I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKK! And here is the next chapter of it. finalllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy... :) so this is sort of some kind of turning point in Koemi and Deidara. Just read and you'll find out.
Chapter 11
Unwanted.
"That was Youshiro-san!" Koemi growled, staring off into space towards Hana. The evil and vial woman had harmed a small defenseless girl. "I am going to make her face match her blue and black hair." Koemi snarled looking down at the blonde girl. She was patched up fine enough that is she was going to live. There was no question about it, so she would be fine if her newly appointed guardian left her for only a few moments. Koemi touched Hana's cheek before bounding from wall to wall to get up to the top of the building.
"Youshiro!" The ninja yelled finally reaching the top. The moment she came into view, the brunette threw a senbon needle as she flew over the top. Her opponent blocked with a kunai and then countered with a throw. Koemi was still midair and the throw was too fast for her to either form a chakra barrier and it was too fast for her to catch. So she instead blocked with her left arm, and threw another senbon needle. The kunai went through her skin and deep into her forearm muscle. "What." Koemi said landing on the roof top. "You need to pick on little girls 'cause you can't fight anyone your own size?"
"Shut up, scum." Youshiro spoke in a low and threatening voice. Koemi saw the hair in her pony tail start to rise as the girls hair was standing up. "I'll kill you and that pathetic demon of yours." She started snarling, her back was beginning to hunch over and her deep blue eyes began to lighten up to a nearly white color with large black pupils. "You don't have any right to be in this Akebono!"
"Youshiro-san." The cool and collected voice of Uchiha-san was there again. Youshiro looked quickly from us to him. He stepped from behind a door, and into the clearing. Youshiro, understanding the warning in his voice, became even more furious and leaped off the roof and began to walk from the village. "Deidara, if you cause any more ruckus for us then I'll have to kill you."
Koemi could feel the heated anger that Deidara felt for Uchiha-san. It seemed to almost be enough to burn down the building they sat on. What did he do? She wondered watching Uchiha-San walk off the building to follow Youshiro. "Deidara." The girl spoke to him though she didn't look at him. Without waiting for his response, she began talking again. "You hate him for what ever reason. I don't even know him, but I hate him as well. And Youshiro. She hurt Hana." She suddenly turned around to see Deidara standing there. "I hate her with every bit of my worth, but she did say something worth mentioning." She looked up into his face, in an almost searching way. "What is the 'Akebono?' And how did Youshiro-san know about this demon in me?"
"None of that is important right now." Deidara said, walking around the girl as her face became dark and grave. "We need to get going, un."
A nod, and Koemi jumped down the ally way to Hana. The girl was conscious again and waiting patiently for their return. "Imouto-san(A/N: young sister), it's time for us to leave." Hana's eye shot up to meet brown ones. "Would you like to come with us?"
"What?" Koemi smiled as Deidara bellowed at her. She could hear him begin to rant about how hard it was to feed two stomachs, and how Sasori-san was angry at them already and that it was going to be troublesome and etcetera.
"Yes, Onee-sama." Hana smiled a warm smile and stood. Koemi smiled back and leaned over to try and get a peek at her mysterious eye. Somehow it managed to stay hidden through out the whole course of the time she had been with her elder. Not once had it even shown a small bit! "I would like to come with you!"
"You know that it will be a hard journey?" Koemi asked with a finger pointed in the air. "And that we don't have very much money to spend on you?"
"Well." Hana said putting a finger to her chin. Her youngness was so cute! She couldn't be eight years old! She seemed much more frail and smaller then that. Then again, Koemi thought thinking back to her betrayal, looks can be deceiving. "I took your money and gambled against these two boys who were fighting and I won!" Her face lit up- Deidara's looked over and lit up- and most certainly Koemi's face lit up the most. The small girl handed over a fortune of money.
