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"Un, don't touch me!"
"Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm a prisoner too."
The dark-haired girl hugged him tightly, and he whimpered in fear.
"It's okay, he won't do anything that bad to you, he likes boys, not girls."
"I am a boy, un!"
"Oh. Erm, well…"
He buried his face in his hands and wailed.
"Ah, don't worry kid, with a pretty face like yours you're bound to have friends that'll come and help you."
"B-But then they'll be hurt too!"
"So? You should be able to escape while they distract him, get a ticket to Hawaii or something and never look back."
"I should just abandon them? Are you crazy?"
"It's not like they'll ever be able to beat you up for it. Besides, that's what friends are for. Sacrifice to ensure your survival."
"No. No, you're wrong, un! Real friends stick together no matter what, they'd never abandon each other!"
"Getting agitated, aren't we?"
Deidara froze and slowly turned around, whimpering slightly.
"My pretty little pet, it's playtime!"
"U-Un!"
"So?"
"He was here. But, so was someone else."
"Damnit!"
"Zetsu, can you track which way they went?"
"Hm."
He closed his eyes, holding up his finger for silence. A few tense seconds later he re-opened his eyes.
"This way."
"How can you be so sure?"
"I can smell Deidara's blood."
"O-Oh."
Naruto gulped, getting even more worried the further away from the base they got.
"Hn. Naruto."
"Huh?"
"He'll be fine, we'll get to him on time, I'm sure of it."
"If you say so…"
"A factory? How the hell did we not know about this?"
"No idea. It seems inactive, probably this guys base or something."
"Yeah, I guess. The question now is, is Deidara in there or have they moved him?"
"Only one way to find out."
Zetsu and Pein crept back through the bushes to where the rest of the Akatsuki were waiting.
"So?"
"We think he might be in that factory, but there's no way to tell for sure without going in."
"What do we do then?"
"We go in of course, and look if he's there. Try to be inconspicuous."
"Yes, sir!"
"Okay, moving out."
Tobi grinned happily as he ninja-rolled across the corridor. Zetsu had just told him that going by the smell, Deidara Senpai was definitely still here, meaning they'd find him soon! Plus, so far they hadn't run into any guards whatso-Thump! Scratch that. Tobi, being Tobi, had just collided with…You guessed it, a guard. Looked like they'd be fighting after all…
"Pein, don't you dare go off without me!"
Too late. He was gone. She could go after him…Sighing, Konan turned away and jogged down the other hallway. Damn Pein for splitting up. Of course it meant they could cover more ground, and she wasn't particularly worried about encountering anyone, after all she was a skilled fighter, but it was nice to have someone else around. Especially in a creepy place like this, she was reacting to every sound she heard, and the constant adrenaline hype was starting to tire her out. She was jolted out of her thoughts by a blood-curdling scream. A scream she recognized from a few months back when she'd been on her way to the bathroom when she heard screaming from a certain terrorists room, a certain blonde pyromaniac terrorist who had been having a nightmare. She ran. Straight, Right, Left, Left, Right, Straight, There! She flung open the illuminated door and froze in place.
"Hello, dear Konan."
Her eyes widened and she dropped to her knees, leaning forwards and expelling the contents of her stomach all over the floor.
"Excuse me, this is a laboratory, I'd appreciate it if you didn't puke in here!"
"You-You monster!"
"I'm not the monster. That would be my dear little pet here."
A scream of pure rage echoed throughout the factory. All the male Akatsuki members headed in the direction of the sound, easily recognizing it as Konan. It was well-known amongst them as Konan's I-Will-Fucking-Rip-Your-Damn-Head-Off-! Scream. It didn't last very long, but luckily, Sasuke, Naruto, and Pein were close enough to reach the hallway before their guiding noise faded away. The rest of the Akatsuki stayed in the hallways around the general origin of the scream, fighting off weird…things, which had been roused by Konan's battle cry. There were zombies, acid-covered spiders, random globs of slime with mouths, pigs with wings, and cows. They were all vicious creatures, attacking relentlessly…Except for the cows. They just stood there and mooed, because cows are cool creatures and do not participate in fighting. They actually don't really do anything except eat, sleep, shit, and occasionally fuck if there's a bull around. Yeah, cows are awesome… But these are terrorists we're talking about, people, so of course they don't care about the awesomeness factors of cows, they kill anything that gets in their way. Which, was the cows, since they just stood there and mooed, not moving. Yeah, stupid cows, they really should have moved. Unless they were suicidal, but why would a cow be suicidal? Anyways, it was a strange sight to behold, watching Tobi perform his Rainbow-Sprinkles-Unicorn Attack on a random cow who did nothing. The sad part is, the cow won the fight, and Hidan had to hop in and save his ass. Which made for an even stager sight, seeing Hidan perform his jashinist ritual on a cow. And it still didn't die, it was probably some kind of genetically modified cow! In the end, they gave up trying to kill it and just locked it in a supply closet.
"Deidara? Deidara! Answer me, please!"
Konan wasn't an emotionally weak person, in fact the only time she really ever cried was when she was drunk or Pein had insulted her really badly, but right now, seeing this young boy force open his eye, she could've burst into tears.
"K-Konan, un?"
"I'm here baby. It's gonna be all right, I'm not going to let anyone hurt you."
"What-How-Why-?"
"Ssh, it's going to be okay. I'm going to get you out of here, you're gonna be fine."
She rocked him back and forth like a child a little, before slowly rising to her feet, the blonde boy securely in her arms.
"I-I can walk, un."
"Even if I believed that I'd still carry you."
Slowly, quietly, she edged her way to the door, avoiding the fight as much as possible while trying to ensure her comrades saw her intentions. She nudged the door open with her shoulder and quickly set off to the right.
"Konan, wrong way!"
Turning back around, she saw Pein, Sasuke, and Naruto on the other side of the door, and separating hr from them? The man she'd caught pulling out the intestines of her Deidara, commonly known as Orochimaru.
Dun Dun Duun! But seriously, is there anyone who wasn't expecting that to happen? I think it was kind of obvious, Orochimaru's nearly always the main character or the villain, never in-between. Yeah, so. They've found Deidara! Yay! And I will leav it up to you lot to decide the exact details of what Orochimaru did to DeiDei, but it involves blood, pain, and guts. Yup, in order to examine the intestinal system, he dissected Deidara while he was awake and conscious. I think I read something like that somewhere else, just with him checking out his heart…I don't meant to copyright if that person or a reader of that person's work is reading this! I actually got this idea before reading that story, and then I thought shit, I like this idea but someone else has used it, so instead of examining his heart he was examining his guts. And before that he was examining his lungs. Because it's fun to torture Deidara. My damn e button had been messing up this entire time, so I'm sorry that this is later than I'd hoped, but I'd press e and no e would come, and then I'd have to go back. Gr. I suck at typing. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter!