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Sakura sighed out in content as she slipped into the steaming tub. The mission with Sasori had gone on forever, and she was just happy that she hadn't bumped into most of the other Akatsuki members yet…
Namely Uchiha Itachi.
Not saying any names or anything…
Lathering a small amount of floral scented shampoo into her now, long blonde hair – which faintly reminded her of her shishou and she wondered for a minute how she acted towards the broken antique – and basically tried not to glance down.
Sakura hadn't really had a chance to reflect on the odd situation, but now she was left alone with only her thoughts to accompany her.
'Ughh, why meeee.' She mused after rinsing out her hair and crossed her arms in front of her to lay her tired head on.
Somehow, she had to find Deidara – without being killed by Konoha hunter Nin – and somehow figure out what happened by herself – without Akatsuki killing her.
So basically, she just had to be really, really careful…
Sakura was always a clumsy girl.
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Kisame watched the silhouette of Deidara emerge from his room with a blast of steam half an hour later.
"Yo, girly!" Kisame bellowed loudly and grinned to Sakura who whirled around, not exactly sure who she was talking to until she saw him beaming at her.
"Oh! Hey… um, Blue man…yeah." Gods, how stupid did that sound?
And Itachi was with him.
"AHAHA, Blue Man? C'mere twerp."
Itachi looked on with those glimmering red eyes.
Oh.
Crap.
Plopping down across the table from Kisame, she picked up a piece of fruit and threw it at him.
"I'm not a twerp."
The said fruit hit him square in the forehead and almost caused the "Blue Man" to fall backwards.
"Why you fu-"
"Let's go, Kisame." Sakura almost jumped 20 feet when Itachi abruptly stood up.
Kisame… That was his name.
Itachi lifted an elegant brow and brushed her tensed shoulder as he walked by. Gods, did everything this man did need to be so damn seductive?!
Kisame did the complete opposite and growled openly at Sakura's grin towards him. She let out a relieved breath as they both passed. Now all she had to do was sneak out of here.
"Oh, and Deidara." Sakura turned over to the deadly hot – I mean deadly killer.
"Y-yeah?" Damn it, why was she blushing!
"Why do you smell like flowers?" She willed Kisame's guffaws to shut up.
"U-um, shampoo, yeah?" Did Deidara usually stink or something?
A faint glint of a smirk appeared on Itachi's tanned face, "Leader said he wanted you for another mission."
She waited until they left to kick the table in frustration. With all these missions, she would never get to her beloved Konoha and see what the hell Deidara was doing in her body.
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Deidara limped as he attempted to walk upright. What kind of Hokage did this damn village have?! No wonder Itachi left! Maybe he killed his family for their good…?
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Uchiha Fugaku looked up at his prize son, silently chocking on the pool of blood. "I-Itachi… Why?"
"Shhh, father, it's for your own good…" He silenced the man and walked off to kill his mother.
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Deidara snorted and basically fell.
How did Sakura walk in these damn high heels?!
"Damn sun, damn shoes, damn Konoha, DAMN IT!" Gritting his teeth through the pain he attempted to stand again. Wouldn't Sakura be getting a nice surprise when they switched back to their own bodies?
His knowledge of Konohagakure's Hokage had been very limited to random facts; such as her being Sakura's sensei. He had no idea whatsoever of the temper she had.
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"Sakura-chan." Tsunade smiled up at Deidara. One that actually scared the Akatsuki.
"Why was the artifact broken?" Tsunade's grin, somehow, grew wider.
He glanced at mini-Itachi from the other side of the Hokage's room and gave a 'Deidara-smile' back to her.
"Fell."
Tsunade twitched.
"You fell."
"What's wrong with falling, yeah?" He casually crossed his arms.
She raised an eyebrow as Sasuke sniggered in the background. "Sakura, I think we need some training. Get out. Now."
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That was no training.
That was friggen torture.
