~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ six years later ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Meh...Deidara, what classes do we have today?" Sasori asked, sitting down heavily at their table, Deidara looking up at him from a seat across from the red head's, folding up the newspaper he had been reading and setting it to the side. The blonde and red head now lived together, in an apartment less than a mile from the college they now attended.

"Usual, un. We need to leave in a hour or so to be on time. When are we going to that art show, danna, un?" Deidara asked, biting into his toast, spread with honey and chewing loudly. On Deidara's hand sparkled a ring, a thin golden band set with sapphires. Sasori had proposed to him a few months ago, and the blonde of course had accepted. They were waiting for their friends to come out and visit them before they got married.

"It's next week. Did we get another letter from Hidan and Kakuzu yet?" Sasori asked, brushing his hair out of his tired eyes. Deidara picked something off the table and waved it in the air. It was two sheets of paper, one covered with Kakuzu's next handwriting and the other with Hidan's messy scrawl.

"What's up with them?" the Akasuna asked his fiancée, curious to know what his friends were doing now. Hidan was now working odd jobs, Kakuzu full time at the local bank, and doing pretty well at it, while Hidan managed to cause trouble at least once a week.

"Oh, Hidan blew up something in the restaurant, so they fired him, un. Kakuzu's getting another promotion, and Hidan nearly broke his leg by jumping out of a nine story building window. The usual, un."

"What about Kisame and Itachi?"

Deidara grinned at the red head. "About that...Kisame just proposed to Itachi,un. They're engaged, just like us."

Sasori leaned back, chewing on his piece of bread thoughtfully. "Konan and Pein are married, we're engaged, Kisame and Itachi are engaged...that just leaves Kakuzu, Hidan, Tobi and Zetsu."

"Oh, also, Sasuke, Itachi's brother, is getting married to his boyfriends, un," Deidara cut in. Sasori smiled up at him.

'Well, we all knew that would happen, Dei," he replied, digging his fingers through his thick crimson hair, dropping the crust from his toast back on the table. "Have you heard from your little girlfriends lately?" Sasori had talked to Deidara's friends more, and he found them interesting, just the way they clung to Deidara was a little...disturbing.

Deidara grinned. "Yeah, un. Sakura's dating Rock Lee, and Ino's getting hooked to Choji. Temari's with Shikamaru, and Hinata finally got asked out by Kiba, un," the blonde said, counting off on his fingers.

"You are friends with like every girl in school. What of Hoshi?"

"Hoshi met some guy named Kabuto, un."

"She finally gave up on you then?" Sasori asked, looking into the blonde's clear blue eyes.

"Yeah, finally, un," Deidara grinned, flipping his unbrushed and tangled hair over one shoulder.

Sasori smiled and leaned forward. "And what of Kenshin?"

"He just got admitted to the asylum. Something about rabid yaoi fangirls trying to kill him, un."

"Sounds like life is going good for everyone. Now come here, I want a kiss."

Deidara smiled as he walked over, wrapping his arms around Sasori's neck and bringing his lips to Sasori's own as their small apartment filled with birdsong, cool air and morning sunshine, the light as bright as their future.

Author's Comments: The whole time I was writing this I was thinking "wow, this is so cheesy."

There's a reference to you in there.

But I'm done! Finally!

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Now I have to go finish work on all my other things.

Oh yeah, drew a lovely picture of what she wanted to do to Kenshin. Check it out!