Author's Notes:

Hi Guys, so yeah this fan fiction is dedicated to my favorite Akatsuki, Deidara. The pairing in this story is Deidara and Ino. So yeah, the rating is M for very naughty lemons in it, bad language, a possible rape scene and possibly a little violent mayhem in this story, we will see. The story takes place; right after probably Sasori gets his butt kicked by Sakura and Chiyo. The chapters might be a little small, but please bare with me okay? And please guys, no fire bombs at me, this is my first fan fiction after all. So yeah Read and Review it at your leisure. I do not own any of the Naruto Character's I am simply borrowing them, they all belong to Kishimoto-sama, well all except Hato Kigamaru, she's my ubber favorite Non Series character.


Chapter One: Grieving and Depression

Deidara was sitting in a tree, somewhere between the Land of Grass's border and the Land of Fire's Border. Yawning as he sat there, thinking of things, sad things at the moment. Sasori, his Danna was dead now, killed by that pink haired kunoichi from the Leaf Village, and that old hag, Chiyo. He would get revenge, eventually, oh yes, he would indeed.

He peered down at his arms that had been newly attached to him, after his bare escape from the Leaf Ninja and Sand Ninja that had come after Gaara. He hated himself, hated the label everyone had given him, a monster, just because of his love for blowing things up, and because of the people he hung around with.

Deidara muttered to himself, "I need a vacation, I think that's better for me yeah...I'll ask Leader for one, and he better give me one soon..."

Just then Deidara heard voices below his tree, turning slightly to get a glimpse of which it was, immediately his face turned from its passive depressed look, to one of annoyance. The voices were coming from Tobi and Zetsu; probably they were looking for him, no doubt. Slowly he stood up and attempted to keep himself hidden from them. He didn't want to be bothered, that much was known.

Tobi and Zetsu both heard the slight shifting in the trees, Tobi spoke up first, "There you are Deidara-senpai! Come down here, Leader wants to send you on another mission..."

Deidara huffed and immediately said, "Tell Leader I'm busy still, and that I'll come see him…hmmm…when I feel like it yeah…"

Zetsu's black side, spoke up, the voice sounded like a robotic droning as he spoke, "Leader thinks he has given you enough time to heal your injuries, Deidara, we even agree you have had enough time to do it is that you are currently doing…"

Deidara snorted, leave it to Zetsu, always referring to himself as If there was two of him instead of just one single person. Deidara looked up at the sky for a moment ignoring them for the moment as they started a conversation about something.

Deidara was getting very annoyed with Tobi, why the hell did Leader have to give him Tobi for a partner after Sasori died, Deidara was better working on his own anyway. Deidara then shouted down at the two, as they had started an argument and were getting really loud, interrupting his quiet time,

"WOULD YA ALL GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE YEAH!!? I'll fucking come see Leader when I'm damn well ready to hmm..."

Tobi and Zetsu both looked up towards the now angry Deidara, who was attempting not to strangle the two of them, like he had, to Tobi the first day he met him. Tobi sighed softly and motioned for Zetsu to come with him, to allow his sempai some peace and quiet.

Zetsu's white half spoke, in a soft voice, but Deidara could hear him as they walked away,

"Why does Deidara-San act like this right now, Tobi?"

Tobi then said, "Deidara-senpai is still grieving over Sasori-Sama's death...they were pretty close the two of them...I guess..."

Deidara huffed when he heard those words, as the two of them finally disappeared among the trees and out of his sight. They read into this totally wrong, they couldn't read him like that, he wasn't that easy to read, or was he? Perhaps he was slightly depressed about loosing Sasori-Danna, but only because they had been a friend that was all. There was no attraction there what's so ever. (God you Yaoi fans get that out of your Head :P)

He knew what he should do at that moment, perhaps he should ask Leader to allow him to go on a small vacation, just long enough to get his thoughts straightened out, even if Pein had already given him enough time and all to do his grieving and heal up from his battle with Kakashi and that team that had a Byakugan user in it.

