"Kyohaku!!"

Kyohaku turned. "What is it, Sakura?"

Sakura was breathing heavily.

"Now that I know where your base is, your group is dead!" Sakura said, pointing an accusing finger at the blue-haired Akatsuki member. To Sakura's surprise, the members merely glanced at each other and snickered. Kyohaku smirked.

"I'm afraid you're out of luck, Sakura."

"What? What are you talking about??"

"This…isn't our base." Kyohaku pointed out. Sakura couldn't believe it. All that work following Kyohaku and it was all for nothing!

"You…I'll kill you!!" Sakura screamed.

"Oh? You and what army?" Kyohaku teased. The other members snickered again. Seeing Sakura this flustered was amusing to them.

At the back of the room, Casana watched with Deidara.

"Deidara…what's going on?" Casana questioned the blonde next to her. Deidara shrugged.

"Don't worry. Kyohaku will take care of this."

At last, Sakura gave up and left stomping. Kyohaku stuck her tongue at the pink-haired junior high student's back, then walked up to Casana and Deidara. She smiled.

"Having fun with each other?" Kyohaku asked, grinning. Deidara laughed.

"That was some show you put on back there.

"Nah, that was mostly Sakura's hot-head barking back at me. You find it amusing, do you?" Kyohaku smirked. "So, has she finished with the basics?"

Deidara nodded.

Casana blinked. "Is it true that this isn't our base?"

Kyohaku shook her head. "Sakura's gullible, she actually fell for it."

Sasori joined them. "Hey, have you guys heard?"

"Heard what?"

"This year's yearbook is going to have a "Couples" section at the back!"

"No way!! Who're they going to PUT there?"

"I don't know, but I do know that they're gonna put Deidara with Sakura." Sasori said with disgust, shaking a letter that was hanging loosely between his index and middle finger. Deidara's face nearly went flying off.

"They're putting me with Sakura?! Why??"

"Says here that you two actually show some affection for each other." Sasori read, shrugging. Deidara glanced at Kyohaku.

"Kyohaku, you're in charge of the yearbooks, can't you do something about this?"

"I'll try, Deidara, I'll try. But I can't guarantee anything. Who else are they gonna put?" Kyohaku asked, leaning over to read the piece of paper. Sasori handed it to her.

"Hm…oh wow…they're going to put Naruto and Sasuke as a couple??" Kyohaku stared at the letter in disbelief. Deidara muttered, "Wow, they put gay couplings too? Geez." While Casana just stood there, looking on quizzically.

"Who else are they putting?" Kyohaku questioned.

Sasori glanced at the letter. "Hmm…well what do ya know, you and me!"

"Seriously?!" Kyohaku snatched the letter and looked at it. "Awesome! And look, they're also putting...oh my God! No way!" She started to laugh.

Sasori glanced over her shoulder. "No way! They're putting Shikamaru and Ino!"

"I think they're cute together." Tay shrugged.

"So do I." Kisame agreed.

"Anyone with me?" Tobi asked, jumping about.

Everyone just shrugged.

Kyohaku read on through the letter. "Hmm…these couples seem to be in good order…although there is a couple I'd like to tweak around if I can…but really, Deidara and Sakura?! That's really stupid." At the corner of her eye she could've sworn she caught a twinge of jealousy in Casana's eyes.

"I don't even like her." The blonde grumbled.

The feelings mutual. Casana thought, letting out a sigh of relief. Wait…what?

"Any other stupid pairings we should know about?" Tay questioned, coming over to see.

Kyohaku scanned the letter again. "No, not really…look Tay! They're putting you with Kisame!"

"They are?!" The soccer maniac's brown eyes widened.

"Seriously!?" Kisame chimed in.

"Well, it does say so and that you two seem to really create chemistry all right." Sasori added.

The two glanced at each other and then looked away and blushed.

"So yeah, the other couples here seem to be good. Oh hey look Casana, they're putting you with…Rock Lee?!" Kyohaku raised an eyebrow.

Deidara clenched a fist, but then unclenched it, and it didn't go unnoticed to Sasori.

Well well well! The red-head thought. I think someone's jealous!

"You mean the guy with that hairdo and thick eyebrows?" Casana shrugged. "Well, he's really not that bad, it could be worse."

"I'll see what I can do." Kyohaku responded.

The group was silent for a while.

"So, when do we eat?" Tobi asked, appearing to be grinning.

Everyone looked at him weird.

"…What? I'm hungry."

Looking through the letter once more, Kyohaku hid a smirk. This was going to be so much fun.

The next day at the base…

Kyohaku got a list of all the couples to be in the yearbook, and another list for the replacement couples if one of the couples were somewhat troubled. She brought the lists with here to announce who and who would be together in the yearbook and if anybody didn't like it, what they would be paired up with in exchange.

The members were all huddled around an oval-shaped table –everyone except the blue-haired mystery member and the leader of course- to see who they were with. Kyohaku cleared her throat.

