Title: Detonating

Pairings: Deidara and Sakura

Summary: 2 steps front 10 steps back.

The clay spider landed not more than a few inches away from her feet before it deliberately exploded, the early moments of red glow warning her milliseconds before she managed to jump back a good 2 feet back.

" What was that for?" Sakura yelled at the blonde man in front of her, face filled with fury. " You could've killed me!"

" But you didn't, yeah, so shut up." He said, as he dropped another clay spider on the ground. His right hand moved to a familiar hand sign, the 2 last fingers on his right curling into his palm and he muttered, " Katsu."

And the clay exploded instantly.

Jumping back again, Sakura was half as tempted to grab her kunai and lunge forward at him. Although all odds was against her seeing that he was a member of the Akatsuki and could single handedly take her down within a second, she couldn't seem to tap down her anger. " Will you stop that?!"

He ignored her.

" You know what? Forget it," She stopped walking and he continued on throwing his detonating clay onto the ground, " This isn't going to work. "

" Took you long enough to figure it out, yeah."

Without rationalizing her thoughts, she whipped out her kunai and flung it at his oh so pretty blonde head, the speed of it whizzing past falling leaves. Just as it was about to make contact with his head, Deidara grabbed it and threw it back at her, his frame disappearing and reappearing in front of her. Sakura had barely enough time to block his kick at her and his arms reaching for her neck. The second time he came after her, she wasn't as much prepared as she was moments ago, and his fingers came crushing down on her throat. Tight enough for her to stop struggling but not quite until she couldn't breathe.

" Listen well, yeah. In case you haven't found out earlier, I don't want to be stuck with you as much as you don't want to be stuck with me. So you can either shut the hell up and leave me be or I blow you to bits and leave what's left of you to be fed by the wolves, yeah."

Suppressing a snarl, Sakura bit her lips until she felt a metallic taste of blood. Deciding it would be best to shut up for now, just so she didn't get herself accidentally killed by his stupid bombs.

" Good," Deidara commented, and he let go. " Remember what I said, yeah."

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