Silence is Golden?

Chapter 1

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Disclaimer: I own nothing!

Ok, I know I'm still working on like two other stories, but this idea came to me and I just had to write it. Although I probably won't be updating every week anymore, I will try and do it at least once a month. It just depends on how fast I write. :)

Enjoy!

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Deidara's POV

I don't know what it was with leader Pein and scroll retrieval missions, but he had sent us on yet another one. This time we were to get some kinjutsu scroll from Kirigakure; Sasori danna refused to tell me which one it was, saying I just needed to cause a distraction while he got it.

Maybe I'd finally get a chance to use some of my bigger bombs. I smirked silently to myself as we walked down the dirt path leading towards the village. Mist was drifting through the air, making it hard to see more than a few feet in front of me; perfect for stealth.

"Hey danna un, when will we be there?" I asked, breaking the silence.

"Tomorrow morning," he answered shortly. It was one of those rare times when he wasn't inside that ugly puppet, Hiruko. Apparently it needed serious repairs, or so he had said.

I glanced up at the sky, trying to decipher what time it was but to no avail. The mist was too thick to see much of anything. I tried sensing to see if there were any other chakra signatures around besides me and Sasori danna; there weren't.

Sometimes I wondered how the people of Kiri could stand all of this mist. Then again, I should be wondering the same about the people of Ame.

As we walked, the trees around us began to thicken until we were walking through a forest. After a while, a river could also be seen to the right of us. Although the mist made it harder, I could tell the sky was also beginning to darken.

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"We'll stop here for the night," danna said, sitting against a tree next to the river. Finally; it had gotten so dark by now that I could barely see a foot in front of myself. I sat down against a nearby tree, and listened to the flowing water of the river until I drifted off to sleep.

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We were almost at the village now. The sun was barley up but I could tell that the mist had gotten a lot thicker over the past few hours.

"Ok brat, make one of your birds and we'll start the mission," Sasori danna said. I did as I was told and flew up above the village. Alright, now all I have to do is make a distraction. I started off with some of the smaller bombs and scattered them throughout the village before making the necessary hand sign, detonating them.

I heard screams coming from the villagers as I threw more bombs on some of the buildings; I just had to avoid the Mizukage's building where danna was. I continued to do this occasionally glancing at the building to see if Sasori danna came out.

Ok, time to use a bigger one. I molded my C3 bomb and dropped it off into the center of the village, but nothing happened. It didn't expand or detonate, even after I tried the hand sign several times. Wow, I hadn't had a dud in years, and it was really annoying to get one right now.

I continued to drop the smaller ones onto the village until I saw Sasori-no-danna come out of the building. I flew my bird down, letting him get on when suddenly, I heard something. I tried flying the bird up quickly but still got caught in the edge of the blast as the C3 I had thought was a dud exploded.

It sent us flying out of the village and into the nearby forest, slamming us into trees and knocking us out.

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Ouch, that sure had been painful… I looked around to see if there were any Kiri ninja nearby and saw that Sasori danna had already gotten up. I was about to say something when he got up and began to walk back towards where the base was.

Sighing, I followed him. I guess he felt like talking even less than usual today. Oh well, I was feeling too tired to talk anyways; shocker, I know.

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We were approaching the Akatsuki base now; Sasori no danna doing the hand signs to let us in when we got to the entrance.

"Hey danna," I said to try and get his attention, but he didn't seemed to have heard me. Heck, I hadn't even heard myself; was I really speaking that quietly?

"Hey danna?" I said again, but still heard nothing and neither did he. Oh no, was I going deaf!? This can't be happening to me! I need to be able to hear my beautiful artwork when it detonates! I need to be heard period!

Quickly, I grabbed Sasori danna's shoulder, making him turn around and receiving an annoyed look.

"Danna! I think I'm going deaf!" I shouted shaking him. He just scowled at me with a slightly confused expression. Then it seemed as though he was trying to ask me something, but I couldn't here. I guess he couldn't either by the surprised expression that followed his statement.

Oh great, now Sasori-no-danna was deaf too!

"Sasori danna! Can you hear me!?" I shouted as loudly as I could but failed.

"Come on danna! You can't be deaf too! Now who am I supposed to complain too!?" I shouted.

He tried to say something, well shout, but I just couldn't hear. We continued this unheard shouting until a nearby door slammed open and an irritated Pein came out. I guess it wasn't quiet to everyone else…

He stood there, shouting at us, looking quiet hysterical if I might add.

"I can't hear you!" I all but screamed, hoping to get the message across. I knew he could probably hear me, but I liked being able to hear myself. This only seemed to make him even angrier.

I glanced over at Sasori to see if he was hearing any of this to see he just looked confused and extremely annoyed.

"I still can't hear you!" I said with as serious of an expression as I could make; he might think I was joking…

He just face palmed before glaring at me.

"I think danna and I are deaf leader-sama!" I shouted even louder than before. He just stared at us blankly for several seconds before sighing. He gestured for us to follow him into the room; I really hoped he heard me.

We both walked inside, when he began making all of these crazy gestures. At first I was a little freaked out but soon began to laugh. I didn't have any idea what Pein was doing, but it sure was hilarious!

Sasori's POV

I was shocked, to say the least, when leader Pein began to go crazy. What he was trying to say I had no idea whatsoever. I glanced over at my partner to see him laughing. Whacking him on the head, I gave him a warning glare that seemed to calm him down. Just because Pein-sama looked hilariously ridiculous didn't mean we should laugh.

He stopped whatever it was he was doing before and walked over to his desk, taking out a scroll. He then gestured to it and then us. Oh, that's right; we still hadn't reported about the mission and given him the kinjutsu scroll.

Sighing in relief, he dismissed us to go do whatever. I really hoped he had some kind of plan, because it was really hard to come up with one when you couldn't hear.

As we walked into the living room we saw Hidan just standing around when he walked up to us and looked like he was saying something.

"We can't hear you," I said, making him look at me confusedly. He made a gesture suggesting he couldn't hear me as he said something.

"We can't hear you!" I shouted loudly, shocking him. I then continued to walk back to my room with Deidara following behind me.

Maybe there would be a few up-sides to this whole deaf thing; now I didn't need to be annoyed by my blonde partner.

Hmmm, this might actually be a good thing, temporarily that is.

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Okay, well, here's chapter one. Like? Love? Hate? Please review and tell me what you thought, constructive criticism is welcome.

There will only be one more chapter in this story and I'll post it by the end of the month hopefully…