Deidara slowly got up to his feet, making sure he didn't slip or anything on the tree branch, yes that was exactly what he would do. Quickly he made a handseal for the Body Flicker technique, and disappeared.

Meanwhile, far across into the Land of Fire, Ino Yamanaka had just finally returned from a mission with her team and all. Ino had a slight tired look on her face, well sort of a tired face. Ino was being debriefed by Shikamaru, seeing he was the leader of their team. She listened quietly for awhile, before finally Shikamaru dismissed them to go and do their own thing.

Ino had totally given up on her crush for Sasuke, knowing that he would never return to Konohagakure, even if Naruto and Sakura were doing their hardest to get him back. She was extremely happy for her teammates though, both had found their own love interests in the past 3 years, especially Choji.

He told her that he was going out with this Konoha Kunoichi named Hato Kigamaru, she had met the girl once or twice, and was glad the girl adored Choji so much, apparently Hato was the heir to a special Kekkei Genkai called Shinzuikouen or something of that sort, at least that was what Choji and Hato had told her. She was more then glad Choji had finally found someone who would love him for who he was, even if he was slightly chubby. As for Shikamaru, well that was no contest, the lazy bum was always with Temari of the Sand, every chance they got. That left only one person left of Team 10, and Ino felt depressed slightly.

Don't get her wrong, she wasn't jealous of her teammates, not at all, you could say she felt lonely at the moment, having not been able to find herself someone, like her best friends had. Shikamaru had even teased her about her lack of a boyfriend, at times. It also kind of hurt too, when people teased her about her choice in men.

Perhaps she should have never been picky during her younger years, especially when it came to looks. She frowned as she kicked a stone out of her way with her Zori sandaled foot as she walked. Hell, she pushed away Shikamaru and Choji both, with her name calling and all. Perhaps if she had been a lot more nicer to the men she met, and stopped chasing Sasuke all the time, perhaps she would have someone right now always at her side.

Ino mumbled as she reached her Family's Flower Shop, seeing her mother and father both inside, working themselves probably to death, "When...is it going to be my turn to find someone...to love...I mean...I shouldn't be picky you know, I'm not going to be this gorgeous looking forever..."

She sighed and slipped into the flower shop, "Hi Mom...dad..." She said out loud to the two Elder Yamanakas. Ino had got a lot of her looks from her father, the hair style of course was a dead give away, that all Yamanakas wore their hair in.

Inoichi spoke up, "Back from your mission Ino? How did it go?" Her mother was busying herself with a few new species of what looked to be a hybrid cross of an Iris and a Lily, as Ino replied,

"The Mission was a success, all we had to do really was to go and deliver a document to the Sand Village dad, and it was kind of boring if you ask me, for a B Rank mission...not much action..."

Inoichi chuckled at his daughter's choice of words, "That's my girl, always looking for the action, it's been a long time since I went on a mission of my own, and I'll have to talk to Hokage-sama about going on a mission or two."

Ino's mom's voice was then heard, "As far as I'm concerned, Inoichi, your going to stay put here, and help run this flower shop until your daughter is old enough to take over it."

Ino sighed, and took this as her cue to leave; her father and mother would always end up getting into an argument over what Dad couldn't and could do. Quietly she slipped out of the Flower Shop and headed for her apartment, she had moved out of her parent's home, a year ago, so that in case of an Emergency, Ino could just quickly go to her apartment; that was close to the Hokage's Office, and grab her backpack and head off quickly for a mission. Seeing her parent's home was further away from the Hokage office.

Ino then stopped at her apartment's door, when she arrived. A few tears began to well up in those beautiful blue eyes of hers; she could now feel how lonely she definitely was right now. She was about to head into her apartment when a loud voice, yelled out towards her,

"HEY INO-PIG!" the voice was quite familiar to Ino; it was her rival, and friend, Sakura Haruno. Great someone she didn't really feel like talking to right now, the girl would rub it in her face if she found out Ino was depressed no doubt.

