Oh my god! I was about to join the Akatsuki! I know I kept on complaining about it and hating it, and I still do, but on the other hand, Joy-chan!!!
Well, I guess there are always going to be the bad points wherever you are, so I might as well focus on the good points. Unless of course SOMEONE annoys me.
I look mysteriously over at Tobi with an evil glare in my eyes as I had that thought.
'Whoa!' I suddenly grab onto the sides of the clay bird as it made an unexpected dive forwards, heading towards the ground.
'God! Thanks for the warning' I mumble sarcastically at Deidara, as we land lightly on the ground, nearly flattening Tobi.
'Wah, Tobi don't like flying' he mutters to himself as he stumbles about the ground, trying to regain his balance. He falls down and then stands up again. 'Tobi is fine!' then he ran into the base. I slipped off quite ungraciously. Just as it got turned into clay and was put back into Deidara's bag.
'So where's the Akatsuki base? I can't see anything around here.' I asked suspiciously.
'Follow me' Deidara answered, heading off in the direction of a mountain.
I moan unpleasantly and follow 'How much longer are we going to be'
'Just be patient, are you too lazy to even walk a small distance after having a long while simply sitting down and flying on some of my brilliant pieces of art?' Deidara snapped at me. I scowled repulsively; I really wanted to just snap him. The Akatsuki really are morons. I would have easily killed him, but I didn't. I don't know why, but I kind of have a small, barely noticeable, not really there, hardly any amount, of something, maybe, you know, respect for him. Although, if I ever get the chance to, like I'm asked to or something, I will NOT hold back ONE BIT.
'Wow, we're here already?' While I was busy thinking to myself, I hadn't realised we were in the base already.
'There, you happy now? I told you it wouldn't take long. You're so…' Deidara started shouting at me again. I could tell if he had finished the sentence he would have said a LOT of nasty stuff to me, but he glanced over at my cousin and softened his voice, stopping him from shouting even more.
Hehe, I bet there's something going on with them… I was sooo tempted to start using this against him, singing the 'Deidara and Joy-chan sitting in a tree' song, but I got distracted when Tobi came running to us, saying loudly and excitedly, 'Welcome to the Akatsuki Kairi!!!' It looked like he was about to hug me. I quickly made the hand seal for shadow clone jutsu, multiplying myself into 5 Kairi's. We all surrounded Tobi in a circle, and in sync we all kicked him in the head with all our might.
Hehe, mission accomplished. Tobi fell to the floor, probably seeing stars.
I looked at the other two- Deidara had an impressed and amused look on his face, Joy-chan a sad one.
'What? I needed SOME way to take out my anger. He was about to hug me for heaven's sake!' I replied, trying to sound innocent, but failing miserably. Deidara laughed, 'He deserved it'
I smiled proudly.
I turned around as about five other people came out of the shadows. One had orange, spiky hair, and loads of piercings. One looked like a fish. Another looked like his dad had fucked a Venus Fly Trap. Then next to him was a girl with blue hair. And the last…
'Hey, I know you!' I shouted at him. 'You're the one who murdered my whole family!' I scream at him with rage.
'Huh? Oh yeah…' He replied.
'Wait, why didn't you kill me?'
'I didn't know you existed.'
'WELL, THAT'S NICE!' I shout at him sarcastically. Deidara laughed to himself silently from just behind me. I gave him the evil eye.
The one with orange hair introduced himself. 'I am Pein, welcome to the Akatsuki. Before you can join however'-
'And get you awesome uniform!' Tobi interrupted, recovering from my attack.
'As I was saying,' Pein continued, glaring at Tobi. 'Before you can join the Akatsuki, you have to go through a test.'
'What!? So I went all this way for NOTHING!?' I shout at him in outrage.
'Will everyone stop INTERRUPTING me!!!? AS I was SAYING, you have to go through a test. If you can pass, you will be gladly welcomed to the Akatsuki, if not, we kill you.'
Joy-chan started crying. To be honest, I was really scared too.
'Ummm, what's the test…?' I ask nervously.
'You have to fight one of the Akatsuki members. You are a Chuunin, right? The rules a similar to the last test of the exams. You fight until your opponent dies, admits defeat, or is unable to fight'
I gulped. One of the Akatsuki? They are S-ranked ninjas. I'm only a Chuunin… No. I have to fight with all my might. Three of the Akatsuki HAVE been murdered by Chuunin. I'll easily be able to defeat whoever I have to with my determination. I have to, if I can't…
'Um, who am I going to be fighting?' I ask, trying to sound more confident than I feel. Pein looked around the room, choosing who it should be. 'Please be Tobi, please be Tobi, please be Tobi' I think to myself, Tobi should be easy to defeat. He acts like such a baby.
