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Destined to happen

Chapter 10

"Will you marry me?"

Tukiko was speechless, her whole body stunned. She couldn't believe it. Deidara...was asking her to marry him? This was just a shock. No wonder he went to all this trouble to make this night so romantic. He also just admitted he was desperately in love with her. Tukiko felt the same way to Deidara but marriage? She had just gotten out of a marriage contract two years ago. Could she go through a marriage when she was only fifteen going sixteen? Her old engagement said that she was supposed to get married at the age of sixteen. Plus she and Itachi always said that sixteen was too young to get married. But this was Deidara! She bit her lip. She wanted to marry Deidara. She really did. But she didn't want to get married yet. Something else was telling her that she should accept the offer. She loved Deidara with all her heart. But still...Tukiko's mind told her no while her heart told her yes! She made her decision.

Deidara thought that Tukiko not answering right away was rejection. He sighed depressingly. He thought that she would say yes. "I understand if you don't want to get married yet. I'll just go-" He stopped short as warm lips were on his own, shutting him up. He was caught off guard.

"You're not going anywhere. I didn't answer yet," Tukiko muttered, wrapping her arms around his neck.

Deidara brightened up with hope. "Really? Then what's your answer, hm?"

Tukiko rolled her eyes. "What do you think after that kiss? Of course I'll marry you!"

"Really?!" Deidara broke out into a full out smile. He pulled the two of them and spun Tukiko around, laughing happily. Then he set her down, kissing her with so much passion. Tukiko instantly wrapped her arms around his neck. His arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her closer. Their bodies fit perfectly with each other, like a puzzle peice had joined to it's puzzlemate. After a few minutes, they finally pulled apart, breathing hard. Deidara put his forehead against Tukiko's, smiling ear to ear. "I promise I'll do everything to make you happy, yeah. I would never hurt you."

"I know." Tukiko giggled. She was so happy. All her life she wanted to marry someone who she loved with all her life instead of someone she didn't. This was probably the happiest she had ever been for her whole life. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with Deidara. She would never regret this decision, ever. But she couldn't help but wonder something. She looked up at Deidara with a question in her eyes. "I have a question though. How exactly did you get Aniki to agree to this? If you asked him at all, that is."

Deidara grimaced at the memory. Ugh. He hated to think about what happened when he asked Itachi for his permission. Since he was Tukiko's brother, she had to ask him for his blessing. It wasn't a pretty sight when he asked.

It was just after the sealing of the two tails and the three tails. They were dismissed to go do whatever it was when Deidara had to ask Itachi to speak with him privately. All of them wondered what Deidara wanted to ask the person he hated the most in all of the world. When they were alone, Deidara nervously started to ask Itachi for his blessing on marrying Tukiko. He was really nervous about his reaction because Itachi tended to...well...be overprotective of his little sister as much as Sasuke was before. When he asked, Itachi was pissed. He activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi on him. He was trapped in there for a full seventy-two hours when in reality, it was only a second. Itachi, in the Tsukuyomi world, chased Deidara all over on a small island, getting ready to castrate him. Before the pain actually came, Deidara hastily yelled out that he loved Tukiko more than anything in the world. Itachi had stopped with his sword raised above his family jewels and glared at Deidara. He saw that Deidara was serious and released them from the genjutsu. Deidara was shocked when Itachi gave his blessing. Deidara knew it was because Itachi wanted his little sister to be happy for once. If Deidara was it, he would have to put up with it. Even if it meant that the blond would become his brother-in-law.

Tukiko giggled at how Deidara made a face when she mentioned that.

"I take it it didn't go well?"

"Let's just say I was lucky I didn't lose something important." Deidara shuddered. He leaned down and captured Tukiko's lips. Tukiko willingly gave into him. The kiss grew and grew until it was intense for the both of them.

(Use your imagination for what happens next. Cuz there's no way in hell I'm writing that.)

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Two days later, Tukiko was well on her way towards Wave country. She was going to get there quickly because of the rate she was going. Who could blame her? Tukiko was in the greatest mood she had ever been in. She was engaged to a man she loved with all her heart! Sure, their wedding would have to wait until all of this Akatsuki drama was over but she was willing to wait.

