AN: Wow havn't updated Academy in a while! Hmm well anyways this chapter ends the mid year and next chapter will be the beginning of the Final Exsam. I've been planning on it for a while so I hope you enjoy it.

Disclamer: I do not own any of the characters of Naruto

Chapter Thirty-four: Overly Protective Boyfriend and Needless Frustrations

You know for a long while I was so happy Deidara looked like himself again. Loren had fallen asleep on Sasori (seems she still felt for him even if he wasn't human all the way. Loren has weird fetishes what can I say?) Anyway thanks to her being asleep I could put all my attention to Deidara and his glorious blue eyes and how sunlight seemed to radiate off him. My own personal God of Sunshine!

I couldn't say for sure if I was in love with Deidara I mean really that is a bit of a stretch seeing that I'm only fifteen and all and he is my first real boyfriend and we'd been together for a week. But the feeling of maybe being in love was there and it was almost fairytale like. I leaned my head on his shoulder buried my face in his hair. I didn't even feel the bus stop I was much to preoccupied with Deidara's intoxicating earthly smell.

"Well I should have seen this coming," laughed a jolly but dangerous voice (kind of like Santa with a shot gun pointed at your head.) "Looks like everyone is hitched except me," Kisame sighed. (Kisame Clause!)

I tilted my head up to see that he sat in the seat across from me and Deidara. I smirked at him and waved while the blond leaned his head on mine. He looked tiered and perhaps he wasn't as enthusiastic as me about going back to school.

"How was your vacation Kisame-kun?" I asked and smiling when I realized I was using Japanese honorifics again. I was speaking Japanese again!

"Hmm boring other then the part when I heard on the news that some ninjas saved a bunch of people from a gang or something the only thing that told me it was you guys was the giant bird that flew over the building," he said with a sharp toothed grin.

"Better give credit where credit is due hmm," Deidara piped up and I smiled.

"Think so? Well I'm sure Itachi-san is going to be mad as hell actually," the blue skinned ninja sighed as the bus made another stop.

"Why?" I heard myself say.

"Why the hell not?" Kisame replied "He's never happy after spending a week with his family. The Uchiha are a bunch of anal blood line holders and Itachi loathes having to listen to them."

"Itachi-san doesn't like dumb people," said Sasori who'd been eavesdropping on the conversation. "But I can't say he loathes anyone. The guy goes with the flow really."

"Look who's talking Mr. Emotional yeah," Deidara jabbed.

"Don't start with me brat my girl is asleep," Sasori growled. (Well that was a bold thing for the puppet master to say.)

"Not anymore," Loren yawned and scratched her head and I heard Sasori sigh softly. "Hey Kisame-san."

"Hey," Kisame replied even though he didn't know Loren very well I don't think they had even really acquainted actually even though I knew they'd get along.

"Kisame that's my friend Loren she'd from the Wind Tower," I said to clear things up for him.

"I see," and he grinned at Loren and she smiled back and Sasori put his arm around her shoulder. His face showed little emotion since he really was unable to but his action gave him away he was being protective. He'd always been like that with Loren after Gaara had his freak out but he was never so up front about it. He really took there relationship seriously that was for sure.

Loren was wrong she could and did find someone who cared about her. That fact made me smile stupidly for no real reason.

Then Deidara felt like stone under me. I knew the only person who made him get like that was Itachi! My head sprang up from the blonde's shoulder and I saw Itachi was sitting next to Kisame.

"Itachi-sempai!" I squeaked. The raven haired God of Darkness looked over at me. I knew he was my teacher, and I knew I had no chance with him, and I knew Deidara was right there but I missed the Uchiha so much and I'd been so worried about him too!

"Hey Jen-Chan," he said using my common nickname around the Akatsuki but it was the nickname Deidara had made up and it seemed that didn't go over well with him.

"Hey don't call her that, what kind of sempai are you for being so informal hmm?" Deidara snapped but Itachi didn't seem to be in the mood.

"I'm sorry but I don't know what the hell you're talking about," Itachi growled "I'm talking with Jen-Chan as an equal I'm only teacher when I teach."

"Don't call her that hmm!" Deidara yelled getting up. Itachi glared up at him.

"Deidara," I said taking his elbow and pulling him back down into the seat. "I don't mind Itachi is my friend as well as my teacher." The blond looked at me and I gave him a 'what's your problem?' glare.

The rest of the ride was a tence silence and I almost broke into a "Wahoo!" when we finally got to the gates of the Academy. Of course I couldn't make a celebratory scream because I was currently being mad at Deidara. Men rune fun! Of course he had no idea why I was angry so when he tried starting a conversation again and I completely ignored him he and became confused.

I didn't care. So when the bus stopped and the doors opened I pushed past him and out the door. Sasori could get my luggage because I'd completely forgotten to get mine in my rush to the temple. People flooded the main street, greeting each other and getting there luggage out from the belly of the buses. I however didn't care about seeing anyone.

I headed up the slick steps of the black marble temple and down the hall the only sound being the squeak of my sneakers on the floor. I went far down the hall and up the spiral stair case. Up to the large open room with the fire pit at its center.

