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Okay I know I said Deidara doesn't do his hm, un or yeah but he does it only when he is really upset
Chapter 9
YuriPoV
I was being sent to Konoha because we couldn't find a good team for me. Father just kept scaring them off together with the others. If I was right then Tenten would graduate next week so I could try to get in her team. I repeated the story Pein told me to tell them, in my head. Father and Itachi were telling me everything I needed to get back, and I checked to see if I had that. Konan acted as a worried mother. She kept telling me things I should and shouldn't do.
Itachi asked if I could keep an eye on Sasuke when I was in the village. Father asked me to greet mother for him. I got my headband back and everything I had when I came here. After I said properly goodbye to all my sensei's, Kakuzu and Kisame even had to turn away saying something got in their eye which I got on a picture for blackmail, Deidara took me to the border of Rain Country on one of his clay birds. I waved goodbye.
Once there I said goodbye to Deidara. "Well, I guess this is it then." He said looking a bit sad. "We'll see each other again you know. though probably on opposite side's." "Yeah you're right, hm." I tipped his face up and kissed him on the lips. He was surprised but he kissed back. After a minute or two I pulled back, kissed his cheek and left, leaving him stunned. I went home.
With Tora's help I traveled in a day and came at the gates of my home village. There I saw Kakashi talking with Kotetsu and Izumo. I tackled him. well, I tried to but I slipped. Tora and I rolled and rolled and we landed at Kakashi's feet. "Ugh. Hi Kakashi-sensei." The three men looked surprised and they helped me up. "Yuri, you're back!" Then three ANBU appeared. "Azura Yuri you have to come with us." Kakashi stood in front of me protectively. "She just arrived. Let her take some rest first." The ANBU with a bird mask agreed.
"Yuri, you can stay with me for the night. Since you would have been moved in with Neith. Tomorrow after the interrogation we'll get you back to your mother." I was fine with anything. On the way to Kakashi's home we were greeted by Kiba and Akamaru. "Hey, Kiba it has been a while." "Yuri! Y-your're back." He went red. "Kiba are you all right? you're so red." I put a hand on his forehead. "You're burning up! You should go home and lie down." "I-I will. uhm I have to go, bye Yuri." He ran away.
"That was strange." "Not really, you've grown up more and you're beautiful for an eleven-year-old." Later when we were almost at Kakashi's apartment, I bumped into someone. Before I fell on the ground I was caught. by bugs. "Hey Shino. How are you?" "I'm fine. Why? Because you are back home." That made me blush. "Will I see you tonight at the festival?" He asked. "Well if Kakashi wakes me up on time then probably, yes." "I'll see you then." and he was gone. "Wow you are popular with the guys." Kakashi said while opening the door for me. I went inside "What are you talking about?"
"Well, Gaara, Sasuke, Kiba and now Shino, they all like you." "Sasuke? no way you're joking." "I'm not. When word got out that you were captured, Sasuke was never doing anything else but training and looking for news about you. together with Kiba and Shino." "And what about Gaara?" "Well he sent every week a bird asking if we knew anything about your whereabouts." "Oh." I fell asleep on the couch. I dreamed about the boys Kakashi talked about. they were fighting each other for me. When suddenly they exploded then I saw Deidara. I shot up awake thinking about the kiss. I saw it was time to dress up.
I dressed up in a red kimono with a golden tiger on it and on the black obi were golden kanji's of animals. and my clan's sign. Kakuzu had made it for me for my eleventh birthday. I put my hair in a long braid that reached mid-back. I put a red rose in it. I wore my necklace and further a small bracelet Deidara and dad gave me. I put on some lipgloss and light red eyeshadow, with golden eyeliner. When I got out of the bathroom Kakashi had dressed up too, though he still wore his mask. When he saw me he was staring but slapping himself awake. "You look beautiful." Someone knocked. quite loud. Kakashi opened the door. Kiba and Shino fell inside.
They were arguing with each other. "Uhm... Hello?" they didn't stop so I kicked them out and walked out with Kakashi. Once at the Festival Kakashi walked over to Iruka leaving me alone. "Hey Yuri, I heard you were back." I turned and saw Deidara...Not it was Ino. I should stop thinking about Deidara. "Hey Ino. yeah I arrived today." She was wearing a purple-ish, lavender Kimono. "How was it?" "It wasn't bad. they couldn't kill me for they wanted me for my powers. so they had to take care of me. They even trained me. Though I couldn't do much outside of training and I was always supervised." That last part was a lie.
I could always go out to shop with Konan and Tobi. I actually miss them. Suddenly I was tackled. Sasuke was running from his fangirls. He hid behind me and asked me quietly to chase them away. I called Tora and Jaws and they chased the girls away. When they were gone he sighed in relief because I chased Ino away too. "Thank you." "You're welcome." Then he hugged me. "Welcome back. You look wonderful."
