It was about another hour before Naruto came out of his Hinata induced daze. Which she secretly relished the victory of having put him under.

"Why did we leave her back there?" Naruto exclaimed startling the silently moving group, "She's with dangerous psychotic criminals we need to get her Dattebayo!" (Sorry I just REALLY wanted to use Dattebayo at least once in here.)

"Naruto-kun please trust me. She may not be with us now but she will come home eventually." Hinata reassured in a small voice.

"Hinata, I wish I had that confidence. But how can we be sure, what if one of them hurts her?"

"The man she was with won't harm her."

"How can you be so sure?" Kiba asked. He looked confused. Hinata was never this sure of anything.

"I'm with Hinata here." Sakura said, "I think she'll be okay. And maybe someday when she's ready to, she'll come home."

Everyone just stared at the two girls. They couldn't believe what they were hearing.

"Why?" Naruto yelled, "what the hell makes you two so sure?"

"You didn't see him when she was in that hole. He was genuinely scared for her. He cares that much is obvious." Sakura said calmly

"I talked to her. She gave me a situation. The one I loves leaves and abandons me. I run from the pain, and try and hide."

"How the hell is running supposed to help?" Naruto interrupted

"And while running I find someone that I love even more than the one that left me. She's happy and safe. That's enough for me." Hinata spoke with unusual self assured-ness. She was more than confident in what she was saying, "and she promised me that when she leaves the Akatsuki she'll come home. She also promised that she'd do everything within her power to keep you safe from the inside Naruto-kun."

Naruto stood speechlessly staring at Hinata. If this was true and Arnya was safe and well, there wasn't anything he could do to bring her to Konoha until she was ready, "I wonder if it's the same with Sasuke. Maybe we just need to wait for him to be ready for us."

X~X

Arnya managed to get her hands on a map of the area they were in. Located in a remote corner was a large lake that people had reportedly seen strange mists coming from. As well a mass chakra surges felt by passing Shinobi.

She tried to remain focused on her mission but distractions kept over taking her mind, Deidara was one big distraction to her, refraining from strangling Tobi was another. But her mind continued to go back to what she had promised Hinata.

"Sabotage their plans to hurt Naruto-kun."

Arnya intended to keep her promise. Arnya never promised anything unless it was worth keeping. And she owed Hinata a lot.

The first step would be finding out what Itachi had in mind for catching Naruto. There was a danger of him finding out what she was up to. If any other members found out she was working against them in any way she'd be dead.

Arnya sighed inwardly, she was taking a lot on. The Akatsuki had become her home, cheating them felt wrong in a way. But she was finally being honest with herself. She was attached to Konoha and it's people, and if she could protect someone she cared about, she would do it. No matter the cost. She sighed inwardly, you know you've got a fucked up life when the person that triggers your emotions and makes you come to terms with your feelings is a semi-psychotic terrorist bomber that you met in an organization comprised of some of the worlds most dangerous and powerful S-Class serial killers.

Which was exactly why she had no intention of telling Deidara what she had promised. She refused to bring anyone else into the danger she was about to enter.

The Akatsuki trio walked on in silence. Arnya's mind in silent turmoil. When suddenly Tobi called out excitedly.

"They have Dangos! Let's take a break, we've been walking for ever and I'm exhausted!" he was doing a little dance while speaking before he tore off in the direction of the sweet shop they were passing.

"Like hell you are yeah." Deidara sighed.

"We're going to let him eat sugar? I'm pretty sure the world will just implode if he gets anymore hyperactive."

"That'd be quite a bang yeah." Deidara smirked as Arnya rolled her eyes and smiled.

Arnya sat across from Tobi leaving Deidara to sit beside him. "You're such a carefree guy Tobi, yeah. shouldn't you be a little more serious?"

"But Senpai we don't know where the bijuu we want is. So we might as well just take it easy." Tobi said, "Which one are we after again?"

Arnya sighed, "The Sanbi Tobi, the three-tails."

"Oh, lets see. Ichibi, Nibi, and I'm Tobi duh."

Arnya's eyebrows raised at the strange statement. Deidara was giving Tobi a look of pure death, but was unable to act on his desire to leave a bomb on Tobi, when the waitress brought their dango over.

Both Arnya and Deidara froze watching Tobi intently as he began to lift his mask off his face. Both sighed in defeat when Tobi turned to the side to eat his food. Deidara shook his head and Arnya just shrugged at him and began eating.

Tobi readjusted his mask and turned back towards them, "Oh Senpai look." he pointed to a moulded clay pig sitting on the cash counter, "That looks just like your art work doesn't it?"

Deidara looked at it and then up at Tobi, he swallowed his dango and was about to say something when Tobi continued, "Could it be that Senpai's art is a cheap rip off." he said playfully.

Arnya saw Deidara's eyes darken dangerously, "You…"

"Tobi run."

"Why?"

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU YEAH!"

Tobi finally got the message and tore out of the shop screaming and Deidara starting launching bombs at him.

Arnya sighed and let the two of them run, finishing off hers and Deidara's abandoned dango.

X~X

Deidara spent the next few days of travelling ignoring Tobi's existence. Tobi continued to try and make Deidara's head explode in frustration. Arnya gave up stopping them from killing each other and gave them both a wide berth when Deidara got that homicidal maniac look in his eye.

Tobi began doing stupid things to try and get onto Deidara's good side. Today the masked man took to running ahead of Deidara and Arnya hiding behind trees and making stupid comments.

Tobi put a finger up to where his lips would be under the mask and attempted a sexy girly voice, "I'm a school girl in love with her Senpai."

Arnya let out a strangled cough trying to hide her laughter as Deidara's hand twitched towards his clay pouch.

"Come on Senpai lets just be friends and look for the Sanbi together."

Deidara finally snapped, "Get Lost yeah!" he continued walking, Arnya standing a little back from him prepared to dive behind a tree to avoid the oncoming boom.

"but Senpai…" Tobi started,

Deidara cut him off, "I said get lost yeah." he turned around and began heading down the opposite fork of the road they were travelling. As he walked by Arnya his hand slipped into her and pulling her in the direction her was walking.

"Senpai if you keep talking like that I may actually leave."

"Good yeah." Deidara muttered under his breath.

Tobi seemed to have gotten the message and walked in the other direction. Deidara and Arnya had been walking for about twenty minutes when she froze, "That was really stupid of us."

"Why?"

"The lake is in the direction Tobi is headed."

"Fucking hell yeah."

X~X

Madara Uchiha sighed in relief as the psycho blonde and his bitchy girl walked in the other direction. He finally had an opportunity to deal with the shit going on around him.