[Sakura]
We headed into an opening that provided us with a sufficient amount of cover from the weather. I felt Deidara bend down slightly to set me on the ground. Part of me instantly wanted to beat the living crap out of him but my rational mind took over. There is no way in hell that I could single-handedly take on three members of the Akatsuki and escape alive.
Deidara didn't even look at me before he filled up half of the opening from the ground upwards with clay.
My whole body stiffened under Itachi's intense glare. I looked straight back into his eyes before narrowing my own.
"If you have a problem, I suggest we take it outside so I can beat the shit out of you." I spoke aloud. Itachi merely looked at me for a few more moments before walking to the corner of the cave to sit down. Kisame headed to a space next to Itachi and sat down.
"Heal me." Deidara demanded while removing his Akatsuki Garb. He walked me over to a conveniently elevated rock that Deidara and I could sit on for comfortability purposes.
I noticed that he has a lot of bite marks. I smirked as I realised they were probably from Sai's Jutsu.
"You're going to have to remove your shirt." I informed him. He didn't hesitate to remove his shirt. I carefully removed a bottle of water and a hand towel from my backpack. Firstly, I soaked the cloth in water and cleaned up any excess blood, the white cloth soon was littered with red splotches. I then moved my hands over his wounds and exerted my chakra to examine the wounds for any signs of infections. After I confirmed that Deidara had no infections, I started the healing process.
It took me five minutes to completely heal his wounds. This felt so wrong, although if I wanted to keep Sai alive, I had to follow their every order…
"You're done." I said as I reached into my pocket to remove a soldier pill. I was about to pop it into my mouth but Deidara had grabbed onto my wrist. "This is to replenish my chakra so I can heal Kisame and Itachi." I stated. Deidara kept a firm grip on my wrist until I felt something move against my wrist. As weird as it sounded, it felt like a mouth.
"Is that a mouth?" I looked over at Deidara's other hand. He smirked slightly before letting go of my wrist.
Kisame swapped places with Deidara.
"I only have a knife wound on my arm." Kisame informed me as he lifted up the sleeve on his left arm.
"It's heavily infected." I said out loud as I examined his wound further. "Luckily for you, it's nothing but a simple poison that can be extracted easily from your body. Although the pain of the extraction is excruciating." I continued, hoping that he would chicken out.
"Just get on with it." He demanded. I narrowed my eyes at him and poured a small pool of water on my left hand. Without hesitation, I forced the water into the wound and spread the water out to collect the small amount that had invaded his body before abruptly pulling the water and green coloured poison out of his system. Kisame barely flinched in pain which irritated me slightly.
"All done." I stated obviously while subtly dumping the water on the ground. Kisame walked over to Deidara and swapped placed with Itachi.
He stared at me with a blank expression before sitting down and facing my direction.
"My left leg is broken, three of my ribs are broken." He stated bluntly. I almost scoffed in disbelief before he removed his garb to show a nasty looking bruise on the right side of his chest. He then rolled up his trouser leg before waiting for me to heal him.
I hesitantly hovered my hands over his legs and examined his leg further with the help of my chakra. His leg was pretty messed up…How the hell could he walk on this without limping?
More questions filled my mind as I started to heal the muscles that had been torn, which took a huge effort of chakra.
I'd finally finished healing his leg after ten minutes of using my chakra to aid me in repairing muscles and healing bruises.
I reluctantly had to shuffle towards Itachi to reach and tend to his rib fractures appropriately. I started exerting my chakra and focused on healing the bone formation. I could feel Itachi's heartbeat pounding as I was focusing on healing him, which put me off slightly. His heartbeat started to beat at a slightly faster pace as I moved my hand upwards, which was understandable, he would be feeling quite a bit of pain as the bones moved back to their original place. He moved his head down to look at what I was doing. Some of his long black hair had brushed past his shoulder and tickled my hands. I promptly used my right hand to stroke the hair behind his ear so it wouldn't distract me any further.
It didn't take too long from there to heal the bruises and look up at Itachi. I guess he'd been staring at me throughout the duration of the process…in case I didn't do the job correctly…
"Done." I bored while shuffling away from Itachi. He stood up and joined Deidara and Kisame. I laid back and closed my eyes for a brief moment. This situation is so out of the blue. I felt an uncomfortable object sitting under my back, so I arched it and removed a bottle from there before setting it on the ground.
"What do you want from me?" I attempted, not even bothering to look at the Akatsuki. There were a few moments of silence before Deidara spoke up.
"You took something that belongs to us, and now you're paying the price, a life for a life..." He responded vaguely, I can only assume he's talking about me killing Sasori, his former partner. I wonder what's so special about the herb that the Akatsuki would keep me alive for. I sighed quietly, is keeping the herb and finding out the properties of it really worth this? I looked up at the ceiling.
"What if I gave you what you wanted. Would you let me go?" I attempted. I heard a few chuckles and instantly felt stupid for asking the question.
"Sure, we'll let you go if you give us what is ours." Kisame chortled. I decided to ignore him and turned to my side.
This rock was uncomfortable.
"We'll head out in twenty minutes." I heard Itachi speak, I then heard a few sounds of agreement. "We should arrive at the base by noon." He continued. I frowned and my body involuntarily shivered. Seeing three Akatsuki members is intimidating enough…let alone the entire organisation.