Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and it's most likely that I never will...unless I become a billionaire...

Disclaimer: Nor do I own Garbage (the band) OR DJ Milky.

Note: Tobi specks in third person just so you know. ("Tobi is a good boy.") yes I know he talks like an idiot.) Most of you probably don't know who he is so I suggest you look him up. He's kinda cool...Or I'm just a freak. It's probably the later one.

Recommened Reading: Chasing Naruto by AkaiTsume (SasuNaru)

It' s very well written and extremely amusing.

Updated: 2/9/08, 4:35am

Day Dreamer

Ch.1-Unsuccessful death

//…This is nothing new to me
It takes more than what you've got
To frighten me
I'm not scared of you
There's nothing you can do
Or take from me

Untouchable
You think you're untouchable
You know
No one's untouchable…//

-"Untouchable" Garbage

Her blood pounded in her ears and all she could hear was her heart beat and the slight murmur of the voices below her, any noise past that was unknown to her. She didn't even know how loud her breath was. She felt like she had aged 30 years in the last 50 minutes. Her skin felt odd and out of place as if she shouldn't be in it. It was freezing to the touch but she felt so hot. Her vision was blurring so badly she could hardly see the forest in front of her. She hadn't felt this bad since she was 7 and she had 'accidentally' eaten her mother's cleaning supplies and had to have her stomach pumped.

Fight. Her body wasn't responding to the signals that her brain was sending and she wanted to scream in frustration. IT WASN'T FAIR! All these plots of revenge, she could finally find peace at her enemies' deaths and she couldn't even move her body. She was as helpless as a newborn baby. The frustration was so sharp she clinched her teeth shut.

There were two Akatsuki, talking idly below her and she couldn't even move her hand. But even if she could move she doubted that she was strong enough to take them on alone. Maybe if she went and got back-up…

Why had she run ahead of her team? How stupid of her. She was no better than a newly made Genin, overconfident and stupid.

Her ANBU team had gone into rouge territory and she had decided to scout by herself. Perhaps over the years Sakura had become insane. She wouldn't doubt it.

She had encountered some….difficulties but they were taken care of quickly. Not without a fight as usual, rogue-nin were so annoying. She had been hit with some poison kunai but had not detected any poison until now. After she had healed the cut without taking out the poison and then spotted the Akatsuki members almost immediately after that. Now her muscles twitched as if in pain and her body heat was rising to an extremely dangerous level. Invading toxins running ramped through her blood stream.

If she could move she would slap herself for her stupidity.

"We can see you little bird. Yea." His voice was louder now and she could see that his face had turns toward her position above him, even with her blurred eyes she could see that cocky grin. Her eyes widened in alarm.

Crap.

She wasn't going to be able to escape. In all her plans of revenge against Akatsuki she had never once been alone. She had always envisioned she would be backed up, never alone in her fight. Like another sensible ANBU would be.

But reality is a bitch sometimes.

Not much was known about Tobi info was hard to get on him but Deidara's techniques were…explosive and delicately put just plain old devastating. Even if you were fast you could still get caught by the explosion. To block that kind of attack you would need an extremely strong defense. Something Sakura didn't have. She was inevitably dead.

Sakura had not envisioned her death this way. Hell, she hadn't really ever thought about dieing. Which was odd since she lived with death almost everyday.

Out of shear stubbornness she was able to move. She was a sitting duck just squatting there in the tree like a moron. She veered to the right, ducking under another branch just as Deidara flicked a kunai in her direction.

She hadn't moved fast enough and a kunai pierced her thigh, sending her off balance. She landed on the ground, her legs and arms out instinctively to support her. There was a loud sickening crack and Sakura could only presume that one of her limbs had broken. She couldn't feel the pain and for once she was a bit thankful for the numbness.

Then cat like ANBU mask shattering as she slammed forward into the ground. Sharp rocks caught her cheekbone and the corner of her mouth. Parts of porcelain from the mask created tiny cuts on her face and she felt slightly lucky that none had pierced her eyes. She didn't want to lose her vision just yet.

