Chapter five
For breakfast, we were all sitting at the wooden island in the kitchen. Deidara still had a frown on his face while sipping his coffee.
"So...", Naruto said trying to lighten the mood. He had finished another two bowls of ramen and was now watching me finish my toast with a small smile playing on his lips. "Deidara, when will we get to meet these famous criminals?". I nearly choked on the crumbs.
"Oh... I don't know.. Maybe when we finish breakfast...", he muttered setting down the cup. Were these people crazy? Talking about meeting murderers so casually! I shut my eyes swallowing the chewed up toast on my tongue. Naruto was still smiling at me.
"What dobe?", I asked. He looked away blushing.
"Nothing...", he whispered. I sighed for the fourth time that morning. Deidara smirked.
"You know... you two look sooo cute together...", he gushed. I eyed him suspiciously , he kept up his innocent facade. "You know who else would look great together? Me and Sasori! And guess what!". I felt the almost happy mood drop a little more. "You two are gonna persued him to go out with me!". He give us the Do-This-Or-I'll-Kick-Both-Yo-Asses-look me and Naruto shuddered.
"Okay! Time to meet the family!!", he exclaimed happily, standing up and skipping from away the and Naruto exchanged a look before standing up and following the overly feminen blonde out the room , it was definately time to meet the 'family'.
We had finally stopped outside a dark brown door. Deidara knocked it once before barging in on what looked like a half man half creature, who lay sprawled across his bed, tangled in white blankets.
"Kisame!", Deidara yelled. The fish man grunted opening one eye. "Get your lazy fin out of bed!". Suddenly his eyes widened when he spotted me.
"No way, your Itachi's brother!", he exclaimed sitting up, revealing a slightly blue tinted body . His chest was was well built and even had a few scars, I presumed were from fights he'd been in. I fought back my blush and nodded. "So I hear your staying here until Itachi thinks it's safe, why's that?", he asked streching. I was about to open my mouth, when Deidara spoke for me, tone grim.
"...Orochimaru's back, and it seems he has his eyes set on the younger Uchiha".
Kisame's eyes darkened. "Stupid son of a bitch". I felt a little warmth in least I knew everyone hated Orochimaru, not nearly as much as I did, but their hate was still heart warming. Kisame's eyes drifted to Naruto. He even grinned, bearing small sharp teeth... creepy.
"And who's this?", he asked. Naruto looked nervous, but it soon turned to proudness.
"Uzumaki Naruto", he smiled the same smile that caught my heart at the beginning making me blush. This didn't go unnoticed.
"There you two go again! All lovey dovey and whatnot", Deidara exclaimed crossing his arms across his chest and me and Naruto blushed more. Kisame laughed.
"So you two are..", snicker "SMITTEN!". I sweatdropped , this guy's an idiot. Deidara sighed.
"No duh,fish lips", he muttered earning him a smack on the head from Kisame. Naruto laughed. "Okay to meet more murderers". I paled at his use of words and we exited the room.
Deidara looked excited as we stopped outside another wooden door. He didn't even knock, he just barged right in.
"Sasori danna!", he exclaimed skipping in and stopping before a half naked red haired man who was only wearing black pyjama trousers and looked a little tousled. He looked at Deidara then turned towards us.
"Deidara...What are you doing in my room?", he asked. Deidara smiled, a small blush creeping up his neck and face.
"I-I wanted to introduce you to Sasuke and Naruto", he sighed again.
"Do I look like I want to meet them?", he asked frowned.
"Sasori...", he whined reaching up and wrapping his arms around the taller mans neck. "Stop being so rude". Sasori had tensed visibly, a small blush on his cheeks.
"Deidara", he smirked. "Get off me before I hurt you".
"With what?", Deidara asked twisting his fingers through Sasori's hair."Your dolls?". Deidara seemed to like getting Sasori angry.
"They're NOT DOLLS! They are puppets and are weapons!", he yelled trying to push Deidara away, he didn't budge.
