After two and a half year of being free, the blonde was stopped by three people in black robes. Weird people at that.
One of them was half shark, and was very tall.
One of them was some scorpion thing, and looked very ugly.
The last one had black long hair, and didn't look very sociable.
They spoke about bringing Deidara into the organization Akatsuki, alas, the blonde refused. He wanted to be free still. Was that too much to ask for?
The black haired man stepped closer, challenging him. Perhaps it was the worst, or the most wisest decision Deidara had made in his life. Because he accepted it.
If he'd loose, he had to join the organization and go with the freakish people. If he'd win, he could go free.
But his opponent had an weird eye. His name was Itachi Uchiha and had a Sharingan, one of the ugliest things the blonde had ever seen. Such uninteresting eyes, full of ugliness. They didn't see anything right, plus, if the user used the power of the eyes too much they'd go blind!
How pathetic. How lame!
But maybe this organization was a great new refreshment for Deidara. Everyone here had betrayed their own village. Everyone had experienced something painful, just like he had. Everyone here had something freakish, just like he had.
Itachi Uchiha was one of the last survivors of the Uchiha Clan, and he had killed the whole clan himself. He left his little brother to live though. His power was the Sharingan, which had enourmous power after Deidara had done some research. One of his new goals was to beat Itachi one day, to outmatch the Sharingan with his art!
Itachi's partner was an older man, called Kisame Hoshigake. The shark-man. But Kisame was really nice when you got to know him better. He had a good sense humour, and was very loyal. He had betrayed his teammates in a mission, slashing them to pieces. After doing that, he had stolen some person's famous sword Samehada and left for himself to join Akatsuki. Not only that, but Kisame had a great capacity for chakra.
Then there was Kakuzu, some grumpy old geezer. He constantly wore a mask, and had some obsession with money. But Deidara wasn't sure what Kakuzu had done in his life. He betrayed the village by failing some mission. To kill the First Hokage. Lame in any way.
Deidara's own partner was Sasori of the Red Sand. He had never seen the older male's true appearence, yet. He sat in a puppet called Hiruko. There wasn't much details into this one either, only that he had been living with his grandma during his childhood as he had lost his parents during some war.
And the Leader himself hadn't shown himself. That was a thumb down, because if you are a member of a organization you want to know who your leader is.
After another year passing by, Sasori and Deidara had gotten pretty good along with eachother. If you'd bring the part away that they constantly complained about what the perfect art is, of course. The puppet master stood for the reason that real art is eternal beauty, while Deidara disagreed and stood for the reason that it was explosions.
The pair travelled through lands in weeks, until the blonde started to ken the environment they appeared in. This meadow.. These trees.
" Sasori No Danna, we need to make a stop here. Un. " , the blonde announced as he stopped to eye the big tree. It still stood there, untouched.
" Eh? "
" I need to do something " , the blonde created a bird, and jumped onto it. " I will be back soon, Danna. " Deidara announced before flewing away to the direction of left - towards the Hidden Rock Village.
A annoyed sigh only found it's way out from the Hiruko puppet.
Sasori himself sighed, peeking outside when Deidara dissapeared between the trees.
Deidara didn't know why he headed to his village, why would he? There was no case he had to finish, but it just felt like he was suppoused to revisit it sooner or later. The rock tops soon became visible the closer the blonde flew. The Akatsuki robe fluttered in the wind playfully. It had been years since the last time he visited! Or, that would be, that time when he bombed and left.
The outer edges that clearly showed where the village had it's borders looked like a good target to ruin, once again. Under those years he had improved after all. Deidara had created even greater and stronger types of explosions during these years, and it was time to try them out right now. It would also be a good sign to the villagers that The Great Deidara is alive!
The sun stood high in the sky, and a shadow drew itself on the ground. People looked up confused at the weird shape, noticing him. Deidara.
Explosions once again.
Ohnoki flew out from the Tsuchikage office annoyed to the highest level, screaming his old apprentice's name.
" The old geezer is still alive, eh?! " , Deidara flew close to his old master amused. His grin was bigger and satisfied to any limit. It was like a fetish to annoy people out of all sudden.
But before the Kage could even react and answer, the blonde flew away to bomb a bit more at the borders.
Kurotsuchi herself had happened to spot her old childhood friend she hadn't seen for a long, long time. She had believed that he just left for training - just like his father and grandfather had said - but this was different.
Did Deidara do this on purpose? It was terrible..
She gazed at the other from where she stood, and didn't let him leave inside of her. She ignored the screams all around her, and teared up.
Deidara spotted Kurotsuchi from the air, gazing back at her. He was surprised to see just her there, but didn't stop. At last, he turned his back to the village as the bird had reached to head to the meadow. He turned his back to his past, because this was a brand new start.
The day appeared to be a beautiful sunny May day.
Even though, this time, Deidara himself caused the terror that he had once himself had been living up to, he grinned. He chuckled.
Because he wasn't that little child anymore - he was a refreshed young man. With new goals and ambitions. And he promised himself to live upto those goals, and improve his skills.
A young man with a huge life of adventure ahead of oneself!