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Sasori jerked awake. He turned slightly, realizing Deidara was sleeping on his shoulder, and he flushed full on before realizing that something must have happened, because everything on the plane was either jerked to somewhere it didn't belong, or shaken up. He looked down at Deidara, who was only half awake as he said softly, "What's going on???"
Sasori chuckled for a moment. It seemed like Deidara was some kind of zombie. He knew that tone. Deidara wasn't going to remember a thing he said or did when he was fully awake. He combed his fingers in Deidara's hair and sighed. "I think it was just a little air turbulence." He said and Deidara looked around for a bit. Then he surprised Sasori further as the blonde snuggled into him, his earphones playing Punk Rock Princess by Something Corporate. Sasori smiled. "I guess…" Deidara muttered, before falling asleep again. Sasori took one of Deidara's earphones and put it in his own ear.
'This song was pretty far back.' He thought, looking at Deidara. 'Wow…' he thought. 'He looks like a girl.' He chuckled, and Deidara shifted, muttering something in his sleep. Sasori sat still for a minute as he watched Deidara's hand release his Ipod. Sasori caught it in time, twirling his fingers in the white wires. He turned the volume up slightly, and restarted the song, bobbing his head to the instrumentals.
Maybe when the room is empty…
Maybe when the bottle's full…
Maybe when the door gets broke down,
Love can break in…
'This song is in his favorites list.' Sasori realized, as a stewardess ran past. He hated all these stupid women who flaunted their height, running around in stupid heels. For gods sakes, just because they had the balance to serve a couple of wines on a plane doesn't mean they had the right to think they were better than short people. He rolled his eyes as he thought how stupid that would come across if he ever said it.
Sasori leaned his head on Deidara and put his arm on his shoulder, supporting his back, or he'd get a back ache to match his ankle in the morning.
Hidan walked past, staring at the two of them. Whispering, he asked Sasori, "What the heck??!" Sasori put a finger on his lips and pointed to Deidara, replying steadily with a curt, "He started it." Hidan shook his head and walked away. Sasori ignored this and mouthed the lyrics.
Maybe when I'm done with thinking…
Maybe you can think me whole…
Maybe when I'm done with endings,
This can begin…
Sasori looked at Deidara. He turned his head away, refusing to believe the fact that he enjoyed having the younger boy resting on his shoulder, even though he knew it was true. He shut his eyes as he leaned his head on Deidara's, realizing that he was going to have to wake Deidara up soon for dinner, which was bound to be better than normal ticket food, since they were riding business class, after all.
'Why does that disappoint me?' Sasori thought, briefly disturbed. He looked around the cabin for a distraction. A lady with a screaming kid… damn, that was noisy. 'I'm surprised Deidara manages to sleep through all of this.' Sasori thought, chuckling down at the sleeping beauty. Then he mentally smacked himself. 'What the hell, Akasuna.' He thought, using his sir name as a form of scolding. 'You're straight.' He told himself firmly.
Then he thought it over, sighing. 'No you're not,' A little voice contradicted, 'And you've known that for quite a bit now, haven't you, Sasori?' Sasori looked down at Deidara. 'I Can't Goddamn Help It.' He shouted in his mind against the voice, finding it ridiculous he was bothering to reply an imaginary persona in his brain. He registered the song was on pause. Unknowingly, he had put it on pause to focus on the voice in his head. 'Pathetic, Akasuna!!' the voice laughed at him, and he glared at nothing in particular, exasperated as he began playing the music again, hoping that the brief loss of a song wouldn't bring the blonde out of layers and layers of dream.
This can begin!!
This can begin…
Sasori stared at the blonde. The song was so fitting that he couldn't help but wonder if Deidara was either going to sing it to someone, or was waiting for someone to sing it to him. It was all very confusing, and both option A and b were equally likely, even thought Deidara was a dude.
He flushed. He shouldn't even be thinking these things.
'Whoa, whoa, Akasuna,' the voice laughed again, 'Try to keep it PG13 in here.' Sasori flushed even darker still, looking down so that no one would see just how red he already was.
If you could be my Punk Rock Princess,
I would be your Garage Band King.
You could tell me why you just don't fit in,
And how you're gonna be something…
Sasori laughed darkly, a private joke. 'He's already something.' He thought, stroking the blondes cheek discreetly with the back of his hand. Deidara muttered something, then he was still again. Sasori sincerely could not believe how Deidara was able to sleep through what looked like turbulence, the stewardesses running around on the floor like mice, and the children that had, thankfully, stopped wailing for their parents.
