Ah, this idea was eating at me. Plus, I have been neglecting most of my stuff to work on X-Men: Evolution slashy oneshots. (I will post them eventually.)

So, I decided to make a X-Men based SasoDei AU! Which is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE from my Batman based AU.

This is based LOOSELY off of the cartoon Wolverine and The X-Men, which I have seen a grand total of 6 episodes of. I like it though, so I made a SasoDei based off of it.

Buut, since a lot of SasoDei fans are (I imagine) not X-Men fans (Considering how little of you are Batman fans), I will have an author note at the bottom explaining things. You might want to read it first. I'll mark the part you can read without spoiling the story.

Warnings: Swearing, some SasoDei eventually.

Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto characters, the Mutant Response Division or any other X-Men related story points.


Deidara wasn't human.

Sasori kept reminding himself of that. Deidara wasn't human, he was a mutant. (A mutant, a freak, a devolution, a monster.)

But it was hard, because, damn, he looked so human. But that was what they taught you when you first joined the Mutant Response Division.

They will trick. They will look human and try to win your sympathy. Don't be fooled. They're not human, they're monsters.

So he tried to focus on the captive blond's mutations while he was examining him, his hands, his chest. (Surely this stitches on his chest must pain him. Who had done that too him?)

"Hey," called the restrained blond at Sasori, who was standing outside the blond's cell, taking notes. "Hey, why am I restrained un? No one else is! What's the fucking deal un?"

Sasori glanced up at the blond, who had his hands locked firmly above his head, palms out. "You know very well why," answered Sasori, keeping all emotion out of his voice.

"What, I'm a threat un? So why don't you sick one of those mutant-murdering machines that you people seem to love so much on me un. Hell, I bet you could do it now so I'm tied up and can't run or fight back. Come on, isn't that what you Mardies do un?" growled the blond, glaring his visible blue eye at the doctor that stood out of the cell.

Then Deidara leaned his head back as much as he could, which wasn't too much due to the wall he was shackled against. Then he pitched his head forward and spat as far as he could. The wad of saliva landed just inside the cell.

"MRD scum!" snapped the blond angrily. Sasori did not respond and simply continued his rounds of observing the detained mutants. He had been observing the blond mutant for a while, as long as he had been there, and every day the mutant shot various insults and accusations at the MRD scientist.

The next day Deidara was quiet.

Perhaps, Sasori wondered, he was finally beginning to lose his spirit. He had been at MRD almost three weeks after all, chained practically the whole time.

Whether it was that or not, the blond stayed quiet and simply watched Sasori. Sasori made note of this. If this kept up, they might be able to decrease the blond's time restrained.

The next day, Deidara was smirking at Sasori, like he knew something.

This went on for three days, no speaking, just silent smirking.

Finally on the fourth day Sasori couldn't take it anymore.

"Why do you keep doing that?" he snapped, meeting the blond's smirking, know-it-all gaze with his own glare.

"Doing what un?" said the blond smoothly.

"You know what."

The blond laughed. "You know, you Mardies say we're just dumb mutants, yet you expect us to know all this stuff un."

Sasori frowned. "Don't fuck around. Why do you keep smirking at me?"

The smirk widened. "I know what you are uuun~!" cheered the blond in a sing-song voice.

Sasori felt himself stiffen involuntarily. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"I think you do Dr. Akasuna," smirked the restrained mutant. "You know, I knew there was something different about you, but I just couldn't put my finger on it un. You're not like the other MRD scientists un. Now I know why, I figured it out."

The blond leaned forward as far as he could while chained to the wall. "You're a mutant," he stage whispered, before leaning back against the wall and laughing like a madman.

Anger flared in Sasori and all of a sudden he was as close to the cell as he could be with out touching the electrical bars.

"You little mutant brat how DARE you accuse ME of being a mutant you crazy little freak! I am not-"

"Oh, but you are!" crowed Deidara. "Sure, those Mardies might not be able to tell, but we can tell our own kind you know. You're mutation might not quite as... obvious as mine," Deidara clenched his fists as he said that part. "But it's there, don't deny it un. Mmm, I always thought the MRD would screen their employees un. Tell me Dr. Akasuna, how does it feel to be a traitor un?"

Sasori glared at Deidara. "Crazy mutant brat!" he growled. "I am not one of you."

