The way to your heart Ch.14
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (Time skip one week later) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Deidara! Deidara! They're back! They're back!" Hidan cheered running into the blonde's office. "Hey Deidara did you….hear….me? Awe that's cute!" Deidara was fast asleep, his head resting among the dozens of papers that littered his desk. While Pein had been out of commission the blonde had volunteered to take over some of the pierced mans paper work, not knowing just how many hundreds of files there actually were. So now Deidara was staying up hours into the night trying to get them all done. Pein offered to pass the work onto someone else but the blonde wouldn't hear of it, claiming he was just fine but now this was the scene anyone would see when they saw him, passed out where ever he sat, worn out from the nights with little to no sleep.
"Hidan would you shut up!" Sasori hissed going through his own mountain of paper work, Unknown to the blonde whenever Deidara would fall asleep Sasori would always sneak a few dozen papers trying to help his partner by keeping his work load to a minimum.
"Ok Sasori geez I was just coming to tell Deidara that Pein, Zetsu, and the others are back."
"They're back?" Deidara shouted standing up not knowing that he had a large black smudge on his visible cheek.
"Yep they just got back, although Itachi still has to stay over for a few more days something about the doctors wanting to run a few more tests…." Deidara was already gone, having run out of the room eager to see his friends. Ever since that terrifying night one week earlier the station had been on a 24/7 watch. No one ever had any free time, at all hours a minimum of 2 people had to stay back in order to keep things running. With 3 of their men out of commission, along with the necessity of keeping them under heavy guard only 2 to 3 people were ever even available at a time to stay back and watch the station. Now that Pein and Zetsu were back the others would be back as well, meaning that the nights of sleepless worry were over.
"Hey guys!" Deidara exclaimed running into the front lobby. It seemed like everyone (minus a certain weasel and shark) was there, and it looked as if everyone was ok the only indication that anyone had been hurt was that Pein was now walking with a pair of crutches.
"How was the drive over?" Sasori asked Kakuzu who filled in after the others.
"Uneventful, it was strange not hearing someone go on and on about their god for the first time in a week."
"Ahh fuck you Kakuzu." Hidan huffed. Usually when a pair hung back to watch the station it was Kakuzu and Hidan seeing as neither one of them were very fond of hospitals. Deidara didn't know why but he felt it had something to do with Kakuzu's stitches.
"Sempai!" Tobi cheered glomping his friend (Is there any other way *smile*). Deidara wasn't surprised to see Tobi there, since that first night at the hospital he and Zetsu had been nearly inseparable. Whenever Deidara would go to stand guard (Or hang out because all he really had to do was be in the same room as them, with a big screen TV and room service *wink*) Tobi would always be there, sometimes past the normal visiting hours but Zetsu never seemed to mind in fact whenever Deidara would get there before the boy Zetsu would always ask him if Tobi was planning on coming but then 3 seconds later he would come bounding in through the door a big grin on his face as he gave Deidara a quick hug (or tackle) and then go straight to Zetsu.
"Hey Tobi would you mind getting off Deidara for a second, it looks like he could use some air."
"Ok Zetsu!" Tobi chirped jumping up and running into the green haired mans open arms.
"Ahh feels good to be back." Pein sighed taking a deep breath of the familiar air around him.
Konan's face was stern. "Remember Pein you're to do only desk work until the doctor says otherwise, I don't care if you think you're capable of more, your body has suffered an enormous trauma and still needs time to fully recover."
"Yes mom." Pein chuckled giving the woman a light peck on the cheek. ^.^
"Hey Zetsu, un." Deidara whispered walking over to the green haired man whose arms were currently wrapped around Tobi's waist.
"What?"
"Why is Pein here? Shouldn't he be at home resting, un?"
"Well…that was the original order the doctor gave him but he was so determined to return to work that Konan managed to 'convince' the man to allow him back as long as he stuck to desk work and to not go into the field until the doctor gave the ok."
"Hmm I see, and what about you, un, what are you doing here?"
"Oh I'm just here to make sure these knuckle heads are ok, I'm going to rest, the doctor says that I'm to get 2 weeks off paid vacation and I'm going to use that time to catch up on my…reading." He smiled his eyes flickering down for just a second to look at the shorter teen in his arms but Deidara saw. He smiled at his friends glad that they had found someone to be with that made them so happy.
"Hey Deidara." Pein said limping over. "How's that paper work coming? Please tell me you didn't do it all by yourself."
