Okay, this actually took me longer to get out than normal (big surprise from me, huh?) Anyways, I had to take a break when I had this almost finished because Harry Potter came into my grasp and it needed my undivided attention for a few hours, hehehehe. Okay, so this chapter if you aren't caught up on Naruto I suggest that you go and read it online. I know I've told a few of you the website but those of you that I didn't just search Naruto Manga Returns on Yahoo! And it should be the first one to come up, but it has to be a MSN group website or it won't be the right one. This is taking place around Chapter three-hundred. So please, you will most likely be confused towards the end of the chapter (which is an important part) if you don't read a few of those chapters. Well, thank you so much to my reviewers! I hope you enjoy this!
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Written in The Stars
Chapter Eight: Rescue Me… Sasuke
She sat there still feeling the tears on her cheeks that she had cried. She was ashamed of herself for letting her captor see this side of her, and she could tell by the look on his face he was enjoying it.
"So you as well hate the Uchiha, un?" He asked grinning like the devil himself and inched closer to her.
"Just Itachi…" She replied sourly and Deidara looked at her confusedly.
"But there is only Itachi." He replied as she looked at him like he was stupid. If he didn't know then she wasn't taking the time to tell him of all people.
She quickly wiped her tears leaving an almost sticky feeling on the tips of her fingers as she stood up and walked away from him.
"The last thing that I want to do is talk to you, or be near you." She spat venomously not even bothering to look back at him as she spoke.
She sat down about ten feet away not even facing him and she reached inside of her pocket feeling around for the small object.
She couldn't help it; she had to look at it.
She slowly pulled out a small picture of herself and Sasuke. She remembered that day perfectly, they had just got done with their first training session with Itachi… They had gotten back and Mikoto had asked Makoto if she was going to the festival. She had forgotten about the festival and had to rush back to her house and change into her Yukata and meet Sasuke's family as she pulled her father along.
When they had gotten there she quickly found Sasuke and his family. Her father had insisted that they take a picture together.
Makoto had jumped on his back to look like he had been giving her a piggyback ride, and in that quick snap, the memory was to be kept in her heart.
She looked down at Sasuke's smiling face and it felt like her insides were being ripped apart.
And suddenly the picture was pulled out of her hands.
"Hey!" She shouted and stood up to grab the picture back from him but was pushed down.
She cringed and looked up at him in curiosity.
He was staring at the picture like he was going to rip it apart right then and there.
"This is another Uchiha, is it not?" He asked and she stood up sneering at him.
"Yes, it is. It's Itachi's younger brother… Uchiha Sasuke, who's still alive and is going to kill the weasel if I don't get to him first." She spat and quickly grabbed the picture back.
"And you don't need to go and grab things that don't belong to yo-" She was stopped by him pinning her to the tree next to them, his hand on her neck. He had changed so quickly just by looking at that picture!
Her eyes widened remembering that his hands had mouths of their own complete with oversized tongues and razor sharp teeth and she began to scream and claw at his hands. She tried to kick him but he quickly stepped on her feet making sure that she wasn't able to pull them away at any moment.
"P-Please let go!!" She screamed feeling the tongue moving around on her neck.
"Do not speak to me like that when I can kill you any second that I want. Just because I was told not to kill you, doesn't mean that you couldn't have an accident." He laughed as he watched her expression quickly turn to a worried stare.
Her expression then changed to hatred as she glared daggers as the man that held her neck. She was done being a coward and fearing him.
"Deidara-Senpai!! What are you doing to Makoto-Chan!?" Tobi screamed looking at the scene as Makoto looked over at him then back to Deidara seeing that he had let his guard down and swung her left arm counterclockwise and finally pushed his arm off and stomped past Tobi getting as far away from the blonde asshole as she could.
"M-Makoto-Chan?" He asked but she didn't even look at him, she had to get out of here she had to get away and save the people she loved and cared for… She wasn't doing this kidnapped shit any longer!
She sat down on the rock she was on earlier and placed her head in her hands.
"Setsuna…" She whispered through the cracks of her hands. She sat there like that for a while thinking of what she was going to and then felt a hand on her shoulder and shuddered as she quickly whipped around to see Tobi looking down at her.
"Makoto-Chan, don't you want to eat dinner? Tobi made a delicious one." He spoke happily.
Obviously she had been thinking for longer than she thought because she looked around to see the sun was almost set.
"Hai." She spoke meekly and walked over to the fire to see Deidara placing something into the mouth on his hand.
"I-Is he feeding it!?" She thought looking at him disgustedly and then he must have felt her eyes on him and he looked up at her and she quickly looked in another direction not wanting to be caught but obviously was. She let her eyes look back over slowly and watched as he now had a small bird fluttering around his fingers.
She watched wondering how he possibly could have made something like that… It looked like it was made out of clay or something that resembled it.
He smiled watching her eyes follow the small newly born creation and grabbed it as he melded the clay back to a mound and placed it back within his bag.
She darted her eyes away just as soon as he had destroyed the small piece of art.
She was suddenly shoved a stick with a fish on the end of it.
"Here you go Makoto-Chan!" Tobi shouted happily and she smiled slightly.
"Thank you." She spoke softly mentally K.O.ing herself because she had just told her kidnapper thank you.
She sat down and began to eat quietly, not really caring for the silence unlike she had earlier on in the day.
"So how is it?" He asked and she looked up smiling a little again.
"It's very good, thank you." There and she did it again!
She sighed and placed her hand on her head. What was she going to do?
"Makoto-Chan are you-" Suddenly there was a loud explosion and Tobi was sent flying backwards and Makoto dropped the fish on the ground her mouth wide open.
"Shut up, un! Obviously she doesn't want to talk to you!" Deidara shouted angrily to the now standing Tobi.
