Chapter: Off to Akatsuki

I took a deep breath. Forest air was always good. "So, what now?" I asked myself. Well, there wasn't anyone here I could have asked. And that was a good thing. I could use at least a moment of rest. For the past three days I have been surrounded by people all the time. It was just terrible, all that attention. Actually, I didn't mind paying attention, but sometimes it was just too much. And who likes to be the center of attention? Especially all day long! At first it was just Naruto and Sakura, but later Kiba joined them. Apart from the other people, these were the ones who stayed with me all day. Almost like bodyguards. I was glad that I could at least steal away from it now.
"Well, what is such a little beauty doing all alone here in the forest?" I turned around. At the other end of the clearing I was in, there was a person. I couldn't quite tell whether it was a man or a woman. With long, blonde hair, it was kind of complicated. This person also wore a coat. This was black with red, white-framed clouds on it. If I had been a ninja, I would have known who that person was.
Out of nowhere, Sakura and Naruto appeared in front of me. Who knows where they came from again. "You're from Akatsuki, aren't you? What do you want here? Have you come back to catch me?" Apparently he wasn't that good at talking about these Aka -... things. But catch him? What did that mean now? Okay, I was clearly uneducated. At least in that regard. At some point I had to make up for that.
"No, today we have a completely different mission," said the stranger. It was probably a man; a woman would not have had such a deep voice. "What are you up to?", It came from Sakura this time. Maaaan, could they do anything other than just ask questions? It had been the same for the past few days, nothing but questions. How annoying that.
Some of these kunais came flying out from among the trees. The two in front of me parried or evaded, nothing got me. Apparently they were thrown so that nothing should hit me. But who had thrown it anyway? It couldn't have been the coat type, firstly he hadn't moved and secondly the kunais came from a completely different direction.
My question was answered right away. A second guy in the same coat as the first stranger walked into the clearing. He was a little shorter and had shaggy red hair. Well, somehow I had to say that the two of them were really cute. But hey! As a girl you can think of that! Besides, it was the truth. And now that they were next to each other, I noticed something else. Together they made such a cute couple. Was they together? Wouldn't that be BL? ˆRAN! Now is not the time to think about this! ˆ My brain was right. I shouldn't think about that now. There was enough time for that later."So what do you want?", Naruto repeated one of his questions. The blonde (oh man, I had to find out their names on occasion) nodded in my direction. Naruto and Sakura turned to me and looked at me briefly, then turned back to the front. “You're not serious, are you? What are you going to do with her?” Was there mockery in Naruto's voice? Hey hello ?! Maybe I had feelings too! And they were just dying. Yes, I wasn't a Kunoichi and I didn't have any special skills, but I had feelings. You could take that into consideration, couldn't you?
Apparently I was completely lost in thought because I hadn't even noticed that a fight had developed in the meantime. I have no idea what was going on. But apparently only Naruto and Sakura attacked, the other two just evaded. Then, all of a sudden, the blonde (not Naruto) appeared right behind me. I really winced, I was so frightened. The stranger grabbed me from behind and held a kunai to my neck. "Take it easy, yes? We don't want anything to happen to the little beauty, do we?" Was that where I really blushed? Well, his mouth was right next to my ear and his voice made me tingle. Especially because he probably did it all extra.
Sakura and Naruto hesitated, the redhead came up to us. "Deidara, we should go," he said as he stood next to his buddy. “I will prevent that!” Naruto created a doppelganger, made his oh so great Rasengan and ran to us. The blonde next to me threw a strange, white animal forward, made a strange finger sign or something like that and shouted: "Katsu!" The white thing exploded and I couldn't see anything through the smoke. It felt like we were moving, but I couldn't say how or where.

