Part 21 Left Hanging
I looked back down at my village, was I going to actually become a missing-nin from two villages? No. I had to get back before that happened. Kotaro flapped up beside me I'd forgotten about him. I put him in to my bag, he stroked his red and gold plumage. I pressed him against my face, his warmness comforting somehow, reassuring me everything would work out, even though I knew it wouldn't. I wondered if anyone would see us and then the thought that I was in some sort of danger hanging around S-ranks. Well I didn't think my chakra wings could hold me till we got to the ground, we were pretty far up and as I did not intend on taking up free falling as a hobby I just sat still on the bird gazing at my fellow riders. I had no idea how Deidara was so confident he could stand. I wondered that if we got low enough he could get decapitated on a tree branch. The man called Tobi was sat at the rear of the bird and blabbering about the scenery, I wondered if his mother had dropped him as a child or he had had some kind of accident causing this annoying behaviour. Clear sign of brain damage in my opinion. I decided that I wanted to show some slight bravery and tried to stand up. But I realised, a split second too late this was the wrong thing to do. I heard a yowl and I screamed as Makaiko flung me off the bird and I plummeted towards the ground. I could hear the wind roaring through my ears. I soon saw sharp tree branches flying up towards me. Note to self, never take up free falling with Makaiko. I gather my chakra together and felt my wings unfurl as the chakra was hot on my back. A second later my stomach plummeted as they disappeared. I was being spun around in the air, the tree tops drew closer and closer. I felt the tree branches snag on my clothes and scratch my skin, I closed my eyes and flung out an arm which connected with a tree branch which I latched on to. I was glad that it hadn't been worse. I wondered where they were. Probably flying back to an Akatsuki base, well a lot of organisations have a base. I knew Deidara would stop Makaiko coming after me, I had got the feeling he hadn't really liked my attitude, well he'd killed Gaara, at least I had a reason for hating his guts. I carried on planning Deidara's painful death in the most imaginative ways possible when I heard some screaming, yelling and some loud crashing. And no before you say it, it wasn't a giant T-rex I'd accidentally on purpose cloned and let it loose or set it on Katsou's fan club, I mean cloning, no tch, the things you people think I've done.
It was infact a certain blood thirsty demon and an over sexual femi-man. I gazed over at them silently laughing at the picture. Makaiko was being choked due to the fact that her collar had been caught on a branch and Deidara was clinging on to her leg, no sign of the brainless one though. Makaiko eventually unhooked her collar but still clung on to the branch,
"Thanks for dropping by," I said dully. She looked across to the other tree where I was hanging from. You know they took making me hang out with them a little too literally. She nodded as a response, then clearly deciding she needed her leg intact she tried to shake Deidara off of her with little success, she even kicked him in the head, which I found hilarious. She gave up,
"I'm bored," she said,
"I'm hungry," I complained as my stomach gurgled,
"I'm getting tired, yeah," Deidara whined, whimp, why couldn't he make another bird to get us out of here?! Mind you his hand were too busy clinging to Makaiko's leg, personally I thought he just like the view of Makaiko from down there.
"Why?" We both asked,
"Because you've tried to throw me off your leg about a dozen times already, hmm! You're getting more violent each time yeah..." Deidara was still holding her leg,
"Well I don't know where you've been," she stated, "You might have cooties, ewww!"
"Stop acting like a baby Makaiko-chan, it doesn't seem to suit you somehow." I said dryly, cooties, honestly!
"But it gets me attention, which I'm happy with." she said smugly. We 'hung around' for a few hours and the sun turned blood red then slowly night ate up the remaining light. It was no pitch black and my ears seemed to magnify the sounds, I couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me so I concentrated the chakra to my eyes and saw among the blackness Deidara and Makaiko's chakra, I was glaring at Makaiko, I knew she could see me. I laughed at the thought of Deidara being the only one who couldn't see anything. Suddenly I heard creaking noises,
"What's that noise?" I asked fearfully as something creaked, I could see Makaiko's chakra form changing,
"Hikari-chan what is it, hmm?" Deidara asked,
"Growing my wings." she growled as a particularly loud crack echoed through the forest. Two wing like shapes of chakra had pushed themselves out of her back, I saw them flap a bit. They flapped again this time taking Makaiko out of the safety of the trees with Deidara still clinging on to her leg. Suddenly Makaiko plummeted, Deidara of course was a lot heavier than I was, Makaiko shrieked,
"Oi, you better not forget about me!"
