Greetings.

Da-da-dada!!!! The chapter you've all been waiting for!!! Deidara's Debut!!! Now, as I said. This will be my version of Deidara. And though he will be his usual stubborn self, he will also be... different. But that will be a slow change. Wait till you hear about his history. You won't start seeing it till chapter... 6 sorry ;P

Until then, here is the very first chapter Deidara is in!!! I used several ideas that FluffyKeira thought up, so I do not own the idea of Deidara's internal organ structure. I just took it and warped it to my own liking.

Enjoy

Hummingbird

Chapter 4

Lady Luck took a Vacation, Sorry.

Disclaimer: Do not own Naruto

She had not been informed that Hidan was allowed to sacrifice in the base again. It usually stunk up the place and everyone would get mad at the Jashinist since he never cleaned up his messes, unlike Sasori or Zetsu or even Sakura.

She had just gotten back from traveling all day from a mission. It didn't involve killing people, but gathering plants for Zetsu. Pein-sama had also asked her to find a scroll- which she did- and bring it back for him. She had just dropped off the scroll and was heading for bed when she heard the cries of pain coming from the lounge. She was tired, yes, but that didn't stop the ten year old from taking a look to see what the radical 'holy' man was doing.

At that moment, that very second she walked in, her stomach dropped. Oh, she was use to killing and guts and blood, but Hidan was messier then most. Not only that, but this sacrifice was only several years older then she and was howling in pain as Hidan finished off the fingers.

Sakura looked at the bloody mess, remembering what Sasori had said to her earlier about an annoying blonde brat that wouldn't stop glaring at her Itachi-nii-kun. Sure enough, through the blood and dirt, was blond hair.

Hidan had just slashed the left eye, letting the blood ooze down. The 'sacrifice' screamed in pain as he struggled against his bindings, his eye too beginning to bleed.

Sakura had had enough. Before Hidan was able to do anything more, she grabbed his leg and swung him out of his blood circle, ending the ritual. She didn't care when she heard his skull crack against wall. He deserved it for using their new member as some cheap civilian.

"Hidan," She growled angrily as she walked up to the much taller man and swung her leg to strike him in the face.

His jaw bone's cracking could probably be heard down the hall.

"What the-" Hidan started but didn't finish as Sakura grabbed his neck and pulled him up to her face.

"What are you doing?" She hissed lowly, narrowing her jade eyes as she made her chakra dance dangerously.

"Nothing," He managed to say with the broken jaw, "Sempai, I was merely using that brat to sacrifice to Jashin. Nothing wrong with that?"

He had grown to respect the little female. She had the power to back up her talk. She was actually able to 'kill' him during spars and then would dissect him as a reward for winning. He never liked, but he usually couldn't move.

"That," She moved him about effortlessly to show him the unconscious kid, "Is the new member, you dolt. How dare you attack someone Pein-sama placed in our care."

"That little gaki is our freaking new member?" Hidan was surprised.

"I was told that he would have long blond hair. That was the color of his hair before your dirtied it with blood and mud was it not?"

"Yeah…"

"I will inform Kakuzu of your idiotic blunder, maybe he can put you back together," Sakura said angrily before she made her chakra into a large chakra blade and sliced off Hidan's head, "Next time think before you do something so unintelligent."

She quickly pulled out a rag she used to polish her knives and shoved it into Hidan's mouth to keep his mouth shut.

She dropped the head, knowing he was not going anywhere and ran to the blonde's side. She immediately checked for a pulse and sighed in relief to finding one. She turned him over so she could examine his eye quickly.

It was ruined. If left by itself it would heal blind. Lucky for this brat that Sakura had repaired eyes before and knew how to slowly reconstruct them. She would have to go slow, but she could rebuild it even better than before.

However, the kid, who, after a quick analysis, she discovered was a boy, was much too big for her to carry him comfortably, so she would have to recruit.

