A/N: I'm sorry! This is way late... but I have an excuse! *Points at Shispas* She did it! She held my chapters too long. Course it didn't help that her trolling mom tricked her into leaving her laptop at home when she flew up here. Though she could have used my laptop the multiple times that I was at work... but let's not point fingers here...
There might be another chapter later ;D
So this is kinda small... But there is some happiness in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the songs mentioned in this chapter.
When Deidara arrived at school he noticed his friends huddled in a circle. "What's up, un?"
The huddle opened up to reveal Konan holding out her wrist. There, standing out on her flawless pale skin, was an X. "I found it on the way here. Jiraiya nearly broke down when he caught me looking at it." Her voice was wavering and her eyes were red making it obvious she had been crying.
Deidara's hands balled into fists. "Why the hell is fate targeting us? What did we ever do?"
"Dei-" Konan started only to be cut off by a fuming blond.
"No! I know for a fact that that's what's happening here. I mean, we all have the mark besides three of us!"
"Wait... Tobi, Zetsu, Kisame, and you makes four," Hidan asked but when Deidara just gaped at him he added, "You too?" A hesitant nod from the blond prompted another question, "The fuck man! Since when?"
Deidara hung his head and mumbled, "Since the first day of school, un."
"What the fuck blonde! That was like a fuckin' month ago!"
"I know!" He took a breath and sighed, "I know. I just... I didn't want anyone to treat me different." The blond stared at his feet, not wanting to face his friends.
"Do you really think we'd treat you that differently?" Konan was the one who spoke this time, cutting Hidan off from his ranting with her soft tone.
"No, I guess not anymore, un. But when I first noticed it only Pein had his and then that day we found out about Itachi's. You all looked on them with pity and did them favors and watched their every move like they'd fall over dead any second! I couldn't deal with that, un."
Everyone was silent as they realized Deidara was in fact, correct. They had treated the ones with the mark differently and they could see why Deidara chose not to come forward.
"Still, when where you going to tell us?" Hidan asked, this time without anger.
"I don't know, un." Deidara sighed. "I probably would have never said anything."
The bell rang ending their discussion. Each of them headed off to class, silently pondering why the universe chose them, and why now.
~xXx~
Sasori had finally caught Deidara alone. He had left his third hour class to use the restroom and found the blond there washing his hands. He quickly cornered the younger boy against the wall of the boy's bathroom. He was going to get some answers and he was going to get them now. "What was that all about?"
"You know me, un." Deidara laughed nervously. "My anger got the best of me and it just blurted out, un!"
"Not that!" He knew snapping at him would do no good but as everyone knew, patience wasn't Sasori's greatest virtue.
"Well then I'm afraid I don't follow, un."
Sasori sighed, "The other night. What was that."
"I don't know what you're talking about, un," Deidara replied, keeping his gaze away from Sasori's.
"The damn kiss!" The red head yelled, finally loosing the small amount of patience he had saved.
"Oh. That."
"Yeah, that."
Deidara sighed, "Would you believe me if I said that I didn't know."
"What do you mean?" Sasori's voice had softened as he tried to understand.
"I have no idea why it happened, un! It just... Did."
"And if it were to happen again?"
"I-I uh... I don't really, um-" Deidara's stuttering was cut off by Sasori's lips on his own. This time, Deidara almost immediately started kissing back. This kiss was defiantly different from their first. It was less clumsy and more hesitant as if they were only testing to see what the other would do. Eventually Sasori was the one to deepen it by licking at the blondes lips, to which he opened immediately.
After a while they broke for air, each looking at the other with new understanding. "So?" Sasori asked with a smirk on his face.
Deidara rolled his eyes. "So you're a dick for cutting me off like that."
"Ah, but there's no running away this time?" His smirk got wider as Deidara blushed.
"No, no running away, un."
"Good." Sasori leaned in and kissed the blonde again, only a short peck though as he turned and walked out the bathroom door.
Deidara stared in disbelief at the door before hurrying after the red head yelling, "What the fuck, Danna, un!"
~xXx~
Zetsu was on his way to his herbology class when he caught sight of Tobi curled up in a corner by one of the large windows.
He changed course and walked over to the boy, his white half asking in a concerned tone, "What's wrong Tobi?" Now that he could hear Tobi sobbing he quickly sat down and patted his back awkwardly.
"I-I f-found the X... on-n my n-neck." The masked boy turned his head to bury his face into the other's shirt.
