Ok so this probabaly won't be the only time I skip years or months cause I'm very lazy in case you haven't gathered that XD Well I don't think that 20 fillers would interest you guys anyway so yeah. Enjoy!

Naruto isn't my creation, it's my inspiration! :P

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*Time skip: 1 year later*

I woke up in the middle of the night panting and sweating from yet another nightmare about my past. They have only gotten worse since Itachi put me under that genjutsu. I decided to take a walk and maybe go outside for some fresh air. I looked over to Deidara who was sleeping soundly and I got up and tried to sneak quietly out of the room trying not to wake him as he ends up staying up with me for the rest of the night making him very tired in the mornings and he had a mission tomorrow so he needed his rest. I shut the door very quietly behind me and started to head down the hall. When I finally emerged outside I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye. I pretended to keep on walking and when I'm far enough away I attempted to sneak up on the intruder. I saw a figure in the dark and jumped at them only to have them disappear before me.

"What are you doing out so late?" my breath hitched in my chest and I jumped turning around to find none other than the raven-haired Uchiha himself.

"Itachi! God, you scared me!" I gasped. "And I just couldn't sleep so I decided to take a walk. Wait what are you doing up so late? And, why are you sneaking into the base?" I asked. He just ignored me and started to walk off back into the base.

"Get some sleep Kootoni" and with that he had entered the base.

I walked in following him and stopped knocking at his room door. I didn't hear an answer so I slowly opened the door and peeked inside. "What do you want Kootoni?" he replied sounding more depressed than usual.

"I want to know what you were doing? Why are you so depressed?". He looked at me  for a bit, but turned around ignoring me once more.

"That trick may work on the other members, but I'm not leaving until I get an answer" I stated planting my feet firmly on the floor. He just continued ignoring me. "Itachi, you and I are linked by my life! Anything affecting you affects me. You already know my story so please open up to me, why do you feel like this? Is it your brother?" He turned and glared at me. "What happened?" I asked realizing I hit the nail on the head.

He sighed saying, "I was just visiting Sasuke like I do every night. I guess seeing him tonight was a little harder than usual. He is acting very strangely since.."

"Since your last mission" I finished for him, he looked at me surprised. "Hey I may not leave the base, but I still hear gossip from the others" I laughed and he just faked a small smile. "Why do you visit him every night? I thought you hate him?" His face dropped immediately at that question and I instantly wished I hadn't said it, I was about to apologize when Itachi started talking again.

"I suppose you deserve to know everything" and with that he started to tell his tale to me about how and why he killed his clan, how he couldn't face killing his little brother, how he was very ill and how he was driving Sasuke to become more powerful so that he could be protected from Madera Uchiha.

Once he was finished I understood completely why he felt the way he did. I was speechless and I had no idea what to do so I just hugged him telling him that I think he is the most kind-hearted human being I have ever met. I had even more respect for the Uchiha than before; if that's even possible. "The only thing I had to rethink was my death. When it was just my life on the line it was different, but I don't think I can go through with it now that I know that your life would be in danger too" he said, looking very guilty.

"Itachi, if you are going to do this, I will be right by your side the whole way, you won't be alone I promise. If you need to do this, then don't let me stop you. Besides if you have a disease that is killing you, then I will die anyway. I'm already feeling how tired you are all the time" I smiled. He suddenly hugged me, feeling relieved and less scared now that he was being reminded that he is not alone. I smiled and hugged him tighter. If anyone knew just how much emotion the Uchiha actually had their faces would drop, if they found out the great Itachi Uchiha was scared they would probably have a heart attack. I would never tell them of course as it would just damage his ego and reputation. He hates that I know he gets scared so he would kill me if anyone else found out. If people just got to know the real Itachi Uchiha, then they would love him just as much as I do. I started to exit the room when Itachi pulled out of the hug. "Goodnight Itachi" I said turning around seeing him smile slightly and nod. I then snuck back into my room and lay on my bed waiting until morning. When morning arrived I heard Sasori knocking on the door.

"Brat, hurry up and get ready we are leaving" He shouted through our door obviously in Hiruko as his voice was deeper and harsher. I watched Deidara groan and roll off the bed falling onto the floor below him. I burst out laughing and he started to glare at me with a bright red face.

"I'm sorry, I just..." I burst out laughing again clutching my sides and he just sighed getting up and walking into the bathroom to get changed. I stopped laughing and started groaning when I heard Tobi running down the hall calling my name. Tobi was a new member, he arrived about four months ago. Don't get me wrong I like Tobi I just feel he is hiding something as I can tell he is never that happy, in fact he usually felt very sad, but when I try to talk to him about it he just continues his happy and hyper Tobi act.

