Disclaimer: I don't own Deidara. HE OWNS ME! And Pein and Konan and Zetsu aren't mine either...-dies- (BTW, if they are TOTALLY OoC, don't kill me. I don't know what the heck they're like! It's a total freaking guess! (Wait...Pein and Konan and Zetsu aren't in this chapter! -harrumphs- FINE! WELL, HERE'S THE DISCLAIMER ANYWAYS!) And Suigetsu and Karin aren't mine, but why would I want them? They're perfect for each other, but I hate 'em. Dunno why, I just do...

AMAYA CHIEKO-CHAN DOES NOT BELONG TO ME. SHE BELONGS TO THE PWNSOME AND MOST AWESOME AUTHORESS (coincidentally, my twinny-twin-twin and idol XD) -DRUMROLL- NAKOUDOBYAKUGAN!!!!!!

Claimer: Yes, Aly, Jeis, Kira, and Tadashi TOTALLY belong to me. But I dunno if they're mentioned in this chapter either! 0.o

A/N: Well, all I can say is:

1) This is SO TOTALLY for my stupendous twinny-twin-twin because she already read this and I can't wait to post it for her birthday...not to mention I'd probably run out of time to post it in time anyways. HURRAH FOR BREAK!

2) Don't like OC's, don't read.

3) This is a drabble-ish (emphasis on ISH!) collection and they're all interrelated...um...uh...oh! And it's "drabble-ish" because I dunno what to call it.

4) Who wants to bet that this ain't gonna be finished for a looonnng time? -cough-staringatallotherstories-cough-

Yup. That's about it.

Ummm...yeah!

ENJOY! (or else I shall come to STALK you! BWAHAHAHAHAHA---chokes-)

Love, Some Say…

Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed.
Some say love it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed.

( i.) Three Kisses

Love, some say is better to felt and to have lost then to have not loved at all. An odd, colorful wisp-of-a-girl couldn't have disagreed with those people more.

Certainly, love was fair wonderful, but there was harm to come with it. She'd lost a love already, and she was certain that she could've done without love in the first place. After all, the love we speak of is that of lovers, not family.

Leann-sama was right. Chieko sighed. But, dammit! She wasn't a "tender reed!"

"I'm Chieko, dammit!" She hollered into the empty forest across the stream. And her soul wasn't bleeding, per say, she added resentfully.

Stupid, stupid, stupid Suigetsu. Blind, blind, blind Chieko! She kicked at a large rock at the edge of the streambed. They had something! Emphasis on had.

Everything was going pretty well, considering their criminal and not-so-love-based lives.

But no.

He just had to previously be in love with a red-headed crap-for-brains, and he just had to have never gotten over her.

And she was the lucky red-head that he had "fallen in love with" to "try" to "get over" the crap-for-brains.

Did she mention that crap-for-brains was in love with someone else?

Of course, it was more puppy love and with Suigetsu's…interesting flirting abilities, it hadn't taken long for the puppy love to disappear.

"Stupid Suigetsu! Stupid Chieko! Stupid Karin! Stupid, fecking emotions!" Chieko bellowed.

"Do you normally talk to yourself, yeah?" A dry, somewhat amused voice asked.

"Go away, Deidara." She didn't even bother to turn around.

"Not happening, yeah." He was close behind her. "You going to answer me, yeah?" Chieko sighed in response to that.

"You know me, Dei. I always talk to myself."

"Only if you're upset, yeah. Did that bastard do anything?" Deidara had never really liked Suigetsu. Chieko could never figure out why—but maybe it was because Deidara had only narrowly escaped death in a fight with the four members of Team Hebi.

"…you could say that…"

"He's not worth it, Chieko." Deidara said flatly.

"How do you know?" She asked darkly, kicking a pebble into the stream. "Have you ever been in love?" It came out cruelly, and she turned around, panic in her eyes. "Oh, Dei, I--!" The bitterness in his shaded eyes twisted a knife in her heart—it hurt more than she thought it would.

"No…I've never been in love, un. But…" his pale blue-grey eyes lifted to the horizon that was barely visible from above the waterfall the made the stream. "I might be, yeah…"

The knife twisted more.

"I'm sorry Deidara…I didn't mean…" His palms landed on her shoulders, gently massaging them as his warmth enveloped her.

"It's okay, Chieko, un." She leaned back, unconsciously reveling in their contact. His nose was buried in the crook of her shoulder as one hand rose to touch her cheek gently. Chieko froze as she felt the tiniest sensation of a kiss on her bare shoulder, then stilled completely as the hand on her cheek traveled to her mouth, and the mouth gave her a kiss.

"Dei…" It was weird, being kissed on both shoulders and the mouth at the same time. Sure, they were light butterfly-y kisses…but…

She shouldn't have been letting anyone do this to her, not anyone…it was so…sensual--for her, at least…but it felt so right with him…

His arms were wrapped around her, palms kissing, mouth pressing kiss on top of her head, her head tucked neatly under his chin for a moment, before he started.

"S-sor—"She was shaking her head slowly.

"No…only apologize if you regretted that." He shut his mouth. A tiny smile reached her pale-colored lips.

"Leader-sama's called for a meeting, un." Chieko smiled, linking her arm through his.

"Then let's go! Wouldn't wanna make his royal god-liness wait!"

A/N: So, hope you enjoyed that, if anyone's reading this... -rolls eyes-

And, Bya-chan, I know you already read this, but, do you KNOW how much it TORE my prude-ish SOUL to write that? And later, with Pein and Konan...-dies- The things I do for you...

It's weird...I always type "Konana" and then I have to delete the extra "a..."

Disclaimer: Lyrics at top from "The Rose" by Leann Rimes (aka Leann-sama) I wish I had her genius. Not happening today... -crosses fingers-

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