Ash's POV
Training started up again, this time without chakra. Itachi was training me with this one since Deidara's idea nearly got me to lose control and might have given away the Akatsuki's whereabouts.
"Aim and throw your kunai and shuriken at that target." He said, pointing over to a 'person' that was made of a bag, rope and sticks.
"Ok." I said, walking till I was facing it head on. Holding up my weapons, I set my aim on the target and threw half of my kunai's, most of them missing. The ones that did hit were non fatal and minimal injury.
My eyebrow twitched at my results. Deidara was laughing and Itachi was shaking his head.
"I thought you would do better than that, considering what you did this morning." He said, coming over to me. "Watch how I throw it." He showed me in slow motion before doing it at regular speed, hitting every vital perfectly. I copied what he did, slow at first until I had the grove, then I threw it, same results from before except a few more made their mark.
"Let's try with shuriken." He said, a tone of disappointment in his voice. That upset me. I glared at the target and did what Itachi showed me. Nothing changed. I tried again. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Again. Nothing. By now the area around the thing was covered with weapons, only a few in the actual target.
"Damnit!" I yelled, throwing more at it. "Why can't I hit it?" I used the string I tied to each weapon to pull them back over to me, preparing to throw them again.
"Calm down." Itachi said. Deidara was too busy snickering at my failure to hit the target.
"How can I calm down when I can't hit it!" I yelled, turning my rage to him. "I am barely doing anything to it! How can that not make me angry?" I motioned my hands to the target that was mocking me.
"You are not throwing it right." He said simply, pointing out a fault that I didn't have.
"I am throwing it exactly how you threw it!" I said, stomping over to him. "How can I miss when I am doing what I am supposed to do! Huh?" He just stared at me.
"Because you throw like a girl, yeah." Deidara laughed. I turned to glare at him.
"You think that I throw like a girl oh mighty queen of the drags?!" I asked, growing angrier by the minute. "How is this for throwing like a girl!" I yelled, throwing a kunai so that it barely missed his pride and joy. I turned to the target thing and threw everything I had at it, all hitting every vital and pressure point available with a flame lighting it.
Itachi stared at me in wonder as Deidara was getting over his heart attack of nearly losing his boys. I fell to my knees, panting from all the anger I had released. As I calmed down, so did the flames on the weapons.
"You have a natural curve when you throw." Itachi said, thinking over what had happened and the results of the last thing. "That's why you missed. Your weapons curve." I looked up at him, astonishment clear on my face.
"That would have been good to know sooner." I mumbled, still recovering from my rage. He sighed.
"Didn't notice it until now." He said, reaching his hand down to me so that he could help me up. I took it so he could pull me up. I stumbled a bit do to my clumsiness.
"So what do we do now?" I asked, ready for something else that hopefully won't tick me off.
"Now we go to close range fighting." Itachi said. "First without weapons. Once you have that down, then we add them." I nodded, heading to a different area.
"I will fight you, un." Deidara said. "But once you get the weapons, your Itachi's problem, yeah." I laughed so hard that I started to cough. They looked at me worriedly.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." I said after I finished. I walked until I was 7 feet from my second favorite suicide bomber.
"Fight." Itachi said, jumping back. I ran forward immediately and aimed a punch towards his face. He dodged before trying to get my stomach. I caught his fist and twisted it around, grabbing another fist he aimed for my head. I caught it and twisted around again so that his arms were pinned behind his back and he was sitting on his legs, my foot on his back.
"To easy." I said, smirking. "I live with 3 psychotic siblings, two crazy parents and family that likes to wrestle." Itachi walked back over to us as I let go of Deidara's arms.
"That was good." Itachi said, giving a small clap. I smiled victoriously at Deidara while he sweat dropped.
"I was going easy on you, yeah." Deidara muttered, getting back into his fighting stance.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night." I said, a smile still plastered on my face. He glared at me.
"Start!" Itachi said, jumping back again as we charged at each other. I could give you a long, descriptive explanation of what happened, but I will just tell you simply. We copied each other. There was twirling, spinning, punching, kicking, dodging, blocking and yelling. Eventually my klutziness kicked in, making me trip and fall.
Now, what happened when I fell? Well, I fell on something other than the floor. I managed to fall on Deidara, knocking us both down so that I was on top of him with an arm under him and one of his legs on top of mine.
