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... Seriously? Anyways, please read.

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I turned to face him. A cruel smirk danced across his lips.

"Well, well," he began, "you've grown up, un."

"Yeah, well... old man Onoki was desperate," I told him in monotone. He chuckled. "But enough small talk, I'm here to complete my mission. And you couldn't have come at a better time."

"Tch, and here I thought it was a reunion, un." He tossed aside his robe, revealing the same tools as I had.

I crouched. "Kiro, hand me the backpack," I told him. I felt the cloth in my hands, and searched through it to get the food pills. After I got the pouch out, I zipped the bag up and handed it back to Kiro. Then, I turned to Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura. "Please, take Kiro somewhere safe."

"Are you sure you don't need back up?" Kakashi asked. I nodded, though I knew that I wouldn't get much luck if I was risky. "Alright team, you are to protect Kiro."

"Right!"

"Yes sir!"

They left, leaving my brother and me alone.

"Heh, never guessed I'd be fighting my younger sister like this, un," he said truthfully. Deidara was referring to when we would spar as kids.

I reached a hand in one of the pouches and let my hand lick and bite some clay, then it formed it into a snake, my chakra infusing in it.

I threw it on the ground and it slithered towards him.

"Katsu!" We both shouted. My snake exploded, and a group of spiders near my feet exploded. We were both sent flying, but I quickly regained my poise.

My brother sent out a clay bird and hopped on it. It flew upwards, then he made another bomb. Was he going to send that out so early in the fight...?

"I'd hate to keep Master Sasori waiting, so I'll finish you quick, un!" he shouted. I made another bomb, but I infused more chakra into it, causing it to become C4. After attatching a paper bomb to it. After throwing it at Deidara's bird, I waited.

"Katsu!" The C4 detonated, the paper bomb adding to the blast. It was too late.

The bomb he had crafted was dropping. I popped a food pill in my mouth and ran for cover.

Time itself seemed to slow as if to extend these few minutes. Deidara had exclaimed 'Katsu' and the C4 went off. I didn't have time to defend myself, nor did I have time to perform any jutsu to counter. It hit my full blast.

It felt as if I was burning alive. On top of that, it felt as if weights were being thrown at me. Several thousand pound weights. Those who would get hit by this would certainatly want to die. But my will overpowered my pain, and thus I endured it.

The recoil faded, and what was left of the grassy plane was an inferno.

Third person POV

An explosion went off in the distance, instantly worrying the pinkette carrying a young boy.

"Naruto, do you think that explosion might have been from the Akatsuki?" she asked, glancing over to her blond comrade.

"I dunno," he said back, looking ahead. "All I hope is that she makes it out of there alive."

The team came to a stop to the sense of a familiar presence. Another man dressed in an Akatsuki overcoat stepped from the shadows.

"Kisame Hoshigake," Kakashi said, remembering their encounter a little over three years ago.

"Ku, ku, seems you remember me," he mused.

"Hey!" Naruto shouted. Sakura sighed, knowing he would say something stupid, even in the eyes of Akatsuki. "You're that fish guy I was looking for a few years ago, with the seven swordsman!"

I knew it... Sakura thought, looking down.

He never fails to break the fourth wall, Kakashi sighed mentally. Kisame pointed his sword at the Jinchuuriki host.

"What did you say?" he demanded. Unfazed, Naruto quickly sidestepped and brought a kunai across the swordsman's arm. "You little-"

"Kisame, we weren't sent here to quarrel with them," a calm voice interupted. Kisame stopped in his tracks.

"Right," he confirmed, remembering what he was sent here for.

Raiya's POV

"Urgh..." I groaned, using a broken tree for support.

"H-how can you still be alive, un?" Deidara demanded, standing in front of her.

"The will... to stay... alive," I said weakly. He laughed in my face.

"You're half dead! You can't possible have any chance in beating-"

"Katsu!"

The clay substitution of me exploded, while I was safely behind a fallen log and a boulder. I panted, trying to regain chakra. Now it's my turn.

I ran up a tree using chakra concentration. After that, I made my own clay bird and jumped on it, controlling it to make it fly upwards.

I got more clay and made a bomb of my own. It was the form of a fox.

After throwing it, it expanded.

"No way, un..."

"Katsu." It went off. That used up the rest of my chakra.

Losing control of my bird, it and I both plummeted into the recoil. The bird went off as well, sending me left. I shot into Deidara, both of us in a bad state.

I landed on him, but then rolled beside him. I couldn't move my arms to take another food pill, and I was bleeding everywhere. My headband was long lost, but then, as if irony had shed a tear, it landed beside me.

"Idiot..." he breathed. I could only move my arm enough to grab the last bit of dignity I had left- my headband, with Iwagakure's insigna engraved onto a metal plate. My fingers made a hand sign slowly beside my side.

"Kat... su." A small bomb separated us by four meters- sixteen feet if you can't do math.

After I had finished rolling, I saw Deidara's limp form get up. He stumbled towards me.

Move, I willed. Nothing in my body would co-operate. He got closer, and nothing would move. Come on, move!

Not one of my fingers would twitch. I was in terrible agony. My body scorched and bled, my muscles worn out. Chakra depleted.

"This is... it for you... un," Deidara said.

MOVE!

I slowly got to my knees, then to my feet. I swayed, but I could move again.

It took all my will to make my arm feed me a food pill. Not even that would work.

The rim of my vision became dark, unconsciousness about to take over.

"It's pointless... un," he told me. He was right in front of me now, and my legs gave out. As I fell forward, he caught me. My hand stayed around my headband. I felt my conscious slip away, falling into a dreamless sleep...

Pointless... I know.

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