Why You Should Never Use Strange Elevators, Chapter Two
"Rachael! wake up!!"
I groaned in protest as someone shook me roughly, my head snapping from side to side. I flipped over on my stomach, pulling my black silk comforter over my head. "Nooooooooo!" i complained, my voice muffled by my pillow. "come on, get up and go to the kitchen with me!!" i reconized the voice as Mika's, and made a "mmmph" sound. "it's breakfast time and Ricki says you haven't eaten since the mall." My stomach growled loudly in agreement, and poked my head out from under my blankets. "Breakfast?"
I blinked against the dim light of a moon-shaped nightlight that was on my dresser, and peered at the blood red numbers of my new alarm clock. "it's only ten!" i whined. But i still got out of bed, and slouched over to my dresser. I opened a drawer and pulled out a black, lacy lolita dress, and threw it on, ripping a brush through my bed head until it was straight again. "Where's everyone else?" I asked Mika, as i slid my sword sheath on. "in the kitchen making breakfast." I slipped on a pair of black ballarina slippers, and pinned a red bow in my hair. "Okay." i said at last, yawning. "Let's go eat."
we were halfway to the door when i realized that something important was missing. something VERY important. then it hit me.
"MIKA,PUT SOME PANTS ON!!"
After Mika had put on a pair of jeans we made our way to the kitchen, Where Roxy, Ricki, and Cindy were making breakfast. Ricki was making pancakes, a full plate already done and golden brown. Roxy was frying bacon, and Cindy was making toast by breathing fire on a plate of bread. I noticed that her bangs were slightly singed from the flames. "Hey, look, the new girls have made us breakfast"Said the familar voice of Kisame. "sorry, Shamu." said Ricki, putting another plate full of panakes on the table. "But i didn't make any sushi. your out of luck." Cindy, Mika, and Roxy howled with laughter as Kisame chuckled, taking the blow. "Yes! breakfast, hmmmm?" said Deidara, following Kisame into the kitchen. I rolled my eyes, and fixed myself a plate filled with a small stack of pancakes, a few peices of bacon, and a peice of burnt toast. "Frig. i could use some coffee right about now." I grumbled, taking a spot at the long table in the huge kitchen. I took a big bite of my pancakes, which i had smothered with syrup. "Then make it yourself." said Ricki, who was still making pancakes. I got up, found the coffee maker,and set it up. I made three pots and filled myself a mug, shoving one at Deidara, who had sat across from me. He looked greatly suprised, but took it. "Thanks, Serenity. hmmm?" I gave him a short nod, then remembered that i had forgotten something. "Ah, Ayako.....i kinda forgot my laptop....." Ricki set two more plates of pancakes on the counter. She squinted, then my Red Netbook was in my lap. "Thanks." I said, patting the space next to me. "Now eat! you guys got me up and it's daylight. so you owe me. so i say you eat!" Ricki filled up her plate as i booted up my computer, logging on. i started to type, and eat at the same time.
Pretty soon most of the men woke up and came for breakfast, except Pein, Kakuzu, and Konan. Ricki sat at my right, with Itachi next to her. Orochimaru sat at my left for some reason, taking only coffee, and Roxy, Cindy, and Mika sat in front of us. When i finished breakfast i dumped my plate in the sink, and stayed for another cup of coffee. I returned to my seat and turned to Ricki, yawning. "Since i'm up, do you wanna go for a run outside when your done?" Ricki gave me a horrifed look. "You? out in the sun? you'd probably MELT!" I socked her hard in the arm. "EY! fuck you to hell! i was going to wear my cloak!" Deidara started to laugh, which made me mad for real. "Fuck you too, pop art terrorist!" I finished my coffee, and poured myself another cup. I started to type furiously, trying to finish the forth chapter of something i was writing. i finished up the last sentance, and saved my work, then slid the laptop in front of Ricki. "Read and Rate. ima post this if i can get an internet connection in this underground firetrap of hell."
