Rose: Okay, continuing on with 'Muse'. Chapter 6,
Disclaimer: Nope!
Deidara may be an excellent painter and sculptor, but when it came to furniture arrangement a goldfish had more sense, his room was long and rectangular with light wood floors and walls, his bed was located directly behind the door with a chest of drawers filled with my clothes at the foot of it, his wardrobe was just to the right of the bathroom door, he has shelves dotted around his walls covered with small clay sculptures and his easel was directly in the centre with a small table next to it filled with paints and other art supplies,
I glanced at the clock sitting on the chest of drawers nervously, Deidara had been gone a while. It was light when he'd stormed off in search of Hidan. Now the sun was setting, I bit my lip.
I knew what would happen, Deidara would storm up to Hidan and start a verbal fight. Soon afterwards Hidan would loose his temper and attack Deidara. Deidara would counter attack-
An explosion in the distance confirmed my suspicions.
-Then they'd fight for who knows how long-
Another explosion.
-And someone would come out the winner.
I shivered. Hidan was strong, stronger than Deidara by far. Plus he was immortal. I kept expecting the silver haired sadist to break down the door, exclaim Deidara was dead and have his way with me. The thought made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end and I glanced around nervously in search of a weapon. I crept to the end of the bed and peeked underneath, Deidara usually hid things under it. Shoving a few boxes and a spare easel out the way my hand felt the cool metal of a Kunai…
"What is Deidara's Petal doing?"
I screamed and slipped onto the floor, I hated the fact that whilst I was here my chakra had been blocked off, I'd searched my body countless times looking for a seal but found none. This of course meant I couldn't sense when someone was coming, I couldn't fight because most of my attacks are chakra based and I defiantly couldn't escape.
"Tobi? You scared me" I breathed, climbing to my feet "I was looking for a weapon"
"You know you're not allowed those, Petal, un" I jumped when Deidara limped in; supported by Sasori. Sasori's a puppet expert, Deidara's partner, and a missing Nin from Suna. I didn't get to see him without his puppet shield, thing, until about two months after my arrival. When he walked in on Deidara painting me.
"Well excuse me for thinking you might have gotten yourself killed by Hidan. If it'd been him walking in just now I'd have needed to defend myself" I crossed my arms and huffed,
"Aw, is my pretty Petal worried about me? Un" I snorted,
"Not likely, I just prefer you to him"
"Isn't Deidara's Petal going to ask who won?" Tobi bounced in-front of me, Sasori dumped the blond on his bed none to gently, I looked at the red head,
"No-one won" he grunted "Leader broke it up. Not like Deidara would win anyway. Hidan can't die"
"He can still be blown to bits, un" Deidara argued "Petal can you heal me?"
"No chakra" I said shortly, glancing at my nails...Pervert.
"Just heal yourself" Sasori snapped,
"No chakra" the blond grinned, I sighed,
"Sasori?"
"Akina, you know I would...But right now I refuse to waste my chakra on this idiotic fool" Deidara glared up at his partner,
"Tobi be a dear and get me a bowl of warm water and a cloth please" the masked man saluted me,
"Anything for Deidara's Petal!" he quickly sprinted out the room, I sat on the bed next to the blond,
"You're an idiot" I sighed again "take off your cloak"
"My arm hurts, un" Deidara whined,
"Like hell it does!"