It was late at night, most likely about midnight, so there was no one awake that could help, so her only option was the only one who wouldn't hurt her for waking him.

Sakura, after so many years of being by Itachi's side, no longer knocked on his door. Instead, she just let herself in and would do as she pleased.

She quietly entered his room and approached the bed, but not before flaring her chakra a bit. Itachi stirred in his bed and turned around to see his little charge.

"What is it?" Itachi said with no evidence of just waking in his voice.

"Hidan really did something stupid and I need help carrying his poor victim to my room for healing," Sakura said as she yanked on his arm.

"Who was his victim?" Itachi said as he rose out of bed and began walking with the young girl.

"I think he was the new member, but I'm not sure. You retrieved him, correct, Aniki?"

"Hn." Translation: yes, I did so.

"Good, then you will be able to verify," Sakura said as she led him to the area she had found him in.

The boy had been stirring a bit at that moment, but he probably was in a deep fog, pain numbing the senses and heightening his instincts.

Itachi spent no time staring at the boy as he hefted him up, only to hear the boy groan in pain. He activated his Sharingan and looked the blonde straight in the eyes, before the boy was out.

"Thanks Aniki," Sakura whispered as she picked up Hidan's head, and began to address it, "You are going to have a long night in front of Kakuzu-san's door."

The head just rolled his eyes as he tried to talk through the rag that was shoved as far as it was possible.

"Where to?" Itachi asked as he walked over to the door.

"My room, lay him on the examination table, I just cleaned it so there shouldn't be any germs or bacteria on it."

"Hn." Translation: Alright, I will do as you asked.

After dropping off Hidan's head with a note written on his face with a marker, Sakura headed for her room. Itachi was just leaving, but the look he gave her reminded her that he would probably be monitoring the situation by sensing chakra spikes.

"Thanks Aniki," Sakura said as she bowed her head.

He left the room and Sakura sighed as she took off her coat. Her dress was its usual white frilliness, so she wrapped an apron around her waist and snapped on two pairs of gloves.

It was going to be a long night.

Darkness had surrounded him. And in a brief moment, he thought that he might of died. However there was one thing that told him he was alive and that was the aching of his body. No way was he dead if he could feel the pain of his wounds.

He opened his eyes with a small moan and was surprised to find himself in a bed. Well, more like a hospital bed. But without the hospital. There was a subtle beeping every second or so that played as white noise in the background and he found it hard to see.

His head snapped over to the other side of the room at the rustling of sheets. There was somebody in that massive bed and they were waking.

He didn't know why, but that made him panic a bit. After his last experience with this psychotic organization, he didn't really feel all that safe.

There was a knock at the door, shifting the boy's attention again, and in came one of the members he wanted to forget.

Uchiha Itachi.

He was followed by his partner who had a big grin on his face. Itachi didn't move far from the door, but he did stare at him.

Kisame was chuckling lightheartedly as he began to gently shake the whole mattress.

"I heard someone decapitated Hidan last night," Kisame chortled, "Wouldn't shut up about it during breakfast about how 'sempai is soooo mean' because he wasn't able to finish sacrificing the brat he found."

So whoever this person was they were talking to was that maniac's sempai. That was probably how they were even able to stop the freak.

"Kisame, shut up," a quiet voice snapped, "I got to bed near three in the morning. I am tired and I think my patient is awake."

"He is," Itachi nodded as he walked over to the closet, moving for the first time since entering.

He pulled out a small article of clothing that looked way to small for an adult, but just the right size of a small child. It was a kimono, but more of simple and probably used for rising and lounging around in.

Unlike what the young blond imagined, a small child with pink hair sat up and took the kimono and tied it around her sleeping clothes. She hopped gently out of bed and looked up at the much taller ninjas.

Maybe she wasn't this Hidan's sempai. She was no older then ten.

"Would you inform Sasori-sensei to come in after breakfast? Might as well get that out of the way while we are at it."

Kisame nodded before looking at the blond, chuckling as he left to room.

