An Unexpected Explosion (Deidara)

Chapter 8: Clay Dragon

Joozous POV

I opened my eyes slightly as I moved and looked around. I sat up and sighed as I put my bra back on and changed into my clothes. I put everything on again and stood as I folded my blanket and set it down. I lastly put my cloak on. To be clear my cloak is long and actually roomy. But inside it has different pockets and holders to carry my things. Other than that I have my katana. "Hey Hunter are you ready to leave?" I heard the Sasori guy say. I could tell it was the other thing. The raspy puppet.. he was inside it. But his voices sounded impatient...I sighed as I put my glasses on and slid the door open. I slid it closed behind me and saw the Deidara and Sasori standing by the balcony. They saw me and jumped out leaving. I turned to look at the main door and opened it. I took one last look at the room then left shutting the door. After a while of walking down the hall I made it to the stairs and down to the lobby. I heard the girl say 'have a nice day' as I walked out. But I couldn't help but feel curious of the ninja from before. I shrugged off that thought as Sasori and Deidara came from behind me and walked by my side. We kept walking through the town till we came to the the exit. It was quit early so no one was up except shop keepers opening up. As we exited the small village I kept feeling Deidara looking at me. But kept my head down as my hair and the hood covered my eyes. We kept going till we made it to the stone village. "I will bring back the man, you stay here, and Deidara will watch you." Sasori said. I nodded and sat down against a tree. I looked up at the sky and closed my eyes. "Don't take to long." Deidara responded annoyed. "I wasn't planning on it." Sasori said as I heard footsteps leaving. "Mm." I said in agreement. I then heard footsteps then a small thump. I opened my eyes and looked forward. I saw Deidara looking at me. He was sitting on the ground with his legs and arms crossed. "Tell me Deidara, why do you think I was chosen?" I asked as I took a small amount of clay from my side bag and began to play with it. "Maybe you are a 'just in case' replacement, un." Deidara said. I sighed and looked at my mouth hand. I smiled and put the clay in the mouth. It chewed it and spit out a bat. I smiled as the bat grew a little and began to fly around me and land in on hood hanging upside down right in my face. "Hey that looks kinda like mine...yeah..but my art has a smaller wing span, and yours has small legs.." I heard Deidara say. I looked past my bat and saw Deidara put some clay in his hands and next thing I know he throws small bats into the air that grew a little then flew around. I smiled and looked at the bats fly. "Ha!!" I heard Deidara shout as he made a hand sign. Then the bats explode creating an explosion. "Cool....." I said as my bat flew and landed on my shoulder. 'However I don't think that was smart because we shouldn't get attention....' . "Mm." Deidara said as he smile not looking away from where his art exploded. Then he took more clay out and mashed his hands together. Then he opened his hand and there was a small dragon. He threw it on the floor, there was a poof and then it grew and landed. It wasn't that big but kinda like the size of a wolf. But with a long tail. It walked around and sat behind Deidara. I smiled as the clay dragon curled his tail around him like it was protecting. Then the sun shown threw the clouds of snow and aimed directly at Deidara dragon. I was in awe as the snow began to reflect light and hit the dragon. It was amazing as it showed colors of pastel rainbow scales. It was missing something.....I stood up and walked in front of Deidara. I got on my knees, did some hand sighs and put my hands to the ground. "Heat wave." I said. Chakra was focused on my palms as I release heat into the snow. It soon melted the area around Deidara and the ground and trees where alive with green leaves and grass. Deidara looked around and smiled at me. I stood up and walked back to the area I was at. I sat down and looked at the area Deidara was sitting in. "Do you like dragons?" I asked. "Yeah, to me they mean power, un." He said. I nodded and just sat there waiting. I kept looking at the snow clouds but soon realized the snow was covering the spot I melted. Deidara saw this to but didn't mind. "I have a question." I said. He looked at me and his smile faded. "What?" He asked. "Why do you hate the Sharingan?" I asked. He looked at me for a while but soon his expression turned into pure annoyance. "Itachi..." He said. "Itachi?" I asked. He nodded as he began to explain to me who this Itachi person was. He told me about him killing his own clan and being from the Uchiha. I then put two and two together and realized I have the Uchiha Sharingan and that connects me with this Itachi Uchiha. He also explained what happened when he first met Itachi. He said he was in a Genjutsu and how he had to join the Akatsuki but he will still pursue his art. "Oh, is that why you hate me?" I asked with a blank expression. "I don't hate you, nor do I like you. You're just someone that has the Sharingan that I hate. And that links you to Itachi." He said with venom in his voice. I nodded and stood up. 'Somethings wrong....pretty sure its because of Deidaras explosion...' I pulled my cloak to cover my eyes more and took a kuni out. Deidara looked at me and I felt him put his guard up. He knew what this meant to. I threw the kuni passed him and soon there was a cry of pain. Deidara stood up and got on his dragon. It flew above and was hovering behind me at this point. Soon three people came out from the trees. But there was a body that fell from behind the tree. It was a girl. She had a stone village headbands. And as soon as I saw the girl I smiled. She was a bully, she never liked me, and after her father payed our leader a lot of money, she was made a chunin. "Bringing such a useless rat was mistake number 1. Mistake number 2, your last mistake was trying to spy on me. You are all fools just coming here, or did you all forget who you are looking at?" I said as I stuck my tongue out and showed them my palm. It stuck its tongue out as well and soon I put my hand in my side pouch and disappeared. I was behind them and put small bugs on there shoulders and disappeared again. They didn't sense me and just kept looking at the spot I was standing. To them, I stood there the entire time. They didn't see me move since it was my afterimage but when I came back to my spot my cloak was moving. They knew something happened and began to look around. "What? Cat got your tongue?" I asked. They looked back at me as they began to sweat.