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Chapter 60

Note: Training with the Akatsuki is fun as heck!

~Laura's POV

Training with Kisame and Itachi was sooooo much fun! I only learnt how to throw kunai knifes which are WAY harder than I thought it would be… I aimed for the tree and ended up hitting a fence that was one hundred feet away from the tree I was aiming at… Kisame said I needed some help while Itachi said I did better than he thought I would do… which must have been 'I-almost-kill-someone-bad'… so mean… just… so mean.

I happily jog over to Deidara and Konan who are waiting and having a small chat, hopefully about my lesson since this is super fun.

Both of their attentions turn to me as I jog over with a grin, I am ready for training~

"Soo~ what we doing~" I ask with a hum, leaning back on my heels with glee as Deidara flashes a small grin as Konan smiles a little.

"For the first part of the lesson, I'll teach you some 1st aid, for the second part, Deidara will teach you some easy hand-to-hand combat," Konan says with her small smile before reaching into her cloak, I watch with a spark in my eye as she pulls out a weird shaped 1st aid kit, it must be one from the ninja world.

I nod my head a little before walking over to her as she opened it up, there were many things I didn't know in that case but I could name bandages, syringes and plasters… that was about it.

Konan passes me the thick bandages and I balance them in my hand before unwrapping a little, ready for my lesson.

"Deidara, strip," Konan orders Deidara who takes a step back, blushing a little with a slightly shocked look on his face which makes Konan roll her eyes.

"Y-You gotta be kidding, yeah!" he yells before shaking his hands in front of his face, "I-I'm not scared of anything but seriously, why, hmm!?" Deidara yells, slightly flustered as his faces burns a little more red.

I start giggling at Deidara's state as Konan simply rolls her eyes at his behavior, "you moron," she says while shaking her head a little, "it's so Laura can practice bandaging on you, she needs a live human figure to practice on," she says with a small shrug before putting down the 1st aid kit after she took out a roll of bandages as well.

"I knew that, yeah," Deidara says with a small shrug as I giggle a little, no he did not~

I look to Konan and grin a little, this is fun and Deidara will be the practice dummy, Konan smiles back before unwrapping her bandages a little as well. I look to Deidara as he takes his jumper off then his shirt then his jeans before throwing them onto a clear part of dry grass before stretching his arms out, pleased with the fresh air. Only in boxers which makes me turn to Konan with my face burning red and Konan doesn't seem to be effected at all.

I turn back to him as I see the mark thingy on his chest. I stare at the mark on his chest which I remember to be his 4th mouth. I tilt my head a little in confusion which Deidara seems to catch.

"Oh this, un," Deidara says while pointing to the stitches, line and the markings on the mouth on his chest. I nod slowly with a confused look as he chuckles a tiny bit, probably awkwardly. "It's nothing, nothing important, yeah," he says with a chuckle in his voice as Konan walks over to him, a serious look on her face.

"Deidara, your arm, please," Konan asks as Deidara holds out his arm to her, she signals me to walk over which I do, now I am standing beside Konan as she runs a line down Deidara's forearm, "if there was a cut along here, you would wrap the bandage on his arm like this," Konan says before showing me how to wrap the bandage, tightly but not so tight that you might cause the cut to bleed more.

"Now repeat what I showed you on his other forearm," Konan says while looking to me with a small smile. I look to her before the bandage which is perfectly put on and then to Deidara who is staring at the bandage before looking to me, grinning a little as pulls his other arm out for me.

I nod softly after I review what Konan did in my head before trying to repeat what I was shown.

"Ouch, yeah," Deidara hisses a little as I quickly stop what I am doing and pull my hands away, "little too tight, hmm," he says shortly after I take my hands away before giving me a reassuring smirk.

"Sorry," I say with a small pout before slowly bringing my hands back to wrap the bandages again, but this time without hurting Deidara. After maybe the… 6th attempted, I have mastered the skill of wrapping bandages! I am soo proud of myself right now.

"Good," Konan says with a smile before passing me five rolls of bandages, "now wrap Deidara's chest, stomach, forearm, thigh and foot, if you do them all correctly then you can start on your hand-to-hand combat early," she says as I nod softly to her before unwrapping one bandage and softly pull Deidara's arm over to me, trying my best not to make him react badly like before when Konan touched his foot, making him almost kick her which resulted in a five minute chase which resulted in Deidara getting real cuts to bandage.

I wrap the bandage around the cut on his forearm and successfully wrap it round his arm without hurting him or doing it too loosely. Konan gives me a short nod before I start with the chest, blushing while doing it and blushing still as I do his stomach then stop the small blushing when I move onto his thigh then foot.

