~Chapter One~

"Why you fucking little shit!"

The white-haired young adult dodged a punch from the silver-haired and violet eyed man. He ducked under the man's arm, twisted his lithe body behind the other and swiped a foot across the man's ankle. The man simply stumbled forward, but the young adult came at hm quickly, throwing punches of his own. A few connected, he countered the man's then spun around swiftly with a round-house kick. The blonde Akatsuki, Deidara, had heard the commotion between the two and took a seat on the floor and enjoyed the show. The silver-haired man's partner, Kakuzu, sighed and crossed his arms.

"Enough already. You shouldn't let the kid rile you up so much, Hidan." Kakuzu said.

"Aw, don't be such a buzz kill, Zu-zu, un. This is the best part." Deidara grinned.

The young adult smirked, taunting the older man even more. Even threw insults about his god, Jashin. Hidan snarled out more vulgar words at the white-haired, nothing really fazed the youth, but only seemed to urge him on with more things to throw at Hidan. The young adult leaped over him and landed right at his back. The white-haired youth nailed him between the shoulder blades with the butt of his palm, hitting a pressure point perfectly. Hidan lost feeling and movement in his arms, he cursed again and went to kick the young adult.

"Hah, you missed, yeah!" Deidara laughed.

"Fucking shut up!" Hidan yelled.

Kakuzu watched the youth circle his partner, a bestial look in the young adult's eyes. Hidan, growing more and more frustrated, started to flail his useless arms about by twisting his body. He tried to get a hit in, but the youth rolled back on his heels and avoided Hidan's flailing useless arms. He put out his foot and tripped the silver-haired man.

"Oh shi-oophf!"

The young adult snickered, moving to stand over the back of the man and pressed the heel of his foot into Hidan's lower back. He hit another pressure point, causing numbness and temporarily paralyzing him like he did to Hidan's arms. The young adult spotted the black iron rod Hidan used frequently in his freaky rituals. A smirk crossed his lips and he went over to pick it up.

"What the fuck are you doing, brat? Get the fuck back here and fucking get rid of what the fucking ever you did to me!"

"Such a vulgar mouth..." the young adult grumbled, turning back to the silver-haired man.

Hidan curled his lip back, glaring at the young adult as the white-haired youth came back over. He twirled the rod in his hand for a brief moment then brought it up a split moment and swiftly slammed it down in Hidan's right shoulder.

"Argh! Fucking damn it! That fucking hurts!"

Deidara laughed even harder, falling over backwards. Kakuzu glanced down at the blonde and shook his head, turning away from the two in the middle of the room.

"I'm heading back to my room. I've had enough of their childish squabble..."

"Fi~ne, go back to your boring money counting, stingy bastard, un." Deidara sat up, grinning at the young adult. "So what exactly started this fight, yeah?"

"I did fucking nothing! NOTHING!" Hidan yelled.

The white-haired young adult sneered at the silver-haired man and shoved Hidan's head down onto the floor with his foot. "Quiet, you." he then looked over at Deidara. "He touched what was mine."

Deidara blinked, never thought the kid to be possessive before. "So that's why you're pissed, un."

"Arashi!"

Both Deidara and the young adult flinched at the harsh tone of the white-haired youth's elder uncle.

"Hahaha! Fucking busted!" Hidan laughed.

The young adult snarled and slammed down Hidan's head once more with his foot. His elder uncle grabbed him by the arm and yanked him away.

"Enough!" the young adult turned his intense gaze onto the elder man. "I want no more petty tantrums from you... Now, Pain has requested for you presence," he glanced over his shoulder towards the tip-toeing Deidara, who was trying to sneak away. "You too, Deidara."

The young adult pulled his arm away, "He-"

"I don't care what Hidan did. Go." Kagenashi said firmly. "Arashi."

The young adult growled, turning away and started for the door. "My name is Yoru." he bit out. Deidara followed a couple feet behind the young adult, Yoru.

Kagenashi watched his brother's descendent leave. Two and a half years ago you spoke your true name, now you deny it... he thought to himself. He then turned his attention to Hidan, crossing his arms. "Now, what to do with you."

"You can fucking get this fucking rod out of my shoulder for starters." Hidan said.

Kagenashi shook his head, pinching the bridge of his nose. Such vulgar... nevermind... "... what exactly did you do?" he questioned.

"Fucking nothing to the brat! Kakuzu and I just returned from a mission not that long ago. Only the way back, we ran into a few Leaf shinobi... there was one chick, it was fucking fun playing with her, but never got a fucking chance to give her to Lord Jashin." Hidan said.