"We're too busy falling thank you very much hmm!" Deidara yelled back. I felt the chakra surge away from my eyes, didn't want to make myself vulnerable by using too much of the stars power.
"Keitii?!" Makaiko called up into the trees, it was amazing that she could make her loud big mouth and the wind picked up making the trees sway and creek. I almost fell off but clung on tightening to a vice like grip,
"Where the hell are you?! You just get up and leave me! How dare you?! When I get my hands on you, you are sooo dead! I'll ring your bleedin' neck!"
"Don't you think that's a little harsh?" she called up,
"NO!!" I screamed down to them.
"I've been gone like what, a minute?!"
"It's your fault I'm up here in the first place!"
"You stood on my tail!"
"You threw me off the bird!" I bellowed.
"I don't remember that at all. You've been lying in the sun too long!"
"What sun?! It's night! You motherfucking bitch of a whore!" I concentrated the chakra to my eyes again and fumed at seeing Deidara once again wrapped around Makaiko, some would say I was jealous that I couldn't be the same with G-
"You two had better not be having a romantic, lovey-dovey moment!" I threatened, "You should be helping me!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming." she grumbled quietly as she pulled away from Deidara.
She rose threw the trees and after she'd stopped pratting about with her fancy moves she eventually found me,
"Hello." she said. I turned wildly and began swinging wildly in the air, I was going to re-mould her face!
"I'm gonna kill you!"
"I won't help you then." she said,
"Yes you will! Or I'll-" my stomach plummeted as the branch I was clutching on to gave way and I sped in to another free fall but I dragged Makaiko down with me because I fell on top of her and we flew straight in to a tree. I felt like my skull had been cleaved in two and by the time we'd eventually landed we'd had several arguments resulting in some colourful language from and several scratches, punches and kicks from Makaiko's lovely temper.
We Landed in a clearing, the floor littered with foliage that we'd sent crashing down to earth in our wake. I could feel Makaiko watching, I could almost read her mind, something about a rodent, but as we all know reading minds is just plain stupid.
"You found her then, hmm?" Deidara asked as he threw down an armful of twigs and small branches onto the pile in the middle of the clearing.
"Come off it, a deaf person would have found her from all the noise she was making." Makaiko said,
"A deaf person wouldn't have heard me though." I said confused,
"How'd you come up with that one, yeah?"
"I have...no idea." she said, Deidara moulded a minuscule bomb and set it off after placing it in the midst of the fire. A small pop as it exploded and sparks scattered out onto the dry wood which quickly caught alight. Deidara began to feed small pieces of kindling into the fire and once that was burning started to place in larger twigs until he eventually placed on the larger of the pieces of wood. Makaiko and I were rummaging through the our clothing to see if we had any food with us. Mind you, when you run off intending to save someone these things don't generally spring to mind. So we added our musical stomach rumblings to the crackling of the wood. Deidara sat back from the fire and patted his stomach; it made an gurgling sound and he sighed.
"So hungry, yeah." He whined, he was really starting to annoy me,
"Me too," I said,
"I need more food than you though, hmm." Deidara said, rounding on me, I raised an eyebrow at him, "I'm a full grown man,"
"Sure about that?" I asked, I mean he didn't even look of the male species. Deidara ignored the comment and instead carried on, "I also have four mouths to feed, un."
I knew he had three mouths but couldn't find the fourth, anyway his hands didn't eat anything, "Why Deidara? Expecting triplets are we?" Makaiko said dryly. I tried to muffle my laughter and she smirked as Deidara's temper began to boil. He was trying hard to hold his temper in, I didn't need protecting from male temper tantrums,
"Do you have four stomachs, Deidara-san?" I asked, genuinely interested to whether he was infact human,
"No, just a ploy to get more food, hmm." He sighed, "It only worked once on Hikari-chan, yeah."
"He tricked me into giving him the rest of my meal." She said grimly, answering my confused look.
"Tasted good too, un." Deidara grinned.
"Where is Tobi? May I ask?" I said, I wondered why they were so concerned about others except Tobi. I mean Tobi clearly had the mind of a three year old child and I wondered how he'd even got in to Akatsuki.