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Poison: Part 2
The time felt like it was especially going slow for Sasori when the only thing he could hear was his own heart beating faster and faster. The strange sensation also bothered Sasori to a high degree since he was not used to with feeling anything at all for the large portion of his life. While Deidara sat on the head of the bird clay, he glanced back at Danna every time when he heard thumping noise coming from the back.
The noise was caused by Sasori kept pounding onto his heart chamber in discomfort.
The bomber winced a little and hoped that everything would get fixed once they return to the Akatsuki base.
'At least we got the scroll, un.'
Once Deidara's bird landed in front of the Akatsuki base, the blonde allowed his artwork to fly into the night air.
"Katsu!" Deidara yelled and instantly, beautiful sparkles and loud noises were created. "What did you think of that Dan-"
Before Deidara had the chance to finish is sentence, Sasori was already inside the base.
'I guess I can't blame him, un.' Deidara sighed and followed Sasori inside.
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Deidara turned around from his part of the shared room to see Sasori struggling with… well… everything! The poor puppet managed to use a small temporary antidote he kept in his weapon compartment to slow down the spreading of the poison; now Sasori just had to make the complete cure. The problem was that Sasori still had a hard time moving his limbs around, it was nearly impossible to get his work done on time.
"Do you need my help, Danna?" Deidara finally decided to stand up and walked right behind Sasori.
"I….. don't…. need a help….. from a…. fourteen… year old… boy…." Sasori barely spoke. At this point, it was even hard to use his puppet mouth correctly since the poison slowed down his entire body system.
"Stop being so stubborn, Danna or it's really going to kill you, un." Deidara placed one of his hand on his hips and continued to speak, "Why don't I give you a hand? You can just tell me what to mix and I will do that for you, un."
"For the… last time… I don't need…..!" Then Sasori felt another sharp sting on his heard and this caused him to bite his lips in response. "Tch….!"
"O-Oi are you alright?" Deidara placed his right hand on Sasori's shoulder with his eyes filled with worries. It's not everyday for Deidara to see an emotionless puppet acting out with so much emotion. "You know what Danna, screw you! I'm going to help you and you can't stop me, un!"
"D-don't you dare touch-"
"So I just have to follow the instruction that's listed on this paper right?" Deidara swiftly took the paper that Sasori had in his hand. "Sounds easy enough. You already have all the ingredients anyways, un." Deidara carefully glanced at Sasori who only returned him a boring look. The blonde suddenly had an urge to to take an advantage of this somewhat restrained Sasori.
"Now stay here and be a good puppet boy while I go and bring the stuff from your cabinet, got it?" Deidara placed his hand on the right side of Sasori's cheek and playfully stroked him. Just then Deidara's hand mouth stuck its tongue out and licked the wooden skin.
"...What was... that for?!" Sasori made a eerie noise when he snapped his head right towards Deidara with a death glare with those lazy eyes. Even though Sasori couldn't really feel the saliva texture from Deidara's hand, the puppet master still didn't like the idea of getting licked on his wooden face.
"S-Sorry Danna! It was an accident, un. I still don't really have a good control of these tongues once in a while!" Deidara quickly pulled his hands away.
"You better... start having control...over them," said Sasori with an angered tone. It was nearly impossible for Sasori to yell at this point and to be perfectly honest, he was also getting really tired of letting the poison sink into his system further. Deidara was no fool and he instantly realized how uncomfortable the puppet looked.
"I should start bringing the ingredients listed here, un." Deidara slowly walked towards the tall cabinets where Sasori kept nearly everything from human body parts to poison supplies.
"...My...chest hurts..." Sasori winced his eyes and whispered to himself.
"Sasori no Danna?" The bomber turned around and Sasori quickly tried his best to look as normal as possible. There was no way he was going to show some pathetic weak side to some fourteen year old boy. Sasori was a grown man after all.
"Get... what... is...listed...there..." Sasori had to put more effort to form words from his mouth.
