Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

"OK, us girls are leaving," Jessica said as they got ready to leave and go to school.

"Bye. Remember to be home early so you can train with Itachi...no going to clubs after school," Sasori warned his daughter.

"Hai," Jessica said in a depressed mood.

(a few hours later)

"I'm bored yeah," Deidara announced to Sakura.

"Me too," Sakura said as she sighed. The the phone rang.

"Hello? This is a friend of his. May I ask who's calling? Uh-huh. What? What happened to her? OK, I'll be right there," Deidara said into the receiver.

"What is it?" Sakura asked with concern in her voice.

"Where's Sasori-danna?" Deidara asked in a worried tone completely ignoring her question.

"Out shopping. What happened?" Sakura asked again.

"Jessica's in the hospital," Deidara answered in a nervous tone.

"What? Why?" Sakura asked getting nervous.

"A guy at her school went berserk and brought a gun to school...," That was enough explanation that Sakura didn't need any more.

"Well, take me to the hospital!" Sakura said in a nervous wreck.

"OK. OK! Be calm about this. Come on. We'll take my car. Here's my cell. Keep trying to contact Sasori-danna and tell him to go to the hospital as soon as he can," Deidara said giving her a cell phone and taking his keys out. They both went to his car and started driving while Sakura kept dialing Sasori's number. Finally, he picked up.

"Hello? Sasori-sama? This is Sakura. We have an emergency. No, Deidara's not being an idiot. It's...Jessica. No, she didn't get into another fight. She's in the...hospital. A guy brought a gun to school...hello? Hello? Still there?" Sakura said into the receiver.

"Well?" Deidara asked as they turned into the parking lot at the hospital.

"He hung up. I guess he's coming here as fast as he can," Sakura said still in a nervous wreck. Deidara put a hand on her fidgeting ones as he turned into a parking spot and parked. She looked up at him and he warmly smiled at her. She returned the smile. They got out of the car and went to the front desk to ask where her room was.

"OK, Sakura, you call the Leader and get the rest of the guys here and I'll go ask where her room is. I'll be right back," Deidara said as he left to go to the front desk.

With Sakura

"Pick up. Pick up. Hello? Dad! Um.. can you get the rest of the guys to the hospital fast? No, I'm OK. Jessica's in here somewhere. Uh-huh. Oh here comes Sasori! OK. Thanks. Bye bye. See you in a few minutes." Sakura said into the receiver.

"Where's Jessica?" Sasori asked loosing his calm collect self for the first time she has seen.

"Deidara's gone to find out. He'll be back in a few mintues. Calm down," Sakura felt really weird telling him to calm down.

With Deidara

"Hello, ma'am! I was wondering what room Jessica Akasuna is in?" Deidara asked calmly.

"Are you a family member?" The nurse asked him.

"No, I'm a real close friend of her father's. He should be here soon," Deidara said truthfully.

"(sigh) She's in surgery right now. We couldn't wait for a parent to approve it because she would've died without it," The nurse told him with sympathy.

"Do you know what kind of surgery she's having?" Deidara asked hoping he could get more information for the guys and Sakura.

"Sorry, I don't. Once the doctor comes out he'll tell you everything you need to know about her health status," the nurse explained.

"OK, thanks," Deidara said as he walked back over to Sakura to see Sasori there talking with her and he looked like he was a mess.

"Deidara! Well where is she?" Sakura asked looking up at him with fear in her eyes. He thought it might be from loosing a friend.

"She's in surgery. Sasori-danna, calm down, yeah," Deidara said as he looked at his partner thinking he must be hurt knowing his daughter even though they fight a lot could die.

"Look! There's the doctor!" Sakura said going up to the doctor. Deidara and Sasori waited for her to come back.

"Well? What'd he say?" Sasori asked frantically as Sakura returned.

"She's out of surgery. She's unconscious now but will be fine as long as she takes it easy for a while," Sakura said trying to calm them down.

