Hey! This is a new Sakura and Deidara story I thought of. Totally different from all the other stories that you've read and it took me a long time to figure out why he would be welcomed into Konoha. But I finally did and I think it is great! I hope you like it as well.

Now before you read, it does mention rape. But it never goes into full detail. This story was going to go a totally different way, but I decided against it, but still wanted the version of Deidara that the event caused. I know that he will be a bit of OOC, but just imagine if you were in his shoes... Yeah it happens to him, but you'll see why.

Again, this is a very different story and I think the only stories where Deidara was actually accepted into Konoha was Diplomacy By RikkiTikkiTavi and Vertigo by CynChick. So enjoy and I hope that you enjoy this.

By the way, before I stop my ramblings, this idea was inspired by the thought:

Naruto and Deidara are really similar in a way, so what if they became friends? What if Sakura fell for him? Then how would Naruto respond?

So here it is!

Enjoy!!

Kure-tori

Chapter 1

How He Became My Informant

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, yeah

Tsunade couldn't help but smirk as she head the tap tap tap on her window. She opened the window to her office and held out her arm for the strange looking bird to perch on. It looked like a messenger hawk, yet it was an off white color and was nothing more then a kure-tori, a clay bird.

She took the message from its right talon that held it firmly in its grasp and uttered as small thank you to it, not knowing whether the creator would know or not but being polite anyways. The bird just nodded and flew out the window to self-destruct somewhere uninhabited.

"What is that Tsunade-sama?" A cold toned voice asked her.

She looked up and smiled at the red headed teen who had been sitting there. She was mildly surprised that the kure-tori had dropped off the message in the presence of the Kazekage.

"My informant," She said truthfully as she played with the paper in hand, "The reason I wished to talk to you today."

"That was a clay bird, wasn't it?" Gaara noted.

"You are not one to beat around the bush. Yes, you have met him in battle, but he was just taking orders to capture you like any employed ninja would." Tsunade said as she looked at the man's teal eyes.

He closed his eyes and nodded, "Yes, I guess I can accept that. So what about him do you wish to speak about?"

"I made a deal with the kid." Tsunade explained as she sat back in her chair, resting her head in her right hand while fingering the note, "I will explain it to you in detail later, but the basics are he gives me info on Akatsuki; I give him a place in Konoha when he flees."

"However since I am your ally and he personally attacked me and brought me to my demise, you wished to ask if it would be alright." Gaara stated.

It was not a matter of questioning; he knew that was where it was going.

"I have already made the deal," Tsunade corrected, "But I still wanted to get your approval on the whole situation. He would become a leaf shinobi, and your ally."

"I see," Gaara said as he closed his eyes again to think.

He opened them again and looked at the elderly Hokage whose years were hidden well in her young appearance.

"I shall accept the fact that he will exist here. Just like Naruto and I fight for acknowledgement, he too must be searching for those who will accept him. I, if anything, should be grateful for the events that led to the removal of Shukaku, so in a way I need be grateful for the battle that he and I shared." Gaara said with a condoning look in his eyes.

Tsunade just beamed at the other kage and looked at the note, "Well now that that's out of the way, let's see what he wrote."

Tsunade's good mood vanished as she began reading the contents of the letter. Worry entered her eyes as she slammed down the note and looked at Gaara.

"I guess it was a good thing you agreed to him being here, because he was discovered and is making his way here." She said in an unhappy tone.

"Then let us go and welcome him," Gaara said as he removed the kage robes.

Tsunade raised an eyebrow at that, "Us? As in just you and I?"

"His coming here should not be well known. As little as possible should even know of his staying here until the whole fiasco called Akatsuki is resolved. Bring your personal ANBU and that should suffice," Gaara said, as he made sure his gourd was securely strapped to his back, "Plus I am very curious as to why you accepted I'd like to hear the story on the way."

Tsunade smirked as she nodded at Gaara. She snapped her fingers and five masked shinobi appeared in the room. Sometimes being Hokage rocked.

