'Whaddya mean I hafta fight Joy-chan?!'
'Wahh, Tobi was kidding! Tobi wanted to see the look on your face! Tobi- GAH!'
The Akatsuki idiot didn't exactly get to finish that, as I knocked him to the ground with my fist. So I was pissed. That wasn't funny. I don't wanna have to fight Joy-chan. Ever. Tobi is so annoying. As in, mega-annoying. I hadn't even joined Akatsuki yet and I already wanted to strangle him. 'Tobi, I hope you slip on a banana peel….AND DIE!!!' I yelled at the orange-masked imbecile. 'Wahh….Tobi is sorry, and Tobi don't like bananas….or slipping on them!' I sighed, massaging my forehead in frustration. When I said that Akatsuki were wimps, weaklings and losers, I forgot to add 'morons'. Except for Joy-chan. The fight with Deidara was just a few precious hours away, and I could hardly afford to be distracted by Tobi in the middle of my training regime. Sighing, I continued my target practice, tossing perfectly pointed shuriken and kunai at the straw dummies. I hit my mark. Every time. 'Tobi is impressed. Kairi has good aim. Tobi-'
'Is gonna shut up now,' I interrupted. 'While Kairi does her practice, 'cause Kairi doesn't want to die. Kapeesh?' Tobi seemed to take a hint, so he left me in peace.
'God…. I wish I was……a cheesecake. No, a chocolate cake. Wait…..a strawberry and vanilla- why am I going on about cakes?' I sat down, rubbing the back of my head. 'Maybe I'm training too hard. I should probably take a nap…..or something.' Yawning, I leant against the shady tree under which I had been training. Closing my eyes, I thought about the fight, and what could possibly happen, whether or not I would die……depressing thoughts much?
Then I thought about Joy-chan. I had to win. I had to, for her sake. Besides, I was NOT losing to that over-aggressive girly-man. Not in a million years! Yawning again, I drifted off into my dreams.
Deidara's POV
'Joy-chan, what jutsu does Kairi use?'
Joy looked at the ground, and muttered; 'Wind style jutsu. But she's really good at taijutsu, and uses a lot of weaponry. But she can't do even the simplest genjutsu.' Nodding, I absorbed this information. 'Okay then. Sounds easy enough.' Joy looked directly into my eyes, tears pouring from her own. 'If you win, Kairi will die,' she whispered, voice barely perceptible. 'I don't want Kairi to die.' That sad face slowly started to melt my heart. If I killed Kairi, Joy would never forgive me. So it was set. I had to lose, but in a way that I nearly won.
Perfect.
The fight was in about ten minutes now, and Kairi was supposed to be here by now. I wonder where she is. I asked myself. Did she decide to duck out? Obviously, many members of Akatsuki were thinking along the same lines. The double-doors swung open, and a very harassed looking Kairi stumbled into the arena, followed by Tobi. 'God,' she groaned, walking over to me and Joy. 'If I hafta live with this guy as my partner, I swear I'm gonna-' A sharp look from Pein shut her up, and she slouched against the wall, arms folded. 'Kairi, you have to fight Deidara. If you win, you can join Akatsuki. If you lose, you die. Simple enough.' Kairi glared at the world, as if wondering: "What am I doing here again?"
'Take up your fighting stances…..' Kairi and I headed to the middle of the arena, while the rest of Akatsuki cleared off to the side. 'BEGIN!'
Reaching into my side bag, I grabbed a handful of clay and started to mould it into one of my artistic bombs.
'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!' Five identical Kairi's appeared in a puff of smoke, and since she had distributed her chakra evenly among them I couldn't tell which was the real one. 'Un….this is annoying….' Four of the Kairi-clones races towards me, leaving one behind, who began to conjure up a protective wind. Ahh….so you're the real one! I was so busy planning on how I was going to penetrate her defences, I barely noticed the clones sneaking up behind me until I got a black shoe in my face. Kairi clone 1 launched herself at me, attacking me with a barrage of punches. Ducking and dodging with all the speed I could muster, I glanced skywards…. Where Kairi clone 2 was soaring above me, multiple kunai held in her hands.
