Another chapter up! Yosh I'm getting hyped up with this fic, hopefully, this story would turn out like I hoped it would.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Naruto characters. I only own my OC.
Chapter 2: Still
Serendipity:
The effect by which one accidentally stumbles upon something truly wonderful, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated.
"What's up with you lately, un?"
Sasori didn't grace his partner any answer, too distracted by his thoughts to listen to the insistent questioning of his blonde partner.
He had been getting suspicious lately. Whenever he comes back to his room after a mission, he had been noticing that some of his things have been moved or dare he say it, cleaned. At first he had suspected that it was one of Deidara's pranks but he's been watching him closely and they've always been partnered together in every mission. Besides Deidara knew what would happen if he move one of his stuffs.
Arriving in their base and after they both reported to their leader, they both went to their shared room. Every Akatsuki member shares a room with their partners, so even if he didn't like the loud blonde, at least he can tolerate him better than the even louder jashinist that curses every time he opens his mouth.
Going straight to his worktable, he stopped and narrowed his eyes. Someone touched them again. He clearly remembered that he left one of his tools in his table and that some wood shavings were left behind that he didn't throw on purpose.
Looking around, his eyes landed on the unsuspecting Deidara. Before he could utter a word however, Deidara asked him curiously. "Hey Sasori, is it just me or did my things just got organized?"
Narrowing his eyes, he looked back at his table. "I was just thinking the same thing." He said. His voice a tad bit irritated.
"What? Are you saying that it happened to you too? So it's not my imagination, un?"
Sasori let out an irritated sigh. "Deidara, how long has this been happening to you?"
"Maybe a few weeks I guess? I don't know, un, but I thought it was just my imagination. Maybe we have a ghost trying to haunt us?" Deidara asked skeptically.
The red head scoffed at the idea. "If someone's haunting us, everything should be a mess and not cleaned." He emphasized.
"Maybe it's a ghost maid?"
"You're an idiot."
After another mission and the same thing happened to their things, they decided to inform their leader and the other members. Well Deidara did. Which earned him a kunai in the head from his partner; too bad he dodged it.
"Come on danna, don't you want to get to the bottom of this thing, un?"
Sasori grunted. Still irritated on how he couldn't catch the culprit. Or any trace of him.
Kisame grinned, showing all his pointed sharp teeth. "At least you got a ghost house cleaner. If you ignore how creepy that is, shouldn't you two be grateful that at least someone's cleaning your room? Man, I'd pay to have that right now."
"You can have it, him, uh, her? Whatever that thing is, Kisame. You'd be freaked out too if you're in our situation."
Sasori almost rolled his eyes at the ridiculousness of their conversation. In the end he just decided to tune them out.
Itachi approached them, having been assigned to examine their room to see any genjutsu or residual chakra left. "There isn't anything unusual inside your room, except that doll in the corner. Which I find very curious; since most objects tend to have very little chakra in them, the doll's on the other hand, has chakra like those of a… child, but in a dormant stage, like it's just sleeping somehow."
Deidara's eye widened while the other members just looked at Itachi like he grew another head, with the exception of Sasori and Kakuzu for obvious reasons.
"So you're saying that the doll's possessed, un?" Deidara asked after he processed Itachi's words.
"What doll?" Kisame asked Deidara, his brows furrowing.
Ignoring Kisame's inquiry and the others questioning looks, Sasori moved inside the room and approached the glass case that was propped in the corner of the room. The other nosy members followed suit and watched the red head move the said doll.
Now that Sasori inspected the doll, he can see that the strings were loosened. Removing the doll from the glass case, he turned to place it on his worktable.
He wasn't really able to do much with it since he was swamped by missions in these past few weeks and he had to make sure that his puppets were in better condition every time he returned.
The other members watched with interest but Hidan, being the loud mouth that he is, just couldn't keep his opinions to himself. He whistled. "Wow Sasori, first puppets and now dolls? What else is gonna come next, teddy bears?" he laughed out loud. "But I gotta say that is one fine bitch you got there. Too bad she's as stiff as you!" He laughed out loud.
It wasn't long before Hidan's head rolled on the floor, courtesy of the resident puppet master that he just insulted. The others just ignored the cursing head on the floor. Treating what happened as an ordinary occurrence.
"So what are we going to do?" Deidara asked, head turning to Itachi. Though he hated to admit, he knew little to nothing about the subject.
"We wait and watch." Came Itachi's clipped and short response, which had elicited a grunt from Sasori, who had remained quiet and had a contemplative look in his face.
Everything was quiet. A kind of silence that rarely fell on the place every time the members gathered to their base of operations, which was short of a relief and a miracle considering the constant noise and chaos their base was usually in every time the members are present.
Night fell and darkness engulfed the place. The only thing that provided light was the beam that had entered through the windows coming from the moon itself. Everything was still and quiet, eerily so.
On one of the rooms, there was a movement to be seen. The stillness that was all over the place was interrupted when something stirred awake.
The moonlight coming from the window fell on an object and its features seemed to glow under the rays of the moon. Making it look unnatural and at the same time ethereal.
It stirred once again and the eyes that were once closed slowly opened revealing glowing mismatched eyes. It slowly surveyed its surroundings and after a few moments, the figure stepped down from its perch on the table, its feet landing smoothly on the ground with a grace of a dancer.
With a tilt of its head, the figure looked curiously at the desk it was seated on. A smile appeared on its face as if it knew something very amusing. With a shrug of its shoulders, the figure moved towards the door.
Before the door completely closed, peal of soft laughter can be heard echoing across the halls.
So… How was it? Any comments, reviews and ideas are very much appreciated, just be gentle please.
Also I'm a bit confused on how Deidara calls Sasori and how to phrase it in a sentence. Like for example should I use the "Sasori no danna" every time he calls Sasori or should I just put in the "danna"? or…I should just let him call Sasori by his name? Ugh, I'm having a headache over this…
