Wow, I've actually been getting a lot more writing done lately than I have in a long time. Shocking. Sadly, the website is being funky and not sending out e-mails letting people know that the story has been updated. Kinda sucky. I had issues uploading the last chapter too. Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon. As always, enjoy and favorite, follow, and review if you enjoyed!

S Lyubov'yu.

Casper

Deidara sighed and set his phone down, he hadn't heard from Sasori in quite some time. So when he had called a month prior and told him that he was moving to Iwa, he had been nothing short of surprised. Sasori had always told him that he had planed to stay in Suna for the rest of his life. The red head sure did like the desert, even though the poor guy couldn't tan worth a damn and always ended up looking like a damned lobster come the middle of the summer. The blond chuckled at the thought of the red head covered in aloe creams to help calm the stinging of his skin. He always made a point to go up at slap Sasori right on the back whenever he was sunburned, which always resulted in some sort of physical retaliation.

Deidara couldn't help but feel a little bad for the red head, he himself had graduated high school last year so Sasori was stuck going to a new school with nobody he knew. The red head had never been the most social being, but he supposed now that he didn't have Deidara there to do most of the talking, he was going to have to break out of his comfort zone a bit. It would be good to the red head, Deidara decided with a determined nod of his head. He was drawn out of his thoughts when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. After digging around in his cargo pockets, he opened the message. And speak of the devil, Sasori had texted him and asked if he was busy tonight.

"Hey Deidara, you free tonight? Once I get my homework done I'm not going to have much of anything to do."

Deidara couldn't help but smirk. He hit reply and started texting out his response.

"I'm free tonight, yeah. Come over whenever. Maybe I'll introduce you to my cute new neighbor, un."

He couldn't help but think of his new neighbor, the shy little pinkette sure had a little bit of spunk to her. He couldn't stop replaying the moment she had decked Itachi in the face through his mind. Because not only had she actually landed the hit, she had walked away without any sort of retaliation. Much the opposite in fact, Itachi's stingy ass had actually complimented her for doing it! How the hell was that fair?! If he had hit Itachi, the black haired asshole would have made sure he was never able to use his hands again! Deidara was broken out of his mental ranting when his phone once again vibrated. Quickly opening the message he scoffed at Sasori's choice of words.

"Sounds good, brat. I'll let you know when I'm on my way over"

Why the red head insisted on calling him a brat was beyond him, considering Sasori was YOUNGER than him. How the hell was he a brat? Not only was he older, he was taller! He didn't even try to begin to understand Sasori's thought process, it would take more brain power that Deidara could muster on an empty stomach. Speaking of his stomach, said organ thought it prudent to growl at him.

"Suppose I should figure out some dinner for myself...", the blond muttered. Take out or a store bought sandwich? What one sounded better tonight? The blond was in no way, shape, or form, to be trusted in the kitchen. Not if you wanted to room to stay intact. He decided it was a take out kind of night and grabbed his keys before slipping on his shoes. He made quick work of re-locking his door before heading down the hall. He couldn't help but smile when he saw his pink haired neighbor hauling an impressive amount of grocery bags up the stairs.

"Sakura, you want some help with those, yeah?", he asked as he made his way towards the pinkette.

"Oh, hey Deidara. Yeah, if you don't mind helping me that'd be great.", Sakura said gratefully, handing the blond a couple of her bags.

"Buy enough food, yeah? I though it was just you in the apartment. Got a boyfriend I should know about, yeah?", Deidara teased.

"No, no boyfriends! I just, uh, don't want to shop more than I have to, you know?", Sakura stuttered, she wasn't even going to attempt the blush she was sporting.

"Just teasing you, yeah. I would have noticed if there was another dude running around up here.", he smirked.

Sakura laughed lightly before fishing her keys out of her pockets and pushing her front door open. She ushered Deidara into her apartment and kicked her door shut softly before leading him towards the kitchen. She set her bags down before grabbing the couple she had given to her blond neighbor and set to work on putting everything away.

