Pairing Votes

Takumi x ...

Deidara: 6

Pein: 2

Hidan: 2

Everybody else: 0

Still time to vote! Your options are not restricted to Hidan, Deidara or leader! Vote for whoever you want in Akatsuki to be with Takumi!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I do own Takumi, Yua, Yoruai, That other guy you meet later, Usotsuke (that is her first name believe it or not) and I think that's it! You can't have them! Barrow maybe but not own.

Me: Yeah, originally this chapter was apart of the second chapter but I split them up cuz I felt like it,

Takumi: Quit talking! What happens to Deidara! (Tries to grab scrip form authors hands.

Me: (hold it out of her reach) Nice try Takumi but you're not reading ahead this time.

Takumi: Give me the script dangit!

Oh my gosh. It's all my fault. I lost control. I'm the one that hurt him. I should have been the one that fell off the balcony. I can survive a fall like that. My body was made to handle 20 tons of pressure for Petes sake! But Deidara, he was human and frail, unlike me. It's all my fault.

When I saw him on that rock I immediately jumped down and carried him back to the base. Kakuzu and leader were with him right now, tending to his wounds. Why can't I know any basic medical jutsu? After this I'm going make sure I learn, but for now all I can do is wait and hope.

The others didn't question me about Deidara. Instead they pointed their questioning glares at Yua. I tried to tell them that it was my fault and that Yua had nothing to do with it but none of them would hear of it. I felt even guiltier when Kisame pulled Yua out of the room to question her. She came back with a black eye.

My head snapped up when Kakuzu walked into the living room where I was waiting.

"He'll be fine but he's going to be in bed for a while." Tears willed up in my eyes. I didn't feel any shame crying in front of Yua or the others. I was just so relived. I don't think I could have handled it if Deidara had died because of me.

"Thank you" I whispered. He shook his head.

"Don't thank me." He said. "Leader did most of the work." I nodded my head. Mental note: thank leader later, after apologizing to Deidara of course.

"Come on." I felt Yua garb my arm and lead me back to me room.

"You didn't get lost." I muttered weakly at her as I flopped down on my bed. She laughed.

"I have good memory." She sat down at the end of the bed and pulled out a small flat object.

"What's that?" I asked. The sun had set hours ago and the moon cast soft shadows on her skin.

"It's something that connects me to the important things in my life."

I looked away in embarrassment. "Oh sorry, I didn't know it was something so personal."

"Don't be." She smiled. "Can I ask you something personal?"

I nodded.

"Have you ever been in love?" I'm sure that even in the dark she could see my very red face. I scowled when I heard her giggle softly.

"I don't know." I said. I mean sometimes my stomach turned when I was around Hidan and Deidara but was that love?

"I see" Yua put the object back into her pocket. "don't worry about falling in love Takumi, for those who are, are going through trials of love."

"Trails of love?" I repeated. Yua laid down on the bed next to me.

"You'll understand when you're older or when you fall in love yourself." She whispered. "Go to sleep Takumi, you've had a long day." Yua lying on her side and quickly fell asleep as if it was nothing. I laid on my back waiting for sleep to take me as well, but alas sleep seemed to have forgotten me, leaving me to broad on everything that happened today. The last thing I remembered thinking about before I drifted off was the time I first meet Yoruai.

I really hope that I never see him again.

'It's about time she fell asleep.' I thought. Slowly and carefully a slipped off the bed. Takumi didn't stir the slightest. I slowly crept to the bathroom and locked the door. I pulled out my computer and punched a few buttons.

"This is Usotsuke." I whispered to the computer. I prayed that Yoruai would be the one to answer the call. But I had no such luck.

" 'Bout time you called in Usotsuke." Came that lazy dastards voice, Shin-Fyu.

"Oh can it and get Yoruai." I hissed at him. My hand clamped over my mouth.

"Hey why you-"

"Ssh!" I hisses at him more quietly this time. I waited and listened. Nothing. I sighed in relief. "How much longer am I going to do this?"

"I don't know. I'm just a minion like you."

"I am NOT a minion." I snapped. "I hate this. I hate being this… this girl. I hate the Akatsuki. They tried to kill me! Twice! I wish the blonde one HAD died. I hate..." I made a gargling sound in my throat. Saying her name was like barfing. "I hate Takumi most of all. She is a monstrosity. How can Yoruai-sama actually like her?"

"Ey! Ey!" Shin-Fyu hollered. "Are you going to keep on complaining or are you going to give a report!"

"Ok, I have Takumi's trust. The others are still wary of me."

"Just don't fail. You know how "he" gets when things don't happen his way."

"I know." With a little click I shut the computer and stepped back into the room. I eyed the empty spot on the bed. No, I'm not sleeping in the same bed as her. I crawled up onto the loveseat and closed my eyes.

"I wonder how Yoruai is doing." I muttered. "I wish that he loved me instead of that… whore."

Yoruai sat crossed legged on the ground. He was sitting in a shady forest clearing. The moon beams hung like ethereal streamers through the gaps in the trees branches.. His long black hair hiding his face. "Wait for me Takumi, for I'm coming after you. Nothing will stop me from making you mine."

Me: Ooh dun, dun, duuuuuun!

Takumi: Why the pie did you have to bring back that (bleep)(bleep)

Me: Takumi! I did not raise you to say such profanity! (grabs Hidan) You are a bad influence! Stay away from Takumi!

Hidan: (smirks and kisses Takumi on check) Make me.

Takumi: (stunned)

Deidara from outside room: GET YOUR MITS OF HER!

Leader walks in from room

Leader: Yeah well both of you stay away from her.

Hidan and Deidara: …

Me: All of you can stay away! Now tell me WHO'S the WRITER of this story?

Hidan Deidara and Leader: … you…

Me: That's what I thought. Besides Hidan, leader; unless more people vote for you guys to be with Takumi, Deidara's going to be the one that ends up with her.

Takumi: (shocked) (blinks a few times) (watches the four of them argue) (looks at reader) Review please! And vote you're your favorite pairing!

Next time! Chapter 4:Curry pancakes.