Here it is I'm so sorry it's so late, like, February...
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, except the greedy guards XDD
Deidara slowly opened his eyes, the eyelids feeling as heavy as ever. After blinking several times, his vision cleared and he could see a certain bluenette beside him, Konan.
Moving his gaze around the room, he saw that it was only the two of them around. Deidara considered trying to sit up, but he knew that it was no use when he could feel the heaviness of his body only sink lower and lower into the pile of hay he laid on.
"Sweetie," Konan said the instant she saw the blonde awake. "You're finally awake."
"What happened, un?" Deidara asked and gave a yawn. 'Wait? "Sweetie"?', he thought when her sentence sank into his mind.
"You fainted, Dei." She answered while replacing the wet cloth on his forehead with a new one. "I guess everything happened to fast for you, well, you certainly did faint right after Pain told you about the ring."
"It doesn't make sense, un…" Deidara muttered and looked at the blue ring, glistering in the light from the torches. 'Nothing makes sense anymore', the blonde thought.
"You're the chosen one, the ring chose you when His Majesty sent it to the world beyond." Konan said as a matter of fact, putting pressure on the word 'chosen'.
"'His Majesty'?" The blonde responded, getting more and more confused over Konan's words.
"The King who rules over this small Kingdom," she said flatly and looked into the empty air. "We all came here just like you, chosen by the rings. His Majesty sent ten rings out to the world beyond, and the reason, is still unknown to us. All we know is, our fate, is to serve His Majesty till we take our last breath."
Her words left Deidara speechless, when the blonde finally found his words back he was interrupted by the creak of the door opening. A redhead entered the silent atmosphere and eyed the blonde.
"I see the brat is finally awake," Sasori said and leaned against the door, his face expressionless with only a hint of a smirk. "We have work to do, Deidara. Rise and shine."
"Slavery work, un?" Deidara asked to make sure he understood the meaning of, everything.
"What else brat?" The redhead growled back at the blonde, like he was stating the obvious.
"Then, no." Deidara mumbled and turned to lie on his left side facing away from Sasori, signalling that the conversation was over.
"You brat." Sasori growled between clenched teeth. Shutting the door behind him he walked over to the futon Deidara slept on and with a swift move, he pulled the blonde's thin blanket off.
"The hell?" Deidara yelled and turned to glare at the redhead.
"You have no choice! It's the Kings orders."
"I refuse to work for some 'His Majesty', un!"
"Brat!"
"Asshole, un!"
The two of them kept glaring at each other, sending silent threats though their eyes. Deidara had gotten all fired up and now stood on his feet, clenching his fist.
"Deidara… Sasori is right," Konan suddenly stated to interrupt the war field, succeeding by catching the attention from both males. "We have no choice but to follow His Majesty's will. Refusing will only increase the possibility of torture."
"T-torture, un?" Deidara stuttered and felt a chill down his spine just by thought of it. 'How many centuries have I gone back in time?' he thought, remembering reading a history book covering the cruel times in the medieval times. Torture was the most common punishment.
"Yes, brat." Sasori confirmed the blonde's fears, only to scare him even more he made his voice as rough as possible. Meeting with Deidara's eyes, Sasori could see true fear in his blue irises. 'Tsk, spoiled brats'. "Get up, we have gardening work to do."
Right after the redhead left through the door, Deidara took a deep breath and cursed. "His Majesty, my ass."
Konan, who had both seen and listened to the duos not-so-friendly conversation, sighed and let a small smile pass her lips. All she and the others wished was for Deidara to understand. If not, it could cost him his own life. "You can't change fate, Deidara…" She whispered lowly. Expecting a comment from the blonde, she loosened the gaze she had at the floor when her words went unheard. Deidara was already by the wooden door, holding tightly onto the rusty handle in doubt. However, within seconds he was out the door, leaving Konan in silence. 'I'm sure Sasori will take good care of you Deidara,' she thought and chuckled, resuming her cleaning duty.
Deidara was in the same dim lighted hallway he remembered from the day he came. Walking through the silence, the only noise that was made where his bare feet touching the cold stone floor, along with small sparks from the torches along the walls.
He continued to walk down the same hallway, passing all the passages he saw. Being honest with himself, he had no idea where he was. All the hallways he had walked through looked the same, smelled the same and the atmosphere was the same. He didn't even know the way back to the room he came from to ask Konan for directions. 'I should have asked before I left the room…' Deidara thought, being cautious when walking past every passage, in case one of the guardians was luring around. God, he certainly didn't want to bump into the same guardian that was close to molesting him the day the arrived. Just the thought was making him nauseous.
As much as the blonde hated Sasori, all he wished for was for the redhead to find him.
