Me: Sorry for the lack of update, was on a BIG writer's block...but yesh. This story is still dedicated to my BFF, Butterflies Go BOOM. Don't forget that!

Disclaimer: -Deidara glare- take a random guess if I own Naruto or not...

A/N: Terrible grammar and spelling so beware.

Our Time Of Dying

By: Lies To U

No. 10

(Wooooohhh! Double Digit!)

In the Akatsuki Lair

Pain. Enormous amount of pain was screaming in Aiko's body. Leader was giving her another punishment worse than the others, she felt like her body would just break any second. "AH!" she screamed as she felt a punch be sent in her stomach and up her chin, making her fly and hit the wall and land harshly on the ground. She coughed up spit and a little blood. "This is not only your punishment Aiko, this is also a test to see if you're fit for Akatsuki..." Leader said, in holographic form, with no emotion showing in his eyes. Aiko forced her body to be raised on four limbs, still coughing. "This is to see if you have a capacity for endurance. To see if you can with stand pain unlike any other...and it doesn't seem your getting anywhere with such a small endurance point" Leader said mockingly.

Aiko bawled her hands into fist, she just couldn't stand it...why...WHY did she join Akatsuki? "Keep that in mind Aiko...your going to need it" with that, Leader left the room. Tears landed on the ground, Aiko had her eyes screwed shut...why couldn't she do things right? Why can't she be free from this hell void!? Aiko curled up into a little ball, sobbing for a few minutes...she finally got the strenght to stand up and exit the room. Once she exited, she saw Deidara...he seemed to be resting against one of the fingers of the statue that was in the lair when they returned.

She jumped onto the palm of the statue where Deidara was. The 'Art-Is-A-Blast guy is sleeping?' Aiko thought to herself with a anime sweatdrop. Her partner groaned and titled his head to one side. Aiko found herself staring at him as he slept 'He kinda has a reason to...I don't remember seeing him get any sleep'. Aiko had curiosity struck her when her eyes laid on his hair covering his left eye. 'I wonder what reason he has to have his hair pushed to one side...' Aiko thought as her hand reached out to his blond strands (She never got a look at his left eye ok!?). Deidara's eye shot open and he quickly grabbed her wrist/holster.

Aiko had her eyes slightly wide, surprised he had great sensing skills even when he was asleep. "-sigh- it's just you..." Deidara said and released his hand on her wrist, leaving a red mark on his palm since he gripped her holster so hard. Deidara stood up and brushed himself off, Aiko rose as well. "Anyway, Leader gave us another mission...hmm" Deidara said, slightly glaring at her. Blue lines appeared under on of Aiko's eyes 'A mission after another, doesn't he ever give his members a break!?' she yelled in her mind. Aiko blinked then looked at Deidara serious now. "What's the mission?"

"To go to a place called ' Otoshimiru ', it's a very old town that seems to not even know of the present. Most say no one lives there and it's like a ghost town...hmm" Deidara explained as he jumped off the large palm of the statue with Aiko following. "So...what do we have to do?" Aiko asked, following him out of the lair and taking a quick leap from the river. "We have to get what seems to be a Youkia Ring. Cheesy as it sounds, it's suppose to be a ring that has one of the tailed beasts within them. Aiko raised her head to this from the ground view. "If this ring had a beast possessed inside it, wouldn't other people would want to get it?" she asked.

Deidara threw a clay bird that poofed into a enormous one, "Heh, most people are afraid of the tailed beasts, so there ain't alot of people like us out there hmm" Deidara said as he jumped on the bird, Aiko slowly got on the bird, just always, having a tight grip on the back of the bird. The bird took flight, dawn was soon to come. Aiko felt relaxed to have the morning breeze brush against her face "Deidara...being a member of Akatsuki...don't you guys get breaks or something like that?" Aiko asked out of no where. Deidara looked at her weird 'What, is she already tired or does she actually CARE!?' "If Leader is nice enough he'll give you a day off. Other than that, we are to complete our missions further on hmm" he said, turning back to the front view of the bird.

