Sorry for the late update! It's because I had the outline for all the rest of the chapters except this one, so it took a bit longer, and ended up a bit shorter. :(

Hope you like it!


"Look at that awful pink hair, what kind of fashion choice is that, yeah?" Deidara wrinkled her nose at the girl walking down the street a few feet away.

"Very unartful," Sasori agreed.

"Like that crazy yellow dress Kakuzu was wearing the other day, yeah?" the blonde snickered.

"Definitely not her color," Sasori shook her head in agreement. They continued wandering around the village, making comments occasionally when they saw people with particularly outrageous fashion. After a while, their conversation turned to gossip about their fellow Akatsuki members.

"Did you know that Itachi's been secretly stalking his younger brother when he has a mission around here, yeah?" Deidara snickered.

"Wow... I think i saw Hidan dying her hair a few days ago.

"I knew that couldn't be natural! Hey wait a moment... Hidan told me that you said my hair wasn't natural, yeah," Deidara frowned.

"It isn't."

Deidara gasped at her partner's accusation. She stopped walking turning to face Sasori with a glare. "Well your hair can't be natural either, yeah!"

"Please brat, how many people do you see with blonde hair like yours?" Sasori huffed.

"More people than I see with red hair, yeah," she stuck all three of her tongues out.

"Well that just means my hair is more rare and artful than your hair," Sasori tugged on Deidara's fringe. Deidara smacked her hand away, huffing.

"It would be if it was natural, yeah!" she yelled. Their argument was beginning to attract quite a few odd stares, but they couldn't care less at the moment.

"It is you brat! You're the unnatural one!" Sasori gave Deidara a shove. Deidara stumbled back a bit before letting out a screech and tackling Sasori to the ground. Sasori grabbed Deidara's hair and yanked on it viciously while Deidara dug her nails into Sasori's arms, both of them screaming insults the whole time. A much larger crowd had formed and began chanting, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

They rolled around on the ground until they got to the edge of the hill like area they were on and tumbled down it until they splashed into the shallow pond below. They both sat up in the water, glaring at each other. Then Deidara began to tear up.

"How could you call me unnatural, yeah?" she sniffed. Sasori frowned, her glare melting away.

"I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings brat, I was just responding to what you were saying," she reached out and placed a hand on her partner's shoulder.

"Well you did hurt my feelings, yeah!" Deidara snapped, shrugging Sasori's hand off.

"Well you called me unnatural to!" Sasori glared. Deidara began to cry.

"Look... I'm sorry okay?" Sasori grumbled, looking away. Her partner sniffled a little.

"I'm sorry too danna..." she reached out and hugged her partner. Sasori patted her on the head before pushing her away.

"Come on, let's go find somewhere to change out of these wet clothes."

"Okay, yeah!"