I Don't Own Naruto! This Will Last For All Of The Series!

WARNING: P.O.V. May change a lot.

Sasori is twenty-eight in this, because I can. (Deidara only knows he's a puppet, he doesn't know his age)

"One…Last…Round…" Rix huffed while reaching for her weapons holster on her right thigh.

"No. You've had enough." Chiyo stated as she sealed the sparring puppet away in it's scroll. "I'm going back to house, you know what to do." What Chiyo meant was when Rix would come home late, she was to go in through her window and not the door.

"Y-yeah, I know…" She watched as Chiyo's figure dissipated into the sand blowing in the air. Rix's body was tired, so tired. She had been up 54 hours. Her body need the rest but her mind wouldn't let her. She had been having this same nightmare for weeks and she had been avoiding sleep, in fear she would have another.

Rix blinked slowly. Her eyelids felt like lead. Her legs finally gave in and she collapsed.

"I can't sleep, not now." Her eyes began to close but she opened them again. This repeated several times.

"If you keep that up, you're going to die, un." Rix took a deep breath.

"Another…hallucination…" She mumbled to herself.

"Nope, I'm pretty sure I'm real, un." Rix jumped to her feet. She grabbed a kunai and saw nothing but the desert before her.

"If you're so real, where are you?" She felt two hands on her shoulders and then she was spun around to face a man. Or three of the same man. She tried to focus her eyes and eventually saw a blonde man with azure eyes. A chunk of his hair was covering his left eye, the same as hers, but she had red hair.

She eyed the man. He was clad in Akatsuki uniform. "I'm right here, un."

"What does the Akatsuki want from Suna?" The man chuckled.

"You're closer to death than to Suna. What're you doing all the way out here in the first place, un?"

"Well, I was training but, Granny left me out here and I…" She mumbled something unintelligible and went limp in the man's grip.

"Whoa…" The man whispered as he caught her. He lowered himself so he was sitting in the middle of the desert, cross-legged with Rix's top half in his lap. It had been only thirty minutes until the man heard his partner's voice.

"Deidara, how many times have I told you? No taking fluffy animals back to the base."

"That is not a 'fluffy animal', it's a head full of red hair, un." Deidara heard his partner undo the henge jutsu he used to get into Suna and jog up to him. "See, un? Girl, not 'fluffy animal'. I found her here. All I know is that her grandmother left her out here after training and she collapsed. I walk up to her and she jumps to her feet, we talk, it's like this chick is fearless. She passed out, apparently from sleep deprivation." Deidara's partner glared at him.

"You suck at summarizing."

"Gee, thanks."

"Do you know her name?" Deidara shook his head. He looked down at the redhead in his lap. She couldn't be any older than sixteen and she had a short chunk of hair covering the left side of her face. A single strand of that was dyed black the rest of her hair stretched down to her mid-back. She wore heavy black eyeliner and she had some type of black fang-shaped thing leading from her bottom eyelid to almost her chin. Deidara thought it to be makeup so he licked his thumb and swiped it along the mark. Nothing smudged and nothing was left on his thumb. The blonde shrugged.

"Hey, Sasori-danna, un?"

"Hn?"

"Is there a whole lot of redheads in Suna, un?"

"I don't know! Why are you asking anyways?"

"Un. I thought I'd ask. How can you stand this heat? It's stifling hot out here, un!"

"Stop whining and lets go." Something bothered him about Rix... "And leave the girl."

"Aw, un! C'mon! She'll die out here, un!" Sasori shrugged.

"So what?"

"C'mon! Please? She'll die either way, un!"

"No."

"C'mon! She freakin' stayed up forever, un! That's high endurance! Please, un?"

"No."

"C'mon! Please? She'll die either way! At least let Leader take a look at her!"

"Why would he want another brat?" Deidara sighed in defeat. He stood up, dropped the girl and kicked her in the cheek , hard.

"Fine, be that way, un." Something glimmered and it caught his eye. He bent down and found a bracelet on the girls wrist. He bent down and Sasori stopped walking and went back to Deidara. The blonde unclasped the bracelet from her wrist. It had a locket-type thing that was half of the bracelet. He opened the locket and found a little vial of blood and a little piece of folded paper. Deidara left the small vial of blood and unfolded the paper. It was instructions to a jutsu.

Deidara studied the hand signs and tried the jutsu. A little case of papers appeared.