He stormed off, making a note that Deidara had regressed back to insults and crazy accusations.

That night though, Sasori found it was harder to sleep than normal.

"I'm not a traitor." he whispered to himself in the dark. "I'm not a mutant. I'm not a freak. I'm not a traitor."


"Hey traitor," greeted Deidara, smirking like he had been for days.

"Do you ever get tired of accusing me of things?" Sasori asked calmly, his composure returned.

"Mmm, well, when you can't move your arms for the majority of the day you find ways to entertain yourself."

Sasori almost smiled at that, because it was almost funny.

When Sasori left the area Deidara was detained in to check on the other captive mutants, a guard stopped Sasori.

"Hey," he said. "What's that terrorist been saying to you anyway?"

It took Sasori a moment to realize the man was talking about Deidara.

"The usual," he answered calmly. "MRD scum, you fucking Mardie, stuff like that."

The guard snorted. "I don't like him. He's one of those Akatsuki freaks. I think we should of just shot him the moment we captured him."

"What's Akatsuki?" asked the second guard.

"You don't know? Jeez don't you watch the news? Their that Mutant-Supremacist terrorist group. Bunch of psycho freaks."

"Please excuse me," said Sasori, slipping past the guards. He wasn't sure why what the guards were saying made him so uncomfortable.

"See you later Dr. Akasuna!" called one of the guards. Sasori did not respond.

Later that night Deidara's arms were released so he could eat. His arms were not released often, only occasionally so he could regain circulation and when he ate. He slept with them bound by his side as opposed to above his head.

He stretched as the plate of food was slipped into his cell and scratched that place on his shoulder that had been itching for almost an hour.

He leaned against the wall and picked at his food. His chest hurt. It hurt a lot. It had hurt a lot for years. Normally he took painkillers, but that was not an option at this moment.

He hated it here and he hated the fucking Mardies. Every single one. Except...

A mutant member of the MRD. Who knew.

Because that doctor, the redhead one, Akasuna (Deidara had never learned the man's first name), was a mutant. He was sure, god was he sure. A mutant, helping to suppress mutants. But...

"You know," he muttered quietly to himself, sure that the security guards would not hear him. "I bet a former employee of MRD would be... helpful. "

He smiled and took a bite of bread. He only had twenty minutes to use his arms to eat after all.


SPOILER FREE NOTES YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN:

Mutants are mutated humans. They generally have some kind of special power. They are hated greatly by many normal humans, for really no reason.

The Mutant Response Division is a government organization, who (From what I have gathered) "control" mutant activity and protect normal people. They will lock up mutants and created the Sentinals, which are machines made solely to attack mutants. I have not seen to much of my show myself, so I do not know if they will lock up any mutant they find or claim that the mutants they lock up are a "threat". (If anyone knows, please tell me. ) Mutant Response Division is abbreviated to MRD, sometimes called Mardies. (Or at least that's what it sounds like they say in the show. Mardie also appears to be an insulting term.)

NOT SO SPOILER FREE NOTES:

This the most self indulgent fanfiction I have EVER written. So, I know very little about Wolverine and The X-Men, which this is specifically set in. (Fail.) It just worked better then setting it in X-Men Evolution. (Which I am huge fan of.)

So, this is almost literally the opposite of my SasoDei Batman based fanfiction. In Mad Love, Sasori is in a cell and Deidara's a doctor, in this, the opposite. Mad Love is Batman, therefor DC based, this is X-Men therefor Marvel based.

I worry that this story is not accessible to those who have not seen any Wolverine and The X-Men, or maybe to those who have seen more and know the WaTXM universe better than me. But who cares, as I said this was my self-indulgent fanfic.

I made some random shit up to fill in my holes of knowledge relating to MRD.

For example, I state that the bars to his cell are electric, because they glow and look electric in the episodes I've seen. I have no idea what the cells are made of.

So basically, if somethings are wrong from what should be WaTXM continuity, I'm sorry. BUT IT'S AN AU.

This will probably be a twoshot.

Please review, don't flame, criticize if you like

AND BONUS, IF YOU CAN GUESS WHO I BASED THE AKATSUKI OFF OF I WILL REWARD YOU... SOMEHOW. THE FIRST PERSON TO GUESS.