This chapter includes rape scenes, I'll add a disclaimer when the scene starts.

Two months have passed and it is now my birthday. I walked around Konoha as usual, smiling at random strangers and going to Ichiraku's for a quick meal or two. "A free meal for the birthday girl," said Ayame as she handed me a bowl of steaming ramen. "Thank you Ayame-san." I said with a smile. I finished my meal and left the stand heading towards the training grounds. Even though I'm still not allowed near sharp objects, Tsunade has now let us do shinobi work again which I am incredibly thankful for. "Hey guys." I said with a smile on my face, Hinata, Shino and Kiba shot me grins… or I guess just Kiba did since Hinata turned into a stuttering mess and I couldn't even see a quarter of Shino's face.

"Hey Aelia, what's up?" asked the boy, Akamaru barking in greeting. "Nothing much really. Wanna spar?" I asked after a while, "I can only do taijutsu though," I said right after, the boy nodded and got into a stance. "I'll knock the daylight out of ya!" exclaimed Kiba as he charged at me and tried to go for a punch. I grabbed his fist and kneed his stomach. The boy let out a small cough.

"Sorry!" I exclaimed, scratching the back of my neck, the boy shook his head and started attacking me again. We went on like this for a while, each of our moves either getting blocked, evaded or countered all the time. In the end, I won the round. Kiba nearly fainted and fell on top of me, panting. I immediately started to feel sick. I pushed the boy off me gently, trying to fight away the memories.

"That was fun!" I said with a strained smile, "I'll see you guys around. Ah, Hinata-chan," I said, stopping in front of her, "Naruto asked me to give this back to you." I handed her a bag with a box inside. Hinata hesitantly opened the box, her face flushing the moment she saw the content of it. "T-t-t-t-thank y-y-you!" she nearly screamed, nearly fainting as I snickered at her embarrassment. "Now, now, it's not a problem." I winked at her and left the training grounds, panting as I tried to calm my heart. Come on now, it's been three months now, you need to get over this. These guys are your friends, they wouldn't do that to you.

I let out a small sigh and walked into a cafe, noticing that Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were sitting down, chatting. "Aelia-chan!" exclaimed Gaara, getting up from his seat. I sent him a smile and waved, "Won't you sit?" asked Temari, pointing at a free chair. I took the offer and sat down, smiling at all three of them. "How've you guys been?" I asked, knowing that Gaara had been kidnapped about a year ago, "Gaara, I heard you were Kazekage now, congrats." I said with a smile.

The boy nodded, ordering me a drink, "Eh~ you remembered which flavor I liked," I joked, "Well you are a friend after all." said the boy, chuckling as he took a bite out of his dango stick. "What are you guys doing here?" I asked after a while, "We… er…" started Kankuro, "We just really wanted to eat the dango here once more." said Temari quickly. I nodded before getting to the point, "There's a surprise party isn't there?" Temari sighed as she nodded, "How did you know?" asked Gaara.

"You were acting suspicious. The chuckle was a dead giveaway really. Also you have confetti in your hair." I said, snickering as I took the confetti out of his red locks. "Observant." complimented the boy. "Nah, you're just a horrible actor." Temari choked on her drink from laughter while Gaara just muttered something to himself, annoyed. "So… should I rehearse a reaction?" I asked jokingly.

"Depends… Sakura said you didn't have really fancy parties." said Gaara. "Alright, okay, how's this?" I made a surprised face and said in a high pitched voice, "OH my god! It's so much worse than I imagined!" Temari chuckled while Kankuro sweat dropped, "You know the expression was good… maybe change the message a little bit? And by that I mean completely erase that sentence out of your vocabulary." I chuckled, "Not to worry. I'm sure that whatever Naruto put together is actually going to be amazing." The trio chuckled as they walked me back to my shared house with my team, the sun nearly setting as we neared the door.