"This is interesting…" Sasori mumbled. Deidara opened the case and found all sorts of files on the whole Akatsuki. "What the..?" Sasori crouched down and flipped through Deidara's file. She knew almost…everything…stuff Sasori didn't even know… They noticed another piece of paper taped to the inside top of the case. Sasori grabbed the paper and did the jutsu. There was a even bigger case, no wonder it was only through a summon… He couldn't open the case because it was locked.

"Hey, if you want me to, I can pick that lock, un…" Sasori shrugged and let Deidara work the lock until it opened. They gawked at it's contents. "That's a lot of…"

"Poisons…" Sasori finished. He saw all sorts of herbs and formulas. "Wow…" Deidara was taken back. Sasori never said 'wow' to anything besides in sarcasm. Sasori closed the case and undid the jutsu so it could go back into the summoning. Deidara did the same with the info on the Akatsuki. "We will bring the girl to leader…she has too much information."

Deidara picked up the girl gently and carried her bridal-style. Sasori glared at the unconscious girl in Deidara's arms as they were tree-jumping. (Let's face it…Nobody really knows what it's called.)

"Do you have a problem with knocked out people, un?" Deidara's sarcastic words snapped him out of his little fixation with the girl.

"No, Brat. She bothers me."

"She's got information that could get us all killed, of course she would bother you, un."

"Tch. It's someth-" Rix stirred. They stilled. Her eyes shot open. Her visible eye twitched.

"Put me down, now." She commanded. Deidara smirked.

"What if I don't, un?" Rix aimed her fist just right and nailed him right where a man should never be hit. "Nngh…Dammit, man!" Deidara said doubling over and dropping Rix. She caught herself on a branch and jumped back up to where Deidara and Sasori was. Rix didn't notice Sasori but began to interrogate Deidara.

"What do you want from me? I didn't do anything and don't have anything threatening the Akatsuki."

"We…found your…summonings, un" Deidara managed to get out.

"Fine, you have me." Deidara stood up, shaking from the pain in his crotch.

"You're giving up, un?" Rix nodded. Deidara walked up to her. At the last moment she pulled senbon and threw them at Deidara. The blonde quickly dodged and the senbon hit a tree behind Deidara. The senbon were coated in poison and it started to eat away at the tree. Deidara looked back at the tree that now had a large hole in it and grimaced.

"That could've been…me, un." Deidara shuddered. He glared at Rix who was already doing hand seals. Deidara noticed Sasori appear behind her. Rix didn't and Sasori gave her a swift chop to her neck and she passed out.

"I want to know more about this girl." Sasori said picking Rix up and throwing her over his shoulder. They were about three minutes away from the base when they heard a ring tone.

Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

"Danna, your cell." Sasori grabbed his phone.

"It's not me." Sasori looked over to Rix, he reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone. He looked at the caller ID, it said 'Bitch'. He shrugged and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Rix, where are you?"

"I'm sorry, Ma'am but she's not here." Sasori heard someone in the background.

"Lady Chiyo, Kazekage-sama needs you." Sasori went wide eyed. "Whoever you are, I've got to go. Tell Rixie that Granny needs her home." Sasori brought the phone away from his head as quickly as possible.

"What'd it do, un? Burn you, un?" Sasori glared at Deidara. He put the black phone back into her pocket.

"Shut up, Brat."

No one talks to her, she feels so alone,
She's in too much pain to survive on her own,
The hurt she can't handle overflows to a knife,
She writes on her arm, wants to give up her life,
Each day she goes on is a day that she's brave,
Fighting the lie that giving up is the way,
Each moment of courage her own life she saves,
When she throws the pills out, a hero is made...

Sasori sighed. "I'm guessing that isn't you, Brat?" Deidara shook his head.

"Un. This chick sounds like she has problems…" Sasori looked at the caller ID: Lexie. It was a text. Sasori read it aloud.

"Hey, I've got more info on 'ghost' if you want it. Your grandmother is pissed." Sasori chuckled. What type of keyword is that? Sasori shut the phone again but it began to ring again. It was another text.

"Danna? Another, un?" Deidara snatched the phone away from Sasori. "Lexie says: Where are you? Your grandmother is in hysterics. She's mumbling about 'ghost' again… Ha! I think it's funny, un." Deidara closed the phone and handed it back to Sasori. "I wonder who that guy is, un…" Sasori snatched the phone.

"Me too." Sasori and Deidara made it to the hideout silently, both thinking about the call and texts that appeared on the girl's phone.