Walking down the same hallway for what felt like an hour, he still didn't see any end to it. All Deidara was really feeling, was that he just walked deeper and deeper into the castle. He tried to imagine how the castle looked at the outside by digging into his own memories from the day the he was brutally leaded down the basement. But all the mental pictures from the outside were a light dirty ground, nothing else.
Focusing at the situation he was in, he tried his best to stay calm. Saying it over and over in his mind, 'Stay calm, stay calm'. Even so, the further he walked, the more he began to panic. The walls, it was like they were slowly moving closer and closer to each other, trapping him. By speeding up, the walls moved faster. He panicked.
"SASORI!" Deidara screamed, unconscious of whose name passing his lips. The blonde cursed and ran into the nearest passage, only hoping upon a miracle that it was the right one. Finally out of the endless hallway, he gasped after air. It was no use, the air was still lacking enough oxygen for Deidara to clear his mind. Although, it was enough for Deidara to realize whom he just screamed after.
Even after his sudden scream, the hallway was as quiet as it was before the blondes panic attack. Now, Deidara only heard his own panting.
But the silence didn't last long. While he was leaning against the wall, too scared to continue, footsteps were closing by. It wasn't the sound of bare feet brushing over the stone floor, no, it was more solid, harder sound of leather stepping on the ground.
'Guards' Deidara thought and held his breath. 'I have to get out'. The footsteps got closer and closer, he was sure they where coming from the hallway. Settling his thoughts, Deidara pushed himself from the wall and ran down the passage. When he heard the unknown footsteps fading, he let out a breath of relief.
After running several more yards, Deidara slowed down his pace, till he meet what he would call a miracle. In front of him, stood a staircase, leading upwards to the floor above. A happy blonde began climbing up the stairs, step by step to what he hoped was a world under the blue sky.
Upon opening the rusty door, his wish was luckily granted. Before his eyes laid a garden, with the greenest grass he'd ever seen. There grew flowers everywhere, in all different colours from red to blue to purple, in all shades possible. The trees were as green as the grass, spotless of any withered leaves. They where cut out in all kinds of shapes, circles, triangles and even some was shaped as animals. In the middle of the area there was a sculpture of a swan, with its long neck stretching up to the sky.
Deidara, being completely lost in its beauty, walked towards the majestic swan and let his fingers run over the smooth marble, along the feathers on the wing. 'So smooth,' he thought dreamily and gave it a small smile.
"Brat," an annoyed voice called out. Turning around, Deidara meet with familiar brown eyes. Sasori's face was as calm as usual, even so Deidara could feel the pissed off aura from several feet away.
"Danna!" The blonde said happily and walked over to the angry redhead, he was too relived to think twice about that he just called Sasori.
"Da…Danna?" Sasori stuttered both confused and pissed over the nickname the brat had just given him.
"Y-yes, un. I think it means master."
"You know it also means… Never mind. I hate waiting and knowing that you've been dreaming away in the garden instead of working, annoy me. We have a lot of work to do, brat. Come." Sasori said, his voice turning back to his usual flat tone.
"Fine, un. Sasori no Danna~" Deidara said teasingly, and when seeing a vein popping on Sasori's forehead, he smirked.
After hours with working outside under the sun, Deidara let his exhausted body fall down on the soft grass. Sasori had brought him to a wheat field on the other side of the castle building, the field wasn't as large as Deidara feared, but not as small as he wished it was. On the way there the blonde finally could see the castle from the outside.
The walls where made out of a common grey stone, but it was something about the way they were placed that made it look more elegant. So far Deidara had seen five huge towers, on top of them again, smaller towers with several small windows. They didn't have to walk far for the newcomer to realize the castle was huge.
Around the castle a thick wall rose over 50 feet tall, totally shutting the view for outsiders to enjoy the beauty of the castle and at the same time, preventing slaves from escaping the fate they were destined to have.
When arriving at the wheat field, they met with Zetsu, who had already begun harvesting the corn and had worked his way several feet from where he had started. Joining in, the trio managed to harvest one third of the whole field. Deidara, who had never harvested before, never stopped complaining over how boring it was to Sasori, as well as complains over how hot it was. When the blonde in the end whined "Danna, the heat makes it impossible to work, un! It drains all my energy~" the redhead hit him in the head and gave in.
Sasori glared at the blonde laying spread out on the grass, who was looking up on the sky and half-smiling. So far, Deidara had been one hell of a brat, according to Sasori. He was far too careless, which will probably result with death. With the carelessness, followed his bad habit to say what ever he wants, without thinking twice about the situation. Still, he is Sasori's responsibly. 'Damn Pain, giving me a brat as a partner.' The redhead thought as he watched the blonde dozing off.