"I will bring some breakfast in here," Itachi said as he looked at the young rosette, "What type of tea would you like?"

"Orange spice, please, Aniki," Pink haired girl said with a smile.

"Hn," was all the stoic Uchiha said as he exited the room.

That's when the girl's attention landed on the only other person in the room. Him.

"Good morning," She greeted as she approached the bed, "how are you feeling?"

The boy narrowed his visible eye. He had heard her call Uchiha Itachi Aniki. Anyone related to that man was not going to get an answer out of him.

"Good, your still spirited, at least Hidan didn't manage to destroy that along with countless other things he did manage to break." She said as she grabbed a remote and pressed a button to make the bed shift into a sitting up position, "I am Haruno Sakura by the way. I am Akatsuki's medic."

"Haruno? So you're not an Uchiha, yeah?" The boy asked, his voice croaking as he did so.

She brought a glass of water that was resting next to the bed to his lips to drink.

"No, I'm not Aniki's real little sister, but he took me in when I was still really small and all alone. He's been my big brother since then. How are you feeling? Do you still ache?" Sakura asked, watching as he swallowed the liquid.

It was a good couple of seconds before he finished drinking, Sakura putting the glass back as he spoke.

"It hurts to move and breath a bit, yeah." He said as he coughed a bit, "And my throat feels raw and my eye hurts a lot."

Sakura quickly put her hand on his head, waiting a second before pulling away. "You feel a bit warm, but not too bad. I'll get you some medicine to dull the pain for you, but you'll need to wait a bit for it because I have to check up on something first."

"What would that be?" He asked, raising a brow as he stared at her.

Sakura walked over to her cabinets and pulled out several items that he couldn't see.

"Just a quick exam. What's your name anyway?" Sakura said as she changed the subject.

"Deidara," He said as he just stared at her moving, "What kind of exam?"

"Oh, nothing much," Sakura said as she pulled out a syringe and filled it with a yellowish fluid, moving close to him, "Hold still okay?"

Deidara started to freak when she pulled him forward to get to his back, pointing the needle at his upper spine. He struggled as he tried to break free from her strong grip.

"Is he prepped yet?" Sasori asked as he came walking into the room after a swift knock and a small flare of chakra.

"Not, yet," Sakura said as she finished injecting the yellow fluid into his spine.

Deidara, who had been struggling prior, froze once the fluid was injected. His whole body fell lax except for his head and his internal organs. The small Akatsuki member just gently took out the needle and rubbed the spot in two circular motions before moving him to the exam table.

"What did you do to me, yeah?" Deidara yelled as he began to panic.

"She temporarily paralyzed you, brat. We need to get this exam done and over with without you putting up a fight." Sasori said as he snapped on two pairs of gloves on his hands, Sakura doing the same thing.

"It's just something that Pein-sama requires of us to make sure his members are a perfect picture of health," Sakura said with a smile, "You're lucky, we didn't have this when I came."

"Not for you anyways," Sasori said as he began to take the boy's shirt off gently as to not aggravate the wounds and cause more work for him and Sakura.

It was easy to see now that he was very malnourished and underfed by the way his ribcage showed nicely. Sakura lifted him up for a second just to check his back. His spinal cord was nice and straight, but easily seen as his ribcage was. No one would have even realized this because the boy wore baggy clothes and his face wasn't too thin.

Sakura angled herself in a position so that she could only see his upper torso while Sasori began to work lower.

"Tsk," the redhead said with a not amused look, "Iwa nins are so barbaric."

"Take that back, yeah." Deidara growled as he tried to struggle.

Sakura just reached for the medical tape and slapped a piece over his mouth. He made sounds of dislike and anger, but couldn't be understood. Not like they were paying attention.

"He has a mouth on his chest," Sakura said as she started poking at it, "What sort of bloodline limit does he have Sasori-sensei?"

