Hello my lovely readers! I've brought you a new story! :D *Dances* I've done quite a bit of thinking about how I wanted to do this but I think I've finally thought of a a pretty good idea so here it is! :3 I was debating on whether or not to separate this chapter into maybe a prologue and chapter 1 but decided to just put all of their background information in this one chapter making it a bit longer than I usually make them. Hopefully you guys don't mind that :3
Anyways, enough of my jibber jabber, enjoy~
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the characters. All rights go to the lovely and talented Kishimoto-sama :3
"Mmm…five more minutes mommy, un…" The teen rolled over to turn off his phone's alarm.
He heard soft knocking on his bedroom door but simply ignored it in favour of more sleep. To the blonde's displeasure, the knocking did not go away, but increased in volume instead until his door was thrown open followed by yelling.
"Deidara Iwa! Get your ass up out of bed this instant! We're going to be late for school!"
Said teen cracked an azure eye to lazily glance over to his irritated roommate. He slowly sat up, and stretched his stiff limbs before glancing down at the clock. His eyes grew as the clock read '7:45am'.
"What the fuck 'Tachi?! Why didn't you wake me up sooner, un?!" The blond scrambled out of bed, tripping on his blanket and face planting onto the hard wood floors. "Owww! Shit, un." Rubbing his now sore head, he raced around his bedroom to try to get ready in time.
The raven haired teen simply rolled his eyes at his friend's frantic running around the small room. He sighed, "You better not make us late on the first day of this new school. I want to make a better impression at this school than the last one, Deidara."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll be ready in like two minutes, un." He pulled on a pair of black skinny jeans followed by a pale pink hoodie. He disappeared into the bathroom to fix his hair and brush his teeth.
Itachi sighed again muttering, "I swear you take longer getting ready than Konan." Before exiting the blonde's room.
Itachi's always been fairly quick when getting ready to go out, unlike his two roommates/best friends, Konan and Deidara. They've been sharing a home together for years now.
Konan is the oldest between Deidara and Itachi, her being seventeen while the other two are sixteen. One day when she was eight years old, her parents went to work, but never returned. She sat staring at the door for hours until she realized that they were never coming back for her.
She would cry for hours wondering what she had done wrong. Why would they leave her? They didn't even say goodbye. Did they really love her at all? She would wander around the house feeling sorry for herself for days, until one day she decided that she was stronger than that.
She wasn't going to let her parents' abandonment hurt her. No. She was going to be happy. How? She hadn't figured that out just yet, but she was willing to learn along the way.
Several years had passed. Konan survived by stealing food and clothes from local shops and staying at her friends' houses as often as she could so she could snatch a hot shower or bath and some hot food.
It wasn't so bad; she managed pretty well actually. One day when she was folding paper, she had gone to a friend's house and their grandmother had taught her about origami which she quickly fell in love with, she glanced out her window to see a bright orange glow illuminating the night.
Curious, she got up and traipsed over to further investigate the strange light only to find out that what was creating the orange glow in the distance was actually a huge house fire a few houses down from hers.
Being the curious and kind eleven year old she way, she grabbed her small grey jacket and dashed out the door to the burning house. As she approached the inferno, she began to sweat from the instance heat the flames were producing.
She snapped her head over to a very fain coughing sound coming from behind a car next door. She carefully approached the sound only to find a very small blond boy curled up in a ball sobbing.
Konan stared down at the boy with kind eyes and a soft smile. She crouched down and placed a comforting hand on the boy's shoulder. His body went ridged at the sudden contact and he lifted his head to see the bluenette smiling tenderly at him.
"Hey, are you okay?" She spoke gently and glanced back at the house flames to see the fire department arriving to the scene. Her auburn eyes gazed back into the scared azure ones of the boy. "Was that your house?"
The blond boy nodded his head, tears threatening to spill from his already puffy eyes. He fixed his gaze to his burning home, his eyes glazed over, he spoke, "M-my parents and little brother were in there, u-un." His voice was horse and quiet.
Konan nodded her understanding, "Did they make it out in time?" The boy shook his head solemnly. "Do you have any other family to stay with?" He shook his head again. "Where will you go?" He shrugged looking down again.
