a/n …ah…didn't know many people actually read this. Well all the reviews actually encourage me to try and finish it (ok fyn not all but most) and you know what people hahaha I actually found a proper plot for this story (kind of) when I was taking a bath xD yehey! Well Special thanks will be written at the end. Why? Cause I know most of you only read the a/n's at the end.

p.s. Kisame is a human here! He's just a little blue xD

Red Strings

Chapter 6

Monday

Deidara woke up frightened, a bit disgusted and worst of all, he felt so confused.

He recently dreamt of something he thought of as a nightmare though at the same time something sweet and very pleasant.

Deidara was at his house crafting some kind of biology project. He couldn't actually remember what the project was but he honestly didn't care. The biology project was surely not the reason for the feelings he was experiencing.

As he continued doing his project, his bedroom door opened revealing the person he thought he hated most – Sasori Akasuna. The red head slowly and lazily strode towards the blond, and silently sat down beside him on his bed. He took the bio project from the blonde's hand and started talking. All the time the blond didn't make eye contact with the red head and it seemed to have irritated him. He couldn't remember the words the red head uttered while his head was lowered down but he could surely remember what came after as clear as day, the red head held the blonde's head and forced it to face him. After a moment of intense staring, the red head kissed the blond.

It was soft, sweet and felt so real. As the two broke apart, Deidara's cheek tainted pink, Sasori traced the blonde's lips softly like a glass that would break if you weren't careful. "I know that we're meant for each other Dei…"

After those words left the red head's mouth he sprang awake eyes wide as emotions flooded his mind. The blond shivered unpleasantly as he remembered nearly everything of his dream. It felt so real, it's like he could even feel the red head's thumb tracing his lips so delicately.

He was confused. In his dream he had a feeling he liked Sasori; the way he touched him, kissed him, speak to him, everything. But in reality he wanted nothing more than just be a classmate.

"That was just too weird yeah." He mumbled to himself. Little did he know his door was opened the moment he spoke out the words in his mind.

"What's so weird Dei-chan?" a soft curious voice asked from his door way.

Deidara slightly jumped as he heard the familiar voice. It was his mom's.

His cheeks tainted pink as the thought of his mom knowing about his dream crossed his mind. "D-didn't I tell you to knock before you enter my room okaa-san un!" he shouted, his voice failing him to stop the squeak that left his lips.

He saw his mother smile mischievously as she completely let herself in the blonde's room. That can't surely mean anything good. "Don't try to avoid the question Dei-da-ra-chan. Did you dream of someone in your class?" she teased. Deidara blushed more which only encourage his mom to try and pry out more information from the blond.

"Ah so it is! Is it someone you like?" she pushed further.

"Okaa-san! Get out of my room un!" Deidara shouted as he jumped of his bed and pushed her out of the door.

"Aaaww but Dei-chan – "before she could even finish her sentence the door was slammed closed behind her preventing her from snooping up more of her son's private life.

"Aaww Dei-chan's growing up." She giggled fondly.


Kisame turned back for at least the 10th time that afternoon, and for your information it has only been 15 minutes since the clock turned 12. But who could blame him? Curiosity always takes the better of him. There was obviously something bothering the blond sitting beside the red head. He kept fidgeting, especially when around Sasori.

Speaking about the blond and the red head…

"…Hey Red do you get the feeling Dei keeps ignoring and avoiding you?" Kisame whispered softly behind his back.

"I. Don't. Care." Sasori said apathetically as he continued to scribble down notes written on the board in his Biology class.

Kisame frowned as he searched the red head's visage for any emotion. Failing he sighed. "You're too impassively cold." He commented.

Sasori merely grunted in reply, as the blue haired teen turned around and tried to make himself listen to their teacher.

'You're too impassively cold…'

The words rang in Sasori's head like a church bell signaling the sound of mass. It was loud, somewhat annoying and somewhat informative. It was weird that the blue haired teen still can't see through the red head's façade after being friends for 5 years.

Truthfully he was bothered by the blonde's actions. It was annoying the hell out of him. He was ignored too many times this day.