"Well, why don't we pretend I'm one of your do-puppets... and you can play with me", he said his voice filled with lust. Sasori blushed and out of the blue bent down and whispered in Deidara's ear. In return Deidara blushed and smirked at the other man.
"See you then...", he said turning towards us. "Score", he mouthed grinning. I smiled rolling my eyes.
"Yeah...see you then", Sasori said picking up a knife and sharpening a 'puppet'. He had a smirk on his face and a blush on his cheeks. I honestly don't want to know what Sasori had said... ever.
Next, we stopped in a huge room, with sofas and TV's all around.
"This", Deidara said proudly "Is the TV room". Not like I wouldn't have figured that out... there being alot of tv's in here.... psh...idiot.
There on one of the couches, sat two men who were watching some American sitcom and occasionaly glaring at eachother. We walked further into the room.
"'Sup?", Deidara asked them. The men looked up without much interest then looked back at the tv. It was then I noticed the pile of money sitting on the table before them. "So,this is Hidan", he pointed to a man with white longish hair that was tied in a loose pony tail and had a weird symbolic tattoo on his back. I could see this cause he wasn't wearing a shirt and it was just behind his right shoulder. He turned.
"Who the fuck are these motherfuckers?", he grunted looking us. He snorted.
"Don't worry, he always uses that terrible fucking language", he told us. I raised an eyebrow... but he just said..
"And this money making man is Kakuzu". The guy didn't look up, he was too lost in his head to care. Deidara frowned.
"Have some manners Kakuzu, jeesh". The man still ignored Deidara until he gave up and walked away.
We headed towards the garden... one of the murderers must have liked flowers....
As we stopped outside the greenhouse Deidara turned to us. "Okay you two", he said "The guy your about to meet is called has a few... issues... he's bipolar and you never really know when he could crack and eat us." I stared at him in shock.
"What the hell do you mean "eat us". Naruto had aked the question for me. He looked a tad nervous, I , I'm sure looked like a wreck.
"Well... he sort of went through a stage of.. cannabolism", Deidara said. Oh fuck no. I'm NOT going near this human eating physcho!
"D-do we have to?", I asked. He nodded pushing the door open before we could stop him , in the middle of the green house stood a huge yellow sun flower, being watered by... A plant? What the hell...? This guy.. uh.. thing, had a weird looking body... I think he had leaves.
"ZETSU MY MAN!", Deidara yelled walking in and I stood in the door way... I was silently hoping it would eat Deidara...
"What?", came the gruff reply of the plant. He was a strange looking guy. Half of his face was white and the other, charcole black... yup, not enough sleep...
"Well, I wanted to introduce you to my buddies", Deidara said. Both men looked back at us. I tried to smile but it didn't really work, so I kept as staight a face as I could.
"...hey... uh, I'm Sasuke", I said. The plant man looked like he couldn't care less. He turned back to the sun flower.
"Your Itachi's younger brother", he said suddenly.I stayed silent."I wonder how an Uchiha would taste...".I gaped at him. He suddenly smiled.
"I'm kidding. I heard Deidara talking to you outside... I just wanted a laugh". I smiled nervously, still trying to get over the shock. "Who's your friend?", he asked lifting a watering can and feeding the sunflower. I looked at Naruto who was looking at the man in amazement and...curiosity?
"Oh,uh...I'm Naruto Uzumaki", he said dropping the look completely. He nodded to himself then sighed.
"So anyway... Now y'all know eachother and we're not dead... Let's go and meet the last few members of the Akatsuki!".
Once again we headed back inside.
"Who's next?", Naruto asked in curiosity.
"TOBI'S NEXT SEMPAI! TOBI'S NEXT!", 'somebody' screeched from behind us. I saw Deidara sweat drop then we all turned to be face to mask, with a man in an orange mask.
"Fine, fine, just please stop yelling", Deidara muttered rubing his hopped up and down. I looked at Naruto who looked right back at smiled shrugging.
"This is Tobi", he said pointing at him.
"I've been a good boy", he said suddenly taking a lollipop from up his sleeve....
