Taylor's POV

It had been a couple hours and here I still was, thrown over Deidara's shoulder as we continued down the dirt road that never seemed to end. I'm pretty sure his shoulder was beginning to dent my rib cage…

"Deidara," I whined. "Your shoulder is killing meeeee!"

He rolled his eyes. "No it's not, yeah."

"Come on!" I tried again. "Your arm's gotta be tired or something!"

The blonde criminal sighed and slowed to a stop. "Tobi."

The masked man perked up. "Hai, Senpai?"

Deidara flipped me into his arms and I screamed in shock when he tossed me at Tobi.

"Se-Senpai!" Tobi staggered and stumbled forward. "You shouldn't toss Taylor-chan around like that!"

The childish man skillfully managed to catch me in his arm and I immediately wrapped my own around his torso, holding on for dear life.

I glared at Deidara.

"You bastard."

The blonde smirked at my insult. "Tobi, you're in charge of her for a while, yeah. Don't do anything stupid."

"Hai!" Tobi replied happily and bounced after him. We continued walking for a few minutes before I sighed and puffed my cheeks out, poking Tobi in the chest. He looked down at me.

"Is something wrong Taylor-chan?"

I smiled up at him. "Can I walk on my own? I promise not to do anything."

Tobi nodded enthusiastically. "Of course!"

He paused and set me down on my feet. I jumped happily and hugged him.

"Tobi is a good boy!"

"Hooray!" Tobi cheered and wrapped his arms around me in return, spinning around excitedly. I laughed and a second later he stopped and set me back down. We started jogging to catch up with Deidara who had left us behind.

The three of us continued walking and Tobi started to hum a random tune while I started picking up rocks. After a few minutes I had an entire arsenal of stones packed in my arms and I picked up the first one.

"FIRE!"

I chucked it at the blond a little ways in front of me and it flew over his shoulder. He turned around quizzically and I threw another stone. This time it flew over his head and he silently looked back forward.

"Your aim is shit, un."

I growled and gathered the remaining rocks in my hand. "DIE!"

The stones flew out of my hand all at once and only one managed to hit him, right in the back of the head. Deidara froze and spun around angrily.

"Do that again and I will blow you to pieces, yeah."

I grinned stupidly and saluted him. "Aye, sir!"

Deidara growled and shot me a glare before looking back forward. I snickered. That was fun.

I started whistling and looking around at the tree's that lined the edge of the road. There were birds fluttering out of trees and squirrels running around. It was actually pretty peaceful.

However, peaceful only entertains me for so long- half an hour to be precise. After that, I get bored. And boredom means random ideas, which is what I now had.

I composed myself and looked ahead a Deidara. "Hey, Deidara."

The blonde looked over his shoulder at me. "What, yeah?"

I continued to stare at him, unblinking. "Hey…Hey, Deidara."

He seemed a bit confessed. "What?"

"Are we there yet?"

Deidara blinked. "Where…un? The base?"

I nodded and had to keep myself from smiling when his eyebrow twitched angrily. "Does it look like we're at the freaking base yet, yeah?"

I looked around before turning back to him, neutrally replying, "I can't tell."

Deidara seemed like he wanted to chuck a brick at my head. "Shut the hell up."

I didn't reply and he turned back forward, mumbling things under his breath. I waited another minute.

"Hey Deidara…"

He tensed but didn't turn around to face me. "What?"

"I was just wondering…Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Oh."

I looked at the ground, kicking a pebble that was there.

"How…how about now?"

"No."

"…"

"…"

"How about now?"

"No, un."

"Now?"

"No."

"Really? Well…what about now?"

"NO!"

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU YELLING? I'M JUST WONDERING IF WE'RE THERE YET!"

Deidara stopped and flew around, glaring at me dangerously as he shoved his hands into his clay pouches angrily.

"Ask me one more time and I will blow you into the depths of hell, hmm."

I rolled my eyes and boredly glanced to the side. "Well someone's a little pissy…"

Deidara started stalking towards me, a tick formed on his head as his hand mouths spit out the clay creation he had been molding.

"That was the last straw, yeah!"

I blinked and took a step back when I realized that he was serious. "But I didn't even say it again!"

Deidara didn't seem to care and made a hand sign. The clay bird in his hand came to life and started speeding towards me. I did the only thing I could think of.

"HOLY SHIT- TOBI SAVE ME!"

"TOBI WILL HELP TAYLOR-CHAN!"

Within a split second he had grabbed me and retreated to a nearby tree just as the bomb went off where I had been standing. Deidara glared at the both of us, shoving his hands back into his clay pouches.

"Get back here, un!"

I looked over at Tobi with wide eyes. "Keep going."

Tobi nodded and continued bounding through tree's leading us deeper into the forest. I squinted my eyes because the air around us was flying past so fast that they were beginning to water. We continued running for another minute before Tobi suddenly stopped on a tree branch.

I looked up at him. "What's up?"

Tobi set me down and turned to the direction that we had just come from. "Deidara-senpai's chakra stopped moving."

"Huh," I placed my hand against the trunk of the tree and turned to look where Tobi was. "I wonder wh-"

BOOM!

