Another little sweet chapter. Please don't kill me for the lack of lemons! I know you all want to see them, but hey, I'm hormonal, and the muse for a lemon has yet to jump on my head. But the chocolate educed crack…Now there is something entertaining in this. So excuse me if the next couple of chapters aren't their usual serious tone.
Disclaimer- I do not now, nor have I ever, own Inuyasha or Naruto.
Itachi was certain, if Sasuke didn't kill him, this little slip of a woman would.
Over the next few days he had kept a watchful eye on her. Just as he had promised, she had not been left alone.
Which was irritating the young Uchiha.
It seemed she had done the impossible. She was making friends with a bunch of S-class criminals. So it seemed like every time he got her alone, someone would bounce in and take her away from him.
He could deal with it though.
He could deal with the way she seemed to smile at every one, though it irked him. He could even deal with the fact that every time one of them came home with some kind of injury she seemed to dote on said person until they had no choice but to let her help them. All except for Hidan, who still whole heartedly claimed her hated her and that given the chance he would slit her throat and hang her from her ankles like a sow.
What he could not stand was the fact that certain members seemed determined to keep her away from him.
He glared at the side of the blondes head as he was, once again, amusing their newest member with his art. She seemed fascinated by the small clay statues, and even more so at the mouths on his palms.
Itachi was not used to this new Kagome. She was much different then the one he had left in Konoha. Before she was reserved, quiet, except when they where in private. If he didn't know any better he would say the woman in front of him was a doppelganger. This Kagome was all smiles and somewhat flirtatious with every member of Akatsuki.
Well, at least the normal ones.
Itachi grumbled under his breath and watched as she smiled sweetly at the blonde as he, once again, worked his skills to make a small animal out of his clay. This time a fox. The animal came to life and scurried across the table and up her arm, eliciting a surprised laugh from her.
Itachi was not pleased.
He glared at the small clay animal, imaging it bursting into flames even as it rested on her shoulder. Unconsciously the temperature began to rise in the room and the two sitting across from him looked over curiously.
"Something wrong, un?" Deidara asked, his brow quirking slightly.
He knew exactly what was wrong.
Deidara saw, even though the Uchiha was trying to be sneaky, the way his eyes rested on the newest member of Akatsuki. They all knew the story, curtsey of Kisame, and knew that he felt some thing for the woman.
And now that he was able to know her, Deidara could see why.
She was reserved for the most part, keeping to herself a lot. But so did most of the Akatsuki, so that wasn't a surprise.
Just something about her drew all their curiosity.
When Leader had paired her with Zetsu he had noticed then that Itachi was displeased. And again, his displeasure showed when the Uchiha had been denied as her room mate. Not by the girl, but by Leader himself. It had been a surprising day upon itself, to say the least, when Leader had smiled and said that he had a room prepared for the young girl across the hall from his own room.
Itachi had disappeared for the day and come back blood soaked. Not his own, never his own, but anyone that come upon the angry Uchiha.
Deidara smirked and held his hand out to the creature on her shoulder. The small clay fox crawled in to his hand and he brought it back down to the satchels he carried strapped to his sides.
"I have never seen you create anything other than birds Deidara-kun."
He smiled at the familiarity she used his name. He glanced over at Itachi to see the Uchiha had his fists balled tightly, his knuckles white. Deidara, never one to miss a chance to antagonize the ever stoic prodigy, returned his gaze to Kagome before she could realize what was amusing him so.
"Yes un. I made it just for you."
She smiled and Itachi stood up abruptly, unable to take it any longer.
Kagome's eyes widened as she regarded the angered man. He was glaring at her, which wasn't new, but this time he seemed truly angry.
"Itachi, wh-"
He turned before she could finish her question, "I am…not feeling well."
She nodded and stood up much more reserved then he had, "Is there something I can do to help? Some tea perhaps?"
He 'hn'ed and walked away, leaving Kagome standing there with a look of utter confusion.
Loki, meanwhile, was laughing in the back of her mind.
Love, you are not one to be so oblivious.
She blinked, eyebrows knitting together in frustration I don't understand.
Loki laughed harder, how rich. You who pride yourself in missing nothing, cannot see that that boy is jealous over the attention the blonde is showing you.
Kagome blanched at that.
There was no way in the seven hells Itachi was jealous of Deidara!
Was he?
She stared at the spot Itachi had just occupied, her thoughts running rampant. What did Itachi have to jealous about? It wasn't like she was returning Deidara's attentions.
Though, knowing Itachi, he'll think just by me smiling at him that I am flirting.
She huffed and crossed her arms over her chest. The nerve of that man!
It wasn't like she didn't try to be alone with him. Just every time she seemed to succeed, someone would come and pull her away or he would be called for a mission. Certainly he could see that she was trying.
Right?
Loki silently laughed in the back of her head and she envisioned poking him with a stick. A pleased smile curled her lips when she heard his surprised yelp
What was that for?
For cackling like a deranged idiot.
He grumbled and went silent.
Deidara stood, stretching his hands over his head, "I would like to show you something, un."
