A/N: This is just a random idea I thought I'd try. Based on J.R. Young's Devil's Trade. I highly recommend seeing it, it's an amazing short film.
Chapter one
Deidara gave an overly dramatic sigh as he sat on the bed of the shitty motel room he and Tobi were using for the night. Most evenings the two missing-nins would campout, but they had been close enough to a small town to stop for the night.
Tobi had made the day's search for the three-tails even more unbearable then it needed to be. Just thinking about the day gave the bomber a headache, too bad he'd run out of Ibuprofen.
"Tobi's going to go take a shower, ok Deidara-sempi?! I feel really dirty." Tobi giggled after stating what he was about to do.
Deidara sighed in annoyance, again. "Tobi…I really don't fuckin care what you're going to do, just shut up and do it, un."
Tobi giggled. "Deidara-sempi just said; 'do it'."
Deidara's eye twitched slightly. "Tobi…get out of my site before I kill you."
Tobi giggled again before nodding, "Ok, Deidara-san." And he then skipped into the bathroom.
Deidara didn't relax until he heard the water of the shower running. "Finally, some quiet, yeah." He muttered laying back, trying to massage away the Tobi-ache.
He took in a deep breath and gave a little smile to the ceiling; he no longer felt a need to drill a hole into his skull.
Not, but two minutes later, did Deidara hear a knock on the room's door, a rather loud knock at that. He groaned, and decided to ignore it.
The person on the other side disagreed with him, though, as the unknown human continued to bang on his door.
Deidara rolled his eyes and sat up, he knew it wasn't someone that figured out he, and Tobi, were Akatsuki. Deidara had made sure that their cloaks were well hidden, and with there being no ninja residing in the tiny town, no one would have a bingo book to identify the two men with.
"What do you want?!" He asked irritably opening the door and looking to see who the person disturbing his peace was.
Standing before him was a young woman, no older looking then 19. She had greasy red hair, red-rimmed brown eyes, and a pale, almost green complexion. She was average in height and weight, and wore nothing, but a black tank top and red shorts.
"Wanna buy my cross?" She asked seriously, looking up at him, holding out a small piece of wood.
"…are you high?" Deidara asked, coming up with no other explanation for the girl's odd look and behavior.
"It'll ruin your life." She added.
Her tone gave Deidara a feeling of uneasiness. He looked her up and down again; she wasn't that bad looking, obviously stoned. Deidara hadn't gotten any in a while, and who would notice the disappearance of a random druggie.
Hell maybe he'd even scare Tobi, that would be a trip, Deidara smirked. "You are high, why don't you come in for a bit?" He reached out and took the girl's arm, the one that wasn't holding the cross.
The girl hit his hand away and fell, dead weight, onto the ground, crying, and staring up at him while still holding the cross out.
Deidara rolled his eyes; the fight wouldn't be worth the fuck. "Fine I'll buy the dammed cross, just stop crying, un." He muttered pulling out a few bills, that were supposed to go to his ibuprofen, and handing them to her.
The girl looked hesitant for a moment, and Deidara was quickly losing patience.
"Just give me the dumb thing." He demanded snatching the small wooden object from her hand and throwing the bills at her, before slamming the door in her face.
The red head stood up shakily and sniffled; she looked around, while hugging herself and slowly made her way back to her own room.
Deidara looked out the window to see if the creepy girl had gone, before looking at his new possession. It was two pieces of rotten and burnt wood, one thick the other rather skinny, tied together by a thin rope that formed a noose knot at the end of it.
"...what a piece of junk…" He muttered turning it over in his hand to examine it. His eyebrows knotted together as he inspected the cross. Something didn't feel right…
"What is that Senpi?"
Deidara jumped, having not noticed Tobi's presences, and turned to glare at the masked-nin.
"This thing, yeah." He muttered holding up the cross for Tobi to see.
The ADD ninja couldn't resist grabbing the new object out of Deidara's hand.
"Ooh! Sempi! Sempi! Where did you get this? It's gross and creepy." Tobi asked.
"Some chick just sold it to me, yeah." Deidara stated, secretly glad to not be holding the weird little cross any more.
"Why'd you buy it, Senpi?" Tobi asked
Deidara glared at Tobi, he didn't really know why he had not just shut the door on the strange girls face. "I wanted to, got a problem with that, hmm?"
"No Sempi, I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you angry!" Tobi stated holding the cross out for Deidara to take back.
The Ex-Iwa ninja gave the wooden cross a look before shaking his head. "Just put it on the bedside table, Tobi, un." He commanded.
Tobi nodded. "Alright, Deidara-sempi." He agreed, setting the cross down and turning back towards Deidara who was still looking at the cross.
"….are you alright Deidara-sempi? You look a little sick." Tobi stated.
Deidara shook his head. "Shut up Tobi, and go to bed. We have to leave early in the morning." He muttered crawling into one of the two ratty beds in the room.
Deidara scowled as he laid down, he had slept on rocks comfier then this thing disguised as a mattress.
"Good night Sempi." Tobi said from the other bed.
"Whatever, yeah." Deidara muttered in response.
Tobi leaned over and turned off the lamp, leaving the two in darkness to try and get some sleep.