Episode 16--> Anime characters not cosplayers! Believe me I'm not lying

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"Natalya-" A familiar voice chimed and I turned to the door with big blue eyes. Deidara looked at the girl standing there in mild interest pausing in his eating.

"Natty..." Naomi, my eldest female cousin, said carefully, "Why are there men in your house while your parents are away?"

I face-palmed. Caught already, and not even by whom I expected. I turned to her and smiled with my eyes closed, obvious sign that the smile wasn't reaching them. "H-hey cousin what's a buzzing." Heh heh yeah I know, lamest ting I have ever said.

She gave me a disapproving glare and I shrunk. Naomi was a sweetheart but you never wanted to get the stink eye. You just do not want that! T_T

"You're drunk!" I panicked springing forth and spreading my arms out wide as if it would do anything to hide the two men. "Look, pink elephant!! You're high! Look at all the pretty swirly pretty colors!!" I said rotating my arms in a wide circular motion. @_@ It wasn't working!! She was still giving me the stink eyes and tapping her feet impatiently with an 'ehm keep lying to me I'm listening' quirk of the brow.

"No, you're, you're hallucinating! You got hit on the head!"

"Ow! Nat! I can't believe you thwacked me on the head!!"

She yelled when I knocked her in the back of her head after saying she was hallucinating. Yeah... not my best persuasion and deception tactic.

"Who is she Natalya?" Sasori asked with his feet spread wide and his arms thrown out over the back of the chair was the definition of relaxed. First thought in my mind was he was in 'no threat detected mode.' Second thought... ^///^ for me to keep to myself.

Naomi, dressed in her casual work clothes, rubbed her head studying the two men curiously. "'Who is she?!' Who is she! Who the heck is you and what is you doing in this house and- wait they look familiar..."

I flapped my gum, sputtering, no real words coming out. I sighed and dropped my head. For a moment I thought she was going to kick them out. Thank you for Naomi and her randomness!!

"Right, Naomi... you see, what had happened was..." I said after moving to stand beside her and I placed my arm around her shoulder and pulled her down to my height. She's was 21 and I'm only 15. Sometimes I feel like a little kid next to her but Naomi's bridges that gap. She never made me feel too immature to hang out with her. "Do you remember that anime, Naruto that I love?"

"Of course you're always talking about it. I even saw it on TV once." She said blinking at me confused by what I was getting at. I sighed again and couldn't help but smile.

"These," I started gesturing to the two with my free arm, "Are characters from that anime."

She stared at them with her eyes analytic. Then she started... laughing. She wrapped her arms around her waist and laughed.

"You mean they're cosplayers." She interjected. "You were so passionate about it just then I would swear you thought they were real! Nat-babes I love you but you can't just have overly hormonal men in your house when your parents are away."

Uh... they ARE real... and what?

Deidara, Sasori and I blinked at her.

"Did she just insult us?" Deidara questioned Sasori then addressing Naomi, "We are neither 'cosplayers!' nor are we more hormonal than Kami-sama (God) made us to be..." He said cosplayers like it was infested with a parasitic disease. Did he... not know what it meant...?

"Deidara..." I said slowly giving them a dictionary and showed them cosplay. When they oh-ed I put it away.

"Kami...sama...?" Naomi asked in innocence looking off in thought with her finger to her lip. "Is that the company you work for?" Deidara sweat-dropped and his eye twitched.

"We work for no one but our goals. We are the Akatsuki." Sasori answered.

"Hmm..." Naomi hummed and tapped her finger against her lip. "So you work for Akatsuki... true! But do people really cosplay in the Bahamas?"

Naomi asked looking at me and I shrugged. "Usually they leave dressing up for Halloween."

She shrugged.

I cannot believe this is happening though. THIS is exactly--okay maybe not exactly-but this is a good reason why Dei and Sori should have stayed in the room behind the wall! Suppose it wasn't just semi-anime-clueless Naomi who doesn't know they're hardboiled criminals!