A stewardess came by. This one looked a little more normal, Sasori noted, with an average height, and a pleasant face instead of a snooty one. "Um…" she said, and Sasori nodded, "Yes? I can hear you." He replied, thinking she was worried about repeating herself. She shook her head, and said, "Well, dinner is going to be served soon… Would you mind waking your boyfriend up?" she asked softly, and Sasori looked away for a second. 'DO. NOT. BETRAY. ME, FACE!!' he mentally controlled himself, and when he turned back he hoped he was looking something akin to normal.
"He's not my boyfriend," Sasori said, and the stewardess's eyes widened. She brushed a stray strand of hair out of her face and tucked it neatly behind her ear, and muttered an apology. Sasori looked at her for a minute and smiled.
"No, it's ok. It's nice to hear it." He replied softly, and she smiled, looking at a stewardess on the other end of the cabin. "I know what you mean." She informed him, and Sasori grinned at her. "You know," he told her, "You made me feel a lot better." She smiled and nodded. "I'm glad. Now, if you could wake your um, friend, for dinner, it would be much appreciated." She said, politely formal again, and Sasori nodded, looking at the blonde for a minute before replying absently with a, "Mm, sure."
If I could be your first real heart ache,
I would do it over again…
If you could be my punk rock princess,
I would be your heroine.
Sasori switched the Ipod off and put the music on lock. He turned to Deidara, about to wake him up. He twirled the Ipod wires around the silver gadget itself, and tossed it into the blonde open sling bag. He flipped his dark red hair out of his face, and straightened his leather collar, watching how it came right in the reflective screen of the television on the chair in front of him..
Taking one last look at the blonde before waking him up, he whispered, "Well, I'd certainly oblige to being your first heart ache, but I'm pretty skeptical about the heroine bit."
Deidara blinked the sleep out of his eyes as he registered Sasori in front of him. "God dammit, Deidara, WAKE UP." Sasori emphasized duly, and Deidara gave him a goofy grin. "I'm up, I'm up, un." He replied, and he stretched lightly in his seat. Then he realized Sasori had his arm around him before, and flushed about 40 shades of red. "Um…" he began, pointing to Sasori's arm, which had quickly found it's way back to Sasori's side, "Why were you…"
"Um, dinner's here, Would you like the Grilled Fish Dory, or the Spaghetti Bolognaise?"
Sasori looked up at the stewardess before, and as Deidara looked down at his Ipod and ordered the fish, she shot him a wink. He nodded back gratefully at her, and she left after leaving him with the Spaghetti. "Air plane food," Sasori observed as the steam rose, "…never really looked this good." Deidara laughed. He looked at his Ipod tossed in the bag and shook his head. Whatever. How it got there, whether it flew or someone put it there, Deidara could pretty much guess. He just hoped he didn't do anything embarrassing while he was sleeping.
He requested some salt as a stewardess walked past, and he shook some over the sizzling fish. Sasori had began eating, after the quiet mutter of the usual, "Itadakimasu." Deidara said it too, and tucked in. It was good, he found, very good. Sasori watched him enjoy his food. After awhile, Deidara asked, "Did anything happen while I was asleep, un?" Sasori turned to look at him.
"Well, you were out for about 4 hours… I'd say something might have happened, wouldn't you?" he grinned, and Deidara laughed, scratching the back of his head. "Ah ha ha… I guess so, huh, un… well, what, un?" he said, and Sasori rolled his eyes, laughing. "Well, I heard Hidan and Kakuzu ran into each other literally… Tobi and Zetsu went off to the lounge earlier, Pein and Konan seemed to be up the whole time, and I didn't really focus on Kisame and Itachi. And you slept through a lot, including a turbulence." Sasori added, and Deidara looked around, his eyes widening. "A turbulence, un??!" he exclaimed, and Sasori laughed.
"Yeah, ditz, like a sleeping beauty. You slept through EVERYTHING." Sasori said, smirking as Deidara grew red again as he said sleeping beauty. Deidara faked a cough and went back to his dinner, glimpsing Itachi out of the corner of his eyes, eating the same thing as Sasori. He looked down at the fish and continued eating, tasting the Potato Salad, which came as a side dish. He turned to Sasori. "This is pretty good, un." Sasori looked at the Potato Salad. "You want to try some?"
