Chapter 2

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Zasha tosses and turns in her sleep. The eyes of the eight tailed serpent haunts her dreams. She wakes up suddenly and sits up in bed quickly. She wraps her arms around her stomach like she usually does when she had that nightmare. She hears the sounds of Deidara and Sasori arguing about their views on art, Kisami's loud drunk chuckle, Itachi's 'hn' thrown in every here and there. Kakuzu and Hidan fighting every now and then, and a few 'Tobi get out of here' being yelled by different people. She smiles a little listening to this. She hears footsteps leaving coming towards her room. The door creaks open and a gold light from the hallway comes splashing into the room. She sees a familiar figure standing at the door. "What is it Deidara?" she says lightly. She feels a bit dizzy at the moment.

"Itachi said he heard something so I came to check make sure your okay…yeah," Deidara walks over to her and sits on a chair that was placed next to her bed. He looks at her with his teal eyes. "You alright yeah?" Deidara asks.

"I'm fine!" Zasha plasters a carefree smile on her face like she usually did when talking to someone.

"Alright…yeah" Deidara gives her a worried look noticing how her arms are clamped around her stomach. He hated her smile. For some reason he felt like it just wasn't real.

"I'm gonna go get some air, I'm a bit dizzy," Zasha says getting up and putting her Akatsuki robe and grabbing her katana and whip.

"Want me to go with you Zasha kun?" Deidara asks.

"No, I'll be fine" Zasha gives her usual carefree smile and leaves Deidara alone in her room. Tobi sneaks in to her room and jumps when he sees a very much awake Deidara sitting on a chair in her room.

"What are you doing here Tobi? Go home already yeah!" Deidara sighs. Tobi retreats quickly back to were the other members were.

Zasha walks out of the base and towards a small lake that she'd go to with Kisami every now and then. She sits on the grass and lies on her back looking at the night sky. Her mind wanders to everyone in the Akatsuki. She thinks about the leader. She didn't like him much. He scared her, being around him made her feel insecure about herself and her strength. He doesn't call her by her name when he gives orders out. He just called her 'girl' or 'Kunoichi" She thinks about the ninth member of the Akatsuki. The only other girl yet her name escaped Zasha's mind all the time. She only met her once, and that was a couple days after she joined when she was still in pain from the katana that pierced her flesh when she was on the run from an Anbu. She properly healed that wound so it wouldn't reopen again. She didn't care for the ninth member because she found her rather rude and arrogant. Her mind shifts to Kisami. She smiles thinking of him. She usually spent her time with Kisami drinking Sake. They were what some would call 'drinking buddies'. Her mind drifts to a good memory.

Zasha and Kisami walk back from a bar from a town near the Akatsuki base. They walk into the door drunk and happy. A few of the members look at them like they had 3 heads and Zasha passes out on the floor soon after.


Zasha smiles to that memory. That was the first time she ever drunk sake. Her mind shifts to Kakuzu. She felt like she meet him before but she figured it was her imagination since he had a waterfall headband as well. He would always glare at her when no one was in the same room as them and she'd find herself retreating away. Her mind wanders to Kakuzu's partner Hidan. A blush sinks in to her face as she thinks of him. She had a crush on Hidan, especially since her embarrassing incident with him 1 month after she joined the Akatsuki.

Zasha walks toward Hidan's room and knocks on the door. There's no answer. "Hidan! Kakuzu sent me to get you! You have a mission!" Zasha calls out but still no answer. She opens the door to see if he's asleep but instead she finds Hidan is wrapped in just a towel and was looking for some clothes to put on. Zasha's face turns a little pink and then Hidan glances at her and her faces becomes bright red and she shuts her eyes tightly. "Kakuzu…"

"I heard you" Zasha could hear Hidan smirking at the sight of the blushing Kunoichi.

"I'm sorry!" Zasha rushes out of the room.

Hidan shakes his head at the Kunoichi and chuckles to himself.

