"Hello? Kanna?" Deidara waved his hand in front of me, snapping me back.

"Wha-huh…?" I stared blankly at him. Deidara rolled his eyes, Kisame and Sasori stared with mild interest. "Itachi.." I paused before yelling, "Itachi! Where is he?" I didn't bother waiting for an answer, I felt to excited to stay still any longer. I ran, Deidara Kisame and Sasori followed.

However I didn't realize they were talking until Deidara ran up beside me, "You're going the wrong way, un!"

"Why didn't you tell me!" I snapped, stopping dead in my tracks.

He grunted, "This way." I eagerly followed, a slight giddy feeling about to explode within me. Once we had stopped at a door with his name inscribed on in I wasted no time in slamming my fist against it.

There was a low growl before the door was opened and, me being unable to control myself, I jumped on the raven haired boy before me.

"Itachi!" I yelped, squeezing him tight. Another low growl sounded from him causing me to draw back. Itachi stared into my eyes with his piercing red sharingan with a scowl clear on his face. I could also feel the eyes of Sasori Kisame and Deidara staring in awe at the situation before them. I couldn't blame them. Itachi seemed on the outside to be a distant person who wasn't fond of contact, especially without permission. The current situation was me and Itachi on the floor, me more or less sitting on the Uchiha.

"Ita-nii!" I smiled warmly at him, realization quickly swept over his features. Warm arms soon wrapped around me as he lifted us both up with surprising strength.

"Kanna-chan!" Itachi smiled, I could hear the others make some sort of noise of surprise. I released Itachi and he soon did the same. He then proceeded to glare at the others with his sharingan almost glowing, "If any of you address me as she has you will die."

I smiled, Itachi had grown up even more then I expected, he was even a little taller now. He was dressed in a black shirt and pants, his hair style the same as when he left. His stress marks seemed a bit more defined though, however this was the only saddening thing about him. Deidara scoffed, "What are you two, a couple, un?"

"No" We answered in unison. I glared at Deidara. What a little spiteful- Sasori cleared his throat, interrupting my thoughts.

"So are you two related?" Sasori questioned.

"Nope" I answered with a smile. "He is like a big brother to me though, we were friends when we were little."

Deidara rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, Sasori nodded in response to me.

"So who are you grouped with?" Itachi turned his attention to me, his eyes now back to normal onyx.

I scowled, "Deidara's." Deidara looked smugly at me.

"Oi! Don't you need to be acquainted with the rest of the members, un!" Deidara snapped as he grasped my wrist. Before me or Itachi knew what was going on Deidara had already dragged me a good distance away from him.

"I'll see you later Itachi!" I called down the hall at him, he waved before turning to Sasori. Soon the two were both out of sight, "You know, Itachi is gunna kill you for that."

"For what, un" Deidara's tone hinted at his level of iritation.

"Taking me away from him so abruptly." I grinned, he rolled his eyes. "You're lucky I haven't beaten you senseless already. I haven't seen him in years and you took me away from-"

"Well look," Deidara released my wrist and glared, "if you don't want my help around and want to go back to him, go ahead, un. Just don't come crying to me when you get lost." With that said, he stormed off. Once he was gone I began to roam, I was very stupid to not pay attention to where he had dragged me.

It wasn't long before I managed to bump into someone. It would have been nice had It not been so literal… The only difference is that the something I bumped into was a door.

"Ow! God damn it" I cursed while rubbing my head. I looked up to find a man with white slicked back hair, pink eyes, and no shirt. "Wow.." I gazed in awe at him, "You're freakin tall!"

"No shit" He stated smugly. He outstretched his hand with a look of curiosity, I accepted his offer. I stood before him and still was a great deal shorter. "Who are you?"

"I uh- I'm the new member." I forced a half smile. You idiot, I thought, you stammered! Really? He's not even scary! "What's your name?" I forced my thoughts away to deal with them at another time.

"Hidan." His face turned into an almost cocky grin. "It is a pleasure to meet such a beautiful woman." His grin turned into a full smirk as my face became red.

