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Our Time Of Dying

By: Lies To U

No.4

At Akatsuki HQ

"Do you really think we need a girl in the Akatsuki?" Zetsu asked the leader as they were at the Sealing Statue once again for a short meeting. "If this is what you called us here for, I say screw it! A girl will only slow us down!" Kisame protested with some arm motions. "You saw her attacks, at least she didn't run off screaming or end up killed." Hidan said to Kisame while facing him.

"She could be a replacement for Sasori or Orochimaru...Akatsuki is still a little uneven" Kakuzu said, interrupting the some-what argument to Hidan and Kisame. "It's still not a good idea, what if she double-crosses us and turns in any information to one of the villages?" Zetsu responded to Kakuzu. There was a conversation/argument about the 'soon-to-be' new member in Akatsuki.

"Enough, I already have made my decision. She WILL join us even if you have to brain-wash her." the leader spoke in a stern tone that made everyone silent. "Then I guess that means someone's going to have to go catch her, hmm?" Deidara asked in a non-interested tone. "Yes, does anyone here want to do that job?" the leader asked looking at all the Akatsuki's.

All was silent "Or do I have to choose myself?" the leader asked but already knew that was the answer. All was silent again, "sigh Fine then...Deidara, I leave the job to you." the leader said without looking at Deidara. "What!? Why me, hmm!?" Deidara responded angrily as he quick turned to the leader.

(I know most of you were thinking 'Of course Deidara's going after her' but if I kept putting different people in it wouldn't look like a Deidara love story now would it?)

"Because I said so, and your the closest to her location now get going" the leader said sternly turning his eyes to Deidara giving a cold look.

(Oh another thing, they're pretty much in hologram form in HQ, you know. Like when they were sucking out Gaara's beast)

Deidara 'tch'ed while looking away with a death glare. "Now don't do anything naughty Deidara" Hidan said smirking. "Shut up, hmm!" Deidara responded with a fist. "Rghh!" Deidara growled before making a hand sign and disappearing from Akatsuki HQ.

Back with Aiko

Aiko's eyes twitched as she slowly gained consciousness, her vision was blurry as she tried to look around with one eye open. That's when she felt something crawling on her arm that made her eyes turn to her arm. There was a centipede crawling up her arm with all its legs in motion.

"GAHHHH!!!!! IT'S A BUG! IT'S A BUG! GET IT OFF!!!!!" Aiko screamed as she waved her arm rapidly making the centipede go flying. Aiko panted while she let her arm fall down to her lap since she was now sitting up. "Rgh!!" she growled as she quickly clenched her side that had the hole in it. She looked at her hand to see some dry blood when she previously held the wound.

"I guess I should have used a healing jutsu to cover that up eh?" she asked herself as she slowly/groggily stood up. She mumbled gibberish as she wiped her eyes with her jacket sleeve and took a look up at the sky.

It was dark but light was coming from the east, meaning that it was early in the morning. "Oh, you got to be kidding me! How long have I've been out!? What time is it!?" Aiko asked herself aloud while hitting herself on the head rapidly. Aiko sighed and stood straight up now, 'No matter, I have to follow Ginjiro and Kiandoe in case they need help.' She thought as she turned around to the arrow and started walking in the direction it pointed to.

But as she walked five feet a huge gush of wind came from behind her causing her to have a tight grip on her coat so it wouldn't have to fly away, some twigs or pebbles hit her but it had very minimum damage. As the wind stopped she turned around to see what was the cause of it.

There she saw a humongous white owl with one of the same goons that attacked them standing on top of its back! The one with long blonde hair that Nyoko took for a he/she. Aiko stood her ground, looking at him confused but she still had her guard up. "WHAT THE H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU HE/SHE!?" Aiko yelled while pointing a finger at the 'he/she'.

"How many times do I have to tell you that I'm a GUY!!!" the 'he/she' yelled as he jumped off the enormous owl. "Well that's not part of the reason I'm here." 'he' responded. Aiko let her arms fall to her side, ready to trigger her holsters any minute. "Your coming with me whether you like it or not." 'he' said with a cold look in his eyes. Aiko's eyes slightly widen at the mans words.

"Heh," Aiko's reply was with black covering her eyes, the man slightly raised his head from her reply. Quickly, kunais and shurikens where triggered from the holsters making them be in Aiko's grasp once again as she charged at the man. "Like that's EVER gonna happen!!!" Aiko yelled as she threw the weapons at her opponent. The man quickly jumped out of the weapons way and appeared behind her in a blink.

Aiko saw this coming and quickly threw a punch at his face but he blocked then she tried to knee him in the stomach but it didn't work since he jumped back, knowing that that's what she was going to do. 'Hmph, just as I thought, it wouldn't go so smoothly at all. Even when she's injured she intends to fight, hmm.' Deidara thought while slightly glaring at Aiko who already had more throwing weapons between her fingers.