I glared at Sasori who, was still in 'relaxed position' in the chair.

Deidara had lost interest fairly quickly and started eating but I glared at him too. All your faults!

I saw him freeze for a second sensing someone was glaring at him. He looked up, somewhat warily, saw it was only me, smirked, and then went back to eating... IS HE INSULTING MY GLARING SKILLS!!

"Flames and death...!" I mumbled as I intensified my glare only making Deidara chuckle under his breath. I didn't notice Naomi was watching our every move just then.

"Natalya... is this blonde person your boyfriend? Have you introduced him to uncle? Is this why you didn't go to the wedding or-"

"NO!" I exclaimed turning my glare on her. "He is not. And no, I didn't. And, yet again, no, not the reason why I didn't go. I support Auntie marrying Mr. Lavarity but Marissa, his bitchy daughter, I do not support her becoming a part of my family!" I stressed the words making absolutely sure she got it. I felt a twinge in my heart that I refused to address as I thought about Marissa. I can't seem to forgive her.

"She said bitchy!" Naomi laughed knowing I hardly cursed... out loud! ;D

"I mean he is sexy maybe he's your type, Nay-nay." I said jerking my chin to Deidara who looked up so sharply I thought I heard his neck crack. He looked absolutely horrified. Funny! "The free spirited artist that sums him up." I was only teasing Naomi but she blushed anyways.

"Shut up Natty, you know I'm way too busy for those kinds of things." She said pushing me away playfully.

"You're only what, 21? This is the prime time for you to get a serious boyfriend!" I said animatedly, my mouth agape. "He's 19 so I don't know how much age matters to you. Two years een nuttin."

"'Age ain't nuttin but a numbah', Nat-babes." She quoted as a joke to the situation and gave me a playful wink. I giggled. "As long as he's not younger than 18."

"Haha like 17-35." I laughed and she gave me a weird/lost look. "You had to be there." I told her and she 'oh'ed. [Shinobu (17 yrs) and Miyagi (35 yrs) Junjou Romantica reference.]

"I do not appreciate the both of you two negotiating over me like I'm a thing and not in the room." Deidara interjected. I grin and he rolled his eyes.

"Why are you here?" I asked turning my attention back to Naomi.

"Your parents asked me to check on you. They said something about you calling them and asking weird question about helicopters right before the wedding? Well anyways they believe you're lonely here by yourself. But... I guess they're wrong about that. Now again Natalya Diasmine Hugh," I cringed. She brought out the full name, "Why are these thugs in your house!? And one's shirtless!!" She yelled in disbelief. Someone was shirtless???

Sasori glanced down at himself but said nothing and pulled one of the couch cushions over his chest. Why didn't I notice Sasori was shirtless?

"They are anime characters!" I defended and Naomi placed a hand on her waist. "Do NOT look at me like that! I-I am not lying! Naomi! Really they ARE anime characters." I whined.

"So you don't even know these people?!" She screamed in shock.

"I watched them on Naruto!!"

"Natalya I thought better of you. I'm going to have to call auntie and-" She started reaching for her purse no doubt for her cellphone when something made a thumping/thudding sound by the stairs which made us jump.

"KYAH-HA! WHAT THE HEAVEN!!" Naomi and I both hollered when we saw a freaky disfigured looking body roll down the stairs- no more like crawled down. Naomi started backing up and I was in the process of fleeing when I recognized who or rather what it was.

"Sasori put down the puppet!" With a deep scowl and a pinning glare I raised my eyebrow at him. He gave me the haughtiest look I've ever seen and he obviously wasn't going to listen to a child but then Hiruko fell to an unmoving heap. Sasori's eyes widened in surprise and they flared. He focused his chakra again strengthening the chakra strings. His puppet rose for a few seconds but again it fell in a heap. Sasori locked me in a bone chilling stare and I gulped. What just happened?

"What did you do?" He asked his cool leaving him.