"Someone needs to get some oil applied, un." Deidara smirked and he could just feel Sasori's dagger like eyes attacking his back.
Deidara tried not to throw up when he saw some random organs and hand parts as he continued to search through the stuff to get everything his Danna needed to make the cure for the poison. There were around ten different items and to Sasori's surprise, the boy was doing a pretty good job finding everything without his help. After couple of minutes later, the bomber's hands were filled with random herbs and jars containing various colored liquid.
It was already killing Sasori's pride and not to mention his ego when he realized he was receiving a pity help from a teenager. The puppet master made a note to himself that he should carry a small amount of antidote to his poison from now on. When Deidara started to open some of the jars to start on the cure making process, Sasori placed his shaking wooden hand on top of Deidara's hand to stop his motion instead.
"Hmm?" Deidara raised one of his eye brow in confusion.
"Like I said... I don't... need... your pity... help" Sasori forced out those words again.
'I cant believe he can be so arrogant sometimes, un. Here I am just trying to help and Danna thinks what I'm doing something useless? Maybe I should just let him be and watch him turn into a permanent, un-moving doll instead, un.'
For a split second, Deidara did thought about leaving his Danna alone to see how much he can get things done without any help. But Deidara didn't really know why... maybe it was the sad look on the puppet's face or how miserable it was to see Sasori getting all frustrated... but the blond thought he would feel guilty if he didn't give a helping hand. Even if it means disobeying Sasori's orders.
"Heh, you can even barely talk anymore Danna, un," said Deidara with confidence.
"You little piece of-" Then Sasori's mouth was covered by Deidara's hand which took the red head by the surprise.
"It's not good to use foul language to someone as young as me Sasori no Danna," Deidara laughed. The blond even chuckled more when he noticed that Sasori was shaking his head probably because of the tongue.
"Sorry again for my tongue Danna. Like I said, I don't have a great control of them, un." Deidara tried to sound innocent but the puppet master knew that the brat was lying this time. "It's not like you feel the tongue anyways, un."
Sasori just rolled hos eyes and hated the fact that his body was no longer responsive. Deidara was literally playing around with him! Sasori thought about what kind of deadly poison he should use to kill Deidara once that cure was fully made.
"I think it's better if you go to the bed while I do the work Danna, un." Deidara pulled out his hand from Sasori's lips a"Oh I forgot, my poor little Danna can't move on his own anymore and needs help right?"
'Hell no. He better not be treating me like some child!' Sasori thought his head might explode.
'When I finally cure Danna, I probably have to stay away from him for a month since I'm teasing him. But this is once in a life time chance I get to make fun of him for treating me like some kind of child, un!' Deidara then took a deep breath and tried to carry Sasori in a bridal style. To Sasori's surprise, Deidara was a lot stronger despite his looks. Even though the fourteen year old was slightly shorter than him, Deidara managed to easily pick up Sasori and carried him to the bed.
"Now like I said before, be a good doll and stay here, un."
Sasori felt his rage boiling down from the top to bottom of his body to the point where he no longer felt the throbbing pain from his heart chamber. If Sasori still had his human body, his fave would be red from pure rage.
"It's really nice that you even have instructions on how to make it too Danna, un. I don't have to keep on asking you and hear your joints every time when you speak hehheh," said Deidara as he poured a green liquid into a small bowel and mixed it with a gray colored plant. "Oh since you can't argue back anyways, maybe I should lecture you about my art style, un!"
That finally got Sasori's attention and he did not like where it was going.
"I at least give some respect towards your...uh... strange vision of art, un. So does it kill you to respect mine, Sasori no Danna?"
'My vision of art is not strange at all,' Sasori gritted his teeth. 'How dare he speak to me like that...!'