"Well, you didn't need to blow Tobi up Deidara-Senpai! Tobi just wanted to know if Makoto-Chan was alright." Tobi replied and took a seat next to Makoto who still was frozen in shock.
"Oh, here you go Makoto-Chan. You must have dropped it." Tobi said and handed Makoto the fish.
"Oh, yeah silly me… Not that a small bird didn't just explode, I mean of course that's nothing!" Makoto shouted sarcastically and looked at him like he was crazy.
"Well, sometimes Deidara-Senpai gets a little cranky and he-" Makoto smacked her hand over where his mouth would be to make him stop talking as she looked over at Deidara who was fuming as he glared at Tobi.
"Are you stupid!?" Makoto seethed to the masked man.
"No, Tobi is not stupid! And if you don't want to talk to Tobi you should have just said so instead of hitting him." Tobi replied as she sweat dropped, nope he was stupid.
She sighed and looked around now noticing something, there were two tents set up.
She smiled and sighed.
"Thank Kami! I can finally be alone!" She thought and stood up.
"Well, I'm tired. I think I'm going to go to bed now." Makoto spoke pulling out a fake yawn and walked to the closest tent and began to unzip it.
"Makoto-Chan, why are you going into Tobi's tent?" Tobi asked as Makoto turned around looking at him innocently.
"Oh, sorry Tobi…" She spoke and walked over to the other tent swearing that she saw Deidara smirking.
She began to unzip that tent but was stopped again.
"Makoto-Chan, why are you going into Deidara-Senpai's tent?" Tobi asked and Makoto froze.
She thought that those two were going to share a tent and she would get this one.
She zipped it back up; not answering Tobi's question and began looking around for a third tent.
There was nothing but the darkness of the forest around them.
"If you're looking for a third tent you'll just keep on looking." Deidara answered with a smirk and her head snapped in his direction.
"Surely you don't expect me to sleep outside?" She spoke anxiously.
"Of course not." He replied and she looked at him; if she wasn't sleeping outside then where was she sleeping.
"You'll be sleeping in my tent." He finished and she froze as those words echoed in her mind.
"N-Nani?" She asked staring wide eyed at the blonde.
"See, Makoto-Chan, you don't have to sleep outside after all." Tobi smiled as he stood up and began heading for his tent.
"W-Why can't I just stay with Tobi?" She asked looking at the masked Akatsuki in a pleading manner.
"Because we can't risk you seeing Tobi's true identity." Deidara replied as she seethed.
"Fine… Then I'll sleep outside." She spat crossing her arms under her chest.
"No, you'll be staying where I can see you. Besides you can be too easily seen by people out here, un." Deidara replied back heatedly.
Tobi, sensing the tension between the two, quickly jumped in his tent not wanting to have to hear them fight.
"But-…" She started then realized that there was no point she had lost and there were no other excuses that she could possibly come up with. Deidara realized this as well by looking at the expression of her face as she sneered and furiously unzipped the tent and walked inside zipping it again.
Once inside she saw that there was a small cot lying on the floor, emphasis on small. Seeing that she was only in a pair of shorts and a short sleeved shirt, the cool night air wasn't exactly comforting to her body.
She slipped off her shoes and walked over to the cot and sat down grabbing the blanket and wrapped it around her body. She closed her eyes and sighed, forgetting that in only a little while she would have to sleep near an insane explosive loving Akatsuki.
Too bad that love of isolation was short lived as she heard the tent door was unzipped and opened her eyes to see the blonde zipping it back up.
He turned around their eyes connecting one showing amusement and the other showing hostility.
"Who gets the bed?" She asked and watched as he slipped his robe off revealing a tight short sleeved shirt that had fishnet like material on some parts.
He sat the robe down still not answering her question and then turned around looking down at her.
"We both do." He replied calmly and sat on the other side of the cot as her face was so red that it looked like someone had just slapped her senseless.
She heard a zipper unzip that she knew didn't belong to the tent door and stood up her face still fully flushed and she threw the blanket at him.
"No! I can't do this! I'm sleeping outside whether you agree or not! I'd rather sleep on a cold ground while it's raining and be attacked by wild animals all at once than sleep in a bed with you! I'll be outside the door if you need me!" She screamed forcefully and quickly unzipped the tent before he could protest.
She looked back at the tent waiting to hear him moving around and coming out after her but all she heard was the music of the night…
"Well… that was simpler than I thought…" She spoke softly and sighed as she sat down in front of the tent and curled up into a ball on the ground, already hating the feel of the night air.
"This won't be so bad… Nothing's worse than sleeping next to him." She whispered to herself and began to close her eyes.
-:-
"One hour thirty two minutes and twenty-five seconds, one hour thirty two minutes and twenty-six seconds, One hour thirty two minutes and twenty-seven seconds…" She counted in her thoughts as she shivered, the pelting rain smashing into her freezing body. She had been counting how long it had been since it started raining and finally stopped and smacked her hand to her head.
"God, I'm such an idiot!! I had to say I'd rather sleep on the ground with it raining, didn't I!?" She screamed into her hands, thinking that she may have heard the blondes cynical laughing from inside the tent. She wasn't sure if she did or not, but that didn't matter because she knew she would hear it in the morning.
Thunder crashed loudly above her and she shivered as the winds picked up even more. She gulped and held onto her pride.
"Well… At least the thing about the-" Makoto's thoughts were cut short as she heard the cry of what sounded to be a wolf or a coyote that only had to be about fifty feet away.
Needless to say she was inside the tent before the animals cry was finished.
She breathed loudly and since her eyes were used to the darkness of the night, she could see a bit more than a faint outline of Deidara's body lying on the bed.
