"Hehehe... Sorry senpai..." Tobi apologized, laughing nervously and rubbing the back of his neck.

Deidara twitched in fury, resisting the urge to kill his apprentice right then. Pein wouldn't be happy if he did.

Instead, he roughly grabbed Tobi's arm and yanked him out of the room, then slammed the door closed before locking it. "You will never, ever enter my room without my permission again, do you you hear me?!" Deidara snapped.

Tobi nodded rapidly. "Of course senpai! Tobi'll stay out of your room, promise!"

"Good, hn..." It wasn't really. He could already tell Tobi was going to be a huge nuisance. He really needed to make sure to keep him away from his art in case something like this happened again.

Then a thought occured to him.

'Sasori is always making fun of my art and saying his is better... Maybe Tobi will take an interest in it and perhaps a few things might get broken...'

His earlier anger faded slightly and he unconsciously smiled. "Hey Tobi, why don't I introduce you to another one of the members now?" Deidara offered.

The masked man brightened. "Really? Tobi'd like that, Deidara-senpai!"

"Alright, come on, hn." The bomber lead Tobi down the hall to another room and knocked on the door, which shortly opened to reveal a red haired boy.

"What do you want, Dei- oh hey, is that the new guy?" Sasori asked, Tobi having caught his attention.

"Yeah, this is Tobi, hn." Deidara said "We were-"

"What's with the dumb mask?" Sasori interrupted, suddenly reaching out without permission to take the mask off.

Tobi immediately jumped back with incredible speed, his hands on the mask to make sure it stayed in place. The two Akatsuki artists just stared at him in surprise for his reaction.

Tobi laughed nervously. "Tobi doesn't take his mask off in front of others."

Deidara and Sasori both silently agreed asking him why probably wouldn't get them anywhere and decided to not ask.

"Well, Sasori, why don't you tell Tobi a little about yourself? Perhaps show him your craft as well, hn." Deidara said. He still couldn't bring himself to call Sasori's puppets 'art'. It would be insulting.

"Well, alright, I guess there's no harm in that." Sasori agreed, opening the door the rest of the way to let the two in.

Tobi bounced inside eagerly and looked shocked to see several large puppets in the room. He suddenly gasped, "You make dolls?!"

Sasori clenched his fists. "They are NOT 'dolls'! They're puppets! I happen to be a puppeteering genius!"

Tobi blinked at him innocently. "Aren't dolls and puppets the same thing, just one's on strings?" Sasori shook with anger.

Deidara silently laughed to himself. 'This is going better than expected. Now he just needs to break one...'

"They are far from the same thing!" Sasori snapped. "Dolls are for little girls, puppets are for master minds!"

Tobi tilted his head and picked up the nearest puppet by its strings, though when he tried to move it, it immediately became tangled up.

Sasori's jaw dropped. Deidara just grinned.

"Am I a master mind?" Tobi asked innocently, not noticing that the puppet was hanging awkwardly upside-down or the look of pure fury on Sasori's face.

The puppeteer snatched the wooden puppet away and yelled, "GET OUT!"

Deidara was having too much fun though. "Oh, calm down. He hasn't caused any harm. You have no problem untangling strings."

"Still! I will not have him breaking them! They are very important to me!"

"Sasori, you haven't been calling them your friends again, have you? You know Pein is concerned for your mental health when you name them..."

"SHUT THE HELL UP DEIDARA!"

While the two artists went at each others' throats, Tobi had silently slipped from the room and wandered further down the hall.

And that's when the screaming started.

(A/N: Sorry for this update taking so long, I've just been busy lately.. ^-^' Anyhoo, hope you liked this and I'll try to update again asap!)