Sasori's POV
"Huh? What the-? Who are you?!" I shouted, waking up with a start. There was a girl with bright red hair standing above me, about waist-length and kinda messy, but cute too… She looked bored and impatient.
"I'm Asuna, now c'mon, we're moving." She said snappily. She lifted me up and hoisted me over her shoulder, like a lumberjack resting his axe on his shoulder. "Hey! Put me down, brat!" I shouted at her, but she kept on walking. "I said PUT ME DOWN!!"
She dropped me harshly on the sand, and started walking on without me. I tried to get up but I couldn't walk, my legs wouldn't allow me to. "Where's Hikaru? Wait, aren't I supposed to be dead?" I asked her wonderingly. "Duh." She replied, now about 15 feet in front of me.
"Then how come I'm alive?" I asked, still lying on the ground. She came back and walked towards me, not saying a word. She then took my arm off and started knocking me on the head with it. "Hello? Anybody home? I thought that'd be obvious!" she said mockingly and annoyingly. "Give me my arm back, brat!" I shouted. She reattached it then grabbing my other arm she started dragging me along the ground. "So tell me why I'm alive." I demanded from her. "Fine, idiot. You're alive because I revived you, Kapeesh?" Asuna said impatiently. "That still doesn't explain why I'm alive." I said grumpily.
"Urg! You're so annoying!" she said angrily, dropping me on the ground again. "Oof! You HAVE to stop doing that!" I shouted at her, rubbing my head.
"Ok, so, you were dead, right? Still with me? Then that idiot Kankuro turned you into one of his puppets because you destroyed all his"-
"Wait, what! I was turned into a puppet for someone else's purposes!" I shouted at her, my throat was getting hoarse. She took my arm off and started thing me on the head with it again. "Ummm, duh! Where have you been since you died!?" she said mockingly, keeping my arm and putting it into her long brown cloak. "Ummm, dead?" I said impatiently. She sighed and rolled her eyes.
"So anyway, I fought Kankuro and got you off him and revived you seeing as I found your heart, attached it to you and healed it, right? And I know you may be thinking that it would be impossible seeing as your no-brain is very limited, but I've been making a new jutsu these last five years and used it on you. Now do you want me to go even simpler for you?"
I scowled at her, I hated this 'Asuna' girl more and more with every word she said. "Fine, whatever. Just tell me why my legs won't work."
"What? And have you run away from me? I need you for something." She said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I was ready to kill this girl. But I guess she did revive me…
She grabbed my arm and started dragging me along the sand again. I was frustrated but I guess there was nothing I could do about it.
After about a few hours of walking along she dropped me on the ground and sat down herself. I took this as a chance to finally have a good look at her.
"What? Why is your hair suddenly white now? Wasn't it red?" I asked her astonished. "Ummm, duh? My hair turns red near blood." She replied annoyingly, once again like it was the most obvious thing in the world. She took out a lunch out from the inside of her long cloak. As she started eating it, (precooked fried rice and vegetables) I had a good look at her. Her hair was now a ghost-white, and still quite messy. Her eyes were a bright yellow, and she had slits for pupils, like a hawks. She was wearing a very long brown cloak that wasn't buttoned up, and covered up a bit past her chin, like the Akatsuki uniform. She had a tight maroon coloured shirt, and a knee-length dark brown skirt, with a knee-high pair of black boots. She looked a LOT like a pirate, especially with her black band that covered her forehead and left eye. She was wearing her forehead protector lay hanging around her waist.
"You're from Sunagakure?" I asked her. "And what's with the eye-patch pirate girl?"
"Oh, so you agree it looks good do me?" she replied joking. "Yeah right! But what's underneath it?"
She grabbed the black band and asked me "So do you really want to see underneath it?"
"Yes"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes"
"Are you really sure?"
"Yes"
"Are you really really sure?" She was practically cacking herself laughing by now
"Yes!" I was fuming
"Are you really really really sure?"
"YES!!"
"Are you absolutely positively sure?
"GOD DAMMIT I'M SURE OK??"
"Are you sure about that?"
I just glared at her, angrier than I ever remember being. She finally lifted it off her head and what I saw made me realise I wasn't all that sure I wanted to see. It was basically a huge gaping hole in her skull in which I could see her brain through the other side, there were bits of nerves from her body falling out and strings of skin were beginning patching up the around the inside of the dark gaping hole in her brain looking like someone had found a spider web and coated around the sides of the hole with it. It reminded me how disgusting the human body was and luckily with my art I could escape that. "Urg… Please put down your patch again…" I choked out; looking at it was truly sickening.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes"
"Are you really sure?"
"Not this again…"
"Are you really really sure?"
"Yes!"
"Are you really really really sure?"
"YES!!"
"Are you absolutely positively sure?
"GOD DAMMIT I'M SURE OK??"
"Are you sure about that?"
"You are so damn annoying ya know?"
