I'd Be Lying

Chapter 3

"Why do we have to bring her along? Freaking annoying brat," complained Deidara as he strut through the forest with Sasori and Chieri behind him. "How would you feel if you were to find your sister? Would you leave her?" Sasori retorted to Deidara.

Deidara looked at him in shock. He never saw him have so much emotion usually he was blunt and only said words when they were needed. Chieri was walking a few steps behind him, awkwardly and trying to rub the goose bumps off her arm. She was so confused. She was really happy meet her brother near the beginning of her search but why did she have this fear haunting her? She began to list possible reasons.

"Chieri, how have you been?" he asked her with a warm smile. Deidara was obviously annoyed by Chieri's presence.

"Is that you Chieri?" Sasori asked her. Chieri was surprised that he knew her name.

"Sasori!" she cried out to him. Sasori turned to his partner. "Why are you fighting with her?" he demanded. Deidara didn't say anything but simply grunted and scowled at Chieri, who was too busy staring at her brother.

"Chieri, come," Sasori said. His little sister hesitantly walked up. She still knew that he was a S-ranked criminal.

'Is he acting? Could it be he's going to kill me?' Chieri thought critically to herself. When she was face to face with Sasori she began to analyze him. She really does resemble him, are they truly siblings? It seems so unreal.

"Deidara, let's go back now."Sasori said as turn his back and began to walk. Chieri watched him walk away. They just met and he's already leaving her? The red head couldn't believe it but at least she could return home to Granny Chiyo and Konohamaru.

Sasori turned around and looked at Chieri. "Are you going to follow?"

"What?" Chieri asked while the words seeped into her head. She nodded and followed the two Akatsuki members.

"Sasori, why is the brat coming us?" The clay artist asked while giving dirty looks at Chieri. She curled her fists and scowled at Deidara. "I'm not a brat, I'm his sister!" She shouted at him as she bared her teeth. Deidara narrowed his blue eyes. "Is that how you're going to address yourself, hmm? 'I'm a brat and I'm Sasori no Danna's little sister, blah blah blah,'" he mocked her. Chieri was ready to whip out her kunai but Sasori touched her shoulder and gave her a look. Chills surged through her body. She frigidly nodded as she returned the kunai to its rightful place.

Chieri walked closer to Sasori and made sure the bomber was nowhere near her.

Why is so rude to me? What did I do to him? He's probably on anger management, that stupid idiot, she thought to herself as she adjusted her eyes to Deidara.

They walked through the forest and eventually came to the front of a cave.

"I bet this is where Deidara lives, after all he is a cave man with no manners," Chieri joked. Deidara had flames emanating from him as Chieri followed Sasori inside the cave.

Surprisingly the cave was much bigger in the inside than the outside.

"Deidara, give Chieri a tour while I go see the leader," he said. "And if you try throwing one of your bombs at her, I'll kill you with my poison and use you as my puppet," He warned him.

Deidara growled as he walked away. "Why me?" Chieri looked around the interior of the cave. It had smooth rocks paneled across the floor and the walls were lit with several candles.

"Are we going to start the tour or what, hmm?" Deidara asked her obviously ticked off. He began to walk in the opposite direction Sasori walked. She scoffed as she followed him. They walked into a corridor and stopped at a room.

"This is the meeting room, there's supposed to be a meeting tonight. You're probably not going to get in because you're a brat." He explained as Chieri imagined stabbing him. They continued walking down the hall and then stopped at another room.

"This is the kitchen and dining room. We never really eat together so eat whenever you want. That is if you join us or whatever." Chieri opened her eyes wide, I might join Akatsuki? Wouldn't I be betraying Konoha? Then images of Konohamaru and Granny Chiyo entered her mind.

I guess I could join but I need to get Sasori out of here. I don't want him to get…killed by Konoha or other villages, Chieri thought to herself.

They continued walking until they came to an ominous flight of stairs.

"What kind of cave has stairs?"

Deidara groaned impatiently, "Shut up and walk up," Chieri did as she was told and began to step up.

They walked up to a hall with many doors.

"Here are the bedrooms, where all the members of the Akatsuki sleep and yeah,hmm…" He explained, enjoying that if was the end of the tour.

