Wells, third chapter is ready now... hopefully there's no plotholes or anything cause i get super annoyed when their is and i freak out and know that i can't take it back and that really bugs me...
WARNINGS: Yaoi/Shounen-Ai, awkward character placement, weird pick-up lines/styles, cliffhanger type thing and more bad attempts to develop storyline
Disclaimer: i do NOT own Naruto/Shippuden or any of it's characters, if i did, then i'd take Gaara to school with me and get him to use his sand to defend me from work.
CHAPTER THREE – Deidara's P.O.V
He got me a job as a waitress, waiter, whatever the point was that I had to serve coffee and random bakery items to strangers.
It wasn't all that bad I suppose, there were a couple of cute guys I got to talk with. Nothing promising but it was fun nonetheless.
Konan worked with me, she showed me how everything worked. Not that it was complicated in the slightest, just that I was lazy. And I had a lot of time to talk to her between serving people. It wasn't a very busy day, so far.
"So um, what's up with the whole, Akatsuki thing, un?" I asked her.
We had already discussed the obvious topics, like boys.
She smiled sweetly, "oh I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you."
"What, how come, un? I won't tell anyone!"
"That's right, cause if you did, Sasori would get hurt. And you wouldn't want that, would you?" she gave me a knowing look and smiled at the blush that spread across my face like wild fire.
"What do you mean, un?" I asked, trying to composure.
"Oh come-on, it's so obvious that you like him!"
"Nuh-uh un!"
"Well maybe not to you but you're a boy, you don't typically notice these things till it's too late."
"Okay, well say I did – not that I do, un – have a little crush on him, then could you tell me about the Akatsuki?"
She thought about it for a while before saying, "Okay, I'll tell you. But only because I know you won't tell. See, the whole thing was sort of Pein's vision, it started out just me and him but then Kakuzu moved in, he was already into shady stuff and always ready to make a little extra money so he was easily recruited. Then Kisame came along, he found it hard to find a normal job so he was another easy recruit. Sasori moved into the apartment your living in now but he couldn't always hold down a job. We recruited him and he moved in with Kisame and we became the Akatsuki." She said all of this in hushed whispers between people, though there were barely any here at all.
I listened and nodded occasionally, keeping the appropriate amount of eye contact and when she was done, I had another question, "so what do you guys do?"
"We steal shit."
"Like…?"
"Anything. Anything Pein can find a buyer for, we sell. Sometimes people come to us and ask us to do things for them and if they pay high enough, we deliver."
"And what about Oto, un? What is that?"
"They're basically the same thing, only we were here first and they have no morals, they'll take on even the lowest of jobs. Pein sees them as our official enemies but they're barely anything to worry about."
At that point, Konan had to stop talking and serve some girl who'd just come in. she was a pale blonde and had light blue eyes though her hair covered one of them. She had an awful necklace on, it seemed like just a clump of metal, no patterns, no colors, no jewels, nothing.
When the girl walked away, Konan turned to me and said, "See that necklace?" I nodded and she continued, "Ugly right?"
"Un," I agreed.
"Well that necklace is paying the rent this month."
"Huh, that necklace, un?"
"Yuh-huh. Sasori and Kisame should be here in about fifteen minutes, right in time for our lunch break. Once they've got the necklace, they'll hand it over to us where it'll be safe incase Oto intervenes."
I looked at her incredulously, "wait, we're a part of this, un?"
"Yup. Usually I'm not, but this is a sensitive job; if Oto gets a hold of that necklace, we're all screwed." She looked at me, amber eyes burning with concern, "will you be alright?"
I nodded, "it's not like its rocket science or anything right?"
"Right."
Sasori's P.O.V
"Let's go, I don't want to be late."
As usual, Kisame was taking his sweet time and we had to travel all the way downtown in twenty minutes. Not that we wouldn't make it, but I hated the thought of keeping anyone waiting.
"Alright, alright, don't get your panties in a knot. It's not like that necklace is going anywhere," he said.
"Wrong, it could fall into the hands of Oto scum," I reminded him.
He quickly locked the door to Itachi's apartment and said, "Fine, come on."
We all knew the consequences of letting Oto take something we were after. Although I couldn't understand what was so important about this particular necklace. There was no gold or jewels so you couldn't melt it down and resell it but the value could've been solely sentimental to our buyer.
Whatever it wasn't my job to worry about things like that. I was a thief; I stole things and passed them on. I got my cut for doing, not for thinking.
We got to the café and I knew we were in a safe place; Konan worked here after all and Pein would never, even unintentionally, place her in harm's way. Even if she insisted – and we all knew – that she could handle it. I suppose that's love at work, right?
Kisame went in first. This was a three part plan; I'd go in there and somehow get the necklace without her noticing, Kisame would take it and pass it over to Konan who would then make a scene, giving me an opportunity to leave.
And hopefully, by the end of the day, I'd have enough money to buy smokes.
I waited about five minutes before walking in. the place was half empty and the target was easy to spot, sitting alone, reading a book – or at least pretending to. Kisame sat two tables away, furthest from the bathroom which meant Konan would be…
Wait a second, what was the blonde brat doing here? I wear, if he got in my way, I'd kill him.
