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It had been almost two weeks since they first ''moved'' into the old shack and nothing had really changed, Deidara was still acting happy which TaiTai had dubbed 'Super FC Mode' , Madara was slowly coming down from his rage high but the gruesome hallucinations (which he thought would be a one time thing) weren't going away. If anything they seemed to be getting more and more frequent.
Each being more grotesk than the last. All of them including murdering Deidara or watching him die.
The worst part was that the more common they were becoming the more they showed up in Madara's dreams.
Said Uchiha turned over in the bed, for what seemed like the fifteenth time that hour. He flinched in his sleep as sweat ran down his face. His eyebrows furrowed and he grumbled something under his breath.
A barren landscape, with black contrasts, clear glass weeds cover the ground, he could feel a hot breath down his neck, making his hair stand on end.
The birds in the sky hovered next to the moon, weightlessly, frozen in time.
A shadow and its stead, a large boulder standing in his path. A figured standing a top it. Looking down.
No, it isn't looking, it isn't standing.i t is crouching, leanedover the hilt of a long bladed sword stabbed into the earth out of Madara's sight.
Its head nods.
The glow of the sharingan within the reveal-
Finally made the nightmare break.
Madara flinched himself awake, his breathing fast and harsh, he sighed ad he placed the back of his fist on his forehead to wipe the sweat.
He wasn't safe anywhere anymore.
The Uchiha felt the blanket covering him pull and the bed shift as Deidara partially rolled over, he quickly brought his hand back down to his side and twisted his head to look away.
"Tobi?," he heard the blond asked tiredly, when he recieved no answer Deidara shrugged and rolled back over.
And so continued the long marathon of staring at the ceiling until sun up.
Like usual with the sun rose Deidara with a high stretch and a yawn and like had been usual since he and Dei found each other again, Madara had barely gotten any sleep.
It took even longer for sunrise so he figured he must have gotten thirty minutes of sleep(1) at the minimum, since it was around midnight when he went to bed.
The door clicked shut as Deidara left to go prepare ''breakfast'' (if a bowl of rice counted as such) the raven swung his leg which dangled over the edge of the bed for a few minutes, he heard the front door open..
Deidara was getting water.
Thunder rolled.
He heard the door shut and a few moments later the distinct smell of burning wood drifted through the house quickly followed by the clank of a iron cast pot being placed on a metal screen.
Just a few more minutes, he'd go down when it was almost done.
Like he always did.
For the half an hour he was up there he was dozing in and out of consciousness, then with a growl of annoyance he finally got up.
Down stairs Deidara crouched beside a makeshift 'stove' made of a few different non flammable things Tobi had dug up and patched together, it wasn't the best but it wasn't that bad either.
It worked.
He didn't acknowledge his partner when he heard him walk up behind him to look over his shoulder like he'd done every morning.
"Don't forget to stir it," The younger ninja rolled his eyes.
"I know,"
Madara placed his hands on his hips as he continued to watched the rolling water.
'Dude,' TaiTai yawned ,'Rice again?,'
The Uchiha clicked his tongue, earning a tilted look from Deidara. What did Tai expect? it was all they had to eat. It was going to end soon anyway, the stupid voice could live one more day without a real meal.
"So about last night," Deidara trailed off suggestively.
"Hn?,"
"You were screaming, hmm," The Iwa stirred the rice before giving a satisfied grin and grabbing one of the faded glass bowls on the floor next to his leg.
'Yay, it is done, whoopie, yes, ahar, hucks, fin...Fucking rice,'
Madara raised his hands ''Tobi'' style, "What's sempai talking about? Tobi slept all night, Tobi thinks Sempai was just dreaming," Speaking in third person was a tell.
It was a tell of all tells, he had a terrible poker persona.
Fucking Tobi.
'Don't blame the ants for the ham on the doorstep,' Tai chirped.
Deidara glared.
"It was just a bad dream, there was nothing that could've been done to stop it,"
"Must have been a pretty bad nightmare to have an Uchiha shaking in his boots, yeah," The blond shoved the bowl into his hands as he walked passed, "That's literal by the way,"
Madara less than gracefully slammed his shoulder on the narrow door frame as he turned to follow his partner. He cursed under his breath all the way to his seat on the floor in the empty front room.
Sitting in the dark, with nothing but the sound of the rain and the delicate sounds of the wooden chopsticks hitting the sides of the mismatched, chipped bowls.
TaiTai grumbling a few fucks and what he claimed to be ''voodoo'' hexes -yeah right-.
A less than normal yet somehow familiar morning.