"Hey what's up Billboard brow..." said Ino, as she quickly dabbed her eyes, standing stiffly as she placed her hand on her hip, while waiting for Sakura to respond to her question and greeting.

Sakura then smirked, and flipped her pink cotton candy colored hair to the side as she spoke,

"Tsunade-sama wants to talk to you when you get the chance, so how's your love life been…hmmm???" Sakura teased Ino all the time about this.

It seems everyone else was finding their true love and all, Ino was starting to feel desperate slightly at that moment. Ino then closed her blue eyes and smirked and said,

"That's none of your business Billboard brow, I'll have you know I've got someone in mind that I'm going to ask out soon…" She had lied, she had totally lied, and knew she was going to go straight to hell for this lie, but she had no choice, she wanted Sakura to get off her case about finding herself a man that she could ogle and all.

Sakura crossed her arms, "Oh really, is he from this village, or from one of the Villages that visits here from time to time???" asked Sakura, suspiciously, her eyebrow was raised when she asked this.

"He's from one of our Allied Villages yeah…and I'm not telling you who…so…nyah…" Ino stuck her tongue out and said after this, "Tell Tsunade-sama I'll talk to her tomorrow, I'm kind of just getting back from a mission and I'm exhausted from it." "Why don't you go chase Naruto or that strange guy, Sai or whatever his name is…"

Ino giggled and quickly made a swift retreat into her apartment before Sakura could say anything or for that matter, use her newly found in human strength to pulverize the poor Mind Bending Jutsu specialist into oblivion. (a/n: when I meant Mind Bending, I meant that the Yamanaka Clan can screw with people's minds with their jutsus.)

She could hear Sakura yelling, that she would get Ino back for that comment. Ino was behind the door, silent tears began flowing down her cheeks, and eyes were slowly becoming red and puffy. She was so very, very alone at that moment. She didn't know what to do, perhaps she would end up being alone for the rest of her life.

Ino hugged herself for a few minutes before walking directly to her bedroom, which by the way the room was totally painted in medium purple hues, seeing Ino always loved wearing dark purple to medium purple type of clothing. She then just practically tossed herself onto her bed, flat on her stomach, and began to cry for awhile.

She was kicking herself for being so mean to everyone, pushing everyone to the point they hated Ino now. Perhaps her entire village hated her, because the way she had treated people, flaunting her, what would the word be, her almost anorexic thin body around. People probably were disgusted by how thin she had got herself to.

One time she had overheard Shikamaru's conversation to Choji, 3 years ago, when they had been celebrating Shikamaru's promotion. The conversation had been about how he hated bone thin girls, who were unconfident with their bodies. Maybe Shika-Kun was right, maybe she should stop dieting and starts working on gaining a few pounds, maybe that's why people weren't attracted to her.

She was thinking this while she continued to sob, "Alright…" sniff, "I'll do it, just to prove your point is right…Shika-Kun…" She continued to sniffle for awhile, "But first things first, I think I'm going to take a trip by myself, just to get away from here, and do some thinking and planning on attracting a man, I hope Lady Hokage will let me have a bit of time off, to straighten my personal life out a little…" She wiped at her eyes with the palm of her left hand, for a moment, she felt quite exhausted.

Slowly she slipped into a deep sleep, having worn herself out from crying, plus the mission she had just returned from.

Little did Ino know, that somewhere out there, someone was probably thinking the same thing, at this very moment.


A/N: Okay so Chapter One is Done Now, I hope you like it so far, I know I know, it seems a bit depressing to see Ino crying a lot. Please forgive me, I'm trying to make my point across and all. Ino will soon be happy, happy, joy, joy again. Just wait and see :) Please Read And Review nicely, no fire bombs!

Up Next: Ino and Deidara both get permission from their respective leaders to go on a small journey to straighten out their problems and all, will these two desperate souls finally meet? Or will someone get in the way of these two meeting each other for the first time. Well…wait and see for yourself :P Keep an Eye out for my other Fanfic, Hazy Moon, it's a cool story, I swears.