College years chp. 5

“Will Deidara-sempai please buy Tobi some popcorn?” Tobi asked looking at his sempai.

“No, for the hundredth time NO, ask Kakuzu, un! Deidara growled, clearly angered by the constant asking of that one question.

“Don’t even ask.” Kakuzu spat turning back to Hidan, who was still rambling about the whole ants for a sacrifice thing. Tobi felt his shoulders slump in defeat, but then he spotted the person who he knew he would have to go to if he wanted popcorn. His last resort was evil itself. Itachi.

Tobi ran over to the Uchiha who was leaning against the wall, with an expressionless face.

Itachi was growing impatient at being forced to wait outside in the lobby until the theater opened. The Uchiha blamed Kakuzu, who just had to get to the theater two hours early to try to hack into the arcade machines. Itachi recalled the last time they had been to the theater, Kakuzu had stolen all of the money from one of the games, and he had made off with a grand total of about six dollars. The best part was it had only taken about an hour and a half to do it. He watched as Tobi ran over towards him, excitement all over the baka’s face. Itachi mentally cursed to himself.

“Itachi-san may I please have some money for popcorn?” Tobi tried to look as innocent as possible by tilting his head.

“No, leave now.”

“Pretty please Itachi-san, Tobi is a good boy?!”

“No, go away if you value your pathetic life.” Itachi glared fiercely at Tobi, causing him to back away.

Tobi realized that he didn’t want to die just yet and ran back over towards Deidara and Sakura who looked to be having an argument about something.

Itachi walked over to one of the tables in front of the concession stand, and sat down. Watching all of the people walking towards their theaters, while Itachi and rest had about an hour to kill. He was going to talk to Kisame, but he was a bit busy at the moment, throwing up into a trash can.

“Jeez of all the people to room with, it had to be you, un!” Deidara growled, frustrated.

“Why just because I’m not some crazy psycho who goes around screaming random catch phrases?!” She retorted back and walked away towards the concession stand. Deidara watched as Sakura ran into a few people, he wondered why they had let her have some of Kisame’s beer.

“She’s very forward when drunk, un.” Deidara spoke quietly.

“Oh and Pinkie for your information it’s my beliefs not random phrases, un!”  Sakura ignored the screaming blonde and continued walking away.

She snickered as she watched people stare at Deidara as he began taking out his anger on the nearest wall. He looked liked someone that needed help, A LOT of help.

Sakura bought a bucket of popcorn and headed back over to Deidara who was now taking his anger out on Tobi. “Deidara stop trying to kill Tobi.” Sakura commanded, Deidara hesitantly complied and released his death grip on a wheezing Tobi.

“POPCORN!” Tobi cried out running over to Sakura and trying to grab the bucket, only to have her wheel around to avoid Tobi’s outreached hands. “Pretty girl please give Tobi the popcorn?” he begged, trying out his ‘tilt the head and look cute to get popcorn’ act. Even if she was drunk, Sakura wasn’t buying it.  

“Hey look it’s a pig, un!” Deidara pointed over to where Sasori stood, whose frown deepened.

“Deidara-sempai, that’s not nice!” Tobi said wagging his finger over in the blondes direction. Sakura giggled at the sight. She began to notice that they were standing in the middle of the lobby and were attracting a lot of attention.

“Brat!” Sasori growled stalking over to Deidara, about to kill the blonde for the insult.

Deidara stepped back trying to distance himself from Sasori and pointed at the spot where Sasori had once stood. “No look, its some pig that people are taking pictures of, un!” Sure enough behind where Sasori had stood, a younger woman with light blonde hair was holding a small piglet.

“Why the fuck do they have a pig?” Tobi, Deidara, Sakura, and Sasori turned around to see Hidan and Kakuzu standing behind them. Small children were running up and staring at the piglet, their eyes wide. Sakura then saw something that the others hadn’t; next to the woman there was a table with a banner.

“It’s just an advertisement for some idiotic movie, that Tobi would probably like, un.” Sakura felt a little surprised that Deidara had figured it out before her; he always seemed like the stupid type. Itachi was watching the others, minus Kisame, look over at the animal.   

