Wanting (Itachi Uchiha x OC) [Completed]

Chapter Fifteen: Like a Brother.

"Has anyone ever told you that orange is definitely your color?" I joked.

"No, that's weird."

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It's been a few months. We've encountered a few ninja, a few bandits. Every once in a while we did our Fire Flower bet, and he usually wins. I'm an expert in flower spotting, and this kid beats me every time!

The weather has been particularly mucky and rainy. It's been particularly troublesome, we aren't nessicarily following a dry, sandy path, it's green, and in most places, filled with children, their pets, and elders alike. It's mostly where you'd expect a park to be, not S-Class criminals looking for a girl to kill.

Deidara has grown close to me, seeing as I'm the only person the talkative kid is supposed to talk to. Wouldn't want a blabber-mouth, well, blabbering.

"Hey, Akira, maybe we should head in for the night." Deidara looked up at me.

I huffed. "Yeah? Where, a hotel?" He knew exactly what I'm talking about. No hotel for miles wouldn't have some kind of wanted poster, or knowledge of us. The last thing I want is to fight an unnecessary battle, as fun as that sounds. I'm ready to go back to the base, give Pain Samichi's body as proof, and see Itachi, finally. Not that Deidara isn't any fun.

"Well, we can set up camp here, in those woods, hm."

"Yeah, that's fine." I head eastward, about 800 meters to the woods.

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"Akira-"

"Shh! I thought you were tired, Kid." Deidara was sitting at the trunk of a thick tree, while I was a few feet above him, laying in a branch. I had taken my hair out, letting my brown locks flow as I fell asleep. I opened one of my hazel eyes to see Deidara shifting uncomfortably. I jump down beside him, he's shivering. I toss my cloak over his trembling body. It left me basically freezing, with just a dark grey bando under my cloak. I lay similarly next to him.

"Why did you-"

"You were cold. It's probably going to rain while we're asleep." He didn't respond. I do care about him, but, it's going to suck to be rained on, virtually naked except for black leggings and what's esentally a bra.

"You're like a brother to me, except better than my own." He laughed at my confession.

"What's your real brother like?"

"Dead. He tried to kill me, he strangled me. Itachi killed him, threw a rock at him. It cracked his skull open. His name was Michiko."

"Hm. I didn't mean to upset you." Multiple tears stained my face, and my lip quivered. The old memory still haunts me. My own brother so jealous of me. So jealous, that he tried to strangle me. I was helpless, if Itachi weren't in the vicinity and hears my faint, crackling cries, I would have died.

"You didn't. Even though he tried to.. kill me.. I still love him and miss him everyday. I call him Michi."

"Do ya hold that against Itachi?" His voice surprisingly softened.

"Not at all. He saved my life."

"He's still a prick."

We laughed at his attempt to lighten the mood, and we fell asleep. Maybe, if we're lucky, something exciting might happen tomorrow, or something.