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A/N / Warning: Horrible grammar and spelling so prepare your eyes for some bleeding.
Our Time Of Dying
By: Lies To U
No. 20
With the guys...
Deidara coughed as he inhaled a horrible smell through his nose and mouth, he could even taste the stench. Deidara forced himself up but quickly fell back to the ground, hissing at an unexpected pain on his left side of his ribcage. "Ah, son of a..." Deidara grunted as he clasped his throbbing side, holding it didn't help but Deidara felt it was the only thing to do at the moment.
Where's Tansho?
Deidara forced himself up again, using only one arm this time. Thankfully, no pain erupted from his other side but that didn't mean the already-in-pain side wasn't ceasing. Deidara took a good look of his surroundings. After that blast in the meeting room where he and Tansho were in, the meeting room didn't look anything like it did before. Of course, Deidara couldn't tell from where he was sitting, he had to push fallen wooden beams off of him to see that the meeting room was in a complete disaster. Deidara wasn't that concerned about the meeting room, he wondered where the ninjas who were pursuing them were. Had they presumed the two blonds dead?
Deidara weakly stood up, no it couldn't be that. Real shinobi make it clear that their opponents are down or dead, so why weren't there any in sight?
Deidara took a step forward, hearing the floor give in too late. He yelped as he fell through the weak floor, collapsing onto a hard, solid floor. Deidara screwed his eyes shut, trying not to let out a whimper or cry of pain his side tried to endure. As the blond got on both feet again, he heard a cough near by. Deidara looked to the direction of the cough to see Tansho, lying on the ground, holding a badly bleeding left shoulder with the arm limp at his side.
"Tansho!" Deidara exclaimed, trotting over to the injured man, realizing the pain his legs received when he tried to run. Tansho brought a finger to his bleeding lips and made a shhhh sound to Deidara. The fingers and palm returned to the injured shoulder as Deidara kneeled beside the injured dirty blond. "Don't be so loud Deidara, raise your voice any louder and our cover will be blown," Tansho said weakly, his voice cracking as if damage was brought to his throat.
Deidara bit his lip, Tansho didn't look so good. His left arm looked broken when he examined it up close and he could see a bloody gash along the side of Tansho's bicep that ran all the way up to his shoulder. The blood continued to seep through Tansho's shirt and fingers. His hand removed itself from his shoulder to dig into his kimono.
"Here boy, take this." Deidara saw the doku between Tansho's bloody fingers that were shaking just a tad. Deidara quickly swiped it and put it safely in his cloak pocket. Another cough was released from Tansho, speckles of blood flew out of his mouth this time. "You best get out of here before they try to look for us again. Don't want to get your Leader upset," Tansho's weak voice spoke.
Deidara got up again, but something made his feet stay glued in front of Tansho. What was this urge? Why the heck was he not running out of the village? The blond took a long look at Tansho, his breathing became more ragged and hoarse.
"You're coming with me," Deidara stated sternly, bending down and putting Tansho's good arm over his own shoulder and pulled the injured man to his feet. Tansho hissed and released a couple ' ow 's as Deidara helped the cripple out of the Kage building.
'What the -beep- is up with me? Why don't I just leave the poor bastard behind?' the blond thought with a frown. 'Stupid redhead must be rubbing off on me.'
With Aiko…
A groan woke the girl up, she opened her eyes to realize it was coming from her. Aiko blinked a few times to see a sideways view of the basement she was in, she turned her head to the left to see the bottle she drank from shattered into many pieces.
"What the hell happened?" Aiko groaned, rising herself up from the floor. She ran a hand through her hair and let out a sigh. She looked down again at the broken bottle, kicking away a few shards that were near her feet.
Voice? Hello, you there?
The only thing Aiko heard in her head was the irritating ring erupting from her ears. "Blah, my head hurts," she moaned, holding her headband-covered forehead with her hand. "God that stuff tasted nasty. What WAS it?" Aiko looked for any label that once was on the bottle but found no slip of paper or shard-covered sheet on the floor.
'I better get out of here, I wouldn't want to get caught.' Aiko was about a block away from the store when her head started pounding. "Ah! What the-" Aiko clawed her temples as they continued to throb and echo throughout her head. 'Oh please don't tell me this is like the wacked up village…' Aiko gritted her teeth and slouched down, continuing to claw her temples.
The redhead felt like throwing up but nothing was coming out. Her hand found her stomach and gripped the no-abs section tightly. 'This is crazy. What's happening to me!' Aiko screamed in her head.
The road to paradise.
With the blondes…
"C'mon you old fart, we're halfway there," Deidara growled as Tansho wheezed and stopped limping with Deidara. "I'm not even at my 50s boy, you have no right to call me that," Tansho managed to smile before gritting his teeth and moaning in pain. Deidara gave him a nasty look before forcing him to continue forward.
No trouble was confronting them so far, Deidara hoped it will stay that way when they reach the gates. Wishing he had some chakra in stock, Deidara looked hopelessly up at the misty-grey sky. They would be home free if he could at least make one clay bird, but all the adrenaline rushing through his veins washed away the chakra inside him.
A loud hack and cough from Tansho made Deidara groan in frustration and cease their walking. Tansho hung his head low as he spat out mucus along with saliva and blood, it hit the ground in a nasty noise. "Let it all out," Deidara mumbled, patting the dirty blonde's back with his other hand. Tansho spit out the last of what was choking him and looked up at Deidara. "You need to run boy."
'What?' Deidara's thought was cut off when two shurikens ripped through his cloak sleeve and made blood spew out. "Shit!" he hissed and immediately dropped to the ground, dragging Tansho with him, to dodge a windmill shuriken.
"Sneaky little bastards," Deidara mumbled while looking over his shoulder. He didn't see the Mist nin but he could hear their footsteps become louder as they closed the gap between him and Tansho.
