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I've decided I'm gonna try and get the lemon in around chapter 11 or 12, but I'm not sure.

Plus, it'll be my first lemon so :O

This chapter and maybe a few more will be fillers, to help progress the relationships I have in mind. I'm going to try and set a goal, I might not get it, but I'll still write if I don't meet it. I'd still write if I got NO reviews, just cause I like to.

I want to try and get reviews equal to the current chapter # times 2! So basically two per chapter, but eh.

Also, I'll need ideas for events to happen, not involving Sasuke and Orochimaru. More like fillers but have a little bit to do with them or something. Like the 80 or so Naruto fillers :D

Disclaimer: This is not my stuff! Except Aura and Kumei, they're mine, back off!

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Sakura woke to the sun shining in an open window above the bed. She was in Deidara's room again. He was asleep in the chair again with a disturbing smile on his face. The day before had been normal, everyone got settled in and just that. Deidara must be having a good dream :3

She got up and left the room after putting on her boots. She grabbed a cup of instant ramen and cooked it before going outside, all the while ignoring the Akatsuki members that cast disgruntled or no looks at her. They obviously didn't appreciate that she was staying in their house still, Kisame didn't seem to mind, though.

When she was outside, she saw Naruto and Hinata walking around the edge of the haven. Lee was desperately trying to train while Aura was following him around. Neji and Tenten watched Lee and Aura's weird antics with Gai encouraging both Lee and Aura.

Sakura found it slightly disturbing and looked around. Shikamaru was sitting under a tree staring with a confused expression at where Ino, Chouji, and were training. Shino was under a different tree and Jiraiya was presumably inside. Kumei was nowhere to be seen.

Wait! Where the hell did these trees comes from?

The ground?

Not literally. I mean they weren't here before, it was just a grassy field.

Maybe Pein did it. He did make the houses after all, trees are made of wood also.

Pein...Pein...Oh, Pein. I guess that makes sense. She resigned herself and decided to relax on the roof. She turned and walked back to the house, her tailed slowly waving from side to side. She came to the front door and just jumped up the side of the house to the roof. When she got up there, she saw the door from the house to the roof and then two large metal machines that were four feet from the back side. There was a small passage on the right side to get behind the machines. A wooden fence ran around the edge of the roof that was solid in the back, which rose to eye height, and decorative in the front.

Sakura walked around the machines and was going to lay down to rest when she saw Deidara laying there. He was almost asleep and had quite a few sake bottles near him. He looked up at her with half-closed eyes.

"Deidara...why are you up on the roof drowning yourself in sake?"

"I was bored, yeah."

Sakura sighed, "Maybe if you weren't so distant from everyone, you might have a few friends or something."

"The only person I was close to was Sasori-danna. And he's gone now. The only reason I go on is to kill that bastard Sasuke and Orochimaru. They're worse than worse, yeah." Deidara took a swig from the bottle he held.

"That stuff's not healthy for you in large amounts." Sakura reached to take the bottle from him. He pulled it away each time she tried to grab it.

"No. This takes me to my happy place." He took another swig.

"Happy place this!" Sakura placed her hand violently on Deidara's stomach and pushed her chakra into him. She quickly increased his liver's filtration and made the alcohol filter out of his system before he could put it back in.

"No! Why are you being so mean?" He pouted, still a bit glazed over. "You owe me a happy place!" He was almost sober. "Damn you! Being sober sucks! Yeah. Go away, I want to get wasted!" Before he could grab another, Sakura had taken all of them. "Hey! Give those back!"

"Tsk, tsk. Drinking doesn't solve your problems!" She waved a finger at him.

Deidara fake cried, "But it helps!"

"Pitiful."

"Oh, like you've never gotten drunk before!"

"I haven't, for your information. I avoided alcoholic beverages after I saw what they did to Tsunade-sensei." Sakura set the bottles down out of Deidara's reach and stood between him and the bottles.

"Then you have no idea what you're taking away from me! Why don't you get drunk! Then you can tell me if it's bad for me."

"Getting drunk doesn't solve your problems, either way, I already said that! In any case, it's best to just tell someone and get some friends! God, if you didn't act so pissed off and evil, you might have friends!" Sakura carefully sat down in front of the bottles and wrapped her tail lightly around them.

"I don't act evil..." Deidara pouted, "I am evil! I just need my happy juices!"

"You're acting like a child. What the hell happened to the old you?"

"He DIED when you stole my sake!"