"What kind of surgery did she have?" Sasori asked again and she looked at him debating whether or not to tell him.

"Neuro. The bullet pierced through the right side of her head. Right now no one thinks there's going to be any permanent damage but we have to wait until she wakes up. We're lucky her friends saw that happen and called 911 as soon as it did other wise she'd be dead right now and the guy would probably still be shooting people but he's in juve right now so no worries," Sakura explained seeing Sasori's eyes widen when she told him where the bullet pierced.

"Can we see her?" Sasori asked trying to keep calm.

"Only you since you're her only family. You can stay with her until she wakes up," The doctor said coming up to the group.

Sasori followed the doctor to Jessica's room and saw her laying there with a machine next to her beeping in a steady beat telling that she was alive. (AN: I can't remember what that's called) Jessica's eyes were closed and she was just laying there with bandages around her head calmly. She didn't look at all like she was in pain. To Sasori she looked like she was at peace with herself at the moment. Once the doctor left Sasori grabbed a chair and put it next to her hospital bed and sat there looking at her and never once taking his eyes off of her afraid she'd disappear if he looked away. He grabbed her hand and started to rub it trying to make her wake up as if just being touched could wake her.

(in Jessica's dream)

Jessica was walking around looking at everything. The art work on the walls looked so pretty. She remembers seeing stuff like that somewhere. She just can't remember where. The hallway was that of a medievil structure. Then she saw at the very end of the hallway a light. It was like nothing she has ever seen. She started to run towards the light. It seemed as if it was getting farther and farther away. Then she heard something. It sounded like her father. He was frantically yelling things at her. After that she started to here this very fast beeping noise. Then she finally heard her father's words. He said:

"Jessica! Jessica! Don't give up! Fight death!"

She knew now what he was talking about. She kept trying to wake herself up but to no avail. The light was now getting closer to her. She started running the other way as fast as she could. She looked back afraid and saw it was gaining on her.

She yelled,"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" After she said that she saw someone she thought she'd never see again.

"Hello, honey," The figure said.

"Mom, am I?" Jessica said not being able to finish her sentence.

"No, but you will die in a few minutes," Her mom said to her making her eyes widen in fear.

"Mom...I don't want to...die," Jessica said as tears began to build up in her eyes.

"Why?" Her mom said softly.

"I...I don't want to leave dad alone. We may fight...a lot but I just can't do it. I'd hate it. I also have a lot of people who I care for and care for me down there. Like my dad, his friends, my friends, and a new friend I just made. I don't want to die yet. I'm only 14!" Jessica said as her tears started spilling,"I'm sorry, mom. I do miss you but I'm just not ready."

"Hmm... That's all I needed to hear... now Wake up!" Her mom said smiling but then she started hearing another voice telling her to wake up and it was constant. Then everything around her went black and she tried to wake up once more and-

"Wh- Dad?" Jessica said as she woke up and saw her dad and realized he was nervously trying to wake her up before she actually woke up. He smiled at her and calmed down and the doctor that was trying everything he could left since he wasn't needed anymore. Then shortly after the whole Akatsuki came in a saw that Jessica was awake. They all heaved a sigh of relief and that made Jessica giggle a little at how nervous about ten S-class criminals could get when one teenager gets shot in the head.

"Thank God you lived. It's a miracle," Sasori said to her as he hugged her really tightly.

"Oh my God!" Sakura yelled as she came into the room. "Guess what! We have more exciting news. Well I do anyways."

"What, yeah?" Deidara asked wondering what could make her so happy.

'Naruto and Shikamaru are still alive!!!!! I just saw them! They said that they heard around the hospital that I was here!"

"Troublesome...," Shikamaru said as he and Naruto entered the room.

"How'd you two live?" Jessica asked remembering what Sakura told her about how they were killed.

"That's easy. We made a plan with Sasuke that we'd help him get Mongekyo if he'd let Sakura go. So we faked our own deaths but then before he killed us he hurt Sakura-chan more. We still kept to our deal though but found out later that he used his Mongekyo on Ino." Naruto explained.

