Chapter 1: Encounter

"A new virus is experimented on University of Akatsuki's research department…" The red haired male who was also a current medical student at Akatsuki University read the daily school news paper while he sat quietly alone in his dorm. The dorm in this university was usually for undergraduate students but there were around two hundred free spaces available that were specially designed for medical students who qualified for scholarships. Due to the fact that both of his parents were decreased and the only source of income is his grandmother, Akasuna Sasori applied for a full ride tuition including housing which he received without any surpri

Sasori was known to have high grades to the point where he graduated as the valedictorian during his undergraduate years. His speech, which was forced as a valedictorian, only contained six words: never keep anyone waiting in life. This was something that Sasori developed as a young child when his grandmother named Chiyo decided to keep his parent's death a secret until Sasori managed to find out on his own by an accident when he heard his parent's friends talking.

To Sasori, waiting would cause people to have a sense of false hope.

Sasori recalled his grandmother's reason. It was because she did not want to hurt him by telling him the bad news when he was so little. That reason was something that Sasori was able to comprehend. What he didn't understand was that if Chiyo knew his parents passed away, then why didn't she try to fill that empty love Sasori needed the most during his childhood? He tried to get really involved with his grandmother when he was little by talking to her and asking her questions about puppets she made during her free time but nothing heartwarming ever came out from Chiyo' mouth.

Perhaps looking at Sasori reminded Chiyo the death of the parents…. specifically her son who was Sasori's father.

Maybe she thought by distancing herself away from Sasori would be one of the ways to console her only son's death. It was still unknown why both her son and his wife was discovered dead in their bedroom so it was concluded as suicide for now. Until she was able to properly accept her son's death, she thought it would be best to "take a break" from Sasori as much as possible. She didn't want her emotion to affect the grandson in any harmful way. But this poor decision caused Sasori to close his heart as well and became more anti-social towards his grandmother and eventually the rest of the society.

The only thing Sasori was thankful of Chiyo was the fact that she introduced him how to make wooden puppets.

"Tsk, what's the point of making a new virus anyways? Shouldn't they be focusing on finding treatment for current ones? Keeping people waiting like that is not going to do anyone good," Sasori murmured to himself as he crumbled the newspaper and threw it to the trashcan. Akasuna reached his arms in the air to stretch out some of his muscles before closing his physiology book. Tomorrow was the second midterm and Sasori knew he was well prepared. He just needed some break or more like… a distraction.

"Well then, I could go and finish making Hiruko's Tail," said Sasori as he stood up from the chair and walked towards the bed where a large puppet that looked almost like a dome waited for his master.

The puppet wore a black cloak with red clouds which Sasori designed himself while the bottom part of the face was covered by a black fabric acting like a mask. Hiruko had cold eyes that could easily give a death glare to anyone who looked at him which was something Sasori loved the most. Hiruko was a work of art. Art that expressed how Sasori felt about the world he lived in.

"Why does my Zodiac sign have to be a scorpion…" Sasori sighed to himself when he looked under the bed and pulled out a massive long iron tail. He still had to finish making the pointy ending part and needed to polish it before attaching it to Hiruko.

"Where did I put my hammer," Sasori looked around the room. When he failed to find the tool that he needed, he remembered that the hammer was inside the closet with his-

"I don't know why I left my hammer with these two junks…" Sasori gave his usual boring expression to his first puppets that he made: Mother and Father. "I have to trash these two puppets when I'm done with Hiruko."

Sasori took out the hammer and roughly slammed the closet door before sitting down with a satisfied smile. Just the thought of finally finishing the scorpion tail and adding it to Hiruko excited Sasori. When the puppet was complete, he would coat it with a chemical he uses in his research lab to make it forever lasting. True beauty of art was eternal after all. Akasuna looked at the clock and it was still ten thirty. Most students would be studying for their midterms for tomorrow so it would be very quiet within the dorm as well. Even though Sasori didn't have any roommate, he wanted to rip his hairs out and curse out at his neighboring students when the party music got too loud or anything noisy in general.

"Just have to shape the tail correctly and-"

"KYAH!"

"...?" Sasori raised one of his red eyebrows and turned his attention to the door.

Screaming? In the middle of the night? Normally when it gets too noisy outside of his room, Sasori regularly brush them off thinking that it's another prank by other med students or that the sound is caused by some drunk party person. But this time something sounded a little odd.