"Well…" I trailed off, trying not to look at him. "This is a little more than awkward." He nodded.
"Yeah, a little more than awkward, un." I felt something grab the back of my shirt, pulling me up before gently setting me down on the ground.
"Hey!" I yelped, holding my now free hand. "That hurt!" I looked behind me to see Kisame. Confused, I looked behind him to see everyone else looking at us weirdly.
"You saw that, didn't you." I said quietly, but loud enough that they could hear me. They nodded.
"This makes that even more awkward, yeah." Deidara said, getting up.
"You fell on my hand." I told him, rubbing my now throbbing wrist. Sasori came up and grabbed my wrist, making me hiss in pain.
"It's fractured." He said, holding it gently and guided me to the infirmary. He set me down before grabbing some ointment, applying it to my wrist then wrapping it.
"What is the ointment for?" I asked, watching him work.
"It helps to ease the pain." He told me, concentrating on my wrist. It was quiet after that.
"When did you guys get there?" I asked.
"Well, we heard you guys yelling at each other, so we went to see what was going on. We got there right before you and the brat started fighting." He told me. He was now wrapping a sturdier wrap around my arm so it now looked like a cast.
"Thanks." I said, chuckling. "I guess this is the third time I've been hurt. It hasn't even been a week yet since I arrived with Sam! Wonder what that makes you think of me?" Sasori chuckled.
"It tells me that you are injury prone." He said helping me get off the metal table. "Also that I should have been able to train you because you seem to get yourself in the most unusual and entertaining situations." I blushed, laughing nervously.
"That's a lot." I said, rubbing the back of my head with my good hand.
"That's not even half of it." He chuckled as we walked towards the main room where everyone was now at.
"Looks like Ash's training is on hold." Pain said, sighing. "We must work on her balance skills before she ends up in another, how I should say it, unusual predicament." I blushed and looked down, embarrassed at my horrible luck.
"Is it really that bad?" I asked.
"Ash, I have known you for years." Sam said, coming up and putting an arm around my shoulder. "You are the ultimate klutz. How you are still alive is a mystery." I hung my head in shame.
"That was comforting." I mumbled sarcastically. She sweat dropped.
"Tobi will make you feel better!" Tobi said, glomping me. I screamed because that made my wrist hit the floor and both of us on top of it.
"Tobi get off her!" Konan yelled.
"Tobi sorry!" Tobi said, rolling off me and, you guessed it, onto my bad wrist. I screamed even louder, kicking Tobi into the wall.
"Ow." He said as he slowly slid down the wall, leaving a dent of him behind. I held my wrist in pain, whimpering as it pulsated.
"You were right Sasori." I said as said person came over and checked my wrist, applying some medical ninjutsu to it. "I am accident prone."
"Of course I'm right." He said, slowly taking away the pain. "I can only take away the pain, but it will have to heal longer due to Tobi." He looked up at me. "I recommend you stay as safe as you possibly can, no getting near people that could potentially hurt you more."
"That means everyone." I whined. He chuckled.
"This calls for bubble wrap." Sam said, holding a hand up.
"There's no bubble wrap here." I said. "And even if there was, you would find a way to strangle me with it." She laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her head. I sighed before sitting down on the couch. I looked at my wrapped up arm and grimaced.
"Let me see that." Konan said, sitting down next to me. She gently took my bad arm and started doing something to it.
"What are you doing?" I asked. She held up a finger and continued, smiling when she was done.
"Take a look." She said, motioning to the cast. I did as she said and smiled. She drew a kanji on it.
"What does it say?" I asked. She smiled.
"It says Phoenix." She said. She then pointed to another kanji next to it. "That one means Ash. I thought you might want something added to it so it wasn't so boring." I laughed.
"Thanks. I really like it." I told her. She patted my shoulder.
"Anything for a friend." She said.
"I wanna draw something on it too!" Tobi yelled, grabbing a crayon before running over to me. He started doodling on my cast.
"Watcha making Tobi?" I asked.
"Tobi is a knight in shining armor and you're the princess." He said excitedly. "Sempai is the dragon and Tobi will save you!" Deidara glared at Tobi, grabbing some clay from his pouch before making it into a bird and sending it at him.
