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Previously on The secret behind:
23 year old Haruno Sakura is being spied on by a dangerous S-rank missing-nin.
Said nin discovers she is a mother and lives with Sai, and leaves her a 'gift', as he so fondly calls it. Gaara is informed of this and goes to get her.
At her stay in Suna with the twins, Reijin Kyuuki and Yuki Ryuuki, and Sai, something that crushes her happens.
Our S-rank missing-nin reveals himself to be the new leader of Akatsuki, and for some reason, the members Kisame and Deidara are alive, something strange seeing Deidara had been killed previously (see manga).
The Leader talks to the twins and the day after he does so, he reveals himself to Sakura and the others, involving the twins in a jutsu that makes them oblivious to the fight among the adults, and giving Deidara the chance to get close to the kids.
As Sakura realises who the Leader is, he goes away on a clay bird with Kisame, the kids being in another clay bird with Deidara, and in a good mood.
As they arrive Akatsuki HQ, Kisame goes his own way, while Deidara takes the kids to the kitchen so they can eat something. Once there he goes to get Hana, who, the moment she seen the twins, squeals saying they're 'kawaii'.
In the meanwhile, Leader goes to the sealed room to talk to him and they have a 'confrontation'.
As Leader walks through the garden, Akira, the previous Leader of Akatsuki, confronts him. Leader tells him not to test his patience, but his answer comes in the form of 'I do not fear you or your sharingan' followed by a chuckle.
Chapter 6
Hana prepared some ramen for the twins and they ate it happily, so far so good, they were happy and were enjoying themselves.
In the corner of the kitchen looking at the twins were Deidara and Hana.
"What do you think Leader'll do now??" Deidara sighed, his eyes on the cute twins eating happily.
"I have no idea, yeah." He muttered and sighed again. Hana had a frown forming.
"I really wonder what he'll do, I mean, he's only 23 and he's already so… so…" she paused, searching an adequate word. "Hollow inside." She whispered with a sigh. Deidara nodded lightly.
"I can't complain." Deidara said in a serious tone, Hana raised a brow at his statement.
"You're new so you probably don't know, but…" he paused. "After we caught the Shukaku, Sasori-danna was killed by Tsunade's apprentice." Hana nodded.
"I already know about that." He gave a curt nod before continuing.
"Months after that, I fought against Uchiha Sasuke and was killed." He said it so plainly that Hana just stared at him in disbelief, her mouth slightly opened.
"What do you mean killed?? You're here, alive." He laughed lightly.
"Before you entered Akatsuki 2 years ago, I guess Leader saw some use in myself." She had a quizzed look, not really understanding what he meant. "When Leader was 19 he resurrected me." Her eyes became as big as saucers.
"Seriously??? How??" she asked after composing herself.
"From what Salmon-chan told me, Leader used a forbidden technique that uses chakra from the Jinchiriki and that doesn't needs sacrifices so the resurrected can stay alive, the chakra reconstitutes the body and the soul is summoned from the world of the dead." Hana stayed quiet. "Sasori-danna told me about the technique, Orochimaru developed it, but he wasn't able to finish it, he didn't have the abilities needed to do so." Hana shifted her position so she was facing the twins again.
"I'm one lucky bastard, yeah!!" he said grinning, but his eyes said his grin wasn't that cheery.
"Deidara-sempai." Hana whispered as Deidara's face became blank as he looked at the twins. He sighed and closed his blue eyes for a few seconds.
"I don't know what my purpose is anymore." He muttered in a whisper as he opened his eyes again.
The sun was going down, allowing the silver moon to rule over the shinning silver stars in the incoming dark clear night.
And as the sun went away, the eyes of the imprisoned man stared at the yellow, orange, pink and purple hues in the sky.
He couldn't say what was happening to him wasn't what he deserved, because he deserved worst than being confined in a sealed room.
The door creaked open, a nervous light brown haired girl entering the room, not sure if she should go inside and put the tray with dinner in the table or just let it drop to the floor and run away slamming the door shut.
Gulping silently she took a step forward, her eyes on the floor, she was too scared of this man to look at his face.
"Hana-san." She looked up a bit, stopping in place, her gaze fell on his turned back. "You can just leave the tray in the table near the door." He said in his always composed tone, not a trace of emotion could be noticed.
She gulped again and did as he said, she put the tray in the table next to the door and hurried to the door, before she closed it, he spoke again, never turning to her.
"Hana-san, you do not need to fear me, I have no intentions on hurting you." She thought his words carried a small hint of some sort of emotion, but she dismissed it, blaming her brain for it and closed the door in a sift click.
As she walked down the hallway, she sighed, she didn't like being the one to do that, the man in the sealed room scared her to death, his past was one she didn't even dare think about.
The man wearing navy blue and white got up, breaking his gaze on the well taken care off garden and walked to his dinner. Taking the tray he walked back to the low table and got comfortable.
He looked at his diner to see some onigiri and sushi, his favourite food, simple and healthy.