"Remember, you have to act surprised." said Kankuro, a little worried, "Why are you so nervous? Did Kakashi threaten to kill you if I knew of this or something?" I chuckled but pinched the bridge of my nose after the boy with purple paint on his face nodded. "He will be the death of me…" I mumbled, opening the door only to face darkness. I gulped, terrified of what would happen the moment I turned the lights on. "SURPRISE!" people got out from behind couches, out of closets, some even fell from the ceiling, all holding a box and wearing party hats. "Woah!" I exclaimed, looking around the room. "This is amazing!" I exclaimed enthusiastically, "I had no idea-"

"Gaara told you didn't he?" asked Kakashi, an amused look in his visible eye, "Oh yeah. First chance he got." Gaara let out a "Hey!" from the doorway but I just ruffled his hair and laughed. "Alright! Now that everyone is here, LET'S PARTY!" screamed Kiba, taking out a bottle of… vodka? "Woah, woah, woah," said Kakashi, taking the bottle from the boy, "As an adult, I can't let you drink this." he said, glaring at the boy before the look in his eye softened, "Without ice." he got out a bucket full of the stuff and put it on the table where many snacks and drinks were present. I immediately got myself a glass and poured some of the vodka in, adding a bit of coffee and liquor into the alcoholic beverage to make myself a makeshift Black Russian.

"What's that?" asked Kakashi, peering into my cup, "Black Russian. It's a mix of coffee, vodka and liquor. Pretty good if you ask me." The silver haired jonin snatched the cup from my hands and lowered his mask, taking a small sip. "It's good," he said, eye wide in surprise. "I wouldn't be drinking it if it wasn't." I chuckled, making him some as well. "Thanks." said the shinobi, lowering his mask completely to drink. "One of these days they'll see your face you know." I said, chuckling as I poured myself some pure vodka then decided to drink out of the bottle instead.

"I know." mumbled Kakashi with a glint in his eyes, "But I'll make sure that doesn't happen for another hundred years." I chuckled at that. "How old are you, really?" I choked on my drink but quickly recovered. "Haven't they taught you that it's rude to ask a lady her age?" the silver haired jonin chuckled, "That old, huh?" I smacked him across the head. "I'd be turning nineteen today." I said after a few minutes.

Kakashi nodded and raised his glass, "To you turning nineteen." I chuckled and imitated his movements, repeating what he said, "To me turning nineteen." we downed our drinks. I decided to stay away from alcohol for a bit, starting to get drunk. "Aelia, come over here," called Sakura, putting cat ears on my head. "Dance with us." she said with a smile, pulling me into a dance circle with Naruto, Sasuke, Team Eight and Team Asuma inside.

"Damn Sasuke." I muttered, chuckling, "Didn't know you could dance." I said watching as he made a futile attempt to twerk. "You gotta throw your butt back a little more." I advised, "Show us, Aelia." said Kiba with a smirk, I snickered before shaking my head, "I've got a weak back." The people around me chuckled and continued dancing. I decided to join in after I got under the influence of more alcohol and basically lost all sense of shame. "Holy shit, Aelia, yes! Dance!" cheered Sakura as she hopped next to me and started dancing as well.

A few hours later, people decided to start leaving, "This was fun, see you around." said Choji, "Happy birthday Lia," smiled Ino as she walked out of the door. Now sober enough to know what I was doing, I thanked her and shot her a smile. "Bye, it wasn't that big of a drag after all," said Shikamaru as he shot me a smirk. I chuckled and rubbed the back of my neck, knowing that this was the best I'd get out of him.

After saying goodbye to the last person, I finally shut the door and let out a sigh. "Thank you for this. I really needed to destress somehow." I said with a smile. "Wait, you really liked it?!" exclaimed Naruto, over the moon. "Yeah, of course!" I exclaimed with a grin. "You're not going to open the presents?" I chuckled and shot Sasuke a look, "I will, I just need to sober up a bit." the Uchiha nodded, satisfied with my answer.

My brother soon came from the kitchen with a bottle of water, "Here ya go." he said with a smile. I thanked him and downed the entire bottle in a matter of seconds. "Alright, let's open the presents." said Sakura, determined. "Open the ones that aren't ours first." said Naruto, leading me to the living room where a table full of big and small boxes and bags were present. Ino had gotten me some custom made kunai, Tenzo had somehow found a way to sneak in and leave me some leather fingerless gloves, Shikamaru had gotten me a strategy book which was actually him rubbing in the fact that I had never beaten him at shogi, Choji got me a recipe book, Konan gave me a paper origami of the Akatsuki, Teuchi gave me coupons for Ichiraku, Anko gave me a whip which I don't really know if it's for sexual or violent use but I'll figure it out somehow.

