---// K.A.D - Boarding School - Deidara Love Story Chapter 13 \\---

Deidara's POV (In First Person)

It was exactly three minutes since I had made the phone call to Zabuza and we – Monkey One, Tenten, Juugo, Shikamaru, and I – were waiting for Zabuza to arrive. A fancy black car came speeding up to the front of the school. The car stopped and seven people, six men and a girl, jumped out of it the moment it stopped.

"Where did you last see Suki?" a large man thundered the moment he got out of the car.

Everyone one started talking at once.

"We went to the spring carnival –"

"There was this Haunted House –"

"Suki-chan went ahead of us when –"

"QUIET!" the girl yelled. For such a pretty thing she sure could be loud. "Deidara," she said pointing to me. "What happened?"

I launched straight in without asking any questions. "Suki called me a short while ago from the Haunted House, yeah. She was in a bed room and she found this old picture of herself on the bed, un. Then someone came up behind her and said something about "the key to my boss' wealth" or something, yeah. She started freaking out then and she yelled "kidnapper" and then the phone went dead, yeah. I came over to the Haunted House and we went to find Suki. The room that she had been in had been locked so he," – I pointed at Juugo – "rammed the door down, un. We found the picture on the bed with her cell phone. There's a message on the back, yeah." I pulled out the picture and the large man grabbed it and flipped it over.

"Well, what does it say, Zabuza?" coughed one of the men.

Zabuza read the note aloud. "'We have Akasuki. If you want her back ring the number below. Don't bother tracing it, it won't work. We'll inform you of our demands.' Damn it all. I knew I shouldn't have let her out of my sight!"

"It's okay, Aniki," the girl put in, comforting the older man who was supposedly her brother. "We didn't know. Anyways, the security here was supposed to be better than this. Here give me the picture. I'll make the call."

"Yeah, Zabuza. He's right. We should –" the man with the stick in his mouth started talking, but Monkey One interrupted him.

"Wait! You're a guy?" he accused the girl… boy.

"Yes, my name's Haku," she… he replied shortly. "Is there a problem?"

"Yes, no, but…" Naruto babbled highly confused.

"It's like how everyone thought that Deidara was a girl when they first saw him, Naruto." Tenten whispered to Naruto.

"Hey!" I snapped at her.

"It's true," she shot back.

"Shh!" Haku hissed at us. The phone was in his hand. "It's ringing. Genma, get me a piece of paper and a pencil." The man with the stick, Genma, pulled a paper and pencil out of his bag and handed them to Haku. Haku took them and placed them on the car. He held up a finger to his lips and everyone grew suddenly silent.

"Where's Tasogare Akasuki and what do you want?" Haku cut straight to the chase. He listened for a moment and wrote something down on the paper. Naruto tried to sneak closer to try and see, but the spiky black haired man held up a hand in front of him. "Mmm." Haku listened some more and wrote furiously on the paper. "I'll see what I can do and get back to you at this number." More listening and writing. "Of course. Good bye." Haku hung up the phone, wrote down another comment, and looked up at the rest of us. There was dead silence.

"Well?" Naruto blurted out, destroying the quiet. "What do they want?"

The tall man, who I presumed by now to be Zabuza, turned to Haku. "What did they say, Haku."

Haku shook his hair back from his face saying, "Well there's good news and not so good news. Which would you like first?"

There was a murmur of voices all stating their opinion, but Zabuza said, "Start with the bad."

"Alight then. The bad news is that they want a lot of money."

"How much is a lot?" asked Tenten.

"A lot, as in most of the family fortune." he replied.

"Oh, that a lot."

"What's the good news, un?" I asked worriedly. The longer we waited around here the longer Suki was in trouble.

"While I wasn't capable of tracing the call, just as they had said, I was able to tell who it was on the other end. He's such an armature. I mean, why didn't he give up the first time?" Haku seemed very calm and this bugged me. Why wouldn't this punk worry about Suki?

"So it's a repeat. Who is it Haku?" the spiky black haired man said.

"Team Aio."

The other men stared at Haku, waiting for the real answer. One of them coughed out, "Who is it really, Haku."

"I'm dead serious, Hayate. That was Kagari. I'd bet my life on it. You know I don't forget voices, Aniki."

"It's true," Zabuza replied. He picked up the paper and started reading it over, his face growing dimmer by the moment.

"Do you have any idea where they are keeping her, Haku?" asked the spiky black haired man who had blocked Naruto from.

"I have a pretty good idea, Kotetsu," Haku replied.

"Well?" asked a brunette whose hair kept falling in his face. "Where?"

Zabuza and Haku exchanged a glance before replying in unison, "The old warehouse."

"They aren't all that bright, so they'll probably repeat exactly what they did last time," Zabuza added scoffing.

"Wait, un! Suki's been kidnapped before, yeah?" I asked in astonishment.

"Her family is, as I said, quite rich, and she is the heir to their company." Haku replied to my question. The other students and I exchanged a glance. Why hadn't she told us? 'Why didn't she tell me at least?' I pondered to myself. That kind of stung that she hadn't seemed to trust me enough.

"Let's go." The sixth man said and headed towards the car. The other men followed.

"I'll come too, yeah," I said to Zabuza.

"Me too!" piped in Monkey One.

"Same," agreed Tenten; Juugo just nodded his head in consent.

"No, you won't," Zabuza said and got into the driver's seat.

"Why not, un?" I asked agitatedly.

"Because there's not enough room in the car, in the first place," Kotetsu said. "And secondly, you'd just slow us down anyways."

"But –" I started to argue, but he was right. We would just be a burden. "You'll bring her back here, right, un?" I asked Haku.

He looked at me with a look I couldn't quite place. "No. We'll be taking her home."

"But –" Haku cut me off, holding up his hand.

"We'll call you when we secure Suki, Deidara."

"Don't worry your pretty little head about it, Fireworks. We've already got your number," the brunette with his hair in his face said teasingly through the open window of the car. "Come on, Haku."

Haku opened the passenger side door and slipped inside, closing it silently when he was in. The car drove away leaving us in front of the school.