Konan's face dropped. He was all alone. He didn't have a family or a home. What was he going to do? Where was he going to go? "Do you maybe want to stay with me?"
The blond raised both brows in surprise, "Why?"
Konan shrugged, "I dunno. I just like helping people is all." She smiled brightly which the blond hesitantly returned. "So do ya wanna stay with me or not, kid?"
The boy shrugged, "I dunno…wouldn't your family get mad I'm there, un?"
The bluenette shook her head, "I don't have a family anymore. They left."
The blond made an 'o' with his mouth looking back at the receding flames of what use to be his house. "Hm, I guess I don't got any other place to go, un. So sure, I'll stay with you and we can be our own family and we'll be the bestest friends!" He beamed.
She grinned back, "Yeah! It's just you and me, kid!" She stood offering her hand to the younger child, which he gladly took. She began leading them back to her house before she paused in her steps to turn to the blond who quirked an eyebrow at the sudden halt in movement. "By the way, what's your name, kid? I'm Konan!"
The blond smiled brightly, "I'm Deidara, un! Nice to meetcha Konan." She returned the smile and nodded before they both began walking back to their shared home.
"Wow, un. You live here all by yourself?" The blond looked around the room wide eyed. It was so pretty! It had a tattered, yet strangely classy royal blue couch in the middle of the room. A small flat screen mounted to the wall. It didn't work since she didn't have electricity anymore due to no one being able to pay the bills. There were three bedrooms and two bathrooms. What left the blond in awe were the hundreds of origami swans, roses, harts, shuriken, and a few more shapes littering the room.
Konan nodded, "Yup; just me, myself and I."
Deidara gave a confused face tilting his head to the side slightly, "Wait, un…isn't that…three people? I thought you said it was only you, un."
The older child went into a fit of laughter and giggles at the confused blond. "N-no, Dei. It's just something people say, it all means the same thing." She said between laughter. "Just one person; me. I'm the only one who lives here." She smiled slightly, "Well, I use to be the only one here."
The blond looked confused for a second before slowly nodding. "Oh, that's confusing, un." Konan nodded slightly. The younger child looked to the floor and picked up one of the paper roses. He looked to the bluenette before smiling brightly and placing it securely into her hair. "There, un. Now you look extra pretty!" He grinned brightly to the now slightly blushing Konan.
Konan touched the paper rose in her hair, "Ya think so?"
Deidara grinned nodding his head vigorously, his blond hair going everywhere, "Un!"
The bluenette smiled and embraced her new blond friend. "Thanks, Dei. No one's ever said something like that to me before."
The small blond smiled, returning the embrace, "I don't see why un. You're so nice and super awesome! You're the bomb, un!"
Konan giggled, "Thanks, kid." She released the blond looking at her old cracked wall clock. "It's getting pretty late, we should go to sleep."
The blond pouted, "But Kona-channnn I'm not tired uuuunn~!" he whined before yawning. Konan giggled at the blond. He continued to pout with a slight blush on his flawless cheeks.
The older child gripped the boy's hand pulling him towards one of the bedrooms. Once inside she lit a candle to illuminate the small room. She pulled out some old blankets from the nearly empty closet, placing them on the bed with two pillows.
"We can sleep together tonight, okay Dei?" The bluenette offered the blond a pillow, smiling kindly as she did so.
The boy smiled and nodded. "Okay, un. Thanks Kona-chan." The eleven year old nodded before snuggling under the covers for warmth, the blond doing the same.
She blew out the candle whispering, "Goodnight, Dei. Sleep tight; don't let the bed bugs bite."
The blond giggled shuffling closer to Konan, muttering, "G'night, Konan. Sweet dreams filled with sugar and strawberries, un."
Konan giggled before falling asleep next to her new best friend and family member.
Years passed with the duo trying to survive day to day. They managed to keep the house without getting caught. They would scare away any potential buyers while keeping it a secret that they were living there rent free with no electricity but a fresh supply of running water.
Today, however, was different. Today was the day that Konan would get a job and finally have money to pay for electricity for the two living in the house. She would finally get a job to support herself and her blond best friend properly, and make somewhat of an honest living for them.
