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Chapter 3 of Side of a Bullet! Read, including the bold type at the bottom! Might be a bonus of information of the story, maybe a preview!
Chapter 4: Observe and Collect
It poured and poured…and poured some more. Continuous rain poured onto Amegakure, seeming determined to drown the city and cover it with dark powerful clouds, flashing strong and powerful lights that bellowed throughout the land. Yes, Amegakure seemed a dull and gloomy place to live, and its tall towers purged the city into more darkest, causing it to look like an ominous and abandoned empire.
As the clouds and towers worked accordingly among the dark alleys of a run-down neighborhood, within one of those allies in front of Red Edges Blacksmithing, something even more dark and sinister stood there.
Two tall and dark cloaked figures stood among the clutter of the rotting garbage, gazing at the red brick boarded up building that was "Red Edges" and waiting for any signs of movement.
"To think our new colleague lives in a place like this. Kind of pitiful, don't you think, Deidara-sempia?" a voice spoke among the figures; it was male and a teenage youth because of its somewhat childlike tone of curiosity and mischief. The only description you could notice on the figure was the shadow of his spiky hair and that he was an inch or two taller than the other, who seemed to have it's hair in a pony-tail.
"Doesn't matter where they live, Tobi, as long we acquire what we came for for the Leader, un." Another male said, also a youth but it boarded on maturity.
"True to that, Deidara-sempia. You always know what's right," agreed the other youth know as "Tobi."
"Well, I'm glad you think that, "Deidara commented with a dark intention under it, "…because you will be going in there and collect the few things we need, hmm."
The dark figure on the other's right side, jumped away with a startle at that order. "Me? Why me?" Tobi asked nervously.
"Weren't you just bragging on our way here, that you could enter and escape any dangerous situation? You wouldn't have been lying to me, have you, hmm?" Deidara questioned, his voice on the end of turning into a curious threat.
Tobi waved his hands in surrender, "Of course not, Deidara-sempia! Tobi never lie. Tobi's a good boy!"
"Then hurry up, so we can wrap up this mission and head back to the base. I'm already getting sick of this rain, un. Make sure you go through one of the second story windows, Tobi. Our target won't be back for a while but do not mess around." he seriously demanded as if Tobi would make a grave mistake...which most-likely he would.
Tobi began walking onto the streets, waving his hand passively. "You worry too much, Deidara-sempia. Tobi will be back before you can say "Crazy Kiki cut kiwi with crafty kunia knife."
Deidara was baffled, Crazy Kiki cut-JUST GO, TOBI!"
Tobi chuckled as he advanced towards their target's house, jumping from the ground to the second story window sill.
"HA, this person doesn't even bother to lock her windows!" he contradicted, entering through the now opened window.
Tobi took in the small bedroom/bathroom. It wasn't much to look at. The only life to the room was the light blue colored walls and the bonsai tree on top of the bedside table.
"Time to go to work!" Tobi said enthusiastically, pumping his hands in to the air before retrieving a sack from within his cloak. And thus he began to gather the essentials that were needed on their way back to the base, such as the bonsai tree, blankets, clothes, chocolate...
Like a kid at christmas, Tobi had grabbed, unwrapped and began to devourer the chocolate bar. "YEA! Its Tobi's lucky day!"
~Outside Red Edges Blacksmithing, in a Dark Alley~
"Damn, that Tobi, un! I should have know better than to send him in." Deidara cursed, shifting from one foot to the other in a nervous twitch. It should have only taken him 15 minutes to collect the items needed but, an hour had already passed!
It was a simple mission. Get the girl, get her stuff, then return to base for evaluation of Akatsuki's new partial-colleague, Aaron Alchemist. But no, un! Leader-sama just had to send Tobi along with him. Deidara would have been fine with his older partner, Sasori, with his crazed idea of art being eternal; at least he could have a reasonable and sane conversation on the way here. Hell, even his arch-nemesis, Itachi Uchiha, would have sufficed as better company than Tobi; at least he would get to enjoy killing someone before continuing on with his journey.
Even though lost in outrageous thoughts, Deidara still caught some far-off movement from the corner of his eye. He saw a lanky man wearing a traditional Amegakure ninja uniform, possible in his late 20's, with short black hair and wide-brimmed nerdy glasses, and he was standing right in front of Red Edges. Damn!