"He has mouths on his hands and one on his chest. He uses them to infuse chakra into his clay, making them come alive or detonate at his will." Sasori said as he began to poke and prod at places that made Deidara's sounds grew louder.

Nothing was numbed yet. So he could feel all their little touches.

"Cool!" Sakura said as she opened the mouth and began to study it.

Her other hand hovering over his chest, gathering information about his innards that way.

"His heart is pretty small," Sakura said as she released the jutsu, "It should be bigger and right… here."

She pointed to a spot in his chest mouth, but then moved it upwards and to the side a bit and pointed.

"But it's right here. Smaller then even my heart. That's not good for strenuous activities. Also his lungs are moved a bit to the left and one is half collapsed because of the mouth."

"If he's been a ninja this long, then he probably has overcome the problem," Sasori said as he finished his inspection, "Alright, either put him out or give him the pain killers."

"Nighty night Deidara-kun!" Sakura said as she reach her hand up and placed it on his temple, trickling her chakra into his brain and putting him under.

Deidara had looked frightened before the look of blissful sleep over took him. Sakura took off the medical tape and looked over the large wounds still on his body.

"We will have to wait till he gains weight to try to repair anything internally," Sakura said as she poked a bit at his skin and bones.

"Alright," Sasori said, "We will do that as soon as his health allows. Till then, you may want to leave for a bit. Circumcision is never pretty."

"Alright Sensei, I'll be in the kitchen, getting that tea that never came." Sakura said as she walked out, not even looking around.

"You do that," Sasori said as he pulled out a scalpel, making sure it was clean before he began the process.

The pain in between his legs was what woke him up. It hurt so bad. He whimpered a bit as he curled himself the best he could to try to stop the pain.

"Here," Something was brought to his lips, "Drink this. It'll help."

He did what he was told and drank as much as he could before he felt the pain turn into a dull ache. He was gently uncurled by someone and the blanket was pulled up to his chin again.

"Do you think you can eat?" Sakura's voice asked.

He hadn't opened his good eye, so he still did know where he was. But the smell coming from nearby was delicious.

"Come on," he heard her say as he felt heat radiating from something close to his mouth, "Eat it."

He opened his eye a sliver to look. It was beef stew, a rarity in Iwa and considered a delicacy there. He closed his eye again and opened his mouth wide enough for her to put the spoon in. She pulled it out and continued to hand feed him till there was none left.

"Wow," Sakura said as she petted his hair, much to his dislike, "You are a really good eater! Now I will come back later to give you some more medicine to relieve you of any pain, okay?"

"What did you do to me , yeah?"

"Sasori-sensei had to circumcise you," Sakura said as she patted his shoulder, "He explained to me it helps a male shinobi be faster at taking care of himself, there isn't much to clean down there after urinating now. He says most shinobi villages do it to all their newborns except Iwa. That's why he calls them barbaric."

"It hurts," Deidara whimpered, still feeling the ache even though it was dulled.

"Go back to sleep," Sakura said as she placed a hand at his temple, "You're in bad shape, just go back to sleep. Pein-sama won't request to see you till you're in good shape again. I'll be back with dinner later, okay?"

He barely had enough time to whimper a affirmative noise before he felt her chakra invade his body again and put him under. He was grateful. He couldn't stand the pain.

True to her word, she came back at dinner, fed him, and after a small healing session, put him back under till next meal.

She would feed him rich food, filled with nutrients and calories, and coax him into eating the whole plate. He usually didn't do such a thing, but Sakura wouldn't put him under till he did, so he reluctantly did as he was told.

She repeated the process for about three more days, then one morning she asked him while helping him with his breakfast how he was feeling and he was surprised to say he didn't hurt anymore. She seemed happy with that. That was the first time she didn't put him under.

So he laid awake, staring at the ceiling while the rosette was off most of the morning doing Kami knows what, not returning till lunch with some more food.

"If I wasn't underweight, I'd suspect you of trying to get me fat, yeah." Deidara said as he looked at the large meal.