Getting them both enrolled into school was a bit tricky. It usually involved using fake accents, false information, costumes, neighbor's and friend's help, and other shenanigans. Neither one wanted to get sent to a foster home or an orphanage, but they were both willing to do whatever they needed to do to get a good education to support themselves in the future.
Deidara was walking home from school on his usual route. Since they didn't live too far away from the school, both Konan and Deidara would walk to school and around town. They were too young to drive, and even if they could drive, a car and gas would be far out of their budget for the time being.
The blond sighed looking up to the sky with a vapid expression. He and Konan had been living together for three years now. He wasn't very popular in school, but he didn't mind; he had Konan and that was all he needed.
He turned a corner, careful not to bump into any of the people littering the streets. He looked down to the slightly cracked pavement he was walking on, frowning to himself. 'Something doesn't feel right…' He thought to himself.
The blond lifted his head to see people crowded around the entrance to the neighborhood next to his and Konan's.
He raised a brow as he noticed police, ambulances, a fire truck, and a news crew there as well. Curious he decided to see what was going on since he didn't have to be home right away; Konan was going to be working for a few hours anyway.
As he approached the crowd of people, he could hear people crying, shouting, and authorities telling them to calm down. He maneuvered through the people to see a raven haired boy around his age sitting on the back of an open ambulance vehicle looking solemnly at a house infested with police and detectives.
The small blond somehow managed to make his way to the raven haired boy. He looked to the direction the other boy was looking, raising a brow. "Hey, un. Do you know what's going on?"
The pale boy slowly turned his gaze to the blond next to him. His stoic onyx eyes stared into curious azure ones as he nodded his head.
The blond raised both brows, giving the boy a look. "Well…? Aren't you going to tell me what, un?" The blond pried.
"There was a murder." He said casually with a shrug, turning his attention away from the gawking blond, back to the house with 'caution' tape wrapped around it.
"Wh-what?! A murder? Who was murdered, un?"
The pale boy sighed again, looking irritatingly to the blond, "My mother, father, grandfather, two cousins, and dog." he said curtly.
The blonde's eyes widened, his mouth a gap. Well he certainly wasn't expecting that answer. His mouth opened and closed as he tried to find something to say to the other boy. He casted his gaze to the ground, his voice low, "I-I'm sorry, un."
The raven haired boy raised a brow, "Why? It wasn't your fault."
Deidara shook his head slightly chuckling, "I know, un." He paused, raising his gaze to the emotionless onyx eyes of the boy sitting beside him. He chuckled bitterly, "I know how you must feel right now, un. You see, a few years ago, my family died in a house fire." He smiled sadly, "For whatever reason, I survived, un. I was the only one who managed to get out alive. But…" He trailed off his smile dropping. "I was all alone. No family, no home, no nothing, un. I was…scared."
The raven haired boy's expression took on a compassionate one as he gazed at the blond beside him. He opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by the blonde's sudden bright smile. He closed his mouth but raised a brow in question.
The blond chuckled, "I didn't have to be alone for long, un. This one really nice, kind, and compassionate person found me hiding behind a car crying like a baby." He chuckled again, "She offered her home to me without even thinking about it, un. She was alone without family too, but she took me in and made me a part of a new family."
The raven haired boy was shocked. The blond knew what he was going through? And there was another person? He looked over his shoulder to his house and frowned. "That is very fortunate for you and this other girl." He muttered to himself. "I do hope something like that can happen for me, too."
He jumped slightly when he felt a comforting hand on his shoulder. He turned to see the blond smiling brightly at him, "Ya know, if you don't have anywhere else to go…" He trailed off glancing over to the house, "You could come and live with us, un. I mean, I would have to talk with Konan about it, but knowing her, she'll be more than willing to take in someone in need, un!"
The pale boy stared wide eyed at the blond in pure shock. "Wh-what? B-but we just met! You don't even know my name yet you're so willing to invite me into your home?"
The blond looked thoughtful for a moment before extending his hand, a bright grin plastered to his face. "Okay, then. Hi, my name's Deidara, un. What's your name?"
The raven haired boy looked unsure but hesitantly took the offered hand in his own, "Uh, hi Deidara, my name's Itachi Uchiha."
