My head felt like it was going to split open, and opening my eyes having the sunlight blind me didn't help either. I was sat up against a tree in the woods, I could smell the lake nearby so I wasn't too far away from the group. I heard footsteps running my way and I struggled to stand up, my strength hasn't returned yet. I grabbed a Kunai from my pouch and threw it to my right as the footsteps broke through the tree line.

"Aaahhh!!" A voice yelled.

"Lee? Shit are you okay?" I asked trying to hurry over to him.

"Yes I am fine Y/N sensei! I did not mean to scare you." Luckily my kunai didn't hit him, just landed pretty close to his head as he was standing by a tree. I pulled my kunai out and sighed.

"It's okay Lee. Where are the others?"

"They are still at the lake, the three tails ate Naruto and Guren."

"A-ate them?!"

"Do not worry, Kakashi Sensei and Captain Yamato have a plan. You need to rest." Lee helped me back to the tree I was sitting under and sat me down. He dug in his pouch and handed me two food pills and his pouch of water.

"Here sensei, Sakura said to give these to you once you woke up." I took the food pills and put them in my mouth and started to chew, only to have the feeling to throw up. I covered my mouth gaging, I turned away from Lee and threw up.

"The hell did she put in these damn things?!" I panted and threw up again. I took Lee's water pouch and gulped it down.

"She said it has medicinal herbs in all things energy." Lee looked sick as well just thinking about the food pills.

"Well it taste like I just ate a thousand corpses." Lee gave me a horrified look,

"Its a metaphor Lee, I haven't actually eaten a corpse before." He let out a sigh of relief and stood up surveying the area.

I hope Naruto is okay, Kakashi and Yamato better have a good plan and Naruto better not get digested. I'll kill them both of that happens.

"Deidara! Tobi found the pretty Ice lady!" A childish voice yelled out coming out from behind a tree.

I jumped up standing next to Lee ready to attack. I knew who Deidara was, he's in the Akatsuki. But whoever this Tobi was, I didn't know. But he was also wearing an Akatsuki cloak, and an orange mask so that immediately makes him the enemy.

"Good job Tobi." Deidara walked out and smirked at me.

"Long time no see. Hm."

I glared at him and gripped my Kunai tightly, "what are you doing here?" I asked.

"We are here for the three tails. Hm. But now that we know you're here, you'll be coming with us."

"Like hell I will." I ran towards Deidara and swung my Kunai at him, he dodged it and threw a clay creature at me, I landed next to me and exploded as I jumped back.

"Oh no Deidara you missed!" Tobi yelled flailing his arms around. Lee engaged him but Tobi only jumped away to avoid getting hit.

"You're clay bombs are weak Deidara, just like before." I cut his face and went to stab him but he kicked me in the stomach. I fell to the ground and he threw a clay bomb on me.

"Shit!" I yelled trying to pull my arm covers off of my body. Then it blew up.

"Y/N sensei!" Lee yelled.

But I jumped out of the smoke covering my face, my left arm was burned but I could still use it thankfully.

"Is my art useless now? Huh?" Deidara laughed making more bombs in his hand.

"Lee, get away and go find Kakashi or Yamato, bring them here." Lee was about to say something when Deidara threw a bomb at him. I jumped and tackled Lee away, us landing on top of each other, me covering his body from the explosion, my shoulders getting burned.

"Go Lee now!" I moved off of him wincing in pain and he ran off promising to bring more help.

"Now that it's just us, let's make this an explosive fight!"

"But Deidara Tobi was told that we can't kill the Ice lady! Tobi doesn't want to die!" His childish voice hurt my ears and rattled my brain.

"I'll kill you fast so you won't know what happened Tobi." I threw my Kunai at him and quickly ran towards him and punched him in his mask. He flew back and cried out in pain.

"Tobi thinks the Ice Lady is mean!"

I jumped back and did hand signs.

"Ice Release; Black dragon blizzard!"

The black dragon formed around my arm and I threw it at Deidara, he threw multiple clay bombs and destroyed it.

He threw more and i jumped away dodging them until he appeared in front of me and slapped a clay bomb to my chest, I grabbed his arm and turned it completely into Ice and kicked me back.

"Damn it!" I yelled clawing at it to get it off but it exploded, creating a hole in my chest, luckily I was still alive but too weak.