After a minute of two of reading Ricki burst out into un controlable laughter. "Your at the part where she uses the baseball bat to smash his windows in aren't you? or is it the part where they jump Hernadez with the Clown Maskes on?" I guessed, grinning. "MASKS!!!" she choked out. "THIS IS UBER FUCKING BRIILANT!!!" She slid the laptop in front of Cindy, Mika,and Roxy. After a few moments they also started to bust up. A lot. I closed my laptop in satisfaction, and got up. "There's only so much morning i can take. I'm going back to bed. Now you guys have to deal with them." I pointed to the four laughing, overly caffinated girls with a cruel, devilish smile. The men at the table looked horrified. "Pay back, bitches. have fun."
The protests and cries for mercy followed me out of the room and down the hallway as i strolled back to our room, grinning. They were SO easy to torture. I entered our room, noticing that Ricki had added about a dozen new stuffed animals on her bed, a giant lollypop for Cindy, another skateboard for Roxy, a Small mini DVD player for Mika, and a case full of weapons for me. I put a Metric CD into our stereo and curled up in my private little gothic paradice. I dozed for a long time, The song "Torture Me" by Metric put on repeat as my background noise. It was soothing, and the weakness that daylight caused my charecter set in, and made me fall asleep.
I woke up to find Mika on her computer, with Cindy watching DVD's on Mika's DVD player. "Ehhhhhhh...." i yawned, and opened my eyes, sliding out of bed. "Evening, sleepy head." Said Mika, her eyes never leaving her computer screen. I stretched, feeling awake and well rested. "Hey. where are Ricki and Roxy?" i asked, observing the absense of chaos in the room. Cindy shrugged, looking up from her movie. "i don't know, we like hung out in the kitchen for a while and they went off somewhere." she answered. I pulled on my favorite silk robe, not wanted to get dressed and change out of my black sleeping shorts and comfy ripped up black nirvana shirt, which barely reached my stomach. I plopped down on Cindy's bed and watched Tsubasa with her for a while, munching on redvines that we had found on top of the fridge in the room. "you know these probably belong to Ricki" i said in-between bites. "They do. she'll probably kill us when she notices the missing candy. you know how she is about her candy, right?" I nodded in agreement, knowing all too well about Ricki's candy obsession.
Just as we were putting in another DVD to watch, an explosion made the entire lair shudder. We all jumped up in suprise, and rushed out into the hallway, which was filled with smoke. "BLOODY FUCKING HELL AYAKO! WHAT DID YOU DO THIS TIME??!!" I yelled loudly. Ricki ran up from the opposite direction of the smoke, frantic. "I didn't do it this time! I swear!!!" she told me, trying to see through all of the smoke. She coughed, and pulled out her asthma inhaler. She used it, then tucked it back into her bra. "Then if you didn't do it........"
Another explosion shook the lair, followed by loud footsteps and screaming. "GIVE THEM BACK, OR I'LL BLOW YOU TO BITS, HMMM??!!" Roxy zipped past me and Ricki on her board, clutching what looked like a stack of magazines. she was laughing like a maniac, and was yelling, "Dei reads Yaoi! Dei reads Yaoi!" A magazine fell out of her grasp as she boarded by. Ricki picked it up, and thumbed through it. "OH MY DEAR LORD!!" I looked over her shoulder and saw what she was looking at. "Huh. so he DOES read yaoi. and hardcore yaoi at that." i said, when she closed it. "go figure. i never thought he was THAT gay. guess i was wrong." Just then, Deidara stormed down the hallway, a clay spider in hand. He snatched the magazine out of Ricki's hands. "It's not mine, hmmmm??!! i'm, um, holding it for a friend!!"
Ricki and i did a twin eye roll."Surrrre you are." We sang, Causing the terrorist to turn an enraged, angry purple. He ran off, intent on getting his yaoi back. "Well." said Mika, waving the smoke away. "I know who's NOT going to clean this up." All four of us exchanged a look and took off in the direction of the kitchen, jumping over rubble. When we reached the kitchen, Ricki started pulling out ingridiants to make her mom's double chocolate cake, and Cindy and Mika were exploring the Akatsuki's fridge. "Whoa! there's strawberry flavored plant feeder in here!" exclaimed Cindy, pulling out a big, pink bottle. Mika and Cindy started to laugh, and i joined them at the fridge, looking through all the freaky food. "Hey, can you pass me the flour?" asked Ricki, stirring the cake batter in a big bowl. A wicked smile crossed Cindy's cute and innocent face. She reached up into a cubboard, and pulled out a big bag of plain, white baking flower. "Heads up!"
