This is a really old fic I found on my PC from a while ago. I've made a few tweaks so its sounds a little better. I really didn't think I would ever make a a high school fic, but thats just how things turn out I guess. This is my first fic so please don't be brutal with the reviews but I don't mind constructive criticism. Of course this takes place in... a highschool, but just go with that. Oh and I should mention when I made this I didn't know Tobi was Madara so its going on the Tobito theory. And also in this story Sasori is Gaara, Temari and Kankuro's cousin just because it's an important part in later chapters and helps me make sense of things. So yeah just stick with that. BTW it will speed up in the next few chapters. So enjoy guys.

Disclaimer: Nope, I don't own Naruto.

There was only one week left of the summer vacation so the Uchiha's hosted their usual party. Nearly everyone from school was invited which didn't matter because the size of the mansion could pratically fit twice the amount in the place with ease. Itachi had invited akatsuki which was Pein's group at school, but no one really new what the group was for. Even the newest member Tobi had been invited and Itachi hated him. The party would start in ten minutes and Deidara wondered when the others were going to pick him up. Although he hadn't made much effort with his outfit he thought it was okay just to go to a booze up. But it looked like it would poor down with rain any minute and he was getting slowly agitated. Thankfully Peins car pulled up a few minutes later. And thankfully It hadn't rained.

Pein looked exhausted and only just about managed to talk "Sorry were late Deidara. Konan couldn't decide on an outfit and I lost my keys." It was a poor excuse but deidara left it there and got in the car.

He looked out the window " Urm? aren't we going straight to the party?"

Konan giggled " We have to go pick up Sasori and Hidan first."

Deidara pondered this for a second. Itachi usually picked up Hidan and Sasori like he did every year so far. "Why isn't Itachi picking them up? un." He said whilst mindlessly staring out the car window.

Pein twitched at the old habit of Deidara's of saying 'un' but he tried not to get annoyed infront of Konan. "Because he has to stay and make sure Tobi and Sasuke don't get into one of their usual fights." He stated in his all knowing voice. Tobi had only moved to town recently to live with Itachi's family for reasons unknown to the others. He had already been let into akatsuki and been a big nuisance since then.

They pulled up outside Hidan's house where he and Sasori were waiting. It amused Deidara massively to see them obviously angry at having to stand in the rain under a hello kitty umbrella. They quickly jumped in the car giving Pein stares that looked like they could peirce through glass. " Nice umbrella guys" Konan giggled still amused at Hidan's flustered face.

Hidan was in his usual mood and decided to have a shouting contest over the radio "Oy! Pein tell you're girlfriend to shut the fuck up!"

Pein tried not to avert his eyes of the road. "Dont speak to me like that and for the hundreth time she's not my girlfriend!"

"Yeah sure she's not" He said as sarcastically as usual.

"Shut up before I crash this stupid car!"

Hidan merely whispered "asshole" in return.

After that annoying arguement Deidara's attention soon moved back to the red head next to him. Sasori had been one of his best friends for a while and he had alot of 'feelings' towards him, not that he got any in return, but he had been waiting for tonight for a while and knew he couldn't mess it up. So he stayed quiet till they got their and tried his hardest not to blush at how close they had to sit together.

It took twenty minutes until they reached the mansion at the edge of town. They were all quite releived to have got there after such an awkward drive, not even Hidan had talked. They all got out to see the party had already started and headed in. The place was packed, though most of the people there were from Sasuke's year. The group pushed through the crowd to where Itachi, Kisame and Zetsu stood with a rather annoyed Kakuzu.

Kisame looked over "Hmph, took you long enough? Where you been?"

"I had to go pick up the others remember." Pein knew he was still late but he couldn't be bothered with arguements today.

Deidara sat down with the others only to realise that Sasori had dissapeared. He was about to run off from where Hidan and Kakuzu were fighting over the cost of drink when someone jumped infront of him.

"Hey Deidara! When did you get here?" He looked up to see a childish looking face beaming at him with one eye covered by a patch. It was Tobi. 'Well he is gonna be at his own party isn't he' but that didn't mean he wanted to see or talk to him. "Hey Tobi" he said whilst pushing past.