"If you don't shut up, I'm going to take more than just your sake." Sakura punched her right first into her left palm and made a snipping motion.

Deidara visibly paled, "You know, now that I think about it, sake isn't all that important. Maybe I could do without it, until you're gone anyways. Wouldn't want to lose my little buddies."

"That's what I thou–" Sakura was knocked over when Deidara tackled her, trying to get the sake.

"Mine!" He managed to grab three bottles before Sakura pushed him back. He quickly hid these behind his back and approached her again with his arms out wide. His eyes were flaring with a lustful and slightly beefed emotions. He took slow and stead steps towards his pink-haired target. She was obvious scared and was fallen exactly into what he had in mind.

"Damn it, Deidara!" She saw him approaching her with a devious look in his eyes. She backed up a bit but stayed in front of the remaining sake bottles. He got closer, all the while keeping his eyes intently on her. His mouth was in a smirk. "Deidara, what are you–ahhh!"

In a flash, he tackled her and held her arms to the ground with his own. He moved them up and held both of her hands with his left while he straddled her.

"Deidara! What are you, don't! Not if you want to keep your precious manhood!" Sakura was starting to worry.

"Heh, don't worry, yeah." Deidara was slowly rolling the sake bottles to his three while he was distracting her. His face got closer to hers and he could see the fear in her eyes when he got the last bottle. He jumped back off of her and guarded his sake bottles. "Hah! Take that!" Deidara huddled in the corner with the bottled behind him. He quickly opened one and started to down it.

"God! You're a nuisance! I try to help you and you ignore everything I said!" Sakura rubbed her temple.

"Like I said, you don't know what it does for you. Precious happy juices." Deidara finished the bottle he had and opened a new one. Aside from the six empty ones, five from before and the one he just finished, he had about eleven left.

"You know, I really pegged Kisame as the drunk when I first saw you guys...and the sake? How can a simple liquid just get rid of your problems? They're still there!" Sakura was getting frustrated now.

"Kisame IS the drunkard. I'm just depressed more lately. And you'll never know if you don't try." He offered her one, just one, bottle.

"But I'm only fifteen." She looked at it doubtfully and decided to take it.

"There we go. Now just let you troubles fly away! Age is no excuse!" Deidara downed the rest of the second bottle and opened a third.

Sakura hesitantly took a sip. "Bleh, tastes like shit."

"Yeah, it does at first, but you get used to it." Deidara's eyes were already starting to glaze over again.

Sakura unwillingly took another drink. "Hmm, not as bad as before, but it burns a bit going down."

"Yeah, that's common, but it's still -hic- awesome, yeah..." Deidara finished his third quickly and opened a fourth. He motioned to a space next to him for her to sit. He set the sake between the spots. She reluctantly sat where he'd motioned and drank some more. She started to feel a little less tense than before and continued to drink. She finished the first and started on a second.

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It was starting to get dark. Sakura Deidara had polished off all the he'd had there so he got more from a secret compartment in one of the machines. They were both thoroughly trashed. Deidara was staring into the darkening sky with a half empty bottle in his hand. Sakura had her right arm laying on Deidara's shoulder and was quietly humming a song.

"Itsa...itsa...itsa nicsh n-hic-ight." said Sakura as she followed Deidara's gaze into the sky.

"Yesh, it shurs ist." Deidara finished off his bottle and set it in the pile with the rest and moved away from the fence, trying to lay down. Sakura fell down next to them and they, unknowingly, cuddled together on the roof and fell asleep.

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The blinding sun hit Sakura and Deidara was they slept on the roof. Sakura woke first and looked at Deidara so close to her. She carefully tried to extricate herself from him before he woke up. She failed.

"What happened, yeah?" He noticed their predicament and blushed. He quickly helped her to disentangle themselves. As he tried to hide his blush and walked away mumbling about taking a shower.

Sakura desperately wanted a shower too, but she wanted the pounding in her head to stop first. It hadn't registered at first, but the bright sunlight hit her and her head was pounding, as was Deidara's. She slumped down in the shade and moved her chakra to stimulate the organs to help rid her body of the ethanol and such. She had a bit of trouble controlling her chakra but she got it there eventually. She stood up wobbly and found it to be noon. She made her way to the door into the house. She slipped into it and found herself in a low attic type of thing. The trapdoor was on the far back side and she slipped down into the second floor.

