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No fluff this time around... so flotation devices are not in order.

SPECIAL NOTE!!! there is alternate begining at the 'end' of this chapter. You yourself can choose which one you prefer. (actually i already know everyone would prefer the second one, but the othere one make me feel everyone is OOC

"Kakashi…" She breathed, the grip on her kunai slipped and it fell on the floor with a clink.

"Sakura." He said drawled out again. He didn't look angry or confused as to why she was here, actually, he was completely relaxed like he always was and almost bored. How long had he known she was here? Where was Tobi? "Are we going to stand here all day and stare at each other or are you going to invite me in for tea?" He asked calmly, Sakura shifted uncomfortably in his gaze and turned around to head inside the cabin.

"Oh. Uh, sure…" She trailed off, the wheels in her brain turning as she tried coming up with a good excuse as fast as she could. She walked in and Kakashi followed in and closed the door. 'I'm doomed.' Was Sakura's only thought. Her heart was beating fast and she was completely nervous, she fidgeted nervously as she made some tea for both of them.

"So Sensei, what brings you here, vacation bu chance?" She tried to scoot this to a conversation she could control. She handed him the tea, which he set down not drinking a sip, as she sat down across from him at the table.

"Well actually, you could say that this wise old dog had a feeling his student never made it to Suna so he asked the hokage to send a message to make sure her apprentice arrived. At first Tsunade-Sama didn't agree but after awhile she changed her mind and you would never guess what, her apprentice never did show up. That's inconvenient, right Sakura?" He said his eyes narrowing at her. Sakura nodded a bit, how in the world did she think she could control this situation, again? Well there was always lying through her teeth, that seemed better then the truth, actually ten times safer.

"So why are you here, I could have just gotten side track." She replied defensively.

"Well Sakura," Her name came out a little rougher then she preferred. "We didn't know what had happen to you or what could happen, sure the thought of you getting side track came up but there was a lot of what if's and as you should know if you did get side track, maybe you should have sent a message back saying you did, it would have been the responsible thing to do." Sakura cringed on the inside; being lectured by her semi-furious sensei was something she never cared for and hated to experience.

"I see, so they sent you to track me down." Sakura asked. Kakashi nodded, but in all actuality he had requested he be the one to find her and if he had to, knock some sense into her. He could already see how scared or at least nervous she was as she fidgeted and played with things.

"So Sakura," He drawled but Sakura cut him off before he got to his next question.

"Kakashi, how long have you been here? Better yet, how did you find me?" She stared at him waiting or a response, it didn't take long either. His eye crinkled into his usual smile but Sakura could tell, this time it was fake.

"Why Sakura, isn't it obvious how I found you? Pakkun helped me find you and for how long I have been here, I arrived the moment you came out this house, which reminds me, Sakura," He opened his eye and it felt like it was piercing her, she gulped at the sudden feeling of doom. "Why are you all the way out here, and who is Tobi?" A big uh-oh went off in her head, he had heard her calling for Tobi, and how in the world was she supposed to explain this. Why Sensei, I have been staying with an S-ranked criminal but don't worry he is really sweet and loves to snuggle, yes snuggle, what evil villain likes to snuggle? See Sensei, he cant be evil if he likes snuggling. Oh yeah that explanation was definitely not going to go well with her Sensei. She shifted in her seat uncomfortably in her seat.

"Well, uh, I was on my way to Suna, but… at a village I stopped at I met someone, his name was Tobi and he was there to trade some stuff to bring back to the village here and I got to know him really well and he asked me back here to come to a local festival…." She trailed off and looked up at her Sensei; she couldn't tell if he actually believed any of this at all. "And the festival was yesterday, this has bee my 4th day and I was leaving today or tomorrow to start heading back to Konoha since my vacation was almost up." 'And because we didn't know when Deidara would show up.' She added silently.

"So, you followed a man you barely knew to a dinky town and stayed at his house when he could have been an assassin or someone who could have recognized you and was going to kidnap and or raped you and have been here for the past 4 days when you could have sent a note home saying you were ok and had changed your vacation plans?" He asked darkly, Sakura seemed not to notice because she was to busy fuming to herself.

"Err, well, actually….. Yeah." The look on his face was stony. Oh god, wrong answer, wrong answer. The feeling of immense doom was coming from him and she felt like he was a bomb ready to go off.

SLAM!

The door crashed open and a figure stood, the light from the sun making it hard for them to figure out who it was.

"TOBI!!" The figure yelled. Sakura froze, she recognized that voice anywhere. It was Deidara. He seemed to realize the people sitting before him where definitely not his partner. Sakura grabbed a weapon from her pouch on her thigh. Kakashi was already standing up ready for attack. Deidara's hand went for his clay but Kakashi seemed to already to predict this and ran at him. Deidara jumped back, clay in hand, forming one of his famous birds.