The blond nodded, "Nice to meetcha 'Tachi, un." He continued to grin, "Well, let's go home and introduce you to Konan, un." He paused looking up to the sky, "Oh, wait…she's still working." He shrugged grabbing the Uchiha's hand and pulling him to his feet. "Oh well. This'll give us time to get you settled in before she gets home, un." He began dragging the still shocked raven behind him.
They easily snuck around the swarm of people, only getting stopped by two reporters, before they were on their way to the next neighborhood over.
On their walk home, Itachi piped up, "Um, Deidara?"
Said blond glanced over his shoulder to the Uchiha with a raised brow, "Un?"
"Uhm, are you certain that you and uh, Konan? Are you sure I won't just be a burden to you both?"
The blond paused in his steps, to face the raven haired boy who stopped walking as well. He furrowed his brows, "Oh, um…I didn't even think about our financial stability, un…" He said more to himself then to Itachi. "Don't worry, un. We'll both get jobs to help Konan with the bills. I've got a small side job walking dogs and selling our art, but it doesn't pay very well, un."
He shook his head, "I know Konan told me not to steal anymore because we were going to make an 'honest living' from now on…but…" He trailed off looking down.
Itachi began rummaging through his pockets; he pulled out a small wooden box handing it to the blond. Deidara raised a brow before hesitantly taking the box from the Uchiha.
He carefully undid the latch and opened the lid, his eyes widening at what was inside. "I-Itachi, un…wh-where did you get this?" He stared at the raven haired boy in shock.
Itachi shrugged, "It wasn't just a murder…" He took a deep breath before continuing, "My younger brother, Sasuke, was kidnapped as well. For whatever reason, my brother and I were spared our lives, but…he t-took Sasuke." He looked down feeling tears prick the corners of his eyes as he began trembling.
He took another shaky breath, "I-I knew that I would be on my own so I prepared myself with somewhat of a financial stability for the next year or two if I used it sparingly. My family wasn't the richest, but we managed just fine."
The blond closed the box before walking over to Itachi and embracing him. The raven haired boy stiffened at the sudden contact before hesitantly returning the embrace.
"Thank you 'Tachi, un." He smiled before slightly tightening his hold on the Uchiha. "As far as I'm concerned, you are already a part of our family, un. I'm positive Konan will say the same thing too."
Itachi felt the corners of his lips twitch upwards until he was smiling. He rested his head on the blonde's shoulder, enjoying the comfort of the hug muttering, "Thank you, Deidara."
Years passed with the trio living and helping each other; Konan was more than happy to open up their home to Itachi. They ended up moving to Konoha shortly after Deidara turned sixteen, not long after Itachi's sixteenth birthday.
They had all saved up nearly every penny they earned to they could move to a better town with a better school and more job opportunities.
Today was their first day of the new school, Deidara's sophomore year, Konan and Itachi's junior year. Itachi was so brilliant that he managed to skip a grade impressing both of his closest friends and roommates.
"Okay, un! I'm ready!" The blond cheered as he entered the living room where his other two friends were already waiting.
"It's about freaking time, Dei!" Konan stood walking to the front door and opening it. "Alright guys, were gonna have to run if we want to make it there in time." Both teens groaned before nodding and exiting the door followed by Konan.
-At School-
"Holy shit, un." The blond panted out as they reached the school doors.
"Eh, quit your complaining, Dei." Konan playfully punched her blond friend on the arm. "It wasn't so bad." She gripped her chin between her thumb and index finger, silently analyzing the blond. "Hm, maybe if you worked out more you wouldn't have such a girlish figure and you could actually keep up with us. Right 'Tachi?"
Said raven simply shrugged before calmly walking to his classroom, waving his friends goodbye. Konan rolled her eyes, glancing back to the reddening blond.
"I am in shape! And I do NOT have a girlish figure, un!"
Konan giggled, "Dude, I hate to say this, but if I didn't know better, I'd think you were a tranny, or at least a cross dresser."
"Shut up Konan, un!" The blond fumed, "Just because I'm not on the track team like you or on the baseball team like 'Tachi, doesn't mean I'm out of shape, un!" The blond crossed his arms and puffed out his cheeks.