Kakuzu was glaring at Hidan, as he saw an evil twinkle come from his partner’s eyes. Kakuzu knew what that meant. Hidan was going to try something very stupid. Ignoring his thoughts that told him to stay and watch Hidan, he walked away casually back towards the arcade.


As Pein stood in front of the movie theater, he couldn’t seem to gather up the courage to go and see what the other Akatsuki’s were doing in there. Yet he knew if he didn’t hurry, they would probably set fire to this place too. The movie theaters doors to enter were tinted not allowing Pein to see in; he furred his brows at the sounds of crashing and yelling coming from the inside.

The Akatsuki leader swung the door open and stood their frozen, watching the sight before him play out like a bad movie. Kisame was throwing up, and Pein watched as Itachi pulled a knife on the movie theaters manger. Pein couldn’t hear what Itachi was saying, but he had a feeling Itachi was making some kind of outrageous demand.

He watched as Tobi tackled some poor pink-haired girl to the ground and run off with her popcorn as Deidara chased after him. Kakuzu was being handcuffed by a police officer, as the treasurer was pressed against the wall. Pein noticed a huge pile of coins next to Kakuzu, and instantly knew that he had hacked an arcade machine again.

Finally he watched as Hidan was dashing through the theater holding some pink thing, as he was chased by security guards. “Is Hidan holding a pig?” Pein thought narrowing his eyes at the now being arrested Hidan. “He was probably stealing another animal for a sacrifice.” He concluded.

Pein let out a frustrated growl, as he realized that all of the Akatsuki seemed to be breaking all of the rules he had laid down for them. Pein was sure that when they got back to the campus he was going to be lecturing them for a while.

He knew it was time to take action, “ALL OF THE AKATSUKI BETTER COME OVER HERE NOW!” the chaos seemed to stop for a moment as the dangerous yell came echoing throughout theater. Sasori walked over behind Pein and let out an exaggerated sigh. Many people realizing that the one who had yelled out was the Akatsuki gang’s leader, ran off.

Deidara ceased his attempt to kill Tobi, and stared over at the leader. “This is very bad.” He told himself, noting the look of anger played out on Pein’s face. Peering over to the right he saw Sakura standing up and looking over at the Akatsuki leader, she had a smirk on her face.

“Oh, god Pinkie don’t do anything stupid, un.” The blonde mumbled lowering his head. He had been hoping that the leader would never meet Sakura, but turns out on the first day he would get to.

“Oi, what are you doing here?” Kisame walked away from the trash can, after saying that one line he collapsed just like he had in Deidara’s doorway. Pein mumbled a curse and glared over at all of the Akatsuki, yet his gaze found Sakura who was smirking at him.

“Who are you?” The question was fast and demanding.

“No, the real question is who are you?” Sakura spoke, causing all of the Akatsuki to look over at her wide-eyed. A single question swept through all of their minds, “Doesn’t she know who she is talking to?” Sasori standing behind Pein smirked for a second, before letting his face go back to an emotionless stare.

Deidara’s jaw dropped as Sakura approached Pein and began to speak mockingly. “Ok, so what kind of weirdo are you, I mean you can’t be any weirder than that freak Tobi who just tackled me for popcorn can you?” Sakura paused for a moment but continued as Pein stared blankly at her. “Eh, come on answer, I know you’re an Akatsuki you’re wearing the cloak. I’ve been trailing around with these weirdo’s for a day now, and let me tell you-” The room fell silent as Sakura fainted onto the floor, Pein stared at the unconscious girl, and he felt like he was dealing with a second Kisame.

“So who would like to explain to me whats going on?”


The noise of an engine came into the house, Ino dashed into the living room panting. Causing Hinata, Tenten, and Lee looked over at her, turning their attention away from the T.V.

“The guys are back!” Ino exclaimed, causing the other three to get up and bound out the door, following behind Ino. As they stood outside, a car pulled into the driveway and the first person to step out was a very angry Naruto.

Naruto ignored Ino and the rest focusing his attention on Sasuke, as the Uchiha stepped out of the car. “Teme, you said I could drive!”

Neji sighed, and walked over to Tenten, trying to get away from the constant arguing of the pair.

“Is Sakura ok?” Ino asked looking at Neji, who was doing his best to tune out the arguing.

“Yea she’s fine, but her roommate is a gang member.” Naruto joined in.

