Yay, the first new chapter of the year of 2011! :D I'm very sorry to my reviewers and readers for not posting a chapter since the 31st. It seems that the first week of school for 2011 was intended to be a hellhole x.x I had little to any time to write, and so I decided to post this today, because it's a Saturday. The chapter is kinda short, but the next chapter is going to come up soon!

Suigetsu: You always say that...

Me: DX shut up Sui-chan!

Suigetsu: NOO! x-x *melts*

Anyway, I think it'd be best to say that I will only be able to post a chapter every few days instead of my intended 'one chapter a day'. So yeah, I'm so sorry! Especially since the reviews for this story are double the amount of chapters o.o

DISCLAIMER: Blah! Naruto is not mine! Save water, drink cookies!

The wind blew quietly in the darkened desert skies above Sunagakure. Atop the Kazekage's Mansion, Sasuke and Suigetsu stood beside Gaara. The three of them faced Deidara, who was kneeling at the ground with his hands in his clay pouches.

"Now then..." the blonde muttered. "Should we begin, un?"

With a swift leap into the air, Deidara lifted his hands up and aimed them at the teenagers, who looked alert. Sasuke had already jumped from his position on a platform of sand that Gaara had formed, which carried the Uchiha up to the mid-air Akatsuki member. Suigetsu attempted to jump on it too, but it left too fast and he fell face first on the stone roof below.

"Art is a blast, un!" Deidara shouted. His clay burst out of the mouths on his hands in the form of multiple pigeons, which rushed towards the approaching Sasuke. He dodged the birds via the sand avoiding them, and was about to stab into Deidara with his drawn katana had the blonde man not landed on his clay bird which flew in from behind a building. The Akatsuki member flew off into the skies, and the sand platform quickly followed.

Sasuke reached into his robe and pulled out a handfull of kunai with explosive tags on them. "If he likes explosions, then he should enjoy these." Sasuke muttered to himself in blank humour, throwing them at the airborne blonde.

"Explosion vs explosion, un?" Deidara smirked and his feet sunk into the clay bird's back, anchoring him on it. The clay animal spun around dodging the kunai and their explosions, being clouded in a layer of smoke. Sasuke's platform of sand extended and zoomed into the cloud, with Sasuke thrusting his arms out.

"Chidori Current!" he said aloud, causing blue electricity to channel out in all directions from him. Deidara flew out of the smoke cloud, but the streaks of lightning struck the tail of his bird several times, and it began to cease functioning, its wings becoming stiff.

"Damnit!" he cursed under his breath. Popping one of his feet out, he stomped on the bird with a small chakra burst, causing the back half of the bird to sever and fall off, leaving only the upper back, wings, and head. Holding his hands together in a hand seal, he eyed the lump of discarded clay as it rapidly approached the crowded street of people in the bazaar area of the city.

"Katsu!" the clay lit up and, right when it was a few inches above the ground, it detonated. A pillar of smoke ascended up into the air and dissolved into the atmosphere, while Deidara grinned. Art truely was a flash of explosive beauty.

His grin then disappeared when he noticed the dome of sand above the street. He heard rustling behind him and he turned to see that the Kazekage as well as the white haired mist-nin had both gone on a floating platform of sand as well, and were next to the Uchiha.

"Hmph." Gaara let his arms fall to his sides instead of staying crossed and glared at Deidara in the eyes. Suigetsu was standing uneasily next to the redhead.

"His clay is weak against lightning. If you can just get me close enough-" Gaara shook his head at Sasuke's words.

"No. I am the Kazekage of this village. I don't need your help."

"We aren't protecting your village, we're trying to capture the Akatsuki member!" Suigetsu whined.

"That Akatsuki member has threatened the people of Suna. Any kind of confrontation he causes here will be a danger that I alone must prevent." before the other two guys could protest, Gaara raised up his arms, and the ground below them began to shake and shift. Deidara looked down and, to his astonishment, the actually sand from the ground below was rising.

"Heh, looks likes this jinchuuriki will be pretty difficult, un." he watched gigantic waves of sand rise up in the air and form together into a gigantic flowing wave of sand, which gathered behind the red-haired Kazekage. With a quick swipe of his arm, the bunch of sand rushed towrds Deidara, forming into the arms of Shukaku.

