Awkward Battle for PEZ-candy1

"Pez. . . .Pez? You awake . . . PEZ!"
"WHA?!"
WHUMP.
The girl dubbed Pez awoke to the ceiling of her room, on her back. After a moment, she heard the sound of furniture moving along with a voice. "Man, first it takes forever to wake you, then you fall out of your chair. Fall asleep working on your monthly report again? It was due a week ago."
Pez smiled goofily as Natasha appeared in her vision above. "My calender is always a week back, so that way I always make it on time."
Natasha rolled her eyes and held out a hand. "Doesn't mean Pein doesn't mind late reports." She pulled Pez to her feet.
On the outside, hair and eyes were similar enough to pass, maybe, as relatives. Only a slight difference in shade of eyes and tanness revealed their friendship and not siblingship. Natasha's hair was all behind her ears, falling to her upper back in only slightly wavy lines. Pez had her hair more wild, reaching to her shoulders. Natasha wore no cloak like the other girl - only a side-split skirt with red clouds could reveal her ties to the Akatsuki, their organization. Pez had her cloak and anything underneath.
"So, what's up, besides the ceiling and sky?" Pez asked, hand behind her head in embarrassment.
Natasha shrugged. "Ask Deidara. He asked me to make sure you were awake and decent."
"Huh?"
"Don't ask me. He just said that he wanted me to go first. He's just outside the door - I'll bring him in."
Before Pez could stop her, Natasha had opened the door behind her and dragged in the blond artist. "Come in, already. You don't need to be nervous."
"H-hey!" Deidara struggled free and stood to the side, next to Natasha. "H-hi, Pez." He went with a blush.
Pez smiled with a faint blush blush as well. "Hi."
Both were silent. It took a few moments for Natasha to roll her eyes and go, "If you're going to ask her, go and do it."
"Alright already, un!" Deidara went before turning to Pez. "Uh-I was hoping you would like to spar - you know, if you're interested, un."
She raised an eyebrow. "With you two?"
"Oh yes," Natasha went with a roll of the eyes. "I'll spar with you two. Let's forget the fact that I have a two-year advantage and have work to do." After a moment's staring, she facepalmed and said, "No. I'm not interested."
Pez nodded to Deidara almost immediately. "Sure, where at?"
"Outside, on the lake?"
"Race ya!"
The two ran out of the room, just barely making it through the doorway without hurting themselves. Natasha sighed and followed, muttering, "Am I really that intimidating . . .?"
***
Pez stared across the wide lake as she stretched, taking the time to think her match through. I've fought him before, she thought, and from what I remember, I usually get the advantage with lightning. Let's stick with that and try to avoid any of his bombs. She couldn't tell what Deidara had on his mind, but she guessed that he was thinking through the same thing.
"Shall we? Or are you going with the, 'ladies first' rule? Because I wouldn't mind that," Pez shouted to her opponent as she finished stretching.
Deidara laughed before going, "No. One rule, though, alright? Let's stop if stuff gets to drastic, alright? I don't want to - " he stopped, continuing with a blush. "I don't want to hurt you too badly."
Pez shrugged and nodded. "On your count then."
Deidara nodded three times before shouting, "GO!" He leaped back and pulled apart his cloak, revealing his clay bags and shoving his hands inside. Pez immediately started making hand signs, jumping back as she did to (hopefully) avoid his first attack. Dark clouds started closing in the sky above them, darkening the scene.
The first swarm of birds came at her, and Pez dodged as she finished her seals and shouted, "Lightning Style! Crashing Thunder!" as she leapt high, away from the water of the lake. With a sudden rumble, shards of lightning started dropping onto the field, mostly aimed at the claymaster. He managed to jump away just in time, the hem of his sleeve catching a spark and burning away. He sent out another swarm once the attack stopped, this time circling around the kunoichi. She ducked the ones that came at her, but the last hit her arm and exploded, knocking her onto the water. When the smoke cleared, Pez winced - her cloak was burned away where she was hit, her skin red and blistering. There were traces enough of blood - Deidara had caused the first casualty.
She got up quickly, moving her hands as rapidly as they could. Deidara ran at her, holding out his hands as clay snakes shot out to reach for Pez's ankles. She stepped back as quickly as she could, finishing her seal with a shout of, "Lightning Style! Crashing Thunder!" More fragments of lightning rained down as leapt away once more, one hitting Deidara squarely.
