*Omniscient

"Katsu!" Deidara broke in causing the last of his clay explosives to detonate into a fiery pit right next to their target. He smirked to himself as he saw the petite teen lie unconscious in the sand that used to be part of her home territory. Did he really care that she might be seriously injured? No, she nearly killed him, and he still could feel a sharp pain in the left side of his chest and in his stomach. Besides, it was only a C1 explosion, which was enough to knock her out, but not enough kill the girl, he wasn't that stupid.

Itachi shot a glare over at the rookie as the smoke from the blast cleared. He saw the blonde shrug like the careless kid he was. Itachi just sighed, "She surrendered…" He muttered as his eyes shifted back over to the girl who was now even more beat up than before.

"Quit standing around looking at the kid! One of you two pick her up; the Suna shinobi are coming close, and I'm tired of dealing with this." Sasori growled at the two youngest members of the Akatsuki as he started walking back in the direction that they all had come from.

"Hell no, I'm not touching that girl, hmm" Deidara protested, shaking his head as he turned around and started toward his superior. As he walked, he spit out the blood that still seemed to pool up in him mouth, and wiped away the remainder that had dribbled to his chin earlier in the battle. He didn't know what that girl had done to him, but whatever it was; he was going to stay away from her. She may have looked harmless in the beginning, but she was easily as lethal as him.

Itachi didn't even look at the 16 year old, who had been infiltrated into the organization only a few months ago, as he whined. He just walked over to the light haired medical ninja and gently picked her up, unsure on how harmed she was. The moment he held her, he could feel the warm blood still dripping from her side where she had gotten hit with Sasori's tail. He tried to put pressure on the wound, but was stopped when a sharp point went straight into his hand. Itachi was a bit surprised that almost all of her ribs on the right had been shattered that badly and the fact that the girl had ignored the immense pain and kept fighting, but he never showed it on his face.

As Itachi started to catch up with the other two, he studied the girl. She was young, younger than him, probably close to Deidara's age. She was rather small, maybe 5'3 at the tallest, but only weighed roughly 100 pounds, if that. Extremely light blonde hair stretched all the way to her lower back while messy bangs framed her heart shaped face. For being raised in the desert all of her life, she was pale, which only caused the blood and gashes to stand out more. Her appearance was anything but threatening, but she had already proven that she was someone who shouldn't be messed with.

As Itachi reached the other two ninja, he heard Deidara start questioning Sasori, which was quite normal for the set of partners, "Sasori no danna, so who is this girl, hmm? You seemed to know her." The explosive obsessed teen asked.

Sasori grunted. He remembered the Gypsies who survived hidden within Suna when he was a child. Most of them were thieves who would lurk around the village and steal anything they could and would wreak havoc throughout the village. They were a hated people, and they were usually exiled, but some had evaded the ninja whose job was to capture them, and were able to continue living their lawless lifestyle.

"Huh?" the blonde asked, having no clue of what was going through his partner's head.

"…She's a Gypsy." Sasori bitterly snapped, not really in the mood to answer any of Deidara's questions.

Deidara shifted his eyes over to the girl who Itachi was holding and frowned. "What the hell is a Gypsy?" he questioned. He'd never heard the term before, but by the way all of the Suna shinobi acted, they weren't exactly liked.

Itachi listened in as the two talked. He knew what a Gypsy was, but the girl didn't seem to fit the part. From what he had been told in the past, Gypsies were olive skinned with dark hair, and more importantly, they weren't ninja.

"A thief. Someone whose main goal in life is just to steal everything they can without regard to anybody besides themselves. That's why the Sand Village got rid of them." Sasori stated. He had heard about the Gypsy purge, but didn't know the specifics due to the fact that he had already been gone from the village for over 7 years.

"Got rid of them, hm?" the questions never seemed to stop from this kid.

Sasori shot a glare over at Deidara, why did he have to get stuck with him? "The village killed them all, because apparently they were starting to use ninjutsu, and becoming dangerous. So, Suna just murdered them all, least that's what I was told." He explained.