The bluenette giggled again before playfully shoving the blond and sprinting to her next class. "If you're in shape, then you should have no problem catching me before I get to my class!" She shouted back before disappearing behind the school doors laughing as she jogged.
"Oh yeah?!" The blond ran after his blue haired friend in a sad attempt to catch her. As he was running, he slammed into something hard, knocking him on his butt. "Ouch, un."
"Hey watch where you're fucking going!"
Deidara blinked before glancing up to see an irritated silver haired teen in front of him talking to a heavily scared tan teen. He stood up brushing invisible dust off from his clothes, muttering, "Sorry, un."
The albino scowled, "You better be, fucking dumb bitch."
The blond glared at the other teen's comment. He scoffed, "I bet I'm way fucking smarter than you, asshole, un."
The tan teen beside the fuming silver haired teen snorted. "I bet you are too, kid."
The albino gaped at his 'friend' shouting, "Kuzu! I'm way smarter than this blond bitch!"
The other teen simply shook his head, "Please. Hidan, you're about as smart as Tobi."
Hidan flipped Kakuzu off, blushing slightly, whether from embarrassment or anger Deidara couldn't tell. "Fuck you Kuzu." He redirected his attention to the blond and smirked, "Ya know what? You're not half bad, Blondie."
Deidara smirked, "Same to you, un." He pulled out his phone to see that he had less than a minute before he was late to class. His eyes widened, "Oh shit, I'm gonna be late, un!" He hurried down the hall, glancing back he shouted, "Catchya later!" receiving two waves as they too made their way to their classes.
Deidara made it to his class just in time. He glanced around the room for an empty seat finding one at the back between a bored redhead and a pink haired girl.
He sat down between the two, glancing at both teens he decided to try talking to the redheaded boy first. He offered a bright smile to the other male, "Hi, un! My name's Deidara."
The other teen gave the blond a dull look, before returning to his sketch. The blond frowned but shrugged it off turning to face the pink haired girl beside him.
He looked her over seeing that she was talking with another blond blue eyed boy deciding that it would be rude to interrupt he took out his own sketch book and began sketching a bird throughout most of the class.
Towards the end of class, the blond took a curious peek over to see what the redhead was doing only to gap at the beautiful picture of a waterfall. "Wow, un."
The other teen glanced at the blond through the corner of his eye muttering, "Brat." Before turning his attention to his sketch.
Deidara blinked before scowling, "Geez, who pissed in your corn flakes this morning, un?"
The redhead's eye twitched before turning his head to the blond to glare at him. "Shut it, Brat."
Deidara stuck out his tongue muttering, "Asshole, un."
The redhead rolled his eyes, "Oh real mature." He smirked "Ya know, I thought tranny's were supposed to be sassy not bratty."
"That's it, un!" The next thing he knew, he was tackled to the ground by the fuming blond. "Take it back, asshole, un!"
The redhead scowled up at the blond, "Screw that, now get off of me you fucking tranny."
The blond reeled his fist back and punched the redhead on the left cheek. He got ready to punch the older male again before he heard someone clear their throat to get their attention behind him.
He slowly turned his head to see the teacher with his arms crossed and an eyebrow raised. He sighed, "Boys, this is the first day of school, but I'm going to have to send you two to the principal's office."
Both teens shot each other a glare before getting up and gathering their things to go to the office.
On their way there, Deidara muttered under his breath, "Fucking bastard, un."
The redhead snorted rolling his eyes, "Is that all you've got, brat?"
The blond crossed his arms mumbling something incoherent under his breath. The redhead snorted, smirking before tripping the blond. The younger male recovered and glared daggers at the redhead. They continued shooting insults, shoving and tripping each other all the way to the office.
Oh this was going to be a long day and an even longer year.
End of the first chapter! Soooo? How'd you guys like it so far? Did ya like it? Was it terrible? Meh? Well, it's pretty hard to tell, y'know, it being the first chapter and all...xP I've just gotten done eating like, 12 pieces of chocolate at...3:36am...not good seeing as how I have to get up early tomorrow...oh well! xD I'll be up for another couple of hours writing and maybe reading a little and listening to Good Girls Go Bad by Cobra Starship on loop for hours because it's totally addicting xD
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this first chapter! Don't forget to review and have a beautiful day~