I wasn't really angry just kind of annoyed really. So I sat down on the black stone that made the rim of the unlit fire pit and sighed.

"What are you doing here?" I heard an authoritative voice ask. I looked up to see the ringed eyes of Pein standing only feet away from where I sat. "You should be in your dorm."

"Oh uh Pein-sama," I quickly got up and bowed my hair falling around my face crazily.

"Stand up straight girl," he ordered and I did pulling some strands of hair behind my ear. I looked up at him sheepishly. "I don't care what your problem is, you're going to go down stairs and unpack your things…Then you can come back up here and we can practice some taijutsu so you can let some frustration out."

"Really" I asked with a big smile, the corner of Pein's lip went up.

"Yeah," he said and I beamed at him before rushing to head back to my dorm. I crashed into Deidara, but brushed past him as I dumped the insides of my luggage (which he'd brought in for me) onto my bed. I quickly stuffed my new clothes in my drawer of our shared dresser. I was about to change my sneakers to put on my ninja shoes when Deidara grabbed my arm and pulled me backwards.

"What?" I snapped and he blinked at me.

"Sorry un. I was just wondering where you where going," he asked "you seem in a rash."

"Oh," I piped about to tell him what I was doing, well before I lied of course "Itachi said we could do some taijutsu outside, just to stretch the muscles a bit."

"Oh…"

"See you later," I said before kissing him quickly on the cheek and zooming out the door and down the black marble hallway. I hadn't changed into my uniform but it matter I could move well enough in a pair of jeans and a sweater. I jetted up those stairs like there was no tomorrow and I nearly bumped into Pein who had been waiting for me at the top of the stairs. I smiled sheepishly as he raised a brow at me.

"Okay let's go," he said as we both disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

The field had a thick cloud of morning fog hovering around it and the grass was slick. The air was cold and the wind took your breath away with every sharp gust. Difficult as it was it was even harder to try to hold my own against Pein. He was incredibly fast even in the clunky Akatsuki cloak.

I punched out but he blocked it with his hand and tried to knee me in the gut. I was able to twist away pulling his arm behind his back but he was able to get out of my hold. Pein turned quickly and punched me square in the cheek and my clone fell to the ground before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

I watched him from the top of the tree I was currently sitting in. He had let his hand drop to his side but he wasn't looking around for me as far as I could tell he had expected a clone. I bit my lip trying to figure out what to do. I had suppressed my charka but I wasn't really sure how well I was doing it, Itachi could usually find me easily but that was mostly because his Sharingan could see charka even if it was only a little, but I wasn't sure how well I was hiding from Pein.

Suddenly Pein turned around but I'd already bolted for a better hiding spot. He was looking at the exact branch I'd been sitting on. Such a sudden movement would mean he'd only had just found my spot or he'd known where I was the whole time and was just using mind games. And with how well I could suppress my charka being an unknown variable I couldn't be truly sure which the correct answer was.

"Shadow clone jutsu," I whispered and another of me appeared behind me. "Attack him from a different position," I ordered her and she nodded back at me before bounding off silently.

I watched as the clone attacked the orange haired man from behind. Pein quickly took her out with ease and looked back to the area I was in. He did know where I was! I jumped out of the trees, no use in hiding, and tried a kick but he'd crossed his arms in an X over his face and pushed my foot back. This made me do a back flip before landing on all fours.

Pein stood over me and I knew the fight was practically over. I was huffing for breath and I was cold and shivering. My brow hurt from where a punch had grazed me in the very beginning of the battle but other then that I'd been able to block most of Pein attacks.

"Your strong and fast but you should work on your endurance," he said as I slowly got to my feet still breathing hard. "And you need to work on charka control, you did a pretty good job hiding but the random flares gave you away quickly. And you'll need all the stealth you can manage for the Final exam."

"The Finals," I blinked "you know what it's going to be?"

"Uh huh," he replied looking slightly amused. I gave him a look saying 'Oh Tell me tell me tell me!' "It's a secret though," he said playing with the many rings in his ear.

"Humph," I sighed as I tried to wipe the mud from my jeans, it wasn't working out to well so I stopped. "Way to make me start wondering now, Pein-sama." He made a noise that sounded like a chuckle but I wasn't quite sure. "I'm glade you invited me to spar with you though; I was getting kind of sick of everyone."

"Why?" he asked as we began the long trek back to the temple. "Is somebody giving you a hard time, Hidan maybe?"

"No," I laughed "it's just people acting stupid and treating me special I guess. I don't like people thinking I need to be protected."

"I see," he said "well boys will be boys, and the Akatsuki is made up of mostly males."

"Yeah I know," I said with a small smile. It was nice to know that there was someone I could talk to about my unnecessary frustrations. Loren often said I would freak out about little things. "I guess little things get to me sometimes."

"Well sometimes the little things are the most important…but to be a shinobi you must learn to control your emotions better," he said and I nodded. Pein was a smart man but he didn't really understand what was my problem, at lest he tried though.