A/N: This chapter contains spoilers to the canon, read at your own risk

"Black cloaks and red clouds." A ninja villager said looking through binoculars at the threat to their village. "Judging from the way he's dressed, the Kazekage's opponent is a member of the Akatsuki." Kankuro stood beside the ninja staring with him along with the whole village.

"Just as I thought." Kankuro said.

Gaara threw more sand barely missing Deidara but made a boomerang affect and came back to try again. Deidara's bird flew in all sorts of directions and making sudden changes in its path trying to avoid all of the sand that was flying past them. Deidara smiled and watched the sand missing and coming back.

"Gaara's using his 'absolute defence' sand to fight. "Being interrupted from below is gonna kill the fun. Plus..." Deidara said looking back at Gaara's angry eyes, "I'm sick of looking at your impassive face." Deidara threw his clay doll out then expanded it making it at least 20 times the size of the bird that Deidara was riding on. It's shadow on the village made everyone nervous and expect death. Gaara gasped when he seen the monster that Deidara had created. Suddenly, the doll lost the ability to float in the sky and gravity pulled it down towards the village. Gaara stared at it almost not knowing what to do, Deidara stood smiling evilly knowing that victory was in his hands while laughing. "I make my exploding dolls by eating clay with my hands and combining it with my chakra. My 'specialty' is infused with my highest level of chakra, C-3. Its explosive power is my greatest achievement as an artist!"

"This is bad! Everyone, retreat!" Baki, a jounin informed everyone as the doll was coming closer to the village.

"Too late." Deidara smiled pleased with his work of art. He put up his one hand and made a single hand sign. Just as the doll was at the right distance from the ground, it lit up. After it had exploded, he waited for the smoke to clear. Gaara who was clearly out of breath had blocked the doll from the village with massive amounts of sand but that did not worry Deidara. "Okay within range, hm." He grinned then he smiled even wider with his hand still in the form of the same hand sign. Gaara looked to his left and noticed a clay bird inches from his face. "Katsu!" He shouted making the bird explode right in front of Gaara lighting up the whole sky. Deidara waited for the smoke to clear once again. "Thought so. That special sand guards you right away, hm." More sand had covered the hole in Gaara's defence before the bird had a chance to explode. "But." Deidara said continuing to smirk, "... that was part of the plan." Gaara panted even more while standing inside his spherical defence and heard a slight sound then he gasped when he noticed tiny clay bugs crawling through his defensive sand. "Hmph. You may have managed to crush my left hand, but I took the opportunity to eat some of your sand and mix it with my clay. The moment you used that sand to guard yourself, it was the end of the line for you, un. Everything went like I planned." Gaara watched vulnerably as the bugs continued to crawl through his defence. Deidara raised his hand and once again made a hand sign. "Art is... Shi... a blast!" He shouted exploding the bugs making Gaara's defence morphed from the impact of the explosion. Sand spilled down and chunks fell from around Gaara as he laid in the sky. Deidara couldn't help but laugh and smile. He thought that he was that much closer to seeing Naiya again. "If I set off an explosion in close range, you'd use the gourd's sand you used to crush my arm so quickly to guard yourself. That was also my last bomb." Deidara thought while holding his shoulder from the pain of losing his arm. "In order to get in close enough, I had to create an opening. That's why I dropped my 'specialty' on the village. "Guess I should fetch him." Deidara said beginning to fly closer to him but he suddenly stopped his bird as he noticed Gaara still conscious and doing something. "So that's what he's doing."

"What's this?" A villager asked.

"He's using the last of his power to move the sand away from the village." Another responded. "So the village won't be damaged."

"As expected of the Kazekage." Deidara grinned. "It'd be easier to just let it fall." Deidara stood watching forgetting about the village. Some ninja began firing arrows at Deidara but he just smiled and easily evaded them. Thousands were flying through the sky but he kept his cool. "You're attacks are pointless, hmph." He said with the village not hearing. The village began firing arrows with explosive tags on them at Deidara but he still smirked. "Like I said, pointless, un!" He said louder, then one exploded near him and easily avoided the next wave of attacks. What was the village thinking, he was the explosion master. "So they planned ahead a little, yeah." Deidara soared through the mess of explosions in the sky then remembered Sasori's impatient behaviour. "If I keep master Sasori waiting any longer, he's gonna be real ticked at me, plus the sooner I get outta here, the sooner I can see Naiya... I wonder how Tobi's doing with her?" The villagers angled the arrows so that they fired upwards then showered down on Deidara but he managed to escape those easily as well but barely. He seen Gaara still with sand dripping off of him in the sky then he smiled at his target and went straight for him. Gaara lost nearly all of the sand that was supporting him in the sky and fell towards the ground with his head first, but Deidara managed to prevent that by his bird catching Gaara in its tail then it wrapped it around Gaara to keep him there all while avoiding the exploding arrows that were being fired towards him. "Not killing him was more difficult than I thought." Deidara looked back at Gaara's cracked skin as he began to fly back to Sasori. "Mission accomplished, hm" He nodded. He turned toward to where the bird was going for a while then he looked back and seen a single arrow dashing right towards him. "Whoa!" He said managing to avoid that one then it exploded right above him. He just smirked as he watched the explosion of art that was right above him. Soon enough Deidara had landed the bird on the outside of the village gates where Sasori had been waiting impatiently this whole time. "Our mission has been complete, un."

"What the h*** is your problem? She's still not eating." Hidan said heated from impatience.

"Everything we give her, everything she rejects. What else is there to do?" Kisame wept.

"She's impossible." Zetsu spazzed.

"Wait guys." Tobi tried to stop.

"I think I have an idea." Hidan began. "Kisame, hold her mouth open." Kisame stood over Naiya who was laying on a bed and be put his two hands in her mouth and forced it open. "Good, now it's my turn."

"Wait guys I think we shout stop..."

"Shut up Tobi, I think this is it." Hidan said picking up the chopsticks with noodles between it. Hidan lowered it down to Naiya's mouth. Naiya struggled to closed her mouth and began to whine. Hidan laughed slightly as he moved the noodles down her throat. Kisame was finally able to let go and Naiya choked on the unwanted food.

"I think it's working." Zetsu said stupidly. Suddenly, Naiya was beginning to transform into the three tailed beast.

"I told you this was a bad idea." Tobi said.

"Whaaa!" Everybody shouted in the room. Kisame, Zetsu and Hidan went for the door to leave Tobi to fend for himself.

"Wait where are you going?"

"Away from her, she was your problem to begin with and she's your problem now. Plus Deidara ordered you to take care of her." Hidan said then he left with the others and closed the door behind them. Tobi turned his head from the door back to the beast that was growing in front of him.

"YYAAAAA!" Tobi shouted as Naiya was about to attack him with one of her tails.