Title: Switch of Heart
Fandom: Naruto
Type: Multi-chapter story
Rated: PG13
Word Count: 4, 658
Summary: They bumped into each other in the middle of the forest and woke up to find that they have switched bodies. Oh, how the hell could this happen? First of all, the conditions weren't right. It wasn't reasonable in any way that they could live each other's lives.
She was a girl, a heroine, a best friend. He was a boy, a criminal, an outcast. How could they live each other's lives when their worlds are different? Wait…how could these two switch back if they can't even find each other? Deidara w/ Ino (Dei x Saku)
A/N: Okay, so a bunch of new ideas for this story popped in my mind, so I'll try to write till I reach there. Thanks if you reviewed, followed or favourited, because it means a lot. xD Anyway, keep reading.
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A friend is who knows you and loves you just the same. –Elbert Hubbard
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Deidara looked confused as he glanced at the clock. It was already 6.30 in the evening, yet none of Sakura's friends arrived. They promised to come at 5 earlier that day. His azure eyes watched as the pastel-pink haired girl took a big bite of a red apple. She crunched on it, not looking worried or angry at all. That made him even more puzzled.
"Hey, where's Hinata, yeah?" The boy-turned-girl asked, his voice had a mixture of frustration and confusion. The emerald eyed girl looked at her best friend and shrugged.
"I wish you never got amnesia," Sakura sighed before taking another bite of her apple. The juice dripped off her fingers as she explained to Deidara with her mouth full, "You see, we don't really come at the promised time. We come at the most suitable time, and that 'suitable' time is around…8 o'clock."
"Aren't you going to get ready or anything, yeah?" He inquired, looking around to gesture the dull apartment, "You know, maybe clean your room up, or get a few matteresses out…maybe cook some popcorn, at least, yeah?"
He mentally slapped his palm on his forehead. 'Why am I saying all of this?' He thought, slightly angry about himself, 'It's not like I should care or anything, yeah! Besides, I'm not supposed to be prying in some girly sleepover.'
"You know, this sleepover might be a great chance for you to get some of your memories back," The jade eyed girl smiled, tossing her half-eaten apple toward the dustbin some distance away, and it actually went in. The pinkette smirked, "First of all, when it comes to the slumber parties, we don't just lay on the bed talking about boys."
Deidara noticed the glint in her pale-green eyes. "It's a whole different story."
"Then…what do normal girls do in sleepovers, yeah?" The blonde asked, starting to realize that the rosette didn't notice his slang at all. If life was a movie and every moment was recorded, Deidara knows that later in his life he'll be watching this moment and will laugh out loud. He felt so ridiculous to ask such a stupid question.
"Well…watch scary movies…" Sakura shrugged, walking across the room to slide the door open that led to the balcony. She paused for a while, enjoying the breeze. A few minutes later, she turned around, "Have pillow fights, play dress-up, talk about the exciting things that happened in life and other things like that."
"What do we usually do?" The sapphire-eyed boy asked, not sure if he should blush or smirk when Sakura said, 'dress-up'.
"You'll find out," The pink-haired girl smirked and giggled a few seconds later. "Don't forget that you're not supposed to tell anybody about your loss of memory, okay? Just…go with the flow and be yourself. It'll come to you eventually."
Mentally, the blonde frowned. He didn't like the idea of a surprise.
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Ino collapsed on the dull, grey and hard bed.
"Darn it! There's nothing here that could tell me about him!" Ino cursed in a low voice, low enough for only her to hear. At a loss of what to do, the steel-blue eyed girl decided to go inside the toilet to replace the bandage around her head.
She entered the bright, small lavatory and stared at herself in the mirror. Instead of a lock of hair covering the right side of her face, it was covering the left side. The girl-turned-boy sighed in confusion and focused on carefully taking off the bandage wrapped around her head. When she got it off, her azure eyes widened. The part of the bandage that was covering the back of her head was red in color. That was strange, because she didn't feel any pain at all.
