#01 - Ring
The first Tobi ever saw of Deidara was his right hand, tongue lolled out and his Akatsuki ring on his index finger; A few seconds later he saw the rest of him, and within the minute Deidara was already trying to kill him.
#02 - Hero
Deidara was an Artist, not a hero, to himself or to the rest of the world, and Tobi'd never had a fondness for heroes.
#03 - Memory
At night, Tobi suffered from the nightmares of his past, and Deidara suffered from the sound of his cries.
#04 - Box
It took everything Deidara had to box up his emotions, wrap them in reluctance, and tie them tightly with an insult, while Tobi shook it impatiently and waited for the day it would be opened.
#05 - Run
No matter how long Tobi ran, his heart never beat as quickly as it did when he was with Deidara.
#06 - Hurricane
When the thunder crashed loudly and the lightning struck, Tobi gripped his partner's hand frantically, and despite the taste of leather Deidara held on tightly.
#07 - Wings
They watched as the birds beat their wings and then burst into flame as one, and Tobi felt he finally understood the beauty in Deidara's brand of art.
#08 - Cold
Eventually the time came when Deidara complained about the cold, and accepted Tobi's warmth.
#09 - Red
Red was the color of the flames, blood, clouds, and passion that were Deidara and his art, but he couldn't help to start to like Orange.
#10 - Drink
The first time Deidara got Tobi drunk it was to see under his mask, the second his cloak, and by the third he had plans to do much more then look.
#11 - Midnight
He feared the time when the clock would strike, and turn his prince back into a pumpkin.
#12 - Temptation
A year ago, nothing tempted Deidara in the slightest, but now he found himself yearning for a pair of lips he'd never seen.
#13 - View
Through his innocent pinhole view of the world, Deidara was the thing he could see to perfection.
#14 - Music
Deidara had already guessed that with his luck he'd get a partner who sang in the shower, but it was a happy surprise when he discovered Tobi had a hell of a voice.
#15 - Silk
It was one thing when Deidara discovered that Tobi'd bought him silk sheets as a gift, it was another entirely when he went into their room to discover they were on a king bed where two twins used to be.
#16 - Cover
By the time night came, Tobi didn't remember what the Leader had been angry at him for, only that he had to think of a way to thank Deidara for covering for him.
#17 - Promise
Tobi never liked promises, but when he finally heard those four words from Deidara, he returned the first three with one of his own, and swore to himself he'd keep them a truth.
#18 - Dream
Deidara once dreamt of a shattered orange mask, spilled crimson blood, and a pair of warm, soft lips against his own.
#19 - Candle
They never had a candlelit dinner, it was never a romance for either of them, more need and there and sometimes even love.
#20 - Talent
As far as Deidara knew, Tobi had no talents whatsoever; not that it mattered, he had discovered long ago that he had enough for them both.
#21 - Silence
After they have been together it is always silent, each of them slipping off into dreamless sleep as close to the other as possible.
#22 - Journey
It took a journey of miles and years for Tobi to make his way into his Akatsuki cloak; It took less then a month for Deidara to get it back off him.
#23 - Fire
Deidara's wish is to die a large, flashy, brief, artistic death by explosion; Tobi just wishes for him to rise from the ashes.
#24 - Strength
Tobi is not strong in ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu, but he is strong enough to carry Deidara away from a battle if he is hurt and flailing-cursing because he wants to continue his fight, and that is enough for him.
#25 - Mask
Behind his mask, Tobi hides all of the pain and fear and loneliness and emotions and reasons and regret that are why he feels he has done enough wrong to be on the same level as those in Akatsuki.
#26 - Ice
Because Tobi wants only to please, if Deidara asked for ice in his drink Tobi'd bring him a glacier, but Deidara isn't the type to ask for anything.
#27 - Fall
Tobi didn't know for what reason Deidara had fallen into Akatsuki, only that someone, somewhere was missing out enormously.
#28 - Forgotten
He sat, back against the tree, against and staring at the sky which rained on him and no one else and waited for the footsteps and the insult that would make everything stop.
#29 - Dance
The motions were sharp, brief, almost painful in their awkwardness, and he hated them but the music slowed and before he could walk away in disgust there was only an orange/black spiral and a "Please Deidara-senpai" and he kept dancing.
#30 - Body
Tobi stared down at the thing at his feet, the blood on it and the kunai in his hand, and for a moment that felt like days the world stopped turning; Then there was a hand on his shoulder and a 'Thanks, dumbass' and the first life he had ever taken lost it's significance, because /he/ was alright.
#31 - Sacred
In the end, bloody and barely breathing Deidara could focus on nothing but the fact that the almost sacred union of boy and mask was broken.
#32 - Farewells
Deidara's idea of a goodbye was telling Tobi not to get himself killed, then leaving to the battlefield before the boy managed to say anything that would make him take it back.
#33 - World
Tobi looked at the world through a rose-colored eye hole, while Deidara found the art within the bloodstains.
#34 - Formal
But they lived in a world where there was no dance to go to, and the only time people dressed up was for weddings and funerals.
#35 - Fever
All around Deidara there was nothing but heat and a sort of fog that hung before his eyes; then there were words he couldn't make sense of, something hard and smooth and cold against his head and sleep.
#36 - Laugh
Despite his cheerful demeanor, Deidara realized that he'd never heard Tobi laugh.
#37 - Lies
"Of course Leader-sama, it's no problem at all if you assign me to a different partner.'
#38 - Forever
Deidara was about quick and bright and flashes, and so Tobi had begun to live in 'today', and almost forgotten the meaning of 'forever'.
#39 - Overwhelmed
And then he could see nothing but skin and he had lost all urge to paint.
#40 - Whisper
There had been something of the vastness of the place that made Tobi feel he had to whisper, and Deidara that he had to blow something up.
#41 - Wait
Deidara had never expected the day would come when Tobi was the kind of person he'd wait for.
#42 - Talk
If Tobi was idle chatter and ramblings then Deidara harsh words without any meaning and either could be seen through only by the other and so the other members saw nothing but arguments in their talks.
#43 - Search
There was something fairy-tale in the way Tobi's search for acceptance had lead to so much more.
#44 - Hope
Deidara felt it odd that Tobi was so full of hope, easily deflated with the wrong action, when he who had no reason for hope could explode at the slightest provocation.
#45 - Eclipse
Had the mask not been there to eclipse his every smile, surely Deidara would have came through on his threat to kill him by now.
#46 - Gravity
The first contact was a trip and a fall and seeing red and cursing gravity and disbelief that the mask had managed to stay on.
#47 - Highway
It is with some hesitancy unknown to either of them that they stop off the highway and onto the road less traveled.
#48 - Unknown
Deidara doesn't know if Tobi is even a shinobi, but he doubts it.
#49 - Lock
Tobi is falling, and he can't see or hear but suddenly there's a hand holding his and he's hanging and scared but suddenly there's teeth in the grip and they're locked together and all the fear evaporates and he knows he's safe.
#50 - Breathe
He sees blood and figures and the fallen and he's going to cry but he realizes the blonde is moving and Tobi knows that as long as he is the one that's stopped breathing everything is alright and then the scene fades and there is nothing but relief.