Aiko sighed and moved her view to the surface of the clay bird that she kept a tight clench on...not DARING to look below. Aiko noticed her partner was swaying in his position. She crawled up a little closer top her partner (to the back of him at least) 'Is he ok...?' Aiko thought. Her partner suddenly fell backwards but was halted when Aiko grabbed onto his arms, his body being inches from landing on hers. Aiko had a question mark come into mind. "Deidara?" She asked, getting a look at his face. The artist had seemed to fall asleep again.

'WTF?' Aiko thought with another anime sweatdrop. Deidara finally came to his senses and quickly lifted himself up, being no longer in Aiko's hands. "-irritated sigh- I'm fine, you don't have to hold me" Deidara said, as if pissed off. He brushed his arms off while Aiko was giving him a death glare 'I wasn't HOLDING you, you idiot' she thought with a stress mark visible. The flight took some hours, with the cold morning breeze it was helping both of the Akatsuki's to be awake. A eerie sighting of a town came to both of their eyes below. "Must be it hmm" Deidara said as he made the bird take a deep dive for landing.

As the bird landed.

"LAAAAAAND!!!!!!"

-plop-

Deidara gave Aiko the You're-An-Idiot look as she braced the ground they have touched. "Alright! Quit fooling around, we have to find this Youkia ring..." Deidara said annoyed as he stepped off the bird that went -POOF- once there was no one on it anymore. Aiko glared as him as she raised her slightly covered in dirt face, but she got up and followed her partner to the entrance of the small village. The signpost of the village was broken and what Deidara said was right, this place did seem like a ghost town. The buildings looked too old for this time and century, the pavement was nearly destroyed and the high dead and some alive tree's blocked any sunshine invading the town. "This sure looks like a great place to film a horror movie..." Aiko said looking to her left and right.

"Ahhh pay no attention to it! We have to split up, take this side of the village while I'll take this side" Deidara instructed. Aiko nodded and walked off to the direction where Deidara told her to look. She searched through some of the houses that weren't destroyed or was not impossible to enter...nothing but dust and moss was the only thing found in the old wooden houses. "Sheesh...isn't there a temple or something that's suppose to keep this Oh Mighty Beast Ring?" Aiko asked herself as she went inside another house that seemed like a shitty place to live. As she searched deep in this house, she heard something step on the creaky hardwood floor behind her.

"RAHHH!!!"

"HOLY-"

-CLACK-

Aiko restrained herself from being sliced from a mad woman that had crept behind her. The butcher knife the woman carried kept staining down on Aiko's kunai's that she had used to halt the butcher knife. "CALM DOWN LADY!" Aiko yelled, she swung her leg at the woman's feet causing her to fall to the ground. Aiko regained her balance and went into a fighting stance. "Stand your ground!" Aiko ordered the woman as the lady regained her balance from the ground as well. The woman just stood up and screamed as she reached her arms out to Aiko like some psycho freak. "AH!" Aiko yelled as she was being choked by the lady's cold hands.

"GET OFF!" Aiko yelled and kicked the lady up the chin making her fall the ground...out she seemed since she no longer moved. Aiko panted as she held her throat lightly 'What the hell was that?'. Then she heard banging on the door. Voices of some other people were heard outside. "Shit!" Aiko yelled and ran upstairs (yes the house had a upstairs -.-), She peeked through a crack of the boarded window that was upstairs. More people were outside alright...they wore old clothing though...kimono's...it was weird. The door suddenly burst open and Aiko could hear people running in. "Oh CRAP!" Aiko thought.

She turned around, facing the staircase, with her kunai's ready for anything. 'Running could work...fighting the same but either one could lead to consequences...oh where ARE you Deidara!?'

Oh dear! What is our Aiko-san going to face!? O.O What is with these weird phsycho people and what do they want!? Find out next time!

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