Outside of the smoothie shop, Sasori and Emiko were drinking a smoothie when Sasori spoke up. "Hey, do you want to practice the play at my place?" asked Sasori.

"I guess so," said Emiko, taking a sip of her smoothie.

"It'll be fun, you can meet my roommates," smiled Sasori.

"Roommates?" repeated Emiko.

"Yeah, roommates," said Sasori, thinking Pain, Did say I need to make friends.

"I suppose so, I don't plan on anything," said Emiko.

"I have a question, you don't have parents so do you live by yourself?" asked Sasori.

"Yeah, I do."

"Aren't you 15?" asked Sasori.

"Well… I am," said Emiko as she looked around. "Sasori, I feel I can trust you."

"Hm?" said Sasori, looking surprised.

"If I tell you, would you promise to still be my friend?" asked Emiko.

"Yeah, sure, what is it?" asked Sasori.

"Well…. you see I come from a clan where youth is forever as long as you live," said Emiko.

"What are you saying?"

"I'm a little older than you think," said Emiko with a blush. "I'm a 15 year old that lived up to 25 years."

Sasori got surprised. She is the girl that we are looking for? He thought, but she's so innocent. He then recomposed himself. "It's okay, I understand," he said. "It's cool."

"Really?" asked Emiko.

"Yeah," sad Sasori, "You never finished high school?"

Emiko shook her head. "No, I didn't," she said.

"Me neither," said Sasori. "I have something to tell you."

"What?" she asked.

"I'm a pretty old 15 year old too," he said shyly.

"Oh," said Emiko. "We got so much in common." She said happily.

"Yeah," said Sasori. "Come on, let's go and practice the play," they left the smoothie place.

At the Akatsuki hideout, everyone was doing their daily things like…..

Kisame was polishing his sword.

Itachi was flipping his hair.

Zetsu was probably spying on people.

Hidan was doing his rituals.

Kakazu was counting his 7 million ryo that he's glad to have back.

Pain was talking to Konan.

Deidara was making a clay heart and blowing it up in his sad and miserable state.

Sasori was no where to be found.

Everything seemed fine when all of the sudden Kakazu spoke, "You know, I thought that girl was oddly weird for not taking the money," he said.

"Why? Because she isn't as greedy like you?" said Hidan.

"Hmm, good point," said Kakazu as he closed his brief case. "Pain, I still think she knows about that Akatsuki future member."

Pain then turned to face Kakazu.

"Ugh…. I think we got the answer from her when you two ruined her date," said Konan.

"Yeah, OUR date!" mumbled Deidara.

"Oh, pipe it, just be happy that we stopped you from this nonsense attachment or you would have fallen too deep," Kakazu said.

"Whatever," Deidara said.

"I never had a date, and look at me, I'm strong," said Kisame, making his sword shine with a final wipe.

"Mitsu will probably tell the school about us," said Deidara.

"Why? We haven't done anything," said Hidan, "Yet…"

"Then you will stop going to this school, there's no need for you to be there," said Pain. "We'll just keep Konan to work there and eventually she will find out due to her disguise hasn't blown yet."

"Tch, I say we fight and make them spill the answer," said Kakazu.

"Exactly what I was thinking," said Hidan.

"And I think we should start with the heartbreaker," said Kakazu. "Allow me to deal with her."

Deidara got shocked, "You will do nothing to Mitsu!" he said. "She hasn't done anything to us!"

"Deidara's heartbroken, let's do what he wishes," said Pain.

"Grr," said Kakazu, leaving with Hidan as Sasori came, standing next to Emiko.

"Here's our home," he said, moving aside to let Kakazu and Hidan walk out. "Hmm, must be in a hurry."

"Sasori, you live in a cave?" asked Emiko.

"Yeah," Sasori blushed. "There are my roommates," he pointed as Emiko yelled.

"Hello!" she said, everyone turned around.

"What is a girl doing here?" asked Deidara. "Sasori, you know you shouldn't be bringing in strangers, my man."

"She's not a stranger. She's my friend from school. We're here to practice the play," said Sasori.

"Then let us meet this friend of yours," said Pain in a kind way.

"Hi," said Emiko.

"Hello," said everyone.

"Wow, there are a lot of people," said Emiko.

"Yeah," said Sasori. "Come on in, let's get started with the play," as Deidara then jumped down and left.

In the cafeteria, Mitsu and Umeki were eating their lunch food in a sad way. "I can't believe I almost fell in….with a criminal!" said Mitsu as Umeki patted her shoulder.

"It's alright, I did too," said Umeki, trying to make Mitsu laugh as Mitsu got up from her pose of placing her face on her hand and sat up straight. "Are you going to tell the school?"

"No, they'll find out sooner or later," said Mitsu. "Plus, they haven't really done anything yet."

"Oh," said Umeki as they both heard a noise. "What was that?"

"Don't know, sounded like it came from outside," said Mitsu, getting up and walking to the outside door where she saw Kakazu and Hidan, throwing ryo coins on the wall making the sound of the noise.

"Hello, ladies," said Kakazu.

