A/N: Hi everybody! I've never written fan-fiction down on paper before so I'm afraid I may not be that great! However, I hope you enjoy what I have to write! Just to let you know the characters in my stories will often have extremely exaggerated personalities! There may be some imperfections too, so sorry!
Akatsuki Adventures
Chapter One: Deidara and Tobi!
The Land Of Fire, greatest of the five shinobi nations, and home to the hidden leaf village 'Konohagakure', was peaceful that day. That was, until Deidara and Tobi arrived. They stood at the base of a valley, hidden amongst the trees. A path to their left would lead them directly into the village, but for now Tobi sat upon a tree trunk, swinging his legs and humming to a random tune.
Deidara could hear the tune buzzing around in his head, an annoying rhythmic humming, "Tobi! Will you cut that out before I get angry?" he finally growled.
"Oh, I'm sorry Senpai..." Tobi looked at Deidara, well at least that's what he must've been looking at, for all Deidara could see was a small black hole on Tobi's mask. "I'm just bored that's all," he glanced around "what are we even waiting for?"
"You fool," Deidara smiled to himself "we've been sent here on an extremely important mission. We're just waiting for Pain's message"
"Ohhhhh!" Tobi exclaimed, leaning forwards on his tree trunk, "So you don't even know what we're doing here either, Senpai!" he then chuckled as if he knew more than Deidara. Even though his partner's words were true, Deidara still gave Tobi a glowering look. "Now Senpai!" Tobi chirped "Don't get all mad OK? I was only joking, you know that right?" he then gave a nervous laugh and resumed his hum, though more quietly this time.
Deidara really did have no idea why they had been summoned to Konohagakure, but he hoped it was worth his time. He remembered Pain's words clearly.
"Wait for my message at the bottom of the valley. See to it, that you don't get caught"
Yet, here he was, still waiting for Pain's supposed message. Maybe he's sent it by bird, and the creature hadn't made it? Either way Deidara didn't want to wait here much longer with Tobi. "Oooo! Senpai! Look!"
Turning around, Deidara discovered a large cloud of leaves had begun to descend upon them. The way they swirled through the air was so unnatural, that Deidara felt this must be Pain's message. "Tobi, my man! Looks like this is the sign we've been waiting for!" he grinned and plucked a leaf from the air, Tobi danced around on his tree trunk.
"Oh boy Senpai! Man am I excited! What's the sign mean?"
"It means-" wait a minute, what does it mean? Deidara realised suddenly that he actually had no idea what the leaves meant, though there was a certain fury in the way that they turned in the air, "It means we attack Konohagakure! But stealthily!"
"Oh boy!" Tobi yelped and jumped from his trunk "This is going to be our best mission ever!"
After they completed a brief celebration, the two Akatsuki headed towards the village hidden in the leaves, only to discover they had read Pain's sign wrong.
Adjusting his position in a bush, Deidara huddled behind a clump of leaves and twigs. How was he going to infiltrate a village subtly? Surely Pain was aware how much he liked to make a grand entrance? Infiltration was Zetsu's speciality after all... but Deidara wasn't about to let Tobi know his doubts.
The reason they were hiding in a bush was because Naruto was standing talking to the two gatekeepers. The jinchuriki seemed in good spirits, chatting amiably with Kotetsu and Izumo. "Senpai" Tobi hissed way too close to Deidara's ear "It's the nine-tails! Are we supposed to capture him?"
"Um, I think so" Deidara said slowly, pushing Tobi away from his face "Don't get so close you fool"
"But Senpai! How are we going to capture the jinchuriki?"
"I have an idea! Don't worry, all you have to do is follow my orders, got it?" Tobi nodded at this, and Deidara spent the morning explaining his plan.
When evening fell Konohagakure's gates drew to a close and Deidara and Tobi left their hiding place in the bush. "Now, there's sentinels standing at the top of the wall, so keep close and don't get caught" he explained and again Tobi nodded.
Slowly, they both crept towards the wall, and upon arriving pressed themselves close to it. Shuffling to the right they inched closer to the gate until they were standing right besides it. Deidara shifted positions and hoped that Tobi would remember the plan...
"Now Tobi, listen up. First of all, I really think we should attempt to do this at night" he remembered saying, "You know how there's this slight gap under the gate, which makes it easier to open and close? Well, you're going to squish your way underneath, got it?"
"Hmm, Ok Senpai" Tobi had replied sullenly "but- why can't you do that part?"
"Just follow my orders!" he had snapped.
