Ch. 11

Shifts in the sand

It had been just yesterday that he'd viewed Itachi as an enemy, but now, now Deidara looked at him as an ally. The black haired man was talking to his partner, about how to catch the nine-tailed-fox, but Deidara knew the truth. Itachi wanted to keep the kid as safe as he could.

While Deidara kept his eye on Suna, Itachi likewise watched Konoha, if only because his brother, or in Deidara's case Sasori's son, remained. It made for an unlikely pair to be allied, but it would be harder for someone to discover.

Itachi was walking away from Kisame now, Deidara smirked. Kisame was loyal to the akatsuki through and through. Deidara didn't admire the Uchiha for the partner he had to deal with. Deidara knew that when the time came either he or Itachi would have to kill him.

In Suna…

Temari walked into Kazuko's house like she did everyday, but was surprised to see that all the lights were turned off. There was no sound either. Temari flipped a light switch and found that the light wouldn't turn on. "Did she forget to pay the electric bill?" Temari wondered allowed before calling out, "Kazuko where are you?"

"Bloody Hell," Kazuko moaned from her bedroom. Temari hurried to the room and found that in the middle of the room on a purple cushion, and two dolls on similar purple cushions. The room was lit with dark purple candles.

"Kazuko, you okay?" Temari asked kneeling beside Kazuko. Temari noticed that Kazuko since the first time since she met her that she was wearing makeup. Her face was white and her lips were blackish-blue, and she wore skull earrings. "Kazuko?"

Kazuko sits there silently, as if about to cry. "Kazuko look I brought muffins. Here's a blueberry one," Temari tells her fishing a blueberry muffin out of her pack. Kazuko sits motionless staring at one of the candles. "Come on," Temari said poking Kazuko's mouth with the muffin.

Kazuko continued to sit there so Temari set the muffin down on the floor, "Kazuko are you irregular again?" she asked taking out a bran muffin and holding it out to her. Kazuko takes a kunai out of her sleeve and stabs the muffin then goes back to her original position.

"Okay then," Temari stated as she set the muffin down against the blueberry one, "How about banana nut?" She puts it in front of Kazuko again.

Kazuko turns and gives Temari a mean glare and then goes back to her previous position. Temari sweat drops and sets the banana nut muffin down, "How about strawberry?" Kazuko didn't move, "Cherry?...come on Kazuko at least react to the ramen flavored muffin."

Kazuko scratched her butt, and Temari drastically drops her head, "This is the last one, and its cream filled," Temari says holding the last muffin out to Kazuko. Kazuko looks at it, then snatched it from her and began to nibble.

Temari sighs in relief and looks at the two dolls. They were guys with red hair, but nothing else to really distinguish them. "They don't see me anymore," Temari snapped her head back to face Kazuko who took a break from the muffin. "One's gone…the other doesn't seem to care…" a single tear ran down Kazuko's cheek.

"Who doesn't care?" Temari asked her as Kazuko went back to her muffin.

"Old teammate," Kazuko tells her while going back to her cream filled muffin.

"Baki?" Temari asked.

Kazuko lifted her head back, sighed then chuckeled, "Yeah, that's the guy."

"He's really busy I don't think he means to," Temari told her.

"Fuck that," Kazuko said as she took a big bite of a muffin, leaving some of the cream on her cheek, "Even the busiest of people take the time to see an old teammate."

"I'll drag him over here next time so you can hit him with a frying pan," Temari told her.

"Forget it. He's an ass. He'll block it anyway," Kazuko told her.

"I'll hold him down for you."

"Perrrrv…I'm a virgin," Kazuko told her.

"What-wait-no! not like that. I'll pin him with Kunais first, or I'll get my fiancé to catch him with his shadow," Temari told her.

"How long ago did you start your period?" Kazuko asked her.

"When I was ten," Temari told her.

"Hold on," Kazuko told her as she got up and left the room. Temari heard her rummaging thorough a drawer, and then heard her come back to the room. Then Kazuko smacked her hard.

"OW! What Was that?" Temari yelled as she jumped up and stared kunais at Kazuko.

"My spoon," said Kazuko.

"That's a whisk," Temari said pointing at the whisk in Kazuko's hand.

"Whatever, you're too young to get married," she told Temari with a evil glare.

"I am not," Temari spat back.

"I'm thirty-one and not married," Kazuko told her.

"Maybe you would be if you weren't dumping iced tea on-Hey!" Temari screamed as Iced-tea was poured all over her. She looked at Kazuko to see a giant straw pouring iced tea into a giant pitcher.

"Don't make me spill it on you twice," Kazuko said in a peeved voice, "You are far too young to get married."

Temari shook her head. "Kazuko…what would Baki and your other teammate say if they knew you were dumping iced tea and being emo at the same time?"

"Well," Kazuko started to think, "Baki would probably yell, 'You idiot.' And Saso-chan would ask if he could use his puppets to bomb the village with iced tea, and Baki would tell him , 'No! Don't encourage her.'"

Temari bursted out laughing then stopped. "What was your other teammates name again?"

"Oh, you mean Saso-chan?" Kazuko asked before getting slightly depressed, "His name was Sasori…"

Now Temari knows.

Squirrel Girl: Thanks to me!

Unices: No. Thanks to Kazuko

Squirrel Girl: No Kazuko is one of me. We are one (We are one from Lion King II starts playing)

Unices: No, you just gave her lessons in crazyness.

Squirrel Girl: She's older than me

Unices: Well then she taught you how to be crazy

Squirrel Girl: I demand a review about Kazuko Crazy Readers.