"Izzy!" An older lady yelled throughout a house. No answer. "Izzy!" She called again. She looked around the corner and stopped, frown on her face. She crossed her arms and started tapping her foot. "Izzy." The girl brushing her hair didn't even flinch. The woman sighed. "*Deidara.*" She said, annoyed. Izzy stopped brushing and looked at her mom with a bored, annoyed look.
"What do you want, hmm?" She said.
"There's still five hours until the cosplay festival. It took you an hour to take your shower."
"I had to get my hair completely washed, yeah," Izzy interrupted.
"And then it took you twenty minutes to get dressed."
"I need the proper ninja gear, un."
"And you started brushing your hair *thirty minutes ago. *"
"I want my hair to be perfectly soft and easy to put fingers through without hitting a tangle, yeah."
"Well, are you done yet?"
"Almost, yeah." Izzy did one last brush through, finding no tangles. "Now to color it, un." Izzy's mom groaned and went back to cleaning. Izzy grabbed a can of yellow hair spray and started spraying her light brown hair down completely. A minute later her hair was a Deidara yellow color.
She took the brush and started combing through her now stiff hair. It turned the brush yellow, but her hair was once again soft and movable.
Then she parted her hair to the far right side, then pulled part of the back back and up, wrapping a hair band around it, then wrapping a tan ribbon around the base. Then she took two bobby pins and hid them behind the ponytail, propping it up.
Then she pulled the hair out of behind her left ear.
Izzy smiled at her work, then opened a drawer, pulling out a case with a pair of contacts in them. The contacts had a small, black ring around the outside, the rest a sky blue, with a large, black pupil in the center. She leaned in close to the mirror and carefully put them in. She just about looked just like Deidara.
She grabbed a eyeliner pen and outlined the top of her eyes, but continued past the end of her eye. Then she outlined the underside, but halfway across started to leave and go meet the end of the other line. She grabbed some white face paint and colored the skin white that was inside the lines. Then she darkened and thickened the eyeliner lines. *Now* she looked like Deidara.
She put the scope on and the headband, then a belt with two large bags filled with white clay. Then she put on an Akatsuki cloak. She cleared her throat and spoke in a deep, practiced voice.
She sounded like Deidara. She looked like Deidara. She now needed to act like Deidara.
She walked out of the bathroom and looked at the clock. Two hours until the cosplay festival. It took an hour to get there. Plus they had to eat.
"Mom! We need to eat now!" Her mom came around the corner.
"How does tuna sandwiches sound?"
"Hmm... Meh. It'll do." Her mom shrugged and started pulling things out of the fridge to make the sandwiches.
They ate the sandwiches with hast, then washed up. Izzy grabbed a last minute addition to her costume, then hopped into their car. She buckled up and got the last minute addition on. It was a tight, thin, skin matching strap that went around her hands. Attached to the palm side was a small open mouth with a tongue hanging out.
An hour later they were there, twenty minutes to spare. Twenty minutes to find a parking spot and get signed up. Izzy hopped out of the car with speed and hurried over while her mom found a parking spot. She calmed down her racing heart beat and put on her Deidara face. There were already many people there. Most of which not dressed up, but there were some people there who she recognised from some animes.
She continued walking toward the registration booth, ignoring everything, trying to act completely like Deidara, when:
"Deidara-sempai!" A male voice yelled. She quickly turned around, unfortunately getting glomped by a Tobi cosplayer. How dare he. Izzy thought, trying to think like Deidara would. I am Deidara. He doesn't even sound like the real Tobi, hmm! But I'll go along with it.
"Tobi, get off." Izzy said in her Deidara voice. The guy immediately got off, switching out of his Tobi act.
"Oh, you're a guy. I thought you were a girl. Your Deidara costume is great. And your eyes look so real. Anime-wise I mean. It's cool. How did you do it?" Izzy stared at him with a look of complete Deidara confusion. Then she left.
"Deidara-sempai!" The guy yelled, running after her. "Tobi's sorry! Tobi won't ask again!"
"Tobi, just go away, or I'll blow you up, hmm!" The Tobi cosplayer quieted, but hummed a bit and still followed Izzy. Izzy put her hand in her clay pouch and grabbed some clay. She pulled it out and started mushing it with her hand, then remembered the mouthes on her hands. She didn't feel the straps anymore. Had they fallen off? she tried to mush the clay, but she didn't feel it in her hand. She turned around at the now humming loudly Tobi in anger.
"Tobi! Shut up, hmm!" She now felt the clay in her hand. It was warm and somewhat... Wet... But it was probably because she'd been mushing it, making it soft. She tried moulding it into a spider shape, then threw it at the Tobi cosplayer. She was surprised it actually looked like a spider. One of Deidara's spiders.
She saw Tobi's eyes widen in shock. She put her hands in Deidara's signature position, and saw something out of the corner of her eye. But it was too late.
"Katsu!" She said, right as she saw and felt real mouthes on her hands and suddenly understood about the clay. The spider, now giant, glomped the Tobi cosplayer in the face and blew up.