Sasori nodded. He lifted his own fork. Then Deidara lifted his in front of Sasori's face. Sasori drew back slightly, his face sporting a fleeting blush before he returned to his usual bored face. Deidara grinned as Sasori ate off his fork, and asked, "It's good, right, un?" Sasori considered it for a moment. Then he nodded. "It's not bad for Airline food. I'd say… Jack's Place's standard." He offered, and Deidara nodded. "Somewhere around there, anyway, un." Deidara added, twirling his fork expertly, and then stabbing The remaining quarter of the Grilled Fish Dory.
Sasori poked around his food, deciding to follow Deidara's lead and sampled his side dish, which was a very well and generously dressed Fruit Salad. He poked at it, uncovering pieces of assorted fruit. "Hey, Deidara… what's your favorite fruit?" he asked, and Deidara tilted his head to one side, putting a finger on his bottom lip, considering the question. Sasori decided to focus on his food, since he felt this was way too cute, and his face would probably betray a blush somehow. "Strawberry, maybe, un. Or mango…" Deidara decided, and Sasori found a piece of the pink fruit and stabbed it softly, holding the fork loosely with 2 fingers.
"H… Here," He said, and Deidara smiled at him, a flush apparent on both their faces. Deidara bit the fruit off and ate it slowly. "That's the… 1000 Island dressing, un." He noted, and Sasori took a piece of fruit for himself. "You're right." He seconded, and Deidara laughed. "But somehow, it tastes a lot better." Sasori tipped his head, playing with his food in a bored fashion.
Deidara looked over at Hidan's empty seat and saw that Itachi was now sitting next to Kisame, and Hidan was next to Kakuzu. Tobi and Zetsu could only be in the lounge since they weren't in business class, and Konan and Pein were checking their gig plans while eating.
"Hey Sasori, can I go talk to Konan for a second, un?" Deidara asked, and Sasori frowned momentarily before returning to his icy composure. "Sure." The redhead replied, and Deidara walked over to Konan, somewhat reluctantly after hearing Sasori's reply. Konan looked up and smiled as Deidara stood next to her. "Something wrong, Deidara?" she asked, and Deidara rubbed his left elbow with his right arm, shifting from one leg to another slowly. "Well, un…" he said, and Konan was out of her seat.
Deidara + terrible posture + "Well, un…" = URGENT BUSINESS.
Konan looked behind them at Pein before she asked in a whisper, "What's the problem?" Deidara nodded to Sasori and frowned at the floor. "Him, un." He replied, and Konan looked at the redhead, who had finished his food and was putting in an order for a glass of wine through the stewardess who collected his empty tray. "I don't see it." She said, scratching the back of her head in a comical fashion. Till she saw the full flush on Deidara's face, even while his head was turned away. "Oh…" she said, "Ohhhh."
Deidara rolled his eyes. "Yeah, Ohhhh, un." Konan considered this for a minute and then shrugged. "Well, I guess you'll just have to wait and see what happens." Deidara's jaw dropped (figuratively) as he registered this. "You're saying, un…" he tilted his head meaningfully, "That I should just let this thing manifest or die just the way it wants, un?!?" Konan shrugged and nodded. "Pretty much, yeah."
Deidara fisted his hair, and then he winced slightly as he stepped on his ankle, which was just a little sore compared to before, thankfully. "Well, whatever it is, un, I don't think this is right, un. We're going to be spending a lot of time with Tsukisa, un, and I'm going to be spending a lot of time with Sasori, un." Konan poked at his shoulder and he staggered back a little. "Look, Deidara, I don't know if you know this, but while you were sleeping, you were the one who had snuggled into him like puppy, and then after a second, he put his arm around you." Deidara's eyes widened. Konan laughed for a minute.
"For about 30 minutes, he looked like he was thinking while holding you, then a stewardess came along and he woke you up for dinner. That's what I saw." She ended, and Deidara clutched his head, comically squatting on the floor. "Ahh… Dammit!! Why do these things always happen to me??!" he asked Konan, and Konan shrugged again, laughing. She nodded her head to Sasori and said, "I don't know, but if you're going to fall for him, I think he's a pretty mysterious guy. Like you can't tell much of what he's thinking. But I think he's pretty nice?" she guessed, and Deidara nodded.
"Well, whatever it is, he's pretty possessive…" Deidara sweat dropped, remembering Sasori's icy reply. When Konan asked, he hastily changed the subject.
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Anyways, yes, I know Dei's POV was shorter… but I couldn't help it, I do all my work at night, and I ran out of Sapporo T.T
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