Zasha sits up and shakes her head quickly and her mind wanders to Sasori. She always enjoyed their talks about art. They had their disagreements on what art was but over all they were usually friendly conversations. She thinks about Itachi. She called him 'Itachi donna' because he trained her. He helped her to become stronger. He was cold most the time and he liked to annoy her by saying 'never mind' all the time. She thinks about Tobi now. He was annoying in her opinion. He would always appear at the base asking to join them and would be declined so many times. He lived to raid her dresser as well. Thinking of Tobi left her in rage. He was probably raiding her dresser at this moment. She tries to calm down and finally thinks of her best friend, Deidara. She spent the most time with him. Her favorite memory comes to mind.

Zasha was just finishing putting some strawberries on her strawberry short cake. "Ah, now this is art!" Zasha says with a carefree smile plastered on her face.

"Meh" Deidara rolls his eyes. "I find my art a bit more explosive…yeah," he looks at the cake "Plus the only place anyone will find that good looking is in my stomach… yeah," Deidara tries to get a piece of the cake but Zasha moves it away from him

"No eating this till dinner!" Zasha scolds

"Aww…" Deidara gives her a pleading look. "One piece?" he asks

"Not unless you actually admit that you have perverted thoughts with those mouths on your hands" Zasha laughs and Deidara gives her a scowling looking.

"Never! Yeah!" Deidara wraps his arms around Zasha spinning her around making her dizzy. They laugh together happily and he doesn't let he go until while he's spinning her she grabs the cake and smashes it in his face. "There!" she laughs. Deidara licks his lips

"Delicious!" he laughs.

Zasha sighs. She lies back down again. She closes her eyes a moment taking in the fresh air. She was feeling a lot better now. She didn't feel dizzy anymore. She hears something and sits up. She looks around. "Tobi?" she calls out thinking it was him spying on her. Zasha hears a low chuckle and her eyes widen and she winces in fear. She shakes a bit.
"My, you're the splitting image of her aren't' you?" a voice asks cutting through the dark dense forest.
"Of who?" Zasha asks trying to figure out which direction the voice was coming from.
"Kimiko" a dark figure jumps out of a tree. Zasha spins around to look at the figure.
Kimiko? That's my mother's name… Zasha grits her teeth.

"Who are you?" Zasha yells at the figure as it steps closer.
"Orochimaru…" He grins as he looks at her. He seemed to be examining her like a chunk of meat at a supermarket.
Zasha's eyes widen. She heard his name around the Akatsuki several times before. He used to be a member but he left. Sasori spoke of him with spite in his voice and Deidara spoke of him with a hint of fear. Zasha reaches for her katana.

"I don't wish to fight you" Orochimaru notices her griping the hilt of her katana. "Don't waste your strength." Orochimaru could tell she was probably as strong as Deidara tops.

"Then why are you here?" Zasha asks.

Orochimaru begins to walk towards Zasha. "Why not?" he says in a mocking tone.

Zasha puts her hand away from the hilt of the sword. She does some hand signs and roots wrap around Orochimaru's ankles and Zasha molds her charka to a metallic form that wraps around the roots to make them stronger. It keeps Orochimaru from getting closer to Zasha.
"I'll cut you down if you don't answer me!" Zasha puts her hand on the hilt of the sword again.

"Why are you here? How do you know my mother's name?" Zasha asks.

Orochimaru has an amused look on his face. "I came here to see if rumors were true and" he looks at the roots "Don't think I don't know how to break these…" Orochimaru chuckles. He does a jutsu and the metal on the roots become wet and then he does another jutsu and a blast of wind hit the roots and makes the metal rust. Orochimaru then pulls out a kunai and breaks the roots that were no longer protected with metal. "See simple" he grins and before Zasha can blinks he's behind her.

"How…" before Zasha can finish her sentence she feel Orochimaru's arms wrap around her. He pulls her in a hug. His hug wasn't a pervert sex hungry hug. It wasn't anything romantic but it was a hug Zasha had longed for, a hug that a father would give to his daughter. His mouth hovers to her ear and he whispers into it.

"Your mother did the same thing to me when I first met her… that's how I learned to break it." He answer's her question.

"But," Zasha's breath becomes rapid. His eyes made her shake. They were just like hers for the exception that his eyes were yellow and hers were pale red.

"I'm…" Orochimaru begins but he lets go of Zasha quickly to dodge a kunai being thrown at him by Tobi.