"Shit!" I yell, blocking my face. I heard an explosion, but felt nothing. I peeked out and saw that Itachi was using his sharingan thingy to absorb the explosion. (Think Naruto shipuden with Kakashi)
"Deidara!" Pain yelled, looking ready to kill. "You nearly killed Ash. Your punishment is having no pay for a month and no missions." Deidara hung his head in shame.
"You are an unnecessary danger to Ash." Itachi scolded. He turned to me, checking me over to make sure I was ok.
I looked at Deidara as he was scolded by the other members. I can't help but feel sorry for him.
"Leave." Pain ordered, pointing towards the hallway. Deidara walked off, head still down. Sam was laughing.
"That was like a parent scolding their kid!" She said. I gave her a light glare.
"Ash is ok." Itachi said. Tobi was in the emo corner, mumbling about not being loved. I sighed before getting up.
"I am going to rest a little." I told them before walking towards the hallway with all the rooms. Once out of site, I went to Deidara's door and knocked. I heard shuffling behind the door before it opened, a still head down Deidara revealing himself.
"What do you want, un?" He mumbled, probably not realizing it's me. I put my good hand on his shoulder, making him look up. "A-ash, yeah?" He asked, surprised. I took a step forward and hugged him. He froze in surprise for a few seconds before hugging me back.
"I'm sorry, un." He said, voice muffled by my shoulder. I could feel something soak my shirt, it probably being tears. I patted his back, knowing that he was upset about what had happened. "I-I didn't mean to un. It just happened."
"It was a natural reaction." I told him. "It's understandable."
"B-but I hurt you, yeah." He whined, looking up at me.
"Yeah." I said. "But who hasn't? I'm fine, if not accident prone. Sam smashed my foot on purpose, you hurt my wrist on accident." He laughed a little, wiping his eyes.
"That makes me feel a little better, un." He said. I smiled.
"Do you have a bathroom in there?" I asked.
"Yeah, why, un?" He asked. I went into the room and into the bathroom, grabbing a wash cloth and soaking it with cold water before coming back out and patting Deidara's eyes.
"This will help take away the redness and won't leave the uncomfortable after affect." I told him. He looked away, blushing a little, but allowed me to fix his eyes.
"You wanna draw something on the cast?" I asked.
"Sure, yeah." He said. He grabbed a pen and looked for a free spot on the cast. His eyebrow twitched when he saw Tobi's picture (which I thought was adorable). When he found a spot he started to doodle. I laughed a little, remembering something that I used to do.
"What are you laughing at, un?" he asked, glancing up at me. I crossed my eyes, and then I started make goofy faces, puffing up my cheeks, making a derp face or making myself look like a fish. We started to laugh.
"W-where did that come from un?" He asked, calming down.
"Not really sure." I said. "I just happened to think of it." We both laughed a little longer before we stopped, chuckling occasionally.
"I'm almost done." He said, making a few more marks on my cast. He smiled when he finished, adjusting it so that I could see what it was.
Using different shades of hot colors, he drew an explosion. I laughed, grinning at the blond terrorist.
"That is epic." I told him. "Now it is my turn."
"Huh?" He asked. I grabbed my favorite pen I always carried with me, then grabbed his hand, being careful of the mouth.
"I am going to doodle something for you." I said. "It is something similar to a mosaic and the artist does not know what they are making, only that perfection will drive them to creating something amazing." He watched in interest as I drew a curved line, adding lines to it as I went along. Every time there was a little flick of ink out of place, I drew over it, guided by my had to add to it.
"Done!" I said, removing my pen and hand from his. He looked at it with surprise before grinning.
"That is amazing, yeah!" He said. I took his hand and turned it, only for his eyes to widen.
"It changed!" He yelled. "How, un?" I laughed.
"What you see in it is different to each person." I told him. "When you turn it, it changes again." He just continued to gap at it, turning it to see what else was hidden among the lines.
"That is neat, yeah." He said. I laughed again before yawning.
"I'm going to go to sleep." I told him. "Too much screaming and laughing can really tire a girl out." He just laughed as I left, closing my eyes as I let out another yawn and heading towards my room, entering and shutting it behind me.
Sorry if chu read the chap before, I put up the chap before I finished to early. Anyway, this is the COMPLETED chap. Enjoy!