"Toni-chan! Toni-chan! Leader-sama wants to talk to you" Tobi yelled when he burst through the door. I sighed and nodded.

"Thank you Tobi-san. I will go see him now"

 "Tobi-chan doesn't like that name. Can't Toni-chan call Tobi-chan Tobi-kun?" I sighed getting slightly irritated.

"Sorry my mistake Tobi-kun" I said emphasising the kun. I then smiled and walked past him ruffling his hair on the way by. I walked to the meeting room that pain usually uses when or if he is ever here. He usually stays at some tower in Amegakure. I knocked before entering and waited for him to give me permission to enter. When I heard "come in" I entered.

"You wanted to see me Leader-sama?" I asked.

"Yes. Itachi tells me you have come along way and I was wanting to give you your first ever mission if you think you are up for it. I nodded curious and excited to find out what it was. "You will be joining Deidara and Sasori on their mission to find an important scroll for me, do you think you can handle that?", I nodded.  "Good. Get packed up and meet Sasori and Deidara at the door"

"Hai" I bowed and left the room. I was breathing faster than normal again! I always feel on edge when I'm around Pein and it's not his look that scares me it's the way he acts that puts me on edge, I just have a terrible feeling that if you were to do something wrong, then he would kill you without hesitation. I walked into my room to find Deidara still getting ready and I quickly grabbed some things stuffing them in a bag and walked out again. I met Sasori at the door and sat down waiting for Deidara. He was taking so long I started to take out a little puppet figurine that I had made in my spare time and the little wooden puppet Sasori gave me on me first day here and started practicing how to make them move. In case you were wondering I figured out to do the chakra strings without Sasori's help after about a week of living here. He was slightly annoyed that I could do it as that meant he would now have to teach me how to use the puppets, but seeing Deidara get mad at me spending more time on Sasori's art than sculpting or watching him do his art made him smirk with victory every time. I was watching the little puppets fight each other when one suddenly stopped doing what I told it to do and started to move more fluently attacking my other little puppet. I watched in surprise, but noticed shortly afterward that Sasori had taken over the puppet with his chakra strings instead of mine. I looked over to him while struggling to fight back with my puppet and saw him smirking, he loves to show off how skilled he is to me, it's like he has to prove he is better. I sighed when he made my homemade puppet's head fall off and he just chuckled.

"You're getting better" he stated still with that smirk on his face.

"Oh, shut up and wipe that smirk off your face will ya?" I smiled and his smirk just grew bigger. He then started to glare at someone behind and I turned around to find Deidara casually walking up to us.

"You're late brat! I don't like to be kept waiting" Sasori harshly said.

"What the hell took you so long? I mean it's not as if you have that many belongings!" I said slightly amused that I got ready in fifteen seconds while he took fifteen minutes.

"Hey! I actually plan what I'm bringing and don't just quickly throw everything I have into a bag, un!" he said defensively and before I could retort Sasori butt in.

"Enough, we're leaving". Deidara and I didn't bother arguing with him knowing he was in a bad mood already.

As we started walking I was really excited about my first mission, but that soon faded when Sasori and Deidara started fighting again about what art was. I sighed in frustration as I had to listen to this more times than I cared. Unfortunatley sighing brought their attention onto me. 'Oh no' I thought, I know where this is going. "Kootoni" Sasori started hoping that he could annoy Deidara with my answer, "What do you think art is?". I started to think very carefully about it and after a while of them staring at me, I finally decided that my view was completely different from theirs.

"Actually I think you are both wrong!" I state, shrugging my shoulders and making them look at me blankly. "I think art is neither eternal or a moment of fleeting beauty, you both couldn't be further from the truth". This made them both slightly agitated.

"Well then what is art to you, un?" Deidara said cockily thinking that I had no view and I just wanted the argument to stop.

"I think it is all to do with the eye of the beholder so to say" I could see them start to roll their eyes at me and I continued. "I think that art is about feeling. Your art is worthless if it doesn't make you or others feel something. Having art that is emotionless isn't art at all. Life is only beautiful and special because of the connections we make with other people and without those connections.. those feelings, life would just be dull and .. well lifeless." I smiled proudly at the two gawking faces in front of me. "What just because I'm young and blonde doesn't automatically mean I'm too stupid to come up with my own opinions" I said while giggling at their faces which were priceless. I then saw Deidara start to think and produce a cheeky grin. Aw crap here we go again.

"Looks like she doesn't like you're art Danna. I mean puppets don't feel remember?" he smirked looking victoriously.

