Hello guys and gals! How's it going? I've made this chapter a bit longer than usual so I hope you like it! :)

. . . . = timeskip

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Deidara grumbled moodily under her breath as she stalked through town. She and Sasori had split up to gather information quicker so she was alone at the moment. Honestly, she thought this mission was just plain ridiculous. They were gathering information about a scroll, so at a later date Pein could send one of them out to retrieve said scroll. It was incredibly boring. And not only that but everywhere she went she could feel people staring at her.

Deciding she was tired of wandering the streets looking for information, she entered a small café. It was almost lunch after all. She bought a cup of tea and some dango before sitting down at a table in the back near a window. Though it wasn't long before she noticed some guy, who looked a few years older than her, pull up a seat next to her.

"Can I help you, yeah?" Deidara asked.

"What are you doing here all alone baby?" He asked, smirking.

"Excuse me?"

"A pretty woman such as yourself-"

"Are you drunk, yeah?"

"Yea, I'm intoxicated by you," he leaned closer. 'What the hell!? Is this guy serious?' Deidara thought.

"I'm not interested, yeah."

"In being just friends? I agree," he leaned even closer. Deidara kicked the chair out from under him and watched with satisfaction as he fell flat on his face. But much to her dismay he got up, continuing to smirk at her.

"I like it when they're hard to get," he licked his lips. Deidara abruptly stood up and dashed from the café. This guy was a total creep!

"Hey wait up!" he called, running after her. Oh shit! She sped up but couldn't seem to lose the weirdo. Then spotting someone familiar, she hid behind her.

"Sasori-danna! That creepy guy was flirting with me, yeah," he said, wearily watching the guy approach.

"Can't you ever stay out of trouble brat?" she sighed.

"Oh is this your-" the guy was cut off when Sasori punched him in the face, sending him flying through the window of a nearby shop.

"Thanks danna!" she grinned, relieved at not having to worry about the creepo anymore.

"Really, why didn't you just blow him up? Isn't that how you usually deal with those people?"

"….Good point, yeah…"

They had to flee from the area to avoid enemy ninja soon after Deidara blew up the shop, but it was worth it.

Deidara had no idea why, but she'd had cramps all day. Only now did it begin to feel as if someone was repeatedly stabbing her in the stomach with a knife.

"Why is this happening to meee, yeah!?" she whined, burying her face into the pillow where she laid on her stomach on one of the beds in the hotel room she and Sasori were staying in. Despite the destruction Deidara had caused earlier that day, they'd managed to escape the enemy ninja and still manage to get a room in a hotel.

"What are you complaining about now brat?" Sasori sighed.

"It huuurts, yeah!"

"Quit being a baby. I'm sure whatever it is, it's not something to fuss over."

"You don't know how I feel, yeah!"

"God, you sound like a teenage girl…"

"I am a teenage girl, yeah!"

"Quit being so damn annoying!"

"But it huuuurttss, yeah!" she whined, writhing on the bed to further express her agony.

"It's too late for this… Just go to bed already!" Deidara childishly stuck her tongue out at Sasori before, storming off to the bathroom adjacent to their room to take a shower. But as she glanced in the mirror she noticed a large red stain and let out a scream so loud it was sure to break the eardrums of anyone within a ten mile radius. Sasori burst through the door in the next second.

"What are you screaming about!?"

"I-I'm d-dyyyying yeah!" the blonde sobbed, wrapping her arms around herself.

"What do you mean you….." Sasori then also noticed the large red stain and also began to panic slightly.

"What did you do!?"

"I-I don't knooooowww! I d-don't wanna diiiee yeah!" Deidara cried.

"Ah shit… Just come on, I'm sure they have a hospital around here somewhere," Sasori grabbed Deidara's wrist and dragged her out the room. She didn't really have any medical knowledge so this seemed like the best option. Besides, what village didn't have a hospital?

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Elsewhere Kakuzu and Hidan were having a similar problem. But Hidan, used to bleeding all the time anyways wasn't all that worried. And having five hearts, Kakuzu wasn't very concerned either. After all they still had an assassination mission to complete which meant more money for Kakuzu and a sacrifice for Hidan.

"Come on Kakuzu, why won't you just tell me why the hell we're bleeding? You're like what, a hundred something? Shouldn't you already know shit like that?"

"I'm not a hundred something, you idiot. And why would you expect me to know anyways? Are you admitting that I'm smarter than you?"

"Hell no! I just figure a weirdo like you would know weird stuff like that," Hidan smirked.

"Tch, says the bitch who believes in some fake-"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence you bastard or I swear I will murder your ass!"

"Who doesn't even have the brain power to solve even the simplest of problems," Kakuzu changed her insult, deciding she'd rather not hear Hidan go into a five hour religious rant.

"Excuse me!? I am way smarter than you!"

"You don't even know what 2 + 2 is," Kakuzu shook her head derisively.

"So!? Why the hell would I need to know shit like that!?" Hidan snapped.

"Maybe if you knew it you wouldn't be such a dumbass," Kakuzu rolled her eyes. Honestly, why did Pein have to partner her with such a neanderthal?