"So, where were you headed before you came to help me? If I may ask.", Sakura asked shyly. Now that she was really looking at him, she couldn't help but notice how attractive her neighbor was. His long blond hair seemed to glow, his bright blue eyes held a childlike mischief, and those mouth tattoos on his hands! And that smirk of his! 'Oh god', she thought, 'I need to stop!'

"Oh, I was just going to go get some take out. Me and a stove don't exactly mix, yeah", Deidara laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head.

Sakura couldn't help but giggle,"Well, if you want, and feel free to say no, you can join me for dinner if you want. As thanks for helping me carry my groceries."

"Really, yeah?!", Deidara exclaimed, he couldn't remember the last time he'd had a home cooked meal.

"Sure, why waste money on take out when I can cook.", Sakura smirked.

"You're a saint, cherry blossom, you know that?", he teased.

"Cherry blossom?", Sakura asked, tilting her head slightly.

"Well, you name means cherry blossom, yeah.", Deidara stated as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh yeah, I suppose that's true. Anyway, any requests for dinner? I can make just about anything.", she smiled.

"Well...I haven't had sushi in awhile. If that's not too much to ask, yeah..", he said sheepishly.

Sakura giggled,"I haven't had sushi in awhile and that actually sounds good right about now."

"You're the best!", he cheered.

She laughed at his childishness,"Well, make yourself at home and I'll get started on dinner, sound good?"

"Fine, but if you need help with anything just tell me, yeah?"

"Didn't you just tell me you were a kitchen hazard?", she smirked.

She had a point, he smiled sheepishly and propped himself against the table and watched her set to work on their dinner. Their dinner, that kind of had a nice ring to it. Now that he had a chance, he took a good look at his cute little neighbor. Her pink hair shifted with every move she made, he wondered if pink was her natural hair color. If it wasn't, it was an impressive dye job. Her jade green eyes showed her emotions, even if the rest of her didn't show it. Whether she knew that or not, he didn't know. He chuckled softly when she lifted herself onto the counter to grab the rice out of the cupboards. She had to be at least a foot shorter than himself. She was at most five foot two, her curve subtle but there. 'Alright perv, quit checking out your neighbor, yeah!'

He broke out of his musing over the cute pinkette when he felt his phone vibrate in the pocket of his cargos, he fished the device out and saw that Sasori had texted him, telling him that he would be at the building in just a few minutes. Shit, Deidara had forgotten that the red head was going to come over at some point tonight. He didn't want to leave Sakura hanging, and he couldn't blow off the red head either. Sighing, he walked into the kitchen where Sakura was working. When she looked up at him, an eyebrow raised in question, he swallowed and decided it didn't hurt to ask if she minded another mouth to feed.

"So, I kind of forgot that a friend of mine was coming over tonight and I was wondering if you minded one more mouth to feed? Feel free to say no if you aren't comfortable with it.", he asked nervously.

Sakura giggled quietly at his nervousness.,"Sure, I don't mind. Any friend of yours is a friend of mine, I probably made too much for the two of us anyways."

Deidara let out a sigh of relief and ruffled Sakura's hair gently before thanking her and heading back over to the table to text the red head back. After sending the text telling the red head which apartment to go to, the blond settled himself back on Sakura's kitchen table. It wasn't until five minutes later that there was a knock on the door, the blond jumped off the table and made his way towards the door after letting the pinkette know the he'd grab the door.

He quickly unlocked the door and let the red head in and smirked.

"So, how's it going shorty, yeah?", Deidara smirked.

"Mind your tongue brat, whose home even is this? This obviously isn't your apartment, it's clean and I smell food that isn't something that could be considered chemical warfare.", the red head snapped.

"My, my, someone is touchy tonight. This is my neighbors apartment, yeah. She offered to cook dinner for us tonight because I helped her carry in her groceries.", he said, not even remotely bothered by the red heads grumpiness.

"Is your friend here, Deidara? Dinners done!", a voice called from the kitchen.