"So, tell me of how this all came about," Gaara said as he leapt to another tree branch.

"This is not to be repeated in any way ever. Not written, not by hand gestures, not by words, nothing," Tsunade said to her ANBU who all nodded their agreement, "This is how the kid and I met:

I have tea outside of the village every once in a while to free myself of the headache known as paperwork. Okay, so it was a small little teahouse and I wasn't really ordering tea. I was sitting in the corner of the room with a clear view of the entrance and sipping on some sake, that's when he showed up in the doorway.

We had never planned it, never saw it coming that we both would choose the same little teashop on the same day and hour, but it happened. I recognized him immediately, but kept my head and watched him. He was wearing his kasa and cloak, but I could tell who he was by the blond hair hanging in his face. He looked rather annoyed and tense. I wondered why someone like him would even travel alone, but I didn't ask since I wasn't trying to draw attention to myself.

I didn't have any backup and he- by description in the bingo book- was a long distance fighter and I was not a good match up. The kid looked around the teashop and to his dissatisfaction all the tables and seats were taken, save the seat on my table across from me.

At the time I was cursing my luck as he made a movement and stood next to me and looked down at me with his eyes and pointed to the spot before uttering something I never thought a brute like him would say.

"May I sit with you, yeah? I normally wouldn't ask, but there are not other seats, so please?" He had asked me with a level voice.

I was surprised by how deep and masculine his voice actually was. His picture made him look like his voice would be higher and more feminine but that isn't really the point. I nodded my consent as I brought the sake to my lips.

"What brings you out here all aggravated kid?" I asked him in the tone I use with Naruto.

He just took off his Kasa and folded his hands and placed them on his lap as he ordered his food and tea. He looked at me after a moment and pulled his lips into a frown.

"Nothing that really concerns you, miss." He said with a still polite tone, he muttered under his breath thinking that I would hear, but I did, "I just hate my job, yeah."

"So, why stay if you hate it? That hard to get out?" I questioned him with a gentle gaze.

He looked rather surprised that I had heard him and looked at me with a sharp eye. I could immediately tell that he knew I was more then meets the eye. He might have been young but he seemed rather smart- a genius if he was given the chance.

"Not that easy," he finally said with a sigh, deciding that he might as well since he already seemed in trouble, "I didn't even want the job. It's one of those 'no-say-in-anything' kinds of jobs, yeah. Plus it pays."

I had paused to let the woman set down the red bean paste buns and the cup of tea in front of him. He muttered a 'thanks' and immediately began to pick at his food. It was rather cute actually how childishly he ate the food. I was trying rather hard not to mother him at the second. But he was young like Naruto and I could tell from his table manners that his manners had been self-taught. He probably learned the right way in addressing someone in the academy in Iwagakure but that was his limit.

I don't know why, maybe it was his eye color and hair color that reminded me so much of Naruto, but my heart went out to him at that moment and I decided to risk making a deal with him.

"Did you ever wish to get out of it? To leave? I mean what's holding you back kid?" I asked him as I took another sip.

"Of course I want to leave," He said quietly with his mouth full, just proving my theory, "But I value my life. I'm not done improving my art yet, yeah."

I smirked at him, as I looked him straight in the eye, "Then make a deal with me."

He stared at me, his whole body stiffening as he really actually tried to place me. I ignored his look and gave him a cocky smile before telling him, "I'm a gambling kind of gal and I see a rather good gain on helping you. But, I scratch your back you scratch mine."

That got his attention. He stayed quiet, still not knowing exactly who I was, but knew I had the power to back up whatever I was saying. I couldn't help but keep my smirk plastered on my face as I watched him come to a resolve.

"I am willing to do that, yeah," He said with a nod, "I'm guessing you know who I am and have reason to want what I know."

"Of course," I chimed as I looked at him, "Naruto is very hard to contain in the village and I would love to know when not to let him out."

I had finally shown him a bit of my hand. His eyes went wide as he finally realized whom I was and what I could do or offer. His hands instinctively when to the clay pouches on his hips, but I stopped him with my comment.