Zetsu had no idea what to do. His heart hurt to see the normally bright and energetic boy like this but he wasn't use to these situations.
"Uh.." His black half stuttered before the white one took over, "It's alright Tobi. It's ok."
"N-no it's n-not!" He blubbered as the stutter got worse as he got more upset, "I d-don't wan-na le-eave my-my frien-nds. I d-don't wan-na leave y-you!"
Zetsu was shocked into silence. He had no clue what he was suppose to do or say, so, he decided to just wing it. "You can never leave us, Tobi."
The boy sniffed and looked up at the two toned man, "Really?"
"Yeah!" His black half exclaimed, glad he got the boy to at least stop sobbing. His white half then added, "We all carry each other in here." He held his hand to his chest, right above his heart. "Even once our bodies are gone, our soul will live on in the hearts of the ones we love."
Tobi was looking up at Zetsu with admiration. "I never thought of that."
"Me neither." Blackie mumbled inaudibly as Tobi was pulled to Zetsu's chest in a tight embrace.
The tardy bell interrupted them and Tobi pulled back. He pushed his mask up to wipe at his eyes and Zetsu took this opportunity to give Tobi a quick kiss. Few people knew about their relationship as Tobi decided Zetsu didn't need any more trouble than he already got for his two toned skin. Zetsu had reluctantly agreed but convinced Tobi to at least tell the rest ofAkatsuki; though, only Pein and Konan knew so far.
"Shall we head to class then?" Zetsu asked after Tobi pulled his mask back into place.
"Ok." Tobi was still sniffing but had at least stopped crying.
On the way to class Zetsu's black half started cackling. Tobi looked up at him questioningly behind the orange swirl of the mask. Zetsu knew Tobi enough to sense the younger's emotions and replied to his look, "I think we just got into detention like Pein wanted."
Tobi laughed now as well. "I think we did." He hugged Zetsu and smiled up at him. Zetsu smiled and hugged him back before they split to head to their individual class.
~xXx~
Pein walked into detention with a smile on his face. He was greeted by about thirty other faces, some he knew, and some he didn't. As he took a seat next to Konan, he looked around to see if everyone else was present.
Kisame and Kakuzu were seated in the back corner, whispering quietly amongst themselves. Hidan was sitting in front of Kakuzu, carving his god's symbol into the wood of the desk with one of his hidden pocket knifes. Tobi and Zetsu walked in then and sat up front laughing and talking to each other animatedly. Sasori sat off by himself as he waited for Deidara to come in.
The blond was the one who was assigned to gather everything they'd need to make tonight a success. He came rushing in about five seconds later, causing all of Akatsuki to jump up and help him set out what he brought in his overly bulky gym bag. Everyone else watched silently as they set up a machine in the front corner of the room. The teacher hadn't arrived yet so they had plenty of time.
As they were putting the thing together Tobi turned around and stood on a desk. "Who's ready for Karaoke?" He yelled. The rest of the classroom smiled and some cheered while others actually stood up and walked over to the machine. "We have plenty of known favorites! And if any of you have you're music playing device feel free to plug it in and rock out!"
Now some people actually cheered as the other Akatsuki members backed up to reveal the machine. Two microphones where hooked up incase duets where formed, and a small screen on the top displayed the song choices and lyrics.
Konan chose the first person to sing right as the teacher walked in. No one actually paid him any attention as the first person jumped up on the desk Tobi was just on and began to sing.
"What is this?" The teacher, Mr. Saratobi yelled.
Hidan walked up to him and smiled. "Why sir, it's Karaoke of course! Would you like to try?"
"Wait," The teacher gasped at the student before him. "What?"
"Konan! We have a new contestant right here!" Hidan yelled across the room to the girl who was taking names and song requests.
"Bring him on up!" She yelled, smiling as the crowd of students pushed the teacher forward and onto the desk. The student that was there before gladly handed over the mic to the stunned teacher.
Konan flipped through the selections speaking to the teacher with a wide smile, "You seem like a Nickelback kind of guy to me." She promptly chose Nickleback's song, Animals and sat back to watch the show.
Everyone had a laugh at the fact that a teacher was singing such a raunchy song. Even Mr Saratobi couldn't help laughing at the song's lyrics. When his turn was up he quickly got back on the list to sing again.
Needless to say, by the end of the hour and a half, no one wanted to leave, not even the teacher.
