"THE CLAY BUTTERFLY"

Prologue

Notice: There can be spoilers for those who are not reading the manga.

…OoC…

My first ever fanfic story… DeiHina crack pairing…

The two of them looks so cute together! Deidara's my favorite akatsuki member and I think the chemistry between them is perfect.

Ahhh…. A timid, pretty and kind-hearted protagonist paired up with a narcissist, crazy, loud (and not to mention hot) antagonist makes a wonderful couple!

Other pairings included: slight NaruHina and SaiSaku

Forgive me for some grammar mistakes. English isn't my major language.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto. All characters made by the very creative Masashi Kishimoto.

My story starts during a mission given to team 8.

Kurenai's still pregnant so Genma's taking her place (wTh? I know but I kinda like him and I think he's cute, so I'm including him in my story.) I also want to retain other parts in the manga here in my story so I decided that Kurenai should still be pregnant, Asuma and Sasori dead, (TT) Hebi team formed, Team7 still looking for Sasuke, Akatsuki hunting the jinchuurikis, (w/ Gaara's Monster extracted already) Tobi as Dei's new partner, and so on…

Moreover, there's a time skip included here… (Made by me and my wild imagination)

During the Sasuke vs. Deidara fight, Dei & Tobi managed to escape because Itachi appeared before Sasuke. During their fight, Itachi got blind (P) and well, Sasuke got heavily injured. In the team Hebi fights, Karin was killed by Sakura and Sai. (Nyahaha! She deserved it… Saku's for Sasu only!) –I wanted Suigetsu to face Sai here, coz of the 'he's Sai's brother theory…' but it'll ruin my SaiSaku pairing… So I didn't let it happen. So then, Suigetsu vs. Kiba and Shino, (I'm imagining lots of actions here) Juugo vs. Kabuto… Well I want them to fight over Sasuke! (Since Oro's inside Kabu's body and Oro… ya know… yaoi) and well, Juugo being overprotective of Sasuke because of the same thing Kimimaro did for Sasuke. (ya know, during the kidnapping part…). As to Kisame, he fought Kakashi again. But Kakashi managed to destroy Samehada. (Hooray for the perverted jounin!) With that, Kisame headed to Itachi and went back to the Akatsuki's hideout. (Including Dei & Tobi). Team Hebi also retreated. Well, Karin got killed and the others were badly injured. Their mission obviously failed.

Team7 and team8 did the same thing... Kakashi explained everything that happened during the Itachi vs. Sasuke fight, because he secretly followed Kisame while the fish face was escaping. A lot of them got injured (naming Sakura, Shino & Akamaru) so they had to rest for about 2 weeks or so. Naruto & company explained everything that happened in their fight to the Godaime. They received direct orders from the hokage herself that they should stay calm and just rest for the moment since its obvious that their enemy, including team hebi, won't be making any moves for the moment. But with Naruto's stubborn self, he immediately protested and requested that they should attack both sides immediately, then… well… retrieve Sasuke. But Sai protested that even their side, is still in the recovery period. And, well, Naruto can't understand that coz he didn't fight anyway. Kakashi agreed with Sai and explained his part that, even if they set off and attack the two teams, (especially team Hebi) it's still obvious that Sasuke won't come with them even if they make him. And for the akatsuki, if ever they manage to go inside their lair, they will surely be in big trouble. Coz what if more powerful akatsuki members are inside, And the leader? They'll be twice more powerful than the ordinary members they fought with. So there's just no way they can make a move for the moment.

Tsunade closed the argument by telling Naruto not to worry coz she'll certainly keep him busy. And with Naruto losing the argument, he just gave up and decided to follow whatever Tsunade's decision will be. (Um, just for the meantime of course…)

So after that, Tsunade decided that for the time being, Naruto, Hinata and Yamato (the 3 Nins who didn't fought in their last battle…) will be teammates for a while and complete non-akatsuki related missions together.

Naruto was fine with that. (Especially Hinata) but he still promised himself that he will get Sasuke back.

---Hooray! And because of the missions they completed together, NaruHina developed deeper and deeper … And well, Naruto started to appreciate Hinata more (?) than just a friend… (Awwww…) During this time, they had a mutual understanding-like relationship with each other, but Naruto can't understand that coz he's just too stupid to realize it. Even though sometimes, he do find himself blushing in front of the Hyuuga.

Hinata's happiest moments started at that time. But she knew it wouldn't last forever. She admitted she likes Naruto's company a lot, and she wanted to be with him. Too bad it's not possible… they weren't teammates after all.

So what Hinata decided to do, (a lot of times actually)… was to tell Naruto what she really felt inside. (More like confessing). But sadly, she always find herself getting tongue-tied and a number of times having to faint a lot in front of him. Maybe because of the pressure, (self pressure?) she felt inside.

Hinata thought.

Time they spend during their missions… Moments they share during their missions…

She should make the most of it…

Whew! That was a long introduction… Have to cut it there already…. Reviews please!!!!!