Deidara's Troubles
By Magewriter
Chapter 14
Disclaimer: I don't own anything by Masashi Kishimoto.
It's been too long since I've written a disclaimer. Last night, I was taking a walk with my bf (we live in the same neighborhood) and I realized: I've been forgetting my diclaimers! …So, I wrote one here.
Sorry that the end of Chapter 13 is incomplete (I think I left someone's name out somewhere…) but it's morning. Pockles wakes up at 7:00 because she lives really near the school, but I wake up at 5:00 (this morning, it was 5:45!) because I like to have lots of time to do stuff before I leave for the bus stop at 7:21.
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The next morning, Deidara woke up to Ritonno shaking him. "Wake up already, Deidara!"
"Wha…? Oh! Are you feeling better, Ritonno-san?"
"No, I just don't want to get out of bed. I'm sorry I have to do this to you, but you were chosen…"
"I know, yeah. Do you want breakfast?"
"Sure. I should probably eat something… Too bad I'm not actually hungry."
"It's good to have breakfast, though, yeah."
"Definitely."
Deidara left to heat up two portions of miso (he had made that pot of wonder-soup just the day before) and got a bowl for himself and one for Ritonno. Going back downstairs, he almost bumped into Leader. "Oh! Leader-sama! What are you doing downstairs so early, yeah?"
"I was going to check on Ritonno-san."
"Oh. She's awake now, yeah; come to think of it, she said she was going to tell you what happened today, didn't she, yeah?"
"Yes, she did."
"Okay. Come with me, yeah." Leader followed Deidara down the stairs and waited, patiently for someone who could demand her attention at any second, until Ritonno was finished with her miso.
After she was done, she smiled, pulled the pillow out from under her head, lay back, and closed her eyes. "You want to know what happened to me, don't you?"
"Yes." Leader was never one to show too much emotion, nor was he the sort of person to use a lot of words.
"Well, I was using my little girly steps, like I'm supposed to, then this woman came up next to me and did some genjutsu. There was a man, too. He's the one who 'fought' me, I guess, but the woman made it seem like we were in some other world or something… illusionary magic is always confusing."
"But… you do it all the time, yeah."
"Yes, but that's the straightforward kind of genjutsu. I'm talking about the kind more like Itachi does, where you go somewhere else and the rules of time don't really apply and… it's just weird."
"Did you see their headbands?"
"Not well, but I'd recognize their faces if I saw them. They also said something about 'Akatsuki,' but I didn't quite catch the actual words."
"I see… Well, if they resorted to hurting a member who didn't even have a decent stride, then they can't be that powerful in the first place."
"And I was weaponless."
"What?! Why?"
"Who takes weapons to a noh performance?"
"…"
"Sorry, I just don't usually go to noh performances where I get assaulted on the way home."
"You're an Akatsuki member." He was looking at her as though it was obvious that there were people who wanted to kill her. It was, but that didn't mean that she expected anyone to recognize her in a formal yukata.
"I know… Maybe next time the Akatsuki should slow down so that I don't get beat up."
"It will. Perhaps, if that concept is somehow impossible for them to follow, you should turn yourself invisible."
"There are always the people who can see through that. Like, there's you and Dei-chan, for example."
"I can't believe you're on such close terms with the rest of the Akatsuki members that you call Deidara 'chan.' Why can't you all act like assassins?"
"We are, yeah; we're friends, too."
Leader started to laugh. Deidara got scared – Leader was the most evil person in the world, and he was laughing! – and sort of shrunk. "Ritonno-chan? Why is Leader-sama laughing, yeah?" This made Leader laugh more, and Ritonno also started laughing. She had come to expect that Leader be odd.
This is where this story ends and the sequel begins.
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Sorry I had to do that. It's hard to stay in one perspective for this long. Fifteen chapters, even if they do happen to be relatively short, is the most I've ever written for one story. It's been degrading. I also don't want to do Ritonno's story yet because it would be so easy. Being a thirteen-year-old girl with a sixteen-year-old sister (almost seventeen), I can relate relatively well. But then, Ritonno, like all of my ocs, (I consider her an oc because his/her character hasn't been introduced in either the manga or the anime yet and she's completely improvised) is a lot like me.
Huzzah! I have a disclaimer!
Trust me. The sequel will be out as soon as I've gone over the thirteenth and fourteenth (that's this one) chapters with Pockles and I've had time to write another chapter. However, Pocky-machine (or, on fanfiction, Deidara's Most Rabid Fangirl) is at the mall with my other friend trying to decide what to get her bf for his birthday. Her mom suggested duct tape, my mom suggested men's pocky (that really is a kind of pocky…) and I suggested soap… but then, soap is what I would get my girl friends for Christmas; I would never it for my bf.
I didn't know how the heck Ritonno got hurt. I mean, we're talking about Ritonno here! …So, it's sort of fuzzy in her mind. The mangekyo Sharingan (I still haven't watched or read any Naruto except for the third episode and a little bit of Shippuden; however, as I said, I did Wikipedia them. I love how that's the only way I know the characters, but according to Pockles, I've got their characters.