Heaven's Regulations {Rewrite}

Chapter 21 ~ Brother

Hello to my dear readers! Here's to our 21st chapter :)

I send love! Enjoy!

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Rin got up from her 400th push-up and wiped the sweat and rain from her brow. She sighed.

"Training's not helping. My brain's not in it. I'd die if someone attacked me right now. "

And then shuriken flew at her from every side.

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Deidara heard a knock on his door.

"Come in, un!" he called. It opened to reveal Sasori.

He felt a sharp pain pierce in his heart, as he did every time he saw Sasori.

He pushed it down, as he did every time he saw the trusting, innocent redhead.

Now, he felt something off in the way Sasori regarded him.

"Deidara..." he began uncertainly. There was an odd gleam in his eyes. 

"Yeah?" The sculptor turned his full attention to his friend. "Did something happen, un?"

"Yeah," Sasori said, adverting his gaze. "Well, it happened. Long ago."

Deidara's blood ran cold.

Here comes the day I regret not telling him the truth from the very beginning.

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I keep jinxing things was the thought that flew across Rin's mind first as she dodged and weaved to avoid the projectiles.

"Gosh darn it," she muttered. "Water Style: One Hundred Hungry Sharks!" Drawing on Pein's rain, she sent the sharks, only one-tenth of Kisame's jutsu's sharks, at the kunai. It gave her enough of an opening to shoot over to her attacker in the trees using Taijutsu.

However, her mysterious attacker was hidden behind a mask. She sighed, flipping back out into the clearing as she avoided a blow from him or her.

A boy, she deemed, as she saw the body build of her assailant. It's got to be.

For a while, the two exchanged a plethora of blows, fists, kicks, and jutsu. At last, Rin skidded backwards, panting. Her attacker was also panting. It was now a battle of wills.

Using Sasori's puppet chakra string technique, Rin pulled many of the dropped weapons from the ground and flung them at her attacker. He dodged them agilely, but he left a hole in his defense and she spotted it. The kunoichi sprang at her chance.

"Fire Style: Art of the Dragon Flame!" Her assailant turned, gushing out a mouthful of water to counter. Mist rained on the two. When the thick film of vapor cleared away, Rin had a kunai pressed against his neck. She smiled.

"Give it up, Itachi. I won this time." She heard a sigh.

"So it appears."

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"I think you know what I'm talking about, right, Deidara?"

"Y-Yes..."

"Is there anything you'd like to tell me?" Sasori struggled to keep his composure normal and his tone of voice even.

"I'm sorry, Sasori. I'm a coward, un. I know. What do you want to know?"

"Whatever you want to tell me." Sasori clenched his fists. You sure aren't making it easy.