"Um Deidara aren't you gonna stay here with the rest of us?" Tobi said looking slightly confused.

"Maybe later" he couldn't see Sasori anywhere 'Where did he go?'

"Well I just thought we could talk and stuff" Tobi had only ever seen Deidara and since then had desperately wanted to get to know him. But he never imagined he would be so difficult.

He didn't listen to whatever it was that Tobi had said and stared around. After an awkward silence he looked back again. "Tobi have you seen Sasori?"

Tobi felt a little hurt that he hadn't listened and he had never liked Sasori either. In fact the only people he ever really hated were Sasuke and Sasori. " I think I saw him in the conservatory...so-"

"Thanks Tobi." he said whilst running off. He didn't have time to babysit the newbie. Besides he was far too nice to be in their group in the first place. And far too annoying.

He stepped into the glass room free, of lights and loud music or people talking. You could see millions of stars outside, suns which were constantly exploding, they were true art. It was nice here, especially at night. He looked over to a table and lounger seats in the corner. On the furthest chair from the door sat his beloved Danna. He still hadn't seemed to notice the others presence. He walked over and could see the red in his hair reflect from the star light, that never seemed to have been brushed. Sasori looked up at him for a moment then back at the sky. He sat down opposite him trying to string together a sentence in his head.

Sasori glanced over in his direction "Is their any perticular reason you're here?"

He looked back up at Sasori's expectant face 'obviously i'm not just gonna come here for no reason'. " Not really just trying to get away from the noise." It was a poor excuse and he was sure Sasori hadn't beleived him. They sat in silence for a long time and Deidara wished Sasori would talk again so he could talk to him about the reason he was really here to talk about. He didn't want to be the first to break the silence in case he got mad.

Sasori stood after five minutes of complete silence. "I'm off to catch whatevers left of this party."

He saw him walk towards the door 'It's now or never...well kinda but never mind' he walked after Sasori till he turned so they were looking straight at each other. "Wait I need to tell you something."

Sasori was intrigued, not that he showed it. He nodded as if to say 'go on'.

Deidara stammered a bit from embarrassment. He knew exactly what he wanted to say but they didn't want to come out, as if they were stuck to the back of his throat. "W..well Sasori I just really wanted to tell you that I ..like..you I mean really like you danna." He felt scared and readied himself for the worst.

Sasori was mentally exploding. not only had Deidara picked the worst time to say it but also Sakura was giggling behind the door. As much as he liked Dei, he had an image to upheld. "wait a minute are you saying you fancy me? I'm not gay how dare you say that to me brat!" Deidara looked sad and hurt at this but he had to keep his image safe 'i'm gonna pay for this later' he thought but he also thought that ' but this is deidara he'll come running back he always does' as he watched Deidara storm out the door.

Deidara was in shreds ' Why did he say that? Does he hate me? Did he even like me from the beginning?' He didn't know what to do now and stormed off towards the mansion door. He didn't know what had just happened but he knew he was leaving. sasori had come in and sat next to Itachi as if nothing had happened. He pushed through the crowd when he was stopped. Sasuke Uchiha was standing infront of him with a pink haired girl clinging of one arm.

"What do you want, un?"

He looked back with those oh so familiar un-caring eyes "I want you to leave."

Deidara smirked "I was just heading that way anyway so if you would kindly move out of the way, un!"

At this point most of the closer people in the crowd were staring at them and whispering ebtween themselves. When Itachi saw the commotion he headed over with the others to see what was causing it.

Deidara was about to pass by Sasuke when he heard him hiss down his ear " Dont ever come back. Sakura told me everything and I dont want your sort around here!"

Deidara was about to explode. Everything had gone wrong. He shot Sasuke a stare dripping with poison, then stormed off. When he was about to step out he heard Itachi speak up. "Hey Sasuke he was one of my guest you have no right to tell him when to leave!" Sasuke was about to protest but Deidara beat him to it. "Forget it Itachi i'm leaving, un. And dont worry Pein i'll walk home" With that he left without looking back.

The crowd of people near the exit dispersed and continued with partying and gossiping between themselves. Pein looked worried and you could have said the same for Itachi but he never really showed any emotions.