"Hello, masked man," said Mitsu. "What are you doing here?"

"We came to see if you know a non-aging person around this school," said Hidan.

"I don't know, I'm not the school president," said Mitsu.

"You're a smart girl, I think you know," said Kakazu.

"No, I don't, you are a pretty dumb man to not get that," said Mitsu.

"Ooh, she called you dumb," said Hidan.

"I know she did," said Kakazu, twitching his eye. "Then maybe your friend knows."

"Know what?" asked Umeki.

"About an elderly person that appears young," said Kakazu.

"No," said Umeki.

"I say we battle to find out," said Hidan.

"Same here," said Kakazu.

"I say no, because fighting gets you no where," said Umeki.

"Don't worry, Umeki, I got your back," said Mitsu, pulling out her kunai.

"Okay," said Umeki.

At the Akatsuki cave, Zetsu came back with news to tell Pain who was watching Sasori's play.

"Pain, I have something to tell you," said Zetsu.

"What is it?" he asked.

"The person that we are looking for is none other than that girl," Zetsu pointed at Emiko who was lying on her tummy, reading the play with Sasori.

"What?" said Pain as Konan over heard the shocking news and said 'what'?

"Great, we kind of wasted out time," said Konan, rolling her eyes.

"You know this because…?" said Pain.

"We were watching Deidara and Sasori," said Zetsu.

"Why didn't you tell us earlier?" asked Pain.

"We wanted to see how you guys would find her, guess I win," said Zetsu.

"…." Pain remained quiet.

Konan began to whisper, "We can't force her to join."

"We'll let Sasori take care of this," said Pain.

"You think he knows?" asked Konan.

"Judging how they are getting along, I think he does," said Pain.

Sasori and Emiko were laughing.

Mitsu blocked an attack from Kakazu and fell on one knee while Umeki jumped on a tree to avoid Hidan.

"Man, these guys are strong," said Mitsu.

"Yeah," said Umeki.

"Heh, I got a lot of battle experience than you, little girl," said Kakazu.

"Same here," said Hidan.

"Stop agreeing with everything I say," said Kakazu.

"I am not!" yelled back Hidan as the two girls were clueless of what just was going on.

Meanwhile Deidara was thinking to go back to the school and deal with Mitsu when all of the sudden his camera like eye got a glimpse of the fight between Kakazu and Hidan versus the two girls.

"What the…? Why are they here? And what are they doing?" said Deidara out loud to himself as he jumped toward the battle field and went between Mitsu and Kakazu. "Stop!" he said and most of the people froze except for Kakazu who smiled underneath his mask and threw an attack that went past Deidara and hit to Mitsu instead.

"Mitsu!" said Deidara. "Stop it," he said, running to Mitsu.

"Deidara, why are you here?" asked Mitsu, lying on the ground.

"Because I wanted to mend what had happen before," said Deidara, sitting next to her.

"Why?" she asked.

"Because I… I like you," said Deidara. "I really like you and I don't care if I'm a criminal and I get expelled from school."

"Shh," said Mitsu. "I understand."

"You do?" said Deidara.

"Yeah, why else would you stop the fight? Heh, you could have helped the mask man win," said Mitsu.

"Please, Mitsu, forgive me," said Deidara. "I'm sorry that I'm a freak and a not-so innocent-guy."

"It's okay," said Mitsu. "You know after knowing you for two days, I really like you too," as Kakazu and Hidan got disgusted Zetsu appeared.

"You guys, the mission is over," said Zetsu as Hidan and Kakazu turned around.

"It is?" asked Kakazu.

"Yes, we found the non-aging person," said Zetsu. "It's a little girl from ninth grade," as Deidara helped Mitsu up and Umeki jumped down from the tree.

"What are you going to do with her?" asked Mitsu.

"We are planning to ask the girl if she would like to join us," said Zetsu. "She's all alone in the world, and one of our members has taken a liking to her."

"Oh," said Mitsu.

"It's okay, she can always say no," smiled Deidara. "And besides, not all of the Akatsukis are bad," he winked as Umeki blushed.

"Like Itachi?" she asked.

"Hmm…. I don't know about him, he did…" said Deidara as Mitsu covered his mouth.

"Shh, don't tell her, it will break her heart," said Mitsu.

"Oh," said Deidara. "You both owe Mitsu an apologize, Kakazu and Hidan."

"What?" the both of them said.

"Yes," said Deidara.

"Sorry," said both of them in annoyed tones as Deidara smiled. Mitsu tapped at his shoulder.

"I….didn't tell the school that you were a criminal yet," she said shyly.

Deidara then sighed, "Yeah, well, I can't attend here any more anyway."

"Why?" she asked/

"Because being apart of the Akatsukis, heh, means that everyone is after you," he laughed. "And besides, talking to you now will make you in trouble, I think we should go."

"Wait! You mean I can never see you again?" she asked worriedly.

"Well, we have to just wait and see," said Deidara as he made the clay into a big bird and jumped on with the remaining Akatsukis members, leaving Umeki and Mitsu.

"You just letting him go?" asked Umeki.

"Yeah," said Mitsu in a sad tone.