"No," Sakura said with a shrug as she began to cut the food, "This is our usual rations. You're metabolism will be burning it off during your daily activities, but until then, yes, I guess it will fatten you up. Just humor me if it's too much for you to eat."

She offered him a bite, which he took and chewed a bit before addressing her again, "Why is someone like you in a place like this? You seem a little different then the others I've had the displeasure of meeting, yeah."

"Displeasure? All our members are nice-" She broke off when she remembered what Hidan was doing to the boy when she met him. She cut up another piece and offered it to him, "Okay, so Hidan doesn't make the greatest first impressions. He broke my nose when he slammed open the door the first day he was here, but everyone else here is nice, once you get past personality quirks."

"Yeah right, that Uchiha is really a nice guy," Deidara said as he rolled his good eye with sarcasm evident in his words.

"He is," Sakura said with a pout, "He's just extremely introverted. He can smile and poke fun, he just doesn't do it around others because he's shy."

"Shy?" Deidara asked with an arched brow, "He doesn't look shy, yeah. More like stuck up and thinks his Sharingan is the ultimate weapon."

"It's not!" Sakura yelled, pouting as she glared at the blonde, "he knows it has restrictions, but he doesn't mean to come off like that, he just does. How would you act if you had been the heir to the Uchiha clan! He just acts like he was taught to!"

"Why are you even defending that jerk, yeah?" Deidara yelled back, a scowl on his face, he didn't want to hear her sing the Uchiha's praise.

"Because he brought me here!" Sakura answered, her eyes glowing with anger, "I was orphaned and picked on when he found me. He went out of his way and brought me here with him. He took care of me when I was little and not use to the ways of a shinobi. He carried me on his back while we traveled for eight months while we waited to be picked up by Akatsuki. He gave me his rations because we were starving, and he protected me when ANBU attacked. He could have left me alone and miserable, but instead he brought me here and gave me a home. That's not even the half of it, but that's why I defend him, because of what he did for me."

He blinked, he wasn't suspecting that. He just watched as she slowly reigned in her temper.

She rubbed her temples a bit before picking up the utensil and putting more food on it before offering it to him, "Eat it."

He decided not to push his luck. He ate everything quietly, watching her with his good eye as the fire in her eyes slowly simmered down to its normal glow. She wasn't angry anymore, he could tell by the way her movements flowed a bit better- she was an open book to him.

She sighed lightly as she set the utensil down, the food was now resting in Deidara's stomach. It made him feel slightly lethargic because he wasn't use to eating so much in one sitting. Sakura stood up and took the tray and set it down on her bed before coming back and sitting on his current bed, he eyed her with curiosity as she sat Indian style.

He realized this was the first time he had ever seen her in pants. But that thought was thrown to the back of his head when she began to undo his head dressing.

"What are you-"

"I'm checking up on your eye," Sakura said as she continued to unwrap his bandages from his head, "I need to see if it has healed. I need the wound to close up before I can go any further."

He felt sick when she finally pealed back the padding from his eye. He blinked a couple times, trying to adjust his eye to the light but-

Everything remained the same. He couldn't see out of it.

His fear must have been evident on his face because Sakura started to soothe him a bit, taking her hand and placing it on his jaw as she rubbed her calloused thumb pad over his cheek, next to his blind eye.

"Why can't I see anything?" He asked weakly as he tried to get eye contact with her.

"Because Hidan slashed it," Sakura said, not making any eye contact as she got up and shuffled about through her things before bringing back a mirror, "I will show you, but you have to promise not to throw up or throw a tantrum."

Deidara took a deep breath of air before nodding, closing his eyes a second before opening then to see his reflection.

He looked as pale as he felt, small cuts and bruises littered his face, but were starting to heal, the bruises were a sickly yellow. He couldn't understand how the girl looked at him everyday without getting disgusted by it. His hair was oily and dirty, and he could still see some clumps with blood in them. That was probably why he reeked.