"Hey little beauty. You can open your eyes again." "Stop calling me that," I grumbled, opening my eyes. The blonde crouched directly in front of me, his buddy was standing a little further back. "Why? You don't like it?" "Not that, but I also have a name." The blonde laughed. "I know. You are little Ran, aren't you?" "I'm not little!" I poisoned him. He laughed again. "Right. You're almost as tall as my Danna." Danna ... probably his buddy. My eyes wandered to him. Yes, we were actually almost the same size. Maybe just an inch or two. But well, that didn't matter now.
"The main thing is that you learn that I'm not little. And since you know my name, it would only be fair if I could find out yours too." The blonde laughed for the third time. "If you want. I'm Deidara and the grouch over there is called Sasori," he explained. The 'grouch' looked really annoyed. "Can we finally go then. I've been waiting far too long," said Sasori. Deidara and I got up and we started walking. Wherever. "Don't worry, he's always like that. Danna hates waiting," Deidara whispered to me. I nodded.
By now it felt like three days had passed since we started.“How long have we been running now?” “About three hours,” said Sasori. Well, I wouldn't have expected an answer from him now, but after all I had put the question 'in the room'. Okay, three hours. And it felt like three days! What was wrong with me? It wasn't normal anymore! My sense of time was probably really screwed.
"And where are we going?" "To the HQ." Sasori answered again. “What kind of HQ?” You could tell that I had no idea what was going on here, because Deidara started laughing (again). "Well, Akatsuki's HQ, of course," he said when he had calmed down. "Yes of course! Why hadn't I realized that right away? No, seriously. What the hell is Akatsuki?" The two looked at each other confused, probably they hadn't thought that I was so uneducated. "Hey! I can't help it if you keep asking me questions and never explain anything to me," I complained. "It's okay. I'll explain. As you can probably imagine, there is good and bad everywhere. We belong to the bad guys. Akatsuki is an organization of Nuke-Nins, these are ninjas who betray their village and We are wanted level S criminals, so the highest. Our main mission is to catch bijuus. It would take too long to explain what bijuus are. Basically, they are dangerous demons that live in the bodies of people like are sealed to this Naruto, "explained Deidara. Well, now my knowledge was at least somewhat expanded. In the near future I should improve it even more to avoid such situations.
"Okay, thank you. One more thing. If I understand that correctly, you are, so to speak, mortal enemies of Konoha ..." Deidara nodded. "And you kidnapped me earlier ..." He nodded again. "Wow, I'm relieved!" The two looked at me confused. Understandable, who was also happy to have been kidnapped?
"You are ... relieved?" Sasori asked skeptically. "Sure! If you hadn't come, I would have run away for sure." "That bad?" The question was from Deidara. "Bad? It was horrible! I was only there three days and it was hell!" Deidara had his grin on his face again. "If that is the case, then we probably saved you sooner." He laughed and I had to smile. "And I am grateful to you for that."

“So, we're there.” I pushed past Deidara to see where we were. We stood at the edge of the forest, in front of us was a dirt road about two meters wide and then came a wall maybe two and a half meters high. I couldn't say exactly what was behind it, but I would probably find out in a moment. Sasori and Deidara ran over to a kind of door. It could have been a goal too, I wasn't quite sure. It was apparently about two meters wide again. Somehow they had it here with the two. But at least there was a bell here.
“Are you coming, Ran?” Only now did I notice that I hadn't moved at all. I quickly went over to the two of them. "You have been dreaming, haven't you?"Deidara grinned at me again. He was a kind of permanent grin. But it didn't bother me. I liked the two of them more than everyone else in Konoha, as they were.
Sasori rang the bell. A voice rang out. “Who's there?” It sounded like a woman's voice. So Akatsuki either had a cleaning lady or a female member. "We", Sasori replied curtly. Wow what a meaningful answer! But it worked. There was a whirring sound and the redhead opened the door / gate. Okay, for me it was just a door.
I was amazed when we got to the other side of the wall. First of all, of course, I noticed the almost huge, two-story house. It was almost completely white, only it had gray spots in some places. ˆCould use a coat of paint ... ˆ It also had a flat roof. Beside or half behind the house I could actually see a pool.
Deidara pushed me forward. "You are a real daydreamer," he said. I couldn't see it, but I knew he was grinning again. “You live here?” My voice must have sounded skeptical. "Sure, why not?" "Well, you have a pool ..." He laughed. "Criminals can have a good time too, aren't they?"
Shortly afterwards we arrived at the front door. It was white too, but the white here was brighter and more radiant than that of the house. The basket (the flower) of a sunflower hung on a small hook. It looked surprisingly friendly and inviting for the entrance to a criminal organization's HQ.
Deidara walked past Sasori and me and put a hand on the handle. "Welcome to Akatsuki HQ," he said with a smile and opened the door. A blinding light shone out from