"You know I've been wondering, yeah," Deidara stated using his chop-sticks to try and balance a single grain of rice on top of the pile,"Where is your ring and cloak?," he stabbed the highest point to pick up a mound of the sticky white food.
Madara paused as he was about to take a bite, he already told Dei about the mask thing -on the blonds orders of course- but had completely forgotten about his cloak and ring up until this point.
He could already hear Pain and Konan whining about it.
"I stashed them in Konoha and forgot," He finally answered with a dip of his head, he placed his bowl on the wooden planking.
"Won't Leader be pissed you haven't reported in yet? hmm,"
'He is probably as red as a tea kettle,' The elder shushed Tai quickly, "No, we still have a month before we are expected to report in," he answered a little unsurely.
That was probably right.
Right?
'Sure, why the hell not, it isn't like he can punish you or anything, you are the real boss, the head honcho, the alpha wolf, the-Shit what else is there,' As Tai tried to think of more leadership titles Madara finally got back to his rice.
Ah yes, yes, he was the leader.
What he says goes.
Then it was back to the silence, the time for thinking. His mind wandered from random thought to random thought, letting it self go gooey. It was important to think about nothing, it was a good thing.
Sadly it seemed the days 'Thinking about nothing' would run a little short, just like his sleep schedule, when he remembered that later on that day he and Dei would be heading for Kusa.
Again.
Madara was getting sick of hearing about it and he was the one always mentioning it!
The plan was to go to the village, it seemed simple enough. But Dei didn't have any clay and Madara didn't think he could teleport them to the village, not with how he was feeling.
Tired and in pain.
So much pain.
It would be like trying to stuff a whole cake down your throat when you're already full.
Which obviously meant they would have to walk.
Honestly Madara didn't want to walk all the way to the village, firstly he didn't feel like walking anywhere and second he didn't want to leave this place. Yes they were out of food and there wasn't any electricity or running water ,but it was quiet and peaceful.
He really did like it here.
Living here...
At that moment the masked ninja got an idea.
"Hey Sempai?,"
Deidara gave a small grunt in reply.
"Do you think I could run an idea past you?,"
The Iwa rose an brow.
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Pain stepped out onto his usual perch over looking the village with a small splash as his sandal squashed a puddle. Behind him Itachi and Konan stood out of the rain with serious expression on their faces.
"Do you think it has finally happened?," Konan asked in a small voice.
Itachi's shoulders bobbed as he scoffed,"Unlikely,"
Pain shot a look at the young Uchiha over his shoulder,"Then you explain it, he never takes his ring off, something must have happened,"
The bluette nodded,"I agree, something must have happened,"
Itachi 'hn'd', he knew they were concerned and they could do whatever they wanted, they were their own people after all (No matter what Madara said) and so was he, which was why he wasn't worried for his old master, not the least little bit.
That old coot was stubborn he wouldn't just let death take him, he'd roll over and taunt it to rub his belly and then Tsukiyomi it back to the pits of hell.
That's how he was.
But of course Pain and Konan care about their own peace, that's the only reason they worried, it was like Madara and Deidara. They only care about themselves.
"Shall we send Zetsu to find him?," The orange haired body made it sound like a suggestion but his mind had already been made up.
The two more stoic ninja both nodded, knowing it would be stupid to object.
"Alright then," Pain narrowed his eyes,"Zetsu,"
Said plant man fazed out of the ceiling above the two youngest ninja,"Yeah, Yeah, no need to explain we heard you," both sides chorused.
"Good, now go,"
"Yes sir," Zetsu nodded, taking off to start his mission.
"I should take my leave as well, Kisame is waiting for me," Itachi voiced, turning and leaving Konan and Pain alone.
The kunoichi sighed,"What if Zetsu can't find him Nagato?," she wondered.
"I will have to extend my storm,"
Konan watched him walk to the very end of the platform, the rain getting heavier and heavier with every step he took, "But, that will drain your chakra,"
"If it must be done then so it shall be," Pain's voice boomed.
Konan started to voice her objection but closed her mouth, dejectedly looking away from the light and into the darkness. If Nagato suffered it would be the Uchiha's head.
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Murders of crows flocked together of roof tops and power lines, eagerly waiting for the groups of ninja to move away so they reach the delicious meat of the dead prisoners lining the street.
The fight between Tsunade and Yoshi had ended after a vicious battle that destroyed the Hokage's mansion and literally split the village in half with a deep gash, branded with Yoshi's lava jutsu and scarred with Tsunade's fierce fist.
The cause of all of this chaos and destruction was sprawled on the ground at the feet of Tsunade, Kakashi, Yamato, Sai, Naruto and Sakura, as well as the members of several other teams, bleeding from every possible place he could bleed out of, a puddle of crimson had been created around his beaten, bruised and destroyed form.
