I just shrugged giggling as he completely disappeared into mist, and started down the path he had pointed to. The sand was a deep red like someone had spilt the color of the deepest rose along the grains and they clung to the liquid never letting the only color they knew go.

I soon saw a large table laid out with dishes of pastries from all around the world, Things that I only even remember seeing in cook books and some not even recognizable.

"No payment, no payment!" a guy with rabbit ears and a white mask falling off his face called flinging butter around everywhere. I ducked just as a huge yellow glob whizzed by my skull and stuck to a tree by my side.

"I don't want any money." I said tilting my head to the side I noticed the guy sitting, or more lying next to him was an ocean blue dormouse, his ears twitching in a restless sleep and a bottle of what looked like sake grasped in his hand.

"That's fine then." A demented giggle punctuated the small statement. I sat next to the third party assuming he was the Hatter by the top hat that had chains spilling from top to brim like water from a cliff edge. Red stitching coiled along the sides in sporadic patches. His face isn't visible under the hat brim as his hand holds a pure black tea cup creaked down the side and along the bottom seal, the brown liquid dripping onto the plate below slowly.

"I'm looking for the Hatter," the clinks from the hare man scrapping off the butter stopped. "The cat said he could help me."

"That's me!" the rabbit ears giggled and I smirked.

"Yah right peter cottontail, last I checked you're the March Hare." He just shrugged flinging a glob of butter at me. I couldn't duck soon enough and the goopy fat slid down my cheek, I wiped it onto my finger sending it back.

"How did you know?" the hare frowned into his butter dish before the grin returned.

"I'm not sure… the ears I guess?" I nodded content with the answer, the logic over taking the madness of my day so far.

A red and grey coiled cloth was plucked in front of my face, trapped between two fingers. I looked at the hatter his hands clad in black fingerless gloves with pins wedged into the fabric.

"Your face would like to be cleaned."

"Isn't the line 'your hair would like to be cut'?" I ask taking the cloth from his hand.

"Well…" he caught a piece and tipping his head up ever so slightly brought it to his lips. "I seem to like it this length."

"Fish are friends! Not…" the sudden shout made me jump as the dormouse rolled in his seat falling with a thud to the ground. "Whoa! Where am I?" His blue ears brushed over the side of the table. The hatter released my hair and turned to him face still hidden from my view.

"On the floor, now have some tea." He poured the steaming brown liquid over the mouse's head. Who yipped a thanks to the man above. "Now what did you need my dear?"

"Oh um, I'm trying to remember where I needed to go but can't, now I'm lost." I sighed wringing the dress in my hands the soft fabric stretching to a course scratching on my skin. "Can you help me find them?"

"No."

"So I was lied to." I mumbled picking up one of the many tea cups in front of me, as the hatter and dormouse bickered about some mad clock.

"No you were not."

"But you just said you couldn't help me."

"I simply said no to helping you find them, not to helping you."

"It's the same thing!"

"Saying that is like saying I can fly in a plane is the same as I can fly." He quipped

"Or saying that I can solve any problem with a calculator, is the same as I can solve any problem!" said the March hair flinging some butter at the dormouse who was once again conked out on the ground.

"Okay, okay I get it, so then how can you help me?" I asked glancing at the Hatter who pulled out a pocket watch from his stitched up waist coat.

"Take you to the queen of course."

"Why? What does she have to do with my memories?"

"She holds all lost things, which is why, she is the queen" A silence fell over the table each one watched me like I was some kind of famous painting as I mulled over the next step.

"Well alright then, let's go!"

…

As we walked the air got silent, we didn't talk or even look at each other I was trying to figure something out. Why? Why does this seem so familiar? We walked through a forest so dense it seemed more like a hall way then the woods. The tree back was a deep shadowed color and the sand path still held its passionate red color.

"I love the color red." I said stooping down to sift my fingers through the sand, the hatter stopped and watched me not saying a word.

"Red sand is unnatural." His voice was harsh and a hidden danger laced the words.

"Well yes but sometimes the unnatural is the most beautiful."

"How can you say that without knowing the cause?"

"Because I trust that no matter what people can change if given the right reason, so who ever made it this way can make up for it by living their lives right." I got silent again, an aching slick kind of feeling. I popped back up and whistled walking again, "well lets go." My hand was pulled back causing me to stumble into the hatter.

"Thank you."

"For what?" he released my hand and went walking ahead

The Hatter and I stood outside of the castle's gates, two guards and what looked like some kind of plant blocking our way. The white haired one had a bleeding heart painted on his left cheek and a red and black armor. The other, a blonde had a crinkled spade on his right cheek. The plant was more of a man trapped in a giant flytrap then an office fern.