Just this lunch, the red head walked towards the blond where he was sitting beside the fishcake, the dog lover, and the Deidara look-a-like. He walked into the enemy's territory so he could remind the new member about their meeting after school only to be ignored by the new comer. What the hell was wrong with the blond? How dare he ignore him and sit with the Kage! Did he even know they were competing against those brats? They were supposed to be enemies!

His reverie was cut off by the loud disgusted groans of the students around him. Did he miss something?

"Ok class listen up today, since we're discussing about the human's anatomy, we are dissecting frogs!" The large imposing professor said aloud as he carried a cage full of frogs to his desk.

Sasori weirdly seemed unfazed by the disgusting looking creatures while everyone else gagged at the thought of touching the green amphibian.

"Sensei~! How the hell are we gonna dissect that thing without those dissecting equipment thingies ttebayo!"

"Of course I came prepared. Just walk in front of the room and I'll give you all the necessary equipment." The teacher said as he placed a basket full of dissecting materials on top of the frog cage.

"No gloves Ibiki-sensei?" someone asked from the crowd.

The teacher only gave a toothy grin before shaking his head earning horrified expressions from half of his students. "I don't wanna teach my students to be pussies!"

"Fuck gross!"

"No cussing in my class you dimwits!"

Complaints were heard here and there before they were all silenced by the teacher. "Hey if it makes you feel better you'll all do this in pairs." He continued. "And your partners would be the person beside you."

Cheers were heard from the crowd though there were still soft moans from some of the students who were unlucky enough to have their seatmate as someone they truly hate. Deidara was one of the people who moaned. He wasn't actually a big fan of Akasuna, nor was he comfortable around him. Not with what he dreamt last night that is. He still couldn't understand his emotions and why earlier deep deep down inside his heart he liked his dream. It was so confusing.

"Ok everyone, go with your partners in front of the room and get your frog." Ibiki shouted. Students, with their seatmate, stood as they lined up in front of their teacher's desk and argued about who was getting the frog from the cage.

"Oi brat you want to get this over with or not? " The red head asked irritated. He really hated waiting and surely they had to do a lot of waiting before they could get their frogs if the blond didn't move his ass.

"Can't you get it yourself un?" Deidara mumbled as he looked at the wall beside him as if it was the most interesting thing he had ever seen.

Sasori scratched his head frustratingly. Seriously what was wrong with the blond? His patience thinning, he grabbed hold of the blonde's hand only to be jerked back by Dei.

"Don't touch my hand un!"

"And why the fuck not you stupid brat?"

"Hey didn't I tell everyone not to cuss in my class."

Ignored.

"Cause it's not your fucking damn hand is it un!"

"Well your stuck with me right now so what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine. So your hands are mine."

"The fuck un? Why would it even be yours, we're only stuck together as partners for a biology project! Not a fucken married couple un! That's seriously jack-assed."

"Will you two just the fucking shut up and get your damned shit frog in front of here now! Or do you want me to both drag you here like the pussies you seem to be like." Ibiki yelled making some psychos in class chuckle.

Sasori only grumbled before grabbing the blonde's wrist and pulling him towards the front of the class. The red head heard no complaints or struggles as they quickly walked towards the frogs' cage. Does that mean it was ok for the scorpion to touch any part of the blonde's body as long as it wasn't his hand? Sasori blushed at his thought. That completely sounded wrong in his head. Anyways that was stupid. He was sure the blonde wasn't struggling nor complaining just because he didn't want to start a fight again…probably.

As the artists stood in front of the frog filled cage, hand and wrist still in contact, they silently glared at the hopping frogs as if they could burn them alive with their eyes. Sadly some dreams never do come true.

"So any of you gonna get a frog or what." Ibiki asked looking at the two young teens.

Silence continued as both continued glaring at the innocent animals.

"You do know there are still a few more students behind you right – "

"Brat take one."

"Why me un?" Deidara oh-too-loudly shouted. He couldn't help it, he didn't want his mouth-hands licking some 'who knows where it came from' frogs. Yeah, he hated that his hand mouths had the tendency to lick unfamiliar things being placed on his palms. Why they lick them? He had no idea.