She ignored me, pulling down her patch and continued eating. I had a look at her food, it looked quite yummy. "Umm, you know I am a bit hungry too…" I said to her, clutching were my stomach would be. "Aww, poor diddums." She said to me sarcastically and mockingly. "But I thought puppets didn't need food?" I glared at her, still clutching around my waist. Although just as soon as I mentioned that I wanted food, she seemed to think it was the best thing in the world. "Mmmm! This is sooo yummy!" she said, licking her lips, eating it slowly and savouring all the flavours. "Want some? Oh, wait, I'm human so why would I give away a life source to someone who doesn't need it?"
"Fuck you!" I shout at her annoyed. "Yeah, you'd like that wouldn't you." Asuna said, waggling her eyebrows. If I had a human body I would've blushed, but luckily didn't so I just glared at her, cursing the fact I still only had one arm and legs that didn't work. She had also had disabled all my weapons, so I couldn't use those. I wondered where she would be taking me. Once she had finished her rice, about half an hour later, I asked her. "Back to the Akatsuki, I thought that's where you wanted to be, right?" she replied. "But before that I need to get something from you."
"What?" I asked her stiffly. "How to make human puppets. I had left my home over 15 years ago, to strengthen my puppeteering skills. Once I had found out about you however, you became my new target. I need to find out how to make human puppets, and then I plan on joining the Akatsuki." She replied. "And what makes you think I'm going to tell you after how you've acted towards me?" I say to her. "I thought you'd say that, so obviously I have a Plan B"
She stared into my eyes and did a hand sign. Looking into her eyes, I fell into a sort of trance. Everything felt dizzy and a blur, and memories were swirling around me, but I couldn't take note of anything because it was all so hazy. After a few minutes I snapped back to reality. She looks at me with an innocent smile saying 'thanks!!~' happily. She could tell from my look I didn't know what she was on about so she explained. "I just searched through your memories finding the one I needed. And, might I say, you died from that Sakura girl. She's 15 and a weakling!"
"WHAT! You just searched through ALL my memories!?! And now you know how to make human puppets, you IDIOT!!" I shouted at her, raging. I went on for a few more minutes, while she sighed and acted bored, pretending to look at a fake watch she had on her wrist. GOD, was she SO annoying! Once I had finally given up, I sat down in a huff and she came over and reattached my arm for some reason. I was about to fight her but she gave a look at me that could curdle milk. "Use this gift wisely. Don't try and fight me because face it, you'll lose. You have no weapons as I've still left them disabled, you're legs still aren't working, you're still weak because you've been dead for ages and because you haven't had anything to eat, and let's face it, you'd be fighting me."
'Hmm, I wonder who's fault it is I haven't eaten in ages and that my weapons and legs don't work' I thought to myself, rolling my eyes. Although she had a point with the fact I had no weapons and that I was in a weak state.
We packed up and continued walking until it got dark, neither of us saying a word. We camped for the night and my feelings for her softened slightly as I saw her sleeping peacefully, petting a pet hawk that she had summoned around evening. Even though I hated to admit it, she did look cute as she was breathing in and out slowly, so peacefully it was as if she had never been so frustrating and annoying earlier today.
Suddenly realising what I was thinking I shook my head and cursed myself for thinking such thoughts, and started thinking instead about how the rest of the Akatsuki would act when I came in there, alive, with this new weird girl. Actually, I was more curious as to how Asuna would act with anyone in the Akatsuki. Pein, Konan, Itachi, Kisame, Zetsu, Deidara (if he was still alive), Kakuzu, Hidan and all the rest. I missed those guys. I wondered if I would be partnered with Deidara again. Urg, his 'un's' and 'Danna's' and 'art' annoyed me. I wish he would give it a break, art is eternal beauty, not a 'boom'. But just thinking about puppets made me remember Asuna, I turned to face her again, watching her peacefully as I fell into a deep sleep.
"C'mon, wake up Sasori!" Asuna yelled at me, although a bit more nicely then she had always yelled at me the day before. As soon as I opened my eyes Asuna grabbed my arms and lifted me over her shoulder again. I grumbled but I didn't retaliate. She must have been strong, this girl, though to be able to keep on lifting me up over her shoulder with great ease. We continued walking for ages, and this time with general conversation. She seemed to be quite interesting; she was quite like me in fact. She was (on average) calm and emotionless. It's just that when she got annoyed she was very mean. She was always the 'leader' in everything, never following someone around, but usually working on her own. She was also quite a gifted puppeteer, but not as good as me.
At about noon we were approaching the Akatsuki base, a lot sooner then I would've expected.
"So how are you certain that you'll be able to join the Akatsuki?" I asked her. "Trust me, they will. And if not then I'll just show them why they should." Asuna replied with a laugh. "Ok, but just try not to kill anyone." I said innocently. "Aww, but that won't be any fun." She said.
We continued talking for a while and soon enough we reached the front doors. I was about to see my old organisation again. Unfortunately I was still swung over Asuna's shoulder so that wouldn't make for best first impressions. She kicks down the fake wall, making a hole large enough to walk through easily in it. 'That took a lot of time to make…' I thought to myself. 'And I was the one who made it!'
She waited a few seconds, and then we entered together, with most of the Akatsuki gathered around to find out who made the noise.