'I hear murmuring outside...' Sasori's thought trailed off. His curiosity was getting better of him as he dropped both Hiruko's tail and the hammer to see what was happening outside. When he opened the door, it was something that Sasori would have never expected to see in this university.

"He's dead! He's not moving I swear he's dead!"

"Did someone call the emergency?!"

"We have to let the faculty know!"

"What the hell?! What's wrong with him?!"

"His eyes are all rolled up! We have a dead guy here!"

A student, which many people proclaimed as dead, was only couple of feet away from Sasori's dorm. The whole body faced downward so it was difficult to tell which med student it was but Sasori knew that didn't matter. Was this student really dead? Was it an accident? But there was no fire or anything like that. Was it something that he had? A medical problem? When if it is something that can be spread around and….

"Shit," said Sasori under his breath and he slammed the door right in front of his face. If it was something dangerous and something that could be contagious, Sasori knew it would be best to stay as far away from the body as possible.

'Is he really dead? Probably not. Why in the world would a student suddenly die in the campus?'

Various thoughts came into Sasori's mind and the only thing he could hear was people screaming outside. Few minutes later, Akasuna heard medical staff who tried to calm all the students down. A couple of hours later, everything settled down as if the whole scenario never happened from the start with. Sasori's back was still attached to his door and he wondered if it was safe to go outside again.

'Is it safe? What am I thinking about? The guy was probably drunk and was playing dead to make himself in the front page of the school newspaper,' thought Sasori with the banal look on his face. 'I guess I should just check if everything settled down before I go back to work on my puppet.'

Sasori carefully opened the door and the first thing he realized was the student's body was finally gone. It was safe to assume that medical staff took the unknown student away while faculties told other observing students to get back into their dorms. He then look to the right side of the hallway and smirked when it was totally empty with silence, something that Sasori enjoyed very much. When he turned his head to the left side of the hallway, his face made an immediate frown when he saw a blond girl walking towards the area where the whole craziness happened.

"You shouldn't be in this area of the dorm," said Sasori with those lazy eyes glaring at the person.

"Hm?" The person with blond hair with a long bang that covered his left blue eyes and a long ponytail tied behind gave a curious look.

"What the hell brat," Sasori rolled his eyes. Judging by the appearance, Sasoi could tell right away that he was a lot older than this idiotic girl. "This dorm area is for males only? Or are you walking around hoping that some guy would take you in?"

And all of the sudden, the blond person started to laugh. Sasori gave out a skeptical look when he heard the girl's voice because it sounded way deeper than his own voice.

"I thought med students are supposed to be smart, un."

'Ah, a person with speech impediment. Guess judging by the voice this is not some girl after all.'

"Don't blame me for your crazy fashion kid," Sasori was slightly ticked off. "By the looks of it, you look like an undergraduate and this dorm area is specifically for scholar med students only."

"Well you got the undergrad part, un." The guy ran his hair through his front yellow bang, "But you sure don't look like a med student either. You don't seem very bright considering you mistook me as some girl and for the record, you look hell a lot younger then me, un."

Sasori felt like his ego was stabbed just a little bit when this kid said he looked younger than him. It was not Sasori's fault that he somehow managed to receive the gene that made him look a lot younger than his current age. Some people still mistook him as a high school student once in awhile!

"Age?" asked Sasori with his hands crossed.

"Nineteen, un."

"As expected. Freshman are the insolent ones," Sasori smirked.

"What the hell man! How old are you then?" The blond boy pointed at the med student and Sasori had to hold down his anger not to punch this freshman for doing that.

"Twenty six you impudent brat."

"Tch, well you're the kind of doctor I don't want to meet anyways," said the freshman when he realized how old Sasori really was. There was seven years gap between them.

"And you're the kind of patient I don't ever want to meet," Sasori replied quickly without any second thought. "What is an undergrad freshman doing here anyways? It's against the campus policy."

"What are you a son of the school's dean?" The blonde shrugged his shoulders, "I heard the rumor that there was a dead guy found in the med student's dorm so I thought I could sneak in to see the fun but guess everything is over now, un."

"You sure are spending your time wisely," Sasori sighed, surprised that he was still carrying out a conversation with a child.

"Mind your own business , un." The freshman was about to make his leave when he saw a small glimpse of someone sitting on top of Sasori's bed. "Your roommate is a hunchback dude? Ha, that would suck for real, un."

Normally Sasori would try to end the conversation as soon as possible but if someone or anyone gives a negative comment about his artwork, especially his current favorite one named Hiruko, Akasuna would not quiet down so easily.