"Why do you do that?" Chieri questioned him. He looked down on her. "Do what, hmm?"

"Do that. The whole stupid 'hmm' thing. It's so dumb, why do you waste your breath using it at the end of every sentence," She retorted.

"Dammit. You really are testing my patience. If you weren't Sasori no Danna's little sister you'd be dead already," he glared at her. Chieri heard something clacking behind them and turned around. She saw her brother walking up the stairs.

"I talked to the leader, he said you can join." He said as he closed his eyes halfway. Chieri jolted. "What? I'm joining the Akatsuki? We-we didn't even talk about this!" she stuttered. Sasori began to walk into a room but stopped at the foot of the door.

"If you go back now, people are going to force information of you, even threaten to kill you. I can't let that happen. So you're going stay here now," he explained as he walked into the darkness of his room.

"You're crazy, they wouldn't kill me. I've lived there my entire life, they wouldn't do that." Chieri said nervously with her voice shaking.

No voice came from the darkness and Chieri looked at Deidara. "There should be an extra room for me to stay, right?"

He didn't say anything but walked to the end of the hall and Chieri followed.

"This is our only free room, you can live here. I guess. Hmm" Chieri nodded as she saw Deidara walk into the room next to her.

"Please to god don't tell me you live next to me," she mused. Deidara's head popped out of the room and sneered at her.

"Trust me, I don't like this anymore than you do."

Chieri sighed as she walked into the room. Inside she saw a bed, a few candles, a desk, and a shelf.

"Not bad for a cave," she mumbled to herself.

Suddenly the thought occurred to her, since she's betraying her village, does she have to slash her head protector like how Deidara did?

"I don't want to do that, it's so important to me," she mourned as she dropped her body onto the bed. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Chieri opened them a few hours later.

"What am I supposed to do now? I guess I should go see the leader," She stood up from the bed and walked out of the room. Outside she saw Deidara walking outside of his room.

"Oh it's you," she muttered under her breath but Deidara heard her.

"Don't act like you didn't want to see me, hmm," he jested.

"Never mind, where are you going? There's nothing to do here," she asked. Deidara laughed as his eyebrows rose.

"You must really be stupid. What do you think Akatsuki is? A playground? Besides, all members are to go to the meeting." He said while walking.

"Meeting?"

"Yes a meeting, did you forget already? How stupid." Chieri followed him downstairs and to the meeting room. There she saw many strangers, all of which were seated. She awkwardly walked to an empty seat, next to a woman with navy blue hair and an origami flower pinned in her hair. She was also dressed in the cloak with red clouds.

"Now that everyone is here, we are to introduce the newest member of Akatsuki. Her name is Chieri and she is the sister of Sasori. Now let us continue our meeting," a man with orange spikey hair and purple eyes said. He had piercings on his nose and ears. Chieri shivered at the thought of having that many piercings,

The pierced man began to talk about capturing the tailed beasts in a deep, serious, yet stale voice.

She twitched at the sound of the tailed beasts.

'Isn't Kono-chan's friend a tail beast? Was it the eighth tailed? No, it was the nine tailed. What about Naruto?' she questioned herself.

"We must seal the remaining tailed beasts soon. Deidara and Sasori will get the One Tailed Shukaku. Hidan and Kakazu will get the Two Tailed Monster Cat…" the man said.

"And with that, the meeting is adjourned. Deidara and Sasori, since Chieri doesn't have a partner she will join you two." The man said.

Deidara tried hard to hold in his groan of disgust.

The woman sitting next to Chieri stood up.

"Hello, welcome to Akatsuki, Chieri. I'm Konan." The woman said in an elegant voice. Chieri nodded but couldn't help but think how beautiful she was. Then a man with blue skin approached her. "I'm Kisame Hosigaki and this is my partner Itachi," Kisame pointed to a man with black ponytail and blood red eyes. Itachi didn't say anything but walked out of the meeting room. Only a few of members came up to Chieri and introduced themselves and those that didn't.

"How did you get Pain-sama to allow the brat to join, hmm?" Deidara mused as he walked up the stairs with the puppet artist.

