Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-san!

I hope my dear readers enjoy, and please review!!

i worked really hard for this chapter so I hope it's good (at least in some way)

this chapter as a quick turning of events, and i say it right now, it won't end so quickly... and the man in the sealed room will play a very important role in future chapters.

as for the twins, someone asked me why they didn't want to go back, well, that's because Deidara and Hana keep them busy, and they really like Deidara!


Previously on The Secret Behind

The new Leader of Akatsuki kidnapped Kyuuki and Ryuuki, Sakura's twins.

Confrontations with a mysterious man and the previous Leader happen.

Deidara unveils some of his past to Hana, a somehow recent 'addition' to Akatsuki.

Sakura is locked in her room mourning, Gaara is making preparations, Sai goes to see Sakura in her room and comforts her the best way he can.

The kids seem to be happy, Deidara and Hana spend time playing with the twins, resulting of the kids not noticing they haven't seen their mother for a while.


Chapter 7

Knock Knock

No answer came, but the person knocking entered anyway.

A trey in his hands, he walked to her bed and settled the trey in her bedside table. She was in the same place she had been since she had entered her room.

"Sakura." He spoke softly, almost a whisper. She glanced up, acknowledging his presence. "I brought you something to eat." She didn't answer right away.

"I'm not hungry." He sighed and sat by her side, carefully, he lifted her so she was sitting, her back against his chest, his arms around her waist in a protective manner.

"You have to eat." He told her, his forehead resting against her shoulder.

She let her body fall against his and closed her eyes.

"I don't want to eat." She brought her knees up and hugged them, his arms trapped between her thighs and her waist.

"If you don't eat, how are we going to get them back." She sunk further against him and opened her eyes.

"He had no right to take them away from me." He nodded lightly against her shoulder.

"Eat." She simply let her legs fall back in the bed and said nothing. "You have to eat Sakura." He sighed when she didn't respond.

"I know Sai." She said as he reached for the food he had brought her.

"Good girl." Silence fell between them as he started feeding her.


Akatsuki HQ – Leader's POV

It's been a week. One week since I got them. One week since she's paying for her betrayal. One week since I don't know what'll happen next. One week since Akira is trying to get something to use against me. One week since the twins have been here, always playing with Deidara and Hana, sometimes with Kisame. One week since Suna ANBU are exploring the area around the base but haven't found anything. One week since… I don't go to see him.

Well… I don't regret not going to see him, he only annoys the crap out of me.

I'll see what happens next, I'm not called a prodigy for nothing.

Walking down the Akatsuki base, I see Akira in a tree branch, probably spying on me, Kisame is watching TV and Hana is playing with the twins. I wonder where Deidara is.


Sealed room – Normal POV

Deidara sat next to the eerie man drinking his tea.

"I don't know my purpose anymore." Deidara spoke for the first time since he joined the man. "What is the purpose of my life now?? Just a doll that can die and be resurrected until no one has usage for me?" he put his cup of tea in the table and sighed.

"You should appreciate the gift offered to you." Deidara stared at the man and sighed again.

"I'm happy to be alive, but I don't want to just become a doll, like Sasori-danna's puppets, art isn't eternal, and I don't want to be eternal."

"You wish death." The man stated. "But you should enjoy your life, even if it's one that came after death." Deidara nodded.

"You're right." He got up. "Thanks."


2 miles (more or less 3,2 Km) from Akatsuki HQ

"Did you find anything?"

"No." it had been a week since they had started to search for Akatsuki premises, but nothing. Gaara sighed and looked around.

2 people landed next to him.

"Anything yet?" Gaara shook his head and looked at them, his eyes staying in the depressed pink haired lady.

"Sorry."

"It's ok, you're doing everything you can." She whispered. She looked terrible, Gaara could swear she was thinner.

They had been exploring the area for a week now, but nothing, they couldn't find anything, and they didn't even know what country it was they were in right now.

"Kazekage-sama." Gaara looked at the ANBU who was approaching him.

"I think we found something."


