This is my first fan fic ever so I hope it will be good, english isn't my real langauge either so bare with me if I spell things wrong.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or it's characters in any way, but I do own my OC's.
I had been running for almost a day now, heading towards Konoha, jumping from tree to tree, a cool breeze gently blowing through the green tree tops. I absentmindedly stroke a stubborn lock of dark brown hair out of my face as I thought back to my talk with Kira, my best friend and also the ANBU captain, my boss, he had been more worried than usual when I went on missions, especially since I went alone this time.
Flashback
"You will find and infiltrate the Akatsuki, and find out as much as you can about them and their plans. You have five months. Understood?" Kira finished his orders. "Yes sir, I understand." I assured him. "Aya, be careful Ok. Akatsuki is a dangerous organisation, filled with S-ranked criminals." He begged with a worried look. "Don't worry Kira, I'll be alright. I'm an expert in infiltration." "How can I not worry? You're my best friend and I don't want you to get hurt. And you're going alone this time. And it's not only Akatsuki, other village's ninjas will see you as a Missing-Nin too." I smiled reassuringly and gave him a quick hug and left, telling him not to worry too much.
End Flashback
It started to get dark when my stomach let out a growl, I had only stayed at a tea house today so I was getting really hungry, fortunately I saw lights overhead, a village, small but it would do.
Well there I found a nice restaurant where I ordered some ramen. After I was done I placed money on the table and walked outside to find a place to stay for the night, preferably cheap, I had to use my own money on missions, and being an ANBU doesn't give much money.
Next morning I was awaken early by the sun shining in my face, I cast the covers of me and stood up with a yawn, stretching as I went to the bathroom to take a quick shower. When I was dressed I made the bed before walking downstairs, I had paid last night so I didn't need to wake the owner up at this early hour.
The village was still asleep when I left it, running towards Konoha.
I would reach the fire country today so I decided to stay at a teahouse later today rather than waiting until the shops and restaurants opened in the village I just left.
After a few days I arrived at Konoha, after showing my pass to the guards and asked the way to the hokages office I walked through the peaceful and beautiful village bustling with activity towards the big red Hokage building, it was easy to spot as it lay beneath a mountain with the faces of both the four previous hokages as well as the present one, Tsunade carved into it. Well there I immediately got to talk to the Godaime.
"So have you heard about them recently Tsunade-sama?" I asked politely after explaining my mission. After the rumours you did best in not irritating Tsunade, she had a bead temper and an insane strength to top it off "You're lucky Aya, we got a report that they were seen south of Konoha yesterday, but when our ANBU got there they were already gone, but it's may give you a hint of were they went." The fifth said. "Thanks Tsunade-sama, I'll be on my way then." I said, I didn't expect it to be this easy to find Akatsuki, not that I'm complaining, I just hoped that I would catch up with them before they got to far away.
I bowed towards the Godaime before I left the office and walked out of the building. Outside I almost ran into a pink haired kunoichi, she seemed to be around three years younger than myself, we both apologized at the same time and she told me she trained under Tsunade, learning both fighting skills and medical training. And I told her a bit about myself and asked her about Akatsuki. "Are you looking for them?" "Yeah, I'm gathering information about their actions." I answered, not wanting to explain my whole mission.
"Well I've never met them, but my team mates Naruto and Sasuke battled two members. I think one were Sasuke's older brother Itachi and the other Kisame from the Mist village. They are after Naruto but I don't know why." She looked hurt when she mentioned her team, so I couldn't help asking where her they was, I also wanted to know more about Naruto and why Akatsuki were interested in him. "Naruto is away training with Jiraya-sama, one of the sannins, considering he's the number one hyperactive knuckleheaded ninja in Konoha he'll need that training. It's been two years since he left." Even though her slightly irritated words I could tell she cared for Naruto, but she didn't say anything about her other team member, Sasuke, I guessed it was a sensitive subject and since it was Naruto Akatsuki wanted it didn't matter either. She followed me to the gates and before I left I promised to come by when I had finished my mission.
After half a days running I took a break, and once again I reached up, letting my fingers trace the slash across my headband, I had also put a jutsu on it after I left Konoha, replacing Kumo's cloudlike figure with the symbol of my former village Taki. It felt strange even though I only had done it because of my mission, if the Akatsuki took me for a Missing-Nin from the beginning it would be easier for me.
That's when I caught a glimpse of two persons wearing black cloaks with red clouds on, Akatsuki members. I quickly concealed my chakra before quietly jumping down on the forest floor, thanks to the soft earth after the last rain my steps were soundless. Suddenly only one was walking ahead of me, surprised I stopped half hidden behind a thick tree and quietly searched the surroundings for the other one. "Looking for me, un?" A male voice behind me said, making me twirl around and jump backwards in surprise, I hadn't sensed him at all, he had a bamboo hat with paper stripes making it impossible to see more than his blue eyes, or eye, his left was covered with blonde bangs. The shorter one had appeared besides the blonde, at least they didn't try to kill me at first sight. I quietly thanked Kira who told me to slash my headband even though it was changed.