"I didn't-"

"You did! You did!! You did!!! You did do something! I demand you stop whatever it is now!" He replied hotly with seriously the only thing missing being the traditional stomping of the feet like a little three year old.

"Uh... I can't... because I didn't do anything." What the hell. So something goes haywire with your puppet and you blame me? I have no powers. No chakra! I couldn't have done that!

For some odd reason the incidence with the kunai and how it was disappearing into pixels came freshly into my mind. I shook my head. No way did I do anything. Just no way. All I said was put the puppet down...

"What is this let me go!" Naomi bellowed fighting Deidara who had his arms wrapped around her from the back, immobilizing her completely.

Even though he had her pinned he paid her and her fruitless struggles no mind. His face looked all amused and amazed as he stared at his partner.

My gaze bounced from those two to Sasori whose left eye was twitching. I saw Deidara lean close to Naomi's ear and whisper something. She stopped struggling and her eyebrows creased before she giggled at something he obviously said. Very curiating...

[Curiating: adv; to arouse curiosity 2012©TheXxInnocentXxOne *LOL* not a real word]

"Sasori my man..." Deidara said his grip on Naomi loosening a bit. "I've never seen you so livid, un."

Sasori made a face at the blonde in contempt but allowed himself to go back to his usual calm.

Deidara smirked and he looked down when Naomi started laughing. "He's cute." Then she sobered.

"S-so that thing is a...?" She pointed a French-tipped finger at Hiruko.

"One of Sasori's puppets, un." Deidara let her go and Naomi gave him a quick half-smile and walked very cautiously to the heap of wooden limps on the living room floor.

"So..." She hesitated gazing down at it, "It isn't a disfigured person? It's just a puppet...?"

"He isn't disfigured." Sasori narrowed his eyes brushing past me and pulling his puppet up and slung it over his wooden shoulder with well-practiced ease. "Hiruko is a masterpiece."

"If you're into that creepy shit." Naomi replied watching it with wry.

Deidara let out a sound of amusement and Sasori gave her remark the cold shoulder and brushed it aside.

"What did you say your names were?" Naomi asked casually the notion of calling my parents long forgotten.

"Deidara." He responded briskly.

"...Sasori."

"Are those your real names or the characters you are cosplaying's names?"

"They are our real name and we are not playing any characters."

"Right...I get it. Be the cartoon" she said wiggling her fingers.

"Anime!" I corrected.

"What's the difference?"

"Anime are Japan or Asian based and cartoons are things like SpongeBob or Adventure Time."

"Eh. Potato, potado."

"Grrr..." I said in a pirate accent because I can't growl for my life. "You lucky Ash and Lexis een here to hear you badmouthing Anime."

"I am not badmouthing it. I'm just saying the difference isn't that big so there shouldn't be a problem with me calling it cartoon. Still can't growl huh?" She gave me a wiseacre smirk.

"Shuddup." I mumbled pouting. "I bet you Alexis tell you that. Man aye. Are there no secrets anymore?!"

"Baby doll that wasn't a secret."

"This doesn't interest me. I'm going to clean Hiruko." Sasori looked just about to disappear into thin air.

"Wait, whoa, whoa, young man. Where do you think you're going?" Naomi said in her 'mature professional woman' tone and she grabbed Sasori by the arm. "You do not own this house. I'm sorry if I'm coming off as rude right now but teenage boy plus teenage girl? Not a good equation."

"Naomi!" I gasped, insulted. "He's 35 and a puppet. I'm sure he wouldn't even dream of-"

"What???" Sasori slipped out of her grip while she was distracted.

"For the last friggin' time" the hard look Naomi gave me, made me reconsider my word choice. More politely and sweet (and as if I was talking to a mentally challenged person) I say, "Like I was saying before they are anime characters from Naruto Shippuden. They have been popping up here. So far there's: Kiba, Hinata, Naruto, Akamaru, Shino, Choji and these two. They are real life anime not cosplayers, real....anime....dudes.... Comprehende, si, si?(Understand, yes, yes?)"

