My first fanfic, first one-shot and first shounen-ai based story. The only pairing here will be Sasodei. Warning for slight AU, plot twist, shounen-ai, etc…

Disclaimer: "Naruto"© belongs to Masashi Kishimoto… all hail to Sasori, the master of puppets, the theatrical genius of horror and grace, the underrated Akatsuki member and definitely…, Deidara's seme ^_^


Two figures were seen along the borders of Amegakure at late dusk. Even when one's sight is greatly dimmed by the heavy downpour that never ends, their cloaks greatly contrast against the background. Tall black garments with red clouds that goes together…, members of the Akatsuki were known and feared throughout the rain village.

The two-week travel from Suna back to their home base was extremely tiring…, just for one of the duo, since the redhead that goes by the name 'Sasori' is an immortal puppet that has endless stamina and never fatigues. Meanwhile his naïve blonde partner, Deidara, is trying to keep his composure maintained, now that they are nearing the gates of the village, without passing out miserably.

Sasori is quite obvious to his blondes partner's pathetic attempt to keep his legs moving, in fact he found it amusing to watch his face contorted in misery, just to try and keep pace with his master. And just for a fraction of a second Sasori let a small smirk to grace his face. He remembered all the times where the brat keeps nagging about how slow he moved in Hiruko and how even a snail moves faster than the armored puppet once had. Now…, well let's just say that the brat is taking back all he said about his master being too slow, mentally.

As the duo entered the hideout, Sasori's internal piece was slightly wavering by an egoistic blonde brat complaining behind him, "Hey… master? Can we rest for a while? I can't feel my legs anymore, I mean, damn it, un! How did you manage to NOT tire during the entire walk?!! Surely you would tire too?" Sasori stop for a while and turned his head a bit to study his partner's so called 'tired' condition. "Wow, never thought he would be in a pretty bad shape." thought Sasori.

He sighed, a habit he never really manages to get rid of even as a puppet. "Fine brat, we'll rest here for 4 minutes only." At this statement the blonde suddenly had a happy grin plastered on his face, tainted with a light tinge of pink on his nose at the feeling of gratitude towards his master. "Thanks master…, un." Unfortunately for Sasori, the 4-minute rest limit was turned into a 4-hour sleeping session in the blonde's case.

Normally Sasori would be threatening the blonde to move his lazy ass up or suffer his poisons, but a lot of things had been going in Sasori's mind too so he's going to let this slip for a while. "Okay, so we managed to extract the Shukaku, killed my grandmother and some pink-haired girl…, whoever she was, and come back safe with no casua- right… Hiruko was destroyed by that bitch… damn it all! That was quite careless of me." All this time as Sasori began scolding himself in his mind, he never realizes that he began to unconsciously sit down leaning on a tree near the blond brat, and all this time he never realizes that the blond was snuggling up to his right arm for more warmth radiating from his heart core. That is until Deidara suddenly jolt awake, putting his face close, too close to his masters face. The two sit there, awkwardly staring at each other; Sasori still maintaining his emotionless expression, Deidara meanwhile was having one hell of a time trying to out down the red, hot blush that has invaded his cheeks. "Umm…, morning... master!" Deidara began innocently just to break the ice, thought he was still too obvious that it was nearing midnight at that time.


A/N: I'll try to update this as soon as possible but I can't promise within a week limit. School is slaughtering me this year, you know how that goes. Right…, so anyway, criticism about my English, spelling, grammar and all that crap are welcomed. Tell me about the story too if it's boring or what not. Never had any plot anyway but I know how it will all ends. Ciao.