Of course... the girl... "Ah, I'm beginning to see what had set him off," Kagenashi turned away from the silver-haired man and raised a hand in farewell. "The paralysis should wear off in half a day, depending what form of technique he used."

"What?! FUCKING HELL NO! Get back here you fucking geezer!"


In Pain's room, Yoru and Deidara stood in front of his desk. The blonde Akatsuki glared at the other man on the young adult's left.

Why the hell is that bastard Itachi here... un...

"I have a job for the three of you," Pain began.

"Hang on, what the hell is HE here, un?" Deidara placed a hand on the desk and jabbed a finger in Itachi's direction.

Itachi closed his eyes and ignored Deidara's attitude. Pain glared at the blonde and placed his hands in front of him on his deck. "He's the only other person who can handle any of Yoru's sudden outbursts."

Yoru glanced down at the ground. He knew Pain's words were true on that manner. Ever since he left Konohagakure to forgo training with his elder uncle, he's been having trouble controlling his bestial self. Deidara started to argue with their leader and Yoru finally had enough. He took hold of Deidara's shoulder and shook his head. The blonde Akatsuki looked away and grumbled as he crossed his arms. Itachi took the scroll concerning their job and they were dismissed.

Yoru went back to his room to pack his satchel of necessary items for the job he, Itachi and Deidara were assigned to. His hand paused over his headband and near the photograph of himself and Team Seven from a couple of years back. He picked up the photograph and looked it over, sitting down on the edge of his bed and grazed his fingertips over the cool glass. A knock came at his door and he jolted up off his bed, setting the picture frame back down on the bedside table.

"You ready to go?" Itachi asked.

"Uh, yeah... yeah, I'm ready." Yoru grabbed his satchel and clipped it onto his back from right shoulder to left hip. Then picked up and placed his cloak on his shoulders and pulled the hood over his head and pulled his mask on. The white-haired young adult closed his bedroom door behind him, following his cousin to meet up with Deidara.


Three days from the Akatsuki base, Yoru stood near the edge of a large cliff. He watched as the sun began to rise, a light breeze gently tugged at his hair and tickled the skin of his cheeks. He glanced down at the ground for a moment then back to the horizon. Itachi called him over for breakfast and the young adult turned away from the rising sun. Once he joined his cousin and their blonde partner, Deidara was just starting to wake up. Yoru crouched down beside the fire and stuck his hand into it, sifting through the burning embers.

"You're crazy to do that... un." Deidara said, brushing out his tangled hair before pulling back a part of it into a pony-tail.

Itachi eyed his draconic cousin, watching the different emotions that seemed to dance in those crimson eyes. They were full of anger, passion, fear, worry... love. Yoru plucked a white-hot ember, twirling it between his fingers and tilted his head to the side as he watched the different hues of the hot internal flames within it flicker and spark out. Standing up, the young adult crushed the hot ember in his hand and opened his hand. The crumbled remains of the ember were carried off into the light breeze and towards the horizon.

"You all right, Yoru?" Itachi asked out of concern.

Yoru took off his cloak, draping it over a uplifted root of the large tree near them. He glanced over his shoulder.

"I'm going out to hunt..." with that said, the young adult disappeared into the shadows of the forest.

Deidara turned his attention to the dancing, flickering flames of their campfire. He drew his knees a bit closer, glancing in Itachi's direction. "Does this have to do with what Hidan said three days ago... un?" the pink-haired girl from the Leaf... the one he asked me to check up on... As much as Deidara wanted to tell the white-haired youth's older cousin, he just couldn't because of the words Yoru had told him the day before Hidan and Kakuzu had returned.

"He'll be fine... all he needs right now is some time to himself." Itachi said.

Deidara returned his gaze to the fire, thinking over a lot of things. Mostly about the young adult's behavior he found a bit odd for an Akatsuki. They were rogue S-rank shinobi, ones who had cut all ties from their previous villages... but the way the young adult had acted, it was as though he was only there with them for a reason he didn't know. To get so defensive over a mere girl... it was obvious that the white-haired youth hadn't cut off ties with anyone.

"Yeah... un..."


In the forest, the youth had taken on his draconic form. Silently stalking a small herd of elk he had found. Crouched low to the ground and remained quiet in the shadows, the draconic youth waited patiently for his mark to make a wrong move. Tasting the air for any signs of other predatory creatures, the youth slinked closer towards the herd.

