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-Naruto's POV-

Itachi is still asleep in the room and I wake up on top of his chest.

Well this is awkward...

I roll my eyes and carefully climb down and slide down to the floor.

Hehe... Sasori and Kakuzu promised to play with me today.

I crawl my way to the living room and push the door more open.

I see Kisame sitting on the couch looking bored, Sasori sitting by the table with a small puppet in his hands and Kakuzu sitting opposite Sasori, counting his money.

Everyone else must still be sleeping.

I grunt as I crawl towards the table and tug on Sasori's cloak.

He stops what he was doing and looks down.

"What do you want kid." He asks, more like demands.

"Pway... You pwomised." I pout.

Sasori freezes and thinks things over for a bit.

"...Fine..." He finally says.

I grin before crawling to Kakuzu and tugging his cloak as well.

He looks down as well and I huff, knowing he heard me talking to Sasori.

He rolls his eyes before getting up as well.

I grin happily and put my arms up.

Kakuzu reluctantly picks me up and we head outside, to the Akatsuki garden.

As we walk, I began to be curious about if Sasori is actually a human or not.

"Awre you weally a 'uman?" I ask Sasori. Are you really a human?

Sasori thinks for a bit on what he wants to say.

"No... This is merely a puppet." He answers.

"Oo oo, wanna see weal you!" I exclaim. Oo oo wanna see real you!

Sasori scowls a bit before sighing.

He then stops walking and so does Kakuzu.

"Wait are you serious?" Kakuzu asks curiously.

"He's a kid. It's not like he can kill me without this puppet anyway." Sasori says and jumps out of the puppet.

I then see a teenage male with red sunset hair standing next to what everyone saw as Sasori.

Kakuzu has his eyes wide open.

"What? Never seen a human before?" Sasori scowls with a higher pitched voice then his normal low pitched one.

Kakuzu averts his gaze but I kept staring at him.

I grin.

Sasori rolls his eyes.

"Let's just go." He says and starts walking again.

Kakuzu following behind him.

Soon we reach the garden.

I look around with sparkles in my eyes.

Wow!!

Who knew the Akatsuki liked gardening. I snicker to myself.

Kakuzu puts me down on the grass and I make my way towards a patch of dirt.

"Oh no you don't." Sasori says.

Before I could jump in and roll around, I felt Sasori's chakra strings on me, stopping me in my tracks.

I pout once again.

He then pulls me back and places me on the grass.

I look around trying to find something interesting to do.

I then remembered.

"Sori!~" I yell and turn around.

Sasori perks up immediately with wide eyes at the nickname.

"What?" He asks.

"Wanna pway wif puppwets!" I smile and push myself off the ground, waddling towards him.

"No." He says bluntly.

He freeze and tears began filling my eyes.

"Because all my puppet have poison in them. You'll get poisoned and I won't have the antidote." He sighs.

I look at him with shocked eyes.

He cares?!?!?!

"It would be a waste of my poison and I don't particularly want to die by Itachi's hands." He adds on quickly.

I puff my cheeks and fold me arms together, disappointed that he doesn't actually care about me.

-Sasori's POV-

WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!?!

I NEARLY SOUNDED LIKE I CARED!!!

Thank God I lied about the last part.

I sighed again.

His frowning face is cute- NO ITS NOT!!

I groan mentally.

I held out the small puppet I had been working on.

"Here. This puppet doesn't have poison in it." I say and hold it towards him.

He stares at me then the puppet.

His face lights up and instead of running (well trying to anyway) to get the puppet, he waddles past and gives me a bear hug.

I tense but he doesn't notice.

"Tanks Sori!!" He gives me an closed eye smile.

I stare at him wide eyed.

He crawls off me and takes the puppet carefully, as if it's the most fragile thing in the universe.

He then stands up and waddles to the middle of the garden and plays with the puppet, waving it up and down while I stare at him.

I think my face heated up but that's not possible, I'm a puppet.

B-But he makes me want to protect his small and innocent body!

Wait that didn't just come out of my mouth...

What the hell is wrong with me!

I hear a loud noise behind me and I turn around.

"Naruto?!" Itachi yells.

"Daddy!!" I hear a squeal.

Behind me are the rest of the Akatsuki.

Shit...

I'm not in my puppet...

"Who the hell are you?" Deidara asks.

"Shut up Deidara." I turn around.

"Daddy!!!" Naruto yells again and waddles as quick as he can towards Itachi.

Itachi picks him up and Naruto squeals.

"Daddy daddy daddy!" Naruto bounces.

"What is it Naruto?" Itachi asks.

"Sori ga'e me a puppwet!!" He yells pointing at me then holding up the puppet.

"Aww~ Isn't he adorable??" Tobi coos and waves his fingers above Naruto's face.

"Who's 'Sori'?" Kisame asks.

"Sori is Sasori." Kakuzu replies.

"Really? Sasori actually let the little pipsqueak call him that?" Deidara asks.

"I didn't let him. He just called me that himself." I say.

"Ok, who are you?" Hidan asks.

"Believe it or not... This is Sasori..." Kakuzu says.

"What?! You better not have put poison in it!" Itachi yells.

"Of course I didn't! Why would I kill him?" I say rhetorically.

Itachi rolls his eyes.

"Daddy! Sori can make de puppwet move!!" Naruto says and tries to imitate how I use my chakra strings.

I smile slightly and everyone gasps.

I frown again.

"What?" I ask.

"You can smile?!"

"You have emotions?!"

"You're really a teenager?!"

"Yes, Yes and Yes." I roll my eyes, something I've been doing recently.

"Daddy, aftwer bweakfast, can I pway wif Kuzu??" Naruto asks, tilting his head.

"Kuzu?" Kisame asks.

Naruto nods and points to Kakuzu.

"Uh... Sure." Itachi says.

"Yay!! Love you daddy!" Naruto hugs Itachi.

Itachi sends a warning glare to Kakuzu and Kakuzu sweat drops.

"That kid is really over protective of the brat." Kisame sighs.

"You don't fucking say." Deidara replies.

Itachi slaps Kisame and Deidara on the head.

Naruto giggles as they both whine.