Sorry for the late update. I've been a little busy with spring break and all, but I'm back with a new chapter. I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter8: Kidnapping

"You have my word, Leader-Sama." He flashed a quick smile and dragged me out of the base in my pajamas.

Deidara laughed to himself as we made it outside. "Ok Natalie, sit down." I did as I was told and sat down in front of him. He proceeded to sit down as well. He reached into a pouch strapped to his side. Inside there was this kind of cream color substance. "What is that?" I asked curiously. He smiled once more. "This is my clay, it's what I use to make my art, un." I raised my eyebrows. "How does that even work?" He held his hands out and a tongue came out of each hand.

I back up a little bit. My facial expression was mixed with disgust and fascination. After showing me his…extra tongues he put his right hand in the same bag strapped to his waist. He pulled his hand out and the mouth was chewing. "Is it eating the clay?" I asked trying to sound calm. "No, hm." The mouth then regurgitated a perfectly crafted bird.

Deidara carefully laid the bird on the ground. "You might want to back up, yeah." He said with a huge grin. I stepped back about a little over five feet. Deidara made a quick gesture with his hand and the bird grew to a size bigger than Deidara and I. "Wow." I said as I came closer to the object. "This is only the beginning of my art, un." He said. The bird began to flap its wings and it took flight. "What is it…?" Deidara shushed me.

"Just watch, yeah."

The bird at first just started to fly in circles, but then in a second it exploded in a flash. At first I was frightened but then I stood there in absolute astonishment.

"That was so cool!" I yelled. Deidara showed me a couple more of his creations. We were both smiling and having fun. In the middle of one explosion Deidara stopped smiling. I gave him a questioning look. "Natalie get back to the base, right now, yeah." He said in all seriousness. Before I got a chance to move two arms were wrapped around my waist. "Deidara!" I screamed. He immediately turned around, but he was quickly tackled by another male. He was able to push him off and into a tree. The male slumped down and didn't get up. Deidara turned back towards me. I elbowed the person that had a hold of me in the stomach.

The person let go. I turned around and met the face of a short female. I could feel Deidara tense up. "You're that girl from earlier." He said somewhat angry.

"Aww, thanks for remembering me Blondie, but now's not the time. Just hand over the girl and no harm will come to you." The moment the girl said the last half of her sentence the man that tackled Deidara had a knife against his neck.

He mouthed the words run to me. The female caught what he had said and grabbed me once more. "What do we do now Madelyn?" The male asked. The female, now know as Madelyn, rolled her eyes and then glared at her companion. "You idiot!" she yelled. "I didn't then to know my name. Incompetent fool."

Then man gave a shy look. "Sorry." He said. He then hit Deidara in the neck causing him to slump over.

"Deidara!" I yelled. They only chuckled. She covered my mouth and then hit me in the neck as well. Things got blurry and I lost consciousness.

*Sasori's P.O.V*

I had just finished patching the cracks in my cheek that Natalie had made. While fixing it I had a serious thought session. I could not sense little to any chakra coming from her during our fight. So it was defiantly not a chakra infused punch. If that was just her strength I can't even imagine what her punch would be like with chakra.

A large serge of chakra broke my train of thought.

I got up from where I was sitting and walked out of my room. I know I'm not allowed to leave the base without Pein's permission, but I decided against telling him for some reason. I left the base and found a slumped over Deidara against a tree and no Natalie. My eyes widened.

"Deidara." I yelled slightly. He shifted in his space and then woke up. He turned to face me and then he looked around. When he saw there was no one but him and I he got a panicked look on his face.

"What did you do brat?" I asked somewhat angry. Deidara got up from his current sitting position and stood up. He walked slowly to the entrance of the base. I followed him and saw he was walking to Pein's office. I kept my distance. Deidara knocked on the door and was allowed entrance. I didn't walk in, but I crept up near the door so I could hear the conversation.

"What is it Deidara? Where is Natalie, did you already pass her to Itachi?" I didn't hear anything so I assumed the brat just shook his head no.

"Then why are you here Deidara?" Pein asked irritated. I heard the brat take a big breath of air.