"You're the dumbass, dumbass! You don't even know why the hell we're bleeding even though you're like a thousand years old! I bet if I was that damn old I'd at least know the answer to something easy like that! And-" Kakuzu, growing increasingly annoyed with her partners ranting decapitated her with her own scythe.

"Hey you bitch! Put my head back on! Don't walk away! Where the hell do you think you're going!? Bastard, get back hear you damn prick! Are listening to me!?"

"Is that him?' Hidan asked her partner. After a while Kakuzu had finally come back and reattached her head and before they'd even reached the village they found this guy who very closely matched the one in their mission description. And now they were hiding in a small cluster of bushes waiting to murder him.

"Yes. Try not to destroy his face at least; I need to bring him in to the bounty office for money."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Kakuzu sat back and watched semi-amusedly as Hidan scared the guy so bad he nearly wet his pants then attempted to cut his head off but missed and instead got her scythe stuck in the trunk of a tree.

"Hey get back here! You damn pansy!" the albino shouted, chasing after the man who'd attempted to run away. She tackled him to the ground and tried to hold him still, screaming expletives all the while, so she could pull out a kunai to stab him with.

"Hold still so I can kill you asshole!" she attempted to stab him with the kunai she'd managed to pull out but he moved his head just before it could hit him. She went to try again but was stopped by someone grabbing her arm.

"I told you not to ruin the face," Kakuzu said.

"Well this kunai is too small to cut his head off," Hidan growled, trying to yank her arm away.

"Just use your scythe."

"My scythe is stuck in that tree you blind asshole!"

Kakuzu glared before kicking Hidan into the same tree where her scythe was stuck and tying the guy up with her strings before he could escape.

"You bastard! What the hell is your problem!?" Hidan screamed, storming over to her partner angrily, scythe now in hand. She took a swing at the guy but Kakuzu move him out of the way.

"Let me kill him!"
"No. I get more money if we bring him in alive."

"This is a damn assassination mission! There's no living in that!"

"Oh well."

"Let me kill him!" Hidan took another swing at the guy only to miss again.

"No," Kakuzu said simply. Hidan let out an enraged shriek and for the second time that mission, tackled Kakuzu to the ground, both of them attempting to rip the other's hair out once more.

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Kisame, upon discovering that his partner was bleeding and not knowing why, insisted that they immediately head back to the base. She was also bleeding herself but since they were no going back to the base it didn't really matter.

"We're going to fail the mission," Itachi stated sullenly, he arms folded across her chest.

"Itachi-chan, this could be serious, it's better if we just go back to the base."

"Pein is going to be mad…."

"I'm sure he'll understand."

"Since when did he understand anything," Itachi muttered.

"Aw don't be like that… Oh, and just let me know if you need to stop or start feeling bad."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Itachi asked, a hint of annoyance slipping past her calm façade.

"Well I just don't want anything to happen to-"

"Are you implying that I can't take care of myself Kisame?" though her voice remained mostly calm, a dark glare had settled on the raven's face.

"Of course not!" Kisame quickly said, beginning to feel nervous. It was never a goo thing when Itachi got angry. "I j-just worry sometimes and-"

"I can worry about myself, understand?"

"Itachi-chan," Kisame began, nervously running a hand through her hair, "as your partner I think I have a right to worry."

"Oh you think so?" Itachi snapped, her voice raising ever so slightly.

"W-well, yes, I…" Kisame froze, noticing the way her partner grit her teeth as her glare darkened.

"I…"

"Let me tell you Kisame, I am in no way weak nor do I need any protection from you and I am perfectly capable of taking care of my-" Itachi let out a very undignified squeal as she was yanked a little over ten feet into the air by a wire trap that had wrapped around her ankle.

Kisame covered her mouth with a hand, barely able to hold back a few giggles as her partner dangle upside-down looking completely surprised and befuddled.

"Need any help Itachi-chan!?" she called merrily.

"…No…" Itachi growled, though there was no way for her to get down. Her kunais and shuriken had all fallen out of their pouch when she was turned upside-down and her fire jutsus couldn't burn through the wire. Besides, even if they could it would probably end up burning her foot off as well.

"Oh, okay! Well I guess I'll be going then," Kisame waved, snickering under her breath and beginning to walk off. She hadn't made it ten feet when Itachi spoke up.

"Wait!"

"Yes?"

"I… I need you to…"

"Yes Itachi-chan?"

"J-Just help me down already!" she finally blurted, before mumbling a quiet please. Itachi hated asking for help. It just wasn't something Uchihas did.

"Oh I don't know- okay, okay!" Kisame yelped, deciding she would stop teasing before she had to suffer Itachi's mangekyo. She pulled out a kunai and jumped onto the branch the wire Itachi was dangling from was tied too. She easily cut through the wire and Itachi gracefully dropped to the ground.

"Now what do you say?" Kisame asked, jumping down to the ground.

"….."

"Itachi-chan…"

"Thank you," Itachi sighed, looking away. Kisame smirked.

"Okay, let's keep going," she cheerily declared beginning to walk again, Itachi quietly following behind.

I hoped you liked it, and please leave a review, I'd really appreciate it. ^_^