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Chapter 59
"Dei-kun?" Inner breathed, hovering above him.
"Yes?" He asked, opening his eyes.
"I think I have a name."
"That's great." He said, sitting up." What is it?"
"...Maaya."
"Maaya? It's beautiful, but-"
"It means 'true design'..." Inner spoke softly.
Deidara looked confused. He'd have thought a denoucing of beauty'd've been more appropriate, but surely there was a reason behind her choice.
"I don't understand."
"Yes, you know virtually nothing about me... But you do know Sakura-chan?"
"Yeah, you friends?"
"Actually, I'm a part of her..." Maaya said, looking down. (a/n Inner will be referred to as Maaya from now on)
"Part of Sakura? I think I like you better." He mumbled, not quite percieving what she'd said yet.
"Well, I am the true Sakura..."
Deidara was only just now beginning to comprehend her.
"So, you and Sakura are the same?"
"Not quite. We're two in the same."
"Right." He nodded.
He didn't quite know how that was even possible, but decided that ninja's came with so many strange powers, and perhaps this was a bloodline, or some sort of a demon. Afterall, he had mouths on his hands and chest, why couldn't Sakura have a split personality.
"You don't believe me do you."
"No, I believe you, I just need to take it in..."
Maaya sighed. "This body isn't even real."
"Feels real enough to me." Deidara smirked, running his hand down her back.
"It's just a clone." She said.
"I clone? Then how come you don't look like Sakura?"
"Transformation..."
"Into what? She make something up?"
"No, this is what I look like, it's a long story."
"Okay, well, Maaya-chan, I've got some training to do, you can come if you like."
"What kinda training are we talking here? Shirtless?" She smiled, deviously.
"We'll see."
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Team 7 sat in camp, having made no great breakthrough as of yet.
"Well, we came here to train." Kakashi said, standing and heading off into the forest, away from the 'drop'.
Sasuke could do with something to keep him from restlessness. His homocidal brother had taken the girl he may be inlove with off into a remote location. The two pinacle-of-evil things he figured could be occurring were murder of rape, it just didn't occurr to Sasuke that they might be training.
Both the boys followed there sensei into the trees.
They walked a fair way until Kakashi haulted them.
"Here's fine."
"Fine for...?" Naruto asked raising an eyebrow.
They both sweatdropped as they saw their sensei ascend to the branch of a tree and begin reading.
"Perfect spot to read." He answered, without redirecting his eyes from the small white pages.
"This isn't training." Sasuke pointed out cleverly. (a/n Yes, how observant Sasuke.)
"No, but 200 push-ups is." Kakashi said monotonously.
Naruto was quick to begin followed by Sasuke.
The push-ups were followed by sit-ups, then crunches.
They'd finished these all fairly swiftly, and Kakashi finally joined them on the ground.
"Now, I know we've never worked on this before but it's critical for ninja's to be agile and composed, on land and in an areal situation aswell." He told them.
"Acrobatics?" Naruto asked?
Sasuke scoffed. "I already do that in many of my jutsus and so does Naruto.
"Yes, but those maneuvers are rehearsed, choereographed... They can be made everytime, however in any number of mission situations you could be needed to move more skillfully without warning."
They stared at their teacher stupidly, or atleast Naruto did, Sasuke looked completely cool as always, of course.
"Elaborate." Sasuke broke the silence.
"Sakura has mastered this while under Itachi's instruction. While she was better strengthened in preparation, I thought you should begin learning some styles of areal movement."
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"Itachi-kun." Sakura pulled at his shirt. "Itachiii-kun."
"Yes Sakura-chan?" He sighed.
"Wouldn't it be easier to find her if I just pulled my clone back?" She asked.
They'd been struggling for a while, to find Inner.
Itachi thought for a minute. "Smart." He agreed. "And you should be able to figure out where she was and what she was doing too."
"The old 'relinquishing-your-clone-jutsu-and-finding-out-what-your-evil-twin's-been-doing' trick." She laughed, realeasing the jutsu. "Kai."
There was a moment of stillness before Sakura's knees gave out, and she landed quite suddenly on the wooden floor beneath her.
'That wasn't exactly polite.' Maaya whined.
'Well, I'm sorry but we couldn't find you, and, oh my...'
'Hot? I know.'
'You really know how to pick 'em.' Sakura relished in the memory of Deidara's body gleeming in the sun. The sweat from training only encouraging the glow, and the muscle bound biceps, putting themselves to use as he boxed a very dead training dummy. And a strange stitching across his chest... A scar?
'Dont ever let it be said otherwise.' Maaya smirked.
'And, you changed your name? Nice...'
'Yeah, to Maaya, you like it?'
'Aha, makes sense I guess. Though I do like to think that I'm true to myself.'
'Sure sometimes.' Maaya laughed.
Itachi felt it understandable, that after spending their lives together for so long, after being separate, they'd be talking for a while, so he gently picked her up and walked her into her room.
He sat and smiled as her face, beautifully unmasked, disclosed every thought crossing her mind.
He stroked a single strand of hair from her eyes, savouring the silken grade, before leaning closer to her face.
'And so yeah, then Dei-kun said he needed to train so-'
'Itachi's getting closer!!'
'So!?'
'So-' "Shut up"
Itachi paused, looking into Sakura's no longer hazy eyes.
Itachi sat up.
The moment was gone, if that's even what it was.
Sakura was inwardly berating herself for not wrapping her arms around his neck and catching him before he got away.
She sat up now too, just as Itachi began toward the door.
"Why did you stop?" She asked, as he opened the door.
He didn't turn around, just answered, before leaving: "You're too young."
LOL I'm bac for now, cuz i kept gettin reviews like everyday from kyokyo to hurry up... so here i am.
Can you believe how much its strting to sound like shugo chara, with all these "true selves" lol
Some great ideas for names! i eventually found Maaya on mi own, just thrt it was the most relevent and still prettsie any not to long...