A/N: hey all! Thank you all for your wonderful reviews.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Yu-gi-oh!
Chapter 6
"Why are you still following me?" Deidara asked Hidan.
"Let us go right now!" Sakura demanded.
"Shut up!" Hidan told her. Sakura's cheeks grew red with fury, she wasn't used to being shouted at.
"Take your hostage and go stalk somewhere else!" Deidara told him.
"Before I go, why the fuck are we taking hostages and stalking areas?" Hidan asked.
"How should I know? Just do it, un!"
Sakura glanced at Ino who was looking terrified. Hidan yanked Sakura's arm and pulled her in another direction. "Hey!" she exclaimed, not liking to be handled so roughly.
"Hold it right there!" said Kiba, appearing from behind a tree with nun-chucks in his hand. Naruto stood there with a sword and Neji had his bow and arrows. Sakura felt so relieved at the sight of Naruto, she wanted to run into his arms but Hidan had her in a tight grip.
"Don't take another step," Neji said, aiming his arrow at Hidan 's head.
"Hand over the girl," said Naruto.
"Get the fuck out of my way!" Hidan said angrily.
Naruto swung his sword and Hidan stepped aside as it connected with the tree instead. Neji shot arrow after arrow at Hidan but every last one missed. "My turn!" Kiba yelled, swinging the nun-chucks. "Kiba no!" Neji exclaimed as the nun-chucks swung around – Kiba was highly inexperienced. He swung it around and hit himself in the head. Naruto, Neji and Sakura groaned while Hidan laughed maniacally.
-X-
Shikamaru and Suigetsu located Deidara and Ino. Deidara's back was towards them. "Do something, Shikamaru," Suigetsu whispered. Shikamaru handed Suigetsu his satchel and Suigetsu rummaged around in it finding Shikamaru's skateboard invention, he raised it above his head.
"No!" Shikamaru whispered hurriedly and took the board from Suigetsu. Shikamaru set it down behind Deidara. Ino saw this and turned and smiled, about to shout out but Shikamaru held a finger to his lips.
"Who's there?" Deidara whirled around.
As Shikamaru predicted, Deidara stumbled backwards onto the skateboard.
"Aaaaah!"
"Run!" Suigetsu shouted at Ino. She made a run for it without a moments hesitation. "Oh no you don't, un," Deidara said, grabbing her ankle as he lay on the ground. Shikamaru and Suigetsu were confronted with the creepy purple smoke and another high-pitched scream told them that Ino was once again in the hands of Deidara.
-X-
"Let Sakura go now!" Karin and Tenten demanded. The girls had their swords raised, Tenten had given Karin a pep talk prior to encountering Hidan so that the poor girl would know how to defend herself. Despite her looks, Karin learnt pretty fast.
"So you bitches want to butcher me?" Hidan asked incredulously, "Go ahead and try."
"Alright we will," Tenten said as she and Karin swung their swords at Hidan. Unfortunately, he disappeared along with Sakura and the girls' ended up butchering each other instead. "Yeeoow!" Karin gasped as blood shot out of their wounds, she was close to fainting but Tenten tore the hem of her shirt and tied it over the gash and then did the same for herself.
"This is definitely not good," Tenten murmured.
"Plan B," Karin said.
"What's plan B?" Tenten asked, impressed that the girl had come up with a plan in this situation.
"I don't know, I was hoping you had one."
-X-
Hinata and Lee were trudging through the woodland where they could see copious amounts of strange purple smoke. "Lady Hinata! Let me carry you upon my shoulders!"
"N-no thank you, Sir Lee, I'm f-fine."
"I insist! It will be good training for me and such a delicate, youthful lady such as yourself should not have to walk on this dangerous ground!"
"I – I don't want to incon-" Hinata was saying but she was interrupted by a low chuckle.
"What do we have here, un?"
Lee's sword was already drawn and he pushed Hinata behind him. "Who are you? Why do you have Lady Ino?"
"Lee! Hinata! Run!" Ino cried.
A vicious smile appeared on Deidara's face, "Hinata eh? Could you be the Lady Hinata that moron Hidan keeps going on about? He says he is apparently going to marry you so what are you doing away from the lair?"
"That doesn't concern you, you villain! Let Lady Ino go or I will be forced to engage you in combat," Lee told Deidara who merely laughed as he snapped his fingers. Their world suddenly turned upside down and they felt as if they were being pulled through some kind of vortex. Deidara had moved them into one of the houses that the knights had encountered in the woods. The one that contained the butchered body parts. Ino was sobbing quietly while Hinata was frozen with shock.
"Stop your crying, no one is going to save you, un," Deidara said.
"You're wrong! I will not allow you to harm these young ladies!" Lee said, lunging at Deidara with his sword. Deidara dodged easily. "Do you want to stop me?" Deidara asked menacingly, "Don't you know that the dark forces cannot be stopped!" Deidara was holding something in his hand and he threw it at Lee and it latched on to his shoulder. "Detonate!"
The thing on Lee's shoulder exploded and Lee fell to the ground in pain.
