I silently gasped at what I saw. The hope of having a huge crush on Deidara was just shattered before my eyes. Eight hours with me sleeping and Ninkibi already seems to have something going on with him. I sighed and continued what I was doing: snooping around the base.

I wonder if I would get to see my family again.

I though of my teammates, alone in the forest with that guy, Kakuzu.

"I bet my partner, Kakuzu, already found your friends."

The memory of what Hidan said lingered in my ear. If Hidan was that scary, I wonder what his partner looked like. If they were dead, there would be no trace of team 13 left to report back to our Kage. Well, maybe a dead boy or two…

Wandering and wondering at the same time, I stumbled across what seamed to be a den of some sort with a vast library next to it. There were cute little, almost Victorian couches and a vintage looking coffee table in the center. Who knew the Akastuki had class? There was a tall archway leading into a room filled with bookcases, packed with thick books and hopefully, some novels to read. Reading made my eyes a little drowsy, so maybe if I read a book long enough, I'd get tired and be able to fall asleep again.

I circled the room browsing through the books.

Jutsu, medical stuff, chakra, weapons… not much of the things I read. I'm more of fiction person, or drama. Romance isn't that bad either, it's pretty entertaining, and I'm sure if Konan read any books they wouldn't be books on fighting techniques. I came to a shelf more towards the back of the room, where I found, rather interesting books for the Akastuki… one of them was "Icha icha paradise."

I dropped the book when I found out someone read that here… But I had to pick it up and put it back sooner or later… I saw the whole series there actually. A bit disturbing, but it made me think the Akastuki were more normal than 'super-strict-evil maniacs- wanting to control the universe' as I heard someone say before. The next book was a children's book, "Peter pan," and some other fairy tales.

Why are these here?Does the Akatsuki have little kids here? Oh my gosh, they don't kidnap them and turn them into little slaves right? No… no… I know they don't because these people don't want little kids to take care of… but then why do they have these here?

Suddenly something poked my back.

"Hi Ikichi-chan! Tobi sees you with Tobi's books! Will Ikichi read one to Tobi? Please? Tobi is a good boy and he can't get to sleep!"

Oh! Phew! They're for him. I guess reading one wouldn't be so bad.

"Okay, sure Tobi! So you want to read them in the den or in your room?"

"The den! There are comfy couches there! Weee!" he mused into the next room, plopping down on a cushiony couch, patting the spot where I should sit. On the way over I grabbed a book to read after Tobi fell asleep or went away because children's books have pretty big fonts, so It wouldn't take long to read. I opened a book of fairy tales and read three of them for Tobi since he didn't get the least bit tired until the second. By the time he was all out of hyper juice he wobbled out of the room and back towards his room saying,

"Thanks Iki-channnn!" I watched him wobble down the hall to make sure he wouldn't fall over and hurt himself, then I walked back into the room to read the book I grabbed. I didn't even bother to read the description or anything. I was going to read whatever I go because I didn't feel like getting back up.

The book I read was about how a girl got trapped in depression because her life fell apart and she was alone. No one helped her, but abused her, and kicked her when she was down. No one understood, and she couldn't tell anyone because when she did, they sounded like such small reason to cry over, but the issue was so much worse. All the pain and agony caused her to serious think about ending her life, but through the many attempts, this one guy kept saving her. Then I fell asleep… it was a pretty lengthy book, the font was small. I only got a third done. I did that in three or four hours, but that was only about 150 pages.

I woke up at about 6 a.m. Perfect time to spend some time watching the sun rise. Then as I got up, I noticed an Akastuki cloak on top of me.

How sweet, I thought. Someone didn't want me to be cold, I wonder who? I folded it and put it on the couch. Then I put the book back on the shelf where I found it, I'd come back to read it later in the day. I headed out and tried to find a door out, maybe the training grounds. When I got there, the sky was dark and gloomy and rain started pouring within a few minutes. Thunder roared in the distance and lighting flashed everywhere. A horrible storm was coming, and being in the tallest tower in the rain village, (I looked up yesterday when I was outside) we could easily get struck by the fierce lighting coming our way.

It was such a nicer day yesterday… when did these clouds come in? Over night?

