AUTHOR'S NOTE

*bows* I am so sorry for taking this long to update again!

There is really not much to say that I haven't already said, so I'll just give you the standings for the pairing:

Tobi/Madara-1

Deidara- 1 ½

Others- 0

Please tell me what your pairing ideas are! And I would love to hear any suggestions! Hope you enjoy this chapter!

KAKUZU'S POV.

Something was definitely going on.

The signs were A) the girl was glowing dark purple, B) her eyes were open, and had changed from gray to red, and C) SHE WAS FREAKING ABOUT TO CRASH HER NOW-CLAWED HAND INTO MY THROAT!

I had just enough time to dodge her hand before it slammed into the wall behind me, shattering a huge portion of it into a million little splinters.

I did not, however, have enough time to dodge her other hand that seemed to come out of nowhere.

It latched onto my neck, and I expected to have my throat crushed at any point in the next milliseconds, but instead, a strange sense of calm enveloped me.

I felt as though everything was fine, like I was back at home, all those tens of years ago, before that horrible accident that gave me the stitches, before I had even turned eight, and everything that had happened was just a bad dream .

I felt like I was floating, and I realized that it was because I couldn't breathe.

The b**** was cutting off my airway, but I didn't care, I didn't even struggle.

I looked into Yura's now red eyes, and then something strange happened; she flew off of me, her hand leaving my throat.

The sense of calm and peace immediately vanished, leaving me gasping for breath on the ground.

When I had finally caught my breath, I tried to stand up, but it seemed as though all of my energy had been drained out of me.

I fell, and watched from the floor helplessly as Sasori tried to control her with his chakra strings.

All that he had managed to do was get her to turn on him, a scream erupting from her throat that did not seem to be this world, but like two demons screeching at the same time.

I tried to use my strings to help Sasori, but as I held out my arm, I saw no stitches!

Instead, I saw them on YURA!

She was, at this point, in the process of trying to pin Sasori to the wall, just as she had done with me, only using my own jutsu.

And if a certain Uchiha hadn't shown up right about then, I am almost positive that we would have both died that day, but he did appear, and we didn't die.

ITACHI'S POV

I had been in my room, peacefully minding my own business, when I had heard a huge crash coming from the medic room.

I am so glad, even if I don't show it, that I had gone to investigate.

If I hadn't, then I would have not been able to save Sasori and Kakuzu.

I walked in on Yura standing in the middle of the room, her eyes were red and she was glowing purple.

I heard her talking as she walked up to Sasori, who had somehow gotten trapped underneath an upturned table.

She was saying "Well, should we kill him? Yes, of COURSE we should kill him! He got in our way! But he hasn't done anything to us yet, so if we kill him now, we cannot justify it… but then it will show weakness, and Dad will use that weakness. We must show that we will kill if we must! No matter what, we have to kill those who threaten our existence and survival!"

I was shocked that she was acting like Zetsu, but then again, she might have picked up some of his chakra from the walls, and I knew what her Kekkie genkai was, since I had "accidently" read part of her file; stealing others' jutsus, kekkie genkie, and energy, sometimes even going so far as to taking their life force.

She paused for a moment, probably to build up chakra for a finishing strike on Sasori, and I took this chance to attack.

Within moments, I had put Yura under a genjutsu, and taken the near-unconscious Kakuzu and the freaked out Sasori to safety, and believe me, they are very heavy!

As soon as I could breath (the genjutsu I had used took most of my chakra to sustain) I yelled for Pein.

I released the jutsu as soon as he appeared, and within a few seconds, he had put a chakra seal on Yura's forehead, tied her, while she was still screaming, to the medic bed, and had injected her with something to stop her adrenaline rush while still keeping her awake.

Not only had Pein showed up, but everyone else (minus Konan, Hidan, and Zetsu) had too.

Her Purple glow slowly faded, her claws melted back into human fingernails, and her eyes went back to their normal state.

She was now just lying there, glaring at us with a look that could rival Pein's scary "I will kill you slowly and painfully now" face.

Even I shuddered at the icy eyes.

YURA'S POV

I hated all of them instantly: the red-head and weasel-face for butting in on my attempt to kill stitches, stitches for hitting me in the head, the loud one just because he was loud, the blond because he looked like a girl, dad because he killed my bff and left, mommy (where is she?) because she was also gone, and everyone else for merely knowing my dad.

If weasel-face hadn't shown up, then I would have been able to drain all of the red-head's energy, chakra, kekkie genkai, and jutsus.

Then I could have used the strength from Stitches to bust out, and used the redhead's weird chakra strings to keep everyone at bay while I escaped!

I was so angry that I didn't notice the blunette in the doorway until she let out a small sob.

I turned to her, but the glare instantly disappeared when I saw her face.

Her blue hair, her eyes, even the sound of hr sobs; they were all the same as when I was just a little girl, and she was crying in joy because I had mastered the clone jutsu on the very first try.

I hardly noticed when she rushed over to me and almost crushed me in a hug.

Once I had registered this, I broke down into sobs, so that both of us were crying.

My mother, the one person I had thought would never see me again, the one person I thought was gone forever, was here.

Betrayal and love battled inside of me.

Betrayal because she did not appear to be held here by force, so she must still be with Dad.

And love because she had always taken my side on any of my and dad's small disagreements, and she was my mother.

I do not know how long we stayed like that, me tied to the bed , Mommy hugging me, both of us crying, both of us totally ignoring who was around us.

At some point, however, Dad and the other strange men left, leaving me and Mom.

After a while, she pulled back, sat down on the edge of the bed, and just looked at me lovingly.

She brushed some of my scraggly bangs out of my face, and whispered "look at you, Yura. You are so beautiful. I can hardly believe that my little baby has grown up, and I didn't get to see it."

She bent down, kissed my forehead, and smiled at me.

"Mommy... wh-why did you leave me…? I was all alone for so long…" I half sobbed, hating how weak and vulnerable I felt when I was like this; scared, sad, and defenseless.

"I am so, so sorry, baby. I didn't want to leave you, but I was knocked out and taken away to someplace far away from our house."

No matter how much I would doubt anything that Dad said to me, I could trust Mommy.

"Hey, sweetie, how's about we go on a shopping trip? Those old, tattered clothes can't be very comfortable…" she said, looking at my black ninja pants and once-white-and-now-brown, green, and red stained tank top

I nodded, temporarily too happy that my mommy was here now to remember my endless anger at and want to kill Dad.

She undid the ties, and helped me sit up.

She took my hand, and led me out side through the giant hole in the wall that had apparently been made by me.

Wow, is that all the damage that I did? I thought as I looked back on the comparatively small hole in the wall. Usually the entire wall would have been smashed into even smaller bits…

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Me: *Sobs* I am the worst at updating ever! D,, I am supper supper SUPER sorry for making you who take the time out of your day/night to read my story wait for so freaking long!

Akatsuki: (what a crybaby…)

Yura: *glares at akatsuki* don't worry, Kyoko! I can finish up the note so that you can sulk in your emo corner!

Me: thnx… *sulks in corner*

Yura: well, Kyoko A.K.A. akatsuki-kitten1 does not own any of the akatsuki members. She only owns me, the plot, and other OC's that may appear in this story. Oh, and Kyoko put up another chapter after this one to try and make up for a little bit of the lost time! And please do not forget to review!

Kyoko, over and out! ^.^