"I was showing Natalie my art directly in front of the base. Then I think it was Konoha ninja that attacked us. The leader of the group was that female ninja that attacked all of us yesterday. Her name is Madelyn. The team of two made me lose consciousness and when I woke Natalie was gone."

I heard a loud thump. "You what?" An extremely dark voice said. "Pein I…" Deidara was interrupted. "Deidara, I want you to find Natalie. If you cannot retrieve her by tomorrow morning I'll personally kill you. I hope that's understood. I want you to go on this retrieval mission with Sasori and apparently he's standing right outside the door. Get all your supplies and get out of the base." My eyebrow arched when Pein mentioned my name and whereabouts. I could have sworn I didn't make a sound and hid my chakra. I guess there's no hiding from him. I backed away from the door, the brat came out in a rush. He ran to his room and I walked to my own to gather my puppets.

I met up with Deidara in the clearing in front of the base.

He created one of his birds that he refers to as art. If anything my puppets are the real art. We both hopped up onto the bird. I usually prefer to walk, but this was urgent.

The bird took off.

*Natalie's P.O.V*

I woke up, but didn't open my eyes. I knew I was in an unfamiliar place. Those people took me away from Deidara. I finally opened my eyes and was being carried by the male that had tackled Deidara. I panicked and elbowed the male in the stomach. He coughed and fumbled with holding me. In the end he ended up dropping me. I hit several trees before I smacked on to the ground.

"Seth! Are you that big of an idiot?" The girl named Madelyn yelled at her partner.

"Sorry." He said as he rushed after me. I held my head as I sat up. When I saw who Madelyn called Seth rush after me I got to my feet, I turned around and started to run. I swerved through the trees as fast as I could. "Come back here you little brat!" I heard them yell at me. I looked back at them for a second to see how close they were to me. In the seconds my head was turned I ran into an inconvenient tree. My head was already hurting, but now I had a splitting headache.

Madelyn and Seth caught up to me and threw me over their shoulder. At first I was resisting, but I gave up about seven minutes later.

In about 40 minutes we reached a big gate that was a greenish and a kind of a cream color. I was carried in and I took a good look at my surroundings. It was bustling yet quaint. Once again I tried struggling and resisting, but this time I was screaming. All they did was cover my mouth with their hands. Everyone kind of glances at us but then they went off to their own business.

We reached a large door and we went up stairs. They knocked on an upcoming door. We heard the words enter and then we walked in. I saw a blonde lady wearing a grayish kimono type shirt and a green jacket over it.

They dropped me in front of the lady with rather large breast. Her expression was neutral. She wasn't smiling and she wasn't frowning. I sat down and gave her the same expression she was giving me. Her eyes were directed to my two kidnappers.

"Madelyn, Seth, I see that you have caught the girl. I'm impressed with her capture from the Akatsuki, but I'm not happy. Do you know why?" She asked her expression getting a little more furious. They looked down at me.

"Yes, Lady Tsunade." Tsunade scoffed. "Well then why am I upset with your work?" Madelyn elbowed Seth to step up and tell Tsunade, but it seems that he didn't have a clue about what was going on so she came forward instead to tell what happened.

"The female target Natalie appears to have some minor injuries to her person. Her head is bruised and so are other parts of her body including the arm. Her arm is also slightly bleeding."

I looked down at my arm and indeed my arm was bleeding, but it wasn't slight. Blood was quickly trickling down my arm and on to the floor. The blood had already created a small pool of itself. My pajamas were also soaked in my blood. How I didn't notice that before is beyond me. Tsunade stood up and walked to me. She held out a hand for me to take. I was skeptical at first, but I took the hand nonetheless.

"Let's get you to the hospital." She said in a comforting tone. I followed her out of the room. Soon we came to a white building.

*With Sasori and Deidara* Deidara's P.O.V

We finally caught up to Natalie after about 40 minutes of travel. I was getting ready to start a fight with the two when Sasori stopped me. "What are you doing?" I asked him angrily.

"Well brat," He started. "We're too close to the village and they are most likely taking Natalie to the Hokage. We're going to have to silently keep watch and take her back to base around nightfall. If you had any sense you would know this brat." I rolled my eyes, but let him continue talking.

"This could be a trap as well since they knew we have been in contact with Natalie. We need to make a plan now."