Authors Notes: Next week huh? More like next month! I'm so bad at updating! A New Beginning is up for those who also read Paper Flowers. The sequel to this won't be out right away, I'll be working on A New Beginning and maybe another fic instead. I've decided to limit my fics to 2 different series and maybe a few one-shots when I have inspiration. Anywho... On with Missing!
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I would screw whats going on now and kill Sasuke and revive Itachi, Deidara, Sasori, Obito, Hidan, Kakuzu, and the Akatsuki would take over the world! MUHAHAHAA! Too bad I don't own Naruto. Damn.
I ate my breakfast quickly and practically dragged Sasori to the nurses office. A moment before we entered, there was a crash. I glanced at Sasori. He shrugged and opened the door. I glanced in. What I saw, scared me.
Deidara, the artist bomber, was cowering in the corner, watching something in the middle of the room. My eyes shifted to Rose, who was glaring at something, er... Someone. That someone being Jiriaya. The Sannin was sprawled on the ground holding his head. Or face. I couldn't tell which. Rose looked pissed. And it was really hard to piss Rose off.
"D...Dei... What happened?" I asked nervously.
"Rose-chan... She kinda beat up Jiriaya... After he tried to touch her butt...un..." Deidara said, still looking scared. I didn't blame him. Rose was really angry when she was provoked. I carefully made my way over to her.
"R...Rose... Are you ok?" I asked. She turned to me.
"Am I ok? AM I OK? THAT FREAKING IDIOT TRIED TO MOLESTER ME! DO YOU THINK I'M OK AFTER THAT?" she screeched. I shrunk back.
"S...Sorry..." I said, backing up to Sasori. He glanced at me. I backed into the corner beside Deidara. After a minute Rose seemed to calm down and yawned. I relaxed and let out a sigh of relief.
"How you feeling?" I asked. Rose shrugged.
"Better. No more ripples of pain. I want to bring that idiot down a notch or two though," she muttered. I sighed. Some things would never change.
"Why are you here anyway, you're not the type to just visit an injured friend in the nurses office without another reason..." Rose said. I sweat dropped.
"Ok... You caught me... I wanted to get out of target practice..." I muttered. Rose snickered. I looked at her. I saw Sasori smirk.
"Ok... What's so funny yeah?" Deidara asked, clearly oblivious as I was.
"Yeah, what's so funny!" I accused. Rose refused to answer.
"We're just imagining you attempting to hit a target," Sasori said, the only emotion was the smirk on his face. I glared. Deidara snickered and tried to hold his laughter in. He barely maintained it. I imagined myself doing target practice. And a kunai hitting Deidara in the head, only to have him take it out covered in clay. I giggled. Where did that image come from? My mind reminded me about the medicine Tsunade slipped into my drink. No wonder... But the image was weird, but extremely funny. I didn't know exactly why it was funny, but it was. I started to laugh and clutch my stomach. Deidara stared at me, confused. I vaguely heard Rose ask if I had any medicine lately. I think Sasori nodded. I heard Rose sighed and instruct Deidara to go get something. I was still laughing when Deidara came back.
"Lily! I have something for you! Your favorite meal!" I glanced up from my laughing. Rose was holding a tray of wontons and a plateful of mushroom chicken and orange chicken. My eyes widen.
"THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!" I shouted and proceeded to shovel the food into my mouth. Sasori observed me and Deidara looked at me weirdly. I finished the food in a record time of two minutes. I grinned.
"What does that have to do with getting rid of the side effects on the medicine she took?" Sasori asked.
"Whenever Lily eats wontons and chicken, the side effects disappear... I don't exactly know why, but they do!" Rose said. Sasori sweat dropped.
"Weird yeah..." Deidara muttered. I yawned. Suddenly I thought of something.
"Hey Rose... Since Jiriaya didn't report your condition to Tsunade... Does that mean she'll come here and force me to take part in target practice?" I asked. Rose thought for a minute. She opened her mouth to say something, but then closed it.
"I don't know... Probably..." Rose trailed off as a knock on the door sounded.
"Hey you old pervert! You're as bad as Kakashi! At least he reports things eventually! Let me in!" Tsunade growled. I sent a wide eyed look to Rose. She didn't want to stay in the nurses office forever. She hated any kind of hospital environment.
"Let's go!" I muttered, grabbing Rose's hand and running out the second door (Why didn't I notice that before?). It turned out to be a hallway leading underground. Sasori and Deidara followed us, not wanting to explain stuff to Tsunade. I glanced at Rose, who shrugged. We carried on down the hallway... More like a tunnel now. We didn't talk, not wanting to trigger any traps. I held up my hand, thinking I heard a voice. Rose nodded to signal she heard something too. Deidara felt in his pocket for something. Sasori was emotionless. I crept closer to where I thought the voices were coming from. I could only catch a little of their conversation but what I heard was enough to scare me. Really really scare me.
"Two more days..." the voice came into hearing range. Two days? Oh right, the end of the camp... It had already been a month? I missed the first part of what the other voice said.
