Like I said, lotsa things happen to Dei-chan. Not all so positive either. As for Ino, no more info until you vote which InoXmalechara you like the best. Except Shika because he's three, remember? Any other pairing is fine. Suggestions please! I ask for at least 10 votes by the finishing of my next chappie
ShashukothePaisleyMaiden - Shhh.. Maybe (Eyes dart around) But if you give me a pairing suggestion, I'll tell you. Mwehehehe!!
PinkBlueMoonlight - Thank you w Is there any pairing with Ino that you like? I'm continuing It's very hard to make the chapters longer, definately since I want to keep you guys in suspense
eva - Deidara is exactly like me when we go to the doctor. They annoy the hell out of me, and damn, their hands are COLD!
jadedfox2 - Oooh Can I call you jade-chan then? I'll try to make my updates closer together. Don't worry, something's gonna happen.
scorpion-master25 - Mkays Sori-kun shall spend more time with Dei-chan, kay? No mores reviewing old chapters D: Though I must say, it is very encouraging, until you run out of chappies :D
marufu-chan - Yush, he has worked in the museum ever since the ancient puppet display opened w Thank you, I have to get more ideas from this random brain of mine
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On Sunday, three PM precisely, Deidara arrived at the entrance of the museum. She pushed open the door and was gusted by a cool breeze and the hushed noise of many voices.
"Hello, un?" Deidara called, over the quiet hum.
A small peach blur crashed and broke into her.
"Sand?" she said, surprised.
"Ah, Dei-chan!" Sasori called. "There you are."
The red head made his way over to her, holding tightly to Temari and Kankuro's hands. The young blonde was holding onto Gaara who was reaching out to Deidara for a hug. The result was he was unintentionally sending sand at her. Deidara came over and hugged the family before straightening up and flipping her hair.
"Now what do I do now, un?" she asked.
"You'll have to meet up with Rei-san. She'll instruct you with what to do." Sasori replied. "I've been off my duty for about ten minutes."
"Mkay. I love you, un." Deidara said, hugging him.
It made him blush as he and his cousins took their leave. The blonde meandered to the security office and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Rei called.
Deidara opened up the door and smiled at the elder woman.
"Hey, un." she said. "How's it going?"
"Hey." Rei said. "It's good. I just need to put you through training for about two days. Is that okay?"
"But if I advance faster than you expected, can we do it in one, un?" Deidara said, a smile forming on her lips.
"It depends." the elder replied, guestering the blonde to follow.
She lead the blonde outside and behind the museum, into a garden. Rei sat down at a nearby fountain and Deidara sat next to her.
"Have you studied basic ninjutsu?" she asked the younger. "Depending on how you're defending the museum, we need you to know these things."
"Umm... I guess a lot of the basics." Deidara replied. "I've gone up the ranks until I failed the jounin test when I was little, un."
"So you're at chunin level?"
"I guess, but I lost my headband somewhere."
"That's good then. The last person that was at genin level is still in the hospital." Rei said, absent-mindedly.
"Why, un? What happened to them?" Deidara questioned.
"Oh... Umm somebody tried to rob the museum, I came a little late and they were critically injured." the elder said. "A-anyways, we need to see how well you are trained in the shinobi arts and how plentiful are the chakra reserves."
"How do we do that, un?"
Rei took a piece of paper out of her pocket.
"This paper will measure the chakra you radiate normally, like without thinking and the paper will change color to how much you radiate, red being highest, black being lowest." she said. "Then charge a portion of your chakra in, like when you do your favorite or most used jutsu, and it will determine what element it is. The paper itself is probably indestrucable, unless someone tore it in half."
"Okay then.." Deidara said, placing her hand on the paper.
The paper glowed white for a second, turned red and began darkening, until it became a very deep, dark red. Then when Deidara charged her chakra into it, it exploded.
"Umm. I'm sorry, un?" the blonde said.
"No worries." Rei said, holding out her hand, the paper reformed upon it. "You're perfect for the nightshift."
"What?" Deidara said. "But Sasori doesn't work night shift, does he, un?"
"In fact he does. Normally he doesn't need sleep, but his cousins do." Rei explained. "So in turn, I have him do my night shift and I stay and watch over his cousins during the night, so I can sleep and take care of them."
"Really?" the blonde asked. "He never explained this before.."
"That was because this only started a couple days ago. You see, I'm starting to lose a little face because my lack of sleep. I was the best security the museum could ever have." she told Deidara. "However, I began to slip a smidge since my focus wasn't as concentrated on my job than sleeping."
"Okay... So now you have chosen me to help with the night shift, un?" Deidara asked. "Is it any different than daytime?"
"Not really." Rei said. "But can you see well in the dark?"
"Perfect." the younger stated.
"Then you're going to be fine." the woman said. "Oh yes, and you'll recieve your paycheck every Friday."
"So do I still work today?" Deidara asked. "Is that is, un?"
"Nope." Rei said bluntly. "You still have a ways to go. Your element is explosive, so we have to teach you how to control those explosions. I can read your personality, wild, free, and flying. You still can be, but we need you to keep is small so you don't blow up the museum, got it?"
