OMG, I'm so sorry for not updating guys! It's just that I was constantly busy whenever I meant to update, and then I forgot a few times. So sorry!
"Is everyone O.K?" Deidara yelled.
"Yeah…" everyone murmured.
"Is everyone here?" Itachi asked.
"I think so," Kakuzu replied, clambering to his feet.
"Am I the only one who's noticed the complete lack of any word that could possibly be considered bad in this conversation?" Kisame asked. "And the lack of an annoying voice and the creak of puppets joints and pink hair?"
"Oh my God you're right!" Naruto yelled. "Sakura is missing!"
Everyone looked around frantically. After Kakuzu, the best at maths*, had done a quick head count, it was revealed that Sakura was indeed missing.
"What are we going to do?" Deidara yelled.
"Shouldn't you be more worried about your lot?" Kakashi asked. "I know that sounds like I'm not worried about Sakura, I honestly am, but what about the others?"
"They're members of the Akatsuki, they can live on their own for a few hours," Pein dismissed. "Besides, every time we worry about them when they get lost it takes days to find them."
"Really?" Naruto said skeptically. Zetsu nodded.
"Yeah, there was this one time when Hidan got separated from Kakuzu when they were both nearly back at the base, and when we went and looked Hidan somehow ended up on a boat to another country."
"No that was just Hidan's bad sense of direction," Kakuzu said. "That time when Kisame nearly ended up in a volcano is a better example."
"Don't remind me," Kisame said savagely. "I nearly died. That was just scary."
"Can we go and find Sakura?" Sasuke asked. "The trip down memory lane is wonderful, but Sakura might be lying in a ditch and dying somewhere! We have to go and find her!"
"Wow that's the kindest thing I've ever heard you say," Naruto said after a short pause. "And you're right as well! Let's go!"
Hidan was annoyed. And he actually had a reason to be. Those of you with good memories may remember it being mentioned that Hidan and Kakuzu left the same impression on a town as the atom bomb made on the world. During the process Hidan had managed, as always, to loss a limb, in this case his head and both legs. Kakuzu, being the wonderful person he was, had not put all of Hidan in a sack and tossed it into a very deep lake, then gone back to the base, claimed Hidan had run off and been told by a very disbelief filled Pein to go and retrieve Hidan from wherever Kakuzu had left him and sew him back together. After being sewn back together like a very rude ragdoll Hidan had been told to be careful so his limbs wouldn't fly off again. Now, when he had been sent flying quite magnificently he had crashed into a tree on his way down. It had all been fine until his head came off. And his torso and arms had gone flying into a thorn bush, and one of his legs had spun into a holly bush, with the other falling on to the ground. This caused Hidan to developed a strong hatred of foxes.
Now the last sentence of the previous paragraph makes sense when you read the next bit. A large, fully grown fox that looked very hungry walked on to the scene. And went straight for Hidan's leg. It sniffed at it, then it's teeth clamped down and it started to wait.
"No!" Hidan screamed. "No you fucking idiotic fox thing! Don't eat my leg! Leave my leg alone! Remove your fucking teeth from my leg!" Get the fuck off it!"
The fox didn't listened and tore Hidan's foot off his leg.
"No you fucking fox…" Hidan muttered, thinking of ways to punish the poor creature once he got down.
Sasori slowly opened his eyes. And blinked. Then he screamed like a girl. Two eyes were staring at him, two staring, unblinking, dark, hollow, wooden…
Wait a second, the last bit didn't sound right.
Sasori peered at the eyes and realized they were Hiroko's. Slowly Sasori sat up, the head of Hiroko falling into his lap. He then realized that he was floating on the wreckage of Hiroko. And land seemed really far away…
"Holy shit!" Sasori screamed. "I'm drifting away!"
As he was a fairly sensible person, Sasori quickly got over his panic and started paddling frantically towards the shore. He reached it eventually and crawled ashore. After getting his breath back he buried Hiroko, said some prayers, then asked the obvious question.
"Where the hell are the others?"
*O.K, I'm English, and where I live I spell math like that.