Note: Sorry, guys, it's been a busy time, with dance and water polo and school and—

Readers: Yeah, yeah, sure.

It has been a busy time! But I know it's been like a million years. So I shall update my story.

And as per IcyxShadows's suggestion, I did make Black Zetsu's speech in boldface. It is a lot easier to read now. So thanks for the tip! :D

And I don't feel like doing my biology homework, so I'll just keep writing this!

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"Don't you just love this sense of camaraderie we're feeling?" Tobi asked, linking arms with Deidara and Sasori. "It's almost like we're a real team now! A team that prays before every event, and wishes each other luck, and builds each other up instead of bringing each other down. Oh, and we bake brownies for everyone because we love each other so much!"

"I wanna be MVP!" Kakuzu announced. "Can you imagine the publicity coming with that? And publicity brings money...." He started rubbing his hands together greedily. "I can see my name up in lights!"

"You'd be a great MVP!" Zetsu said enthusiastically, clapping his buddy on the back. "Sasori would be so much better!"

"I'll never get used to him," Kisame sighed. "Anyway, I want to be the MVP! Why would they pick that loser to be the MVP? I'm, like, a shark or something!"

Meanwhile, Zetsu was still arguing with himself. Everyone ignored him.

"What should we do today?" Deidara asked, still sore that the students didn't flock to his side during the debate. "How about we don't have a debate?"

"Pick me, pick me!" Tobi squealed. "I think we should decorate brownies! We can have all sorts of beautiful sprinkles and frosting and candles, and then we can eat the brownies and be happy and full of delicious brownies!"

"I'm allergic to chocolate," Pein said.

"I'm so sorry!" Tobi wailed, wrapping his arms around Pein. "You can't eat chocolate? That must cause so much pain!" Tobi paused. "Pun intended."

Zetsu was still arguing with himself. "Maybe we should stop arguing now. I'm getting thirsty. Are you stupid? Let's have a drink and get back to arguing! I guess that'd be okay. How about some Pepsi? No way! Dr. Pepper is where it's at. Well, I'm the good half, and I say Pepsi! Well, I'm the dark half, and everyone likes evil better, so we're drinking Dr. Pepper! Pepsi! Dr. Pepper! Pepsi! DR. PEPPER!"

Konan walked over and poured a can of Pepsi and a can of Dr. Pepper into one glass. "There you go. Now stop arguing with yourself. You know what happened last time."

"Pink is better! No! Purple! Pink! Purple! Pink! Purple! Pink! Purple!" Zetsu then exploded. "Um, can someone put me back together? It happened again."

"Oh yeah," Zetsu said. "That wasn't very smart. It was a perfectly reasonable argument."

"And yay, we're here!" Pein interrupted. "I already have a migraine. Did anyone bring drugs?"

"Drugs are for thugs!" Tobi blurted.

"That's a new one. Put it on a wristband," Kisame muttered, fiddling with the lock on the door. "And we're here!" He held his arms out as he paraded in, still imagining himself as the MVP.

Kira saluted. "Welcome," she cracked. "Maybe you should be on time to your own class, you know?"

Kisame bared his very sharp teeth. "Maybe you should shut up!"

Kori leaned away from him. "Ew, brush those things before you come near me, asswipe."

Meya scooted her desk closer to Laia, Kira, and Gina. "I have such a migraine right now." She pulled some pills out of her purse and dropped them into her mouth. "It's going to be such a long day."

Pein's metal-covered nose started twitching. It looked kind of like a satellite. Or maybe a UFO. But regardless of what it looked like, it had a very nice sense of smell, and it led him straight to Meya's purse.

Meya grinned down at him. "Hey, can I help you with something?" Her purple lips parted, flashing the cat on her tongue once again. "Is there something that you need?" Her eyes had a dangerous look to them. Rae, on the other side of the room, hid under her hoodie. Rei, on the other hand, torched a snake-shaped plushie on her desk and clapped with glee, as Rae scooted over and excitedly watched the plushie burn. Tobi confiscated her matches and gave her "Cliché School Lecture 812", also known as "If you play with fire, you could burn things and make asthmatic peoples' throats very sad inside."

"Was that migraine medication?" Pein asked, trying not to meet Meya's gaze. On the other side of the room, Mic started poking the ashes on Rei's desk with what looked like a ridiculously sharp letter opener. Robbi motioned for Deidara to come over and started whispering something into his ear. Deidara's eyes lit up, and he pulled something out of his pocket. The rest of the class ignored them.

"Yes, it was," Meya purred. "Do you need any?"

Pein nodded furiously, which didn't make his migraine any better. "Yes. Yes. Yes, I need migraine medication."

