Hello everybody!
I am officially ON HOLIDAY! (pumps fist in enthusiam). I will be on holiday until January 4, 2009, but I will be working a 40 hour a week job...
Nonetheless, updates should be more frequent if my brother does not use my laptop.
In other news, I have written and uploaded a Kakashi/OC/Sasori Fan Fiction, "Controlling the Iron Heart." Feel free to read if you are interested.
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I do not own Naruto or 'Pocketful of Sunshine' - Natasha Bedingfield
Chapter 17: Fly Away from your Sorrows
Song of the Chapter:
Pocketful of Sunshine – Natasha Bedingfield
Reason: No matter what, Deidara will be there to cheer up Sumiko… and for some reason, when I listened to the song, I thought about Deidara's blond hair
Deidara was knocking on Sumiko's door and not pleased at the lack of response. "Sumiko-chan, un?" He heard nothing from within her room so he tried the door, but to no avail, it was locked. Getting an idea, he molded some clay into a lock pick and immediately set to work. Hearing a click after a few seconds worth of work, he happily pushes the door open to be greeted by an odd sight.
Sumiko was sitting on her bed, hands in a flurry while chanting under her breath. She did not notice the blond explosion enthusiast, even when he was in front of her calling her name and waving his hand in front of her face. "Sumiko-chan…" He poked her in the forehead but neither the chants nor the hand signs stopped. Raising his eyebrow, he grabbed her hands, but she merely kept chanting. "What the hell, un…"
Sasori entered silently and upon noticing the sight. "When she faces something that causes her emotional state to be shaken, she tries this calming jutsu, but it tends to damage her mind in a way. She starts to feel less and less as time goes on and soon if she uses this too often, she will become a stoic shell of a human like Itachi." Deidara started to panic when Sasori interrupted him. "Stop her chanting and hand signs at the same time and the spell will be broken." Deidara was puzzled for a moment, but an idea formed in his head.
"Alright, un." Still holding her hands, he kissed Sumiko and she definitely stopped chanting. Her eyes widened and her hands that were trying to form hand signs stopped struggling. Soon, she relaxed and put her arms around Deidara to deepen the kiss… all in front of Sasori whose mouth hit the floor. Deidara pulled away after a minute, both of them requiring air, and smiles at Sasori. Sumiko shyly smiles, but still looks a little sad from the previous days' events.
Sasori tries to compose himself, but he cannot help but be in shock over the matter. "Brat… I can't believe you had the audacity to do that in front of me, but I suppose… it did the trick. Feeling better Sumiko?"
"Yes a little…" She gave a small smile and looked at Deidara who sat down on the bed next to her. Deidara gave her a hug and tried to reassure her.
"Come with me, un. I know what will cheer you up." He glances at Sasori for unspoken permission to which the puppet master nods. Grabbing her hand, he tugs at the kunoichi and pulls her towards the tunnel outside.
Sasori locks her door after the two of them leave. "Well brat, I have got to hand it to you; I have never been able to stop her from chanting and using hand signs. You are certainly something else."
Mamoru finally came back from his ritual and had the signs that Hidan would normally have: torn clothes, the occasional blood stain on the clothes he did have, and a stained weapon, in this case, a sword. "Sumiko-sama still depressed?"
Sasori shook his head. "Deidara managed to stop her chanting and hand signs and snapped her out of it. He is going to take her flying." Mamoru raised his eyebrow in surprise, but everyone was vastly confused as to what had transpired. The older Jashinist took it upon himself to explain.
"Long story short: when Sumiko gets emotionally distressed, she as a jutsu that can calm her down, but the downside is that it gradually numbs her emotions. When performing the jutsu, she chants and there are many hand signs. During so, she is oblivious to the world around her. The only way to stop it is to stop both her chanting and her hand signs; a very difficult feat or to allow her to complete the jutsu. Sasori-sama, what did Deidara do to stop it?" Sasori looked very uncomfortable now, especially with the rest of the Akatsuki looking at him expectedly.
"Umm… He grabbed her hands and kissed her… for a long time… in front of me…" Mamoru's jaw dropped. Pain and Konan looked at each other briefly before blushing. Zetsu dropped a watering can that he was using to water one of the presents he had obtained for Sumiko. Hidan shot a glance at his older brother whose jaw was still quite unhinged. Kakuzu was getting money passed to him from Kisame while Itachi raised an eyebrow in half interest. Tobi immediately covered his ears and squealed on about his innocent ears. Sasori looked like at the moment, he wanted to die since he allowed those words to exit his mouth.
Sumiko was still uncertain as to how they managed to exit the base without being noticed by the other members and considering the chakra reserves between her and Deidara, it was quite the feat. The minute the couple left, Deidara was busy at work molding their transportation. Seconds later, Deidara tossed the bird in the air and with a hand sign, the bird grew exponentially larger. The kunoichi watched the white bird swoop down and land gently next to her. She knew that she had to ask. "Deidara-kun… why did you kiss me back there when I was not even paying attention?"
Deidara looked back at her, a small smile at his face. He lifted his right hand and traced her cheek. "Well, you needed cheering up and when Sasori-danna said that your hands had to be occupied and also your chanting had to be stopped. Considering it was you," he paused for a moment; a smirk coming across his face, "it was the first thing that came in my head. If anyone else in base had started that weird jutsu, I would have had no clue what to do, un. Don't tell me it was that bad… un…" Sumiko laughed all of a sudden.
"Deidara-kun… you hand's tongue is tickling my cheek." Deidara's eyes widened but before he could completely withdraw his hand, Sumiko grabbed it. "Deidara-kun, when you kissed me, it shattered the haze that the jutsu was putting on me. It dragged me out and threw me into such clarity. It left me feeling more complete and euphoric than any aftereffect that jutsu ever left me with all the times I have performed it." Smiling, he pulled her onto the clay bird and they finally took flight.
It simply bliss riding up. The sunset was simply amazing and the different streaks of blond hair that belonged to Deidara sparkled as light passed through the strands. Sumiko's red hair shimmered and when Deidara ran his hands through her hair, she laughed and leaned closer to him. "This helping you, un?"
Nodding her head she sighed in happiness. "This is a lot different that when it was me, you and Mamoru. This is so…"
"Romantic, un?" Laughing she snuggled closer to him. She smells like mint… "I know something very fun; try this, un!" Pulling her up, they both stood on top of the clay bird, directing chakra into their feet to stay attached as they flew. Laughing Sumiko did not know what came over her when she unconsciously pulled Deidara close to her. Grinning widely, Deidara did not know what came over him as he leaned over to kiss her; feeling fluttery as he felt Sumiko put her arms around him to deepen the kiss. They were lost in their thoughts and each other's gentle caress as they felt themselves get detached from the clay bird.
Falling downwards, they did not let go of each other even though the unnatural wind forced them off, they held tightly onto each other. Deidara willed the bird to come for them while Sumiko sent up a flurry of chakra strings, focusing them to shape a parachute to slow their descent. Sumiko and Deidara landed on the clay bird to see a rather impressive greeting party including one redhead that definitely not Sasori. Temari held out her fan threateningly and was confused seeing Sumiko in Deidara's arms. Kankurou looked torn and the Leaf ninja looked between the Sand shinobi and the two Akatsuki members before them, one of them being his idol growing up. Sumiko's eyes widened in shock as she noticed the ninja survey her current choice of clothing, an Akatsuki cloak. "Oh shit…"