She swallowed and began to wring out her clothes and then something hit her, if she was going to sleep in here she couldn't sleep in these wet clothes she would surely be sick by morning and she would never get to sleep.
"Dammit." She cursed lightly and looked around for something, anything that would help her and then she spotted it: Deidara's Akatsuki robe!
"Eureka." She whispered and walked around to the other side of the bed and picked it up and tiptoed back over to the front of the tent.
She bit her bottom lip and watched Deidara's movements for a while completely making sure that he was asleep. Once she had watched him for almost five minutes she took a deep breath and began to slowly and quietly take off her clothing. The whole time she kept her eyes glued to the blonde haired mans body looking for any sudden movements so she could quickly cover her already half naked body or simply dart out of the tent.
Once undressed she quickly grabbed the robe and threw it over her head and stretched her arms threw it seeing that it was too long, but that didn't matter to her, the more that was covered the better! She smiled at her wit even sticking her tongue out at the explosive maniac showing him that she had won…
Too bad she forgot about his mechanical eye piece that didn't show his eye.
She sighed and slowly took her hair down from its soaking wet mop that was on her head and ran her fingers through it trying to get out at much of the water as she could. After wringing out both her hair and clothing she looked back at Deidara admiring the warm comfy blanket that was draped over his body.
"No Mako-Chan! You're going to sleep on the floor! It's better than the wet ground at least!" She told herself and walked over beside the bed and laid on the floor… Or tried to.
"It's just so freakin' narrow!" She hissed angrily trying to squeeze between the cot and the side of the tent but was failing.
"Kami, what did I do to deserve this?!" She hissed again and heard movement behind her and fell to the ground not wanting to be seen. After a few minutes of nothing happening, she poked her head up over the bed to see that he had only turned away from her and left a nice amount of blanket sitting on her side.
She shivered again and that's when she mentally stopped fighting with herself and gulped as she made her way on to the bed.
He smiled as he felt the bed move slightly seeing that she has fallen into his trap after all.
"She is just too easy…" He mused in his thoughts as he felt her foot brush against his leg and held back a laugh as he felt her stiffen and heard her curse under her breath once again.
She sighed as she placed her head on the half of the pillow that now she deemed as hers and let her body finally relax for the first time that night… Once again, like always, her happiness was short lived.
Her eyes practically popped out of their sockets when she felt him turn over and rest his head in the crook of her neck nuzzling against her hair as his arm laid across her waist and pulled her closer. This was the last thing she wanted to happen!
She felt her face quickly heat up as she felt him move closer. Her heart was rapidly beating in her chest and her breathing became erratic.
"No, no, no, no! NO!" Her mind screamed and she was going into complete panic mode.
"Maybe being eaten by animals isn't a bad demise after all..." She thought not daring to move an inch and watch him wake up so he could enjoy the position he had put them in.
She felt him finally stop moving but that really wasn't much better seeing as she now couldn't move and she could also feel his hot breath on her neck.
She blushed even deeper as she scowled while she listened to the rain pelting against the tent in all different directions.
"This is going to be a long night…" She cried in her mind and shut her eyes, hoping that sleep would come to her soon and be her knight in shining armor.
-:-
The cold, crisp, dew filled morning made her only want to snuggle closer to this wonderful warmth next to her. She smiled against it, her head rested on the pillow while she hugged it close to her body enjoying the heat.
Then she noticed something about this heated pillow of hers… Pillows weren't supposed to be heated or breathing, or even have a skin-like texture.
Her eyes shot open her body not daring to move. She looked around herself without moving to see that her head was lying on his chest while his arms were wrapped around her waist pulling her as close to him as possible.
She blushed trying to think of a way to get out of this position and get dressed before he woke up and knew that she had given in like he had planned on her doing.
"Did you sleep well, un?" Her body shook and her face lit up looking like monstrous sunburn was on her face.
He was awake all along!?
She didn't say anything but instead pushed her cheek off of his bare chest and looked up, and sure enough he was looking down at her that same cynical smirk on his face.
She quickly looked away blushing an even deeper red and tried to push his arms off of her but they wouldn't move.
She looked back at him, her anger now flaring. The day hadn't even begun and she was already hating it!
"Let. Me. Go. Now." She hissed looking up at him but he didn't budge.
"Oh don't look at me like that; you looked so beautiful just a second ago." He spoke and she blushed again and her body began to tremble. She didn't like this…
"Deidara let me go." She spoke this time it had lost almost all of its bite and was replaced with fear.
He smiled down at her, hearing the venom was gone as well.
"Are you sure you want me to?" He asked moving closer to her face and her heart began pounding against her chest once again.
He placed his hand under her chin to look up at him as he kept moving closer to his prize. He was going to make her his and she was going to be willing.
"I-I can't move!" She shouted in her thoughts as she watched his lips move closer to hers and tried to tell herself to move and to run away, but she couldn't!
He smirked seeing that their lips were a mere millimeter apart and spoke,
"Are you willing?" He asked, his lips lightly brushing against hers as his breath swept around her flushed face.
"…I-…I…-"
"Deidara-Senpai! Makoto-Chan! Tobi has made breakfast for you two and-" Tobi stopped screaming in the tent as he looked at the two to see Makoto completely frozen practically lying on top of Deidara who was indeed going to kill Tobi knowing that she was about to breakdown and agree.
His hand was still under her chin as she shook with embarrassment and fear.
"Opps, sorry. Tobi didn't know you two were busy." And that's when Makoto cracked, it was even before Deidara.
She smacked his hand out from under her chin and pushed him down on to the bed and away from her lips.
She quickly scrambled out of his grasp and past Tobi.
"Makoto-Chan-"
"Shut up Tobi." She spat and pushed past him and outside, and no sooner than she had, she heard an explosion and Tobi smacked through four of the surrounding trees.
