Me: Hey guys! Here's the next chapter. It's a not much but it's hopefully a bit entertaining.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the characters I just own this plot, Akira and SaiKura. I am borrowing Lylas from my friend with her permission.

Warnings: Again not too many. A failed romance and language. There may be a bit a violence and defiantly a bloody nose. Anyway Enjoy!

Surprisingly Deidara was really chatty. After I had six or seven pancakes (I was surprised that I didn't throw it all up due to a month a month of malnutrition. Apparently, Itachi, whoever that was, spent a good amount of time during my recovery forcing my body full of nutrients and readying it for actual substance) Deidara decided to take me on a tour of the house. Chatter flowed easily out of his lips as we went along. The house held 11 original occupants. Each one had their own room, unfortunately the guest rooms were under construction since they didn't have guests all that often. Shocker.

The house itself was huge: with the bedrooms each with a bathroom attached, three public bathrooms, a mud room, a sun room, two living rooms, a game room, a pool room, a kitchen, and a basement that served as a working space. It was a surprisingly normal house for supposedly blood thirsty killers.

There was a second building that was used as a training building that held all their weapons. It was colored like the house and had a huge wrap around porch like the house only that on was wider and most likely sturdier. Deidara informed me that he owned forty-two fish and there were two black labs running around somewhere.

Despite the situation, I felt safe here. Now saying that didn't mean I wasn't looking for loopholes in their protection shields. So far they were flawless which irritated me to no end. It also became increasingly apparent that the Akatsuki had no idea that I was the Mizukage. Not much of a surprise, the Elders tried to keep my position in the dark due to political issues. There was a certain amount of corruption in the Elders and my election to the Mizukage spot was due to the thought that I was young and stupid and easily manipulated. They were sadly mistaken, for I knew how to run my country and damn it I did a great job at it. Once I turned twenty my identity would be revealed to my village.

Dizziness suddenly overcame as we made our way back from the pool room. Forcing my steps to steady I took a deep breath and blinked. Deidara went instantly silent as if his volume was turned all the way down. I felt nauseous but I refused to puke on the nice carpeting under my bare feet. It wasn't until I stumbled that I realized that Deidara had thrown my arm over his shoulder. "Don't feel so good." I slurred, my tongue felt thick and something tasted funky.

He just shook his head and swept me into his arms before depositing me in a near by bathroom where the unfortunate long haired guy from before was washing his hands. I didn't worry about it too much as I emptied my stomach into the porcelain bowl. 'Damn you SaiKura!' a voice inside my head raged. The next words slurred together as the pressure and pain in my head grew almost unbearably. 'Lylas?' I thought.

I received no answer, but the pain in my head let up. Someone obviously really wanted to break through my seal and gain entry to my brain. What the hell were they so intent on finding? Through the haze over my brain I knew the answer was probably obvious but I was too tired and sick to care. "What's your name?" Deidara asked. I felt warm Chakra flow into me from the hand on my back. It didn't do anything other than push the pain back. Obviously he was trying to distract me from what he was doing. Not exactly sure why he had to but hey, at least he cared enough to give me the option.

Even with that though I knew I had to lie. "Kali." I replied shakily. "My name is Kali."

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Sasuke passed back and forth fidgeting. Lylas sat on the couch trying to read her book. "You know SaiKura had the knack to piss me off by just being in the room?" Sasuke said suddenly. Sighing Lylas placed her book down. 'Here we go again.' She thought. Sasuke continues his rant of random facts about his distantly related cousin. "She'd walk into the room and smile knowingly as if it had been me who nearly died in my latest mission. When I first met her she was seemingly a quiet dutiful little girl but damn it piss her off and you realized just how powerful she really was. The Elders were blind to her and thought they could get away with control using her. Too bas she's smarter than that." "Sasuke." He stopped abruptly. "Why isn't she back?" Panicked he began to pace again. "She could have gotten away easily. Did they drain her of her chakra?" "Sasuke." "She couldn't be dead, otherwise I would know. I would feel it, but maybe distance dampens the connection." "Sasuke." "Damn and Shinomaru is struggling in keeping her disappearance a secret, the country wants to know where their Blue Rose of war is." "Sasuke." "Shit! What the hell I can't…"

He didn't get to finish as Lylas grabbed onto his shirt and pulled him into a searing kiss. This was one thing that drove her insane about this man. It was his ability to worry about someone and contain it until Lylas was the only one present for his random facts rant. As she slipped her tongue into his mouth she began a long winded rant in her head. 'Damn you SaiKura! Why couldn't you just allow yourself be found? Bitch damn it! I know you could have fought them off so why the hell did you allow yourself to get caught?' The tirade went on even as Sasuke lay down on top of her their lips still locked then suddenly there was a whisper at the back of her mind. 'Lylas?'

"SaiKura?" She said suddenly bolting upright, startling Sasuke in the process. "SaiKura?" There was no reply. This sent her into another tirade that had Sasuke staring at her as if she was crazy. She was so confused. Was she so worried that she was hearing her best friend's voice? The problem was that she wasn't worried. It wasn't that she didn't care. She just knew that SaiKura could take care of herself. So what the hell was that?

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I woke to an anxious face looming over mine. Instinctively I lashed up and decked him. He stumbled back and I heard a thump. "Told you she'd do it." Someone said. I couldn't find them through the haze in my mind. "Damn she got you good. Look at all the blood!" "Don't be so damn cheerful about it." Someone grumbled. There were a couple of chuckles and the bed dipped and golden brown hair fell gently over my face. "Kali?" Akira's quiet voice asked. There was a question. Obviously she caught on to the fact that my name was a secret.

I grunted a reply. Warm air hit my face as she sighed. Another face appeared in my vision. All I could see was a blurry face and purple hair. "We need to talk." She said. Shit she was female and I felt I was about to be in some deep shit.