Standing Tall Chapter 2: Condemned to Suffer, a naruto fanfic

Title: Standing Tall

Pairings: Deidara & Haruno Sakura

Rating: M - Not suitable for children or teens below the age of 16 with possible strong but non-explicit adult themes, references to violence, and strong coarse language.

Disclaimer...

CrimsonKunoichi: Deidara is HOT!!!

Deidara: I knew that, yeah

CrimsonKunoichi: Deidara will you marry me?

Deidara: maybe... what's in it for me, yeah?

CrimsonKunoichi: anything you want (drools)

Deidara: I like that, yeah... but i'm not sure... I think I need to be convinced, yeah!

CrimsonKunoichi: hehe... I convince you alright... ku ku ku ku (blinks at Deidara)

(Deidara grins)

CrimsonKunoichi: Naruto does not belong to me, nor does Deidara. But by the end of this chapter I will have convinced Deidara otherwise (grins while leading Deidara to a dark place where no one can hear the screams)

Chapter Two: Condemned to suffer

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Watch your mouth, kunoichi" Itachi's tone grew dangerous.

"Or what?" Sakura said defiantly. Itachi stood walking across the room to where Sakura sat slumped on the floor, grabbing her by the shoulders pulling her roughly to her feet his other hand curled around her neck pushing her to the wall.

"I'll kill you" his voice was void of emotion but his eyes had a small glint of anger.

Showing emotion, even if a little to an Uchiha was a lot. And Itachi wasn't the least bit happy that this kunoichi could get him so riled up.

"I don't like you kunoichi" he said tightening his grip on her neck. "If you ever speak up to me again I'll kill you... And I'll take my time"

Releasing his grip on her, but still holding her to the wall Itachi turned his crimson gaze to her jade orbs. Sakura's eyes lit in horror closing quickly as she saw the sharingan evolve

"Open your eyes" his cold voice commanded.

"No" was all she could force out her lips

"What?? Is he stupid or something? Does he really think you'll just open your eyes to the mangekyou so he can torture you, and then say 'thanks I had a great time' ha! As if! No no it won't work we're keeping our eyes nice and shut" inner Sakura ranted on...

Pulling a kunai from his weapon holster he brought it up to her collarbone resting the cool metal on her skin

"Open your eyes" he commanded once more

"Not a chance" Sakura grit her teeth

Itachi brought the kunai away from her skin as Sakura await it to enter her flesh, but instead she felt nothing, her thought racing from question to horror as she heard a loud cutting sound as her shirt and chest rapping fell to the floor. Something warm pressed against her breast, warm and wet. Sakura forced her frozen arms to move in her protection but found them to be held by something. Sakura's eyes shot open only to looking into the swirling mangekyou

In the next week of her stay in the Akatsuki lair while Sakura desperately hoped for Deidara's return (as seeing she would get out by herself being completely drained of chakra, severely weak from some 'encounters' with the Uchiha mass murder who happened to be the one assigned to watch her. But to her dismay Deidara wouldn't return and all she could do was try and survive the Uchiha, who obviously didn't like her and did his best to show her just how much he loathed her very existence having done everything to make her life miserable, except rape her but he had promised that he would go that far... Soon! She hoped

Deidara would return before that.

"Haruno" the cold voice of the sharingan user that she had come to dread rang in her ears as a death sentence.

Smack! A hard hand to her face was what she got for not responding immediately or in a way that displeased him.

"Uchiha-san" she responded in a short voice, not wanting to spike his anger more than she already had.

Pulling her roughly to her feet he pulled down the semi-lit halls of the Akatsuki's surprisingly well kept but still creepy lair. Reaching a door different from all the doors she had seen so far she was pushed inside to reveal a simple but clean bathroom.

"Shower and change" Those three words were like music to hers ears, a shower! She hadn't showered in over a week now. Not to mention change her clothes. Sakura could hug the Uchiha had she not had deep feelings of hate for him she probably would, and knowing his temper and likeness of her she found it would be wise to thank this deed of 'kindness' which surely had not been his idea.

"Thank you" Sakura said, not looking him in the face, but rather eyeing the clothes she had spotted folded on a chair in the corner of the bathroom.

"You have fifteen minutes" Itachi said while taking a seat in an empty chair next to the folded clothes.

"You're going to watch?" She asked.

"Is there a problem Haruno?"

"No, I'm good" she said trying to keep the sarcasm in her voice low.

"Watch your tone Haruno" he threatened.

Sakura chose not to answer as she turned her back to the Uchiha she began removing her clothes quickly as inner Sakura scribbled on some paper "Mass murderer check! Cold, check! Sadist, check! Pervert, check! Yup, we got ourselves stuck with a psycho"

"God damn it, shut up Tobi!" The long haired blonde yelled to his masked

companion.