But that didn't even faze her.
What was she really going to do? Was she really that easy to seduce? If so, then… Then how was she going to stop this from happening again.
This whole time she had wanted to go and talk to someone on her communicator, but she couldn't even do that when she was alone last night! And now she couldn't try that knowing Deidara would be breathing down her neck every second.
She sat next to the fire and hugged her knees to her chest and laid her head down not wanting to look at anything.
"Go away!!" She screamed into her knees hearing Deidara walking closer to her but he didn't turn around, he kept on walking towards her. She had just proven herself to be undeniably fascinating to his eyes and when he finds something this entertaining, he isn't obligated to just give it up.
Why was she acting like this? She already had someone she was devoted to; someone she loved the first day had laid her eyes on him… Oh, no… She couldn't cry again. She wasn't going to do it.
She felt him sit down next to her and lift her chin up to look at him, tears filling her eyes the longer she looked at him. She was finally able to smack his hand away once again before the tears spilled over.
"Why do you deny yourself what you want, Makoto?" He asked as she looked up at him in a disgusted manner.
"I don't want you, you sick bastard… I've never wanted you." She hissed and looked the other way.
"Well, that's certainly not what it seemed a few minutes ago… I wonder what would have happened if Tobi hadn't-"
"Shut up." She growled against her knees as he turned his head sideways so that his hair would move away from his mechanical eyepiece so he could look at her properly.
"If he hadn't interrupted you know that you-"
"Shut up!" She screamed and looked up at him fire blazing in her emerald eyes.
"I don't even want to look at you! I don't like you so what makes you think you have a chance?! The only person I will ever care for in that way is Uchiha Sasuke!! That's how it is, and that's how it will be whether he accepts me or not! I will always love him more than anything I've ever had… and you could never come close to even a fourth of what he is to me." She hissed at him and watched as his emotions changed and he stared at her his fists clenched.
She watched him for a few minutes and then suddenly she was pushed to the ground his hand once again around her slender neck.
"Are you so sure about that, Makoto? Are you sure the Uchiha is even worth your time? There is nothing special about them, and those damned eyes are nothing to be proud of… So why should they be better than anyone else?" He hissed as she tried to throw him off of her but was unsuccessful.
"Because… He matters to me!" She screamed as she struggled against his grip that had now tightened.
He bent down and put his lips close to her ear and whispered,
"No matter what you feel towards an Uchiha, they will never accept you. They don't care to harbor feelings towards people, even if they had once. They easily make themselves forget. They sever those thoughts so effortlessly." He whispered as she felt tears come to her eyes at that thought.
He finally let go of her neck as she gasped for air and felt her throat.
"Now think about that and see if you still can love your Uchiha Sasuke for much longer." He spat and walked away, fortunately not far enough to make her have to follow since she didn't want to be electrocuted.
She laid there for a few minutes after she had regained her breath and truly thought about what he said.
What if Sasuke wouldn't accept her when and if they found him before Orochimaru took over his body.
"Maybe it would just be better to let the damned man take me because if Sasuke is with him then I would be close to him at least…" She thought and began to massage her neck.
She sat up still rubbing her neck and moved his robe around to cover her body more.
She shook her head and ran her finger through her hair and grimaced.
She really needed to go wash up, and she had seen a stream nearby.
"Maybe I can ask Tobi to go… I'd rather stay away from Deidara for as long as I can…" She thought and stood up to go and find Tobi while trying to stay close enough to Deidara.
She walked over to where the broken trees were, but she didn't find the masked Akatsuki.
She gave a flustered look and let her eyes scan over the terrain, but still didn't see him.
"Tobi!?... are you alright?!" She asked and shook her head to herself thinking again why she was worried about his wellbeing.
"I sent Tobi to see if we were being tracked yet." She heard Deidara speak and now she understood why he had so easily attacked her.
She turned around and gasped seeing that he was right behind her, smirking down at her. She sneered and walked past him.
"You wanted something from him, so what was it?" He asked and she sighed as she heard him following her.
She stopped walking, and spoke without turning around not wanting him to see the blush on her face.
"I need to take a bath… And the stream's too far away…" She bit her bottom lip trying to make the blush on her face reside.
"Heh, don't be so shy blossom." He laughed and in the blink of an eye he was right in front of her ruffling her loose hair.
Her eyes widened as she stepped back and gulped.
Tobi wasn't here, and probably wouldn't be for a while… This was the perfect time for him to move.
"J-Just take me to the stream." She stuttered and turned around listening for him to follow and of course he did.
She walked through the shrubbery and plantlets to see a nicely sized stream to bathe in and she sighed looking at it in jubilance.
She walked forward grabbing the edges of the robe but stopped and pursed her lips.
She whipped around to see the blonde smirking as he leaned against a tree.
"I think you can back up a bit more." She raged as she glowered.
"I'm as far back as I can go." He leered.
"Riightt. Move back, Deidara." She growled and he sighed and moved back about two feet.
"It's not like I haven't seen it all before, you're not any different." He replied calmly as she rolled her eyes.
"Yes, I'm not different, that's why you're trying so damn hard I guess." She grumbled and looked over to see him turned around.
She quickly threw the robe off and jumped into the unpleasantly cold water.
She came up shivering and moved her hair that was now sticking to her face out of her view and looked to see Deidara still standing with his back turned.
She smiled and went back under and began rubbing her fingers through her hair trying to get out anything that she didn't want like, bugs, the burned smell from the fire, and whatever else was in her oak colored mane.
She came up once again gasping for air and sighed looking over to see Deidara still there and not moving.
She smiled over at him then began to float on her back still keeping her eyes on him ready to dive under the second she saw him move.
