I had trouble writing a witty author's note, never mind another chapter! Bare with me though?
I'd like to thank everyone who rated/reviewed and pm'd!! Really motivated me to finish this up. I was really shocked at the very kind and enthusiastic pm's i've recieved recently! really, thanks a lot :D!
-Anyways, I was kind of thinking towards the end of my last chapter that Sakura was a bit too cosy in the hands of the Akatsuki so I thought I'd create 'the missing chapter' to show progress in Sakura and Deidara's relationship before the festival. Trust me, this is not a filler ;3
Onto the disclaimer, please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it does not own me. What a deal!!
Deidara
"Fuck off Tobi. There's no way you're leaving me alone with her for the entire day!" Deidara's fingers pointed into the direction of Sakura, who was sound asleep on the futon in the middle of the room.
"I'm sorry but senpai told Tobi that Tobi is in charge of money for this month. Tobi has to go get profits now" and with a small nervous wave, the Uchiha was off through the door and out of sight.
Deidara stood by the door, hoping for Tobi's very soon return while he watched the kunoichi stir in her sleep.
Sure he was used to women, but the truth is he has never spent a whole day with one. Girlish chatter of useless and dumb things irritated him, and the way they would get all emotional over a new version of something they already had was the dumbest thing of all. Like shoes for instance. All of those strappy heels looked the same to him.
Even as a child, he would end up upsetting the other girls with sarcastic comments and insensitive words. Deidara would much rather be alone with his art though, than be a doll to dress up and annoy.
start flashback
"Dei-kun! Dei-kun! Your hair is so pretty, can I brush it for you?"
"Go away, un" a little boy of six said, stroking a dove that had settled in his hand "I don't want to be around a commoner like you, un"
The girl standing before him pouted and fell on her knees with a thud to greet the boy's eyes. The dove, shocked, flew away. Spreading it's wings to soar into the hot summer sky.
"Look at what you've done now! You idiotic woman! Go away, un!" he screamed out at her.
The girl's long black locks covered her eyes, but that did not stop the tears from showing when they rolled down her face and landed on the soft dirt below. Keeping her eyes on the ground, she got up and turned around. Right before running away into the distance, she said quietly to the little blond boy behind her,
"You will be an awful tsuchikage.."
end flashback
Deidara snorted at the memory.
Tsuchikage...what an awful role to play, un.
The snort, however, was not as quiet as he thought to be and Sakura sat upright on the futon, glaring at Deidara.
"Oh, it's you. What an awful sight for the morning. Could you have been more quiet?" she said getting up, brushing her hands through her hair.
They both stood there glaring at each other for a while. Deidara certainly did not need this.
Tobi could usually keep her quiet with his idiotic tales of the past but usually she would just keep quiet anyways if he and Tobi were having a conversation. Today would be extremely troublesome.
Sakura broke the glare and walked to the bathroom.
"Are you going to get dressed? I don't want all of my shirts to smell of flowers, Sakura, un"
Why are we acting like children, un!?
He didn't expect and answer, but he got one all right.
She stormed out of the bathroom and removed the shirt Deidara had gave her and threw it in his face.
"I'll walk around like this all day then"
Deidara stared at her in shock. As much as he wanted to look away, all he could do was stare at her pink underwear and the pale toned skin on her now visible body.
"Stop perving" she growled.
"We're going to the town today so wear those over there, un" Deidara stuttered while pointing at the black mesh shirt and the black pants he always wore. When he finally was able to fixate his eyes in that direction, she walked there to pick the clothes up.
Dammit, those are my only other clean pair. What the fuck shall I wear tomorrow?
Deidara glared at her as she tossed his clothes aside.
"Why can't I wear my normal gear?"
"Huh? Oh. We wouldn't want to raise any awareness that you're here. Would we, un?"
"Is that why you're not wearing your Akatsuki cloak?"
"Precisely, un" Deidara nodded.
"I'll leave you to wash and get dressed then. Come to the breakfast lounge when you're done. I'll pay..." he said, astonished at his own words.
