"DEIDARA!"

Deidara stopped in his tracks and turned around to face the leader. It had been years since he had come face-to-face with the leader, and it was so…unnerving. "Deidara, you can't keep what you find in the streets. Get. Rid. Of. It," he said through clenched teeth. Deidara frowned. He knew what the leader meant. Kill it. He looked down at the shuddering kid he had saved from a few rogue ninjas. The leader glared at him. "I'm waiting, Deidara." Deidara grabbed the kid's neck. If it had been a few years earlier, the fear in the child's eyes would've made Deidara drop him. A crack was heard as Deidara dropped the child, blood pouring out of its mouth.
The leader's lips curled in a smirk. "Good." As the leader walked away, Deidara knelt beside the kid. He dipped his hand in the blood and stared at it, bored. "You learned that the heard way, yeah." He curled his hand in a fist. "Never trust a stranger." He stood up, blood dripping off his hand. A single tear fell as he walked.

"Tobi! I told you not to do that, yeah!"

Tobi looked down at Itachi's sleeping form. "I shouldn't have used your hair bands, should I? That's not his color…" He had tried to make Itachi's hair look a bit like this girl's hair that he had seen in Sunagakure. Four ponytails. Deidara glared and sighed. Tobi spotted the crimson color on his hand. "You need to stop saving people. In the end, you'll snap their ne-" He fell down as the back of Deidara's hand came in contact with his face. He looked at his surroundings.
Deidara could've stayed in his village. Stayed instead of being in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with three idiots. A dude that looked like a fish. A homicidal moron that killed off his entire clan. An idiot that was called the 'good boy' of Akatsuki. Perfect people to be stuck with on a mission, don't you think?

Deidara sat down in one of the chairs and looked at his hands. The mouths were closed…blended into his skin. He stared at his hands for a bit. "Are you ok?" Deidara looked up at Tobi. "Tobi, be a good boy and leave me alone," he said through clenched teeth. He stood up and walked out of the cabin. The four were dangerously close to Konoha. He looked aside at the dead bodies that had been the previous owners of the cabin. He sighed and started walking, making sure to leave his cloak behind, unless he wanted everyone to know he was in Akatsuki. He kept walking until he saw a stream. He knelt down and stared hard at his reflection.

Should he have run away from everything he knew? He shrugged and dipped his hands in the icy water. He scrubbed them till no sign of crimson was there. The smell still lingered. He scowled and stood up, glancing at his reflection again. He threw a kunai in the water, disturbing the glass-smooth stream. He heard a twig snap and turned around, clutching a kunai. He stared hard at the surrounding area and shrugged.

Hinata clutched a kunai, breathing heavily. Had he seen her? She peeked around the tree. He was gone. She cursed inwardly as she sighed. She took a photo out of her pocket. "Deidara. Akatsuki. Missing-nin of Iwagakure," she whispered. So that was the person she was after. She motioned to Ino. No reply. She turned around and saw that Ino was nowhere in sight. Ino was supposed to help with the assassination! Not run off! She rolled her eyes and turned around again. A kunai pressed against her neck, drawing blood.

"Don't scream. Don't move, yeah." She gasped as someone knocked her head against the tree. Then, everything faded to black.

Hinata groaned as her eyes fluttered open. She looked around. She heard a banging on a wall and sat up, seeing Ino slamming her fist against the door. "LET US OUT! MY FATHER WILL KNOW! JUST YOU WAIT! WAIT UNTIL THE HYUUGAS FIND OUT! YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE NEVER BORN!!!!" she screamed. The door opened. Deidara and Itachi stepped in. "Shut up, Bitch," Itachi hissed.

Ino blinked. "You WILL call me Ino. Yamanaka Ino." Deidara laughed. "Yamanaka? Bitch is a name that suits you, yeah." Itachi glared. "Yamanaka? A weak name. A weak 'clan'." Ino glared. Hinata back up and felt a sharp pain in her head. Deidara walked toward her, roughly slamming her injured head against the wall behind the bed. "Who are you, yeah?" Hinata winced, tears starting to stream down her face. "L-Leave m-m-me a-alone," she whispered. Deidara crushed her head harder against the wall, staining the wall a dark crimson. "Answer me!" he commanded.

