8D!

Hey everyone! I know you all hate to be kept waiting, so, uh, let's bring on the story.

Oh, and Dei gets to keep his speech impedement, cause it's so awesome. :3

Akatsuki, Hebi, etc Masashi Kishimoto

-----x

"Deidara, will you hurry up? I can already see the cop lights!"

"One minute, yeah! Just gotta add the finishing touch!"

A young blonde boy sprinted out of the building's double doors, but not before expertly placing a small device near the door. He met with another boy a few feet away.

"There. Now, when the cops come...Boom!" He used his hands to exaggerate the motion. The other boy shook his head.

"I don't get why you need to do that...you're gonna get us caught sooner or later."

Deidara laughed. "I'm just trying to show how much of a bang art is, yeah! You should know that!"

The other boy sighed. "Yeah. I definately know that. But art's stupid. Revenge is way more fun." Deidara chuckled at his friend.

"Oh Sasuke...idiots just don't understand art, do they?" Sasuke's onyx eyes glared at Deidara's azure one.

"What was that?"

The blonde smriked. "Oh, nothing."

Deidara had to admit, it was fun pissing off Sasuke. In fact, with all of the debating and arguing they did, no one would suspect that they were actually pretty good friends. But then again, no one suspected them as criminals, either.

"Hey..you think Orochimaru's gonna be mad it took us so long, yeah?" Deidara pictured his 'boss' in his head. He didn't want to make the man mad, because, from what he could remember, Orochimaru had saved his life.

Deidara couldn't remember much. He had apparently fallen off the city bridge while training. But he remembered someone screaming his name. It was a haunting shriek, like someone who had just lost the love of their life. But Deidara had never been in love, so he brushed it off.

"Maybe. But I think Karin's going to be more agitated. After all, I think it was her turn to cook breakfast today."

Deidara nodded in response. He was currently living in a spacious apartment with four others, including Sasuke. All of them were some of Orochimaru's strongest followers. Karin, Suigetsu, and Juugo were their names, and they made for some very...interesting roomates.

-----x

"Suigetsu, you bastard!"

Deidara dodged the flying book just in time, instead letting it hit Sasuke square in the forehead. The girl who had thrown it looked horrified, and then ran forward.

"Oooh, Sasuke! My precious Sasuke! Are you okay? Are you bleeding? Oh, I'm so sorry. Here, come sit down..." Sasuke merely brushed her off.

"Geez Karin..I'm fine." Deidara chuckled.

"What'd he do this time, yeah?" Karin scowled but said nothing. At the table, a tall man with bright orange hair spoke up.

"He stole her wallet. Flick saw him do it, right Flick?" Juugo motioned to the small bird on his shoulder, who chirped back, as if to say, "You bet!"

"Tch. He's probably going to go buy porn...or whatever freaks like him buy." Karin laughed at her own joke, though no one else did. "So, how'd the mission go? Did you get what Oro asked for?"

Sasuke held up a small bag. "It's all in here. I'll stop by his place sometime today and drop it off." There was a few minutes of silence while Karin went back to the stove, where she was cooking something. Sasuke and Deidara sat with Juugo at the table.

Suddenly, with a bang, the door slammed open, and Deidara's last roomate strode in, like nothing was wrong, grinning.

"So, what's for breakfast?"

Karin growled, and started to go after him, but was held back by Juugo.

"Huh? What's the matter?" A smirk was playing on his lips.

"You know damn well, dumbass! Give me my wallet, now!"

Suigetsu snorted. "And here I try to do a little good and buy you guys a paper..." He slapped it down on the table. "Ungrateful...tch tch."

"Why you..."

"Karin, relax, yeah. At least his trip wasn't a total waste." Deidara grinned at Suigetsu. "Newspaper for you, porn for us, yeah."

Karin glared at the two. "You're all just a bunch of stupid perverts, anyway..." She humphed and eventually went back to the stove. Juugo picked up the paper, and casually flipped through it.

"Hey, look here. I didn't know this city had a winter fair.." Deidara looked over, curious. It was near Christmas time, after all.

"Winter fair, yeah?"

Juugo and Sasuke exchanged glances. "That right Dei...you and Karin only moved here last year..The winter fair is, well, a fair, with music, food, games, and mistletoe!" Karin shot over to the table.

"Mistletoe? Oh, Sasuke, we have to go!"

"Why? What's the point of watching lovesick teenagers kiss under mistletoe in the cold?"

"No silly! We should re-kindle our relationship." Suigetsu snorted. "What relationship?" Karin gave him a look. "Shut it."

"Please, Sasuke, yeah? It sounds like fun!"

"It would give us all a chance to relax, Sasuke. I don't think Orochimaru would mind, as long as we don't run into...well, you know." Sasuke frowned as they all pleaded with him. After awhile, he sighed.

"Fine. We'll go. But we can't stay for long. We might attract..unwanted attention." Deidara and Karin squealed.

"When is it?"

Juugo picked up the paper, and read the announcement. "December first...7:00 PM..town common. That's in two days."

Deidara nodded, excited. He couldn't wait to see everything.

-----x

Little bit of foreshadowing there. ;D