Disclaimer: The right to all the Naruto characters go to Masashi Kishimoto.

Author's Note: Chapter ONE.~

Kidnapped

There is good, and there is evil.

There is light, and there is darkness.

There is weakness, and there is strength.

There is kindness, and there is mischief.

There is happiness, and there is desperation.

There is laughter, and there are screams.

There is heaven and there is hell.

There are prayers, and there are rituals.

There is a victim, and there are kidnapper.

There is a girl, and there are men.

... there is an organization, called Akatsuki.

"Oi, Ayako," a brown-haired girl called her friend over to one of the empty tables she was cleaning.

The called girl looked up with sparkling eyes. "What is it Teny?"

Tenten called her an other time with her finger movement.

Men, women, children with their parents, lovers, teenagers, all ate peacefully. Sometimes laughter was heard of the amusement their company and the delicious food gave.

Cheerfully she walked over, avoiding the people who sat and ate, or passed her, skillfully.

Tenten grinned at her. "Do you have a boyfriend now or not?"

"Teny," she warned her desperately. "I told you not to ask me that question...!"

"Come on." She waved her hands around in the air. "I'm your friend. I want to know such things!" Her teeth shone brightly.

"But please don't ask me when we're in front of a looot of people," Ayako spread her fingers and arms to reveal the inside of the neat restaurant they were working in.

"Oi," a man called. "Where's my food?"

"Sorry," Ayako made a quick bow in the direction of the customer. In a hurry she went back to the kitchen. "Ren?"

A young man with light brown hair who had it styled back, looked up.

"Is the food for table 21 done yet?"

Grinning, he placed the plate of the steak and some rice on the counter. "All done."

Happily, Ayako took it. "Arigato, Ren."

"Always welcome." His words stroked her as she rushed out to the waiting customer.

A customer is not to wait long. And it is not good if he has to shout for it. Either that man was impatient, or the waitress wasn't doing a very good job, or... perhaps, the cook was too slow.

"Here we go." The young girl placed the plate before the man on the table with a smile. "I am sorry you had to wait."

Ignoring her last sentence, he mumbled out a "Thank you" as he got his chopsticks and started to eat right away.

"You're welcome," she replied with a smile. Ayako could understand people. She may didn't know why they were mad or angry, she wasn't a person who hated, she was a person who loved. No matter how unfriendly people were, Ayako always tried to see the best in the situation.

"You really should get a boyfriend," her white, fluffy cat spoke as Ayako reached Tenten. Her cat sat on a chair while Tenten propped her elbows on the counter.

"Nyu," she closed her eyes as she called her cat by her name. "Why- are you all against me?"

"Nooo," Tenten calmed her. "We just want to help you."

Meowing Nyu took part.

Sarcastically taking their help, she crossed her arms. "How?"

Her friend glanced up and rolled her brown eyes, her mind none-stop thinking. "Um... ."

"Like you have a boyfriend, Teny." Ayako smirked lightly. Checkmate.

"Well... ."

"She loves Neji." Nyu sold Tenten.

Tenten's pure brown eyes were close to leave her skull. "I what?"

"Yeah," Ayako suddenly became interested in this conversation. "What's about you and Neji anyway?" She rose her eyebrows. "It's all rumored that you guys are dating... ."

"No... . We're just friends." Tenten sighed. "He likes another girl... ."

Without wasting a braincell, she shot her words, "Who? Do I know her?"

Tenten nodded as she rose an eyebrow. "Totally."

"Let me guess then... ." Thinking of whom a guy like Neji could like, she scratched the side of her head under her dirty blonde hair lightly.

"Stupid," Nyu threw at her mistress' face.

"Oi! I'm smart!"

"No, Ayako, you are stupid," her brown-haired friend corrected her.

Ayako blinked cluelessly. "But... why?"

"'Cause he likes you," Tenten revealed the truth loudly.

For a moment she stared into the lovely nothingness. Swallowing her spit that had gathered, she managed to bring out, "M... e?"

"Finally," Tenten announced.

Nyu meowed, nodding her head.

"And what am I supposed to do now?"

Tenten answered as if it was the ordinariest thing to do, "Ask him out."

Ayako took a step back. "I never could! And a boy has to ask the girl out anyway," she stood to the old, romantic tradition.

Her friends rolled their eyes.

Seeing her friends mock her in a gentle way, Ayako was about to protest.

However, Tenten widened her eyes and pointed hysterically at a person. "Neji's coming in!"

Ayako mirrored Tenten to the part of her eyes. She turned 180°, her soft hair falling over her shoulders and her bangs hanging loosely over her purple eyes.

"Oh... ." Tenten stared at him. "He's coming closer! Well, Ayako-chan, I better go." Picking Nyu up, she grinned back at her friend. "Come on Nyu."

"Teny? Nyu?" Spinning back, she saw her friends leave. "Nooo," she screamed in a whisper until she felt a finger tap on her left shoulder. She winced at this touch because she knew who it was.

"Sorry, Ayako-chan. I didn't mean to scare you."

Smiling uneasily, she turned back, shoving it off. "Heyy, Neji-kun... long time no see, huh?"

"It was yesterday... we trained," he replied puzzled.

She was caught. "Riiight... it was a long night." She tried her best in grinning. It still is a mystery why people act differently around a special person when they find out that this someone loves them.

However that Tenten and Nyu left, they only hid behind the counter. This was the best seat for watching the whole scene.

"Doesn't she like him?" Tenten whispered, glancing at Ayako's pure white cat for a moment.

"She actually does... . But I dunno what's up with her."