"Deidara!" Koemi said with the her face smiling. "We can stay in more hotels with more beds!" Deidara huffed a sigh and nodded, a small smirk on his face. And next time even he could have his own bed. Though, he thought, he had never seen her so happy. He had never seen her with such a large smile on her face. "Okay, lets go!" Abruptly, she stood up and began walking to the exit of the village.
"Okay!" Hana said gleefully following, though only after a few steps she noticed something out of place. Deidara wasn't walking with them. He was still in the ally way looking after them with a distant half smile on his face. "Onii-sama! Are you coming?"
His vision snapped to the young blonde who looked like a younger version of him, if he were a girl as well. "Don't call me Onii-sama." Deidara said beginning to follow with a blank look on his face. "I am Deidara-sama to you." He walked past her as she pouted slightly. "And now Buzo, are you coming or not?" He didn't stop with Koemi while she waited for the young girl.
"Yeah!" Hana yelled jogging to keep up. She was just happy that she had people to actually love her now. She had a wide smile on her face as she approached Koemi. "Onee-sama, where are we going?" The young girl asked while walking next to Koemi who walked behind Deidara. The older girl shook her head and continued to walk.
Deidara was giving off weird vibes. She was wondering what was going on in his mind. At times he was calm, cool, and collected- as rare as that was- she thought. He was teasing acting, and even joking at other times. Then most of the time he was harsh, loud, and mean. But, she thought, he did stop so she could sleep in a bed. In a bed that she actually hardly got to sleep in! After the nightmare, and the midnight talk, and the surprise attack, Koemi realized that she must have only got a few hours of sleep.
"Hana-san, do you know how to fight?" Koemi suddenly asked, seeing that Deidara wasn't in the mood for chit-chat, and her thoughts only made her saddened and tired.
"No." Hana sighed dramatically, closing her visible eye and cocked her head slightly to the side. "I mean, I know some stuff, like basic fighting, but nothing like the ninjas that I see passing through the village." She looked straight ahead back slightly slouched. No one had ever taught her proper manners. That needs to be fixed, Koemi thought tapping the small of her back. "Oh!" Hana jumped in surprise.
"Hana, the first part to fighting is good posture." Koemi looked at the back of Deidara's head again, and began to think briskly again. That phrase was somehow familiar, but that was beside the point. Both he and she were long distance fighters, but only because of their explosive techniques. Hana was small and could make a great distance fighter as well, but she didn't appear to have the techniques that she would require. Also, her chakra levels were either sealed by something invisible or really that low, meaning that she wouldn't be able to simply use long-distance ninjutsu or even genjutsu at that.
"Eh?" The noise was small and just barely tore Koemi from her thoughts. The blonde girl looked at her elder and the latter seemed to have caught a glimpse of her other eye. Was it black? Yes it was definitely black, but what was the symbol in it? Was it a kekkei genkai? Koemi's face dropped suddenly. "Good posture? Okay! I'll do my best!"
"Good." Koemi said distantly, looking at the general direction of the eye. "Good." She said slightly disturbed as she looked ahead again. She was not only disturbed by the fact of Hana's eye, but by Hana herself. The girl and Deidara seemed to be pulling out something she didn't know was there. Her seriousness was quickly washed away, and replaced by childishness and, well, happiness.
Koemi wasn't herself, and she should be ashamed of herself. For some reason though, it felt right. There wasn't away for her to really describe it, but right seemed to sum it all up. She smiled, the last time she smiled was when she was a child.
"My childhood." Koemi said softly. Heh. That was a very long time ago.
.-*That night*-.
"Deidara?" The brown haired child spoke up. She was standing in front of a large gate. Deidara stood still just watching the memory, like a movie that was all too true and all too real. The small girl couldn't see him as he stood right in front of her, nor could she see where he had been hiding from her. "Why isn't he here?" She looked around and brought a box from behind her back.
"Why didn't he come?" Deidara looked at the girl as a tear slipped down her face. Out of instinct, Deidara reached down and wiped the tear away from her. "Why, Deidara?" She asked, looking into his face. "Why didn't you come?" She held his hand to her face. "It's not to late for you to come."
