A/N:

Oh my god, I'm SO SO SO sorry this chapter is so late! I've been so stressed with school. I have a Pre AP course, plus I'm a year above grade level math. Not to mention I'm taking German at the community college two nights a week. And volleyball. And as sad as it is, this story is secondary to all of those. I'd have liked to go to sleep an hour ago and catch up on sleep, but I finished this for you all!

Disclaimer: Seriously. See the name? WON TAWN. Is that anything like Masashi Kishimoto?

Chapter Five: Secrets

Tobi nearly fell off several times in just the first few minutes of flight.

It was then that I realized that I had no idea where we were going.

I mumbled this to Deidara.

He turned his head slightly to stare at me with the eye that didn't have a scope on it. "Does it matter?"

"Yes." I said matter-of-factly.

"We're going just outside of the border of Fire." He sighed.

I nodded awkwardly in the limited space; it was understandable, after all.

"So," I turned my head the best I could to look at Kisame. I had to speak loudly to be heard over the roar of the wind rushing past us. "How've you been, Fish Boy?"

Kisame smirked at me. "Fine, Pinky. And you?"

"As good as I could be, I guess." I sighed. "How have you two been?" I emphasized the 'two', because I wouldn't get an answer from Itachi even if I asked him.

Kisame snorted. "Fine."

It seemed that Itachi had somehow managed to hear out conversation, and he was now doing his best to glare at me around Kisame.

I rolled my eyes, "Nice to see you, too." Sarcasm. That worked…

Itachi looked away coldly.

"What the hell is wrong with him?" I mumbled to myself, turning around. Itachi seemed almost protective of Kisame, like he owned him or something.

I sure as hell hoped I wasn't like that with Deidara. I tightened my arms some around him at that thought.

He gently took one of my hands away from my death grip to hold it. As always, he was careful of his bloodline limit.

I smiled softly and let my head rest against his toned back.

I think I drifted off to sleep, because it felt like seconds later when we began our decline. Plus, I was a bit muddled at that point.

I watched as the landscape grew closer and closer, until we hit it.

It was a nice soft impact.

Tobi jumped off as soon as he could manage. He was probably getting on Itachi's nerves, even though he hadn't said anything, and he knew it. Even Tobi had enough brains to know not to piss off the Uchiha.

Hmm. Tobi actually noticed something. That was new.

Itachi and Kisame both slid off at nearly the same time. They went off somewhere together. I didn't want to assume but still, I couldn't help but imagine why they would need privacy. I thanked some omnipotent being that we were next to an extremely loud river.

With free space finally behind me, I swung one leg over to the opposite side so I could slide off.

Deidara beat me to the dismount, and caught me in a hug when my feet touched the ground.

He glared at Tobi meaningfully for a long moment. Apparently, Tobi finally caught on, because he left. Not without mumbling to himself in annoyance at his dismissal; he probably wanted to say hi to me. And annoy the shit out of me.

As soon as Tobi was out of site, Deidara kissed me. First on the forehead, then each cheek, my nose, finally a tender kiss on my lips.

He released one of his arms to reach out and lean on the bird.

I mentally cursed my perverted mind, thinking how this looked exactly like a romantic manga scene; a boy, trapping the girl he likes against a wall kissing her senseless.

Another part of my brain was saying how it was like one of those awkward comedy moments.

I knit my brows together in annoyance at my distracting- and completely irritating- thoughts.

Deidara pulled back, noticing the change in my expression.

"Not good enough?" he breathed.

Again, my brain was saying how much this was like a damn manga scene. I told it to shut up so I could answer.

Before I could get that far, Deidara brought his lips back to mine, kissing me passionately this time instead of tenderly.

I had to remind myself to breathe.

I wasn't sure how long the kiss lasted; it seemed like forever, yet only mere seconds.

"I love you," He whispered into my ear. His words burned with sincerity.

"I love you, too." I whispered back.

He kissed me softly on the lips once more.

"We should set up camp for the night." He said quietly.

I nodded.

No fire tonight; it would give away our position.

We simply rolled out the sleeping bag-type things.

Three. There were three.

It wasn't a difficulty to figure out what the sleeping arrangements would be; I would share one with Deidara, Kisame and Itachi would have another, and Tobi… Tobi was all alone.

Itachi and Kisame were already back, but they were on the other side of the small clearing, talking softly.

Deidara was rummaging through a pack, looking for the food.

Tobi still wasn't back. I assumed he was lost.

It was actually still a light out; the sun was just staring to set. I sat down next to one of the sleeping bags to watch it.

I'd always loved sunsets.

A few minutes later, Deidara came over to sit next to me. He had some freeze dried food in his hand.

I made a face at it; seriously, I'd lived on crap long enough. I definitely needed more real food than what I'd had in the short time that I'd been released so far.

Deidara laughed at me.

I made a face at him, too.

He rolled his eyes before wrapping an arm around me and pulling me against his side.

"So…" I prattled, not knowing what to say.

Deidara sighed.

"What have you been up to?" I finally managed to spit something out to start a conversation.

"Akatsuki stuff." He frowned. I figured he couldn't tell me what that stuff was.

"I don't need to ask you what you did." He muttered. "Locked up in a loony bin," He scoffed.

"Sakura was locked up in a loony bin?" Kisame called from his seat on a sleeping bag, the little- well, big- eavesdropper.

I sighed in annoyance. "Technically, it was solitary confinement, not a loony bin."

"Same difference," they both muttered.

"Why exactly were you locked up?" Kisame pressed. I ignored him.

Deidara answered for me, much to my annoyance. "Her sanity and state of mind were being question."

"Well then, she can join the club." Kisame laughed. "At the very least, you two have more in common now."