Her hand immediately flew to the back part of her head and she touched it. She gasped slightly when she felt something wet rub against it, and when she looked at her palm, she gasped again. Her fingers were red with blood, and the tongue in her hands licked her injury by accident, and now it seemed as if it tasted something unpleasant.
Ino shivered. Gross.
Immediately, she turned on the tap with her unoccupied hand and washed her palms with soap, snickering as she saw the reaction of the mouths in her palms. She threw away the bandage in a dustbin nearby and exited the bathroom, opening the wardrobe and searching for some thing that could help function as a replacement for her used bandage.
Finding a roll of black cloth that would fit in nicely, she wrapped it neatly and tightly around her head after washing the blood off her hair. The sapphire-eyed girl frowned when she found out that she could not perform medical ninjutsu, and she concluded that it was probably because of Deidara's bloodline trait that has mouths-in-his-hands.
When she was done with covering her injury, she walked out of the bathroom and closed the door with her eyes shut. She was wondering why she didn't feel any pain of the cut at the back of her head.
When the golden-haired girl opened her eyes, she shrieked as she saw a rat skitter across the room and hide in the cupboard. She laid against the bathroom door, staring at the wardrobe with her eyes wide, and her hand to her heart as she breathed rapidly. She was utterly scared of mice, and she didn't expect the Akatsuki base to have mice in them.
She took in a deep breath to calm herself down, and she slowly crept across the room and over to the closet. She held onto the handle nervously and pulled it, opening the wardrobe. She didn't back away when she saw the ugly mouse as it was chewing on the white clay she found earlier.
The rat ran down the wardrobe when it saw Ino, and it hid inside a hole in the wall. The blonde picked up the big pouch that was open inside the cupboard, containing the white clay. She knew that Deidara's abilities had something to do with the clay and exploding.
She picked up the other pouch containing the same color of clay and went to the bed. The pouches were a bit different in colour—one of them was black, while the second one was grey. Ino examined the clay in the black pouch, and concluded that it was meant to be wrapped around her waist. The grey pouch was the same.
The azure-eyed girl wondered what Sakura had told her about Deidara when she defeated Sasori of the Red Sand a couple of years ago. She remembered the pinkette telling her about some weird feminine-looking boy, slightly older than them, that looked a lot like her. Her best friend also said that he liked to make things explode with his clay.
"Ah, yes, I remember now!" Ino snapped her fingers as she recalled what she had learned about Deidara when she saw him in his bingo book. "He uses explosives in battle, often in the shapes of birds, or spiders and stuff like that…and he can manipulate them, too. And when he wants them to explode…"
Ino closed her eyes and her right hand made the normal handsign she always does before a justu. "Katsu…" She whispered.
She was startled when she heard a small bang from behind the walls, followed by something that sounded like a dying rabbit. After a few minutes, what had happened, slowly absorbed in the blonde's mind. Ino smiled sheepishly, "Oh yeah, I forgot that the stupid rat ate some of the clay."
That would mean the rat exploded.
"Okay…back to the topic…" Ino absent-mindedly said, turning her attention back toward the clay. She eyed the clay in the grey pouch, "I'm sure that's his C4." Then, she picked up the black pouch, "Okay, so what I know is that I only have to use the C4 when I'm desperate…so then…this clay in the darker one should be his C2."
When she safely kept the small supply of C4 back into the closet, she frowned as she kept the C2 at another part of the wardrobe, away from the little mice from eating it. "Well, I'm sure he has more supplies of C2 than this…maybe it's hidden somewhere in his room."
Taking off her fishnet shirt, she scrolled through the hanged clothes and found a plain black shirt. She wore it, and although it was loose, it was snug. Nervously, she walked toward the bedroom's exit. She hesitantly turned the knob and winced when the door creaked as she opened it. She popped her head out to see the creepy, quiet and torch-lit hallway leading to darkness. Ino didn't dare to step out.