She nodded and stood up.
After all, what else did she have to do? With Itachi sulking, she could almost hear his voice stating that Uchiha did not sulk, it left the rest of her day open.
…
Itachi paced back in forth in the room he shared with Kisame. Said fish man reclined on his bed, watching Itachi pace and muttering unintelligently under his breath.
Kisame was nearly sweating at the heat in the room. He watched as smoke began to curl from the papers scattered about and the plants started to wilt from the sudden heat wave.
Kisame sat up just as one of the papers on the floor burst into flames. Quickly stomping it out, he looked around. Seeing that everything in their room was flammable, his mind quickly ran through the options for the quickest way to calm down his partner.
"Itachi, man, I think you should-"
Itachi stopped pacing and leveled the shark man with a glare, "I am doing nothing."
Kisame sighed and rubbed the back of his head, "look, don't take your anger out on me! Just march right up to her and throw her over your shoulder! Drag her back to the room caveman style! Or hell, slam her against the wall! Either way man, you gotta get laid!"
Itachi felt his eyebrow twitch as a scroll burst into flames behind him. Kisame rushed over to pat the flames out as the Uchiha prodigy continued to pace.
Kisame is right. She is my woman! I have every right to assert my dominance over her and drag her back to my bed!
He abruptly stopped pacing and walked over to the door. Slamming it open then shut behind him, Kisame let out a sigh as the door fell from its hinges and landed with a loud thud against the floor.
Dammit kid. Please just go fuck the hell out of her.
He turned to the wilting flower and sighed, wondering if he could even bring it back. "I'll just talk to Zetsu. He'll do anything for a cookie."
…
Itachi walked back into the kitchen where he had left Deidara and Kagome, intent and grabbing her by her hair and flinging her up against the wall. Rounding the corner, he was preparing to make her realize who she belonged to, and paused.
They. Weren't. There.
His temper rising again, he growled and watched as the chairs and table started to singe.
"Whoa, Uchiha, what's got your fuckin panties in a twist?" Hidan asked, walking in behind said Uchiha.
Itachi turned to the immortal and glared, "Deidara. Kagome. Where?"
Hidan smirked and Itachi's glare turned murderous. Hidan felt his cloak burst into flames around the ankles and he yelped.
"What the fuck man! I didn't do a damn thing to you!"Itachi balled his hands to fists. "Where?"
Hidan stomped at the flames slowly consuming the bottom of his cloak, "Its not my fault you can keep a damn leash on your fucking woman!"
Itachi moved so fast he was a blur. Suddenly Hidan was against the wall, Itachi's hand on his throat.
Hidan smirked, "I really think we gotta stop fuckin meeting like this."
Itachi tightened his grip, "Give me the information I seek or I swear to what ever fucking god you believe in I will make you wish you could die." Itachi hissed, his sharingan swirling in her anger.
"I think I saw Deidara leading your bitch into his room." Hidan rasped, his smirk never leaving.
Itachi let him go and Hidan crumbled, rubbing his throat. He watched as Itachi turned and strode out of the room.
"I didn't know you where into asphyxiation Uchiha!"
Itachi, surprisingly, ignored him.
He walked to the door he knew would lead to Deidara's room and was about to wrench it open, but paused when he heard voices.
"Wow Deidara, is that for me?"
"Sure, un."
He heard Kagome giggled, "Its just so beautiful! Can I touch it?"
"Just be careful un. Its sensitive."
His eyes widened as he heard Kagome gasp, "Wow! Its so smooth!"
Deidara chuckled, "Of course un. After all, I was thinking of you, un."
Ok, Itachi had heard enough.
He slammed the door open, his entire form shaking with rage. He was going to kill Deidara, and then drag Kagome out by her hair.
He froze, puzzled by what he saw.
Kagome and Deidara where sitting on his bed, both fully dressed. Both of their eyes turned up to him, and his mind tried to comprehend that what he was seeing was not what he thought was going on.
Deidara held a large flower in his palm, resembling very much like the Kuruizaki Kagome had showed all of them when she had first arrived. Kagome's delicate fingers where running over one of the small petals.
For the first time in his life, Itachi went brain dead.
"Something wrong Uchiha?" Deidara asked, smiling.
Itachi snapped out of his daze at the sound of the artists voice. He crossed his arms and directed his glare to Kagome.
She, in turn, stood and crossed her own arms, "What did I do now?"
He lost his tight grip on his temper at the sound of her voice, "What did you do? What haven't you done!"
She narrowed her eyes, "What the hell is your problem, Uchiha? I haven't done a damn thing to you!"
He scoffed, "No, because you have been too busy entertaining that blonde idiot!"
"Now hold on just a-"
Itachi turned his glare to Deidara, and his comment died on his lips. Choosing instead to lean back and enjoy the show in front of him, he watched as Kagome bristled.
"And just what the hell are you insinuating?"
Itachi laughed coldly, "I am insinuating that while I have been busy trying to make your acceptance as painless as possible, you have been here, making yourself right at home!"