"Deidara, I managed to get you separated from Sakura…" At this point, Casana started relaxing. "And I managed to get Casana away from Lee." Deidara felt himself breath a sigh of relief the moment those words left Kyohaku's mouth. Kyohaku glanced at the two of them and let out a sudden laugh.

"But, in exchange, it looks like you two have to be the couple replacement."

"What?!" Deidara and Casana both yelled, jumping up from their chairs. They looked at each and blushed, then turned their attention back to Kyohaku.

"Yep, you guys are now officially a school couple!" Kyohaku repeated, smiling.

Deidara didn't seemed very pleased with that answer.

"No way! How could they pair us up?"

"Sorry, Deidara. I can't do anything about it now, unless you want to be paired with Itachi." Kyohaku said, shrugging. Deidara looked at her blankly.

"Itachi? I'm going to be paired with Itachi if I'm not paired with Casana?"

"Yep."

Deidara fell silent and returned to his seat. So did Casana.

"As for Itachi, well, he's…" Kyohaku let out a small giggle, "with the famous shy girl, Hinata."

Itachi remaned silent and emotionless. Hinata was, well, known for her shy personality. It was a part of her, the part that made her partially popular, though she was sometimes referred to as "stuck up", she has a very kind, nurturing heart. It's her shyness that stands in her way of being popular.

"Of course, Kisame is paired up with little Tay over there! And, get this, the Leader…he's paired up with Flower-chan!!"

Everyone's eyes nearly bugged out. "Flower-chan?? With the Leader!?"

Kyohaku nodded. "Yep! And they don't even have a replacement couple! They're stuck together!"

Her cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"STOP THAT COUPLE FROM ENTERING THE YEARBOOK THIS INSTANT!!!!"

Kyohaku held the phone several inches from her ear, and the Leader's voice echoed throughout the hideout.

"Right. Okay, sir." She ended the phone call right there and rubbed her ears gently.

"Ow. Okay, you know our fellow annoying Tobi-"

"Tobi is a good boy!" Tobi blurted out. Kyohaku sighed.

"Yes, I've noticed. Now, Tobi is with…Zetsu…" Kyohaku said, her voice fading in amazment at the end of her sentence.

"Yay! Zetsu-san!! We're together!" Tobi yelled from the back of the room. "Wait…is that good or bad?"

Deidara eyes twitched. Sasori stared at Kyohaku. Casana looked over to Zetsu, then to Tobi, then to Zetsu, then to Tobi again and blinked.

"Okay then!! Hidan is well, with the member that cries, "Money, money, money, money, money… Did you guess who it is?"

Everyone yelled out "Kakuzu!" except Hidan, who was too angry to say Kakuzu's name, and Kakuzu, who yelled, "Me!" instead.

Hidan started babbling about how he could've deserved this since he was so loyal to his God and asked Kyohaku to change it immediately. Kakuzu didn't really seem all that pleased either, but at least he didn't complain or whine all the time like Hidan did. Kyohaku was on the verge of saying, "Shut up about Jashin, you religious retard!"

But then another member started saying that the couple was alright, and the two started arguing while Casana and Tobi tried to calm them down. Of course, Hidan and the other member both barked at them to stay out of it, and Deidara spoke up in Casana's defense. Soon, the place was in utter chaos.

Well, Kyohaku couldn't take any of the noise any more. She flipped open her cell phone and put the volume on max, then let her ring tone blast out of the speaker until everyone became quiet. She cleared her throat.

"Thank you for being so cooperative, guys." She said sarcastically.

"Um Kyohaku," Casana spoke up. "For all that's it worth, we didn't mean to cause a bit of a hoopla. I can't really speak for all of us, but, I think that somehow we'll adjust to all this and just go on with it like we should."

Kyohaku let that sink in and nodded at her, a small smile curling on her lips. "Okay. Thank you, Casana."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Um…yay?" Tobi said.

Kisame grinned. "I don't mind being with Tay in this one!"

"And I don't mind being with Kisa." Tay added, blushing slightly.

"Good. Glad to hear it." Kyohaku put everything together. "Meeting adjourned."

They all stood and started to head out, hoping none of their peers would see them leaving. Well it was after school so hopefully they were lucky.

"So, with the alterations you made, you're going to go with that?" Sasori questioned Kyohaku as they left the school.

"Yep!" Kyohaku nodded, straightening her backpack more over her shoulder. "I think it'll work out just fine!"

"I sure hope so."

"Not to worry, I have my ways." The blue-haired girl smirked. Although it was more a grin.

"See you guys!" Kisame waved as he and Taylor trouped out the back door to the soccer field. They had soccer practice.

"Let's go kick and kick!" Taylor squealed, pumping a fist into the air. "Boo-yeah!"

Kisame laughed heartily. "Okay, sista!"

Grabbing his backpack and bringing it over his shoulder, Deidara faced Casana and cleared his throat.

"Um…would you mind if I walked you home?"

Casana blinked a couple of times. But she smiled sweetly. "Sure, I'd love that."

Trying not to blush, they too went out the doors to head out.

Hopefully the yearbook will turn out as good as they all hoped.