AN: Welcome back my freaky darlings.
Now, before anyone gets upset with my incredibly late update I have a great excuse…
The manga became too damn interesting, school became too damn uninteresting and everything in my world fell apart.
But… with some duct tape and a little bit of superglue, I'm piecing things back together and feel like I can carry on and do a chapter.
Oh, and I don't own these guys. Except on dvd…
Sakura landed face first into the muddy ground a only few feet away from her destination.
"Never turn your back on an enemy." Sasori chided.
Sakura stretched her arm out to her fallen teammate. "NARUTO! HOLD ON!"
He didn't move when she shouted out to him and the kyuubi's aura had faded.
Something sharp bit into in her right shoulder. She ignored it and continued to reach for Naruto. Her eyes were filled with tears as she looked at his broken body. He was losing blood fast. She was a medic. She had to heal him.
The pain in her shoulder was rapidly becoming worse and her vision was becoming blurry. She pulled her arm to her shoulder and yanked out a small senbon. She screamed as the pain in her shoulder increased and her body became wracked with coughs. A small amount of blood fell from her lips as her eyes began to grow heavy.
"Poi..son.." she coughed, trying to turn around to face Sasori who stood over her smiling as he watched her body shake with the violence of the coughing. "Ass…hole.."
Her body fell limp and her face dropped into the mud, her arm still reaching out to her friend.
"Pathetic." He reflected, leaving Deidara and Kakuzu to finish off the remaining leaf ninja while he looked for Hidan.
"Took you fucking long enough, seriously. "
"Shut up Hidan." Kakuzu said testily.
"Fuck no! Do you have any idea how boring it is being trapped underground with no one to talk to? It sucks. It sucks fucking huge."
"Stop moving."
"Jashin is going to be so pissed at me. Seriously. I haven't done a proper ritual in years."
"I said stop moving."
"Shut up you fucking heathen. You wouldn't understand how shitty Jashin can get."
Across the clearing, Sasori did his best to ignore Hidan's constant chatter as he sat and considered the knocked out kunoichi.
Her pink hair was caked with mud and her pale skin was turning various shades of bruises. Still, he could not deny how beautiful she looked.
"All that power in such a delicate flower." He mused.
His fingers itched to brush her hair out of her face, clean her up and dress her in an outfit more befitting her femininity.
"Pretty, yeah." Deidara remarked as he sat down opposite Sasori. "Is that why you haven't killed her yet?"
Sasori didn't even look up at the smirking blonde
"Not quite." He murmured.
"Well, I sure as hell wouldn't mind keeping her around for a while. She's a lot easier on the eyes then the kyuubi brat, yeah."
Sasori wasn't really paying attention. He was focusing on the slight movement in his captives fingertips.
"It would be nice to have her warming my bed at night, yeah. Once she is all showered up and has her chakra inhibited, of course. Otherwise she'd be a little too much to handle, yeah."
"Hn."
"Not that I don't mind a little fight, yeah. It just gets a little distracting when it ends up as a full on sparring match instead of some full on fu.."
"Shut up." Sasori interrupted. "She's waking up." And much sooner than I had anticipated. She must have become quite the accomplished medic. He thought. "This should be amusing."
Sakura eyes fluttered open. Her body felt like it had been hit by a truck.
"Awake, I see." Sasori said as he stared into her eyes. "Pupils still dilated though."
"W-where's Naruto"
Damn it hurt to talk.
"The kyuubi is none of your concern."
"Li-like hell he's not." She grunted trying to sit up.
"Lie down."
"Fuck you."
"Lie down."
Every muscle ached and her head pounded as she tried moving to her knees. She had to save Naruto. She had to save her team. She had to save his team. She didn't care too much about saving herself.
Little lights started dancing in front of her eyes and she was beginning to feel light headed.
"Lie back down before you hurt yourself"
"Or before we hurt you, yeah" Deidara added.
Sakura looked at the feral grin on Deidara's face. His palm mouths grinned at her too, making her stomach churn and her head spin.
She unceremoniously fell back to the ground with an Ooof.
Sakura knew that she was far too weak to fight them right now and as much as it irritated her, she would just have to bide her time until help arrived or until she could heal herself enough to put up a decent fight. She prepared to mould her chakra to do a quick health check when she realized that something was terribly wrong.
Sasori sat emotionlessly, watching the shock register on her face.
"It's a side effect of the poison. You still have your chakra but you are no longer able to access it. I made it especially for you."
Sakura tried to mould her chakra again. Again, nothing happened.
"No need to worry too much. Sadly, it is not permanent but it's enough to keep you under control."
Sasori pulled another needle out of his coat and jabbed it into her neck.
"Time to go back to sleep, little blossom, yeah."
Sakura glared at Sasori as everything around her began to fade into darkness and Sasori impassively returned her gaze.
"I'll k-kill you."
The darkness surrounded her.
"You already have."
The flight home was a strange one. Zetsu had already taken the jinchuriki back to the base, Kakuzu was threatening to take a very zombiefied looking Hidan apart again and Deidara was controlling the airborne monstrosity he called "art" while more or less leering at the unconscious rosette ninja who was lying almost protectively in the arms of Sasori.
Sasori couldn't help but feel protective of his catch. She was his. She owed him. She belonged to him.
"Almost there, yeah." Deidara said to no one in particular.
Sasori looked up from his prize to observe the landscape around them. It all seemed so bland and uninteresting. Normally he would have been content to watch the clouds pass by and the rivers below snake around into interesting patterns but for some reason, nothing seemed as lovely as the girl that lay arms.
He looked closely at her. Her body had definitely developed in all the right places and she had gotten taller since the last time he had seen her, but not by much.
"Perfect." He murmured.
He watched the rise and fall of her breasts as she breathed deeply in her medicated sleep and couldn't help but feel a stirring inside his body. He was not an entirely uncomfortable thing with it but it was different from the usual possessive feelings he had with his other toys. This toy was still alive. Still breathing. She would continue to grow and change and would not last forever. But she was still beautiful.
Is this what Deidara meant when he talked about art being fleeting?
"What the fuck is that?" Hidan said, interrupting Sasori's meditation.
"My next project."
"What project? Getting yourself laid? It's about fucking time you virgin."
Sasori chose to pay no attention to Hidan's comments. It was none of his business what he chose to do with the girl.
"What now you're fucking ignoring me? Fuck you, virgin puppet."
"Let it go Hidan." Kakuzu sighed.
"Fuck you."
"Can you guys stop fighting, yeah? We're almost there."
"Don't get me started on you, girly-man!"
Deidara's face went red, his eyes went blank and his leg shot out towards Hidan's face. It was almost too quick to see the actual hit but the sound of Hidan's swearing fading as his body raced towards the ground below was enough to know that the kick had been effective.
"I'm not a fucking girl." Deidara said darkly as he maneuvered the giant bird towards the ground to land.
AN: Well there we are. It's a start… again… and short... again..
I finally decided on a pairing.. for now.. but that doesn't mean that the others aren't gonna give it a try ;)
How was it? Let me know.
Luff luff and knuffles till then.
