Dedication goes to… emerden101!!

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Chapter 44

I walked towards the training grounds, my head down and thoughts running through my head, the same ones that have been for a week now since I got that letter. I was so frustrated. Hisashi, my new friend knows my brother… he could have told me, I wouldn’t and haven’t said a thing to anyone about him knowing… I knew what being with an S-rank criminal means; I am my brother’s sister! I know the consequences of people knowing, the only reason I’m all safe in Konoha is because my brother left me and I was so young when I was sent to Konoha. I know that Guy-sensei was watching over me to make sure I wasn’t a sleeper agent or wouldn’t blow up the village or something when I first got here.

But Hisashi… he is dead meat when I see him; he has information about my brother and pretended to be my friend for the sake of watching my training!!  Also… he knows about my relationship and I have to make sure I’m the one to tell Deidara so he doesn’t hear about it from Hisashi first.It’s been a week since I’ve gotten that letter and figured it out, but Hisashi hasn’t been at the training grounds since, and it’s bugging me!

When I arrived at the training grounds, I saw him, Hisashi Hyuuga. He was tense and his back was facing me, making me narrow my eyes. He is either stressed or knows that I know who he really is.

“Hisashi Hyuuga, if that is your real name!” I snapped, he spun on his heal. His eyes widened as I stood with my arms crossed. I saw his eyes dart to my sides where my new clay pouches sat.

“Emi,” my jaw clenched and glared at him as I dropped my training bag onto the floor.

“Only my friends can call me that, you aren’t one of them. Friends don’t lie to friends about knowing said friends brother,” I hissed and he sighed at me.

“Emiko, I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you alright? I was ordered not to, you had to figure it out on your own,” his eyes looked into mine and I looked down towards the ground. “I’m sorry I lied to you, but to tell you the truth, you are a friend of mine… one that I argue with but a friend all the same. As I was evaluating you, I was myself.”

My eyes darted up to meet his. “I…” I started and I shook my head and I stomped up towards him. I poked him in the chest, hard. “You ever lie to me again, me and you, are going to have a fight to the death. I do not stand for people lying to me, got it?! Practically when they have information about my brother that I’m dying to know… those letters only just get me by, un,” I snapped at him and he chuckled.

“I see, so you’re more upset about me not telling you about your brother?” He questioned and I bit my lip, looking down towards the ground. He chuckled at me. “Then ask.” I froze. My eyes widened and he smirked at me. “Come on, you just shouted at me about withholding information about Deidara, and now I’m not you’re not going to ask?”

He was right, I asked for this, and now I’m going to get the answers I want. “How is he? Really?” I asked and Hisashi blinked once at me. I looked towards the ground. “I know that he didn’t want to leave me… and I know that he wouldn’t be happy with whatever the group is called. I just want to know if he is okay though.”

He smiled at me a little and put a hand on my shoulder. “I think he is okay. Sasori-sensei and Deidara fight like we do…” I laughed a little at that. “Brat.”

My eye twitched. “You really are Sasori no danna’s student,” I murmured and then I cracked my knuckles. “I am not a brat!”

He laughed at me, slowly removing his hand from my shoulder. “Deidara reacts the same way and calls Sasori-sensei that as well,” I smirked at him.

“I know Deidara calls Sasori no danna, Sasori no danna, why do you think I call him that?” I asked and Hisashi took a few steps back.

My eyes furrowed. Why is he backing up? I’m not set on attacking him anymore so why is he backing up?

“Well, if Deidara calls Sasori, Sasori no danna. Shouldn’t you call me Hisashi no danna?” he asked of me and I froze. “I mean, if you want to be like your brother.”

My hands raised up in front me and I cracked my knuckles loudly. “You’re dead, yah!” I shouted and he laughed before he saw the look in my eyes. I was dead serious.

Then he was off, I gave into the chase quickly, one of my hands went into one of my pouches. Gobbling up some of my clay and preparing one of my C1’s.

“Now Emi, it was a joke! I didn’t mean it!” he yelled back to me and I glared at the back of his head.

“You didn’t, Hisashi no danna?!” I sneered condescendingly (AN Whoa, big word!!) and he nodded his head, not looking at me. “Why don’t I believe you?”