"Stay the Fuck out." The white haired shouted jabbing a sword at my throat, I just knocked it away nicking my finger a bit.

"I need to see the queen! She has my memories!" I glared he was getting in my way of something important I could feel it, boiling higher and higher the closer we got to the castle.

"You're bleeding." The hatter snatched my hand and torn a piece of his handkerchief from before. He tipped my finger toward him and wiping the blood away with his thumb wrapped it with the cloth gingerly, before slipping his fingers over my palm and away.

"Hey, no flirtatious acts in front of the queen's castle, hm." My face grew warm and I glared at the guy, his blond hair pulled into a ponytail above his head.

"He's just helping me!" I argued as an arm wrapped warmly around my waist pressing my dress into the skin on my hips, a well-muscled body occupying the once empty space at my side.

"I wouldn't jump to conclusions, puppet." The hatter smirked his lips becoming visible from under the hat, along with slivers of hair a bleeding red the same color as the threads weaving through his clothes. My heart shuddered, my tongue went dry before I could even open my mouth.

"Break it up you two, hn." The Blondie jerked my arm tucking me away and behind him, through the gate of the castle.

"You know you're starting to piss me off brat." Hatter Growled as he moved in front of the blonde haired guard. Albino went to help his friend while the plant man seemed to want to break it up, or maybe eat them I couldn't tell which. Hatter tipped his hat in the castle's direction a signal I recognized.

"I don't care hm, she's my sis." I turned running in to the front doors almost missing the deranged reasoning. I found myself right in the queen's court room. I was lifted by the shoulders and placed in a booth, a blinding light shown from above burning my eyes anytime I looked above.

"Dei, you are accused of abandonment!" a strong but robotic female voice called from the shadows, all at once the light faded and the room grew loud. Chaos exploded around me from people I've meet here and others I have never seen before. They screamed and shouted, pounded on wood benches and slammed metal to metal.

"I didn't abandon anyone, the hatter told me to go ahead! It's not like he had any reason to be here but me!"

"No, I speak of the abandonment of your memories."

"That's not what happened, you took them!" I shrieked the force tearing my throat slightly and stinging my eyes.

"I am simply the queen of hearts, queen of all lost things, when you threw your memories away they came scurrying to me." The women who spoke had light blue hair in a crop cut, she was in a bright blood red dress with a black card print. She had pure white gloves on both hands that where poised in front of her mouth fingers intertwined.

"I would never throw away my memories."

"Are you pleading innocent?"

"Yes!"

"Then we shall see about this, the court calls its first witness!" The center of the room light up like a circus tent and standing in the center was the orang haired man, no hookah to be seen but the smoke lingering around him told that he hadn't been away from it long.

"Hey it's you, caterpillar man!" I leaned on the edge of the box hand tight skin paling from the pressure he's the one who started all this damn it.

"No I am not." He turned and his form changed, he no longer had smoke clinging to his body, he didn't have the grey moth covered fedora. He had a black silk cloak sprinkled with red and white clouds ninja shoes clad his feet instead of the dress shoes he once had. His bright orange hair was free, spiked in every direction, and when he looked me in the eye I saw rings in their grey depths.

"Hey, you look familiar."

"I should, I will be the god soon enough."

"Pein, I mean Leader," My mind pounded a drum beat resounding in my skull the more I tried to think "you're the leader of Akatsuki, but why are you here?" I gasped as he disappeared only the stand in a box in front of the queen looking ahead waiting for something.

"What about us!" Next in the center was the boy I chased into this crazy place. The cat who lead me to the hatter. The drunk dormouse and maddened hare. However each of them had the same cloaks as the first, just like Leader's, the hare had his mask on and neither of the rabbits had their ears.

"hey you guys are also from Akatsuki, am I really this obsessed with a T.V show that I use it to get my memories back?" but something clawed at my mind, a mall where little kids where terrorizing the people, little cats with human depth to their eyes. Again they disappeared only to stand behind leader in the box, grinning or glaring around at the people.

"Well sis do you remember yet, hm?" The guards from earlier grinned up from the center, and another thought was triggered, a small little boy scared and asking me something, only for the next morning to be a grown adult.

"Hey! Hey wait, your my brother!" I leapt over the wall holding me away from them tripping in the landing as tears clouded my vision, feet padding over the floor to find an empty spot, they have already joined the others.

"Too fucking late buttercup." Hidan laughed the sound like the click of a gate letting all the memories all the thoughts and sounds I had forgotten rush back to me.

"So that's what I forgot!" I grinned shaking my head at myself how could I forget something so wonderful? "My family has grown in such a short amount of time, even you!" I gazed at the queen her eyes warm and concrete and the tears that had clouded my vision now dripping along my skin and off my chin. "You're Konan! You're all part of my family now."