Tukiko was giggling happily as she got on the bridge that led to the town. She barely noticed the name of the bridge: The Great Naruto Bridge. She was so happy, toying with her engagement ring. It was on a thin long chain around her neck. If she kept it on her finger, all of her friends would start asking when she got the ring and who she was marrying. Then they would demand to see her fiance and that would lead to a lot of questions. Her shirt was able to hide her ring well enough. That day, she was not wearing her usual mission clothes for it was too hot. Instead, Tukiko was wearing a dark blue kimono style shirt with short sleeves. Instead of her long fingerless armguards, she wore the standard jonin fingerless steel backed gloves. She also wore white shorts. Her katana wasn't out since she saw no need to use it on this assassination mission.

I'm getting married! I'm getting married!

These were the thoughts Tukiko had for almost two days. She was so happy. Her eyes were in a daze as she walked into the town and through the streets. She held her ring in her fingertips, smiling at it. She couldn't replace this ring even if she could. Deidara knew what he was doing when he picked it out for her. Tukiko was far too distracted to notice she bumped into someone. She snapped out of her senses when she did.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I had no idea where I was going," Tukiko apologized to the man she bumped into.

The man grunted before walking away.

She raised an eyebrow at the guy's behavoir. That was weird. Shrugging, she was about to pick up her ring again when she felt nothing. She panicked, not feeling the semi-warm metal. She looked down to see that the ring wasn't there! She panicked, looking at the ground to see if she dropped it.

Oh no! I just got that ring! Deidara is so going to kill me if I lost that ring!

He spent so much money on that ring for it to be special for her. If she lost it already, he would be devastated. She panicked again. Where could it have gone? She had it when that man bumped into her-

That man!

Tukiko turned around to see that guy she bumped into walking away hurridly. She growled, running at him. "Hey, you thief! Give back my ring!"

The man looked over his shoulder to see Tukiko running at him. Feeling alarmed, he turned to run for it. He didn't get far when he was suddenly knocked out on the ground. The last thing he saw was a pair of feet.

Tukiko slowed down as she saw a man about her age knock out the man who took her ring. The man had white hair and neon purple eyes. He also had sharp teeth like a shark. He knelt down to pick out something that the man on the ground had in his hand. There was a sparkle of light and a long chain. Tukiko ran over, worried that the guy was going to take it. But all the man did was turn the ring over in his hand.

"Hm. Nice ring. You shouldn't take something like this from a girl," he said to the unconsious man at his feet.

"Ah, excuse me?" Tukiko approached the man hesitantly. The man looked up to her. She smiled at him kindly. "May I have my ring back please?"

"Eh?" He blinked. Then held up the ring. "This yours?"

"Yes. This guy just bumped into me then stole it." She glared down at the guy that was at their feet. Then she smiled at the white haired man. "Thanks for knocking out this guy by the way. I could have gotten him but I'm still grateful. My name is Tukiko. What's yours?"

"Suigetsu," he said, handing over the ring. Tukiko gratefully took it and slipped the chain back over her neck. Then she let it fall near her shirt neckline so that it wouldn't be in sight. Then she bowed to Suigetsu.

"Thank you so much for getting my ring back, Suigetsu. How can I repay you?"

"Uh, you don't need to do anything. But that ring looked like an engagement ring. You getting married?"

She straightened back up, blushing. "Well...yeah. I know I look a bit young to be getting married but you never know these days when you're going to die what with being a shinobi."

"That's true." He looked at the top of her head where her haitai-ate was tied on like a headband; just like Sakura's. He raised an eyebrow at the symbol. "You a Konoha ninja?" She nodded. Suigetsu's purple eyes flickered just behind him. "Crap. He's not going to be happy."

She tilted her head in curiousity. "Who's not going to be happy?"

"Suigetsu. Stop wasting time," a male voice very familiar to Tukiko called out.

Tukiko tensed up. That voice...He couldn't be here, could he? The answer was painfully simple as Sasuke of all people appeared beside Suigetsu. Her body started to shake as she glared at him. She still had not forgiven him after what happened last time they saw each other. Again, Tukiko tried to not activated her Sharingan.

"Sasuke Uchiha," she growled out.

Sasuke stared down at his sister, blinking. He had no expression at all when he saw that his twin sister was here of all places at the same time they were. Suigetsu glanced between Sasuke and Tukiko confusedly.

"Hey Sasuke, you know this girl?" he asked, pointing a finger at Tukiko.