Deidara scowled. So did I.

"See?" the blue man pushed.

I turned away from him, crossed my arms, and pouted, in a very childlike act.

Deidara chuckled softly at me.

Kisame mumbled something about how both Deidara and I were both like little kids, earning another glare from me.

Deidara pulled me closer against his side. I rested my head against his shoulder, content.

However, it didn't seem like it was enough for him. He pulled me into his lap and spun me until I was facing him before he attacked me with his lips.

Kisame and the silent Itachi, thankfully, disappeared into the forestry. My spinning mind wondered idly if it was to give us privacy, or to find some privacy of their own.

I moved my lips with his, gladly filling his need.

"I," Deidara panted, out of breath when he pulled back, "I love you, Sakura."

"I know." I smiled at him tenderly.

He brushed back the pink locks that had spilled over my ears, partially obscuring my face.

I leaned my forehead against his, weariness catching up with me. I didn't want to admit that, though. If anyone needed sleep, it would be my Dei; he'd obviously used some explosives today and flown three Akatsuki, me, and himself here.

"You should sleep." I whispered.

He groaned softly. "You're coming with me." He sighed as he reached back to unzip the sleeping bag with me still on his lap.

Deidara rolled both of us over and into the small confines of it, swiftly zipping it up behind me.

He kissed me softly one more time and wrapped his arms more securely around my waist.

I tightened my death grip around him in an attempt to pull my body closer to his.

It only took a few minutes before sleep over came me.

When I woke up, I was completely disoriented. I didn't know what time it was, exactly where we were, or where we were going. I still didn't know what was going on in my village. For all I knew, it could be completely destroyed. Along with my friends.

The thought brought a shiver down my spine.

Deidara, who had already bee awake, hugged me tighter to his chest. "Are you cold?" he asked me softly.

"No," I sighed, "I'm just being a worry wart."

I opened my eyes in time to see him send me a quizzical stare.

"I don't know where we are, where we're going, or what happened to my village." I clarified quietly.

"We're right at the corner of the borders of Fire and Rain, in non-shinobi territory so we don't have deal with ANBU. And your village is fine. Unless they inflicted pain upon themselves, no one is injured with more than a few scratches and bruises."

I eyed him, searching for any hint of a lie in his face.

If there was one, I didn't see it.

"Okay," I sighed. "But you didn't tell me where we're going."

He bit his lip.

Deidara sat up slightly to send a glance at Kisame and Itachi, already packed and ready.

Kisame sighed and looked at Itachi, who shrugged.

"Go ahead. It's not my responsibility." He said, emotionless.

Quite frankly, I like the ice cream-devouring, chick flick-watching, crying Itachi more than this emotionless one.

Maybe it was because an over emotional person just seems more… human.

Deidara's eyes narrowed slightly.

"And…?" I prodded him.

He sighed softly in resignation. "It's Akatsuki stuff, realize that first," he started slowly.

His pause was too long, so I interrupted. "Yeah, yeah."

"I don't think you understand," he pleaded. "This stuff is risky. You could get hurt for knowing…"

"Okay." I said softly, my eyes softening; he was just worried about me.

Deidara sighed one more time. "We're actually on a mission." His voice dropped to a whisper.

By this point, we were both out of the sleeping bag and sitting on top of it, though Deidara held me on him lap, straddle ways so we could see each other.

I leaned closer to him, curious. "What kind of a mission?"

"An informational one." He sighed. "Normally, a mission like this would only take one pair of partners, but this one…" he paused, unsure how to go on.

I ran my fingers through his messy hair unconsciously. "Why is it harder?"

"The places it involves. Normally, it would just be something like bunk in a town for a week or two, and check out some company that's interested in making a deal. This one is… spying."

I noticed how he struggled to choose the word "spying".

"And attacking Konoha?" I asked nervously. "Was it part of the mission, or just your side decision?"

"Side decision."

I exhaled in relief. "So what is this… spying… about?"

"It's gathering information on Konoha and its ninjas." He admitted slowly.

"Are you using me?" I frowned.

"No. No, no." he said, appalled. Deidara put his lips to mine briefly. "I would never do that, Sakura. I'm actually planning on misleading them."

I nodded slowly. Akatsuki must want information on Naruto and those around him. The tailed-beast inside of him was one of the goals of Akatsuki.

"I was hoping you could help us." He admitted.

"I thought you said you weren't going to use me." My gaze hardened.

"I'm not going to. I need help with the lie."

"Fine. I don't want to talk about it right now, though." I kissed him softly, telling him what I'd much rather be doing.

He pulled back after a moment. "Later." Deidara sighed. He seemed disappointed. "We need to move now."

I sighed, knowing the necessity.

Right now, Tsunade and Naruto probably had as many people as they dared out searching. For me.

Would they know that I'd travel with them willingly? Would they declare me a traitor?

I shivered softly.

Deidara pulled me closer for a moment before he stood up, pulling me with him.

Already, he was molding a bird.

Worries invaded my mind in that idle moment.

I obviously couldn't stay with Deidara forever; I was too loyal to my village and he was trapped in Akatsuki.

I worried my lip between my teeth.

Could he come back to Konoha with me?

The whole village would protest.

No.

Tears began to well in my eyes.

It would always be a forbidden love.

Neither of us could switch to the other side. There was no middle ground.

Like Romeo and Juliet, and look at what happened to them.

Romeo killed himself and Juliet followed.

And of course, Deidara was already somewhat suicidal with his 'master piece'.

The explosion that would cost him his life, along with anyone nearby him.

The tears that had been gathering in my eyes spilled over.

"Sakura!"

A/N:

I hope you like this... Ugh. Not the best, but here it is..