I watched in what seemed like slow motion as the bag soared through the air, and landed square on Ricki's well sized chest. it opened and showered her with white powder, then dropped to the floor, still almost full. Cindy started to laugh, falling on the floor in tears. Mika giggled, oogling the ghost-like Ricki who stood in front of us, stunned.
Then, in a movement almost so quick i didn't even see it, Ricki picked up the bag, and chucked it at Cindy, who was now standing in front of me. She ducked, and it hit me smack in the face. My eyes narrowed as everyone beagn to laugh, me included. And then i reached a hand inside the bag, and threw a handful on Cindy.
That's where it got out of hand.
Soon we were in a fulll-on flower fight, clouds of white whizzing through the air and smashing into their targets. We were laughing un-controlably, ducking and trying to dodge the flower. "What is going on in here?" we all stopped dead in our tracks as Pein stood in the doorway, looking all mad and scary like. It was silent for a long moment.
and then Ricki chucked a handful at Pein, which hit him right in the face. I laughed along with everyone else, but kept a hold on myself. Sure, the sight of the all mighty akatsuki leader covered with flower made me want to laugh like a loon, but the scary angry look he was giving us was not good. not good at all. He glared at all of us, with his rinnigan gaze that made grown men piss their pants. Ricki got the message and in just a split second, the room,including Pein, was clean and orderly again, with the cake batter intact. Pein left without another word, which made us laugh all over again. "d-did you see the look on his FACE??!!" i exclaimed, as Ricki poured the batter into a pan. "he was so PISSED!!!" finished Mika. Ricki giggled, which made me smack her in the back of her head. "Stop with the creepy dead little girl laugh. it freaks me out!" Ricki smacked me back and slid the pan into the oven.
An hour later we were sitting on the counter, devouring plates of the excellent chocolate cake. I thought i was about to die from a chocolate overdose and decided that another peice couldn't hurt when Deidara and Itachi came in. Ricki cut two big peices and put them on plates, holding them out. "Cake." she told them. It wasn't a request or a question. When it came to food, Ricki is very, very serious. The two men took the plates of cake and accepted two forks from Cindy, and Ricki waited for their reactions. Deidara took a bite, and swallowed. Then he took another, and another, until all that remained were a few crumbs. Itachi took a bite and in less time then Deidara his plate was clean. "Nice." mumbled Deidara, grabbing a beer from the fridge. He and Itachi were wearing casual gear instead of the coats and batte gear. I slid off the counter, took their plates with my own, and dumped them in the sink. "Where the hell are the exits in this place?" i asked the sometimes suicide bomber. "there's a trapdoor down the hall, three doors down. just don't let Leader-Sama catch you, hmmm?"
Sure. that would be easy.NOT.
I made my way outside by busting open the lock on the trapdoor and pushing through into the night. The darkness greeted me as i stepped into a highly wooded area with trees. Perfect. I hadn't been outside in days, and just thinking about the cool night air and the stars made me pissed off, because Pein had restricted us to the base. "Ha. who's laughing now? screw your rules." i said outloud. But wait a sec.....now that i was outside, what was i going to do? i put a hand to my firehead in stupidity. I hadn't thought ahead at all. I climbed a tree, and sat utop a high branch, and just stared at the stars.
The peace and queit was bliss. The lair had been chaotic and noisy most of the time, and the silence outside was awesome. I yawned, wishing that i had not been lazy, and changed out of my shorts and cut up Nirvana tee, because there was a slight breeze that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up on end. "I thought Pein had restricted you to the base."
Huh. so that was why i had goose bumps; Orochimaru had snuck up on me, and was now standing below my branch on the ground. I shrugged, even through my heart was racing. What the hell did he want with me anyway? "He did." I replied casualy, trying to sound like i was bored, even though i was far from it. I wished that i had thought ahead and brought some sort of weapon with me. Orochimaru was VERY unpredictable. "What do you want?" I looked down to see him looking up at me and shivered. The Manga didn't lie. Orochimaru's gaze was just as scary and bonechilling as it portrayed it to be. "I'm just very curious as to how you messed with my mind." his tone was light and casual, but i could sense the dark undertone of suppressed fury behind it. I gave him a very bitchy smile. "That's for me to know and you to never find out"
And then the Saninn snapped.