"I don't know," Meya sighed, rattling the tube of pills. "I only have one more dose left. And if I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day with them—" Meya pointed to Rei, Mic, Robbi, and Emilie and Rae, who had joined the group. Deidara was showing them something in a red cloth pouch. They all clapped delightedly. "—I might need my migraine medicine for that."

"Please!" Pein begged, dropping to his knees in a very cliché attempt at groveling. "I'll do anything!"

"Oh, that was the wrong choice of words," Monika whispered to Mei. Mei and Monika snorted and glanced over at Pein, who looked nervous.

"What do you mean, wrong?" Pein asked. Mei shrugged.

"Check out your drug dealer over there." She pointed at Meya with a long, square fingernail. Pein reluctantly glanced over and winced. Meya had picked up on his word choice and was smirking at him, her red eyes glittering with mischief.

"Anything, you say?"

"I am so bored," Saru whispered to Saki.

"What am I supposed to do about that?" Saki asked, the cat ears on her headband twitching in time with her words. She pulled out a piece of paper and started doodling a picture of Itachi in a tuxedo.

"Let me guess," Saru said, glancing at the picture. "You're drawing yourself in a wedding dress next too him?"

Saki's ear's twitched. "You can't have my husband!" she snapped, marching off to an empty desk next to Puppet. With a sigh of relief, she continued drawing her picture, this time including a sunset behind Itachi.

Puppet glanced at the picture. "You're marrying Itachi?"

"Stop trying to steal my future husband!" Saki cried, crawling under a random sink in the corner to continue her picture.

"I don't want him," Puppet said to no one in particular. But, alas, alack, Itachi heard him.

"What's wrong with me?" Itachi demanded. "Well? I'll let you know that I have a lot of fangirls out there. Much more than you."

Puppet glanced around. "Oh...look. Free hugs."

"Where?" Itachi squeaked, running off in search of the hugs, giving Puppet enough time to make a hasty retreat.

Laia glanced over. "Itachi's giving out free hugs? Ooh la la." She ran after him.

Saki's cat ears twitched. "What? No way! He's mine!" She ran after Laia. "He's my boyfriend!"

Saru sighed again. "I am so bored right now!" she exclaimed to no one in particular, which seems to be the theme of this chapter. "I think I'll do something mean to Hidan!" Saru looked around carefully. "Now, who can help me?" Her eyes fell on Sasori, who was sitting in a chair looking bored. "Sasori!"

Sasori glanced over. "What?"

"Wanna help me do something mean to Hidan?" she whispered. Sasori glanced at Hidan and shrugged. "Bitchin'!"

"What's the plan?" Sasori asked.

"Well, I need the help of your removable arms," Saru explained. "That's why I picked you!" Sasori looked down at his arms in shame. "There's no time to have self-esteem issues now, we need to use your arms!" Sasori, with one last withering look at his arms, nodded.

"So, what exactly are we doing?"

"Well," Saru said. "We're going to use the fine art of framing." Sasori nodded carefully. "And we're going to use Kakuzu as the victim here," she continued. "With your removable arm, I'm going to sneak up on Kakuzu and take his wallet," she explained. "And then I'll take the wallet and put it in Hidan's pocket, but have it sticking out a lot. And then, we'll say, 'Hey Kakuzu, I'll bet you don't have more money that me.' He'll want to prove us wrong, so he'll take out his wallet, but uh-oh, he doesn't have it. We'll pretend to be nice and help him look for it, and we'll lead it to Hidan, who, uh-oh, has it sticking out of his pocket." Saru smiled evilly at Sasori. "Are you in?"

Sasori glanced at Hidan. "Sure, I guess so." With a sigh, he popped off one of his arms and passed it to Saru.

Saru silently crept up behind Kakuzu, who was currently arguing with Kisame about who deserved to be MVP. Kisame shot Saru a weird look, and Saru quickly motioned for him to shush before he blew the entire prank. Kisame shrugged and kept arguing with Kakuzu. During one of Kakuzu's more passionate rants, Saru stuck the hand into Kakuzu's pocket, forcing the fingers to close around his wallet. Once the wallet was secure in Sasori's detached hand, Saru scampered away from Kakuzu, whose body odor made her want to vomit.

"Did you get the wallet?" Sasori asked.

"Yeah, and let's just drop it in Hidan's pocket before I puke," Saru muttered. She ran over to Hidan, quietly dropped the wallet in his pocket, and raced back to Sasori. "Here's your arm back."

Sasori sniffed his arm. "Ew, it smells like rotting flesh!" He walked over to the sink and started washing it off, grumbling about stupid Kakuzu.

"Okay, let's put my plan into action," Saru cackled to herself. "Hey Kakuzu!" Kakuzu turned to her expectantly. "I'll bet I have more money in my wallet than you have in your wallet!" Kakuzu looked shocked.