"Now that you've seen the explosive power of my art, it's time to take you to the boss." Deidara reached me and I stuck my hands in the hole of my chest, coating my hands in blood and did two hands signs and held up two fingers.

"Blood Art; Poison gas." Purple poisonous gas sprayed from the hole in my body and covered Deidara who started to cough and cover his face backing away.

"What the hell is this?!"

I slowly pulled myself up using a tree as pull on and stood up, "It's a forebbiden jutsu, taught to me by the Priestesses of the Blood Temple.

"Y/N?!" I heard Yamato yell in the distance.

"We'll be back Ice Princess." Deidara said as he climbed on his clay bird, Tobi passed out next to him and he flew away. I looked down at my chest and sighed.

"Damn it that hurts.." I laid my back against the tree I used to help me stand.

"Yamato! Lee!" I yelled back to them, and started to walk weakly in the direction Lee had left. I pushed my way through some bushes and fell to my knees, blood pooling around me, soaking the front of my shirt

I'm losing too much blood. Goddamn it. Focus my chakra to slow my blood flow.

It helped but not enough. I heard Yamato call out to me again. His voice more concerned.

I looked at my hands in my lap. Am I really not strong enough to even take on Deidara?

Then the bush line broke and Yamato, Lee, and Pakkun appeared.

"Y/N!" "Sensei!" Yamato and Lee said at the same time running to my side.

"Y/N sensei I should have never left your side, I should have stayed and helped you fight." Lee and tears in his eyes as he took in the damage to my body.

"N-no Lee don't cry, I told you to-to run. Better me than you." I have him a sad smile.

"What happened?" Yamato gently picked me up bridal style staring at the hole in my chest.
"D-Deidara and his clay bombs."

"Pakkun tell Kakashi we have her and are coming back. Warn him of her condition and have the healing team on standby with whatever they have on hand, she's lost too much blood and can't wait." Yamato jumped from branch to branch holding me close to his chest, I watched as my blood soaked his green Jonin vest.

Focus your chakra.

"You got it. Aye Kakashi, we got Y/N but she ain't looking too good. Lost a lot of blood. Don't yell at me I'm just the messenger! Yamato said get the medics ready. Alright."

"Hang in there Y/N." Yamato's voice didn't dare crack, but the look in his eyes was saying he was close to tears.

We finally reached the lake and Yamato ran towards Shizune, everyone gasping and cursing as he sat me against a large rock.

"Y/N sensei!" Naruto yelled and fell at my feet, tear in his eyes. I blinked slowly at him and gave him a smile.

"I see you didn't get turned into tailed beast shit." He chuckled and whipped his eyes.

"Even like this you still make jokes."

"What happened to you?" Kiba asked as Akamaru whined at his side.

"Deidara showed up, and another Akatsuki member by the name Tobi, he wears an orange mask." Shizune and Sakura started to heal me but the each had sweat on their brows.

"Well that looks not good." I said to Shizune, "I'm not gonna die right?"

"You've lost so much blood and the damage to your chest is extensive, the fact that you're even awake is astonishing."

"I focused my chakra on my blood flow to slow it down, also I used a forbidden Jutsu, so the poison in my body probably help to."

"Poison?" Yamato asked standing next to a pissed off Kakashi.

"When I was traveling-I- I trained at the Blood Temple with the Blood Priestesses, they taught me- a- a blood Jutsu, it's supposed to be as a last resort before death." Kakashi's fists were clenched onto right fists at his side. He was going to kill Deidara the next time they faced each other.

I made a Ice Flower in my hand and, and held it to my face, the ice wasn't very strong, it was already cracking and I was barely holding it.

I let out a soft chuckle.

"Well shit.." my hand dropped and my eyes closed.

"She needs blood! What's her blood type?!"

"A positive!" Kakashi yelled yanking his sleeve up and shoved his arm to Shizune.

"I can give her blood. Anyone who has A positive or O neg can give to her right? Well I'm O Neg!" Shizune didn't say anything but I heard her rustling in her bag and a few second later I felt a prick in my arm.

"We go down together, or we don't go down at all remember? That's what we always say. So if I'm not down neither are you." Kakashi said to my right.

"Thank Kami for that. I was getting worried." I cracked my eyes at him and gave him a wink.

"Gotta keep up Gramps." Everyone let out a sighing chuckle.

"It's gonna take more than a bomb to the chest to take me out."

I closed my eyes again as Lee announced he could give me blood next and fell asleep, resting my body.