"Oh well…here goes nothing…" The dark-blue eyed girl inhaled deeply and took a step out, sliding the door behind her. She didn't dare to glance over her shoulder as she walked as fast as she can to her right. She longed to run as she could somehow feel something holding her shoulder.
She barely managed to keep her calm when she arrived at what seemed to be the end of the hallway, leading to a large room of what appeared to be the main room of the Akatsuki base. There, she saw the faces of the people printed in her bingo book and labeled as 'extremely dangerous'.
Most of the members were wearing fishnet shirts and black pants, just like how Ino was dressed when she woke up. Only a few were still in their cloaks, probably because they just got back from a mission. None of them realized the blonde as she just stood at the mouth of the hallway.
When the steel-blue eyed girl was just about to turn around and hide back in her room, she mentally winced as someone called out Deidara's name. She turned to the direction of who had called the name, and it was Sasori.
"W-what do you want…yeah?" Ino stuttered, nearly forgetting to add Deidara's slang at the end of the sentence.
The red-haired boy was silent and his eyes narrowed at Ino, making her gulp. Then, he turned back to reading a book he was holding. "Never mind."
"Wow, would you fucking look at that! It seems that Barbie finally fucking woke up," The silver-haired man, who was still wearing his cloud-patterned cloak, sneered at her, "You fucking passed out because you fucking bumped into some bitchy pussy. Pathetic pansy."
Ino's temper flared. "What the hell is your problem, asshole?!" She exploded, completely forgetting the possibility of getting killed, "I didn't do anything yet and you're suddenly bitching non-stop! Shut it, pussy!"
"Oh great, now he's fucking cranky," Hidan growled, setting his scythe against the wall much to the azure-eyed girl's surprise. She started to get the idea Deidara and Hidan didn't seem to like each other. She watched as the Jashinist approached her, "You fucking know who the fuck you're talkin' to, bitch!" He jabbed a finger in her face, "So you better shut the fuck up before I wreck that shitty face of yours!"
"You're pathetic, bastard!" Ino argued back, completely irritated and angry by the lilac-eyed man's words, "You think you're the fucking king of the world, huh, pansy?! You better know who the hell you're talking to! Get out of my face before I drag you out of the stupid base by your fucking balls!"
The whole room waited for another sentence filled with every bad word possible to come shooting out of the silver-haired man's mouth, but it never came. Instead, they watched in surprise as he grumbled something, leaving the main room after he went to pick up his scythe.
"I'm glad that ended early," The auburn-haired man said, sounding tired. His voice startled Ino, because Pein's tone was lower than Gaara's. "I was nearly getting a headache from all that loud shouting."
The blonde was still angry as she walked over to the kitchen, opened the fridge and got herself a glass of cold water. The cobalt-eyed girl-turned-boy was mumbling to herself about how she should've beaten the crap out of the lavender-eyed man.
"Deidara, I decided to reduce your time to heal from one week to four days," The pierced-man said, his ringed orbs eyed his blonde member. His eyebrows knitted together as he closed his eyes, "Your injury can't possibly be that bad, considering that you can actually managed to win an argument against the Akatsuki's foul-mouthed 6-year-old."
A few members snickered at Pein's sarcastic statement of the Jashinist.
"Okay, Pein," Ino replied casually, trying hard to prevent herself from giggling. She became nervous when the pierced-man suddenly stared at her with his menacing, greyish-blue eyes, almost as if she has done something wrong. The blonde coughed, agitated, "Er…I mean…understood, Leader-sama…?"
As she uttered the last word, the fiery-orange haired man looked satisfied as he stood up and left the room, enetring the hallways. His footsteps faded and someone was laughing. Ino's dark-blue eyes landed on the tall, bulky and blue-skinned man.