The kunoichi nodded and Deidara stepped out of the room, counting the change in his pockets.
Tobi better hurry with the money. We can hardly afford to stay here, let alone eat, un.
- - - -
Deidara had decided to wait a few minutes before getting anything to eat, as he'd originally planned to eat with Sakura. It would be simpler to pay for everything together. Ten minutes of watching others eat though, was too much, and so he decided to fill his plate.
What the hell are these
He asked himself with a distraught look on his face.
It's bread in the shrivelled up shape of a giant prawn
"It's a croissant, dumbass. The French love it for breakfast" a voice behind him said smugly.
When he turned around, it was her. The cherry blossom.
"Oh, and you're a master of geography now, Sakura-Chan, un" Deidara replied, his blood level rising.
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not" she said, picking up the croissant and stuffing it in Deidara's open mouth
"Tasty, un?" She asked mockingly.
Deidara bit into it hard until the bit sticking out of his mouth fell onto the plate he was in danger of smashing. Sakura smiled at him though, which confused Deidara to no extent.
WHAT THE FUCK IS HER PROBLEM!?
one minute she's being a smart ass and the next she's being all nice
The Akatsuki artist swallowed the small bit of croissant that was in his mouth, pouted and walked away to fill his plate with an omelette and a tamagoyaki.
After filling their plates, Sakura sat down beside Deidara and bit into her fruit, unaware that Deidara was watching her.
"Please try to hurry Sakura-chan. We have a busy day to get through, un" the blond said, wondering if the girl had heard anything he just said.
"Of course" Sakura said, looking up at her captor and pushing her plate away.
She began to fiddle with her nails and Deidara wondered why she had not eaten more
"I'm not hungry" she said quietly, eyes fixated on the tips of her nails.
Deidara sighed, picked up a strawberry and gently stuck it into her mouth.
"Do you think I enjoy carrying you? You'll pass out if you don't eat"
Sakura blushed and bit into the strawberry. Hot pink liquid gushing onto Deidara's fingers.
For mere seconds it felt as if they were the only ones in the room. Everyone else, became a blur.
"Tasty, un?" Deidara said smugly and to his surprise, Sakura only nodded and chewed the rest of the strawberry off which was once pinched in between his fingers.
She looks quite cute like that, un.
Sakura
Sakura was paralysed. She could only stare into Deidara's eyes and eat the juicy red fruit from his hands. She knew a few people were giving them odd looks, but she couldn't stop.
Deidara reached for another strawberry and she ate that too.
As she was about to bite into a third strawberry, a man appeared by their table and coughed slightly, to raise awareness that he was there.
"Oh, Um-" Deidara started, dropping the fruit and gesturing for the man to sit down. Sakura not understanding a thing, kept quiet and watched the two awkwardly greet.
"What a pleasure, Deidara-san!" The man smiled.
Looking at him closer, Sakura noticed this man was rather handsome. He had a crooked smirk similar to Deidara's, but his hair reached his chest and it's dark colour shone from the daylight outside. His eyes were sharp and he wore a white open yukata which showed his bare chest and a scar that lay across his abs.
He looked sinister and his smile was most probably fake.
"Wondering why I'm here?" He asked, closing in on Deidara's face.
Geeze, an old boyfriend or something!?
"No, I was expecting you, un" Deidara smirked.
Oh god, an old boyfriend! DEIDARA'S GAY!?
The man leaned back and casually sat in his seat, his arm resting over the top of the booth.
"When the sodding hell will you do your assigned job?" he asked, lighting a cigarette and not meeting Deidara's gaze. He looked angry, but perhaps not angry enough to look into the eyes of an Akatsuki?
Suddenly he looked up to Sakura and took her hand.
"Excuse my rude interruption, my name is Seimei" he whispered, kissing her hand.
Deidara however, watching Sakura blush like crazy, did not feel comfortable and broke Seimei and the cherry blossom's grasp.
