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"Talking"
(Me Adding Shit)
Black Zetsu
White Zetsu
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I remember exploding in a frenzy of bombs. I, myself a bomb to destroy Sasuke Uchiha. Looking back on it, my anger probably wasn't exactly intellectually correct. I guess I had been jealous..of the Uchiha's art.
Now, here I was, alive, being dragged to Kami knows where by a man with silver hair. It was actually..creepy. I would had considered dying my hair if it was gray like his. It made him look like an old man.
Green trees surrounded us, it had to have been were I exploded, right? But where was I exactly..where? And how was I even alive.
More vivid memories of searing skin and screams filled my mind, reminding me that I couldn't have been alive after such a travesty. I should have been dead, right? But that again wasn't the question. The question was why? My vision straightened and I looked up to see the man who was dragging me by my legs, like rotten meat, to our destination.
"Where are we going, Yeah?"
He dropped my legs abruptly at the sound of my voice, and I figured I probably had surprised him. But when he turned, all thoughts of spilling an apology immediately left my mind. It was Kabuto..one of the Akatsuki's old spies from Sasori-Danna. But he looked strange, he was paler like the snake man had been. Orochimaru.. It almost looked like Kabuto and Orochimaru morphed together, or made a baby.
"What the hell, Yeah! Where are we going?!"
"Nowhere you have to worry about Deidara-Sssan." He dragged out the S, for effect. But it made him sound even more like a snake.
He held out his hand to Deidara, his large hood moving a bit in the wind, leaves rustling together in the background.
"Come on, we're taking you to Madara."
"Who?"
"Madara Uchiha, the leader of the Akatsuki."
Deidara shrunk back away from his hand, his hair falling completely loose from it's pony tail on the back of his head.
"But..Pein is the leader of Akatsuki..Yeah.."
"Not anymore."
"I don't even know who Madara is, Yeah. Except that he's a filthy Uchiha like Itachi."
Kabuto narrowed his eyes at Deidara, and almost growled at him.
"Come on, or I'll just kill you again."
Deidara took Kabuto's hand reluctantly and was tugged roughly to his feet, before being pushed into a walk by Kabuto.
"..Again?"
"I brought you back."
"But I thought only someone of Sannin rank could.."
"This skin isn't face paint."
"Orochimaru..Uhn?"
No response.
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The walk to the current Akatsuki lair had been long, and boring. Deidara would have preferred a few explosions on his way back. He still didn't exactly know how he was brought back, probably by a jutsu, but he had caught onto why. They needed him for the war. Kabuto had explained that, and how exactly he got a piece of Orochimaru inside of him.
Sasuke Uchiha.
Apparently he hadn't been killed by Deidara's suicide bombing, and learning that had put a definite damper on his mood. Kabuto found that it wasn't exactly the opportune time to engage himself with the blond man, and their conversation sunk into silence.
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Great Kami..
Madara..was..
Tobi!?
Deidara just stood and stared at the small table, the remaining Akatsuki.
Kisame. Zetsu. Sasuke. Karin. Jugo. Suigetsu. Tobi.
"What. The. Hell, Uhn?!"
His hand-mouths gnashed angrily, teeth clicking together as Deidara clenched and unclenched his hands. This wasn't happening.. Tobi was an idiot, Tobi was innocent. Tobi was a good boy.
His breath hissed out from between his teeth as Madara began to speak, his frosted blue eyes narrowing dangerously.
"Welcome, Deidara."
The empty, missing prefix at the end of his name left him feeling even more hollow, and angry.
"Fuck you, Yeah."
A sigh slipped out from behind the orange mask and he sat back on the table.
"I don't like disobedience, Deidara."
"I said, Fuck. You."
Deidara felt himself getting pulled into a genjutsu, the world around him going dark. Who the hell..Itachi?
His right eye; which had been trained to counter genjutsu, dilated and quickly the genjutsu began to dissipate around him, the light creeping back into his eyes.
"Itachi you ba-"
"He's dead."
It wasn't Itachi standing before him. It was Madara.
"I didn't know you could counter the Sharingan, Deidara. Aren't partners supposed to share everything with eachother?" He said with a smirk.
Deidara's fist smashed into Madara's face, the orange mask he had come to hate so much cracking under the pressure.
"You mother fucker!"
"Deidara, Calm down."
"It's not good to be so angry over nothing."
"Nothing, Uhn? Nothing!"
Deidara's fist went down to smash into Madara's mask again, but his fist met the bandaged Samehade instead and he could already feel his chakra being drained from his arm.
"Damnitt Kisame!"
But just as Deidara was going to pull back and strike the sword again the giant blue man grabbed Deidara by his collar and heaved him up into the air, his black eyes meeting Deidara's angry ones.
"Calm down. You just came back from the dead, there's not need to break anything."
"What?"
"You blew yourself up for that runt over there."
Kisame swung Deidara slightly in Sasuke's direction, like he was a tiny wet kitten, as Madara got up off the ground and brushed himself off. Madara had actually been surprised by Deidara's outburst, but not that much. The blond man always had a temper like dry wood and fire in a forest, or like his explosives always going off at random.
Sasuke clapped his hands together at Deidara's angry fidgeting and cussing, like it was a show and earned an even angrier Deidara for his amusement.
"Don't test him, Sasuke."
Madara was standing now, his mask displaying a large crack in the middle.
"He gets angry pretty fast."
Deidara's legs flailed in the air, his feet kicking at the frayed ends of his Akatsuki robe as Kisame put him down. Zetsu gave him a warning glare though as he brushed off his Akatsuki robe and made a move towards Madara again. The kid just didn't learn.