“What did you say?” the words escaped Ino’s mouth slowly.   

“Dobe, I told you we were going to leave that part out.” Sasuke grumbled, glaring at Naruto. The blonde sheepishly shrugged.


“Lead-” Deidara was cut short by Pein.

“Deidara, do not talk.” Pein growled as he walked in front of the group. Pein had been very angry ever since he found out about Sakura, and when he had to pay off the cops to let Hidan and Kakuzu go.

Deidara traveled in the back next to Sasori. The red head was carrying Sakura, even though Deidara had insisted that he should. Pein had ordered Sasori to, knowing that Deidara would want to carry her. Instead Deidara was ordered to carry Kisame who was a lot bigger than Deidara. The blonde struggled to keep up with the group.

Sasori noticed that Deidara was constantly glancing from the corner of his eye at Sakura. He watched the brat tilt to the side trying not to fall over from the weight of Kisame.    

“Keep up brat.”

“Like I care, un.” Deidara glanced up and let relief flood over him. Knowing that the campus was in view.


The next morning…

Deidara awoke and sat up in bed, rubbing his eyes in a lazy fashion. He let out an exasperated sigh; last night was probably the longest night of his life. Pein was going to let Sakura stay, but Deidara knew that if he took one step in the wrong direction Sakura was as good as gone.

The blonde recalled the rules that Pein had set down for all of the Akatsuki last night.

Rule for Itachi: No setting fire to random places

Rule for Kisame: No more drinking

Rule for Hidan: No more kidnapping animals, no more cursing (second part of rule to be enforced by Kakuzu)

Rule for Kakuzu: Banned from arcades

Rule for Tobi: Be a good boy; banned from Movie Theater

Rule for Deidara: No relationships. Stop trying to kill Tobi. (even if he deserves it)

Deidara frowned at the last rule; it wasn’t like he liked the pink-haired girl. He had known her what one day? Besides he wanted someone that shared his opinion of art. Yet he doubted himself on these thoughts.

Standing up, he saw the Sakura was fast asleep. Deidara knew that he would have to go over the rules. That Pein had told him to tell the girl when she woke up. Although he didn’t know how Sakura would respond to so many restrictions, but she was going to have to deal with it. The last roommate didn’t, so Pein had him ‘erased’ as Deidara called it. Deidara noticed something that he didn’t notice before, a big red dot on his calendar. Deidara had known that today was something special, yet he couldn’t remember what.

“Deidara hurry up, we don’t want to keep leader waiting, and we need to help everyone get ready for tonight!” Sasori growled from outside Deidara’s room.

He raised his eyebrows at Sasori’s sudden interruption. Yet then the thought hit him, tonight was the welcome back dance for the school that Pein threw every year. Deidara ran into the bathroom and grabbed a pair of jeans and some t-shirt that was lying on the floor to change into.

Looking in the mirror Deidara realized that he had just put on a pair of Sakura’s jeans. “Shit, un!” Deidara yelled and tried to pull the jeans off him, but unlucky for him, they were stuck. “Oh god no, un!”

“Brat COME OUT NOW, WE HAVE TO GO!” Sasori yelled, and headed towards the dorms stairwell.

“I’m coming, un!” Deidara growled back, but Sasori was already half way down the stairs and unable to hear the blonde.

“Fuck, its no use!” Deidara trying to ignore the fact that he was stuck in a pair of girls jeans, slammed open the bathroom door, and quickly wrote a note from Sakura. Finishing the note he made his way out of the dorm room and down the stairs.

He tried to run, but the jeans were so tight he fell down in the grass, earning a few giggles from a few girls who passed by. “Go to hell, un.” Standing up, Deidara realized that running wasn’t a good idea. His eyes bulged as he went to brush off the pants; the jeans were decorated in pink and red roses all along the front and back.

“That’s just wonderful, un.”     

“Deidara-sempai you look so pretty!” The words were happily yelled from behind Deidara.

“Shut the fuck up Tobi!” Sure enough as Deidara turned around Tobi was standing behind him. The dobe was dressed in the Akatsuki robe, while wearing his usual mask.

“Aren’t you excited Sempai, don’t you just love parties?!”

“No, not when you’re there, un.”

