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BY STREET LIGHT
I watched the sun peek over the horizon as the dawn broke. It had been a hard night, and I needed air. Lives had been lost, yet nothing had been gained. The golden beams of light shone down into my eyes as I sat down on the soft grass.
I thought back, back into my memories, my sad and painful past. I tried to think of a time when I had been truly happy, yet none came. So I thought back to a golden age instead. A time when I was an antagonist. To a time when comic-books formed reality, and stories became the only real thing left.
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I paced along the dark corridor, hiding from the street-light at the end of the alley. I wasn't afraid of someone seeing me. They would think it was Deidara, or a perfect cosplayer. Nothing more. Yet there was so much more to it than that.
I was dressed in the Akatsuki cloak, my clothes under it mainly fishnets. I had the headband of Deidara on, even the Akatsuki ring. A perfect mimic. Exept i was a girl. The only flaw.
We all had taken upon the role of an Akatsuki member. Me and the other five. We were perfect. Perfect cosplayers, and perfect assassins.
We all copied the techniques and fighting styles of our alter-egos. I even had a mock-bombing technique. I shrunk my arm into my cloak form the sleeve, toying with one of my sculptures. They were merely small birds I had modeled out of clay, with a bottle-rocket within each one.
All I had to do was light it and let it go, and people would think I was the real Deidara. I even had mouths painted onto my palms; the perfect cosplayer. We all were perfect cosplayers in our mock Akatsuki.
Our names faded; our characters became our only reality.
I paced in a circle, waiting upon 'Tobi' to arrive. Tobi was another mimic in the organization, just like me. He would arrive with valuable information. I couldn't afford for him to be late.
I turned to pace again; yet he had materialized out of the shadows. His black hair moved in short waves in the wind as he walked forward. He seemed normal enough. Actually, he seemed to be functioning normaly instead of running around.
He stared at me from behind his mask. "Deidara-kun." I acknowledged him, "Tobi-kun," I ground my teeth together, "I'm no boy, Tobi. Its Deidara-chan, un."
He smiled. "So be it, Deidara-kun-," he paused, "er, Deidara-chan. Have you heard from Pein?" He took a step toward me. "Me? He was supposed to meet me here with you."
"Well, he didn't. I guess we have to wait." He didn't seem upset. I did. "Well, I guess he lied to us. Its unlike Pein to do that, un." I slumped to the ground on my knees, burying my lower face in the neck of my cloak. I grunted.
I felt myself being jerked upward by the back of my cloak. I instinctively lashed out, struggling to find a way out of it. I felt hot breath on my neck, my eyes widened. I could hear someone hissing into my ear, "So, I lied did I? Well, Deidara, you don't tell the truth that often, either."
I struggled to my feet, fighting my legs to get over to Tobi fast enough. We bowed in the same instant, chanting in unison, "Konichiwa, Leader-sama." We watched, my face blank of any emotion.
Pein's piercings shimmered and glistened in the street-light. He notioned with his finger for me to come forward. "Hai, Leader-sama." I stepped toward him, obedient and completely silent. "I need you to do me a favor."
He gestured for Tobi to come forward also. "I need you two to take care of someone for me, one of us, whats the word? Its what separates us from others." Pein seemed completely lost in thought.
"Vampirism? Is it vampirism, perhaps?" Tobi was staring at Pein through his mask. "Thats it. Thank you, Tobi. I need you to take care of someone for me."
My eyes widened. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He had just sent out Itachi and Sasori to handle someone. What had happened? Had Itachi and Sasori failed to carry out their mission?
"What? I thought you had sent out Itachi and Sasori to take care of someone." My voice was hardly above a whisper. Pein smiled, a very unpleasant thing, it was eerie and made me feel uneasy.
"Its a very strong person we're dealing with, Deidara-kun." Pein stared at me through the corner of his eye. "I don't think Deidara wants to go, Pein. She just got back from a mission." Tobi was staring at Pein. Pein seemed amused. He ruffled my hair playfully, trying to lighten the mood.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Deidara. But your art will help us in this mission. Your our fastest in the Akatsuki. And we can't kill Rokkon on our own. We need more members than just Itachi and Sasori." He stared at me.