Sasori raised an eyebrow, that voice sounded awfully familiar...

"Yeah, he's here, yeah! We're coming!", Deidara cheered.

Both boys made their way towards the kitchen, both being assaulted with the delicious smells of sushi and rice. Both boys had to resist the urge to drool at the spread that had been set out on the table. Just how long had they been standing in the doorway, there was no way one person could fix the table to beautifully in such a short amount of time. Deciding that the details of how the food got there weren't important both boys sat at the table and waited for their host.

"So, who's this neighbor of yours, brat? Someone I know?", Sasori asked.

"Don't think so yeah, she moved in about a week ago, she's pretty nice.", the blond said.

"You talking about me...Sasori?!", Sakura exclaimed as she entered her dining room.

"Sakura?", Sasori asked, his eyes widened, well, that was a surprise.

"You two know each other, yeah?", Deidara asked, he was officially lost now.

"We go to the same school, we both started today. We spent the last few periods of class together.", Sakura explained." I can't believe you're the friend Deidara was talking about, talk about a small world."

"Likewise, I'm sorry you've had to put up with the brats stupidity.", Sasori apologized.

"Dude, I am right fucking here, yeah", Deidara snapped, his eye twitching slightly.

"Now now you two, no arguing. Eat before the food gets cold.", Sakura giggled as both boys rose themselves from their seats, fully intent on causing the other sort form of bodily harm. Normally, Sakura would have left them be, but blood in her sushi really didn't sound appealing.

Both boys looked at her, Deidara wide eyed and Sasori with his ever present bored look, before sitting back down. Aside from Itachi, nobody had ever told them to knock it off, hell they didn't even know why they were listening to her in the first place. Though she was smiling and giggling at their antics, they could tell that if they didn't listen it wouldn't end well for either one of them. Both sighed and gave each other one last glare before the grabbed their chopsticks and broke them apart to begin their meal.

Few words were spoken during dinner, though Sasori had to refrain from asking Sakura about what sort of relationship she had with the blond brat. Little did he know that Deidara was thinking the same thing about her. It really was a small world after all. Both never expected that they had both known the pink haired teen but they weren't about to question it. Though both of them had only known her for a short amount of time, in Sasori's case, less than twenty four hours, somehow Sakura had wiggled her way into both of their hearts.

Once dinner had been finished, every scrap of food she had prepared had been devoured by the two boys in front of her. They really were bottomless pits, she mused. Much like her boys back home...

'Girl, they haven't so much as contacted you since you moved here. It's been a week and they haven't bothered to call, text, text back, or even visit.' she thought sadly. She frowned to herself, completely missing the looks of concern that Sasori and Deidara sent her way. She shook her head and decided she wasn't going to think about such things when she had company. She didn't want to push her troubles onto anybody, especially when she had just met the two men in front of her.

"Why don't you go sit down, Sakura, the brat and I will clean up", Sasori offered with a small smile. He noticed that he'd smiled at this girl today more than he had anyone in years. Strange indeed.

"Oh, I couldn't ask you to do that, you're my guests!", she protested. And if Deidara's indication that he was a walking hazard in the kitchen was any indication, she wasn't sure she wanted the blond messing with her sink either.

"Nonsense, it's fine, you were nice enough to make us dinner. It's the least we can do, yeah.", the blond piped up before grabbing the stack of dishes in her hands.

Sakura sighed in defeat and decided she probably wasn't going to win this one and made her way towards the living room. She figured since they were going to do the dishes, she might as well get a start on her homework. Who knows, maybe she could get Sasori to help her with some of her work since he had probably gotten it all done before making his way to this side of town. She opened her math textbook and set to work on the homework assigned, now that she was really looking at it, it really did look like stuff she would never use in everyday life. But she decided she better do it, she didn't really feel like failing her classes because of her own opinions.

