Deidara watched as Naiya was curled up on his bed fast asleep after long hours of trying to teach her to talk, but he wouldn't give up on her. He took a ball of soft clay out from his pocket and began to sculpt another one of those masterpieces that he calls art and as he played with it, he watched Naiya's stomach rise and fall in her sleep and he wondered how he was going to take care of her. He realized that when she was screaming earlier that she immediately went quiet as soon as he gave her the lump of clay so he thought that he could somehow use the clay to teach her to talk seems how she took an interest upon the clay. Deidara sighed heavily.

"What am I going to do, un?" Deidara asked himself just before there was a knock on the door then Sasori just let himself in.

"Any words coming out?" Sasori asked but Deidara just shook his head. "Leader-sama wants to speak with all of us."

"But I can't leave Naiya; just tell him that I can't make it."

"Relax, it's not like she'll blow up the room while you're gone, now come on lets go." Sasori pushed him to the room where all of the Akatsuki members were gathered.

"Now that we're all here, let's begin." Pein started. "As you all know, we have a Jinchuriki living with us temporarily; Naiya. We need to be careful around her because her Jinchuriki is sensitive and also that we found out earlier, her ears are sensitive as well."

"That girl would be very useful for my ritual." Hidan chuckled

"Don't even go there Hidan, we need this girls Jinchuriki, and besides, if you use her for that, it will only anger her and who knows what she could do. Now we have a slight problem, she's a girl... and we're all guys."

"So, what's your point?" Zetsu asked.

"I mean if she's so helpless, who's going to dress her and bathe her?"

"Good question." Kisame laughed.

"I could." Hidan said only for his own naughty reasons.

"There's no way I'm trusting her with you Hidan." Deidara said.

"Maybe we can just ask her, or she can do it herself." Kakuzu said.

"You baka, we can't just ask her! There's no way that she can do it herself. I'm surprised that she can even walk. Ever since she came here she's been nothing but trouble." Hidan shouted

"Hey you're more trouble than she is with your stupid rituals." Deidara defended.

"Shut the **** up Deidara."

"Guys, now's not the time."

"Why are you fighting about a stupid girl any ways?" Zetsu asked clueless and Deidara glared at him then they all heard a THUNK then a CRASH.

"Naiya!" Deidara shouted as he and everyone else ran to his room to check out what happened and there she laid on the floor with a scratch on her arm. There was a clay moulding tool that Naiya scraped her arm against as she fell to the ground and it laid right beside her covered with a bit of blood.

"Ha, maybe I was wrong, she can't walk." Hidan mocked.

"Naiya are you alright, hm?" Deidara bent down beside the weeping girl and tried to comfort her.

"That's it, I'm outta here." Zetsu said walking away while being followed by everyone else but Deidara and Sasori.

"Is she alright?" Sasori asked.

"Yeah, it looks like it's only a scratch." Deidara answered while sitting Naiya on his bed.

"Hold still, I'm not going to hurt you." He gently said while trying to apply some healing cream but Naiya slightly whined as she pulled away after she felt the slight contact. "I won't hurt you." He said again but this time Naiya allowed for Deidara to treat her wounds. He gently applied the cream to her cut then he wrapped some cloth bandages around her arm to discontinue the air flow. Naiya smiled in relief when Deidara had finished and he too smiled at her but unfortunately, she couldn't see it.

"Where do you think you're going?" Kisame asked as he noticed Deidara trying to sneak Naiya past him.

"Un, nowhere, I was just going to take Naiya out for some ice-cream, hm?"

"Heheh, I don't think that leader-sama would like this."

"Do me a favour and keep quiet about it, yeah! We won't be out long enough for him to notice that we are gone."

"Hyuk hyuk!" Kisame chuckled. Deidara directed Naiya towards a small ice-cream stall in a small town somewhat nearby the hide out.

"You're going to love their ice-cream, un. It's so creamy and full of flavour." He said then Naiya smiled at the sweet sound of his voice, which also made Deidara smile. When they finally reached the ice-cream stall, Deidara sat Naiya down at a private picnic bench, ordered some ice-cream then brought it over to the bench and they began to lick their treats. Naiya took her first lick of her strawberry ice-cream and her face instantly lit up. "I thought you'd like it, un." Naiya savoured the flavour as soon as her tongue made contact with the frozen treats and did not let any of it go to waste, for her first ice-cream, her face stayed clean and never needed to be wiped. As for the last of the cone, Naiya was sad for the tasty goodness to be finished, she was full half way but she just had to keep eating it because she had never tasted anything so refreshing, in fact, she couldn't remember having any sweets since that she was locked up for nearly her whole life. "Come on; let's go back to the hide-out before someone other than Kisame knows that we are gone." Naiya almost nodded as if she could understand what Deidara was saying then he directed her towards the base and they began to stroll that way. Naiya could recognize Deidara's voice apart from anyone else's, she already feels comfortable around him because he always speaks to her softly and he never even thinks of hurting her, instead, he protects her. She smiled the whole walk home until she reached Deidara's room and lay on his bed. Deidara looked up from his clay that he was sculpting in time to notice that Sasori was staring back at him with a slight smirk in the corner of his mouth.

"I knew that you couldn't resist taking her outside but do you have any idea on what the h*** you're doing?" He said changing his expression quickly.

"Yeah I made sure that no one followed us here."

"That's not good enough, you're lucky that I took a second look around, otherwise you two could be dead."

"Master, you always talk of me being helpless but I can take care of myself, un."

"But can you take care of yourself and Naiya? You're putting her in more danger then yourself. You're so careless Deidara." Sasori said and Deidara frowned. "Just be careful, if you don't get caught by a stranger, then you will get caught by leader-sama and he won't go easy on you."

"Yeah, yeah, un." Deidara said rolling his eyes.