Hello everyone in the big wide world!

Wow for once i didn't take months to update, yay! and yes, i must apologize for my slack, i know i have been letting you guys down lately. It seems that i had contracted a case of writer's block which i am very sorry for, but i have found a cure! and with my cure i hope to find the inspiration needed to get on and write this story, so hopefully i will be getting a lot more chapters out from now on.

anyways on to the story, as i have now put this story into the Naruto timelines i have now started trying to write it in adjacent to the original story. Although i don't think i'm allowed to write it exactly by the books, and i don't want to anyway, so things will be slightly different than the original (no copy write intended). i hope you like my version as well as the books, and feed back is always welcome :)

Thanks, BlueBB

"Wow it's so high form up here, Tobi can see everything!" Tobi yelled from his position on the bird flying besides us.

"Don't fall off." I said laughing; knowing Tobi he probably would.

"I wish he would, hm." Deidara grumbled beside me, still annoyed after his and Tobi's little fight last night.

When I woke up that morning both boys were back, fast asleep. As far as I could tell they looked unharmed, thankfully it seemed things hadn't got overly serious.

"Well we can only hope." I said, making Deidara laugh.

"What are you laughing about?" Tobi asked suspiciously.

"Nothing," I replied, trying not to smile.

We were flying high over the tree tops on Deidara's birds. Tobi had one to his own and Deidara and I shared the other. It was about mid morning, and the sun shone down on us from high in the sky, warming my back.

Below us the green tops of the trees reached up to the sky, fighting for light. Stretching ahead of us was the great country of fire, a blanket of trees broken here and there by a river or clearing. We had been flying for most of the morning, searching for any sign of Hidan or Kakuzu.

"Have you spotted anything yet?" I asked Deidara, who was looking through his eye piece thing.

"Not yet, but I've seen a few leaf ninjas running about, yeah." Deidara replied.

"Tobi's booooored, this is taking too long." Tobi moaned from the bird beside us.

"Well find something to do." I replied, really hoping he wouldn't go on about it.

"But there's nothing to do, Tobi thinks we should hurry up and find them."

"Well if you can think of a faster way, we would love to hear it."

"Sempai, make the birds go faster!"

"If they go any faster I'll start to miss things, and anyway we're going fast enough as it is, hm." And it was true; the ground was literally racing away beneath us.

"Hmph, just cause sempai doesn't have good eyes," Tobi grumbled.

I sighed as Deidara growled beside me. "Now I wish he really would fall off, hm."

"You control these birds don't you?" I asked, an idea coming to me.

"Yeah, un."

"Then you could make Tobi fall off."

Deidara grinned, "You know, as stupid as this may seem, I've never thought of that before, hm. Shall we try it out?"

"Ok, but only give him a scare; I don't want to be the one having to pick his remains up off the ground."

"Good point, hm."

"Hey Tobi, what's that down there?" I asked pointing to the ground below us.

Falling for it, Tobi leant over the side of his bird, trying to see what I was pointing at. "Tobi doesn't see anyth-" suddenly he let out high pitched scream as Deidara tilted the bird, unbalancing Tobi and almost making him fall off.

Deidara and I burst out laughing while Deidara steadied the bird so Tobi could get his balance.

"That's not funny! Tobi could have died, you big meanies!" Tobi yelled at us when he got his balance back.

That just made us laugh harder.

"Tobi's gonna tell leader on you guys." Tobi grumbled while he turned to the front and sat down right in the middle of the bird.

"Ooooh, I'm so scared, hm." Deidara said chuckling.

"You bette-" but Tobi was cut off by a sudden boom! coming from somewhere in the distance.

"What was that?" Tobi and I asked at the same time as Deidara quickly looked through his eye thing to check things out.

"Holy shit, hm." Deidara murmured as he saw what was happening. A look of horror came over his face, whatever it was it was bad.

"What is it?" I asked; dread beginning to build up in my stomach.

"Kakuzu is fighting leaf ninjas up ahead, hm," he told us. Suddenly the birds increase in speed, flying towards the direction of the noise.

