So I was reading the manga today and I'm scared to say that Deidara might go bye bye. I won't let him die in my story. He is valuable in the fic and I'm sad because he is my favorite Akatsuki (Tobi's second, then Hidan… then fill in the rest.). Well I hope we get to see why he joined akatsuki… and maybe his childhood and stuff… that would be nice. I like when they do that for characters…. Course normally die or get defeated…. But that's ok.. I guess… well any ways thank you for the reviews.

P.S. I decided I will try to post 4 to 5 chapters during the week but the weekends are my breaks. Thanks for understanding.

p.s.s.: about my horrible grammar that many have brought up… I want to apologize. I don't have an excuse like 'English isn't my first language.' or anything like that. I plainly suck at grammar and I started ff. net to improve my ability write. (Look at the first 3 chapters of 'Save the last Dance' you will see that I have improved on my writing) Though I know I shouldn't rely on word to much (I do) I will TRY to catch my grammatical errors. Thank you though, it helps me know what I need to improve in.

Sakura skid to halt in front of her village. She had hurried to her village fast as she could and on the way she had to think of a "good" excuse to what happened to her. She smiled and walked inside the gates. She stretched her hand over head and started her way towards the Hokage's office to report in. As she walked slowly down the street she heard a poof on her right but didn't look over for she already knew who was next to her.

"Yo." It was Kakashi's only greeting as he read his book. She sighed not really wanting to deal with him. Kakashi took a side glance at her making sure his student was fine. She looked fine enough, no injuries, but of course she was a medic-nin. Her clothes were in one piece still muddy. Her hair looked a little ruffled but it could have been from fighting and running. He sighed quietly; he had been worried when the masked akatsuki had taken Sakura. The search party would have to be called back now. Tsunade and Naruto might have gone over board trying to find her but he could understand how they felt. Though he did think sending out 30 high ranked ninjas was overkill and they were only sent out to RETRIEVE Sakura, not kill the masked Akatsuki.

"Sakura did he do anything to you?" Kakashi asked hesitantly. Kakashi made note of the soft smile that graced her lips after he asked.

"Nope, he just wanted to play around." Kakashi lifted his only visible eyebrow.

"Play around?" Sakura stopped and realized what she said could have a double meaning.

"No, err... I didn't mean that Kakashi-Sensei! I meant joke around with everyone. Said he wanted to give everyone a good scare. God Kakashi, you really are a pervert." Sakura said accusingly. Kakashi eye closed to show he was smiling. He rubbed the back of his head and laughed a little. Sakura's breathe caught in her throat. 'That's almost exactly how Tobi acts when I accuse him of something… I mean I know a lot of guys who do that but Kakashi and Tobi's posture and gestures are almost the same,' She stared at Kakashi as this thought sunk in. 'they have identical wisdom and posture…and from what I get, they both have problems being late. Is there a connection?' She shook off the thought when Kakashi hand went passed her vision, bringing her back to reality.

"Sorry Kakashi, I was thinking about how you remind me of… someone." Sakura said, trying not to give away Tobi.

"Is he as dashing as me?" Kakashi said joking to her. Sakura tilted her head and thought about it.

"Well I don't know. I haven't seen either of your faces." She smiled and leaned closer. "Unless that's an offer to let me see the rest of your face, then I can get back to you when I see his face." She said joking back. She knew secretly she would probably never see Tobi's face until he was ready, and Kakashi? Yeah right, that man was tricky when it came to seeing his face. Kakashi had taken a step back and put his hands up.

"Oh, Sakura, look at the time don't you have to get to the Tsunade's office? How about next time?" Sakura rolled her eyes at his lame way of getting out of seeing his face. She nodded and started walking again towards her office, knowing that Kakashi was trailing behind pretending to be going his own way. She smiled at his concern. But if she knew she wouldn't get herself and Tobi into trouble, she would tell everyone how sweet Tobi really was. She entered the building and ran up the stairs to Tsunade's office. Sakura got to her office and knocked politely.

"Sakura get your ass in here now!" Tsunade yelled from inside. Sakura quickly opened the door and went inside. Tsunade sat there behind her desk gulping down a bottle of sake while Shizune stood there in mid panic trying to stop their hokage from getting too drunk. Tsunade slammed the bottle on the table and glared at the girl in front of her. Sakura bowed respectively to her teacher knowing the glare was only a way to size Sakura up and check for anything externally wrong with her apprentice.

"Report everything that happened when you were kidnapped." Tsunade said sternly. Sakura stiffened.

