friends."
Chaos face palmed.
Itachi stared blankly at the girl, not even bothering to answer the question she had asked him. After a couple minutes passed, Alex made a dumbfounded face.
"What's wrong? Are you mute? Or are you just not into girls? Are you not one of Anna's friends? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you or anything. I'm just curious."
It took a minute for her words to settle in. Everyone's jaw dropped, all staring at her in disbelief for a second before bursting out into laughter. Itachi glared darkly at her, making her head drop to the side as if asking what she did. Hidan was the first to speak.
"I always knew the fucking prick was gay!" he laughed, setting a hand on his knee to keep him upright. Pein tried to make it seem like he was annoyed by all of this, but you could tell he was trying to hold in his laughter. Konan giggled slightly while Kakuzu chuckled loudly. Deidara was full out laughing, using Chaos's shoulder for support while she used her knee's, copying Hidan's posture. Sasori was laughing and making snide remarks, asking when Itachi had planned on coming out of the closet. Kisame was trying to control his laughter, but he failed miserably, resting his arms on Itachi's shoulder with his head resting on them, much to Itachi's annoyance.
Chaos wiped the tears out of her eyes and rested a hand on Alex's shoulder. "I'm pretty sure he isn't gay. Maybe your charm just wore off." Alex made an 'o' shape with her mouth before a pink dust covered her face in embarrassment.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to—uh, sorry!" she squeaked. Itachi rolled his eyes before turning away, kicking Hidan in the shin as he passed him. Once he wasn't there, her demeanor changed. "So, about me coming over?"
Chaos sweat dropped, rubbing the back of her neck while trying to think up an excuse as to why she couldn't. "Well, um, you can't. I already have all of them plus two staying over, so there wouldn't be any space. Maybe next time." Before Alex could say anything, she picked up her bags and flashed a hesitant smile. "Okay, by! It was good to see you!" and the group disappeared quickly.
Alex blinked.
"That was weird."
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Fun Fact: Chaos and Brise have been living together for nearly a year. Chaos moved out when she was eighteen and Brise's parents allowed her to live with Chaos when she was seventeen.
QOTC: what's your favorite school subject? I mean basics, like math, language, history, etc. Mine is language arts just because I have the most amazing teacher for it lmao.
This chapter is short because I've never cared for reading the "Akatsuki are in the mall!" type things, unless something got blown up. I kind of just pulled Alex out of my ass. I only threw her in to make it longer. She'll probably come into play again so she doesn't seem too random though, and so will Vincent because I love him.
Anyways, leave your answers to the question in your review! I hope you guys liked this chapter, even though it's really short.
-Chaos