Deidara woke with a jump. "Not too late, huh?" He leaned back against the tree and looked through the tree leaves and peered into the sky. His mind began to wander as he remembered his dream. "Who are you?" He asked, thinking of the little girl. He knew that she was his friend from the academy. He knew that she could still be out there. He knew that she was. "Where are you?" He tilted his head against the tree.
"Get-" He smirked and peered over to the two sleeping women. Koemi seemed to be tossing in her slumber as she dreamt. "Get away!" She rolled over again, and put a hand flat on the ground. "Help! Zombies!" she put her other hand on the ground and took off running.
"Ugh." Deidara groaned jumping up to chase after the sleep running girl. She ran and almost made it to the edge of the clearing, before Deidara snatched her collar. She let out a scream, and turned around to bat him away. "Wake up!"
"No!" She yelled and started punching at him more fiercely.
"I said wake up!" He took her by the shoulders and shook her once. With another quick push, she snapped her eyes open as they filled with left over tears. That's all they did for what seemed like hours. She just sat there and looked at him while he looked at her. "Are you done dreaming about zombies now?"
'It's not too late for you to come.'
"Yeah," Koemi said softly adverting her eyes from his harsh gaze. His hands still gripped her shoulders as he searched her face for something. The more he stared, the more her face began to heat up. It was embarrassing for him to scrutinize her like this. She lightly tried to tug her left shoulder from his grasp.
He held fast though, and then a sharp pain pulsed through her forearm. It was the cut from Youshiro, she had ignored it until now. In an attempt to find a distraction from it she looked up into Deidara's face. She found his eyes slightly narrow as though trying to decrypt something in her face. His mouth was slightly open, and even he had a very feint blush on his cheeks.
"Are-" She began, trying to form a sentence under his gaze. It was hard to say the least. "Are you okay?" She had to look away, or else she wouldn't have been able to get it out. She looked right back at him though, looking for an answer that he wouldn't speak.
"Are you waiting for something?" He asked, suddenly, placing a hand on her cheek. Her hand move on its own as it placed itself on top of his. The seriousness of his voice was odd. There was that calm, cool, collected side of him, but for some reason he didn't seem calm or collected or cool at all. "Are you waiting for someone?"
"Iwagakure." She said slowly, as if remembering for the first time. "I was waiting for someone in Iwagakure. And he never showed up for graduation. And I had waited for him and waited for him." She started tearing up, as memories started to over flow her. "And he never came! And I was so hurt that I vowed to never think of him again." Her eyes began to flow like waterfalls. "Deidara, was that you?"
He didn't speak, but instead pulled her into his chest. "Deidara, why did you make me wait for you?" She cried. No wonder she didn't recognize him; she had pushed him completely out of her mind. "Why didn't you come?"
As she cried into his chest, she knew that his reason was because he knew that they would be put on different teams. He knew that they wouldn't have time for each other with her families thoughts on things. She knew it was too painful.
And as suddenly as she had been pulled in to him, she pushed herself away. Her face was hurt and grave. "Well, Good night." She said, and walked past him to her spot next to Hana. The way she said it was too formal. She wasn't the same kid as she was in the academy days, he though, looking at her settle down hugging Hana into her chest. She started crying again, and he wanted to march right over there and make her stop.
He was protective of her. She was his… friend if you could honestly call her that. She was closed to every one back then since she always got teased for being who she was. She was the girl who could wield chakra into a condense form so she could stand on it. As impossible as it seemed, she could do it, and even if it meant she would loose nearly all of her chakra, she would do it to protect herself from the bullies.
I want to go ahead and forewarn you of the next chapter. For those who hate flashbacks, as i am one of them, the whole next chapter (At least... T.T) with be a flash back into the past of those two long lost... friends. Ughh, sorry if ther are some rough spots in there also. As of current- i havn't slept for 37 hours and 30 minutes. :) ... *Yawnnnn* Gooooooooood niiiiiiiiiiightttt.
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