Falling slowly (Deidara love)

Chapter 2

Finished Chapter 2 and I must admit, I'm enjoying this so far :D Again thanks for reading, Enjoy! Disclaimer: I own nothing but the OC Kootoni who I made up :)

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I waited in the hallway to be called into the holding room where our new prisoner was kept. I just found out his name is Deidara. Apparently he is an S-rank missing nin from Iwagakure and used to be in the explosive corpse there. After he left, he was a bomber for hire and just recently joined the Akatsuki. I honestly couldn't believe it at first, but I guess looks can be deceiving. What was really shocking was the fact that there was no screaming coming from the room in fact there was no noise at all, the place was eerily silent.

I jumped out of my thoughts when I heard the cracking of a whip against flesh which wasn't as distressing as the silence that followed. I couldn't believe how tough this kid must be; most people have broken by now or at least started to scream in agony, but I suppose he is from the Akatsuki. Now that I have heard the whip, I know that Ibiki is coming to the end of his bag of tricks... for today anyway he will have new ones when he returns tomorrow, this means that it will be my turn very soon. And, no I'm not the merciless, heartless type like Ibiki can be, believe it or not I'm actually the 'good cop'. Very cheesy I know, but because I am so good at understanding people and knowing exactly what they are feeling, I can usually get most people to talk no matter how hardened a criminal they are. However, on hardened criminals, to make sure my technique works perfectly, Ibiki is usually sent in first to 'break their spirits' as he would call it so i can pick up the pieces and become their new best buddy.

I must admit I preferred working on my own I hated going in after Ibiki, he always left such a mess and after seeing the prisoner just a few hours ago and thinking he was pretty cute; part of me didn't want to see what had happened to him. I know what you must be thinking 'what's a weakling like me doing in the interrogation core?' Well truth is my father had introduced me to it. The place was never cleaned that often as the higher ups' seemed to think the blood of others will panic people more as they go in and see it, rather than a clean room. It's because of this that my father had got me to come with him one day as most prisoners end up with badly infected wounds and he didn't want his only source of information to die. So, I healed them and it was on that day my father and his co-workers realized how good I was at getting information out of people just by being myself and I joined because I hated seeing happy healthy people going in and hearing the screams of pain as they were asked for information that they weren't willing to give up and then coming out bloodied and beat up and in most cases barely able to stand. My method of interrogation wasn't used often because 1. I'm a rookie and 2. It takes longer as you have to gain the persons trust. I hated being here, but the thing that kept me going was the thought that I could prevent the pain of some of the lucky few.

The door to the room was suddenly opened and Ibiki came out. "I think I may have over did it today, prevent him from dying on me Kootoni will you?" I felt my heart race and felt a knot in my stomach as I nodded trying to keep my face void of any emotion as he left. I gulped and took a deep breath before I entered the room and closed the door behind me. When my eyes finally adjusted to the lack of light in the room I felt as though I was going to be sick normally it would be due to the retched smell of rotted flesh and stale blood but today that wasn't the case. What I saw before me made me want to cry. The once smiling teen with beautiful blue eyes that sparkled in the light was now before me bloodied, bruised, burned and cut in several places, he had lost so much blood he was barley conscious, but I kept my composer and thought to myself 'he is just like any other don't get attached'. I knelt down beside him and his eyelids fluttered open, his blue eyes barely visible under his swollen black eyes. He suddenly recognized me and smiled slightly which for some reason made me smile back, all I could think off is how strong he must be to be able to endure all that pain without a single moan, grunt or scream and still be able to smile at me afterwards. Well now was the perfect time to start to gain his trust I suppose. I talk to people differently depending on the person and situation, but I decided I would go with the soft, kind-hearted, helpless girl routine for this one.

"I'm sorry" I whispered and though I was supposed to be acting I actually meant it. "But I will have you fixed up in no time, ok?" I said with a small smile. I then started to concentrate my chakra on the worst wounds.

He just continued to smile at me throughout, smile never faltering even when he hissed in pain. "What's your name, un?" He asked in a croaky voice just above a whisper.

I smiled and replied "Kootoni" not wanting to give my second name as it was well known and many wanted to use us for our Kekkei genkai.

He looked deep in thought for a moment before stating "Can't say I'm a big fan of the name" with a small chuckle. I couldn't help but laugh and roll my eyes. Not much offends me and I always laugh all the time especially when others laugh too. I can't help it, it's how I communicate. I even have different laughs for different occasions like a nervous one or an irritated I'm going to kill you and bury your head type laugh... don't ask, I can be a bit vicious at times and threaten people. No one knows however, that I have never killed anyone, I hate the idea of taking another persons life and the only time I would ever do so is if me or my team mates lives were in danger. Thankfully no one has noticed yet that I go easy on the enemy as Sasuke and Naruto usually do the dirty work for me.

"Yeah well can't say I like your speech impediment much either" I retorted back sarcastically with a smile. 

"I like you, yeah" He replied with a cocky grin on his face.

"Watch it or I may bring Ibiki back in" I teased. His eyes widen a bit and I laughed. "Don't worry he is done for the day. Once I'm done here you will be put in a cell for the night" I assured him.

"That's not funny, yeah. I think I just had heart failure, un" He chuckled again.

After mentioning Ibiki was gone, he seemed to relax and I took this as my chance to start to ask questions. "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, What's up, un?"

"what age are you?" I started with small talk, hopefully then he will let down his guard.

"Almost sixteen, un"

"When are you sixteen?"

"In a week's time, May 5th, un"

"You are so young, why did you join the Akatsuki?" I asked actually interested, forgetting that I had to collect information about them.

"Hey, you're younger than me, yeah." He smirked.

"Only by like two years" I retorted back with a grin. I started to disinfect and bandage his wounds up as I was running low on chakra and had healed as many of the bad wounds as I could. "But seriously," I continued, "Why?"

"It wasn't as if they gave me much of a choice, it was join or die, un"

"Who forced you to join?"

"A man called Itachi Uchiha came with his partner and used a genjutsu on me, un" he said this time slightly irritated.

I wasn't expecting this comment to hit me so hard, he was just a victim! "I'm sorry" I whispered again, now feeling an over whelming guilt in my chest.

"Why are you sorry? You didn't force me, un" He laughed.

"Because of the way you were treated today and.."

"Hey! It's not your fault, un. You're just following orders, yeah" He interrupted me, smiling and trying to make me feel better. His smile soon faded though as he realised he was all healed up and it was time for us to leave now. "Will I see you again, un?"

I honestly wished the answer was no and he could be far from this place but I remembered my task and cleared my emotions, going back to acting. Well acting as best I could but I found it very hard to keep up an act when I was around him so I just told him the truth "Honestly I hope not, but yeah you most likely will for quite some time" I said with a slight hitch in my voice.

"You hate me that much, yeah?" He chuckled.

I just rolled my eyes and smiled as I started to stand up and said  "You know what I meant!" And with that last comment I had turned and was out the door, leaving a very beaten up Deidara behind me.