"Who are you and why were you following us?" The second one said, he was short and squat low to the ground with a strange voice. "I'm Aya and I've been looking for you because I wanted to join you." The tall one looked at me as if trying to see if I lied or not but he didn't say anything.
"Hmm, you can come with us to our leader. He will decide." It was obviously the short guy who decided everything.
After walking through the calm forest without any other sound than singing birds and the rustle in the leaves for another hour voices were heard and soon three ninjas appeared, I recognized them, I had met them on my way to Konoha. We had rested at the same tea house and started talking, they were on a scouting mission from Konoha and gave me quite helpful directions on the land near Konoha. But they didn't know more about my mission than that I were gathering information on Akatsuki.
"Aya, what are you doing here?" Miharu asked sounding surprised but remained calm as usual. "I could ask you the same." I replied, last time I had seen them they were north of Konoha, not half a day south. "We needed to make another check close by. That's when we saw you and decided to say hey, but then we saw these two." Daiki, a red head with blue eyes said calmly, though he often was the more hyper one in the team. "But I don't need…" I started to say but got cut of by Haru, he like his twin sister Miharu had shoulder length dark blue almost black hair, though his was a bit shorter and shaggier, but Miharu had emerald green eyes instead of grey like her brother. "You two better let Aya go." "Or else?" The shorter Akatsuki member said mocking the team from Konoha. "Deidara take Aya and return, I'll handle these three." Deidara nodded and took is hand out of a pouch by his waist , were he had quickly placed it when the Konoha ninjas came, and let a small bird sculpture fall to the ground, he made a hand sign and, in a puff of smoke the small figure grew large enough to hold two persons. Deidara grabbed my hand and pulled me on the bird and immediately it lifted from the ground.
I could see Miharu, Daiki and Haru trying to follow only to be stopped by the remaining member, I could just hope they didn't get themselves killed.
I sat in silence at first enjoying being so high up, my emerald eyes taking in the view around me, I've always lowed heights envying the birds that were able to soar high up with the clouds, and considering how strong the wind was whipping my shoulder length hair around and how quickly the ground under us disappeared the bird flew very fast. But my curiosity didn't let me stay silent for long, I wanted to know how Deidara made this bird, it was neither a summoning nor a puppet so how did he do it?
"I let my hands eat clay and mix it with my chakra I can then form it how I want and let it explode on command, un." Deidara answered after a short hesitation when I asked, I nodded but then blinked in surprise as I realized what he had said. "You let your hands eat? How can hands eat anything?" Needless to say I was confused, I mean, eating hands. Simple logic tells you that hands hold stuff or build things, not eat it. He only smirked and held up his hands, showing two moths in each palm, each complete with teethes and tongues.
"Cool, is it a Kekkei Genkai?" "I don't know I've always had them though no one else in my family has them, un." He looked straight ahead seemingly unaffected of my question and in deep thoughts but I got the feeling he didn't really liked to talk about his past.
So we both sat in silent for what felt like hours, just watching the surroundings that flew by in a mix of colours without any distinct shapes. "How much longer is it? It feels like all I ever done is sitting on this bird." When I asked this it was already half dark only a thin line ahead of us showed were the sun had been hours earlier. "Not long, after all we are heading towards the rain country, un. But it takes longer to walk than flying." Deidara said smiling slightly at my obvious impatience. Sitting still long weren't really a problem if I were able to leave or change place when I wanted, but here on this clay bird it was kind of impossible, I only had two choices, a) Sit still or b) Jump of and hope I survive. To be honest I prefer the first option, so I was itching to get down to the ground.
I may love flying and the bird was surprisingly soft and still a bit warm after getting warmed up by the sun, but flying for half a day is a bit too much.
"We're here, un." I was snapped out of my thoughts at Deidara's words and the bird's soft descending towards a river letting us jump off in front of a cliff with a huge, and I mean huge boulder with a seal on it.
Deidara made some hand signs and the humungous boulder lifted letting us enter the cave, a very big cave but nevertheless empty. The river only reached a few feet inside in an uneven half circle and as the boulder slowly sank back down to its place it gradually became darker inside, though not pitch black. I were about to fell a comment to Deidara about this very empty base when he started walking towards the far end of the cavern, well there I saw nothing different, but Deidara pushed open a portion of the stone wall, revealing a lit up corridor. I must say it was well hidden, give me a magnifying glass and a few months and maybe I could find it.
Anyway Deidara led me to the end of the corridor into a fairly big living room. "Always call Pein, leader-sama, only Konan are allowed to call him by his name, un" Deidara instructed as we walked past a big sofa and two armchairs. I didn't see much of it since we immediately continued towards another door to the left. At the end of this hallway, honestly this place must be made out of corridors, we entered a door. Inside I saw a tall guy with orange hair and strange eyes, it was rings around the pupil, like a bulls eye, he also had many piercings, those through his nose bone must've hurt like hell to get. While I was busy examine the room and the leader himself Deidara explained what had happened earlier and were sent out by the leader. Now I got a bit nervous but he only asked why I wanted to join them.