Before i could say anything else something cold and slimy wrapped itself around my neck and swung me none too gently off my branch, slamming me into the trunk of a tree.I tried to snarl a few of my many curses at him, but choked on the lack of air. The world was becoming fuzzy and losing it's shape as the thing squeezed tighter around my throat. I clawed at my neck, my lungs screaming for air. "Don't play with me, girl! what have you done to me?! why is it that i find myself unable to rid myself of these emotions?!" My vison was growing dark, and i could barely see the menaceing(but hot) form of Orochimaru only a foot away from me. I tried to choke out a reply, but was way out of air. I was realeced and fell in a heap on the dirt floor, shivering and swallowing air in tiny sips like a gasping fish. He had half strangled me with his long tounge! and to think that i'd have given my left boob for that to happen a few days ago, when i was bored out of my mind in Norwalk.
"It's love, you stupid bastard." I rasped, glaring at him with watery eyes."You're almost three times my age, and you couldn't figure that out? legendary ninja my ass." I felt Ricki probe my mind gently."Want some help?" i mentaly shook my head."I think i can handle this, but thanks." I sent back. I looked up, and met the older man's eyes. "You have the memories." I growled, pushing my hair away from my neck. "And i have your mark. why don't you put it all together and see where it gets you. Now Sod off and let me and what's left of my Pride be." I picked myself up and pressed a hand to my scraped, stinging throat. Black chakra healed the damage, and i silently thanked Nightshayde, who had been watching the whole thing through my eyes. I Limped back over to the trapdoor, and went back into the base.
I was sore all over when i reached the hallway where our room was, covered in dirt and feeling alltogether like shit. "I told you not to leave the base." I froze in complete fear as i heard the bonechilling voice of Pein behind me. I didn't dare to turn around in fear of meeting his freaky eyes that i knew would find any lie that i happened to make up on the spot. In my head I screamed at Ricki, Cindy, and anyone else who was nearby to hurry up and help me. I slowly turned to meet my impending doom, and found myself face to face with an enraged Pein.
And then a large peice of Ricki's double chocolate cake hit him square in the face.
End of chapter Two.
I groaned in protest as someone shook me roughly, my head snapping from side to side. I flipped over on my stomach, pulling my black silk comforter over my head. "Nooooooooo!" i complained, my voice muffled by my pillow. "come on, get up and go to the kitchen with me!!" i reconized the voice as Mika's, and made a "mmmph" sound. "it's breakfast time and Ricki says you haven't eaten since the mall." My stomach growled loudly in agreement, and poked my head out from under my blankets. "Breakfast?"
I blinked against the dim light of a moon-shaped nightlight that was on my dresser, and peered at the blood red numbers of my new alarm clock. "it's only ten!" i whined. But i still got out of bed, and slouched over to my dresser. I opened a drawer and pulled out a black, lacy lolita dress, and threw it on, ripping a brush through my bed head until it was straight again. "Where's everyone else?" I asked Mika, as i slid my sword sheath on. "in the kitchen making breakfast." I slipped on a pair of black ballarina slippers, and pinned a red bow in my hair. "Okay." i said at last, yawning. "Let's go eat."
we were halfway to the door when i realized that something important was missing. something VERY important. then it hit me.
"MIKA,PUT SOME PANTS ON!!"
After Mika had put on a pair of jeans we made our way to the kitchen, Where Roxy, Ricki, and Cindy were making breakfast. Ricki was making pancakes, a full plate already done and golden brown. Roxy was frying bacon, and Cindy was making toast by breathing fire on a plate of bread. I noticed that her bangs were slightly singed from the flames. "Hey, look, the new girls have made us breakfast"Said the familar voice of Kisame. "sorry, Shamu." said Ricki, putting another plate full of panakes on the table. "But i didn't make any sushi. your out of luck." Cindy, Mika, and Roxy howled with laughter as Kisame chuckled, taking the blow. "Yes! breakfast, hmmmm?" said Deidara, following Kisame into the kitchen. I rolled my eyes, and fixed myself a plate filled with a small stack of pancakes, a few peices of bacon, and a peice of burnt toast. "Frig. i could use some coffee right about now." I grumbled, taking a spot at the long table in the huge kitchen. I took a big bite of my pancakes, which i had smothered with syrup. "Then make it yourself." said Ricki, who was still making pancakes. I got up, found the coffee maker,and set it up. I made three pots and filled myself a mug, shoving one at Deidara, who had sat across from me. He looked greatly suprised, but took it. "Thanks, Serenity. hmmm?" I gave him a short nod, then remembered that i had forgotten something. "Ah, Ayako.....i kinda forgot my laptop....." Ricki set two more plates of pancakes on the counter. She squinted, then my Red Netbook was in my lap. "Thanks." I said, patting the space next to me. "Now eat! you guys got me up and it's daylight. so you owe me. so i say you eat!" Ricki filled up her plate as i booted up my computer, logging on. i started to type, and eat at the same time.