"No, Deidara."
Deidara didn't know why he stopped, but something in Zetsu's tone just froze him.
"Now if you've calmed down, we can get onto our original point." Sasuke huffed.
It wasn't like Deidara wanted to listen to anything an Uchiha had to say.
But he couldn't help but notice as Karin sighed gently and tilted her head to the side as Sasuke spoke, looking at him like a lost puppy. For a girl Deidara had seen in a bingo book as an S-Rank criminial, this was pathetic. Actually he had seen most of the new additions in older bingo books. Suigetsu was Kisame's counterpart, Karin was a sensory type ninja and then there was the tall orange haired man, Bipolar Jugo. Deidara didn't think that the man with the original curse mark even existed anymore.
"-re bringing back the Akatsuki members who have died with help from Kabuto, Deidara. Right now we're just tracking the bodies down. Your body we had to recreate since you blew it to high heavens."
That caught his attention.
"What, Uhn?!"
Deidara snarled at the smirk that climbed up Sasuke's smug face and Suigetsu stepped foreword slightly, weapon at the ready. He wouldn't be able to do anything though, because Kabuto walked inbetween the two with a summoning scroll in hand.
"Let's cut to the chase, shall we Madara? We've collected all the bodies we could. Hidan is the last one we need to retrieve."
Madara looked as if he was considering Kabuto's offer, but then again he knew that once the war ended Kabuto would expect Madara to hand Sasuke over. Their hidden agreement for the lives of his dead Akatsuki members.
"Hmm.."
But then what did he care for the selfish boy? Once Itachi was brought back he could let Kabuto kill Sasuke and just ask for his eyes. That would cure Itachi's blindness.
"Alright. Akatsuki, make a circle." Madara spat, his voice low. "It's time to bring our men back."
Madara had actually made Deidara attend the summoning, tying him down so he wouldn't attack anyone while they were vulnerable. But he knew Deidara wouldn't dare attack anyone after he saw his Dana's body in the pile. It was just a safety measure.
Bright light lit up the cave they were using as a temporary hide out while Kabuto stood over the bodies, his hands in the air above them. His body had definitely taken in Orochimaru, no one could possibly ever look so creepy doing a normal thing as a summoning but Orochimaru himself. And no one else could bring anyone else back to dead but him, and maybe that old woman who brought the Kazekage back. But she was dead so she didn't really count..
The bodies came one by one in wooden boxes, Kabuto smiling as each one came. It was a step closer to having Sasuke in his eyes, to avenge his master's death. It was an achievement as the coffin lids fell open, revealing the half decayed bodies inside.
Kakuzu.
Itachi.
Pein.
Sasori.
Deidara's eyes widened as he fidgeted in the chair.
Danna. Danna
He had his Danna again.
The stench of rotting flesh filled the room as each body stood one by one, Kabuto beginning to pant and wince at the pain of bringing back five people in one day. It was tiring for him. The smell grew and grew as it became overwhelming in a sense and Deidara began to wish that he had his hands freed to cover his nose.
Kakuzu arose, and then Pein, Sasori and then Itachi, bones cracking as they stood. Mouths opened and closed, Kakuzu's mouth dripping maggots. Sasori was the only one who didn't look decayed at all, of course that was because he was a puppet. But the heart that lay in his chest cavity..It was stitched up. Silence from Kakuzu's mouth as he tried to speak, maggots sliding out of his mouth like spit. It was quite repulsive..
Kabuto's arms shot straight out at his sides and a blue light exploded from the reanimated bodies cracks and flaws, rebuilding them. Slowly the stench of flesh drifted away and Deidara relaxed in his chair, noticing some other new Akatsuki members had put their hands over their noses. It was Karin and Jugo, of course.
It was Pein who actually spoke first though.
"We're back, Madara."
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War was the hardest part, the hardest task of their job. Screaming children, crying mothers, families. Everything that could break your heart and will in war, was there. Flames burned about each village that they attacked, looking for the nine-tailed fox, the beast that would ensure that they would win. But the Leaf Village had hidden away their jewel, probably far from the Leaf village. But that didn't mean that they weren't going to check.
Deidara pulled forward ahead of Kakuzu, who's threads were strangling multiple ninjas at once, a ball of clay in his hand.
"Deidara. Your body is fake do-"
Kakuzu's rumbling voice was cut off by an attacking ninja, but Deidara got the drift. Most of the Akatsuki members who actually liked him had been warning him about his false body. It wasn't that it didn't have working organs, his body wasn't machine. It was completely organic. His body had been molded by a forbidden Jutsu. He was sort of like a Golem; a body made out of Nature. If he got caught on fire he was screwed. But that wouldn't stop him otherwise.
He was an Akatsuki member, and a powerful one at that.
But then again, all the power in the world couldn't have stopped the Leaf from taking them, one by one. First they took Pein, and then Sasori, and then Madara. It rocketed from there until they took Deidara himself.
They threw him in a rusting jail cell with Sasori, Madara, and Pein. He pretty much sat there in the opposite corner from Madara, the fire in his spirit dwindling. They would be taking new people out for interrogation soon, or that's what their Hokage had said. Actually Kakuzu was in there now, and he had been gone for days. Not that Deidara had been counting..
It was just there was nothing to do! He wanted to be artistic and not rot away in his cell with a man he hated.
A man who betrayed him.
And that led too were they were now.
Just explaining to Hidan there situation and playing cards, Itachi's forebading message led by a guard screaming at them to shut out the lights. That's what sucked about being in jail. Actually everything sucked about being in jail. Except for maybe one thing..
Her.