Ok, screw the a year a chapter thing. I'm just gonna do a huge timeskip to when Deidara's 19. I'm rather impatient…

Deidara was training in the usual steady, soft rainfall of Ame. He had found a clear place, a little out of the way from the more industrial Ame. Deidara set up a log for himself to practice his strikes trying to make them harder. He also tested his endurance by running through the forest without stopping before becoming too exhausted. He was currently pounding his fists into the hard wood. After 100 strikes he switched to kicks.

Deidara was constantly told by Sasori that he was weak at close-combat and didn't have much muscle. Since he joined Akatsuki he had picked up a regular eating habit. Deidara had been told many times he had an eating disorder and that he needed to eat weather he liked it or not. He was so used to eating only once a day due to avoiding his father. When he actually thought about it and looked at his own body he was very scrawny compared to the other members. He had only seen a few members' actual body figure when they walked around in the mornings without a shirt on.

Deidara finally decided that he did need to eat more and get some muscle. So he would train by himself every day he wasn't on a mission or knocked out. (He was often in battle due to a low endurance level.) Deidara had gained weight and made it all into muscle through his daily training.

"Oh my god…" Deidara passed out due to exhausting himself yet again. Usually he would make it into the base before passing out. Instead, today he decided to try and do both his endurance training and his 'sparing' all in one day. (I don't know what you would call striking a log over and over again but I said sparing, so if you actually know tell me so I can fix it!)

Sasori was told by Pein to find Deidara since he had been out since 7:00 am and it was now 10:00 pm. Sasori knew where the brat trained everyday but he stalled, he truthfully didn't want the brat back into the base right now. He could just say he got lost and didn't know where he trained…easy enough. Eventually Sasori had to stop stalling and go find Deidara.

"Brat!" Sasori walked at a leisurely pace around the turn of the trail to Deidara's training place. He saw Deidara lying on the ground.

"Brat, get up! Leader wants you in." Sasori walked closer to Deidara. When he stepped beside Deidara saw that he was passed out.

"Brat…Get up!" Sasori kicked Deidara in attempt to wake him.

"Brat…Get up…You're going to catch pneumonia if you don't get back to base." Sasori kicked Deidara again.

"You're trying my patience, brat." Sasori kicked Deidara again but harder.

"BRAT!"

"Huh? What…?" Sasori rolled his eyes.

"Get up before you catch pneumonia or something like that." Deidara stood and walked back to base with Sasori in silence. Deidara was shivering in his drenched clothes.

"Brat, get over it. It's not even that cold outside." Sasori walked inside the base and Deidara followed. Deidara went straight to Sasori's and his room. He dressed in dry clothes and went to bed in no time.

Sasori woke and as always Deidara was still asleep. He went into the kitchen and ate breakfast then went back into their room to find Deidara was still not awake. Sasori ignored this and went to work on his puppets. Later Sasori was bothered but Deidara waking.

"Danna?" Sasori ignored his partner. "Sasori-danna…" Sasori rolled his eyes, Deidara was so damn persistent on annoying him. "Daanaa?" Nothing. "Sasori no danna?" Silence. "Sasori-da-"

"WHAT!" Deidara jumped at Sasori's exasperated shout.

"I don't feel good…"

"And you think I care?"

"Well, no, not really…"

"Good."

::20 minutes later::

"Dana?"

"What is it now, brat?"

"I still don't feel good…"

"And I still don't care."

"But Dan-" Sasori stormed out of the room. He returned with Konan at his side.

"This brat says he doesn't feel good, shut him up!" Konan walked over to Deidara.

"Hey, Deidara?"

"Hn?"

"Could you come from under the covers really quick?"

"No, the light hurts my head." Deidara's words were muffled.

"Oh, for Kami's sake!" Sasori ripped the blankets off of Deidara. Deidara shut his eyes tightly and recoiled his body.

"Deidara, you're pitiful…Faking…Deidara, stop. Now."

"Here, Deidara, I'm gonna check your temperature…Here." Konan put a thermometer in Deidara's mouth. Sasori sighed, rolled his eyes, and crossed his arms against his chest.

"Is this really necessary?" The thermometer beeped and Konan took it out of Deidara's mouth.

"Deidara, just drop it." Sasori ordered.

Konan sighed exasperatedly then looked at Deidara.