Carefully Yoru crawled forward, lowering his head and having his long, furred ears pressed back against his head. His pupils slitted to filter out a bit more light to clearly see his target. Choosing a much older male from the herd, slow and seeming to have a limp in its back left leg. The elk's massive antlers seemed heavy, reminding the draconic young adult of his own set of horns.

As he carefully set one paw on the ground, a twig snapped underneath it and his lips curled back in a slight snarl of his mistake. The herd lifted their heads up then they bolted off in the opposite direction of the draconic youth. He kicked off into a dead sprint, leaped over a fallen tree effortlessly and all the corded muscles in his hind legs bunched up. He lunged into the air, his forepaws brought close to his chest. The moment his target was slightly below him, he stretched out his unsheathed claws and snagged the older gimp elk.

It let out a terrifying scream and Yoru bit down on its throat, snapping its neck quickly and mercifully. His catch was barely even half of his massive size, he didn't care at the moment. snatching it up into his jaws he carried it off somewhere where he could devour his kill. The draconic young adult found a small stream in a clearing, sniffed the air for potential scavengers or other predatory creatures who would threaten to take his kill.

Moving towards a bit closer to the stream, Yoru set down his kill and laid down and pulled it close with one paw and the other to help keep it in place. Tearing at it, he gulped down hunks of the raw meat and licked the blood from his jaws. As he ate, he began to wonder when he started hunting like this and actually enjoying the raw meats of different animals he has preyed upon in the past couple years. Not giving a damn anymore, he continued to finish off his meal.

Twigs cracked and leaves rustled in the brush about a few feet ahead of him. His head snapped up quickly then he growled and stood up on all fours, his head lowered and bared his teeth. It continued to rustle for another few moments then a small little thing stumbled out. The little thing let out a small kitten-like mewl and Yoru straightened up a little, his head up and ears perked.

What in the world...

Abandoning his half eaten kill for a moment, he drew a bit closer to the little thing. It lifted its head up and its big, round child-like/kitten-like amythest eyes gleamed up at him. It was all covered in fur and had a fluffy lilac colored tail and a tuff of lilac colored mane on the top of its head. He shook his head and blinked in bewilderment. Right there before him was a small Ryuu Youkai... but he didn't know how that could be possible. Wasn't he the only one left?

It gave a out a little happy cry and reached out at him with its little paws, only to fall backwards on the ground. It let out a little kitten-like mewl again and sat up a little, turning its head up to the side and up to look at him. It opened its mouth as if to smile and let out a small cry. Yoru cocked his head to the side, staring at the small creature. He then lifted his head and scanned the forest ahead of them, wondering where its mother was.

Unexecptedly, he laid down and continued to think of the possibilities of another Ryuu Youkai, but the coloring was a bit wrong. Its fur was an ashen black color and the mane and tail were lilac colored. He was black furred and white maned/tailed. As he was deep in thought, the little baby Ryuu Yokai stumbled towards his belly and nuzzled into his fur. A minute later, Yoru let out a startled yowl and stood straight up. The baby tumbled forward below him then let out a small cry.

Yoru looked beneath him at the crying baby, letting out a heavy sigh he circled around and nuzzled the baby to get up onto its paws. If it was hungry he could feed it some of his kill, he had enough left. It took a little bit since the little thing struggled to even walk right. He was starting to wonder how old it was and how a baby could even take on a draconic form. He hunched down beside it kill and ripped off small chunks for the baby to eat, but it only stared at the pieces he handed it and look up at him and cry.

He wasn't sure what to feed it, he never had to take care a baby before. Not even a kitten or puppy. Then it came to him, Maybe Itachi can help. He probably knows how to take care of a baby... but I still need to figure out where it came from first. With that, he gently picked up the baby Ryuu Yokai by the scruff, like the way he had seen mother cats pick up their kittens, and abandoned his half eaten kill. Right now, he didn't care. What ever hungry scavenger or predator who wasn't lucky in their hunt could have it. His priority now was to find the baby's mother and figure out how there could be more Ryuu Youkai.


"What the hell is that, un?!" Deidara pointed at the baby Ryuu Youkai Yoru held in his arms.

Once the young adult had shifted back into his human appearance the baby turned out to be the size of a lion cub. He had found the mother, but kept the baby back in a bush. Itachi came over and saw the baby in his young cousin's arms then looked up at the white-haired youth.

"Where did you find it?" he questioned.

"I found it out in the forest or it found me," he shook his head. "I don't know how it's possible, but when I went out to look for its mother... I... found her..." Yoru balanced the lion cub-sized Ryuu Youkai baby on his left hip. He fished out an item he had taken off the mother for identification later.