"Oh man, too bad Hidan didn't see that!" He managed to squeeze between his laughs, making Sasori snicker as well. "Pein looked like he was going to kill you! Man, that guy really gets angry when someone doesn't show him any respect!" He laughed non-stop again.
"Laugh a bit more quietly, Kisame," Itachi voiced, looking calm as he approached the tall man who nearly fell to the floor. The dark blue-haired man glanced up at the ruby-eyed Uchiha and grinned. The raven-haired man sighed, "It's not that funny, anyway."
Ino studied her crush's big brother. He seemed to have changed a lot through the years, and now she remembers where she has seen the humanoid shark. He was Kisame Hoshigaki, Itachi's partner.
It was then the golden-haired girl started to realize that none of the members were laughing at how pathetic she was trying to disguise as Deidara.
"Do you realize anything different about me?" She asked, mentally face-palming. All pairs of eyes in the room landed on her, who is inside the bomber's body. She tried to come up with another sentence, "Er…I feel a bit…weird."
"Other than the fact that you're not saying the word 'yeah', the rest about you is the same." A deep voice answered her, belonging to a man that looked similar to Itachi, but the blonde has never seen him before.
"It's hard to count the money, with all the noise in the room," Kakuzu groused, getting off his seat. It was rather funny on how Ino didn't really notice the money-loving man all this time. She watched as one of the Zombie Brothers disappears into the darkness of the hallway.
"Kisame and I will get going," Itachi muttered, waving his hand as an indication for his partner to get ready, "We have a mission soon and we'll leave in an hour. We'll be back in three days." Itachi stopped to glance over his shoulder, looking at the unfamiliar man who resembles him a bit, "Don't worry about me, Madara."
Ino froze. She has heard that name before.
"Why would I worry about you, nephew?" The ruby-eyed man chuckled. "Go on, now. I'm sure you could take care of yourself, Itachi."
When Itachi and Kisame left, the older Uchiha disappeared with a swirl of wind, leaving only Ino and the red-head in the large room. It was big enough for a huge kitchen, a set of sofas and furniture, a few maps of each country, and a large table which the blonde thinks is for meetings. Apparently, the Akatsuki's hideout is in the Grass country.
"I'm going on a solo mission, Deidara," Sasori informed, throwing his book onto the sofa as he walked over to one of the two hallways, "I'll come back by tomorrow morning. Rest and heal quickly, you know I don't like to be kept waiting."
Ino was left alone in the main room of the Akatsuki base. She wasn't sure of what to do, but she really wanted to laugh in relief. Nobody suspected that she wasn't the real Deidara. Even Sasori, his best friend, showed no sign of it.
No matter how badly she wanted to laugh, she just couldn't, because the walls have ears. So, the blonde just laid back on her chair, smiling to herself.
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A best friend is someone who knows your deepest, darkest secrets and knows all your flaws, but loves you anyway. –Unknown
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Finally, night came.
It was around 7.30 when Sakura, who was in the kitchen for nearly 2 hours, came bursting into the living room. Deidara wasn't at the sofa, but he was about to open the rosette's bedroom door to peek around to see if he could get any useful information for the Akatsuki.
"Hey, go take a bath, Ino!" The emerald-eyed girl ordered, opening her bedroom door and ushering the blonde inside. Deidara was slightly surprised to see that the Haruno's heir's room isn't as girly as he expected it would be. Suddenly, a purple towel came flying toward his face.
He removed the lilac towel and examined it, mentally frowning as he recognized it from when he was packing at Ino's room. His light-blue eyes looked into jade orbs as Sakura pointed toward another door in her room, "There's the bathroom, Ino. Hurry up, I need to bathe as well."
The girl with candy-coloured hair shoved her best friend inside the bathroom, making Deidara sigh. Here he was, to take off his clothes and take a bath in a girl's body. Surprisingly, he managed to go through the five-minutes completely naked without looking down, and once he was done, he wrapped the towel around his whole body.
