Stoic Love
Chapter 12
Hinote's P.O.V.
I arrived as the base much faster than Hidan and Kakuzu, wanting to tell Leader-Sama what happened to Senpai immediately. I burst through his office and he casually looked up at me. Such things had become expected of me as of late. I wheezed and huffed and tried to speak, but he beat me to it.
"What is it, Hinote?" he questioned, looking down at his papers before deeming me more important. He watched me as I stood taller after catching my breath.
"It's about Senpai." I breathed. "She used a new Jutsu, different than anything I have seen before." I finished.
"Is that all?" he inquired before he looked back down at his papers.
"No, Leader-Sama! There's more to it than that!" I cried as he disregarded me, opting to continue with the papers on his desk, "Senpai was literally pouring blood out of both her wrists!"I shouted, gaining his attention once again. "It was...amazing. I mean, one minute Hidan, Kakuzu and I were about to die from the nine tailed Jinchuuriki's Jutsu, and then Senpai comes in blocking the blow, even calling us her friends!" Both his eyebrows rose at this.
"She looked like she had died," I continued. "So I started to freak out. I felt like I would just explode!" He seemed to take a mental note of this. "But Senpai stood up, and began to reform! She said she was pissed, then she used the Jutsu. It was almost majestic... But after the Konohana ninja fled, Senpai called herself a monster and ran off too." I stated. "So we have no idea where Senpai is, or when she'll be back..."
"You know her the best, Hinote. What do you recommend do?" He poised. I was kinda shocked. No one really turned to me for advice, so was silent for a moment.
"Hinote...?"
"Uhh right! I want to take two other people with me to the Land of Death, which is Senpai's home land, so we can try and find some information there." I decided, the Land of Death probably had the most information. like Senpai's old village, that would be rather helpful.
"Did you have anyone in particular in mind?" Leader-sama asked.
"Well, I want to take you along Leader-Sama, and Sasori-Danna as well." I thought aloud.
"Why me?" He stated, perplexed at my logic.
"Well, that's easy! You like Senpai, don't you Leader-Sama?" He slowly nodded his head. "And from what I gathered, Senpai has, well, some kind of feelings for you too. They're rather hard to put a mark on, but I know they're positive ones!" I beamed.
"Very well. We'll leave tomorrow morning to go pick up Sasori then." He stated as I frowned.
"Wait, where is Danna?"I questioned curiously.
"He Left to Suna on personal business soon after you left to help Hidan and Kakuzu." Leader-sama answered easily as he looked down back to his papers with a glare.
"Oh, okay." I nodded. "See you later Leader-Sama!" And as I ran out the door, I swear I thought I heard him say "Damn… this paperwork".
Sasori's P.O.V.
"Grandmother Chiyo." I spoke walking into the room. The old hag was sitting in front of me, lost within the depths of a small pool before her. I had arrived earlier in the day, fighting her off when she had charged me. Now though, she was calm, and as it turns out she was willing to hear me out.
"So, you finally changed your mind?" She cackled. "Who's the lucky girl?" She grinned slowly standing up.
"That's not you concern. Can you help me or not?" I growled.
"Well, I can do help you, the question is will I?" she teased, I scowled at her.
"I'll do anything to be with her." I met her gaze, which held mirth and mischief.
"Oh, so that so? What's so special about this girl that 'Sasori of the Red Sand' has decided that he wants to be human once more?"
"Her name is Hinote." I stated "she-"
"Wait, that rings a bell. Is she a Fenikkusu?"
"Yes... Why do you ask?" I was alarmed, but hid it.
"Oh, no reason." She laughed. "But I should have seen this coming..." She muttered under her breath. "Well, I've heard all I need to know. Let's get started, shall we?" I wearily moved to her.
"Now lay down for grandma dearie." She gave me a grin.
"Grandmother, please." I scoffed, lying before her.
"Calm down child. Here goes nothing!" She cackled once again as her hands began to glow an eerie green. I keep my head down and watched the ceiling as my grandmother performed some sort of witchcraft on me to make me human once more. For a moment, I felt the same. Then my heart sped up. I could feel my chest rise up and down, and hear myself gasp for breath. I had to remember to blink. I sat straight up and began panting. I was alive...?
