A.N: OMG I'm soooo sorry but I've been like grounded from the computer because of my sucky math grade so that is really going to effect my fan fics but I was able to finish this chapter today while my parents are at work. It's the start of a new adventer! Enjoy!

Chapter Twenty-Two: Vacation Plains

The rest of the month and most of December seemed to go by with a snap of the fingers. My birthday came and went with little notice; the only thing that showed it even occurred was a photo of my parents and my brother with fifty dollars. I had forgotten who I looked most like between my parents. The photo had given me a needed memory boost (thanks to my jutsu the memories about my family had been eaten away first.)

So on this late winter day I was in the Room of Dawns alone sitting cross-legged and my hands clasped together. Something needed to be done about this Justus's side affect. So I began to serge chakra into my head.

I had began building a box and a room in my mind. The box was endless filling with important information while the room was just an empty area I could fill with my own chakra to keep the walls together and would empty when a dragon's chakra was in use. This way the area were I put my memories and the area were the dragons stay would be apart. At the end of all my days I would decide what information was important and what memories I could leave floating around so the dragons could feed on them later.

I spent half an hour doing this and recalling the day from the point I woke up. Dreams could no longer count except the ones that I would wake up and have sudden artistic inspiration, however other senseless dreams I happen to remember would be left to be eaten by the dragons.

Loren was doing okay too. Sasori, Temari, Kankuro, and me where the only ones who knew about Gaara's outburst. However she no longer stayed in Tamari's room at night, she had gone back to sharing a room with Gaara but there friendship had been greatly strained.

I had noticed she had become spending a lot of her free time with Sasori and both of them enjoyed each other's company. Sasori had lost interest in spending hours on the computer and even his drawings were becoming less and less about puppets. I dare not even look at his sketchpad anymore scared of what I'd find. But by far the weirdest thing Sasori had ever done happened last week when Loren had popped in to say hello and he had looked up from his computer and smiled. A smile that I remember from when he had slept next to my bedside in the hospital. It was a tiny innocent curve upward but it made all the difference.

"Jen-chan?" Deidara asked taking me back to the present time.

"Oh hey Deidara-kun how long have I been meditating?" I asked not really sure myself.

"About an hour hmm," he said coming over to sit with me.

"I'm so bored," I muttered "all I've been doing is freaking training I'm sick of it."

"Well what do you want to do un?" he asked pulling out his ponytail and shacking out his hair.

"I don't know…something," I said with a grumble.

"Winter vacation is coming up in a two weeks hmm," he said making me perk up. "Yea we get to head home for a week because this area gets flooded with snow by a yearly blizzard coming from the west so all the staff have to spend a week cleaning up before any learning can be done hmm."

"That's pretty sweet for us!" I said my eyes brightening with the thought of going home.

"I stayed at Sasori's last year since I hate family reunions," Deidara said. "Besides pretty much all my family is in here so it really won't matter hmm."

"How about you, Sasori and his parents come to my house?" I asked "Loren lives in Boston too so we can all hang out and stuff."

"I'd have to ask Sasori what he thinks and you should ask your parents if it's cool with them yeah," Deidara asked but then smiled "but if your parents say it's okay I'll go un. I've never been to America!"

"Sounds great!" I said and we smiled at each other like idiots. "Come on lets go before Sasori goes to bed."

We both got up and raced to our room. We nearly broke open the door laughing as we did.

"What is wrong with you two?" Sasori asked as we barged in "besides your mental capacities."

"Let me see your computer?" I asked.

"Sure?" Sasori blinked.

"Want to go over Jen-Chan's for winter vacation un?" Deidara asked.

"What?"

I scrapped up Sasori's laptop and plopped down in the dog poop sofa. I got into my e-mail account and typed in the message to my father.

From:

To:

Subject: Hi Papa

Hey papa I miss you so much! Anyway my roommate Deidara told me that we get to have a winter vacation in 2 weeks. I'm not really sure what day they'll be taking us home but I was wondering if my roomies Deidara and Sasori could come over for the week. (Sasori might bring his parents) Anyway Deidara has never been to America and I think he'd really like to come and I think Sasori will like to come too. Please tell me if it's okay soon! Tell mama and Ken I love them and miss them a lot! XOXOXO

I read over the email a few times before passing the laptop to Sasori so he could ask his parents if they would like to come over or if he could go at all. Deidara didn't bother asking since he said his family wouldn't care.

After a bit of chatting we all somehow ended up falling asleep on the sofa. The TV still blabbering in the back round and the fan of the laptop humming.

I woke up the next morning a tad bit perplexed. The three of us had fallen asleep on the sofa together before if we stayed up to late but this was ridiculous.

I had my head leaning on Sasori's hard shoulder and the rest of me was lying on Deidara. I blushed like mad hoping nether boy would wake up as I carefully pried myself away from them. I shook my head when I was somehow able to get off the couch with other ether of them stirring I turned off the TV and got changed into some fresh clothing.

I carefully closed the door behind me. And headed down the hall. It was Saturday so no morning meet today, just a lazy day of doing next to nothing. I headed down the steps snow crunching under my sneakers. They were the first thing I had purchased with my birthday money and they'd be better for the weekends then my ninja shoes.

I headed to the Towers in the center of campus and quickly disguised myself as a wind student, I had also found out I could make my chakra signature feel like a certain element, which was useful to sneak into places.