An alarm on my watch went off. My time to shine.
I walked over to where the girl sat, staring down at her book with uninterested eyes. She was a college student; about nineteen. I could see the necklace around her neck and kept my eyes there.
God the things I'd do for money.
I hated this part of my job; seducing people. It made me feel like a prostitute who stole from my clients. Although, the people I stole from technically weren't my clients, the ones I sold to were… okay, the analogy sounds better unexplained.
She seemed to notice my presence and looked up at me, her pale blue eyes held less than half the innocence Deidara's held, though she was younger and certainly looked the part, there was sort of a self-righteous air about her and the way she smiled up at me, eyes gleaming it seemed almost as though she had been expecting me.
Not me, Sasori the thief but me, some random older guy, here to chat her up.
Naive, like most of the people I met here, male or female, it didn't matter because they only saw my face, my smile, my body but never the dark intentions that hide beneath my eyes. That's the one mistake they all have in common, that landed them in the same place: trouble.
"Um, can I help you?" she asked, attempting to sound rude. I knew her type; a few ridiculous lines and a charming smile, she was an easy target.
"Oh, I'm sorry, it's just, you look really familiar," whoa, wrong line, wrong line!
She frowned up at me, "well I don't think I've ever met you before," she smiled up and said, "I think I would've remembered meeting a hottie like you."
I put on my signature smirk and invited myself to sit down, in the seat closest to her, of course.
"You're right, I definitely would've remembered you," I said.
Pein has always said I'm the best pick pocket he's ever seen and my talents don't only extend to pockets. I kept inching myself closer, my arm slipping back as I kept the conversation flirty and distracting, making sure to hold her attention the entire time. I had the necklace in my hands within a matter of seconds and only moments later, it was in Kisame's hands, he walked past just as the bell connected to the door, rang.
It was only twenty seconds after that that Konan let out an ear piercing scream.
"Eeee!" she stood, stumbling backwards, a chair tipping over, "spider!" she pointed at nothing
All attention was on her and I was quick to make my escape, I smirked, Konan was being resourceful again.
All was well; it had gone perfectly, without a hitch. Or so I thought, until I noticed two key things; Deidara was gone and there were Oto members all over the place.
Damn that brat!
I locked eyes with Konan on my way out; she knew the drill; find the others and abort mission. At least we already had our prize.
I didn't have to go far before I found him; I heard his voice even over the raging sounds of the city.
"Hands off un! Do I look like a hooker to you?!"
I ran towards the sound without sparing the action a second thought as it didn't register in my mind that he wasn't one of us. All I knew was that he was in danger.
He was in the alley, fighting off two of Oto's top scumbags; Sakon and Ukon.
"Leave him alone," huh? Where the hell did that come from? I didn't care what happened to him… did I?
Seeing me, Sakon pulled a knife and held it to Deidara's throat.
"Give us the necklace and I'll let him go," he said, smiling wildly.
Surprisingly, Deidara didn't look worried.
"He doesn't have it so you might as well just kill me, un," he said.
"Quiet brat," I growled, silently I said, "I'm going to get you out of this."
Deidara laughed, "Whatever un!" he said, "just piss off, I can handle this myself! Go get your cigarette money or something, un!"
No idea where he got the impression that I don't care but… wait, I don't!
Dammit, there's no time for inner conflicts right now. I could see Ukon reaching for his gun; he was trigger happy, that one. But Sakon, he wasn't sure; his knife was shaking and too far away to do any actual harm.
I made a snap decision right then, probably would've panned out better if Pein hadn't gotten us guns, for situations like this. I pulled mine out and within a matter of seconds, I'd shot Sakon right between the eyes. Idiot. At least I was right and Deidara wasn't hurt.
Then I heard another bang and a scream and at first I thought Deidara had been shot; somehow the pain of that single thought had me unable to breathe.
But then the real pain came; the pain of being shot in the stomach, the pain of bleeding my life away, the pain of dying.
I sunk to my knees, clutching my stomach, realizing it was me who'd been shot. I could feel the hot, sticky red liquid all over my hands as everything went dark.
I don't know when I toppled over completely but I could feel the ground beneath me. I felt warm hands on my neck, feeling for a pulse and a shaky voice saying, "Sasori un? s-stay with me okay? D-don't go to sleep, don't close your eyes, un."
I hadn't realized my eyes were still open but suddenly they felt heavy, it was hard to keep them open, especially since all I could see was black.
"The ambulance will be here soon," Kisame sounded normal but I could hear Kona crying in the background.
I began to close my eyes slowly; it felt like drifting off into some kind of eternal sleep.
"Sasori, don't go to sleep! Don't go to sleep, un!"
He held my hand tightly, almost painfully tight but every part of my body was going numb and cold. I gathered enough strength, just enough to squeeze his hand, maybe give him a little false hope that I'd be fine.
"Stupid…" I choked out the word around my own blood which was now flooding my mouth, using my last breath of air I said, "s-stupid brat."