"Deidara-sempai! Deidara-sempai! I was talking to leader he said..." Poor Tobi was cut off once more

"God damn it! Shut the hell up you stupid idiot" Deidara's face was twisted in anger. Tobi became pale.

"But Deidara-sempai" he said in a low voice "leader gave a message"

"I'll hear the God damn message when we get the hideout. Now shut the hell up" he screamed his mouth hands already chewing clay. Tobi gulped and decided it would be good for his health to remain silent.

Deidara had been on the same mission with Tobi for almost two weeks now and was very annoyed at the fact Tobi would shut up, especially for the last three days when Tobi kept saying that leader had given a message about some changes or something... Either way he didn't care if it were changes he'd find out when he got to the base. He had been in a foul mood anyway and really didn't want to hear what Tobi had to say. He just wanted to get to the base to report to leader so he could travel back to his house in the rock as the leader had promised them vacations while Itachi and Kisame went to hunt for the kyuubi once more. Deidara wondered how long his vacations would last this time, he would go visit a certain pink-haired leaf nin, thinking back to the last time he had seen her.

Flashback

The light sound of footsteps followed by the creak a doorknob turning were the only sounds coming from Sakura apartment. Small drops of water made their way down Deidara's bare back and onto the floor. A small 'plush' noise announced Sakura's soft landing on the bed, besides that fact that Deidara hadn't cared for lying her down properly and only dropping on the bed. Only Sakura didn't seem to care, she was in awe as she stared at the familiar sight of Deidara in front of her they had been seeing each other for a little over a year now, which wasn't much, considering they never saw each other that often... Perhaps once a month... Or less... None the less every time they met it was the same story... Not five minutes later they were in each others naked embrace.

They weren't boyfriend and girlfriend but Sakura knew better than to see any other man, before she figured it was only casual sex until one day she decided to go on a date with an ANBU that worked under Sai's ANBU squad. She didn't sleep with him but hell it was one date, but none the less two weeks later on a mission to the cloud she ran into a very pissed Deidara. That yelled at her for a while after roughing her up a bit during their 'spar' he had slapped her across the face as a warning to 'respect him, hmm' as he put it, of course having convinced her of never again pissing him off he left. He hadn't touched her, something completely new.

A week later she found herself staring at the remains of her 'date' as they rebuilt his body to be buried. "Killed by the Akatsuki" Sai told her... Funny it was a normal ANBU scout mission when out of the blue an Akatsuki appeared taking on the four of them, and not taking a single hit five minutes later with one blown up teammate and the other three sporting light injuries the Akatsuki left.

Two days later Sakura was visited by the familiar blond Akatsuki who spent the night being scolded for killing the said ANBU. Yep Sakura had learned to somewhat 'fear' Deidara for as much as she was a strong kunoichi that had killed his former partner he still WAS Akatsuki and he may have been weak than Sasori at the time the puppeteer had been killed, but had had the help of Chiyo and Deidara was no slack off seeing as his left eye had been trained to resist the sharingan... Itachi's sharingan! Something not even Kakashi had been able to do.

Back to that night in her apartment: after their 'reunion' (AKA a few hours of sex) he had left while she slept, he was tired but couldn't stay long for both their sakes.

End of flashback

'Soon' he said to himself, a smile played on his lips as he momentarily forgot his annoying partner, the most likely troublesome news the leader had, and of course the one raven-haired sharingan user he despised the most... Uchiha Itachi.

Sakura lay in the tub, trying her best to ignore the Uchiha; he just sat there staring at the wall as if she wasn't even there. "Good" she thought to herself getting his attention hadn't proved being a good or better said healthy thing so far. The pink-haired kunoichi just soaked trying to enjoy this for as long as she could.

"You've been there long enough"

"Good things never last" inner Sakura said casually as if she had been expecting him to end her happiness at any moment now. Sakura fought a frown not wanting to give the Uchiha the pleasure of seeing just how much he didn't want to ever leave the tub which she had momentarily dubbed as 'heaven'.

Picking herself up back turned to the Uchiha Sakura wrapped a towel around as quick as possible but the Uchiha never even glanced at her. Quickly drying herself she donned on the folded clothes on the chair (something she found rather difficult to do while wearing a towel, but better than being naked in from of the loathsome Uchiha) and to her further displeasure she found the clothes to be an Akatsuki outfit, cloak too.

"Come" he said simply, as he walked away not waiting for her to follow but expecting such action.

"Where are you taking me?" Sakura half asked half demanded.

Silence was her response, as the ever stoic Uchiha kept his calm but steady pace.

Chapter End

CrimsonKunoichi: Hehe... no one liked this Fic (cries) well I like it so I will continue to write... and update the other Fics.

CrimsonKunoichi: Cookies anyone?

(CrimsonKunoichi is ignored)

(cries again)

CrimsonKunoichi: Buaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Deidara!!!!!! (runs off to find Deidara)

Review? Yes? (puppy Eyes)