He opened the toilet door and he saw the bag containing Ino's clothes at the other side of the room. He calmly walked across and kneeled, unzipping the bag to get some clothes. When he found a set of clothes that fit Ino's personality perfectly (although he didn't like it), he took out some clean undergarment for him to wear. He has to learn himself on how to wear a bra. Before removing the towel around him, he wore the underwear first.
He tried to clip the bra together (and tried to prevent the crazy blush on his face), but it was hard since the clip was behind him. He tried and tried as he stood in front of the mirror, but failing each time. Then, the pale-green eyed girl approached him, "Oh, you're done, Ino. Let me help you." Sakura helped clip the bra together before turning around.
Deidara smiled as he looked at Ino's appearance in the mirror. The blonde noticed that his new body was tender and light-skinned, not to mention thin and curvy, too. Ino's body was a dream-come-true to men, but he felt disgusted since he was in her bod. For the meantime, or course.
He walked over to his new set of clothes on the bed and he wore the black, thigh-high skirt first. When he was just about to wear the hot pink tank top, he froze when he heard the sound of someone pulling a zip.
He hesitantly turned around, to see Sakura's back facing him a few meters away. He blushed when her red, sleeveless shirt bearing the mark of the Haruno clan slid off her arm. However, the pinkette did not realize as the icy-blue eyed man averted his eyes as she undressed.
When Deidara confirmed Sakura was in the bathroom, he let go a sigh of relief as his blush faded. He resumed with wearing the tank top and picking out a pair of high heels. Although the blond knows he was going to trip over for more than a hundred times while he walks in the disgusting red shoes, he had to learn if he valued his life.
He stared at himself in the mirror as he tied the long, light blonde hair into a bun. There was still something missing, though, but he couldn't put a finger on it. Shrugging, he looked around the room. It was big, and he could tell there were a few matteresss under Sakura's bed. There was also a normal-sized closet, a full-length mirror, and desk with a few folders on top of it. But something caught his eye.
The small picture frame next to the messy, unorganized folders.
He approached the desk and picked up the picture frame. It seemed to be an old picture of a younger Sakura when she had long hair. On her left was Naruto, the Akatsuki's target, while behind her was the legendary Copy-nin, Kakashi Hatake. On the pinkette's right was a familiar face that angered the boy-turned-girl. It was the younger face of the man who defeated him in a battle two years ago.
Sasuke Uchiha.
By this time, Sakura had already exited the bathroom and she noticed her best friend staring, somewhat angrily, at the picture of her old team. "Hm? Ino, what's wrong?"
Deidara was brought back to reality by the rosette's voice. He turned around to see her wearing a pinkish-white bathrobe that covered her body completely. He shook his head slowly, and then he pointed to the dark-haired boy in the picture, "Sakura…who's this, yeah?"
The jade-eyed girl walked over to the sky-blue eyed man disguising as her best friend as he pointed to her former crush. She gave a smile that was unknown to Deidara—it seemed half-happy and half-angry. "Er…that's Sasuke Uchiha. He used to be my teammate."
"Used to be your teammate, yeah?" The Naples-yellow haired boy asked, raising his eyebrow. He suddenly felt like he needed to urge Sakura to tell him something. "The hint in your eyes tells me he was more than just a teammate…"
"He's your former crush, Ino," The pink-haired girl nervously replied, feeling uncomfartable, "And mine, too. But I'm over him now. He's evil. He left the village. He nearly killed Naruto. He nearly took you away from me. He hurt me. He—"
Deidara held Sakura's shoulders, interrupting her. He stared firmly in her pale-green orbs and he saw the tears gathering in her eyes. The rosette rubbed the tear that was running down her cheek and changed the topic, "Erm…anyway, your look is kind of dull."
Sakura pushed his hands off her shoulders and led him toward the mirror he was staring at earlier. She released the bun he had made, and tied it into a long, knee-length braid. She pinned the lock of hair covering his right eye with a red clip before adding some eyeliner and lip gloss.