"Deidara." Zetsu suddenly called from his place in the middle of the field. "This isn't the time for sleeping, unless you want to get killed."
Right when Deidara heard Black Zetsu's deep voice, he quickly sat up and almost gaped at the plant. "That's just scary, un!"
"Zetsu has a split personality, brat," Sasori explained to the blonde, to avoid further questions he moved on. "Get up, break time over."
Deidara grunted, but still rolled onto his stomach and pushed himself up from the ground, then dived back into the wheat field.
After several more hours the sun left the sky and the moon came to replace it's light. By then the trio had finished three quarters of the field and filled over ten baskets of wheat. Deidara, who very easily got tired, was on the verge of fainting. He kept swinging between a state of consciousness and unconsciousness. Sasori had noted this since it began an hour ago or so, and decided that it was the best to call it a day. However, it wasn't his decision. Sadly, it was the Kings guards' decision.
Some minutes passed and two guards showed up around the corner. It was for them to decide if the work was done good enough for the slaves to be sent down the basement for the day.
One of them kept walking back and forward around the field, while the other checked the baskets. It didn't take them long before one of them went to action. By a faint "thud" one of the baskets was kicked down from its perch, down on the ground with the wheat flowing out like water.
"The work has not been done well enough for us to approve, slave." The guard who had first taken action grunted and afterwards sent them an evil smirk. "I want to see the whole field harvested before the morrow."
Deidara had been gritting his teeth ever since the basket had fallen onto the ground, but when words came, he was close to snapping. Both Zetsu and Sasori couldn't help to notice the blonde's terrifying aura. Sasori knew what was to come, and he had to stop it.
"You damn- mph!" Sasori quickly covered the blonde's mouth.
"Of course, guards." The redhead said as natural as possible and tried his best to avoid sending them death glares. "We'll finish the work within only half of the time."
"When the given task is done, you all can leave." The other guard, who had a slightly gentler tone, spoke up and began walking away, but wasn't finished. "However, if we see it have not been done in the morrow, you will be punished. All of you."
When both of the guards were out of sight, Sasori removed his hand from the blonde's mouth and sighed of relief.
"What was that, Danna!?" Deidara growled at the redhead. "I was just about to hit that jerk in the face, un!"
"That's exactly why, brat. The guards have close connections to the Head of The Guards, if he finds out about your little attempt on independence by hitting or cursing at one of his, they will plan a way to teach you right manners. Which will definitely not be any afternoon tea party, Deidara."
After this the blonde went silent, looking down at floor, with mental images swarming around in his head like a whirlwind of how this torture would be like. It was horrible images of screaming and blood flowing everywhere. Deidara tried his best to tell himself that he wasn't scared, that he would fight back like he used to when he was bullied at school. He always succeeded to scare them off, and even sometimes blow them off. But the more the others mentioned this torture, his defence wall fell more and more. Confusedness mixed with fright wasn't any good combination.
By the time they had harvested the whole field, the stars in the sky had already began to slowly fade away with the moon. In the end they had filled fifteen straw-baskets with wheat to be milled into flour in the morrow. Finished with their task they began to walk back to find one of the staircases that lead to the basement.
This time Deidara was back down in the hallway maze of passages, he was trying his best to focus on the way Sasori leaded them. But because of his half-conscious state he did only grasp the way back to the long hallway, from then on he was on the verge of falling asleep there and then. And when they finally walked though the door to their place, the blonde laid down on the nearest pile of hay he could find.
"Deidara. That was my bed." Sasori growled, but the blonde had already fallen asleep. Looking around he saw only Konan awake, surrounded by low sleeping noises from the others.
"They forced you guys to work late, again?" Konan said with sympathy in her voice and sighed of empathy while watching the snoring blonde.
"Yes, they probably just wanted to have fun with the brat since he's a newcomer. They got it like they wished, he was just about to snap by screaming at them."
"I knew it would get difficult for him to adjust to this life. Lucky him to have you as partner then, or what Sasori~" Konan teased and tried her best to contain her laughter at the flushed redhead.
"Tch, don't make it sound like I'm his babysitter, Konan. He needs to learn how to take care of himself, or else he'll get the same fate as you know who."
"And you don't want that do you~"
"Konan, shut up." Sasori grumbled with a faint blush at his cheeks. Still she kept grinning while the flushed redhead took the empty hay pile beside his own which a certain blonde had occupied and after a while fell asleep.
I feel so bad for those who have followed and I haven't updated in such a long time, I'm so sorry, but since it's summer I have a lot of more time. But I think it'll take at least a week or two till next. Going to London you see ;w; Anyways, thanks to my friend Vorona who helped me and gave me some tips and helped me a lot. It's so late here so, sleeping time, I just had to upload before I went to sleep
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