I felt my heart sink, my eyes grew wide and I could feel the hairs on my neck prickle. My hands clutched into fists as torture techniques flashed before my eyes. I wanted to kill Rokkon. I would get my revenge.
I spun upon Pein and Tobi, I was in Pein's face in an instant. I was a nerve away from snarling at him to let me go after him. I was now eager to leave and I wanted Rokkon dead.
I looked to Pein, seeking his lead. He smiled in a natural, care-free way. Yet his eyes shone a different light in the darkness. "He's in Michigan somewhere, or so Itachi had said."
A smile tugged at the edges of my jaw as I smiled in an even more alarming and unnerving way than Pein had. I looked back at them through the corner of my eye, I had stalked down to the edge of the alley. My smile seemed even more eerie as it shone in the street-light. I could feel my eyes borring into Pein and Tobi's as I waited.
"Lets move-out." At Pein's signal we were gone. We ran through the sleeping town, pushing speeds faster than a car. I raced ahead of Pein and Tobi, as usual. "Deidara-kun!" I could hear Tobi calling after me. "Wait up! Slow down! We're not as fast as you."
I slowed my pace to where I was running level with them. I had burts of speed to where I would run ahead of them, until Pein's restraining call pulled me back.
"Deidara. Lets have us all discuss how we'll handle Rokkon, shall we?" At his call I was back with them, discussing our ideas.
I was taken out of my memories as they slurred. A familiar call sent me reeling into reality.
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I woke from my memories as Tru called for me. I wondered why she had called me and not waited for me to come back to the house. This wasn't normal. So what was so important that she'd call me like this?
I walked to the house in the morning light. I was at the door when Tru's head popped out. "Kitsune." She popped her head back in the door.
I waited until a few moments later she opened the door again and her head popped out. "Kitsune, come inside." She opened the door so I could enter. I walked in, Tru by my side, Okami by the table in the small kitchen area, and Rose lost in thought on the couch.
"I need to show you something." Okami placed his hand over my eyes as he led me down what sounded like a hallway. I heard a door open as we entered the room behind it.
"Open your eyes."
I stared into the room; my heart felt like it had just stopped beating.
"Konichiwa, Deidara-kun."
AND RETURN FROM THE ASHES YOU CALL
I stood there; numb. I was fighting tears as I srood there within the little room. The only light was pouring in from the window in shafts; illuminating the remaining Akatsuki.
I tried to say something, yet nothing would come from my mouth. I could only stand there, awkward and out of place.
Tobi ran forward, embracing me. His cloak seemed to swallow me within his arms as I struggled to catch reality. "Oh Deidara-kun," he hesitated, "Deidara-chan! I missed you so much."
I heard a low growl behind us, and then the scraping of clwas along the wooden floor boards. I hadn't noticed Okami's change.
"No, Okami-san. Its okay, un."
I timidly placed my arms around Tobi also, accepting his hug. I seemed to dissapear withing the open folds of his cloak, as if I were eaten. "Deidara! I missed you, too! You wouldn't believe how boring it is without you."
Itachi suddenly joined in the hug, hugging what he could of me. The rest was being protectively squeezed by Tobi. Itachi buried his face in my hair, probably remembering the times we had fought and also gotten along.
"Dei-kun. Did you thing I would forget about you?" I could hear Hidan, "immortality is incomplete and absurd without the heart of the Akatsuki." He strode forward, hugging all that he could grab from his angle; my left arm.
"Deidara, Deidara, Deidara! Do you think I could use you as a puppet for awhile? Its so fun to toy with your hair." Sasori rushed in, grabbing my other arm and hugging it as best he could. It felt strange in this moment. Like a scene from a dream.
"Ah, Deidara. I missed you; we all missed you. So we decided to search for you. That brought us here, to where we are. It seems that two years has been unimaginably painful without you." Pein had came into the embrace now. He had somehow managed to find a place to hug me around my head, managing to squeeze in between Itachi and Tobi.
I was solely happy in this moment.
I heard an agitated bark, it signaled to me that Okami wasn't trusting my team-mates. I knew this was a moment he could never share. It was purely for the Akatsuki; no one else.
 Kitsune Yin · Tue Nov 04, 2008 @ 03:32am · 3 Comments |