“That’s not nice sempai!” Tobi remarked, “Is pretty girl coming?!” he asked curiously, looking up at Deidara.
“No, un.” Deidara said flatly, “Like I would want her around you, un.”

“That hurts sempai!”

“Good, now I’m leaving so go be stupid someplace else, un.”

Tobi turned around and began walking towards the dorm building where Deidara stayed. “Hey you’re dorms, the other way.” Deidara spat watching Tobi walk in the opposite direction of his building.

“Bye sempai!” Tobi kept running towards Deidara’s building ignoring the blonde’s last sentence.

Tobi ran up the flight of stairs, and made his way over towards Sakura’s room. He was planning on breaking in like how Hidan tried, but Tobi noticed that the door wasn’t locked. “Semapi must have been in a hurry.”

He quickly stepped inside, and much to his relief to find the girl sleeping. “This will get sempai and pretty girl together for sure!” Tobi squealed inside of his head. “Playing match maker is so much fun!” Tobi thought. He crept over towards the dresser and stuffed Deidara’s note into his pocket and replaced it with the one he had written.

Upon doing this Tobi ran out the door and came face to face with Hidan and Kakuzu. “Phase one complete right?” Kakuzu asked. Kakuzu handed Tobi a pink box, which Tobi ran back into the room with and set under the door. Tobi nodded and closed the door softly. He grinned widely, but the others were unable to tell because of the mask.

“Can we please fuc- GAH” Hidan felt a fist connect with his stomach and was sent crashing against the wall.

“No cursing.” Kakuzu reminded him, as Hidan growled and pushed himself off the floor.

“Well f- GUH!” Hidan was sent back onto the ground, as Kakuzu’s fist connected with the side of his partners head.

“I hate you.”

“Hey, its Leaders orders not mine.” Kakuzu spat, and glanced over at Tobi. Hidan for a second time pulled himself off the floor, and gave a piercing glare in Kakuzu’s direction.

“We should go meet up with Itachi and Kisame.” Kakuzu spoke and headed towards the exit followed by Tobi, and a disgruntled Hidan.  

Pein stared at Deidara who tripped and fell over for the sixth time, as the blonde tried to help set up. Pein raised his eyebrows; the sight of Deidara in the jeans was a little creepy. Correction very creepy. “Deidara go get scissors and cut yourself out of those jeans now!” Pein growled, staring over at Deidara who was struggling to stand back up again.

“Uh, I don’t think that’s a good idea, un.” Deidara ignored Pein’s order and went back to decorating. The thought of Sakura finding out that he had mutilated one of her jeans, sent a shudder down his back. He knew she would have his head if that were to occur. Although Deidara also knew that if she were to see him wearing her jeans, she would probably burn them, and then have his head.


Sakura sat up in bed looking out of the window; she could see that the sun was setting, while the moon was coming into view. She let out a sigh, and figured that she had slept through an entire day. The pink haired girl saw it as a complete waste of time. “What happened last night?” Sakura asked herself, trying to recall last nights past events. Yet everything was hazy, the last thing that she remembered was heading to the movie theater and drinking some of Kisame’s beer.

“Oh, great I was wasted!” Sakura yelled at herself, she wracked her brain trying to find a trace of memory left. Nothing.

Looking around the room, something bright red caught her eye. Sitting on the dresser was a red piece of paper that was folded into the shape of a rose. Curious, Sakura jumped down from the top bunk and walked over to the paper rose. Folding it open she felt a smile creep across her face as she read it.

Dear Pinkie,

Tonight is the Welcome Back Dance that is
thrown by the Akatsuki. The theme
is club, I noticed that you don’t have any dresses
so I got you one, wear it.
Please attend the party; you’ll have a lot of fun.

Deidara

Underneath the letter was a pink box that you would normally see sweaters in. Seeing the words ‘For Sakura’ printed on it, she had no hesitations in opening the package. Throwing the lid onto the ground carelessly, holding up the item of clothing and looking into the mirror, she felt odd. “I don’t think this is me, but I’ll wear it.” Sakura whispered to herself.

“Ready to begin phase two?” Kakuzu asked Kisame. Kisame nodded as he turned up the already blaring music as more people walked into the building. Deidara watched Kisame turn up the music from across the room, and he wondered if Sakura had gotten his note.