"Haaah…finally home. I should go prepare a hot bath." Sakura muttered, releasing the yellow cat out of her squeezed hug.

" Oh, yeah. I have to go buy something for you to eat, right?" she said patting the cat. Deidara wanted to stop her but he would blow his cover that way. He'll have to think about what he's going to eat later.

And so Deidara was now alone in Sakura's apartment. It was little really, just her bedroom, a bathroom and the kitchen, but it was clean and welcoming.

He was now in her room, looking at some pictures above her bed. She had pictures with different girls and boys 'Her friends' he assumed. One girl had almost the same hairstyle as he did 'On me looks better anyway, un' he thought. There ware pictures with a particular blond haired boy 'The kyuubi brat, un' and with a raven haired.. "..Sasuke teme… Itachi up, Itachi down... after I'll show you my ultimate art you'll be just a bunch of meat on the ground, un" Deidara said grinning like a madman.

"I'm home, kitty" Sakura yelled.

'Thank god she didn't heard me' Deidara sighed relieved.

"I got some food and... oh, this!" Sakura smiled, showing him some kind of a fluffy thing that looked like a mouse, yellow. Deidara looked from the fake mouse to Sakura and back and again for a couple of seconds 'Ohh, wait… I'm a cat. Fuck you Tobi, un. You better find out how to turn me back to normal, and fast, un!' Deidara thought and, hesitating, took the little plush mouse. After she caressed his silky fur, she walked into the bathroom and closed the door.

Deidara was bored. Very bored.

'She's in there for an hour now…what the hell, un?!' He'd like to blow up the little mouse and even worse the mouths in his hands—paws—felt weird. He decided to take a nap so he jumped on Sakura's bed.

He waked up in the middle of the night, thirsty. To his surprise, he found a bowl with water next to the door. He came back to bed and saw a sleeping Sakura. He didn't saw her there the first time—too thirsty. '

'She looks so b—beautiful' He touched her with his little paw and she giggled.

'I've never heard something this harmonious before... it could reach my art. Well, my art is the ultimate perfection, but still, un.' He thought, moving closer to her.

In the morning Sakura waked up with a soft, yellow thing next to her face. She first thought it was Naruto and wanted to yell and punch him off but then she realize it was the cat she rescued. She picked up the little ball of fur and hold it into a warm hug.

'Wha—wha—what's going on?!' Deidara almost said but stopped himself.

'That surprised me, un. But really! She didn't have to wake me up too' He thought, stretched himself and following her. She was sitting on a chair, with her feet on the other chair, watching TV. Deidara jumped on her lap and she started caressing him.

Sakura was concentrated on the daily news when she felt someone staring at her. She looked down and met blue eyes.

'Woah, she's looking at me, un!' Deidara thought, looking away.

Out of curiosity he peeked back at her and she smiled. As soon as he saw that his heard begin to beat faster.

'What was that b-dump just now (again)? Damn… I'm not in love with her, I can't be, un. She's an enemy, she's in the way of our plans to rule the world, un.' Deidara thought breaking the eye contact and jumping off her, on the floor. She gave him a weird look but then it hit her:

"Kitty- san, I have something good for you!" Sakura grinned at him grabbing a can with cat food. She poured the can's content into a bowl and put it on the floor in front of Deidara. He was horrified. The food looked gross and smelled even grosser. And even worse, he was really hungry.

"I can't eat this disgusting…thing, un!" he said without even realizing. "WHAT?!... I mean 'meow'…oops, un" he looked hesitantly up at her.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEH?!" She yelled and walked back. "You can talk?!"

"Un." He simply answered.

Sakura walked away from him back into the kitchen.

'Is she mad, maybe scared, maybe she discovered who I really am?' Deidara really wanted to know but he was too scared to go back into the kitchen.

'Damn it. Maybe she waits for me with a knife in her hand.'

He closed his eyes and heard a soft 'thunk'. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a plate with a normal, for humans meat.

"So… I was wondering" Sakura said with a big, childish smile on her face " would you tell me your name?" Deidara was utterly surprised. He thought she'll jump with a kunai at him.

"Heh…it's Dei..." he stopped himself.

"Dei?" she asked "Un" he answered. "Dei-san" she smiled "oh, no, drop the '-san'. You can call me… Dei-kun"

"Ok, Dei-kun. I'm glad I founded you in the woods that night" she said with a light blush on her white cheeks.

"Heh, it- it happened, un." He said, his face felt hot. 'Itachi would kill me if he'd know how I might—might—feel about her…"

Meanwhile with the Akatsuki

"Where the fuck is Deidara? Wasn't he supposed to bring that pink kunoichi here, at the cave?" Hidan loudly asked.

"We should let him gather information from her. If he is not to come after two days we will go after him." Itachi answered.

"But he might have blow it up, maybe he's been discovered." Kisame said.

"Hn" Itachi smirked. "Tobi, have you figured out how to reverse the jutsu?"

"Tobi almost did it. Tobi is a good boy."

"Hn. We will have to see how things evolve." Itachi said, exiting the room, walking into darkness.