And here you go! Chapter two! I'll upload two more today and then the rest will follow tomorrow. I've nearly finished it :)
Chapter two: Naruto – I'll KILL YOU!!
Where was she?
It was the first thing that flashed through her mind as she woke up. Her vision was blurry and unsteady, and her body was trembling like she was ill. She closed her eyes again and decided to wake up completely first before undertaking some action.
She noticed lying, on her back, on a cold, hard and muddy surface, and her left hip and left shoulder hurt very badly, like a burning sensation. She slowly realized that that sensation came from several severe burns, spread all over her skin, and without thinking she started sending chakra to the spots to start healing them. But her chakra didn't react like it used to. She noticed traces of other chakra – unfamiliar chakra – between her own and wondered how it got there.
Wait…! The chains!
Totally awake now she got up half, stroking her pink hair out of her vision. She quickly noticed Deidara lying on the floor, eyes still closed and body still. Next she saw how the chains still connected her to Deidara's wrist and she shivered as she slowly started to feel pain coming through the chakra gateway. Damn it, he's really badly damaged, she thought while she considered waking him up. That tajuu kage bunshin attack of Naruto's is powerful. He shouldn't use that on future hostiles anymore.
Sharp pain forced her to gasp and when she coughed she noticed blood leaking out of the corner of her mouth. Fuck. This chain obviously doesn't only connect our chakra systems. It seems like… ah… she collapsed half as the pain became worse and worse. It seems like our nerve systems and organs are connected as well…!
She forced herself to get up again and then put her trembling hands on Deidara's chest. She felt his heartbeat under her fingers, but she also noticed that it was weak and, on top of that, very irregular. She panted and took a deep breath, and then started healing the largest injuries she could find. As she progressed in the jutsu she got more and more wondered.
Several internal bleedings, heavy bruises and broken bones and a heavily damaged right lung… it can be called a miracle that this guy is still alive. She glanced at his face and noticed that it was pale and sweaty. Perhaps he's still alive because of the chakra we exchanged before we collapsed. Perhaps I've kept him alive the last… uh… hour?
Suddenly her vision became blurry and she was forced to stop the healing. She had to grasp the floor and panted heavily now, wondering how it could be that her chakra level was so low, until she realized that she might have already used it the moment they got connected. Healing had gotten so common that she often used her chakra to heal injuries without knowing it.
Then Deidara's body twitched and he opened his eyes and blinked several time. Then he moaned and closed them again. Without looking at her he started to speak.
"What the hell is this with these chains, hmm?" he asked, his voice sounding rusty. "I bet it's something typical for you Konoha ninjas, hmm. I've always thought that you enjoyed torturing people, although I had never suspected that from a girl like you."
This angered Sakura. "What are you talking about! Do you honestly think that I did this on purpose? Have you already looked at you condition, heck, or mine?" She panted again but found enough strength to grab his collar and pull him up so that she looked right at his still closed eyes. "Look at me, you bastard!" she yelled and she increased her grip.
Very, very slowly, he opened his right eye and then started to examine her. "Again. I'd never expected this from a Konoha girl like you, hmm." Sakura trembled from frustration. "You're a pussy, you know that, hmm?"
Sakura's eye twitched and then without hesitating, she hit him full on the cheek, smacking him right to the floor. He moaned as he got up slowly and he touched his painful cheek. "That's what I mean, hmm. Not even enough courage to finish me."
"Have you even considered that I need you to stay alive for the time being?" Sakura asked, unable to cover the annoyed and angry tone in her voice. "You have got no idea of how much I'd like to grab a kunai and kill you."
He chuckled and then started to laugh – not a nice or honest laugh, but a mean and humiliating laugh. "Really, hmm?"
"Yeah, really!!" She sighed and then started to heal her burns a little with her remaining chakra, trying to pay no attention to Deidara anymore. It was very hard though.
"And what are you gonna do now, huh? Are you just going to sit here and act like a pussy, hmm? Or maybe you're going to kill me after all, and then tell you chief that I died on the way to Konoha… oh, but that's impossible, hmm. I've heard you're the best medic after that Hokage of yours so telling them that I died from injuries would be quite fake, hmm. In that case you could tell them that I killed myself. Could be an option, hmm. What a pity that I've got no kunai. Perhaps I can lend one of yours? Could that-"
"PLEASE SHUT UP!!!"
Sakura panted of anger now and stood from the floor so fast that she pulled Deidara with her. "I've healed your arms far enough for you not to feel pain anymore. There's only one thing I need to tell you before we go to Konoha. It concerns these chains."
Deidara raised an eyebrow. "And why would I listen to you?"
"You've got a big mouth for someone who was nearly dead for just minutes ago," she snapped at him, annoyed. "You've got some stamina, staying awake with such severe wounds like the ones you've got at the moment, but I can assure you that if you continue acting like this, you'll probably pass out."
He rolled his eyes. "Yeah. Right."
Sakura started walking. Deidara didn't though and she was forced to stop as she nearly tore off her left arm. "Please don't make me use force to get you with me."
"You were going to tell me something, weren't you, hmm? I'm still waiting."
