Another chapter! Last one for a couple weeks though. Enjoy and please review! Thanks to my one reviewer: RLDX. I'm going to change the yeah in the previous chapter to un at some point.
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"Well, isn't this interesting, un?
Deidara quickly took a look at his surroundings, absorbing it as quickly as only a shinobi could. He did not need his scope to see that he was in a drastically different place. He grabbed his hat and put it on his head, still subtly observing where ever the hell he was. The last thing he remembered was fighting that Uchiha brat and then nothing. Now little monster things were running around, and people were screaming. There was even a fire down the street.
The only thing this place needs to make it truly exciting is some art, un.
As he observed the area, Deidara could hear the girl that looked a bit like a hooker speaking to him. "OhmygoshXander! Are you ok? What the heck is going on? And why does your girly wig look like it's real? We have to find Buffy, she'll-" Deidara could not help but get annoyed with her freakishly fast speaking; It reminded him of the annoyance from Hell, Tobi. And when she mentioned his "girly" hair, his eye began to twitch. She did not seem to be shutting up soon, so gave her a glare and moved his face close to her own.
"Shut it, woman. I have no idea who the hell 'Xander' is, but I'm not him, un. And if you ever even mention about my hair again, I promise that you will live long enough to regret it, un."
Now Willow was a little freaked out. No, not a little, she was completely scared for herself and her dearest friend. Not only did he not seem to remember his name, but also he was threatening her with torture. However, there was nothing he could say that could stop her from trying to get through to him.
"But you are Xander! You were wearing this costume and-" Deidara had had enough with her constant talking. So he reached over and put his hand over her mouth. Well, he tried to do so, but his hand went right through the girl.
"What the hell, un?" Deidara exclaimed. He noticed the girl looked as surprised as he was. Willow had forgotten what had happened when she attempted to help Xander, but now she realized what was going on.
"I dressed up as a ghost so-"
"A ghost of what, un? A hooker?"
"Shut it, you!" Deidara's felt his eye begin to twitch again, but there was nothing to do to her to shut her up. "I dressed up as a ghost and became one. Xander dressed in your outfit and became you. These kids dressed up as devils and demons and they became them. Do you believe me now?"
"…Fine, un. So what do we do now?" Deidara was reluctant to believe her, but he was obviously in a different world. The people he had seen were too out of shape to be shinobi and the technology differed as well.
"We gotta find Buffy. She'll help us…oh no! She dressed up as a noblewoman! We're in so much trouble now! Oh crap, Xander, I really don't know what to do."
"Stop calling me Xander. The name is Deidara, un."
"Deidara? A girly name to go with the girly hair I guess," Willow mumbled. And once again Deidara's eye started to wildly twitch.
It's going to be a long night
The two walked around the neighborhood, searching for Buffy. They found her after a few minutes crouching behind a car screaming about demons. Deidara quickly knocked her out and picked her up.
"What was that for Xa…Deidara? She's the slayer; we need her!" Deidara noticed that she was getting pretty freaked out, so he gave her a fake look of apology.
"She would have slowed us down. We need to get to a place of safety, un." Deidara lied expertly through his teeth. Shinobi were masters of deception after all.
"I guess you're right, but now we're defenseless…"
"No, I have my art, un." Deidara said with a slightly insane smile.
Willow was extremely confused. "How exactly is art going to help us?"
Deidara's smile widened and he lifted his hands – Xander's hands – to show her the mouths on his palms. "Art is a bang, un. And I have everything I need to create some." He slung Buffy over his shoulder and slipped his now-free hand into the pouch on his belt and pulled out some clay. Willow's face paled as he slipped the clay into the mouths on his hands.
Willow's eyes filled with tears. This was not supposed to be happening. The three of them were supposed to go trick or treating and then spend the rest of the night just having fun. She might have actually shown Xander what was underneath her sheet and he may have finally seen her in a romantic way. But now Xander was gone and in his place was an insane bastard with creepy mouths on his hands. What the hell was going to happen to Xander when everything went back to normal?
They made the trek back to Buffy's house and to Willow's surprise, Deidara was able to fight off the two or three monsters that approached them. Sure, they were pretty slow and stupid, but it was more than Xander could have done. And he looked bored as he took care of them in just a few moves. Willow was becoming more and more sure that Deidara was dangerous, perhaps just as dangerous or even more so than the many vampires and demons that roamed Sunnydale.
They reached the house and just as they entered Buffy woke up. "Where am I? I should be at a ball right now. I warn you that if you do not let me free, my father will rescue me. And you, blond man, how dare you attack me!" Deidara was about to knock her out once more, but a scream from outside distracted him for a moment. Willow ran through the window after she saw Deidara was not planning on helping, and Deidara got his fist ready to knock the annoyance out. The door opened, but he paid it no mind
"Whoa, Harris, is that you? Nice hair, I'm actually jealous," a snide voice remarked. Deidara had had enough.
