(Temporary Dumbledore's POV)

Poofing noises were echoed around my office as more then 10 people appeared in the room. I watched with calm amazement as the smoke cleared to reveal the shinobi.

"HELLOOO, SASUKE-KUN!" An odd screechy, evidently girl's voice called out from the center of the room.

I heard Sasuke groan in annoyance as a long, slender arm waved through the white smoke.

"…Ino…" Sasuke whispered. Ino came out of the smoke and launched herself across the room with great speed and glomped the poor boy.

I studied her quietly. She had waist length golden blonde hair and baby blue eyes. She was fairly pretty, and slim. Her clothes consisted of a sleeveless purple top that showed some midriff, a purple skirt and shorts underneath. Blue sandals that were identical to Sasuke's adorned her rather large feet. Her toenails and fingernails were painted a royal purple.

"This is so troublesome…" I heard a lazy voice say behind Ino.

"Shut up, Shikamaru!" Ino screeched.

Looking up, I saw Shikamaru, a tall boy that looked the same age as Sasuke, with his hair pulled up into a high, spiky ponytail. It resembled a pineapple. He wore a thick, olive green vest with lots of pockets, a black, long-sleeved shirt and black pants, with the identical blue sandals.

"That's right, Shut up, pineapple-head!" A womanly voice shouted right after Ino. A tall, mature-looking girl emerged from the almost clearing smoke. She had a bizarre hairstyle of four spiky ponytails which suited her, and had a rowdy look on her face. She wore a small black robe with a sash tied around her waist and lilac undergarments that covered her chest in the front. She clutched a huge fan with black sides.

Shikamaru sighed. "Women are troublesome," He told the two girls. "Especially my mom, and you, Temari are extremely troublesome." Shikamaru added.

The womanly girl, Temari popped a vein in her head.

"Enough, Temari." A stern voice called to Temari. "Sorry, Gaara, I mean, Kazekage-sama." Temari answered.

"Kazekage-sama" turned out to be a boy with messy and spiky, blood-red hair with the kanji "Love" tattooed on his forehead. He wore a loose white robe with a huge pointed hat that was blue on the top.

"Great to see you again, Naruto!" A happy-go-lucky voice shouted. A rowdy boy with spiky brown hair and red triangle-marks on his cheeks leapt into the scene riding an enormous white dog that looked similar to a wolf. The boy had abnormally sharp canines.

"N-Naruto-kun!" A soft voice whispered. A pretty girl with long, dark blue hair came out from hiding. She wore a long-sleeved lilac coat and dark blue pants.

"…Naruto…" A tall boy with a masculine voice said. He covered his head and face with his hooded jacket and sunglasses. Naruto pouted and stared at him. The boy glared at him through his sunglasses, and finally turned away from Naruto.

"Hello…Shino. COME ON!" Naruto suddenly shouted, bursting forward. He grabbed Shino by the collar. "DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE STILL SULKING AFTER 3 MONTHS I FORGOT YOUR NAME!"

Shino slapped Naruto's hands off him. He didn't say anything, and Naruto slinked away mumbling obscenities at him.

I cleared my throat, and everyone stopped to look at me. A moment of silence was had.

"I am Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of this school." I said, getting to my feet. Sasuke got up next to me and shouted, "Karin, Juugo, Suigetsu, come out here."

A plain looking girl with irritating glasses and spiky bangs pushed rudely out of the crowd, earning furious looks. Her hair was a normal black, nothing special about it.

"I'm here, Sasuke-kun." She said in a husky voice, taking off her glasses and fluttering her eyelashes. Ino looked positively lethal.

An innocent looking man came tip-toeing forward. "You called, Sasuke-sama?" He said politely. Juugo was a little-bit-more-than-lean fellow, with spiky orange hair.

Suigetsu, a man that made you really think if he was a murderer or not. He had such a carefree look on his face, yet shark's teeth curved over his bottom lip from the top jaw like he was about to…kill. He wielded the biggest sword I've ever seen, even bigger then Godric Gryffindor's sword, a butcher-man's cleaver with a hole in the middle big enough for a head to fit through.

"Yo, Sasuke-sama." He drawled, whipped out a plastic up with a lid and straw, and took a long slurp.

"Er…may I request an introduction of everyone here?" I asked slowly. Kiba broke out into a smile.

"I'm Inuzuka Kiba, a dog-master and a user of dog-related jutsu!" He said happily. His huge wolf-dog barked, or rather, roared. "Oh, and this is Akamaru, my partner."

"I'm Aburame Shino, a bug-master and a user of bug-related jutsu." The tall, quiet boy with sunglasses told me.