"Th-thanks." My gaze fell to the floor as I continued, "Umm could you uh, help me out. I'm sort of lost."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, Deidara," I looked back up at him, "was supposed to show me around. He kinda got mad at me and ditched me though." Hidan seemed to get angry at this. Oh my, could this be a possibility for payback? I love this place! "Pein-sama also directed him to show me around." I added that extra bit to only provoke the situation.

"What a little fucker" Hidan huffed. "It's fuckin' rude of him to treat a woman this way!"

I laughed, "Hah, we aren't on the greatest terms though. I don't blame him haha."

Hidan looked at me in wonder, "Oh?"

"Yeah. Oh, but you can still bitch him out if you want. Rough him up a bit, I wouldn't mind." I smiled.

Hidan laughed and his grin widened further, "I like your attitude girl. You're ok." He placed a hand on my head and ruffled my hair before walking away, light chuckles still escaping his lips.

"Wait a second…" I stared in the dircetion he had disappeared into, "he was supposed to help me out! What the hell!" I scowled, turned on my heel, and marched onward. At least it wasn't to spite me that he left, he seemed nice enough. I guess…

Eventually I made my way into a living room of sorts. The floor was a nice wooden one as apposed to the stone walls of the hallways, the walls also looked nice in here to. Nicer meaning there were actual walls built in and not just the raw cave itself. There was a TV towards the center against the wall and a few couches of different sizes angled around it, allowing room and visibility of the screen. Closest to the middle couch was a glass coffee table with empty bowels on it, and in the left corner of the room there were some odd looking plants. On the right side of the room, book cases stood huddled together against the wall, stretching from end to end.

"Strangely normal…" I mused, "I somehow expected to see a corpse…" My words, however quite, got the attention of those in the room occupying the couches. Two males, both wearing masks, a blue haired woman and a- "Is that a plant man…" I asked dumbly, staring at the green and black man with what looked to be a Venus fly trap around him. The group continue to stare at me, I smacked my hand over my mouth realizing I had just thought out loud.

Before I could even think about saying an apology someone was already in my face. Great…

"Hi! Who are you!" It was one of the guys, the one with the orange mask. A slight sigh of relief escaped my lips, I expected threats.

"I'm Kanna…" I spoke slowly and took a step back.

"My name is Tobi!" He flared his arms as he spoke. "What are you doin' here!"

"I- er, I'm the new member."

"Oh?" The girl spoke as she rose and walked over to me. Tobi inched away, allowing this new person full view of me. Or range maybe, who knows she might punch me. "My name is Konan, Pein has informed me on your," she paused, thinking, "situation, welcome." She smiled. I gave a half smile of my own in return. "I do feel sorry for you though."

My eyes narrowed. Oh, please, don't let the only other girl be a bitch. "For?"

She looked slightly confused in my tone before answering flatly, "You are stuck with Deidara." Her expression now matched her tone.

I grinned, "Oh thank God!" I sighed in releife. "I'm glad we agree hes-"

"An arrogant immature brat" Konan finished, I laughed.

"Bonding" Tobi chimed in with a sing song voice.

"What about him?" I pointed to the other masked man who had given up watching the scene I caused. "What's his name?"

"Kakuzu" Konan answered.

Kakuzu grunted and shook his head. "Great, just what we need; another woman to pms all over the place and cost us money for feminine crap!"

"Kakuzu will you shut up." The plant man now spoke. "Yeah, you complain to much."

How odd, he speaks as if he is two different people. Then again he is a plant…

"I'm Zetsu…" With that said exited the room, Konan following soon after. Tobi still stood there beaming with happiness, no I couldn't see it, it was so strong I could feel it. I took a seat on the smaller couch and sat in silence.

It was very uncomfortable. What made it worse was that Kakuzu had his eyes glued on me. I arched my eyebrow at him. "What?"

"You don't look very strong" He stated flatly.

I narrowed my eyes on him, " Say that again and I'll send you into a genjutsu far worse than anything Ita-nii could ever do."

