His Name is Deidara
Chapter Six
-7 Days-
"Another day of tutoring! Aren't you glad Sakura-san, un?"
Blue eyes gazed upon a light pink head.
"Hai, hai. What now?"
They were in her room, alone again, flipping through a math book and learning materials. Sakura opened her mouth to speak what was on her mind for the past few days.
"Deidara."
'He's been here for exactly a week.'
"Hm?"
He replied without relocating his eyes from the book.
"When are you leaving?"
For a second his eyes widened. She didn't notice, as the air around them suddenly became tense.
"I..I-I don't know… un."
Sakura could not figure out what to say to him. What was there to say? She was not going to spill out her emotions, saying things like "I hope you never leave" or "I love you, so stay". Sakura wasn't going to, but she wanted to. Her lips quivered as she held back a few phrases.
'Don't leave me.'
Deidara flipped a page in the book as he skimmed through the words with his eyes waving back and forth.
'Or I'll be the one who needs to be saved.'
The breeze blew in from the tiny crack left open in her window, flowing in and through the space between them. There was a slight empty feeling, like the other person was not there. Deidara's hand moved towards the space between them on the bench, stopping in the middle. Sakura could feel it, how close he was to her, if she put her hand there, she could feel his warmth, and not just his presence. Sakura lifted her arm from the table, reaching for Deidara's hand which was propped down as his pen flew across a piece of paper.
'Sasuke.'
Her hand was an inch away from his, when her inner self had to remind her, and Sakura's hand jolted back onto the table. There was also him, Sasuke.
'I did not forget, did I?'
Her thoughts raced across her head, she was selfish and ungrateful. Sakura hated herself for being so greedy and falling for both guys at the same time.
'They both need your help."
That was true. Why had she bitten off more than she could chew? Sakura fell into her own dark pit of despair, she was ruining two lives.
'The past, and the present.'
'collide at a crossroad.'
-One Hour-
Deidara was sprawled across her floor, staring at the ceiling.
"YES! I'm finished!!"
Sakura stretched, flinging her math book over her head, which hit Deidara in the face.
"WHAT THE HELL!"
He exclaimed loudly, jumping up and holding his nose. Sakura turned around and her whole body jolted backwards, eyes widened in amazement.
"Deidara YOU'RE GUSHING BLOOD!"
"No shit Sherlock."
Sakura threw everything she could find at him. The items were a variety of tissues, towels, sponges, and a mop.
"Why is everything just soaking up the blood and not stopping the bleeding, un?"
Deidara was whining and his voice was cracking. He did not enjoy this new type of pain that he was forced to experience do to someone's "slip of hand".
"Why don't you try some salt?"
"Why would I?"
"Because its all that I have left."
There was nothing but an awkward silence, with Deidara just looking horrifically at Sakura, thinking of how much more he had to suffer until his time was up and he just died.
"Sakura, my last request is for you to kill me, un."
"I'll take that as a yes, okay you lean a little back and I'll just pour it in, or do you want to do it yourself?"
Sakura shook the salt in the bottle as she leaned forward gesturing to fill Deidara's nose with the white substance.
"no, nononononoononono!"
Deidara was hyperventilating by now. It was possibly because the salt was working or because he wanted to move.
"Hey Deidara, miracle salt."
Sakura grinned at her accomplishment staring at the floor holding his throbbing nose.
"it..BURNS!!"
The blonde jumped up pulling his hair in different directions as he yelled. Deidara began panicking as he ran in circles.
"Stop pulling out your hair, I don't want a new carpet."
-5 Minutes-
Deidara sat next to Sakura as he wiped some sweat off his forehead.
"My nose feels like its going to explode, un."
"Hey at least the salt is working."
A drop of blood hit the floor.
-10 minutes-
"I've tried everything and it still won't stop bleeding."
"Is there no God, un?"
Deidara turned around so that he was laying on his stomach.
"Sorry…if I didn't throw the book at you, thi-"
"Idiot."
Sakura turned her face away from him as she pouted at the bleeding idiot set on her floor.
"Haruno, Sakura."
He pronounced each syllable in her name significantly, it was the first time someone ever said her name like that. It made her feel somewhat special. Deidara wasn't congratulating her on a high score on her exams, he was saying her name.
'yeah sure saying your name out of no where.'
"What do you want?"
Sakura spat at him, she guessed that he was probably only going to make fun of her name or something. She could just hear his voice now, telling her how come she had the name of a flower but her beauty was far from one.
"That was mother's name, un."
Sakura was wrong, how could she have seen this coming? She crossed her fingers and squeezed her eyes closed, praying that she didn't say something wrong.
'Boy, this guy. He enjoys talking about his mom doesn't he?'
'Shush, you're annoying.'
'Oh yeah, and you're not.'
She was right. Sakura's own inner self had just told her that she was annoying. It pushed her even closer to the conclusion that she was weak, annoying, and un-needed.
"She may not have had the same weird hair, but both of you are just as bothersome, un."
"Thank you. I think I have thought of something to stop the waterfall coming from your nose."
Deidara's eyes began to dilate and grinning like a fool.
"Really?"
And then she socked him in the nose.
