A/N: Hey guys! I just want to say thank you all who have reviewed. I know it's not much compared to other stories that I've read but I'm very happy to see that this story is doing well. For this chapter, for those that are SasoDei fans, I'm sorry for this one but trust me, it'll get better. It just makes sense for this to happen after what happened to them last night, right?
Also, I have bad news. I will be starting summer school tomorrow and it's gonna be a lot of homework. UGH! But what can I do? My bad news is if the homework is going to be such a killer, I might not have enough time to write another chapter for you guys and it'll take me longer to update. I have this course for 6 weeks so I'm sorry that I'll be taking so long to update but please forgive me! I will try and update as soon as I can so until then, enjoy this chapter.
Also, just a reassurance to all, Sasuke will be appearing in either the next chapter or the chapter after the next one. I'm still trying to plan this out so maybe it's a good thing I have this course. I can plan this story out better.
I do NOT OWN any of the Naruto characters or the story. If I did, then you all should know that I would want Itachi to come back to life, PERMANETLY WITHOUT KABUTO and so burn the Orochimaru jr's ass with Amaterasu! Thank you and enjoy!
Ch. 4: Bad Start to the Day
It's the next day late in the morning and Deidara is walking in the hallways of the base. He's walking back to his room to freshen up and prepare for some massive traveling later today. He is to leave with Itachi at noon and that's about two hours from now. He had already eaten a hearty breakfast with Itachi as company. Apparently remembering some bits of their conversation last night, Itachi sat with him at a table with food and he was eating with him. This brought on many confused and suspicious looks from everyone. No one ever sees him eat. Even Kisame hardly sees him do it. Deidara heard full well some of their whisperings about how if maybe him and Itachi were an item now and maybe he stole his virginity. It was very annoying. Then to make it worst…
After eating his small meal, Itachi stood up while saying, "I will see you at the entrance at noon, as planned."
Deidara answered, "Uh, yeah right."
Then before Itachi left him completely, he bent down to his face and placed a small kiss on his lips. Then he just walked away like it was nothing. It left Deidara stunned and nearly the whole organization looked like they just saw the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause making out. The whispers continued and soon it got too uncomfortable to be in the same room as all of them. Now while walking back to his room, the blonde hunter had time to think and he's feeling a little uneasy with the mission he was told about last night.
"An infiltration/assassination mission? Where you assigned to kill King Uchiha Madara, un?"
"He's one of them but no. I said that this was the entire annihilation of the vampires and we are going to kill someone much more important than the vampire king."
"Oh? Who?"
"Think of this, Deidara. What's more powerful than a king?"
It took a while for Deidara to think about that one. One…what could be more powerful than a vampire king…two…well lets think here. From low level to up; the beasts, the low class, the middle class, the nobles, the royal children, the queen, the king, the…three.
"A god?" the blonde ask after three seconds pass. The dark brunette nodded.
"The one we will kill is the reincarnation of the Kyuubi, the vampire god. You've heard the legends about the god and what powers it possesses."
"I did and it scares the shit out of me just thinking about it. When I first heard the stories, I thought I was gonna piss my pants, un."
"Yes, however no matter how powerful and fearful it maybe, it is the vampires' greatest weakness. If the reincarnation is killed, then the Kyuubi will die as well and once the Kyuubi is dead every vampire in the world…will die."
'So really our mission is to go in and kill the Kyuubi within in a week or create enough damage for the others to finish the job. Itachi mentioned that Leader will assign Zetsu to watch and record what we did and if it ends in failure, he would quickly give Leader the report and send the rest of the Akatsuki members over to finish the job before the royal family have enough time to recover and tighten their security. If it's really that troublesome of a mission for only two people and Leader is that anxious about it, then why not just move the base closer so that we can have an immediate attack so if it'll fail? Sometimes I really don't understand the guy, un.'
"You seemed rather stress for someone to have been kissed willingly by the love doll."
