A/N: One long chapter so get ready.
The next day at exactally 4:00 pm, Sasori, Tobi Deidara and Naiya had arrived in the village hidden in the snow just as Sasori had predicted. The sky was already dark and snow fell lightly on the village. Naiya stopped and looked down at what she was walking into and she had recalled that she had felt this before in her life but since she was given sight by Pein, she was able to see what it was that cushioned under her feet as she sauntered through the white blanket of snow. Deidara stopped and turned around to see what Naiya was doing and Sasori and Tobi did the same. Deidara watched Naiya's eyes explore the beauty of her home land. Naiya picked up a pile of show with both hands and remembered the cold feeling. She remembered the chill of the arctic wind blowing against her cheeks, something that she could not see but she remembered its feel very well. Deidara walked up to her and kneeled down.
"That stuff is snow, un." He smiled then he picked up a pile and formed it into a snow ball and gave it to Naiya. He formed a ball of his own and threw it at the back of Tobi's head.
"Hey, what was that for?" Tobi asked turning around finding Naiya knelt down with a snow ball in her hand. She was easily influenced by Deidara that she threw her snow ball at Tobi too but his mask broke the ball. "Deidara sempai, what are you teaching Naiya." Tobi complained.
"Relax, un." He said standing up with Naiya. "Or can't you handle a little snowball fight?" Naiya laughed at Tobi's reaction when she pelted him on his mask but Tobi didn't take it hardly he was just frustrated that his sempai was teaching Naiya to be violent. They continued walking until they got to the house that they found Naiya in when they first met her. "Where do you think the scrolls are?"
"I don't know. Leader-sama didn't give us a specific location so I think that we should start in here." Sasori said opening up the poorly crafted wooden door but he used unnecessary strength causing the door to pull right off of its hinges and fall to the ground. Sasori looked at it for a moment then decided to ignore it and he walked in along with everyone else. Memories came back to Deidara's head as soon as he entered the bitter cold house. Inside it was hardly furnished, the house was so small, that it could hardly fit the needs of one person. It had only two rooms, a kitchen and the bed room. The kitchen had stone counters, a wooden table with rotting wooden chairs surrounding it on two of the four sides. Deidara looked at the walls seeing blood splatters that he vaguely remembered seeing it there before. He wondered if Naiya was the one who did this, to an answer to his question he searched for any bones or rotting body parts but he had seen none so this must have been from a long time ago. It may not have been Naiya who had done this but it could have been her Jinchuriki since she could not control it as well as other Jinchuriki hosts. Naiya stood at the house door way staring at everything with unpleasant memories coming back into her mind. She could not walk any further than the doorway so she stood there quivering in fear. Tears began to run down her cheeks as she remembered getting beaten from someone but she could not recall who. She remembered the smell of the blood on the walls, floor and the table that someone had strapped her down to and tortured her. On that table is where she was held against her will and whipped endlessly because she possessed the Jinchuriki that the village was so afraid of. Deidara stopped in his tracks to notice that Naiya was quaking in fear.
"Naiya?" Deidara called.
"What's wrong with Naiya?" Tobi asked.
"She must have remembered something that had happened to her here." Sasori said not paying attention to the expression displayed on Naiya's face.
"Too bad she can't talk, maybe she holds information on where the scrolls are." Tobi said.
"I'm not sure how much help she would be on the scrolls since she was blind when we found her. She couldn't even see where they were placed."
"Maybe she wasn't blind all her life, hm." Deidara thought. "Maybe her eyes were so powerful, like Itachi's, that the villagers were forced to prevent her from using them."
"Are you sure that she even had eyes?" Sasori asked.
"Hm, leader-sama did not say that she didn't have eyes so I think maybe she did have eyes. Otherwise how could leader-sama have restored her sight, hm?" Naiya shook her head and backed away from the door and ran around the house corner and sat down in the snow. "Hang on, I'm going to check to see if Naiya is okay." Deidara went to where Naiya had sat and knelt down beside her. He looked into her teary eyes and she looked back into him but soon turned away. He placed his hand on her shoulder to calm her down. "Naiya, you don't have to go inside if you don't want to, but you have to stay here until I come back, promise?" Naiya raised her head and then nodded. Deidara forced a smile then went back inside.
"How's Naiya doing Deidara sempai?" Tobi asked.
"I think she will be alright, yeah." Deidara said. Tobi opened a door slowly and then screamed and shut it closed so that no one could see inside. Deidara and Sasori looked at him as he panted with his back to the door.
"Just kidding." Tobi said waving his hand. Deidara punched him as punishment and Tobi fell to the ground. With Tobi out of the way, Deidara opened the door to see what was really behind it. It was another room but it was empty, just a carpet in the middle and nothing else but spiders and cobwebs. Deidara, Sasori and Tobi went inside the room to check it out. Tobi walked in the middle of the room on top of the carpet with wooden flooring underneath it. Deidara stopped for a moment and examined the floor that Tobi had just walked on, he listened as Tobi walked around it then Deidara tapped the spot that he stood in to check the sound difference. Unexpectedly, Deidara threw a clay bomb down then ignited it right where Tobi was. Tobi screamed.
