Disclaimer: Naruto characters are not mine. However, this story line is. So you can review it, but not steal it. Thanx.

On a happier note, I have discovered that cats, when given something sour, are a huge source of entertainment. 3
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"Sasori, tell me again why we are doing this mission."

"Because, brat, this is the mission we were given by Pain himself. This jinjurikai is younger than you, and even were that not enough, that will be enough to drive him so far inside himself he will be an easy capture. After all, they were friends, right?"

Deidara grins, saying, "Jinjurikai are too easily beaten. They live by their emotions."

Sasori laughs at that, replying, "What about you, brat? You are ruled by your emotions."

The younger Atkatsuki shinobi laughed as well. "Hai, but I've got you to keep me in line!" he sits on the giant clay bird he'd been riding on, looking forward to the mission ahead.

However, things didn't go as planned. For one, the yellow haired jinjurikai, Naruto, hadn't showed up alone. He'd brought a pink haired female, an old crone, the legendary silver haired ninja, Kakashi, and two ninja with black bowl cut hair and green jumpsuits. The only differences between the last two were that one was taller than the other, and that the shorter one had bushy eye brows. The two Atkatsuki were forced to split up, with the four male shinobi following Deidara. They fought him, forcing him back and wearing him down.

Though Deidara was strong, he wasn't strong enough to take on a grief stricken jinjurikai and Kakashi. That, and the fact that in his tired state, Deidara was about to beat a hasty "bomb and run" when a black haired shinobi, dressed in Atkatsuki garb, appeared.

"I-Itachi…"

"Go, Deidara… I will handle these… ninja." Deidara nodded, sprinting away, unable to even create a bird to fly away on. He heard Naruto scream something at him faintly, but was too far away to turn and reply. He stopped by a waterfall, sitting and taking a rest. After about an hour, just as he was getting ready to go, he heard something rushing towards him… and it was closing fast.

"Damned Atkatsuki! Where is Gaara?!" the sound of Naruto's rage sounded closer by the second.

Deidara had barely had time to prepare a bomb before Naruto slammed into him, knocking him to the ground. The bomb exploded, sending Naruto flying and giving Deidara time to stand. However, the jinjurikai had used almost preternatural reflexes to throw up a doppelganger at the last minute to take the brunt of the explosion. It stood, glaring at him, and Deidara noticed a few changes that scared him. One, Naruto had a red chakra surrounding it, with what looked like two tails in the air behind it. Two, the three whisker-like marks on its face had grown more ragged, instead of straight as they had been upon meeting each other. And three… the eyes, which had been an unusual bright blue had turned red and slit pupilled. It was the eyes that scared him, the way they seemed to burn through his skin, to his soul.

Deidara made another bomb and dropped it onto the ground, controlling the spider with his chakra, walking it towards Naruto. But as the bomb reached it, the jinjurikai crushed it, and leeched the chakra out. Then, it made the signs for a shadow clone, but more than expected had shown up. Deidara had expected three, not a hundred, if not more. As Deidara was rushed by the jinjurikai's shadow clones he packed as much clay into the mouths on his palms' mouths as possible, and makes realistic, if miniature models of himself. Once they were done, he through them away and made them bigger, life sized. As he watched, a vast majority of the clones attacked his clay doppelgangers, masking them from view. When he felt enough were around them, he set the Deidara bombs off at once, making a great explosion. The clearing had been incased in a thick smoky fog, not only from the explosion, but from the chakra giving the shadow clones form.

Deidara was about to head back to Sasori, when a bright blue light brought him to a halt. He spun, right as the jinjurikai launched itself at him, screaming, and slammed something into Deidara's gut, then… all went dark.

This is only chapter one. For those of you who watched Naruto shippuden, or have read the manga for Naruto, and think this goes nothing like the fight between Naruto and Deidara, you're right. This was loosely based on it in the beginning, but I wanted to add my own thoughts into this.

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