He'd rather train with Itachi! No, scratch that, he'd rather let Kisame drain all his chakra, then have all the Akatsuki members out to kill him. No, torture! Or rape.. or, Augh…
Afterwards she kicked him out and told him to get ready for a mission in the morning.
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"Um, shishou, I don't feel well, could someone walk me home, yeah?" He didn't know where Sakura lived, of course.
"Haha, nice one Sakura, see you tomorrow."
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And how many friggen fan boys did Sakura have? That thought made him somehow want to strangle something.
'I mean, yeah, at first it was funny, and that little thing with that Kyuubi kid was just for shits n' giggles, yeah…' But now it was just annoying. Groups of guys asking to take you to some "Ichiraku Ramen" place and continuous "The Youth of Whatever the hell it was," grinded on his mind and it wasn't exactly what he appreciated for the short rosette kunoichi he had grown fond of over the years (in between their savage fights in which he usually finished by getting her pissed).
And so now he was wondering around looking for some girls' house from Konoha – a place filled with eager shinobi that would slaughter him without batting an eye if they knew who he was.
"Sakura?"
Deidara stopped. He knew that voice.
Swerving around – well, Sakura's – slender body around to meet Kakashi, he could have sworn there was an ethereal light around the slightly confused Jounin.
Kakashi squirmed under Sakura's ogling and shut his book as he sheepishly scratched the back of his head, "Sakura why are you staring at me like that?"
"Kakashi…sama…" Deidara finally knew someone in this god forbidden town! At this point in time Kakashi had an appearance of a god to him.
He tried to forget that he only knew The Copy-Nin because he had tried to kill him on numerous occasions.
Kakashi squirmed once again under Sakura's gaze – which was looking more and more like the look she gave Naruto before he passed out cold on the floor like a dead fish – and almost fall backwards in the same manner as she stopped in front of his face.
"U-Um, hey there shrimp…?" When did she get that tall?
"Kashi-kun, I need a favor, yeah." She purred.
Kakashi stepped back. Only to have Sakura step closer. So he took another nervous step backwards, at least until his tense back came into contact with the rough base of a wide tree.
"What is – Sakura!" He squeaked as the said woman nuzzled her face into his neck.
"Mmm, you smell good Kakashi-kunnn…"
Deidara smirked into his neck as he felt the poor man's breathing hitched and he proceeded to run his fingers down the front of his jounin vest, undoing buttons as he went.
"It's just a small favor, yeah." Deidara looked up at him through half lidded eyes as he fumbled with the belt around the Jounin's muscled waist.
Kakashi numbly nodded. "Wha?"
Deidara suppressed the growing urge to snigger. He didn't like Sakura's fan club, but this was too damn funny! The man looked like he was close to hyperventilating!
"Ano…" He played with his fingers as he'd seen various females do, "Can you please walk me home?" He made sure to give the most pleading doe-eyed look he could muster. Deidara knew himself that Sakura was too cute for her own good.
Kakashi stiffly nodded, not really listening to what he had just said.
Good now he could find out where she lived for the mean time. And get out of these annoying pink clothes. And those high heels…
Deidara almost shuddered and crossed his arms as he stepped away. "Well?" Deidara was never a cross dresser, and he wanted to change his clothes before he felt like one.
Kakashi seemed to be coming out of his stupor, "Huh? Oh.. House… Well, um Sakura you never really showed me where you live." He tried to maintain the blush as he looked at his mangled clothes.
"Oh, really now?" Twitch
What
The.
FU-
"HAHAHA just kidding! I'll take you home now!" His eyes creased into that cute way he was well known for.
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As soon as Deidara finally got home, he fished out the keys that had been given to him (along with various other things that had been with Sakura, such as her wallet…) and let him self in.
"Thanks Kakashi, see you around yeah." And shut the door in his face.
The poor teacher sighed and walked off, "Girls are so confusing." If only he knew.
That he was just seduced by a man.
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Deidara slammed the door open to her room – or what he assumed would be her room – and flopped on to the ridiculously poofy bed.
