I like how this chapter ends. I find it somewhat incredably sweet. Even though he showed her what he thought was one of his biggest flaws she still excepted him.

But my favorite part is with Niko X3 How she totally assumes that Tinnara and Deidara slept together XDD how Dei reacted was absolutily priceless!
Niko seems to get on many peoples nerves, expectially the Leader's.

Well this is it 'till the next chapter is out. Enjoy^^
~ShadyMidna

Naruto & other related chars(c) Masashi Kishimoto

Tinnara (c) ShadyMidna a.k.a ME^^

Niko (c) Nanookypoo

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Chapter Vl

'Why you have to go and make things so complicated?'

"Mm... Uh?" Tinnara let out a groggy moan. The wind was blowing through her long brown locks, and her arms and legs dangling while her head rested against something soft and warm. Cracking her eyes open she was able to see the rapidly passing landscape. She took one of her arms and pressed her against some soft fabric while burying her face into it to hide her face from the cold breeze.

"She seems to be recovering fast, hmm." she heard the man holding her say. 'How come that voice sounds familiar?'

"Yes it seems so..." another one said. She opened her eyes completely. Looking at what she was leaning against Tinnara realized it was a cloak whith red clouds! 'Akatsuki!' Becoming curious she desided to see who this Akatsuki was. Tinnara lead her eyes up until they rested apon his face. She saw that he wearing the straw hat that all of them seemed to wear with the long white attachments ao you could only see his face by looking directly at him. Also she saw that the man had long blond bangs that draped over one of his eyes, the one that was visable though was a beautiful deep, clear blue with his eye being outlined with back eyeliner.

"D-deidara...?" Tinnara looked up at him with her big brown eyes. He smirked.

"Sasori-sama." Deidara looked over to the red headed man next to him. Sasori gave an annoyed and uninterested glare.

"It looks like your girlfriend is awake." He said with a deadly monitone voice. Tinnara shivered. Something about this guy gave her a bad feeling.

"Don't make such assomtions, hmm. We were just friends..." Deidara said his face turning red a bit.

"W-wait, Deidara, you're in the Akatsuki?" Tinnara stuttered as her brown eyes widened. Deidara looked down, guilt taking over.

"Yeah..." He said softly. Tinnara grasped his cloak in disbelief. No longer able to hold it in she let out a high pitched scream. She bit her tounge trying to keep it down when she noticed blood was coming out the sides of her mouth. Tinnara had pontured her tounge. Yet she had barely bit down on it. Feeling her insizers she noticed they had become abnormaly long and sharp.

Looking at Deidara she saw he had a shocked and somewhat scared expression on his face. "T-tinnara, yo-you..." Tinnara wasn't able to hear the rest he had to say before an extremely painful sensation erupted from her body and everthing went black...

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"W-wha-" Tinnara imediately sat up. She was in a bed, but it wasn't hers. 'Where am I?' Her head began throbbing when her headache finally caught up with her. She winced at the intensness of the pain. 'Okay so let's evaluate my situation... I don't know where I am, I'm in a strange bed and it feels like someone just took my head and used it for target practice; over all I can say this sucks!' She got up out of the bed with the top cover wrapped around her and walked over to the door she spotted on the other side of the room. She was aware of the dangers that might await her on the other side but at this moment she didn't really care, she just wanted to know where she was.

Cautiously and with a shakey hand Tinnara turned the knob and pulled the door open. On the other side there was a hallway lit by candles. Turning left out of the room she started down the dimly lit hallway. As she walked Tinnara closely examined where she stepped just in case booby-traps were set. Suddenly she was drawn away from her observations by running into someone.

"Watch where you're walking you-" The man stopped. Tinnara looked up and met with his dark purple eyes. "Hm." He smirked and continued to walk. To frightened to turn around now she began to coutiously continue pressing forward.

"It seems you're mission was a success." a dark voice came from a passing door. Tinnara turned her head.

"Yes Leader-sama." another voice said. Being too curious for her own good she crepted over to the door where she heard the voices coming from. Slowly cracking the door open she was able to see the rooms occupants. "The mission went without flaws, hmm."

"I was worried that that girl was becoming a problem, Deidara." Tinnara gasped. Both men turned towards the door. "Hm, and it seems she's here now. Please come in and shut the door behind you."

She obeyed and walked into the dark room, fearful for her life. It's true that she had taken Deidara by herself but she wasn't sure if he was using his full strength in that battle plus he had the person who seemed to be the leader on his side and she was pretty sure he wasn't a push-over. Tinnara grasped the blanket tieter.

"Please come stand next to Deidara and-"

"Oh hell no!" Tinnara said cutting the leader off. "If there is one order from you I will not follow it is one involving doing ANYTHING near... him..." She was throughly pissed. Deidara just stood there a little wide eyed, 'What the hell is her problem?'

The leader sighed, "This what I was talking about. I think maybe it would be a good idea to move her into another room."

"Why? What's wrong with the one I woke up in just a second ago?" Tinnara asked.

"Um... well... um..." Deidara mumbled.

"You were in Deidara's room." The Akatsuki leader said with a straight face. Tinnara's eyes widened.

"W-wait, then... that means..." She thought about the blanket she had wrapped around her. "Ahh!" The high pitch of the scream was loud enough to shatter an eyedrum and it seemed to draw a lot of attention to the leader's office.

"What's with all the ruckase? Can't a girl get a little cat nap around here?" Tinnara turned to see a black haired girl in the doorway. "Hey Deidara." the girl smiled and waved.

"Hey Niko." Deidara smiled back. This girl seemed real nice and friendly. 'Maybe there are actually a few admiral Akatsuki members.'

