A/N: Not a happy chapter people. Not a happy chapter. But it is necessary to explain a few things. I got school tomorrow so I'm not sure when I'll update again. Please review!

-Itachi-

I turned towards Deidara when he suddenly yelled Skye's name only to see him dive and catch his cousin before she could hit the floor.

"Konan!"

He called, panic in his voice and she ran over to him and knelt beside Skye.

"What happened to her yeah? Why'd she collapse?"

He asked as Konan checked Skye's pulse.

"I don't know, but her vitals are fine."

Konan said and Deidara looked down at Skye with a worried expression etched on his usually carefree face.

"You should take her to your room and let her rest."

Konan advised as she stood up. Deidara nodded before changing his hold on Skye so that one hand was hooked under her knees and the other was wrapped around her back before standing up and heading down the hall and into his room without a word, leaving the rest of us to wonder what had caused Skye to suddenly collapse like that.

I hadn't known that she would react like that to the song. If I had, then I wouldn't have called her up. When she started singing we'd all been entranced by her voice in different ways. I'd seen Konan close to crying, Sasori hid his face from view so no one could see his reaction, Pein just looked at her with understanding, and Deidara watched her with different emotions. I was debating with myself. On one hand, I wanted to go comfort her since I could hear the underlying pain in her voice as she sang the song she'd come up with. On the other hand, I knew that whatever she was feeling, whatever she was trying to say through that song that she needed to say it.

"What do you think happened to her?"

Sasori asked from his place behind his drums since none of us other than Deidara and Konan had moved.

"We won't know til she wakes up, and even then that's only if she's willing to tell us."

Konan said and we fell into silence again.

-No one-

A man with navy blue hair and green eyes turned when he heard a smaller voice calling him.

"Daddy! Daddy!"

A girl, no older than four, with sky blue eyes and a mix of his navy blue hair and her mother's dark purple hair going down her back in waves of ringlets and curls. The man picked up the little girl with a smile.

"What is it my little bluebird?"

The man asked as he leaned down and gave his daughter an eskimo kiss.

"Mommy says it's time for dinner and said that afterwards you'd play your guitar for us."

The little girl said and the green eyed man smiled.

"Well if that's what mommy says then I guess we'd better get going."

He said, tickling his daughter's belly making her laugh before setting her down.

"Last one back has to clean the table!"

The man said before taking off back towards their little house.

"No fair daddy, you cheated!"

The little girl said with a frown before taking off after her father.

The image faded as Skye frowned in her sleep and was replaced by another one.

The little girl with blue eyes padded down the hall, clutching a little black and white stuffed kitten as she walked into the kitchen where she'd heard her parents. She'd been woken up by her stomach rumbling with hunger. She was now a yeard older and much had changed.

As she pushed the door to the kitchen open she saw her parents sitting at the table with glass beakers filled with different things and lines of powder, open flames from a lighter or match when being used, syringes and bags of things she didn't understand littering the table. She looked at her parents to see both with plastic tubing tied around their arms.

"Mommy? Daddy?"

The little girl asked as she saw her father stick a syringe in his arm and push the plunger.

"What are you doing up!? I thougth we told you to go to bed!"

The girl's mother, a woman who once had flowing dark purple hair, soft, beautiful blue eyes and a healthy glow about her snapped. The little girl felt tears well up in her eyes as she looked at the frazzled haired, blood-shot eyed, anorexic woman infront of her who barely looked anything like her mother.

"B-But I'm hungry..."

The little girl said, tears falling from her blue eyes.

"How the helld do you expect us to survive if you keep eating so much!?"

The woman snapped at her daughter, getting up and roughly grabbing her arm.

"It hurts..."

The girl said as she tried to free herself, but her mother only tightened her grip as she grabbed a bag of Cheese Doodles and started dragging the girl back to her room.

"Now go to bed!"

She yelled as she tossed the girl in her room.

"B-But I'm still hungry."

The girl said, tears running down her face. The woman scowled before tossing the bag of Cheese Doodles at her.

"There!"

The woman snapped before slamming the door shut.

The image faded again, only to be replaced by another.

The little girl had been locked up in her room without supper for the third night in a row. It had been about a month since she'd gone to her parents at night for some food. She'd managed to get out of her room and made her way downstairs only to freeze when she heard her parents speaking in the kitchen.

"We can't take care of her anymore."

Her mother said.

"Yes we can. If we just ration the food and drugs-"

Her father started to say only to get cut off by her mother.

"No Miaku! I need more, I have to have more."

Her mother said and the little girl pushed the door to the kitchen open as quietly as she could so she could see inside.

"Kora...she's our daughter."

Miaku said and Kora turned to look at her husband.

"Are you willing to give up the drugs to feed her? Have you seen how much she eats!?"

She asked, shouting even when the person she was talking to was right across from her.

"So what would you have me do?"

Miaku asked and Kora was silent for a while.

