A/N: So here's an Itachi/Deidara chapter! I don't think I've done too many of these for Moments, however I did do a standalone oneshot a few months back called Going Out with a Katsu (please tell me someone gets the joke) that I'm rather fond of – it's another Deidara/Itachi but it has no yaoi or anything; it's more a friendship relationship. Well, either way, I recommend that you check it out.

This particular oneshot was spawned off of a joke picture I did a while ago (if anyone wants to see it, it's called When Jutsus Go Wrong and the link to my dA is on my profile) but never wrote anything for. Sooo, Ninja-Jedi, this is kind of for you.

Moments
Chapter Forty-One

Curiosity
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"Gods above, Deidara, this is why I don't like working with you! Can you stop talking for even a second?" Itachi stressed. That idiot had annoyed him to the point that he had taken a wrong turn a few miles back and now he had absolutely no idea where they were. Unbelievable! He didn't see how Sasori ever put up with the young blonde.

"Hmph. Fine. Where are we now?" Deidara pouted, not even bothering to examine his surroundings from his vantage point on his bird. He was just following Itachi on one of his more boring creations - a low-to-the-ground type that could hover using chakra. It seemed to be a little shakier than usual, though... Was one of his hand-mouths malfunctioning? It would suck ass if he had a cavity in his hand.

Watching his partner bend down to look at his right hand more closely, Itachi released a grunt of frustration. "I do not know, but there is some kind of odd structure ahead that I unfortunately cannot see all that well. Please go ahead and do a little recon to make me feel like you're actually useful on this team." The blond rolled his eyes and gave his bird a little nudge with his heel, spurring it into higher and faster flight until Itachi could only make out a blur hovering over the aforementioned buildings. He watched the bird dip down a couple times before finally coming to a landing inside the building. Do they have open ceilings? Well, either way, if Deidara was caught it wouldn't be a pinch of guilt on his conscience, so he went over to a tree and sat down on one of the roots, leaning back against the rough bark. The blonde idiot would probably be annoyed when he came back, but what the hell, he needed some sleep.

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"Oi! Uchiha! Get the hell up and take a look at what I found!" A tongue waving in front of his blurry eyes was what Itachi woke up to, and he sighed and ran a hand through his hair before standing up.

"Get your hand out of my face before I cut it off, please. And preliminary report on what you saw first, not the results."

Deidara snorted. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. It was some old ruin, totally deserted and all that shit. Some old clan's secret hideaway, probably. I almost thought it was an Uchiha place but then I took a look around and there were no fans or anything and I figured that your clan was way too arrogant and proud not to have that kind of thing," he snickered. "But there was some kind of weird-ass altar in the middle of one of the main rooms with a scroll on top, so I did some checks for traps and dangerous seals and then just grabbed it and came back. You want to check it out?"

Itachi watched him withdraw it from his pack and held out a hand in curiosity. "Why not. It might be some kind of teleportation jutsu or something helpful to our situation." He accepted it from the blonde and brought it closer to his face in order to examine it thoroughly. There, on the front seal. It was something he didn't recognize, but there was a little diagram with the symbols for male and female and a double-ended arrow in the middle. Does this jutsu require both sexes to complete it?

Deidara nudged him. "Well, go ahead."

The raven shook his head in exasperation and broke the seal, unfurling the scroll and taking in the handsigns. "We should probably both do these at once – if it is some kind of transportation jutsu – which is unlikely but always possible – we will both end up in the same place." After memorizing them with his sharingan, he handed the scroll to his partner. "You can read off of that. Ready?" With a nod from the younger, they both ran through the sequence. At completion, a cloud poofed into existence, surrounding them and prompting Itachi to look down and around as soon as it gave the pretense of clearing. "Deidara, I sincerely hope that you found a second scroll that might be put to use in reversing this godawful technique."

The blonde shook himself out of her stupor and pointed a painted finger at her partner. "This! This is all your fault, you and that stupid Uchiha curiosity! Agh! What are we gonna do now? I can't go back to Sasori like thiiiis!" she whined, poking her boobs.

Itachi ran his hand along his rather curvaceous body and decided that he agreed. "Yes, I would never hear the end of it from Kisame. He loves this kind of thing. Is your answer to the reversal scroll a 'no'?"

"No, no, no, no, and nooooo! I'm too young to die!" the bombed cried. "And I hate women!"

"Well, you're one now, so get used to it. It rather reminds me of my days in ANBU, actually. Very nostalgic." He commented, turning his head to look down at his newly-plumped-up ass and patting it with a hand.

"You're insane!"