Hisashi turned his head back at me as I pulled my arm up, ready to peg my art at him. His eyes widened and then I froze. Chakra string…. His using chakra strings on me!!

“Calm down!” he called at me and my eyes narrowed in anger.

He smirked at me suddenly and raised his hand in front of himself, his fingers twitched and my arm dropped to my side. I rolled my eyes, as I focused on my clay in my hand mouth.

 “Nope, you insulted me!” I shouted and he sighed, shaking his head at me.

“Come on! It was a joke!” he called out and I frowned at him. He is right but still…

I changed the chakra in my clay into an E4, moving it into my other hand and then I dropped it onto the ground.

“Jokes are supposed to be funny,” I retorted as the clay spider travelled up me and onto the chakra string. “That wasn’t funny, it was horrifying, un!” I shouted and with a pulse of my chakra and a press to my nerve on my hand. KA-BOOM!

The strings released me and I jumped back, flinging shuriken at him. In which he dodged and all of a sudden, our mock argument turned into a spar. A taijutsu spar in which I didn’t use my art, because this clay is special, Deidara made if for me after all.

Our spar was long, and tiring. Kunai, shuriken and senbon surrounded each other as we laid on the ground, tried out and covered in scratches.

“So… are you going to return to your brother now?” Hisashi asked and I tensed.

My eyes locked on a cloud above us, and I sighed. “Not yet… I want to. I so want to. But I’ve got the chuunin exams, Rin to fight, my friends here… my boyfriend…” I trailed off and I tensed. “You better not have told Deidara that I’m dating Sasuke!” I snapped and he laughed.

“No, I am not facing that explosion waiting to happen. That’s all your privilege, little bomber,” my eye twitched at the name. “You should at least write a letter back, saying that you know who I am, and say that you are not returning yet. That you’ve got a few things left to do.”

I nodded my head and then something I can’t believe wasn’t on my mind first up when I saw Hisashi popped up. I turned my head to the side and waited until Hisashi looked at me.

My blue eyes connected with his pupiless blue eyes after a few minutes and I took that as the start to talk. “Orochimaru… do you know why he is here? I know it has something to do with Sasuke…”

Hisashi looked away from me, his jaw tense. “Yes, Sasuke is apart of this but not yet…” I nodded my head at that and waited for him to continue. He looked as if he was contemplating if he should tell me or not before he talked again. “I know that he is going to attack Konoha during the chuunin exam… I’ve seen many oto-nin. Oto-nin ar-“

“Are his men, I know, yah. He sent some at us in the exam,” I informed him and he nodded his head.

“Right, I’ve seen some, but they’re under disguises. I’ve followed them and found out when they are attacking… Orochimaru he means to…” he trailed off but I knew what he meant.

Orochimaru is preparing for war. He is trying to get as many of his men on the inside as possible. This isn’t good, not at all. But Konoha does know that Orochimaru was here, I mean, Sasuke told me during our date that Kakashi had sealed up his curse mark so that means that the Hokage and higher ups would know what was going on and be preparing.

“The village knows that Orochimaru is here… so that means the village has to have something prepared… this village may look kind and nice, but not everything is as it seems,” I informed him and Hisashi smirked.

This is truthful, Naruto has been treated horribly here and so are a few others…

“The way of the ninja, deceive everyone into thinking they know the truth about a person and then-“

“Swoop in and show them that they know nothing,” I finished and I smirked at him. “Just like a certain puppeteer I know,” I added and he chuckled lightly. “Look underneath the underneath.”

We both laughed for a while and then went quiet. After a while of silence, Hisashi sat up and looked over at the dam we were facing. He looked really serious, so I sat up and he looked at me from the corner of his eyes before looking back over the dam.

“I am here to watch Orochimaru now. When Orochimaru leaves or die… I am leaving. Unless I get orders saying that I have to wait. So, if you want to come with me to base then you leave when Orochimaru does, got it?” he asked me and I tensed.

I nodded my head and I looked down at my hands. I want to see Deidara, I really do… but could I leave Konoha… become a missing-nin of Konoha? Betray Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Iruka, Hinata, Guy, Lee… everyone I know here? I know that if I left, there would be a chance that I’d never see them again… or the next time I do, they’re orders would be to kill me and I them… Oh Jashin… I pulled my legs up to my chest and I hugged them. Right now… I hate Deidara for putting me into this position. He sent me here and I formed these bonds… I am happy but I miss him… if I go to him I’ll miss my friends here… dear Jashin.