"Take her and get rid of her. Just leave her, we won't have to deal with her then."

Kora said and the little girl felt tears well up in her eyes in confusion and hurt and a whimper escaped her, alerting her parents that she was there.

"The little rat!"

Her mother snapped as her father picked her up.

"Get rid of her!"

She snapped and more tears fell down the girl's face.

"Shh, it's okay."

Her father said as he walked out of the kitchen and to the back door. He pulled on his coat and shoes before helping her into hers, then heading outside and getting into the car.

He drove them for a while and the girl continued to cry in the passenger seat, clutching the little kitten to her chest. She didn't fully understand what her mother had said, but she knew that it had hurt her.

"D-Daddy?"

The little girl asked, turning to look at her father. He had lost some of his hair and the skin around his eyes had sunk in some from all the drugs and he'd lost about as much weight as her mother had.

"W-Where are we going daddy?"

She asked, but he didn't answer her. He just turned left before parking and cutting the engine off.

He got outside and went around to the passenger side before picking up the little girl. He walked out into the forest enough that the road was no longer visible before kneeling and setting the girl on her feet again.

"Daddy?"

The little girl asked confused as to what was going on.

"I'm sorry bluebird, but we can't take care of you anymore."

He said as he leaned down and pressed a kiss to her forehead before standing up and turning to walk back to his car.

"Daddy!"

The little girl yelled, running after him and clutching onto his leg.

"Let go."

He said, trying to shake her off without hurting her.

"No."

The girl said, clutching tighter.

"I said let go dammit!"

He snapped and threw her off his leg and onto the forest floor. Tears welled up in the girl's eyes and he looked down at her for a second before turning and running back to the road.

"Daddy!"

The girl yelled, getting to her feet and running after him. He'd already gotten in his car and started to drive off.

"DADDY!"

The image of the little girl crying faded and was replaced by one last one.

The little girl had been found by a girl and her little brother after she'd collapsed from emotional exhaustion with tears streaming down her face. They took her in after the little girl explained everything. She'd found out their names were Deidara and Kaiarie. Kaiarie had tracked down her parents and tried talking them into taking their daughter back, but they acted like they'd never had a kid and had no idea what she was talking about so she and Deidara took care of her. Some time later they found out they were related, cousins to be exact, and for the first time in a while the little girl was happy again.

Years passed and the girl had just turned seven. She and Deidara were out at the park to celebrate. They were playing hide 'n seek and Deidara was it. She hid in the tree, high up in the branches hidden by the leaves. She was about to climb back down when she saw two familiar figures walking a few feet away from her. She climbed down hastily as she could without getting hurt and ran over to them.

"Mom! Dad!"

She shouted and they both turned in her direction with confused looks on their faces. She stopped a few feet away from them.

"It's me, don't you remember?"

She asked and the man shook his head.

"I'm sorry girl, but you have us confused with someone else. We've never had a child."

He said and they both turned and walked away. The girl watched them before turning to go find her cousin when she heard four loud bangs from behind her followed by the screech of tires. She whirled around to see the two people on the ground and a silver car zooming down the road.

"MOM! DAD!"

She screamed as she ran over to them. She looked at the woman, but she was already dead. Tears welled up in her eyes before she heard the man call her over. He clutched her hand in his and cupped the side of her face with the other.

"I'm so sorry...we had to abandon you..."

He said and the girl's eyes widened.

"You are my dad."

She said and he smiled before coughing up blood as more seeped from his chest where he'd been shot.

"I'm sorry my little bluebird..."

He said, his grip on her hand slackening slightly.

"Dad!"

She screamed, holding onto his hand tighter, not wanting to lose him again.

"We loved you Skye...remember that, we loved yo-"

He said, but didn't get to finish his sentence as his breath stopped as he choked on his blood and his hand dropped from her face as he died.

"Dad! No dad, please! DAD!"

-Skye-

I woke with a start and felt myself covered in cold sweat. Yet, despite that I still felt too hot. I threw the covers off of me and swung my feet over the bed and onto the cool flooring. I shivered slightly and took a shaky breath before standing.

I walked over to the door and opened it. I walked slowly out into the hallway and closed my eyes with a frown at the sudden change in lighting. It had gotten late during the time I was asleep and I frowned, wondering just how long I had been out. I walked into the living room part of of Deidara and Sasori's apartment and looked around to see Pein and Konan on the couch watching some movie, Sasori by his drums with Deidara and Itachi playing their guitars, no doubt working on one of their songs. None of them had noticed me yet and I shivered at the sudden lonely feeling that swept through me and wrapped my arms around myself to try and keep from shaking.

"Skye?"

I heard someone ask and looked up to see Deidara right infront of me and smiled slightly as I looked up at him and I felt tears well up in my eyes as I remembered what I'd been dreaming of.

"Dei..."

I said as I felt them fall down my face and threw myself at my cousin and cried.