Tada! I'm back!
Well here is the next installment.
Enter Deidara and Sasori!
Sorry for keeping you so long Yumi Kusakabe - forgive me D:
Enjoy!
Yumi scowled and rolled her eyes.
Yeah right…
There was no way she was going to join the Akatsuki just because some egotistical jerk says so.
She sighed.
What to do, what to do…
Joining the Akatsuki would mean she would be declared a missing nin by Konoha and hunted down by Anbu Black Ops that were once her friends.
She imagined the shame her friends would feel.
Sakura and Naruto would be devastated that she had betrayed them and Yumi imagined the feeling would be akin to how Sasuke Uchiha felt when he was abandoned by his older brother.
Kakashi wouldn't believe it for a second and would hunt her down to bring her home again.
The chances of her friend getting hurt in his mission to find her were very high.
She didn't doubt Kakashis skill for a second but the man in front of her took her down in under 5 minutes…
She didn't really know how Sai would feel… But then again, who does?
Tsunade would be horrified and wouldn't think twice about ordering her execution despite the fact that the Hokage and white haired kunoichi had once been friends.
No…
Joining the Akatsuki would be the end of her.
The end of her ambitions.
The end of her friendships.
The end of her life.
Yumi turned up her nose at the orange haired man and let out a 'hmph' noise.
"I suppose if I refuse there will be consequences?" She asked with a sigh.
Her suspicions were confirmed when he replied, "Dire consequences."
Yumi rolled her eyes.
Oh how dramatic.
"And what would that be? Are you going to kill me?"
She received no reply, instead being hoisted over her captors shoulder and flash stepped away.
A whirl and rush of wind threatened to suffocate her and Yumi closed her eyes as vertigo took hold.
She never liked flashstepping, it made her feel ill and she hated the nausea that followed.
When the rushing feeling stopped, she opened her eyes to find herself standing upon a cliff top overlooking a small valley.
She glanced around, briefly wandering if she was free, only to droop her head upon noticing The Imposter.
She scowled and looked back to the valley, trying to determine the reason she had been bought here.
A flickering of lights in the distance caught her attention.
Yumi tilted her head to the side and watched it.
A small village lay in the middle of the valley, peaceful and untouched by the shinobi world.
How simple life must be, without the complication of power,Yumi thought.
Suddenly annoyed at the lack of action going on around her, the white haired kunoichi turned back to the orange haired man keeping her captive.
"You want to tell me whats going on-"
Upon turning around, Yumi noticed that there was not one man standing behind her, but three.
Among the intimidating presence of her captor, there were two men she had not seen before.
One had long blonde hair, part of which was tied up high above his head.
He was taller than her by a few inches and had the bluest eyes she had ever seen.
The head band tied to his head had the symbol of two stones, one overlapping the other and Yumi immediately knew he was from The Village Hidden in the Rocks.
Overcome by a sudden disliking of the man, she scowled.
The ninja who had killed her parents had been from Iwagakure and no matter how well acquainted she became with an Iwa nin, she always held a sort of mistrust of them.
The man beside him was more accurately described as a human scorpion.
A bandana covered the bottom half of his face leaving only his eyes and three thick strips of hair on his head visible.
He was hunched over so low that he didn't reach much higher than Yumis waist.
A large metallic tail emerged from under his Akatsuki cloak and hovered over his back, above his head.
As she watched, a dribble of something purple slid down the side and Yumi concluded that the tail was poisoned.
The man had no visible headband so it was impossible to determine his origin.
"This is Akasuna no Sasori and Deidara of Iwagakure."
The two men nodded in greeting, the one named Deidara giving her a creepy smile that made her dislike him all the more.
She had heard of Sasori.
The puppet master had abandoned his village at 14 and disappeared for a few years before being picked up by the Akatsuki.
She shivered.
Sasori of the Red Sand… Named as such because of the murders he committed that made the sand run red with blood.
She knew nothing about the blonde and she had a feeling it was better that way.
Yumi glanced between the three men and crossed her arms, leaning all her weight on one hip.
She raised an eyebrow.
The gesture translated to: Why should I care?