"Hai, after I was taken away, he knocked me out and took me somewhere close to the border of sand." Ok so that was a lie it was closer north and just west of here, but Tsunade didn't need to know that. "When I awoke I was tied to a tree with a chakra restraint on, note it was only restraining and did not drain my chakra." Ok so that was an even bigger lie. She was starting to feel bad now for lying to someone who she cared about. "He said his name was Tobi and that he only wanted to play a joke on my team and took me away without the consent of his partner and he just wanted to talk to me till he felt he gave everyone enough time to freak out." Ok now it wasn't that bad now there was some truth to it. Inwardly she smiled at the thought of Tobi "He was actually very gentlemanly and let me go and he even told me how to get home….I think he would of kept me "kidnapped" for longer but he said his teammate was coming and that Deidara would try to kill me… and I gave him a good one in the cheek and ran for it." Ok so she hadn't actually hit him but the rest was true. Just shortened, condensed, and the parts where she and Tobi were actually friends was definitely took out. With that a still silence went through the room. She took a step back when he teacher stood up and crushed her hand into the desk.

"He only took you for a joke?! You mean to tell me that he was only fucking with us? Just wanted to talk to you then send you home when he was done? Oh akatsuki is evil! He has to be the worse; I expected ransom, to find you dead, or even trying to trade for Naruto, but after kidnapping you all he wanted was to have a friendly little chat and then send you home? Why don't next time you go out for some tea and cookies?!" Tsunade boomed angrily.

'We might as well.' Sakura silently thought. Tsunade sat down and tried to settle down.

"What may I ask did he talk about?"Tsunade said. Sakura stared at her for a while.

"His mask, rocks, flowers, and target-san." Sakura said dead pan and serious. Tsunade eye twitched.

"His mask?"

"Told me he doesn't like anyone to see his face." Sakura said and Tsunade nodded.

"Rocks?"

"He said he dropped me and my head hit a rock…. He kept apologizing profusely." This half telling the truth thing was so much easier then making things up. She could tell with each thing Tsunade was becoming more annoyed.

"Flowers?"

"He told me how I reminded him of flowers so he called me flower-chan." Tsunade eye twitched again.

"And target-san?" Sakura had to hold her smile down on this one.

"He told me that when he was on a mission he had nicked named the target, target-san, because he didn't know what else to call him." Tsunade seemed to be at her wits end.

"Did he give any information about the mission he was on?"

"Nope, just told me about how cool he was in defeating them and how he killed the guy… he kind of likes to boast about himself." She smiled a little 'It's actually cute when you watch him…' She finished in her head. "But he gave away no information aside from what I told you and though I did play along because I didn't know him," That's a lie too, I do know him. "I didn't give away any important information giving away Konoha and he didn't use anything against me to hurt me or gain knowledge about Konoha." She smiled to herself that was true. She had gotten herself out of trouble and in a sense Tobi as well. Tsunade stood up and turned to her window. She looked out of it for a moment.

Shizune's eyes widen.

"Tsunade-Sama..." Shizune yelled but it was to late.

Crash

Tsunade threw her chair out the window in anger and went to go throw her desk if Shizune hadn't been so bold to tackle her.

Shizune stood up and glared at Tsunade. "Tsunade-Sama, please do not throw anything outside. There are civilians that could get hurt. So please calm down." Shizune said scolding Tsunade. Tsunade stood up and dusted herself off, then turned back to Sakura and sighed.

"Sakura, for now you are dismissed. You will go to the hospital and you will go through an exam to make sure that nothing is wrong with you." Sakura was about to protest when Tsunade put her hand up and silenced her. " I know you're a capable medic-nin but I want to make sure anyway. After that you can go home and relax. Tomorrow you will come here at your normal training hours and we will have a discussion with your team. Understood?"

"Hai." Sakura said.

"Good, dismissed." Tsunade said, and then turned to Shizune. "What are you doing, go get me a new chair!" Shizune ran out to get another chair from the closet down the hall labeled 'Extra Hokage chairs and desks'.

Sakura left and Tsunade leaned against the wall near her windows.

"Do you think he did anything to her?" Tsunade asked with a worried expression on her face. Kakashi, who was sitting out side, right behind Tsunade, closed his book.

"I don't think so. She seems happier since she got back. She has been in a slump this last week. Though that man seemed odd, during their fight I didn't see him actually try and attack her. I will look into this Tobi character more though." Tsunade shook her head.

"No, I will have Jiraiya do so."

"Tsunade-Sama, I'm not one to argue with authority but she is my student and a precious person." Tsunade turned and leaned out the window to glare at him.

"Then you should know that you need to be here to protect her and your team." Kakashi sighed and ran a hand through his silver hair.

"Yes Tsunade-Sama." He got up and jumped off the roof and headed home.