"So, Neji-kun... ." She smiled, and yet half of her smile was still an uneasy grin. "Do you have a girlfriend?"

He rose one of his eyebrows lightly. His soft lavender eyes seemed suspicious, as if they tried to read her. "No."

Defending herself and washing her hand in innocence, she put them up. "Just askin'," she mumbled, "just askin'... ."

"Ayako," her mother called her from behind the counter.

"Sup, mom?" She asked as she arched her eyebrows and turned towards her mother.

"There are new guests. Please be so kind and take the order."

"Hai, mom." She nodded. Then she looked back at Neji. "Sorry, Neji-kun, I have to work." Yet before she went off to take those orders, she leaned back. "And maybe some others should work, too!"

Spotted, Tenten got up. She grinned at her old team mate. "Hey, Neji."

With one eyebrow raised, he greeted her back.

Leaving Tenten, Neji and her cat, she walked over to the new guests. "Hello, and welcome." She smiled a sweet smile.

"Oh, hello, little girl, hm," one with blonde hair said as he smirked at her. One half of his face was covered by his bangs.

"Stop it, Deidara," one with red hair forbid the first one to speak.

Slightly confused because of these men, she rose one of her eyebrows lightly, but kept a cheerful face. "Can I take your orders, please?"

The blonde guy caught her eyes with his. "Are you on the menu, too?" His smirk was still present.

"You want to eat me?" Ayako shrieked lightly.

Three other men who belonged to this group giggled silently, the one with the red hair included.

Deidara didn't let himself be written off. "How about I take you with me, hm?"

"Kinda nope," Ayako said naively. "I have to work here."

"Do you have something special on the menu?" One of the group with black hair asked as he roamed the menu card. He had his hair middle parted. The back of his hair was long, and kept together in lose ponytail. He also had two stripes diagonal down on his face on each side. They started between his nose and eyes. It wouldn't be a surprise if it was known as his trademark.

"Yes." She smiled, happy to help. "We have good fish whic-"

"Fish...? Fish? Fish?"

Worried that she made one of them angry, she bit her bottom lip. "What did I say wrong?" she asked quietly.

"Nothing," Deidara sighed. "He's just a shark and hates his friends being on the menu, hm."

"Shark, huh...?" Carefully she looked back at the 'shark'. He was blue, he even had blue hair, and he as well had scales. He really looks like a shark... .

"Ayako," the man with the black hair called her. "Stop staring at Kisame."

Slowly, she turned her head to him. "H- how do y- you k- know my- my name?"

"It's written on your name plate," he helped her brain.

Sheepishly she glanced down to see that he was right. "Oh... ." Lightly she blushed in embarrassment.

"Anyway," Deidara said, switching the topic. "I'm Deidara. That's Sasori, that's Itachi, and that's... Kisame," he introduced each while he pointed his thumb at them.

"I'm Ayako." She smiled. "It's nice to meet you."

Deidara gifted her with a crooked smile. "The pleasure is all mine." He then stepped closer, his shadow covering her. "I'm sorry, where are the washrooms, hm?"

"The washroom for the ladies?" Kisame asked with an evil grin.

"Shut your face, yeah," Deidara smashed his words at the shark's face.

"P- please," gingerly Ayako dared speak up. "Don't fight. I detest violence in any way."

"Then you will be just fine with us." The blue guy smirked at her.

Unsure how to react, Ayako glanced back to Deidara.

Deidara took a breath to calm. "Will you be so kind and lead me the way to the washroom, hm?"

"Sure." She smiled again. "Follow me."

The four men followed her without a negative word - to her. "Be sure to walk into the right door, Deidara."

To not send his explosive darlings off to Kisame, he muttered, "Be sure not to end up being on the menu." The thought of Kisame being cut into little pieces amused him. Soon he found himself smirk again, just as they reached the washrooms.

"Here they are," Ayako said as she stopped before two doors.

Kisame walked in to the men's washroom. "It's clear," he let the others know three seconds later.

"Good." Those were Itachi's words as he pushed her in. Deidara and Sasori complied with this for once as they stepped into the washroom for men.

"H- hey, wait! I'm-"

"Shh," Kisame cooed as he put his index finger on her lips. "Don't scream, and we won't hurt you."

Without much emotion, Ayako saw Itachi in the mirror speak, "We have to go."

"Agreed." Kisame showed his sharp teeth.

Baffled, she watched the men get ready. Kisame rolled his shoulders as if to get ready to fight. Sasori, on the other hand, moved his fingers in a slight weird manner, while Deidara put one of his hands in a bag he carried on his side. "Don't you wanna-"

But before her sentence was ended, Itachi shackled her feet, and her wrists with a rope.

"Huh? Wha-"

Silenced by a cloth, she felt some fish-skin brush against her soft skin. Then she was lifted and put over a shoulder. A big sword wrapped in bandages smiled at her.

What is going on?

"Let's leave," Itachi said coolly.

With a poof they vanished. Just as they reappeared on the roof of this restaurant, Deidara created a large clay bird. There was no question, all jumped on it. People on the street were rather shocked, yet the group of four - now five - didn't care as they flew over the people's heads.

"Ayako?" Searching Tenten looked under tables and everywhere she could imagine her friend to be. "Did she leave with those guys?" She frowned. Ayako was a sweet girl who took care of everyone. Neither would she leave her friends just like that. She would say goodbye. "There is no way that she did."

"I'll follow those men," Nyu meowed as she jumped out and darted off.

Tenten stood in the middle of the restaurant, staring at the entrance and exit door. No one else had noticed anything? Those guys were... not normal. "Good kitty... run."

Author's Note: This is chapter one. Tell me what you think.