Sakura sighed and clenched her fist in frustration. Count to ten, Sakura… keep control…
"That's right, I was. But if I remember correctly I just heard you saying that you didn't want to hear," she snapped at him, her voice sounding very frustrated. He smirked at her.
"I never said that I didn't want to hear it. I just said that I perhaps wouldn't listen to you, hmm. That's entirely different."
Sakura roared of anger and then pulled her left arm backwards, tugging Deidara towards her. Not prepared for the sudden movement, Deidara stumbled forwards and nearly tripped over his own feet. Sakura caught him and then threw him over her shoulder, not paying attention to his screams and yells and thumping fists on her back.
"I warned you," she said while she started tree jumping towards Konoha. They were going to be late and she wanted to get closer to Konoha to be sure that the tracking team would find her. "I would use force if necessary." She heard him sniff.
"Force. Really, hmm."
She pinched a tiny amount of skin on his ankle and felt him twitch. A sophisticated smirk appeared on her face but disappeared immediately after that as she felt like someone was pinching her ankle as well. She had forgotten about the link.
"I'm going to tell you what I wanted to tell you even if you wont listen," she started, jumping to another tree. "Because it involves both you and me."
He snorted and sneered: "interesting, hmm."
"you bet it is! You see, these chains are not normal ones…"
"Well, that I'd figured out by now, hmm!"
Sakura closed her eyes. "…these are made from chakra stone and are originally not made for use on two people. In fact…" she shivered. "in most cases the ones who tried it died. We've been terribly lucky."
"Wait a sec, hmm." Deidara hammered her back harder and she stopped, putting him to his feet. He seemed glad to be a bit more on himself. "You're saying that that crazy chain thing of yours could have killed us, hmm?"
Sakura nodded. "I wasn't aware of that fact until… well, it was too late. What I wanted to say is that because of this chain, we're kind of connected. At least physically. I don't know about the mental side but I don't think so as I haven't been able to hear what you've been thinking."
Deidara snorted. "Better too. But does that physical connection mean that any damage done to you is automatically done to me as well, hmm?"
Sakura nodded, surprised by his quick understanding. He's not like Naruto just because he has got blonde hair as well, she thought and she slapped herself inwardly. He's a S-rank criminal and member of the Akatsuki! Of course he's clever!
Deidara sighed. "Fuck."
Sakura smiled weakly. "tell me about it."
"And where were you bringing me, hmm?" the question came from Deidara after a short silence. Sakura looked up at him and stroke some pink bangs behind her ear. She planted her feet out of each other a bit and prepared for the worst. "I'm bringing you to Konoha."
As expected, this wasn't exactly the answer Deidara had hoped for. In fact, his face suddenly turned a high shade of red and his eyebrows nearly touched each other. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and shook his head firmly. "Forget it. I'm not going anywhere, hmm. Especially not that shitty hidden village of yours. Have you gone insane, hmm?"
Sakura's eyes became merely slits as she glared at him intensively. "What else had you expected? That I went with you to your Akatsuki hideout or something?"
He rolled his eyes. "Give me a break. Of course not."
"Then don't act like your stupid and walk on. Or I'll have to carry you again," she threatened, clenching her free fist. He seemed rather amused by her threaten and smirked at her, shaking his head. "What's so funny?" Sakura asked, her voice suddenly raising of anger that she couldn't control.
"Who said anything about you…" He stepped forwards until his nose nearly touched her forehead, and Sakura withstood the urge to step backwards a bit and looked him right in the eye. "Carrying…" He bowed and now looked at her eye to eye. "Me?"
Suddenly everything became clear to Sakura and she started stepping back but she was too late. With one swift movement the Akatsuki member wrapped an arm around her waist and lifted her in the air, applying a rather large amount of force to her slim figure. Then he started tree jumping to exactly the opposite direction of where Sakura had been going, as could've been suspected. Sakura's chained arm had to make a rather uncomfortable angle to stay attached to Deidara's wrist and she was unable to move. She cursed inwardly as she concluded that there was no escaping this.
She was thrown over Deidara's right shoulder, and Deidara's chained right arm held her on the spot firmly. Due to this, the bones in her left arm nearly snapped and her muscles yelled of pressure. Any movement, it didn't matter how tiny, caused her left shoulder to move and thus her left arm too. And she knew that even the smallest amount of movement could break her arm. Next to that, moving could also result in lifting the bone of her left upper arm out of her shoulder.
"Put me down!!"
"Forget it."
"…You're a shithead, you know that?"
"Sure."
Sakura roared out of anger. "If you don't put me down right now then I'm going to break my arm on purpose!!"
This slowed him down a bit but he didn't stop. "You go ahead, hmm," he whispered darkly. "I've handled some worse injuries than a broken arm. Plus…" he chuckled. "I'm holding you with my right. The only arm that you could break easily is your left."
Sakura clenched her teeth together and then decided that she had no other choice. She closed her eyes and then started to struggle as hard as she could. Heavy pain shot through her arm into her entire body as she stained her muscles to the limit, and she also hammered her head on his back to increase the pain towards him. She felt his body twitch and she gasped for breath as the pain became too heavy for her to move.
