They walked into Kisame's house and Deidara took a good look around. He noticed things were a little out of place here or there and what caught his attention the most was the lack of a womanly touch to the home. It really wasn't all that noticeable unless you were looking for it. It just looked as though a bachelor lived here. There were no frilly curtains or flowery table cloths, no knick knacks of bears or windmills adorned the place anywhere. Things weren't shipshape perfect. It was casual and comfortable though.
Kisame motioned for Deidara to sit as everyone took what seemed to be their designated places in the room. Itachi was on the loveseat and Hidan and Kakuzu sat in the recliner. Kakuzu had the chair kicked back with Hidan on his lap. Itachi was flipping through some cd's as Kisame picked up his phone. "Do you like Pizza Deidara?" He asked. "Yeah, un." Deidara answered with a smile. "What kind do you like?" Kisame asked. "Any kind, I'm not picky, un." Deidara said shrugging.
"I like this kid." Kisame told Itachi as he began dialing the phone.
Itachi smiled at Deidara as if to say see he's cool, even if he is blue. Kisame hung up the phone and went to the loveseat. He took a cd that Itachi was handing him and walked to the cd player. He put it in and pushed play. Linkin Park began to play as Itachi lifted his legs up for Kisame to sit under him on the loveseat.
Kakuzu and Hidan made out while Itachi and Kisame argued about weather The Red Jumpsuit Aparatus was better then Linkin Park. Deidara laughed at the two. "What do you think, Deidara?" Kisame asked.
Deidara looked up with a deer in the headlights stare. "No way, un. I'm not ending friendships I have just started." He said laughing, throwining his hands in the air. "Good man. Staying neutral." Kisame said giving Deidara the thumbs up sign. Deidara nodded and smiled. Itachi rolled his eyes and shook his head, then gave Kisame a playful punch in the shoulder. Finally the pizza came and broke up Kakuzu and Hidan's make out session for a while. They all gathered around the coffee table to eat.
Then the subject came up of who they were going to hook Deidara up with for the spring formal. "What about Sasuke?" Hidan asked getting a slap to the back of the head from Itachi. "Who's Sasuke, un?" Deidara asked confused by the commotion. "He's 'Tachi's little brother." Kisame said. "He's also a freshmen and already has a boyfriend." Itachi said. Kakuzu glared at Hidan for his idiocy. "Friends don't date friends brother's, un. That's just plain rude." Deidara said.
Itachi nodded at Deidara in approval. "Thank you." He said and went back to his pizza. "Your welcome, un." Deidara said as he too went back to his pizza. "Fine, fine, how about Gaara?" Hidan asked. Everyone looked at Hidan as if he had grown a second head. "Who's Gaara, un?" Deidara asked, feeling completely stupid for not knowing who anyone was. "He's the red head in our biology class, he's psycho." Itachi said. Deidara shuddered as he thought about the glare he had recieved that day.
He couldn't help but think of another read head he'd seen in his art class. "Do you guys know who the other red head is, un?" Deidara asked as everyone looked at him in question. "What other red head?" Kisame asked. "There's another red head in my art class, un." Deidara said. Kisame shook his head. "I don't know of any other red heads in the school." He said looking at Itachi. Itachi shook his head. "I don't either." He said. Kakuzu and Hidan said that they never seen another red head either. Deidara frowned. "Hm, That's odd, un." He said.
"Are you sure it wasn't Gaara?" Hidan asked. "No, un. I would know. He gives me the heeby jeebys. This one doesn't un." Deidara said shaking his head. "Are you sure your not smoking something?" Hidan asked, laughing at the shocked look on Deidara's face. "No, un. I'm not on drugs, but never mind, forget I asked, un." Deidara said. "Hey, it's not that we don't believe you. It's just that we've never seen another red head in school. That doesn't mean there isn't one." Itachi said. Deidara nodded and smiled.
"So he's in your art class? That's last hour. He could be a senior. The seniors don't have to play by the same rules as us." Kisame said. "Maybe that's it, un." Deidara nodded. "So why did you want to know about him?" Asked Itachi. "Someone got a crush on the second day of school?" Hidan asked laughing. "No, un!" Deidara said quickly. He was just watching me in class that's all, un." Deidara explained. He sighed and pulled the notes from his pocket. He handed them to Itachi. "Someone left those in my locker, un." Deidara said.