"Look at what he has done granny," Naruto said in a cold voice, his face frozen in a full hearted glare of hatred, "He's destroyed so much, he deserves to die,"
Yoshi laughed loudly despite the pain he felt throughout his body as a result,"Don't you get it you fool? I wanted you to kill me, I wanted to die," he said in a hiss.
Everyone was quiet but Naruto being Naruto (Angry or not) had to ask, "Why?,"
Yoshi's smirk dropped,"My one and only friend is dead kid, I ain't got nothing to look forward to except spending the rest of my life going from prison cell to prison cell,"
Naruto raged, this bastard was sobbing about his friend when he killed, he did so much harm, he caused so much destruction!, "It didn't have to be this way, if you hadn't-," Naruto started.
"If I hadn't I wouldn't be here but I did and there isn't a damn thing that can change that. There isn't a damn thing that can bring my friend back and there isn't anything that can stop me from trying to finish off all those who betrayed him," the blue haired man finished.
On the other side of the village, in the defense squadron, the council members were filing out in a less than orderly formation of their sted, with the more sibling-esk (They were always together) pair of the group wandering off by themselves to the edge of the complex building.
"That was ridiculous," Koharu spat, fanning herself.
"I concur, absolutely appalling," Homura said just as angrily.
"At least it is over now," The elderly woman snapped her fan shut.
Unknown to the two of them (and the rest of the ninja near by) a slow rolling wave of lava , the only remaining part of Yoshi's specialty justu, ran down the small incline slowly, towards the very back of the building.
There was a sizzle, catching the attention of everyone before a white hot explosion and nothingness.
The group of shinobi gapped at the rising mushroom cloud of fire and smoke in shock while Yoshi chuckled to himself, "My job is done," he rose his hand in the air ,pointing toward the sky,"You can thank the masked Akatsuki and your own foolishness for your suffering,"
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"Yes, yeah," Deidara said with a small laugh as he sat on the floor of an old mineshaft Tobi and he had to take cover in from the storm.
'You know I'm starting to like this new Dei,'
Madara chuckled, he and Tai still thought the whole happy thing was creepy, but it was pretty fun being able to talk to the bomber without having to worry about saying the wrong thing and getting an explosive centipede down his shirt.
"Once it lets up a bit we'll move out, it's been like this for so long the roads are already flooded, there shouldn't be many tourists in the village,"
"Thanks for spelling that out, hmm,"
They watched the rain for a while, boredom slowly taking its hold.
"I hope this thing doesn't cave in, yeah," Deidara said randomly, looking up at the beams supporting the mine. They were old rusty metal, some were bent, some where strait and some were so warped they didn't even serve their purpose anymore.
Madara patted one of the beams,"I hope not too, it would be a big blow to my ego,I helped make them," he said excitedly with a smug smirk.
'When did we do this?,' Tai asked in an 'Honest to Kami I have no idea so please answer me,' tone.
"After the bridge was destroyed," Not only was it a mine to collect precious gemstones and gold but it was a secret escape route for the villagers as well, if Kusa was ever attacked they had some way to get to the neighboring village.
'Oh yeah,'
The terrorist snorted,"First the wood carving now mine work. You are full of surprises you damn Uchiha, hmm,"
Madara chuckled, sitting next to his partner. He was quite surprising wasn't he? He did invent Tobi and act like him every single day, after all, that takes commitment.
And a lot of energy.
It made him glad Deidara knew he was an Uchiha now, he didn't have to pretend to be that 123 pound ball of bouncy and sugar canes because he did not have the energy for that right now.
Hell he barely had enough stamina to run from the mine to the tree only fifty feet away.
That's pathetic.
Madara stretched out his legs and crossed his ankle over the other, pressing his back to the wall to help brace himself.
Deidara leaned his head on the elders shoulder, using it like a pillow, "You're a soft fucktard, yeah,"
'And I'm scared again,'
TBC (2732 words!)
(1) If you sleep in 30 minutes intervals around five times a day over the course of about a month your body will start to dive into REM sleep faster to make up for your sudden douchie ness towards it and of course we dream in the REM stage. Yes folks I actually know stuff :D . 880x950= AHHHH! MAH BRAIN!
Lucy you gots some 'splanin to do!: Yoshi knew where the council members where hidding, one of the lava pools he created that was still red and flowing barely scraped the edge of one of the paper bomb kunai dropped on the ground during his and Tsunade's fight, it exploded and the base beneath them collapsed into a giant crater. That's what happened to the old people ^_^.
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