Chapter 12

Late one night, two weeks in.
Deride snuck out of the house and into the surrounding forest. He looked around then swiftly took out a small cell phone and dailed in a number. "Hello?" the voice on the other end was commanding, but quiet.
"Leader, un?" Deride asked. "I'm reporting on our mission, un"
The voice snapped into focus. "Deidara-? But I practically just sent you out! How could you possibly get enough information in such a short time"
Deride, really Deidara, explained about the girl Yin who gave them all their information.
"Mmmmm............Congratulate Sasori on a good catch for me. Then, are you ready to come home"
Deidara thought for a bit. "Give us another week to prepare, un. We'll let you know when it's time, un. Oh and send the rest of the gang it might be hard getting back. Ok,un"
"Good deal. Go back, the sun will rise soon"
"Right. good-bye, un"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever.*click*" He walked back quickly and managed to get in the house before the others woke up.
It was early in the morning and as usual Sasori didn't see Serena sleeping in the room with them.
"I wonder where that girl goes off at night?" said Sasori as he stretched. Serena walked in the room with a brefast tray. "Hmm . . . . . well like I said before I don't sleep inside"
"So you sleep in the trees and in bushes"
"Pretty much" she said putting down the tray of food. "And no you cannot get me to sleep inside." Sasori sighed and smiled. Even though he was on the mission he was starting to like the girl. Deidara, a heavy sleeper, was always wakened by the smell of Serena's cooking. He slowly opened his eye and saw the food and he was immeadalty awake.
"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Deidara shouted as he jumped on the tray of food and started to eat up. Serena looked somewhat disturb by this, Sasori looked away, and Uni pulled up the cover over her head some more.
In Britt's room, she bolted upright as she heard something in the other room. "Either someone is scarfing down food, or there's a hippopotamus in my house....." She gently untangled herself from Gaara, who was still fast asleep, and carefully slid off the other side of the bed. She wrapped a robe around her and went to investigate.
"Yin," she said in a forcedly calm way. "Who are these people"
"Hmm? Oh, these are my friends, Sasor, Deride, and Uni. Guys, this is Britt, who owns this house"
"Hi," the trio said. Britt looked over to Deidara and saw him scafing down food like no tommarow.
She raises an eyebrow, but right before she comments, she hears a yell from her room. She curses, turning. "Gaara!" she yells, running down the hallway with Serena at her heels. The three's ears almost literally perked and Sasori and the others decided to follow her, under the pretext of seeing if they could help in anyway. They peeked around her doorframe and watched her gently rocking back and forth, cradling Gaara's head in her lap, making soothing sounds and humming a strange tune. Eventually, his face smoothed out and he fell back to a calm slumber. Sasori turned and saw the sleepy heads of Kankuro and Temari looking out from their rooms. "Is everything ok, Brit-? Who are you?" Temari looked at Sasori in confusion. Then Serena came out from the room.
"Oh, Temari, Kankuro, this is Sasor, my date for the dance. He and his friends Deidar and Uni are staying here because they have no where else to go"
"I'm goin back to bed." said Kanuro, tired.
"Oh Ok, is"
"Yes, Gaara is okay now that he has Britt"
Temari smiled "Good," and left. Sasor and the others turned and went back into the kitchen while Serena went to perpare everyone else's breakfast besides Deidara. A few minutes later, Gaara and Britt came out fully dressed, Gaara's arm around Britt's waist-until he saw the three strangers, after which he immediatly dropped his arm. "Who are you"
"Sasor, Deidar, and Uni meet Garra and Britt you already know and the blonde girl with 4 ponytails is Temari and the puppet dude with the face paint on is Kankuro. There! Now, I am tired of introducing people!" Kankuro nodded but something disturbed him about the redhead. Still, he couldn't place his finger on it. "I've been hanging out with them since the beginning of the evil dance-festval-thingy-ma-bobber"
Temari smiled tiredly. "Nice to meet you"
Uni nodded. "Same to you"
"Now that that's settled lets head out for a another day!" shouted Deidara as he grabed Uni's hand and she mouthed, "Save me"
They all went to the festival gronds, and waited for everyone else to show up.
Once everyone had gathered, they were told the schedule and where the different activities were. Today was the carnival day, and the feild had been transformed into a huge theme-park type thing, complete with rollar coasters, merry-go-rounds, games, food, and all sorts of other things. Britt immeadiatly, grabbed Gaara and Yin's hands and sped over to the largest rollar coaster there was. "I wanna go here first!!" She shouted and climbed on, litereally dragging an unwilling Gaara behind her.
"Help me." said Gaara as they took the first seats in the front of the rollercoaster. Then they were gone, zooming off at extremly high speeds. Serena followed their progress with high-speed goggles. "Wow, they're going fast!!" Serena said as Sasor came up behind her.