"Zasha!" Tobi says with a sigh of relief. "You are not harmed!" Deidara lands next to Tobi.

"Zasha kun! Are you alright yeah?" Deidara asks running over to her.

"I'm… fine" Zasha looks at Orochimaru. Deidara curses under his breath and he grabs Zasha around her waist and pulls her close to him. He whispers in her ear.

"Don't listen to a word that liar says." Deidara growls

"Oh, Deidara…" Orochimaru chuckles. "I'm not a liar… I tell the truth."

"Orochimaru…" Zasha looks at him. She felt more at ease with her self when Orochimaru was close to her and now Deidara had her in his grips she felt like her usual self. She begins to think deeply in what Deidara said. What was he trying to keep her from hearing? "What are you hiding Deidara?" Zasha gives him a cold glare.

"Wah?" Deidara felt like he had Orochimaru giving him a death glare. "N-Nothing yeah." Deidara says in a frantic fashion.

"Your lying Deidara… tell me!" Zasha grips on to Deidara's Akatsuki robe.

"I'm hiding nothing from you" Deidara gives Zasha a cold poker face. She turns her head to Tobi "What is he hiding Tobi!" She asks giving him that same cold glare.

"Wah!" Tobi cracks under Zasha's glare. "Orochimaru… Orochimaru is you father!" Tobi wails in fear of being at the edge of Zasha's katana or whip.
"Tobi!" Deidara screeches. Zasha's cold glare aims right at Deidara.
"You knew!! You knew and you didn't tell me!" Zasha looks at Deidara.

"Zasha I …" Deidara begins to just get cut off.

"I hate you Deidara! You knew how important finding my father was to me and you kept it a secret? I hate you!"

"Zasha, Itachi and the others…" Deidara tries to explain himself

"Leave me alone Deidara!" Zasha covers her ears. Orochimaru appears behind Zasha with a sinister smile on pale white face.

"Zasha…" Deidara felt like he just got stabbed through the heart by Zasha.

"Don't' talk to me!" Zasha yells and suddenly charka seeps out of her body. Her eyes widen suddenly and her eyes look lifeless and she collapses unconscious. Orochimaru picks her up wondering what made her pass out. He looks at her unconscious body. He felt like he was holding Kimiko in his arms again. He looks at Deidara. His eyes were in pure shock. His mind was fighting against two things right now. 1.) Zasha just told him she hated him 2.) Was that demon charka that was seeping from her?

Orochimaru grins. He figures that Deidara wouldn't try and stop him from leaving now. He jumps into a tree gently holding his daughter in his arms. He jumps off.

"Should we follow him Deidara san?" Tobi asks. Deidara clenches his teeth and throws the bomb he had in his hands at Tobi making Tobi fly off somewhere. He heads back to the Akatsuki base.

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Zasha slowly gains consciousness. She feels something around her waist. When she opens her eyes she sees a man with glasses sitting on top of the blanket. He was sitting up leaning on the wall with a book laid on his chest and the hand that wasn't on the book was wrapped around her waist. She knew who he was just from what Sasori had told her about Orochimaru on one of their chats. It was her father's right hand man. Kabuto Yakushi.

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And that's the end of chapter 2! OMG I have rewrote this chapter so many times till I finally got it to how I liked it. I hope you enjoyed it. Poor Deidara I would cry for him if this was actually real but its just a fanfic hides tears Well, again many thanks to my friend Leila, She's my Naruto wikkipedia at times, lol. She's further in the Naruto manga than I am so it helps me a lot to have her proof read my fan fic. Well, she asked if I didn't post this chapter till Saturday (2/10) because she wanted to talk to me about the part were Orochimaru breaks Zasha's metal roots. But Saturday rolled along and I wasn't suppose to be on the computer cause it was suppose to be packed for a move but I was able to score some extra computer time and she hadn't been online and just cause of pressure of time I posted this chapter. Chapter 3 will more than likely take a while to load up since I have to write it AND I'll have to wait till I get Internet in the house I'm moving into on Thursday (2/15) so I'm just letting you all know about this. Please keep an eye out for chapter 3 though because it WILL come out. Please review, I love to read them.