Author's Note;

Usually I wouldn't really do this for a first fanfiction, but I just adore this whole pairing I came up with in my head, and I've been wanting to write a whole story for it. The one thing is that I'll be using an OC in this, and in the story, it'll mostly depict around her and Deidara.

Of course, even if I'm going to bring an OC into this story, I'll try and keep other characters in character, and hopefully my OC will not be depicted as a 'Mary Sue'.

Don't blame me though if they end up out of character every now and then… or the whole time.

Alright, the OC I'll be using for this story is a girl called Reiko. Two years younger than Deidara, and from Konohagakure. From the story and all that, I might twist some things from the storyline, but I'll try to keep it…. somewhat close to the storyline.

Okay, I have to say, this chapter will be more of a… prologue. Yeah, let's say it's a prologue about the OC and her connection with the Akatsuki, her past and all that. I have to admit though; it might not be the most interesting prologue.

However, when I get to the first chapter, it'll start back when the girl is eight years of age. So, this would make Deidara ten, and living in Iwagakure.

"Fleeting Memories."

Prologue.

A feeble girl with long fawn colored hair down to her not yet developed hips was steadily heading down a street of one of the five shinobi villages, Konohagakure. As she weaved through the crowd that would block a straight pathway for one, the pair of curious sea foam green eyes she bared searched throughout the area.

On first glance, one would probably be able to guess the age of the small girl- eight years old. It wasn't that hard to tell, and even if they got it wrong, the number they guessed would probably be at least close to her real age.

Of course, at her age, like most children in Konohagakure, she was a student at the ninja academy. However, at the current moment, she had recently gotten out from the academy for the day, and was simply wandering about. She had no family to go home to, so what would it be worth- heading back to a lonely apartment?

Her parents- two loving, but very overprotective shinobi -had of course raised her. There was one little thing about her father though- even though the group hadn't been active at the moment, he had gotten information about a very powerful organization during his twenties.

Now, what is this very organization he had retrieved information on as a mission?

None other than the Akatsuki.

It had been when the organization was as one would say, lying low. The Third Shinobi World War had ended recently, and so plans were being formed. Not many missions had the members been sent on, for they didn't want to become one to be directly in the spotlight at the time, even though they were already well known. The Hokage was curious about this well-known group, the very one that had been involved in helping so much during the recent war, and then had just simply disappeared.

It had been a successful mission, besides for two little things. The fact that two shinobi of the group that had been sent were spotted, which wasn't much of a surprise, and killed without hesitation. Only the other two from the group had been able to return to the village, but one of the two was murdered in the night after a few weeks had passed.

This put the man that survived in alert. He knew he couldn't live his life constantly wary of what fate awaited him though, and tried his best to be as any shinobi.

Over time, he fell in love with a woman, got married, and had one child. This girl was none other than the very one who wandered about Konoha at this moment, one by the name of Reiko. The family had been a happy one, but of course with the daily troubles one family would had.

However, it wasn't long till the mother learned about the mission that her husband had been set on, and what had happened throughout it.

"You were the only one to survive, and you know that the other three were murdered by the group the mission involved! How can you not worry about how you're probably next? That one whole past mission probably wrote your very name down for none other than death," the woman yelled, pacing throughout the kitchen at 1:37 in the morning. Her child was sleeping in her bedroom, since she had been put to bed quite a few hours ago, but the yelling kept her from sleeping any longer than she had. The voices in the little girl's ears could easily be made out as her parents, but what they were saying ended up in nothing but familiar muffled voices through the wall.

"It's been six years since that mission! The Akatsuki probably have forgotten about it all by now! If they had been planning to kill me, they would've done in a long time ago?"

"You know the Akatsuki isn't exactly known for generosity! They wouldn't have forgotten about such a thing! They might know they're known as a danger to the shinobi villages, and that certain members in the organization have their names, appearances, and range of abilities known, but they wouldn't be stupid enough to just give away information about their plans! That's one of the things they most likely know they need to prevent enemies from knowing!"

"I know all of this! You don't think I haven't thought about all of this before?"

" No, I'm very aware of the fact you've probably thought about all of this many, many times. But you can't just let this whole thing go, and live everyday as if nothing ever happened! If you're killed, I'll probably be dragged into the whole situation as well, along with our daughter!"

A year later, the man was killed during a mission. The cause of his death was unknown, but his death overall wasn't much of a surprise. Everyone that heard about it only guessed that the Akatsuki had killed him.

When the mother heard the news about her husband, most of the following days were full of fretting for her. Truly, she became paranoid over time. She knew that the Akatsuki would do their research, and would probably learn about her, the husband of the man they had recently murdered. She didn't fret much about herself, but more about her daughter, who knew nothing of the whole situation, other than the fact that her dad would never be coming back from his mission.

It wasn't long till the woman left the village. However, she did so without her daughter. She left her daughter back in the village, to live and prosper- have kids of her own and raise a family, while she herself went to a small village tucked away in a dense forest.

The mother, though, after all her attempts to escape, was also found and murdered over time.

And that was how the small girl ended up on her own in the village at age 6, without her family. The Akatsuki, at the time, knew nothing of the small girl. The Hokage knew that if the organization learned about the girl, they would probably send a member to come after her as well. They knew all too well that information about their organization spread quickly, so people of not too much importance that had information on them had to be put to death, just as a caution call.

Two years had the little girl lived on her own, but every now and then she'd get some help during struggles from certain ones in the village. During all this time though, never once had she learned about the cause of her father's death, and her mother's disappearance. She tried not to think about it much though, since such thoughts would slowly drag a carnivorous depression over her.

Over time, however, one certain Tsuchikage had learned about the past successful mission in Konoha, after a failing mission of their own on the exact same organization. After days of research, he soon came to learning about the deaths it had caused, and if there were any survivors that could have any remainders of the information.

One would probably guess getting information on the organization wouldn't be such a big thing, mostly when it was from a few years ago. He knew that at some point it would most likely end up giving the Leaf an advantage though in certain situations, so he wasn't planning on just passing by such a thing.

Of course, he knew the Hokage would have the information, probably written on scrolls and locked away somewhere, along with in her own memory. It would be too much of a risk though, trying to pull such a thing of getting information from the Hokage herself, or wherever she would have thought to hide it.

His next option was the wife of the last man to be killed. It didn't last long though, since after finding the village she had fled to, he learned about her death as well.

This was the point at which he had been planning to give up, and forget about such a small thing. This thought was changed though, by one little detail he had come to learning about;

The daughter of the last man, and woman who had been murdered from the mission.

If he could just see if she had any memory of information from the mission, or any idea of where such information could be held, all the simple work he put into learning so much about a past mission could pay off.

Sorry if this whole chapter, erm, prologue, was a bore. Trust me though, the first chapter will actually have talking and interesting stuff in it. I guess this prologue was just… stuff that should be known for the whole story to make sense. If I left it out, it would probably be a pain to bring it into the story piece by piece, and it would probably end up in a whole confusing mess.

Naruto does not belong to me.

Reiko belongs to me, along with her parents.