Hey guys! It's KRISH-un! Ugh, I'm so tired. I just spent all of today in NYC at this writing seminar. It was amazingly fun. Alucard's Vampiress and I were in this lyrics class and the songwriter (He wrote Absolutely (Story of a ) by Nine Days) had the whole class writing lyrics, and he used ours at the end! It was amazing! He took the lyrics from us, so I can't share them, but they weren't that good anyways, so whatever.

Damn, I'm really tired, and I haven't had a chance to look at my reviews, so thank you to all who reviewed last chapter, and all the chapters before that.

Chikazi was enjoying her sleep dreaming of… things with Sasuke. She smiled in her sleep, almost rolling off her branch.

Sasuke slept below her, to the world, dreaming of the day he would beat his brother. He twitched in his sleep and fell over sideways, his face now in the dust.

(With Akai. Remember, she ran away from Deidara.)

Akai just kept running, knowing that with each step she was getting farther and farther away from the Akatsuki base. 'Good.' She thought bitterly, 'The farther away I am from that pervert, the better.' She ran on, mentally cursing herself for ever liking Deidara. 'How stupid am I?!' She scolded herself, 'Even Cassie's obsession with Sasuke must be better than that!' She slowed, sensing she was now pretty far from the base. And also due to the fact that she was tired.

She stumbled around on the ground, before deciding to get into the trees. She carefully changed from branch to branch, trying not to fall.

She had gotten pretty far when she stumbled upon something she had never thought she would see, or, rather, she saw someone.

She bent down, shaking the black-haired , "Miss, please wake up."

The rolled over, mumbling something about turkey.

Akai gasped, "Oh my god…" She shook the again, "Cassie? Is that you?"

The rolled again, this time off of the branch.

Akai gasped, grabbing the under her arms, "Please, wake up!" She begged, placing the down on the branch. She sighed, leaning against the trunk, closing her eyes.

When Chikazi opened her eyes, she saw a with long silver hair leaning against her tree, with her eyes closed, "Good morning…?" She muttered.

Akai's eyes popped open, she knew that voice, "Cassie?!" She asked in wonderment.

Chikazi's eyes widened, "Ohmaigawd, Caya?!"

Akai grinned, embracing her friend, "Oh, god, Cassie, You'll never know what happened!"

At that same moment, Chikazi started, "Oh, my, god, Caya, You'll never guess what happened!"

They both laughed, "Caya you go first," Chikazi said.

Akai took a deep breath, "Alright, but first of all, I'm known as Akai here."

Chikazi grinned, "Same with me, I go by Chikazi."

Aka took another breath, "Do you want me to continue? If so, then shut up." When Chikazi nodded, she continued, "I was woken up by TOBI, of all people! He was so sweet; he even called me Lady-sama! He brought me to Deidara, and then to this lake, which is how I discovered that I look like Akai." She took a deep breath, "They brought me back to the base, and Sir Leader inspected me. He said that we were brought here by an experiment of Orochimaru's!"

Chikazi's eyes widened, "Wow, really?"

Akai laughed, "Yeah!!"

While the two talked, they were unaware that they were being listened to. Sasuke had woken up when Akai had first arrived, and had heard every word. He smirked; this friend of Chikazi's could be a huge help. It sounded like she knew where the base was.

Akai sighed, "But, of course, not everything is perfect. Deidara got into this fight with Kisame. You remember who he is, the fish guy?" Chikazi nodded, so Akai continued, "Well, when I was bandaging him, Deidara called me stupid, and insulted my , so I overplayed it. I ran away, 'crying', and I've been running all day."

Chikazi whistled under her breath, "Wow, just so he'll chase after you?"

Akai grinned, "Of course. It worked at home, why wouldn't it work here?" She paused, "So, what's your story?"

As Chikazi related her story, all of which Sasuke had heard before, Sasuke was getting very excited. If what this said was true, then the Akatsuki member Deidara would come running after her. And if he kept said here, then Deidara would come here. A sly grin creeped onto his face, oh this was going to be so much fun.

Suddenly, they were fighting, "What do you mean you want to go home?!" Chikazi asked, shocked.

"Because," The other , Akai was it?, said. "I don't want to be here anymore. I'm tired of this game. I just want to go home."

"Well," Chikazi added, "I don't. I happen to like it here more than at home, and the only way you would ever get me back is if Sasuke died."

Akai sighed, frustrated, "Why?! He's a selfish, arrogant OROCHIMARU-IN-TRAINING! What in the world do you see in him?"

Chikazi smiled, "Frankly, my dear, that's for me to know and you to find out." Her smile turned into a huge grin.

Akai sighed, " Fine then, I'll find a way to get home by myself!!" She jumped off and raced away through the trees.

"CAYA!" Chikazi yelled after her, "Oh!" She whispered, settling back down onto the branch.

Sasuke heard her talking to herself, "Well, whatever, if that's what she wants, let her find it herself." It sounded like she was crying, but he wasn't sure.

Akai tore away through the trees, with tears pouring down her face. First, Deidara had turned out worse than he seemed, and now Cassie had turned against her! Things could not get any worse.

She didn't know it, but she was heading back towards the Akatsuki base. When her body gave out, and she fell asleep, exhausted, she was only 4 miles away from the mountain the base was hidden in.

(With Sasuke, and his insane thoughts)

He was going to kill her. He was honestly going to kill her. Chikazi had gotten that mad, and had made her run away! That had been his ticket to getting closer to his brother! And she had ruined it! As he felt the hands of drowsiness grip him again, he resolved that she would be punished in the morning.

Above him, Chikazi was already asleep. But her dreams that night were no longer good ones.

Deeply asleep already, all Akai knew was that things were bad, but what she didn't know was that they could only get better from here.

I'm really tired, so just R + R, please!