"...then we strike," the other voice finished. Was that... Pein? Whoa... That was surprising... No wonder I hated the bastard so.
"We must contain the targets in an area where they won't get them," the other voice said. It sounded oddly soft. I didn't recognize it. I missed the first part of Pein's voice again.
"...I believe that Sasori can do that, we can't completely trust Deidara..." Pein said. My eyes widened as I figured out what they were talking about. I glanced at Rose, who was stiff. They were talking about us... Deidara, who was on my right, looked shocked. Did he know? It didn't look like it. Sasori was emotionless. I caught what the other voice said.
"Of course. Sasori is the only one in on the plan. I believe that he gained one of the targets trust," I locked my jaw. Gained my trust? Maybe halfway, I mean Sasori did save my life, but... to be accused of giving away my trust, practically the only thing I had left, was absurd. Deidara was looking kinda shocked. Rose was stiff. Sasori had that 'I'm trying to be emotionless but I think I'm screwed right now...' look on his face. I glared at him. I didn't glare daggers, I glared flaming swords. How dare that (hot) bastard do that to me! I can't believe I actually thought I was falling for him. Rose sensed my anger and turn to glare at Sasori too. I could almost read her thoughts. 'No one dares betray my best friend without me ripping their heart out first,' was the words that described her glare. Even Deidara was glaring. Apparently not caring that a homicidal shinobi was within earshot, Deidara spoke.
"That's really really cold and heartless Sasori un," he growled, not bothering to add on the danna part.
"You really should run you fucking idiot," Rose whispered, her voice dripping with venom. We heard a sound and ran back to the nurses office. Tsunade was gone, so was Jiriaya, but we didn't notice too much. Rose and Deidara glared at Sasori again and went off to get something to eat, probably hoping Kakashi was still willing to cook something. I glared at Sasori. He stared back, emotionless. I narrowed my eyes.
"You really are an arrogant asshole. I demand that you hand over my sketch book," I hissed. He handed the green notebook over without a word. I grabbed it and held it to my chest.
"I'm guessing you don't like me anymore?" Sasori asked, too calm and emotionless. I glared at him.
"I.Hate.You. I wish I never saw you again. I hope you die and burn in the pits of hell like you should have long ago. I fucking Hate you!" I spat, stomping out of the nurses office. I was angry. Very very angry. I needed to see Emi. Because, I just realized, if I survive to the end of the month, I'm never going home again. Mom and Dad would be sad. They would never get over it. That fucking bastard. All I wanted was something to do for summer. So I got stuck at a camp with shinobi, S-ranked missing nins, and my best friend. And I have no way of getting back. Joy. I'm fucking screwed. Maybe the fates will actually be nice to me and let the bus come! Hopefully...
I managed to survive through the last two days. So had Rose. Mainly cause Deidara wouldn't let us die. Well... Wouldn't let Rose die... But Rose stuck near me, therefore Deidara was forced to protect me too. But... The bus didn't come. Great. Just fucking great. How was I supposed to go home now? I decided to hunt down Emi and ask her what she was going to do. She was supposedly leaving sometime today... Maybe... Ah! There she was.
"Emi!" I called, it was one time I was away from Rose. Emi paused and waved to me. Itachi was next to her.
"Ohayo Lily!" she called as I got closer. I noticed she had all her ninja gear on.
"Can I talk to you... Alone..." I said, motioning to Itachi. Emi glanced at me confused. She shrugged and walked a ways off with me.
"Whats up?" she asked. I sighed.
"Ok... Let's start from the beginning..." I explained what had happened two days ago, that Sasori wasn't in the cabin last night, and that Deidara had been protecting Rose and me since then. She was thinking.
"Don't worry... Meet me at the forest edge after dinner... Bring Rose and Deidara. Not Sasori," she said. I nodded. It was time for my escape. As of now, I was missing. Never to return.
I made my way to the forest with Rose and Deidara behind me. Emi and Itachi were up ahead. We didn't say a word. Emi said to wear something comfortable. I was in black track pants and a black t-shirt. I was wearing sneakers and had at least five hair ties on my arm. Rose was wearing sweats and a short sleeved t-shirt. She had a headband on. Deidara was in his ninja clothes, except instead of the Akatsuki cloak, he had a black cloak. Deidara nodded at Itachi and Emi and then scooped up Rose, who was surprised.
"Eek!" she squeaked quietly. I was thrown onto Emi's back. I sighed. I guess we would slow down the rest of them. A moment later, trees were flying past me. It was an odd feeling. Kinda like flying through the sky, but faster and more dangerous. I heard Emi curse and mutter something about Sasori following us. I glanced at Rose, who was blushing, being carried in Deidara's arms. I mouthed that we were being followed by Sasori. She groaned and told Deidara. She mouthed back that Sasori really was an asshole. I nodded. Soon we came to a clearing. Emi, Deidara, and Itachi stopped and put us down. I guessed this was were we stopped.