"Pathetic."

A scuffing sound from his sandal as he stepped in front of her, scattering the dry dirt from ground and the particles settled on her hair and clothing. Sakura's face lifted, painstakingly slow. Dirt clung to the blood one her face making her look like a war torn orphan.

Deidara's face held surprise as he looked down at Sakura' s dirty face.

"That's Tsunade's apprentice, yea."

She hated it. She was weak. Pathetic. She couldn't even get up to save her life. Her shoulders shuddered but the rest refused to move.

"I expected more, yea."

Sakura laugh mockingly, coughing and spitting blood at the same time. "Yeah. Me too. Guess I don't hold up against any one's expectations." Her throat felt constricted as if some invisible force was choking her.

Her vision prickled and blurred and Deidara became a blurred tower that stood looming over her. She felt like her veins were shriveled and her skin felt to tight as if she didn't fit inside it. Her vision grew dark as if night had suddenly set.

"You don't look so good."

"'Got hit with poison. Stupid." Sakura slurred, tiredly. It didn't matter what she said anymore she was dead even without the interference of Deidara and Tobi.

Sakura closed her eyes. She felt so tired, her body was drifting. She laid her forehead on the ground. Half of her was struggling, screeching out that this couldn't be the end. That death couldn't come to her door just yet. There wasn't enough done.

"Hey, Sempai? If this is the famous Haruno Sakura then don't we take her to the leader? Hm? She might be of use to him. They say that her abilities can be compared to those of the Hokage. Perhaps she could heal you also. Tobi thinks that its worth a shot."

Deidara grinned. This woman might be of use.

"Yea."

That's the last of what Sakura heard before the black abyss wrapped tight arms around her and dragged her down.

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Death wasn't really as painless as Sakura first thought that it would be. She knew it would be a floating feeling but she didn't think that she would still have any attachment to her body in death. Or maybe it was her soul that was hurting.

Either way agony twisted in her stomach and squeezed her lungs until she couldn't breath. She decided that she was still alive and the Akatsuki had decided to make a spectacle of watching her suffer to death. And all she could really think about was her biggest regret. Sasuke.

That time, that moment would always leave a scar on her soul. Sasuke Uchiha was a traitor. But despite that. Sakura Still loved him and considered him as part of her family. Not that it mattered anymore.

Sasuke Uchiha was dead.

And Sakura was his murderer. With the simple, harmless words of 'I love you' and then the betrayal.

Sakura regretted loving such a cold hearted person. She was stupid and naive enough to think that she could melt his heart. Sakura became aware of the breeze and up and down motion and the warm back that she rested against.

Her heavy eyelids flickered, trying to raise and failed and she sank back in to the shadows of her mind where voices were ever mocking.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"………out for a week. Want Tobi to kill her?"

"No. Idiot. Yea."

Voices. Male Voices. She's heard these voices before

"Look! Her eyes moved from beneath her eyelid. Tobi doesn't' have to kill her after all!" Oh goody! She didn't have to die! Again.

There was a scuffing sound like a chair being push back then a shadow of a human shape leaning over her through her eyelids.

"I told you that we wouldn't be killing her! Yea."

Sakura opened her mouth. Nothing comes out. She tried again. This time the tiniest whisper, the air rasping against her throat. She needed water, something to make her throat stop burning. "What the hell do you want from me? Did you just being me back to life to torment me?"

"Maybe. Depends on if you are of use to Tobi and Deidara-sempai."

Deidara cuffed Tobi on the back of the head.

"And how would she be of use to you? Yea."

"Where-?" Where am I? Was what she meant to ask but the glass shards in her throat were too painful to get the words around them.

You're in my house. Yea."

"Akatsuki members have houses?" Sakura's mouth twitched upward into a smile if she didn't control herself she was going to start laughing like a crazy person. Now she knew this was a dream. Or at least do delusion of her poor overworked mind. This was too insane to be real.