He looked at the mirror again. He was too stunned by what he saw, because now, he looked beautiful in Ino's body—no, drop-dead gorgeous, to be more precise. He turned around to see Sakura, still in her bathrobe, grinning. "Not bad, eh?" The Haruno heir said, complimenting herself, "I must admit that I did a good job."
Again, she did not realize Deidara as he turned away when Sakura removed her bathrobe. After a few minutes, the blonde heard the emerald-eyed girl walk toward the mirror, and he was finally brave enough to look at her again. She looked casual, wearing dark blue pants and a white, V-neck, short-sleeved shirt.
She was wearing a white, wide headband that matched her top. Unlike him, she looked as if she was going for a five-minute walk to the store than going out with her friends.
"It's a sleepover, isn't it, yeah?" Deidara asked, making the pinkette turn around to look at him. The azure-eyed man pointed to his face, "I mean, why do we look like we're going out for dinner or something? Aren't slumber parties supposed to take place in the bedroom, yeah?"
Before Sakura could answer, there was a knock on the front door, but it could be heard by the two that were in the bedroom.
"I already told you that we're different when it comes to things like this," The pale-green eyed girl said, leading her best friend out of the bedroom, "Besides, we're not going to dinner. You'll be surprised."
She opened the door. Hinata and a brunette were standing outside with bags next to them. "Hi, Hinata! Hi Tenten!" Sakura greeted, delighted by her friends' arrival.
"Hello, Sakura!" The brown-haired girl, identified as Tenten, replied with a smile. She followed the Hyuga heir into the pinkette's bedroom, placing their bags before walking back out into the living room.
Both girls looked surprisingly pretty. The purplish-black haired girl smiled at Deidara, and he didn't know whether to smile back or not, but Hinata then turned her attention to the jade-eyed girl, "Sakura, just add dark pink lipstick and you'll look prettier than ever."
"Are you saying I look horrible right now?" Sakura inquired, pretending to sound angry. The room was filled with brief giggles and then she pointed at the blonde, "So, how do you two think of Ino? I helped her with her hair and make-up."
"You did?" Tenten asked in disbelief and raised her eyebrow, narrowing her dull brown eyes at the blonde suspiciously, "I thought Ino was the expert. She's not the type that would ask for Sakura's help—"
"She couldn't pick what hairstyle she wanted!" Sakura interrupted, getting impatient. Deidara mentally sighed in relief as the pink-haired girl continued, "It's a special night, that's why she's a bit clueless today. Anyway, let's get going!"
"Wait, Sakura," Hinata grabbed the pinkette's arm before she could walk out the door. "Tsunade said that she wishes to see you and Ino tomorrow morning. Could you tell me why?"
The room fell silent for a while and Deidara can see Sakura nervous. "Er, w-we don't know either, y-yeah…" He stammered, breaking off the grey-eyed girl's grasp of the Haruno heir's forearm. "Anyway, we should get going, yeah. Tonight is very special to us, isn't it?"
"Ino's right, so let's go!" Tenten nodded her head, grabbing Hinata's arm and rushing out of the apartment.
"Thanks, bestie," Sakura grinned as she watched her energetic, brown-eyed friend race down the stairs, "I really didn't know what to say back there."
Deidara smiled in reply, and then asked, "Hey, where are we going, yeah?"
Sakura grabbed his arm, giggling, and raced down the stairs, chasing after her two other friends. "Just wait and see!"
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Friendship and money = water and oil. –Mario Puzo
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A/N: Okay, so that's all. Sorry if it didn't satisfy you, though, because I'll admit I'm kind of lazy. :3 About the quotes during the timeskip, yesh, I know they were random, but I didn't know what else to put. They say the most difficult thing to do is to begin, so I'll keep going. I know that there aren't much DeiSaku stories, anyway.
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