Chapter Eight

It had been three weeks since Veronica joined the Akatsuki. Three weeks since she'd been in the world of Naruto. Three weeks since she'd seen Violet... Though back at home, Violet was her only friend, she'd made new friends in the Akatsuki. Deidara became an older brother figure. Kisame was like an annoying older cousin. Sasori was more of the cooler older cousin. Tobi acted like a younger cousin, though he was older than her. Hidan and Kakazu were kinda like those uncles who see you all the time, so they tend to ignore you. Konan was the one Veronica talked to when she had girl problems, kinda like an older sister or cousin. Leader or Nagato rarely came out of his office. Then there was Itachi.

Veronica couldn't help but blush every second he was around. He acted similar to Sasori around Veronica, just kinda stood there and said nothing. Now Veronica knew there was a nice, soft, sweet Itachi somewhere in there. Deidara told her there was one in both Sasori and Itachi. Veronica was going to be the one to break Itachi's shell.

Deidara, Itachi, Sasori, and Kisame had become Veronica's teachers. They made her train at least ten hours a day. Her shedule was as following: At six in the morning she got up and went out to train. At nine she would go in and eat breakfast. At ten she would go back out an train. At noon, she'd have a break. She could eat lunch, or skip lunch and do whatever. At one o'clock, she would have to go train again. From one to six she would train, then afterwards the whole day was hers. Since she had started being an Akatsuki, she had not been on one mission. She knew her partner was Tobi, but Leader said that neither of them were ready to go out yet. That was until today. Today would be her very first mission. What pleased her ever more was that it wasn't going to be her and Tobi, it was going to be her, Tobi, Deidara, and Sasori.

Veronica had been trained extremly well. From Leader, she found out about herself. Every three hundred years, three mear human are choosen to hold the powers of godlike creatures. One of water, one of thunder, and one of shadows. Veronica was the one of water. This was lucky for her because Kisame taught her a whole lot of techniques. Even Itachi taught her a few that he had stolen from Kakashi and other ninjas with his Sharingan.

"So what's out mission Dei-niisan?" Veronica asked the blonde haired Akatsuki.

"We have to go to Suna and retrieve the One-Tailed Jinchuuriki, un." Deidara explained smiling. Veronica paused. Wasn't Gaara.. One-Tailed.. Jinchuuriki...

Akatsuki members hunt Jinchuuri's for power, remember? The One-Tailed Beast is none other than Shukaku. His host is none other than Sabaku no Gaara. That's means we're in the Shippuden series!

Kinda figured that...

Well excuse me...

Does this mean that Sasori's gonna die?

If Gaara dies, then Naruto is gonna come looking for him, and then Sakura and Chiyo will be with them, so pretty much.

We can't go on this mission then!

You kinda have to...

Well, it's different since Tobi and I are here, maybe it'll change.

Maybe.

"So we're gonna capture Gaara-sama?" Veronica asked the group. Sasori and Deidara eyed the girl. "You didn't know?" She asked smiling. "Shukaku's host is Sabaku no Gaara, Kazekage of Suna." Sasori frowned at the thought of going to Suna. "You know Sasori, I bet going back to Suna kinda bring back memories, huh?" He glarred.

"Veronica-neechan, how do you keep doing that, un?!" Deidara asked confused. Veronica only smirked.

"My secret Dei-niisan." She smirked.

"Tobi is a good boy! Tobi wants to know!" Tobi shouted in his childish voice. Veronica made an 'x' over her lips with her fingers, and Tobi frowned.

"Come on kiddies, we've got a mission to do." Sasori said sighing. He created a couple hand signs, and then he was a pupper. Veronica starred at the puppet-boy. "I can't let anyone know what I look like..." He mummbled. Veronica giggled.

"Sasori-san is mysterious!" Tobi shouted happily.

"Hey wait a minute Sasori-danna!" Deidara shouted catching on to what the man, or now puppet had said before. "You said kiddies. Were you talking about me too?" Sasori gave no reply, but just kept walking. "Sasori-danna!" Veronica and Tobi both laughed at the man.

The four Akatuski memebers, in the black cloaks, began walking through the deserts. In a couple of days they'dwake their ways into the gates on Suna.

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A/N: I know I kinda skipped three weeks, but it goes with it. I didn't wanna go through the whole training thing with Veronica, so I just went to a mission! I don't want Sasori to die, but I might make him... I'm sorry to any Gaara fans, but he's gonna die, and of course Chiyo will bring him back. Now Sasori... Die or not die? As for the battles: Sakura and Chiyo vs Sasori and ...? And Kakashi and Naruto vs Deidara and ...? I'm thinking about putting Veronica with Deidara and then Tobi with Sasori. Or both Veronica and Tobi with Deidara... What do you guys and gals think? Also, I choose for them to do this mission because one) a ceratin reviewer, not saying who, said they'd die if I didn't put Naruto in here. lol. So I'm doing this so that Naruto will come in and she'll be happy... If not, she'd probably kill me. Two) I really like the whole Naruto vs Deidara and Sakura vs Sasori fight. One of my favs.
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