Chapter Twenty-one◊
Curious
I pulled my hair up in a loose ponytail and slipped on the clothes Konan-sama had gotten from my sanctuary, a dull red tank top and black shorts that went to my knees. A jolt of pain went through my spine as I knew of the scars on my back, though I would have thought they'd healed after a couple of days. "Adiera," Turning I saw Konan-sama beckoning for me to come over to her. "Let me see your wounds."
"Yes Konan-sama," Sliding my shirt over my shoulders to be wrapped around me. For a moment it was pure silence as I felt her trace something on my back and slowly I realized a symbol was carved into my back. It felt familiar but at the same time it wasn't, it seemed like a distance. "Konan-sama what does the symbol look like?"
"Please, Adiera, when we are alone you can call me Konan," I could hear in her voice that she was softly smiling and I just nodded. "I'm sorry Adiera but the symbol is to jumble up, it hardly is readable."
Sighing silently to myself I pulled my shirt back over my head as I wondered about my sanctuary. How could someone get in without me hearing them? What about the alarm system? Ugh, this is too confusing! Standing I walked over to the door to find Pein-sama walking toward Konan-sama's room. I tried my best not to look at his eyes, but I still felt those Rinnegan eyes falling onto me.
When I got to the steps I sighed and sat down at the first step, not wanting to be clumsy and get myself hurt. "So you aren't trying to be clumsy today, Adiera?" I knew quite well by the two voices, one lightly dark, and one purely dark.
"I never try to be clumsy, Zetsu, it just happens." Grinning I turned to find Zetsu's self leaking through the wall. "How do you do that?"
"Do what?" I noticed that only the lightly dark voice was speaking.
"Phase through walls, can you explain to me how you do that?"
"You seem to want to know a lot of things of the Akatsuki, don't you, Adiera? Yes, it does seem that way." It was true; I'd been interested in a lot of things to do with the Akatsuki. Then I asked Zetsu if he would explain how he did it, but to answer my question he said "another time" in his pure dark voice and phased through the wall. Standing I carefully walked down the stairs, only tripping once over my own feet, and once I got to the bottom I sighed and sat at the bottom stair wondering what to do about my sanctuary. Well I can hardly go in there and inhale all the blood and bodies, how the hell am I supposed to get anything fixed in it?
◊ (Lines do work I just don't want to put them in…)
Konan looked up to Pein, a worried look on her face as he explained the note that Hidan had received. However, when he had finished he knew quite well that she knew something not of his knowledge, in which provoked him to ask such.
"Sasori stated that he couldn't see the symbol on Adiera's back, because it was too jumbled, correct?" Pein nodded as Konan sighed. "Well with all the healing done only the actually cut remains and the outcome was strange." Konan seemed to shutter at the thought of what was on Adiera's back. "Just above the note was the symbol of a scorpion, something Sasori is known for."
This made things appear to Pein as something new. The symbol of Sasori had been left on the girl and only Sasori had seen it in the first place. Also due to the fact that on Hidan's note was a Jashin symbol. Whoever had been leaving all of it somehow knew of who would find Adiera and had assigned it to that person. However that still didn't help at all to figure out who exactly was targeting Adiera.
◊ (Lines do work I just don't want to put them in…)
Itachi walked into the library, though Adiera was nowhere in it. He'd seen her talking to Hidan about her room and if it could be cleaned up, in which he answered that it would take a while just to get the body parts out let alone the amount of blood that had been dripping in it. Opening the same book with the strange first line a note fell from it, his eyes widening for a moment but they became normal as he picked it up and saw the Uchiha symbol on it. Sighing, for he had figured out the signs on the note of Hidan meant it to be Hidan's and that the sign meant it to be his, he opened it and began reading.
Oh hello Itachi-chan, I've wanted to speak to you but I've decided to just write this instead. You've seemed interested in this little story, or is it just the confusing first line, hm? Now I have a game that I'll give you the choice to play, however if you wish not to play then the outcome will be the same as if you were to lose. You see a few months ago I gave this first line to that bitch that takes the name of Adiera, meaning for it not to be understandable, because I knew someone would show up, actually I knew it would be you, Uchiha Itachi. Shall I begin the game's rules then? Understand what it means and you'll win, I'll give you three weeks, one week before your jutsu will be ready for you to go home, am I correct? Of course I am. Now if you understand it I will find out, and if you do you win and then you may be able to understand who I am and why I love to make your little bitch suffer. However if you do lose or if you decide not to play, which I am sure you shall, kuku, then I'll well let's say this I'll make her suffering stop and then she'll never feel anything, lovely correct you Uchiha Itachi. Oh yes do not tell of anyone of this, it is a game that only you can play, no asking for help, no one knowing of why you are so concentrated on that little line. Enjoy Itachi-chan, kuku.
◊ (Lines do work I just don't want to put them in…)
I walked into the library to find Itachi looking over that first sentence, again. However I decided against disturbing him, for he had deep thought in his eyes, and went to one of the book shelves and pulled out a notebook, one that was over halfway filled with all kinds of stories I never got around to and random pictures I'd drawn. Slipping from the room I flipped through the pages looking for the first blank page. Once I found it I pulled out the mechanical pencil that was hanging in the rings, slumped down to the side of the wall a yard or two away from the library entrance, and began writing something random that had come into my thoughts.
"You never did tell us what your view on art is, hm." I glanced up with a grin to see Deidara, who crouched down beside me, looking at my writing with a curious look in his visible eye.
"And for now I probably won't tell you, until I get to see Sasori's art in action." I smirked as he sighed, though still glancing at my writing. Then he titled his hand a bit asking if he could see my notebook, which I laid into his out stretched hand. He sat down next to me and flipped to the first page actually seeming to be reading it.
After about ten minutes Deidara had gotten to the halfway point in my stories and had been grinning the entire time. "They are amazing, beautiful truly, hm." His compliment made my face feel hot as I turned away, mumbling that he could look over the rest as I remembered that I had to study for a big test in history the next day. Standing I walked back to the study and found Itachi still looking at the page.
"Itachi," He looked up at the mention of his name. "If you concentrate too much on something then it will never make sense, trust me I concentrated a lot on that first line and gave up on it and continued on with the actual story. Even after writing all those pages the first line still didn't make sense. But maybe it's different for you." I shrugged as I pulled out my history book and opened up to the twelfth chapter, sighing at how many words there were on a single page. Glancing up I noticed that Itachi was still looking at the line, though his eyes didn't seem to be burning holes into it at the moment, which made me smile softly before turning back to my book.
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