"Aughhh, I need to get ouuttaa heree, yeaahhh," He groaned out, wincing only when his sore muscles decided to remind him they were there. "Anytime before that Hokage-chick knows I'm here…"
Deidara was never scared of most people, not counting Itachi of coarse, and that freaky ass snake thing, Orochimaru.
But he was terrified of Tsunade…sama.
Letting out a slightly delirious giggle, a giggle for heavens sake, - what was Konoha doing to him?! – He pushed himself up with wobbling arms as the observant Akatsuki... well, observed the room.
All in all, the faint tones of lavenders that made the walls and the strategically placed had been something Deidara pictured Sakura having as a room, oddly. He stopped as a glimmer of a silver photo frame caught his attention from the corner of his eye and he picked it up with small, delicate hands.
Pshh, delicate, he knew what these hands could do if he didn't dodge fast enough.
It seemed to be her team, their fatherly-figure stood in the back, his hands atop the boys heads; who seemed to busy glaring at each other to really care of the beauty of the picture…
And there she was. Haruno Sakura. Most of the time Deidara saw her pretty face, it was always marred by a frown (mostly because half the time she was pissed at him). But in the picture he saw a true smile. One that made him smile him self.
Her happy face shone back up at him. Nowadays Deidara could only spot the tell tale signs of exhaustion on her face from a person who normally worked them self half to death as if it was tradition.
The Sakura he knew never had struck him as a person with an easy life though…
She was so different now…
Having half the decency to blush as he caught himself staring and placing the photo back on the bed stand before he could continue, and threw himself off the comfortable bed and towards her giant closet. He told himself he could peak through her stuff later.
He made a beeline for her under wear.
He was only human after all.
And damn, she had a ton of pink in her closet. Well, Deidara would fix that! Grinning he grabbed everything he could reach off their respective hangers and picked up Sakura's wallet on the way out.
Before he slammed the door behind him with his foot, he couldn't help pausing and looking back at the Team's picture.
He wanted to be able to make her smile like that again…
Shrugging he went off to spent all of Sakura's money.
God, being in a girl's body was turning him into one of those weird sentimental guys. Ewww.
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Satisfied now, Deidara dropped all the newly bought clothes beside her closet and went straight to bed after changing. If Team whatever wanted Deidara to join tomorrow, they'd have to pick him up.
All the clothes were black and each held the design of the familiar red clouds.
Of course he only choose the tight clothes for his Sakura-chan.
'Mwahaha, yeah.' He made a mental note that he missed his hairstyle too.
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Deidara leaned over to turn the volume up and continued his little "dance" and the small job of cooking his already burnt breakfast eggs. Oh well. Who ever said Akatsuki members had to be good cooks? Deidara was used to the taste anyways.
A loud knocking at the door distracted his attention and he left the eggs on the stove and his beloved radio to open it.
Three pairs of eyes stared back at Sakura's glowing face.
"Good to see you so early, yeah!" Sarcastically of course.
"Sakura-chan you had us really worried… Even Kakashi came before you!!" Naruto said, bounding past her and inviting him self in.
Oops, was this the mission Tsunade had been talking about? He didn't actually expect them to pick him up…
He shrugged and turned back to the other two. "Come in and have breakfast, we'll leave later." He grinned that sexy 'Deidara grin'.
Of course, Naruto was the innocent one of the group and didn't really look down at what she was wearing…
"Sakura. What are you wearing." It sounded like a demand to tell him why he even bothered living coming from the Uchiha that Deidara had dubbed 'mini-Itachi'.
Deidara cracked another sly grin. "Clothes, Sasuke-kun." Really, all they had been were a pair of knee-boots complimenting the tight black summer clothes with clouds the most brilliant shade of red.
Not exactly Akatsuki clothing, but styled much like it. "Something wrong with them?" He bated his eyes for good measure.
Deidara smugly lead the quiet pair to the dinning table where he promptly served the unnaturally blackened eggs.