"Would you please stop, hmm?" Deidara asked panting as he jumped down from the trees to the surface. "You're driving me nuts." And he threw her off his back on the floor, her back colliding with the dried-up mud hard. She got to her feet quickly and rubbed her left arm as it still hurt. To her satisfaction, he was rubbing his left arm as well, a deep frown etched in his face.
"We're going to Konoha," Sakura hissed, clenching her free fist again and sending chakra into her muscles for preparation. They had gotten far off their original course and had maybe even passed the large crater in the forest. He could jump a lot faster than she could. "And if you don't want to, then we'll wait here and then the tracking team will find us eventually."
Deidara scowled at her and then stepped up towards her again, but this time she felt sharp pain coming from her abs when he took a step, and before she could stop herself she fell to the floor just as he, both grabbing their stomachs. "You idiot," Sakura hissed between her clenched teeth. "You're going to get the both of us… killed… if you go on like this…"
"Like I care, hmm…!" Deidara snapped at her, getting up half but falling down after that immediately. "Fuck… those wounds opened again. Tell that crazy Jinchuuriki friend of yours that he's a real idiot, using such a jutsu on a hostage like me, hmm."
Sakura sniffed. "At least he used a jutsu. I can't really say that your Akatsuki friend actually helped you out."
Deidara glared at her, his eyes shooting fire. "Don't talk about Tobi like that, hmm. He might be a dumbass, but he's my dumbass. So shut up."
Sakura frowned and then looked to the small pieces of blue sky that were visible through the leaves. He talked quite defensive about that Tobi guy, she thought while slowly regaining feeling in her numb abs. I never thought that Akatsuki members could really show affection towards each other.
A small rock hit her on the side of her head. "I'm NOT showing any affection to Tobi, hmm!" Deidara yelled angrily. "Don't you dare saying that again! There are too many people already saying that, hmm!!"
Sakura froze and stopped the retort she had prepared. "I didn't say anything," she muttered, getting up half. "I didn't… I just… I only thought…"
She saw the color pulling away out of his face as he concluded the same as she did. "You thought that? I… I can read you thoughts?!" he asked, gasping at her. Sakura's eyes widened and she stared at him.
Holy holy holy shit. This chain has a lot more side effects than I thought…
Deidara roared and then pressed his free hand against one of his ears, burying his head between his legs. "Stop thinking!!" he shrieked, knees pulled up high. "Stop it, hmm!"
Then Sakura heard the rustling sound of leaves being moved by a rather large group of people. She frowned. Why didn't I notice them earlier?
Then a group of five people, all wearing ANBU masks, appeared on the surrounding trees, examining the two people on the floor. One of them, wearing a mask with a golden lion print on it, jumped to the floor but kept his distance.
"Haruno Sakura?" he asked with a muffled voice. Sakura nodded. The man with the lion print nodded as well. "We've got direct orders to… holy crap!" he had spotted the melted chain and the muddy Akatsuki member and took a fighting stance. "Hawk! Rat! Snake! Get ready! He's an Akatsuki, so be prepared…"
Three other ANBU members got down and took out their kunai, flashing towards Deidara and then holding him tightly. Deidara and Sakura yelled out of pain as the ANBU members pressed Deidara's still half broken ribs and wounds.
"Don't touch him!" Sakura shrieked, getting up completely and pulling Deidara with her, the three ANBU members still clinging on to his cloak. "Don't touch him!"
"But, Sakura-sama, that's an S-class criminal, and member of the Akatsuki," the lion print mask said, although he did put away his kunai. "He's highly dangerous and we've received direct orders from the Hokage herself to imprison him the moment we found you two."
Sakura smiled darkly. "I don't think that'll be necessary. You see these chains?"
The lion nodded.
"They're special. They've connected me in a very special way to this… this guy," Sakura said, disgust clearly on her face. Deidara sniffed angrily but was too weak to move. "and thus make it impossible for him to kill me, as he would kill himself in the process."
The lion nodded again, and then whispered a few words in his headset. The remaining ANBU member in the trees disappeared in a flash and then the lion gave some short orders to the other three. They let go of Deidara but stayed extremely close to him.
"In that case we'll escort you to the Hokage office," the lion said while they started moving. "I'm sure that she knows a way to solve your… problem."
Sakura looked at her feet. Even a highly dangerous criminal like Deidara wouldn't dare attack four ANBU members, so now he would at least follow them to Konoha. But there was still nothing to be glad about. According to her little chat with the Hokage, she knew as much about it as Sakura at the moment. So it didn't really seem like there would be a quick solution to this.
But I can't stay attached to this exploding freak forever, she thought, resulting in an angry glare from Deidara. She cursed inwardly. Shit. I forgot… he can read my thoughts.
On her side, Deidara rolled his eyes. I wonder… Sakura thought while she looked in front of her, deciding that she wouldn't pay any attention to Deidara's reaction on her thoughts. Will I be able to hear his thoughts in the near future as well? Would be fair.
"That would NOT be fair," Deidara snapped at her. To Sakura's surprise, his cheeks had turned a high shade of red and she gave him a quizzical look. What was wrong with him?
The ANBU members shared some puzzled looks.
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