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Oh and sorry that this chapter is kind of short, and sorry that its really badly written, my brain has gone dead 'cause it's the holidays and stuff and I have to study for my exams XD DAMN YOU GCSE MODULAR MATH! T.T

Before you read this, please don't kill me xD I planned the event of this chapter's ending from the start, it wasn't something I did on whim. If it makes you feel better, Sasori does stuff to him. *coughs*

Fragmented Lullabyes

Chapter 7

The Increasing Guilt

"Sakura…" The man in front of her started, despair and worry etched into his voice, but she could only look at him with disgust and betrayal.

"Sakura… Listen to me… I neve-" He started, only to be stopped as a single finger was placed on his lips.

Her hand blocked his view of her, he knew they were both thankful of this, neither of them wanted him to see her expression.

Instead of returning his desperation to stay together, she turned away from him and started walking, walking into a light and leaving him in the darkness.

She could hear screams and shouts from behind her, but she ignored them and kept walking, ignoring the sharp pain in her chest as well. The shouting and screaming was becoming softer and quieter with each step she took.

As it did, the sharp pain in her chest grew more painful as she travelled, to the point where it hurt so much she could hardly breathe.

She fell to the ground to find there was no ground, and that she was just falling through an endless abyss. She looked back at the light that she had been going towards to, which was now speeding away from her as she pummelled into the darkness.

Slowly, the screams and shouting became louder, and the sharp pain lessened.

Closing her eyes, tears flowing and getting caught in the air as she fell, she felt herself decelerating and slowly floating.

Soft, warm and large hands made contact with her skin, arms travelling to her opposite arms and cradling her. The man behind her buried his face into her neck, but somehow, she knew who it was.

She tried to move, but she couldn't. He body wouldn't obey her.

Her arms wouldn't move when she ordered them push this man away, her legs wouldn't move when she begged them to run.

The man held her tightly, as if he were afraid she would disappear, too tightly for her comfort and making her flinch.

She wanted to get out of his hold, but her body wouldn't listen. She struggled and struggled within herself, but stopped completely as she felt him tremble.

He was shaking, and he was crying.

This strong psychotic man who had the power to destroy a single village in a second, possibly even more power than that, was crying and shaking like a lost child.

"Sakura…" His voice sounded terrified, his voice amplified by the never ending darkness that surrounded them. The sound of his teardrops were echoing, and suddenly, somehow, the tears were rolling down Sakura's cheeks as well.

"Don't leave me koishii… Please… Don't leave me again… Please…" He cried, desperate and terrified.

As soon as he said the last syllable, he screamed as her legs unconsciously moved how she had begged them to only a few moments earlier.

"SAKURA!"

The tears kept pouring in, both his and her tears flooded the space.

"SAKURA! SAKURA! DON'T GO! PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME!" He screamed, and she could have sworn her heart was being torn apart. She couldn't control her body, her legs kept moving forward.

"SAKURA!"

She woke up with a scream, only to find herself in the arms of an akatsuki. Confused and startled by her nightmare, she continued to scream, though muffled by the man's cloak.

"Hush, koishii. It's ok. It was only a nightmare… Un." Deidara comforted worriedly, holding her tightly to his chest.

It took her a while and a lot of comforting to realise that it was only a nightmare. And it took even longer for her to realise that she was in Deidara's arms.

She pushed him away in surprise, and stared at him confusedly before shivering slightly. Deidara noticed this and slowly came closer to her to bring her into a hug. This time though, she didn't push him away, she just let him hug him. He was warm, and he smelled nice. Right then, she couldn't care about anything else, all she wanted to do was sleep. She didn't know whether it was because she was absolutely exhausted, or because of the fact she felt no chakra within her.

She looked at him dazedly and blankly, and then she looked at her surroundings, screaming in terror as she drove into his chest, hugging him tightly, so tightly that she almost crushed his ribs. Deidara sighed helplessly at this, and after while chuckled light-heartedly, watching as one of the most fearsome kunoichis trembled at the fear of heights. Not that he was complaining, he was more than happy for her to hug him.

Moments passed, but neither of them spoke. Both of them didn't want to talk, so they didn't. But they both knew that they would have to sometime. So Deidara was the one to start, but he spared all greetings.