"Oh for the mother of.." I sighed and face-palmed. Sasori just glared daggers at Deidara which just made Deidara's already over grown ego grow further. Sasori just retorted back saying that his puppets make others feel and the fact that I enjoyed making them with him meant they could make a person feel. Deidara got annoyed and his face dropped.

"Yeah, whatever, un" he huffed when I shot him a look for trying to start the argument again. We continued to travel in silence until it got dark and I started yawning, they then decided that we should set up camp for the night. I tried to tell them I could keep going if they could, but they just ignored me and started to set it up anyway. I really wish they hadn't as I don't normally sleep well anyway and I'm always tired. They told me to go collected some wood for a fire while they set up. I nodded and by the time  had gotten back they had already set everything up including the fire.

"What the hell?" I shouted and they just looked up at me, Sasori with his normal expression and Deidara with a giant smirk plastered on his face. I jumped at him to try and slap it off him he just fell back and held me back while laughing hard. "You sent me out on a goose chase? What the hell is wrong with you two?!" I yelled hitting Deidara repeatedly in the chest, causing him to laugh harder.

"You were taking too long, yeah. So Sasori sent me out to gather some wood and we started it before you got back. What took you so long, un?" he teased. I then realized I had no idea what took me so long. I was out collecting wood while there was still a bit of light, then I was on my way to returning to the camp and it was all of a sudden dark. I shrugged and hit him on the head while getting up and sitting beside him. Hours passed and I felt myself get tired and started to close my eyes and rest on something soft while everything started to turn dark as I fell into a deep sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and blushed when I realized that the soft thing I had fallen asleep on was Deidara and he was now fast asleep gripping me tightly. I carefully lifted his arm off me and got up to look around. The fire was still burning, but Sasori was nowhere to be seen I shrugged it off and started to take a walk. I was walking away from the campsite when I heard someone scream and cry. I started to run in the direction where I thought the screaming was coming from. When I got there no one was there. The only thing in here was a clearing where a cliff hung high above the ocean. I sighed and started to turn around when I heard muffled cries. I whizzed around and saw my brother being held by the two men again. 'What is this?' I thought. No this can't be real.

"Onee-san! Hewlp me please!" He begged I closed my eyes and ears trying to block out the sounds until I heard him scream. I snapped and ran toward the man trying to punch him, but he moved out of the way and grabbed me by the hands.

"Ah ah, we wouldn't want to hurt you're little brother now would we?"

"Go to hell!" I exclaimed and he glared at me.

"You really shouldn't have said that he said as he held my brother over the cliff by his ankle. His little brown eyes widening in fear and sparkling with tears that were flowing down his cheeks.

"No don't!" I screamed as I tried to jump off the cliff after him. I was just held back by the other man, who was smirking. I turned around tears streaming my face as I fell to my knees. "Why?" I whispered to the man in front of me. He suddenly looked very sad and started to shake me.

"Kootoni, Kootoni. Come on Kootoni snap out of it!" said Diedara, who was bringing me back to reality. I looked around me and saw that we were actually at the cliff that I saw a minute ago, but the two men where none other than Sasori and Deidara. I turned to Deidara and noticed the cuts and bruises all over him. I gasped putting my hand to my mouth in shock and looked up at him. He just looked very concerned.

"What the hell was that, yeah?" he asked slightly angry.

"What did I do? What happened? I didn't hurt you guys, did I?" his features softened at my hysterical state and he shook his head and smiled, but it immediately faded. 

"It's your nightmares they have gotten worse now haven't they? So bad that you are sleepwalking now!" he sated and I just nodded looking down at the ground. "Why didn't you tell me? I thought they were getting better" he said with guilt in his eyes.

"It's not your fault Dei!" I reassured. "I just didn't want to be bothering you all the time. I don't sleep well, but that doesn't mean your sleep has to suffer". He hugged me tightly and told me that I had disappeared from the campsite and when Sasori returned they both went out to search for me only to have me attack them and try to jump off the edge of the cliff and that if it weren't for Sasori's chakra stings I would have.

"You could have died!" he exclaimed. I was speechless and after a while they took me back to the campsite where they asked me about what my dream was about and I ended up showing them through mind manipulation exactly what happened in my past. After I showed them, Sasori had a pained look on his face and Deidara was on the verge of tears. Eventually after a long awkward silence Diedara said he wanted to go clear his head. Sasori just looked at me and before I could say anything he had his arms wrapped around me telling me he was so sorry and wished there was something he could have done. I smiled realizing that he had wanted to do that for quite sometime now, but didn't like showing emotion in front of Deidara. When Deidara returned we packed up our things and headed out. We ended up stealing the scroll just as planned with only a few minor injuries and returned to the base where we presented it to a very pleased Pein.