The Way It Began

It had begun to get odd around the base as soon as Itachi, Kisame and I had brought back Deidara, he is apparently my new partner here in the Akatsuki. This should be really interesting, seeing as to the fact that he and I have completely different views of art. I know that I have the better opinion of art out of the two of us though.

"Hey Sasori, hmm." Deidara said as he had come into our shared room and disturbed me from my current puppet project.

"Yes, Deidara?" I asked as I cautiously turned around to see if anyone else was with him. I normally would be in my favorite puppet, but seeing that I was currently working, I wanted to be out of my puppet. "Are you just going to keep staring, or are you going to tell me why you are interrupting my work that needs to be finished?"

"Oh, uh, the Leader wants us to report to his office for our first big mission together, so we should probably get going before we end up like the guy with stitches did earlier hmm." Deidara responded, he looked really nervous.

Pain only seemed this aggravated whenever a new member came into the Akatsuki because he tries to intimidate them into following all of his commands. But I knew better, and so did a few other members. We listened to him so that we could avert the attention from the real leader, away from Madara.

"Yeah, alright." I responded to him, standing up and walking over towards my bed. "Let me just get into my shell, then we can report, alright?" I said, even though he would have to because I was his senior in this organization.

"Alright, yeah, that's fine with me, hmm." Deidara said, as he shifted his weight to his other foot for more comfort. "I still don't understand why you wear that damn thing everywhere outside of this room, hmm." He said, looking a bit irritated as I finally finished getting adjusted in my puppet shell.

"Simply because I fight better with it, and because you are the only living person who has seen me without this on." I told him, as I walked past him and into the hallway and started to go towards Pain's office.

"You really mean it, hmm?" Deidara asked as he jogged to catch up to me and walked as he soon as he made it to my side. "What had happened to all of the other people, hmm?" He asked rather curiously.

"The majority of them were Kakuzu's old partners, and I assume that you have already heard a lot of the rumors about what had happened to them." I responded, to which Deidara had stopped dead in his tracks with a ghost white look on his face. "Well come on now, you don't want to be late now, do you?" I asked as I turned around to look at his face more clearly.

"R-right, let's go, hmm." Deidara exclaimed as he jogged a bit ahead of me, and I turned around to join him in his approach of Pain's office once again. Time for this damn mission to begin, I guess.