"Who is 'Ita-nii' ?" Kakuzu questioned.

"That's me," Itachi hesitantly. "If any of you call me that it will be the last thing you ever say." His tone was now icy, his sharingan now shown, this threat was not hollow in the least. Itachi took the seat next to me and the room settled in silence, excluding the TV.

I felt uncomfortable with it, so the silence didn't last long. "Ita-nii" He hm-ed and turned to me. "Where is Deidara? I feel I should yell at him for being a prick earlier."

"Hidan already took care of that, Deidara is very lucky I didn't find him first."

"Oh don't be like that," I patted his shoulder, smiling, "He only needs to be bitch out, not killed. And if anyone gets to kill him it should be me." Itachi gave a sort of grin, at least his version of one, and turned back to the TV. The screen was dark, it was a horror movie and a girl was running through the woods screaming.

I shook my head in disapointment, Kakuzu must have seen because he asked, "What are you doing that for?"

"Well for starters, the dumb bitch is running through the woods screaming her head off. If she doesn't want to get killed she'd keep her damn mouth shut. Second, she's wearing heels. She should either kick them off or turn around and jab the killer in the eyes and throat with them repeatedly, take his weapon, then kill him." I once again shook my head.

"Well aren't you the coldhearted one" Kakuzu remarked sarcastically.

"That means so much coming from someone who is more likely than not, a serial killer" I responded snidely.

Kakuzu looked ready to respond when another male voice rang in and interrupted him, "Kanna, un" Deidara yelled.

I rolled my eyes. "Hey, I think Deidara wants you" Kakuzu said. Smart ass…

Stomping sounded through the halls, it was only a mater of time before Deidara stood before me. Glaring down at me with arms crossed he asked, "What was that for, un?"

I raised an eyebrow and innocently asked, "What? I didn't do anything."

"You sent Hidan after me! Do you know how annoying it is to be bitched at by him, un?"

I lazily motioned him away, leaning to look past him and at the TV. "No, I don't, I also don't give a damn. You can go now."

Deidara let out a low growl, "That's it, you're coming with me." He grasped my wrist tightly and dragged me off the couch. Itachi almost immediately got up and followed close behind us, even from where I was I could see the look of death he held in his eyes. For a brief moment, I felt bad for Deidara. Itachi is going to eventually kill him.

Deidara had dragged me into an indoor training facility, it didn't look as such however. The ground was no longer stone and it was much brighter, sunlight shown through a hole in the top of the cave. Trees stood tall, shading parts of the clearing, there were even a few squirrels and birds.

I ripped my hand from Deidara's grip and snapped, "What the fuck do you want blondy?"

Deidara turned, smirking with his arms crossed, and said "We're going to train, un"

"What! But I don't have any weapons! This is a load of bullshit, you just think this will be an easy win you prick!" I gritted my teeth as Deidara stared expectantly at me, waiting for me to give up and accept his challenge. Itachi came from behind us and venomously said, "Deidara, I swear if you-"

"Itachi," I faced him and outstretched my hand, "It's ok." I sighed to calm myself before adding, "Want to let me borrow one of your weapons?" He hesitated, but nodded. Itachi walked to an average looking rock, I watched carefully as he pulled a seal off it, causing a poof of smoke to appear. Once the cloud was gone a rack of weapons stood where the rock had been. After a quick scan he turned back and handed me a short blade. Once a safe distance away from Itachi I swung the blade, getting a handle of its weight and speed.

Turning back to Deidara with a small grin on my face I said, "Okay, I'm ready."

Deidara chuckled, "I hope you know I wont be going easy on you, un."

I pouted and feigned disappointment as I spoke, "Oh Deidara, you seem to think it will make a difference either way, that's so cute."