I successfully wrap the bandages on and cheer in happiness~ it was hard but I mastered it~

"Good," Konan says with her smile as Deidara is removing the bandages then quickly puts his jeans back on, a satisfied sigh while doing that. "Let's move onto the hand-to-hand combat," she says while walking over to me. "Punch me," she says blankly as I blink confused, she wants me to hurt her?

"Why?" I ask while tilting my head a little which she smiles at a little.

"I want to show you show to block, first hand," she says with her small smile as I nod and put everything into my punch and she uses her hand to push mine to the side, moving my fist away from her as I straggle forwards in surprise and end up falling on her, Konan thankfully catches me before we fall to the ground.

"That punch… is better than I expected… now you try, I'll be gentle," she says with her smile and I grin back with a nod, okay all I need to do is push my wrist and hand to push her hand away from my body.

I watch her carefully and she tries to punch me which I quickly use my hand to push her hand away from me. I grin a little till her other hand grazed my cheek, causing a small shot of pain to flash through my cheek.

"OWWWIEEE!" I yell loudly while holding my cheek, its throbbing as well! Deidara starts laughing at my reaction as Konan pulls my hand away with a small smile on her lips.

"I never said I was going to use only one hand," she says with a small laugh before letting go of my hand, "always expect the unexpected, your cheek is fine," she says as I rub my cheek, waiting for the stinging in it to fade away which it does slowly.

"Yeah, so what training is this hand-to-hand combat?" I ask while tilting my head, will I learn any super cool ninja moves?!

"We'll be teaching you, mostly dodging and long range attacking, so attacks at a distance," Konan says which makes me pout a lot, I wanna fight like real ninjas! The way she says it makes it sound like I'm a useless medical ninja like Sakura…

"Aww, but fighting sounds like fun," I say with a pout as she smiles gently at me as Deidara rolls his eyes a little, probably at my pouting.

"Fighting is dangerous," Konan says with her smile before throwing me a punch which I dodge by pushing her hand away, I'm on guard as she throws another punch which I dodge again and jump backwards and end up falling on my behind when she tries to sweep my legs out from under me. "Plus you seem to dodge naturally, you're not naturally strong so I think focusing on your dodging would be best," she says with her smile as I slowly stand up and rub my back, not a good idea to jump backwards and fall onto your behind and back.

"Okay," I say with a small pout which quickly turns into a smile, at least I have a small chance of getting hurt.

"My turn, yeah," Deidara says while walking in front of me with a grin, "I'll start to attack and my attacks will get faster and stronger, un, I won't stop cause you're hurt, yeah" he says with his grin as I grin and watch as he runs at me and I quickly raise my guard as he throws his first punch and jump backwards at his kick.

I quickly catch my breath as he runs at me and continues to throw punches at me. I am able to dodge most of them but one has hit me in the side and now my right side is throbbing like my cheek from before.

Not long after my side is hit, Deidara lands a hit in my stomach which makes me hiss and lean forwards but quickly push against him, jump backwards, hold my side for a second as I catch my breath.

Konan was very right about my natural dodging skills. Deidara runs at me again, not giving me a catch to pull my hand away and aims a kick at my side as I quickly fall to the ground, roll over to my left and jump back up, only to see Deidara with his fist where I rolled from. I see he aimed a punch there.

Our fight goes on for another fifteen minutes and I am sure I am going to have a big bruise on my sides, shoulder, cheek, stomach and knee now from how many times I have been hit.

"Very well done," Konan says as I pant heavy, out of breath from all of my dodging; let's just say Deidara wasn't kidding about the attacks getting stronger and faster.

"Yeah, I half expected you to be on the floor within five minutes, yeah," Deidara says with a chuckle as he pants a little, I see he really tried to hit me but then again, close combat isn't Deidara's thing since he is long range.

"Whoa~ thanks~" I say with a grin as I rub my side, I swear he was aiming for my right side since it hurts a lot, probably the most pain I have had in my side in my life.

"Well, your dodging has improved greatly and you seem to know how to bandage any part of the body now," Konan says with a smile as I look to Deidara as he pats my head like I am a little sister to him, I scowl and push his hand away which causes him to chuckle loudly. Damn Deidara I AM NOT LITTLE.

"Switch," Pein calls out loudly to the people around us, meaning his members and Kahlan, "Laura and Kahlan will now train with me and Konan, Deidara and Sasori, Kisame and Itachi will now train with each other!"

I rub my side one more time before grinning brightly, I get to show Kahlan my dodging skills!

I take hold of Konan's hand with a grin as she smiles back to me, "have fun Deidara~" I hum to him with a wave as he chuckles a little before waving back and walking over to where Sasori is standing, don't wanna keep Sasori waiting, he is impatient.

"We're coming~" I yell with a hum while running over to them, Konan running to my side with our hands together as I use my other hand to wave to them, hopefully my soon-to-be-bruises don't affect my dodging but since I have been holding back the pain in my fight with Deidara, it shouldn't affect me at all.

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