I felt tears start to form in my eyes. This… isn’t fair. Either way, I am going to be hurt… and miss people.

“Hey, Emiko… are you crying?” Hisashi spoke up and I looked at him with the tears in my eyes threatening to fall.

“I don’t know what to do Hisashi… go to Deidara… my big brother… become a missing-nin of Konoha or stay here with my friends? The people that have basically become like family and not become a missing-nin?” I asked and he sighed at me.

Without a thought, he wrapped his arms around me and I buried my head into his shoulder, letting go of my legs and I cried. I’m not usually a crier but this… is so confusing. I don’t know what to do. One part of my heart says stay while the other says go. If you asked me this a few months ago, I would have said that I would have went to Deidara in a heartbeat… but now with the prospect of it happening so close now… I’m indecisive.

“Emi, don’t cry. I know your brother and he would hate himself for making you cry,” Hisashi muttered and I nodded my head.

I pulled away from him and I wiped away the tears. I shook my head and took three deep breaths to calm myself down. Hisashi is right; Deidara always hated it when I cried.

“Emiko,” I looked up and Hisashi was smiling sadly at me. “You can go to your brother at any time you want. You don’t have to do it yet, or leave with me. You have that E3 thing and you can send out a message to us and thing leader will send someone to get you,” he informed me and I nodded my head. “Anyway, didn’t you want to get that information about your kinjutsu from some Yuuki person anyway? You can’t do that when you’re there.”

I laughed at that one. “Your right, thanks’ Hisashi, un” I smiled at him and he smirked.

“Anytime. But remember, if you do go to your brother, you won’t be able to leave as easily,” I nodded seriously at him. He grinned. “Even if Leader would let you leave, I don’t think Kisame would,” he joked and I laughed at that. “Even Hidan mightn’t… but you should stay away from Tobi… the self-proclaimed ‘good boy’… he is terrifying in the weirdest of ways,” he shivered and I snickered at him.

I looked up at the sky and then I grinned. I rolled over to my bag and I searched through it carefully, pulling out spare kunai, some solider pills I had in case I ran out of chakra during training and don’t want to sleep.  Oh yeah, during my training I did realise that my chakra replenishes a lot quicker if I sleep a little then if I didn’t. But I know that it is quicker than normal, because Hisashi’s, Rikku and Tenzo all commented on it!

I finally found what I was looking for and I pulled it out and a pen before rolling back over to Hisashi, he was eyeing me as if I was possessed in which I promptly ignored. I set the paper on my knee and I grinned at Hisashi, showing most of my teeth. I had the letter Dei-dei set on my other leg to refer to.

“Letter time, yah!” I exclaimed and he chuckled at me.

‘Hello everyone who is reading this!

Its Emiko again, I got the letter Dei-dei. Thank you for the present! I did get it on my birthday and it made my day all the better. I actually forgot that it was my birthday that day, hahaha. I’m glad I’ve made you proud. You just wait until to hear about E4 from Hisashi.

Yes, I figured out that it’s Hisashi. Not all that hard, Sasori no danna, this next bit is for you. Your spy/student is very much like you. Apparently, according to him, our arguments over whose art is better is very much like my brother and yours. So, I guess Hisashi and I are the 2.0 versions of you two. Yah!

Now, yes. I do call Sasuke Dark Duck and the name I’d come up with for Itachi is… Damned Eye’s. Dah hahaha. I made Itachi twitch again? Success! By the time I am done with him, he shall have a constant twitch. Kisame… I will pout if you want… specking of which I haven’t used my pout against Hisashi… note to self, pout soon. Kakazu, I lecture everyone. My best friend Naruto calls it my ‘mother hen’ mode, in which if ignored I will resort to explosives. Sasori no danna! Your spy is a brat!’

Suddenly, my pen was yanked out of my hand and so was my paper. My eyes snapped up to meet Hisashi, who now had the letter and was writing. My eye twitched and I crossed my arms at him.

He finally gave it back and I snatched it. I looked down at the letter and read what he wrote.

