A.N: This has to be the most damatic angsty chapter since Deidara left Sakura in BMBB. I'm very proud of it too! Deidara in ANBUsmex!!

disclaimer: I do not own any of the cast shown in this fan fiction

Chapter Nine: Left for Dead

It seemed Itachi had found Sasori's jutsu useful after all. Though the puppet master's notes had stated that no memory could be stolen from the taken over person he had never tested this on someone with the Sharingan. As he slept Itachi dreamed about rather interesting things, things Deidara would blush and curse at Itachi for knowing. He dreamt about Deidara and Sakura and knew automatically that this was caused by the voodoo-like jutsu.

He smirked down at the comatose woman. He watched her belly lift and fall with every soft breath she took. That was the first thing he needed to be rid of before his foolish brother came sticking his nose in and being flanked by Deidara would be disastrous. So the baby had to be gotten rid of.

He activated his eyes silently looking down at the belly and feeling around for the unborn baby's subconscious, it didn't need to look him in the eye for Itachi to take over. It was simple when your victim doesn't know how to use it's charka to block its mind. A shame the baby would have been cute, a little girl too.

Mentally Itachi tortured the baby till its brain was completely torn apart. If she lived she would be no use as a ninja or even as a human being. She would be a vegetable, if she lived of course. Itachi wished he could see the pain in his brother's face. And Sakura would probably blame Deidara and maybe Sasuke would kill the want-to-be artist. Yes, that would be nice. His revenge was practically complete so there was really no point in waiting for the two men to show up.

He'd leave Sakura here, chained up, if they don't find her that's a true shame. He bent down and softly kissed the sleeping woman on the lips. She truly was a terrible woman.

"Wow Deidara you really look like a Konoha ninja," I murmured to him as we fallowed Kakashi's ninja dogs that seemed to be on Sakura's sent. It was true Deidara look very striking in the ANBU gear.

"Yeah un?" he muttered behind his mask "good thing your village elders didn't see me cast playing in this get up. I'm sure they'd flip a gasket yeah."

"You never know," I said with a smile "you might get a full time job."

"I just want to find Sakura," he said quickly "even if I meet my execution when I get back hmm."

"Don't say that," I snapped "you're a changed man; even Tsunade-sama sees it."

"She sees a mad love sick boy," he said evenly "I'm not changed at all; I'm just obsessed with something other then art."

"But this is an honorable cause Deidara-kun," I said trying to brighten the mood.

"I know nothing of honor my dear Pearl hmm," Deidara said looking at me "I've never done a thing to preserve my honor or my body for that matter…the only thing I've ever wanted to preserve is Sakura-Chan and she is lost to me yeah." He shrugged slightly looking back ahead his emotions unknown to me because of the hawk mask.

"I-I don't know what to tell you then Deidara," I stammered "b-but you know I-I'm your friend and I-I care about you." The blond said nothing and for a long time the only sound was the swish of wind past our ears as we jumped from branch to branch. "I'm sure Sakura will be happy to see you went to help find her," I added last second.

"But Sakura hates contentment un," he murmured almost under his breath but I still heard him.

"Then let her hate you," I said.

Sakura's head buzzed as her senses began to slur up. Patches of light and dark became her vision and she could feel the hard grown and wall. She couldn't feel her arms however they were numb and tied behind her back. So she sat there dizzy until a sharp slicing pain shot her out of his half dream land.

She screamed loudly as her stomach shifted angrily. Her cries echoed off the stone walls and back to her ears making her head ring painfully. She huffed leaning her head back on the rock wondering if she was dying maybe, then another hard contraction hit her making her scream bloody murder and hot tears run down her face.

She could feel her insides stretch to the point of ripping. Her head fell forward as her body instinctively began to push. She wanted this pain gone so this thing had to be gone from her body. So she wiggled uncomfortably trying to get her underwear down around her ankles. After about forty five minutes of wiggling only being stalled twice from contractions did she get the under garment off.

She tried to think of the good things. Tried to numb the pain but her charka was being suppressed by the robes tied tightly over her breasts and wrists. It was no use as the baby forced its way to freedom. She already knew something was wrong but was much to engross with the painful process of getting rid of the child to really care how the baby was doing.

Our team had stopped for a break. It was nearly nine PM and we were at the very boarder of the Fire country. The two young ANBU were eager to head off again but Kakashi and the dogs and I for that matter needed a bite to eat before going again. It had been nearly two hours straight of running anyway.

"Sit down wouldn't you?" I coaxed the boys who stood twitchingly up on the same tree.