He silently thanked for his food and started eating calmly, he had all the time in the world anyway.
"Onii-chan!!" Kyuuki called from where she was seating in the garden, Deidara looked up from the sculpture he was doing with a raised brow.
"What is it, yeah??" he asked quietly, his gaze shifting from Kyuuki to his sculpture.
"It's getting dark outside." She remarked.
"And Kaa-chan says that when it gets dark outside we have to go to bed." Ryuuki continued from where he was.
"Oh." Deidara mumbled and looked at his sculpture again. "I'll take you to bed in a moment." He mumbled and continued focussing on his sculpture, finishing a few details.
Hana watched from a tree branch, she found herself thinking Deidara might have have been a good father if he had had children.
"Deidara-sempai!" she called, seeing he had finished his sculpture, he looked at her.
"What is it Hana, yeah??"
"Where are they staying??" she asked and beckoned the kids to come closer.
"Sealed room, yeah." He stated and in a hand seal his sculpture was a kanji in a scroll.
"Oh." She shivered lightly thinking who else was inside the sealed room.
"I'll take them." He said quietly, well aware she was scared to death of the man. "Come here kids." He beckoned, the kids grinned and ran to him, throwing themselves into his arms, hugging him.
"Hana." Said girl looked at him. "Can you bring me a futon?" she nodded and smiled.
"Sure Deidara-sempai!!" she walked away and Deidara got up, the twins in his arms.
"Did yu have fun today??" he asked as they walked inside.
"Hai!!" the twins exclaimed at the same time and hugged him again, he couldn't help himself but grin, it felt good, to be liked.
"You'll sleep in the same room as an old… friend of mine ok?" the twins nodded.
When he reached the sealed room Hana was walking down the hallway with a futon and 2 pillows.
"Thanks Hana, yeah!!" Hana smiled and walked away, leaving the futon and the pillows next to the door.
Deidara put the twins down and opened the door, the eerie man was sitting on the floor, looking at the garden.
"Hey." Deidara greeted quietly, the man stayed silent. Deidara took a few steps, and then noticed the kids were at the door, peeking, and looking fearfully at the man.
"You can come in, he's not a bad guy, yeah." Deidara reassured. "He's just ruthless."
The twins stared at Deidara for a few seconds before entering, Kyuuki first and Ryuuki behind her.
The room fell silent as Deidara started preparing the futon.
Kyuuki stayed next to Deidara, but Ryuuki risked, he walked quietly to stand next to the man.
"Anoune onii-chan." He called quietly. "Where are you looking at??" the man looked at him through the corner of his eyes.
"The garden." Ryuuki nodded and shifted lightly.
"I like looking at the flowers, they're pretty." The man glanced at the 4 year old again, and faintly smiled, a very very small smile, barely noticeable.
"They aren't just pretty, they also hide many things."
Deidara looked at the eerie man from the doorway, and smiled as the usually silent man with what seemed to be a 'stay-away' dangerous aura surrounding him, talked quietly with Ryuuki.
"I'll be going now, yeah." He announced and was about to leave.
"Tuck me in Dei-nii-chan!!" Kyuuki grinned, he smiled and walked to her lying form on the futon.
"Ok, oyasumi Kyuuki-chan!" he grinned and tucked the small girl in, leaving the other side of the futon for Ryuuki.
"Oyasumi Ryuuki-kun!" Ryuuki turned to him smiling.
"Oyasumi Dei-nii-chan!!" Deidara closed the door and walked away.
Ryuuki yawned and walked to the empty space on the futon.
"Oyasumi nii-chan." The eerie man looked at the small boy and nodded.
A few minutes later he looked at the sleeping children, they reminded him of someone, but he couldn't quite put a finger on who they reminded him.
Knock knock
Sai slowly opened the door to see Sakura in the bed, curled in a ball, breathing calmly, staring blankly at the wall.
"Sakura." He whispered and walked closer to her, she remained still.
The best artist nin of Konoha sighed and knelt down in front of the pink haired lady, she didn't even acknowledged him.
"Please say something." He pleaded, she merely blinked, but didn't look at him. He smiled sadly and ran his index finger from her forehead, down her cheek and stopped at her neck, where he let his hand rest, feeling her slow pulse.
"We're doing everything we can." He whispered and leaned closer to her, his hand cupped her cheek and made her look at him. "So please don't close yourself up."
She stared at his eyes for what seemed like an eternity.
"…he took them…" she whispered, Sai bit the inside of his cheek and sat in the bed.
"We'll find them, Gaara is taking care of everything." She sniffed and looked up at him, her usually life filed emerald green eyes void.
"We'll find them, and next time we'll beat him up, I promise." She blinked, looking like a lost child needing reassurance. "I promise." He whispered and laid on the bed next to her, holding her close to him, his face on the crook of her neck. "I promise." He closed his eyes and tried to swallow his emotions. "We'll bring them back." She moved her hands and grabbed his shirt, her face buried on his shoulder.
"…really?" he wound his arms around her slim waist and held her closer.