Itachi took them and opened them, then passed them to Kisame. Evryone read them and thought about it for a moment. "You think it was the other red head?" Kisame asked. "I don't know, un. Besides you guys he's the only other person who has noticed my existence." Deidara said shrugging. "Cool you have a secret admirer." Kisame said handing the notes back to Deidara. "Yeah, un. I guess." He said. "Hey, if you figure out who this guy is, you can take him to the spring formal." Hidan said.
"Yeah and what if he's psycho too?" Asked Itachi. "So at least he'd have a date." Hidan said, getting a slap on the leg from Deidara. "That's just creepy, un." He said giving Hidan a small glare.
Hidan held up his hands. "Okay, okay, you can take a girl." Hidan laughed. Deidara looked sick to his stomach for a moment. "No thanks, un. I'd rather not." Deidara said and finished his pizza. Everyone went back to their own thoughts as they finished eating.
"Kisame, un. Do you live alone?" Deidara finally asked. "What makes you think that?" Kisame said with a toothy grin. "Well it's just that it doesn't look as though a woman lives here or anyone else for that matter, un." Deidara shrugged. "You are very perceptive blondie." Itachi said. Kisame nodded. "Yep it's just me and occasionally, my little weasel." He said hugging Itachi. Itachi glared and gave Kisame a horsey bite. Kisame yelped and laughed as Itachi dived on top of him. Deidara laughed as he watched Itachi pretend to choke the life out of his lover.
The rest of the afternoon was spent discussing the spring formal, with Kakuzu and Hidan arguing about the color of their tuxes and Itachi occassionally stealing a kiss or two from Kisame as they sat back on the loveseat, Itachi in Kisame's lap. Around 5:00 pm Kisame began taking everyone home. Kakuzu was dropped off first as he walked up to his door with Hidan in tow. They made out on Kakuzu's doorstep for a good five minutes before Kisame honked at him. Hidan finally came back to the car and Kisame drove him home.
He got out at his house, jumped the fence, waved and went inside. Deidara walked up to the door turning to wave at Itachi and Kisame and went inside. His dad was at the kitchen table cleaning his hunting knives as Deidara walked up to the table. "Hey dad, un." He said as he picked up a bowing knife. "Did you have fun with your friends?" His dad asked. "Yeah, un. We had a good time." He said turning the knife in his hand. "Glad to hear it. They're alright boys." His dad said.
"You know them, un?" Deidara asked incredulosly. "Their parents. Most of them anyway. The Uchiha kid's father is a sherriff here as well. We've worked together for years. That Kakuzu boy, his dad works at the bank. He's the manager. Hidan's dad works at the mill out on route 7. Been told he's a mean drunk. Kisame's mother owned the diner about 5 years ago. She died of cancer, now his aunt and uncle run the place." His dad said. Deidara shook his head in disbelief. His father was a sherriff so it wasn't surpring that his dad knew people.
What he couldn't believe was that his dad knew about the boys famalies and he approved of them as his sons friends. When did that ever happen? He laid the knife on the table, patted his dad's shoulder and went to his room. He took out the notes and put them on his desk. Whoever had given him the notes wanted him to figure it out. Why didn't they give him more clues? Right because that would be too easy. He pulled out his homework and began doing it when his dad asked if he was hungry.
Still full from the pizza, he shook his head and his dad nodded and left the room. Two hours later he finished his homework and went to get a soda. His dad lay on the couch sleeping as some movie was ending. He turned off the t.v. and covered his dad up with a blanket, before heading into the kitchen. He grabbed a soda and turned to leave the room. Lying on the floor under the edge of the door was a piece of paper identicle to the other two he'd recieved at school. He walked over and picked it up.
"I'm disappointed, I thought that you would know by now." It read. Now he was officially creeped out. They even knew where he lived. Okay so the other note said I look forward to seeing you everyday. It didn't say where they looked forward to seeing him. But he had gotten the other two notes at school. Well this was getting a little too mysterious for his taste. He walked back to his room and closed the door. Opening the soda he took a long swig. He opened all of the notes and compared.
They were all the same hand writing. Bold and neat. Good penmanship. And each was as cluless as the next. He put them in his desk drawer and changed for bed. Okay basically he stripped to his boxers there was no need to change considering it was Roswell New Mexico. You practically roasted at night from the heat, even in march. He crawled into bed and turned out the light. He closed his eyes, falling asleep immediately, he dreamed of the mysterious red head.