"We shouldn't be stopping," Sasuke muttered sounding a lot like Naruto when he was on a mission. "She could be hurt."

"I agree un," Deidara said looking at his Akatsuki ring. "I don't think she's far either, the ring feels that Itachi has been close to this area and his charka signature is everywhere."

"I know," Sasuke said blandly "I can see it, Sakura's charka too."

"Then lets take to the air," Deidara suggested fingering the gold bracelets around his wrists. "You'd be able to fallow the trail of the charka better yeah."

"That's not a bad idea," Kakashi piped up "I have a feeling Itachi is no longer in the area so I guess it would be okay for you two to find her alone. Let me just temporarily defuse your bracelets Deidara-san." Doing a few fast seals Deidara couldn't read Kakashi defused the bracelets letting a rush of charka fill the blonde's hands. "It will last three hours and if it goes out to early Sasuke saw the seals right?"

"Right," Sasuke said.

Deidara smiled watching the hand mouth open and close then grin up at him. There was a river close by so it only took a few minutes for the ex-Akatsuki to grab enough clay to fill the lunch box I had brought. I watched him skillfully chew and mold the clay with his fingers and palm-mouth. Then he dropped a small figure of some sort of eagle. He smiled even wider and did two hand seals slowly as if enjoying the moments.

In a poof the bird stood about ten feet tall and was shifting on its feet slightly. It was a very abstract sculpture of a bird with holes for eyes and big strips of clay as 'feathers.' However I don't believe that Deidara really didn't care how the doll looked now, it was the explosion that was his art.

"We should get going," Sasuke said jumping onto the bird without hesitation. Deidara's smile faded as he nodded and jumped up also taking the pilot seat behind the clay bird's neck. Both slid there masks over there faces, Deidara needing an extra few seconds to fix his bangs again so they fell over the front of the mask rather getting stuck under it.

"Hang on Uchiha," Deidara snickered from behind his mask and you could almost feel the glare of daggers coming from Sasuke. "Here we go hmm," the blond said cheerily as they took to the air. The bird made three hard flaps before gliding off and out of sight.

"Can we trust him?" Kakashi asked looking over at me.

I took one sharp breath thinking carefully on my answer. "As long as Sakura is alive he is as tame as a house cat."

"And if she is to die?" he asked in a grave tone.

"Then there will be hell to pay," I said looking back at Kakashi my eyes feeling a bit welled up. "Hopefully he is not blinded so that he hurts allies or civilians."

"I see…"

"Do you see anything un?" Deidara asked over the wind. He wasn't use to having someone else on board to worry about since he usually made Tobi his own bird to fly atop.

"Yea," Sasuke yelled back "keep heading north-east."

"Roger."

Sasuke looked back to the ground. He could see many different charkas, from animals, travelers, and even Deidara himself but he did not let these distract him from fallowing the pale green line that led to were ever his wife was being held. He could also see the black charka that weaved around the green one. He clenched his teeth hard.

"Sasuke," the man squatting in front of him called making the Uchiha's thoughts snap back to the present. "Do you love her hmm?"

"Of course I do," he replied "I wouldn't be on this thing if I didn't. What about you?"

"Ha your answer is the same as mine," Deidara laughed humorlessly "I'd give up everything for her, and really all I have is my art and my life yeah. Both are really the same thing but you get the point un. Damn her."

Sasuke was silent unsure of what to say to the man. It was clear that the only reason he'd left the Akatsuki was because of Sakura. This guy was also insane and probably obsessive in the fact that he dedicated most of his young life to his 'art' and would now through it all away for a girl…Sasuke's wife to be precise.

Sakura sat there wet and in pain. The baby's body laying face down on the stone floor near her legs, she knew it was dead. The only cries through out the birth was her own a second voice had never joined her. Tiered tears rolled down her face now. She didn't even have the energy to mourn.

Her sweat drenched hair stuck to her forehead and scalp as she looked about the cave she was held in. She had no clue where Itachi was but she was pretty sure he wouldn't come back; if he was still here he would have come in to see why she was screaming. He never did come, and though he terrified her she had been hopeful for some sort of company would have shown up, just so she wouldn't have to be alone. But that never happened she was alone now more then ever because of the lifeless infant.

"This is my fault," she croaked "it shouldn't have been this way. I was to stay with Deidara-kun…and now." She went into a fit of hard coughs making pain shoot up her spine and make her cry out again. "A-and now…I've been left for dead."

A.N: Some were worried I was going to make Itachi soft and fall for Sakura well that didn't really happen. I mean Itachi is interested but in a twisted "damn she's hot when she's evil" kind of interested. And yes I'm mean I killed the baby!