Looking out past the river I noticed that even so far away the mountain still cast a shadow over my body, making not a warm touch glide over me. "I wonder how many of these Akatsuki are after me, and how long it'll take for another to find me." Grinning to myself I slipped my sword to the base of a tree as I licked the cool water of the lake with my toes, making my grin widen even larger. As the water slipped between my toes I held onto the grass, feeling the blades graze over my cuts, so helping heal them along with the spirit inside me.

The spirit. A name that I had come to know it as, though it did have a name. Ryuu, meaning exactly that, a dragon spirit. I'd no idea how it had come to take my body as its resting place, but it didn't seem to complain, well, that much. I knew exactly why the Akatsuki were after my such spirit but they would have to get through me before they can get their wishes, but they can't kill me or Ryuu would leave to her resting place, not to be awakened for another millennium.

Suddenly I heard movement from all around me and grabbed the hilt of my sword, aiming it high into the trees. "Get out, now." Looking at the base of the tree a young boy, possibly around my age or possibly sixteen, with short red hair and brown eyes came from the shadow. And of course he was wearing an Akatsuki cloak. "Will you just leave me alone?" I yelled slamming my sword through his chest, which crackled and broke through. My eyes widened as I saw the point of my sword at the back of his body, but he was just standing there, looking at me without an expression. Damn, how many immortals do they have? But something felt different about this boy, even immortals still feel pain and when they do they'll still twitch under it, just for a moment though, but I could still see it. However, this boy didn't even flinch, he wasn't immortal, he was something else.

"What, who are you?" I grabbed the hilt of my sword and pulled it out of his chest, with so much force that I almost landed into the river if it wasn't for something that had pulled me up. It felt as if something was tugging onto my body, holding me up from the rushing water, then I saw something. The boy was holding up a soft hand and blue light the shapes of string ran from his fingers to myself. He was the one holding me up; he was grasping me as a puppet master would do to his marionette.

Finally I was able to stand away from the river and look straight into his bored eyes as he pulled me toward him. "Since you are after me I guess you know of the spirit and what it can do. But how do you know that it will grant to you? It may try to kill you once you release it to make your wish; you'll never get your wish if that happens." But I knew that was not true and he possibly knew that too. Since when Ryuu was summoned a barrier sealed her from killing, all she could do was grant wishes for as long as I survived.

The boy did not speak as he walked back through the forest, with myself still attached to his strange strings that controlled me like a puppet. How can I get out of this one? I spoke in my thoughts, something supposedly kept secret only if no one else could hear, but Ryuu heard each of my thoughts.

Wait a moment; I have not ever been touched by chakra strings. We will possibly be caught, wait a moment, now I have one idea but I need you to be still in your mind. Mentally nodding to Ryuu I touched my mind, slowly elapsing it in still thoughts I felt it numb down, stilling.

Narrator's POV (Zetsu)

Sasori was pulling the girl toward the Headquarters but by the look on that girl's face I can see she may be one of the first to break through Sasori's Chakra Strings. However, I have no idea how.

Slowly I felt Ryuu taking over my body as it slipped through the strings that held me tightly. They began to grow bright scarlet before exploding into a million pieces, leaving a shocked face on the puppet master. Quickly, in a flash so he couldn't attach me once more, I jumped onto the closest tree and watched as a bored look cast on his face as he just kept walking and then I realized something.

They're playing a game of me, finding ways to capture me but when I ran away or hid they couldn't chase after me. However, I guessed, the two men, the one who had left me unconscious and the immortal, must have been bending the rules to their favor.

Why would they play a game of me when they could just chase after me and make me come with them? Unless…they are so strong that if they actually gave another care they could kill me, like the immortal who had threatened to murder me if I'd ran away. "Dammit, that means I was right! I knew I felt someone else's presence every time these Akatsuki came around. Someone must be watching, to make sure they all play by the rules."

Narrator's POV (Zetsu)

So the girl finally figured out? Now that she knows how will she react to when Deidara shows his face?

Jumping from the tree I head back to the river, though another end just in case another showed up, which I knew there would be. Settling down on the grass I looked over my mental map and wondered where I would find those two men. Though those Akatsuki were getting in the way I still had a goal, an no Akatsuki would help me.

Narrator's POV (Sasori and Deidara)

"What are you doing?" Sasori asked as he saw Deidara take off his cloak.

"You guys never realized the clue to us did you, hmm?" Deidara slid his cloak off and hid it under a rock nearby. "Our cloak gives away that we are part of the Akatsuki, so then Mizuki will know exactly who we are and fight us. But without it she has no idea who I am, hmm." Deidara grinned as Sasori sighed, not admitting that Deidara had come up with an plan that could actually work.

"What exactly is your plan?" Sasori asked as Deidara grinned.

"I'll tell you once I've brought the girl back." Grinning Deidara walked off from the clearing and into the forest, prepared to find out who this girl was that had gotten past Itachi, Kisame, Kakuzu, Hidan, and now Sasori.

So Deidara has come up with a plan to hide the fact that he is in the Akatsuki. But will it work or will it fall and crumble as the others' plans had? What will he wish for if she does go along with his plan? Will anyone be able to capture the girl who holds Ryuu, the dragon spirit? Maybe you'll find out in the next Chapter of "Another Day in the Rain".