Pretty soon most of the men woke up and came for breakfast, except Pein, Kakuzu, and Konan. Ricki sat at my right, with Itachi next to her. Orochimaru sat at my left for some reason, taking only coffee, and Roxy, Cindy, and Mika sat in front of us. When i finished breakfast i dumped my plate in the sink, and stayed for another cup of coffee. I returned to my seat and turned to Ricki, yawning. "Since i'm up, do you wanna go for a run outside when your done?" Ricki gave me a horrifed look. "You? out in the sun? you'd probably MELT!" I socked her hard in the arm. "EY! fuck you to hell! i was going to wear my cloak!" Deidara started to laugh, which made me mad for real. "Fuck you too, pop art terrorist!" I finished my coffee, and poured myself another cup. I started to type furiously, trying to finish the forth chapter of something i was writing. i finished up the last sentance, and saved my work, then slid the laptop in front of Ricki. "Read and Rate. ima post this if i can get an internet connection in this underground firetrap of hell."
After a minute of two of reading Ricki burst out into un controlable laughter. "Your at the part where she uses the baseball bat to smash his windows in aren't you? or is it the part where they jump Hernadez with the Clown Maskes on?" I guessed, grinning. "MASKS!!!" she choked out. "THIS IS UBER FUCKING BRIILANT!!!" She slid the laptop in front of Cindy, Mika,and Roxy. After a few moments they also started to bust up. A lot. I closed my laptop in satisfaction, and got up. "There's only so much morning i can take. I'm going back to bed. Now you guys have to deal with them." I pointed to the four laughing, overly caffinated girls with a cruel, devilish smile. The men at the table looked horrified. "Pay back, bitches. have fun."
The protests and cries for mercy followed me out of the room and down the hallway as i strolled back to our room, grinning. They were SO easy to torture. I entered our room, noticing that Ricki had added about a dozen new stuffed animals on her bed, a giant lollypop for Cindy, another skateboard for Roxy, a Small mini DVD player for Mika, and a case full of weapons for me. I put a Metric CD into our stereo and curled up in my private little gothic paradice. I dozed for a long time, The song "Torture Me" by Metric put on repeat as my background noise. It was soothing, and the weakness that daylight caused my charecter set in, and made me fall asleep.
I woke up to find Mika on her computer, with Cindy watching DVD's on Mika's DVD player. "Ehhhhhhh...." i yawned, and opened my eyes, sliding out of bed. "Evening, sleepy head." Said Mika, her eyes never leaving her computer screen. I stretched, feeling awake and well rested. "Hey. where are Ricki and Roxy?" i asked, observing the absense of chaos in the room. Cindy shrugged, looking up from her movie. "i don't know, we like hung out in the kitchen for a while and they went off somewhere." she answered. I pulled on my favorite silk robe, not wanted to get dressed and change out of my black sleeping shorts and comfy ripped up black nirvana shirt, which barely reached my stomach. I plopped down on Cindy's bed and watched Tsubasa with her for a while, munching on redvines that we had found on top of the fridge in the room. "you know these probably belong to Ricki" i said in-between bites. "They do. she'll probably kill us when she notices the missing candy. you know how she is about her candy, right?" I nodded in agreement, knowing all too well about Ricki's candy obsession.