"Unfortunately," Tukiko huffed. She glanced to the side while folding her arms. Her good mood was spoiled now that Sasuke was here. Just when things started to look up for her just this once, now this happens! Did fate like to screw up her life? "This idiot here used to be one of my teammates. Now my friends are trying to bring him back."

"Are you here to capture him?"

She snorted. "Like hell I would! I would rather gouge out my own eyes before I would go on a mission to get this idiot. I'm just here in kill someone then be on my merry way." And now that Tukiko mentioned it, she didn't have that much information on the guy that she was going to kill. All she knew was that his name was Tenzen Daikoku and he was the head of a secret gang. She didn't know where the guy was at that. He was only rumored to be around Wave country but not specifially where. She sighed. She better get started on gathering information from the townspeople. She bowed to Suigetsu but not Sasuke. "I thank you once again for getting my ring and I wish I could repay you. But I need to go get some info on a Tenzen Daikoku."

Suigetsu's eyebrows when up in surprise. "Tenzen Daikoku? You wouldn't happen to know where he is, would you?"

"You're looking for him too?" Tukiko asked, surprised.

"Yeah. We need to get a blade that he took. You wouldn't know, would you?"

She shook her head. "I'm sorry. I would tell you if I did but I don't know either. I'll come find you if I find anything." She turned around to start walking but ended up hitting someone again. This time, it was a guy with a purple beenie on his head and some tattoes under his eyes.

"Watch the hell where you're going!"

She was about to fall down on her butt when she felt someone catch her. She frowned. What was with her and bumping into people lately. She looked up to see who caught her and saw that it was Sasuke. She was a bit surprised and even more so when he picked her up to her feet. She blinked a few times at him. "Um, thanks?"

"Hey, we were just looking for you!"

Tukiko turned around just in time to see Suigetsu grab the back collar of the man's shirt. Then he dragged the guy into an alley. Tukiko suddenly felt herself being dragged to the alley by Sasuke. He had a firm grip on her wrist so that she wouldn't escape. She gave a silent sigh. Sasuke was not a man of words but instead of action. He didn't ask. Instead he forced. So she had no say in the matter at all. So she begrudingly let her twin drag her into the alley where Suigetsu was at the dead end with the man. When they got there, the guy looked at them with fearful eyes.

"Who the hell are you guys?!"

"You seem like the type to know all kinds of things," Suigetsu said.

"I know nothing about Tenzen!" the man said.

"Anything will do. Just tell us what you know." He just smiled as he brought a kunai out. The man's eyes widened at the sight of the weapon. Suigetsu just continued to smile. Tukiko had to admit that using fear was a good idea to make the man talk. Fear was one thing that could make people do anything to save their lifes.

The man gluped and immidiately started to tell them about Tenzen. He was a politicain. He, apparently doled out huge bribes to feudal lords and he could do whatever evil things he liked.

"That's nice but we need to know where he lives," Tukiko said to the guy.

"He lives in the forest to the south. Rumor says several thousand mercenaries guard the place and that it's impenetrable."

Tukiko smirked, one that matched Sasuke's. "Nothing is impenetrable for me." She winked at the guy, making him blush. "Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I have a date with Tenzen Daikoku. He and I need a little chat." She wretched her wrist out of Sasuke's hold and walked out the alley. She grinned, finally glad that she had information on this guy. All she had to do now was go to this guy, wait, then assassinate the guy. When that was all over, she could go home and tell Naruto and all of them that she had spotted Sasuke. That part she didn't look forward to. When she told them, they would immidiately ask her why she did not just capture him on spot. Then they would make her go and take them to where they saw Sasuke and the chase would be on again. She gave a sigh.

I need a vacation.

Tukiko was just about to leave to go kill Tenzen when a voice called out her name. She stopped mid-step, knowing who called her name. She gritted her teeth, clenching her fists. She turned around to see Sasuke walking up to her. "What, Uchiha? I'm busy," she snapped at him. Her temper with him was growing short from being near him. What did he want?

"Come join my team," was the thing he said.

She blinked. Team? What team? Why did he even need a team in the first place?

"What? Are you serious, Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked the raven haired boy. He just met Tukiko today. It seemed pretty obvious that Tukiko had no intrest in being in his team.

"Why would I go with you for a team? What do you need that team for anyway?" she questioned, putting her hands on her hips.

"Just join."