"No really, it does, un"
"You have another one don't you?" Deidara's smirk fell from his face and he unclasped his patterned cloak, grumbling as he did, Sasori watched, an amused smirk painted onto his face,
The cloak floated to the floor, leaving Deidara in his fishnet vest and undershirt, on his left arm was a long, deep looking slash, running from his shoulder to his elbow, his lip was swollen and bleeding, both his eyes were blackened, where the hell was his scope? And the fishnet on the lower part of his shirt of sticking to the large wound on his stomach; I guessed there was an injury on his leg also since he had been limping,
"The shirt as-well"
"Petal I don't think this is the time or place, un"
"Deidara" I smiled sweetly "unless you would like another injury to add to your lovely collection, I suggest you shut up and do as I say" Sasori chuckled,
"When a woman uses that tone of voice it's best to comply Deidara" Deidara huffed and lifted his shirt over his head, despite his line of work, Deidara still has fat on his body. Not much. But it's there, on his hips mostly and if you run your hand over the area under his bellybutton you'll feel it rise up. Deidara insisted there was no exercise known to man that would rid him of it,
His muscles also weren't as defined, they were noticeable enough to see but they weren't so chiselled that they looked like…Hidan's or something, like they were carved from marble. Deidara often got highly annoyed about this. Artists can be vain!
"Tobi got the water and the cloth!" Tobi bounced into the room, spilling some of the water as he did so,
"Tobi you bastard!" Deidara snarled "you better clean that up, un" Tobi ignored him and held the bowl out to me
"Thank you Tobi" I replied, taking it from him, Tobi fiddled with his fingers and muttered a "you're welcome" before standing next to Sasori, I dipped the cloth into the water, squeezed out the excess and pressed it lightly to the wound on Deidara's arm, he hissed and wrenched it away "oh don't be such a baby" I chuckled,
"It's hurt's! Un" he snapped, I gripped his arm lightly before pressing the cloth to it again, carefully wiping away the dirt and any other impurities,
"Be a man" Sasori snorted "you've had worse"
"Do you have any disinfectant?" I asked, glancing up at the two men watching the scene between Deidara and I,
"Probably, did you need some?"
"Yeah, it's deep. And some bandages if you would"
"Of course" Sasori slouched out of the room in search of the required items, Tobi stayed motionless,
"Tobi clean up the water, un" Deidara ordered,
"Manners Deidara, manners" I chirped, dipping the cloth back in the water and wringing it out, Deidara sighed through his teeth,
"Tobi clean up the water please,un" Tobi glanced between the blond man and I "NOW!" Tobi yelped and grabbed the towel off Deidara's easel,
"Deidara I need you to lay down" I stated "Tobi, could you use the towels in the bathroom? That one is covered in paint" Tobi nodded and threw the dripping towel back over the easel whist I helped Deidara to lay on his back; taking a seat next to him I pressed the cloth to the wound on his stomach, his back arched "don't do that" I ordered softly "you'll make it worse"
"It's a reflex, un" he clenched his eyes shut,
"I couldn't find any disinfectant" Sasori had reappeared,
"Do you have the bandages? Un. I don't fancy bleeding to death" said item connected with the blonds head "ow!"
"Thanks Sasori" I smiled at the red head "don't worry about the disinfectant, his chakra should be replenished by tomorrow"
"He just hit me! Un" Deidara whined, waving the bandages around with his good arm, I snatched them off him,
"You deserved it" Sasori snapped, I shook my head and sighed, wrapping the bandages around Deidara's arm whilst he and his partner bickered,
"Tobi cleaned up the water!"
"What do you want? Un. A fucking medal?"
"Deidara!" I cried, lightly slapping him on the head with the cloth before turning to Tobi who appeared to be very upset, his feet were curled inwards and his hands were hidden behind his back, he looked like a child who'd just been scolded "thank you Tobi" the masked man perked up,
"Does Deidara's Petal need anything else?"
"No I'm good" I finished wrapping Deidara's arm "you need to sit up again"
"Make up your mind, un" Deidara sighed, I rolled my eyes and glanced at Sasori, who smirked and chuckled silently. I unrolled more of the bandages secured them tightly around his stomach,
"You and your damn male pride" I muttered,
"I had to defend your honour, un" the blond smirked,
"You couldn't have defended my honour verbally?" I asked, raising my eyebrows, Deidara chuckled,
"Where's the fun in that? Un"
"I never said it was fun. But if it happens again you're bandaging your own wounds" I picked up the cloth from the now cold water and dabbed his lip, wiping away the crusted blood,
"It won't happen again, un. If you think I'm in bad shape then you should see Hidan"
"What does he look like?"