"Shit." the blonde tried to manuver his bird around the arms, but it was incredibly difficult, considering the very low balance. The clay being actually flipped and spun over and over, making Deidara dizzy. Although, the arms kept coming, and eventually, he was surrounded by arms and had nowhere to go. They encircles him, merging with eachother, until eventually he was consumed by the huge ball of sand.

"Is that some kind of oversized Desert Coffin?" Sasuke inquired apathetically, watching the arms merge into a giant sphere.

"You could call it that. Although, I only plan on capturing him. We'll need him for information." the pale teen looked at Sasuke. "Now, since the Akatsuki member is out of the way, I would like to discuss your infiltration of my mansion." Suigetsu fiddled with the end of the cloth at the base of his neck, since he had taken it off when he got to the top of the building. Sasuke had done the same, and had activated his sharingan. The mist-nin anxiously awaited their words.

"...It was a necessary evil."

"What makes you think that?"

"We needed to find you-"

"You needed to find the Akatsuki, not me."

"We assumed you had met him already."

"So then, you refused to inform anyone and instead took matters into your own hands-"

A loud noise interrupted the two, and Gaara turned to see that a hole had been blown in his sphere of sand. Deidara fell from the hole, and quickly created a clay owl, which he landed on. The blonde looked up at the Kazekage, a grin on his face and a glint in his eye.

"He seems persistant." Gaara muttered silently. An arm of sand appeared behind Deidara and attempted to grab him, but he dodged. Sasuke was about to say something to Gaara again, but suddenly, the sand that Sasuke and Suigetsu were standing on seperated from Gaara's, and they were swiftly floated down to the ground on the other side of the city.

"Damnit." Suigetsu pouted, crossing his arms in annoyance. Sasuke looked up to see the redhead and the blonde dueling in the air with explosions of clay and sand. The entire night sky seemed to have a pinkish brown hue to it.

"Well...It can't be helped." Sasuke muttered, sheathing his sword. Suigetsu looked flabberghasted.

"What? Are you telling me now that we came here for nothi-" Sasuke placed a hand over the astonished teen's mouth, who started muffling into his pale palm. "Mphmmmphmph!"

"Calm down. We're going to wait to see the outcome of the battle, then act. Understand?" Suigetsu blushed a bit and, feeling like a child, nodded. He took the hand off his mouth and they both looked up at the fight above. Shukaku arms were swimming through the air, with Deidara seeming to be only a small speck compared to them, with even smaller dots zooming towards the arms and exploding in tiny bursts on it.

As time passed, Suigetsu scanned the area around him with his now bored lavender eyes. All he wanted was to get to capturing the Akatsuki guy, so that they could get to Itachi, and so that Sasuke could kill him, and so that they could have celebration sex all night long! Umm...well, that's what his hormones were thinking anyway.

Suddenly, something caught the teen's attention. There was one other person in their area of the village. He was dressed in a violet cloak with a hood on, putting a shadow over his pale face. He was sitting at an empty outdoor coffee shop, with a cup of coffee in his hand. The man was sipping it quietly while watching the battle in the sky, and every few moments he would glance over at the two teens.

"Hey!" Suigetsu shouted over at him, leaving Sasuke's side. The cloaked man didn't flinch and simply looked over from the sky to watch Suigetsu approach him. Sasuke looked a bit shocked that the silver-haired teen had suddenly left him to confront someone, so he followed to find out why.

"Who are you?" Suigetsu inquired in a demanding tone. The stranger said nothing, simply taking a sip of his coffee cup before setting it on the table and placing his hands in his lap. Suigetsu grinded his teeth in what he saw as annoyance, but was probably an aftermath of the massive amount of impatience he'd had since they got the the top of the Kazekage Mansion.

"Suigetsu, stop." Sasuke commanded calmly, placing a hand on the shoulder of his soon-to-be pissed off companion. Suigetsu ignored him, and was about to speak again if the strange man hadn't spoken first.

"Suigetsu Hozuki, future Swordsman of the Hidden Mist. We meet again."

:0 who is it? How do they know Sui-chan? Why do I ask questions that I already know the answer to? XD yeah, but chapter 11 is coming up in a little, so yeah! And one more thing; WOOT 10 CHAPTERS YAY!

Suigetsu: *dances*

Sasuke: *facepalm* idiots...