All That I've Got
Written by RyoushintekiAikou AKA Hikaru
Summary: There's a new girl in the Akatsuki and it's not Izaki this time. No, it's a young teenage girl by the name of Nitsuki. She's sixteen years old and there's something about her that's a bit off. She'd been recruited from the Village Hidden in the Sand when Sasori, Deidara, and Izaki were on a mission. It wasn't exactly consensual to have her along but they had no choice when Nitsuki knew close to everything about their mission. But that's not the least of it all. She has to be Izaki's partner and the elder Mukura herself has to train and monitor the girl. Will she get more than she bargained for from Nitsuki? And what happens when things start to seem different between some of the Akatsuki members? Would you give all that you've got just for one person?
Pairings: Sasori x Deidara, Izaki x OC, OC x OC, Itachi x Izaki, Pein x Konan
Warnings: Yaoi AND (omfg) Yuri, violence, graphic blood, romance, strong language, and some disturbing mental images along the way.
Dedication: My dearest friends and supporters on FF, you rock my socks.
Author's Comments: Well, I thought about this and was like, 'heck, let's try something new'! So, I hope it's alright. Thanks so much for reading. I love cookies and reviews. The song this is named after is by The Used (awesome band)…
Copyright: I do not own Naruto or the Akatsuki organization. I do take copyright for Izaki Mukura and Nitsuki Misuru. This is purely for my, and the reader's, amusement.
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"Get down!" The wall in front of her shattered into millions of pieces, sending smoke everywhere. A muffled curse could be heard along with several tormented screams.
"Dammit, Deidara! How big did you make that bomb?"
"Big enough, un!" spat back another voice. As the smoke started to clear, three teenage-looking figures stood there. One was female whereas the other two were male.
The girl had long, uneven ebony hair and striking violet eyes contrasting with her pale skin vibrantly. One of the boys had unruly maroon hair and mahogany eyes around the color of warm melted chocolate. His features were chiseled, though they were not exactly human. The other male had long blonde hair pulled up in a ponytail with his bangs covering his left eye. His visible eye was an ocean shade of blue, setting off his pale, soft—almost feminine—features.
"Jeez, you're going to be the death of us all; insisting you must blow up everything!" snarled the girl as she swept back her hair with one slim hand. The blonde stuck out his tongue at her.
"Fun-killer, yea!" he accused her. The other male rolled his eyes.
"Are you quite finished bickering like little children?" he snapped at them both. The girl shot him a dirty look before vanishing into the smoke.
"I can't sense the presence of anyone's thoughts. They're all pretty much dead." She paused and then consented in to her next sentence. "All of them were blown into oblivion."
"You know you agree with my art, un. You just don't show it, yea," Deidara accused her.
"Sasori, get him to shut up please," she muttered.
"I can't do that, Izaki, unfortunately. Can we get this over with?" sighed back the red-head.
"Fine, then…the scroll we were sent to find is down that way and so is the guy we were supposed to kill," Izaki revealed. She pointed to her left where there was a gaping hole. Sasori nodded absently and climbed back into a large puppet waiting for him next to Deidara.
"Let's go." Sasori took off at a brisk pace, Hiroku's robe swishing against the debris. The other two followed silently behind the puppet master without objection. It was better than being forced to follow after him. Izaki paused for a moment to frown and close her eyes.
"Someone's here." With that said, an arm snaked around her waist and a kunai was pressed to her throat. "Shit."
"Get out of here if you want to live," hissed a voice behind her. Izaki counted to ten very slowly in her head before forming a hand-sign. Vines snaked out of the ground and bound her assailant in place.
"You're too slow." Izaki vanished and reappeared next to Sasori and Deidara, her eyes taking on a reddish tint. From where she was, she could see her attacker was a teenage girl
"Dammit! Lemme go!" shouted the girl indignantly.