She wobbled over to the bathroom door and knocked. No answer, so she entered. With the same result from knocking on the second door, she entered into the bathing area. She quickly shed her clothes and jumped into the shower. She just stood there and relished the relief the warm water brought.

It wasn't long before she felt another presence near her. They were in the bathroom, probably doing their duty. She figured the pitter of water on the floor could be heard in the bathroom and that they'd stay out. She figured wrong. She heard the door's latch click and it open, she'd forgotten to lock the door. Stupid stupid! She quickly crouched to cover any parts of herself from the potential threat if they happened to open the curtain. The door was closed again and she could feel the person in the room.

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Naruto and Hinata had walked and talked around until it was dark. It was the first time they could've done that and they wanted to know as much about each other as they could. Hinata still hadn't gotten over her shyness, but she wasn't fainting anymore and she managed to keep with the conversation. Everyone else was already in bed when they decided to go inside. They found two plates set out on the table for them, at the sight, Naruto's stomach growled, reminding them that they hadn't eaten since lunch, they were ravenous. They'd eaten their food relatively fast and headed up the stairs.

They were at their bedroom door staring in different directions nervously both with a blush. Naruto had decided he'd stay out a bit more before going to bed, so they were outside the room before they split. Naruto was staring very intently at a crack between two floorboards. Hinata was content in examining the door's handiwork with an occasional glance at Naruto.

Finally after much nudging and VERY inappropriate suggestions, Naruto looked up at Hinata, who's blushed deepened. He smiled a wide grin and brought her into a hug with swift and short but sweet kiss to her cheek. After she got over the initial shock of the embrace from her love, Naruto, she returned it. They stood there hugging for a few minutes before Naruto pulled back, and with a large smile, let go. Hinata was still blushing, but that was to be expected, but had a content smile of her own as she entered her room and waved to Naruto. "S-see you later N-Naruto-kun." She sheepishly wandered into the room and closed the door, but not before seeing the ear-to-ear grin of Naruto's one last time.

Naruto sighed, and with the smile still on his face, went up to the roof of the house through the trap door. He wandered back behind the wooden would-be machines and sat down against the tall wall. Something Hinata was said earlier had inspired him. 'Having friends can help a person's attitude and overall health. They're like a source of humanity and energy.' He'd thought about the Kyuubi and wondered if there was anyway he could befriend it and maybe cool it down.

Oi! Kyuubi. Naruto was standing in front of the exceedingly large cage with the simple seal that caged the most ferocious beast ever to be seen by humanity.

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Itachi was in his room and had literally hundreds of seals and jutsu cast on it to keep him safe while he slept, if he could even get to sleep. He had, not-so-recently, had trouble with insomnia from pain in his eyes. He sat in a recliner staring the opposite wall, though unfocused. This was one of the unfortunate nights that his eyes pained him. He knew very well the reason they pained him, because he used his Mangekyou too much. Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu, the latter of which he was very sparingly used. He knew it the best, and some of the other Akatsuki members had an idea, that he was going blind. It wasn't a problem, yet. His vision was blurry but he could still discern enemies and anything of importance with his Sharingan. He predicted that his sight would be too bad to use for battle within the year, he had no clue on exactly how long, he did know he had at least seven months before he'd be incapacitated. He'd tried to devise a multitude of possibilities to regain his eyesight, having a medical-nin look at them was a big one, but he trusted his life with no one.

There was a spy. He'd sensed them a while ago just outside the window. He had seen her peek over the sill at him and had ignored her, she was just one of the Konoha ninja, none of which could beat him, especially now that he was infused with a demon. It was after she'd been peering through the window for fifteen minutes when he'd started getting peeved.

"What do you want?" He noticed a blush appear on her face when he spoke, or perhaps one that was there before had deepened. She ducked down until he could barely see the top of her head. He mentally sighed and closed his eyes for a second, another fangirl. He stood swiftly and strode over to the window to open it. He stared at her clinging to the wall. The brown-haired kunoichi waited a bit before turning her gaze to the handsome man above her. Kumei realized his eyes were in Mangekyou, but the only sign of fear was the widening of her eyes, the rest of her face still held the blush and want for him. He continued to stare at her and soon she started to wonder if he'd use the Mangekyou on her, she hoped not but at the moment she didn't really care. She was so close to him that she could faintly smell his scent and it was like a narcotic for her. They stared at each other for a while. Itachi was contemplating what to do. The girl was, admittedly cute, but he was not the relationship type. Bonds like such were a sign of weakness, and truthfully, he had no desire to get with a woman, she would just be a hindrance to his path.