"............who? I don't see anything"
"Here look in these I can still see them with out them"
"Wow!!!! They are going fast"
"Hey, Uni! Let's go on it now!!" Deidara shouted as it stopped.
"WHAT?!?! NOOOO!!!!!!" She protested, but was dragged aboard anyway Sasor turned toYin "Wanna go"
"Eh, why not I've got nothing else to do than scream my head to the whole world, so YEAH" she said grinning.
"Great! Let's go!" They climbed on while Gaara mouthed to his laughing siblings, 'Help me!' And then the coaster was off again. When it next stopped, Gaara tore off the harness, ran to a trashcan and threw up. Britt came over and rubbed his back as he lay huddled on the ground, shivering.
"I'm sorry, Gaara. I shouldn't have made you go on it so many times. You ok?" When he didn't answer, she sighed. "I guess not"
~Mean while on the rollercaoster~ "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Yin on the rollercoster "..twich. . . . twich" sasor went as the rollercaoster coniued at high speed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" went Uni and Deidre.
When they all finnaly got off, they walked around dizzily for awhile, then noticed Britt was sitting on a bench with Gaara's head in her lap, asleep. They went over.
"What happened?" Konan, a.k.a. Uni, asked.
Britt sighed. "I made him go on the rollar coaster too many times and now I think he's sick....." she looked really worried. Konan placed her hand on his forehead and felt how hot it was-then what she did sank in everyone's head. She jerked her hand back and Deidara gingerly touched his arm. Gaara's sand didn't move.
Britt swore and picked him up, running to the first aid tent. "LADY TSUNADE"
"Crud. Britt Do You Need Help?!" Yin asked as she rushed along Britt.
"I just need to get him there FAST!!!" She replied breathlessly. She burst into the first aid tent and put him on a bed as Tsunade rushed over.
"What happened?!?" Tsunade yelled. "I made him go on too many rollar coasters," Britt grimaced. "And now he's sick. Help him, PLEASE"
"His sand isn't responding." at this lady Tsunade rushed everyone out but Britt. Sasori was having a hard time in getting Serena away from the medic tent because she wanted to be with her best friend Britt.
"Come on it'd be better if you stayed away and let her handle it"
"NO!" Sasori sighed in agrivation.
"Fine you won't come willingly then-" He scooped her up bridal style and held her arms together with his hand around her so she couldn't hit him and griped her legs together so she couldn't struggle as much. "-I'm gonnn make you come"
"Hey PUT ME DOWN"
"No!! Leave them alone! They need the quiet"
"Let her stay, Sasor." Britt's voice was brave, but wavering. Sasori loked at her back with concern. "Are you sure, Britt? I mean"
"Just let her stay. Please"
"Ok...If you insist...." He set her down. "I insist. Now go please, Sasor"
He left and Serena went to stand by Britt. She looked at her face and saw that tears were streaming down her face, and the tears were multicolored and crystal looking. Serena hugged her. "It'll be ok, Britt. You'll see. He's a strong boy now that you've toughened him up." Britt smiled a bit at that fact. ~Outside with the Akatsuki~ "This is gonna be hard to get her to come with us if she's so attached to that girl," said Uni.
"Yeah, un. How are we gonna get her far enough away"
"Well call Learder-sama once more tonight," said Sasori "Ok,un"
Suddenly, Sasori had an idea. "Hey, guys? I just had an idea"
Konan rolled her eyes. "Oh dear. Sasor's got a plan"
He ignored her. "What if we took Britt with us, and Yin? That way, it's a sort of two-for-one deal"
Deride looked thoughtful. "Yin would come a bit easier, and we could snag Britt for Leader-sama, un. That's acually ................a good ideea, un"
"Yeah now we just need to convice Britt to come with her..." they elaborated the plan as Gaara got healed.
"What cha doing?" "AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The Akatsuki jumped as Yin came up behind them.
"gezze your jumpy" she said yawning.
"Tired?" asked Umi.
"Yeah"
"Hey what about Britt and Gaara"
"Gaara's resting and Britt's by his side. He'll be out for at least a week"
'shit' thought the Akatsuki.
"Well.....................Is there any way she'll be-" Sasori was cut off by Britt pushing past him with Gaara in her arms. "What are you doing"
"Getting him home, what's it look like?! It's too crowded in there. A ride crashed and every bed is needed. HE needs to go somewhere quiet so he can rest"
"Ah. Will you be Ok by yourself, Britt? I feel bad about leaving these guys behind before," said Serena.
"Yeah its fine I wanted some peace and queit too. Bye." waved Britt smiling as she ran away with Gaara in her hands. Serena waved goodbye to her friend as she turned to face the others.
"So what do you guys wanna do"
They looked at each other and nodded. Deidara went off to call as the other two occupied her with games, rides, and food(amazingly.
