Love Is Conplicated (Chapter 1)

Anime/Manga: Naruto
Word Count:   1,837
Characters/Pairing: AkaSaku/AkaIno/AkaHina
Three Easy Words: A Bittersweet Story.
Author's Comments: Even though my strong will to finish this story, it might never see an ending. My life is quite tuff and I am busy most of the time.

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"Deidara, waiting for you was a waste of time. It took you 5 minutes to take down 200 of them. You really test my patience."
Deidara rolled his eyes. Sasori was busy nagging him with how long he's been waiting for Deidara to hurry and collect the scrolls from a rich business bastard. "You didn't help at all, yeah." Deidara replied, trying hard to make the red-head shut up. The mission was too easy. Kill the guards, get the scroll, destroy evidence. Same tactic again and again. That was all.
The two men walked down the forest path, keeping and eye out for any enemies. The forest they were walking through was famous for the silent assassinations. It was like walking into the middle of the battle between Naruto and Sasuke. It was complete suicide. Well, unless you think you can escape safely.
"Hey, It's my turn!"
"No it's not!"
The blonde-haired nin paused. "Did you hear that, Sasori-danna?"
Sasori paused too, and both of them stayed silent until they heard it again. "Laughter." said Sasori, narrowing his eyes at the path, "Children's laughter." Deidara walked slowly a little bit more, following the faint voices. Sasori followed, and as the walked along, the laughter and giggling became louder. "Ha! I won! You lost!"
The two men stopped, and saw about three very small people. Were they still far away? Or is that their actual size? The men took a few steps forward and paused. They just stayed silent, eyes widening in astonishment.
Three little girls. Hopping and pushing about. Playing rock-paper-scissors. Deidara narrowed his eyes to examine them.
One of them had short pink hair, the bangs showed her miraculously large forehead, and her emerald eyes glimmered. Her voice was angelic and she wore a cute red ribbon. Sasori can't stop staring at her.
The other one was almost a little-girl version of Deidara. Her light blonde hair stood out, covering her left eye. She had pretty aqua eyes, too. Deidara grinned and said, "I look pretty, yeah." and received a punch from Sasori.
The last one had raven hair. Blackish-purple hair and grey eyes. Her voice was gentle and smooth, and she really liked to blush.
"What are 3 little girls doing in the middle of this forest, yeah?" wondered Deidara aloud. Sasori just sighed, "Let's just walk past them and leave them there. Probably their parents told them to wait here." Deidara glared at his partner, "Don't be so cold-hearted. I'm going to ask them, yeah." "W-Wait Dei--"
Before Sasori can stop him, Deidara already approached the young girls, and they paused their game and started staring at him. The girl with pink hair walked slowly toward him.
Deidara didn't smile, or course. "What the hell are you doing here, yeah?"
The girl stared at Deidara,  tilted her head to one side, as if she didn't understand anything he was saying. Deidara got annoyed, and just as he was about to turn away, the girl opened her mouth. He looked at her, waiting for the answer.
"INO, HE'S YOUR BROTHER!" "I DON'T HAVE A BROTHER!"
A vein popped onto his forehead. He took a deep breath, and by then, the other two girls were standing beside the pinkette, staring at Deidara. "Who are you girls?" said a voice from behind. Sasori was also getting curious, and he approached Deidara. The girl with pink hair said, "I'm Sakura." Sasori raised his eyebrow, "What about your clan?"
Sakura frowned. "I don't know."
"How old are you girls?"
The girls looked at each other. "Six."
The girl with blonde hair spoke up next. "I'm Ino. This is Hinata!" said the girl, hugging her raven-haired friend. Deidara looked at the three girls, "Your family names?" Hinata frowned, "S-Sorry sir, we don't know."
"How did you end up here?" asked Sasori. "We don't know," said Ino, as she shook her head, "We remember waking up here. And we played. That's that."
"What should we do with them?" asked Sasori. Deidara shrugged. Sasori shook his head, no idea what to do with these girls. Girls. 6 year olds. No family. Playing rock-paper-scissors. In the middle of a deadly forest.
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"They are driving me nuts, yeah." said Deidara, and saw Sasori sigh. They invited the girls to follow them, and now they were playing tag, running in circles around them. "Tag!" "Tag!" "Tag!"
Suddenly Sakura fell. "Sakura, are you okay?" asked Hinata, sticking her hand out. Sakura nod her head, and looked at her knee. It was bleeding.
Deidara and Sasori were still walking ahead. Ino called out, "Sakura got an boo-boo!" A vein popped on both the men's foreheads'. Sasori looked over his shoulder, "Then get up and follow us."
"But SHE'S BLEEDING!" shouted Hinata. Sakura shouted, "CARRY ME! I'M TIRED!" The girls were making a lot of noise. Deidara and Sasori looked at the shouting brats and looked at each other.