I blushed because come on, this is Sasuke we're talking about. He may be an arrogant jerk but he can be nice. and he looks so cute! I'm not a fangirl though. "Yuri would you like to be my date tonight? "Wait a second Uchiha, I wanted to ask Yuri too." Me three." Shino and Kiba. Apparently Kakashi was right. the only one missing was Gaara. I wonder how he is doing now.
Somewhere in Suna...
Gaara sneezed. "Someone might be thinking about you." Kankuro said. Gaara looked at the crescent moon "Yuri..." He murmured. thinking of his only friend.
Back in Konoha...
"-Yuri?" "What?" "what is your favorite flower?" Kiba asked. "Why do you want to know?" "Well we agreed on whoever finds your favorite flower first, has the honor of asking you out." Shino explained "Well then my favorite flower is my name with my constellation combined. (Yuri= lily+her constellation(Tiger) is tigerlily) the three thought for a bit and then they ran. I had finally some time to myself. I found Tenten and joined her at the games. we played a lot of games and won all of them. I won a lot of money with cups and balls and arm wrestling. I had to thank Kakuzu and Kisame for that. Tenten was a little jealous but won a few of the other games.
Too soon the boys were back with a flower each. Kiba had a plain white lily, Sasuke had a tigerbloom and Shino a striped lily. None of them were the right one. Then someone gave me a tigerlily. It was a boy I hadn't seen before. he had blue eyes and brown hair. "Fair lady, will you do me the honor of joining me on this fine evening?" "Why of course, kind sir but may I have your name first please?" "My name, miss Yuri, is Katsu." Katsu? no way. I know that phrase anywhere. "Well then Katsu, I would be honored to join you on this evening."
Katsu offered me his arm and we walked away from everyone. Tenten was being picked up by Neji. We had a lot of fun and I had become really sure that this wasn't Katsu but the man that used that phrase. Deidara. When we were a little away from everyone I knew, I was pulled somewhere. "Dei, where are we going?" He didn't answer but I was pulled into the inn. Once we were inside his room Deidara dropped his henge. Then he hugged me. "Dei, why are you here?" "Because I couldn't stop thinking about you and our kiss. Yuri why did you kiss me like that?" I was stunned.
He's here because I kissed him? Does he have feelings for me that way or something? "I don't know. I had not really any idea what I was doing. I just felt like I had to do that. You should keep your henge on, in case we are being watched. ANBU isn't happy that they couldn't get to interrogation right when I arrived." Deidara did as I asked after he saw my serious face. I hugged him. "Was that the only reason you are here?" "No, it was because I wanted to return something." Before I could ask he kissed me. At first I was so surprised that I didn't answer. Then I closed my eyes and I kissed back.
After some time he begged for entrance which I gave, then he put butterfly kisses down my neck. There I had to stop him because he started play with my kimono. "Too far." He didn't stop right away but he seemed to realize something because he pulled back. "I'm sorry Yuri. I seem to forget that you are much younger than me." Deidara looked at me pleadingly. "It's okay. you stopped before something really bad happened." He seemed relieved that I could forgive him because he hugged me. "Forgive me." He put a kunai against my neck.
ANBU. "Let the girl go and come with us quietly." "No." ANBU with a bird-mask knocked him out and took Deidara with a cat-masked one away. A dog-masked one asked me if I was all right. I nodded and said I was just a bit shaken. lie. Kakashi had burst in with Iruka in tow. Dog-ANBU explained what happened and Kakashi seemed worried. Iruka-sensei was trying to get me talk about what happened. I just shut down. Deidara be careful. He took me outside and I was caught by my friends. Iruka said I needed distraction.
So they did everything they could. Nothing worked. At last I told Ino not the exact version because I knew that Deidara did that thing with the kunai to protect me by making him look like he was someone bad. "Katsu wasn't who he said he was. he was someone from those people that took me. He made me trust him so he could take me somewhere where no one else was to kill me." "oh, Yuri." She hugged me and went off to tell someone what I said. in no time everyone would know.
I went to Kakashi's place using the spare key he gave me and went to bed. I couldn't sleep so I went to the roof to watch the stars. When the fireworks started I saw one coming from the prison. The exploding colors formed a very detailed butterfly. Still a show-off. I made a few fireflies form a weasel that ate the butterfly just to annoy Deidara. I knew he hated weasels because he hates Itachi. His next one was a hawk killing my weasel and mine was a dragon. Deidara's final one was a lily the sign for telling me that I won. I chuckled at that.
Then a huge explosion. No one would notice because the fireworks were still going on. Someone flew away on a bird. I fell asleep when the bird was out of sight.
The next morning…
I was woken up by someone shaking me. I was still on the roof. The ANBU from last night had come to pick me up. I changed into some comfortable clothes and went with them. We met with the Third at the enttrance of the interrogation room. I thought Let the games begin. They started with asking where I was taken. I said to one of their hideouts. "Who had captured you?" "Someone." "You know that this will get painful when we don't get what we want?" I just looked blank. No matter what happens I have to protect Father. The third came in and joined the questioning. He did it much sneakier. "Hello Yuri. I'm glad that you're back. You must have grown a bit in the year you were gone what with all the boys after you haven't you?"