Kurenai gave me a beautiful custom made shuriken, Tsunade and Shizune gave me a bunch of new information, the members of Team Eight all came together and bought me an entire weaponry set and Tenten, Neji and Lee all pitched in together and bought me some expensive ink, sigil creating books and chakra paper. I noticed a small bag in the back, recognizing the messy but somehow still neat handwriting on the wrapping paper. What? There's one from Jiraiya? I immediately grabbed the back and looked at its content, hugging the paper bag to my chest as I recognised the Icha Icha book that Jiraiya had written before dying.

"Alright, now that all the presents from the unimportant people have been opened," started Naruto, "Open ours." they extended their gifts to me, smiles on their faces as I took the first box, the only one that was perfectly wrapped up. "I'm going to assume this one is Sakura's." I said with a smirk. The girl nodded and motioned at me to open it. I gasped as I read the title of the book she'd gotten me.

"Light, Wind and Dreams! I've been wanting to read this since forever!" I exclaimed, hugging the girl. The chuckled and nodded, "I know," was all that she said as Kakashi handed me his gift, "It's all based on an inside joke, people." said the silver haired man as he finally let go of the box. I opened it to find a swimsuit and arm floats. I snorted as I remembered the day that bastard pushed me into the water which caused me to have a badass scar on my leg. "I still haven't forgiven you for that." I chuckled staring at the swimsuit. Surprisingly, it wasn't at all perverted, it even was in my favorite colour. He had good taste.

The silver haired jonin put an arm around my shoulders, "Now, now, no need to bring up the past." the two of us exploded into a fit of giggles until Sasuke cleared his throat, "Open mine now," he said with a smirk, probably knowing that I was going to love what he got me. I opened the box, my eyes widening as I threw my arms around his neck, "Holy shit, thank you!" I exclaimed, picking up the kunai that was strong enough to charge with chakra and had a hole at the tip to poison people when you stab them. "This is amazing!" I exclaimed, taking out a vile of poison out of my pocket and putting it inside the knife, feeling like a bad bitch.

"Do you just carry poison on you?" I nodded, "Ever since my time with Orochimaru, I've always had poison on me. One to kill Tayuya if she ever got out of line, and two to prank Orochimaru because that snake had been putting poison in my food and poison gases in my room in non lethal amounts to make me immune to them." the people in the room nodded before Naruto handed me his poorly wrapped box though there was indeed an effort made. "I hope you like it." he said with a sweet smile on his face.

I unwrapped the box and opened it, tearing up as I hugged Naruto, "I love it, idiot." I mumbled, wiping my tears. Naruto had taken the gift I had previously given him and added me on his family tree, put a picture of me in the file where all his relatives were and just permanently added me to his family records. Naruto wrapped his arms around me, giving me a tight hug, "Happy birthday, sis." he said with a grin. I nodded and let go of him.

It is indeed a very happy birthday. I helped my team clean the mess up before heading to my room, feeling more tired than I ever had. I threw myself on the bed, realising that I had landed on something hard. I got up from the bed and looked at the pillow, noticing a small clay bird sitting on it. I examined it. This one was pastel blue and had a small button at the tip of its wing. I pressed it, confetti erupting from its beak. I smiled at the present, knowing that Deidara was waiting for me in the woods.

I opened my window and jumped, landing on my feet quietly as I ran through the streets and into the park, clutching the envelope that carried the poem I had written for the blonde to my chest. I left through the gates and ran into the middle of the forest, where we'd first met up. "Hey." greeted the blonde with a smirk on his face, "Happy birth-" I jumped on him and wrapped my arms around him, not letting the blonde finish his sentence as I nuzzled into his shirt, enjoying his scent.

"I've missed you." I whispered, feeling Deidara's arms tighten around my waist. "I missed you so much." said the boy, kissing the top of my head lovingly. "Happy birthday." he said, giving my lips a small peck. I pouted at him, pulling him closer and giving him a long, passionate kiss. "Don't leave for so long next time, idiot." I mumbled fiddling with my hair while the blonde chuckled. "Unfortunately, I'll have to leave again but I'll be back within a month." I nodded, one month is shorter than five after all. I remained in his embrace for a while, enjoying his warmth.

