OK this is my first fanfiction, and it involes Sasodei YAOI don't like don't read.
I do not own Naruto, or Three Days Grace Animal I've Become
Enjoy! :)
Downtown
Chapter 1
It was 4 o'clock Monday morning when Sasori finally felt that his new masterpiece was complete. Perfect. He leaned back in his chair, stretching his back out before lazily getting up. He yawned and began walking to the staircase on his right, but not before taking on last glance at his newly finished painting. After that last piece of proof that it was perfect, he opened the old wooden door with a creak and trudged down the petite staircase. He yawned as he made his way down, reopening his eyes to see his beloved canine companion at the bottom of the staircase greeting him. "Hmm morning to you to." he said with a smile as he bent down to pat the Dalmatians white and black spotted fur, "I'm going to bed now, you don't need water do you?" The female dog gave a little whine and made its way over to the door on her right signalling that she too wanted to sleep. Sasori smiled and followed her actions of plopping on the bed. He snuggled into the cotton sheets 'another job well done' he thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep for the many more hours to come.
He hated it with an utter passion. It wasn't the animals he hated, hell he was one of the biggest animal lovers out there, it was the work, the wasted time that he could be using to create art. He sighed inwardly as he came back from the backroom of the veterinary office carrying a prescription for one of his dad's client's sick cat. He placed it harshly in front of the receptionist and asked for what seemed like the hundredth time, "Is this is?" "Oh, yes!" she replied gratefully, "Thanks for getting it for me, Deidara you know how swamped I am in work these days." "Yeah it was no big deal, anytime, un." he replied a little irritably "Oh yes and Deidara." Keisha the receptionist spoke up again, "Your father wanted to see you before you leave today; he said something about helping giving a pesky puppy a vaccination." "K, I'll go see him, thanks, un" and with that he left the building not bothering to see what his father had wanted, it was his father's job not his, and plus he had much work to do.
"Hmmhm..." Was the only muffled sound that escaped Sasori's mouth as Jewel wriggled her way under his arms, nudging his face as a sign to wake up. "Ok, ok I'm up" he groggily wiped his weary eyes, clearing his vision, only to see a set of large black eyes staring back at him. He sighed with a smile as he propped himself up into a sitting position on his bed. He looked at the digital clock beside his bed, 12.45 p.m. He turned his head sharply around, "Was it really necessary to wake me up this early?" He asked in a somewhat demanding voice. The Dalmatian only whined and then jump off the bed and scurried to the door, indicating that she needed something. "Alright," he fully got himself out of bed and opened the door making his way to the kitchen, as Jewel was directing him; she then halted and pointed her nose to her water dish. Sasori understood as he bent down and lifted up the bowl bringing it to the sink he noticed a pink slip of paper attached to the fridge door. He walked closer to examine it, he had been too occupied in his work lately and forgot what information the little card held. Once realizing what it was he gave a soft chuckle and turned to face his companion, "Looks like someone has a check-up today."
"Are you serious!?" Panted Deidara, "There's no way, were doing that exam next Wednesday, un." he finished almost completely out of breath. "No, I'm serious man; I wouldn't lie to you about a history exam." The equally tired Hidan replied. "Shit! ... "Deidara breathed as both males continued their jogging along with the rest of their schoolmates. "I'm skipping." Deidara replied quickly, "And I'll do it after school, I'll say I had to help my dad with an emergency surgery or something." By now Hidan showed pure amazement on his face. "You? Skip? As if!" Deidara's emotion dropped "Look, I don't mean
anything offensive by it; I'm just saying skipping isn't your thing. Plus who would accept a 'skipper' into a fancy art school like Goldendancer, no offense just pointing out the obvious." Hidan said in a cocky tone. Deidara inwardly sighed; even his best friend seemed to be getting on his bad side these days. He hated school and the only reason he didn't skip with Hidan was because he wanted to be a famous well known artist and the only way to accomplish that is graduating from Goldendancer Fine Arts Academy. But in order to graduate you need to first get in; therefore you need good grades, in not just art but every other damned subject under the sun. "Well, it's not as if I'm gonna get caught, I have you after all and you were probably planning on skipping fourth period anyway, un." "Yeah, yeah make me do all the work." The gym teacher, Might Guy had just blown the whistle indicating the end of warm-ups and onto the rest of the period, soccer. "Please Hidan, un." Deidara begged over the beaming voice of the coach, "You don't have to beg me I'm just teasing you, sometimes you're so oblivious" Hidan laughed, "Yeah, yeah I get that a lot, un ..." and with that the game began, 'God' Deidara thought, if only it was an exam for gym, then I wouldn't feel so bad about skipping, un.'