"Well, thank God the one time he listened to me it was now." She breathed and closed her eyes for a few seconds decided to just him a little slack and trust him not to look.
"Do you want me to wash your back for you, blossom?" She didn't even move.
She slowly opened her eyes to see his form still over by the tree, but then she looked up to see him standing over her completely naked body that was floating on top of the damned water.
She just stared at him for a few minutes, blinking…
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She quickly dove under the water and tried to swim away from him as fast as she could.
She stopped and turned around to see him wading over to her a smirk on his face.
"Get away from me!" She screamed looking around for the robe so she could run out, but she looked back to see that it was behind him.
"What, you weren't so scared a minute ago." He laughed and moved closer as she kept her body completely submerged except for her nostrils up.
"D-Deidara, please!?" She begged trying to move back further but it was too shallow and if she backed up any more, he get more looks than he deserved.
This was the worst and most horrifying game of cat and mouse that she's ever played!
"Deidara!?" She pleaded and noticed the more she screamed the bigger the smirk on his face got.
He was only about six feet away now and she was completely cornered.
She tried desperately to cover herself, there's only so much you can do with your arms and hands.
She had no idea what he planned to do once he had caught her, and since she was using her hands to cover herself that wouldn't be a very complicated task to perform, but all she knew was that it would definitely be less than refined.
"Deidara, I'm begging you to stop this!" She cried and looked to see that he had stopped and rolled his eyes.
She watched him and slowly began to walk on the other side and past him but he moved again making her stiffen.
"Ah, ah, ah. You have to stay here until I'm done. Besides, you won't be able to get to the robe now without being shocked." He mused as she had anything less than a crestfallen look on her face.
"It was a clone wasn't it?" She spat across from him deciding that she had no chance, he had indeed won again.
"What else would it be, un?" He answered in an uninterested tone.
"Figures…" She hissed and looked the other way blushing and pursed her lips angrily.
"Don't look so disappointed, it's not like you should expect anything less." He laughed as she snorted sarcastically.
"I suppose I gave you too much credit." She hissed turned around and put her arms on the bank and laid her head on them.
This was crazy! She was out in the middle of nowhere bathing with one of the members of the Akatsuki for Lords sake!
Suddenly she felt the water move around her and she looked back to see him gone.
"Sh-shit…" She murmured looking around for the crazed blonde.
"You're so uptight… Why don't you just relax?" He asked she quickly turned to her right to see him only a foot away leaning on the bank and smiled at her.
She stepped back again covering herself.
This guy was such a nuisance!
"Wasn't that enough? Aren't you satisfied by what you already saw!?" She shouted angrily and tried to move away but he caught her arm.
"Not until you are blossom."
"I'm in no need to be satisfied…" She growled trying to pull her arm away and her eyes began to unwillingly travel.
"A-A-Are you n-naked!?" She screeched her face flushing again as she tried to pull away from his grip.
"Why do you ask?" He whispered looking down at her as she began to panic.
"Let go! I'm done! I'm done!!" She shouted and was finally able to pull away.
"Deidara, I'm cold and now unhappy, I want to get out." She seethed as he sighed and stood from his slouching position revealing his well built body.
He began walking in her direction and as soon as she could grab the robe she did and submerged it into the water.
"Hey!? What the Hell do you think you're doing!?" He shouted and she quickly dove under the water and put it on her body and submerged with a smirked.
"I wasn't giving you anymore chances, Deidara… You had plenty of those already." She smirked and began walking towards him as he rolled his eyes and followed after her.
She walked over to the edge and pulled herself up onto the bank as the cloak clung to every curve of her body, something that she had forgotten.
She blushed trying to quickly pull it away from her body and heard him snicker and looked up to see him sitting about three feet to the left of her still on the water.
She snarled and pursed her lips together.
"What are you laughing at Deidara-chan?" She asked purposefully taunting the blonde.
She turned around to see him standing next to her only on a pair of boxers and saw him look forward the grin disappearing from his face.
"Deidara-chan?" He asked in a dangerous tone and her eyes widened.
"Oh shit…" She murmured knowing that tone meant get the Hell out of there now!
She tried to stand but he grabbed her hand and pulled her over to him his body pressing up against hers with her face dangerously close to his. She wasn't even going to try to hide her look of fear, for one she was way too close to him for comfort and he was practically naked and plus the tongue on his palm was licking her arm.
"I will show you Kino that I am very much, a man." He grinned manically as she began to breathe harder as he pressed her up against the tree behind her, pinning her there as she was unable to move.
He bent down bringing his lips only a centimeter away from her ear.
"You will be willing before we get to the hideout, un… I guarantee it." He whispered and felt her shiver when he placed his hand on her lower back.
He licked his lips and placed his other hand on her side as she shivered again still unable to move.
"But of course if you're so willing now, we have all the time in the world…"
She quickly moved her hands up to his chest in an attempt to push him away but he only pressed her closer to him as her hands shook against his bare chest and he brought his lips down to the bare flesh of her neck and smiled against it hearing her gasp and her nails dig into his shoulders. He pulled her closer to him seeing this as a perfect opportune moment.
Her eyes were glazed over and then suddenly Sasuke's face appeared in her thoughts and her eye widened as they began to water.
She quickly pushed him off of her breathing heavily but she couldn't even look at him… She was ashamed for letting him take advantage of her like that… She didn't even know how he managed to do it; he wasn't gentle or kind… He was the complete opposite of her Prince Charming… Polar opposites…
"Well, that was quick and I thought you were ready for the next step." She heard him reply in a mocking voice but she didn't even acknowledge him.
She walked past him and went almost exactly fifteen feet away from him and stood waiting for him to follow, the only emotion shown on her face was remorse.