Tukiko's eye twitched. There he went again with the few syllable answers. She was getting pretty tired of him. All she wanted to do was leave. "Thanks but no thanks. I need a mission to get to then a village to go home to." She started to walk away again when he said,

"You still have a debt to Suigetsu. Join and that debt will be repaid."

She froze. Crap. She did have that debt to Suigetsu. If there was one thing that Tukiko didn't like leaving it was debts unpaid. Being trained to be a housewife/noble, she had to make sure that she was polite to everyone. A rule that she had learned to being a lady was that she should not leave any debts unpaid. Her lessons stuck to her like glue through all those years so she had to do this. She turned around to glare at Sasuke.

"Well, it's not your debt. It's Suigetsu's so it's his choice, not yours."

Sasuke and Tukiko turned to Suigetsu, their similar eyes concentrated on him. He tensed up, being put on position. He shivered at the smoldering cold eyes of Sasuke. They told him-no-demanded that he make Tukiko join them. He felt almost like giving in to Tukiko when seeing her begful eyes, asking him to say no. He almost lost it when she added in the puppy dog pout. The girl was just too adorable when she pouted like that! He rubbed the back of his neck, looking to the side to avoid their gazes.

"I-I guess she can come if she wants to," he said to them.

Tukiko gaped at Suigetsu. No! He was her last chance! She closed her eyes, one twitching. Damnit. If he was the one asking her to repay her debt by doing this, she had to. She gave a deep sigh. "Fine, Uchiha. I'll join your stupid team. But I have to complete my mission first." She turned around, going towards the direction of where that castle was. Sasuke and Suigetsu caught up with her. Then the three departed for the castle.

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The next day, the three of them were hiding in the trees. Suigetsu and Tukiko watched as men on horses sped towards the castle. They were confused with what was going on. They had planned to kill Tenzen today. It was going to be hard with this going on.

"What's going on?" Suigetsu asked.

"It seems another powerful clan plans to attack Tenzen's castle tomorrow with an army that numbers in the tens of thousands," Sasuke told them.

"Really? It's going to be hard to get to Tenzen then," Tukiko mentioned. Though something bugged her. Why was this attack going to be really soon? She heard nothing about another group coming to attack Tenzen. Something was up.

Suigetsu sighed. "Well, whatever. The more confused the enemy becomes, the better my chances are. Be it several thousand or tens of thousands, it doesn't matter to a ninja like me. Me and Tukiko will sneak in tonight and take the Executioner's blade. Then Tukiko can kill Tenzen."

Tukiko grinned at Suigetsu. "Sounds like a good plan to me!" She needed to kill Tenzen at the least expected time and when his guard was down. That was going to be the perfect time.

"How about making a bet?" Sasuke offered to them, offhandly.

They both blinked at him.

"A bet?"

Sasuke glanced towards the castle. "On who gets the Executioner's blade first."

"What?! I never expected you to have a playful side, Sasuke!" Suigetsu said in surprise.

"Neither have I," Tukiko said quietly. Now this was strange Sasuke behavoir. Sasuke never made bets when they were in Konoha. He rarely did. The only time he ever bet with Tukiko was when they were twelve and it was after the Chunin Exams. Sasuke had bet that she couldn't convince Naruto to stay quiet for a day. She took on that bet and won it easy when she told Naruto she would treat him to a whole bunch of ramen for lunch. She later learned that Sasuke only made the bet in the first place because he had a splintering headache from having sugar (Tukiko had to tie him down the other night to make him not run) and he wanted Naruto to shut up to stop making it worse. Tukiko felt used after that and told herself she would never take bets from Sasuke. He always had a sneaky agenda when he did. So this wager had to invovle something in between the lines.

Suigetsu grinned. "You're on. It's sounds fun."

"Then it starts now. There's only one rule: We don't kill anyone."

Suigetsu and Tukiko were confused. After one blink, Sasuke was gone. Tukiko looked back to the ground to see Sasuke had taken out a whole bunch of those guys already. The two glanced at each other before they raced to the ground. They stood in front of the carnage. Sasuke worked fast.

Tukiko patted Suigetsu sympathetically. "Good luck," she said. "You'll need it." There was no way she was going to take on that bet after seeing how fast her twin took out those guys. Tukiko then took off towards the castle. She stealthy got in past the outer walls and sneaked her way upstairs. She actually just clung to the walls of the building and walked her way up. None of the guards noticed her at all. She was heading for the top floor where Tenzen was. But she wasn't going to kill him just yet. She wanted to see who would win the bet. She had a feeling that Suigetsu would win since she knew for a fact, Sasuke wasn't going to participate either. She was at the side of one of the windows and peeked inside. She could see that Suigetsu was already there as well as Sasuke. She moved back as Suigetsu threw a man out of the hole that she was right next to.