After a regular afternoon, well morning by Sasori's standards, he began his newest piece. Upstairs in the raggedy old attic of his 18th century style townhouse, with the large circular window, or as he like to call it his 'Art Room'. The immense window, was always occupied by a certain canine, on its window seat whenever Sasori worked in the daytime, and occupied by himself whenever he got frustrated with his soon to be masterpieces. Sasori was an artist; he painted beautiful paintings ones that would fly off the shelf at the local bookstore at which he sold them at as soon as word got out about them. It wasn't as if he was 'that' famous or anything, well at least not for his paintings, most of his fame came from the puppets he made for the local puppet theatre. They were beautifully hand sculpted, and they in themselves were what brought the old puppet theatre downtown back to life, even if it was only little children and their parents who appreciated them. Sasori sighed, he didn't care as long as he could admire his work himself, but at least his hard work got him the rent payed. Sasori was quickly jolted from his train of thought as Jewel began nudging his arm gently at first, but then more firmly. Sasori would have been pissed at the interruption had he not look at the time 4.00 p.m, time for their daily walk around town. Sasori put his pencil down, stretched and stood up, following his companion down the stairs into the kitchen. It was there he was reminded of Jewel's appointment at 5.15 p.m. 'Perfect' He thought, 'That's plenty of time for a walk and to drop off last night's work.' With that thought finished, he picked up Jewel's leash and his newest masterpiece and together, they strode out the door.
Deidara was leaning against one of the many medical cabinets at his father's clinic. It turns out he choose not to skip after hearing from Konan that the exam wasn't too difficult, so he took the chance. In the end he felt he did pretty well, so he wasn't too worried about one mediocre mark anyway, he'll just have to make it up next assignment. He removed his eyes from the pap lit he was reading to glance at the clock, 4.56 p.m. He then smiled, 'Only three more appointments, un' he thought 'then I can finally leave this goddamn place and do something important.' He was awoken from his thoughts as he heard Three Days Grace's 'Animal I've Become' being played, his cell. He dug his hand down the front pocket of his pants to retrieve the vibrating electronic. Tobi was clearly written on the caller display, which made Deidara sigh 'What the hell does he want now?' Regretting the answer to his thoughts, he
answered the phone; "Hello" he spoke with a monotone voice "Hiii sempai! Are you coming with us to the movies tonight?" Tobi said over excitedly "Movies?" Deidara asked suspiciously, "whose going?" Tobi laughed, "Everyone silly! You, me Konan and Hidan, who else?" "Right, I'll come, what time?" Deidara's mood had dropped; this would seriously cut into his art and studying time. "Hidan's picking us up at eight, I'm so glad you're coming sempai, you'll sit beside me right? During the movie I mean." Deidara sighed, he seemed to be doing a lot of that lately, "Sure, whatever, see you at eight, un." "Bye sempai!" and with that he hung up. 'Damn' he thought, 'I'll never get anything done with all this crap I have to put up with, un.'
