"When Love Is the Key to the Solution"

A Sasori Love Story

Ch.1

Everyone was gathering up at the Akatsuki living room for a meeting. Sasori was taking a nap at the time and was woken up by one of the Akatsuki; which was also his friend. A knock was heard on his door.

"Sasori no danna, let's go, we have a meeting, un" said Deidara.

"Umm…am coming…" said a sleepy Sasori.

He rubbed his eyes to clear his vision and got up from his king-size bed. When he opened the door he found an impatient Deidara; almost looking daggers at him. They knew that to all meetings they had to be on time no matter what.

"What took you so long?" asked Deidara.

"Taking a nap" answered Sasori.

"That explains, well we are all waiting for you" said Deidara.

"Do you know what's going on?" asked Sasori.

"Nope, am curious as well, un" answered Deidara.

When they finally reached the living room all of the Akatsuki were sitting down on the sofa or in some chairs waiting for them to arrive.

"Now that we are all gathered here I have to gibe you some news" said Pein. "Well, a new member will be joining the organization. After Konan decided to stop the 'killing' and just stay at one of our bases as a leader, now we really need someone to replace her."

"Who could it be?" thought Sasori.

"Could it be a girl?" thought Hidan.

And soon all of the Akatsuki were thinking the same thing. Leader Pein was not surprised when his Akatsuki spaced out after they heard about a new member but, not revealing his/her identity. There was a reason why he didn't reveal hi/her identity. He gave a lot of thought to this decision since there could be problems among them in the future. Like love conflicts or just not getting along at all. Finally he came to the conclusion to bring the new Akatsuki in. Later on he will see if his decision was wise.

To break the awkward silence that filled the room Deidara asked,

"When is the new member coming in Leader-sama?"

"Tomorrow early in the morning" Pein answered. "Well, that's about it for today."

Pein got up and so did everybody else.

-Later on that night at Sasori's room-

Sasori was in his room working on his puppets. Meanwhile, he was thinking about this new member joining them tomorrow.

"I wonder if it's a girl or guy…" he thought.

After a while he started watching TV. to get his mind of the subject.

Meanwhile somewhere else

"I should reach the Akatsuki hide out by tomorrow morning just like Leader-sama said…" the new Akatsuki thought. "My only desire so far is to get along with everyone and not start any kind of problems… " the Akatsuki sighed.

(Morning at the Akatsuki hide out)

Sasori was waking up to the sun rays creeping through the trees and to his window. He groaned. As much as he didn't want to get up he had to; they were supposed to be downstairs to receive the new member. It's not like Pein had to tell them this…it was already an unspoken agreement to do it. And who knew if there was going to be anyone downstairs to welcome the new member; now this would get Pein mad.

Sasori got up from his bed and took a quick shower. He then changed into some baggy pants and a shirt, and then on top of that he wore his Akatsuki cloak. The red-haired Akatsuki went downstairs to the kitchen and found no one there.

"I had a feeling about this" he thought.

The red-haired Akatsuki started looking in the fridge for food and took out some donuts and prepared some hot chocolate. He was almost done eating…when he heard some one knock on his door.

"I guess that's the new member" he thought.

Sasori got up to answer then suddenly felt... nervous…for unexplained reasons. He opened the door slowly and he was right; it was the new member but he was not expecting some one so…beautiful. She had black hair that was about around her waist, she had an innocent look but something told him that face could fool you if you mess with her. She had dark green eyes just full of mystery yet to be discovered.

"You must be the new member joining us, right" said Sasori.

"Yes, I am Xica" she said.

"Well, I am Sasori, come in" he said moving to the side letting her in.

After closing the door behind him, Sasori brought her to the living room; there was no one still.

"This is the living room and there is the kitchen" said Sasori.

The kitchen was only steps away from the living room. For a moment he stopped and looked at her fully. She had a slim but curvy body, her dark long hair went just right with her shape and those eyes…held a mystery. Today he was being too nice.

"Why have I been too nice to this…stranger…this is not me" he thought. "I'm hoping those eyes didn't hypnotize me at all …not even for a moment."

"What is he looking at?" She thought but didn't mind because she was doing the same. "He is so cute" she smirked.

He got a little pink with out letting Xica noticed he looked away. Then Deidara and Hidan made their way downstairs to the living room to find Sasori and a stranger (possibly the new member) looking at each other.

"Who is she?" asked Hidan.

Sasori looked over to find two confused Akatsuki looking at him and Xica.

"She is the new member joining us" said Sasori.

"Oh" answered both in unison.

"Welcome to the Akatsuki" said Deidara.

"Thank you" answered Xica. "I'm Xica, and you are…?"

"Deidara and this is Hidan" said Deidara.

She smiled thinking this was going to be a good start and maybe a good friend ship with the Akatsuki named Deidara.

"Nice meeting you" she said.

Her stomach started to growl. Telling her it was time for breakfast; she blushed.

"Come to the kitchen and make yourself at home" Deidara said.

Sasori motioned Deidara not to go to the kitchen because he knew already what he was going to do. The blonde Akatsuki motioned him to move it since he was not going to miss an episode after what he witnessed.

Sasori sat down in the table to finish his breakfast. Meanwhile, Deidara and Xica started making their breakfast and talked. Xica made herself a grilled sandwich accompanied by an orange juice. Deidara just ate some cereal.

They all sat down to eat near where Sasori was finishing up his breakfast.

"Someone's quiet today…" said Deidara to Sasori indirect.

Sasori gave the blond Akatsuki a death glare. Deidara did not take this as a threat but as a motivation to go on.

"So, Sasori-san is there something wrong?" asked Deidara teasingly.

Xica looked over to Sasori and started to worried because his cheeks were getting red; she didn't know what to think.

"Sa-sasori-san is something wrong?" asked Xica.

"N-no, not at all" stuttered Sasori. Deidara-san can I have a word with you?"