"Have you got everything now?"
Deidara rolled his eyes and flicked his hair out of his face before sighing: "Sure thing mom." He turned around to check on his friends.
Zetsu was say upon the grass admiring the flowers and plants, and every now and then picked one and held it to the sky, admiring it. Kisame was crouched over the fishpond and was dipping his fingers into the water to stroke the fish – "Nice little fishy" he cooed softly. Deidara heard sobbing and turned to see Itachi, who was urgently trying to shake off his younger brother, who of which was clinging desperately to his leg in despair: "Don't leave me big brother!" he cried, tears flowing down his face, resembling small waterfalls.
Itachi picked up Sasuke onto his feet and knelt down in front of him until their two faces met. Itachi gently wiped the tears from Sasuke's cheeks and promised him he would be home again soon – to which Sasuke responded with an enormous hug.
Deidara noticed that his best friend, Sasori, was leaning against the fence watching the others; and saw in his eyes that he was saying "I can't believe I am spending a week with this bunch of losers", before turning towards Deidara in which their eyes connected. Deidara smiled at him, before shouting, "Let's go guys!"
Just as the others looked up to respond, there came a loud crashing sound from inside the house, and within seconds Deidara was flat upon his face, with Tobi, his most annoying friend, on top of him, giggling away.
"Deeeiiii – sssaaann! I'm going on holiday with Deeeiii-sssaannn!" He chortled.
After fists flew, Tobi was dragged into the motor van, and they were soon on their way for their one-week camping trip.
They had been driving for 4 hours, and it had grown dark. Only Sasori and Deidara, who were in the front, were awake. The others slept peacefully apart from Itachi, who snored loudly.
Sasori turned his head to one side and gazed softly at Deidara, before smiling sweetly "So…How long have we got to go now?" he asked, shuffling.
"Not long." said Deidara "About Forty hours" He grinned.
Sasori smiled shyly and blushed "Umm yeah…whatever" He hung his head.
"Sasori" Deidara said sternly "You need to learn not to be so shy. I have told you this before." He paused. "In this world you should always be proud of who you are, and not let anyone else tell you otherwise. You need to open up a little and let others see who you are, because we all like you."
"Thanks Deidara." He stopped "There's something I.."
"DEIDARA!" Tobi yelled from the back, waking everyone.
"What is it now?!" Deidara shouted.
Zetsu, being very angry at being woken up, proceeded to bitch slap Tobi across the face. Tobi wailed loudly which frustrated the party even more.
"For God's sake Tobi, what do you want?"
"I need to go to the bathroom!!" Tobi wailed, sniffing.
"Ok, we will stop at the next petrol station and borrow their toilet." Deidara sighed, concentrating on the road again. Tobi was an absolute pain at the best of times, but his mother insisted upon inviting him on the trip as his other friend Kakuzu could not make it. Deidara had tried to protest, but it was a losing battle. So the idiot had to come with them, for one whole week.
Sasori spotted a petrol station up ahead – "Deidara!" he said "Over there!"
Deidara steered the car toward the station and pulled up smoothly in a shadowy parking space next to the shop. Tobi immediately pulled back the door and leapt out of the car, and scampered towards the shop, holding his crotch as he went. However Itachi, who followed him out of the car, and was much quicker than Tobi, dashed out in front of Tobi and blocked his entry into the shop, and grinned down at him "You shouldn't have woke me up." He smiled.
"Let me in, please Itachi, oh please let me in" Tobi begged, jumping up and down nervously.
"Give me one good reason why'" Itachi said slickly, enjoying watching Tobi suffer.
"Because…your my friend" he tried. "You're my best friend. Come on, let me through" But Itachi showed no signs of budging. "Let me through let me through LET ME THROUGH!" He screamed repeatedly.
A wave of shock passed over Itachi's face as Tobi headbutted him hard through the stomach, sending him flying back through the glass.
Itachi landed flat on his back, surrounded by shards of glass. He felt a small amount of pain around his arms, and then on his stomach. He coughed loudly and looked up to see Tobi walking over him, but he stopped abruptly. He was looking over at something. Itachi rolled over, catching Tobi off guard and sending him flying. He landed with a loud thud.
Itachi felt something next to him once he had moved. Something that made him uncomfortable. Something wet. He turned over and sat up immediately, his face losing colour.
A dead man's head looking back at him, with wide white eyes and hair matted with dark red blood. The man's throat had been cut and his clothes were stained with the horrific red fluid. It left a putrid aroma that wrapped itself around Itachi, choking him. Itachi thought that those eyes were familiar. Why were they familiar?
"Finally…" came a low voice from behind Itachi "my revenge is complete"
Itachi turned to see a dark hooded figure behind him. His face was shrouded in darkness apart from the mouth, which was curved into a sly smile. The figure held a small knife with blood oozing off its blade. The figure bent slowly down and placed the knife into Itachi's trembling hand, and dug the knife deep into his palm. Itachi howled. He could hear footsteps approaching from outside. 'My friends will help me' he thought to himself.
The figure stood up over Itachi once more, before turning on his heel and leaving the shop.
In that moment shrouded with pain and confused thoughts, Itachi recognised the man next to him. A cloud of dread swallowed him
He turned to look over at the body "My…my father". He paused "My Father! ".