He opens his mouth to announce the name. 'Deidara.'
I smile with an evil glare in my eyes. 'Perfect'
This is great, now I can have my revenge on that arrogant little bastard.
A lot more confident this time, I ask 'When will this match be held?'
'Tomorrow, 10am. You can sleep for now in Joy-chan's room. I trust that is ok?'
Joy-chan nodded to the ground.
'Great. Well, you must be tired after that long trip, so I think we will all leave you be now.'
They all turned and left until only Deidara, Tobi, Joy-chan and I were in the room. I turned to Deidara.
'You better be prepared, I killed 5 academy students, a few genin, and'-
'-and one Chuunin. Blah, blah, blah. You don't even want to KNOW what damage I can do, let alone see it, or feel it.' Deidara threatened me.
'Wha? - How did you know?'
'Old news idiot'
'Don't you dare call me an idiot, you bastard!'
He was about to reply, but he then turned to Joy-chan, who had started crying again. I think we went too far… She really respects her friends and hates to see people hurt them or threaten them in any way.
'Sorry, Joy-chan. We didn't mean any of it.' I told her, trying to be as comforting as possible.
'Well, I didn't mean any of it' Deidara replied.
Joy-chan became silent, but still had tears dropping down under that silky black and purple hair of hers. She should really brush it out of her face sometime, or at least look up. She is actually really pretty, when she's happy that is.
I looked around and tried to see Tobi, he usually would comfort Joy-chan if it was the last thing he did. He likes being nice to people. Which annoys me sometimes…
He wasn't there though. He must have gone to his room. I turned my attention back to Joy-chan as Deidara helped her off the ground, and we all headed towards our rooms.
Deidara had turned off and walked down a different corridor, and Joy-chan stopped and watched him til he was out of view. Then she continued down the hall again, not saying a single word. Ah, just like old times- silent and sad.
'Where are the training grounds, are there any?' I ask her.
She nods her head.
'Excellent, I need to know where they are. I need to train and fight. I need to be ready for when I fight Deidara tomorrow, and defeat him!' I say enthusiastically and strong-mindedly.
'Ok, follow me' she replies in a soft, quiet voice.
We turn and head in the opposite direction, then turn again, and then again. Boy, am I losing track of where we are. This place is confusing. Eventually after a few minutes of walking we enter a large area, with a lot of training equipment. I turn towards Joy-chan and ask her if she could help me train. She nods and leads me towards one corner of the grounds, and judging by the equipment it was probably were I would train my taijutsu.
'Just start with the basics, practise your strength in taijutsu as a warm up. That's what your good at, right, taijutsu?' She asks me gently and silently.
I nod and start working up my strength by doing simple exercises like push ups and sit ups and other stuff of the sort. Then I move onto more chakra related stuff.
'Enough of the easy stuff' I tell Joy-chan defiantly. 'Give me something real to do, give me a match!'
'Hehe, that's what I love about you. You're so confident and determined.' She replies.
She then gets ready for a fight, as she steps a fair distance away from me and readies her hands to be able to form into any seal needed.
'Deidara uses clay for his jutsu, so he usually goes for far based attacks. You use taijutsu, so you go close up. He also needs a small while for his mouths to chew up the clay'-
'Mouths? Plural? Where is his other one?'
'He has one on each of his hands to be able to use his jutsu, and one on his chest, but that one is sown up'
'Creepy'
'Anyway, if you can get close enough to him, before he can finish chewing up the clay and forming it into one of his models, you should be able to distract him from being able to. He will need to use taijutsu against you, and therefore he will not be able to have his hands in the bag he carries around his shoulder.' Joy-chan informs me.
'Excellent,' I reply. 'Wait, why are you telling me all this? I didn't know you were the one to take sides between your friends and family.'
'No one would ever want to be my friend, I have none' she tells me. 'I just want you to join the Akatsuki.'
'Oh, ok… Well, what shall I do then, what strategies should I use? I know you're the best at figuring this kind of stuff out.'
'Start off by using your shadow clone jutsu. Have one of the clones stay behind, not you. He will think that you would be the one to stay behind, protecting yourself, so he will attack that one with the most damage. Don't be the first one up either though, distract him with that one, then you go behind and attack him from there. He is good at taijutsu, but if you follow what I am telling you to do, then you should be fine. I hope…'
'Don't worry. I know when you actually talk, and actually more than a few words of speech, it's when it's something very important to you.' I laugh.
'Don't die on me'
'I won't.'
'I couldn't stand to have my entire family killed now. You're the only one close to me I have. I will never let the last of my family be gone forever…'
'I promise, I won't die'