"I need to tell you something," said the boy, pushing me back a little. My brow rose as I waited for him to continue, "I love you." he said in the end, giving me a kiss, then another, then another. My face turned crimson as Deidara continued to kiss me, each time promising that his previous kiss was the last. At last, the two of us had to pull away for air. "I love you too," I said with a grin on my face. "I got you a birthday gift." he said in the end, holding my hand as he gave me a cloak. "I'll be back in a minute, just you wait." he went deep into the forest as though to fetch something, he came back a few minutes later.

"It always hurts me when I leave you so… I wanted to give you this. He covered my eyes with his hand and handed me something. I felt something similar to several envelopes. "T-these are letters that I wrote to you but never really sent…" I blushed, hugging them to my chest as I got on the tip of my toes and gave him a peck on the lips. "I… wrote something for you too." I handed him the envelope with the poem inside, "B-but don't read it right now!" I immediately added. Deidara smirked as he opened the envelope, making my face turn crimson, "What could it be? A love letter perhaps?" he unfolded the paper and read the poem, a blush on his face as he read the feelings I had put on paper. After he was done reading, he pulled me in for a hug and squeezed the life out of me.

"My god you're so adorable." he exclaimed, giving my forehead and top of my head a kiss. "S-shut up!" I whined, trying to pull away only for Deidara to hold me tighter, "I-I told you not to read it yet!" I mumbled, looking away from him with a pout and embarrassed blush on my face, annoyed. "Eh~ Aelia, you shouldn't make faces like that you know. I might lose control." my body stiffened at his words but I soon relaxed, getting comfortable in his arms once again. I rested my head on his chest, listening to his steady heartbeat with a calm smile on my face. "How long will you be staying?" I asked, not wanting him to leave soon. Deidara's body went rigid for a second.

"In about thirty minutes." I let out a sigh, "That's way too soon…" I whispered, "Stay." I said in the end, "Please stay." the blonde froze. "I'd love to but my work-" I pressed my body up against him and looked up to meet his eyes, "Please," I begged, giving him a puppy eye look. The blonde looked away, "Aelia, I can't… you know why." I knew that he couldn't but I wanted him to stay, "But…" I lowered my gaze and rested my head on the crook of his neck, "But I miss you all the time… I-I need you around…" I blushed as I said those words. I felt Deidara's one of his arms snake its way to my waist again as he used the other to lift my chin. "W-what?" I asked, my face crimson.

Deidara chuckled before giving me a soft kiss, "It's nothing," he said giving the tip of my nose a peck. "Deidara…" the boy's attention focused on me, "What… what do you do when you leave?" the boy's body stiffened, "You shouldn't worry about that," I shook my head, "I do though, please… if you aren't going to stay, let me at least know what you're doing."

The blonde sighed, knowing I wouldn't drop the matter until he told me. "I'm… trying to find him…" he said in the end. I froze, my eyes widened at the mention of the man, "You don't need to…" I whispered out in the end. Deidara tightened his embrace, "I do. I know that you're scared all the time because of this, that you're always watching out… only dropping your guard around me…" he said the last part in such a deep voice it sent chills down my spine. "How've you been Aelia?" I looked up, shaking in terror.

"Y-you're not Deidara…" I breathed out, trying to get away from the man as soon as I could but his hold on me was too tight, "Come on now? I know you missed me~" I tried to pull away but I couldn't, I was frozen in place, gazing into his red eyes as his skin paled. "G-get away from me! W-what have you done to Deidara?" The man chuckled, "You're not a good girlfriend are you? Not noticing that I wasn't your dearest Deidara..." He smirked at me and pushed me to the floor, injecting me with something. This time, I was ready, I summoned up my chakra to try and throw the drug out of my system but it was no use. The drug worked too quickly.

Explicite rape scene ahead, reader discretion is advised.

The man tugged at my clothes until he finally ripped them off. I had stopped resisting at that point, my body weak and my mind knowing that it would be of no use either way. I let him do whatever sick thing he wished to do. He hit me, burned me, pulled my hair, "Come on, resist. It's no fun if you let me do what I want." he said with a smirk, knowing that he had tamed me when we were on the ship.

