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One evening:

Sasuke was wandering through the forest outside of another of Orochimaru's hideout. Sasuke soon came across a gigantic lake and was feeling quite thirsty. "I'll just take a quick drink and then head back to Orochimaru," Sasuke thought to himself. But just as he leaned over to take a drink from the water…

"Hello again, Sasuke," said Itachi, whose head had just risen from the lake. "I see you had the same idea I did, but there is something I should warn you about." Itachi held up a leech currently sucking on his arm. "There are a few troublesome pests in this particular body of water."

Before Sasuke could respond to the leech, another head rose from the water. "Hello there, Itachi" said an old woman who could only be Nekobaa.

"What are you doing here?" Itachi cried, splashing away from her.

"I've been following you since you left my shop," she replied.

While Itachi was distracted, Sasuke quietly backed away into the forest. Just as Sasuke left the clearing, another head popped up.

"Aaaahhhhhh, Tobi sure does like water," said the masked face named Tobi.

"WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOING OVER HERE, TOBI!" yelled a very angry sounding Deidara as he crashed through the trees.

"Tobi was just relaxing in the water," Tobi replied.

"Well we need to get going…" Deidara trailed off as he looked behind Tobi. "Aha! Found you, Itachi!" Deidara pulled out a kunai.

But just before Deidara threw his kunai, a net sprung from underneath the lake, pulling Itachi, Nekobaa, and Tobi up into the air.

"Cha! We did it, Naruto! We did it!" Sakura cried as she ran into the clearing. "Wait a minute that's not Sasuke-ku." She looked around, but the clearing surrounding the lake was empty except for two logs. "But then who did we catch?" She wondered.

"TOBI IS FEELING CLAUSTROPHOBIC!" Tobi cried as he struggled to get out of the net.

As Sakura looked around to the other side of the net, she saw only an old woman. "I thought we had captured three people," She muttered in confusion. To her right she heard a rustle in the bushes and suddenly the orange masked man was gone. "How does this keep happening?" Sakura wondered.

"Did we capture Sasuke, Sakura?" asked Naruto as he wondered into the clearing.

"No, just this old woman…" Sakura replied as she turned around and saw the entire net had disappeared. "*Sigh* Never mind. Our plan failed just like last time. And the time before. And the time before that. In fact, every single attempt to bring Sasuke back to Konoha have failed."

"Now that I think about it….. I believe that's true," Naruto replied sadly.

"Maybe we should just give up." Said Sakura.

"No, I don't believe we can't just give up like that. I believe we need to keep trying no matter what Sasuke or anyone else says!" Naruto shouted as he ran into the forest.

"Whatever, Naruto," Sakura mumbled as she scuffled after him.

"That was a close one," Itachi thought as he jumped from tree to tree through the forest. Suddenly Deidara sprung up next to Itachi. "I found you again and this time your going down," he cried with hint of madness in his voice. Itachi turned, triggered his Sharingan, and Deidara was engulfed in the black flames of Amaterasu. "Finally, that guy was really starting to get on my nerves." Itachi thought to himself.

Earlier:

"I'm going to go ahead and finish off Itachi once and for all!" Deidara told Tobi. "And you are going to stay here and not help me at all. You got that?"

"Got It!" Tobi replied cheerfully.

Tobi watched as Deidara caught up to Itachi. Then he watched as Deidara fell to the ground covered in black flames.

Tobi quickly leaped over to Deidara and knelt down next to him.

"Are you okay, Deidara-sempai?" Tobi asked.

"No, I don't think I'm going to make it, Tobi," Deidara replied weakly. "You'll have to continue on without me."

"I'll miss you, sempai," Tobi sniffed.

"I'll miss you, too," Deidara whispered. He held out his hand. "Here's something to remember me by." In his hand was his trademark explosive spider.

"I'll treasure it always," Tobi said quietly.

Slowly Deidara slumped. Then, the flames stopped burning and Deidara was gone.

Sorry about the sad ending but keep reviewing. The plot bunnies do enjoy their food.