It all started from a little conversation between Deidara and Kisame about the mist-nin's partner: Uchiha Itachi. How did this conversation end? Let us see...

"He's very good looking," complimented Deidara, "Seem's like he'd be more popular with the ladies than you."

He was answered with silence.

Deidara looked over at Kisame who was sitting beside him. "Is something wrong?" Kisame usually didn't stop talking unless someone like Itachi told him to.

Kisame sat with his back to Deidara, head bowed, clearly, completely and utterly depressed. "After all," the mist-nin mumbled, "I am strangely coloured..."

"That really bothers you, doesn't it?" stated Deidara flatly.

It took a few bribes, but Deidara got Kisame to start talking again, and they made a bet concerning how many women Itachi had 'gotten'. Deidara and Kisame then migrated into the main living-room of the Akatsuki head-quarters, to find the Uchiha in question calmly standing by a window and observing a sparrow watch a line of ants that were marching across the windowsill.

Deidara stood a little further than an arms-length from the Uchiha. "Itachi?"

The Uchiha turned to him just as the sparrow started pecking furiously at the line of ants, and the insects scattered mindlessly.

"Yes?"

((TBC. This was inspired by that little omake-crack-thing at the end of episode eighteen of Naruto Shippuuden. The beginning scene was based on it, and... yeah. Two more drabbles to go.))