"Brilliant. There isn't a scratch on him" Sasori stated, I covered my mouth to stifle my giggles, Deidara growled,
"I told you to lie, un"
"It'd be rude to lie to such a charming woman" I smiled up at Sasori, giggling every so often,
"Leg?" I chuckled, removing my hand from my mouth,
"Just a twisted ankle, I'll be fine, un" Deidara grumbled, I nodded,
Someone knocked on the door a few times before pushing it open, Zetsu ducked down to avoid hitting the doorframe "Tobi, I am in need of your assistance"
"Yes Master Zetsu!" Tobi cheered,
"Hello Zetsu" I smiled, picking up the bowl of blood dyed water; he smiled back, showing all his pointed teeth,
"Hello Akina, you look absolutely ravishing in that dress" I laughed nervously,
"Thank…You?"
The two toned Grass Nin nodded and motioned for Tobi to follow him, Sasori sighed "if you need nothing else, I shall take my leave"
"It's okay, thanks for helping" I grinned, moving towards the bathroom to dispose of the dirty water, the ex-Suna Nin nodded and retired, I poured the bowls contents down the sink and rested it on the counter, upon entering the bedroom once more I saw Deidara rummaging though his wardrobe "I just cleaned and wrapped those. You're going to re-open them!" the blond looked up and grinned,
"I want to go to bed, un"
"It's eight 'o' clock" I rolled my eyes and cleaned up the bandages and Deidara's blood stained clothes,
"And? Un, I just spend the last hour battling with an immortal freak, if I want to sleep then I'm going to"
"Just try not to roll onto your left side. You'll reopen the wound" I stated, medical knowledge wasn't my forte, but I'd learned all the basic skills from Sakura, something I knew was that you shouldn't do is put pressure on a recently bandaged wound, Deidara appeared behind me and slid his arm around my shoulders,
"Join me? Un"
"Just because you're tired doesn't mean I am. Besides. I just spent the last thirty minutes being your nurse, I need a bath"
Deidara groaned as I took my leave.
"Wake up, un"
I moaned and buried my face into my pillow, Deidara jabbed me in the shoulder, I squatted him away "shoo fly. Don't bother me"
"If you don't wake up I'll be forced to take drastic action, un"
"Go away!"
"Fine, un"
He pressed his hand to my bare thigh and I felt the tongue flick out, my eyes snapped open and I leapt away, pressing my back into the wall, Deidara was lying on the other side of the bed, looking up at me "pervert" I hissed, he grinned,
"I warned you, un" I rolled my eyes and glanced around the room, it was still dark! I groaned and leaned my head back against the wall,
"It's still dark out" I mumbled, rubbing my eyes "what time is it?"
"Ten to six. And it's not dark the sun is rising! Un"
"Why are you up so early?" I yawned,
Deidara forced himself to sit up, supporting himself with his right arm "I'm hungry, un"
"What does that have to do with me?" I crossed my arms,
"You said last night you were my nurse, un. So start nursing!"
I huffed and climbed over the blond's legs, he always made me sleep on the inside in-case he had any early missions or got back late "first I'm a muse, now I'm a damn nurse. What next? Nanny?"
"Wouldn't you be considered a mother? Un" I twisted my head round to stare at him, eyes wide and mouth agape,
"What?"
"When we have kids then you'd be their mother, un, isn't a Nanny where you look after someone else's kids?"
"What do you mean 'when we have kids'?" I snapped, crossing my arms and glaring down at the blond as best I could in the minimal light, Deidara raised his eyebrows,
"Well…It's bound to hap-"
"Like hell it is!" I hissed, stalking out of the room and towards the kitchen.
Rose: Hehe, I had fun writing this, next chapter up soon!