"Whaaaaa! Sempai, what was that about?" Tobi asked when he landed behind Sasori. Deidara paid no attention to what Tobi had been saying, instead he stood waiting for the smoke to clear. Finally, Deidara smirked when he had spotted stairs leading to an underground passage. "Oh, wow sempai. You're really smart." Tobi said.
Naiya had been sitting outside in the cold with her head in between her knees waiting for Deidara to come back out to get her. She lifted her head when she heard someone talking in the distance, she thought it was Deidara but she seen a man and a woman standing outside in front of a house where she could see them clearly. They appeared to be lovers on a date and the male was dropping the female off at her house after the time that they had spent together. Naiya watched as she noticed the male showing affection and care just like Deidara has done with her. She heard them speak a certain word and Naiya made out the word to be "kiss" but she did not know what this word meant. Then she seen the male take the females hands and used one to brush the hair out of the females face and moved his face closer then the woman finished and they locked their lips together in what is commonly known as "a kiss." Naiya remembered Deidara doing the exact same things with her, only he did not put his lips to hers. She wanted to try this with Deidara, only Deidara, but she did not know if that's what he would want then she heard them say "I love you" to each other. Deidara had been watching Naiya gaze at the kissing couple and examining their feelings towards each other and he realized that she had discovered the art of a kiss. Naiya wanted to make sure what the signs were before a couple kisses so that she would know when Deidara wanted to kiss her. She realized that they were alone. Finally, Deidara came back to her to take her with him.
"Naiya, we found and underground passage leading somewhere but I don't want to go down it without you, hm. I want you to come with me." He smiled then he held out his hand. "Can you come into the house for me?" Naiya looked at Deidara's hand with the mouth smiling then she looked at him also smiling with a compassionate smile. She looked back at the hand then took it and Deidara helped her up and took her inside.
"What took you sempai, Sasori and I were waiting."
"You can't rush things with Naiya, hm." Deidara said walking in with Naiya and past Tobi then they all went directly down the stairs. They walked down a tunnel with few candles lit that were hanging from the wall, there were also seals on the wall but for what reason? Everyone kept their guard up as they continued down the suspicious passage. Eventually, they came to a split passage.
"Oh Deidara sempai and I get the right passage." Tobi said pointing that way then Deidara and Naiya walked into the opposite passage. Sasori went with Tobi. "Sempai?"
"Hurry up Tobi, don't keep me waiting." Sasori said. Tobi walked with his head to the floor and followed Sasori. Naiya squeezed Deidara's hand as they walked down their passage. Her heart rate had been up ever since she had walked into the house and Deidara could feel her pulse as they were holding hands. Shortly after they made their passage choice, they came to a dark room. Deidara stopped and dropped his jaw.
"Oh my gosh." Deidara gasped when they came around a corner. His jaw dropped like he had seen something raised from the dead. "This is..." Naiya hung on to Deidara's arm still trembling. "This is a slaughter house." There were torture and killing devices from guillotines to nooses to a spiked coffin, there must have been every type of killing device here, there was even racks. Each instrument of torture was painted in a coat of blood that was almost as old as the instruments themselves. Deidara walked into the room and inspected each torture device more closely. "Too bad we don't have a member from the Inuzuka clan to help us identify if Naiya's blood is on here." Naiya remembered being on some of these devices, she remembered how it felt and she based the appearance of the device to how it would feel if someone was in there. Naiya sunk down and sat on the floor feeling queasy from all sorts of memories coming back to her. She didn't want to remember them. "Naiya were you on any of these tools?" Deidara asked seeing the answer in her eyes. Naiya pointed to several devices that she had recalled being on in the far past. Deidara's heart dropped when he seen her pointed to several of the devices. He couldn't watch her suffer here without feeling for Naiya and he wondered what happened to her here that she got persecute. "Come on, let's go find master." Deidara said then they walked away from the gruesome room and caught up with Sasori and Tobi. Sasori and Tobi turned around.
"Well, what did you find sempai."
"Nothing, a dead end, yeah." Deidara lied but Sasori knew that Deidara wasn't telling the truth but Deidara intended it that way because he didn't want to tell Tobi and have him making up some jokes. There was a silence as Sasori and Deidara stared each other down, Tobi and Naiya looked back and forth between the two it's as if they were having a conversation in their head with each other. "Come on, let's go." Deidara said taking the lead. He grabbed Naiya's hand to ease her fear and continued down the passage. Eventually there were no lights and the corridor was pitch black. Tobi was bumping into walls the whole way until there was a small light at the end of a tunnel.(cliché much) The source of light was a table of candles. As they got closer, the table had a star with a circle around it used for rituals and a crystal ball in the middle there were also bookcases with books and scrolls on it. Sasori and Deidara began pulling books and scrolls out and started to read them to see if this was what they were looking for.
"Found one." Sasori said handing a scroll for Tobi to carry.
"Well what does it say?" Deidara asked.
"Don't be so impatient, leader-sama should be the first one to see this." Sasori said.
"Impatient, me impatient? Funny you should say that since you are always the one that tells me not to keep you waiting. I would think that you're the impatient one, hm?" Deidara said. Sasori glared at Deidara then Sasori punched Deidara. Naiya gasped.