Hearing that voice and surprised to hear it pulling him out of his thoughts, Deidara first stops dead where he is and then looks over his shoulders to see Sasori staring at him with hard, annoyed eyes and his arms crossed in front of his chest. It took a few moments for Deidara to contain himself when he sees his puppet-master partner/temporary ex-lover standing there before become a little irritated himself.
"What do you want, Sasori?" he asks.
"I want to apologize. Is it that hard to figure out?"
Hearing his words and how he's saying them made Deidara not believe him one bit. Sure he would usually accept him sometimes immediately or until Sasori explained himself, but now he really doesn't give a flying ass. "With that attitude, yeah. Now if you'll excuse me, I got to get back to my room." He turns around to leave, only to feel a hand grab his wrist and then pin him to the wall. It was one second he was looking forward and the next, he's staring at Sasori's bark red eyes looming over him. Both of his wrists are pinned and the sudden action shook him a bit.
"R-Release me!" he orders, trying to sound angry and struggling his way out. Not working.
"Why? So you can go back to that love doll? Do you not understand the word 'doll' at all? It means that the guy has no real feelings for you. Face it, Deidara before you get hurt. That man doesn't have a shred of emotion since the day a pack of vampires killed his lover and destroyed the human's village."
"Don't talk about Itachi like that, Sasori. As far as I'm concerned, he's the only one who seems to care about everyone around him; unlike you! Sure he doesn't express it, but he's not a bad person, un."
"So it's 'Itachi' now? Last time I checked, his name was 'shit-face'."
"That was before I meet someone else who's better suited that name. How long have we've been partners and how long have we've been together?"
"Deidara, listen to me."
"And how many times have you slept with someone else while I haven't?"
"You've slept with that doll! How else can you explain why he kissed you so freely or even sit next to you for breakfast?"
That does it. Deidara was getting enough of this. Sasori just crossed the line. "Get your fuckin hands off of me." He pushes him back with such force that even the red head hunter was surprised and the anger in those blue sky eyes were massive. "How dare you…How dare you say those words to ME! Do I mean that little to you? Do you think that just because you don't give me the time of day or you used me like some hanky, someone else wouldn't be interested? Well let me tell you this, the next time you approach me, puppet man, I am going to katsu your ass so hard, you won't sit on it for a week and I'll make sure you never use that dick of yours that you're so proud of using! I have never slept with Itachi, his virginity is still in tack and I will never take it from him without his permission, GOT IT?" Then his voice got soft. "Besides it doesn't matter anyway." It got soft when the words that Itachi said last night ring in his ears again as if they're being spoken again into his ear.
"Yes. I will die with the rest of the vermin. But it is a fate I am willing to accept."
"That man is willing to die." Sadness and pity took over Deidara's expression. His face soften and his blue eyes look like lonely puddles of water left behind by the rain soon to be dried up by the sun. He almost looked like he was on the verge of tears by just thinking of how hurt and how deep Itachi's loneliness really is. Sasori sees this and it only surprised him more of how much the blonde bomber suddenly cares for the doll. Then it went right back into anger when those blue eyes look back into those red ones. "See ya!"
Then he leaves, but not before hitting his shoulder against Sasori's arm on the way. The red hair man was there, stunned by his ex-lover's words and his expression. All he could do was stand there as he turned around and sees Deidara walking back to his room without once looking back at him.
By the time that Deidara opened his door, he nearly jumped out of his own skin. Sitting on his bed, the clean one, is Itachi with a small pack besides him and he looked ready to go. The only reason that Deidara was surprised to see him was because he locked the door on the way to breakfast and Itachi only left one minute before Deidara did. Either his talk with Sasori delayed him or Itachi had his vampire speed still. He yelped when he saw him.
"So you're here," was all Itachi could say after Dedara had a freak out moment. Then he got pissy again. He was not having a good morning.
"That's all you can say? First you left me on that bed you're sitting on and went off to God knows where! Then you appear in the Social room EATING BREAKFAST with me and then you kiss me when you were done! It was so embarrassing in that room that I had to leave! Then-"
"Then you got into a fight with Sasori and broke it off, correct?"
