Ino
When Deidara and Itachi returned to the hideout, Deidara happened to enter it before his mate. This normally wouldn’t matter under any other circumstance, but just his luck, the most obnoxious member of their group happened to see him alone, “Hey blondie, did you lose the stick up his ass alpha of yours? If so, then I’m more than willing to fuck you in every which way you’d dream of being fucked by a real alpha.”
He was about to send a sculpture his way in the hopes of it killing him, but no, he didn’t get so lucky.
His mate happened to come in right when Hidan had made such a comment, his scent disgusting as his anger took over, “Pray tell Hidan, how powerful is your death wish? Because it seems to me it must be extremely powerful for you to make such comments about Deidara when I’m obviously still alive and not too far behind him.”
The Jashinist groaned loudly, his violet eyes rolling, “Ah fucking damn—you’re still alive, huh? That blows; here I was thinking him and I could do some good ol’ kinky fucking, but no, you just had to be fucking breathing, didn’t you?”
“I’m afraid so, but then, you should know better than to make any untoward moves on my mate.” his voice was low yet there was something darker slowly escaping him the longer he stood by his mate’s side.
Soon enough, Hidan was backing off, “Okay, fine! Just don’t go using that fucking creepy Sharingan on me, bastard.”
The mated couple didn’t spare him a response. Instead, they walked away from him with their heads held high and Itachi walking closer to Deidara’s side to let the entire group know to not mess with either one of them unless if they have a death wish.
Being a mated couple meant that they shared a room, which was nice because Deidara could get a bit messy whereas Itachi kept things clean, tidy, and functional. It was also nice because it meant he could plop himself down directly on Itachi when he was laying down and bury his face in his chest whenever he was upset or annoyed by anything.
Tonight happened to be one of those nights, “I cannot believe her—wanting to stay in the hellhole, actually having a thing for the Haruno, and rejecting the offer to leave when I gave her the chance, un? What the hell is wrong with her?”
“She’s allowed to her own opinion of things, Deidara.”
“I know that, but why couldn’t she be of the opinion that Konoha is a shitty place that won’t change, un!” everything he’s said thus far is muffled, but then he lifts his head off his mate’s chest to meet his eyes, “I don’t get it; what more could I have done to make her want to leave with me and start over somewhere better than Konoha?”
Itachi knew the moment they returned here he would have to lay down on their bed and let the blonde omega rant while laying down directly on top of him with his face on his chest. For Deidara, this was a weird way of either addressing an issue or venting when blowing things up doesn’t make him happy.
He does remind him, “She’s as stubborn as you; of course she wouldn’t be so quick to leave everything behind because you want her to. It’s really your fault for passing that part of yourself onto her.”
“I guess, un…”
He rests his head down his chest, his hands gripping his shoulders lightly, while a look of determination sweeps across his face, “I may have failed tonight, but I know I will succeed eventually. I won’t give up on saving Ino from that place; I’ll do whatever it takes to get her to open her eyes and leave that hellhole behind for good.”
“What if she doesn’t?”
“…That’s what kidnapping is for, duh, un.”
He could argue with him on why that’s wrong, but he doesn’t feel like it tonight. No, all he wants to do is relax with his beautiful mate before they’re inevitably separated again for a mission.
The following day, Inoichi would invite his friends over to his place for some ‘tea and katsudon’ for the unspoken reason of telling them what happened last night. None of them were really prepared for what they heard after entering the Yamanaka home and mentally preparing themselves for whatever would be said at the dining room table—which does feel as though it happened far longer ago than it actually did—without ever expecting what could have been said from their long time friend.
Inoichi didn’t spare them any small talk, nor did he try to build up to it. There was too much on his mind for him to bother with any of the above—not when he knows the real reason why his son left in the first place.
So he told them all of it: Itachi and Deidara having faked the one-sidedness of their relationship to keep any negative attention away from Deidara, Deidara’s secret plan to use some stranger to get into Suna, his subsequent pregnancy that he wanted to get rid of, and his ultimate leaving of the village to get rid of the parasite (as he himself frequently called it). Ultimately this story ended with Deidara admitting to having mated Itachi consensually just like the alpha had told Ino he did, with the bit of him trying to get his sister to leave with him only to have his mate talk him out of it, thus ending their meeting with brother and sister getting the farewell they never got years ago when he first left.
Of course, while this did shock his friends, both of them wore solemn expressions with Choza eventually being the first one to speak after a moment taken to process this information, “…Inoichi, while I understand why Deidara left, I find his hatred of the village, the hokage, and the elders, specifically Danzo, rather disturbing.”
