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Chapter 10.

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"How many teams went after your KazeKage?" Kage looked to Hane. They were currently jumping from tree branch to tree branch, following a path of destruction.

"At least thirty. Even eighteen teams of Anbu."

The black haired female scanned the area below. "You must all be worried for this Gaara fellow, aren't you?"

He grunted. "The villagers don't really like him. He was born as the Sand Village's secret weapon, a monster. Some are even happy he's gone."

"I see."

"Most of the teams came back."

"Half?"

"The other half are dead."

Kage's gaze softened as she processed the information. Before she could speak Hane began again.

"There is still a team out. They left the night he was abducted and haven't returned since."

"They've been out here for four days?"

"It's weird because they aren't even originally from Suna."

Her interest was now fully on him. "What do you mean?"

"I don't know them, but two people came to Suna a month ago- a woman and a man. The villagers had them fight either Kankuro, Temari or the KazeKage himself to prove they were strong enough to be a Suna shinobi."

"I see."

"Well, they were immediately ranked up at Anbu level. The Suna Council and KazeKage agreed to make them an even greater rank; The KazeKage's personal guard."

Kage's brow perked slightly.

"It's the first Suna's ever seen. A personal guard."

"I see footprints." Kage dropped to the ground. Hane followed suit and fell next to her, watching the woman scan the footprint. "Someone took a hit. The person was moved violently."

"How can you tell?"

She then pointed at the dirt. "It's shuffled, or elongated."

A loud explosion caught their eyes, followed by a feminine scream. "That might be them."

"Let's hurry then."

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"What pitiful excuses for Sand ninja." A raspy voice spoke.

A snicker crossed the air afterwards. "They put up a good fight before we could get the little bastard though. Don't you think, Yeah?"

"Hm. Stop playing around, Deidara."

Said man smiled wickedly, walking up to a blonde female being crushed under white clay and lifting her chin up to him. "It's amusing, Un. Hearing her scream like that. Kinda attractive, don't you think Sasori, Yeah?"

"Fuck you." The girl spat her blood onto his cheek and nose. The red liquid dripped down onto his lip.

Deidara's smile vanished; turning into a deep frown as he stood and kicked her in the jaw. "Dumb Suna bitch." He clenched his hand, causing the clay to squeeze her body tightly and earning him a scream.

"Hey!"

Both men and the woman looked up to see two figures, a large man and woman. "Give us the KazeKage back." The man growled.

Deidara snickered. "Why would we?" His face began to twist into a sadistic and creepy smile, eyes widening as well.

Hane looked over to Kage. "I just got word that Kankuro is fine. Sakura and other Leaf shinobi forces are on their way to our location."
Kage nodded to him then returned her attention on the two Akatsuki. "Deidara and Sasori?"

"Oh, you know us, Yeah?" The blonde male snickered. "Well we obviously don't know you. Why not introduce yourself, Yeah?"

Kage clenched her fists. It had been nearly seven months since she faced off with the organization, but since then they had gotten stronger, and with her fake identity she wouldn't be able to use her Transformation Jutsu or Diamond Technique. There was no way she'd be able to dodge all of their attacks without her ultimate defense. She then began to observe the two other ninja that were present. A male, leaning against a tree unconscious and a female pinned under Deidara's clay.

Wait..

Her eyes widened when she scanned the female. It was her. "Mioko."

"Hm?" Deidara smiled. "You mean her?" He put his foot on the clay-covered body, making it tighten around her and earning another scream. "Do you know this girl?"

"Mioko…"

"Heh." He squeezed her even more.

"Let her go Deidara!"

"I enjoy listening to her screams." He licked his lips.

Hane looked at his companion for the time being. Her chakra was emitting from her body at a high level, and for some reason her person began to, glitch? "Ace, what's wrong?"
She was glaring at Deidara, who was slowly squeezing the life from one of the KazeKage's Personal Guard.

"That chakra." He heard Sasori's voice.

"LET. HER. GO!" Kage launched at the blonde, fist reared and frown tight. Hane watched with widened eyes as the black-haired female simply attacked one of the members of the Akatsuki. Diedara's smile began to fade as she drew near, and having no reaction time, the blonde artist was sent flying.

