A/N: Hi! Just came back from Sweden and as promised I'm updating no later than a month later... eh, that somehow sounded weird in my mind... oh well... I hope you enjoy this chapter and please send me some reviews to tell me how it is, I wasn't really sure about this one so I'd like to hear from you... Cheers... ;P
"Why, in the name of all that's holy, do I have to wear this?" Deidara asked while glaring at his team captain who was just standing in front of him acting like he wasn't affected by the blonds look, in all reality he wasn't in the slightest.
The blond male was currently wearing something that the Uchiha had brought them all. It was a small condition he had conveniently forgot to mention when he was telling them about the job. They were all wearing sweatpants and extremely tight tank tops showing of their rock hard abs, or in Sakura's case her slight but curved figure. Deidara's were bright yellow matching his hair, the same went for Kisame as his outfit was dark blue. Tobi got an orange one to fit with his mask and Sakura had a dark green one, Itachi himself was wearing a bright red one.
"It was something they insisted on having us wear and we're allowed to keep it once the concerts are over." Itachi explained ignoring Sakura's giggles and Tobi's happy chatting with the air about his clothes.
"But why yellow? I hate this color!" Deidara practically yelled, pointing down at him self in disgust. "It matches your hair." Was the simple answer he got only for the male to point at Sakura. "She's not wearing a pink one!" He exclaimed thinking he finally got a valid excuse to get out of the eye burning clothes.
"Ah, but I have more faith in Sakura to harm me after this than I do in you." The raven haired youth said lifting up a hand to stop any more ranting from his friend. "Now, the opening song to the second half is about to begin so you better get ready for your act." It was an order if there ever was one from the Uchiha and Deidara didn't dare ignore it.
"Let's get closer to the stage; I want to see the reactions to Deidara's act." Kisame said pointing them to follow him through the crowd. Sakura and Itachi walked side by side after the blue haired man and Tobi who was bouncing up and down from excitement.
"Thanks for getting me a green costume." Sakura said smiling up at the tall man besides her. Itachi smiled down at her in return. "I wasn't kidding when I said it was because I think you'd come after me." He told her and a loud laugh escaped her.
"Oh I know, it's just good to know that you know me that well. It's not like I've lived here for long and back where I used to live, well let's just say that no one had the chance to get to know me like you guys." Sakura said giving her friend some insight into her old life.
Sakura wasn't one to talk about it and most of her friends only assumed that she was living with one of her parents since no one had ever been to her apartment. By the small tidbits of information she had given them through out the time they had all known her they could at least conclude that there had been some sort of trouble in her old home and she moved there. There had never been any hints about parents so they all thought that she was either living with just one parent or a guardian. Now with what she had just told Itachi he knew that she hadn't had many friends, if any.
"It's starting." Sakura then said and indeed they were starting. The first notes of 'Sweet child of mine' tore through the air and Deidara was of.
Sakura watched fascinated as the blond did his thing and she looked over at the small little white spots he left around the arena. Deidara loved everything that exploded and she knew that he was going to use some explosions in his first act just to get the show properly on the rode. He had warned the band and they had gotten permission from the one supervising the event and it was only a matter of time until her decided to ignite them.
"What the? It's a kid!" Kisame suddenly exclaimed pointing down in the arena where a young girl around three or four was standing up probably after coming to close to the edge and falling down.
"Shit, Dei hasn't seen her." Itachi swore kicking his board to the edge and jumping of. "Itachi, what are you doing?" Sakura asked but she got no answer as her team captain pushed of and made his way over to the girl who was huddled to a corner.
"Tobi helps too!" Tobi suddenly said and with that he was of after Itachi. Sakura and Kisame only glanced at each other before following after the two.
Due to Deidara's act they were risking getting in his way and because of that Itachi was having trouble getting to the frightened little girl without ruining the effects of the exploding figures the blond had put up. With Tobi, Sakura and Kisame coming after him it made matter so much easier.
"Tobi, get the girl. Watch out so you won't set anything of and stay away from Deidara. Let's try to get her on the stage for now." Itachi ordered once they could all hear him and that's what they did.
While Tobi managed to get the small girl and place her on his back the others maneuvered around Deidara who was trying to do his best ignoring the others presence in the arena. Somehow Tobi managed to get himself stuck in a corner filled with the little figures and it was Kisame who reached out to the girl who giggled as she was unceremoniously thrown in his arms. Sakura laughed as the blue haired man placed the girl on his shoulders and started making his way to the stage only to be stopped by Itachi who came up behind him and snatched the still laughing girl and made his way up to one of the lower platforms.
From there he made his way to the stage where Sakura was standing and in one smooth move he handed the little girl over to the pinkette. Sakura sat down with the girl and allowed her feet to dangle over the edge of the set up stage. Suddenly the little blonde brown eyed child decided to wander around the musicians and Sakura didn't even consider the fact that she was probably supposed to stop her or something.
Watching the girl Sakura smiled as she made her way over to Gaara and starred up at him in awe. Crouching down the red head sung to the girl making her blush and soon move on to Kiba and Kankuro who were starting the guitar solo but as soon as she was close to them they started to dance around and acting like total fools making the blonde laugh and jump around with them. Right at the end of the solo the explosions Deidara had planed went of like clockwork gaining even louder cheers from the audience than before.
Next stop on the girls agenda was Shikamaru, he didn't seem to have time to mess around with the girl and just patted her on the head before pushing her over to Naruto who had very little to do at the time. Sakura laughed as she saw him pick the four year old up and place her in his lap so that she could see him play the drums at the end which was mostly just banging the cymbals a couple of times and some other easy stuff.
When the song started to fade out Sakura stood up and picked up the girl from Naruto's lap where she was laughing and having a good time. Making her way over to Gaara she handed the girl over to the red head and took the mike from him.
"Well it seems like we have a future boarder here." She said making the audience laugh with her and the band. Gaara quickly took the mike back smirking. "I think we might have a musician rather than a border." He commented only for Sakura to stick her tongue out at him and laugh.
"Little TB will leave with the band so if you're here with her please go find them and collect her." The pinkette said before turning around and walking of the stage and heading in the opposite direction than the band members were going.
She came to a stop where the rest of her team was getting ready to mess around while the next three songs were being played. "You handled that rather well." Kisame commented when she was with them making her shrug.
"They should have put up a fence or something around the arena. That kid could have been seriously injured if you hadn't noticed her." Deidara complained visibly shaken over the thought. Sure he loved to blow things up but he couldn't bear the thought of hurting someone while at it.
"It all worked out so it's alright." Sakura said placing a hand on his shoulder only to have it fall of when Tobi tackled her to the ground. Sitting on her back the boy held up a black cap. "Let's play tag Sakura!" He exclaimed just as the next song begun.
Jumping of the fallen pinkette he sprinted to the next platform and made his way up to the top stuffing the cap on his head gleefully. The others were soon following after him and a long game of tag started, revolving around getting the damn cap from Tobi while using as many fancy tricks as you could. It was a simple game Itachi came up with to allow them to play while still working on their tricks, stamina and reflexes.
Sakura's thoughts soon turned to the tournament that would be held in little over five weeks time and she could hardly wait until she could have then chance of whipping the floor with her teams captains younger brothers' face. That and she would be able to earn enough money to place the precautions she had been planning for some time now, one was never too careful when dealing with the past.