He felt reluctant at first, but finally he looked at his left eye. It was clouded over with an ice blue color, a great contrast to his deep ocean blue eye color. He could see the iris was white, but what made him want to throw up or even throw a tantrum like Sakura had guessed he would want to do was the slash that ran across it horizontally. It was healing up still, but it was a pale blue, a bit deeper in color then the ice blue and was still healing a bit.

He knew he had said he wouldn't, but he felt the tears welling up and he could almost scream in anger. His eye! His eye was ruined and all because of some religious nutcase thought to use him as a sacrifice!

He blamed Itachi for this, he blamed the other two who had come with that weasel man, he blamed the leader of this organization, he blamed Hidan for being a religious nut job, but mostly he blamed himself. How could he have been so stupid! Why did he lower his guard enough to let that even happen! How?

Sakura seemed to sense the coming tantrum because she quickly took his face in her hands and kissed his eyelid that quickly covered his left eye on reflex.

"I said no temper tantrums." She warned as she pulled away, feeling his anger dwindle away in surprise, "All is not lost yet."

"It's not, yeah?" he asked quietly, still in a bit of a stupor from her little kiss.

"Of course not," Sakura said with a smile, "I am the Akatsuki's medic. I have to know how to fix the strangest of things. Aniki had eye problems as well, but I was able to fix it. Yours is just a little harder then his, but should be almost the same. I just need it to heal first before I can get to fixing it."

"Really?" He asked, chocking on tears of relief.

"Of course," Sakura said as she rubbed away the tears that began to well up under his eyes, "That's why I am here; to take care of all the members. That includes you, Deidara. But for now, it still needs a bit more time to fully heal."

And with that, she began to clean it up again, using a warm cloth to wash away the blood that had leaked from his eye, and carefully running it over the stitches he had on his head. He was surprised how careful she was when she began to administer the healing ointment on his wounds, smothering his new gauze pad with the healing salve before gently taping it over his eye and getting new dressings to wrap around his head and eye.

He used the mirror in his lap to watch her movements carefully. She eventually moved on to other areas, checking his other wounds, like his fingers, slowly un-taping them and checking them carefully before re-taping them. She even measured his waist, much to his embarrassment, tsking a bit at how underweight her was.

"Well, you gained about two inches, so at least your thickening out," Sakura said as she jotted down notes on a file, "But I need you to gain a lot more before I can do any internal repair."

That part was muttered to herself, but Deidara had heard her. He didn't know what she was talking about, but it made his stomach tie up in knots.

She finally got up and closed the file she had retrieved sometime during the exam and put it away before returning to him and tucking him in a bit.

"Is there anything I can get you?" She had asked him, "It will be a while before I can return, so I will get you something to keep you occupied till then."

"Something to sketch in, some pencils, and… er… a couple books, yeah?" Deidara managed to think of before turning to look at the pinkette.

"Alright," Sakura said as she nodded, grabbing the tray and heading for the door, "Let me go get you those things."

And before he could even blink, she was gone in a swirl of cherry blossoms.

He sighed as he closed his eye and leaned back on his pillow to relax a bit. Slowly, his hand touched his gauze, hovering over the spot where her lips had touched his thin skin that covered his eye. He didn't know why it had calmed him down. He didn't know why she would even do such a thing, but it didn't matter. She had done it and it had sent butterflies down his stomach.

He chuckled a bit to himself as he looked around the room, growing drowsy by just lying there. Perhaps this place wouldn't be as bad as he had originally thought. Sakura was interesting. He would see what this place had to offer before making his final judgment. He just hoped he wouldn't have to hang around Hidan or the Uchiha that much, but if hanging with Sakura became a habit, he might end up getting to know the two better then he wanted.

He closed his eyes slowly, listening to the calm white noise of the rhythmic beeping coming from the heart monitor. He couldn't help it. His stomach was full, he was safe, and the bed was comfy, he fell asleep before she even came back.

Well that is a wrap!

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