"Cause brat."

"Cause what un?"

Ibiki sighed. He wasn't paid enough for this. "Sasori just get a fucking frog so that you can start. Deidara here are the dissecting materials needed." He said as he gave a dissecting tin together with a small dissecting kit to the blond who sighed in relief.

"Oi get your hand of my wrist un. Or are you planning to hold it until the end of class yeah." Deidara murmured.

"Hn" was the only response he got before the red head let go of the blonde's wrist. Why did he even hold it that long?

"This somewhat feels wrong." Sasori said as he grabbed a frog from the cage. The two enemies went back to their seats silently.

After all the students got their materials, the blacked haired teacher started explaining what to do.
"Ok everyone, I want you all to start paralyzing your frogs. How you can do that? Pick up that long pointed pin inside the dissecting kit and stab the frog's head. Then twirl the pin around until the holder of the frog feels no movements from it."

"Brat, you stab the frog while I hold it still." Sasori stated as he held the frog tight. He could feel it trying to escape his grasp.

Deidara picked up the long pointed pin their teacher showed and lifted it in the air. In one swift movement, he stabbed the frog.

"What the hell brat? Sensei said to stab the brain! Not the heart!" Sasori shouted as he saw the frog bleeding in his hand.

"I thought it would have been easier to paralyze him if we stabbed the heart un." Deidara shrugged.

"Stupid! Haven't you ever dissected a frog before? We need to keep him alive!"

"You know there is a possibility I missed the heart and he'd still be alive un." Deidara grinned.

"How 'bout I stab a knife in your chest and let's see if you'd still be alive then?" Sasori said pissed.

"God both of you just get another frog and start over again!" Ibiki shouted from across the room. "It's like dealing with little kids." He grumbled.


After pinning, cutting, snipping and arguing, the dissection has finally finished.

"Damn this stench is gonna stick for a week!" Kisame grumbled as he sniffed his hand that held the frog.

"Tell me 'bout it." Sasori said as he poured a lot of alcohol in his hand. He hated dissection, he hated science, he hated that the activity wasn't done and most of all, he hated that the blond was ignoring and trying to avoid him again!

"Ok class, so did you take note of the structure of the frog as I told you too?" Ibiki asked his students.

Everyone said a non-enthusiastic yes as they all continued cleaning up the bloody mess at their tables.

"Good. Now for the second part of your project, I want you all to make a model of the frog's anatomy. I should see everything that you have seen in the frog's body; the heart, the eyes, the lungs heck even the spinal cord. You will all submit it tomorrow with a paper stating the difference between the frog's and the human's body. And since this hour is the only time you could do it at school, I guess you have to go to each other's houses to finish the project."

The students were all and ready to complain though seeing their sensei's scarred face glare, they immediately shut their mouths.

"Good to hear there's no complaints." Ibiki said as he waved goodbye to his students leaving the room silent.

As soon as the teacher exited the room and closed the door students shuffled around the classroom quickly talking and complaining about their science project.

Sasori called for the blonde's attention but got no response. Annoying. He tried again but this time he shook the blonde's shoulder roughly.

"What un?" Deidara hissed.

Sasori just rolled his eyes. "We're doing the project at your house – "

"We can't un." Deidara interrupted.

Sasori raised his eyebrow. "And why not brat?"

He saw Deidara scratch his head frustratingly. "Cause un."

"You answer my questions a lot with 'cause'." Sasori said matter-of-factly.

"Hey, if you haven't noticed you actually answered my question with cause earlier, so you don't have the right to say that un." Deidara pouted. "Anyway's why can't we just do it at your home yeah?"

Sasori immediately looked away "Cause I don't have a home."

Deidara held himself back from asking what he meant. One look in the scorpion's eyes and you'd know it was a topic that isn't meant to be discussed.

The blond sighed. "Fine then, we're doing the project on my house un. But I'm warning you, you may regret it yeah."

Guess the little blond just have to forget his dream. If he didn't, who knew what would happen with their project.