"Make me believe you." She folded her arms under her chests and squared her shoulders.

"Deidara." I droned looking over my shoulder at him. "Can you spontaneously blow something up for my cousin-" His eyes twinkled then and I rethought that idea. "Never mind hehe, um... just show her your hands. That should be good."

He gave me a 'the first idea was better than this' look.

"His hands? Why his hands..."

"Just go look please." I begged in exasperation gently guiding her forward. Okay I shoved her so what.

She gave me a fleeting glance then she looked up at Deidara.

With great reluctance he threw out his arm, as if someone was going to slam handcuffs on his wrist, making her blink. She tentatively took his hands and studied them. She didn't see anything out of the ordinary. She poked and prodded the back of his hand then rubbed her thump over them pretending she was trying to find the 'answer' or whatever when really she was just studying them in general. His hands were so much bigger than hers; she thought distractedly. And soft. 'His hands are so smooth but his fingers have light callouses.' She blushed at her thoughts and thought herself crazy. Feeling like some type of hand-perv she flipped his hand over to see if what she was searching for was on his palms because she found nothing -of use at least- on the back of his hand. The first she noticed was the scars on his palms. Timidly she glances up at him through her lashes but only for a second. She examined the 'scars' on his palm more closely and rubbed her thumb against the one on his right hand. Wait... they weren't scars... more like slits... what... were these?

Before Deidara could open his palm-mouths I piped in, "Now smell them." Straight-faced and everything.

She looked at me questioningly. "Smell... them...?"

"Yeah. That's ah what I ah said!" I replied in a vague and just plain stupid accent. Normal voice now, "It is the only way to prove the trueity of my words."

"You een just make up a word just now dred." She fought back a grin.

"I'm notorious for that didn't you know?" I joked and she shook her head at me.

While Naomi was looking at me Deidara smiled slightly sensing what I was planning and when Naomi turned to him his face went blank, portraying nothing.

Deidara put his hands out once more palm towards the ceiling. Naomi slightly sheepish bent close to his hands and started fanning the air taking in a deep sniff.

"I smell soap?" She replied eyes closed tight as she tried to concentrate. She didn't smell anything special... nor revealing... wait how would this even prove anything? Suddenly something wet touched the tip of her nose and she opened her eyes. She came in eyelevel with a pink tongue. Naomi pulled and backed away from him.

"Your-Your- y-you-you-" She pointed a trembling finger at his hands. Both of his palms stuck out their tongue at her.

"Do you believe me now?" I asked suddenly popping up from behind Deidara. Still 'fished eyed/O_O' she nodded slowly.

She looked at the three of us in incredulity. "How?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "Wouldn't I like to know."

"Hey Na-chan- Oh you have company! Hi my name Naruto, believe it!" His voice sounded from behind me and it scared the crap out of me and I went spiraling into Deidara's back sending us both to the floor.

Naomi blinked while a dreadful chill ran up my spine. Oh no...

"Hey I know you! Yeah! O my goodness you're that cute loud-mouthed boy from that anime. You're the only character I remembered. Wow you're so much older than before though..."

The knot in my throat was too tight for me to tell her that the Naruto she remembers was from Naruto and the guy she saw now was Naruto from Naruto Shippuden.

That didn't matter. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, CRAP!

"That's cool! I still don't understand the whole 'from an anime thing' yet though... Well I just came to get some water." He said whilst wiping some sweat from his brow. Then he looked at me and then at the blonde on the ground beside me. "So Na-chan... who are these people?"

....HEH?!

Did Natalya... make Sasori's puppet stop cooperating? Why doesn't Naruto know Deidara and Sasori? WHAT IS GOING ON?? How did these anime appear in her home all of a sudden? Why her house and not someone else's? Are more characters coming? Hmm... I wonder... *smirk* Stay tuned for the lovely adventures of Natalya Diasmine Hugh in My Guests Are From Naruto Shippuden (aka MeGAFaNS)!