Akimoto and Deidara were completely covered in clay dust chuckling merrily. It was quite fun making clay, mixing the ingredients together, kneading it, and finally, placing it in a storage bag. The two were done making quite a lot of it and were now sitting on some chairs chatting. "You do realise we are both covered in clay dust, right? un" Akimoto chuckled. "Yup, and I like it! Clay's great!" She moved her chair closer to Deidara and held his hands. Deidara smiled and moved in and kissed Akimoto passionately. She shifted from her chair onto his lap and stroked his hair. He placed his hand on her cheek which kissed her in it's own way. Akimoto looked shocked for a second and then realised it was just one of Deidara's unique hand-mouths.

After a few minutes of kissing, they both stopped, breathless. Akimoto rested her head under Deidara's head. "Dei, I smell something nice coming from the kitchen...You want to check it out?" Deidara kissed her forehead in agreement. After a minute or two, they reached the kitchen only to find Keikai drooling over a really nice smelling pie. "Hidan it's cool enough! Can we fricken eat it now?" Keikai begged. Hidan sighed. "Sure, babe." Keikai cheered quietly and cut the pie into five pieces and placed each on a plate, taking them to the table. Keikai then practically ran to the fridge and snatched out the ice cream, placing a rather large scoop of it on her pie and drowning it in cinnamon. Just as she started to slowly eat the pie, Tobi skipped in singing 'Pie pie pie pie piiieee~' and sat down about to eat his piece. Deidara, now sitting with Akimoto eating his piece of the pie, glanced over to Tobi only to find he turned the other way to eat his pie. Tobi, the fast way he eats, turned back. "Oooo~ Keikai~ That was delicious~" Keikai shot a proud look at him.

Koori had just finished his mission and headed back to his apartment. He felt oddly cheerful. The feeling was most likely from his last chat with Akimoto. She seemed to be doing well. As for Sada...Well, he was no longer concerned for her safety as she was even safer than she was with himself.

On the way, he saw a familiar kunoichi wandering by with a muddled up look on her face. "Hey! Hebito!" She looked up as Koori ran over to her and looked up, to face her, her being one of the tallest ninja in the village. "Oh...Koori," She blinked. "How are you?"Koori smiled. "I saw Aki earlier, she seems to be doing fantastic!" Hebito's eyes widened. "What? You saw Aki? Was she in Akatsuki?" Koori seemed to shrink to half his size, if possible. "Um...Yes? Something the matter?" He said in a quiet voice. Sure he had had the same sort of reaction but had heard her story and understood. Hebito twitched and suddenly burst out in a mix of utter fury and confusion. "Bu- Aren't you annoyed at all? Keikai, Sada, Nerri and Aki have all gone to a horribly evil organisation trying to take over the world!" Koori blinked. Never had he heard his friend speak like this. "Aki told me what happened. They're all in a safe place. Look, Hebs, Akatsuki isn't so bad! They may seem horrible on the outside, but on the inside, most of them, are quite caring. Even Nerati is alright. He's happy. Look, I would stay and talk more, but I'm really tired from our mission today." He nodded to Hebito and continued of to his apartment. Hebito looked well and truly dumbfounded. She began to change course and head for the Kazekage's office to see an old friend, Gaara.

Out of all the missions, Itachi and Sada's was the closest. In reality, they had finished their mission a few days before. The reason why they didn't head back was because Itachi had found a weapon trade, but the truth of it was that he just wanted a walk in fresh air. They we're currently walking toward the closest bounty stations, just on the outskirts of Ame. Itachi had taken quite a liking to his new partner. He hardly needed to move a finger as Sada had already summoned a spirit and killed their opponent. .

They arrived at the weapon trade. Itachi faced Sada. "I'll take a few minutes to collect my wanted weapons. Stay out here and watch guard." Sada nodded. "Yes, sir." Itachi sighed and walked in. Sada took a seat on the concrete ledge and placed her hands on her lap. What a nice day...That Itachi...There's something behind those eyes of his... Sada sighed. Within a few minutes Itachi came out with a bag full of weapons. "Let's go." Sada looked up and nodded. "Yes sir." She got up and abruptly touched his skin. Sada seemed to blush slightly and pretended like it was an accident. It was so smooth, like it looked. She bowed and started their travels leaving Itachi slightly confused.

Arriving back at the hideout made Itachi and Sada think they had the wrong place. Itachi's eyebrows raised. What...The...Fuck.. Keikai and Hidan were having a make out session against the wall to the left of the door. Itachi gaped slightly. Hidan being friendly, more or less kissing a girl? This is so wrong...Did my sharingan blind me that much already? Sada seemed equally shocked by this as Hidan and Keikai noticed they had visitors. They stopped and sweat dropped. Hidan twitched as he looked at Itachi, whose eye brow was now raised. "I wont even ask." Sada continued into the hideout carrying the bag full of weapons she seized from her partner to comfort him. Itachi followed. A vein popped out of Hidan's head. "Itachi! You're just jealous 'cause you would never have the Uchiha GUTS to FUCK your own partner!" At this Itachi stopped in his tracks. "Are you underestimating me?" He turned around to face Hidan. Hidan smirked. "Yeah that's right. I know you've been looking through her clothes!" Itachi twitched. "For you information, I posses the sharingan not the byakugan-" Before he could say more, Tobi ran in flailing, yelling; "Noooooo~ Guys, don't fight~" Hidan whacked him. "Damn it Tobi! You swirled fuck! Stop being so happy!" Meanwhile, as Hidan rambled to a chibi tear crying Tobi, Itachi walked to his room and the bag of wepons. Walking to the kitchen, his eye moved into Deidara's room, absently. It was pretty normal in there, Deidara and Akimoto talking like best friends, smiling. Itachi continued on his way. Sada was sitting at the table drinking tea. She looked up and nodded as a way of acknowledging his presence. He made a tea and sat across from Sada. There was silence, only noises of soft rain and sipping tea. Tobi ran through the room crying chibi tears yelling: "I'm sorrryyyy Hidan-Samaa~" After a few seconds Tobi had run into Deidara's room and slammed the door. Itachi sipped his tea again not bothering to tear his gaze from Sada's eyes who was also staring at him. A few more seconds later, there was some yelling from Deidara's room and Tobi got kicked out, the door shutting behind him. He was no longer crying chibi tears, who knows what expression lay under that mysterious mask of his. He walked of to the direction of Pain's room, to annoy them, Itachi supposed. There was finally quiet. They finished their tea, still looking into each other's eyes. Hidan suddenly burst in with Keikai not far behind. "Can you prove me wrong Itachi? Do you have the damn GUTS? Come on, prove it. Prove me wrong." He knew how much this pissed of Itachi. Without warning, Sada had leant over the table and kissed Itachi. All three seemed surprised by this. Sada stopped and mumbled something only Itachi could hear. "You'll have to pay me back for that one." She winked and sat back down in her chair. Hidan had his signature 'What the fuck' face on. Itachi looked up and smirked. "I were wrong."