"I don't actually know why he's here. He is not part of the Akatsuki".
"Yet".
"Yeah..yet..".
Naruto grinned."I'm Naruto Uzumaki!", he exclaimed holding out his hand. Tobi looked at the hand then looked at Naruto's face. Suddenly he yanked the lollipop out of his mouth and stuck the sticky part onto the outstreched hand. He twitched.
"See, I'm a good boy". He turned to Deidara, who had a frown plastered on his face."Cheer up Sempai! I'm sorry I don't have another lollipop for you...". Deidara closed his eyes in annoyance. Tobi turned to me.
"OMG", he gasped fakely. "You look like Itachi san...that's amazing!". Wait didn't he already say that yesterday?
"Uchiha Sasuke", He looked at me for a little longer then turned and skipped away...um.. yeah.
"Now that we've met Tobi", Deidara said then frowned at the memory "We can finally meet the leader and his girlfriend!".
I sighed, so many people...
When we had gotten inside and upstairs I looked at my watch . We had been doing this for a little over an hour and already I was sick of them. Naruto suddenly grabbed my hand and while Deidara still continued to walk ahead, pulled me down a different hallway. By the looks of it Deidara hadn't noticed, he was still yabbering on about how the 'blue haired bitch give him a paper cut'... or something. He continued pulling me through the twisty hallways until finally we stopped out of sight.
"What are you doing?", I asked as he grinned at me.
"Well, we haven't really spoken all day... I just wanted to get you alone... you know".
I gave him a bored look.
"Are you for real?", I asked. He scratched the back of his head nervously.
"Um..yeah..?". I smiled then pulled him towards me. We just stood there hugging for a minute, until finally he pulled away from me.
"I missed this", he muttered.
"It's been a little less than two hours Naruto... How could you miss it in that short amount of time?".
He smirked lustfully."You have alot to miss..". I blushed.
"You do realise that we're in some random hallway, in a house full of murderers... and a plant". He laughed.
"That's what makes this even more thrilling". I leaned in kissing him gently.
"And what if we get caught?", I asked pulling away from him. He shrugged.
"Well everyone knows us, so what if we're caught?".
"I don't know you both". We jumped at the sharp sound of a womans voice and quickly jumped apart from eachother and realised we were standing infront of a very beautiful blue haired woman who was wearing a black suit but with a skirt instead of trousers and had her hair tied up with a big white rose in it. She looked at us sternly.
"Who might you two be?", she asked walking closer so she could see our faces. She then gasped. Everyone seemed to do that when they saw me......
"Are you Itachi's little brother?", she asked. I nodded. "I heard from Pein that you'd be staying here for a while". She eyed Naruto."I'm guessing your Uzumaki?". He gave a small nod too. "Are you lost?".
"More like hiding", Naruto muttered mostly to himself, but she let out a melodic laugh that floated around us.
"From Deidara? HA!", she laughed again "Yeah,he can be a hand full". She calmed down then looked at us again. I stood there akwardly smiling back.
"So who haven't you met so far?", she asked.
"Well we've just met you, so all we have to do is meet the leader", Naruto nodded.
"I'll take you". We didn't argue with her, knowing she was just as deadly as the rest of them. We followed her down the hallways until we stopped infront of a big black door. She knocked quickly.
"Enter", we heard from inside. The blue haired woman pushed open the door.
The room was dimmly lit by a lamp that sat on a desk. It looked like an office, it had book shelfs filled with books. A man sat at the desk, bent over a load of paper. He glanced up and I saw his face was pale and had like a million piercings on it. His hair was red and spiky, and yes...he was really good looking. Our eyes met and he stood and walked to me. He was much taller than me when we stood opposite eachother. "Uchiha Sasuke", he said holding out his hand. "It's nice to finally meet you. Your brother was highly appreciated in our line of work. I'm Pein, founder of The Akatsuki". I nodded, shaking his hand, trying to match his grip. He let go and walked to Konan, placing his arm round her waist.
