Adragon's rant: First off thanks to mimirudesu, LatyfeSurLeSora and CrystalSuigetsu, For your reviews ^^ I'm glade you like the story sofar. Also chapter five won't be up till next week, since this weekend is my birthday and I won't have time to work on it. Sorry for the delay T^T.

-One Week Later-

Bright beams of sunlight fell on to Deidara's sleeping face. His hair was shining a bright golden color. He stirred and slowly began to open his puffy tear staind eyes. He didn't even have them fully opened when he shut them and covered his head with his blanket to shielded his eyes from the brightness. It was then he realized he had a pounding head ache, as he often got when he cried himself to sleep.(A/N this happens to me when ever I cry before going to bed)

There was a soft knock on his door as he gave a small groan before the door opened. It was Konan, "morning Deidara-san, it's time for your meds and vitamins." The blond graoned a little louder this time. He hated the meds; they some times made him feel worse. "I know you don't like it, but it's really making a difference, also, we have to change you bandages... after you wash up of course." There was no response at this, but the bluenett knew what he was thinking.

Deidara sat up and blankly stared at Konan. He hated days where he needed to "wash up." It meant that Tobi would be in to help him. He so wished he could do it himself but due to his current state he couldn't. The nerves and muscle tissue of his new arm were taking longer to attach and heal then normal, mostly due to the stress he was under.

Konan sighed after getting Deidara to take his meds, though it wasn't easy. There was another knock, "come in," came Konan's reply. The door opened and in walked Tobi, "good morning Sempai!" he said in a bright, happy manner. Deidara however did nothing causing both the masked nin and bluenett to sigh. It had been a week since Sasori died and during that whole time Deidara had said and did nothing. The only sounds the bomber made were graons, moans, sighs and grunts. His once bright blue eyes where dull, gray, full of hurt, sadness, pain, loneliness, anger and loss. He looked just like one of Sasori's remaining human puppets, so real and life like, yet compleetly lifeless, unable to do anything without the aid of someone else.

Tobi walked into the bathroom and started a warm bath as the bluenett left the room so Deidara could get cleaned up. The bomber still said and did nothing. He just sat there like a lifeless doll. He was so down, he didn't even touch the pouches of clay that sat on the nightstand that Tobi brought him. His heart ached so much from the loss of Sasori and what they shared that not even the thing he loved most could make him snap out of his depression.

"Sempai, your bath is ready," the sound of his "new partner" brought him out of mindless thoughts as he stared at Tobi. With a sigh Tobi helped Deidara out of bed and into the bathroom, getting him somewhat undressed. "Sempai, I'm going to take your clothing off ok?" the masked nin sighed. It was the same thing every time the blond needed a bath. Everything would be fine until it came down to removing his boxers. That's when he would throw a fit and began to cry, so Tobi just left them on guessing Deidara didn't feel comfortable showing himself so soon after the loss of his previous partner and lover. As Deidara sat in the tub, boxers and all, Tobi would remove his gloves only to replace them with rubber ones. "I'm going to start washing you now ok sempai?" The blond just stared as Tobi begin to wash his sempai taking great care as to not aggravate his still sensitive wounds.

When his blond was all clean, Tobi got a towel. "S-sempai, I'm going to dry you off now ok?" Again Deidara just stared, even though it needed to be done. Tobi always asked or told his sempai what he was going to do, noticing how much more calm he was when he did so. When Deidara was mostly dried, Tobi gave him a clean pair of boxers and the towel and turned around. This was the only thing Deidara could will himself to do on his own despite the pain it caused him, though he had to sit down when he did this. When finished, Tobi did the rest and led the bomber back to bed and called for Konan. When the bluenett came in Tobi left to go get Deidara some food while the bluenett re-bandaged his wounds. "Deidara?" The blond glanced at the bluenett but still said nothing. "I know your hurting and there is nothing wrong with that but..." she looked into Deidara's eyes, "but you can't live like this." She stopped there knowing what would happen if she said the now forbidden name to Deidara.

Deidara wasn't stupid, he knew full well what Konan was going to say as she bandaged his wounds. She was going to say that Sasori wouldn't want him to be like this. The blond winced at the thought of Sasori; his flaming red hair, his chocolate brown eyes that you could easily get lost in, his soft perfect lips that could kiss any pain or worries away, the perfect arms that held you tight yet gentle at the same time.

He also knew about the unspoken rule to never mention the scorpions name near him. Doing so would make the bomber have a massive break down. This became a rule when Kakuzu asked about selling Sasori's remaining puppets the day after Deidara woke up. Upon hearing this, the bomber started to scream and thrash about opening his wounds causing him to yell even more. Since then no one was to ever mention Sasori's name again, and Pein even told Kakuzu to leave Sasori's puppets alone and anything else the puppet man owed was now left in Deidara's care.

"Sempai are you even listening?" Deidara looked up only now noticing the mask nin was in his room and that Konan had left. "S-sorry sempai," Tobi looked down, "i-it's just I have your meal here and I didn't want it to get cold." The blond looked at what Tobi brought him. Two pieces of toast, a small bowl of frosted flakes and a glass of orange juice. Tobi then sat on the edge of Deidara's bed and started to help feed him. Everything went well until it got to the toast, that's when the bomber's eyes widened and he looked up at the masked nin with shock clearly present on his face. It was only one bite, but he could taste it. "I-I thought you would like some honey on your toast sempai." How did he know? The only person who ever knew about him liking honey on his toast was his danna. Tobi smiled behind his mask, "I saw you putting some on your toast one time when everyone else were one missions." Answering his unasked question, that's when Tobi noticed it. It happened so fast, even he almost missed it. For a split second, a small smile tugged at the corners of his sempai's mouth.