Konan looked at the group the only one who didn't seem worried was Sasori who was Deidara's best friend but she knew better than to cross him and instead looked back at the others. "Shouldn't we go after him?" She said it a little more desperately than intended but continued to look at Pein. He sighed and looked back " it would be best to leave him alone when he's like this. He said he would walk home."

Hidan smirked " yeah something sure got him pissed its that brother of yours I bet and whatever he said." He turned to Itachi who's face was hinting that he was disgusted. " Iwill ask Sasuke what it was about when the parties over. Okay?"

"Sure, sure but you probably should be asking his bitch of a girlfriend what she's playing at aswell." The smirk he had been wearing the past minute was wiped of when a tremendous force hit him in the back of the head. As usual it was Kakuzu who nodded at Itachi and continued to eat the food he had taken of the free buffet.

"I dont see why you're worrying. It's not like he was friends with Sasuke to begin with and you'll see this will be forgotten by tommorrow." Everyone turned to look at Sasori who returned the stare back.

Hidan's smirk soon returned " it seems like you would know what all this is about redhead how about you fucking tell us?"

Sasori looked disgusted by Hidans language but replied with hiss in his voice. "No I wouldn't but you keep it up and you will probably be leaving with him." Everyone looked away. But when Konan took a second look this wasn't everyone someone was missing. Hidan and Kakuzu were sending death stares to each other. Sasori was staring into his glass. Itachi was whispering to Kisame. Pein was to her left, who seemed to be in his own world of thought as usual. And Zetsu was to her right eating as much as he could fit in his mouth. She couldn't put her finger on who was missing.

Then it came to her, where was Tobi? But then again it was partly his party so he was probably in the crowd somewhere. Looking at her rather dull and boring companions she shared the table with, she thought she might aswell go look for him. No one here was really socializing or fun to talk to anyway.

Deidara had already put some distance between him and the mansion. Thankfully the rain seemed to have stopped and it was rather cool out. But their was no point looking on the bright side. Everything went wrong. Sasori probably hated him now and it was only a matter of time until the group followed suit. Suddenly he was pushed out his train of thought by the sound of approaching steps. He turned to see a shadowy figure running towards him.

The shadow stopped and started walking calmly over when he heard a familiar voice. "Hey Deidara! You okay? You know you have everyone worried now dont you?" That shadow turned out to be Tobi. He looked a lot different in this dim light almost 'cute' in Deidara's head, but he soon shook away that thought.

He turned back away "I'm fine. What do you care?" He hadn't wanted to be followed. But out of all his friends the new guy he barely knew was the one to chase after him? 'Yeah thanks alot guys I feel really valued" He thought sarcastically to himself.

Tobi ran right infront of him "Oh but Deidara I do care! I want us to be friends, REALLY! Tobi wants to get to know all of the akatsuki! Plus Tobi felt bad that Sasuke kicked you out! Tobi really hates Sasuke." He said this without stopping for breath and continously flinging his arms in the air for emphasis. ' I was right he is an idiot. He's not gonna last two days in akatsuki with that enthusiasm' he thought to himself.

Deidara looked at the childish face beaming at him and sighed. "So you want to be friends, correct?"

Tobi nodded "Yeah, exactly!"

Deidara sighed again and put his hand on his hips. " But Tobi we barely no eachother."

Tobi giggled " Duh! Deidara Tobi knows that he's not stupid." Deidara's face looked un-certain and in his mind he begged to differ with that statement.

Tobi walked towards him and scratched his head. "That's why Tobi thought we should get to know each other better." He giggled sounding a little un-sure himself "Maybe?"

Deidara had a short temper. Even he knew that. Still even if Tobi was extremely annoying he couldn't help but like the idiot. "Okay guess i'll see you 'round some time then?"

Tobi looked releived and in fact he was. "Really? Then can I call you sempai?"

Deidara looked confused "What? Why do you want to call me sempai?" Tobi looked ready to explain but he cut him off. "Sure whatever then."

Tobi was overjoyed by such a small act of friendship he beamed 'God I wish I could run over and hug him!' He thought. But then imagined what the consiquences of that could be and would not take that risk.