I lunged at him, blade pointed out and ready. He stuffed his hands into the pouches at his side as he jumped back. With unimaginable speed he dodged my attacks, each time landing swiftly on the ground. I formed the proper hand signs and held my fingers close to my lips. Holding my ground, I took in a deep breath and exhaled fireballs at him. However in the time it took for me to perform my jutsu he managed one of his own. The smoke that had surrounded him quickly thinned to reveal a giant clay bird with him on top. Its wings flapped with such power, causing my jutsu to backfire and now go towards me. I dodged in a less then graceful way and sprinted at Deidara's bird. It was just off the ground when I caught its foot. We now flew through the trees that shaded the training area, now in a more open forest.

I climbed up the side of the bird and grabbed his ankle. Almost immediately after, clay snakes wrapped around my arms. I scrambled onto the bird fully and got as close as I could to him.

"You wouldn't blow yourself up now would you" I teased. He smirked and made a hand sign, my eyes widened.

"You'd be surprised, un!" A small explosion forced us both off the bird and falling to the ground. The bird swooped under me first, then Deidara, catching us both. I regained my footing and once again went after him, this time cutting his lower chest and side.

I lost my balance and nearly fell off the bird as it swerved and did loops in the air, all the while Deidara laughed as if it were a game.

This little prick is messing with me!

I glared at Deidara, who simply smirked in response. He held his hand open and a bigger clay spider lunged at me. It landed and crawled onto my back before I could swipe it away. Before he could detonate it I tackled him off the bird, punching him hard in the face as we decended. The bird once again swooped down, catching its master, however only latching onto me with its claws. I grasped it tightly before it could let go.

Deidara laughed, "Not so high and mighty now are you, un!"

I growled and yelled, "I dunno you tell me!" I stabbed my blade into the bird, letting go of it just in time as it exploded. We both fell into the thicker part of the trees inside the training area, hitting many branches on the way to the ground. Groaning, I propped myself up on my elbows and looked in his direction. He had extended his hand, seemingly in an effort to send another attack. However, his arm fell limp before anything came out.

It took a minute or two but we both managed to get on our feet. He was now the first to attack, landing a swift kick to my gut. It was powerful enough to send me back a ways, but I quickly recovered, landing a few punches of my own on his face and a kick to his side. I jumped back, narrowly avoiding another exploding bird, and preformed another fire style jutsu. I sent multiple fireballs at him, almost every single one missed. The last one however, scorched his right leg, causing him to fall to the ground. I smirked, prepping for another fire jutsu. The fireball hit its target dead on, however the burnt leftovers where not that of a person.

"A log…?" I furrowed my eyebrows in a short moment of confusion. My eyes widened as I realized what was going on. "Shit a substi-" As I turned I came face to face with a small clay bird. Instinctively I put my arms up to protect myself. The small blast contained enough power to send me flying backwards into the dirt.

I shakily propped myself up to watch Deidara speak, "Heh…Bitch, un." He collapsed to the ground. Without the need to defend myself any longer my body fell back as well. Footsteps sounded, walking in my direction, soon after I was lifted up by Itachi. I looked over where Deidara had been to see him slung over Hidan's shoulder and Sasori next to them.

"Ita-nii…when did they get here?"

"While you two where at each other's throats. Come on, you need rest." He turned and motioned the others to follow him. I enjoyed the silence that surrounded us through the halls.

Itachi had brought me to mine and Deidara's room, he had laid me on the bed. Hidan not so gently put Deidara in the chair by his desk. Hidan quickly left, saying he had business to attend to.

"I'm surprised he hasn't bitched anyone out yet" I chuckled.

Sasori shrugged, "I guess he must have passed out."

"I see, well shouldn't you guys fix him up then? I'm fine I just used a bit to much chakra, Ita-nii will you?"

"Why?"

"Cause he's going to want someone to do it and I sure in the hell don't want to." Itachi sighed and said "Not that I would either way but I have a recon mission to go one with Kisame."

My heart dropped, no, it shattered. "But I just found you again! You can't!" I shot up to get out of bed, Itachi held me back by my shoulders. I shook my head saying, "This isn't fair!"

"Kanna calm down, please. It will only take two or three days." He smiled sweetly and laid me back down. It was then that Kisame poked his head in the room.