"We get paid for our jobs. And some of us need a break once and awhile. Yea."

"Heh. If you work all the time you get crazy." Tobi toke the liberty of sitting on Sakura's bed. And practically on top of Sakura's leg. If she could move should would have kicked his butt.

"That's odd. I thought you were crazy already."

Sakura's eyes flickered open and she paused a moment until the room came into focus. The room was dim and she felt slightly relieved that she didn't have the stabbing pain of light piercing her eyes, though her eyes still sting with lack of moisture...

Deidara and Tobi towered over her and looked at her like she was some sort of interesting specimen, staring without really blinking. Well Deidara was anyway. Tobi could have been making fun faces at her this whole time and she wouldn't have noticed.

"You stare at me like you've never seen a female before." The staring began to irritate Sakura.

"It's has been a while. Yea."

"Unless you count the dead ones, Sempai."

Deidara smiled darkly, sending shivers down Sakura's spine. She didn't like the situation that had begun to appear before her eyes. They might be after more than torture now. Tobi hopped off the bed and moved away, not finding anything exceedingly interesting about her. Well at least she didn't have to worry about rape from him.

Deidara still stared intently at her like she was some sort of interesting never-before-seen bug. Sakura glared back, narrowing her eyes. If he tried something she was knock his head off.

"So …… you're the famous Haruno Sakura. Yea."

Tobi had started walking around the room and pick up a bottle that rested on the windowsill, toying with it. Seconds later it slipped though his fingers and shattered on the floor.

"…oops."

Deidara gave an exhausted sigh and Sakura closed her eyes and ignored them both. She figured they both were too stupid to even thing of something as disgusting and cruel as rape. She didn't know whether it was good or bad that she was stuck with the bottom of Akatsuki's barrel.

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Sakura lay in bed, her head aching and her muscles clenching and twitching of their own free will. Her eyes pained her and she kept them closed. She still didn't truly know what her purpose was here, why they had ever bothered to keep her alive. It was no skin off their backs if they left her to die on the dirty ground.

Tobi left earlier, bored to death of watching her lie in bed and do nothing. He was lazy and cocky, why he was in Akatsuki was a mystery to her. Deidara had stayed behind. Probably making sure she didn't run. As if she could.

He slept in the red chair that sat next to her bed. Since she couldn't sleep she toke her time to study him and the room that they were staying in. The room was tastefully decorated, a bit manly but still stylish. The walls were painted a summer sky blue, an elegant wood stove sat in the far north-east corner, a stack of wood beside it. And across from that lay a wide open window, taunting her with fresh air and freedom.

Finally Sakura's eyes roamed over to Deidara.

Blond hair draped over the left part of his face, hiding his other closed eye from her. He looked extremely feminine for a guy who liked to blow things up. His right arm rested on the arm of the red chair. Oddly enough Sakura couldn't see his other arm, as if it somehow disappeared into oblivion. The sleeve hanging limply at his side. He look unusually vulnerable. Again not what she would have expected from an Akatsuki member. She'd expected that certain hard look that Sasori had, instead he look almost like a little kid that had grown a bit too big.

Sakura closed her eyes again, exhausted from the labor. She hated being this weak. She didn't like that feeling of vulnerability. Especially in front of her most hated enemy.

As Sakura rested her eyes Deidara opened his and studied her.

When he first encountered her in the rogue territory bordering the Grass country, he'd thought that she might be a bit of a challenge because of the amazing chakra level that he'd sensed and considering his arm hung limply at his side, painful, useless and irritating. This left him at a disadvantage. Oddly enough the anbu officer had not attacked right away as he'd expected, in fact they didn't even move.

He thought perhaps they were sent to spy on them. If that was the full potential of the anbu he would have been very disappointed. This person hadn't hid very well and their breathing was too loud. He'd wondered vaguely why idiots seemed to be attracted to him.