She almost jumped when Itachi finally made a move. His eyes closed for a second and then reopened. She'd wondered if she'd just imagined it until she noticed his Sharingan was back to normal. "What do you want, girl?" His calm and smooth tone flowed over her ear drums and she shivered in excitement. They were still staring, her blush still very intact, and his stoic look had not wavered a bit.

"I um..." She bit her lower lip trying to make herself talk while also trying to not reveal the truth. "I was j-just curious about your Sharingan." Itachi's eyes drilled into her, but she was distracted by the rest of his face.

"Perhaps you'd like a demonstration." His eyes quickly shifted and his Mangekyou was back. She did jump a little this time. She was now more scared than before but her crush dominated her fear. "Quite a gutsy girl you are." In an instant, her whole world flipped, everything was inverted and there was a bloody red moon in the sky with fast moving clouds. From the descriptions, she was in Tsukiyomi. Itachi was standing in front of her on a large grassy plain. He had a sword leveled at her forehead and was still staring with that oh-so-hot trademark stare of his.

"Last time, girl. What do you want?" Her never so much as blinked as he stared at her. Killing intent was radiating like a beacon from him and she shivered from it. She figured he could tell if she was lying here, this was his territory. "I j-just wanted t-to s-see you. I t-think y-you're h-haw...h-haw...h-hot!" Her stammering put even Hinata to shame. She quickly turned around and covered her flushed face. Itachi had glimpsed the red spread all over her face and the beads of sweat that had started to form. Either this was a very stupid or very determined girl, either way, she had an inane crush on him. Maybe he should crush her crush into nothingness, and possibly her mind of she was stupid instead of determined, either way benefited Itachi.

"I see. I'm not the relationship type, so maybe we should crush your crush." He saw her shiver at this and she looked at him with fear flooding from her eyes. Her face gave away the impression of fear, although only mildly, her crush was a powerful one to keep her face as fearless as it had. It had to go, it could endanger him and everything he worked for. In in instant, Kumei started to live through all of the kill she'd done and the merciless slaughters. The Uchiha Massacre was one of them and she relived everything over and over for forty-eight hours, he was being nicer to the girl to avoid any permanent damage that could enrage the Konoha nin, which could invariably screw up his goals.

Tsukiyomi was released and she started to fall from the second story window. Itachi grabbed her hand and dragged her unceremoniously to the ground and laid her under a tree, with blatant disregard for her position. He returned to his room and shut his window.

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::End Notes::

Sakura's first drunken experience. She was relieved and lucky that they hadn't done something they'd both regret later. Buuuuuuuuuut, that was just the first time. She definitely considered him of a friend, if only slightly. Unknown to her, he was of the same mind but would never admit it. :)

I WILL not be updating as often as I used to be. The initial inspiration has all gone and been used in the first five and the first half of the sixth chapters. I had a bit of a writer's block on this one but I managed to scrap it together.

Altogether, I'm proud of my ability to add more details. I've recently read a GODLY FanFic be Thundereaper (search authors) and he had great detail, and so I tried to add more, unfortunately after I was already two-thirds done with it, but I'll try to beef the details more in the following chapters.

I also have the possibilities for two new FanFics in mind, but I might only act on one. It wouldn't really affect the current rate of this FanFic since I hardly worked on this in the four days I had. But I'll try and work on this more often that I had this chapter. If I decide to make the new FanFic, I'll be sure to mention it ;)

R&R, please. I need to know if I'm doing anything wrong and, as such, anything I do right. Encouragement, criticism, whatever, as long as you don't flame me, these events are going to be the beginnings of some relationships. There's also another relationship hiding around, but the canon character is being stubborn and focused on Sakura for now ;D He'll come around though, be sure of it.

Spread this? The more the merrier, but eh, I really only write this for fun, but reviews and criticism greatly helps the quality and my willingness to continue. As such, as I said at the top, I need ideas for events or fillers, even major events, but mostly fillers between the main plot. The action may be dull for the next chapter or two, but they'll pick it up as soon as I get what I want done to them :3

I also know it seems like everyone got along too easily, but the Akatsuki have stuck to their house, away from the Konoha survivors. Fortunately or unfortunately for Itachi, Kumei came to him, but he rid himself of her, for the time being at least.

R&R pweez:3 Goal: 14 Reviews!