"Then I got into a fight with Sasori and broke it off! Wait! Huh?" That left Deidara speechless for a good minute as the dark brunette stares at him with those same beautiful, blank onyx eyes of his. What…the…hell?
"I heard you two," Itachi answers to the unasked question. "You two were not very far and you seemed very passionate with what you were saying. I guess I should say thank you for standing up for me."
Still bewildered by how Itachi found out and now surprised by his appreciation, Deidara could not think of a comeback. All he could say is, "Ah, you're welcome, un?" like it was a question. Itachi nodded in approval.
"Then to answer your other questions…" What is this guy? Physic? "I left your room early to pack and since I told you that I would eat in your presence, I did. I gave you that kiss just to shut those morons up. They were irritating and it became very hard to eat. Sounds like to me that it failed."
'You're damn right it failed, un! And I thought you were the doll of this little vampire slaying group! You used me, un!' Deidara wanted to say, a vein pulsing on his head.
"I went back to my room and got my pack and came here. You're room was easy to pick but I locked the door in case that Sasori would come in here and give me a piece of his mind. He was glaring at me all during breakfast."
Hearing his name made Deidara distracted with his annoyance with the beautiful being in his room and it made him irritated as hell. "Don't mention that name right now," he grumbles, walking in and closing the door behind him. "I don't want to hear it, un." He walks over to his closet that's against the wall next to his other bed, the unclean one, and he grabs a big pack from inside.
"Pack light. I would like to get there as soon as possible," Itachi instructs.
'Who died and made you princess?' "Yeah, yeah, whatever!" Deidara drops the big pack and grabs the small one. Then he asks, "What do you have in that little pack with you, un?"
The skinny, slender man answers, "Necessary weapons, smoke bombs, food pills, and three pairs of clothes."
"Itachi, we're going to be gone for a week. Do you think three pairs of clothing and food pills are enough?"
"Food pills can provide me the energy I need to travel for three days straight without food or rest. We will cover more ground that way."
"And food pills can leave you totally exhausted after use, un. You'll collapse before you even see the Kyuubi."
Then Itachi stares at him. At first, Deidara got a bit uneasy with those blank eyes staring at him and he was going to ask what his problem was when Itachi asked instead, "Are you that concerned about me?" This made Deidara blush ferociously. He quickly look away to hide it but he saw it.
"Well the success of the mission is important to you and you don't want it to end badly, right? A successful mission is carried out by responsible hunters and responsible hunters take care of themselves, un. If you're totally exhausted and can't attack, what use are you going to be besides a sore on my side?"
Then all of a sudden, he feels Itachi's presence right behind him. He hardly heard him come over but he must have walked over while he was talking. The guy is only human, not a vampire anymore. But still, his presence suddenly being right behind the frozen blonde astonished him. He dared a glance to the side and he sees Itachi looking right at him with those beautiful eyes again. Now that he's really staring at them, they looked so mysterious, empty, and yet so full of sorrow and twenty years old grief. It mesmerized the bomber so much. Then his creamy brown hand rises to Deidara's face and gently brushes his long, skinny fingers through his golden locks. It left the man breathless.
"Again, thank you. You truly are a good soul."
Then he backs away and takes his hand with him. With his pack in his other hand, Itachi goes to the door and tells him, "I will be waiting at the entrance for your arrival. I would still wish for you to pack light. We could hunt for food on the way there if you're concern." Then he was out the door and on his way to the entrance of the base. Deidara was left standing there as the sound of Itachi's light footsteps soon fade away down the hallway.
One…
Two…
Three…
It took three seconds for Deidara to come back to reality and blush in embarrassment and anger for what Itachi just did to him. "Shit-face…"
So how was this one? Another ItaDei moment for those that like. Hehe. Anyway, tell me how it went and I'll shall see you guys when I can. Buh-bye!