"Grandmother, thank you." I breathed. I looked at her, and then gasped. " Grandmother?" I tentatively moved my hand to her face. I brought it up to face me. She held a huge grin and I jumped back.
"Even in death you're a crazy hag..." I sighed standing. She knew this Jutsu would kill her. "Grandma Chiyo..." I smiled. "I promise I'll get her. For both of us."
Suddenly a thought hit me. Itami had said something about when I had wanted to turn human, although I was unable to remember what it was. I dismissed it as nothing of importance; after all, I would have remembered if it was important.
Hinote's P.O.V.
"Leader-Sama... Leader-Sama wake up...!" I urged shaking him. "We need to go get Sasori-Danna!" I had sneakily snuck into his room at sunrise to get him but I found he was still sleeping. So, I decided to wake him up by jumping on his bed and shaking him.
"Hinote, go rest..." He yawned while I laughed. He looked really silly with all his piercings removed for sleep, holes were all over his face. Briefly, I remembered the few times Senpai had removed her piercings, she had looked quite similar.
"You said we leave in the morning! Let's go before the sun gets up!" I pushed.
"Give me some time..." He growled out.
"How much?" I sighed. "I really want to get a move on!" I pouted.
"We'll leave when the sun is above the trees." He decided.
"But, Leader-Samaaaa!" I dragged. "That's not for another two hours!"
"Go preoccupy yourself until I am ready to leave."
"Okay, fine." I walked out closing his door. What could I possibly do, for two whole hours?
"I'll wake up Deidara and make him train with me!" I decided aloud, darting into the room that he shared with Sasori-Danna. I took none of the earlier precautions I had with Leader-Sama, and shook him vigorously.
"Deidara. Deidaraaa. DEIDARA!" I sung in an assortment of odd voices until he looked at me.
"What Hinote yeah." He yawned. Once he woke up, he could never go back to sleep
"You wanna go train with me?" I questioned with puppy dog eyes.
"I don't think I have a choice un..." He muttered, eyeing me like I was dangerous.
"Great!" I smiled dragging him out of bed. I grabbed his cloak and led him to the training ground. He looked nothing like his usual self. His hair was messy, and down, and he was missing his scope! He slipped on his cloak and cracked his knuckles. A grin came to his face and I met it with a scowl.
"Should I go easy on you, hm?" He laughed.
"No way! I'm stronger now! Give it all you got!" I boasted.
"You sure Hinote un?" He spoke, concerned. "Don't bite off more than you can chew, yeah."
"I'm ready! I promise!" I shouted. It was true, Senpai had been vigorously training me to the ground. After each training session, my body would be in so much pain Senpai would have had to heal me!
"The the first move it\s yours hm." I was jumping in the air before he finished his sentence. I cried out and dived at Deidara with my fist in front of me. Though still half asleep, he was able to move to my left. I quickly pulled my fist out of the ground and grinned at the lovely five foot hole the ground now spurted. Senpai had gotten me a pair of iron knuckles now that my Kekkei-Genkai had unlocked my vast storage of power. Though I was strong, I was lacking the prowess to wield my newfound power correctly. I was glad that the hole was big, even if I had missed my target.
Speaking of which, I hardly avoiding a clay bird coming at me. I fell to the ground and rolled knowing more would come at me. I huffed, and soon jumped up. With a few had signs, my pointer finger soon caught ablaze. I pointed at the birds coming my way and laughed as they exploded into little fireworks. The look on Deidara's face, however, was not pleased. I knew this because I was now in the mouth of a much bigger bird. It threw me in the air as its master barraged me with more explosive birds. I yelled and fell to the ground in a very ungraceful manner.
I used the dust spread by my collision with the ground as an advantage, jumping on Deidara's back as he landed looking for me. "Ha ha, got you now!" I pulled him off, and grabbed him by his collar. With a grin, I punched his chin and sent him flying to the back wall. I grimaced at his impact, but got over in when something exploded on my leg. I screamed and threw off the spiders, wiping the blood off my bare skin. I was breathing heavily, but ran to him preparing a jutsu.
"Fire Style: Dancing Flames!" I roared when I neared him. Fire enclosed around him. He panicked in his flaming cage, but knew better than to freak out. I walked right up to the cage and carelessly threw a punch in his chest. It was a clay clone! The flames died down as I now hurriedly tried to pull my arm out. I looked above me and saw Deidara as he drop a much smaller version of his C4 bomb on me.I blocked my face with my free arm and screamed upon impact. I flew to the wall close to the door. I slowly slid to the ground as Deidara slowly walked up to me.