Ino started walking toward them, but Itachi grabbed her arm. "Let go!" she demanded. Hinata shuddered. "Hinata. Hyuuga Hinata," she choked out. Deidara let go of her. "Disobey me again and you'll regret it, yeah." The two Akatsuki members left. Ino crawled on the bed next to Hinata and wrapped her arms around her like a mother would a child. "We'll get out of here. Don't worry. Sakura and Tenten will send back-up."

A man opened the door and threw Tenten and Sakura in the room. "Ugh." A mask concealed his face. "Stay in here. Whatever you do, don't make Deidara mad. Or Itachi. They'll kill you all." He turned and left. After a bit, a yell echoed through the cabin. "TOBI!!!" Deidara's voice rang out.

Ino's eyebrow twitched as she glared at Tenten and Sakura. Sakura sighed. "We ran into Kisame." Tenten gave Sakura a look. Sakura nodded and cracked her knuckles. She slammed her fist against the wall and drew back. "I can't break through it." The hand that she had used hung limply to the side. "It sucked my chakra away…" She dropped to her knees and stared at the wall. Tenten grimaced. "They took my scroll. I'm no help in this." Ino sighed. "This whole room's draining chakra. I can't use any techniques. Hinata's too weak right now."

Sakura looked at them. "What happened?" Ino looked at Hinata and got off the bed. Hinata moved her hair from the front of her face to show a large wound. She turned around to show blood-soaked hair. She started sobbing silently. Tenten slammed her fist into her hand. "I'll kill those bastards," she hissed. Sakura walked over to Hinata. "I'll use the last bit of chakra have to help you out. So hold still." She held her hand right above the wounds and slowly healed them. Hinata winced and stared hard at the blood on the wall in front of her. Sakura put a hand on Hinata's shoulder. "You should rest," she whispered. Hinata nodded and slipped under the covers. She slowly fell asleep.

She was woken up by footsteps approaching her bed. The room was dark and she whispered, "W-W-Who's t-there?" She looked around, her eyes adjusting to the dark. She spotted her three friends in different parts of the room, asleep. A hand roughly grabbed her hair and dragged her off the bed. She screamed, waking up the other three kunoichi. Before they realized what had happened, the door slammed shut.

Hinata found herself in a well-lit room. She looked up to see Itachi. "This girl had information on you, Deidara." He handed the paper that Hinata had kept with her to Deidara. Deidara looked at it. He crumpled it up and threw it at a sleeping Tobi. He stood up and glared at Hinata. "You thought you could assassinate me, yeah? You. A weak Hyuuga girl." Itachi backed off a bit, enjoying the show. Deidara grabbed a fistful of Hinata's hair, making her start to cry. "You'll never see Konoha again. You're staying here, yeah." He moved his face closer to hers.

She tried to move back, but he pulled her closer. "Disobedience will never be tolerated. You're mine now, yeah." He let go of her and she dropped to her knees. She began crawling slowly toward the room she was in. Deidara put a foot on her back. "You don't sleep in there, anymore, yeah." He grabbed her arm and made her stand up. He roughly pushed her into the room he stayed in.

He walked back to where Itachi was. He gave a slot nod. "What now, yeah?" Itachi glared. "We head back in four days. Give Tobi and Kisame some time to recover." Deidara nodded. "Understood, Sir, yeah." Tobi, who had been awake since Deidara hit him with the paper, sat up. "What are you planning on doing with the Hyuuga?" he asked with a slight chuckle. Deidara glared. "She can be a maid." He caught what Tobi meant and twitched. "Tobi, you may be that kind of person, but I'm not. Shut up before I assign you a cause of death, yeah," he hissed, turning to go to his room. Hinata had lied down on his bed. He scowled and pointed toward the floor. "THAT is where you sleep, Hyuuga, yeah."

Hinata looked at him with fearful eyes and got off the bed, slightly whimpering. She got in the corner and sobbed as Deidara took off his Akatsuki cloak and lied down, going to sleep in his fishnet shirt and black pants. He stared up at the ceiling before drifting off to sleep. Hinata wiped tears off her face. 'Why won't they leave me alone? Why hurt me? What did I do? What's going to happen to me?' she thought. She didn't sleep that night. She was afraid to fall asleep.