"Sakura. I'm taking you back to Konoha. Un. In fact, we're already about halfway there… Un." He said seriously, looking at her as her ears perked up at the sound of her village. She withdrew her buried face from his chest, and looked at him surprisedly, her mouth slightly hanging open.

"…Why?" She asked quietly, asking it more to herself more than him. He sighed at this, and closed his eyes before he answered, thinking of what he should say carefully.

"You're not an enemy of Akatsuki Sakura. Un. You never were. You were just part of our leaders plan to uh…" He trailed off as his eyes noticed some dark clouds approaching. As he did, he muttered some curses under his breath, and immediately held Sakura tightly, not wanting to tell her that they were going to dive to the ground and land.

"To what?" She asked, not noticing his landing plans yet.

"I'll tell you later, we need to land. Now. It's going to start raining. Un." Sakura wasn't really listening after he said I'll tell you later, so it took her a few seconds to register the fact they were going to start flying straight into the ground in about 3 seconds ago.

"WHAT! WAI-" She started, before screaming as hundreds of trees came crashing into her and Deidara.

A few moments passed, and Sakura was clinging onto Deidara for dear life, only letting go to punch him when she noticed that he was laughing at her.

Sighing with relief as he stepped into his village's borders. Stretching out a tiny bit, he smiled at the thought of spending time with Sakura, and as he sped back to his apartment he debated whether he should take her out to this really nice restaurant that he was sure she would like, or if he should take her out to the mountains where she would be able to see all the rice fields that they would live around in the future. His thought trail was stopped immediately as he found the door unlocked, and guessed that Sakura hadn't returned back into the apartment. He sighed, resisting the urge to tell himself off for letting her run around freely since he knew she would have gone anyway. 'At least,' he thought, ' At least she was excited enough to go out and explore, I guess she's finally kind of accepted her being with me after all.'

He turned around, and was about to take off before he heard a piercing scream.

"UCHIHA-SAMA!" A bearded man in around his forties approached, running towards him with as much energy as he could put in it. Sasuke looked back at him puzzledly and asked what was wrong.

"Uchiha-sama… I'm so sorry. Despite the fact you asked me specially to watch her..." The man apologised breathlessly, almost crying in his apology.

"What is it Seikatsu?" Sasuke asked worriedly, he did NOT like where this seemed to be going. The man who was apparently called Seikatsu took a deep breath and bowed in apology.

"Uchiha-sama. Sakura-sama has been abducted by a member of the Akatsuki." He said, staying bowed down for the sake of his sanity, trying his best not to look at his village leader, who was now fuming in anger and rage. Gulping deeply, he continued to describe what had happened.

"It was yesterday, since I knew you wouldn't be here until today, I told 4 jounin to track them down and have spread the word for any chuunin that is staying in the village today to tell you if they find you."

"What did he look like?" Seikatsu looked up when Sasuke said this, and shuddered slightly from fear. Sasuke was literally saying it through gritted teeth, and he could spot blood dripping from his knuckles as his nails punctured his skin. Scared now of his village leader's fury, not because Sasuke would kill him, but because he knew that he would kill someone, he looked down once again.

"H-He was blonde with blue eyes, and escaped with a cl-clay bird." He stuttered, and when he heard no reply, he looked back up and saw nothing.

"Finally! Un! We're here!" Deidara shouted happily whilst stretching his arms out. He turned around excitedly, beaming at a tired Sakura, who seemed to be dragging her feet along.

"…How can you be so energetic?" She asked, glaring at the totally oblivious blonde in front of her. He looked at her blankly for a second, before smiling again.

"You get used to running a lot when you're a missing nin." Sakura ignored the almost unnoticeable hint of sadness in his words.

"…Why did you bring me back here anyway?" She asked.

"Oh, right. I'm supposed to tell you aren't I… Un." He said dazedly to himself, his mind wandering.

"Oi, hurry up and tell me Deidara." She said, stopping in her tracks refusing to move an inch until he stopped and told her. Deidara just turned around again and stopped, sighing before he spoke.

"I brought you back because I was worried about you. Un. Like I said earlier, the leader and that are fine with it, since you were never our enemy to begin with. Un." He said casually, as if it were no big thing.