"Come on Aelia, scream, cry," he ordered as he continued to have his way with me. I couldn't take it anymore, I felt sick, disgusting, my entire body hurt. I let a tear fall down my cheek only for the stranger to lick it. "How sweet." he commented, trying to kiss me. I moved my head to the side, having a little bit of fight left in me. "Now, now, just be a good girl and do as I say." HE mumbled, putting a hand to my throat and choking me.

I hated his touch, everything about him really. "Let… go…" I choked out, trying to get air into my lungs. He punched my face, "Be quiet! You will not talk unless spoken to!" he screamed, punching my face again. I coughed, choking on some of my blood in the process. He realised his knuckles got bloody and just licked the blood clean, forcing me to watch. "Stop…" I begged, not wanting to go through the same thing again.

"What did I just say?" he smirked as I paled and immediately shut up, letting him do anything he wanted with me. This continued on for I don't know how long, he hit me, burned me, pulled my hair, called me names but then got all lovey dovey and tried to kiss me. I had stopped resisting him a long while ago, just letting him do whatever he wanted until he got bored of me.

Rape scene done.

After about an hour or two, he was finally done. "Whore." he said, vanishing into the forest, leaving me to get dressed once again, even though my shirt was ripped and my skirt was torn beyond recognition. I wore the cloak Deidara gave me, hugging it to my body as I waited for the tears to come. They never did. A few minutes passed and that's when what happened really sunk in. If that man was here, where was Deidara? Was he alright? Would he be mad? Would he call me all those horrible names that man called me too? I shook my head, eyes still wide in terror as I was in shock.

Was the person I was dating pretending to be Deidara the entire time? Was I really that big of a fool? A tear fell down my face as I hastily wiped it even though I knew that more were coming. I stood there for who knows how long. Crying and hugging myself in the cloak that had been given to me by either my boyfriend or my rapist. At this point, I couldn't even tell if they were one and the same. I stopped crying the moment I heard footsteps behind me, getting up and into a defensive pose.

Deidara stepped out of the shadows, head bleeding a little and clothes nearly torn. "Aelia!" he exclaimed, running towards me. I took a step away from him, terrified I'd be tricked again. "Stay away." I ordered, voice shaking as I backed myself into a tree. "Aelia, we need to get out of here!" exclaimed the blonde, grabbing my hand and trying to pull me away.

I froze, tears welling up in my eyes as I tried to fight him off, still under the effects of the drug. "Let go of me!" I exclaimed, tears spilling out of my eyes. "Aelia, he's a shapeshifter we need to get out of here! Come on!" I knew that, I saw that happen. "L-let go of me! I don't even know if you're you! Get away!" I exclaimed, pushing him off me once and for all, panting from just doing that. "Why are your clothes ripped?" he asked, realising what had happened. "Aelia…" he breathed out, hurt evident in his eyes. "I'm so sorry…" he whispered, falling to his knees. "It happened right under my nose too…" I took a step back, not knowing if I should believe what I was hearing.

"I'm so sorry…" he looked extremely sincere but so did him… "P-prove to me that you're Deidara…" I whispered out. The blonde nodded staying at a distance from me as if to show he wasn't a threat. "Remember that clay bird I gave you?" I nodded, still a little weary, "The song on there was called the Merry Go Round of Life." I nodded, "Y-you could've known that just by listening to it once." I mumbled, my terror evident in my eyes.

"When we were in the Akatsuki, you used to call me GoldieLocks and Rapunzel." I nodded, starting to get convinced little by little, "I used to call you midget." I nodded, still terrified, "And once, you tried to punch me and my mouth hands got chakra glue on your hands, you forced me to help you wash them off." I nodded, lowering my guard slightly, even though I was sure the person in front of me was Deidara, I was still scared, terrified of being wrong.

"I couldn't even tell the difference…" I croaked out, "I couldn't even tell it wasn't you…" the tears that had slowed down since Deidara had showed up started to flow freely once again, "It's alright, Lia. Whatever he is, he's good at deceiving people." I shook my head, "I should've been able to see through it, I should've spotted the difference." Deidara took a step towards me but went back immediately after seeing how scared I was. I could see it tore him up to see me like this…

"Please…" I begged, "Please don't leave anymore, okay?" Deidara's eyes widened, "If you leave, I'll always be scared… it may sound stupid I know but I really don't feel safe anywhere anymore…" I whispered out, hugging myself to get some warmth. "I need to catch him, Aelia…" I nodded, "I-I know… I'm just… lonely I guess." I let out a humourless laugh, "Y-you know what, forget I said a-anything…" the blonde tried to take a step towards me, when he saw that I didn't react, he took another one, then another until he was now standing in front of me.