Itachi took the item his cousin handed him, Deidara coming a bit close to get a better look at it as well. Itachi frowned, recognizing the symbol on the item.

"I'm beginning to see your point how this is even possible," he held out the item, letting it dangle from the chain it was connected to. "This is the marking of the Senju, but the Ryuu Youkai are of the Uchiha..."

"... wait, what?" This time there was no 'Un' or 'Yeah' in Deidara's sentence.

Itachi shook his head, "For now, let's not discuss this until we get back to base. We need to concentrate on the task at hand."

Yoru nodded his head, but then flinched at the little high pitched mewl from the baby. Diedara covered his ears and shut his eyes as he gritted his teeth to the sound. The young adult then remembered that the baby was hungry and why he also brought it back with him. For one, he wasn't going to leave it on its own in the forest and second, Itachi was the only one he knew who knows how to take care of a baby... because of his cousin, Sasuke.

"It was trying to suckle off of me earlier... I think its hungry." he said.

Itachi beckoned for his cousin to follow him. Yoru did so, hugging the baby close to try to sooth it and knelt down beside his cousin. Deidara plopped down on the other side of their campfire and stared at the crying baby Ryuu Youkai.

"This is all we have for now until we reach a small village," Itachi pulled out medium-sized bottle. "I snatched this from the kitchen before we left."

Yoru laughed, "You snatched a bottle of milk before Tobi could say anything. Nice."

Itachi handed his young cousin the bottle, but there was still a problem. There was no bottle nip for the baby to suckle on. Deidara touch out a bit of clay, the non-explosive kind, and shaped it.

"Here, un." Deidara took the bottle for a moment to put it on the bottle and handed it back to the white-haired youth. "That should do it, yeah."

"Thanks." Yoru managed to sit down cross-legged and had the baby Ryuu Youkai lay on its back in his lap. It reached out with its little paws for the bottle and immediately started to suckle on it.

"Wow, it was hungry... un." Deidara watched in fascination.

Itachi had his younger cousin lift the baby's head a little and support the back of its head with is hand. Deidara grinned, thinking it was a bit cute for the kid to be bottle feeding a baby.

"Why join the Akatsuki when you could be a great father?"

Itachi and Yoru both looked up at the blonde. Itachi was the only one who knew the reason his cousin was there with them. It made it easier for Kagenashi to train the young adult draconic without the fear of Orochimaru finding them or another who wanted the power of the Ryuu Youkai for themselves. Yoru shrugged, going back to paying more attention to the baby.

"I've... never thought about it." Yoru murmured.

Itachi touched Yoru's shoulder then stood up to start gathering up their supplies. Deidara stared at the youth for a moment then gave a sly grin, poking the young adult's shoulder.

"You're thinking about that girl again, un."

Yoru blushed and stared at the blonde Akatsuki then hissed at him to shut up. Itachi already heard about it from Kagenashi the day his cousin came. That was also the reason he lost his temper with Hidan. He smiled softly to himself, listening to the two bicker at each other. The baby Ryuu Youkai pushed away the bottle and yawned. Yoru set down the bottle and cradled the lion cub-sized baby in his arms, the way he had seen other mothers back in Konohagakure do so.

"Deidara, Yoru. Start gathering your things together." Itachi stood up and placed the hat the Akatsuki wore on top of his head. "We need to head out."

Deidara waved off the Uchiha and went to pack up his bedroll. Yoru got up onto his feet as he tried not to jostle the sleeping baby too much. He went over to his bedroll and gently set the sleeping baby down. He placed his items back into his satchel and an idea came to him. He placed his satchel down, grabbed the end of his cloak and ripped a large piece off of it. Tying the piece to the part of the satchel that rested on his back, he made a cloth cradle-sling for the baby Ryuu Youkai.

He strapped his satchel to his chest he way he does onto his back, right shoulder to left hip. The young adult carefully picked up the baby and gently settled it into the cradle-sling he made. He clasped his cloak to his shoulders and pulled the hood over his head and stood up after rolling up his bedroll. He joined his older cousin and Deidara, once in a few moments apart checking on the sleeping baby Ryuu Youkai.

How am I going to explain this to Elder uncle?


I checked my schedule for the week and it seems I can't do a triple update this upcoming week so~, here's chapter one. Hope you guys like! ^w^

Oh! I also forgot to say... BABY DRAGON! ... 3 =-3