"Yeah, Yeah. I get it. I'll be needing the cash before hand though. I took a view of the location the other day and it's going to cost me far more than money, un"
Seimei nodded and reached into his yukata, puffing sickly gray smoke from the cigarette in his mouth.
"Here" he said, handing Deidara an extremely fat envelope and as the blond opened it up, they both smirked and shook hands. Sinister eyes locking on each other.
Deidara got up and took Sakura's arm to pull her up too.
"Surely you're not taking that pretty thing to play blow up the buildings with you?" Seimei asked.
"She would be much safer with me" smirking, he got up and took Sakura's other arm and closed in on her face just like he'd done with Deidara.
Sakura wasn't sure if this was good or not.
Shit Shit Shit! So fucking hot!
She'd forgotten Deidara was grasping onto her other arm until he tugged her from Seimei's grip. She swirled backwards behind the blond, her arm awkwardly sticking out to fit into his grip.
"Let's go Sakura, un" he said, diverting his gaze from the cocky dark haired Seimei.
"Ah, so it's Sakura. I'll do well to remember that name"
Ahh and I hope you do!
Inner Sakura giggled like a child as outer Sakura blushed furiously and stumbled behind Deidara, still in his grip.
--
"You shouldn't get too close to that man, un" Deidara said after a few silent minutes of walking.
"Why not!?" Sakura asked furiously.
"He's my number one client. I know quite a lot about that man. You'll do well to listen to me, un"
"Well then, let's share" Sakura said sarcastically.
"I keep my word Sakura, and I very much remember promising that man to never share information on him. Anyways, aren't leaf ninja good little children? You wouldn't want to arrive back home with a man like that on your shoulder, un"
Sakura's head shot up and her feet stopped moving. She stood still, staring at her captor who was still mumbling on about Seimei's bad character
"Back...Back home?" Sakura asked quietly, nearly in tears.. "I can go back home someday?"
Images of all of her friends came to mind
Naruto, Kakashi, Tsunade, Ino, Neji, Lee, Tenten, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Choji, Shikamaru, Iruka, hell let's even put those at the ramen bar there too.
My home. My friends...
Deidara was now staring at the crying kunoichi and was so obviously unaware of what to do.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot promise a thing, un" he said quietly, turned around and walked on slowly.
Sakura's legs began to move on their own and she found herself following Deidara yet again.
--
A few moments later, Sakura had dried up her tears. She hated looking weak in front of people, let alone an Akatsuki member.
"Here, un" Deidara said while handing her a black cloak, printed in red clouds.
"Get lost" Sakura's eyes widened.
Does he honestly think I'll wear that!?
"You're gonna have to. You wouldn't want anyone to recognize you from Konoha and take it personally against your village would you, un"
He makes sense... shit.
After what felt like long stubborn minutes of pouting and sighing, Sakura put on the cloak. Deidara knew he'd won from the beginning as a cocky smirk had been stuck on his face.
They both walked into a small village. Everyone looked quite poor and it made Sakura feel uneasy, the citizens gasped and hid as soon as they saw the cloaks of the Akatsuki float past them.
Deidara's a natural... I'm sure his eyes are quite murderous at the moment.
Following his footsteps but only by a few seconds apart, Sakura had to admit, she looked quite murderous herself.
Must be the cloak.
The streets became empty and windows were slammed shut as mothers held onto their children and ran inside which ever building was closest.
A child of about 6 ran in front of Deidara, obviously not realising the danger until the blond man stopped and stared mockingly onto the child.
"Hideki! Hideki run!" a dark skinned woman yelled from a window.
Sakura felt eyes dart onto her and Deidara, although they were very well hidden behind gaps in doors and windows.
"Run little boy, un" Deidara whispered at the shaking child, those gray blue eyes narrowing.
A few seconds went past and Sakura was sure this was going to end in a riot if she didn't do anything.
"Let's go" She said to Deidara, keeping a sinister and murderous tone in her voice.
She walked past him and the boy, shooting a death defying look towards staring citizens, whom then gasped and hid again.
Must stay in character... must stay in character
She kept repeating to herself, trying her hardest not to smile and apologize.