"You're bleeding," he said, bringing his hand close to my face but retracting it as soon as he saw the fear in my eyes. "Here." he gave me a piece of cloth, "Were you drugged?" I nodded, not bothering to tell him I wouldn't have resisted either way, the sheer fear of the man paralyzed me. "I'm sorry." he said once again, as though it was his fault. "I tried to throw the drug out this time…" I said, remembering the events, "But it took effect too quickly…" I chuckled, wiping the tears that were still falling from my eyes. I had learned to ignore them by now.

"You should go home… I'll walk you if you want." I nodded, getting away from the tree but falling down almost immediately, the drugs still not completely done with their effect. The letters fake Deidara had given me spilled out of the cloak. "Those are the letters I wrote for you, how did you- he gave them to you?" I cocked a brow, those really were Deidara's letters?

"I had written something for you too but he took it." I mumbled, knowing that was really important in the moment. "Don't worry about that." he mumbled, watching as I struggled to get up. He handed me a stick, "Use this." he mumbled. Our hands touched briefly as I tried to grab the stick, making me drop the piece of wood immediately, as though his hands were on fire. "S-sorry…" he stuttered out, handing me the stick once again, holding it by the very end this time. I got up only to fall back down. Deidara sighed, coming a little closer. I backed away, hating myself after seeing the look of hurt in his eyes.

"I-I'm so sorry…" I cried, wiping my eyes, "It's just… you look so much like him, I know you'd never do anything to hurt me but I'm so scared still." the blonde nodded, the look of hurt remaining as he pulled me up, not caring about my trashing and trying to get away from him. "I'm going to take you home now, okay?" he asked. I nodded, not really knowing how he'd get past the village guards. We came in front of a tunnel in the ground and Deidara jumped in, pulling me after him. "When did you have time to dig this?" I asked, a little calmer now that he wasn't touching me.

"I didn't. It's probably from the time Orochimaru attacked." he said in a whisper. We got out a few minutes later, appearing right in front of my house. "I'll be taking my leave now…" said Deidara quietly. "Happy birthday, Lia." he said with a sad smile, making tears come to my eyes. "C-come on now… don't fuck with me…" I cried, wiping my tears, "Smile for me, okay? I don't want the last look that I see on your face for a while to be sad." I mumbled, shooting him a grin through my tears, waiting for him to do the same. In the end, he shot me a grin, though I could tell it was forced.

I hesitantly approached him, grabbing his hand, "What is it?" asked the blonde, a little surprised that I wasn't scared to touch him. I gave him a peck on the cheek. "I-I love you…" I said, a blush on my face. He put his hand over mine, "I love you too, Lia…" he said with a smile. I planted a small kiss on his cheek before getting out of the hole. "I-I'll see you in a month, okay?" the boy nodded, a small smile on his face. "You should go… Your family will notice you've left."

"We already did." I froze, hearing Sasuke's angered voice behind me. "Fuck." Deidara and I said in unison. "You should go before Naruto sees you. He's livid." The blonde nodded before turning to me, "You'll be alright, right?" he asked, shooting me a concerned look. Tears filled my eyes, "Y-yeah don't worry." the blonde sighed, "Geez, Lia you can't even pretend." I let out a sigh and wiped my tears.

"S-sorry. I'm still a bit shaken up." the blonde nodded sadly, "I should be the one apologizing. Your reaction is completely normal, Lia… I'll see you later okay?" I nodded and watched as he disappeared. "What happened? Since when have you been meeting up with him secretly-WHY ARE YOU BLEEDING?!" I wiped the blood from my face and grabbed the door knob. "It's none of your business." I mumbled, trying to open the door, "Tell me." he ordered, grabbing me by the shoulders. A wave of terror washed over me as I weakly pushed him away, still under the effects of the drugs though they were fading away. "S-stay away from me!" I exclaimed, backing into the door.