(I'll just call him Deidara for the rest of the chapter but Aiko dosen't know his name yet...unless she remembers what Hidan said when they had fled)

"sigh I should have know you wouldn't accept at first." Deidara said while putting one of his hands into a pouch that was attached to his waist. Aiko lifted an eye brow to what her opponent did. "Tch." Aiko said as she withdrew a kunai with one of her hands while the other hand shurikens. 'My arm seemed to have some-what healed while I was unconscious...I just hope it'll last...' Aiko thought worryingly but kept a straight face.

In a quick blink Aiko charged at her opponent making his eyes slightly widen, he dodged the flying kunai she sent him while he got a kunai from his other hand that was not in his pouch and countered the flying shurikens that aimed at him at mid air. Aiko dodged the countered shurikens and made her holsters trigger needles while she had her arms pointed at her target in the air.

Deidara dodged the needles and made himself quickly land with his hand still in his pouch. "You seriously are head strong when it comes to weapons, I wonder what would happen if you ran out of them." her opponent said with a strange smirk that made her glare with hate. "Shut UP!" she yelled while triggering her holsters again with needles and charged at her opponent. Deidara dodged her attacks whether she threw her weapons or mearly sliced at him.

'A little bit more...' he thought as his mouth on his hand continued to chew the explosive clay. As Aiko missed her head-shot at Deidara's head, he clawed her hand that held the kunai and threw her back, causing her to skid across the ground. He took a small backward jump then a high one, causing his owl to come into the sky and be his landing in mid air. "Oh no you don't!" Aiko said as she withdrew her duel swords.

She jumped off a tree as she ran to it, causing her to fly up to her opponent. Deidara saw this coming and made his owl fly up higher so she would miss her aim but Aiko stabbed one of her duel swords into the owl's leg making her hang there while she had a tight grip on the handle.

Aiko lifted herself on the sword handle while she gritted her teeth. As she stabbed her other sword onto the owls back-end she saw her opponent smirking at her as she came in his view. "RGH!!!" Aiko growled as she withdrew her swords and ran to her opponent as she gained balance on the birds back. But as she did, her enemy threw, what it seemed to be, small birds but they poofed to be medium size. 'Birds!?' she thought but that's when fear struck her.

They exploded in the wind causing black smoke to be seen where it was blasted as Deidara and his owl flew slightly away from the explosion. Deidara focused on the black cloud/smoke as he awaited to see if her body remained. And his question was answer as a body fell from the black cloud. "OOMF!" Aiko yelped as her back took a hard landing to the ground. She coughed since she inhaled some of the black smoke, and gritted her teeth in pain as she felt some blood make a trail from her forehead to her chin.

"Hmph, you were pretty lucky to have survived that blast." Deidara said as he landed his owl to the ground. "Then again, they always say fools seem to live longer, hmm?" he said smirking. Aiko sent him a death glare as she clenched her sword handles and quickly charged at her target without hesitation. She threw one of her duel swords at him but his owl flew up, causing the sword to miss its target and be plunged into a tree.

"You..." Aiko began her sentence as she got a chain rope from her jacket, swung it around and threw it at her opponent. Causing it to quickly wrap around his ankle. "Hmm!?" Deidara said when he felt a tight grip on his ankle, "GET BACK DOWN HERE!!!" Aiko yelled as she gave the chain rope a tight tug causing Deidara to nearly fall off his owl if he hadn't grabbed one of its 'feathers' on its wing.

"Dammit!" Deidara yelled as he sent out more mini birds that swirled around the chain rope and exploded as he made a hand sign, causing the chain rope to break. "Argh..." Aiko growled through her teeth as she saw her enemy regain balance on the bird. "Quit being such a sissy and come down here and fight me!" Aiko yelled loud enough to her enemy could hear.

"Now if I did that, wouldn't that give you the opportunity to kill me, hmm?" Deidara responded while smirking at her glaring expression. "You son of a B#ST#RD!" Aiko yelled as she sent shuriken and kunais at her opponent that dodged them easily with his owl. 'She seems not to take a step to come up here again, probably fearing that I'll send more explosives in her face...or is it-' Deidara chuckled at the thought that came to his mind.

'No matter if that is the reason, I'll just have an opening to attack her head on, pity I can't kill her, hmm.' Deidara thought, his eyes still focused on Aiko as his hand continued to chew on the explosive clay that was still in his pouch. Aiko glared while she was in deep thought 'Arghh...this'll take forever if I don't finish him off. As long as he's in the air, I can't make a counter attack or a strong attack on him. DAMN! I wish I didn't have this stupid-a$$ fear!' Aiko thought as she did the slightest blush.

Both enemies stood their ground, awaiting to see if one of them would make the first move. "Well, if she's gonna stand there waiting for my attack. I guess I should do it." Deidara said to himself as the mouth on his hand spitted out chewed clay, he started to form more objects. Aiko's patience went past the line, she ran to her opponent and sent shurikens head on. Her enemy dodged and sent out more little birds that poofed to normal size in a cloud-poof.