"Tobi…why are you here? I thought you had soccer practice."

"Konan-sensei said Tobi was allowed to skip."

"That still hasn't explained why you're here."

"Cause Itachi-san, Pain-sensei said Tobi can come to your meetings!"

Glare.

"He was annoying the hell outta me."

"Did I ever tell you I hate you sensei."

"228 times Sasori."

"Who's Konan-sensei un?"

"Pain-sensei's girlfriend."

Blush.

"She is not my girlfriend Kisame!"

"Haha well you act like a couple."

Pain shook his head. These kids always seemed to give him a headache. "My love life aside, we should probably give Deidara a formal introduction about us and the club. You see –"

"Our goal isn't just to beat the crap out of our enemies here and be the best in this school. We're also aiming for international." Itachi interrupted.

"How are you gonna do that un?"

"Well – "

"You see every 3 years a band competition is held in this school. The winner of the band competition gets to compete in this competition they call 'Blaze of September'. If you win you'd have a chance of getting internationally well known. So for short, that's our ticket to fame."

Pain glared at Itachi. "Stop stealing my lines Itachi. Or do you want to switch places with me."

"I'm sorry Pain-sensei but you just explain too slowly."

"Damit you kids are troublesome. Anyways as Itachi said it's only held every 3 years so everyone only has 1 shot in making it to the international competition. If you lose you can't get back up and try again. So I don't want any of you to slack of you hear?"

Deidara found himself nodding with everyone else. This was great! He loved competitions as much as he loved art. There was always the feeling of excitement every time he performs on stage. The applauds and cheers of the audience, the music loudly ringing in their ears, the feeling of accomplishment after you finish each song; it's all worth the practice he'd be pouring in.

"Hey wait. When's the competition going to be held un?"

"On the cultural festival which would be held a month from now." Pain answered before looking at everyone with determined eyes. "I don't want any of you skipping meetings starting from today nor do I want any of you getting sick and skipping practice. We need to be ready for the competition so that means we need to practice, practice, practice! If any of you slacks of your outta this club. Is that understood!"

Itachi smirked. "Don't underestimate us sensei."

"Haven't we always given our best?" Sasori smirked.

"Yeah! We're all up and ready for the worst!" Kisame stood grinning.

"Heh we are so beating the crap out of our opponents un!" Deidara shouted.

"Yup and Tobi would give you all the support he can!"

"You were still here Tobi?" Itachi asked impassively.

"You're so mean Itachi-san!" Tobi whined. There was probably a cute little pout hidden under his mask right about now.

"Good to hear that from all of you. You're all dismissed." Pain said with authority. Everyone stood and was ready to leave and go out but Pain stopped 2 teens from exiting the room.

"Itachi, Sasori, stay behind for a minute I need to tell you both something."

The two impassive teens nodded. Deidara looked at Sasori who looked at him as well. As if understanding the blond, Sasori shrugged and told him to wait for him by the school gates. They did still have a project to finish. Once Pain saw everyone leave he turned towards Itachi and Sasori.

Pointing to a window behind him, he mouthed 'Check it out.'

Sasori and Itachi looked at each other before silently walking towards the window. They pressed themselves towards each side of the window before nodding at each other. In on swift motion they both grab something from out of the window and dragged it towards Pain.

Pain looked at the girl Itachi and Sasori held. The girl had short pink hair with matching emerald eyes. She wasn't actually the prettiest girl he'd ever seen.

"Why were you eavesdropping on us?" Pain glared.

The girl planned to refuse speaking but one look in the purple dark eyes, she knew she had no choice. "I-it was Kage. I'm their new manager. I was only doing my job! Please don't kill me!" she practically screamed.

The three Akatsuki members looked at her disgustingly. "Are you serious? You're their new manager. They must have been desperate to hire a crap filled pink haired spineless idiot like you." Sasori said with dismay.

The pink haired girl didn't respond.

"We'll let you go for now. But if we see you here again trying to get information about us we won't let you go easily."

The pink haired girl whimpered and nodded.

Pain looked at both Itachi and Sasori telling them to let her go. As soon as they did the girl ran towards the door and outside the door.