Soon, Sasori was carrying Sakura on his back. She was giggling, kicking her legs and shouting in Sasori's ears. "Why aren't you carrying her?" asked Sasori irritatingly, facing Deidara on his left. "I can't, yeah."
Deidara had a point. He was carrying Ino who got jealous when Sakura got to be the only one getting carried like a 'princess'. Ino was busy pulling Deidara's hair. Hinata was being silent, walking between the two Akatsuki members. "Are you sure you don't know who your parents are, yeah?" asked Deidara one more last time to Hinata before they stopped upon a riverbank. "No, we don't." Hinata replied, shook her head and looked around. "Where do you live?"
"In a nearby waterfall." replied Sasori, walking downwards the river. "In? Nobody lives in the waterfall!" laughed Ino, kicking her legs and waving her arms in the air. Deidara struggled to make sure she didn't roll off his arms and fall into the gushing river. Sasori felt his shoulder getting wet. He looked over it to find Sakura asleep.
"Great, now this girl is drooling all over me."
Hinata snickered slightly, while Ino giggled loudly.
By this time, a waterfall was in sight. Hinata and Ino gasped in amazement. "This is so beauti--"
The two young girls were knocked out before they even got to finish the sentence.
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"I don't want to live with 4 girly bitches!" shouted Hidan, slamming the table and soon receiving a punch in the face by Konan, "Oh, so that means I'm one of them, huh!?"
Pein crossed his arms and shook his head in thought. Sasori and Deidara brought 3 young 6 year olds to the hideout. He looked over to Sasori, "Are you sure there were no one else there?" Sasori and Deidara shook their heads.
Pein sighed heavily. What are they going to do with these girls? Pein thought for a few more minutes, and then he came to his conclusion, "Just leave them back out on the forest." Konan was completely shocked about this, "What?! Just leave them? Don't be so cold hearted, Pein!"
She stomped over to him, and soon giving him a mean smile and she whispered to his ear, "Don't you think it'll be fun to play 'father' for once in a while?"
Pein on the outside remained calm, but on the inside he was blushing to death of Konan's tease. Konan stepped away and went over to the girls. By this time, the girls were starting to regain consciousness. Sakura, Ino and Hinata rubbed their eyes and looked at Konan.
They were silent, trying to figure out where they were. Konan looked surprised, and she took a few steps back and walked over to Pein.
She pointed to them and whispered to Pein, "We can use these girls." Pein raised his eyebrow, "How? What use are they? They are just girls."
Konan motioned toward Hinata, "If you look closely, the girl with raven hair has the Byakugan. We can really use it, Pein. What's more, she's the only heir to the Hyuuga clan."
Then she pointed toward the blonde girl, "That one is the heiress of the Yamanaka clan. She can transfer her soul into other bodies, and I heard that Yamanaka members specialize in attacking with their feet."
Lastly, Konan pointed to Sakura, "She is a Haruno. I can tell she can control chakra very well, and we could use another medical ninja around here. What's more, she has an inner personality--like every other Haruno clan member."
Pein widened his eyes slightly, "I see her main chakra is Earth." Konan nod her head, "Of course."
Pein thought about it. No other member had skills like these three young girls. Should they send the girls back to their rightful families? Or should they keep the secret of their identity and use them for their plan?
Kakuzu, Kisame, Itachi and everyone except Tobi and Konan weren't happy to hear that Pein decided to keep them. But they had second thoughts when they heard their characteristics.
"Personal trainers?" asked Konan, putting one hand on her hip and helping Sakura up with the other one. The men looked at each other. Then they looked at Konan, who had finish helping all the girls up. Konan stared back, and for a few moments there was just awkward silence. Finally Ino whispered something to Sakura, loud enough to brake the silence, "Psst. Who are these ugly men?"
A vein popped on Hidan's forehead, "You're a girl, Konan!" he shouted, pointing at her, "You should train them!"
Konan sighed and said with a straight face, "If I train them, who is going to bathe them? Teach them how to read and write? Feed them and cook for them everyday? Who is going to be their mother?" The men looked at each other again.
Since nobody was speaking, Konan started pointing out, "Let's see…Itachi, Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu, Tobi, Zetsu, Deidara, Sasori, Pein and me. Take out me, and we have 9 guys. Pein, Itachi and Sasori will train Sakura." Sasori groaned. Ignoring him, Konan continued, "Kisame, Kakuzu and Tobi can train Hinata." Again, the sentence was answered by groans, but Tobi was leaping in the air happily. Getting irritated, Konan said, "Deidara, Zetsu and Hidan can train Ino."
Everyone seemed to disagree. Konan was really getting furious. She slammed her fist on the nearest table, breaking it in half, making the young girls gasp in amazement.
"I SAY, YOU FOLLOW."
The men dared not to speak back. Konan turned to the girls and smiled sweetly, "My name is Konan. Are you sure you don't know who your families are?"
The girls shook their heads sadly.
Konan frowned, knowing that it was quite mean to keep the girls from their families. What would happen if they grow older and find out the Akatsuki knew who their families were all along, but selfishly kept them away? But she cut out her thinking, and led the girls toward her room.
"Well, this is your new family now."
A/N: Please review and be patient for next chapter.