Crashes echoed to their ears as he passed directly through eight trees and a boulder. Kage's henge had been removed from her anger, and now she stood, raging, with her blonde hair and blue/gray eyes. Surrounding, and slowly engulfing her pupil was a pure white.
A fierce wind blew from her form as she looked to Sasori slowly. He held her glare. "I thought something felt familiar."

Deidara stumbled back to Sasori's side, holding his arm. "You little wench."

"Looks like we get another surprise."

"Get her out of that crap." She demanded.

Deidara smirked weakly and clenched his fist. His reward was usual now, coming from the young blonde Suna ninja. "So she's the one that encased me a while back, Yeah?"

Sasori nodded. "She's the one who gave Kisame and Hidan the slip"

"I will fucking kill you." Kage grinded her teeth as she listened to Mioko's voice of pain. Kage let out her own yell; Diamond spears began thrusting their way from the earth and the ground bagan to shake. Deidara blinked, smirking. As he opened his eyes the girl was in front of him. His smile faded as she smashed his bottom jaw onto the other; the sound of teeth crunch against another and bone break filled Sasori's ears. Even his eyes had widened somewhat.

A frenzy of punches and kicks were delivered to Deidara one after another. "Let Mioko go!"
Through the very slight moments he was not getting hit, he began to laugh. Kage slammed him into the ground, creating a crater around him. "Why are you laughing?" She demanded.

He chuckled weakly. "You forgot I use explosive clay," He wheezed. "and your little friend there is under a lot of it."

Kage's eyes widened. Her body shook violently, and she grabbed a fistful of Deidara's Akatsuki cloak; bringing him face to face with her. "You wouldn't dare."

"Oh, but I would, Un." He chuckled.

"If you agree to come with us, there will be no harm done to your friends." She heard Sasori bargain. He was staring down at the two blondes with a monotone expression.
She looked back to the artistic terrorist with shaking arms. "Fine." She knew with just a flick of the wrist, Mioko would be killed.

She released her hold on the Akatsuki member and stood with limp arms. "Fine."

"Don't do it Ace!" She heard Hane call out.

Deidara smiled and stood weakly. A clay bird quickly formed under the two and lifted them from the crater. Kage looked down at Mioko, frown etched into her lips.

'Why are you just giving up?' Tamiko roared through her mind.

Kage's body shook. Deidara encased her entire form in denoting clay and called out to his partner. "I'll go on ahead and bring her to Leader-Sama, Un. Take care of the two dudes Sasori-Dana."

"What about the girl?"

"Nah. She'll freak out if you touch her. No point in wasting energy on someone to weak to move, Yeah."

'If I refused," Kage felt the motion change. 'if I wouldn't have given up,' They began flying somewhere. 'He would have killed her.' Hot tears began falling down her cheeks. 'He would have killed my little sister.'

Kage could here trees, rock and earth crumble and break far behind.

"Sasori-Dana is going to kill your friends, Un." He cackled.

She stayed silent, thinking of a way to get out of the explosive clay that had been cocooned around her. "If I encase my body in the diamond and then make my attack, he wouldn't be able to harm me." She whispered to herself.

"Ah, but you shoulder understand that your little friend back there isn't out of danger, Yeah." She heard the artistic terrorist chuckled. "Just to make sure you'd cooperate, I've created a small bug that has made it's way into your little friends lungs. It's to small to sense right now, but I could detonate it at any time, Un."

Kage clenched her jaw, new tears streaming down her face. "Why?"

"Hm?"

"Why is it so important to have me?" She croaked.

Deidara's bird began to descend, she could feel it. "Leader-Sama told us to get you half a year ago. I don't know why you're important, but I'm sure he has his reasons."

Kage listened to the blonde's weight shift and grass crunch under him. "What are you doing?"

"Calling someone to come get you, Un."

"You're going back to fight?"

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"What is this, Deidara?" This was a dark, raspy voice.

"A present to Leader-Sama, from Sasori-Dana and I, Un."

"What's inside?" The tone was lighter, child-like.

"You'll find out, Un."

Kage felt her surroundings shake as the cocoon landed on the ground. Her vision began to blur as the clay tightened around her. 'Don't pass out now.' She heard Tamiko demand. 'You can't just give up now!' His voice was trembling. Tamiko, the great demon of Matatabi, was frightened. 'You have to save your sister- my brother!'

"We will, Tamiko." She whispered. "I promise. We will save Mioko and Luprinis."