"Aren't you forgetting someone?" A voice asked behind me, arms wrapped around my waist and a smile warmed my face.

"Just saving the best for last." I grin turning in 'hatter's' arms tipping off his hat to finally show those beautiful brown eyes. He gave me a little half smirk that melted my heart. A little red cat in my arms. Him, curled up with one of my books in the corner. A small quite closet, warm and exiting with new discoveries being made.

"Then I do believe you have won over the courts rule." Konan's voice was background music as I just stared into his eyes, how could I ever forget the most magical thing to ever happen in my life? How did I let anyone take away a time I never thought I'd have? "So Dei you should probably wake up." I leaned closer to Sasori smiling to myself as he did the same.

"What?" I asked rubbing my face to his chest the stitching scratching my cheek in such a nice way I never wanted to leave.

"Wake up." I let my eyes slip closed heart pounding against my chest.

"Wake up damn it!" a splash of cold water jolted me up out of my dream, eyes wide and blinded by the sudden movement. The icy blast had stolen away my breath and left my light hospital gown clinging on to my frame.

"Holy shit, what the hell was that for?" I glared over at Chi who held one of those color changing cups, it obviously had the cold water in it from the deep blue to violet coloring.

"There's something we need to tell you, and it's going to sound crazy but bear with us ok?" Ni sat at the foot of the bed careful of the watery blankets. I smiled to myself scanning the room to find him, to find my very own mad hatter. When I did locate him he was moving from one foot to the other in the corner the Alice book still gripped in his hand like a life preserver.

"First can you come here?" I pointed to him grinning, I thought I saw him jump and it made me giggle inside, he glanced to Ni before looking back at me.

"Dei, this is really important." No Danna glanced at the girls who were all looking at me with worried eyes, it practically poured from them and if I hadn't of had that dream I might be thinking I was dying and freaking out. Not the best plane guys, make note they have terrible poker faces, get Kakuzu to play with them and split the money.

"Humor me?" I knocked my head to the side pouting out my lip in a way I knew Sasori wouldn't be able to resist. He nodded shuffling over to the edge of the bed hands limp at his sides, he set the Alice book on the bed. I shifted bringing myself into a more stable position before I went through with my plan, I had a dream to finish.

"What is it?" he lifted a brow and I just smiled grabbing his shirt and pulling him down to my level, and pressed my lips to his. His hands fell on either side of my hips to catch himself. I heard the girls gasp in the background their voices whispering back and for with. I moved my lips against his, slowly savoring every moment skin touched skin. The one thing I wanted to feel most in that cage is what I'm going to savor the rest of the time I have it. Finally when I needed to breath I released his shirt, but he didn't go very far, his eyes questioning, almost hurt.

"Damn did I miss you, Sasori." His eyes light up in his subtly way and he leaned in again kissing my forehead, then my cheeks, lips, nose, chin, it seemed no part of my face was safe.

"She remembers!" Ni screamed jumping off the bed and startling everyone, then the door flew open the rest of the guys standing there grinning from ear to ear.

"About fucking time!" Hidan shouted from the back and before any of them could push their way through, my girls blocked their way. Herding them out the door Ni shut it softly behind her a smile dusted over her face in relief. I saw through the fogged glass that a few of the guys tried to fight their way in but where stopped by Konan and Ni who looked like they pulled the rowdier ones by their ears the rest just followed.

"Remind me to thank them later." I giggled to Sasori who sat on the edge of the bed despite the damp sheets.

"You can't do that again." His voice was soft, and his hands shook as they held mine

"Sasori, Sasori it's ok, I'm ok, I got my memories back and I don't plan on losing them again." I shifted one of my hands out of his grip, lacing it into his hair and bringing his forehead to my lips. "I'm sorry, I didn't know it affected you this badly," I let my eyes closed bringing our foreheads together. "Your mister puppet, you know?" I listed as he breathed and his breath shook ever so often and felt as his hands started to calm down and grip one of mine tighter. "You were always saying how you had no feelings. If I had known, not that I could change what happened, but I probably would have said something the moment I woke up, instead of pulling that trick, I'-"

"You changed that, from the moment we first kissed, you changed me." He turned his head slightly I felt the skin of his brow wrinkle. "I didn't want to admit it, but my heart started to pull, and sway anytime you were near me." His head lifted and he captured my lips pushing me back onto the bed. "You awakened my emotions, and when you were gone I couldn't control them." He let go with one hand bringing it up to my neck careful of the tubes and bandages that still pierced or coved my skin. "After so long." His breath curled over my lips and his eyes burned into mine as I looked up at him, all the emotions that are so new to him, flooding through me. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulling him to me once again I said.

"I'm sorry Sasori I didn't mean to keep you waiting."