"Sakura get out of the cabin now!" Kakashi yelled behind him to a still stunned Sakura. She seemed to come to her senses and ran out. Deidara was across the field from them making what looked like a mini army of clay birds and spiders. Oh how Sakura wished she wore shorts under her dress today.

"Where is my partner? yeah." Deidara yelled across to them. Neither Kakashi nor Sakura said anything but secretly Sakura was thanking god Tobi hadn't got caught by Kakashi. There was a rustle from the trees behind Deidara and a cloak figured came down from it.

"Tobi is here Sempai."

"Where the hell were you, yeah?" Deidara yelled at him still keeping an eye on Kakashi and Sakura.

"Oh Tobi went to town to get some stuff…" He said rubbing his head. Deidara looked him over.

"Where's the stuff, yeah?" Deidara asked suspiciously, at this Tobi stop rubbing his head.

"Tobi forgot it back in the woods when Tobi sensed Deidara-Sempai was near by." Deidara rolled his eye.

"I should have guessed." He said. "Now listen closely Tobi, I'm going to take the old guy again and you're taking the pink haired one, and this time don't disappear with her, understood? yeah." Tobi saluted Deidara.

"Yes sir!" He said and took a step up to go to Sakura.

Kakashi watched there exchanged and got Sakura's attention.

"When we get out of this, you're going to explain everything, especially about this Tobi." He sounded pissed but ironically he looked completely calm. Sakura nodded mutely.

They always say paradise has to come to an end sometime, this looked like it was the end of her and Tobi's paradise. She took a shaky breath and got ready to fight.

"You're taking on Deidara and I will take on this Tobi character, last time I remember he kidnapped you away. Just disable Deidara so we can leave. Do you have anything in the cabin that is important?" He asked. Sakura shook her head.

"No, nothing." She said, even though the kimono came to mind and the bunny Tobi got her. She sighed and looked at her hands; she hated fighting without her gloves, now her hands would need to be healed after this. Tobi took a step up and Sakura looked at him. At least she didn't have to fight him; hopefully Tobi could get out of here before Kakashi gave him some real damage. She took one step back and took a deep breath preparing her self. She took off running straight for Deidara; she raised her fist and gathered her chakra. Tobi appeared in front of her but she was prepared, she jumped over him and kept running for Deidara. Deidara made his sign and his birds went off. Sakura jumped in the air, past the smoke and went to hit him but Deidara moved out of the way and her fist hit the ground smashing it into little pieces. Deidara sent his spiders towards her while keeping a good distance away from her. Sakura dodged the exploding spiders and sent chakra to her foot and tapped the ground sending the earth cracking all the way to Deidara who moved out of the way just in time. Sakura sighed frustrated. Kakashi wasn't stupid and she knew that and she knew all she had to do was get one good hit on him and he was down but it wasn't easy when he was a long distance fighter and she was a close combat, which meant at the moment he had the advantage. She had to think of something quick to get a hit on him and fast. At the side she heard chirping, Sakura momentarily froze at the sound. 'Tobi' That one second distraction was enough for Deidara to send his spiders underground and to her and up to explode. Sakura didn't move away fast enough and was caught in the explosion.

Tobi watched fascinated by the electricity and the sound emitting from Kakashi's hand.

"This seems familiar to Tobi." He said to himself. "But where has Tobi seen this?" He tried to recall but it was still such a blur in his mind. He was to distracted when the chidori hit him in the stomach and he was thrown away hitting a tree with a thud. Tobi laid on the ground for a moment catching his breath and slowly got up. Kakashi's eyes widen at this thinking he had hit him hard enough to kill him. Tobi patted the dust off his robes and looked up to see a shocked Kakashi and laughed and rubbed his head.

"Yeah Tobi can't die easily, especially to attacks like that, Tobi's body is 90 percent metal and it can't be destroyed easily." As to prove a point he knocked where his stomach was. "Tobi thinks it more like body armor then anything." He replied nonchalantly. Kakashi glared and made the chidori again pulling up his headband to reveal his sharigan eye. Tobi took a step back, another headache coming on.

"This is no time for Tobi to think about his past." He muttered to himself shaking his head.

"If you body is covered in this armor then I guess I should aim for your face." He said and ran at him with his chidori. Tobi made a move to get out of the way but Kakashi was faster and slammed his chidori into Tobi's mask, feeling it crack.

