Chapter 4: 'Now That I've Killed your Friends Want a Hot Bath?'

Tenten had stopped crying. She felt cold inside so she snuggled closer to Deidara then remembering what he had done felt bile fill the back of her throat.

"We need to land…" Tenten gagged.

"Uuuh why, un?" Deidara turned to look at Tenten and saw her shade of grey go slightly green.

"LAND NOW!" Tenten screamed in his ear as she slammed her fists against his back tears once again filling her eyes.

Deidara descended and dropped Tenten to the ground where she quickly threw up and then collapsed into a ball on the ground.

"Tenten… are you going to be okay yeah." Deidara jumped of his ride and touched her shoulder softly.

Tenten seeking the only comfort she could find at the moment grabs onto him shaking from the horror raking her body. Deidara hold her until her tears dry and she slips into unconsciousness. Looking around he notices the dark clouds and realizes he blew up their camping supplies. Deidara picks up Tenten and hops back onto his clay mount.

"I'll find us a place to stay for awhile and we'll get you better, yeah."

Konoha

"So the missing-nin Deidara's alive… and he's persuaded Tenten to spy for him in Konoha… How long has this been going on? Did he have those reports of his death sent to us on purpose? In the amount of time she's possibly been a spy what could she have stolen…" Tsunade looked up at Neji "How close were you with Tenten…"

"I don't believe that's very important right now…" Neji blushed ever so slightly.

"Has she been close to the Hyuuga clan Neji?" Tsunade looked horrified.

"…Yes…" Neji ground his teeth how could he have let her so close to the clan… she used him for information on the Byakugan…

"Well Crap…" Tsunade dropped her head on her desk " Well you can go Team Gai…"

"Ma'am I'd like to stay…" Gai stepped forward

"Fine." The rest of Team Gai left the room "No, you can't be part of the mission because you're not an anbu…"

" I know but I would like Kakashi Hatake to lead it…"

"He hasn't been in anbu for years… why should I ask him to lead it?" Tsunade crossed her fingers in front of her.

"He'll deal with it the most effectively and he has already beaten Deidara in battle once…" Gai stated nervously.

"Hardly a win… he was in a coma…" Tsunade sighed

Later

"Okay so this is it…" Kakashi asset his team from behind his new anbu dog mask " I have been given command of this squad you will hold off the final attack on the target unless otherwise specified…"

"Kakashi you forget yourself…" a female anbu wearing a wolfs mask looked at him "We're anbu we follow what the kage decrees… "

Kakashi felt his confidence in himself decrease to almost nothing "I'm to out of shape for this kind of thing…"

"Then you shouldn't lead us…" a bear masked anbu stated.

Kakashi sighed, " Ignore what I just said and move out…"

The three anbu ninja disappeared out the gate quickly followed by Kakashi.

White Lily Hot spring

Tenten roles over in her warm bed and wonders about the dream she's been having… more like a nightmare near the end… Well all right a wonderful dream that became a nightmare… suddenly she hears a sliding door open and close. Someone came into her room! But she doesn't have a sliding door… her eyes snap open and she sees Deidara standing their completely naked… except for a white towel…

"Tenten! You need to check out the hot spring, yeah!" Deidara grinned his chest mouth grinned as well. Well as best as it could, while sown shut.

Tears weld up in Tenten's eyes and a dark expression came over her as she realized it had not been a nightmare but was in fact frighteningly real "…get out…"

"What, un? Are you still sick, yeah?" Deidara looked confused.

She grabbed the nearest heavy object she could find and flung it at Deidara's head. He dodged the blow skillfully and let it smash through the door.

"…I'll kill you if you don't leave right now…" Tenten gnashed her teeth together to hold back her despair.

"But I thought we could have some fun while we were hear… yeah…" Deidara frowned.

"Get out of my sight or I'll kill you!" Pure hatred spilled out of Tenten as she looked into Deidara's eyes.

"Why?" He stuck his Scope back onto his eye preparing for a fight...

Tenten slumped forward "You killed my fri-… no they where more than that… you killed my family…"

"What? How was I supposed to know they were your family, un?"

"Every person in Konoha village is as family to me!" she spit on him "how dare you!"

Deidara looked ready to explode. Anger that only a man who had truly had time around anger and death and pain leapt from him. Tenten realized whom she was talking to for the first time since she had been 'kidnapped'. Deidara reached towards her his mouthed hands chomping excitedly…

Near the explosion site

"Looks like they took to the air…" The cat-masked anbu spoke.

"Now how are we going to track them?" Kakashi sighed.

"You've been out of anbu far to long Hatake-san…" The bird-masked anbu smiled as he summoned a ninja hawk "Fine the one who did this…" the hawk took off immediately.

"How does it follow something that traveled through the air?" Kakashi wondered.

"…" The two mammal-masked anbu seemed nervous.

"Don't ask…" the bird-masked anbu lifted out his arm for the ninja hawk which was coming in for a landing. It tilted its head slightly "that way…" he pointed.

The anbu team jumped forward again and Kakashi was stuck in the rear.

White Lily Hot spring

Deidara pulled back his hands and sat on the end of her bed "I'm sorry… I-I wanted to protect you… I guess I'm still just the criminal from akatsuki… killings all I know… I should have just captured them or… I'm changing Tenten… but I'm not changed completely yet… I want you to forgive me… I want you to love me… but I don't want you to hurt because of me… I'll be leaving tomorrow… if you want to you can leave tonight… or just stay here until I'm gone… I'll never bother you again…" With that Deidara left her room.

Tenten fell back tears spilling down her face.