"So, Sasori, you seem to be pretty chummy with Sakura, yeah.", Deidara smirked,"Looks like you didn't need my help finding more friends after all, un"

"Hush brat, she was the only one who didn't basically throw herself at my feet to get a taste when I walked into class. Plus she ran into me on the street a few days ago but she doesn't seem to remember that, heh. A better question is how did you meet her, not stalking people are we, brat?", Sasori said, raising an eyebrow at the blond.

"I didn't stalk her, yeah! I welcomed her to the building on her first day here and then met her again when Itachi and I got into a fight in my apartment and she came to figured out what was going on! I may or may not have gotten thrown at her and landed on her. But that's beside the point, when she found out who that black haired bastard was, she decked him in the face!", Deidara explained frantically.

"Wait. Hold up, rewind. Did you just say that that cute little pink haired girl punched Itachi Uchiha and not only landed the hit, but actually lived?", the red haired said slowly, mouth slightly agape. When the blond nodded, the red head suddenly felt a little respect for the pink haired teenager. She really was something else, it took a lot of skill to be able to hit the Uchiha bastard.

"That's not all, yeah. He actually complimented her after she hit him..", Deidara smirked. He truly was enjoying the look of utter disbelief on Sasori's face.

Sasori turned his head in the direction of the pink haired girl in question, she really was something else. But what he couldn't figure out was why she had punched the elder Uchiha, but quickly decided that it wasn't his business. He'd ask her about it later sure, but at that very moment he wasn't going to bombard her questions. Both boys quickly fished up their tasks in the kitchen and made their way back out in Sakura's small living room. He noticed that it was quite normal looking, two couches and a chair. A coffee table in the middle made of oak, a book shelf in the corner overflowing with books. Mostly medical texts, he noticed. Her TV was off and average size, the remote laying on the coffee table next to her textbooks. It seemed she hadn't noticed their presence yet but instead of bothering her, the two took seats on the couch, leaving her in the middle of them with her on the floor with her back resting against the couch.

The hours seemed to fly by, when Sakura looked up from her finished homework, when she looked at the clock on the wall she was surprised to see that it was already eleven in the evening. If it was that late, where the hell were the boys. She heard a left shift next to her and looked up and was greeted with Deidara sleeping soundly on one side of her couch, she couldn't help but notice how peaceful he looked when he slept. She turned her head to the other side and noticed that Sasori was asleep as well. It seemed the two of them had wandered over to the living room while she was working. She must have really been focusing if she hadn't even noticed them sitting on either side of her for a few hours. She smiled softly at both of them before lifting herself from her position on the floor, instead of waking them up, she made her way back to her bedroom and grabbed a spare blanket she had. She quietly made her way back out to the living room and noticed that both boys had shifted so their legs were tangled in the middle of the couch, they really did look adorable.

She silently made her way back over to the boys and carefully draped the blanket over the both of them before carefully undoing Deidara's hair from its topknot. That couldn't be comfortable to sleep in, she decided. She set his hair tie on the end table behind him and shut off the lamp on the table before making her way to the bathroom to get ready for bed. While she brushed her teeth, she wondered to herself what had compelled her to allow the boys to continue to sleep on her couch rather than wake them up and send them on their way.

'Because they make you feel safe, you fool! You've been here a week and haven't heard from any of your friends back home! Give Naruto and Sasuke another week and if they don't call or text, move on from them. Those two out there seem to really care about you, even if they've only known you a for a short time. And you care about you, Sakura. Let them take away some of your loneliness...' she thought to herself.

She sighed and spit out the foam in her mouth before wiping away the foam around her mouth with the towel on the counter. After a quick trip to her room for some night clothes, she decided to join her new friends out in the living room and sat back down in her original spot on the floor, between the two of them. She wrapped her own blanket around herself and soon found herself drifting off to sleep.

Aww yeah, another chapter done! I don't know what it is, but I truly love seeing Deidara, Sasori, and Sakura together. It's just perfection on so many levels. But anyways, if you enjoyed, please comment, follow, and favorite. Again, I beta everything myself right now so if there are any mistakes, I'm sorry. If there are mistakes, please let me know so I can go back and fix them!