"Pathetic." Itachi said.

"I know. How can they accept a manager like that? She totally gave away who she worked with. I'm sure if we pushed her more she would have given us every information there is about the Kage." Sasori added.

"Probably. And that's why we need to find a manager who'd be capable of getting information from the other bands without pussying out. It would really help us a lot." Pain stated. "We need to find one soon. We couldn't compete without knowing anything about our enemies. The manager's job is after all to inform us about our enemies."

Both teens nodded before being dismissed by Pain. All three then walked out going their separate ways once stepping outside the cool summer air.

Sasori looked around trying to spot a hair of blond. He then felt a finger tap his shoulder. He turned around and met baby blues. They stood there staring for a few second before Sasori turned around.

"Are we going or not?" He asked monotonously.

Deidara grunted before catching up with the red head.

"What did Pain-sensei talk to you about un?"

"Getting a manager."

Deidara 'oohh'ed ending the conversation. There was a short period of silence before the blond broke it once again.

"Why do you seem like you have deep lonely eyes un?"

Sasori quirked an eyebrow at the blond. Well, that was a random question. "Why do you want to know brat?"

"Cause un." He answered.

"There you go again with your cause."

Deidara shrugged. "That's what I say if I can't give a proper answer un."

After those words left the blonde's mouth both went back to simply silently walking by each other's side towards Deidara's house. The blond knew when someone doesn't want to talk about a certain subject. And he wasn't someone who'd press on to stuff that others don't want to speak about.

Sasori glanced at Deidara. It seemed like the blond had something on his mind. He frowned. Why does the blond always know what questions to ask to make him remember his past? It was probably the blond just being curious but still. It was like the universe wanted the blond to get to know him.

He sighed. He hated that what he thought could possibly be true. It was yellow with a mix of red, just like his…


a/n Hahaha I'm sure you have no idea what I mean by the last part ;) hehe but you'll find out ^^.Does it seem like I'm making them like each other already? As in I'm not showing that they hate each other even a little. And is it all happening too fast? People please answer this question! I need to know! Oh and well I need to know if this story is bad or good or whatever so people please review and tell me . I need confidence O.O (I am a very shy unconfident girl ~) So I need to know if im doing ok or it needs a lot improvement.

Special thanks to:

Ditkata – of course. You are so the best!I love you so much xD hahaha but I'm sure you know that already since I like told you hundreds of times xD hahaha and you are so smart xD Fav reviewer . and waaahhh seriously you are such a great help! I love you .

Asami-chan – hehehe your review made me laugh though I am sorry that nothing happened in detention. But don't worry hahaha events will happen soon!

Jatt-An – yours was one of the best reviews I have ever read! Thank you so much for the support, compliment and comments . It really encourage me to actually try and continue. Thanks a lot.

Tobifan66 – haha the caps lock review was funny xD haha it wasn't a fail I promise

This-is-Blasphemy – Thanks for giving me an idea and a nice review . some people just go like 'please continue' and nothing else….that really doesn't do much but make me laze around . haha thank a lot ^^

Selyann – One of the best reviews xD haha thanks so much. You're review made me laugh but really I'm sorry I didn't make anything happen in detention but as I said ;) events will happen! Mwahahaha events that would occur in school xD (no shit Sherlock xD) haha but seriously they will get another chance at another detention ;) I don't think the Akatsuki can have only 1 detention in life (shock! I spoiled!)

Blood Drenched Scorpion – Sorry but yeah Sasori's OOC here. I can understand if you don't wanna read anymore ;P

Dobato Nyanko – even if it was a short review I liked it ^^ I guess it just reminds me of how I review xD

Wow well this is a long author's note…blame the special thanks! Haha well seriously new reviews would be very much appreciated :P oh and btw from now on I will put special thanks if I see a very nice review ;) just wanted to say. Oh and P.S. sorry if nothing happened in detention. But meh they just met. I don't think anything would happen. Oh and I wanna know who's P.O.V. you wanna hear from… Dei of Saso's…or do you want the story to be like an omniscient P.O.V.