Sakura walked in her house and went upstairs to go lay down on her bed. The results at the hospital said she was perfectly fine, just a small bump on her head but there was nothign serious about it at all. 'No duh.' She thought. How many times would she have to say that Tobi was NICE? Yes I know, it's crazy, an akatsuki being nice? Not humanly possible. Well I guess technically he was polite… actually a lot of the people in akatsuki were polite but Tobi seemed almost like the good guy in a sense. She sighed and looked up at her ceiling. Next week seemed so far off considering she had only seen him hours before, but still she couldn't help miss his cheekiness. It was addicting to be around. She just wished she could see his face. 'From the way he acted, it must be in bad shape if he is that self-conscious about it.' She thought to herself. She then wondered how old he was. Well, if she had to guess by his height and what she guessed what his weight was and by his voice he seemed to be about 24 or so, most likely older. She made a slight face at this thought. Maybe he was even a little younger then Kakashi. She grabbed her pillow and smothered her face with it. If he was Kakashi's age, which from reading his charts he was 30, then Tobi was way too old for her.

'What if he was even older?' Sakura thought in horror. She proceeded to throw the pillow off her and once again starred at her ceiling. But did love have an age? She heard of teacher and student relationships all the time and even civilians who married who had an age difference more then 7 years. Plus, being a ninja, no one really cared about age differences since ninjas never know when they would meet their fateful last mission. Sakura sighed again. So ok, she wasn't in love with Tobi. She had to be honest with herself about this. She still barely knew him, but she couldn't deny she had maybe just a small crush on him. That she couldn't stop thinking about him at times and that seeing him again had made her happier then she had been for the longest time. She felt at ease with him and really it was hard not to like his silly attitude… though she wasn't saying he couldn't be annoying but it was easier to ignore then Naruto's. She just had to wait one week to see him again. One long week filled with missions and hospital duty for one day of relaxation and laughter. She could survive… oh god who was she kidding, Sakura Haruno, tried to convince herself she had patience, but even she knew she didn't. This week was going to be pure hell!

Tobi laid on the ground recovering from Deidara's attack.

"Tobi didn't think Deidara-Sempai was seriously going to try and stuff birdies down Tobi's throat." Tobi said to his partner who was laying a couple feet away.

"Well I didn't think you would try and steal kyuubi's girlfriends." Deidara retorted back 'Or try to break my arm off for trying to take off your mask.' He thought bitterly. Tobi sat up and starred at his partner.

"Flower-chan is kitsune-chan's girlfriend?!!" He asked with shock evident in his voice. "Tobi didn't know that… She didn't mention that!" He turned around and stared off. Deidara eye brow rose at his weird behavior but shrugged it off.

"Come on now we have to re-report back to leader" Deidara said with disgust in his voice. Tobi got up and followed Deidara quietly. Now Deidara knew something was wrong.

"Tobi what are you pouting about?" He asked with a trace of annoyance in his voice.

"Tobi isn't pouting…. Flower-chan didn't tell Tobi she was dating someone that's all." Tobi said with sadness in his voice. Deidara's eyebrow rose again.

Tobi… are you jealous?" Deidara picked his words carefully.

"No, Tobi wouldn't get jealous just because flower-chan didn't tell Tobi she was dating that fur ball…" He crossed his arms and turned his head away from Deidara. Deidara started to laugh. Tobi looked back and Deidara knew if he didn't have a mask he would be glaring at him.

"Tobi thought flower-chan would at least tell Tobi… Tobi now wants to give his congratulations to the 'happy' couple." Deidara swore the happy part sounded just a little spiteful. Deidara shook his head.

"So you stole her because she looked cute didn't you." Deidara said teasingly.

"No, Tobi wanted to give everyone a scare." Deidara glared at Tobi.

"Well you did, the forest was packed with ninjas thanks to you." He said with a glare. "You should know better then to steal the Hokage's apprentice." Tobi stopped and started to freak out.

"Flower-chan was the Hokage's apprentice!? No wonder she hits so hard and that's why she knew medic stuff so well. Wow flower-chan is so cool." Deidara rolled his eyes.

"Tobi which side are you on?"

"Tobi's side?" Deidara turned around and smacked Tobi. "Ow!! That hurt Deidara-Sempai." Tobi whined rubbing his head. Deidara rolled his eyes.

"Let's go Tobi." With that they increased their speed to one of the Akatsuki lairs.

Woo! Good enough for you guys? I tried hard to convey Tobi's 'jealousy' and how Sakura felt about starting to like Tobi. I NEED REVIEWS!!! Everyone's reviews have turned me into a review whore!!! I'm constantly checking my email to see what everyone thinks or says.. hahahaha Im a geek