Itachi glanced over as the statement was being said. Sounded a bit like Konoha, but he quickly dismissed the thought and continued to focus back on what the two were saying.

"…How's she alive then!?" Deidara snapped.

Sasori shrugged, "You ask her. I don't know, I left before she was even born." He replied, hoping that the questions would end.

Deidara just shook his head and kept quiet. He wanted to know more about this girl, but he really didn't want to deal with her.

Itachi had refrained himself from asking, but something kept on of biting at him. Without even looking over he steadily asked, "How did you know she was the girl we were looking for?"

"Look at the sash she wears around her hips. There is a three interlocked ring symbol on the left side. It was the old symbol for Gypsies. I don't know why there is a red slash through it." The puppet shrugged.

Itachi simply nodded. For a moment there was silence, yet that silence was disturbed yet again by the blue eyed terrorist. "…Wait… what's her name…?" he asked the simple question that had failed to be revealed yet.

Itachi gazed down at the innocent looking girl and spoke still with no emotion, "He told me her name was Kana."

"How many?" Kane asked with a tint of anger in his voice.

"3." Hiro answered as he and Kane sprinted toward the scene where the three rogues had shown up. Another team of 3 highly trained jonin followed closely behind them, but they were still a bit unsure on whether or not it was enough for these enemies. "Kane, she already had control over one of them when I left." Hiro tried to calm down his teammate.

"You still left my little sister alone with three S-ranked criminals." Kane glared at his closest friend. "You are the leader of that team when I'm gone. You need to think these things through." Kane almost growled. When it came to Kana, Kane was beyond overprotective. If anything had happened to her, even a scratch, he'd murder whoever even came close to her.

"I had to. Your damn replacement was so set on beating us to the village, that when we were confronted, she didn't even know! I had to leave and get back up! Kana already had the enemy's blood and was ready to kill him if she had to. She was going to stall!" Hiro defended getting pissed off that he was taking the blame for all of this.

"She's still a teen! She doesn't know what she's doing half the time! You know she has a hard time thinking plans through!" Kane snapped, continuing to glare at the ninja. Hiro did have a point though, and if he hadn't come and gotten backup, both he and Kana would have had to get into a fight with whoever these people were. Still, Kana was the one person Kane would do anything for, no matter what the consequences.

Hiro just shifted his eyes forward as the group of ninja raced toward the spot where he had left Kana. They soon slowed down, looking around the vast desert, yet saw no sign of life.

Kane's attention was directed toward the left of the group as he saw two small pools of blood. He walked toward the one that was closest toward the village and kneeled down, smearing a small bit of it in between his thumb and index finger. It was thinner than normal, which indicated that it was Kana's. For some reason, she'd always inject herself with poisons, saying that it made her immune, but at the same time, it made her blood texture different and distinguishable.
The pool was too small to have indicated that something had killed her, but it was enough for him to assume that his sister a taken a direct hit. He let out an angry sigh as he lifted his eyes from the pool and toward the direction of the second one. He started to walk toward the second collection of blood, but was stopped when he saw the silver ribbon that was attached to Kana's forehead protector. He slowly walked over and picked up the familiar accessory he had seen his sister wear almost on a daily basis. Kane ran his thumb over the edge of the sliced ribbon, noticing that the knot that held it in Kana's hair was still tied. "Is it true that they wore black cloaks with red clouds?" Kane asked not letting his eyes leave the metal plate that he clutched in his hands.

Hiro nodded and walked up next to Kane, "Yeah, all three… They said they wanted the Gypsy…" Hiro stated.

"…Dammit…" Kane growled as anger filled his eyes.

"Kane…" Hiro tried to keep his teammate's temper down.

"You three! Go check the village for infiltrators! NOW!" Kane ordered the three jonin who had accompanied him. Without even asking, they followed his directions, because he was one of the villages top battle coordinators. Once the three were out of hearing range Kane looked over to Hiro with a death glare.

"You are with me. We need to go and inform the Elders and Kazekage that Kana has been taken by the Akatsuki."