They came flying straight at Aiko, knowing this, she quickly threw kunais and shurikens at the birds. The weapons did pierced the birds and they exploded but the massive power from the small/medium birds sent Aiko flying as if it was up close. "ARGHH!!!" She yelled as her back hit a tree when she made a some-what landing and sliding down the tree until her behind hit the ground. 'That's not...going to keep me down!' she thought angrily as she slowly stood up, slightly leaning against the tree she crashed into.

She panted heavy, she knew this could be nothing to her if the damn enemy would just fight her on the ground. But you would have to include the previous battle she was in, that TOO was slowing her down. 'But if he's just sending these minor things at me...why doesn't he finish me off NOW? Is he toying with me?' Aiko thought while panting heavy still and groaning from the pain throbbing around the hole at her side as she clenched it.

"Hmm, this is going to take longer than I thought. If only she would surrender. Hmph, enemies aren't that easy to go along anymore." Deidara said to himself as he watched the in-pain-state opponent he was 'facing'. "If you just surrender now you don't have to go through all this pain, just give up, hmm." Deidara said loud and clear to his in-pain opponent that kept slightly panting.

"Rghh..." Aiko growled as she let her arm fall to her side and made some of her remaining weapons in her holsters trigger once again. "I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE IN THAT EASY!!!!" Aiko yelled as she threw her throwing weapons at her opponent. Deidara dodged them as his owl moved out of the way as if they were nothing. "Fool, your wasting your time, hmm." Deidara said smirking to Aiko.

That's when it hit Deidara, he slowly looked a missed head-shot kunai as if it was going in slow motion. There, on the kunai, was an explosive tag. Deidara's eyes widen.

The explosive made black smoke go everywhere and Deidara's owl being slightly destroyed but could still fly. Deidara's arm fell to his side as they flew out of the black cloud of smoke when it was in front of his face to some-what shield it. "Smart to put an explosive tag on a kunai and let me notice it at the last second, hmm?" Deidara asked to his death-glaring opponent.

"Nrrrr..." Aiko grumbled gibberish under her breath as she heard her holsters nearly run out of weapons to launch. 'Gawd..if only I didn't have a hole in my side and he would get off of that stupid owl, I could have finished him off...STUPID SON OF A-' Aiko's thought was cut off as her opponent threw more explosive birds flying down at her.

Aiko knew what to do.

She quickly ran for it. Dodging whenever one bird exploded when they got to close and throwing some weapons at the birds or at her opponent when ever given the chance. "KATSU!" Deidara yelled and a bird exploded when it looked like it got close to Aiko. "AHHH!!!!" Aiko yelled as she was sent off her feet from the blast the bird gave off and went crashing into the ground making some stones scrap her face.

"Oww..." Aiko groaned as she got up on all fours then two feet. 'Damn! This is taking to long! The sun's near to rising!' Aiko thought as she glanced a gaze to the east seeing the suns light a little above and behind the many miles of the forest of trees. Aiko was distracted by the glance and gave Deidara a opening to attack her which he did. He threw an explosive bird and made it explode once it got close to Aiko.

Sending her,again, flying away from where she last stood. "OUCH!" Aiko yelled as her back became in contact with a hard rock making something crack and made her cough up a little blood, Aiko fell face-flat on the ground as she 'bounced' back from the hit she took from the big rock.

She continued to cough some blood while her face was still in the dirt and as she shakingly, 'She's unguarded!' Deidara thought with his eyes slightly widen, he threw one last bird at her. Aiko, still in pain, didn't catch this and was sent flying again as the bird-bomb set off, making her go crashing into the ground harshly again. Deidara did quick hand signs as his owl was gliding down to the ground.

"Nirvana Temple Jutsu!!!" Deidara yelled and the attack was sent out. Feathers started falling from the sky but avoided Deidara and his owl. Aiko growled and hissed in pain as she made herself stand on all fours as she forced herself up. The feathers started to fall on her and everywhere else in the battle field. 'Why...am I feeling some-what tired? What's-'.

Aiko's thought was cut off as she raised her head up and turned it slightly to the side to see falling feathers falling from the sky. 'What...? WAIT! This...is...' Aiko caught this attack too late. She fell to the ground on her side in a deep sleep. Deidara made some more hand signs, making the falling feathers disappear. His owl landed on the ground as he jumped off the owl and walked toward his fallen opponent.

"You really were a pain in the neck, hmm." Deidara said as he was right beside Aiko. "Mission complete...hmm." Deidara said to himself as he picked up Aiko by the hair and threw her on his owl, got on it too and flew out of sight.

THAT IS THY END OF THY CHAPTER KIDDIES I SAY AGAIN...whoops caps. ANYWAY! Please review or message please!