Chapter 13: Confusion and truth?
Iaf slowly walked to the cafeteria in a bad mood because using her advanced hearing causes a huge headache for she can't stop it until a few hours later, only Hikari could use it with no problems, at the end of class Tayuya left saying she needed to catch up with her friends and would see her later, as Iaf walked she tried to piece together the conversation she had 'overheard' between Kakuzu and Zetsu.
Once she got to the cafeteria Kiba and Tenten came up to her with worried faces "what's wrong?" she asked trying to tune out the other voices while keeping her headache to a minimal, Kiba looked at Tenten and back before saying "the Sound group"
"The Sound group? What's that?" she asked putting a hand to her head "can't people shut the hell up" she whispered to herself, resisting the urge to scream.
Kiba looked at her with wide eyes "you don't know?!" he half asked, half shouted, his loud voice sent Iaf over the edge.
"AHHH!" she screamed, Tenten and Kiba jumped back.
Iaf bent over breathing heavily "I-Iaf?" Tenten said quietly, Iaf looked up to find everyone looking at her and Kiba and Tenten standing in front of her shocked and scared "I-I'm sorry" she said to them and ran out of the cafeteria before they could reply.
Iaf ran outside away from the school buildings, she stopped on a hill on the opposite side of the school oval, thankfully everyone seemed to eat lunch inside so there was no one around.
Iaf laid down on the hill, letting the sun shine in her face as her headache raged.
Sighing she closed her eyes as she thought over everything that happened this morning.
After a few minutes a shadow came over Iaf's face "Iaf-san?"
Iaf opened her eyes to see Tobi standing in front of her, she sighed and sat up "hi Tobi"
Tobi plopped onto the ground beside Iaf "are you okay Iaf-san?"
"I don't know Tobi, I honestly don't know" Iaf sighed (she's doing that a lot).
"I lied when I told everyone that I could do way more with my hearing (A/N: in ch.6), I could hear them fine because they wear not worried about being quiet.
The truth is I have to really concentrate to join Hikari's and my hearing and after that I had a major headache so I snapped, I didn't mean to yell but its killing me" she explained.
"But everyone was acting weird today though, first Tenten and Kiba gave me these wired looks (not in a bad way) then I overhear bits and pieces of Zetsu-san's and Kakuzu-san's conversation-" Iaf stopped when she saw Tobi stiffen beside her, choosing to ignore it she continued "and in English (obviously) when the teacher told Tayuya-san and I to either stop talking or share with the rest of the class what we were talking about, I decided to say what we were talking about but Tayuya-san put her hand over my mouth and said we'd stop, I don't get it something is wrong with people today" she said with another sigh.
"What were you and Tayuya-san talking about?" Tobi asked.
"My first day and my friends, mostly you guys though, she said she found you interesting so she asked me what I knew about you guys, I told her that I didn't know much but Hikari might because she pays lots of attention to people I interact with"
"Why?"
Iaf stiffened "uh…no reason, just over protective I guess" Iaf laughed nervously.
"Iaf-san I'm worried about you" Tobi stated, Iaf looked at him with shocked eyes before she looked down sadly "even though they don't look like it the Akatsuki are worried about you too" he added, Iaf didn't look up "everyone seems to be worried about me lately and no one will tell me why!" Iaf cried out looking at Tobi with watery eyes "Tobi, no offence but I'm glad your wearing a mask because I don't think I could stand people staring at me with wired looks and me not even knowing why" she said looking down again, Tobi sighed "do you want me to tell you why everyone's worried about you?" he asked, Iaf turned her head towards Tobi but didn't look up at his mask, she opted to look at his feet "you know why?" she asked "yer I do" Tobi replied.
"You didn't speak in third person" she stated with a small smile "eh! Tobi didn't?!" Tobi exclaimed, Iaf let out a small laugh "no, anyway please Tobi tell me why everyone is acting wired around me" Iaf begged, Tobi nodded "it's because of Iaf-san's new friends" he said.
"New friends?" Iaf asked confused, Tobi nodded "yer the Sound group" Iaf scowled "argh, what the hell is the Sound group?" she growled, Tobi looked at her and Iaf could just see his shocked face behind his mask "if you say 'you don't know?' I'll kick your ass" Iaf warned, Tobi laughed nervously "well you know Tayuya?" Tobi asked, Iaf nodded "do you know any of her friends" he asked, Iaf looked confused "friends? …oh you mean the bunch of people I bumped into this morning, Tayuya was one of them… there was Kabuto, Sakon, Ukon and a few others but I didn't get their names" Iaf explained, Tobi nodded slowly "that's the Sound group" he said with a sigh.
"Tayuya didn't mention that" Iaf commented.
"That would be because she doesn't want you to know that her group id the schools bad group" Tobi said, Iaf looked at him "what?!"
"The Sound group hates the Akatsuki and Konoha groups, well basically they hate the whole school, they always cause harm and trouble to students, please Iaf-san stay away from them" Tobi begged, Iaf stood up shocked "what are you talking about?! Tayuya has been nothing but nice to me, I thought you were my friend but you can't even accept my other friends!" Iaf growled, Tobi scrambled up "b-b-but Tobi's worried about Iaf-san's safety, Tobi's a good boy he looks out for his friends" he said all hyper ness gone.
"No, Tobi is a bad boy who I can't trust to be happy with my other friends!" and with that Iaf ran off leaving Tobi standing there.
{Tayuya's POV}
Tayuya leaned against one of the doorframes leading to the school building, she watched as Iaf ran away from Tobi, she smirked and walked back to the Sound groups table.
"Iaf just had a major fight with an Akatsuki member" she said sitting down.
"Well the Akatsuki are probably going to keep an eye on us for a while" Kabuto stated, Tayuya shrugged "what do you think Kimimaru?" she asked, Kimimaru looked over at Kabuto and Tayuya "well I don't think they'll make a scene because from what I've heard here and there around the school is that they really like this girl and I don't think they want to lose her by picking fights with us, Tayuya what did she say in English?"
"She said that she didn't know much, but someone else, Hikari I think, would know more because she pays more attention to people who interact with Iaf.
I think if we can talk to this Hikari we can find out what we want to know" Tayuya explained, Kimimaru nodded.
Suddenly one of the cafeteria doors slammed open and everyone turned to see Tobi running towards the Akatsuki table, when he got there he started waving his hands around frantically while saying something to his friends.
"Wonder what that's about?" Kabuto asked, Tayuya smirked "he's probably telling them about his fight with Iaf-"
"Wait, the member Iaf had a fight with was Tobi?" Sakon asked.
"The hyperactive idiot who's all sunshine and lollipops?" Ukon added, Tayuya nodded "yep, that's the one-"
Ding dong ding dong
"Okay Tayuya keep up the good work, we almost have her" Tayuya nodded and left "Sakon and Ukon I want you two to get on her good side, do anything, be nice, apologize for yelling this morning, anything" they nodded and left after Tayuya "Jirobo and Kidomaru she doesn't know you so keep an eye on the other groups and Kimimaru can you keep an eye on Iaf, I'm going to do some research on our new friend Iaf Aros, for some reason she sounds familiar" Kabuto explained, at the entrance to the cafeteria black hair flew around as the person standing there turned and walked away.
A/N: I know it sounds a bit wired at the beginning and I'm sorry.
For all the Tobi fan's I'm really sorry about the fight, I like Tobi but I had to put this in and for all the people who think I put the fight with Tobi in because he lost the competition is wrong, I had written this before the comp ended, R & R.