in for the kill
note1: I have a puppy now guys. It's freaking adorable. I don't even like dogs, but this thing has stolen my heart.
note2:School is a time consumer extraordinaire. Also, this is short.
arc one: dawning
chapter: starry sky
It was one of those rare nights when the rain had ceased to fall and the sky was perfectly clear. Sakura loved the nights like this, so it wasn't strange that Deidara found her laying on the roof of headquarters, staring at the starry night sky. She turned her head slightly in acknowledgement of his presence, blinking at his sudden appearance on the roof. (She wasn't aware that anybody knew where she disappeared to on nights like this.)
"Enjoying yourself, hm?" He smirked, sauntering towards her casually. (Well, as casually as he could. Something about this girl made his heart beat a little faster.)
"Mhmm," she murmured, not wanting to disturb the peace she had found earlier. Life in Akatsuki hadn't been too stressful so far, but she hadn't been this content for a long time. (Probably the night after Naruto called off the hunt for Him. They both knew he wasn't the boy they remembered anymore, and they had suffered enough heartbreak from trying to bring him back. They were done.)
Deidara plopped down beside her and grinned. He gave the sky a quick glance before looking down at her face, eyes widening at the sight. Her hair was a pink halo, framing a face of porcelain, so fairy pretty that she almost seemed to shimmer. He had never realized how delicate she was, as she was always in motion during the day, so full of life. Here she looked so pale in the dark of the night, a ghost of summer in human form. What really took his breath away though, was her eyes. They seemed impossibly wide, reflecting the stars in their green depths. He saw entire galaxies in those eyes, worlds so far away and places he'd never been. He didn't think he'd ever seen anything so beautiful.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" she whispered, cherry blossom lips curving into a small smile, eyes still searching the sky. The cosmos in her eyes spun dizzyingly and he tried to remember how to breathe.
"Yeah," he whispered back, pulling his cloak over both of them, settling in for a long night of watching the stars (and this strange girl who was stealing his heart), "Yeah it really is."
note3: Ghost! - Kid Cudi is everywhere in this. Such a chill song.
note4: Deidara is so lovestruck. What am I doing? (But I like it anyway.)