"I doubt that's a plausible idea," Izaki objected with a smirk as she headed off again. Sasori shot a look back at the black-haired girl, his expression unreadable due to his puppet shell. Deidara noticed the momentary glance before turning his eye onto the teen.
"What, un…?"
"Don't give me that look, Akasuna no Sasori!" spat Izaki from behind the two males.
"How about you not take that tone with me, Shinen no Izaki Mukura!" retorted Sasori in a clipped tone.
"You're not my mother!" She hesitated for a moment. "You're not my father even!"
"…I would never want to parent such a horrible child like you…" Izaki gave him a heated glare from behind him. "I saw that."
"Just shut up." With that silence fell over the group as they proceeded to a pair of double doors. Deidara easily blew them up and headed in with Sasori and Izaki in tow.
"W-what do you w-want from m-me?" stammered a voice.
"Kill him, Izaki." The girl aimed carefully in a direction that was partially blocked by the smoke. Her wrist twitched backwards and then, in a flash, a kunai came hurtling towards the target. A dull thud was heard as blood started to mingle with the dusty air.
"Why do all people who are about to die think about such random, petty matters?"
"I have no answer to that, Izaki." Deidara disappeared and reappeared a moment later with a scroll in hand.
"Found it, un."
"Let's get out of here, then." They turned and started back the way they came. Along the way they came upon the girl who'd threatened Izaki before. Her deep green eyes were wild as she struggled vainly against her bonds.
"Back again? Let me out of here or else I'll tell everyone what you've just done!" the girl threatened. Izaki's violet eyes tinged with crimson locked with hers for a moment; neither seemed to have any inclination to move.
"Sasori, should we kill her or should we drag her along?"
"A hostage situation where we put out a fake ransom, then eventually slowly kill her?" the red-head questioned. Under the exterior, Izaki had a good idea that he had an eyebrow raised.
"Or we kill her now."
"Or you don't kill her at all." Izaki scowled and gave the girl a glare.
"Very funny…"
"Ya know something? You're kinda funny when you're angry." Izaki's left eye started to twitch as she looked away from the girl.
"Shut the hell up."
"Don't test her temper, un," Deidara advised softly.
"But it's so much fun!"
"Can it before I kill you!" Izaki finally growled. Her tone verged on bloodthirsty as she turned to face the wall behind her. Breathing slowly, the only inclination of the source for her anger was a twitch of her hands.
"Izaki, calm down; we should kill her." Izaki closed her eyes, letting the black overcome the red she was seeing. In her mind, she could feel the presence of ANBU thoughts heading their way.
"Double-time it, Sasori; they know we're here. ANBU are on their way." Izaki formed another hand-sign to release the bonds on the girl. Deidara let out a long sigh as he tossed his clay bird down. He pressed a hand sign to its chin and it grew massively in size.
"Let's go, then, un," he consented.
"Sasori, get on with Deidara and take the girl with you. Throw her off if she annoys you too much," Izaki instructed in a hard voice. "Circle for me a hundred miles from here, but fifty from base."
"Alright." Sasori carefully maneuvered onto the bird with Deidara.
"What about you, yea?"
"Don't worry." A kunai whizzed by her head. "Now go." The clay bird took off into the sky, rising at what would be an alarming rate. Turning back to her current task, Izaki drew seven kunai. Carefully calculating each mark she took aim and threw. Distantly she heard six grunts. Where was her seventh…? A kunai came out of nowhere, and before Izaki could react it pierced her right leg, tearing through the flesh. Blood started to seep out of the wound as she crumpled down into a kneeling position. She tugged out the weapon and threw it right back. A final grunt was heard.
Gingerly she stood and attempted to put pressure on her leg. No luck. Reaching down with her right hand, she muttered something to herself as her hand starting to glow green. Calmly she put her hand over the wound and waited for a moment. After a few seconds, she removed her hand and the green aura vanished. When she tried to walk on her leg again, she only limped slightly.
