Chained Angel (Deidara Story) Chapter 1

Chapter 20.

Widening her eyes at their sudden appearance, she glanced between them both frantically, before looking back at Bokun, who was standing a few steps behind her, wearing a vicious glare. A glare, that although faltered for a second at their return, came back with full force as he took another step towards her as a warning for Deidara to not come any closer. But after taking this step, he kept his gaze on Deidara, and Deidara alone, and snarled,

“You.”

Deidara responded with his own scowl, accompanied with a glare, not about to back down from saving Angel, and clenched his fists, taking in the surroundings and thinking of tactics. They were in the dining room, a place neither of them had been in, but had had it pointed out to them. He doubted Bokun had purposefully pushed her in here, but had managed to corner her in there while she must have dodged him hurting her. Once he had, she had so much fear that she must not have been able to fight back. Fortunately he had arrived pretty soon after that, thankfully at least pausing the fighting for the moment.

“Back the hell away from her.” Deidara spat, swapping his weight from foot to foot, ready to attack or defend Angel at the slightest sign. Angel watched as he spoke, and then flicked her gaze to Sasori, wanting questions answered, but unable to voice them at the moment, shocked that Sasori had followed Deidara back. Sasori stared back into her eyes, and then turned back to Deidara and Bokun, making it known that it was between them now, and everything that she was curious about would have to wait. This was Deidara’s fight, and he would help when needed. And smothering a sigh, Angel had no choice but to accept this fact, following Sasori’s action.

“Why? She deserves to be punished for what she did,” Bokun shot back, abruptly turning his gaze down to Angel, and continuing,

“I told you not to get close to them. Especially to him. But you didn’t listen. You didn’t tell me anything they were finding out in the library about the rune. And not only that, but you told them to leave early without saying a word to me. I was lenient with you with everything else, but not that. I’m not going to let you get away with that.”

The glare disappearing for one second, Deidara turned to look at Angel with this knowledge, finally understanding what she had been doing. What was happening now. She made them leave early to stop Bokun getting to them. All the injuries she had received from Bokun were because of him. Because she had been trying to keep them safe. If he had concentrated on the mission...kept his distance...she wouldn’t be hurt now. But he couldn’t think about regrets now. He had done what he had done, and though she was hurt, she was still alive. And there was still time for him to act and help out. To help save her. So bringing back his glare, he snapped his round and focused on Bokun, and growled in defence for Angel,

“Get away with what? You’re the one who wanted in on the rune, and she didn’t even know the true nature of your plan! None of us did, un! You acted like she was the one making everything worse, but if anything she prolonged our stay! It was because she knew you were going to do something that she made us leave early, un! If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s yours, un! She doesn’t deserve a punishment; she’s done nothing wrong!”

Taking a deep breath, Bokun’s anger grew, but instead of bursting out of him, it condensed inside of him, causing him to relax slightly, but his glare grew ever colder, and it seemed much more likely he was going to do something much worse now. Deidara kept on his guard, uncertain what he would do, Sasori doing the same, but wondering whether this change in Bokun was a good thing or not. Angel merely wished that Deidara would stay back, and Sasori would follow on. Stepping forward would make Bokun hurt her, and by hurting her, Deidara would get angry, causing a massive confrontation. If she could force them back...

“Who are you to say that? You’ve spoken to her for a few days. You don’t know her personality overall. You don’t understand anything about her, about her wings, about anything! But I’ve known her for most of her life!” He replied simply, calmly furious at Deidara’s outburst. But Deidara wasn’t a person who kept his emotions hidden away from the world. If he was angry, he was going to show it. Which is why at this point he raised himself up to his full height, a low growl involuntarily omitting from his throat, and roared back at him,

“Yeah, you sure know her by treating her like shit her entire life! You know nothing about her in any shape or form, un! The only person who knows her well is me, and I’m not gonna let you take her away from me, un!”

His hand quickly reached into his pouch, ready to take out a bomb, his feet moving forwards to reach Angel and Bokun. Sasori turned and moved to the side, ready to defend either Deidara or Angel as he attacked, slightly concerned his anger was getting to him, but unable to do anything now. Seeing what might happened to Deidara as he decided to fight, Angel scrambled to her feet, throwing out a hand with a scream of,

“NO!”

With her screamed protest, a huge blast of chakra came with it, throwing both Deidara and Sasori backwards and onto the floor. She’d promised herself that she’d protect them when Bokun had given her that black eye, and said she’d do something when the time was right. Then they had decided to leave, and Bokun was going to hurt them. She’d made that choice then, and pushed them to leave. She just hadn’t counted on them coming back to help her. Her heart was torn between being thrilled with the fact he cared about her enough to make sure she was alright, going against Sasori and the Akatsuki to come back and help her, but wanting to keep him safe after making an oath to do so when they left.

But when it came down to it, it was the latter that won out.

Thrown to the floor, Deidara winced in pain from the force, but rapidly forced his body to recover from the chakra, and flipped back up, glancing to see Sasori having done the same, and stepped forward to go for Bokun once again, this time ready for anything Angel might do to stop them from getting to him. But he never got the chance, as a second later the world fell from all around him, and he was taken back to the first night he came, and the dream he’d had. He hadn’t known her; hadn’t been friends with her then, but seeing the dream, waking up with tears on his face, had made him want to do everything and anything to stop that from happening. A feeling that only grew as he became closer and closer to her, and found out more about her relationship—or lack of it—with Bokun.

And now he’d failed her.

In exactly the same way, every sound faded away from his notice, and all he could focus on was her. He couldn’t even see Bokun anymore; the only thing he saw was the knife extending through her torso, and the look of confused shock and pain on her face; in her eyes. Everything was as it had been. Blood began to trickle ever so slowly from her mouth, and as the knife retracted, blood poured out of the wound and onto the floor. Placing her hands to her wound, she removed them and stared at the blood, almost in confusion, looking back up at Deidara with a strange smirk. Now in slow motion, she took one step forward, and then collapsed, and although she hadn’t been on a high banister like it had been before, she still hit the floor with the same amount of force. The blood having spread to her wings, the moment she fell feathers burst out from her wings and spread all around her, landing in the blood from her body.

Unable to take his eyes away from her body, Sasori widened his eyes at her injuries and turned to Deidara, seeing the look on his face, and for once in his life his mind being blank. But he didn’t have time to decide what to do. The sound soon came back, and Bokun came back into his vision. He was standing above Angel’s lifeless body, wanting to make sure she remained that way. Deidara glared viciously at Bokun, his eyes now shining with tears, a few leaking out to run down his face, and scowled, lunging forward.

He moved so fast Sasori could barely keep up.