"And what is wrong with Hiruko?" Sasori gritted his teeth as he leaned against the door.

"So that guy's name is Hiruko? Hey what's with your body shape man? You look ridiculous, un!" The blonde continued to laugh and when he failed to hear any response from Hiruko, the boy spoke again. "What? Are you too shy to say anything to counter, un?"

"Hiruko doesn't talk because he's not alive."

That sentence definitely made the freshman quiet down.

"...What?"

"Hiruko is my artwork. He's one of my greatest puppet that is in work process right now," Sasori stated proudly and loved the expression that the kid had on his face. It was some form of shock and-

"Cool!"

"...what?"

Sasori did not expect that kind of response at all.

"So you're like an artist! Me too! It's so hard to find another artist in this campus because everyone is so busy studying, un. Your form of art is in puppets? I don't see those anymore but I think that makes it unique as long as you can express what you feel and see through the art, right?"

Sasori blinked a couple of times with his brown colored eyes wide open which was something that was rare for him to do in the first place.

"What I feel and see…." Sasori murmured but the blonde failed to hear this part escape his lips.

"Maybe you're not some jerk after all. I'm an artist myself, un! Can I come into the dorm and check it out?"

"Hell no," Sasori said it with his dry voice. Sasori could already feel that he didn't like this kid's attitude from the start with. What does this undergrad freshman know anything about art anyways?

"Aww a little shy since it is still work in progress? I understand. I don't like to share my sculpture when it's not completed anyways, un."

'His sculpture? Does he use clays to make art then?'

Sasori knew most of the clays that he had seen around the campus were those oven baking ones where it is meant to preserve it for an extremely long time. The thought of someone who might potentially share similar artistic view made Sasori a little happy. Just a little.

"Guess I should be going before I get caught sneaking around this side of the dorm, un."

"I would love to see that, brat."

"Stop calling me brat! I'm not a child you know, un."

"Become my age. Anyone below your age will look like a little annoying kid who has too much time on his hand," said Sasori and he was about to slam the door shut when he saw three faculty members and seven medical team walking up to this hallway.

"G-Great… un." The blonde formed a weak smile as he continued to stand in front of Sasori's dorm.

"Young lady, where is your dorm?" One of the faculty wearing a black formal clothing with a clip board asked the freshman.

"I-It's young man sir… un." The blonde bit his lips and tried to find a way out of this mess. If he was caught breaking the school policy, he didn't know what kind of consequence he might have.

"My apologies young man," replied one of the staff. "Where is your dorm? All students are required to stay in their dorm until the further notice. The message was sent out through e-mail and text message an hour ago."

'There was a text message? My phone must have been on silent mode,' Sasori thought to himself.

"Oh yeah I knew that, un! I was just… uh…"

"He was on his way back to his dorm," said Sasori with a subtle sigh. "He's my roommate."

"..." The blonde tried to maintain his cool while on the inside, he was incredible thankful to Sasori. Maybe this guy really was nicer than how he talks.

"Very well. Hurry inside. The medical teams will need to do some inspection before making more announcements. Make sure you guys are up to date with the current information that is getting sent out to students."

"Did the student really die?" Sasori asked bluntly as if this was something that was everyday to him. Couple of the faculties made a disapproved look to Sasori's question but decided to answer anyways.

"You have to wait until the public announcement is made."

"I hate waiting…." Sasori whispered to himself. "Come on brat," Sasori reached out and the freshman who stumbled a little forward before entering the room and closing the door behind him.

"I guess I will have the chance to see this Hiruko then." The blonde smirked to himself. "For the record, my name is Deidara so drop with the whole brat thing, un."

Sasori prayed to whatever that is above that Deidara wouldn't touch or even ask questions about Hiruko or any of his other puppets that were displayed around the dorm.

Next Chapter: Start of Virus Around Campus

"Our school is having a lock down?!" Deidara yelled while he paced around Sasori's dorm. "It's bad enough that I can't leave this old room, un!"

"Stop fussing around, Deidara," Sasori sighed and decided to use the brat's name to gain his attention. "Pretty sure this whole lock down is not going to last that long anyways."

This story was actually in my computer for some time now. While I was cleaning my folder today I decided to upload it (before I delete from my computer) and see what happens hehheh.

This first chapter is a lot shorter but if people are interested, the second chapter will definitely be longer.

I still don't know if this is going to be T or M but for now I will leave it as T

Please review~

p.s: Deidara will start to call Sasori- Danna a little later in the chapter.. you'll see! I hope :)