Warnings: there will be yaoi eventually. Might be some blood and fighting. bad language comes without saying...
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I make no money of this fanfiction.
An: hey :) thank you for the lovely feedback, I'm glad the story got your interest and...well I will try my best to keep it that way. Nothing really happens in this chapter(a good way to keep your interest eh? xD)... and I think this story might become a bit long.
...Leading Astray...
Itachi was lying on his back, the life of constant missions and dangers had thought him to always be aware of what is happening around, even when he was sleeping. And no matter how tired he was he could sleep fully only back at Akatsuki hideout, never when there was a mission on his hands. And this wasn't an exception.
He heard the fireplace, the night animals and his companion... his companion...even if he would be one of those to sleep soundly he couldn't do that, every few minutes there was a curse coming from the platinum haired man... unavoidably it was eating away at Itachi's nervous system. After two hours he found himself lying there with his teeth gritted and his fists clenched.
A rustle to his left indicated Hidan's movement for the fireplace for the umpteenth time in half an hour.
"Son of a bitch!"
Itachi slit one eye open to see what earned the angry insult, Hidan was glaring at the fireplace and sucking on a finger... Itachi with a blank expression realised the man had burned himself while feeding the fire with more wood.
Closing his eyes again he tried to distance himself from the annoying sounds and the annoying presence.
After another hour Itachi was more tired than he was when he lied down, the newest of Akatsuki was either oblivious to his torture or did it on purpose, both ways only annoyed Itachi further. And on top of it all Hidan was overdoing with the fire, it was getting too hot and Itachi was starting to get worried that it might bring unwanted attention.
He sat up and as soon as he did two violet eyes met with his black ones, the violet pair seemed just as annoyed as Itachi was feeling on the inside. For a moment Itachi wanted to ask what the hell was Hidan's problem.
"Why you're not sleeping?"
Itachi kept silent for a while, trying to figure was he being laughed at or Hidan really thought it was possible to sleep.
"You're making too much noise and the fireplace is too big, we don't need someone seeing it."
"You don't... I do."
The silence stretched after that and Itachi felt his eyebrow twitch in frustration, he was waiting for an explanation but Hidan seemed interested in playing with some sort of metallic pike.
"Why?"
"Well that leader of yours told me I would have more sacrifices than I could handle if I join the Akatsuki, so here I am but there are no sacrifices to handle."
Itachi didn't understand half of what was said and Hidan saying it all like a kid denied of a candy ready to pout, left him sitting there and staring at the platinum haired.
He guessed they could have the talk about Hidan's powers now, it didn't seem Itachi would get the false sleep anyway.
"Sacrifices?"
"Yes, sacrifices for Jashin-sama."
Itachi was interested now, he didn't even know why exactly but he couldn't deny the fact, he wanted to ask a lot of things and didn't know where to start.
"Who's this Jashin?"
"It's Jashin-sama! And I don't want to talk about him with you."
Itachi blinked his red eyes in confusion. Now he wished he had asked Pein more about this new member before he said he didn't want to know unnecessary things. Maybe that's why Pein was smirking at him so oddly.
But Hidan... Hidan was nothing like he was during the day. Right now it seemed more like a kid is sitting by the fireplace and sulking for reasons Itachi didn't understand.
"What kind of sacrifices did the leader promised you if you would join and keep in mind that you're not one of us yet."
"Oh but I think I am." Hidan paused there and Itachi knew by experience that that kind of confidence led to troubles.
"Don't forget that it was your leader seeking me out not the other way around, and maybe your dear leader kept you out of something as well, because you see even if you say I'm not one of you yet, I am wearing the Akatsuki cloak and the ring too."
It was Itachi's turn to pause, Hidan was right... could it be that the leader had different reasons for putting him on this mission with the newcomer.
Itachi winced when the man grinned at him as if taking Itachi's silence as an approval of the words... it kind of was.
"So you see, pretty eyes, that's why I said we should get along, I'm here to stay."
Pretty eyes. Pretty eyes?
Itachi stared perplexed and stunned on the inside, thought it didn't matter, Hidan wasn't looking at him, the man was putting yet more wood into the fireplace.
He had already figured out that this man would be a bother when it came to discipline and respect, the way Hidan talked of their leader didn't seem entirely respectful to begin with and the way Hidan talked to him...well, Itachi had no clue how to act and what to say. If he would reprimand the man it could only cause more of the strange nicknames. But if he would just ignore it, Hidan might assume he doesn't mind...and that was much worse...and not true.
"You will call me Itachi." he made it sound like an order and it was an order, that's why he didn't see what was so funny about it. He glanced at Hidan by the fire, the yellowish glow on the pale face giving the man a ghostly aura, a set of white teeth were all there to see as Hidan grinned at the fire.
"Go back to sleep Itachi."
Itachi flinched, somehow his name sounded too intimate coming from that grinning mouth. It sounded like Hidan was... tasting his name as the man said it, it made him shiver and once more he didn't know how to act about it, he had never been in company of someone so...daring towards him.
The only company he had had for the last years was Kisame and Kisame respected him and always took his words seriously, never made fun of him and never said his name in a way that made it sound like he was being licked at the same time. No, Kisame certainly didn't do that.
Getting up from his sleeping place he went straight for the fire taking the metal pike out of Hidan's pale hands, Itachi used that to push around the burning wood, lessening the fire by a great deal. Only when he threw the thing back at Hidan's feet and looked at the man he noticed the expression... Hidan looked too shocked to speak, the violet eyes big and staring at him...Itachi was tempted to chuckle.
"You will obey the orders Hidan, no matter you like them or not. If I said the fire is too big it means it's too big!"
He stood observing Hidan with slow moves pick up the pike and clean it with the Akatsuki cloak the man was wearing, since Hidan was looking down at what he was doing Itachi couldn't see the pale face or the expression but he heard low muttering and he was sure he heard the word 'sacrifice'.
Now it was rather clear Itachi wouldn't sleep while this individual was around. He had already realised the sacrifices Hidan was talking about wouldn't be goats or chickens and he had no intentions to become one of the sacrifices while he was napping.
After five minutes Itachi wished he had never laid his hands on that piece of metal, he was sitting by the fire pretending he didn't see and didn't care how Hidan was still rubbing the pike on the cloak as if Itachi had tainted it. The tension was another thing Itachi couldn't wrap his mind around. He could feel those oddly purple eyes on him and it got to the point where Itachi got up and murmured something about checking the surroundings, the next moment he was in a small clearing looking at the nightly sky...
It didn't really matter to him, they got along or not. It was just the mission he had to accomplish, after that he wouldn't need to deal with Hidan anymore...someone else would get that pleasure. Itachi wouldn't have to try and understand what was meant with the strange nicknames and the mocking tone.
But he couldn't deny that this was unnerving him... mostly because he was interested and because he couldn't figure out how it made him feel.
He knew annoyance, most of the people made him feel that but usually he was uninterested in those very same people, what Hidan had that made him want to know more, that he didn't know.
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Meti...