Here's the second chapter! Thank-you for your review, Yuti-chan! It really got me pumped up for writing this chapter! Just so you know, everyone, I'll probably only be able to update once per week but I'll try for more. Italics mean thinking and Italics with quotation marks mean singing.

Kumiko skipped down the hallway, sticking her head into each individual room. She wondered what her partner was like. He had seemed kind of dense from what she'd seen and heard in the entrance.

Oh well, thought Kumiko, the more stupid, the easier to control.

Kumiko began to sing softly as she searched; it was a song her Nana always sung to her as a child.

"Watashi wa tsuki no tame ni, sagashite ita. Taiyō ga asobi ni kita toki ni nigeta. Haha wa tsuki ga watashi o sukide wa nakatta to nobetaga, watashi wa shinjitsudearu koto o shitte imashita," Kumiko began to get tired as she sang, "Koko de, tsuki ga nakunatte iru watashi ni oshiete, oshietekudasai. Sore wa hoshi to nigeta. Karera ga ensō no yō ni kodomo-tachi wa waratta ga, watashi wa watashi ga ichinichijū mangetsu o sagashite imashita."

Kumiko soon found herself drifting off to sleep, and the last words of the song became a whisper. She opened her eyes, fires were burning everywhere around her, she was no longer in the Akatsuki fortress but she hardly even noticed. A woman with long black hair was pinned under a burning support beam. Kumiko ran to help her; she grabbed the woman hand and pulled. The woman looked up, dazed, but upon seeing Kumiko her eyes filled with fear.

"Get away!" the woman screeched.

"But I have to help you-" Kumiko started, confused by the woman's reaction.

"No," she screamed again, "Demon child, I'd rather die than be helped by you!"

The woman threw dirt at Kumiko's face. When Kumiko reached out to the woman again, the woman stabbed a kunai through her hand, pinning it to the ground.

"Ha ha ha!" the woman laughed crazily, "Burn! Burn in the raging pits of hell!"

Kumiko used her free hand to pull the kunai out. Grimacing from the pain, Kumiko stood above the woman, holding the kunai high.

"You deserve to die," Kumiko uttered, stabbing the kunai through the woman back, "Mother."

There was an explosion and Kumiko awoke. She ran to the source of it and found her new partner standing there, grinning.

"Ah, what wonderful art!" Deidara sighed.

"What happened?" asked Kumiko.

"Oh, hey there Kumiko! I just created a masterpiece, you should have seen it, un!" He mused.

"A masterpiece? But where did it go!"

"I destroyed it, of course," Deidara smiled, "Only true art ends in an explosion, un. That was something Sasori failed to understand."

"Sasori?" Kumiko questioned.

"Sasori was my old partner," he answered, "But you're my partner now, eh?"

"Yep!" Kumiko replied happily.

Deidara was caught off guard by her smile. He hadn't notice how cute she was before, he laughed nervously to cover up for his surprise. Kumiko suddenly got a serious expression on her face, she got close to Deidara and looked him straight in the eye. After a couple of seconds she smiled and clapped her hands.

"What is it?" asked Deidara curiously.

"I just realized," Kumiko said, smiling, "You're definitely a Dei-chan!"

"Dei-chan? Haha! Then you're Kumi-chan!" He laughed, but Kumiko frowned.

"Please don't call me that Dei-chan." She said somberly and turned to leave.

Deidara was left there dumbstruck by her sudden change in mood.

Kumiko looked back over her shoulder, "Oh, and Dei-chan? Next time you make a masterpiece, can you let me see it before it explodes?"

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Translation for the song: I was searching, for the moon. It ran away when the sun came to play. Mother said the moon didn't like me, but I knew that was untrue. Tell me, tell me where has the moon gone. Did it run away with the stars? The children laughed as they played, but me I searched for the moon all day.