"H-hey… calm down," said Sasuke, stepping away from me. "A-are you okay? Did that guy do something to you?!" I started to hyperventilate, tears at the corners of my eyes as I had difficulty to breathe. "SAKURA!" called the raven haired boy, making the pinkette appear before me, a cool expression on her face as she gave me instructions.

"Breathe, Aelia. Deep breaths. Come on." when that didn't work, her hands glew green, she put them at the sides of my head, calming me slowly. "What happened? Why did you have a panic attack like that?" asked Sakura, putting the hair on my face aside as I calmed myself enough to be able to form coherent sentences. "I-it's nothing. D-don't worry about it." I mumbled, getting up from the floor. "It's not nothing," said Sasuke, grabbing me by the wrist, causing me to try and pull away from him. "Last time you gave this reaction was when you- THAT MOTHERFUCKER!"

"W-wait! It's not what you think!" I exclaimed, starting to get worried, "NOT WHAT I THINK?! YOU'RE ACTING WORSE THAN THE LAST TIME YOU WERE RAPED! YOU'RE LITERALLY SHAKEN TO YOUR CORE, AS THOUGH YOU WERE BETRAYED AND NOW, YOU'RE COMING OUT OF A HOLE WITH THAT BLONDE FREAK! BLEEDING MIGHT I ADD! AND YOU'RE TELLING ME IT ISN'T WHAT I THINK?!" I backed away, terrified of the person I was seeing in front of me.

"P-please calm down…" I whispered out, tears at my eyes as I hid behind Kakashi who had come out to see what was happening. "Please calm him down..." the silver haired jonin cocked a brow but nodded nonetheless, hitting the Uchiha on a pressure point and knocking him out. I let out a sigh of relief and ran up to my room, ignoring the shouts of concerned roommates asking me to come back down.

I reached my door and pulled it open, only to see red everywhere. On the doors, walls, even the ceiling. I let out an ear bleeding scream, causing everyone to come running, even Sasuke that was knocked out ran up the stairs. I looked at the wall in front of me, there, written in what could only be assumed to be blood was written. "See you again my dear. With all the love, Nikolai." I fell to my knees, hugging myself as I gagged at the metallic stench of the blood. In the end, I couldn't hold it in anymore, I ran to the bathroom and threw up.

Someone closed the door to my room and came to rub my back, "Let it all out." said Sakura, holding my hair back. I flushed the toilet then washed my mouth and brushed my teeth. "Who's this Nikolai person?" asked Naruto, worry etched all over his face as he saw the state I was in. "Burn that room." I said, terror in my eyes. I could still smell the blood, see the red liquid drip onto my forehead as I hastily wiped the imaginary blood away.

"P-please." I begged, eyes wide as I started shaking. "Whose blood was that anyway?" I chuckled, horrified, "I-I mean there was just s-so much!" Sakura engulfed my body in a warm hug, "Calm down. We'll clean the room, maybe we won't go back in there again. You can sleep in my room with me for the time being." I nodded, thankful that she's let me stay with her and relaxed in her embrace.

I finally took a deep breath in and started to speak, "N-Nikolai is my rapist. I just learned his name, really…" I said with a shudder, "We saw each other tonight. He was pretending to be Deidara. T-That's when it happened." I shuddered as the memories of the last few hours resurfaced. "A-anyways. He left before the real Deidara came b-but I guess I-" Naruto cut me off quickly.

"You went to meet Deidara?!" he exclaimed, annoyance clear in his voice. "Y-yes…" I mumbled. Naruto let out a low growl but didn't say anything other than, "Don't go out alone at night." Kakashi cocked a brow, "How did you not know he wasn't Deidara?" he asked, rubbing his chin over his mask, "H-he can shapeshift… it's not like henge or anything, it's like… he can turn into the person, radiate the same energy as them, maybe even know what they know… I-I really don't know…" I shook my head, now's not the time to be paranoid.

"So you're saying that this guy can replicate a person perfectly? Almost like a clone?" asked Kakashi. I nodded, "That's going to be troublesome…" he muttered under his breath. "Aelia… you should rest for now, get treated for the… stuff on your face." I nodded, turning to Sakura, "Care to fix me?" I asked, a little embarrassed that I was injured this way. "Yeah… why didn't you throw the drug out of your system immediately?" she asked, "It was quick acting… It reacted with my blood the moment it was injected. Since my chakra is sort of artificial I guess. You know since I wasn't born here?" the girl nodded.