Just as we were putting in another DVD to watch, an explosion made the entire lair shudder. We all jumped up in suprise, and rushed out into the hallway, which was filled with smoke. "BLOODY FUCKING HELL AYAKO! WHAT DID YOU DO THIS TIME??!!" I yelled loudly. Ricki ran up from the opposite direction of the smoke, frantic. "I didn't do it this time! I swear!!!" she told me, trying to see through all of the smoke. She coughed, and pulled out her asthma inhaler. She used it, then tucked it back into her bra. "Then if you didn't do it........"
Another explosion shook the lair, followed by loud footsteps and screaming. "GIVE THEM BACK, OR I'LL BLOW YOU TO BITS, HMMM??!!" Roxy zipped past me and Ricki on her board, clutching what looked like a stack of magazines. she was laughing like a maniac, and was yelling, "Dei reads Yaoi! Dei reads Yaoi!" A magazine fell out of her grasp as she boarded by. Ricki picked it up, and thumbed through it. "OH MY DEAR LORD!!" I looked over her shoulder and saw what she was looking at. "Huh. so he DOES read yaoi. and hardcore yaoi at that." i said, when she closed it. "go figure. i never thought he was THAT gay. guess i was wrong." Just then, Deidara stormed down the hallway, a clay spider in hand. He snatched the magazine out of Ricki's hands. "It's not mine, hmmmm??!! i'm, um, holding it for a friend!!"
Ricki and i did a twin eye roll."Surrrre you are." We sang, Causing the terrorist to turn an enraged, angry purple. He ran off, intent on getting his yaoi back. "Well." said Mika, waving the smoke away. "I know who's NOT going to clean this up." All four of us exchanged a look and took off in the direction of the kitchen, jumping over rubble. When we reached the kitchen, Ricki started pulling out ingridiants to make her mom's double chocolate cake, and Cindy and Mika were exploring the Akatsuki's fridge. "Whoa! there's strawberry flavored plant feeder in here!" exclaimed Cindy, pulling out a big, pink bottle. Mika and Cindy started to laugh, and i joined them at the fridge, looking through all the freaky food. "Hey, can you pass me the flour?" asked Ricki, stirring the cake batter in a big bowl. A wicked smile crossed Cindy's cute and innocent face. She reached up into a cubboard, and pulled out a big bag of plain, white baking flower. "Heads up!"
I watched in what seemed like slow motion as the bag soared through the air, and landed square on Ricki's well sized chest. it opened and showered her with white powder, then dropped to the floor, still almost full. Cindy started to laugh, falling on the floor in tears. Mika giggled, oogling the ghost-like Ricki who stood in front of us, stunned.
Then, in a movement almost so quick i didn't even see it, Ricki picked up the bag, and chucked it at Cindy, who was now standing in front of me. She ducked, and it hit me smack in the face. My eyes narrowed as everyone beagn to laugh, me included. And then i reached a hand inside the bag, and threw a handful on Cindy.
That's where it got out of hand.
Soon we were in a fulll-on flower fight, clouds of white whizzing through the air and smashing into their targets. We were laughing un-controlably, ducking and trying to dodge the flower. "What is going on in here?" we all stopped dead in our tracks as Pein stood in the doorway, looking all mad and scary like. It was silent for a long moment.
and then Ricki chucked a handful at Pein, which hit him right in the face. I laughed along with everyone else, but kept a hold on myself. Sure, the sight of the all mighty akatsuki leader covered with flower made me want to laugh like a loon, but the scary angry look he was giving us was not good. not good at all. He glared at all of us, with his rinnigan gaze that made grown men piss their pants. Ricki got the message and in just a split second, the room,including Pein, was clean and orderly again, with the cake batter intact. Pein left without another word, which made us laugh all over again. "d-did you see the look on his FACE??!!" i exclaimed, as Ricki poured the batter into a pan. "he was so PISSED!!!" finished Mika. Ricki giggled, which made me smack her in the back of her head. "Stop with the creepy dead little girl laugh. it freaks me out!" Ricki smacked me back and slid the pan into the oven.