"And you never even let me finish speaking about my art either! This is the perfect chance for you to listen since your joints are all messed up right now, un." Deidara started to mix all the substance. "Unlike your puppets Sasori no Danna, my art requires a constant inspiration since the beauty of the sculpture does not last eternally but that is the best part of it, un! Artists shouldn't be too dependent on their previous success and also shouldn't be too attached to their artwork because there won't be any motivation to move forward. My art is fleeting and transient in which the entire beauty is captured in one single moment, un. After the aesthetic work vanishes or in my case, explodes, it urges the artist to produce another fleeting masterpiece like an addiction perhaps. In other others, art is an explosion and-"
If it wasn't for Deidara's keen senses, the kunai knife that Sasori threw might have actually made a hit on Deidara's back.
"What was that for Danna?!" Deidara turned around and dropped everything that he was doing.
'What was that for?! Do you want me to tell you why the hell I threw that to you?! You are disrespecting me and my art, I never asked for your pity help and yet you are helping yourself touching my items and to top it off, you are playing around with me as if I'm some sort of a child!'
Of course this was all in Sasori's thought bubble since it was difficult for him to move his mouth joint so the puppet master tried to muster out some important words.
"You... I never asked... help...and... I don't need... your absurd lecture... on your pathetic clays," said Sasori as he clenched his hand, "Not to... mention you are... fooling around with me and... treating... me like a... child!"
"Well maybe I wanted to treat you like a child for once since that's how you always treat me like that as if I'm worthless, un!" Deidara gritted his teeth. The blonde was in fact extremely insulted by his partner throwing a weapon. "And maybe I wanted to take this chance to talk to you about my point of view of art since you clearly never give me the chance, Danna! I listen to you so why don't you take your time to listen to me?"
The puppet master was rather surprised that Deidara was capable of showing so much anger.
"Does it really bother you that you when I treat you like a child when you do it do me every single day?! Does it really kill your over-sized ego when you need to receive a help from a new comer like me, un?!"
This made Sasori think a little.
Maybe he was in fact treating the new Akatsuki member a little unfair. The puppet continued to stare at Deidara with those bored look on his face but there was a lot of things going on inside his mind.
"Heh, you know what Danna? If you really don't want my help then you can help yourself, un! I'm sure that's what the great Sasori no Danna wanted in the first place!"
Deidara kicked the wooden chair that he sat on which startled Sasori for a second. The bomber then opened the door to their shared room and decided to say one more thing before he stormed out.
"Don't expect me to call you Danna when I see you... or rather if I see you again. You can barely move your puppet body parts anyways, un." Deidara continued to chuckle at Sasori's currently condition and finally, the door was slammed shut.
It took a while for Sasori to turn his head to the work station were Deidara left everything in place. The cure to the poison was still unfinished and the puppet master knew that he had to make it soon before who knows what could happen.
'That teenage boy and his crazy hormone,' Sasori thought to himself. '... But I guess he did have some few points.' Sasori bit his lips. If he was treated like how he treated Deidara everyday, Sasori knew he would have acted just like how Deidara just did or even worse.
Sasori tried to stand up and walk towards the work station to finish making the cure but instead fell lifelessly to the hard floor with his head facing downward. His wooden body was at its limits and the heart chamber began to beat even faster than before. Sasori snapped his head a little to the right where he could see the blurry vision of a door where Deidara left. Of course his partner was not going to return after Sasori tried to stab his back...literally.
'Maybe if I sleep and wake up, I can move my body better...' Sasori's eye lids slowly started to close. 'Wait, when was the last time I slept?'
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"-na."
Sasori thought he heard something.
"-nna."
The puppet tried to open his eyes but it was a bit hard to do so.
"Danna, -nna."
After couple of failed attempts, Sasori managed to open his eyes and the first thing he saw was surprisingly-
"Deidara?" Sasori gave a rather confused look to the blond.
"I guess the cure did the trick, un." Deidara smiled and stretched out his arms in the air with a huge sigh of relief.
"... I thought you weren't going to call me Danna when you see me next time."