4.59 p.m 'Not enough time to give Itachi a visit at the hospital, I'll have to do it after the vet's.' Sasori thought as he and Jewel continued their slow paced walk along one of the many downtown streets all the while the soft current of the wind playing with Sasori's red locks. It was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon, the air was cool but the sun was shining and all the remanding snow was melting into slush. They continued their daily strode until reaching the local bookstore were Sasori tied Jewel's leash to the nearby bike rack. "Don't worry" he assured her, "I won't be long." With that he opened the glass door and stepped into the bookstore, earning a small whine from Jewel. With his newest painting in hand he walked up to the front desk, only to be greeted by the store's inherit and personal friend, Kakuzu. The money loving nineteen year old, was the same age as Sasori, his emerald eyes were like those of a cat and his medium length shaggy black hair was like that of a wet dog. "Hey there Sasori long time no see, got a new painting I see." He greeted, "Yeah," he said handing the painting to Kakuzu for his inspection, "sorry I don't have time to stay and chat, but I have things to do today." "Hmm, this one's fabulous Sasori, your defiantly gonna make a good four fifty five or so on it." He said smiling while placing the painting down, "Don't worry I won't waste your time, but you are at least coming to the meeting tonight right? Nine o'clock sharp? ""Yeah I'll be there but what about Itachi?" "C'mon Sasori you know it's not safe to have a meeting in a friggen hospital, anyone could hear us." Kakuzu said sharply, almost scolding. Sasori sighed, "I'm not retarded I know that, I just think that Itachi at least has the right to know what's going on. Just because he's stuck in a hospital bed doesn't mean that we disown him until after he's healed. After all he got that broken leg from helping us if you don't remember." Sasori replied angrily, it didn't take much to get his temper flaring. "Yeah I know that, but I'm sure he'll be out soon then we can fill him in when he's at home where there's privacy." "Yeah" Sasori said while turning around, "well I'm still gonna to see him tonight. I'll see you at the meeting." "Alright, but you better not tell him anything, or Pein will have your ass." Kakuzu replied with a hint of teasing in his voice, as the glass door slammed shut. Kakuzu sighed picking up the fairly large painting and hanging on the wall were the last two hundred once hung.
'Ok,' Deidara began inwardly, 'If I leave right after the next appointment then I'll be home by 5.30, then by the time I finish my homework it'll be around 7 o'clock leaving me with only an hour, un...' Deidara hated when this happened, it seemed that every time he had a perfect idea for a sculpture he either had to work late at his dad's office or go hang out with his friends. It's not that he didn't like hanging out with his friends in fact he thoroughly enjoyed it, they just always seemed to want to hang out when he had work to do but he still went anyway knowing that in the end he'd have fun. 'Oh well at least I'll still
have forty-five minutes to get a good start on it, that way at least I won't forget my idea.' He walked behind the secretary's office desk to take a peek at the next, and his last patient for the day. A dog and nevertheless a Dalmatian, 'Oho what do we have here? I didn't know anyone around town had a fancy dog like a Dalmatian, probably some rich jack-ass, un' Deidara concluded. Oh well it was his last patient so he could care less, he would most likely just think about his new sculpture idea the whole time anyway.
Sasori and his canine companion strode into the veterinary clinic and up to the secretary desk. There they check in and were told that they'd have to wait for the next appointment before them to finish. Sasori was pissed. The one thing he hated in the world the most was waiting, and having to wait with a twenty-four year old secretary flirting with you, made it all the worst. Sasori hated the extra attention and on top of that he hated women, not all of them but most of them, other than the canine kind but still he managed to bear through the eight minute wait trying to focus his mind else ware. That's when a person stepped out of the once closed door to the veterinary's room. 'Finally' Sasori's thoughts screamed as the lady and her Pomeranian said their thanks to 'Mr. Iwa' and a 'Deidara' and made their way to the secretary to pay their fees. Sasori laughed inside at the sadden look on the secretary's face because of his departure nevertheless he made his way to the door the lady and her dog were once behind. Sasori stopped in the doorway as he heard two people talking, "Ok dad, it's just a regular check up right?" "Yeah, you know what to do same old same old." This peeked his interest he recognized the second voice as Mr.Iwa but he'd never heard the first but it was pretty obvious that it must be Mr.Iwa's son.
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