"Yes sir. I've been trained a lot." Damn it. "You sure look like you got stronger. And you looked well fed too. Whoever took you must have taken well care of you." "Father always made sure I ate well and got my rest." Shut UP Yuri. You're betraying Father's trust. Okay new strategy. Only short answers. "Did he now? You must be happy that you found him." "Yes sir." "Can you show what you can do now?" "No, sir." "Why not, Yuri?" "Dangerous for innocents. sir." "Surely you can't have gotten that strong?" I just stared ahead with my poker face.
I never showed any emotion. "Why don't you guys go take a break hm? I'll go on with interrogation." ANBU left. "Yuri, you can drop the tough girl act now." I kept pulling my Sasori-face as Deidara and Tobi called it. "why don't you start with telling why the Akatsuki wants you." I sighed. "Because of who I am." "Care to explain?" "When I am fully trained in my clan's specialty I can make the process of extracting the bijuu painless and non-lethal." "Can you tell me names?" That is where I shut down and shook my head.
"That's okay." I sighed in relief. "Did they treat you well?" "Yes I was always supervised and most of my time gone was spent training. but it wasn't that bad." "That's fine. I hope you will show me what you got sometime soon." "Sir I have a question. Am I able to join a team?" "Yes since we had an odd number of graduates you are allowed to join a team that already has three genin. You will join the team of Guy." "Thank you sir." "Oh you should leave now. The new teams will meet their sensei today go to the academy."
I left after a bow and went to the Academy. I saw Guy-sensei, Lee, Tenten and Neji on the balcony. I walked up behind Guy and said "I'm sorry I'm late." "Yuri! you're back!" "yeah I arrived yesterday. I just got back from interrogation. I was looking for a team named team Guy do you guys know where to find that one? I'm supposed to join them." Tenten hugged me. and Guy-sensei took my hand and shook it with too much enthusiasm. "Welcome in the team Yuri, we will go on many youthful adventures the five of us."
"Well then. What shall we do now?" "we will get to know each others skills by team building. Follow me." we went to a survival area. "You will have to go through this as quickly as possible. But you also have to arrive all together. I'll wait at the end. You have until lunchtime." When Guy-sensei was at the end he gave the signal for us to start. We started and soon enough we got to the first obstacle. Hidden people were shooting weapons at us they were protecting some sort of checkpoint.
We hid in a tree a bit off course. "What do we do?" Lee asked. "I can see the people with my Byakugan. can you kill them blindly if I tell you where they are?" "Yes." Tenten and I agreed. I'd had stealth training from Itachi. I could almost sneak up on him. Stupid Sharingan. "Lee I want you to get to the checkpoint as quickly as possible. Tenten, Yuri and I will worry about the shooters." We did as Neji said and it worked. This one was a test for Lee to see if he could trust us I think we all would have that kind of test. When Lee reached the checkpoint, the shooters poofed away. It were just clones. one real shooter.
We ran again, to the next test. This time it was Tenten's turn to be the 'weak link' The objective was to hit bulls eye on all the targets. Once Tenten hit them all, we had finished this test though some of the targets would trigger traps. And the targets would be moving. "Tenten focus on your task we will take care of the traps. Neji can you keep an eye on Tenten to see when she is caught in a trap and find hidden targets? Lee you and I will destroy as many traps as possible." "Right!" I felt good taking the lead for once.
This test took longer than the other one. I was almost captured in a trap, but Tora tore through it. We all had to rest for a bit. I stood watch with Tora and Swift. The next test would be mine. I just felt that way. My feelings were almost always right. As they were this time. I had to follow a trail of animals and put my feet the exact same way, blindfolded. My teammates had to tell me what animal feet I needed and what way I had to put my feet down.
If I made three mistakes I would fall in a pit with spears in it. the spears pointing upwards. Neji would check if the trails were real and Tenten would call what I had to do. Lee would make sure I stayed in balance. It was a scary experience especially when indeed I made three mistakes. Tenten made a rope appear while I used my chakra to stick to the spears. I did slide down slowly but tenten made the rope wrap around my waist while Neji and Lee pulled the rope in very hard.I had touched one spear with my left cheek. My scar had reopened.
"Yuri you're bleeding! Here." tenten offered me a bandage."Thanks. That was a bit scary. I'm glad you guys could save me." "Well, we all know who's next." Lee said. "I know." Neji replied. "It prabably has to do with the byakugan." I called swift. "Neji take Swift with you. If you are blinded somehow Swift is a great guide. "Thank you Yuri." "Yuri how do you know so much?" "When I was taken I was to be trained under supervision because they needed me for my powers. I can't tell more. I promised the Hokage." "Oh, okay. Well we should go on. It's almost lunchtime." Lee said. When we were walking a thick fog appeared. It messed with our senses. Suddenly Tenten screamed she was taken. then Lee and then It was my turn to be caught.
