Chapter One:
Once upon a time in a land far, faaar away...
Wait... This is fan-freaking-fiction! I'm not gonna start like that!
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The yellow and red leafs crunched under his feet as he soon stopped in the cool autumn air. The long, blond haired boy breathed in deeply and sighed happily. It was a very nice day for August. It was usually unbearably cold by then. He wanted to enjoy the nice whether while it lasted. After all, he wanted to be a kid as much as possible, being only five.
Looking up at the cloudy sky, he blinked his sea-blue eyes and walked on, out of the Village Hidden in the Leafs. At this time, the sun was barely up. It was somewhere around five or six am. He needed to leave before anyone noticed a kid from another village was there. Back then, it was banned and he hated it.
The only reason he ever comes to the Leaf Village is to hang out with his one and only best friend, Itachi. Whenever he came over, he had to act like he lived in the village. He needed to know the whole place inside and out. This included the forests that surrounded it. He looked back one more time at the housing of the Uchihas. He never wanted to leave when he went over for a sleep over. He was like their own kid there. They were all a family away from family. Smiling to himself, he carried on. At this point, he was half way into the forest, marching on with his backpack jumping along. He was happy. He didn't know why, because he always had a fuck-load of walking to do which he hated. But he just had a good feeling about something.
Then from behind, he heard his friend. "Deidaraaa! Hold on! I'm coming too!" Deidara stopped and turned around, waiting for him with a huge grin. Itachi had his backpack with him too. "Did you think about what we talked about, un?" he asked. Itachi nodded happily, his hands on his knees, panting. His long black hair fell over his shoulders, "Yep. And I don't want my best friend to be alone in this.". "Really!! Thanks, un!". "Anytime pal," Itachi smiled "Now, what exactly did we talk about last night? I can't really remember too much...".
The two young boys were well into the forest by now. "How could you not remember? You just kept saying no!" Dei remarked. "Oh... Well, I'm not saying no now am I?" Itachi was known for his sarcasm. "Well, I heard my dad talking to that kid Pein's dad, and Pein's dad said the he couldn't find him cause he ran off to find other kids to start something called the Akatsuki. My dad said that sounded like bad news and Pein's dad agreed. And I told you that if Pein was good enough to make a club, then we were good enough to be in it. So I wanted me and you to go off and find him, you know, to join. But you wanted to be a momma's boy and stay." Dei loved to tease him. "Shut up! I am not!" Itachi snapped, but then calmed down. "So... Akatsuki, huh? Sounds mysterious... I like it" He smiled. The two walked on through the forest, talking about random things. Then they stopped under a large tree for a rest.
Dei and Itachi sat down next to each other, their backs to the tree. Deidara stared off at the dirt. Itachi looked over at him. "What?" Dei pulled off his backpack and opened it. It was filled with food and clothes. "How are we gonna defend ourselves Itachi!? All I have is a hell of a lot of food and clothes..." Itachi began to laugh quietly to himself. Deidara looked at him like he was crazy "This is serious, un! We could die!" Itachi looked suprised. Deidara hardly ever raises his voice. Then he began to laugh more as he took off his backpack and set it in front of them. "Open it." He said. Dei did as he said and his eyes widened with a sparkle in them "Woah, un!!" His backpack was full of everything from hari to exploding notes. Metal wires to kunai and fuuma shuriken. Itachi smiled. "I'm an Uchiha. We like to stay... Protected. But can I give you half? It's poking the hell out of me..." Deidara nodded happily, so they filled their backpacks full of an equal amount of food, water bottles, clothes, and weapons. Eventually after a snack, they got up, and proceeded to walk through the forest...