"Nope not all of it, Sasori Danna kept stealing some whenever he thought I wasn't looking."
Sasori blinked, he didn't know the blonde knew."Actually brat the only reason I took the papers while you were 'sleeping' was so Pein wouldn't have to worry about all his work being done incorrectly when he finally returned."
Deidara frowned sticking his tongue out in a childish manner, turning his back on the smirking red head.
"Sleeping? That would explain the big black smudge mark on your cheek." Konan pointed out, licking her thumb and rubbing it against the blonde's cheek as a mother would do to her child.
"Ack! Konan, un!" Deidara said pulling away while the others laughed at the scene.
"How many time must I tell you people, it's 'Chief' Konan, I let it slid while we were at the hospital but now fun time is over and it's time to get back to work."
"When was it 'fun time?'" Hidan whispered to Deidara causing a slight chuckle to emanate from the blonde. Sasori caught this, frowning he walked over to the pair taking the blonde by the arm.
"Ok brat enough joking around, Pein may be back but you've still got a lot of work to do."
"Actually Sasori I need to speak with Deidara for a moment." Konan stepped in.
"What about, un?"
"It concerns some new information that we received, that's all I say as for right now, I'll explain it to you in full detail when we get to my office."
"Yes ma'am, un." Deidara followed the woman down the hall, not seeming to notice the nervous glance that Pein gave him.
"Deidara please have a seat." Konan said closing the door behind them.
"Ok, un, what new information did you receive?" Suddenly Konan was in Deidaras face, lifting up his arms, testing his biceps.
"Deidara how flexible are you?" She asked.
"Ugh…Chief Konan why would you need to know that, un?" Deidara squeaked pulling away.
"How long can you hang upside down without passing out?" she said running her fingers through his hair taking a generous amount and piling it on top of his head giving him a nice looking up do.
"Chief Konan, what are you doing?" Deidara exclaimed standing up and backing away from the seemingly crazed woman.
"Deidara how good an actor are you?"
A blonde eyebrow rose. "I don't know why, un?"
"Before we get to into that allow me to explain the situation." Konan sat down at her desk, a complete business aura emanating around her. "Please have a seat." She said gesturing to the chair in front of Deidara.
The blonde eyed the furniture in question warily but did as asked, never once taking his eye off the blue haired woman.
"We weren't able to make a positive ID on the man who got away but we were able to get some information on a man who he might possibly be working with."
"Who, un?"
"We don't have a name but we do have a picture." Konan then slid a small rectangular piece of paper across the desk. Deidara took the paper the man in the photo was young probably no older than 16 or 17, he has short dark colored hair that went just above his chin. His eyes were black, and he looked really familiar, the blonde couldn't quite place where he might have seen him before.
"And how am I supposed to help, un?" Deidara said handing the picture back.
"Well what we have on him in limited, we don't even know for 100% that he is involved. And seeing as our evidence against him is nothing more than a tip we have to be careful and try going to the source directly. That's where you come in."
"Why can't you just bring him in and hand him over to Itachi, un? Isn't he some master interrogator that can get anyone to talk?"
"We can't do that, Itachi is still in the hospital and it's unclear as to when he'll be coming out, we need this taken care of as soon as possible."
"Ok then why can't someone else talk to him, un?"
"Because no one in the normal police force can handle this type of situation and everyone else in the Akasuki is too rough to handle something so delicate."
A blonde eyebrow rose. "Delicate, un?"
Konan sighed. "We only have one shot at this without something strong against him we can't hold him for more than 24 hours, as I said all we have is a tip and if we're unable to find something by then we could very well lose the only suspect we have at the moment."
"Isn't Orochimaru a suspect, un?"
"Ok let me rephrase that, the only suspect we can find at the moment."
"So what do you want me to do about this guy, un?"
"Well we found out that he's been paying a certain business weekly visits, you're going to go undercover and as a member of this business and get the kid to talk."
"Konan, you're scaring me, exactly what 'business' am I being sent into, un?"
Deidara didn't know if the look on the woman's face was one of excitement or disgust but whatever it was it sent a chill of nerves shooting down the blondes spin. "Deidara I'm going to make this very simple, the name of the business is called 'Pole Cat' and you're-"
"'Pole Cat?' Are you kidding me, un? That's a strip club!" The blonde did not like where this was going.
"Exactly, Deidara in 2 days time you're to go under cover as an exotic dancer."