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Zetsu-good

Zetsu-bad

10&1/2 months later

It was the middle of November and it was beginning to snow in konoha. I wasn't used to the snow it never snowed back in "that place". I had unconsciously began calling my old home "that place" ever since me and mina became ninjas I guess it was easier to not miss it if I didn't refer to it as home. Pulling the biege snow cloak closer to my body I made my way towards mina's and my shared apartment. After accepting Tsunade's (who I now knew was the Hokage) offer she paid for the first month's rent but after we worked from then on to pay it. Like odd jobs plus we got a small payment being ninja's in training.

Being a kunoichi was a lot harder than then I originally thought it would be and Iruka-sensei not only proved it but made sure I would never forget it too. The man was a nightmare. I remember when I got him for a teacher. Tsunade had explained to us that they had an academy that children learned the basics at but seeing how we were teenagers she thought we would be more comfortable learning one on one with a teacher than in a room full of small children. She had assigned Iruka to me and another ninja to Mina. We were supposed to be trained separately and according to lady Tsunade (as I had to call her out loud) said "we were coming along fine" and "with some more training we could be genins by the end of year."

But the thing is, training really sucked! Iruka-sensei worked my butt off! I was never good at P.E. I'd rather be studying or put up with my mother's lady lessons or something. And then there was all the the things I needed to remember, hand signs, jutsus, and the list goes on. I never thought anything could be harder than balancing school, family and friends but I guess I was wrong. If someone told me I would end up being a ninja I would have called them crazy and laugh my butt off.*sigh* I better get home it's freezing out here.

Akatsuki Lair

Eight figures stood in silence. Simply waiting for their last member to make their appearance so they could begin their meeting.

"He's late. You know how I hate waiting."

"Calm yourself Sasori, Zetsu will be here."

"Oh Leader-sama, why the fuck can't we just forget about him and just get this damn thing over with?!"

"Hidan." It was a warning, though he never raised his voice.

A shadowy figure appeared out of the darkness. Though he may have been a man his outline looked more like a plant.

"Leader-sama."

"Your late..."

"There were some unforeseen circumstances that I could not avoid."

"We got spotted and they friggin tried to kill us."

"Quiet you."

"I see, did you find anything worth mentioning?"

"Yes and no."

"They kept talking about some girls and some plan they had for them."

"You were listening in on plans for a date?"

"Quiet Kisame."

"Hardly you fool."

"So who were you spying on, un?"

"Leader wanted us to dig some dirt up on a possible danger that would interfere with our plans."

"To the point Zetsu."

"They revealed no names nor specified any plans. Simply a description of two females and their current whereabouts, I managed to get their photos before escaping."

"Anything else?"

"No." "No."

"Hmm, Deidara, Sasori you have a new mission. Zetsu will give you the details."

And with that Nine figures faded to nothingness from the dark cavern.

Kairi pov.

*yawn*Why was I here again? Oh, yeeeeah. Cause that playboy bunny called hokage is twenty five percent sake, twenty five percent gambling addiction and fifty percent evil. It all started when I had gotten back to my apartment a few days ago, which I might add was nice and warm, only to have Mina drag me back into the freezing cold so she could go complain to Tsunade about how she wanted to go on a mission and that she wanted to test what she's learned so far. So after a lot of arguing, begging (Mina) and crying (again Mina) she gave us, yes us, a mission. It was simple enough, pick up some packages she ordered and bring them back to the village. But the packages were in Otafuku City, a few towns over and we might have to stay overnight somewhere or camp out. Then she added that we weren't official genins and normally we wouldn't be allowed outside the village but then we were a special case, so with that said she gave us these head band things that had a metal plate attached to the cloth with a leaf design on it and stated practice made perfect, and to prove to her we were worthy of the forehead protectors she gave us. Honestly, I just think Mina was annoying her so she was willing to get her out of her office by any means necessary. So here we were looking for the person with the next package on her list.

The ones we picked up so far were not in shops oh no, then it would be too easy, not only was it cold which was bad enough, we also had to find specific people in order to pick up her purchases. And trust me it was not easy and if that wasn't enough the people with them were pretty shady looking. Like one dude made us pick the package up from the side alley of where we were supposed to meet him. And they were really heavy and some oddly shaped. I wanted to look inside one of them badly but who knows what that women would do to me if she found out I opened one without permission. I was also kinda scared about what I might find inside. "We should find a wagon or something to put these in."

"And where do they sell wagons Mina?"

"Uhhh, in a market?" she guessed.

