Appreciation

Deal

"Deidara..." I said as I looked at the lifeless body. I never would have thought that I would ever see him, especially after how he detonated himself, I knew that his corpse wasn't even existent after the explosion had torn through his cells, even a piece of him would be impossible to find.

I looked at the lifeless body, his eyes closed, he looked almost asleep, his skin so very pale. It's almost paper-like. He still looked as beautiful as ever, like a ripple of the waves in a hurricane, he looks just as comforting and as peaceful although he lacked livelihood. God, how much I missed his face, to see his blue eyes once again. My hand goes up to my neck, tracing the outline of the pendant as I thought of Deidara, the memories which I fought to avoid thinking about all came in at once.

Kabuto noticed my reaction, being unable to move as I stared at the lifeless body, he smiled at me."He was your partner in the Akatsuki, wasn't he?" He asked as he walked in front of the coffin, observing the body. I nodded quietly as he went on. "Deidara...from Iwagakure..." he turned to me as I looked at him, not knowing how to feel, the hand that I had circling the necklace outlines now have dropped as I remained mesmerized at the look of Deidara. "As far as I knew, he was a member of the explosion corps, left because he stole a forbidden Jutsu that the hidden stone kept secret..." he said as he walked towards me, circling me as he goes on. "Blew up his village...became a terrorist for hire...joined the Akatsuki because he lost to Itachi, spoke highly of his art and last but not least," Kabuto said as he leaned into my ear, his voice evil and condescending.

"Fell in love with his partner..."

My hands balled up into a fist. I turned to face Kabuto and my hand reaches out to grab his neck, only to realize I'm grabbing a white snake. The snake let out a loud hiss before my hands squashed it, causing it to explode due to my strong grip. The blood splattered everywhere, my hand now blood stained.

"Fiesty aren't you, fake Madara.." Kabuto said as I heard his voice from the wooden coffin, I turned to see him standing there beside Deidara's lifeless body. To be with Deidara again, even if it's not his body. To have his presence, why is it all so tempting? so desirable. Its been so long since I've wanted something so bad.

I missed you so much, Deidara.

"Do we have a deal?" Kabuto asked as he walked towards me, extending his arm out. My eyes darted back towards Deidara's body, knowing that I just want him to rest in peace, I don't want Deidara reanimated.

Don't reanimate Deidara, I wanted to tell him. He deserves peace, he deserves to rest. But somehow I couldn't mouth out the words, things I wanted to say stuck up my throat, I hate myself for wanting Deidara by my side again. He's gone Obito, I thought to myself.

Lord knows how much I miss you, Deidara

"Who else do you have..." I asked Kabuto, who's smile has now faded. He let out a laugh as he pulled back his arm, now having both of his arms crossed.

"I have the entire Akatsuki members, forgive me for taking pieces of your members for my little experiment," he said, empathizing on the forgiveness that he asked for. I looked at Kabuto, unsure of his intentions. But whatever is going to happen, I'll kill him myself. He should never be allowed to sabotage my plan. With that, i made my decision.

"I have one condition..."

Kabuto raised his eyebrow, gesturing me to go on. "You will only get Sasuke after I have achieved my goal..." I said as I placed my gunbai back onto my back, gesturing that I have given into his offer. Kabuto smiled and nodded as he summoned a few other wood coffins, as they drop open, I saw who was inside.

Sasori

Kakuzu

Nagato

Itachi

I observed them, noticing something. "Hidan?" I asked as I turned to Kabuto. He shook his head no and looked at me. "He is immortal...you can't reincarnate someone who is still alive.." Kabuto stated simply as he walked towards me, once again extending his arm out.

"So do we have a deal?"

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"Tobi you did what?"

"Listen...its not a bad idea, think about it.." I started off, looking at Zetsu. "Listen here, we have a strong army, think about the number of Kages we will have on our side? Not to mention some that cause the death of these reanimations are at war..we can win by emotional manipulation" I said as calmly and as clever as I could, explaining the plan to Zetsu. At this point, I don't think I'm just convincing Zetsu. No, I'm trying to convince myself too.

"Did you give in the second you saw Deidara?" Half black Zetsu said as I looked down. No, that wasn't it. That wasn't Deidara. Just a shell of him.

"If Deidara is going to be reanimated, I recommend you put him in that emotionless state, like the one you said"

"Why is that so?" I asked, turning to Zetsu. He shrugged and looked at me back "because emotions will cause conflict! did you forget all that Madara has taught you?"

That's right. Emotions. This cruel world. Achieving peace. Solidarity.

"Sorry to be bothering you two..." Kabuto walked in as he looked at the both of us, kindly acknowledging Zetsu as well. "I need you to choose the tags now.." He walked towards the middle of the room, placing 3 coloured tags on the table.

One was red; one was purple and one was white

Kabuto begin to explain the tags and their functions. The red one is to turn them into emotionless killing machines, they know who to kill and they kill without any sort of emotions, displaying their usual skills. The purple one allows them to display emotion as they have their consciousness, but their movements are restricted. They can trigger emotional destruction with their words and attack without mercy. However, it's a con because they might tell the enemy how to defeat them. Last but not least, the white tag.

The white tag is a special one, Kabuto said he only has 10 of these but he is not planning to use any, for the simple reason that is they were developed by Orochimaru, who is now dead. He can sacrifice a few however these were highly not recommended. They give the reanimation complete control over themselves, as far as to allow them to run off senselessly as if brought back to life. However, if the reanimation Jutsu is released, they will disperse as well.

"I'll be fine with giving the members a few of my white tags, but if you think there's a member that will be hard to control then I recommend the red or purple..." Kabuto said as he pulled out a few tags.

"However I should let you know early on that the white tag causes them to lose bits of their memory, they'll know their name, their village, the events that occurred and especially their signature Jutsu...but not everything...so you might have to explain a few things to them such as how they got into the Akatsuki, things like that.." Kabuto explain as he started stringing the paper along with the kunai, placing each of them on the table as he shows it to me. "So there are cons..." I said crossing my arm, looking at the tags. "This is good enough considering I'm bringing people back from the dead, Madara..." Kabuto said as his eyebrows furrowed, making to make a valid point.

I looked at the white tag, is this one suitable for Deidara?

"Pick your tag, I'll insert them and set them up to be ready by tomorrow.." Kabuto said as he placed all the tagged kunai knives on the table and stepping away, gesturing me to choose.

I looked down at the kunai knives, well...this is another hard decision to make.