"Tsk. You're welcome, Sasori no Danna." Deidara rolled his eyes but his smile continued to stay in his face. Deidara didn't really expect his partner to say thank you in the first place anyways.
"W-what happened?" asked Sasori. Deidara observed his puppet master and he had to admit, it was amusing to see Sasori looking all confused and helpless resting on the bomber's side of the bed.
"I came back minutes later and finished making the cure, un. It looked like you were having a pretty good sleep there on the floor un," laughed Deidara.
When Sasori was able to see everything clear again, he tried to sit upward from the bed where he rested but Deidara gently pushed him down instead. Sasori blinked his eyes a couple of times and really couldn't meet his eyes with his teenage partner when he asked his next question.
"I thought you were going to let me do things on my own, Deidara." Sasori tried to include his partner's name this time.
Deidara's smile became wider when he heard his name used by Sasori.
"After I cooled off and came back to our room, it was obvious that you couldn't do things on your own Danna. I don't want to be partner-less in our next mission, un."
"How did you apply the antidote anyways?" Sasori asked in his usual dry tone.
"Don't worry I didn't put that liquid near your mouth, un." Deidara than pointed his index finger softly towards the slightly damaged heart chamber. "Right here, I poured it through the small wound from the previous fight, un. I did it correctly, right?"
"...Right." Sasori was still confused why Deidara came back to assist him in the end. He was in fact being a complete jerk to Deidara back there.
Then there was that awkward silence between the two artists before Deidara made a forceful coughing noise to gain the other's attention.
"I guess I'll just do my stuff over here, un." Deidara stood up from his bed and went to grab some of his clay pouch.
"What other stuff, Deidara?" Sasori tilted his head to see what Deidara held and it was hard for the bomber to tell if Sasori's question was really out of curiosity or if it was just to stop the awkward tension. Sasori's voice was never usually filled with emotion from the beginning.
"Just you know-" Deidara scratched the back of his long yellow hair, "-going to make some... ar- I mean make some clay stuff, un."
Deidara thought if he called his sculptures art then he might hear more yelling from Sasori.
"Clay stuff?" Sasori sat down on the bed. "You mean art?"
"I..uh...yeah." Deidara carefully nodded.
Sasori thought about for a few seconds before he opened out is right hand and created some blue chakra string in order to attach them to Deidara. The bomber was surprised when his body forcefully moved on its own and came back to the same bed where Sasori sitting.
"W-what do you want now, Danna?" Deidara's voice was slightly filled with fear.
"Do your clay maki- I mean show me how you..." Sasori would only say this once and probably never again as long as his eternal life progressed. "...how you create your art."
Deidara's blue eyes went wide open like a child who just received some sort of birthday gift.
"You mean you'll watch my artwork in process, Danna?" Deidara's voice was filled with excitement. Sasori had to admit, he enjoyed dealing with giddy Deidara way better than the angry one.
"Just don't do your explosions in my bed," Sasori warned his partner.
"Uh... Danna? This is my bed," Deidara smirked and Sasori was speechless again. If Sasori were a human right now, his face would have blushed from the embarrassment.
"Just continue what you were about to do, Deidara."
Deidara laughed for a few moments before he reached both of his hands and allowed them to chew the the clay.
Next Chapter Title: What's So Great About Eating? (Part 1)
It is Deidara's fifteen birthday and the leader was surprisingly nice enough to give one day freedom to Sasori and Deidara. Sasori just wants to spend his free time in the darkness making more puppets but Deidara wants to go somewhere to eat. So Deidara ended up dragging his partner to all you can eat barbecue and...
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memoriesandlove- aww thank you for the review!
dgraymansword- haha yeah I like to keep them in character too! Don't really like girly Deidara DX
harukastories- them bickering about art is pretty funny
ransomreader- haha well he was harmed by his own poison lol
KazuCat- Thank you very much for the review! Yes we all get the feels when Deidara gets a heroic for his Danna lol Also I really like your Deidara picture btw. It's so cute with him all smiling!
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