"Tobi thinks we should wait and see what happens before interfering; remember leader told us to remain undetected. Anyway sempai you should know that neither Kakuzu nor Hidan likes to have their fights interfered with, even by each other."

"Tobi's right, I think we should wait until they really need us." I said, shuddering at the mental image of an angry Hidan.

Suddenly the birds swerved to the right, making a big circle. "Fine, we'll come in from the back and hide until they need us. Although I can't see Hidan anywhere, hm."

I looked towards the ground, we were close enough now that Tobi and I could see what was happing. The birds were flying in a large circle, in the middle was a large rock formation with trees surrounding it. Infront of the rocks was a clearing where four people stood. Three were leaf shinobi, and the one facing them was something out of my scariest nightmares. He had black cord things coming out of his body, even his mouth.

"There's Kakuzu, looks like he had to go all out with these guys." Tobi said, also looking towards the battle.

"That's Kakuzu?" I asked in disbelief as we circled even lower to the ground, barley touching the tree tops.

"Look and there's Hidan." Tobi said excitedly pointing in another direction towards the trees.

I looked to where he was pointing. The trees obscured my vision, but I thought I saw two people among the trees, one with bright pink hair.

We dipped below the trees and I couldn't see either of the fights.

"We will leave the birds here and go check out what's happening, hm." Deidara said, jumping off the bird when we had landed.

We made our way up onto the rocks, trying to climb as quietly as we could to remain undetected. As we made our way around the base of one of the peaks we came upon Kakuzu's fight.

We were standing just off to the side, and had a full view of what was going on. Kakuzu still had those cord things coming out of his body, and by the looks of things he was trying to catch the leaf ninjas with them.

"What are those wired things on his shoulders?" I asked, looking at the black masses which seemed to be apart of Kakuzu.

"They were once living shinobi, hm." Deidara answered. "Now he uses their hearts as the source of power for those two creatures, and for his own survival. There should be two more; maybe they were taken out, yeah."

I watched as Kakuzu managed to grab a hold of all three leaf shinobi. The girl looked terrified; her long blonde hair was pulled up in a pony tail, it was dirty and had dried blood in it. I heard her scream as Kakuzu's cord things wrapped around her waist, pinning her arms to her sides. The boy also had a look of horror on his face as he struggled within Kakuzu's grasp, both of them wouldn't be any older than I was.

The last leaf shinobi was older than the other two, he had silver hair and a mask which covered the lower half of his face. His eyes showed the terror he felt, although they also seemed to be calculating the situation, trying to find any means of escape. I looked closer at his eyes, the right one was a normal grey, but the left was a red which I only ever seen on Itachi before.

"Hey, he's got a sharingan like Itachi." I said confused, I thought only Uchihas had sharingan.

"Yeah, and it blew my arm off too, hm" Deidara said, his face forming a scowl from unpleasant memories.

"Blew it off?" I asked surprised, "but you still have both of them now."

"Yeah, Kakuzu sewed it back on, hm." Deidara told me, raising his sleave to show me the wound.

I had seen it before, but I didn't know the story of it, and now I thought about it, the stuff it was sewn with was probably the same stuff coming out of Kakuzu now.

I looked back to the fight; Kakuzu was pulling the three shinobis in closer. I had the horrible feeling he was about to rip their hearts out to replace the ones he'd lost.

It didn't get that far though as suddenly a huge cloud of smoke erupted in the clearing, obscuring everything. Everything in the clearing was now deadly silent. I strained my eyes to see, but the smoke covered everything, even the trees directly below us.

All I could hear was the breathing of my two companions as they tried to see any form of life in the clearing. I could feel my heart beat rise with the tension and anticipation.

A voice rang out across the clearing, echoing up to our spot on the rock face. It was clear and strong; full of determination, power and strength.

"Sorry we're late."

Yay, another chapter finished, and with suspence! (although you probably all know what will happen)

and just so you know i don't have anything against Tobi (only Madara) and no harm was meant in the writing of this chapter, well not much.

so anyway, tell me what you think, and also i'm about half way through the next chapter!