A Place To Call Home [OC x Akatsuki Story]

Distorted Reality Part 26

This chapter is Dedicated to Mckenna !!!!! Thankyou for being such a dedicated reader! I know how much you love Dei so this ones for you :P

"Tila?"

"Tila wake up"

I opened my eyes and the blurry vision of the training room started to come into focus. Hidan gently sets me down, my feet touch the ground. Leader was standing directly in front of the three of us.

"We're back? Where is Sasori and Deidara?" I asked, still feeling a groggy from my lack of sleep.

No one answered me. Silence.

"Deidara lost both his arms fighting the Nine Tails. Kakuzu, I need you to stitch him up right away." Leader said, expression blank. Kakuzu gives a rough Hm. Part of me thought I'd misheard...

"What?" I stammered. "..and Sasori?" I questioned, now feeling panic flow over me in waves. Hidan and Kakuzu exchange blank stares momentarily, I caught it out of the corner of my eye.

"Sasori is dead."

The word- Dead, echoes in my head, over and over, like a broken record. I felt a crack in my chest, then a shiver, one unlike any other run like ice down my spine. Paralysed on the spot, my lip quivers.

"Sasori.." His name leaves me in barely a whisper, denial filling my mind. I felt my body turn, without my control, my legs begin to walk in the direction of his room, my hand shakes violently as I turn the door handle and push the door open. I stare into the void.

"Sasori?" My voice calls, trembling. As if I was expecting to see him sitting at his desk, screwing a puppet arm on.

Nothing. The room is empty.

"Maybe he's playing hide and seek," I desperately try to convince myself, holding back my the aching lump building in my throat, threatening to spill from my eyes.

I walk over to the carpet and push it aside, wrench open the floorboards and slowly start to walk down the rickety wooden staircase.

"Sasori?" I whisper, nothing left in me but anguish.

"Please" Desperation. I step off the last stair, feet meeting with the cold concrete floor. I stare around the room, in between the spaces that his puppets hung from, up to the ceiling. But, Nothing.

"Nothing."

"You're not here either..."

"Sasori"

"You're not coming back are you..." The horror of accepting reality makes me tremble, the knot in my chest pounds hard, bringing me to my knees. Truth sinks deeply into my heart. It's so hard to breathe. The thumping of my heart like a drum with every beat. I cried out desperately.

"Sasori please.." My voice breaks, "Don't leave me." I plead, unable to control my sobs.

My head spins so fast, I clutch it and lower it to the ground. As I feel myself hit the cold of the floor my hysterical sobbing rings in my ears.

"I just want one more kiss, please.." I whisper, cheeks drenched in tears.

I manage to hush my hysteria, finally closing my eyes. Remnants of him project themselves across the black on my eyelids. Of Sasori's touch, his kiss, of those gorgeous beige eyes and that familiar comforting voice. All gone. Never to return.

No.. I pleaded with myself again, in disbelief.

"NO!" I screamed in denial loudly; My voice echoed piercingly from wall to wall, I clutch my head in my hands tightly and started to tear hard at my hair, as if the physical pain would relieve the intense loneliness in my heart... But it doesn't. I let go of my hair, I let go of my tears, I let go of my everything, I let go of my love... Sasori.