Akatsuki HQ

"Well well, it seems they found us Leader." Akira said in a mocking manner. Leader said nothing for a while.

"Good." Akira stared at Leader.

"Good?? How can it be good to have someone find out our whereabouts??"

"Shut up already old man." Leader muttered and started walking with a sadistic smirk to the sealed room.

Akira was glaring and indignant.

"I'm not old." He muttered.

Leader just shrugged and entered the sealed room.

"Before you say anything, we'll be changing HQ in a day, and you're staying here for them to find you." The dark eerie man wearing navy blue and white stayed quiet.

"You're making a big mistake." The man warned. "You're being blinded by your feelings." The man spoke in a calm voice.

"How can you know anyway?"

"I may not see much, but, to me, you are and always were an open book." Leader scoffed.

"Oh really, you didn't saw me locking you in a room coming."

"No, and I cannot see the future, I can only interpret what I see."

"Whatever, the kids'll come with me."

"Very well then, I say goodbye then, Sasuke." Leader stared at the man before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

He walked to the garden to see Hana making a flower crown with Kyuuki and Deidara doing a sculpture with Ryuuki.

"Deidara, Hana." Both adults looked at Leader. "Get everything, we're leaving tomorrow." Kyuuki and Ryuuki stared at Leader.

"Where are we going Leader-onii-chan??" the twins asked in union. He looked at the kids and then answered.

"Somewhere, get everything." With that he walked away and went to inform everyone else in the base.

"Retreating, what a good technique." Akira mocked, Leader twitched.

"I know what I'm doing, so don't push it Akira, you're becoming old to understand my plans." Akira glared but said nothing.


With Gaara, Suna ANBU and Sakura and Sai

"It looks like a barrier Kazekage-sama, we only noticed because of the radio."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.

"Our radios can communicate until 1,5 Km." the ANBU started explaining. "But once we touch the barrier we noticed the radios weren't picking up the radio waves anymore. We estimated the area of this shield to have a 10 Km Radius, which is bigger than a village."

Sakura stared ahead at the forest, where the barrier was and took a step forward reaching her hand up.

"We are instantly teleported to the other side Haruno-san, it's no use." She let her hand fall and kept staring ahead.

"We'll get them." Sai whispered on her ear and hugged her from behind. She merely nodded.

Night fell and everyone kept trying to find a way to break the barrier, but to no use.

Now the ANBU were sleeping, one kept awake guarding the camp, there were 5 ANBU in total.

Gaara and Sai were discussing ways to beat the new Akatsuki Leader up.

Sakura was where they had said the barrier would be, sitting in the floor, her knees were up to her chest and she was hugging them while looking ahead.

"You had no right." She whispered and tears started to run down her cheeks "No right."


Inside the barrier

Everyone was resting for the trip they would be doing tomorrow, Deidara would take Hana and the twins in his clay birds, Kisame was going with Akira through the forest, the man in the sealed room was staying, everyone else was on missions and would know where to go as soon as they noticed no one was at this base, and as for Leader, he was going alone, and he was going to go by the camp outside the barrier.

He stopped before hitting the barrier, he knelt down and stared at the girl sitting there crying.

He decided he would show her a demo of how much stronger he had become, so he let his chakra out for a second, and just as he hid it, Sakura looked up, he almost smiled at her reaction.


Outside the barrier

It was monstrous. For that single second, she felt it. She felt it. The huge, enormous, monstrous chakra that was both frightening and unknown and familiar.

She looked up but all she saw was the forest, yet she knew the barrier was there, that someone was there.

That monstrous chakra, almost as huge, if not bigger, than the Kyuubi's chakra. It almost scared her to death.


Inside the barrier

He had thought so many things, he had so many plans. Yet, they would forever stay in his mind, because she had children and was together with someone else.

So, he figured, he wouldn't allow her to do as she pleased, she had to pay for that so big betrayal.

He let his chakra leak once more, this time not in monstrous amount, in a slow calm flow, one that would seem like a warm breeze flowing by, and he knew she felt it.

