The Explanation

When Ivy entered the kitchen, she placed Deidara in a red highchair with a tray, and placed a bib around his neck. At the moment his tears had stopped streaming, but had left long wet marks after them. Every now and then a hiccup from him would emit, his eyes were puffy and his face was still red from all the crying.

"I need to dry my tears please,un..." Deidara mumbled, and it was followed by a big hiccup. Ivy retrieved a kleenex pack, and started drying his tears away "stay still, okay?"she said seeing no other option he complied. In the mean time Deception had sat down across from him by the table, and was drinking coffee. Ivy started working with preparing his breakfast, and Deidara looked around still confused.

"Why am I so tiny,un?" Deidara asked them both, looking from one to another and back, though Ivy was too busy to look at him. "Well the thing is, every now and then we need to test some new medical equipment out, such as a new medical jutsu, like the one that reduced your age. We need to find out any side effect there is, to find out if it can contribute, and you were selected to be the test subject. The jutsu reduces you to an age between 1 and 2, though your mind and memories are completely intact. You were chosen, because there were no volunteers, and we needed someone who would not easily give into cravings and other things."

Deidara looked at Deception as the news set in. "How long are you planning on letting me be a baby,un?" Deidara asked in his new squeaky voice. "Well for now it's a 6 month plan, and depending on the results, give or take a few months." "But I don't want to participate,I need to meet my goals for the Akatsuki,un!" Deidara said sounding even more squeaky than before. "Well it's a special mission, with a good pay, and you can consider it a vacation! You won't have to worry about anything, cause Ivy will have the mission to be your mommy until the jutsu is since everyone 'cept my girls,you,Ivy,Sasori And myself is here to make sure you don't get teased by everybody when they return from their missions." With that Deidara's eyes went bulging, but before he had time to complain, his mouth was filled with a spoonful full of warm oatmeal.

It was at this time, that Deidara realised that almost all his teeth were gone. He only had 9 teeth total,5 up and 4 down, and the rest were gums. So when the first spoon of oatmeal was shoved into his mouth, half of it escaped through the sides of his mouth, as he struggled to swallow. Ivy didn't bother getting the oatmeal of off his face, knowing it would be like this for the remainder of the feeding and just when he had swallowed the first portion, he was again rather urgently (if you ask him) meet with another spoonful, of the warm tasteless mushy oatmeal.

After 5 spoonfuls of the oatmeal, Ivy prepared another, but this time halted when she saw Deidara wiggling his head no. "Are you full already" Ivy asked, thinking he would have been able to at least eat the entire bowl, (though there were only 2 spoonfuls left) especially after half of every spoonful, had fallen out of his mouth and onto the bib. Though Deidara hadn't cleared his mouth entirely, he gave a small "Full" and felt himself drool a bit.

Ivy removed the bib to clear most of his face of the food, and left to get a small washcloth to clean his face with. Deidara detested this. The word hate was not enough to describe how he felt, about being reduced to a baby, with no muscle control, feelings overwhelming him, needing a caretaker for every need and having to wear and use a diaper.

Deception who had stood up during his feeding, came back, with what was looking like a bottle...a baby bottle! "I'm not using that thing,un! If you want me to drink it's gonna be from a cup,un!" Deception's lavender eyes turned into a small glare, but she went over to the cabinet and returned shortly after the milk now in a baby sippy cup. "There you go!" Reluctantly Deidara took the sippy cup into is mouth, Deception kept holding it for support, since it was kinda heavy for him to lift on his own.

When the milk came in touch with his taste buds, he realised it was thicker, and sweeter, than normal milk. It was formula! Even though he didn't like drinking something made for real babies he actually liked the taste, even though it tasted kinda funny, which was weird, because he usually didn't like sweet things, but shrugged it off as an effect of being a baby.

After a little while the milk slipped off the sides of his mouth and Deception lowered the cup in response, and couldn't help her smirk. "Holy Jashin you're cute!"