The entire forest shook. Tobi started running back in the direction we had come.

"Wait!" I called after him. He left me stuck in a tree. A TREE.

"Taylor-chan, stay there!" He shouted back before disappearing. I felt my eye twitch.

"OF COURSE I'LL STAY HERE YOU IDIOT I'M UP IN A FREAKIN' TREE!"

Normal POV

Deidara cursed and sent more bombs at the ninja he was battling. While he was chasing after Tobi and the blonde a team of ninja from Kumo had ambushed him.

One of his bombs managed to land on one of the ninja and he smirked victoriously, raising his hand.

"Katsu!"

The explosive went off and the man dropped to the ground dead. His teammates, in a flurry of anger, charged at Deidara. The pyromaniac only grinned widely. More things to blow up.

Deidara was just about to throw more of his art at them when another cloaked figure suddenly popped in front of him.

"Tobi, yeah?" He said in disbelief. The disbelief was because HE DIDN'T HAVE THE FREAKING CAPTIVE. "Where the hell is that girl!"

Tobi turned to face him happily. "Tobi left her in the forest!"

Deidara felt another tick mark form on his head and blew up two more of the ninja before punching Tobi's head.

"You idiot, yeah!"

Deidara darted in the direction he had seen Tobi go earlier and scowled. She better not be gone.

"Ite-te-te…," Tobi muttered before gasping and running after his partner. "SENPAI WAIT FOR TOBI!"

Taylor's POV

I was standing on the branch Tobi had left me in a karate position, glaring at the evil bird that was sitting a few feet away from me. It was evil, I kid you not. The beast tried to shit on me.

I AM TAYLOR BITCH! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO POOP ON MY HEAD!

I hopped closer to me and I glared harder, hoping that it would catch on flames. "Stay back!"

The bird hopped closer again and I was about to go all Jackie Chan on its ass when I was suddenly scooped up in a pair of arms. I blinked and looked up, surprised to see Deidara instead of Tobi. I wasn't about to fuck with him either, he looked pissed.

"What's wrong?" I questioned, furrowing my eyebrows in concern. He kept his gaze ahead.

"We're being pursued, yeah."

I stayed silent, not knowing what else to say. Deidara continued running.

After a few minutes he hopped down into a small clearing and set me on my feet, looking back in the direction we had come from.

"I think we lost them, un."

A second later Tobi appeared beside Deidara.

"Senpai~ How could you leave Tobi like that!"

Deidara turned to face him and pointed a finger back at me. "You left her in the forest alone, yeah! And at the top of a tree at that! She could be dead right now, un!"

I blinked in surprise. I mean…I had been mean to Deidara all day and yet he still cared…probably only because I was his captive and he didn't want Pein to kill him but still…

Tobi was quiet for a second before he let out a sob and lunged at the two of us, pulling Deidara and I into a hug.

"TOBI IS SORRY SENPAI! TOBI DIDN'T MEAN TO LEAVE TAYLOR-CHAN STUCK IN A TREE!"

Deidara huffed and pushed Tobi away, shoving one of his hand back into his clay pouch. "Whatever, yeah."

He tossed a small clay bird into the air and made a hand sign. It expanded into a giant bird and Deidara looped his arm around me, jumping onto the clay creation.

"Let's go, un."

Tobi quickly followed our lead on hopped onto the bird. Deidara instructed me to sit so I did, and once I was situated he took off into the air. I tried to scoot over to the edge of the bird to look at the ground below, but Deidara grabbed my arm and dragged me back to where I had been sitting, taking a seat beside me.

I pouted. "You're so mean…"

He rolled his eyes and stuck his hands into his sleeves. "You could've fallen off, yeah."

I suddenly felt kinda bad about everything I had done…Damn the emotion of guilt.

"Hey Deidara…?"

He glanced at me out of the corner of his eye. "What, un?"

I looked down and fiddled with the laces of my shoe. "I…I'm sorry for being annoying all day."

Deidara blinked, staring at me in genuine surprise. I giggled when he staggered to find a reply. Eventually he just said a quick "thanks, un" and then went back to staring ahead at the sky in front of us.

I smiled slightly, noticing the orange sunset in front of us. Traveling with Deidara and Tobi wasn't really that bad. All I really had to worry about was meeting Pein…but let's not think about that now!

There was a light snoring sound from behind me and turned to find Tobi curled up in a ball, asleep. I rolled my eyes at him before turning back forward, suddenly feeling tired myself.

I yawned and hunched forward, staring off into space. After a few minutes the sun went down and I flipped onto my back, throwing my hands behind my head. It only took a second for my brain to start to shut down.

I yawned again. "'Night Dei…"

I heard him chuckle right before I succumb to sleep.

"I thought I told you not to call me "Dei", yeah."

Eh, this one seems a bit shorter than the others but oh well. Only one more chapter until I can work off what I already have :D

Oh, and the whole bird pooping thing was based off my experience at Cedar Point yesterday after a bird SHIT ON MY HEAD while I was waiting in line for the Raptor…

Yes, I had a hissy fit XD

S'all good though. No worries.

Anyway, have a good night! Don't forget to review! :D

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