Deidara nodded wordlessly. Everything the brunette had stated was correct. So throughout the day, they both focused on minimizing Deidara's explosive energy, without making it less deadly, it was difficult. It took up the whole four hours that day. When it was over, Sasori found them out at the garden, Deidara waterwalking in the fountain while her hands were molding her clay. The red head clearly saw lines of chakra running through the clay in the pose she was in. Deidara was standing both feet flat down, spread apart and her arms straight out.
"Deidara?" he said.
Without responding, she pitched both pieces of clay into the air and it hit a bird in the sky in a small explosion. The bird disappeared and Rei pat her on the shoulder.
"Good job." she said. "I'll be seeing you later Sasori."
It was a brief talk, but Rei did disappear.
"Hi Sasori-kun, un." Deidara said, but losing concentration.
The result was falling through the water.
"Mo.. You really lose a lot of concentration with me don't you?" he said, pulling her out.
"That's because..." the blonde said, a blush tinting her cheeks. Her next words were incoherant, but Sasori just smiled, not wanting to pry.
"Come on, I'll walk you home." Sasori said. "I don't think that it's very far if I remember correctly."
He lead the way and Sasori dropped her off before heading back to the museum to switch with Rei for the night.
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Deidara's POV
It was strange, this feeling. Sasori-kun most likely already knows how I feel about him, but I can't just say it aloud, even though he already knows because we've kissed already. I wonder if he likes me back, he seems to, but he doesn't show it often. My heart was beating so fast that I thought it might explode. I've done my four hours today, but I can't wait for tomorrow, I get to see him all day during school, and during the night in the museum. There was no homework and Ino was getting better. Not by a lot, but somewhat better. I just wish I could find out what's wrong with her... Her chakra signature just seemed to suddenly disappear, and I would have thought so too if I had not been used to it for my whole life. She's eating normally, I think, except for the fact that she physically seems to be gaining weight. I went to the kitchen to fix myself an afternoon snack, when I realized that the fridge was half-empty. Sighing, I went to Ino's room, and she was sleeping like always. The floor was very dirty, like I expected. A few food wrappers under her bed. If it kept going like this we would starve by Wednsday. Or hopefully Friday at the very least. After cleaning up her room, I tossed away all her trash and went back in my room to write some more items on my list of Ino Foods. So far there were many miscellaneous items that you would take forever wandering at the grocery store for, if not for this organized list. These were just the ingredients. You would never want to know her favorite food combinations. And it was very long, looking like this:
1-Raspberry Icecream (swirls preferrably, not bits of berry unless it was from her favorite brand)
2-Suckleberry Honey (Luckily I know where to get this)
3-Swiss Cheese
4-Onions
5-Celery
6-Pork
7-Fillet of flounder
8-Seaweed wrappings
9-Udon Noodles
And from there on there were many more items that Ino liked to stomach. It made me shudder at how much this would cost. Not that this was very important, these were Ino's favorites out of all the non-expired items she consumed, so if I didn't want to die I'd restock on these. It was really troublesome to take care of her... I should go shopping when I get the chance.
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Sasori's POV
As I arrived at the museum, I stood right at the front to see Rei off with my cousins. After she left, I took my position at the front gate and sat down, opening a few scrolls so I could summon my puppets. There's only one entrance and exit, but I didn't count on anyone using it that night. After positioning my puppets, I sent a shadow clone to go and control the puppets so I would be alerted if there were any danger anywhere else.When I was done with preperations, I relaxed a little bit and let my mind wander. As always, it ended up to Deidara. On New Years... It was the happiest day of my life, to be kissed by my adorable... adorable what? I coudn't count her as my girlfriend is she didn't see me as her opposite partner. Things were very complicated, as always. Nothing in my life is as easy as I would wish it to be, but then, that was how it always was ever since my parents and grandmother died. I've always been the oldest, born to take care of my siblings and precious ones. That was the main reason I joined AKATSUKI, it was hard to protect the four of them at the same time. I wonder how free her lifestyle is at home. Mine is always punctual, if not for Temari I would be drowned in responsibilities for taking care of both Gaara and Kankuro. I've decided to train Kankuro in the arts of puppets when I get the chance and after I find an assitant for Temari so she doesn't have to worry the daycare people with Gaara while she attends school with Kankuro. She's in an advanced first grade where they train her in shinobi arts since she is already ahead in the basic teachings. Kankuro is in an intermediate kindergarten where they teach both equally. I just hope that Gaara will turn out like Temari so he won't have to worry about education with his bijuu getting in the way. Apparently he is socially inept because the only friend he has was a small boy named Naruto in his daycare class. It was a good thing that the small toddler was almost never out because Gaara went crazy when Naruto was out for an appointment with his guardians, who surprisingly were Iruka and Tsunade who his parents left a will for both of them to take care of him. Although they both thought of him differently, Tsunade thought of him as a brother and Iruka had a fatherly feeling over Naruto and the two weren't in a relationship so they had to split the responsibilities of Naruto by each day. Sighing I snapped out of my thoughts to scan the museum. It made me a little lonely that my blonde wasn't here. It would be a little more... entertaining if Deidara were to be here. Nothing ever happens at night...
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O.o Can anyone tell everyone's age? I guess that you kinda can, but if anyone gets it right, then I think I won't have to take space in the next chapter to clarify it Give me a rating 1-20, I want to see if I'm getting better. Scorpion guy, I know you want me to update, and I will, eventually. STOP POSTING THOSE ANNOYING COMMENTS! Instead, give me constructive critism as it will always be loved.
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