Deidara's POV
'Where am I?'
He lifted his hands to his face.
"Dried blood."
'I didn't kill anyone did I?'
Deidara turned his head to see Sakura.
"Nope."
He remembered the events of the night before. Deidara remembered how the idiot Sakura had punched him in his nose and knocked him out for quite the duration.
"Damn, my nose still hurts, un."
He finally noticed that all of the mops and tissues were no where to be found.
"Did she put them away?"
"Yes."
Sakura's voice sent a jolt up Deidara's spine.
"I haven't been scared that much since I accidentally locked myself in a bathroom, un."
She was rubbing her eyes and stood up, kicking him in the back."
"move."
"You know I would really tell you the story of how that happened but its such a-"
The door slammed behind the girl.
"…tragedy, un."
Sakura grabbed a towel from her closet and stuffed it into her bag along with her green swimming suit.
"YOU don't know how to SWIM, UN?"
She bit her lip as she ripped the zipper close and flung the pink bag over her shoulder.
"No, I don't."
He could feel her rage growing with each second ticking by, but Deidara enjoyed making her angry, so he decided to pursue.
"And I have to teach you, un?"
The veins in the back of her hand popped up as Sakura's grip on her swimming bag tightened.
"YES, NOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEAVE?"
She was grinding her teeth like a feral animal as she glared holes into Deidara's forehead. Sakura was indeed very angry, and it was all his fault.
-30 Minutes-
The silence was killing Deidara. He obviously could not have predicted that the joke could make Sakura mad. Now all that they were doing was just standing in the pool staring at each other. Sakura's arms were crossed in front of her and her hair was tied up in a bun.
'She had to look so good in that swimming suit too, un.'
Deidara did not know what to say or what to do. He was more than sure that he would probably stutter the next time he said something.
"Are you going to teach me or what?"
Deidara grinned as he quietly said thanks to the sky.
"Beat me to the punch this time Sakura."
"Sure."
"Okay, now hold on to my hands and kick with your feet, un."
He gave her instructions in preparation for her first lesson.
"Okay."
Sakura grasped his hands tightly as she began to kick her way through the water. Everything was going well until she left her head in for too long.
"SPPFFT!!"
Her grip on his hands began to tighten as bubbles rose to the water. Sakura was pulling Deidara under the water, when he finally realized that she forgot to breathe.
"What a loser, un."
Deidara quickly lifted her up as she gasped for air.
"Why didn't you come up for air?"
"Huff Huff..huff..because…you didn't..huff…tell me."
He looked at her like she was the most stupid person that he had ever met on earth.
"That doesn't mean I don't want you to breathe anymore."
Sakura looked up from the water for a moment, her face was painted with surprise.
"You don't want me not to?"
She was waiting for his answer, and Deidara knew it. If he gave the wrong answer, then he was screwed, but what was the "correct answer"? Deidara decided to answer with his instinct, the instinct to protect his pride.
"Of course, I want you to stay alive so I can earn some more money from tutoring you, un!"
Wrong answer. Sakura hit him in the back of his head.
"You are so selfish."
"No, I would call it a strong need for cash."
She began climbing out of the pool, leaving he blonde behind standing by himself in the water.
"Lets end here."
"Understood, Sakura, un."
Sakura's POV
'He said his mother had the same name as me, but not the same hair."
'Well, where else can you find a girl with real pink hair?'
'That's true, but who is his mother?'
'We should do some research on her later.'
Sakura quickly slipped on her robe as she stepped out of the changing stall, searching for her sandals. They were impossible to miss, her name was carved into it.
'Found them.'
'You didn't leave them there did you?'
'You never know, maybe someone moved them.'
Sakura placed her foot into one of the sandals, but at the same someone set there foot into the other shoe. Sakura could feel that these were way too big for her, but by the looks of them they were hers. She tilted her head up to see the other person. They had the same golden hair and the same blue eyes as Deidara. For a second their eyes met, but the older woman quickly turned away, retrieving her second sandal and quickly walking away, ignoring Sakura's eyes. Haruno grabbed the arm of the woman passing her.
"Sakura?"
The woman looked at her with tired eyes and she shook Sakura's hand off of her arm.
"No, I'm afraid you are mistaken."
She began to walk off in a different direction, but Sakura's voice stopped her in her tracks.
"I know where your son is."
The blonde swiftly turned their head around, coating her words with disgust.
"I don't have a son,"
"There's no use denying it. I know that you are Deidara's mother."
The older lady pushed Sakura to the floor.
"You don't know anything about me."
She ran out of the locker room and into the lobby. Sakura followed her and managed to sputter some words at her before she was completely out of sight.
"He thought you were DEAD!"
Deidara's mother's eyes widened as she fell to the floor. She began whispering to herself in disbelief.
"Me? Dead?"
Sakura stood up, this woman was the one who didn't know anything about her own son.
"He was told lies by everyone, and now he can't even trust his own dad."
Deidara's mom was sitting on the ground, staring at a rock.
"He can't even call his own father, father. He calls him the TSUCHIKAGE!"
A boy with blonde hair walked out of the separate changing room.
"Mother?"
"Deidara."
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