"Let's be real. I knew who you were the moment you stepped into the place. If I wanted to kill you I would have killed you the moment you said the word 'May'. Now move your hands away from the pouches and finish your meal while we discuss our agreement." I stated with a firm tone as I took another sip of my sake.

"Why offer me anything, yeah?" He asked skeptically.

"Don't know, but I know now that you don't like being an Akatsuki member and I particularly don't like the idea of Akatsuki having as large as a number as it has now. So here's the deal. For however long you can, you are going to send information to me about Akatsuki's movements. If they are after Naruto, tell me so I can keep him in. If they are going to attack Konoha, tell me so that I can send Naruto out with Jiraiya and throw them off the trail. If you do this, I will give you shinobi status in Konoha, take you out of our bingo books and possibly Suna's, erase all criminal records you have in Konoha and maybe even Suna's and protect you from Akatsuki's wrath as best as I can. That's a pretty good deal and you'll be paid for all information you send to me once you are safely in Konoha and you can decide from there out if you want to continue being a shinobi or retire." I told him with a stern look.

He made no movement to attack and just sat there staring at me with the most surprised look on his face. He seemed to think that either it was a big joke or he was dreaming. I think I even saw him pinch himself just to make sure. He took his time thinking it through and finally looked at me with those blue eyes and sharp gaze that no kid his age should have.

"It sounds a little too good to be true, yeah. But I really don't like Akatsuki. I hate the Uchiha; in fact, I hate all of the people that are apart of the organization, yeah. Especially the Uchiha, yeah." He explained as he looked down at his hands, "Don't expect me to build a clan or anything like that, yeah. Hell, if you force me to build a clan I will leave. I will only have a family if I chose to have one and I don't want to ranked anything lower then jounin. If you agree to those terms, then I will accept your offer, yeah."

I just nodded as I looked at his eyes, "You have a deal. I will want to keep you close at first, but only to keep an eye on you and make sure people understand you aren't going to hurt the village in anyway. Is that fine?"

He just nodded as he flashed me a true smile saying only "Yeah" to what I had just said. After that we discussed how he could contact me and how I would contact him. He would send clay birds with messages and I wouldn't contact him since that would endanger him. That was our agreement and he had fulfilled it to this very day." Tsunade finished and cast a glance at Gaara.

"I'm actually worried about him since he has been having to use a enhanced transformation jutsu to work, using his chakra to give him a physical change to whatever he transformed into. Last time he wrote, he explained that he had to take on the appearance of a geisha- anatomy and all. The mission was still suppose to be going on, so something must have happened during it." Tsunade confessed as she looked at the break in the trees in the distance, "He's a sweet kid. Cocky and die-hard stubborn and prideful, but sweet otherwise."

"He apparently awakens your maternal side like Naruto." Gaara noted as he looked at the woman, "I am beginning to see why Naruto looks up to you."

Tsunade would have continued the conversation, but at that moment they had entered the rendezvous point. It was a small field only big enough to land a small clay bird and easily over looked by people who didn't know the land. Tsunade forced herself to stifle her gasp as she looked at the boy leaning on the smallish clay fly vessel.

He was still in his henge, tears mixed with mascara staining his face along with massive bruising on almost every inch of him that she could see. His hair was up in the traditional geisha way with a shorter strand of his very long bangs covering up the left side of his face. Hair was falling out of the hairdo and he was still wearing the kimono he had put on that day- or maybe day before. He was gripping an open wound on his side as he tired to keep the shredded kimono from falling off his body.

"I'm glad you finally came, yeah," He said with a lighter more female voice that went with his guise.

"Were you discovered?"

"No duh I was discovered, or I wouldn't be here, yeah! I'd still be holding up my part of the agreement! Somehow Pein discovered me and… and…" He began to choke on the tears as he fought them off.

Tsunade was already approaching him and brought him into a firm hug, noticing how he practically fell apart as he buried his face into her shoulder to cry.

"We need to get you out of here." Tsunade said as she looked over at the Kazekage, "Do you think you could get us back quickly via sand?"