"I just said she was able to stand up to you. Besides why do you care?" Sasori answered.

"She didn't stand up to me, I pinned her down." Deidara pointed out. Sasori glared at him and said the word "Pervert."

The word seemed to stab Deidara like a knife.

"I am not a pervert! How is that, in any way, make me a pervert, hmm?" he demanded. Sasori sighed. "You're wasting my time, shut up." Then he walked into his room.

"I am not a pervert," Deidara muttered to himself.

"Psh, sure," a sarcastic voice said. Deidara turned around to see Chieri walking up the stairs with one hand on the railing.

"Hey brat," he said.

"I'm not a brat, you pervert!" Chieri exclaimed as she stepped forward.

"I'm not a pervert, hmm" Deidara retaliated.

"Shut the fuck up, dammit," a voice emerged from the stairs. Deidara craned his head over Chieri to see Hidan walking up the stairs with a pissed expression on his face.

"If you're going to fight at least do it in your room, fuck…" he complained as he passed the two. Deidara glared at Hidan as he walked. Chieri was utterly shocked by his colorful language.

"Damn couple," Hidan whispered before entering his room

"We are not a couple!" they both shouted at the same time. Hidan scoffed, "My ass."

Chieri walked away from Deidara and walked towards Sasori's room. "Forget you, I need to go talk to Sasori anyway." Chieri hesitated as she felt a chill brush on her arm. She furiously rubbed her arm before walking in.

He watched her and then walked to his room.

"Sasori, Akatsuki is really a nice place. I met so many people. I met Kakazu, Hidan, Konan, Kisame, Itachi, Zetsu, and Pain. I never really talked to Pain yet, he's the leader right?" Chieri said. Sasori looked at her and said, "We aren't here to have fun. We're here for gaining world domination."

Chieri's smile vanished and she felt nervous. She felt the blood drain from her face. She knew that the Akatsuki were wanted criminals but the thought of world domination is too much.

"T-that isn't really why you're here right, Sasori?" she stuttered.

Sasori didn't say anything and began to work on his puppets.

"Your puppets are going to last forever, right?" Chieri changed the topic. Sasori nodded. "Puppets are art and art is meant to last forever. Unlike Deidara, my art is meant to last forever. His art is destroyed as soon as he makes it."

Chieri sighed. "He truly is an idiot. By the way, does he usually attack random people?"

"Who do you mean?" Sasori mused while putting poison into one of his puppets.

"Mr. Blond Bomber. He attacked me out of nowhere a few hours ago." Chieri explained. "If he does then that is dangerous and stupid."

He began to ponder. "I think it was because we had a fight, I think."

"You think… What was it about?"

"Art,"

"Art?" she asked.

"Yes. We argued about which art is better: things that are kept forever or explosions. He eventually got annoyed and stomped away from me. He's such a child."

"How old is he anyway? He could be in preschool," I joked.

"He's 15, one of the youngest Akatsuki members," Sasori answered as he began to put the finishing touches on the puppet. Chieri was shocked.

"He's my age? Then how old are you?" she asked.

"20 years old." He answered. Chieri looked at him in awe.

"Are you sure? You look so young for your age, not that you're not young already. You look as if you're my age. That's so cool. I wish I could look that young when I'm older." Chieri said wishfully. Sasori suddenly glared at her causing her to jump back.

"Don't ever say that. Don't even think it," he warned her. Chieri nodded with fear. Sasori noticed how he acted and apologized to his frightened little sister. "I'm sorry." He then patted her shoulder lightly. Chieri jolted for an unknown reason. Sasori noticed and brought his hand away.

"I'm sorry," he said once again. Chieri forced a smile. "It's alright Sasori, no harm done. I got to get going now. See you in the morning, okay?" She waited for him to reply but there was no answer. She walked out of his room and towards her room. She sat on the edge of her bed and sighed.

I wonder why I always get chills. It's so unnatural, she thought to herself before laying her head on the pillow and falling asleep.

Author's Note

I was perfectly fine in the morning and when I drink bubble tea I start coughing and got a sore throat. What's up with that? I love writing about Hidan even if he came in for a few seconds, it's so fun.