"Itachi, Pein said we have to be gone, now."

"I'll be there in a minute." Itachi lightly patted my head before swiftly exiting with Kisame.

I turned to Sasori whom was about to leave the room, "Sasori will you help him out?"

He looked at me over his shoulder frowning, "Despite the fact he has the intelegance of a child I think he can take care of himself. I've grown tired of helping him fix wounds that are more or less self inflicted."

"I'll take that as a no then" I scowled as he nodded.

"Besides I have puppets that need fixing If you want there is bandages in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom." With that said he left the room. I moved over to get a better look at Deidara. His chest rose and fell with each shaky breath he took, those cuts I gave him looked pretty bad. I felt a pang of guilt go through me. He may be a perverted annoying jerk, however he is supposed to be my comrade. It would also, probably, be highly frowned upon to kill a fellow member. Or maybe not, who knows. Groaning, I picked him up and laid him on the floor. I darted in and out of the bathroom to get the bandages. I scowled as I laced my fingers into the tear in his shirt, hopefully he wouldn't mind this, then again I don't care. I ripped his shirt open, easily gaining access to his wounds.

"Uhn…"

Oh, of course he would pick now to wake up.

His eye cracked open," Kanna, un?"

I half smiled, "The one and only."

His eyes widened and he short forward, repeating himself with more surprise, "Kanna, un!" Wincing, he grasped his side.

Pressing my hand firmly against his chest I said, "Deidara, calm the hell down. As weird as this may sound, I'm trying to help you." Deidara's hand immediately went for my face, pinching my cheek. I twitched and smacked his hand away.

"Just checking, you know, to make sure you're real." Deidara grinned. I roughly pushed him back and held him down with my right hand. Taking notice of his continued efforts to stifle noises of pain I said, "You know, getting up like that isn't the best thing to do when you have open cuts like this." I shook my head slowly and murmured a few things as I concentrated.

My hands glowed blue then green, both traveled to the more severe of the two spots, his side. The wound hissed as it grew smaller and less blood came out. I stopped once the bleeding had finished and moved to the next one. The point I had to focus on was a difficult one, my eyes couldn't help but roam the rest of his body now.

He does have a nice body, I will give him that, but he is an idiot.

My gaze found its way back to his face, eyes closed and lips pressed together in a thin line. He looked as if he was concentrating, funny, I didn't think that was possible for him.

Suddenly his eyes opened and our eyes met. I quickly averted my gaze, however not fast enough to catch the smirk that played upon his face. I stared down for a long moment before hesitantly looking back, his eyes were once again closed although the smirk remained. Looking back at his body I figured this was good enough, he could heal the rest of the way on his own. I prodded his forehead, earning an annoyed grunt as he opened his eyes. I grinned and said, "All done."

Deidara sat up slowly to observe his body. "You didn't heal me all the way, un."

I rolled my eyes, "No shit. I'm not all to good at medical jutsu and what I can do requires a lot of chakra. Chakra is something I already have very little of right now so I think you can deal with it." I grabbed the bandages and instructed him to hold his arms up. I quickly wrapped him up where he needed it. "Done."

Rather than thanking me, he asked "What happened to my shirt, un?"

An irritated sigh escaped my lips before I said, "I had to tear it off so I could-"

"Well had I known you wanted my clothes off so badly I would have skipped the fight entirely, un" he purred as he traced my jaw with his index finger.

Ignoring his actions I said in a firm tone, "You know, a simple thank you would be nice, you know, for healing you." My eyes darted back to his bear chest, I scowled as I closed my eyes. "And will you put a God damned shirt on."

"Aw isn't that cute, you're blushing, un" He cooed, my eyes opened and stared in wonder.

I'm blushing? Oh you little, I know exactly how to bring you down…

"Well, it's only because you're just so…" I trailed off, allowing my gaze to fall to the floor. Deidara tilted his head to better see my face.

"Hmm?"