"Sir Lee!" Hinata and Ino cried. Hinata rushed to Lee's aid but Deidara was quick to react. "Go! Cursed ghost of fled dreams1, imprison her!" Suddenly, Hinata found herself trapped on top of a huge bed with a ghost encircling her.
"Hinata!" Ino exclaimed.
Suddenly, something struck Deidara on his butt and it really stung. It was Sasuke with a blowdart. "Why you..." Deidara snarled clutching his rear end. Sasuke looked at Hinata who looked very shaken as he stared at him pleadingly. For some strange reason, his heart did a catapult and he focused his attention back on Deidara, at the same time willing the blowdart to turn back into a sword. "Release Lady Hinata and Lady Ino at once," Sasuke said, his voice lowered dangerously.
Deidara laughed and flicked his wrist and Sasuke found himself imprisoned within a picture frame. "What the..." Sasuke said, finding himself trapped in the portrait.
Lee finally rose once again, but his eyebrows were singed. He looked at Hinata trapped in the cursed bed and Sasuke in the possessed picture frame while Ino looked on with a horrified expression. Lee grunted in anger and grabbed the sword from the ghost that was encircling the bed. He wielded the sword and struck the picture frame in rage. The sharp blade penetrated the demon possessing the frame and Sasuke was freed. Deidara snarled and the worst was far from over because the ground began to tremor. Lee clutched the bedpost and Sasuke flung himself on the bed to try and grab Hinata. He had a firm grip on her waist and looked up at her face which was slightly red but relieved. Sasuke couldn't breathe a sigh of relief just yet because Deidara tossed some explosives at him and Sasuke and Lee had to dodge. Lee tried to strike the ghost of fled dreams with its own sword but both the knights began to feel funny and lightheaded. Sasuke dropped to his knees as Deidara, Ino, Hinata and the bed dissolved into nothingness before his eyes.
-X-
Deidara surveyed the room that he had transported them to; Ino was tied to a chair and he even had Hinata. Two hostages! he thought gleefully. Now he just needed to find the items so that he could give them to the great sorcerer. This would have been an easy task – if he knew what they were. The sorcerer had given them rather cryptic instructions. While Deidara's back was turned, Hinata tried to sit up in bed but the ghost pointed a bow and arrow at her so she lay back down. (The ghost is now using a bow and arrow because Lee took its sword).
The ghost aimed for Deidara's backside but Deidara whirled around and suddenly the ghost made as if it were shooting Hinata. "I want to know where the sacred items are!" Deidara demanded.
"Don't shout at me!" Ino replied, "And anyway, who are you?"
"First tell me where the sacred items are!"
"I don't know where they are!"
"Then I don't know who I am, un!" Deidara retorted.
Ino looked at him funny, his face turned scarlet, he turned around so fast that his cloak billowed out around him.
"You!" he said to Hinata, who was looking at him, not with fear anymore but with slight interest. "Where-are-the-secret-items?" Deidara repeated slowly in a voice he hoped was menacing. "No idea," Hinata said mildly. Deidara began pacing around the bed and tapped his chin thoughtfully. "I expected you would say that, which is why I have this, un!" Deidara declared, he reached into his cloak and pulled out a feather. He ripped off Hinata's shoe and started tickling her under her foot with the feather. Hinata was so doubled over with laughter that she nearly fell off the bed.
"Tell me, un!" Deidara demanded, "Where are they?"
Even if Hinata did know, she couldn't talk because she was laughing too hard.
-X-
"If you do not release me, I am going to kick your-" Sakura started, but she was cut short by a tinkling noise. A golden shell shaped object was emitting a glow. Hidan picked it up.
"Yeah whaddya want?" Hidan spoke into it. Deidara was on the other end boasting about how he had two hostages and laughing because Hidan only had one. "You imbecile! Who cares about fucking hostages? We need to get the items!" Hidan yelled and placed the shell back on the tabletop. He started walking around and around the armchair that Sakura was tied to, watching him was making her dizzy. "I need those sacred items!" Hidan said. He got down on his hands and knees and started banging the floor like a toddler throwing a tantrum.
"Where are the items fool?" Hidan asked. Sakura was offended at being called a fool but she took an impatient breath. 'They are entrusted to the five kingdoms. You will never be able to get them. They are protected by powerful enchantments," Sakura told him. She was certain that Hidan would never be able to land his hands on them. If he did, the consequences would be disastrous. "We'll see about that. But now I have some business to take care of. I need to get more hostages then I need to get back to my lovely bride-to-be!"
Sakura rolled her eyes as he stepped out of the room. She quickly scanned the area for a mode of escape. Hidan returned sooner than she expected, with two skeletons in his arms. He threw them on the armchair and tied them up with ropes. "There," he said, stepping back to admire his handiwork. Sakura cringed because she was sitting inches away from real live skeletons. "Are these the hostages you went to get?"
"Yes!"
"They're a little dead, aren't they?"
"Yes, I fucking figured that – wait until I tell that fool Deidara. But first, I'm going to check on my precious!"
A/N: hahaha little does he know his precious is not where he expects her to be…
Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Don't forget to review
1 – this is also a yu-gi-oh! Card…