"I'm Nara Shikamaru, everyone calls me the lazy guy of the group, and I'm a user of shadow jutsu. Ah, this is so troublesome…" Shikamaru trailed off.

"I'm Tenten, Neji's teammate. I'm the weapons master in this group." The girl called Tenten waved at me. She was fairly pretty, with two brunette buns pulled up to the sides of her head. Tenten wore a pink Chinese-style top with long sleeves and green pants.

"I'm ROCK LEE!" A weird looking boy screamed, roundhouse kicking the hair. "I'm the taijutsu master, second to my youthful sensei Gai-sensei! Fear the power of youth!" Lee had a shiny bowl of black hair, and huge caterpillar eyebrows. His teeth were a frightening white, and he wore the same olive-green vest as Shikamaru over a suit of green spandex.

"I'm MAITO GAI, SENSEI OF NEJI, TENTEN AND MY BELOVED LEE!" A man looking similar to Lee jumped out and punched the air. It seems as if Lee had carbon-copied this person.

Neji sighed behind my back. I chuckled, understanding every bit of his embarrassment. Tenten slapped her forehead.

"I'm Akimichi Chouji! My pleasant plumpness serves a purpose in my jutsu!" A insanely fat boy with swirling circles on his cheeks

"I'm H-Hyuuga Hinata…I'm Neji-sama's…c-cousin…" The pretty navy haired girl whispered.

"I believe you know most of them." Sasuke interrupted impatiently. "But she might attack any minute! We've got to act fast, or the castle will be destroyed before we even start!"

"Who's 'she'?" A boy with purple face paint on his face asked. He wore a black bodysuit that covered his head, with little ears on the top.

"Haven't you noticed?" Sasuke roared, losing his temper. "It's Sakura! Haven't you noticed she's gone?"

"That's right, where's Sakura?" Ino asked. Sasuke let out an angry snarl and proceeded to slam his head on my office desk.

"Can I explain, Uchiha?" Neji asked coolly behind Sasuke. Sasuke nodded weakly, and continued to ram his head.

"Sakura is…in the Akatsuki." Neji said quietly, but his words sounded like he had blasted a hole in the side of the earth to everybody.

"S-Sakura is in the Akatsuki?" Ino murmured. I could see she was terribly shocked. "Don't lie, Neji!"

"I'm not lying, Yamanaka! To make matters worse, it seems that she has overthrown the original Akatsuki leader, and now Sakura has taken place as leader of Akatsuki." Neji informed her.

"How can she be leader of Akatsuki?" Kiba yelled. "That's insane! Before, she was the weakest among us!"

"Sakura isn't weak!" Neji hissed. "And now, she has risen above us."

"Tell us about the situation!" A thin man with silver hair that stood up in tufts shouted.

"I was about to, Kakashi-sensei." Neji said. "Here's the map of the castle, the X marks are defense groups, and the Y marks are offence. We will have ambushes lined around the main walls, and one group will be in the Great Hall. Do you guys have any questions?"

"We got it, Neji." Gai said, unusually grave. I looked around, and everyone seemed to have taken quite a toll on this news, looking shocked, horrified, and saddened.

"So, shall we go tell the students?" Neji asked me suddenly. He looked abnormally miserable as well.

"…Yes, we should." I got up and led the way to the great hall.

(Temporary Deidara's POV)

"Sakura-sama, everyone has been organized! They just need their weapons!" Kisame shouted.

"Excellent work, everyone!" Sakura replied. "Representatives from each group come and report to me, line up here!"

I watched as people hurried up to her.

"Man, I wish I had people under me, yeah. Sorta like an apprentice, yeah." I whined.

"Go get one then." Sasori told me.

"Good idea, yeah. But there are so many people to choose from…I'll just wait and see, yeah."

"The battle is going to be soon, Sasori no danna, yeah?" I asked. Sasori nodded.

"I think it's starting tomorrow night or so." Sasori answered. "Did you bring enough clay?"

I grinned. "Enough to last a lifetime, yeah."

"I brought everything I got. Sakura charged me up with chakra already. Did she charge you up?"

"Come to think of it, not yet, yeah." I frowned. How could I have forgotten? My thoughts were ripped from my mind as Tobi tapped my shoulder.

"Deidara-sempai, what do you mean by 'charge you up'?" Tobi asked in his babyish voice.

"Didn't I already tell you this, yeah?" I growled. Tobi nodded, and said, "Tobi forgot what you said!"

"Sakura-sama has a special something in her, Tobi. It supplies her with chakra, lots of it. So much chakra, she can spare enough chakra for us to last us two weeks. That's how strong Sakura-sama is. Later, you and I have to go and get charged up." I told Tobi patiently.