"Sound and safe." He reassured. "They'll be okay." She sniffed.
"He had no right." She whispered angrily, warm tears falling down on his shirt. "He had no right." She sobbed and clutched the fabric of his shirt in his hands tighter.
"We'll bring them back, and we'll make him pay. I promise."
The Leader of Akatsuki ran through the forest in his black outfit, black pants, shoes and turtle neck tank top. In his right wrist was a tribal tattoo. He stopped in the last tree, his eyes on the dark sky full of silver stars, the shinning moon to his left.
"Kaze." He muttered as a small breeze flew by. His eyes shifted and he stared ahead of him. "Sand." He could vaguely see Suna in the horizon, but it could also be because he knew where Suna was and what it looked like.
He sighed heavily and looked back at the forest, he had to go back, he had a desk full of paperwork, missions to assign, people to order, things to take care of.
It wasn't as easy as one would think to be the Leader of Akatsuki, he dared to compare the position of Leader of Akatsuki with the position of Hokage. He had to protect his people, paperwork to do, and he did what some would never do, he took those that society rejected and gave them a place, he gave them a 'somewhere where they could belong'.
He took one last glance on the seemingly infinite desert, and then started to go back, this time in a slower pace than the one with which he had come here.
"Why did it have to become this way?" he asked no one in particular as he kept jumping from tree branch to tree branch.
"Alpha 1, here is Delta 3, I saw the target." A ANBU whispered into the earpiece. "Do I follow him?? Over."
"Delta 3, here is Alpha 1, negative, I repeat, negative. Do not follow him. Over."
"Roger Alpha 1. What do I do?? Over." There was some shuffling from the other side of the line.
"Cast the trailing jutsu."
"Roger." The ANBU did some hand seals and whispered and inaudible jutsu on the Leader.
"Kazekage-sama, Delta 3 reporting." The Kazekage sat patiently behind his desk for the ANBU to continue.
"Alpha 1 spotted the target and, just like you ordered, he cast the trailing jutsu and did not follow him." The Kazekage nodded.
"Good job, this remains classified, no information is to be leaked, no talking about this to anyone."
"Hai Kazekage-sama." The man said bowing.
"Dismissed." The ANBU bowed and in a pouf of smoke was gone. Gaara sighed in relief and then smirked.
"Gotcha you bastard." He muttered darkly and disappeared in a twirl of sand.
Lost in his thoughts, it wasn't until he was 4 miles (more or less 6,5 km) from Akatsuki HQ that he noticed he had been cast a trailing jutsu, he stopped dead in his tracks.
"Shit." He muttered and in some simple hand seals he annulled the jutsu, they would have a lot of work to do to find his base.
"You won't catch me that easily Kazekage." He muttered and kept going to the base, a small smirk on his face. "Not when I'm controlling." He stopped 500m in front of the base and did a series of complicated hand seals.
A bluish light was seen forming a dome over the terrain and Leader took the opportunity to enter Akatsuki premises. The bluish light appeared again and re-covered the terrain.
This jutsu made the area involved in the sphere, even underground, protected. Whoever touched the shield would instantly be teleported to the other side, what was inside couldn't be seen, but who was inside could see the outside.
Leader looked back and smirked.
"You won't catch me." He muttered and went back inside.
1 week later – Akatsuki base – Sealed room – Bedtime
The twins were becoming used to be in Akatsuki HQ, they slept in the sealed room, and during the day they usually played with Deidara and Hana.
Kyuuki didn't spoke much to the eerie man in the sealed room, but Ryuuki did, and the small boy enjoyed talking to the older man.
"I have something to show you nii-chan." Ryuuki said happily, the man turned to him in mild curiosity. "Look." Ryuuki held a drawing in his hands. "It's Kaa-chan!!" Ryuuki grinned as the man looked at the drawing, it was a 'girl' with pink hair and green eyes.
"Nii-chan, we should go to bed." Kyuuki whispered in her brother's ear, never looking at the man.
"You 2 can have the bed." The twins stared at the man (Kyuuki just at his chest, Ryuuki at his face). "It is not fair for children to sleep in the floor." Ryuuki rinned and hugged the older man.
"Arigatou onii-chan!!" Ryuuki exclaimed happily, the man merely smiled a small smile. As for Kyuuki, she found the courage to look at the man's face with a smile.
As the twins fell asleep in the bed, the man realised who they reminded him of, one of the persons they reminded him of, the Kyuubi's friend, Haruno Sakura. He had seen her a few times, when she was a little girl, always being picked on by other girls.
Kyuuki reminded him of her, as for Ryuuki, he still couldn't place a finger on who he reminded him of.
Not much to say, so i'll keep it simple!
Please review and tell me your opinions, it helps a lot!!
Luv you all, Kaori-chan!!
oh, does anyone knows who the mistery man is?? ta dah... i can tell you right away, he'll have a big influence on Leader!!
Oh… in my opinion, the part where Deidara talks about his past is important, because… what would you do if you died, and then you were brought back to life?? What would the meaning of your life be??