The boy ran away, seeing Deidara's eyes flicker onto Sakura, he must have thought that would be his chance.
Deidara cached up to Sakura quite easily in a few seconds and they both walked on between narrow alleyways and intertwining streets.
"You're quite popular Deidara-san" Sakura said quietly, keeping her gaze onto the streets in front of her
"And you're a natural, un" he replied daringly.
Sakura's eyes shot at the blonde in confusion.
A natural? A natural?
"Don't be ridiculous. I am merely keeping in character"
Deidara snorted.
"Sure thing, un"
Deidara
It shocked him how surprisingly evil Sakura could be, not that she'd killed anybody but the citizens were most definitely fooled and Deidara, for a moment, felt fooled too.
The streets in front of them fell deserted as time passed. Men and women in stalls, packed up and left. Not daring to look for more than a second at the Akatsuki pair.
"Are you used to this?" Sakura asked him quietly.
"Quite, un"
--
They finally arrived at their destination and Deidara dropped his Clay to the floor and began calculating.
Sakura danced around, hopping from stone to stone with the large red paper umbrella high above her head that Deidara had bought her from one of the braver salesmen who had dared to stay out in
the streets. He'd bought it out of spite to the salesman of course, who in Sakura's words 'had never seen someone shake and stutter so much'.
"Oi! You there, these are sacred stones! How dare you dance-" a gruff deep voice of a man shouted behind them, stopping still when Sakura turned to face him. The cloak showed it's clouds in all it's glory.
"Oh, Oh my. I am so very very sorry. So very-"
Deidara stared at the bumbling fat man for a few seconds. He'd have liked to blow up his face right there and then except he wouldn't want to waste his clay.
He was sure the man knew exactly what they were doing as soon as he found the man's eyes staring towards him and his clay.
"Ah, well see, I can't have you spreading the news that we're here. I'll leave that to my little gift, un" Deidara smirked, getting up and walking towards the pot bellied man who had now fallen to his feet.
Sakura twirled the umbrella in her hands and sat down to watch.
"How exciting, what will you do Deidara-san?" She asked.
Is she daring me to kill him, un?
Deidara's smirk widened as he grabbed onto the Hawaiian shirt of the man and picked him up far off the ground.
"Hold out your tongue, un"
The man's eyes widened as he pleaded for his life.
Deidara broke out in laughter and dropped the man to the floor.
"I have a job to do and you're wasting my time, un" the blond said, sticking out a kunai to the throat of the now paralysed man on the floor.
Blood soared to the skies as Deidara's hand flew to the left after sliding his kunai past the throat of the citizen.
He heard only a few seconds footsteps race behind him as he was then next to the killed man on the floor.
"What the fuck Deidara!" the pink bundle of hell stood above him, fist still standing upright. "Why did you kill him!?"
"Why the fuck did you punch me, un!?" Deidara groaned, getting up and rubbing the side of his arm.
They both stood staring at each other for a few seconds, something they had become very used to in the midst of an argument.
"As I said, I have a job to do and he got in the way, un"
Sakura snorted and crossed her arms.
"I'm in the way, what will you do now?" she asked.
Deidara was fed up and so he grabbed her arm and tugged her forward, grabbing his bags of clay and setting the strap over his shoulder. They soon entered a gigantic stone building that was covered in snakes and spiders that slid under and over the green and purple vines.
--
It was dark. Extremely dark. Deidara's hand glowed in blue as he concentrated all of his chakra into his right palm and his left dropped Sakura's arm as she concentrated her chakra too.
After walking endlessly through shadowed hallways, Deidara noticed Sakura was limping and slowing down.
"Are you okay Sakura, un?" He asked, stopping to face her.
Her face had gone very pale and her eyes looked a deep shade of black compared to the bright green it had always been but when Sakura nodded, he put it down to the lack of light that had changed her appearance.
"I'll carry you because you're slowing me down, un" the blond said, gesturing for Sakura to climb onto his back.
-She did, and he began running at full speed through the narrow stone hallways, his feet giving off a light tapping sound with each step.