"Time to go." She hurried off, vanishing in a blur as she flitted away. The miles seemed to race away as the wind whipped her face. The pain in her leg eventually settled down to a dull throb. Eventually, she sensed the presence of Sasori and Deidara above her. She stopped to wait. A large shadow descended upon her, blocking out the fiery sky from the setting sun.
"Get on, yea," Deidara told her. Izaki wasted no time in walking over carefully and sitting down on the large bird. The creature rose again as they started to fly closer to base.
"How are we going to explain her to Leader-sama?" Sasori asked in a tired voice. Izaki shrugged in reply, keeping her eyes low as they ate away at the miles. The red-head didn't push the subject further as the rest of the flight went by in silence. All too soon a rush of wings was heard as the bird touched the ground. Izaki got off and waited for Sasori and Deidara.
"I'm amazed, you didn't chuck her over the edge," Izaki commented lightly.
"You only wish," the girl retorted smugly. She chose to ignore that remark as she headed towards a mound in the ground.
"Turn the other way." The girl rolled her eyes but did as she was told. Izaki formed a complicated hand-sign as her ring glowed for a moment. The mound rose up to reveal a doorway into darkness lit only by the faint light of lanterns.
"I'll head down first," Sasori muttered as he dragged himself through the opening and into the yawning cavern. Deidara came after him followed by Izaki and the girl they'd captured.
"You know, I've been with you on this trip for a bit and I still don't really know you're name at all," the girl told Izaki.
"Time tells all." Sasori and Deidara were already gone, but returned within a minute with the scroll. The red-head was outside of Hiroku at the moment.
"Whoa, I thought that he was…" Izaki gave the girl a warning glance and Deidara glared at the girl. "Never mind…" Without hesitation the black-haired girl knocked three times firmly on the door that lead into Pein-sama's lair.
"Leader-sama…it's Sasori and Deidara; they want to see you about the mission we just completed and also about a pressing matter," Izaki announced in an emotionless voice. The door creaked open and she vanished into the darkness. Sasori followed suit as did Deidara, leaving the girl to stumble into the room blindly. The door slammed shut behind her.
"So, was the mission successful?"
"Minor mistakes were made, Leader-sama, but there was the fact that Deidara wouldn't stop arguing," Sasori reported in a bored tone.
"Shinen no Izaki Mukura, age sixteen, S-rank criminal, and one of Orochimaru's former students… How sad… I expect so much better out of you. Out of all of you," snapped a voice from the darkness. Izaki closed her eyes in the darkness, struggling to hold onto the purple color of her eyes.
"Well, gomen, I can't be prefect like everyone expects from me," Izaki replied in a cool voice. "Anyways, Deidara blew up some shit, we almost got fucked over by some random girl, and the guy we were supposed to assassinate was an ass. We got the scroll, though."
"…I'd like to have that…" Deidara walked forward through the dark close to blindly as he held out the scroll. A larger hand took it from him firmly and the blonde walked back to where he'd come from previously.
"The other matter we have is this girl who we brought back with us…" A soft sigh was heard from the darkness.
"Why did you do this?"
"Well, she made a very weak, and pathetic, attempt to kill me. Then I bound her where she was with vines and went on with the mission. On the way back she threatened to tell everyone what we'd just done and who we were. So we tried to decide if we should kill her there or take her with us and kill her then so it wouldn't look suspicious. Then ANBU came and we had to take her along. There was no time for Deidara and Sasori to escape after killing her so we were forced to bring her," Izaki explained in a smooth tone. "What do you say we do with her now?"
"What's her name?"
"My name is Nitsuki." Izaki pursed her lips and glared off in the girl's general direction. This was taking longer than necessary. The smell of musk and mud started to fill her nose, making her slightly dizzy.
"I think you should kill her, Izaki."
"If that is what you wish."