"Hey." started Serena as she faced toward Uni. "Just curiose, are you dating Deidre outside of the festival?" Sasori choked on his Dr Pepper and Konan looked at her in a strange way. "Sorry. Just wondering"
"Errrr no. We aren't dating outside of the festival were just really good friends"
"Ah. That explain why you two hang out all the time. (sigh) I'll never date a boy"
"But your dating me now," said Sasori feeling werid he just said that.
"Outta sheer force"
"Yeah. . . . . . . .thatâ–“s true"
"(yawn) I won't have time for relationships cause I have. . . a goal to finish before I settle down. But it'll take years"
"Hmmmmm"
"That and the fact that I couldn't trust myself or another boy to even"
"Love"
"Yeah that foul word I despised to be used toward me. I'm mean I can direct it toward others with saying it fine and meaning it be to me its just evil"
"...............................................where IS Deidre?! He should've been back by now"
"How about we go look for him?" Serena suggested.
"No that bafoon always comes back anyway no matter what happens he always comes back." said Konan truthfully.
"Hey, guys, un!!!! Guess what?!" Deidara was running up to them, shouting.
"What?" Yin yelled back.
Deidara stopped in front of them, panting. He looked at Sasori and Konan directly. "I just called our....superior and he said it's about time for us to go, because we have another.....mission.... to fufill, un." Konan's eyes widened slightly.
Sasori turned to Serena. "So. It's now or never. Do you want to leave with us"
Serena rolled her eyes. "DUH!! Just let me go pack!" She ran back to Britt's house as the sun began to set. She walked in and heard Britt humming a tune in her room. Serena was packing up her extra clothes (in case her main ones got destoryed in a fight) when Britt walked in.
"You going somewhere?" she asked, cocking her head to the side.
Serena remembered hearing Sasori say he wished he could meet Britt right before they left because some friends would be picking them up and they wanted her to meet them, and got an idea. "Yeah, I'm leaving with Sasor and them. Say, wanna come with me for a bit? They said there'd be some people there they want you to meet. Please"
Britt sighed. "Sure, but then I goota get right back here, ok? I've got Gaara on sleeping pills I designed for him, and I want to be here when he wakes up to make sure there aren't any side effects. Where will we be meeting"
Serena thought. "They said something about in the forest, about a mile or so from the wall. Oh, and bring your backpack"
"Why"
"In case something happens. Something always happens, or don't you remember a few days ago"
Britt grimaced. "Yeah, I remember. Let me get my stuff..." She came back with her backpack on and she was strapping her sword to her waist as she came out of the house. "Alright, let's go"
They raced off along the rooftops and jumped the wall. Britt opened the barrier enough for them to get through, then closed it again. They stoppefd running when they reached the designated clearing. Britt leaned on a tree trunk near the edge. "I thought you said they'd be here"
"They will b"
"Yin?" she turned toward the voice and saw Sasori in a long black cloak with red clouds on come out from behind a tree, an uncomfortable look on his face.
"Sasor! Cool cloak! Where's the others?" she asked, running up to him. Behind her, Britt was slowly starting to back up, getting a bad feeling around her. Serena looked around. "I thought you said there'd be others here"
"I-i did...you see....um, how to put this....*sigh* ok, listen, don't be mad, but there's something I gotta tell you"
There was a yelp behind Serena, and they turned around to see Britt collapse on the ground. "BRITT!!!" Serena ran to her friend and saw she was unconcious. She slowly turned back to Sasori. "Sasor? What's going on"
He glared up into the trees. "I told you to wait!! I could have gotten her to come willingly!!" A voice came from the tree. "We were getting impatient. Now we have to stun the other, or she'll panic." Serena tensed up as her barrier activated and she dodged a pin. She sprinted up a tree to get a better atvatage of her enemies but ran into one as they ficked a pin toward her she fliped back off the tree onto the ground. She looked around and saw Britt was gone. 'Wheres Britt-chan'
"Come easy kunoichi." said a voice. She vigosly shook her head no. A few moments later a pin was thrown at her as she backed up her front guard activated but she knew it was a diversion but couldn't block the rear attck so soon.
"Wait! Don-" she felt something sharp prick her neck and black clouded her vision. Sasori swiftly caught her as she fell. More people, mostly males, came out of the trees, all wearing the same cloaks.
A tall man with pale blue skin and a huge sword wrapped in bandages was holding Britt. "Let's go," he commanded.
"Fine," Sasori replied tersly, gently picking up Serena.
They ran through the forest and eventually into a mountian range. When they reached a huge boulder, Itachi went up to it and did a secret handsign. The boulder rolled aside and they continued running. They reached a cave about a half-hour later and entered it. Once inside, a door of rocks seemed to close behind them and a door of wood opened in front of them. They went through and lights came on in a cavern that had been transformed into a living room of sorts. Kisame and Sasori went further in and set the girls down on beds that had been preset for them in a farther-back room. They exited and locked the door.