Her captor smirked before turning to the blonde.
"Deidara, this is Yumi Kusakabe. I want her to join the Akatsuki but she needs some… Convincing…"
Deidara smirked and Yumi instantly got into a defensive position, expecting an attack.
Instead, she watched with horrified curiosity as the blonde man extracted a white substance from his hip bag and began chewing on it with the mouths on his palms.
Needless to say, the defection intrigued Yumi while at the same time making her increasingly nervous.
From the small mouth emerged a tiny, well formed bird.
It fluttered in the air for a moment before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Yumi jumped to the side, assuming the blonde had gone on the offensive.
She gazed wearily at the smoke cloud as it drifted away to show the same bird.
The only difference was it was now big enough to carry two or three people on its back.
Yumi gasped in astonishment.
The blonde haired man jumped onto its back and glanced to her before asking,
"What do you think of art, un?"
Yumi was puzzled and shook her head at him, not knowing what to reply.
Understanding her confusion, the ex Iwa nin nodded and smiled happily at her.
"I'll show you what true art is, yeah."
Yumi only nodded skeptically, still not sure what to think of the enigmatic man.
The white bird unfolded its wings and with a rush of air, burst into flight.
Keeping her eye on the strange man and his bird, Yumi made sure to keep her back facing away from the three men.
There was no telling who or what was going to attack her or when.
Instead of flying towards her and bombarding her with attacks like she expected, the blonde drifted away from the cliff and over the valley.
Yumi moved a little closer forward, intent on watching what was going to happen.
The white bird flew until it was little bigger than an ant in the distance.
Yumi glanced at her captor with raised eyebrows.
He ignored her.
Sighing in exasperation, Yumi turned her head back to the direction the blonde had disappeared to.
She caught sight of him in the distance, hovering over the village.
Squinting, Yumi could barely make out him fiddling with something in his hands.
Suddenly, Deidara threw something away from the bird and Yumi watched with growing anxiety as it fell towards the village.
The shout "KATSU" was heard on the wind before the explosion.
"NO!" Yumi cried out as the village was swallowed in a fireball bigger than entire Village Hidden in the Leaf.
She stood, horrorstruck as the explosion died down, leaving nothing but ashes in its wake.
Eyes wide and furious, Yumi turned on her captor.
"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT! AN ENTIRE TOWN! THAT WASN'T EVEN A SHINOBI VILLAGE, THERE WERE DEFENSELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN THERE!"
The two men standing beside her gave her a passing glance and returned their eyes to the sky as Deidara flew back down to them.
He grinned merrily at her, obviously pleased that his art had such a huge effect on Yumi.
"You are right, un. That WAS a defenseless village. But whether it was inhabited by ninja or not, they still would have died."
Yumi shook her head. Appalled that this man in front of her could just murder so many people and talk about it so casually.
The men surrounding her weren't humans, they were monsters.
"I'll never join the Akatsuki. What I've seen here today sickens me. Leave me alone and find someone else," she spat in disgust.
She turned to leave but was stopped as a firm grip latched onto her forearm.
Yumi whirled around, furious about being treated this way and raised her arm to attack.
The smoldering blue eyed glare made her hesitate and the blonde grabbed her fist with his free hand.
Deidara looked like he wouldn't hesitate to kill her in that one second.
"Consider this, un. What you saw here today was a brutal slaughter, no doubt… But let me ask you a question…"
Yumi glared at the man but made no response.
Behind them, The Imposter and Sasori stood watching the argument phlegmatically.
Deidara gave her a manic grin.
"That explosion-" The blonde man let go of her arm and pointed his thumb at the smoldering village, "-was one of my smallest forms of clay explosives. As you can see, the village it destroyed was… Maybe… Half the size of The Hidden Leaf Village…?"
Yumis eyes widen when she realized what he was insinuating.
"If I don't join the Akatsuki… You will destroy Konoha…"
Deidara smiled happily and patted her on the back, the mouths on his palms pinching her through her clothes.
"I like her, Pein. She catches on quick, yeah."
So there you have it.
I hope I am making them as less OOC as possible but I may have failed at some point.
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