"Wow," was all Jessica could say.

"Oh yeah! How are you, Jesse-chan? I was worried so was everyone else," Sakura said looking at her.

"Good. A little headache but I'm OK. I have a whole new look on life, now since my near death experience," Jessica explained smiling which made all the guys look at her crazy since she never smiles no matter once except that one time she first met Sakura.

"Jessica, are you alright?" Her father asked worried.

"I'm fine. Never been better!" Jessica said hugging Sasori so tightly because she didn't want to loose him. He just started to rub her back and calm her down. Then he heard soft sobbing noises and realized she was crying so he started th sh her and told her to go to sleep which she happily said yes to since she was feeling kind of tired since the surgery. She fell asleep with her dad watching her and playing with her hair smiling a little at her glad that she was alright. The others left while Sakura talked with Shikamaru and Naruto.

"Mr. Akasuna, your daughter can go home anytime. She's perfectly fine now but needs to be careful. It will take a few weeks until she's back to normal from the surgery," The doctor explained to Sasori who nodded a response. Sasori gently shook Jessica's shoulder's and she woke up in a minute or so.

"Dad?" Jessica asked rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

"Sweetheart, you can go home now. Ready?" Sasori asked kindly.

"Yeah... I'm still a little tired though," Jessica said yawning a little.

"OK, you can sleep once we get there, Jessica," Sasori said gently caressing her cheek.

"Thanks, dad," Jessica said smiling.

"For what?" He asked confused.

"For being here when I woke up both times," Jessica said as he smiled at her.

"Sure, here's your clothes. I'll let you change and I'm going to go sign you out. Be careful of the bandages on your head and come out once your done," Sasori said as he left the room.

"I'm done, dad. Can we go home?" Jessica said anxiously. Sasori only laughed at her eagerness. "Glad to see I'm entertaining you," Jessica said sarcastically.

"Sure we can go. I sent everyone else back to the base in the car they came in. The Naruto kid and Shikamaru went with Sakura and Deidara, too. Come on. I have to remember where I parked," Sasori said. (AN: Don't you hate when your parents don't remember where they parked?)

"It took you thirty minutes to find the car! Thirty!" Jessica yelled as they got out of the parking lot.

"I said I was sorry! I was in a rush to get into the hospital when I heard you were in there so I kind of didn't pay attention to where I parked," Sasori explained trying to rid himself of his headache.

"It's fine. Can I go to sleep now and you take me to my room when we get there because I'm really tired?" Jessica asked leaning her head against the window.

"Sure, just sleep," Sasori said as he made a side glance at her and could tell she was already fast asleep.

The ride home was long and quiet. Jessica was quietly sleeping and Sasori would occasionally look over to her and think how lucky he was to have her. (AN: Sweet) Once he arrived back he got out of the care and went to the passengers seat and opened the door slightly as to not wake her up since her head was on the window and he picked her up and carried her inside.

"Sasori-danna!!!!" Deidara yelled loudly causing Jessica to turn a little bit in Sasori's arms.

"Shhhhhhhhh... Deidara! She's asleep! Keep it down!" Sasori whispered as loud as he could without waking her.

Sasori walked back to her room and put her under her covers. He tucked her in and sat there a few minutes just looking at her. He wished she didn't get shot or that he could've taken the bullet for her because he knew it probably hurt before she passed out and she did say she had a headache when she woke up. It's really hard for a father to know his daughter got hurt and he could do nothing to stop it from happening. At those thoughts he left her room and went to the living room where everyone else was. There was nothing else he could do now. What was done was done. He's just glad she didn't die that one time when the machine was beeping very fast. He was more scared than ever since he thought he might loose her.

Well? I think this was my best chapter yet! Hope you all agree to. That's somewhat of what I think a person who almost died would have seen and heard while they were under anesthetics. I'm updating ASAP!!!!