He quickly ran to the new woman and to his happiness she was corporeal. He picked her up by the throat and removed a kunai from his pouch. He placed it against her throat and spoke to her a menacing voice, "Listen up, bitch. I am sick of people insulting me, un. I am an S-rank missing nin of Akatsuki, un. Don't fuck with me or I will kill you, un. Do you understand me?"
Cordelia could only nod her head in response. Willow had run up to her and told her to hide in Buffy's house while she got Giles. She told her that Buffy and Xander had turned into their costumes, but she had not mentioned that Xander had gone completely crazy. He had moved so quickly, more quickly than she had seen Buffy run. And he seemed as if he had no qualms with killing her. Cordelia may have been a bitch, but she was smart and knew that whoever Xander was now was someone she did not want to piss off.
"Great, un. Now unless you want me to knock you out too, shut up and sit down, un." Cordelia quickly did so, but not without her patented bitch glare. Just because she was afraid of him, didn't mean she was going to completely submit to him. Deidara ignored her and turned his attention back to the irritating girl in the red dress.
"Now where were we, un?" He walked up to her, once again preparing to knock her out, but once again he was interrupted.
"Oh, good! You guys are all right. It's total chaos out there." A man had walked into the living room and was looking at them as if he knew them. Deidara could not help but let out a snicker at his large forehead.
"Oh thank God! Angel, they've gone crazy. Buffy's been muttering about some ball and Xander's been acting like a psychopath. But enough about us, how have you been?" During her little speech to Angel, Cordelia had left the couch she was on and moved to stand next to Angel. She remembered that Buffy and Willow had said he was a vampire, but not only did she not believe them, but also a vampire might distract weird-Xander while she ran for the hills.
"Xander, Buffy, it's me, Angel," he said when he realized the two showed no signs of recognizing him. He reached toward Buffy in an attempt to comfort her, but she backed away.
Deidara sighed. He was getting really sick of people calling him Xander. "For the last time, not Xander, un. I'm Deidara." He noticed the guy giving him a weird look, so he glared right back at him. He averted his eyes and turned his attention to Buffy. But noticed that she was gone. The next thing the three heard was a scream. Deidara smiled.
Perhaps a chance for me to finally use my art, un!
He dashed over and was disappointed to see it was just a man attacking the girl. But then his face changed; it looked more like the face of a monster than a human. He began to mold some clay into the shape of a bird, but Angel pushed him out of the way and jumped for the monster. Deidara gave him an angry stare, but it faded when he saw that Angel's face had changed too. Angel pulled a wooden stick out of his pocket and thrust it into the other's heart. It burst into dust that landed on Buffy's red dress.
What the hell are these things, un? Although I have no doubt that my art would take care of them just as well as any ugly stick, un!
Buffy and Cordelia screamed when they saw Angel's face, and Buffy fled out of the house and into the dark night. Angel cried out to her and chased after her. Cordelia seemed conflicted, but she too followed Angel. Deidara simply laughed at the chaos and looked down at the completed bird that he had been molding. He had created the very same bird he had used to fly over the hidden villages and lands surrounding him. Now it was time to get a bird's eye view of this place.
Deidara flew over the many houses and offices of the town. He looked over the edge of the bird to see the monsters still spreading destruction. Well, it was not fair for them to have all the fun. He laughed and threw a small clay bird towards a random house. "Katsu!" He shouted. The house was engulfed in flame and he could hear the faint screams from inside. "Hahaha! Art is a bang, un!"
As he laughed, he directed the bird closer to the ground and actually glimpsed a hint of red like the dress that Buffy girl was wearing. He looked closer with his scope and saw that some pirate freak was attacking her. The sight of the guy filled him with an inexplicable rage and before he knew it he had thrown a kunai into his back. The girl screamed and continued her run away from all that scared her. He glanced back to see the other two just a little ways behind her. He figured it might be fun to watch what would happen to them.
After a few minutes, things had really livened up. The girl had been captured by some peroxide demon thing and Angel, Cordelia, and Willow, who had found them just before the blond had, could not do anything. The guy was leaning over her and was about to bite her neck. But something happened. Deidara felt a great pain in his head and knew something was wrong. Whatever had brought him here was taking him back. He had no desire to leave though. His life was over, and Deidara was selfish. He refused to go. But the spell was broken, and he was fighting a battle impossible to win. His body collapsed, and both his mind and Xander's fell into darkness
However, in another dimension reserved for deities, Janus was watching the events of Halloween in Sunnydale. That shinobi had caused quite a lot of chaos and it would be so boring if there was nothing of him left behind. So Janus did something that was technically against the rules of the gods. He intervened.
Deidara's kekkei genkai and some of his physical traits remained with the boy along with some vestiges of his personality. Perhaps the most influential remnants that remained were the missing nin's idea of art and his memories.
Janus smiled. The Powers' plans would really suffer due to his interference and he could not be happier.
Xander, on the other hand, was going to be in for quite a surprise when he woke up.