He had decided to blow their cover so that he might work some of his frustration and anger off. She'd moved slow and got nipped by his kunai. Were the anbu just letting anyone join or what? He'd thought that she'd try to make an escape but instead lashed out at him. Her moves were still sluggish and she was kicked aside with the greatest of ease.

This had just made him angrier. He did not like pathetic people. When he was just about to attack again, she looked up and turned, still on the ground, to face him. He had to admit, he admired the courage but it wasn't worth much without the strength to back it.

He stopped of course. The heart shaped face and bright green eyes gave him a shock that traveled down his spine. He remembered seeing such a beautiful face back in the Waterfall country, smiling happily. He also remembered how Itachi had told them about a pink haired kunoichi. 'Be on your guard' was what he said, all he said but coming from Itachi this meant that the kunoichi could actually kill one of them if they were by themselves. They were on high alert every time they passed the Fire countries borders. The Konoha ninjas were become far stronger than they had anticipated.

But this wasn't what he expected. Tobi was also rather disappointed, he made it known. This irritated Deidara since Tobi wasn't doing anything at all, just standing there like a stupid stick. The bastard.

Looking more carefully at the female in front of him, he realized that she was pasty white, and her veins looked almost purple under her tannish skin. Her eyes looked like they were about to roll to the back of her head, red blood dripping from her forehead and sliding down the side of her face, unnoticed.

After that everything went rather quick. He wondered if she really could fix his arm as he carried her to their base. He'd taken her to a small medical doctor, before. Genjustu always did the trick as he made himself and Sakura into everyday ordinary looking people that no one would notice, he didn't think that anyone would ask for a random anbu nin but he would rather be safe than sorry.

She stayed unconscious until two days ago and they had discussed how she would survive here. She could see she was both disgusted with herself and him. She would have to aid an Akatsuki member or die, ether was very unpleasant for her.

Deidara shifted his his chair, trying to move into a more comfortable position.

Sakura opened her eyes suddenly again at the slight sound and her eyes shot to Deidara. And then their eyes locked.

Lightning. Her eyes were such a bright green, bright as the sunlight shining through summer tree leaves. You never really saw such a bright green in someone's eyes. It was almost as if they were glowing. He felt a sudden greed and he mentally bashed it down

She still had that innocent look that younger girls have. There was also a look of pain, not that he cared. All he wanted was his arm fully healed. He did not want to play psychologist with her.

She looked bed ragged, her short pink hair fluffed around her face, a couple strands stuck up here and there and she looked so shocked to see him looking at her that he had to smile.

"If you'd like to take a bath there's one on the other side of that door. Yea." She looked a bit uncomfortable. But then who wouldn't when you're captured by the enemy.

He pointed to the door next to the wood stove. Sakura just stared at him. What did he have something on his face? He ran his hand across his face to check.

Maybe he shouldn't have suggested the bath. Maybe she didn't like to bathe.

Sakura still stared. Was it odd for an Akatsuki to offer things to her? Considering she was a prisoner and such.

But…it had been five days. She needed a bath badly. There was dried blood in her hair and on her face; along with the blood was dirt. She didn't have a mirror so she couldn't see what she looked like but she probably looked wretched. She decided to take her chances.

She nodded in thanks and stumbled out of the bed, catching herself once when her legs collapsed. Then with all the dignity she could muster brushed off her clothes and walked to the bathroom door open it and then closed it behind her.

Deidara let out a breath after the door had closed. Then smiled.

Sakura was only in a tank top and pale blue underwear and she hadn't even realized it.

/…Alone doesn't hurt anymore

The pain's too strong to feel it

Alone doesn't hurt anymore

No one left to heal it

If I turn back on it all

And walk away from this place

Then maybe someday someone will find

These dried up tears on my face…//

-"Suicide Ride" D.J. Milky

Note: This is my first chapter! I'm a little nervous to tell you the truth. I hope that I didn't sprout a load of bull. I don't know a whole lot about Tobi.