Sakura jumped into a tree after the blast her right side covered in burns but her skin was healing back normally thanks to Tsunade's cell replication jutsu she had learned. She popped her neck and stared at her opponent who seemed to be making some more clay insects. She took a peak at Kakashi and Tobi's fight and saw as Kakashi ran at Tobi again with his chidori hitting Tobi in the face. Sakura gasped and jumped out of the tree, forgetting her own fight and ran towards Tobi and her Sensei.

Kakashi watched as Tobi fell to the ground and took a step back, Tobi mask cracked and the right side slid down revealing half his face. Kakashi watched as the man known as Tobi stood up again, his hand automatically going to his face trying to cover it. Deidara seemed frozen to his spot, having never seen Tobi's face before he was quite awed by it. Sakura ran up next to her Sensei.

"Tobi…" She whispered out of breath.

"Obito?" Kakashi said almost distraught. Sakura head snapped over to her sensei, he was shaking and staring at Tobi like he had seen a ghost or someone dead and technically he was. Sakura wanted to smirk and say she had been correct with her assumption but knew this wasnt the time or place for it. Everything seemed to stop, Tobi moved and turned his right half of his face away so the others couldnt see it.

"Deidara-Sempai..." He yelled to get his partners attention and disappeared; Deidara seemed to take the hint and did also. It was quiet as Kakashi and Sakura stood silent. Sakura began healing any wounds she had received from Deidara and gave a look over at Kakashi who was completely fine. She sighed and walked into the cabin grabbing anything that was hers and leaving no trail that she had been there. When she came out Kakashi was still standing in the same spot she had left him at. She put a hand on his shoulder and he seemed to snap out of it and glared at her.

"You have a lot of explaining to do." He said his eyes narrowing.

"Let's get home first, ok?" She said slightly depressed how things had turned out.

Alternate begining here! It starts from when Deidara walks in...

SLAM

"Tobi!!" The figure at the door yelled, Sakura and Kakashi sat frozen from shock. Deidara noticed that his partner wasn't with the two 'strangers' and yelled for him again.

"TOBI!! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NOW, YEAH!!" Deidara yelled. Tobi appeared at the doorway with a bucket of water in his hand.

"Yes Sempai? Tobi asked. Deidara pointed to the two 'guests'

"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THROWING PARTIES!!?! I TOLD YOU DIDN'T I?! THAT THERE WOULD BE ANBU AND THUGS!! YEAH!" He said referring to kakshi as the anbu and Sakura as a 'thug'.

"HEY! I'm not a thug!" She said not liking being called a thug. Deidara turned and put his hands on his hip in a slightly girly way.

"You have unnatural pink hair, yeah… who the hell has pink hair unless there a thug, yeah." Sakura crossed her arms.

"It is natural and I'm not a thug!"

"Oh really prove it." He said sneering at her.

"How about I beat your ass!" She yelled

"See you're a thug." He argued. He turned back at Tobi to once again unleash his wrath on him.

"Tobi, who the hell are they. yeah." Tobi looked at them then back at his partner. Tobi threw the bucket f water behind him seeing as it wasnt important anymore.

"Isn't it obvious Deidara-sempai, that's a scarecrow." He said pointing to Kakashi. "And that's obviously a Sakura." He pointed at Sakura.

"How do you get that?" His partner drawled sarcastically.

"Ch, duh Sempai," He went over to Sakura and picked up a piece of hair. "Her hair is pink, and Sakura's are pink and if scarecrow over here lifted up his arms, uh could you lift up your arms like this." Tobi demonstrated and Kakashi reluctantly mimicked. "And if you put your clay birdies on his shoulders he could pull off looking like a real scarecrow. " He said happily, Deidara rolled his eyes.

"And what do you think we should do with them, yeah?" Tobi rubbed his chin and then scratched his head.

"Well we could plant a garden and put scarecrow-san there to keep animals from eating our food and we can put your clay birdies on his shoulders." He said with a shrug.

"And what about the girl?" Tobi looked at Sakura and got an idea.

"Tobi will keep her. We can put her in a clay pot with dirt and Tobi will feed her everyday and make sure she gets a lot of sun and then she will grow up to be a bloomed Sakura! See Sempai, Tobi gets to keep Sakura and you get to use your clay too! We all win… well maybe not scarecrow-san... but who really cares!" He said excitedly. Deidara rolled his eyes.

"Tobi you idiot, Sakura's GROW ON TREES, how many times do I have to tell you that, T-R-E-E-S! Do you get that? Yeah!" Deidara yelled. Tobi laughed, waving his hand at Deidara like to shoo something away.

"Silly Deidara-Sempai, you know Tobi can't spell." Deidara's eye twitched dangerously.

Though I DID want to put that in, I don't believe Kakashi would sit there and take the abuse like that…. But if you want you can pretend that was what happened… Tobi CAN spell, i just had to add that in!!

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