Chapter 3: A long story explained

"Hi, un." Deidara smiled at a sleepy Tenten.

"Morning, Deidara." Tenten wrapped her arms around Deidara's neck.

"Did you sleep well, yeah?" Deidara looked into her eyes.

"Yeah…" She sat up and stretched rubbing her eye "never slept better actually..."

"Me too, un" Deidara watched as she stood and did some more stretches… Then Deidara stood with a stretch of his own hugging Tenten from behind nibbling her ear "I love you Tenten…"

Those four words caused Tenten to blush. He stroked her cheek. Tenten's mind went into turmoil. It's not like she didn't feel things for Deidara but everything was so sudden just two day's ago she was so sure of who she was and what she wanted. Deidara licked along the edge of Tenten's ear causing her to gasp. If she didn't love him why would she let him do this to her then Tenten had a new thought came to her.

"Who are you?" Tenten had to know.

"I told you I'm Deidara, Yeeeah" he blew on the ear he'd been teasing.

"No…" she turned to face Deidara eyes completely serious "Why did you come to me? How did you get to love me? How did you get so hurt?"

"It's a long story, un?" Deidara hoped that would end it… The tapping of her foot and the crossing of her arms destroyed that hope.

"It happened when I first saw you Tenten… Even as I attempted escape from your team I couldn't stop seeing you I-I thought you were a wonderful artwork… you inspired me and lit the flames of my lust. You inspired me to my escape because I felt beauty like yours couldn't exist so I decided on my exploding doppelganger jutsu to destroy your team but more specifically to destroy you. When I failed something was different with me I thought of you constantly but I was still a member of akatsuki and I didn't know what kind of hold you had on me besides I had my revenge to think of revenge on the Uchiha's for scorning my artwork…" Deidara clenched his hand suicidal hatred burning in his eye " But that Sasuke brat beat me… he did this to my side and other things as well … I gave everything I had until my final technique was going to be in play… I couldn't do it when I knew I could catch him I used snake clay ropes as a distraction and as soon as he looked away for a second I used everything I had on a clay doppelganger… it was exactly lie me in every detail… I ran away… That was three weeks ago… I eventually found I had to have you so I found everything I could about you and then I searched you out… But I couldn't just take you like I planned blowing us up together… I-I wanted something to last…" he dropped his hands to his sides and looked down " I planned to kill us both together… in one beautiful moment of explosion… But I couldn't do that either…"

Tenten leapt onto him kissing him so hard her teeth clicked against his. Wrapping her legs around his waist she thrust her pelvis against his wounded stomach causing him to grunt but not to care. She wrapped her tongue against his drawing it into her mouth mixing their saliva, and thrusting it back into his mouth. She pulled away from him gasping as he rubbed his hand's tongue along her neck undoing her shirt buttons and moving his hand down to her breasts. Tenten's eyes hungrily watched him as she huffed with flushed pleasure. He couldn't hold it back any more he pulled foreword and brought her in for another deep kiss. Deidara and Tenten were so distracted by their embracing love that they failed to register Team Gai as they watched just outside of the camp.

"…!" Team Gai were disturbed by the apparent treachery.

"That traitor she ran away from the village to trade our secrets to some missing-nin so he could… " Neji was so angry he couldn't finish the sentence.

"There must be some mistake Tenten would not do this…" Lee shuddered and looked sick "…Tenten…"

"We must see what is happening here… something must not be right here…" Gai looked just as sick as Lee " Lee you will attempt to draw Tenten's attention without attracting the missing-nin's…"

"The missing-nin is obviously the one we fought before the Deidara formerly from Iwagakure the village hidden in the earth… we've fought him before but we've received reports that he's dead… How did he?… Gai let me be the one to talk to her…"

Gai hesitates then nods.

Neji moves farther away from his team and once he judges the distance far enough away he cups his hands to make the sound of a dove, a sound he used secretly to call out Tenten from her house when he was feeling restless and wanted a sparing partner, she had never not answer his bird call. He new she heard him when she jerked back from Deidara's kiss, which seemed to deter Deidara very little from using his hand's mouths to explore every part of Tenten they could reach.

"I'm sorry…" Tenten gasped

"What for, un?" Deidara gasped back leaning toward her for a kiss, but Tenten brushed him off. Deidara watched her eyes as she looked up at him scared. Was she scared of him? For him?

"I'm sorry but…" she licked her lips huffing then forced a laugh not looking at him " I have to go relieve myself."

Deidara chuckled "I can wait, yeah…"

Tenten disentangled from Deidara and buttoned her shirt back up. Then biting her lower lip she walked out of sight to Neji's position. She blushed at the look of concern on his faith.

"We've come to take you home Tenten…" he whispered.

"I…I-I can't…" Tenten watched the concern flew from his face replaced with anger.

"So you've betrayed us…"

"NO! I just can't leave him don't you understand?" Neji came closer.

"What does he do for you that I can't do for you?" he leaned in to kiss her passionately but she flinched turning the kiss into a peck on the cheek. Neji glared at Tenten grinding his teeth "Just stay away from him and I we'll take him out with a barrage of kunai…"

"I won… can't do that… Neji why won't you understand?" Neji glared at her and burst away towards team Gai.

"She's a traitor to Konoha and that's her partner we need to take them both out…"

Tenten was so worried for Deidara she felt tears forming. Quickly she rushed out to him and knocked him to the ground.

"WOAH…!" Deidara was concerned for Tenten because she was crying.

Tenten straddled Deidara and pulled him by the shirt into a deep passionate kiss. Closing her eyes she knew she couldn't lose him. Rubbing her tongue inside Deidara's mouth she felt his side heaving from the pain… She lowered herself to rub more provocatively against him and to ease his pain. Deidara's fears for Tenten disappeared into her kiss.

" That would be going against orders Neji" Gai wasn't happy about the situation either but his mind was not clouded by hatred for his student Tenten "we'll go back and request the new orders…"

Team Gai quickly moved away from the traitorous Tenten and the missing-nin. Neji was the last to leave and he only left after a long drawn out look of hatred at the missing-nin. Immediately after they left Deidara pushed Tenten off of him. Looking up angrily at her tear streaked face.

"Why are you crying?" Deidara let her sob into his chest and listened as she hiccupped and sobbed.

"Hic… Konoha ninja sob … oh g-g-god… sob they've surrounded us… hic"

Deidara took her up in his arms and immediately jumped onto his feet. Tenten covers her face because this time there would be no turning back from her betrayal. And she screamed in her head 'Oh God don't kill them please… if you love me just don't kill them…'

"Don't be afraid, I'll destroy them before they can report our whereabouts to the hokage." With that he flung Tenten onto his back and reached both hand into his pouches and immediately started spewing out thousands of bomb butterflies into every direction then he created a monstrous dragon statue which he leapt on top of glaring at the butterfly encrusted forest around him.

"ART IS A BLAST" He signed and the dragon pounded its way with a jump up into the sky.

A moment later a giant blast rocked out from the forest below them shattering tree trunks and blasting with it, from half a kilometer away, Team Gai off their feet. Tenten started crying even more as Deidara's creation shot them faster from the new giant crater in the earth, which she believed to be the final resting place of her friends.

Konoha

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" Tsunade turned toward the sound that came from behind her office doors and beyond.

Elsewhere

" I think I made a boo-boo…" Deidara turned to watch the giant dust cloud dwarf the mountain known as the Hokage Stone " I think they might know where we are… better speed up, yeah…"

The dragon accelerated.