"But don't we have a limit of how much chakra we can have, and don't we only increase our chakra-levels by training?" Tobi asked.

"Sakura-sama is a medic-nin. She can tweak our chakra systems into letting us hold more chakra then we normally do. Its one of her specialties." I answered. Tobi nodded happily, and shouted to Sakura-sama, "Sakura-sempai, can you charge me up? TOBI IS A GOOD BOY!" He bellowed.

"Yes, come over here!" Sakura-sama shouted back. Tobi hurried away.

"You see, Sasori no danna, doesn't it feel…nice to have somebody to teach? Like you having me under you?"

"You were never under me. You kept calling me danna, that's all." Sasori replied.

I sighed, and turned around to pack my clay, but one of the newbie started to ask me questions.

"Deidara-sama, what is supplying Sakura-sama with chakra?" He whispered. I cocked an eyebrow at him and smirked.

"Oh…" I raised a fist and pinned him to a tree. He gasped in pain. "Newbies shouldn't ask so many questions. What's your name?"

"M-my name is…Ishii…" Ishii gasped in a hoarse whisper, struggling to free himself. I smirked again and released him, and Ishii fell to the ground with a grunt of pain.

"Hmm…" I scanned him up and down. He had a good build, but slightly too skinny.

"Show me your techniques, yeah." I asked him. Ishii stared at me for a minute before stammering, "D-Deidara-sama, w-why do y-you want to see my t-techniques?"

"Just do it, yeah! First rule with your superiors, don't ask questions, yeah!" I snapped at him. He frantically nodded and put together two fingers in a tiger-sign.

"Ethereal darkness jutsu!" Ishii whispered, and a gigantic veil of darkness and shadows burst out from his mouth, and enveloped everyone in it.

Annoyed shouts erupted from the lines of the Akatsuki supporters. "Do you mind?!" "What the heck!" "Take this darkness off or I'll kill you!"

"SHUT UP, YEAH!" I roared. The supporters went quiet, and some apologized.

"Is this all you can do?" I asked. Ishii shook his head no.

"Cancel this jutsu, so people can see, yeah! And do something else that won't disrupt our actions, yeah!"

Ishii looked embarrassed, but did a summoning jutsu instead.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" He whispered, and the familiar poofing noise sounded throughout the forest. When the smoke cleared, a white fluffy dog that looked like a mini-lion appeared. It yawned sleepily, drooled a bit, and lay down to sleep.

"That's it? You call yourself an Akatsuki, and that's all you can summon!" I shrieked, pulling my hair in frustration.

"I'm sorry, Deidara-sama!" He whispered, bowing in pathetic respect. I snorted in disgust, but looked at him again.

"All right, Ishii. I'll take you as my apprentice, yeah.

"W-what, Deidara-sama?! You mean it? B-but I'm useless!" Ishii whispered in shock.

"Of course you're useless, and not just that, you're an idiot! But you've got potential, yeah. So you'll work under me now. Your full name is what, Ishii?"

"My full name is Kurokawa Ishii! Arigato, for taking me as your apprentice!" He shouted.

"I'll test you right now, Ishii. What's my concept of art, yeah?" I asked him. He stared at me with eyes filled with admiration before answering, "Art is forever?"

Immediately my inner art self burst forth to murder the idiot.

"ART IS A BANG; BEAUTIFUL ART ONLY LASTS FOR SECONDS, NOT FOREVER! ITS HERE AND GONE THE NEXT!" I bellowed myself hoarse.

"Hai, Deidara-shishou!" Ishii whispered, scribbling down notes on a pink notepad.

"What the heck is wrong with you?" I grabbed his pink notepad and ripped it to bits. "PINK?! What kind of Akatsuki are you?!" Fishing around my cloak pocket, I got out a black notepad and shoved it into my useless apprentice's face.

"Gomen, Deidara-shishou!" Ishii whispered in panic, taking down notes. I snorted, and glared at him.

"What do you call me?" I asked him again. "Deidara-shishou, right?" Ishii answered, again in his hoarse whisper.

NO! It's Deidara-sensei! You make me sound like a girl, yeah, which I am not!" I shouted.

"Who annoys me the most?" I said, pacing around Ishii.

"Tobi annoys you the most!" Ishii whispered. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"That's one thing you got right, yeah!" I told him, and he frowned.

"I'll train you right now, yeah. Hurry, I'll teach you some of the basics of my art."

"Hai, Deidara-sensei."

"Hey, Ishii, do you always talk in that whisper?"