The wagons they had in the market were really big but we only needed a small one. So we found a farmer selling his old wheel barrow for some extra money. Five more stops later we had almost all the packages loaded in to the wheelbarrow, a total of twelve just one more to go. I leaned on the side of the building Mina had gone in to get the final one. I touched the head band tsunade gave me that I wore on my forehead. It was strange, I never wore anything on my head before not even a hat. Now that I thought about it, I've never worn clothes like what I had on before either. A beige snow cloak, with a dark blue dress/vest type thing and black spandex shorts with black ninja boots and standard ninja gear. I wasn't as cold as I thought I would be wearing this outfit. Mina wore her headband around her neck. She also wore a darker beige snow cloak with a short green tank top with a long sleeved fishnet shirt underneath and dark blue cargo pants with dark blue ninja sandals plus her gear.

"We're done!" I snapped out of my thoughts with Mina's shout of happiness.

"This is the last one right?"

"Yuh huh."

"Then let's get back to the inn the sooner we fall asleep the sooner we get back to the village tomorrow."

Deidara & Sasori pov.

"This Mission is some Bull Shit! I'm an S-rank criminal un!" They were currently on top of one deidara's flying clay birds when he decided to start complaining again. "I should be blowing thing's up NOT looking for two little girls leader-sama wants to kidnap!"

"Will you be quiet."

"But Sasori no danna-"

"Shut your mouth Deidara before I shut it for you." He was silent for a few minutes before he started to whine again. *sigh*' I can't throw him off if I want to keep myself alive and whole.'

"Sasori no danna, we've looked all over fire country for these girls, maybe Zetsu heard wrong." He pulled two photographs out of his cloak and held them up for Sasori to see, "We haven't seen anyone who looks like them anywhere un." The photographs were of two children both girls about eight or nine one with long blonde hair and green eyes the other with short dark reddish brown hair and aqua eyes.

"We haven't searched everywhere Deidara. The information given may have been somewhat vague but we still have a few more villages to search in." 'We were much too close to the leaf village, if they weren't careful they would have another thing to deal with. Perhaps it's best if we look in smaller towns where we wouldn't be recognized easily. '

"Sasori no danna, lets land here." Sasori grunted in agreement. Once on the ground Sasori began walking in the direction if the closest town with Deidara walking beside him. The trip to Otafuku city was silent much to Sasori's pleasure, he was annoyed enough as it is. Once reaching the city they found a tea house to sit in and listen in on people's conversations. People loved talking about children and if Leader-sama was interested in them they must have something special about them. They went from tea shops, toy stores, to parks and crowded streets in hopes of finding them. This is how they spent the next twenty four hours....

"I give up un! We've been looking the past four days and what do we have, Nothing! How hard is it two find two little girls!!!" Deidara and Sasori were currently walking on a forest road to reach yet another town.

"Enough Deidara."

"Fine un."

Meanwhile….

Darn that women to Hades, this wheelbarrow was heavy! What the heck did she freaking buy from those weirdos?! Bricks?! Cocaine Bricks?! Ehhhh, no probably not. I shook my head at the idea. I was currently pulling one side of the wheelbarrow while Mina pulled the other.

"Ahh, a lizard!" She shouted and dropped her side.

'What the' "Mina are you serious? A lizard? C'mon I thought you were a ninja now, be sides that's a twig."

"Oh, my bad." I rolled my eyes at her and continued to pull the thing forward. It was kinda hard since we were on a dirt path in the forest and it was snowing. The stupid wheel would get stuck in the mud or on top of a rock. Plus my arms were starting to get sore. Crazy old bat, can't pick up her own mail orders. Where was U.P.S. or Fed-ex when you need them.*sigh* I thought about "that place" again. Mina giggled suddenly.

"What are you laughing at?" I frowned.

"I'm just happy." She said simply.

"Soooo…"

"So nothing, what am I not allowed to be happy?" She pouted feigning mock hurt.

"Nooo, it's just here I am sore arms and all and your all like, Tee hee I'm so happy." I mimicked her voice, "and I wanna know why."

" I'm happy cause I completed my first mission, maybe she'll make me a genin since I did a good job! That's why she gave us the headbands right?"

"Errr, maybe."

"Annnd, I'm happy cause I got to have you as a team mate on my first mission too." She smiled at me. I didn't know what to say so I just smiled back. And that's about when everything got confusing…

Back to Deidara & Sasori

'Deidara was pouting. Oh how I wanted to kill him.'

"Sasori no danna can we stop? I'm getting tired un."

"No."

"But-"

"No."

"Jack ass un."

Sasori's eye twitched. " Don't cross me boy."

"Screw you, Saso-"

Deidara's insult was cut off by a high femine scream nearby. "Ahh, a lizard!" Looking at one another, Deidara raised a blonde eyebrow to his partner. "Should we go investigate?"

"What does it matter, it's just a screaming girl."

