A/N: I know, I know… but please, put down your weapons of mass destruction for a minute to read the chapter…don't kill me for last chapter…please?
Telenei wiped her eyes and stood up, walking from her room. She stood at the door for a brief second before walking from the caves at a rapid pace. She went as far away as she dared, finding a mountain stream and washing her hands and face.
She stared at her reflection in the steadily moving stream. "What are you looking at?" She asked her reflection harshly. She scooped her hand through the water, scattering her reflection. Telenei brushed angrily at the tears that were coursing down her cheeks. "Just stop!" She shouted, though it wasn't like her tears could hear her. She flopped back down onto the grass and listened to the birds, letting a sigh escape her lips.
Telenei thought she should feel worse than she did. She felt rather at peace for someone who had just undergone the physical and emotional stress that she'd just experienced.
Telenei lay there for the rest of the afternoon, drifting in and out of a light doze. When it grew dark, she heaved herself up with a sigh and made her way back to the cave, knowing Mikari must be wondering where she is. Telenei had shut off her mental link with her sister for a while, just wanting to be left alone with her thoughts.
She entered the cave in a slight daze, barely registering where she was until she realised that she was now warm not cold. She shook hr head lightly in an attempt to clear the hazy cloud of loss from her head. Mikari was waiting for her in the hallway. "Are you alright?" She asked seriously. Telenei nodded once.
Breaking away from her sister, she went up to her room. She paused at the door, taking a deep breath before walking in. Deidara was exactly where she had left him, laying on her bed. She took her previous place, kneeling by his side.
Telenei went back outside for a minute to collect some water before returning inside. When she got back to her room she rummaged for a cloth and began to wipe the blood from Deidara's face and arms, using her fire chakra to heat the water slightly. She let a small smile grace her features as she placed the now red cloth back into the water. Telenei dried her hands on her cloak before gently running her fingers through Deidara's fringe. Her hand brushed his forehead and she noted that his skin was cold. Stupidly, she pulled the blanket up over his body and laid her head on the side of her bed. "I'll let you sleep tonight." Mikari sent. "I want to keep an eye on Sasori, just to make sure he pulls through tonight."
"Sure, sure." Telenei sent back tiredly, already feeling her eyelids beginning to droop.
Telenei had a restless sleep that night, waking up between nightmares. Sometimes she would wake up with tears streaming down her face, other times she would wake up, see Deidara's body and begin to cry, either that or she would force herself to sleep again to prevent the tears.
At around 2AM she fell into a deep and dreamless sleep, for which she would be grateful in the morning.
When the morning did come Telenei awoke to the unpleasant stiffness of sleeping while kneeling on a rock floor. She stretched and yawned, taking a look at her occupied bed. She closed her eyes tightly and walked out of their room, going to the stream to wake herself up.
When she returned to her room, she placed a hand lightly over Deidara's. 'I suppose I'll have to make the arrangements soon.' She thought blandly. After all, she couldn't have him in her bed forever, as much as she would have loved that. Things would get awfully smelly with a decomposing body…
Deidara's hand twitched underneath hers, making her jump a foot in the air. She stared intently as blue eyes fluttered open. "Telenei is that you, hm?" Telenei blinked twice. It hadn't quite sunk in yet that the supposedly dead Deidara was speaking to her. When it finally did sink in, Telenei almost jumped on him.
A new kind of tears was now freely flowing down her cheeks as she threw her arms around his neck. "oh my god I can't believe you're alive, I thought you were dead…it though that there was nothing I could do to help you and…" Telenei spurted all in one breath until Deidara put a finger to her lips. "Well, as you can see I'm fine hm. But why try to save me? I put you in this mess in the first place hm." Deidara was frowning slightly. Telenei removed her arms from around his neck in order to look at him better. "You were following orders. It's not like you wanted to. I heard how Itachi forced you to join as well, so really we're in the same boat here." She said with a small shrug, looking into his eyes. "Besides how could I not? I…" She turned away now, her cheeks coloured about 750 shades of red. "No, never mind…" She smiled lightly.
Telenei's eyes widened as a pair of arms encircled her and pulled her closer. "You can tell me, hm." Deidara prodded. He was genuinely curious as to why she could care so much, especially when she spent so much time trying to pull pranks on him. "I just didn't want you to die…it would be way less fun without you here and plus I…" She hesitated, feeling her cheeks heating up from their intimate position. She took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly. 'Well, here goes…' She thought. "I, I love you." She tilted her head forward to hide the blush creeping across her cheeks again. Deidara's hand under her chin forced her to look up. He was looking at her with a serious expression, a faint pink tinting his cheeks too. "You really like me, hm?" He asked. His tone indicated that he was slightly surprised by her confession, but his next action made his feelings on aforementioned confession quite clear. He continued to tilt her face upward until his lips brushed hers in a light kiss. "Thankyou, hm." He said in a whisper. "And I love you too, hm." Deidara cradled her in his arms as she rested her head on his shoulder, the moment only broken by Hidan's shouts of "Get a fucking room you fucking sluts" and Telenei's brief moment of getting up to punch "Jashin's bitch" in the face, with some expletives of her own.
No, I could never, ever, never, ever, ever, never kill Deidara…ever… I couldn't. *huggles Deidara* Sorry I made you all think he was dead…I'm so evil ^_^