“He’s got a point there, you know.” Shikaku eyes his friend without any hesitance, “It sounds to me like your boy came to hate this place over time and won’t be satisfied until it’s burned to the ground.”
“Wouldn’t you be the same way if you were an omega in his position?”
Both men fell silent while their dear friend rants about the issue at hand, “If this village wasn’t so sexist towards omegas, so dead set on doing all that they can to keep them in a second class citizen status, then he wouldn’t have ever had to run away in the first place. He could still be here today if things weren’t so awful for omegas and if I had done more to fight for his rights to the higher ups of the village.”
A hand covers his eyes then, his shame too great, “I didn’t do enough for Deidara back then—I left him to handle everything on his own, I didn’t stand up for enough when it mattered to him most, I told him the best way to handle Itachi was to not blow up all the time or train harder to one day defeat him in battle! Had I been more involved with him, I could have found signs of anything being amiss and I could have stopped all of this from happening.”
Choza took a small stance against this notion, “Your son is stubborn—we all knew how quick he was to get defensive over the smallest of things. He may have been a good kid underneath it all, but he wasn’t always reasonable. There’s too much you’re placing on your shoulders here.”
“He’s got a point. I get why he became that defensive—I bet being mistreated by people of all genders didn’t do anything to help him feel like he didn’t need to be—but he did use his defensiveness to build a wall no one could except get Itachi and Ino could get past. Even if you did go back in time and fix all the mistakes you think you made, he still wouldn’t have let you past his walls.”
He takes his hand off his face and meets Shikaku’s eyes, “Maybe you’re right, but I didn’t do enough to earn his trust and that’s all on me.”
Nothing is said after this for at least ten minutes before he announces to them, “I’m done with leaving my kids to deal with everything on their own…Ino shouldn’t be having to revolve her life around bringing Deidara home and she shouldn’t be having to help him through his hurt. I am going to take responsibility as their father and fix this myself.”
Shikaku scoffs as his eyes narrow in suspicion, “What do you plan to do to bring him home? Tell him that you are better informed on omega pregnancy termination now than you were back then and you now support it no matter what? How would you pull that off?”
He is ashamed now to admit that back when Deidara still lived with them, he didn’t agree with omegas terminating their pregnancies unless if it was for the health of the omega in question. Otherwise he was against it, but this was mainly due to the fact that little was known of it back then and there was so much misinformation going out about it at the time. It wasn’t until after he spoke to family in Suna—where it is legal in all cases—that he realized how much he had been misled on the issue and how wrong he was. Now he has been all for an omega being able to terminate their pregnancies no matter what the case for years ever since Deidara left.
Knowing how his old, horrible views were enough to make Deidara go to such extremes, while keeping him in the dark…it upset him deeply. It’s impossible for him to not feel like he is almost fully responsible for him leaving. If he had just let him move out to Suna to stay with his aunt, none of this would have happened, that much he is certain of.
Choza clears his throat, his voice low, “It sounds like Deidara specifically blames the village elders and the hokage for the suffering of omegas everywhere in the village…I’m getting the idea that the only way to bring him back would be to kill the village elders and current hokage. You’re not going to do anything drastic like that are you?”
It's painfully true, isn’t it? If he wants Deidara to come back home, he would essentially have to commit a treason worse than what Orochimaru himself did by using murder to dispose of the ruling elements in Konoha that his son despises enough to wish to burn the village to the ground.
However, it seems as though Itachi may be the only thing holding him back from such a thing, which is horrifying when he considers it. The thought that his son, his child, needed someone to hold him back from destroying his childhood home is enough to make him feel sick to his stomach.
“…It would all depend on why Deidara despises them. I’m positive there was something more there going on that wasn’t being said about Danzo with the way he kept referencing him over and over.” he did pause to comment then, “It’s suspicious, isn’t it? According to Deidara’s own account of things, Itachi was under surveillance by Danzo and his own clan, which he said were having issues…then on the night he left the village, Itachi came up to him, smelling of blood and saying Danzo caused it.”
Choza raises his hand, palm facing forward, “What are you implying, Inoichi?”
“I’m implying that Danzo could’ve played a much greater role in the Uchiha massacre for Itachi to tell my son that he caused it.”
The other two men go near slack jawed to this, yet it’s Shikaku who pulls himself together, “To be making such a large accusation means you have great reason to believe an elder from our own village is not to be trusted.”
