Cold Eyes || Gaara x Reader

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"I had a feeling you'd say that," Deidara smiled.

"But I want the jichuriki alive," Pain specified.

Of course you do, Naruto dies, and you're fucked. Though, I guess he's probably figure out how to get the Nine Tails just as it is in its real form in that statue...

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The cave was empty, just me and Gaara, Deidara and Sasori.

It had been all but silent up until this point. Pain took the statue, if I remember correctly they called it the gedo statue in the show? Anyway, the statue was gone, so were all the other members other than Deidara and Sasori so it was just a large empty cave.

The two Akatsuki had been talking slightly to each other while I was in the back trying to slide myself over to Gaara. Let me get to him at least—

"Sasori, my man, I'm bored," Deidara complained, "can I kill the girl, or at least throw her around a bit?"

What?

I froze mid crawl and looked over my shoulder to see Deidara looking right back at me.

"Do whatever you wish, just don't make a mess," Sasori replied as he pulled Gaara's body to the middle of the room, further away from me. Well fuck you too! You know how long it took me just to reach half way to him?! Now I've got to—

Damn it—stay away from me you fucker—

Deidara grabbed the neck of my shirt and pulled me up. I was almost numb by now and honestly didn't feel a single thing from the motion. I doubt I'll be able to even feel what he throw at me at this point, even the poison doesn't hurt anymore. Am I dying for certain? Is this what it feels to die?

"I won't kill you. You've got one foot in the grave any way," Deidara told me with a small hum of a laugh.

"How generous... Of you," I managed to cough out before being thrown into the back wall. I only felt tingling in my back, even as I fell to the floor again.

He grabbed me again and started to pull me up to probably do it again but stopped as the sound of shouts on the other side of the boulder started.

"Deidara, stop now. Get ready. They'll be here soon," Sasori tells him. Deidara nodded and pinned me to the wall behind me before walking back to where his partner was stood and waiting. My clothes were starting to rip where the kunai holding me up were and the front was starting to put pressure on my throat.

Damn it couldn't you have just left me on the floor?

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The boulder crumbled and light poured into the cave.

On the other side I was barely able to see the forms of people outside, but they were there. I knew they were there. Team Kakashi was on the other side of the boulder.

"Gaara!" one of them yelled. I recognised the voice from the show. It's Naruto Uzumaki, loud and boisterous. It's surprisingly nice to hear.

The four of them, Sakura, Kakashi, Naruto and Lady Chiyo all entered the cave.

"We're too late," Kakashi muttered as they just stared at Deidara and Sasori sat on Gaara's corps, something I couldn't see until now thanks to the lack of light.

"Now," Deidara looked to them, "which one of you is the jinchuriki?"

I watched as Naruto slowly began to become enraged.

"Calm yourself!" I shouted, he stopped and looked at me, I just nodded and offered him as much of a smile as I could muster.

"You're Kankuro's teammate?" Kakashi looked past the two and to me. I'm not really in the greatest position right now. I just sighed and managed to nod.

"You know our rat?" Deidara asked.

Please, if anyone is a rat here it's you, you blonde haired pyromaniac.

"What did you do to her?" Sakura asked.

"The exact same as what I did to that sand village fool. But two times worse," Sasori replied with a slightly laugh.

Someone threw a shuriken at the kunai holding me up and I fell to the floor with a harsh thud. I don't even know how much longer I could've stayed up there without my wn shirt suffocating me with the way it was pressing up against my throat..

(for the sake of the story, Sakura has made 4 antidotes rather than 3 because you'll die if she doesn't and yeah, that will just... Not be good)

"You. I'll kill both of you!" Naruto suddenly seemed to get angry again and shoulder loudly.

"The one who bursts in and starts barking," Sasori mumbles, "that would be him then."

"Sasori my man, I believe you're correct," Deidara nodded along with the hunched man.

Neji' s PoV

"Neji are you seeing what I'm seeing right now?" Guy sensei spoke over the communicators.

"Yes I am," I replied looking at all of our areas through my Byakugan. We'd just pulled the seals off our positions as something started growing out of the area around us. For me, it was coming out the grass, Guy sensei, the rock, Lee, the tree and Tenten, the water, "the same thing is happening over here."

"What about you Tenten?" Guy asked her.

"Me too. Same on my end," her voice echoed over the speaker.

"Lee?" Guy asked.

"I see some kind of form here. It sprang up as soon as I removed the tag," Lee replied.

"I figured as much," Guy said, completely serious.

"Do you think this was the test that y/n told us about earlier?" Tenten asked. I nodded my head in thought.

"There's no doubt about it," I replied before focusing on the grass mound.

It started taking on the shape of something.

"Team Kakashi is in, just as planned," I announced over the communicator as I looked through my byakugan one last time.

The grass stopped forming and it had become a pure copy of myself.

Standing in my gentle fist stance I got ready to fight. It mirrored my movements.

What is this thing?