‘Sasori sensei, I am not a brat. She isn’t… as bad as Deidara, I will admit. But a brat all the same, and a sore loser. Also, Deidara… Emiko has something very important to tell you and if she doesn’t I will! Ha! By the way, at this very moment she is glaring at me, her eye twitching. I think she caught the twitching from Itachi.’

I looked up and glared at him. He wants me to tell Deidara that I’m dating Sasuke… he wants me to die! Or Sasuke to die! Great, just great…

‘Have I mentioned that I hate him… anyway… I will gladly go all tag team against Orochimaru with you and Sasori no danna… but no Hisashi, he is an blind person who has no appreciation for true art!!

Orochimaru did tell me that you were his replacement… I never thought I could hate a person more… or thank him… sort of… without you leaving me in Konoha, I wouldn’t have met the people I have! So many conflicting emotions! Un! (AN Gasp! She’s a teenager!)

I am not going to allow Rin or Yuuki to kill me Dei-dei! I will destroy them! I have this E art that has the ability to ruin someone’s ninja carrier!

Alrighty, so I can join you now huh? I don’t… know what to do now. I want to, I really do but… I’ve got a few things I have to do, mainly get the information about what my born kinjutsu has done to me and what’s different about it. Hisashi said that I should find that out before I join you guys if I want to get the information out from Yuuki… because I’ll probably not get the chance otherwise.’

I sighed and then I prepared myself for the next thing I had to write… I glared up at Hisashi and he smirked at me. He knew what I was about to write, he knew!!

I looked back at the letter and I gritted my teeth. If I don’t… Deidara might very well try to come to me and force it out of me… I have to tell him… and not let Hisashi be the first one to tell him. So, I squared my shoulders and wrote.

‘Deidara… I am dating Sasuke. Don’t kill me! This is the important thing that Hisashi was talking about; I can feel the evil smirk he has right now directed at me. I know, I know. How could I date Sasuke? Well, I don’t know! I can’t help my feelings! And he isn’t like Itachi… oh, wait, Itachi should know this too… so yeah, Itachi, I’m dating your baby brother who hates you! Sorry!

I should go now, Bye! Love you big brother so much and please don’t come here and try to kill Sasuke okay? I would be very upset and annoyed with you!

Art is fleeting! Un!’

I stopped writing and I glared up at Hisashi. “There, happy? Un!” I growled and he smirked at me.

“I’d be happier if you said that Art is Eternal,” he stated and I narrowed my eyes on him.

“No chance in hell!” I screamed and he laughed at me.

“then I’m fine, now all you got to do is decide how you’re going to get the information you need and when,” Hisashi asked me and my eyes widened.

That’s right… when and how am I going to find out… I looked at the ground in deep thought. I can’t do it while I’m a ninja of Konoha… because if I did that would mean I’d be causing an international incident and all other type of political ramifications… wait… my eyes widened and my head snapped up to meet Hisashi’s eyes.

“Orochimaru’s war… I can do it then. The Iwa-nin are on side with Orochimaru… well, Rin and Yuuki are. Rikku and Yumi aren’t. It’ll be the perfect excuse to get them and get the information!” I exclaimed and Hisashi’s eyes widened before smirking.

“Using the situation to your advantage… nice,” he replied and I smirked.

Yes, I know I should fight for Konoha in this situation and defend it but… I need to find out about my born Kinjutsu! It will help me to become a better ninja!

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And I finally uploaded!! After nearly 4 months, sorry for the really slow uploads, but I did warn you that I am in my final year of school and that is taking precedent over all things. However, I’ve only got a few months of school left (weird to think about!!) I finish all my exams on the 30th of October… holy fudge, that is five months away… So I should be free to write more then. But I will upload more before then. So don’t freak out!!

Also, I noticed a few people were a bit worried that I had appandoned this story, I have not and I will not! This is a promise worthy of Naruto Ninja way!! I will see this story through to the end and then through to the squeal!!

On a better note, what do you guys think of this chapter? I know that it’s smaller than normal but it is setting up the scene for the Chuunin exams and shows Emiko’s character a little more.

Now on an even better note!! This story is two years old!! As of ten days ago!! I can’t believe how long it’s been since I started this… I am hoping to finish this story in about ten chapters!!

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Art is Fleeting, Katsu!!

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