Fighting With One's Self

Chapter 12 - Rescue

A/N: Sorry that the fic is taking so long. And also, apologies that there are such long gaps between the uploading of chapters. Hopefully, you all aren't too bored yet.

And remember, my story does not go according to the sequel of events in the anime. That would be a form of fraud XD.

As always, R&R please

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Yume's POV

I have been trying all day to try and find out exactly where Yoku is. Deidara is just as worried as I am, but no one has any answers. Pein's room is protected with several different seals, preventing entrance. I waited for more than an hour, pacing up and down in front of the door, but I heard no sound from inside. I was forced to accept that direct communication with the asshole just was not going to happen.

Deidara and I both skipped lunch. He searched outside the building for trapdoors or secret entrances to underground cells, where she might have been imprisoned, while I try to locate something, anything, within the building that might give us a clue as to where she is.

Itachi-kun has already felt my wrath. I yelled at him for fifteen minutes straight, not pausing to give him time to interrupt. I told him that, even though he is so duty-bound that he murdered his own family, does not mean he can go around destroying other people's lives as well. Because Yoku is my sister, if not in blood, but in bond.

Tobi is running rampant, panicking just as much as Deidara and me, but his panicking is not very helpful: he just mutters to himself and paces about the building.

All the others: Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu and Konan are all called away as the hours pass. I do not get a wink of sleep that night. I pull at the books in the living room, lift paintings and tap around the edges of doorways, trying to find a lever of some sort that will lead me to wherever Yoku is. In the middle of the night, despite their protests, Tobi and Deidara are also forced to leave.

I half the kitchen's coffee supplies, doing all I can to stay awake. After having searched every nook and cranny, lifted every book and gone through all the scrolls in all the drawers, I am forced to conclude that she is not anywhere within reach. 

Thanks to the fact that I may not leave the building by my lonesome, my search is limited to the inside. More than once, I considered sneaking outside, but wherever Yoku is, I am sure that is not pleasant. And what help would I be if I was also trapped?

I exhaust every possibility of her location: prison, underground, banishment, death, but none makes sense. If she was imprisoned, then surely I would have found her by now. She would not be banished, because Pein would not want her to blab about the Akatsuki secrets, and if she had been murdered, it would have reached someone's ears, or he would have told all of us himself, to make an example.

I put coffee in a large tin bottle to keep it warm and head upstairs to the door to Pein's room, and sit against the wall. He has to come out sometime.

But the moment my head falls against the cold wall behind me, I fall asleep.

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Deidara's POV.

I have just returned from my mission with Tobi. It was a success, but all I cared about was the faint hope that my beloved might be back from wherever she had been.

In the lobby, all the other Akatsuki, including Yume, are gathered, all looking slightly confused. I do not say anything. This must be a meeting arrnaged by the Leader. Tobi, for once, is quiet. Predictably, the Leader appears seconds later.