Now they stood before the gate, Deidara's plan turning into reality before his very eyes. He could see it now, Pain praising him for his hard efforts, raising him high in the Akatsuki, and then-
Tobi was waving his arms around like a windmill. Expressively, and with a face of thunder, Deidara pointed at the base of the gate where the small gap was. Tobi shook his head. Deidara pointed. Tobi once again shook his head and whispered "I'm too fat Senpai! There's no way I can squeeze through there I'll just get upset" he began to make small sniffing sounds to which Deidara believed were probably being faked, as Tobi was just too lazy to make the effort of squeezing under.
So, Deidara squeezed himself under the gate. On the other side, Konohagakure village was asleep itself, even the gate keepers hut seemed sleepy, a dull orange glow coming from within as the guards sat and talked late into the night. Deidara got to his feet and dusted himself down before peeling back the gate slightly to let Tobi through. He then closed the latch.
After around two hours, the pair finally came across the house of Uzumaki Naruto. It was a small looking apartment, and Deidara crouched opposite the door readying his explosive clay. Tobi stood shifting from foot to foot "Hurry up Senpai, or he'll catch us"
"Tobi, how many times have I told you? You can't rush art!" he patted the clay together with his hands "Now shut up and let me concentrate"
Tobi didn't like being told to shut up "hmm, OK Senpai". Tobi wasn't even sure why he was worrying so much, the jinchuriki was probably asleep by now anyways, but Deidara planned to remove the door using explosive clay, only a small explosive, Tobi remembered him saying. Even so, Tobi could only vaguely remember the plan, and he was too afraid to ask Deidara what it was he had to do again. After a few minutes Deidara's creation was complete, a tiny clay mouse with just enough explosives to break through the door. "You remember what to do, don't you?" Deidara asked.
Tobi nodded.
Keeping low to the ground Deidara released the mouse. Quickly, it began to run towards the door and Tobi took a leap back just as Deidara was doing. However, Deidara was looking at Tobi now as if he were doing the wrong thing. The mouse collided with the door and a huge explosion blasted Tobi down the corridor, Deidara disappeared from his sight. Senpai is gonna be so mad! He panicked and scrambled to his feet. "Oh boy!" he puffed as he ran away from the site of the explosion, what was it that Deidara had said again?
"Now remember Tobi" Deidara sat opposite at the bush, leaves brushing the top of his ponytail. On one of the leaves was a ladybug that Tobi found rather interesting, it had one spot on each wing and was crawling slowly around the leaves and Deidara's hair. "Hey Tobi?"
"Hmm?"
The ladybug opened its wings and took flight just as Deidara shifted his head, "You got the plan right?"
Tobi nodded.
Now Tobi was cursing himself, if only he had listened to Deidara, then now his Senpai wouldn't be so mad. Quickly he hid himself in an ally, just as he heard running footsteps. "Hurry! It came from Naruto's place, he might be in trouble" a voice called.
"Run faster!" said another.
They passed and the street grew quiet once more. Tobi sighed in relief, and turned around to see a battered looking Deidara glaring at him from the top of a fence. "Ayiehhhh! Don't scare me like that Senpai!" but Deidara leapt down and grabbed a fistful of Tobi's robes.
"You idiot! You were supposed to kick the mouse at the door, so that it would go through the keyhole and explode the house from inside!" he shook Tobi around a bit "Now look what you got us into!"
"I see why you're mad Senpai, bu-"
"Just shut up and let's get out of here, this mission's been a failure!"
By the time they made it back to the tree trunk, the sky had turned the colour of dawn. Yet, Tobi was too tired to appreciate the beautiful orange sky and instead lay back on his tree trunk to watch the branches blow in the breeze above his head. Deidara sat nearby against a tree, nursing his pride whilst he figured out how to break the news to Pain. Suddenly, in the branches above Tobi noticed a letter clasped inside the beak of a bird. Carefully he reached up and removed the piece of paper from its beak, it read:
Deidara,
Please pick up the following order at that dumpling place near Konohagakure.
Pain
Oh boy, Senpai is not gonna like this. As if things couldn't get any worse, Tobi heard the sound of voices approaching "Quick Senpai hide!" Jumping up quickly the two Akatsuki leapt into the trees and watched as below them Rock Lee and his sensei wandered into the clearing.
"Did you like my dynamic whirlwind Guy Sensei?"
"Which one was that again, Lee?" his sensei asked, raising his bushy eyebrows.
"This one!" Lee announced and lifted his leg to perform a whirling kick at Tobi's tree. The tree shook and Tobi hung on for dear life, gloves slipping slightly as he struggled to hold on. The wind from Lee's kick was also causing a strange effect, the leaves whirled furiously around similar to the supposed sign they had seen earlier...
"Nice Lee!" Guy patted him on the head warmly, "You did a good job yesterday too, now let's get some rest so we can train tomorrow!"
"Your ideas are always so marvellous sensei!" Lee exclaimed, with tears in his eyes.
Tobi and Deidara exchanged a look.