"As if!" he cackled. He reached into his pocket, and Saru bit her lip. "Wha...where's my wallet?" His face turned pale and his eyes welled up with tears. "My wallet is missing! Wha-wha-what can I do?"

Saru patted him on the back sympathetically. "Don't worry," she said. "I'll help you find it." Kakuzu's face brightened. "Let's go look over there by Hidan."

"Why Hidan?" Kakuzu asked, walking towards Hidan. "He's my friend, he'd never—is that my wallet?!" Kakuzu's eyes got a funny look to them as he marched over to Hidan. "I can't believe you'd do this to me!" he snapped. "What kind of friend are you?"

"Do what to you?" Hidan asked, looking up at him. Kakuzu snatched his wallet out of Hidan's pocket. "What? I didn't know I had that in there!"

Kakuzu nodded. "Mm-hm. Sure."

"I'm serious!" Hidan protested.

"Let's go for a walk," Kakuzu snarled, dragging Hidan outside the classroom.

Saru leaned against the wall, basking in the glow of her victory. But what was this? Her glow was being blocked by something. It felt like death-glares. Saru opened her eyes, searching for the offender. Kori was glaring at her.

"Is there a problem?" she called out, too lazy to get away from the wall.

"Oh, no, I'm just glaring because I'm jealous of your hair," Kori muttered sarcastically.

"Oh," Saru called back, now trying to piss Kori off. "Well, sorry. I'm not really into girls, if you know what I'm saying."

"Yeah, I do," Kori said, walking over. "And you know what else I know?" Saru looked up at her. "I know that you just did that whole thing up there just to piss off Hidan."

"Yeah, I did," Saru said. "Wasn't it funny? Aren't you pissed off that I thought of it before you?"

Kori's eyes narrowed. "You want to take this outside, bitch?"

Saru peeled herself off the wall. "Yeah, let's." The two of them walked outside, glaring at each other the entire time.

Meya smirked at Pein, who had been fidgeting and trying to figure out an excuse to take back his words. "Well? Will you do it for me?"

"Um...actually, I don't think I need to," Pein said. "My migraine is actually going away!"

"No way, that is so freaking awesome, dude!" Rae shouted from across the room. Pein winced.

"It looks like you need it," Meya said. "Now, come on." She grabbed Pein's hand and led him into one of the empty cabinets that lined the classroom. Pein stared at the pills in Meya's pocket. Would it be worth it?

"So, did we find something?" Deidara asked his posse.

"How about that plant over there?" Emilie suggested, pointing across the room.

"Great idea!" Deidara squealed. "Plants are very—Emilie?" Emilie nodded. "That's Zetsu. We can't burn him." Emilie sat down disappointedly. "Now, now, let's not panic. Robbi, do you have any suggestions?"

"I wanted to burn the plant guy," Robbi said sadly, putting on her headphones. She started bobbing her head to the beat.

"Any other suggestions? Rei? Great. What do you have?"

Rei pulled five more snake-shaped plushies out of her bag and tied them into a knot. "Let's use these!"

"Great!" Deidara said excitedly. "This is going to go down huge!" He placed the knot on Rae's desk and reached into his mysterious red pouch.

Across the room, Gina leaned over to Kira. "Do you know what they're doing?" she asked, her blue eyes fixed on the tangle of snake toys.

"I stopped guessing a long time ago," Kira sighed, closing her eyes.

Gina paused. "But we've only known them for two days."

"Really?" Kira asked, studying the peppy group. "Well, it feels like I've been stuck with them for a lifetime."

"I know what you mean," Gina agreed. "I'd quit, but this is the only art class that suits my schedule, you know? So I guess I'm stuck with them until it ends."

Several things happened in the next second.

1. Pein screamed from inside the cabinet,

2. Sasori was elected MVP of the Akatsuki,

3. Laia and Saki caught up with Itachi,

4. Konan finally decided to take out the roll book and start class,

5. The art class exploded in a burst of fireworks.

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Note: Man, this was a really fun chapter to write. I know we didn't actually...well...do anything, but I had a lot of fun working on it. Either that or I just reeeeeeally didn't want to finish my biology homework.

AND OMG I HAVEN'T DONE LIKE ANYTHING WITH PUPPET I AM SO SORRY, HE'LL HAVE A MAJOR ROLE IN THE NEXT CHAPTER FO SHO.

And for anyone who submitted a cameo after chapter 3, sorry, I don't have time to add in new cameos, so just sit tight and I'll stick them in when it's a good time. As for now, don't send me new cameos, they won't be put in for a while, so just wait until I'm ready.

Now, should I do my biology homework or should I finish the next chapter of Red Butterflies?