Suigetsu pointed the tip of the Executioner's blade that he got back at Tenzen. Tenzen jumped back.

"D-Do you think you can get away with this?!" he said in fear.

"Well, you obviously can't." Tenzen turned around in surprise to see Tukiko sitting on the footboard with her legs crossed. She gave a grin at him. "You must pay for your actions. For lying about killing this Zabuza and taking his blade when you didn't really kill him."

Tenzen studied the girl's features and gulped. He tensed up in fear.

"R-Raven hair, dark eyes, that Konoha hitait-ate...you're the Bloody swallow!"

Suigetsu raised an eyebrow at Tukiko. " 'The Bloody swallow?' "

She sighed, jumping off of the headboard. "Some stupid nickname that I gained among criminals. They called me that because I'm good at assassination work and I kill them before they knew it. They were reminded of a swallow's speed when I did that so they called me that." She shrugged before getting back to business. She smirked at Tenzen, drawing out a kunai. "Since you know I'm here, I'm giving you a choice: would you like it to be quick and painless? Or slow and painful? Either is fine with me."

Tenzen backed up to one of the pillars in the room. "Please have mercy on me! I'll give you money! Land! Anything! Just don't kill me!"

Tukiko frowned and flicked her wrist. Tenzen gave out a yell, expecting pain. He felt nothing. He opened his eyes to see that the kunai had hit the pillar behind him but missed his face just a few millimeters. He stared in shock at Tukiko. She scoffed, putting her hands on her hips.

"You know what I hate? I hate it when people think that material things will buy them out of dying," she said to Suigetsu. "They think that money of all things will make me stop from killing them. They should know that I don't do bribes." She yawned, walking over to Suigetsu. "You kill him. I lost my interest in that."

"Forget it. What's the point in killing someone like him?" Sasuke asked.

Suigetsu paused before swining his blade in a circle. Tukiko jumped out of the way before she was hit. The blade cut through all of the main pillars. Suigetsu smirked.

"I've cut through the main pillars so you'd better get out of here," he said to Tenzen. "I'll spare your life. It's only out of respect for Sasuke. Tukiko was also right. People who beg not to die and bribe shinobis aren't worth killing anymore."

Suigetsu and Sasuke started to walk down the stairs. Tukiko glanced at Tenzen before following the other two. She almost stopped when she heard the man mention something but kept going, thinking about it.

"Sasuke?! Sasuke who killed Orochimaru!?" he shouted.

That was all she heard before they were out of earshot.

"Say, you're famous. They know your name even around here!" Suigetsu said in amusement.

"What's that about?" Tukiko butted in. She glanced at her twin. "Did he really kill Orochimaru?"

"Yeah! He did and freed me."

"We'll explain later," Sasuke said, catching her eye. Tukiko glanced away to the side, folding her arms. She bit her lip. Did Sasuke really kill Orochimaru? Was it actually possible that he could? She knew that the snake was powerful but if Sasuke did kill him...

Tukiko sighed. She would have to find out later on. For now, when she was away from these two, she should send word to Tsunade that she was being forced to join Sasuke and tell her that he killed Orochimaru.

This was going to be a fun time.

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Okay, so a lot of things have happened in this chapter. Tukiko and Deidara get engaged, Tukiko is forced to join Sasuke's team, and she learns that her twin killed Orochimaru. What shall become of Tukiko's future? Will there be joy? Will everything end all right? You'll just have to review to find out!

Please review!

Oh, and has anyone watched the new Naruto Shippuden on Disney XD? They ruined it! I got really mad at the beginning where Sasuke was supposed to take out his sword to kill Naruto and in there, he didn't! Me and my brother were like "WTF?!?!? We're not watching this on TV anymore!" We actually started to watch it online where the uncut version is. They cuss in there and keep the japanese beginning and ending! But I still watch it on TV when I'm bored so yeah. I just love the voice of Deidara! He's the english voice for Axel in Kingdom Hearts! *sighs* Kingdom Hearts and Naruto. Two of the best things that ever happened in my life (well, besides anime coming into my life).