"Watch what you say." Sasori warned. Deidara frowned. Suddenly, Naiya ran out of the room crying.
"Uh-Oh. There she goes again." Tobi said.
"See what you did master?" Deidara said then he ran after Naiya.
"There he goes again." Tobi said then he looked over at Sasori. "Uh, Sasori, I think maybe we should lay off on the violence since that could have bad effects on Naiya's memories." Tobi suggested.
"Maybe when Deidara smartens up." Sasori said throwing another scroll at Tobi.
Naiya ran down the hallway and out of the house leaving a trail of tears behind her for Deidara to follow, except they were hard to see. She ran as far away from the house as she possibly could and hid behind another house. She sobbed then she heard a girl scream from behind her.
"It's the three tailed snow tiger!" A girl screamed. Naiya looked above her and seen an adolescent looking down at her in fear. Suddenly, her father came out of the house door with a bat that he was going to use against Naiya to protect his family. Naiya curled up terrified what the man was going to do to her, she couldn't move.
"I'll give you ten seconds to get out of here before I aim this bat at your head." The man threatened. He began counting down from ten but Naiya was frozen on the spot and could not move. "5... 4... 3... You'd best start running now before I get to one. 2..." Naiya closed her eyes and put her hands on her head. "One!" The man took his first swing with the bat and hit Naiya on the shoulder then he began to repetitively and wildly throw the wooden stake at her. Each hit cut or bruised her in a different spot on her body, if the man kept this up, she would have some broken bones or she could be left for dead. After searching for Naiya, Deidara finally came around a corner and saw a man continuously beating Naiya. He ran in and stopped the bat from hitting Naiya anymore. The man stepped back. "Get out of the way punk."
"Why are you beating on an innocent girl, hm?" Deidara asked.
"Innocent, that girl is anything but innocent. She possesses the tree tailed snow tiger and is a threat to our village."
"It doesn't sound like she is a threat. What has she ever done?"
"She holds everyone in the village hostage, she has even killed a few good friends of mine who were sent to her."
"What were they sent to her for, hm?" Deidara began asking questions hoping to find some answers to Naiya's past. Deidara put his hands on his hips and stared at the bloody bat. Naiya looked up and seen Deidara in front of her, protecting her like he has always done.
"That doesn't matter, just get out of the way or I'll have to kill you both." The man unwisely said. Deidara laughed.
"You think that you should be afraid of her but you really should be afraid of me. Just look at my cloak. I am an S-ranked criminal and I could kill you just like that if you touch her again, hm." Deidara glared and the man glared back knowing what he must do.
"Why do you protect her?" The man asked. Deidara looked at Naiya then back at the man.
"Because unlike you, I value her life. She means more to me than anything on this earth. People like you disgust me, yeah. You can't see the beauty of art." Deidara said throwing a small clay bird then he exploded it right in front of the man to see that he was serious about killing him. "How about I kill your most precious person; your wife, then you will understand how I will feel if you kill my most precious person, un."
"Get out of the way!" He yelled once again. He threw his half broken bat at Deidara but Naiya jumped in front to protect Deidara, faster than she has ever moved, this time and using her three tailed snow tiger, she partially transformed and tore through the man's chest with her hand, right through his heart. Deidara gasped when he seen Naiya turn violent.
"Father." The youth called. Naiya turned around and looked at the voice with blood shot eyes. She snarled feeling the thirst for blood then ran after her and killed her without making an effort. Deidara stood there not knowing what to do. Blood covered her body but mostly her hands that she used to shred through human flesh. Naiya began to transform some more tearing her clothes and ruffling her hair as she attacked the family that came outside to try to stop her.
"Naiya." Deidara whispered then he shouted. "Naiya, stop. Stop it Naiya!" When Naiya heard Deidara's voice, she stopped what she was doing. Deidara ran up to her to hug her three tailed body and as soon as he made contact with her, she began to revert to her normal self. Eventually she came to normal and began crying in Deidara's arms, he stroked her hair. "It's okay Naiya, everything will be okay. I won't leave you." Naiya held on to Deidara's uniform and cried at what she had done. It felt like she had no control over her body like something else was trying to poses her. "I won't leave you." Deidara whispered again hugging her tightly while pressing her head on his chest.
"Whoa, what happened here?" Tobi asked when he and Sasori came out of the house with three scrolls. Blood was splashed on the snow after Naiya's destructive episode. When they came around the corner, they seen Deidara hugging Naiya in the middle of the blood bath. "Deidara sempai?"
"Leave them be." Sasori said walking away. Tobi continued to watch so Sasori was forced to pull on Tobi's hair to get him moving too. "It's just like the scroll says."
"What, you mean you read some of the scroll after you told Deidara sempai that only leader-sama could look at it?" Tobi yelled and Sasori nodded.
Deidara took off his Akatsuki robe and placed it on Naiya's shoulders then picked her up and carried her away. He followed the footsteps that Tobi and Sasori had left behind and eventually he caught up with them. They had been waiting at the exit of the village. Once Deidara caught up, they all walked away silently and started back for the Akatsuki base.