I knocked on Loren's dorm door with three long taps two short and a jiggle of the handle. I heard movement on the inside of the dorm and saw that it was Gaara who opened the door. I narrowed my eyes still angry with him for hurting my friend even if he had just lost control it didn't make up for what he did.

"What do you want Jenny?" he asked knowing it was me even with the disguise.

"Where's Loren?" I demanded.

"Asleep," he stated, "You do realize it's like nine in the morning right?"

"Why are you up then?" I asked and he narrowed his eyes.

"I'm an insomniac I don't sleep well, you know that," he said with a glare.

"Just let me in," I grumbled pushing him out of the way, ruffling up some sand but he said nothing. I looked around the room; it was neat as always with the TV buzzing softly while Loren was curled in her sheets. She muttered incoherent words and I sighed moving my fingers through the short blond hair I'd made for my disguise. "Well…tell her I was here okay?" Gaara nodded as I went to the balcony and jumped down landing in the disserted street below.

I'm transformation jutsu wore off as I walked through the streets. Wondering around before finding myself back at the Akatsuki Temple. I sighed looking up at the black marble building it's roof and steps capped with snow. Tobi was sitting at the top of the steps usually the place you'd find Zetsu.

"Ah! Jen-chan nice seeing you!" he said waving his arm I giggled and waved back. Sure Tobi was annoying sometimes but most of the time he was cute. "Sit with Tobi?"

"Alright," I said pushing some snow away and sitting down next to him. "How are you Tobi?"

"I'm okay," he said fiddling with the end of his green scarf. I noticed that Tobi never wore the formal uniform other then the robe and such. He had on a thick black sweater that had iron plates on each arm, black gloves; black pants with the white stockings and more plates on the sides of his thighs lastly the green scarf and his orange mask. He pretty much covered every inch of skin on his body except his toes. And no he didn't dress like this just because it was cold he dressed like this all the time!

"Really? That's good to hear," I said politely. "Deidara-kun told me your exam was a pretty even fight."

"Really Deidara-sempai said that?" Tobi asked excitedly. I could almost see the smile spread across his face.

"No, not really," I said with a slight smile. "Zetsu told me it was a close match, he said your very good."

"Oh Zetsu-san is so nice!" he said. I smiled at him again and envied his bliss.

"God, it's freezing," I muttered pulling my clock close around me. "I'm going inside, got any idea were Itachi is?"

"Nah haven't seen him for a week," Tobi said looking up at me as I got up.

"Yea me neither," I muttered as I left him. When I got back to the dorm the boys were already up and running around the room. "Guys?" I muttered looking in a bit wary.

What I saw was a tad bit frightening as I peeked into the room. Deidara was jumping up and down on his bed with giant headphones on and moving his lips as if re-sighting the song. Then I glanced at Sasori and he was on the computer (as usual) but he was typing feverously and his brow was knotted angrily.

"Uh guys what are you doing?" I asked coming in and clicking the door shut. They both ignored me Sasori much to engrossed with whoever he was typing with and Deidara probably just couldn't hear me. Annoyed I came up behind Deidara sneakily. With my ninja skills I hopped onto the bed and pulled the headset off him roughly.

"Hey un! What the hell are you-?" he turned around scowling for a moment then a big smile spread over his face and he jumped me! We landed on Sasori's bed him practically on top of me. I looked up at him shocked and most likely blushing like mad. The tips of his bangs feather touched my cheeks and forehead and his earthly smell of cool clay and charcoal filled me and made my mind buzz. "Jen-chan guess what un?"

"Hmm?" I murmured listening only to the pitch of his low voice and not really understanding what he was saying.

"Your father said that we could stay over," he said making me blink a few times as I registered what he had said.

"How do you know my password?" I muttered but he was already on a roll.

"Yea this is going to be wonderful, I was just listening to some of Sasori's favorite American rock bands and I was trying to copy what they were saying hmm," he said sitting up a little and by sitting up that meant in my lap be he didn't seem to realize that. "I still think I'm going to need a language jutsu from Pein-sama hmm but at lest I'll be starting to learn English."

"That's wonderful Deidara-kun," I said trying to get out from under the blond so I could sit cross-legged in front of him. "What's with Sasori?"

"Oh…" Deidara muttered being thrown from his ranting "Um he's fighting with his grandmother yeah."

"Oh?"

"Yeah his parents have a long term mission but he's grandma wants him at home," the blond sighed "but he never usually listens to his grandma hmm."

"I see…so your family is okay with this too? I don't want you getting in trouble," I told him with a brow raised.

"Nah it will be fine Jen-chan hmm. I want to come with you," he said his eye angled a bit and a small smirk on his mouth. I smiled back at him as we listened to Sasori's rock bands for the rest of the day. In the end Sasori quit fighting with his grandma and decided to come with me even with out her permission. I didn't like the thought of it but I guess it couldn't be helped.

So again I sit here before bed storing the memories of the day until I got to the part about Loren. She had never come over all day and I wondered if something was wrong with her. I thought over it for a few seconds before going on to saving important information. I then paused for the second time.

I thought over that few seconds Deidara had practically pounced on me and then wouldn't get off. I can't say I could complain about it I mean I did like him and all and I can't say he isn't like mega cute but…he's like my best friend besides Loren of course. I don't want to get hurt and I don't want him to get hurt either. If we are 'just friends' I don't want to mess it up. So I let go of those few seconds and let myself forget.

A.N: 'I forgot I forgot I forgot' that's my favoret line and is Jen-chan's side effect.