I'm sorry if I scared any of you with my last chapter. I forgot to warn you that I tend to lean towards the darker side of things and every once and a while I will write a chapter that is serious and dark. I've been trying to search for fitting songs for Kumiko, so please help me on my search! I'd really appreciate it if you tried to find a song and left the title and artist with your review! I'd prefer it if you found a japanese song because I love my J-Pop. Thanks! Italics mean that Kumiko is dreaming.
Above the smoke and ashes of the devastated town, Deidara flew overhead.
"Damn," he muttered to himself, "I knew I shouldn't have left her alone!"
He strained his eyes to see through the smog. The charred frames of houses were all that was left standing in the town. Bodies littered the soot stained streets, flames still licking them, the scent of burning flesh wafted through the air.
"There's almost no way she could have survived..." Deidara whispered, "No! She has to be alive, I have to believe in her!"
Deidara clenched his fists to stop them from shaking and searched below. The smoke was slowly clearing, revealing more and more of the town. His heart faltered at the fallen figure of a young girl with blond hair. A closer look revealed the remains of an Akatsuki robe. Upon the site of her, Deidara veered his clay bird in her direction and landed swiftly beside her. He quickly hopped off the bird and grabbed the body, flipping it over. The familiar face tore at his heart, he nearly teared up but he felt warmth radiating from Kumiko's body.
"Thank god... she's alive!" Deidara took a few moments just to look at her face.
"Stop!" Deidara's head snapped up to see Sasuke shakily standing up, "Stay away from her."
Deidara couldn't help the smug look that came over his face as Sasuke directed his sword at him.
"Ha! Aren't you one to talk," Deidara grimaced, "You couldn't even protect her while I was gone and now look at the state she's in!"
"It wasn't my responsibility." Sasuke stated plainly.
"Not your responsibility...!" Deidara huffed, "I'll deal with you later!"
Deidara heaved Kumiko up in his arms.
"What? Too scared to deal with me now?" Sasuke smirked.
"What are you, stupid? Look at Kumiko, I can't just leave her like this! I've got to get her healed up; look at all the bruises!" Deidara shook his head and turned around, walking on through the remains of the town.
A blur of tears formed in the small boy's eyes. He wept, a puddle slowly forming at his feet. Sniffling, he wiped the tears from his little blue eyes, but as he moved he cried out in pain. His cry was so filled with self-pity and despair that all the animals that were left ran from him. Only Kumiko approached the boy.
Hey..." she uttered softly, kneeling and gingerly placing a hand on him with the intention of comfort.
The boy let out a scream of horror, anger and pain, slapping Kumiko's hand away. Kumiko's eye's darkened and she reached for a kunai.
"If you'll only reject me then I have no choice." Kumiko whispered, barely choking out the words.
Fear was the only emotion in the boy's eyes as he scrambled away. He scream in replacement of a reply.
"You-you-you," he let out a wail, "You killed them; all of them! Mommy, Daddy, Nee-san! Why? Why, why, why!"
He reached a dead end, with only the remains of a wall behind him; he had nowhere to run. In an act of despair, he began picking up pebbles, tossing them with all his might at Kumiko, whimpering through the whole affair. Kumiko didn't even bother to dodge them, they caused small scrapes and bruises on her body but that pain was nothing to her, the only thing that pained her was the sight of the boy himself. He was wreck, with his quivering lip and and tear stained face, his black hair was ruffled and covered with dirt.
Kumiko swallowed back her tears and flicked her wrist, sending a kunai flying into the small boy's chest. His little pupils dilated at the impact and he hacked up blood, then he was still. Slowly, Kumiko walked over and closed his eyes.
"I'm sorry," she murmured to his lifeless corpse, "I-I didn't want to kill, but it was Madara-sensei's orders."
"Hey," it was Hidan, " Deidara, you little shit, let me in to see the brat!"
"She's still resting!" Deidara replied, "And why do you want to see her anyways, I thought you hated her!"
"I do!" he huffed.
"Then what are you doing here?" Deidara smirked.
Hidan practically growled at Deidara.
"Enough," Itachi's voice interrupted whatever Hidan was going to say, "Deidara, move."
"I especially don't want you in there." Deidara grumbled.
"Let him go in." Pain ordered.
"Fine..." Deidara said reluctantly.
Kumiko heard the door close and opened her eyes.
"Itachi-sama?" she whispered at the sight of the Uchiha in her room.
"Good morning Kumiko." he nodded, stepping further into the room.
"G'morning." she rubbed her eyes and sat up, yawning.
"I'd like to ask a few questions about your mission, if that's alright." Itachi said, sitting down on the end of her bed.
"Mm? Yeah, that's fine." she replied while stretching.
"Do you remember anything that happened... in the village?" Itachi stared intensly and unwaveringly.
And there you go! I'm finished with theatre until Fall so I'll have a lot more time to write! Yay! Review please!