"Boy," was Tansho's only word as he gripped Deidara's sleeve causing the blond to turn to him. "What is it?" Deidara asked quickly. "You can still run, you need to get your ass out of here," Tansho groaned, his legs slightly shifting but quickly gave out. "Don't talk stupid shit old man, we're both getting out of here so quit your yammering and get-" Deidara's sentence was cut short as Tansho ripped out an explosive tag from his kimono. "Go."
Tansho used all his strength to shove Deidara away from him. The blond stumbled a bit before getting back on his two feet. Tansho rolled onto his back and held the explosive tag tight in his grasp. "Freaking…" Deidara just shook his head and ran as fast as he could away from Tansho.
Deidara could just see the gates as an explosion was heard not far behind him. 'At least he went out with a bang.'
"Oi!" the blond suddenly heard which caused to him to skid to a stop. He looked to his right to see a familiar redhead run to him. "Where the -beep- have you been!" Deidara practically yelled. Aiko shook her head in response. "Doesn't matter, where the-""I have the stuff, let's just get out of here." Deidara ordered and continued to sprint out of the village. Aiko followed suit.
The two Akatsukis slowed to a walk when the mist was slightly subsiding as they made a distance between them and the Mist village. "You were no help," Deidara glared at Aiko over his shoulder. Aiko made no response, his head just continued to throb and her stomach wasn't feeling all that good.
"Yah know, you could've at least killed some Mist nin so I wouldn't have a shitty time getting out of there. Hell, some idiot killed himself in order to save me some time to run. Then again, I guess that fall was so pleasant, huh?" Deidara asked but got no response.
"Hey, I'm talking here-" Deidara stopped himself from talking as he looked behind him to see his partner lying on the ground. "Aw geez" was all Deidara said as he ran to the redhead and examined her to see what made her collapse. He checked for a pulse, too slow for the average heart beat. "Shit."
Hours, days, months, Aiko couldn't tell how long she had been out when she started to squint her eyes open. "Oh good you're up!" an unfamiliar voice spoke. Aiko sat up, feeling a pang of pain hit her stomach. "Best not try to move so quickly, you had a nasty case in there," The voice spoke again. Aiko saw some medic come up to her and rest her hand over Aiko's.
The redhead looked up at the nurse in groggy confusion, "How long have I been out?" The medic nin blinked, "About four hours. Whatever you swallowed was a bad choice of drink. You could've died if that blond girl hadn't brought you in. Practically screaming for a medic she was."
Aiko managed to chuckle a bit before her stomach ached again, "Really, huh?" Aiko then blinked before giving the nurse a funny look, "You're kidding about the screaming part, right?"
The medic laughed softly, "Nope. She was really shouting and demanding for a doctor." Aiko's chest began to throb in rhythm with her stomach. 'Was he actually worried?'
After checking out, the redhead didn't see her partner anywhere in sight in the waiting room. She quickly walked out of the small medical building to see Deidara sitting against a lamp post. The blond raised his eyes to her and quickly got up and walked straight towards her.
"Deidara, wh-" the sound of skin smacking skin along with pain quickly stinging right after the sound erupted on Aiko's cheek. "Wh-What the heck was that for!" Aiko hollered at Deidara, holding her red marked cheek. "You're damn lucky I'm refraining myself from beating the shit out of you," Deidara hissed, his hand falling at his side.
"Here we go again. It's my entire fault-" again, Aiko's sentence was cut short by Deidara when he grabbed both of her arms and shook her a bit. "You're damn right it's your fault! What were you thinking swallowing poison? Do you have the slightest idea what could've happened to you? I was freaking worried about…"
Aiko's eyes looked like dinner plates as she stared at Deidara wide eyed. Deidara's eye copied her own. "F-Forget it, alright? Let's just go bring these things to Leader-sama hmm," Deidara mumbled as he turned away from the redhead after releasing her arms.
The girl rubbed the section of her arms where Deidara gripped them, her eyes decreasing in size just a tad. 'Well, that answer my question then…' Aiko thought with a strange pulse in the heart. Her footsteps mimicked Deidara's as he looked for a good spot to create a large enough bird to fly on.
"Oh, almost forgot," Deidara said suddenly, digging in his Akatsuki cloak for a few seconds. Aiko looked at him confused until he tossed something over his shoulder. "Catch."
Aiko managed to catch the small object before it could hit the dirt ground. In the palm of her hands she saw a white ring, the symbol for ' sky ' was read on its center. "What's this?"
Deidara looked over his shoulder, "It's your ring. Each Akatsuki member must wear a specific type of ring on the finger where they are placed. Since our old member won't be back, you permanently have the left pinkie of the sealing statue as your own when sealing a tailed beast. So put the ring on your left pinkie."
'Old member…' Aiko thought in question while staring at the ring. Following orders, she slipped the ring on her left pinkie. 'Shoot, it's too big.' She thought with a pout and bending her pinkie. As the redhead attempted to squeeze the ring into a smaller shape, Deidara found a decent sized clearing where he soon enough made a large clay bird poof from a small one.
"….Wait a minute," Aiko began, looking at Deidara with a questionable look. "How long have you had this?" Deidara scratched the back of his head once before he replied "About around the time we first started the get-the-ring-containing-the-tailed-beast mission." Aiko stared bug eyed at him.
"You mean you couldn't give this to me anytime before!" she shouted in his ear. Deidara twitched, "Hey! There's no need to throw a hissy fit! Geez!" he hollered back with a stress mark. "Argh! Never mind! Forget it! Just get on the stupid bird!"
And that'd be that for this chapter. As told about, you guys have every right to send me hate mail and send cyber slaps, punches, and what-not to me. I'm so sorry I took so long T.T
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