"What! Then why did you attack me and kidnap me?" She demanded.

"…The Kyuubi. Un." He said simply, and that was all it needed for Sakura to understand.

She understood immediately what he was implying. They were trying to use her to lure Naruto to them, so they could take whatever was inside of him and kill him. They didn't need her for anything other than that. But now she was regarded useless seeing as how Naruto sent murderers after her instead of people to try to save her. Biting her lip, she didn't really want to return to Konoha after all.

"It's ok Sakura, un." Deidara appeared in front of her, smiling as he put a hand on her shoulder, but Sakura said nothing. Taking this as a hint, he removed his hand from her shoulder, and held her hand instead, pulling her towards her village gates.

"Go on, it'll be ok koishii. Un." He said, smiling nervously as he walked behind her slowly, gently nudging her towards the gates. Instead of walking off like he wanted her to, she turned around and pouted.

"Can't you stay..? Just for a little longer..? Please?" She asked innocently, pouting and giving him the best pair of puppy dog eyes she could make. It would of worked, if Deidara knew what would happen if he came back later than he was already.

"Sorry koishii… Sasori-danna will kick my ass and have my head if I'm even more late. I'll stay outside the gates to see that you get there safely," He grinned as he said this, "Just in case a guy comes to kidnap you during the few metres that you need to walk to the gates. Un."

Sakura huffed in response. "Shu'p." She looked down slightly before starting to speak again. "Will I ever see you again?" Deidara winced inwardly, he had been hoping she wasn't going to ask him that.

"If you do, I'll make sure you don't know it's me." He said playfully. Before she opened her mouth to retort, he cupped her cheek and covered her mouth with his.

She let him kiss her, and even started kissing back after a while. Slowly, his other arm wrapped itself around her waist, bringing her closer to him, making her gasp as he crushed her against himself.

"Deidara…" She tried, but was interrupted again as he kissed her again.

They stayed like that for what seemed like forever, and strangely enough, even though Deidara said that they might see each other again, she somehow felt like this would be the last time she would ever see him. (A/N, if you figured it out already, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME XD)

Noticing the tears rolling down her cheeks, he stopped kissing her and brought both hands to her cheeks, cupping them both and making her face him. With his thumbs, he softly wiped away her tears and brought her to a gentle hug, resting his cheek on the top of her head. Waiting for a response, he felt her shake slightly and heard her sniffling, and it wasn't long before she started crying and clinging onto him a lot. Sighing, he didn't know whether it was because she was upset about going back to Konoha, the fact she just got repeatedly kidnapped for no reason by what he thought she thought were extremely scary people, or if it was just because they wouldn't be able to be together much anymore. Guessing and hoping it was the latter, he smiled at her affection and hugged her even tighter.

"It's ok koishii. If you manage to find out it's me, maybe I'll kidnap you again. Un." He said whilst chuckling. In response, all he received was a watery and teary glare, which didn't really scare him much. In fact, if anything, it made him smile even more. That was what this woman did to him, she made him smile all the time. There never was a time when he was with her that wasn't laughing or smiling.

Looking at her, he counted how lucky he was to find her, a genuine person who genuinely returned his affection. Heck, she was even crying for him. He brought a hand up to her face again and tucked a lock of loose pink hair behind her ear, and kissed her gently on the forehead.

Trying to laugh between sniffles and hiccups, she rubbed her eyes before nodding slightly. Detaching herself from him for the last time, she walked slowly to the gates, looking back every few steps to make sure he was staying there.

Just before the gates, she looked back one more time.

And he was gone.

Turning around, she gasped as the wind was knocked out of her, her eyes widened as she felt herself be lifted off the ground by Deidara, who was in turn scowling aggressively at a familiar looking raven haired man who sat on top on one of the gate pillars.

Landing on the floor, she turned to Deidara in shock as he trembled with pain, a lightning spear impaled into his stomach.

Wordlessly, the man sitting relaxed on the pillar withdrew his lightning spear. He closed his eyes for a brief moment, and then reopened them to reveal blood red sharingan. In his gaze, Sakura knew that there was something directed at Deidara that wasn't directed at her, and it was also something she couldn't decipher, but knew that this man was extremely angry.