Already a good morning for Deidara, yeah.
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Sakura moaned softly in her spot beside Sasori.
"Where are we going again?"
Twitch. "The same place the last seven times I told you. Dolt."
Sakura laughed sheepishly. She couldn't help it! They've been traveling for – god knows how long – to some god forbidden place, but it felt as long as the last mission. It just went to prove that she never listened to that Leader person.
"Sasoriiiiiii!" Along the past couple days, Sakura had been surprised to find that most the members of the well known Akatsuki hadn't really been as cold hearted as she assumed them to be, and they had managed to get a long pretty well.
Just not well enough to tell them that their Deidara was actually a lot more girly than they thought…
Running a hand through her hair she quietly remembered that very morning how she had attempted to do the crazy style that Deidara usually put his hair into.
She had tried half the bottle of gel he had, used mouse, an iron, curlers (how did he even have all that?) but it seemed as if his hair had rebelled and so she put it up in the usual style that she, Sakura, usually did on missions. A simple high ponytail, her wispy bangs framing her face. Why couldn't Deidara be that simple?
Turning half asleep from the boredom back to Sasori and their companions, she caught Sasori and Kisame in another fight. Her eyebrows furrowed in anger, honestly, is that all they did?!
"Just stick to playing with your dolls, you pansy artist." Kisame guffawed again knowing he had hit Sasori with a cheap blow.
And sure enough the deadly puppet master stopped their walking to snarl at him, his eyes flashing a deathly auburn, "You fucking fish shit!"
"Aw, you guys stop fighting, yeah." She had again taken the honors to be a medium.
"Yeah Sasori, stop being mean to me." Kisame grinned and yelped pathetically as he dogged Sasori's punch. "Is that a river?" Kisame excessively gasped, "I'll see you guys up there." And speed walked away.
"I'm going too." Sasori deadpanned and fallowed after Kisame, the air around him crackling with a promise of death.
Sasori took out a weapon or two before they sped out of Sakura's sight.
Breathing out, she shook her head at their antics. Just like her boys. Like Team 7. She really did miss them.
"Idiots." A voice chuckled from beside her.
She almost froze. Almost. Did that guy have to walk so quietly?! She forgot he was even there.
Gulping, she turned her red face to meet him. "Hn." Deidara said that right?? He better of because she'd been saying that a lot more than his little 'yeah'.
She couldn't stop her eyes and they lead her vision down to Itachi's open black coat… Straight to his rippling muscles underneath that damn black shirt. Sakura almost drooled, and if she didn't have that tight hold over her inner counterpart, she probably would have too.
She quickly snapped her head back up and met Itachi's humored face staring back at her.
"Ahahaha, let's catch up yeah!"
Crap. He probably thought Deidara was going gay now. Perfect. Yeah, that's exactly what she wanted! She almost groaned and mentally bashed her skull in.
The rest of the voyage had gone by in the most awkward silence in Sakura's life.
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The undeniable fragrance of nail polish wafted around Team 7 and Deidara didn't seem to notice, nor did he really care. Humming, he continued painting on the dark purple color that all criminals were known for.
He let Kakashi and the Kyuubi-kid be his eyes, if the Uchiha was anything like his brother he wouldn't want to trust him either.
Speaking of mini-Itachi, he noted how the young teen hadn't talked to him since that morning when Deidara winked at him. Sasuke was probably horrified at the blush that covered his pale face. Deidara absent-mindedly grinned. He supposed the Akatsuki-styled clothes also fueled his fire.
It was well known of the 'brotherly rivalry' the remaining Uchiha's shared, especially since Kisame complained at it to Itachi every chance he got.
Deidara gingerly screwed the top back on, minding his nails, and pocketed the small bottle.
A tingle of familiar chakra sparked from his left and he swung his head in that direction as he blew on the already drying coat of purple.
A pleasant feeling washed over him and a relieved look crossed his face. Finally! What took them so long? He stopped and waited for both the owners of the chakra and his current team to clue in.