He looked at Deidara slowly walking away and ran in that direction. "Sempai, Sempai wait!"

On second thoughts maybe Deidara wasn't going to like this new nickname. "What now?" He sounded a little angry but it was more because he was tired than actually angry.

Tobi stopped slightly wary of the tone Deidara was shouting in. " I was just wondering if you would mind me walking you home?" He blushed a little, Deidara certainly seem the type who needed walking home but he wanted to spend a little longer with him.

Deidara was a little angered by Tobi's offer 'What now he's treating me like a poor defensless girl? I dont need protection from that witless idiot!' He stared at Tobi who seemed a little nervous now. "Why do you want to walk home with me? I live a long way from here and you live up here. Also it's not like I need looking after."

Great Tobi had annoyed him now and had no good excuses. But Tobi was a good boy, he never lied. So he told him the truth. " Well I know its a long way so Tobi thought you might like the company. And Itachi has to look after me tonight so I could easily get a lift back." He grinned mischievously at that part. "And besides I thought we could talk and stuff because we barely know each other, right?"

Blue eyes met black, and he thought over what Tobi had said. ' I guess I wouldn't mind the company, but this is rather strange.' He turned away "Sure as long as you keep up. Oh! And good luck on convincing Itachi to pick you up." He laughed at the thought of Itachi babysitting Sasuke and Tobi.

Tobi smiled more than ever at this and skipped off after his sempai. ' Hmm what should I ask him about first. It cant be to personal that'll just get him mad. But I can't ask him something lame either or he'll just get mad.' The only thought which seemed to re-accur in his mind was that ' Sempai sure is difficult?'

The two had been walking for a while now and were only a few blocks from Deidara's house now. Tobi had asked him almost a thousand questions at this point. But the thing that surprised him was that he wasn't even mad at all in fact he rather enjoyed the company of someone with an actual personality for a change.

Tobi was still giggling at the fact that his sempai was apparently scared of wasps, when they went round the last corner. Deidara looked back at him. But what was this? Tobi almost couldn't beleive his eyes. His sempai had just smiled at him? He had never seen him smile before, well atleast not happily. Which was a shame as Tobi thought it really suited him .

Deidara who hadn't yet noticed he was smiling looked back at Tobi. "This is my street I guess i'll see you at school next week Tobi?"

Tobi looked at his face again with this new smile. ' A whole week?' Tobi thought to himself, but rather than do what his mind wanted to do he shook his head then spoke again. "Um Sempai could I.." he trailed off thinking whether he really knew him enough to ask that.

Deidara looked back at him the smile had now gone. "Go on?"

Tobi looked up rather nervously " Could I have you're number?' He asked with a rather weak laugh.

The blonde looked back at the rather nervous Uchiha. 'Is he blushing?' But after loosing interest in that thought he pulled out a pen hed had in his chest pocket which never seemed to budge. "Sure why not?"

Before Tobi could re-act in any way he felt his arm pulled away. He watched as the blonde scribbled the number down his hand. He knew he must have been bright red from blushing by now as he felt his face was as hot as ever. When the blonde was finished he stared at his hand as if he would be able to memorize the number within a few seconds.

Deidara ignored Tobi's strange behavior and put the pen back away. He un-consciencously smiled again. " Anyway Tonight hasn't been that bad I guess?" He took another look at the raven haired boy again who had finished inspecting his hand now. For a second he thought ' He's actually kinda sweet to walk all this way with me.' But then shook the thought away just as fast. "Anyway i'll see you again some time again? Get home safe yeah." He said waving as he went towards his front door.

Tobi was mentally slapping himself at the stupid things his mind wanted to do in this situation. He looked as the blonde walked up to one of the houses and waved back. "See ya Sempai!"

The blonde went into the house leaving Tobi alone in the lamp light. Tobi's head was fizzing with a million thoughts at this time. ' Hah Zetsu-san was wrong. Sempai isn't that bad." He looked at his hand and quickly added the number on his phone. He then looked for Itachi's number. He would have to walk a few blocks away though or he would know where he had been. As the phone rang and he waited for Itachi to pick up he was still thinking. The main thought being ' Wai 'till I tell Zetsu 'bout this!'