He looked after her and sighed angrily.
He didn't think that she was going to be broken so soon, she wasn't as fun if she was like this. It was about as entertaining as talking to a fork, the most fun thing you could get out of that was poking yourself with it.
He scratched the back of his neck and walked towards her and as soon as she heard him coming she walked on as well.
"Now what's your problem, Kino? One minute you're ready and willing to do something and the next you can't even look at me." He spoke and watched her fists clench at her sides.
"Yes…" He thought waiting for her fiery comeback but he watched as her fists relaxed at her sides and she just kept on walking.
In a flash he was next to her walking along but she didn't even acknowledge that he was there.
"Kino-"
"What, now you care?" She asked still not looking at him and he scoffed but he still said nothing waiting on her to fire back.
"You really want to know what's wrong?" She asked calmly still walking and looking forward and felt his eyes peering into her soul.
"You have ruined everything. You ruined my chance to save my Senshi, kill Orochimaru and just get one glimpse of Sasuke-kun… Do you even know how long I had been waiting for that mission, my chance to finally be on a team with the people I love?" She asked and finally looked up at him her face turning red but he wasn't sure if it was from angry or from her about to cry.
"I have been working for that one moment for over three years now. And then you come along and take everything away from me and even tempt me to give up on Sasuke-kun…" She answered and looked back the other way not wanting to see the accomplished smile on his face.
"But the thing is… I've never felt this way in my life about someone and the more I think about him… The more I want to see him and tell him how I feel, tell him what I wanted to tell him the night I left Konoha. I can't help thinking that maybe if he knew that Itachi didn't kill me, that he might come home so I could finally be with my best friend again." She choked and closed her eyes in an attempt to calm her emotions and succeeded.
"But I won't get to do that because I was still too careless and was captured right in the very place I thought that I was safe… I would give my life just to know what Sasuke feels for me… I would give it away willingly even if he hated me for leaving him anyway…" She replied and felt him stop walking but she didn't acknowledge it and walked out into the open.
-:- Later That Night -:-
She hadn't spoken since then not even uttering a word through Tobi's interrogations on what was wrong with her. She had never felt so revolting in her whole life; she would never forgive herself for what she had even thought about doing… She promised that she would never give up on Sasuke, and she kept her word.
"Makoto-chan, please eat. You will need your strength after all of that walking that we did today. Plus you'll be meeting Leader-sama tomorrow, we're almost there." Tobi spoke enthusiastically but she kept her gaze at the ground and looked over at Deidara.
"I want to go to bed please?" She asked, angst dripping from every syllable.
He looked up at her and sighed and stood up as she did too.
"Goodnight, Deidara-senpai, Makoto-chan." Tobi called but neither of the two replied nor acknowledged his comment as they walked over to the tent.
Makoto quickly unzipped the tent taking off her shoes, happy to finally have been back in her now dry clothes and not Deidara's Akatsuki robe.
She walked over to the cot laid down on her side and took half of the covers and closed her eyes.
Not two seconds after her eyes were closed he grabbed her shoulder and turned her over to look at his sneering face.
"What the Hell is your problem, you won't eat or talk. Are trying to make us be sympathetic for you or something, un?!" Deidara spat but she didn't fight back and replied softly.
"I figure if I ignored you and didn't talk to you I could keep my eye on my objective." She then turned over.
"And what would that be little Makoto?" He asked trying to pull out anything that would make her respond to him.
"Sasuke-Kun… And killing Orochimaru…" She whispered and then closed her eyes while Deidara glared at her back and then got on his own side of the cot.
"Besides, tomorrow I will be able to kick your bitch ass face in…" She thought smirking against the blanket that was pulled up over her lips.
-:-
She warmed herself by the fire enjoying how wonderful it felt against the crisp, moisture filled morning.
She put her hand in her pocket and lowered her eyes sadly.
Her fingers wormed their way around her communicator and she felt a lump in her throat thinking of Setsuna and how she was unable to know whether or not she was alright… That was slowly tearing her apart.
But she looked up a smirk plastered on her face.
"But it will only be a little longer Mako-chan… in only about an hour you will be free to kick some Akatsuki perverted ass!" She thought in her mind then heard someone emerge from the nearby tent.
She smiled seeing it was Tobi he looked up at her and even though you couldn't see his face you could tell that he was shocked to see that she had made breakfast.
"Makoto-chan! You didn't have to make breakfast! That's what Tobi does!" Tobi shouted was over next to her in a second flat looking at how much food she had made and was only able to go around the camp site a few yards.
"Berries, and fish and even nuts!? Makoto-chan, how did you find all of this!?" Tobi shouted as she blushed and shrugged.
"Just a good sense for nature, I always have." She smiled as Tobi dug in and she smiled wickedly then heard Deidara emerge most likely smelling the food as well by the look of his face.
"Makoto-chan, are feeling better you're smiling!" She looked over to see Tobi say as he was still putting food on his plate.
She smiled at him and nodded.
"Hehe, yeah I was just a little… exhausted yesterday." She spoke smiling and watched Deidara walk over a smirk on his face as well.
"What happened to the cold hearted bitch?" He asked as she glared at him as he reached for the food but his hand was smacked.
"Deidara-senpai!" Tobi scolded as Deidara looked at him like he was crazy.
"How dare you treat Makoto-chan like that when she got up early and made this wonderful breakfast for us!?" He shouted and Deidara looked over at her suspiciously.
"You made it?" He asked and eyed her strangely as she shook her head glaring at him.
"Yeah, you're point?" She replied and he handed her the food.
"I don't understand why you would do a favor for the people that took you away from you precious Uchiha and are going to kill you dear Kyuubi." He spoke and shoved the plate at her.