I took this moment to look through my sketch book, and quickly finish the drawing of Emi. I turned to the back, to begin a new drawing, then remembered Sasori was supposed to draw something there. I almost closed the notebook, if I hadn't seen something sticking out. I flipped to the back and found a picture, and a folded up note. The picture was of me, fighting the Iwa ANBU. Sasori must had drawn it. But he was nowhere in the picture. I unfolded the note. It only had six words on it.
I love you
I froze, but noticed more writing.
And I'm sorry
At that moment, something opened up. A vortex? No... A multidimensional wormhole. So Emi was taking Rose and me to the Naruto world. It was probably for the best. There wasn't any way to get back home... Might as well go somewhere new. And a moment later, Deidara took Rose's hand.
"Come on Rose-chan! Let's go un," he said. Rose grinned and waved to me. I didn't know if I was going to see her again.
"Wait! Rose, take this," I said, ripping out a picture in my sketch book. It was a fan art I did about six months ago of Deidara kissing Rose. Rose was embarrassed when I showed her. She was already blushing at the memory. But she took the picture and stuffed it in her pockets.
"Here, Lily, keep this with you, if we meet again, this will be the way I know it's you," she said. She handed over her bracelet. It wasn't her favorite, she left that one at home, but it was her next favorite. I smiled and nodded.
"Bye," I said. I didn't know if I would see her again, but I hoped I would. Rose smiled and then Deidara pulled her over to the wormhole and jumped in. They were gone a second later.
"The portal changes time periods ever few minutes..." Emi said. I noticed something that day.
"Emi... Did all the others go through already? It was really empty today," I asked. Emi nodded. All of them... Except Sasori. He stayed behind. Before I could think anymore, I instinctively ducked. A millisecond later, a kunai whizzed by my head. Sasori was here. The kunai embedded itself in the tree behind me.
"Lily... Get in the portal... Now!" Emi said. I shook my head.
"Leave him to me... Get away now, I won't lose you again," I said, handing her a picture. When she didn't move, I grabbed her and Itachi and threw them into the portal together. I think the portal was changing time periods now... It had been two minutes. So I was seperated from Rose, Deidara, Emi, and Itachi. Joy. I was having a shitty day. Sasori stepped into the clearing. Maybe if I could... Yes... I just had to wait till the right moment.
"Sasori," I said.
"Lily," he said. I narrowed my eyes. Hopefully I could dodge all his attacks. And not get killed. That would be good. I calculated how much time I had left. 1 minute 30 seconds. I retrieved the kunai he threw earlier. Poison was on the tip. I grinned evilly. I just needed a good shot. Or an opening. Since Sasori was human now... He would be effected by the poison too. I was a genius. An evil genius, but a genius never-the-less.
I gripped the kunai and waited for the first attack. 1 minute 20 seconds left.
I narrowly dodged the volley of kunai and shuriken. Thank you mother for making me take gymnastics... I picked up some of the kunai and threw them at Sasori. Curses... I should have gone to target practice. But then I probably would be dead... I didn't trust myself with shruiken. Just kunai. I rushed in, a kunai in one hand and my other hand in a fist. Thank you father for forcing me to sign up for track. It boosted my speed a bit. I dodged another few shruiken. I felt one rip part of my pants. It didn't touch the skin though, thankfully. I was now closing in. He pulled out a kunai and blocked my kunai. I pushed with all my strength, but it was nothing compared to the strength of a shinobi. His other hand held my wrist on the fisted hand. I smirked and quickly kicked him in the chest. He winced and let go of my wrist. I jumped back and calculated my next move. I had 45 seconds left. Damn... I needed to bait him. I grinned.
"What are you? Scared?" I said. He narrowed his eyes and ran towards me. I back up to right before the portal. Almost there... I had 20 more seconds. He was two feet away. Three, two, one... JUMP!
I jumped above him, and he knocked the kunai out of my hand, but I had the advantage of gravity. I twisted my body and threw all my weight into knocking him into the portal. 10 seconds.
9. I felt him start to slip. Yes! Almost there! 8. He was starting to fall now. 7. I threw more weight and heaved. 6. His arm was getting sucked in. 5. He was glaring at me, and trying to grab me, but I stayed out of reach. 4. His leg was getting sucked in now. 3. I gave one last push and he fell into the portal. 2. His red hair disappeared. 1. He was gone. 0. I did it.
And then I did something utterly stupid. I grinned and jumped up and down, unaware that the portal pulled me in.
And I jumped right into the portal, alone, in a different time period then my friends and Sasori. My eyes widened as my body twisted and turned. I felt some kind of strength, chakra my mind supplied, enter me. I learned jutsu's in mere moments. Academy level jutsus. A few Katon jutsus. But what really surprised me was the medical ninjutsu I knew. And some kind of super strength. Not exactly like Tsunade and Sakura's. A little weaker. My outfit changed from civilian to ninja. My track pants were the same, I gained a kunai hoister, and a medical bag (it was small and tan). My shirt was now a fishnet shirt with a black shirt underneath and a gray vest. I didn't have any headband. And then I noticed I was in the sky. Or rather falling from the sky. And now tree branches were scraping my arms and legs. And I noticed my sneakers were ninja sandals now. And I hit the ground with a thud.
And I blacked out.