Deidara-Nii-San - Sequel to Sasori-Onii-Sama
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of or related to Inuyasha and/or Naruto.
Dedication: I'm dedicating this to my brilliant beta, Translucent Darkness, whose graduating this year; I'll miss her in college. Please check out her work - it's a bit morbid, but still very good!
Kagome ran across the sands, giggling as it scattered under her feet. Her black hair was tied up in a ponytail with most of it in several tiny braids falling from the band that held it up. She raced with the wind to the cave-filled rock cliffs, knowing food and family waited for her there. "Nii-sama! Tadaima!"
A red-haired man looked up from his work to acknowledge her as she climbed up the rocks and into their current cave. "Okaeri, Kagome-chan." She ran over to hug him and he set down his tools so they wouldn't harm her. "How was your run?"
Bright sapphire eyes shined up at him as she began to tell him all about the different creatures she met up with. He began working on his puppet again, only half-listening since she told him mostly about the same things every day. When she became quiet, he turned his attention back to her. "What's the matter?"
She shifted a little, her eyes on the ground. "Sasori-nii… your old partner – the one after Orochimaru… what was he like?"
The supposedly dead missing-nin narrowed his eyes slightly. He never did tell her about Deidara, mostly because, while he did wonder about the blonde explosion's specialist sometimes, he never found the need to tell her about him. "Deidara is a missing-nin from Stone and considered himself an artist…"
The reincarnated miko listened intently to her brother as he described Deidara. She didn't let him know that she had gained back her memories because, though she loved him dearly, she didn't think he would understand – he was a shinobi, and mikos were merely legends now. She still knew he loved her. She wasn't blind though – she also knew that her brother missed his old life, if only a little, and the way he recalled the blonde proved it.
"Now what brought this question about?"
Kagome blinked and became nervous again. It had been months since they left Suna, and she had received a few visions about what was going on in the world outside their cave; she never had the need to tell him about them until now, though. "I – I saw him today…" His eyes snapped to her and she shuffled uneasily. "It was kind of like a vision… He was fighting a black-haired boy with weird eyes."
Sasori's mind went to Itachi – Deidara hated him – but Kagome wouldn't have called him a boy. "A-And… Nii-sama, the boy's aura was dark purple, and he had wings!"
Crimson eyes hardened, and he began to pack his supplies. "Kagome, eat while you can – we're going to find my idiot partner." If that was Orochimaru's apprentice, Deidara is most likely in trouble… Baka…
The miko nodded and turned to the food above the fire. If we make it in time…. They were pretty evenly matched.
"You're sure it was in this area, Kagome-chan?" The girl nodded as she walked behind her brother. They had just entered a forest, and she knew that they would be coming across the craters soon. Deidara was an explosion's specialist for a reason, and his opponent seemed to like using that lightning attack of his.
After a moment, Sasori cursed, and Kagome hid her face in his midnight black cloak. She didn't want to see the battlefield – it would only give her flashbacks of the final battle with Naraku… and the bodies. Her brother set his hand on her head, stroking her hair soothingly. "This is definitely the place, the idiot."
The puppet master picked his sister up so she wouldn't trip over rubble while she wasn't looking. He scanned the area, looking for any sign of the blonde missing-nin before moving to the next section of the battlefield. Deidara's chakre was so low that Sasori couldn't sense him, if he was alive at all.
Harsh breathing drifted to his ears just as he was beginning to give up, and Sasori moved toward the far end of the battlefield. The blonde was there, thrown onto his side from an explosion and his chest hanging open. The puppet master whispered for Kagome to keep her eyes closed, and he gently set her down.
Kneeling beside the Stone missing-nin, the redhead carefully turned him over to seal up his chest again and began healing what he could. A cough erupted from the blonde, bringing Sasori's eyes to his face. "I… must be in Hell now – I'm seeing Sasori-danna, un…"
"I'm afraid that you aren't that lucky, Deidara – you're not dead yet, and why would you think that, just because I'm here, that you would be in hell? It's insulting." The blonde frowned, his blue eyes trying to focus on his old partner.
"Then… How… You died, un… You can't be here." He stared at the puppet master in disbelief, but the proof of Sasori's existence was in the slow healing of his wounds. "No… way…"
The redhead smiled wryly and finished healing the injuries he could, sitting back. "I've done what I can – you're still a bloody mess, though, baka, and it's still possible that you'll die sometime in the night. Can you walk?"
Deidara stared at him incredulously. "What the hell, un? You say I could die then ask if I can walk, un?!"
Sasori smirked and stood, picking up his sister again. "Well, I can't very well carry both you and Kagome-chan, can I?" The blonde just stared at him in shock. "I could always make you walk on your own, Deidara – chakre strings are very handy."
The Stone missing-nin cursed and tried to stand but collapsed on his back again, still cursing. "Nii-sama?" Sasori immediately ignored his old partner's shocked cry – he probably thought Sasori had turned the girl into a puppet or something – and focused on her. Though her eyes were closed, she felt his gaze and bit her lip nervously. "Anou… could I try to heal him? Like I did you in Suna?"
The puppet master furrowed his brow in thought, still ignoring Deidara's indignant outcries. "I suppose you may try, but I want you to stop the moment you feel drained, understood?" At her nod, he set her back on the ground by Deidara, guiding her hands above the wounds so she didn't have to see the carnage.
Deidara watched his old partner interact gently with the girl – it was different for him to see a gentle Sasori when he remembered how cruel the puppet master could be. And the girl was different as well – she was cute, for a kid, and innocent, but she was with a murderer and healing another. It just didn't make sense.
Blue light flowed out of the girl's – Kagome's – hands and roamed over his chest, and Deidara could feel the damage imposed by his jutsu healing as if the wounds had never been there. The blonde looked at his chest in awe. "Sugoi, un…" Kagome blushed and checked over him with her chakre one last time before slumping in exhaustion.
"You should be fine now, Deidara-nii-san…" Sasori chuckled at the shocked look on his old partner's face as he stood up once again with an already sleeping Kagome cradled in his arms.
"Come on, Deidara – I believe it's time we left before someone comes to check it out." The puppet master waited patiently as the blonde stood shakily before moving away from the battlefield, Kagome's head carefully tucked under his chin. Nii-san, ne?
Deidara followed his danna into the forest, his thoughts on the girl who healed him. Nii-san? Looking at Sasori, he noticed the new way the redhead carried himself, almost as if he was free. Heh, why not, un? If he can do it, so can I, un.
A grin appeared on his face as he walked faster to catch up with his new 'family.' Plus, I'll be able to show her what art really is: a bang.
AN: I have to say that the last line has to be one of my favorites. Thank you all for reading! Just to let you know, I'm going to be out of the country all of next week and a little after, so I'm going to try to finish and post at least three more things before that. Hopefully one or two more things for this, and a YYHINU oneshot that I've been working on for... months now. ;
I'm still taking requests, though I believe that the other alternate ending for 'In the West' (which I don't like much, but we'll see how it goes) will be up next, hopefully followed by another RyuuKag, which will be longer than the other ones (I'm setting my standards WAY too high for myself these days.) When the sequel to Kisame's Daughter will be up, I honestly have no clue, but I AM working on it so, please give me OTHER requests to end my current writer's block, it'd be Extremely helpful. ; Now that you have listened to me rant for this long, please review/request!