Deidara shrugged his shoulders, "I was just asking." And continued walking. He rolled his eyes at his partners back before fallowing him. Now Sasori never belived in the saying In time good things will come, why would he waste his time waiting for something that may or may not happen. Why should he wait when he had the power to decide when something came or happened himself? But maybe, just maybe waiting wasn't so bad after all.

They had been walking for a few minutes when they came across two teenagers. Female teenagers one with blonde hair and green eyes and the other with red brown hair and aqua eyes.

"Heeey, those two look exactly lik-mmph" Deidara was cut off by Sasori's hand. He pulled him up into the nearest tree with him and hid in it's leaves. "Mmm, kun juu lat goo uf mbi moat plet ru?"( Uhh, can you let go of my mouth please,un?)

Releasing his partners mouth he then pulled the photos out of his cloak pocket. "They've grown considerably."

"No really, Sasori no danna."

"The people took these pictures from must've took them a long time ago. Perhaps they've been planning to kidnap these girls for a while now."

"What should we do, un?"

"Well obviously Deidara, we are to capture them."

"Fuck you un." Ignoring him Sasori began to think of the best way to capture their targets. Acorrding to the information given they were not supposed to be kunoichis yet they were wearing headbands from the Hidden Leaf village. "A trap might work to confuse them enough to capture them Deidara." He turned his head to find his partners spot on the branch empty. Snapping his head back to the kunoichis he could clearly see deidara dangling from a branch above their heads. 'Were they so lost in their conversation they didn't notice the blonde baka above their heads?'

Deidara meanwhile was looking for an opening to grab one of them. Standing on a branch upside down wasn't very comfortable. Maybe if he threw a small bomb to distract them he could grab them from behind… reaching in to his clay pouch he accidentally dropped one of his premade clay spiders. His eyes widened as said spider landed on the blonde girls head.

Kairi pov.

"AHHH,AHHHHHH,AHHHHHHH!!!" Mina was freaking out again. Over what I had no idea. First we're all smiling then she starts screaming and running around!

"Way to kill the moment Mina! What did you eat today?!" She flung herself into the snow and started rolling in it.

"Sp-Sp-Spi-SPIDER!!!!"

"You ate a spider?!" I asked confused.

"AHHHH,NO THERE'S A SPIDER IN MY HAIR!!!" Now she was almost hysterical. I ran over to her to keep her from rolling and find the spider.

"Stop moving will you!" Sitting ontop of her I carefully avoided pulling her blonde hair while I found the spider. I pulled it out of her blonde locks to set it free except it wasn't a real spider, it looked like something I kid would play with. It was white made out of clay and about as big as a quarter. This is what She was afraid of?" I got off her and let her stand up."Wow Mina This is some spider wanna see?" She ran away from my out stretched hand.

"No!" I walked towards her holding it out for her to see but she covered her eyes. I stopped a few feet away from her.

"C'mon Mina, I've never seen a white clay spider attack innocent bystanders before."

"How pathetic un. Afraid of spiders, and you call yourself a kunoichi." I looked up into the tree we were standing under to see a blonde women? Man? I wasn't sure.

"That's mine un." He/she said.

"Who the heck are you?" Mina asked past her spider episode. She had the attention span of a squirrel...

Looking back up to the person I noticed one, they were standing on a branch upside down holding onto nothing, two, they were also wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it. Who wore clouds on their clothes besides on pajamas? Mina gasped and expected her to say something but she just kept her eyes glued to the person."My name really isn't important, un. Now be good little girls and come with me"

My heart started to pound and self-preservation instincts kicked in. "My mother taught me not to go with strangers." I replied.

"Hmph, I won't hurt you…much."The strangers smiled. The man lady pushed off from the tree and kicked Mina three feet away from where she was standing. Holy crap! I ran over to her only to be lifted off my feet and thrown backwards."Nice work Sasori no danna."

I looked up from where I landed to see a hunch back looking thing which I assumed was Sasori say,"Grab the blond while I'll get the other Deidara."

"Fine with me u-Ahhhhhhh!!!!" Mina had recovered from the kick and had thrown a kunai into the blondes which I now assumed was Deidara's shoulder while his/her back was turned.

"You bitch,you'll pay for that un!" The Deidara person pulled another spider out and threw it towards Mina while making a hand sign, "Katsu!"

The ground exploded and I covered my face in the snow from the heat of the explosion. He threw a BOMB AT MINA!!!!!! Jumping to my feet I ran to where my friend had been a few minutes before where there was now a fire and small crater. Running towards the flames the hunch back landed in front of me before I could reach them. I didn't think about what I did next, I just reacted. I aimed a kick to his face only to have him dodge it, using the momentum I gained for the kick I back flipped and ran as fast as I could to the side of him and into the forest.

As promised Akatsuki made their appearence! Oh and thank you to HurogWalker for my first review. I really apreaciate it! So until next time.

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