"No, wait!" Silence fell over the group. "I…I want to join the Akatsuki…"
"I object, Leader-sama, if that's alright. She has no talent whatsoever as a kunoichi and she is an embarrassment to the ninja name," Izaki interjected.
"I will take that into consideration. I will give her a week to improve. She'll be under your care, Izaki, for the time being. If she fails the test at the end of the week, then we will kill her," Leader-sama finally replied in a low voice. Izaki sighed.
"As you so wish."
"You may leave. All of you." The door swung open with a groan and the occupants of the room left without another word. Once outside in the light of the hallway, Sasori smirked at Izaki.
"Now you're a babysitter, Izaki." She glared at him hatefully before turning to Nitsuki. The girl stared at her with her head tilted to the side slightly. Her forest green eyes bored into Izaki quizzically and her flaming orange hair hung next to her pale face lightly.
"Izaki…I've heard your name before…"
"I'm sure a lot of people have." With that Izaki headed off down the hallway and to her room with Nitsuki in tow. Once they reached Izaki's room, she pushed open the door and disappeared inside. There were two beds in the room, one of which was made up completely with nothing surrounding it. The other bed closest to the farthest corner of the wall was cluttered with various scrolls. A desk sat under the window and candles were placed precariously on a nightstand table, the desk, and on top of books. Several diagrams of the human mind and body were placed around the bed farthest away.
On the desk there were various pieces of charcoal and paper. Several pictures were stuck to the wall for safety and others were stacked neatly to the left of the desk. The room smelled of roses, lilacs, oranges, and rain. This puzzled Nitsuki because Izaki seemed so…cold and distant…
"The bathroom is across the hall. Deidara and Sasori's room is, not the first, but the second door down from the bathroom on that side of the wall. In between their room and the bathroom is a towel closet. Next door on the left are Kakuzu and Hidan. On the right there's Itachi and Kisame. After Kakuzu and Hidan are Tobi and Zetsu. Be forewarned; don't piss of Itachi, Hidan is a Jashinist and a pervert, Kakuzu will kill you if you defile his room with pink or steal his money, and Sasori is a puppet master with a short temper. Deidara will blow you up if needs be. Tobi is creepy. Zetsu is liable to eat you.
"We are all criminals with no exact conscious so be warned about that. Sasori and Deidara argue about the lifespan of art almost every day. If you find body parts, they either belong to Zetsu or Sasori." She paused. "Deidara likes to blow shit up a lot. Sasori has over one hundred seventy-five hitokugutsu—puppets. I, myself, have really no regret for inflicting pain on you or others. If you find blood around the room, it's probably mine. I bleed just to know I'm alive sometimes.
"If a creepy snake man comes in here, kick his ass if you can or just run and find me. When I want to be alone, I will kill you if you come anywhere near me. Pein-sama runs this place and he is liable to give the go to kill you. Konan is somewhere around here and, honestly, she and Leader-sama have something… But anyways, that's the standard format of life here," Izaki finally explained in a calm voice. Nitsuki's eyes widened as she stared at the girl.
"You know, inflicting yourself with pain purposely shouldn't be something you're used to…" she managed to say. Why did she get so tongue-tied talking to Izaki…?
"Those around me never had a problem with it. So I don't have a problem with it, personally. I make my own choices," Izaki responded softly. She went over and sat down at the desk. She picked up a piece of charcoal and twirled it between her fingers, coloring them black.
"Izaki…" The girl looked away so that Nitsuki couldn't see the light blush starting to form on her pale cheeks.
"Look, maybe you should rest…" The red-haired girl nodded and lay down on the unoccupied bed.
"Nyah…" Izaki watched quietly as her eyes started to close. As soon as Nitsuki was soundly asleep the girl turned to a new sheet of paper and started to sketch the sleeping girl. Her face was so serene and…beautiful…when she was asleep. Upon finishing the sketch she stowed it under her bed and headed out of the room, closing the door behind her with a soft click.