"Oo, Deidara, is this the girl you were talking about?" Niko said. She walked over and looked Tinnara closely. "Heh, and it seems she's wrapped in your blanket Dei-" a sly smile spread across her face. "Dei? Why exactly is she in 'your' blanket, hm? Did something... happen? Like, I don't know, something naughty?"

Both Tinnara and Deidara blushed deep shades of red. "Niko! You have a sick mind! If you haven't notice we're not even the age!"

"So just because you're fifteen and she's like what? Thirteen? Doesn't mean anything." Niko protested.

"Wait, hold on... You're fifteen!?" Tinnara asked in disbelief. Deidara nodded reluctanty. "Oh... um... that was, unexpected to say the least." She blushed and turned away.

"Oh you didn't know that?" Niko looked at Deidara, "Deidara I am ashamed. You took avantage of a thirteen year old girl and you never told her your age..."

"How many times do I have to tell you!? Nothing happened! She was sleeping, I was in here, she woke up, walked out and now she's here!" Deidara yelled at Niko. She tilted her head.

"Oh... so... hm, well this is akward. Heh heh." Niko said placing her hand on the back of her head. Deidara twitched. 'Wow, she reminds me a lot of Masako...' Tinnara's thought making her smile.

"Eh hem..." The leader said trying to get their attention. Niko turned.

"Why hello, Dave..." a sly smile spread across her face. It was dark but Tinnara could see him twitch.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that Niko." he said sounding irritated.

"Whatever you say... Dave."

While this was happening several Akatsuki members began to gather outside.

"Niko-chan quit being so loud! Tobi could hear leader-sama's curses being shouted all the way on the otherside of the headquarters!" a boy in an orange swirl mask yelled, "Tobi's a good boy!"

"Shut up Tobi! You are not a good boy!" Niko yelled back. The boy began whimpering and even though she couldn't see it Tinnara could tell the boy was crying.

"Great! Look, Niko, you made him cry." Deidara scolded her.

"Be quiet girly-man, you're not in charge around here!" she fought back.

"All three of you stop!" the leader screamed infuriated.

"Oh ho, it sounds like leader-sama is a little cranky." the white haired man from before stated.

"All well, but if Dave wants us to leave than I guess we must." Niko said calming down. "Good-bye Dave."

"Out!" his voice was full of venom and hate. As they all scurried out he slammed the door behind them. Not sure where to go Tinnara followed the only person she knew, even though it most likely ment having to follow the bastard back to his room. She would have followed that Niko girl but she seemed very... weird.

"Heh heh, got nowhere to go I see." Deidara laughed at how trapped she looked. Tinnara wanted to punch him in the face, but now wasn't the time. "Is this how you imagined an orangization of 'heartless', as you would say, S-ranked crimanals, hmm?" he teased. Tinnara, once again, tightened her grip on the blanket around her, still restraining herself from beating the crap out of Deidara. Now he was using her own words against her.

"Also, if you remember correctly, I said that Itachi was the only good looking Akatsuki member, now that I've seen more of the members I see that I was right." Tinnara replied. Deidara clenched his fists. Her words hurt him, but he wasn't going to let her get under his skin.

"Sticks and stone Tinnara-chan." he said unclenching his hands. "But you'll be singing a different tune later."

"What do you mean?" Tinnara asked eyeing him suspisiously.

"What, did you really think you were brought here just to hang around?" he said smirking. She could just tell by how he said it that it was best not to ask. "So it looks like you'll be staying with me for a while, eh Tinnara." Deidara said as he opened the door to his room.

"Don't think that just because I'm staying with you that I'm going start acting all friendly and you better not do anything... weird... understand?" Tinnara warned.

"Oh, no need to worry, nothing... unwanted will happen to you." he laughed to himself as they both entered the room. Tinnara quickly discarded the blanket into the bed.

"How do I know I can trust you? I mean after all, all you have done since I met you was lie." she told him.

"Now, really, you'd be surprised at how well some of us can keep promises, hmm." he said. Tinnara still wasn't convinced but something told her that that was going to be the closest thing to a promise as she was going to get.

"Since it looks as if I'm staying here I atleast want to learn somethings about you."

"Like what Tinnara-chan?" Deidara asked.

"Like what your left eye looks like." she started. "It's always behind your bangs so I've never seen it."

"O-oh... are you sure you really want to see?" he stuttered, his cockiness abandoning him. Tinnara nodded.

"Yeah, I really do. I mean it can't be that bad, right?" she said trying to make him feel more comfortable about it.

"Okay," Deidara sighed, "but you have to close your eyes."

"Close my eyes?" Tinnara asked looking confused. "Then how will I-"

"Don't worry, just keep your eyes closed until I tell you to open them, okay?" Tinnara nodded and complied. "And no peeking."

"Yeah, yeah Dei. You can trust me." Shuting her eyes tightly she did what was asked of her. She then felt Deidara gentally take hold of her wrists and bring them upwards a bit. While one of them touched skin the other brushed away his bangs. Suddednly her finger tips touched something cold. 'Metal?' she thought.

"O-okay you can open your eyes now, hmm." Deidara said with a shakey voice. 'Why does he sound so frightened?' Despite the thought she opened her eyes. His entire eye was covered with metal.

"Is this why you were so scared?" Tinnara asked. Deidara nodded.

"So you, you don't mind?" Her asked looking towards her with a hopeful look.

"Of course not." she smiled and he smiled back. "And Dei." he looked at her. "You have beautiful eyes." Deidara's expression sofened. 'On the outside she might seem like a stone, hard, cold and empty but on the inside she is a most beautiful work of art.'