"That also means that drugs affecting your chakra will work quicker and will be tricker though…" she sighed. "Let it be, the effects will leave eventually." I sighed, annoyed at the situation I was in. "U-um… I'm going to take my stuff from the room so that I can sleep with Sakura…" I mumbled, heading to the door, only to shut it once again. "I will sleep in these." I said in the end.

"Aelia…" called my brother, making me turn around, "This is more serious than before… I don't want you going out alone at night. Okay?" I nodded, of course it made sense. That's when Sasuke interjected. "And stop dating Deidara. He obviously can't take care of you." I felt my blood boil, "What's your problem?! I'm not some baby that needs to be taken care of! I'm sixteen years old Sasuke, and I would be nineteen if I was back in my old world! I don't need to have you hover over me like some crazy man! And talking about "taking care", you haven't been doing a good job either then! You can't just blame Deidara for me getting raped! If anything, you should be blaming me!"

Sasuke clenched his teeth and tried to answer in a calm manner, "Being scared isn't a bad thing. Besides, you were drugged. I wouldn't blame you for that." he said softly, "As for Deidara… this happened right under his nose Aelia. What kind of guy can't take care of the girl that he loves?" I froze. Is he trying to manipulate me into leaving? No… he wouldn't do that. Aelia, this night has rendered you paranoid. He just cares for you. A little too much but he cares for you. That's it. "He loves me. I know that for a fact." I mumbled, "He keeps leaving because he's tracking Nikolai down… he was the one who found out he was a shapeshifter and tried to get me out of there. But it was too late. Nikolai had found me beforehand."

"Lia… This isn't the first time something bad's happened when you were under his care." he said softly, "Deidara may love you with everything that he is but in the end… he'd never be good enough." his voice deepened again… "H-hey… stop doing that voice…" I said, taking a step back. Since when did he have his sharingan activated? Wait no… that's not the sharingan… his eyes are red…

Sasuke raised a hand to cup my cheek, "S-sasuke… why is your hand covered in blood?" Kakashi's eyes widened as he immediately pulled me away from the boy. "Aelia~ Did you see my message on the wall? Did you like it? I heard somewhere that red is your favorite colour!" his hair became longer and turned blonde, skin paling as he shot me a psychotic grin. "W-why are you here again?" I asked, frozen in place. "Well, I missed you of course! Even though I saw you a few hours ago. I just can't have enough of you, you know~" I took a step back. Naruto stepped in front of me, a menacing glare on his face.

"Get out of this house." he ordered, orange chakra surrounding him. Sakura stood next to him, an equally if not more terrifying glare on her face. "Who's blood is that?" she asked, noticing that this man was probably pretending to be Sasuke right after the moment I stepped into the house. "Oh you know… just the blood of the raven haired boy… he really was a handful you know? Tried to rip my heart out!" exclaimed Nikolai angrily in a childish voice.

"But I'd do anything to see my Aelia-chan!" I froze. All the blood in the room… Sasuke must be bleeding out as we speak. "W-what do you want?" I asked in the end, somehow knowing that even as an entire team, we'd never beat this man in a thousand years. "Aelia, you already know what I want." I gulped. "Will you leave everyone alone? Safe and sound? Uninjured?" the man nodded, "You know I'm a man of my word, my dear." Kakashi held me by the wrist. "You're not going to him." he said firmly, pushing me back to behind the three of them.

"Sasuke might be bleeding out as we speak!" I exclaimed, "And we don't even know where his body is! Please, let's just do what he wants." I begged, not caring about how pathetic I looked. "Aelia, my Aelia." said Nikolai as he suddenly appeared next to me and gave my knuckles a kiss, "Do that face for any longer and I just might lose control and claim you as mine once again." I felt sick to my stomach as he kissed my knuckles once again, feeling the puke go up my throat. I held it in. "Tell me where Sasuke is." I ordered, pulling my hand back. "Tut, tut, tut. You know the rules of my games, Aelia-chan. After all, Babulya Anastasia always made us play." I froze. How did he know that word? Just who is he? "You… what are you?" Nikolai smiled before answering.

"The reason that you're here."