"Truce." I gasped struggling to stand. He offered his hand and I gladly accepted. He was breathing heavily as well.
"Good battle un. You really have improved hm." He smile wiping the blood dripping from his cheek. "Those iron knuckles really hurt yeah." He complained.
"Thanks.." I placed a hand on my arm, where I had a huge burn. "Let's go get cleaned up." I spoke walking to the door. Deidara followed behind me silently. When we arrived in the kitchen, Itachi sat eating. We couldn't help but laugh as he watched us, beaten to a pulp, sit on the counter and fix our wounds.
"Hey, Hinote." Deidara spoke up as I wrapped gauze around my leg.
"What is it Dei?" I responded watching as the burn on my arm slowly faded pink. Being a phoenix made any burn heal much faster.
"Why did you challenge me, un? You hate to fight yeah." He spoke, confusion obvious in his voice.
"Senpai says I have get stronger, and that I have to fight. Its part of being a ninja." He nodded brushing out his hair preparing to wrap his chin. "Here, let me." I moved to help him. He put up his hair as I continued talking while warping his chin. "But I don't think that's true. I believe that one day our ninja can be at peace."
"Hinote, we leave now." Leader-Sama's deep voice spoke.
"Okay, one second." I finished the wrap by giving Deidara a bow. "There, perfect!" I giggled. "Bye Deidara, bye Itachi!" I waved to them grabbing my one small bag I dropped by the door earlier this morning.
o0o0o0Time Skip00o0o0o
It was really weird traveling with Leader. Itami-Senpai was quiet, but I was used to her. I couldn't help by try to start up a conversation with him. Most of my attempts, however failed. So you can realize my enthusiasm when we arrived in Suna. We were having some problems entering, so in the end Leader-Sama sent me in cloak-less to look for Danna. I was really liking it in Suna. Sun, sun, and more sun!
"Sasori-Danna?" Where are you?" I called. Where could you find someone like him? "Oh, maybe down here!" I chirped going down a street that was rather empty.
"Hello, young lady..." A man chuckled coming from leaning on an old shop.
"Hi there strange man! Can you help me find my friend, Sasori-Danna?" I asked, smiling, innocence shining brightly from me.
"Why don't you come with me, I think I saw him over here..." He pointed down a dark alleyway. it didn't even cross my mind at that moment that I didn't think about how the man knew who I was talking about.
"Okay!" I beamed, following him. Suddenly, I was grabbed from behind, and somebody punched the man.
"Hinote, you need to watch yourself here. Not everyone is as nice as you..." Sasori-Danna sighed, appearing from seemingly nowhere.
"Danna, I found you!" I squealed turning and hugging him. Then I remembered about the man. "Will he be okay...?"
"What are you doing here?" He asked, ignoring my question.
"Well, long story short, I need to find you that way You, Leader-Sama and me could go to the Land of Death! Come on, I'll tell you the rest on the way!" I grabbed his wrist, expecting to feel wood. Instead, I felt soft skin. I stopped dead in my tracks. "Danna, are you...?"
"Yeah, I'm human again." He smiled.
"That's great!" I cried out, my smile big.
"Oh and why is that?" He smirked. I blushed, and started to pull him along again.
"No reason! Let's just go find Leader-Sama!" I cried, trying to save myself. My face was probably bright red.
"Hinote… how did you even become part of the Akatsuki?" Danna questioned a moment later as I almost tripped and fell while dragging him.
"Senpai!" I chirped easily, and I heard Danna snort and mutter "Of course" under his breath.
"But don't underestimate me! I'm going to do something to be remembered by people, something good!" I pledged happily as we snuck out of the village undetected.
"I believe that Hinote, now what was it that happened with Itami?" Danna inquired.
And so I told him about Senpai, her strange Jutsu, and our mission.
This was going to be interesting and fun.
AN
Shidonii-kun: Hello there good people of Fanfiction! Here's my chapter! Oh, fun fact too. I wrote this all by myself, and not over a pm!
Yeah… I was surprised and happy to find a DocX.
So yeah… my chapter is next… woo hoo.