Naruto glanced behind him, "Sakura-chan?"
Deidara gave him back a leveled glance, "Mmm?"
Naruto flushed much like Hinata would, "Something wrong? Why'd you stop?"
He looked back at now three pairs of eyes and set an innocent look on his face as he clasped his hands together, "You guys didn't feel that?" He blinked clueless. Morons.
Sasuke and Kakashi immediately tensed.
And Naruto? "Huh?"
Deidara blanched. He forced a smile on his twitching face.
He forced his mind to other thoughts. He knew Sakura had to be one of those auras and remembered his mischievous nature. He looked at Sasuke… Who noticed and looked oddly back at him.
Oh yes, Sakura was going to hate him forever more.
But Deidara couldn't help a good laugh.
"Sasuukeeeee!" He sauntered over to his side and leaned in as Sasuke leaned back.
"W-what?!" Deidara kept leaning fore ward the more Sasuke leaned back, and he eventually slammed onto the hard floor.
Deidara gave him a genuinely surprised look and knelt down, "Oh Sasuke, are you hurt?! You're so clumsy, stupid!"
Sasuke gave him a bewildered look, almost accusing him of something.
"Take your shirt off! Let me check!!!" Deidara turned surprisingly aggressive.
"What the-?" Sasuke's cry rang out on deaf ears and he flushed the deepest color of red an Uchiha ever turned.
"Sasuke-bastard!" Naruto snarled, "Stop harassing Sakura-chan!!"
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Sakura almost jumped as she heard Sasuke's baritone scream. Her eye brows creased.
Sasuke!
Her boys! Were they all right? Were they hurt?? Why did Sasuke scream? He sounded as if he was thrown back into the mystery of the Mengekyo Sharingan! Or maybe he was being tortured?
It didn't even occur to her that Deidara would be there.
Her Inner urged her to go faster, and soon she was ahead any of the others around her and she found her self bracing against the trees she crashed through.
It became deathly still.
Sasuke stopped; Sakura dropped her jaw open in shock. Not even an animal made a sound. Nothing.
"You!" And there was the devil disguised as her, leaning over a very flushed and harassed-looking Sasuke.
Deidara winked mischievously back at her and laughed at the expression on Sakura's face.
"Like my outfit?"
Sakura promptly slapped her fore head.
She was going to kill him.
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Hey what's up guys?? Aughh I'm so tired, you have no idea how long that took to write hehe, like I said before, if you have suggestions, go ahead and don't be shy to tell me -
Thanks to all my sexy reviewers hehe!
Garra: Hehe, winkage right back to you xD
Loverr: LOL! You totally sound like Lee-kun! '
Fallacy: I guess you're right, but I just had to put in that little part of Inner Sakura and yes, I know of Sasori's death (yeah, Sakura kicks butt hehe) but Sasori is too cute for me to let go of… vv I really do secretly love him 'So in the meanwhile if you'd like, you can say it never happened yet or that she just gave him a good beating?
Lol, hope I cleared that and thanks for reviewing!!!
Forevermore: Aww!!! That's so sweet!! Hehe, yeah this is my new account too.
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Tsukiharakitty: Oo I like your name! xD Lol, thanks, here's the update, I hope you guys liked it -twiddles fingers-
JenKonoha: Yeah, I thought it would be a great idea too! Heh, actually my sister really had to convince me since I originally wanted it to be Neji she switched with. But I also love Deidara! So many choices…
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Icha Icha RAMEN: LOL I took one look at your name and burst out laughing! XD You're so funny!! I love you!! Yeah, they're going to set up little meeting spots later on.
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Naraku's Phoenix: No, of course not ' Deidara would never.. you know lol, it is a DeixSaku after all hehe! Oo, that sexy beast Itachi will be the first to figure it out, mwahaha, I got an idea of what I'm going to do :P
One other thing, I swear to god that "May your pens move swift" line was like a spell or something xD I never wrote so much before ahaha! I love you!!
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