"Why aren't you eating?" He asked and she blushed.
"I already ate before you two got up!" She protested and tried to give him the plate back but he wouldn't take it.
"Taste everything on there; I'll know whether or not you're trustworthy and not trying to kill us, un." She rolled her eyes and did as she was told and handed it back to him but he brought his demented hand to her chin and pulled her mouth open and glared as he took the plate out of her hand.
"You better stop planning whatever it is that is in your mind, Kino… You'll make yourself regret it." He spoke and she turned away.
"Shut up and eat your food." She spat and turned away mentally smirking at her wit.
She wasn't dumb; she was more devious than that. She was a Konoha ninja after all and trained by two of the great Sannin… They would regret underestimating her.
-:-
A few hours had passed and they were, as said by Tobi almost every five minutes, almost to the hideout.
She watched as Tobi yawned and stretched.
"I sure am tired, Deidara-Senpai! Could we sit down for a second so Tobi can rest?" Tobi pleaded and Deidara glared at him.
"You're the one who keeps talking about how we're almost there! If we stop it's going to take longer, un!" Deidara shouted and yawned as well.
He grumbled and looked in the other direction.
"Only for a few minutes…" He stated and sat on the closest rock and pondered something and quickly looked over at Makoto.
She felt his gaze and turned towards him with a questioning glance.
"What!?" She shouted angrily and crossed her arms over her chest and watched him stand and walk over to her.
"It's time for your next dosage… The other has wor-" Suddenly he was stopped from walking over to her as a fist broke his bottom jaw sending him flying into the nearest tree.
"You ever think about touching Koto, and I will not hesitate killing you, you bastard!" Makoto's eyes widened as tears began to fill them as she looked at her rescuer.
"Fire!" She heard someone shout and watched as a thirty foot ball of fire launched itself towards Deidara and Tobi.
"Compression!" She shouted and melded her hands together and the fire surrounded the two Akatsuki.
She couldn't move, tears fell from her eyes and her body shook.
"It looks like the Miko learned something when she was training after all, ne Koto… And it looks like they can't stand much more, I'm guessing that was-"
"Haruka!" She shouted and hugged the taller girl and cried into her embrace.
"Th-Thank you! Thank you so much!" She cried as the blonde looked down at her confusedly and then smiled kindly as she patted her back.
"It's alright Koto… We're here." She spoke.
"Sorry to interrupt, but it looks like I need to get physical after all, un!" They heard a shout and Rei was knocked to the ground by an explosion but recovered quickly.
She stood up breathing heavily and her amethyst eyes scanned the area around her.
"Ah!" She shouted as a hand gripped her throat and she looked up to see a blue eye looking down at her as he smiled.
"I didn't know Makoto had such a beautiful friend… You have such stunning eyes you know?" He asked and watched the fire in her eyes ignite just as he had watched Makoto's do for the past forty-eight hours.
She grabbed his wrist and smirked.
"Ignite." She spoke softly and flames wrapped around his arms and she sneered as she watched him pull away, fear filling his eyes.
"Tobi! Get over here!" Deidara shouted as he watched Rei jump away from him and over to Makoto and Haruka.
"I-can't-move-Deidara-senpai…" Tobi spoke and he looked behind him to see Tobi lying in an odd position on the ground.
He looked back at Makoto and growled and reached into his pouch getting ready to grab clay, but he froze.
He fell to the ground and tried with all of his might to move his body but couldn't.
Makoto walked up to him bent down and pulled him up by his collar placing his dangerously close to her face.
"You brought this upon yourself by letting your guard down and trusting your enemy for a split second… just as I did, and so it seems we both learned our lesson." She spat and kicked him in the groin and laughed as she watched his emotions change quickly.
"That was for touching me." She whispered and then kicked his side.
"And that's for speaking wrongly about Sasuke." She hissed and turned around and heard him laugh.
"He's still the only thing on your mind… Heh, pathetic. How did you do it?" He asked and she kept walking over to her Senshi and then looked back.
She cupped her hand like she was holding a glass and tilted it up like she was drinking it and huffed as she watched his eyes grow wide realizing that the food was fine, but she had put the toxin in the water.
"She's one smart bitch…" He thought and watched her turn and talk to her friends as they quickly walked away.
"We will meet again Kino Makoto, I can promise you that much… There is much you have to show and interest me with…" He smirked and watched her hug the onyx haired beauty.
-:-
"Are you alright, Mako-chan? Setsuna said that you'd been with them for a while… Do you need anything to eat or something?" Rei asked as Makoto looked over at her and smiled kindly thinking of Setsuna now knowing that she was alright.
"No, Rei-chan… I'm happy just seeing my two friends… but I do have to ask. Why are you saving me and not my team?" She asked and watched as Haruka's expressions changed.
"Setsuna saw that we were the first to complete our training and sent us they could go on that mission…" She spoke and Makoto's eyes widened.
"Th-Then we have to go! We have to go now!" She shouted and Rei grabbed her arm and turned her to look at her with a sullen expression.
"Mako-chan, you're still very weak, you need to go back and rest." Rei spoke softly to see Makoto's crestfallen look.
"Please, you guys! This is our chance to get Michiru back! Haruka I know you miss her more th-"
"Transform… we're going." Haruka spoke harshly without turning towards them.
Rei stepped forward looking at her like she was crazy.
"But Haruka-chan! Makoto, she-" She stopped when she looked at her expression and lowered her eyes to the ground.
Rei knew that Haruka had never been one to show her emotions and when she tried she was never really good at it, but she could see by just looking at her taller friend that she was trying desperately to let them feel her emotions.
"Setsuna won't be happy with us, you both know that right?" Rei asked as she kept her eyes to the ground and looked up to see Makoto had transformed into Sailor Jupiter and smiled.
