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Her dazzling blue eyes were stuck like glue onto the man, the look of pure concentration penetrating her every thought as she gazed at him silently.

She had only joined the Akastuki a few months ago.

Yet she already developed feelings for him.

But her feelings were wrong.

Since she was already married and mated.

Yet her feelings for him remained.

The two black ears atop of her head suddenly flattened against her skull as she watched him yell at his partner, shattering her thoughts. His partner lowered his masked head and mumbled an apology, trudging his feet away. The man sighed and then went back to his work. He paused momentarily and looked up.

Kagome stopped her breath as she realized he had noticed that she was staring at him. The cat hanyou's eyes widened when he looked directly at her, her heart skipping a few beats in turn.

"Yes?"

As his voice rang through her ears a blush spread across her face. A lop-sided smirk found it's way across his face as he stared at Kagome's blazing face. Without a single word, Kagome turned quickly on her heel and headed out of the room. Hanging her head low with a sad look etched onto her face she rushed out of the room.

The man sat there, a bit confused.

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"Seeeeempai!"

Kagome's ears flattened to her head again as the shrill voice filled her ears.

She turned to see the man in the orange mask rush past her to run to the blonde.

"Look what I did sempai!" Tobi cried, nearly shoving a small clay bird into Deidara's face.

Deidara pushed the suddenly blurry mess of white away from his face to see it clearer. He stared at it for a moment before turning back to his creation.

"Yes yes, very good Tobi," the blonde said monotonesly, waving his hand at him as if trying to swat a pesky fly away.

Tobi made a small high-pitched squeal-like thing, making Kagome's ears throb. He hugged his clay creation and went running out of the room gleefully to places unknown. Letting her ears come off of her head, Kagome looked over at Deidara. He continued working on his own clay creation. Kagome frowned tightly and looked down at her lap.

'Besides, doesn't Deidara-sempai like Tobi-san back?'

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Frozen by fear, Kagome stood by Tobi's side and watched as Deidara fruitlessly fought on with Sasuke.

Deidara was losing.

It was obvious.

Kagome was too scared to move as she watched the battle move on. But Deidara had told her and Tobi to stay back anyways.

Suddenly, Deidara fell back. He opened a mouth on his chest.

Kagome's eyes widended as she realized what he was meaning to do.

"No..." she muttered under her breath in a frightened tone. Tobi quickly picked it up. He whipped his head towards her.

"What's wrong Kagome-san?"

"No..." she merely muttered again, starting to take slow steps towards Deidara.

"Kagome-san, what are you doing?!"

"NO!" Kagome shrieked, starting to run, tears suddenly cascading down her cheeks. Tobi grabbed her before she could go any furthur and pulled them out of range.

Kagome struggled, sobbing and shrieking, trying to make it to Deidara to stop him. He turned his head towards her and mouthed

'I'm sorry.'

Kagome let out one more heart-wrenching scream before the area was surrounded by a light and a huge explosion, blasting her love away.


...yeah. In one of the recent chapters of Naruto, Deidara died. I mourned for quite a while. :p

AND HEY LOOK I ACTUALLY UPDATED SOMETHING!

I've been on artist cancer for months. I decided to try to cure at least some of it tonight. Don't worry fans of 'Roses Are Black'. I should think of something to do soon.