Written for the prompt 'What if Deidara and Ino switched places and nobody noticed?'
Unbeta'd. Naruto does not belong to me.
OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS
The midday Sun beamed over the skies above Konoha, everything seemed to be at peace, except for Ino who had been moaning about not been able to go with Naruto and Sakura on their latest mission outside of Konoha. Naruto and Sakura, along with their sensei and Team Gai, had gone on an exciting pursuit to retrieve Gaara.
"Ino!" called Sakura. Both Sakura and Naruto were walking down the street towards Ino, or at least who they thought was Ino…Little did the two Konoha shinobi know that after their encounter with Deidara at the Akatsuki hideout in the Land of Rivers, Deidara had switched places with Ino.
"Hi!" said Deidara, in an unusually high pitch (as he was pretending to be Ino.)
"I am so exhausted," said Naruto as his shoulders drooped after greeting the blonde kunoichi.
"So, so tell me all about it!" said Deidara.
Sakura kicked a dirt clod around, averting a gaze from Ino, "There isn't much to tell."
"Yeah," added Naruto cynically.
"Awww, tell me what happened."
"Okay," replied the pinkette kunoichi.
"So we got to the Akatsuki hideout where they took Gaara, and these two weird guys were waiting for us," said Naruto.
"Weird?" said Deidara.
"Yeah, one of them looked like a girl…I was pretty damn sure he was a girl," said Naruto.
"Oh, but he had really pretty hair," Sakura added with sparkles in her green eyes.
"Thank you," said Deidara, he quickly covered his mouth, thinking that his real identity as a member of the terrorist group, Akatsuki, had been uncovered.
"I wasn't complimenting you, Ino-pig!" retorted Sakura. Deidara breathed a quiet sigh of relief; he was safe…for now.
"Tell me more about this guy. Was he hot?" asked Deidara.
Sakura shrugged her shoulders, "Meh, not as hot as Sasuke-kun."
Naruto sighed and rolled his eyes, "Here we go again."
Sakura threw a punch at Naruto, "Shut up! Baka!"
Deidara narrowed his eyes at Sakura (who was still completely oblivious that she was in fact talking to Deidara, instead of her childhood friend, Ino.) "Anything else about this guy? He seems pretty cool."
"He had this weird signature move, something to do with explosives," said Naruto (who slowly starting to figure out that 'Ino' was not actually Ino.)
Sakura snapped her fingers, "Oh that…that was really lame."
"He kept saying "art was a bang", what an annoying catchphrase, dattebayo!" added Naruto.
Deidara threw off his cloak, which consequently revealed his identity to the Konoha shinobi, grabbed a chunk of clay out from his clay pouch and moulded a small explosive clay creature.
"You'll see! My art is a bang, un!"