"Deidara!" Pez ran forward to make sure her friend was OK. When the light cleared, she saw the Deidara was mostly unscarred - his upper arm looked like it had been fried, but no permanent damage. She almost breathed a sigh of relief - until she felt something crawling on her leg. She looked down to see the worst possible thing she could possibly imagine.
"A SPIDER! GETITTOFFGETITOFF-" she tried shaking her leg to get it off, but it leapt onto her chest, causing her to scream louder. She didn't realize it was only clay until it detonated, blowing her across the lake and crashing her into the rock to the base. She slid down into the water, splashing under the surface.
Deidara went wide-eyed. "Pez!" he ran forward to where she had fallen through, and she resurfaced above with a gasp. Deidara got to his knees and held out a hand. "Are you alright? Let me help you up!" he reached forward to take her hand.
Unfortunately, because he was so young and didn't know much about girls (besides what Natasha and Pez told him), he didn't know about girls getting "curves" and that some were very sensitive about it. He also didn't know that Pez was far more "developed" in her areas than Natasha was, seeing as Pez always wore a cloak and Natasha's ironing board was the only thing Deidara could base his imagination on. Therefore, when he went to help her out of the water, he accidentally reached too lowly and touched far closer to her butt than she would've preferred.
Which, of course, made her mad.
"BACK OFF, YOU PERVERT!" she leapt at him from out of the water, punching him the cheek. Suddenly, both were rolling on the water's surface, tangled in hits and kicks that may or may not have hit, they were merely attacking in assault or self-defense. Both were blind to anything around them as they tumbled, only able to see each other's face and their own hits.
When Deidara finally managed to get on top of her and pinned her down, he reached to smack her and stopped. Both blushed at their position, with Deidara being on top of Pez to make sure she didn't move. Both faces turned warm, and Deidara couldn't help but slowly lean in as Pez raised her head and turned, closing her eyes. They were so close that their lips were about to meet in a kiss.
They didn't notice the presence that had joined them.
"Are you going to spar or WHAT?"
Deidara leapt up so quickly that he almost tripped into Natasha, whose arms were crossed and foot tapping. Pez got up shakily, her face red and bright blue eyes wide. Both of them wouldn't meet Natasha's narrowed eyes. She spoke again:  "You both were doing well until you started cat-fighting. Do I need to leap in and fight both of you?"
Deidara and Pez stood for a few moments more, refusing to meet Natasha's face or acknowledge her words. After a long, painful minutes, faces still glowing, the two turned to each out and slowly moved back to their wide-open area, sparring hesitantly once more.
Natasha stood back and chuckled, muttering, "They just can't seem to help themselves, huh?"
"I'm sure it would've been fine, had you not intervened."
"HOLY-!" Natasha leapt into the air, turning at the same time to a certain red-eyed, raven-haired Uchiha. She landed and breathed a sigh of relief, glad that it was only her partner. "D-don't you know not to scare people like that?"
"I'm simply giving you a taste of your own medicine," Itachi shrugged and walked to stand next to her. Natasha turned to face the two fighting ninjas, only sighing in response to his remark. A few moments passed before Itachi could speak. "You did that on purpose."
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Well," she turned to him. "For one thing, I do feel a little protective over the two of them, being as young as they are in an organization like this. I'm worried over if they're truly ready for what they're slowly getting into."
"And? The other reason?"
"It was funny. I couldn't resist."
Itachi chuckled and turned to Natasha. Both of them smiled - before realizing that both of them, as well, were very close. Itachi blushed and looked away as he stepped slightly closer, placing a hand on Natasha's shoulder. They both leaned in to each other's faces, eyes closed.
"Shouldn't the two of you be sparring?"
Both of them almost leapt out of their skins and turned, seeing Kisame behind them all along. "You mentioned something about wanting to do a battle with each other," Kisame said, no emotion on his face. "I thought that you-"
"Oh, yes! Itachi, I do think we did agree on that!"
"Yes, yes. W-we should probably do that."
"Yeah, over there."
"Guys, can we join you?"
The two of them ran off to join Pez and Deidara on the lake, and soon the four were engaged in battle. Kisame watched them for just a moment before laughing.
"She's right. It is funny as hell."