After Deidara-sama's death I swore off Naruto, which is why it took so long for me to update. So any changes in character after Deidara-sama died, I don't know about since I'm refusing to read the manga/watch the anime.

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"It's dinner time Misaki-san!"

The girl jumped at the sudden loud noise, causing her to fall off of the bed she had been laying on. She rubbed her back that she had managed to scrape on something on her way down, "Arigato Tobi-sama," she muttered to the masked man.

He let out a muffled laugh, "I'm not a sama!" he paused for a moment and watched as the girl pulled herself to her feet. "I like you. Do you want to be my friend?"

She smiled at the boy, "Hai, Tobi-san, I'll be your friend."

Tobi let out a cheer and then ran out of the room. Misaki stood and stared at the spot he was standing for a moment before she realized that she didn't know the way to the dining room. "Tobi-san!" she yelled as she ran out of her room, "Tobi-san wait up!"

"For the daughter of a Kage you sure are formal to undeserving people," a voice from behind her said. She turned around, wide eyed, to see a large shark man leaning against a wall behind her.

"Hoshigaki-sama… How'd you know… I didn't tell anyone here."

"You really think I wouldn't know that the Kage from my village was dead? And I hear about it right after we get sent on a mission to go find a girl who's village had put a very high price on her head. I may not be a genius, but even Tobi could figure that one out.

"I… don't know what you're talking about Hoshigaki-sama."

He studied her for a moment, "Well then you won't care that Mizukage's son has taken over office."

A small smile broke over her face, "Means absolutely nothing to me."

"I'd offer to give you a tour, but since you agreed to be Tobi's friend, I'm sure he'll want the honors." He smirked, "but I'd be glad to show you where Tobi is."

Her smile got a bit bigger, "Arigato Kisame-sama." He nodded and began walking down the hallway that she assumed led to the dining room. Sure enough after a bit of a walk he led her into a room with a large table with different plates of food (all of which looked to be burnt to some degree).

"Misaki-chan! There you are! Why didn't you follow Tobi?"

"You took off running… I didn't see which way you went…" she answered, sounding apologetic. "Kisame-sama had to give me directions."

"Oh," the masked man said. "Well then Tobi shall give you a tour of the entire hideout later!"

"You can't do that, un!" said a blonde man who Misaki hadn't noticed. "She's not a member; you can't go showing her where everything is!"

"But Deidara-senpai, she's Tobi's friend. Tobi has to be a good boy and show her everything."

Deidara was about to argue back, but Kisame cut him off, "Let him. If she doesn't make it, Leader-sama will just kill her."

"Kill me?!" Misaki exclaimed, her voice higher than it usually was. "But I didn't even want to join here in the first place! And now if I don't join I'm going to get killed?!"

"It's the Akatsuki," Deidara said, his voice hard and bitter. "What do you expect? You don't always get a choice if you join."

"We have all the members we need," Kisame said. "Which means you won't be a full member anyway, so there's nothing to really worry about. Leader-sama most likely plans on having you do something for the organization instead of actually being one of us."

"Maybe she can be Tobi's subordinate!" said Tobi happily, completely oblivious to the tension in the air. "That would be so great, Tobi would have gone from working for Zetsu-san to having someone work for him!"

Deidara threw a pair of chopsticks at the back of his head. "Sorry Deidara-senpai, I almost forgot to introduce you, no wonder you're so angry!" This time he threw a cup at his head, but Tobi had walked over to his newest friend in time that it missed and instead bounced off the wall. "Misaki-chan, this is Deidara-senpai, he's an artist, but his art is kind of scary," Deidara gave him a death glare, "And Deidara-senpai, this is Misaki-chan, she's Tobi's friend!"

"It's nice to meet you Deidara-sama," Misaki said, bowing politely. Deidara nodded at her before grabbing another pair of chopsticks to finish eating. "Deidara-sama… is your hand ok? You're holding it strangely."

"Misaki-chan, come see Tobi's room!" said Tobi suddenly, dragging the girl away. "It's ok to come with me, Tobi's a good boy!"

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Two days later

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"Is she here?" Leader's rainbow-y hologram asked.

"Hai," Itachi answered. "She managed to keep up."

The hologram nodded, "Somebody bring her in here then."

"Tobi will do it!" the hyperactive man said before running out of the meeting room to fetch his new friend, excited to not only introduce her to Leader-sama, but to be out of the room for the first time in over an hour. He just wasn't good at staying still for that long.

"Misaki-chan, this is Leader-sama! He wants to talk to you," said Tobi as he walked back into the room, his dark haired friend following behind him nervously.

"Our members have been dieing lately," Leader said calmly. "And I believe that if we had a medic at the base they might live a bit longer." Misaki nodded, too afraid to speak. "My sources have told me that you have recently left your village where you were training to be a medic. Is this true?"

"Hai," she said, amazed at that she managed to say something in a normal tone.

"Then you shall have a trial period here, if we find that you are suitable than you will be allowed to stay."

"And if I'm not I'll be killed," she muttered to herself.