"We would be glad to let you stay until Itachi is through with Orochimaru". Wait,what the hell did he mean by that? Itachi wasn't going to kill him...was he? The room didn't seem effected. I the only one who didn't know Itachi was going to kill him?
"You must be Naruto Uzumaki", he said looking at my companion. "I've heard some stuff about you from Itachi". Naruto nodded smilng.
"So,how long have you both been... together?", Konan asked smirking at us. I blushed, but Naruto stayed calm.
"A while now actually", he said holding eye contact with the blue haired woman. She smiled.
"Well,I've got work to do now", the man said begining to walk back to his desk. "Konan,why don't you show these two, to the livingroom". Konan nodded and began walking towards the door. The whole time leaving, I could feel Pein's eyes on me.
When we arrived in the livingroom Konan bid her farewells and left us sitting there alone in the big room.
"Where were we?", Naruto asked leaning into me until lips met mine . I shut my eyes until we finally broke for air, he nuzzled into my neck and we both lay back on the we weren't going to do anything, just while lying here on the sofa...
"Sasuke...", Naruto whispered playfully curling his hand in my hair. I smiled at him and our lips met again in a short but blissful kiss.
"What do you think you two were doing just running off like that?!", we both heard making us jump. We looked up,only to spot a VERY pissed off Deidara.
"Hey... um... Deidara... good news is, we've already met Konan and Pein...", Naruto laughed nervously then looked at me for help.
"Yeah,we didn't run off, we simply took a wrong turn and ended up running into Konan..", I muttered pulling Naruto back towards me. Deidara twitched.
"If you think that's gonna fool me, think again! The only thing you got lost in was the pleasure of you two 'fooling' around!", he yelled, at least I'll die happy...
Suddenly Deidara's phone rang. He glowered at us again before taking it out of his pocket and looking at the caller ID.
"It's Itachi", he said"I better take this". He began walking out of the room but stopped when he got to the door and turned towards us, glaring. "If you think this is over... It's only just began...". I gulped as he shut the door behind him.
"Wow, he seemed mad...", Naruto said before once again lying on my chest. I rubbed his soft blonde hair and shut my eyes. My breathing slowed and then everything went dark.
"Sasuke...oh...Sasuke?", I heard mumbling from above me. I blinked and suddenly my eyes shot open. Above me stood my worse nightmare. "Welcome back, Sasssuke kun". Orochimaru was leaning over me and stroking my cheek. I gasped cringing away from his touch. He smirked grabbing my hair and pulling my face towards his. He crashed his lips roughly against mine, I began tearing up and tried to pull away. He glared. "You haven't been home lately, now you must suffer the consequences". Orochimaru smirked and began to pull my t-shirt over my hands roamed towards my stomach and then towards my....
I woke up gasping for air, still shaking with tears in my eyes, Naruto who seemed to have also fallen asleep looked at me in alarm.
"Sasuke! Are you ok? What's wrong?", he asked urgently. I shut my eyes, feeling tears fall from them. He wrapped his arms round me and rubbed my back. His warm arms around me made me feel safe. I buried my face into his chest and cried my eyes out into him.
He hummed to me and rocked me back and forth in his arms like a mother would if her child had, had a nightmare. I always thought physical comfort was best, that words were just words. I felt safe like this, warm... and for the first time in a while... I felt loved.
"Do you want to talk about it?", Naruto whispered then kissed forehead. My teeth chattered but I forced them to stop.
"I-It was O-Orochimaru... he-he was tou-touching me... He s-said that.. t-there were c-consequences.. .For n-not being home... lately", He looked so sad.
"Ssshh", he cooed while hugging me tighter. I shut my eyes. Having him near me made me feel better, I would have stayed here with him forever, but of course, Deidara just had to burst in and ruin the moment.
"Guy's,good news-What's wrong with Sasuke?", he asked concerned.
Naruto looked up at him "Nightmare", he was silence,then I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Sasuke,Itachi's gotten rid of Orochimaru!Well,of couse we helped...", Deidara said happily. I blinked.