An hour later we were sitting on the counter, devouring plates of the excellent chocolate cake. I thought i was about to die from a chocolate overdose and decided that another peice couldn't hurt when Deidara and Itachi came in. Ricki cut two big peices and put them on plates, holding them out. "Cake." she told them. It wasn't a request or a question. When it came to food, Ricki is very, very serious. The two men took the plates of cake and accepted two forks from Cindy, and Ricki waited for their reactions. Deidara took a bite, and swallowed. Then he took another, and another, until all that remained were a few crumbs. Itachi took a bite and in less time then Deidara his plate was clean. "Nice." mumbled Deidara, grabbing a beer from the fridge. He and Itachi were wearing casual gear instead of the coats and batte gear. I slid off the counter, took their plates with my own, and dumped them in the sink. "Where the hell are the exits in this place?" i asked the sometimes suicide bomber. "there's a trapdoor down the hall, three doors down. just don't let Leader-Sama catch you, hmmm?"
Sure. that would be easy.NOT.
I made my way outside by busting open the lock on the trapdoor and pushing through into the night. The darkness greeted me as i stepped into a highly wooded area with trees. Perfect. I hadn't been outside in days, and just thinking about the cool night air and the stars made me pissed off, because Pein had restricted us to the base. "Ha. who's laughing now? screw your rules." i said outloud. But wait a sec.....now that i was outside, what was i going to do? i put a hand to my firehead in stupidity. I hadn't thought ahead at all. I climbed a tree, and sat utop a high branch, and just stared at the stars.
The peace and queit was bliss. The lair had been chaotic and noisy most of the time, and the silence outside was awesome. I yawned, wishing that i had not been lazy, and changed out of my shorts and cut up Nirvana tee, because there was a slight breeze that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up on end. "I thought Pein had restricted you to the base."
Huh. so that was why i had goose bumps; Orochimaru had snuck up on me, and was now standing below my branch on the ground. I shrugged, even through my heart was racing. What the hell did he want with me anyway? "He did." I replied casualy, trying to sound like i was bored, even though i was far from it. I wished that i had thought ahead and brought some sort of weapon with me. Orochimaru was VERY unpredictable. "What do you want?" I looked down to see him looking up at me and shivered. The Manga didn't lie. Orochimaru's gaze was just as scary and bonechilling as it portrayed it to be. "I'm just very curious as to how you messed with my mind." his tone was light and casual, but i could sense the dark undertone of suppressed fury behind it. I gave him a very bitchy smile. "That's for me to know and you to never find out"
And then the Saninn snapped.
Before i could say anything else something cold and slimy wrapped itself around my neck and swung me none too gently off my branch, slamming me into the trunk of a tree.I tried to snarl a few of my many curses at him, but choked on the lack of air. The world was becoming fuzzy and losing it's shape as the thing squeezed tighter around my throat. I clawed at my neck, my lungs screaming for air. "Don't play with me, girl! what have you done to me?! why is it that i find myself unable to rid myself of these emotions?!" My vison was growing dark, and i could barely see the menaceing(but hot) form of Orochimaru only a foot away from me. I tried to choke out a reply, but was way out of air. I was realeced and fell in a heap on the dirt floor, shivering and swallowing air in tiny sips like a gasping fish. He had half strangled me with his long tounge! and to think that i'd have given my left boob for that to happen a few days ago, when i was bored out of my mind in Norwalk.
"It's love, you stupid bastard." I rasped, glaring at him with watery eyes."You're almost three times my age, and you couldn't figure that out? legendary ninja my ass." I felt Ricki probe my mind gently."Want some help?" i mentaly shook my head."I think i can handle this, but thanks." I sent back. I looked up, and met the older man's eyes. "You have the memories." I growled, pushing my hair away from my neck. "And i have your mark. why don't you put it all together and see where it gets you. Now Sod off and let me and what's left of my Pride be." I picked myself up and pressed a hand to my scraped, stinging throat. Black chakra healed the damage, and i silently thanked Nightshayde, who had been watching the whole thing through my eyes. I Limped back over to the trapdoor, and went back into the base.
I was sore all over when i reached the hallway where our room was, covered in dirt and feeling alltogether like shit. "I told you not to leave the base." I froze in complete fear as i heard the bonechilling voice of Pein behind me. I didn't dare to turn around in fear of meeting his freaky eyes that i knew would find any lie that i happened to make up on the spot. In my head I screamed at Ricki, Cindy, and anyone else who was nearby to hurry up and help me. I slowly turned to meet my impending doom, and found myself face to face with an enraged Pein.
And then a large peice of Ricki's double chocolate cake hit him square in the face.
End of chapter Two.