'Hey, girly-guy!' she taunted, throwing the knives at me. Now I had to defend myself from the relentless taijutsu of the original clone, plus the kunai rain. Brilliant, just brilliant. Cursing, I tried to finish moulding my clay, managing to toss a few explosive spiders at the taijutsu-using Kairi. 'Burst up!' I yelled, making a hand sign. The spiders detonated, and Kairi let out a screech of pain before disappearing in a puff of smoke. One down. I managed to use a duck roll to dodge the kunai, but Kairi clone no. 3 appeared in front of me, blocking my escape from the new incoming hail of shuriken. 'Bye-as!' Kairi clone 3 said in a sing-song tone, a tone just begging me to raise my voice. 'SHUT IT!'I roared, throwing a clay spider at the third clone. In another explosion of smoke, it disappeared. The real Kairi grinned tauntingly, and yelled: 'KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!!!' My jaw dropped, as she made at least another ten clones. 'You…you…..I hate you!' I cursed. Now there were 12 clones, and no way to know which of all 13 Kairis was the real one. What if I aimed a bomb at the real one and she died? Joy-chan would never look at me again. Kairi knew I'd expect the real one to be behind, so she left two plus her behind, and had the 8 new ones charging at me, a total of ten I needed to defend myself from. Five of them were doing Taijutsu and the other five were throwing weapons while the three behind were using wind style jutsus. God, this cousin of Joy-chan is so annoying. I perform a hand sign and make my clay shield. I needed some time to plan. The clay surrounds me leaving the multiple clones all waiting outside. They keep trying to throw weapons and fight their way in but it doesn't work, my shield was a lot stronger than to give in at JUST some weapons and some Chuunin-level taijutsu. I started making some more of my very artistic spiders out of my exploding clay and then once they were made I threw them out and made a hand sign so they could explode on the clones. As I heard a large 'BOOM' I saw that it had worked, and there were already about 5 less clones. Kairi had obviously used up a lot of chakra because she wasn't making anymore clones. I made some more detonating spiders and threw them at the last of the clones that were attacking me with the multiple showers of kunai and shuriken, and the other few who kept on kicking me everywhere they could with all the force and strength they could. Now all that was left was the three from behind.
I didn't know how I was going to be able to do this one; I would most likely either kill her, or nearly kill her so that I won the game, in which case she dies anyway. I didn't know how to make it so that she won but in a way that I nearly did. I looked over towards Joy-chan, she was looking really scared. Her knees were bent inwards, her hands were in fists and held up towards her mouth and she had tears swimming in her eyes, her eyes look so pretty when they are sparkling and shiny…
I snap back to the problem at hand as I try to dodge multiple attacks of wind attacks coming my way. I couldn't let Joy-chan down. I reach my hand into my bag of clay and my hand-mouth chews up some more clay into another spider. It spits it out and closing my eyes, praying that Kairi will find some way to repel it, I throw it at the last three Kairi's and explode it. My plan was that if she could repel it then I could pretend to be caught in the blast and fake unconscious. Well, my plan went almost to plan. Just as it was right in front of her she performed a hand sign and got a blast of wind pointing at me, and it caught the bomb in it, reversing the direction of the bomb and making it come towards me. "Oh, shit." I said blankly out loud as I saw it heading my way. It was too late, I had already performed the hand sign to make it explode, and just as it was in front of me there was a huge explosion and a huge cloud of dust came all around me, and I didn't need to fake unconscious, I already was. Well, at least Kairi had won.
Joy-chan's POV
No! Deidara had been caught in the blast of his own bomb! Kairi had won but now Deidara might be dead. I run over to him with tears in my eyes, and checked to see if he had a pulse. With my fingers on his wrist I sighed with relief as I felt a small beat. Kairi ran over and asked a bit harshly, "Is she dead?" I shake my head slowly as she replies "Yay! I won, I won, I won!" and started jumping up and down in excitement. Tobi ran over and joined my cousin jumping up and down constantly. "Yay! Now Kairi can be in the Akatsuki and have the awesome new UNIFORM!" "Go Akatsuki uniforms! They look so cool!" After only about a minute the blonde-haired Akatsuki member stirred.
Deidara's POV
I blinked my eyes a few times, and then suddenly remembering everything that had happened I opened my eyes abruptly. The first thing I saw was Joy-chan leaning over me, tears dropping down. And then I realised that her hand was on my wrist, she must have been checking my pulse. Oh my god! Joy-chan's holding me! She must have realised she was still holding me when her hand moved away and back into her own lap. I get up and see everyone else around me. "Senpai, Senpai! Kairi won!!!" I smile softly as I see my plan had worked. I hear a soft 'thank you' from Joy-chan's mouth. I smile at her as a kind of reply.
"OK, Kairi has won so she will now be joining the Akatsuki. Joy-chan and Deidara are now partners and Kairi will be aligned with Tobi." Pein announced, and then walked off. Everyone else filed out until only Kairi, Joy-chan, me, and my annoying Kohai were left. Kairi then took the chance to gloat at me at how 'great' she was. "See? All the Akatsuki suck, except for Joy-chan. You couldn't even hurt a Chuunin in the slightest, in the end you blew yourself up."
"I was going easy on you! I meant for you to be able to beat me so you would join the Akatsuki!" I shouted back at her. "Sure you did." she replied, then went to Joy-chan and started talking with her as I shot Tobi an annoyed look and he ran away, hoping not to get blown up.
"Yay, now I can join the Akatsuki with you Joy-chan! Now that I'm in the Akatsuki, this organisation is SURE to be so much better." Kairi said to Joy-chan, who nodded and they walked away together. "Kairi, Deidara is telling the truth though, he did let you win, so you could come into the Akatsuki. You did do very well though…" Joy-chan said to Kairi softly. Kairi looked at me and it almost looked as if she had respect in her eyes. I followed them out of the room and smiled to myself as I thought how Joy-chan was going to now be my partner. Now I could be really close to her, working with her. Plus when we went on missions we could have time alone from Tobi and Kairi. This is going to be so good!