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Deidara POV:
I screamed and writhed, the sickening pain hurting like a bitch. I yelled as the newer Chakra hit out at my weaker, softer clay exploding type. It felt as though I was being torn inside out. Again I screamed as another hit racked through my body. I coughed and spluttered as the offending power in my body attacked my heart and bloodstream. I coughed again, and this time it brought up blood. I heard someone yelling and I tried to say I was okay, but when I opened my mouth only a gasp came out.
"Holy hell! He's not getting any better, is he?" I tried to say I was okay once more, with the same result. I moaned as the voice's cold finger probed my sore shoulders. "Fuck it, his temperature is like triple what it was. The body is too weak to accept any other Chakra."
"Should I get Leader-sama? Or will Deidara be okay?" What the heck?! Am I dying because of the Chakra? "Becci? What the hell are you doing?"
"Oh shut it Itachi! He'll be okay. Leave... now. Go get Leader-sama if you wish." Itachi and Becci? Holy fucking hell, were they taking care of me? "Now, Shade, be nice, he needs our help."
Was she talking to herself? No, Shade is a goddess, and she was praying for help. I was a sadist but I knew that the goddess would make it very, very painful. I was no Hidan so I was not going to take any shit from this without being either dead or very much wishing for the end. Either way, better than the way I was now.
I felt another, more soothing Chakra enter me and immediately I felt better. I felt darkness and shadows take over me as I slipped once more into the comatose state.
"Deidara? Deidara-san?" Becci's voice echoed through the darkness. "Deidara are you okay?" I tried to move my torso to look at her but I was unable to even open my eyes. "You won't be able to move or see but you can speak."
"H-hai... I'm fine, un." It felt like restraining threads were lifted and I could all of a sudden move. "What happened? I can't remember anything... except you were praying, yeah..." I wrinkled my eyebrows and tried to remember what happened. "And Kisame was angry so he pushed me against a tree, and I tried to move which only resulted with bark getting under my skin... and that's seriously all I remember, hm."
"You lost too much blood and passed out. Itachi and I helped you and we got rid of all the bark and I healed the skin over. You should be fine. Can you sit up?"
"Hai." I slowly sat up and I felt a pillow being slid under my back. "Where are Itachi and everyone? I only sense yours and my Chakra in here, un." No Pein, no Konan and no Itachi. I couldn't sense Danna or Reahn or Kana. No sadistic Hidan or Kakuzu and I couldn't sense Samantha either. Where were they?
"They're all out on missions... except Pein... and Konan... I think they've gone to fuck each other but yeah. Oh and there have been slight changes in pairings..."
"I'm paired with...?" I asked now, scared some.
"Me. Other pairings are Sasori and Reahn, Hidan and Sam, Kakuzu and Kana, Kisame and Itachi still, and Zetsu and Tobi. Well... yeah."
"So I'm paired with you? Fair enough..." She grinned and I smiled. Holy hell she was hot when she grinned. "Actually, I think it's unfair..." she winced, "I don't want to hog you..."
"I don't mind if you were the only person I saw for the rest of my life... actually, I'd like that..." and with her last words she leant in and pressed her lips to mine. I froze, shock flooding through me. She pulled back, blushing furiously. "Sorry..." and with that last word she fled from the room, leaving me with my thoughts.
Baka! You rejected her! She kissed you and you just sat there? Baka galore here, he rejected the girl he's in love with! Roll up, roll up! I imagined Sasori laughing in my face and telling me what a douche I was. It'd been over two weeks and I was yet to be able to go on missions.
"Deidara...?" I heard Pein question. "Are you okay? You seem... sad." He walked into my room, straight out in my room. "What happened? And it was Kana placed you with Becci. She was going to be with Itachi and Kisame but then you'd be with the two puppeteers. Unfair on your art."
"Why'd you ask if you knew what was wrong, Pein?"
"I needed to hear it from you, but Becci wanted me to check up on you. She's gone."
"What? What the fuck do you mean? 'She's gone!'?"
"What I said. She's gone. I found a note in her room and she's gone. Said she needed to do something."
"What though?" I shook my head and Pein shrugged. "You don't know!!!" I yelled.
"I'm trying to do a Jashin-damned ritual here! Shut the fuck up!" Hidan growled. "She's been fucking gone for a fucking week as you recovered!" I stiffened.
"Hidan! That was unnecessary!" Pein-sama grumbled, shoving the Jashinist out of my room.
"Bullshit. He needed to know. Pein-sama, Becci's gone, and probably dead. Deidara's her partner. He needs to know. All of it. What I told you and what Samantha told you. And not in a few weeks either. Now." Hidan grumbled back. I only knew some of the story? Fuck...
"Hidan, if he needs to know, you and Sam tell him. It's hard enough telling him she's gone." Pein was talking quietly and I could tell he didn't want me to hear. "Hidan, he's still weak from the Chakra fight. It nearly killed him!" I winced at that. I was weak... full stop. Not because of the healing, but just because... I was weak... "Hidan, he needs to know now." Pein mimicked Hidan, laughing.
"Fine. I'll tell him now, happy?" Pein laughed again and I heard him walk off. Hidan sighed and I felt Samantha walking beside him to my door. "There goes my ritual... Oi, Dei? Can I come in?"
"No, go do your ritual." I answered in a nanosecond. "I just want to be alone."
"Too bad. You need to know this." He sighed again and pushed lightly on my door. It swung open and revealed Sam and Hidan standing there, both of them looking regretful. "Why me? Why not Sasori! He was paired with a friend too!" Hidan whined.
"Right. `Dan, shut the fuck up. Deidara-san, you don't really want to know but it's best if you do. Becci has three souls in one body. They all are similar but one is a demon, one is a goddess and one is her normal soul. The demon is not exactly a demon like what you kill, but the soul of a person deceased and seeking vengeance. Reahn and I also have these vengeance seeking souls. Once you fill this vengeance they crave, they leave and sometimes you get another desperate soul. Becci has had over fifty souls. She's filled each request. I've had two, this is my second. Reahn is still on her first. Her Goddess is from a religion close to Jashinism. It's called Shadism. It's merely sadism and with different rules. Such as purity. They don't have any sort of intercourse unless they love that person and think they are the 'one'. Shade..." Sam sighed. "Shade is rather cruel, and it can reflect in her behaviour. Such as... well, this. Her decision to leave was rash, and she went along with it. It gets rid of Melissa and that's what she wants, as when she has a human soul in her, other than her own, she feels human emotions tenfold, and when it's herself and her soul, Shade can deal with it. But these emotions are too powerful for the goddess."
Sam and Hidan exchanged looks as I blinked in disbelief. "What? Souls? Goddesses? Bullshit! Stop fucking with my mind!"
"Fine... she's going to die finishing this though. She needs to kill Saboku-no-Temari, the Kazekage's sister." Hidan replied. The two walked out and I sat frozen on my bed, scared for the only girl I've ever really loved.