Just as Deidara was about to single Tobi through the intercom receiver to abort the mission, another movement caught his eye. A girl had just turned a corner, stopping when she saw the Amegakure ninja with a look what seemed to Deidara was utter annoyance. Deidara quickly took in her appearance, she wasn't wearing any sort of Amegakure material, was extremely short, short brown hair...Deidara's eyes widen in shocked realization. "It's her! Deidara swore.
"Tobi," he urgedly whispered through the earpiece receiver, ignoring the two's conversation ahead of him. "Target has been sighted. Abort mission, repeat, abort mission."
He waited for an answer but all that came was a static scatter of a response. Urgh, this meant neither one could get a signal. Damn, this rain and it's village!
He watched as the two people walked in and closed the door behind them. There was nothing else to do but wait.
~In Aaron's Room~
Tobi grabbed another item of clothing before shoving it into the bag. "Psh, this is easy. I don't know why Deidara-sempia was making such a-"
"T...T...bi," came Deidara through a static signal from his receiver, "Tar...as...si-ed...bort...ion...bort...miss."
Tobi was clueless at what Deidara was trying to say, "Deidara, we must be losing signal. I can barely understand you."
Below there was the sound of a closing door, Tobi froze, listening. A muffled conversation began downstairs, the voices raising every minute, and then, the slamming of the door. Tobi ran his gloved hand across the forehead of his mask, "Phew!" he whispered, relieved the people had left.
Until the slightest creaking of worned stairs came to the room.
Tobi tensed up, looking frantically around the room for a hiding place. Behind the door? Nah, too obvious. The closet? No...he looked at the bed. Ah-ha, there! He slid under the bed with the bag, and just in time because the door had opened to reveal small feminine feet in ninja shoes.
They moved from the door to the closet, opening it then a sharp exhale was greeted as the person the door again. Then the feet turned to the bed. Tobi clasped his hands over his mouth, afraid the person could hear his breathing. It felt like decades before the said person talked, again.
"This whole up coming battle thing is getting to me, " a soft female voice answered herself. Tobi watched relieved as the feet move to the dresser, the greatful sound of an opening drawer meaning she forgotten all about him, the intruder.
"Luckily, I know the cure for it." the woman spoke to herself with the slight ruffling of clothing being moved.
Then it got quiet, too quiet...
Suddenly, clothes were thrown everywhere onto the floor. "Where is it?" the woman growled.
A pink bra had fell in front of the bed in Tobi's reach.
"Oops! Almost forgot that." Tobi thought, cautiously pulling it under the bed with him.
Tobi jumped as the woman slammed the drawer back, "Damn it! First, I'm seeing things and now, I can't even find a single morsel of chocolate from my secret stash." she grunted.
"Not very secret if you ask me." Tobi criticized. "But it was good chocolate!"
He watched as the feet stomped towards the bathroom, "Today is just all going to hell." the woman said before closing the door.
Tobi waited for the water to run before silently scooting from under the bed.
Tobi stuffed the bra into the already full sack, "Phew, that was close."
Taking conscientious steps to the window, Tobi escaped through the window and closed it behind him, unknowingly leaving a puddle of water behind him on the wooden floor.
He jumped from the balcony, landing perfectly on his feet then swiftly running back to Deidarra, who was pacing apprehensively for his return. Deidara abruptly stopped as Tobi approached him. "What took you so long?" he barked at his incompetent partner.
Tobi just laughed, "See, Tobi told you he would be back before you said "Crazy Kiki cut kiwi with crafty kunia knife."
Deidarra's desire to strangle the idiot was immense and so he acted upon it, choking the imbeicle till he groveled for mercy and air.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'll be sure to start on another. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Though, there are some things I wish to clue you in on.
The title "Side of a Bullet" is based on the Nickleback song because I feel as though my character Aaron will be somewhat that person you could not believe they could kill someone since they are so generous or that that person is able to seek revenge on, like they want to kill somebody. That and I am so a Nickleback fan!
Also, I won't have Tobi speak in third person all the time because I want him to be somewhat educationed or smart; and in the anime/manga he doesn't speak in third person a lot either, only when he says "Tobi's a good boy!"
This is a OCxDeidarraxHidanxSasori...just basically the entire Akatsuki. Between boyfriend/girlfriend, lovers, friendship, somewhat father-figure relationship with the male characters. Konan will be like a sister to Aaron.
Can't wait for your reviews and make sure to check out my other stories and favorites! :D