I wandered a little more. Since I didn't have a room to go to, I retreated back to the cozy den and started relaxing before I started freaking out by the thunder. Then, the worst thing could have happened… the power went off and I had no one around me…

Luckily, the cloak was still where I'd left it. I grabbed it and hid in it and it's comfort. I treated the cloak as if it was my baby blanket. I covered my face and sat in the corner of couch, clutching a pillow with my eyes shut. I hated lighting… It just pops out at anytime, illuminating anything in the room making it look like scary figures out to get me. Loud noises didn't help either… They seemed to drown any sound, so if something did get me, my scream would be muffled and I'd be to afraid to do anything. For a 16 year old, it probably made me look pathetic, but I couldn't help it… I just can't get over how scary it is to me. I think I even might have a phobia.

I opened my eyes just for a second, and saw nothing but terrorizing dark clouds though a window with bolts of lighting striking land. That was coming here… I wanted to get out of this room, maybe find Konan. Ninkibi made fun of me and my fear and laughed at the thunder. She might scream, but then laugh at it when it was over, but I'd be terrified, shaking, and only imagining the worst could still come.

I was breathing so hard… Then, it really started…

Lighting, so bright it was blinding, flashed and ear shattering thunder came after it.

I'm gonna pass out… I feel it. Oh my gosh… someone… please come and help me…

I felt like I was going to cry at how scarred I was. That thunder was sure to have woken up everyone… the person who gave me their cloak would come back…right? The wind was shaking everything, and thunder rumbled and I was positive that this building was going to tip over.

They're coming….. Right? Someone's coming, right? … Right…right…anyone… please, Hidan! Sasori! Deidara…Anybody!

I was shaking uncontrollably, my heart was racing, and I was sure I was going to die any minute. I didn't want to pass out, but I felt it coming if anything worse came here, and I'm sure it was, but at least I would have to go through it.

Something made a slamming noise. I clutched the pillow harder and shut my eyes as tight as I could, but thankfully, it was just the door swinging open.

"AHHH! THE SKY IS EXPLODING! TOBI IS SCARED!"

Tobi was sprinting around the room, in and out of the library and circling the place and finally ran out the room screaming down a hall.

"Why do I have to get him, un?"

"He's your partner! Go!"

I heard voices echoing down a hall, someone else was coming.

Someone skidded into the room looking for Tobi, but instead he found me.

"Oh my gawd un! Ikichi what happened? Are you okay un?"

"D-Deidara… P-p-pani-c-c att-tack," I stuttered, being barely able to talk.

"It's okay, everything is going to be over soon, un," he reassured me while rubbing my back. But then Koana came in, probably wondering why she didn't hear yelling from chasing Tobi.

"Deidara hurry up! Wait, is that Ikichi?"

"Yeah, and she's having a panic attack! She can't move well un."

"Oh no… Ikichi," she said coming over and kneeling down, "Ikichi we have to get to a lower floor. I don't mean to scare you, but the last thing we heard on a radio was that this is a category three hurricane. It's not safe to be here, everyone's meeting at the second floor, the first one's flooded. We'll help, don't worry, but you have to stay with us."

Category three…

I could only manage to nod.

"We're in a frikkin' hurricane Konan? It's only been raining for 10 minutes un!" He said helping me up in a soft, but almost annoyed tone.

Hurricane…

"Yes, but it's moving quickly… let's hurry."

I held onto Deidara arm, Konan was right next to me to catch me if I became overwhelmed by a roar of thunder. I took the cloak with me, they put it on me, maybe thinking that it was mine. We rushed to get to the lower floors, it was pretty dark since there was no windows, but in a way that was good so we wouldn't see any lighting. We heard Tobi screaming down some other hall, but he'd find us not wanting to be alone much either.

We finally reached the stair case that lead down to the second floor, but the only thing was… there were windows, and they were on the side the storm was coming form.

We all stopped. Konan and Deidara looked at me and my extremely pale face. Suddenly, Deidara covered me right as an orange flash lit up the stairs. Lighting hit some more power lines, causing the electric charged wires to flare out in those funky colors. I clamped my ears with my hands and dropped to my knees as the building trembled and vibrated from the thunder. I started breathing so hard it hurt, just when I thought I was recovering. That's when Deidara just picked me up and we all ran down the stairs.

Behind us, we heard something like shattering windows.