A Thousand Mornings [Deidara Love Story]

II - The Mission

“Don’t run too fast!” I complained to a faceless figure. For some reason, the person I was with’s face was dark and I couldn’t see anything, not even what their gender or what they age was. The person was faintly familiar, from what my heart told me. Though my mind had no idea who it was I was following. Even their clothes were blotched out from my vision. Though, I could see myself perfectly fine - so why couldn’t I see this person? The person just gave me a smirk that seemed to taunt my slowness.

“You’re just too slow!” They replied, not slowing down in the slightest. I groaned and kept following after them. By the time we stopped running, I realized that we made it to an area where there was a slow trickle of water passing through some rocks on a riverbed. Lily-pads littered the water with their pink flowers poking up from the green. Frogs loped away upon our arrival and fireflies flew closely behind them. The grass was coated softly with dew which shone in the dusk light. Trees loomed over us, protecting the pure clearing.

“Wow!” I breathed, stepping in closer to the clearing, “You found this place? It’s so beautiful!” I spun around with a happy giggle and landed into the dewy ground, not caring that my clothes were getting wet. The sound of the clearing was just so soothing that I had absolutely no care in the world at the moment.

The faceless person lied down next to me, “I heard you were going to leave soon.” My worries unconsciously came back to me with just that one sentence.

“Yeah… I am…,” I replied sadly.

“I don’t want you to leave, Chiasa. You’re my best friend.” they told me. I giggled once again, trying to get the uneasy feeling away from me.

“You always have that other friend of yours.” I said to them.

They groaned, “But she’s the most annoying person ever! She’s always hanging around me saying, ‘Nii-san’ this ‘Nii-san’ that. I can’t stand it!” the faceless person was clearly annoyed by the mere thought of this person, “You’re not nearly like her. You’re a much better person to be with than her.”

“Hey! That’s not very nice, you know!” I warned them.

“But it’s true!” they returned.

We continued talking until it got darker outside…

My eyes shot opened.

I must have fallen asleep at some point when I shut myself in my room. I don’t know what woke me up, but I was perfectly awake now. Yawning and stretching, I turned and looked at the time: 5:34 in the morning. After that rest, I felt a bit better than I did yesterday. My throbbing head was gone and the pain finally subsided. Also, I got a ton of time to myself since Aunty told me all about what happened when I was young. Still, I didn’t want to believe it as much proof as was given. The pains had to mean something, the fact that I was one of the only ones who didn’t ‘receive’ the clan’s Kekkai Genkai was explained a bit, and the fact that no one penalized me for not having said Kekkai Genkai was also a big give away. Anyone who didn’t have the Kekkai Genkai was basically seen as strange and was often an outcast from the clan.

Pulling the blankets from myself, I placed a hand upon the doorknob only to realize that I had tears streaming down my face when I passed a mirror. Pausing to take a closer look, I saw that my eyes were bright red and the tears were sticky on my skin. Did I cry in my sleep? I didn’t think that dream was that sad - in fact, it seemed really happy. Why was I crying, then?

Shaking my head, I continued out the door, only stopping on my way to the kitchen to wash my face off a bit. When I made it down the stairs, I saw my family all sitting around in the kitchen despite it being so early in the morning. Even Ayumu who was a lazy butt was up sitting at the table breakfast laid out in front of him.