He knew it because he saw the slight shiver in her skin when he released his chakra. Because he saw the way her eyes closed. Because he noticed the small quiet sigh that escaped her lips. Because he could read her like an open book.

She opened her eyes and kept staring ahead, and although she hadn't even spoke, although she had just moved her lips, he knew what she had wanted to say, she had wanted to say his name, but she couldn't.


Outside the barrier

As the sun started to ascend and everyone started to wake up, she felt another wave of chakra, this one wasn't monstrous, nor calm.

It was raged and imposing, and she knew that everything was starting now, and she knew it because a couple of minutes later a blue wave (she supposed it was the barrier) disappeared and a huge mansion with a huge and beautiful garden appeared where before there was nothing.

No one else seemed to notice, yet, so she went first. She rushed through the humongous compound until she was only 500 m away from the mansion.

In front of her were Kisame and a man she had never seen before.

"I'm sorry little miss, but we can't stay." The light brown haired grey eyed man said and he and Kisame started to run to the right, she just kept in place until the person she hated the most at the moment came out. He was wearing all black, his hands in his pockets, his face blank, his hands in his pockets.

"We meet again." He stated in a void voice.

She wanted to just charge at him and hurt him, break all the bones in his body, heal him and do it all over again. But she couldn't, she was frozen in place.

"Leader, we're ready to go, yeah." Leader looked over his shoulder at the roof to see Deidara producing a clay bird and Hana was with the kids.

"Good, you know where to go." He looked back at Sakura and took his hands out of his pockets, she suddenly found herself assuming a fighting stance, but he paid no attention to her and made a series of hand seals.

"Hijutsu: mawari shitsunen." (Secret arts: surroundings oblivion) He said in a void voice.

She saw a white wave of chakra go and surround her twins.

"W-what was that?" she demanded somehow shakily.

"They won't even know you're here." Sasuke stated.

"We're going Leader." Hana said. Sakura started to cry as her twins looked her way but didn't even saw her.

"Bye bye Leader-onii-chan!!" the twins said cheerfully in union as Deidara's clay birds started to fly away.

Leader merely lifted his hand and waved lightly.

"Sakura." Leader chuckled as Gaara and Sai appeared next to Sakura.

"Your back-up's a little late don't you think??"

"What do you mean late??" Gaara demanded. Leader pointed at 2 birds already far away.

"The kids are already on their way to my other mansion, and I intend to go too."

"Bastard." Sai muttered.

"Don't be so confident." Gaara said and took a step forward. Leader smirked.

"No, you don't be so confident, you wouldn't think I became Leader of Akatsuki just like that now would you?" a statement not a question.

"You could have come back." Sakura whispered. His eyes instantly shifted to her.

"I thought about it, but then I saw a chance to do something better than to become a prisoner for the rest of my life." In a flash he was in front of her, his right hand cupping her cheek. He leaned to her ear.

"You betrayed me, and now you're paying for it Blossom." Time seemed to stop for everyone as Sakura spoke.

"I never betrayed you."

"I'm not fooled easily, so stop trying." He paused and leaned back to look at her eyes. "I left you a present inside." In a twirl of leaves he disappeared.

"What just happened??" was what Gaara and Sai both asked as Sakura started to walk inside the mansion with a blank expression.

"Sakura." She ignored and kept walking through the mansion until she felt a source of chakra in one of the rooms.

Gaara and Sai followed her, not wanting to have surprises, but still confused.

Sakura stopped in front of a locked door, the chakra source coming from inside. She charged her fist and punched the door, making it fly out of the room by the window.

She entered the room and froze when she saw the man there, leaning against the wall.

"That was quick." He commented and stared at Sakura. And it all clicked in his mind.


Please review!! It helps a lot, it helps me improve my writing!!

Luv you all, Kaori-chan!!

A really quick turn on events, in my opinion the most important part of this chapter is when Sasuke is observing Sakura from inside the barrier and the talk Leader as with the man in the sealed room.

I liked writing the part where Deidara talks with the mysterious man, it proves that Deidara isn't as happy as he seems in the outside.