They arrived at a room which lead to a pit full of insects and poisonous snakes. In the middle of the pit lay a golden clay tomb.
"Bingo, un" Deidara smirked, laying Sakura down on the ground.
He got to work on creating clay spiders and soon enough they were all set in place.
Kicking away a snake that had slid it's way up past the pit, he told Sakura to get up and get going. He stood at the doorway waiting for her to move.
"Do you want to blow up, un?" He growled.
No reply.
"This isn't funny Sakura, get the fuck up, un"
No reply.
Her breathing had sped up but she lay quite motionless on the floor. Deidara hurried to her side and tried to drag her up by grabbing her arm. He stopped when he felt the icy cold texture of her skin.
Her panting became deeper and Deidara dropped her arm, shaking.
"Shit" he gasped, picking her up.
As he sped through the familiar narrow hallways, he reached for his clay and the tongues on his palm shaped a bird. When the stone hallways around him appeared bigger, he threw the clay bird out far in front of him and with a puff of white cloud, in seconds the bird had become human sized.
Jumping onto the bird he felt calmer as he had not been running as fast as he should have.
"Just wait Sakura, un" He yelled out to her, although she was lying in his arms.
His heartbeat was going crazy, he knew the exact time of explosion and feared they would not make it out, but alas, bright daylight stung his eyes from the end of the hallway.
There was a 5 second blur right before he and Sakura escaped the building.
His heartbeat returned to normal but everything around him intertwined with the bright sunlight from outside. He felt the blond in his hair mix in with the shades of pink in Sakura's and as he looked back, he found his eyes staring into the beautiful colours of fire that beckoned him back into the darkness.
The clay bird soared into the bright blue sky and the building underneath set alight, exploding into a million pieces.
Too close, un.
He nodded to himself, watching the fire eat everything up.
I've never been scared of my art before, un.
Deidara's smirk disappeared when he remembered the shaking pale kunoichi in his arms...
--
They landed in the middle of a nearby forest and Deidara began to inspect Sakura's fragile body.
"I think you got bit" he said, fingers wiping away the blood that gushed out of two small holes in her ankles.
"Shit" she faintly laughed, eyes near closing.
"What do I do kunoichi? You're a medical nin right, un" Deidara's hands settled on her face to make eye contact.
"Su..Su.. Ouaa..Poison...then...spee" The kunoichi's tongue was loosing it's nerve and she coughed up blood, giving Deidara red freckles on his face.
"I'm guessing I have to suck it out and then spit, un" he sighed sarcastically.
Setting his face near her ankle, his lips locked onto the two bite holes and he began sucking out infected blood, spitting out every so often.
"That's...okay now" Sakura whispered. "Sit me up"
Deidara spat out the rest of the blood from his mouth and sat Sakura by a tree.
He watched eagerly as green blue chakra flowed from her palms to her ankle and the colour in her eyes and skin returned to normal.
There was a long silence.
"You scared me, un" Deidara said quietly after a few minutes of staring at the closed eyes of the kunoichi in front of him
He knew she was awake. Her eyelids would shake a few times and she would randomly bite her bottom lip.
"Mm, I'm sorry" she replied back, keeping her eyes shut.
Out of nowhere, Deidara felt the urge to hold her close to his chest. These feelings being so new, he did not know how to stop himself and soon, the cherry blossom's lips were pressed up against his chest.
They feel so soft, un
"wh..wh.. what are you doing?" she asked, half asleep.
"You looked so cold, un"
Deidara could feel Sakura's lips become a smile as she nodded and buried her head in his chest.
"Mm" she replied, before drifting off to sleep in the warm arms of Deidara, who couldn't help but to peck her forehead with a kiss
-accidentally
Before getting on his clay bird to fly back where they began their journey.
End notes: wasn't sure how to end this but there we go! Uh oh Deidei is becoming a softie! ;3
I'll try my very very best to finish the next chapter soon! This chapter will deffinetly be the next part in the story.
Please r+r! Keeps me motivated :D