He doesn’t bother to deny it either, “If either of you saw the look in Deidara’s eyes whenever he said Danzo’s name, you’d know there was something more than mere sexism making him hate the man. His eyes, his voice whenever he said his name—those were the eyes and voice of a young man about to sadistically murder someone, not my son’s. In case if you forgot, Itachi was the only one who stopped Deidara from trying to force Ino to leave with him. As bad as it may sound to you two, but I owe him the world for being able to reason with Deidara enough to allow Ino and Sakura to come home safely.”
“You’re right there and going by what Deidara himself said, Itachi’s not a bad guy either…hell, he stuck true to his word and didn’t attack Ino even when she used her jutsu on him. That alone shows he’s not as evil as I’ve long believed him to be.”
Hearing Shikaku coming to see his point of view on things made him feel a bit more confident in announcing his plan: “Yes, that’s what I’ve been thinking ever since I learned what happened during that confrontation! I didn’t want to think it, but it was a thought I couldn’t escape from no matter what I did. This current memory I saw last night gave me an idea for a new plan to bring Deidara home.”
“What is that, exactly?” Choza is a bit skeptical and he can’t blame him, since he knows this could be seen as high treason by everyone in the village, “I want to find out more information on the Uchiha massacre, particularly the ‘issues’ Itachi had spoken of, and what made Itachi say he had caused it. I also want to see if there’s any evidence of that man having done anything to molest, sexually harass, or assault Deidara before he left.”
The Akimichi is a bit hesitant still, “What will you do with the information if you do discover he did cause the massacre like Itachi said and if you do find credible evidence that he did any molesting, sexual harassing, or assaulting of Deidara? What should we do about it, to be exact? Go to the hokage and run the chances of being executed for treason? Or do we stage a sort of coupe with other Chunins and Jounins?”
“Or do we kill the elders and run away to join Deidara’s merry crew of criminals?” Shikaku adds in, “Either way you look at it, the only end to this would be a violent confrontation that could escalate to civil war between conservatives who would kiss Danzo’s ass because he embodies their discriminative ideals and sane people who know better than to trust a con man with political power.”
“We will decide on what to do after we obtain more information on the massacre itself as well as any possibility that he could have sexually abused or molested Deidara in any way possible when he was still living here.”
Both men are taken aback by this, Choza more so, “You really think he did something like that to your son?”
He gives him an incredulous look, “For my son to hate the man as much as he did, he had to have done something more to him than enforce sexist laws and cultural ideals. Deidara hated plenty of sexists, but not enough to look as though he’d kill them at any given moment.”
His friends can concede this, but it doesn’t take away from the question on their minds that Shikaku reminds him of: “Okay, we can get it, and I won’t deny that it’s weird that Danzo was mentioned as much by Deidara as he was…but what will we do if we do find out he caused the Uchiha massacre to happen and sexually abused your son without causing a riot or civil war?”
“We will go to some Jounin we can trust to give us a good of what to do to handle this—the Jounin in particular that I know of are pro omega rights and would be the most empathetic to Deidara’s situation: Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, Asuma Sarutobi, and Kurenai Yuhi.”
“How about Shikamaru and Iruka? It’d be wrong to not have the only omega Chunin in the village giving some input on this and my son is a Chunin genius who excels at strategy.”
“Yeah, we can bring them on this too, but no more than that.” upon getting this agreed upon without any objection from Choza, he told them, “Our personal mission begins today to get the information we are looking for. We will meet up every other week at one of your guys’ place to look more natural, with my place being the meeting spot at least once a month to look less suspicious to anyone in the village, especially Danzo. After we get the information we need, we will confront the Jounin and Chunins mentioned with the evidence and devise a plan to deal with the problem at hand. Do we all agree to this?”
“I agree.”
“Count me in.”
Having his friends on his side makes him feel less alone in all of this, though it doesn’t change the fact he’s very afraid right now.
He’s not afraid of war or death; no, he’s afraid of having to resort to either one of the measures and risk losing the rest of his family for the slim possibility of bringing Deidara back.
Then…how could he be so selfish?
Deidara wouldn’t be the only one affected by any truth of the village being as truly awful as he claimed it is. With Deidara and Itachi being mates, Sasuke is his son-in-law thus making him a part of his family now as well. Which makes him someone to consider in all of this along with his son.
If Itachi was right about Danzo causing the Uchiha massacre, it would affect Sasuke the most and could have extremely negative effects on his mental health if he were here to discover the truth when he’s not mentally prepared to handle it.
His family isn’t the only one to worry about. Sasuke is another one to worry over as well; the last thing they need is for a second Uchiha to run away and join the Akatsuki.
Looks like he will have to do everything he can to keep everyone in his family safe then…