I shirted closer and spoke softly, my lips almost brushed against his ear, "You're just…" I smirked and yelled, "Such a dumb fuck!" He yelped and fell back. I jolted to my feet laughing. Deidara slowly sat up, glaring like a feirce demon. "Shit…" I turned on my feel and bolted out of the room, Deidara close behind me.

"You're such a bitch, un!"

"Help Deidara is gunna kill me!" I half yelled half laughed. We ran through the twisting hallways calling each other names and me occasionaly yelling for help, each time accusing him of trying to kill me. Eventually Deidara caught up and tackled me to the floor just outside the living room doorway.

I, still in a rage of giggles, lay underneath him while he grumbles threats from atop of me. Honestly, I couldn't believe he was that gullible to fall for my little acts. I'm starting to doubt his abilities as a ninja…

"What's going on?" Hidan poked out from the living room, his eyes widened upon seeing us. "Sorry to interrupt-"

"No! Wait! Deidara is trying to kill me!"

"Liar, un!" Hidan wouldn't hear it, he picked Deidara up to allow me freedom. I giggled slightly as I brushed myself off.

"That was fun."

Hidan cocked an eyebrow, "What was fun?" He gave Deidara another one over and added, "And why isn't he wearing a shirt…"

"Oh it's nothing, really. I only just healed him, it's fine." I assured. Hidan shot a suspicious look, but shrugged and let Deidara down. Hidan retreated into the living room leaving me to deal with Deidara alone. "You're welcome."

"For?"

"Not having Hidan beat you to a pulp you little-"

"Oh please, you did it so he wouldn't ruin my handsome face, un" Deidara teased.

"You're such a brat" I growled. I pounced on him and wrestled his hair tie away from him. "Ha!"

"Give that back! That's my favorite one, un!" I turned around and extended my arms as far as I could to keep it out of reach. Deidara pressed against me and wrapped on arm around my waist, pulling me back, while using the other to reach for the hair tie. I giggled evilly, "Come on, work for it" I teased.

"I knew it…" Sasori's voice sounded, grabbing both our attention. Sasori stood with arms crossed and a cocky grin.

"Wha-?"

"It's not what you think Danna it's-"

"I just took his hair tie!"

"Right, sure. You know I could hear some of what you two were saying earlier." I blushed and turned away, at the same time allowing Deidara to have his hair tie back. "Deidara go put a freaking shirt on." Sasori's tone was both exhausted and annoyed.

"Okay Danna" Deidara walked off in silence.

"Weird…" I stared at Deidara until I no longer could, then turned to Sasori just in time for my stomach to growl. Laughing nervously I asked, "Where's the kitchen?" Sasori motioned me to follow him.

Once I was in the kitchen I immediately set to work on making some lunch. I found some canned tomatoes and spices and noodles. In no time I had a nice plate of pasta ready for me to have. I turned around with my plate in hand only to be met with a couple member staring at it hungrily.

"What is that?" Kakuzu questioned.

"It looks Jashin-sama damned good." Hidan added.

"I wish I could cook like that…" Tobi and Konan said in almost unison.

I smiled nervously and asked, "Would you guys like me to make you some?" They all nodded eagerly, so I set to work on making more. I made more than enough for all four of them to eat. Hidan wasted no time and basicly swallowed his plate whole, eagerly asking for seconds. The others ate slower, all finished, however Hidan was the only to get seconds. I ate my food along with them, afterwards I cleaned up.

"Huh?" I peeked into the pot to see one decent sized portion left. "Maybe…" I made a plate and set off for my shared room with Deidara. This could be a sort of peace offering! Maybe then he wont harass me.

Upon opening the door to our room I almost dropped the plate on the floor. A scream sounded in my mind but lost itself on its way to my mouth, the only thing that came out was a gasp. My eyes couldn't help but wander, no matter how much I pleaded with them to stay focused on his eyes. I tried forming words but none would come out, the closest ones got stuck in my throat. My face burned bright with a blush and my hands began to shake.

My mental chaos was caused by one simple thing, Deidara. No, not just Deidara, a half naked just out of the shower Deidara.

Wonderful…