She was shaking now, her eyes bleeding purple. She could hear Loki's growl in the back of her mind.
He DID NOT just insinuate that we have been fucking that blonde idiot!
"You did not just insinuate that I have been sleeping with Deidara!" She hissed taking a step towards him.
Itachi, not one to back down from a challenge, took a step forward as well, "No pet I am not insinuating anything. I am flat out saying it."
He bent closer so they where eye level, "You. Are. Fucking. Deidara."
She blanched, not being able to believe Itachi had just said what he said.
She growled demonically, but Itachi wasn't fazed. He was pissed, so it didn't matter. Grinning coldly, he continued, "Really though, Kagome, I thought you had more class than that. But we have been separated for what, four years?" He leaned in closer and whispered his next insult, making sure to put as much venom into it as he could.
"How many people have you spread your legs for? I bet everyone in Konoha has had a turn with you."
Her eyes widened and for a moment they flickered back to brown. Once the shock wore off, they darkened as her anger swirled around her. Itachi nearly shivered at the way her chakra lashed out at him.
It was staggeringly arousing.
"Are you always so stupid or is today a special occasion?" She hissed, her hands balled into fists at her sides.
His eyebrows shot up as she glared up at him, "Or is it the fact that you are blaming me for sticking your dick into something that gave you something that bleach couldn't take off?"
His eyes narrowed, his arousal tampering back. She laughed coldly, "That's why you have been avoiding me! Or could it be something else?"
She tapped her chin in mock thought, "Let me guess, you and Kisame?"
Itachi's facial expression turned from anger to horror, "what the hell are you implying?"
She shrugged, "There has to be some reason your so mad. Oh no, your jealous that Deidara is spending so much time with me? Do you want to stick it in his ass too?"
Itachi felt his rage start to boil again, "You bit-"
She cut him off again, "Or is it the fact that you cant perform anymore? Or are you the bottom?" she shook her head, feigning disappointment, "I bet you take it like a good little bottom too. I'll have to ask Kisame is you're a screamer or not."
She moved to walk around him but Itachi would have none of that. He grabbed her by her hair and slammed her in to the wall.
"Are you implying that not only am I gay, I am a bottom?" he hissed.
She smiled, but her eyes where as cold as chips of ice, "Well, that has to be the reason. Else you wouldn't go trying to insinuate that I am a slut."
He growled and his fist tightened. He watched her eyes darken, showing that she enjoyed it.
His lips curled into another cruel smile, "You are such a little whore. I bet you can't go one week with out finding someone to fuck."
She glared, her eyes frosting instantly, "Oh really?"
He 'hn'ed and she smiled, "I'll take you up on that offer."
He blanched, "What offer, woman?"
She laughed and grabbed his wrist, sinking her elongated nails into his flesh. In his surprise he released her and she spun away from him before he could grab her again.
"I'll take that bet. If I can go longer with out sex then you, then I win. If you go longer, then you win."
He smiled coldly, "And what are the rewards for winning?"
She tapped her chin in thought for a moment until an idea hit her. She would embarrass the Uchiha like he had embarrassed her.
"You have to publicly admit that you take it in the ass while wearing a pare of assless chaps and flouncing around like the princess you are."
He growled, "I am not gay!"
She shook her head, crossing her arms, "You should really come out of the closet Itachi. It would make you feel a whole lot better."
He glared, "and what if I win?"
She shrugged, "What do you want?"
He crossed his arms and thought about it for a moment. He could think of so many things he wanted at that moment.
When his mind halted on a most appealing idea, he couldn't help but smile.
"If I win, you will do what I say, how I say it, when I say it, for twenty four hours."
She narrowed her eyes, not liking the way he had said that. But her pride had been hurt, and she wasn't willing to back down.
Not now.
He out stretched his hand, "Do we have a deal?"
She smirked and slapped her palm against his, "Your going down, you arrogant fuck."
He smirked, "I doubt that. I never lose."
She huffed and snatched her hand back. He turned on his heal and left, already devising a plan to make her break.
Kagome turned angrily Deidara, who was still seated on his bed, and glared at the smirk he sent her.
"Not. One. Word."
He held his hands up in mock surrender as she stormed from his room.
Truthfully, his plan hadn't worked exactly like he had wanted it to, but at least it had been entertaining. He had expected Itachi to storm in to his room, kidnap the girl, and fuck her until she could walk. Any idiot could see the sexual tension building between the two, and they had only been back in each others company for a couple of days.
He would hate to think what it would be like as their contest pursued.
Grinning, he stood and made his way out of his room. He would see how many of his fellow Akatsuki would like to make wagers on the outcome of their team mates little contest.
I'll ask Kisame first. He's always one to put his money up.
Whistling slightly to himself, Deidara made his way to Kisame's room, wondering what exactly the next couple of days would be like.
Wow…Big fight between Itachi and Kagome…Oh and don't worry, for all you perverts wanting Lemons, they will be coming with in the next few chapters. Not the next, but maybe chapter twenty two! So bear with me.