This felt good, it felt right again. These past few years she had felt a huge part of her was missing and she knew it was the girls that she missed, but she now realized it wasn't just her friends it was how her friends made her feel while fighting alongside one another.
Rei looked at the two and smiled slightly and walked towards them.
"Haruka and I were able to find you by your power source, so hopefully we can do the same with your friends Mako-chan." Rei spoke and held her hands out to grab the other two Senshi's hands.
They quickly grasped them and closed their eyes.
"All you need to do is focus on them, Makoto and when we teleport, you'll be very close." Haruka spoke as she concentrated and felt their powers surging together and in a blink they were gone.
-:-
His eyes widened and he quickly walked over and grasped the mirror in his cold and pale hands.
A malicious smirk spread across his lips as he began to chuckle.
"Well…. It looks like you've taken care of the Akatsuki after all, Mako-chan. And you've even brought your friends." He smiled down and watched her look up to the short haired blonde with a questioning glance.
He watched her stiffen, as he realized she had comprehended that they were in his hideout. She looked around worriedly and wrapped her arms around herself and turned to see the blonde place her hand on her shoulder and most likely give her words of protection.
He laughed as he watched her smile and nod, believing what her friend said to be true.
"So innocent and trusting as always Mako-chan, that's your flaw." He spoke softly and placed the mirror back on the stand and walked out the door.
"It looks like I get to see you in person after these three long years…" He hissed happily and walked along the tunnels, knowing exactly where he was going.
-:-
Makoto ran as fast as she could pumping chakra through her legs and began to feel for the power source; Sakura.
She stopped for a second and closed her eyes. She could feel her chakra but it was moving.
"There!" She shouted and quickly followed after it.
Haruka and Rei had gone together to find Michiru and they told Makoto to go and make sure her friends were unharmed.
Suddenly there was a loud explosion that sent Makoto almost falling to her knees as she grasped the side of the wall and looked around.
"What the Hell was that?" She asked and stood up and ran again.
She was almost there, she could feel it.
She skidded around one of the corners and as soon as she did she stopped her whole body shaking.
Her mouth was agape and tears began to spill from her eyes but she wasn't even blinking.
There about fifty feet down the tunnel was an opening and at the end of it stood Sasuke with his hand on Naruto's shoulder.
Her knees buckled and she placed her hands tightly over her mouth in order to keep them from hearing her sobs.
She squeezed her eyes tightly and felt the tears fall like never before.
She grasped the sides of the walls, not once taking her eyes off of Sasuke.
"S-Sasuke…" She mumbled and began to stammer forward still gripping the wall for support.
He looked just as she remembered; his hair in the same unruly way, his posture, the glare in his eyes… The one thing that had changed was his expression, so full of hate, hostility, and above all loathing.
But, no matter it was still her Sasuke-kun.
"Sasuke." She spoke louder this time, but no one could still hear.
She then let go of the side of the wall and she ran, tears flooding from her remorseful emerald eyes.
"Sasuke!!!!" She screamed and felt her mouth covered and her body slammed into the wall.
-:-
His eyes quickly averted to the source that had screamed his name.
He saw Naruto's eyes widened and his head as well snapped in the direction of the tunnel.
He quickly looked back at Naruto and seethed. He must know whoever it was that had done that.
He used his Sharingan to scan the place and behind the corner he saw two bodies, one of which belonged to Orochimaru, the other was unknown. His eyes widened as he looked at the other being. In the center of their chest was an incredible source of chakra so much that it was blinding to his eye.
He smirked and turned back to Naruto.
"Orochimaru is taking care of them; I will ask him about it later." He thought as he returned to his main concern: Naruto.
-:-
She gasped for air her tear-filled eyes looking up to see joy filled yellow ones staring down at her.
"Now, why did you do that Mako-chan?" He asked in a laughing voice.
He watched her look up at him, tears falling from her eyes even more so now as he knew that she had hoped that it had been Sasuke being the one to pin her to the wall and attack her.
She looked to see that he had grabbed her and pulled her behind the wall before Sasuke could see her. Her eyes traveled over to the corner where she had just darted around and saw him.
"P-Please! Let me see him! Let me see him!!" She screamed desperately as her body wracked with sobs and she lowered her head, tears falling to the ground.
"In time, but not now. It's strange Mako-chan, you were so much more afraid of me in our last encounter." He spoke but she didn't look up, she was still in shock.
"Please!? Let me go… Let me go." She sobbed obviously not paying attention to him. She felt her knees buckle once more as her body fell to the floor and but he didn't loosen his grip.
"Sasuke-Kun…" She sobbed into her hands and heard a shout.
"I suggest you let him go!" She heard a voice she knew all too well shout around the corner where all of her friends were.
She looked up, her head snapping in the direction of the corner once again.
"R-Rei…" She spoke softly and then heard her scream in pain.
She struggled to get out of his grip and finally she realized what needed to be done.
"Lighting Bla-" He covered her mouth once again and brought himself close to her ear.
"You do that, and I won't be able to tell you where your precious Michiru is." He spoke and smiled as he felt her body stiffen and her tears spill over his hand.
-:-
Wow… That was a lot more angsty than what I intended, and I'm pretty the next chapter will be even worse. And yeah, I know I'm horrible. I gave you a cliffy, made you think Sasuke and Mako were finally going to meet and the title probably made you think that Sasuke was going to save her, but it was meant for him to save her in a different way, such as; him to save her from falling for Deidara, who was just a distraction from him. Anyways, happy belated birthday to Sasuke!... Even though it is your fault that Dei's dead! (Sob, sob) I hope you guys liked this, please review! Up next is finally Desert Rose chapter six!
-Kat