"I'm a jounin and a skilled Medical-Nin from Taki, I never really liked my village or the people there and they never were much found of me either and when my mom and brother got killed by father they said it wasn't enough proof so I killed him instead and then left." I sent a quick apologize to my dead father who had been killed on a mission when I was small, defiantly not the kill the family type, but I decided to change a few bits here and there in my past to make it more trustworthy, and it looked like the leader believed it, though with that emotionless face it's hard to tell.
The leader sat silent for awhile before he spoke. "We could make use of a Medical-Nin." He said more to himself than to me. "You will fight Kisame tomorrow when he and Itachi come back. If you win you are free to join. You can leave now, Deidara will show you around." I bowed politely before turning around and walked out the door, I wondered why the leader let me see the base before I'm a member, I guess they'll probably kill me if I lose, which means that much is at stake tomorrow. But the information on Hoshigake Kisame I got from Kira made me feel pretty confident. Outside Deidara was waiting, luckily since I had no idea were to go, and I told him what the leader had said.
"Come on then, I'll show you around, un. In this corridor leader-sama has his office and bedroom and Konan have her room there too." He then showed me back to the living room again, it was still empty, Deidara pointed towards another hallway next to the one we left.
"In there Zetsu, Hidan and Kakuzu have their rooms and you really don't want to go in to any of those, un. One sacrifice him self all the time, the other is very found of people, for dinner and Kakuzu is very protective of his money. The indoor training ground is the door furthest down that corridor, un. There is also a door leading to the top of the cliff besides that one.
Also every room has its own bathroom, un." I nodded and tried to remember everything as I followed Deidara towards the far end of the living room, through a portal I could see a kitchen and one more portal leading to a dining room. And the door next to the kitchen was a medical room.
We continued to the lone hallway to the right, except the door leading to the big empty cave. "In this one Itachi, Kisame, Sasori and I have our rooms, un. And this one will be yours if you win your match tomorrow." He said as he opened a door to the right. Without lying I can easily say that no one had lived here for years, a thick layer of dust covered everything and the walls needed some repainting, this would take a forever to clean. "I'm not sleeping in there tonight I would rather sleep on the ground outside." Deidara laughed slightly and opened the opposite door showing a regular sized room with white walls and the furniture in the same dark wood as the door, the bed had cream coloured sheets and dark green covers, overall the colours in the room went in earth tones like green, brown, beige and cream. "You can sleep in here, un." "But isn't this your room?" I said noticing the clay sculptures that occupied much of the empty spaces in the room including the bookcases, mostly different types of birds but other animals too. They were all very well done, some quite simple and others were more detailed, but they had one thing in common, they were beautiful. "Yeah it's mine, but I'll sleep on the couch so you can take the bed, un." I looked at the couch he pointed at, judging by its look I wouldn't be able to lie outstretched on it, and Deidara is taller than me so how he was going to sleep on that thing is more than I understand. "No, I'll take the couch. It's your room and the couch is too small for you." In the end I agreed to sleep in the bed, who would have thought it would be this hard to argue with him. Mental note, don't get into an argument with Deidara he'll always win it.
But we went to the kitchen first, after Deidara had left his cloak on his drawer, my stomach had told me very load and clear what it thought of not eating for a day earning another grin from the blonde until he got betrayed by a low growl himself. On the way I finally got a good look on him, he had the usual ninja clothes, blue pants and a blue stomack t-shirt with a net shirt under it, he also wore ninja sandals. His blonde hair reached mid back though half were put up in a very gravity defying pony tail, also in some angles I could catch a glimpse of his left eye under the bangs but it were covered with some sort of scope. He was also taller than me, I had noticed that earlier but now I saw that I only reached to his chin.
I finished eating before Deidara so I went back to his room by my self, and I didn't get lost either. I took a blanket and a pillow from the bed and lay down on the couch, falling asleep immediately.
Deidara's POV
When I got back to my room Aya had already fallen asleep, I looked at her lying curled up on the couch, her brown hair had fallen down over her face slightly. I changed clothes in my bathroom before I pulled away the covers on my bed but stopped myself before I lay down, I sighed deeply and walked back to Aya and carefully lifted her up and turned towards the bed.
Suddenly she moved slightly and I hesitated afraid she might wake up, but she just snuggled closer to me, her nose at my neck. I gently placed her on the bed and pulled the covers over her. I'm not sure why I even did that, I mean she said it was okay for her to take the couch, so why do I feel like I have to do this? I thought about it as I slumped down on the couch trying to lay somewhat comfortable, I ended up on my back with my legs over the edge and managed to fall asleep with a feeling a terrible neck ache awaited me in the morning.
End POV