Deidara and Sasori were currently returning from a mission from Suna. The mission had gone well enough Deidara hadn't been injured and Sasori hadn't lost any of his puppets although the mission had been delayed a bit from Deidara's stupidity. The blonde would admit to that and apologized to the redhead only to have Sasori go into Hiruko and completely ignore the blonde.

However in Sasori's anger he hadn't realized they were walking at noon through the desert, the hottest part of the day.

Deidara was lagging behind sweating profusely. It was getting harder for him to breathe right and everything kept going blurry and then focusing. His head was pounding and he longed for a drink of water in the canteen Sasori always kept on him. Deidara had tried to ask for a drink only to be cut off as Sasori tried to stab him with Hiruko's tail. So Deidara had remained quiet for his own sake.

"Danna un." His voice was dry and raspy now and he felt as though his mouth wasn't producing saliva. He ran a dry tongue over dry lips. "Can I please have a drink un?"

"Do you think you deserve a drink after your pathetic performance yesterday?" Deidara frowned, was he really going to prevent him from having a drink just because he'd done poorly?

"Yes un." Deidara answered stupidly only to dodge the tail as it shot out for him, ripping his Akatsuki cloak at the tail hit the fabric.

"Next time I won't miss now move your ass." Deidara frowned as his limbs froze up. He couldn't go on anymore and he felt as if his entire body was tinted with sunburn. He fell to the ground hissing at the feeling of sand grains against his skin.

Sasori kept walking, and in desperation of being left behind he called out "Danna!"

"Deidara what the hell!" Sasori started very angrily as Hiruko spun around only to discover the blonde was not behind him, instead laying down a few feet behind him. "Deidara?" The voice was softer now and lidded with confusion. Deidara watched as the puppet came closer and tried to push himself up only to have the world go blurry. He flopped back down and tried to soothe his stomach which was currently considering throwing up everything the blonde had eaten this morning which had only been a few rice balls.

"Danna I don't." Deidara stared only to be cut off. He heaved and with that retched in the sand under him.

Hiruko's tail immediately shot out but instead of hitting the blonde the metal cable gently wrapped around the blonde. Deidara was confused until he felt his arms go weak and realized if the tail had not been there he would've dropped back into his own vomit. The tail brought him over to a fresh patch of sand and he was dropped with a thud making him groan.

Suddenly Hiruko opened and Sasori himself came out. Deidara looked up at him weakly, his palm mouths didn't even think of coming out right now.

He shivered as his Danna's ice cold hands picked him up bridal style.

"Danna?"

"Shh." A soft soothe that Deidara desperately needed right now. He closed his eyes only to open them when the blistering sunlight faded. He saw some of Sasori's puppets out of their scrolls and dug into the sand trying to provide some shade for the blonde. He whimpered at Sasori's touch his blistering skin aching.

"Shit." Sasori sat on the ground and held Deidara like a baby. Small whimpers escaped the blonde when Sasori tried to caress him from the ache that the pressure provided on his burning skin. Something was placed against the blonde's lips and his eyes widened, water. He gulped the liquid down trying to get as much of the liquid down his eager throat.

Sasori chuckled to himself. The way Deidara was holding onto the canteen reminded Sasori of how a baby would contently suck at a bottle.

He deposited Deidara onto the sand and went back into Hiruko to get something. Soon the canteen was finished much to the blonde's dismay. He then realized Sasori had disappeared and sat up ignoring the blurriness of the world. He stood on his feet however was completely wobbly and nearly fell a few times. His handmouths finally reopened and began to lick the blonde's chapped lips on his hands.

"Deidara!" He flinched at the harsh sound of his Danna, but it wasn't true anger like earlier this time it was laced with worry and concern which was a tone Deidara loved to hear when he was like this. Something else was placed in his hands, another canteen. He jammed the neck of it into his mouth and began to drink the cool water that gushed out. After he emptied that one he began to feel better. He looked up to see the blurriness was fading and he could almost see his Danna's face clearly. Then something ice cold was applied to Deidara's body.

"It's just a little cream." Sasori whispered in his ear. "It'll help."

The burn was soothed slowly by the cream bringing a smile to Deidara's lips.

"We'll travel the rest of the way in Hiruko."

"But Danna." Deidara whined, "I'm fine now."

Sasori rolled his eyes. "Look Deidara I'm trying to be nice for being such an ass earlier, now get in the damn puppet."

Deidara didn't question that and climbed into the puppet and had Sasori follow. The puppet was actually much more comfortable on the inside than it looked and a cool breeze seemed to come from nowhere.

"You have air conditioning and you were making me walk in that!" Deidara asked angrily only to have another canteen pushed into his hands.

He began to drink as Sasori took his place at the controls of Hiruko. Deidara frowned, where was he supposed to go? The puppet began walking and to Deidara's amazement you couldn't feel it from the inside. It was a pretty smooth ride, something that his uneasy stomach was grateful for.

"Danna?"

"Hmm?"

To Deidara Sasori had already shown the blonde how sorry he was and the blonde had already forgiven him.

"Can I sleep on you un?"

"What?" Sasori asked thinking the heat had finally gotten to his brat's head when the blonde crawled over to him.

The blonde climbed onto his lap and wrapped his legs around the puppet's body, their chests were pressed together, Deidara's arms were wrapped around Sasori's torso, and the blonde's head settled on Sasori's shoulder.

Sasori smiled. "That doesn't look to comfortable."

"It is un." said Deidara with a yawn.

A soft kiss was placed on his blistering cheek and Deidara fell asleep.