"H-How?", I asked nervously looking at the blonde, weird, I've sort of gotten used to the whole We-Kill-People-For-A-Living thing. It didn't bother me, now that I'd met them...
"Well, when we got to your house, we found Orochimaru in his bedroom... with this white haired dude with glasses.. creepy couple", I frowned. Kabuto. "They were making all kinds of wacky sounds... I was even scared to look for a minute, but then the curious side took over and I burst in, I don't think they noticed I was there, they probably couldn't hear over their-"
"Deidara, back to the point!", Naruto yelled. He smiled sheepishly.
"Oh , I'd gone with Sasori danna and Kisame, great trio we'd make!",he laughed looking at us with a funny look...jeeze this guy just couldn't stop thinkin' about sex..."Aha..sorry... We got in there as quickly as we could and it was good they were so vaunrable at the moment, them being all... nevermind.... Anyway, we weren't counting on the white haired guy to be there, so we took him out too". He grinned. I just sat there in shock during the whole thing... their... dead? But.. but what would I do then... I have nobody to live with and I sure as hell wasn't living with a bunch of murderers for my whole life!
"What will Sasuke do now?", Naruto asked. It was then I remembered.
"Naruto, we haven't gone to school in two days... what will Iruka think? Isn't he like a dad to you or something?". Naruto looked deep in thought for a minute then his eyes brightened.
"Deidara! Could I call Iruka sensei from your phone?", he asked. Deidara handed him the phone and he dialed the number and waited for a few seconds until the man put it on loud speaker.
"Hello,who's speaking?", Iruka asked. There was definately stress in the mans voice.
"Hey Iruka sensei,it's-"
"NARUTO! Where the hell have you been? I've been so worried, who's phone are you calling off? Why haven't you been in school? Where are you!?", he yelled questioningly. I felt jealousy pang in my gut. Nobody had ever called to find out where i'd been.. .Nobody cared enough.
"Calm down Iruka, I've been staying with... friends", Naruto said smiling slightly.
"FRIENDS?! Your missing school to hang out with friends?! Naruto, I'm disappointed in you! That's no excuse to stay home from school!", he scolded, but you could hear the relief in his voice.
"...I have a favour to ask...", Naruto said suddenly. I raised an eyebrow.
"What is it?", Iruka asked a bit nervously. Naruto smiled hopefully.
"Can a friend stay over for a while? He's going through a rough time at home... his foster dad died", Naruto said. H-He wants me to stay at his house?!
"Well...", he sounded unsure. "Okay, but you have to go to school tommorrow". Naruto grinned.
"Thanks Iruka sensei! I'll be home soon,see ya then!", he was about to hang when Iruka spoke again.
"Naruto", he said "Don't ever do that again, I was worried sick...". Naruto looked guilty.
"Okay Iruka, I'm sorry". He hung up then turned to us.
"I can't believe you just did that..", I muttered shaking my head but I couldn't stop the smile creeping onto my face.
"Okay, now that you have somewhere to stay....I guess your leaving...",Deidara said sadly,a pout on his lips.I rolled my eyes.
"Sorry Deidara, you can't come with us", Naruto the door opened and the red haired man I remembered from the kitchen walked in.
"Deidara", he muttered. The blonde blushed turning towards him.
"Sasori", he whispered. Me and Naruto sat silently watching them who were sharing secret looks and stuff...
"Sorry boys,I'm going to have to steal Deidara from you for.. a while", Sasori said. Deidara nodded turning to hand me a phone.
"This phone has all our numbers in it", he said suddenly looking serious."Take it and if you ever need help or are in danger, call one of us". I nodded taking the small black phone from him. He then skipped off grabbing Sasori's hand in the process. When he left Naruto called him back.
"Deidara!", he sighed looking back at him. "What do you do with those mouths on your palms? It must be quite good for hand work". smirked knowingly at him. I smirked too.
"What can I say?I'm good with my hands!", he said before pulling Sasori out of the room and shutting the and Naruto looked at eachother and blinked. What can I say? The Akatsuki were weird!