The man formed a grim line with his mouth, and held up his bloody hand.

"I thought I told you last time…" He started saying, his words laced with what felt like poison in the form of anger. Deidara just narrowed his eyes, not liking where this was going.

"You're just a tool. A tool to protect her." He continued, closing his eyes and clenching his bloody first again.

"How dare you…" He opened his eyes, and in a split second, he drove his whole arm through Deidara's chest, not giving neither Sakura nor Deidara a chance to blink. With sparks of electricity, he carried on.

"HOW DARE YOU TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME." He screamed, and withdrew his arm from his body, clutching Deidara's neck and throwing it to the side uncaringly.

"I already told you…" He said, looking at Sakura with what looked like pained eyes. Sakura just shuddered in fear, sweat rolling down her cheek.

"That if you don't die while protecting her, I'll kill you myself."

Deidara opened his eyes slowly, watching as Sakura watched him with tearful eyes. He wanted to cough, but he couldn't, he had no energy anymore. He laughed inwardly, this time he wouldn't have Sasori to save his ass or Kakazu to sew him back together, he was sure he was going to die. Oh well, he thought, his last moments were with Sakura so he couldn't care less. He was dead to the world anyway.

He couldn't feel any pain at all, he guessed that it was either because the lightning from before had numbed his body, or because of the fact his body was bleeding so much that he couldn't feel pain at all.

Sighing inwardly, he tried his best with all his might to keep his eyes open, just so that he could see her face in his last dying moments. His opponent at least granted him that wish by not taking her away straight away.

He watched her whilst smiling, she was screaming at him and the man in front of them both, trying her best to move against the man who was restraining her, trying her best to come to him. Smiling inwardly, he wanted to tell her that she had no chance to help him even if she did get past that madman, but it was ok, it was the thought that counted, right?

He just hoped that she would be happy, he hoped that she would escape from that madman and found someone to protect her and give his entire self to her. He could see some Konoha ninja already approach them, and prayed to God, something that he disdained doing, that they would be able to save her.

Running out of energy, he wondered what things would have been like if they had met on different circumstances, like if he wasn't a missing ninja. He laughed cynically, even if they wouldn't be enemies, they wouldn't have met at all. He guessed being with her would be just impossible, and instead imagined the things that he wanted to have done, like wake up to seeing her angelic face each morning, and tickling her awake, teasing her about what she had and hadn't done the night before. It would have been fun, he thought whilst smiling, if they could have been together.

'Maybe in the next lifetime… Un…' was his last thought.

Closing his eyes and smiling one last smile, he said one last farewell to her.

Darkness.

"Koishii…

If you asked me to go, I would.

If you asked me to stay, I would.

If you asked me to kneel down and beg to you, I would.

So why when I asked you to love me, you refused.

Why did you then run into the arms of another?

I can't keep going on like this koishii,

I can't keep going on like this."

PLEASE! I repeat. PLEASE! DO NOT KILL ME!

I planned for Deidara to die from the start. Even though I love Deidara to bits, and hate Sasuke a lot at the moment, it IS a SasuSaku fic in the end -.- But on the bright sunny side of the story, Deidara gets found by Sasori and uh *coughs* Not saying anymore.

Please review guys xD It cheers me up to see you guys actually do read my stories.

Oh and sorry for the way it was badly written, my brain is dead, I have exams to study for, and my english is getting crapper by the second. xD

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Oh and warning, the next chapter (I think) is going to be reaaaaalllly dramatic. I think. Depending on how rubbish and crap I write it it may turn out really dramatic or just turn out really crappy xD

Oh and omg, cowgirl137 x-x You are a mind reader Dx I just realised how close to the actual truth you were in your pm o.O

What she wrote by the way ;

O_O DEIDARA KNOCKER HER OUT! HE KIDNAPPED SAKURA! OMG Sasuke is gunna KILL him!

(The other part is secreted :'D)

TILL NEXT TIME PEOPLE =3

Edit 17/5/10 Seems like fanfiction (dot) net screwed the formatting of the stories up. Sorry if you can't see the dashes I put as things to seperate the paragraphs, blame fanfic XD