She could feel Deidara stiffen at the comment, ready to jerk away if need be. Tsunade just ran her hand down his back in a comforting way to let him know everything would be fine as long as she was there.

"I could take you back to Konoha that way, but it is not as fast as if I shunshin a couple of times. With my amount of chakra we would get back faster." Gaara's voice explained before addressing the boy, "I have already talked to Tsunade-sama and you have nothing to fear from me. I will let the past stay in the past as long as you don't make another attempt at my life."

Deidara just nodded in Tsunade's shoulder as he continued to cry, relaxing a bit even though it was against his better judgment. Tsunade could tell that whatever had gone on before he had gotten here was rather emotional and stressful just by how he seemed to lower his guard.

Gaara and the ANBU neared the Hokage and her informant since it didn't seem as she was going to move. She just let the boy- who was still in the henge- cry on her shoulder and she scooped up his legs and held him in the bridal position. Gaara just nodded and put his hands up and shunshined them out of the area and repeated the process several times.

Tsunade actually was glad that Deidara hadn't dropped the enhanced henge as they appeared at the gates. She just threw a glare at the guards daring them to even gossip about it. Deidara had wrapped his arms around her neck at that time in a hug like manner and passed out due to the lack of blood and emotional stress that had caused such a strong and prideful boy to break down in tears.

It was a quick trip to the hospital as Tsunade wordlessly took an empty ER room that had already been prepped thanks to Shizune. She set Deidara down on the empty cot and gently but swiftly began to remove the kimono, noticing how Deidara flinched at the act and began to assess the damage. She quickly noted the stitching around his arms and the strange tattoo on his chest. He had explained those to her in the letters so if something ever went wrong as it did she would know what he already had and didn't have.

Tsunade almost had a conniption over the gashes and bruising the poor boy had. His entire stomach was black and blue as well as his bosom –those bruises actually looked like hands- and his side had a deep cut too close to his organs for Tsunade. She could now easily understand why the boy broke down in tears; someone had raped him.

The old hokage took the time to discover the seal that Deidara used to keep the henge and deactivated it to return his body to normal. She couldn't help but feel that is wasn't as bad now that he wasn't a petite female geisha.

Tsunade pulled out the hairpins and let his hair fall over the cot as she inspected his head for a concussion. There was a rather large goose egg in the back of his head and his left eye was black and swollen looking from being abused.

Muscles had been torn, huge gashes that threatened his life, bones sprained or fractured or even snapped, and bruises on almost every inch of his body. Someone wanted him to suffer and badly.

By the time Tsunade was done healing his life threatening wounds and mending his bones, she was exhausted. She had healed a couple of the bruises on his body -the ones that looked like hands; but since they were superficial, it was better to let them heal on their own.

She didn't trust anybody at the moment with the boy so she reactivated the seal and dressed him in a baggy shirt and boxers before lifting him up into her arms, and taking him back to her place.

"Shizune," Tsunade barked as she left the ER room, "This is a very special guest of mine and I don't want any rumors of her going around just yet so keep those who have seen her quite. I am taking her back to my house and I expect you to assign some of my ANBU to watch her and inform me when she wakes."

Shizune, who had waited outside the doors, nodded as she followed the Hokage down the hall, "Hai, Tsunade-sama. I will get on that immediately. Also I wanted to inform you that Team Kakashi will be returning in about three months time."

"Good. I don't want to handle Naruto meeting my guest just yet. Let's give her some time to recover a bit."

"Hai, Tsunade-sama."

Sooooooo... How did you like it? I know you'd all prefer me to go and finish Gashin: Artistic Instinct, but I am sorta stuck and I had already had this chapter (plus several others) written so I am finally posting another chapter. I will try to balance out my attention to all my stories, but for now enjoy a new one.

Remember: Deidara is a bit OOC but events form our personality and this one definately formed his.

And forgive me!!! I didn't want to but I needed something that will make him how he is in later chapters!!!

Please tell me what you think so far!!

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