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Deidara

Okay, I don't get this. I am so freaking confused! I looked up at Tobi, who was working hard on his math homework. He's probably almost done!! So not fair. Um… Looking down at the problems again made a slight head-ache pound softly above my right eye. I hated math. Tobi was so good at it and I sucked. It didn't even make sense to me! Square roots and all that crap I didn't understand seemed so pointless when I looked at the career that I wanted. When am I ever going to need math when I'm blowing stuff up?

I sighed and looked back up at Tobi enviously. He gets off so easy with that awesome math powered brain of his.

"Having trouble with your math homework, Deidara-senpai?" Tobi asked quietly, not bothering to look up from his paper.

I growled and muttered, "It doesn't make sense, Tobi, yeah."

Tobi looked up at me and laughed. He just loved doing stuff like that; looking up for express purposes like laughing. "It makes perfect sense, Deidara-senpai! You're just making it harder than it really is. Look, just…" The rest sounded like. "Blah blah blah blah blah. And something about dividing and then adding that answer and then multiplying that and then blah blah blah."

I blinked a few times and Tobi sighed. "Does Tobi have to get out the M&M's?" He asked. I think he was trying to mock me, but I took him seriously.

"Yes, please."

About two and half hours later, Tobi and I had our homework done. And we were currently watching TV in my living room. I couldn't help it when I twitched every time Tobi looked at me. He didn't know I knew. But I did, and it was very annoying. Finally, I turned my head and glared at him.

"Is something wrong, Deidara-senpai?" Tobi asked all too innocently.

"Yeah. You keep staring at me. What the hell do you want, yeah?!" I cried angrily.

Tobi stared at me for a minute and then bluntly asked, "Do you hate Sasori-san's friends for some reason?"

I stared back. Really, I couldn't come up with an answer. Nonetheless a reason that fit as to why Tobi wanted to know that. I swear something like this came up on my first day at school. Well, not the friends thing, but the weird look I KNOW I'm giving Tobi right now. I looked back at the TV and started channel-surfing because I forgot I had a guide. "No. I just don't know them. I don't think they like me much anyways."

"Have you tried to talk to them?" Tobi asked, making me feel like I was being interrogated.

"No," I answered acidly.

Tobi was quiet for a minute, his gaze elsewhere. "What are you doing?"

"Flipping through channels, yeah." Tobi reminded me of the task at hand and I realized I didn't know what the hell was on.

"No. What are you doing with Sasori-san?" Tobi asked impatiently.

"I don't know what you're talking about, yeah," I said uneasily, working hard to keep my attention on the TV.

"Sasori-san really likes you," Tobi said quietly and I stopped flipping, landing on some American soap-opera or something like that.

"What?" I turned to look at him in horror. I should be ecstatic! It's working…Just what I wanted. Goddammit! Why am I not?!

"Sasori-san really likes you," Tobi repeated, returning the stare. "He told Tobi himself. He said you were cool and cute. That's what you want, right? You want him to go head-over-heals for you, right?"

"Tobi, it's not like that, yeah…" I said hesitantly, aware of where his thoughts were taking him. I didn't want to hear that tonight.

Tobi looked back at the TV. "It's just like that, Deidara-senpai. Tobi can't believe it! You're acting just like--"

I cut him off by throwing the remote onto the ground and yelling, "IT'S NOT LIKE THAT, YEAH!!!" Then I stormed off to my room. Tobi needs to just mind his own business!

The next morning, it took all I had to get out of bed and get dressed. I didn't want to face Tobi, really not wanting to see Sasori.

Tobi had left about 5 minutes after I went to my room. When I had gone out, the TV was off. I felt kind of guilty for yelling at Tobi like I had, but he brought up a touchy subject. What did he expect?

Once I was dressed and had breakfast, I shuffled out of my house and out to the street. I shoved my hands into my pockets and stared at the sidewalk as I slowly walked to the school. It kind of reminded me of my first day of school – going so slow and sulky-like. I wasn't happy now. I'd hurt my best friend last night and my mind was threatening to explode with thoughts I couldn't banish.

I had been walking the same route for three and a half months now, so I didn't have to look to know where I was going. However, I practically had a heart attack when I heard the bell ring and looked up to see I was in front of the back entrance to the school. And then almost had a stroke when I heard, "Hey, Deidara!"

I turned guiltily around to face Sasori. "Hey, Master Sasori. What's up?"

He was a few feet away from me when he stopped and looked at me oddly. "You look worried or something. Is something wrong, Deidara?"

"No," I said quickly, smiling brightly and finally clearing my head of the annoying thoughts. "What time is it? I don't have a watch, yeah."

Sasori was easily distracted. He pulled his jacket sleeve up and looked at his watch. "Seven. We're going to be late in a minute. Let's go."

I grinned, walked over to him, grabbed his hand, and dragged him into the school, crying, "You're right, Master Sasori! Hurry!! We don't want to be late, yeah!" I heard him gasp in surprise and suppressed a laugh. I could fluster Sasori!!

Math sucked. More than usual because Sasori found out how bad I was in math. We were partnered for some project and he laughed at me when he gave me an "easy" problem to do and I couldn't figure it out.

"C'mon! It's not that hard! I already know the answer!" Sasori mocked, trying not to laugh.

I scowled at him and growled, "It's hard, yeah!" I looked down at the paper we were working on and moaned as the numbers swam in my head, making no connection whatsoever.

"Oh, whatever. Look…" For the second time in two days, I heard, "Blah blah blah blah and divide and multiply and subtract and blah blah blah." This was not fun. And this time, I wouldn't be humiliated into asking for the M&M's explination. I just had to concentrate really hard and find a way to remember all this. I was hoping that Sasori would explain it in a way that I might be able to understand.

"You don't get it?" Sasori looked at me with concern when he saw my blank expression.

"No," I grumbled, hitting my head on the desk painfully. I heard Sasori chuckle under his breath and I growled again. Why did he keep laughing at me?! This wasn't funny! It sucked.

Sasori walked out laughing and I came out after him scowling. "It's so not funny!" I cried, making him laugh harder.

"Hey, Sasori-san, Deidara-senpai!" Tobi called, running up to us. "Sasori-san? Zetsu-san wanted Tobi to tell you that 'Leader' wants to see you."

Sasori slowly stopped laughing, gasping stuff about how his sides hurt. When he had himself collected, he looked at Tobi and nodded. "Thanks." He looked at me and grinned. "I got to go. I'll see you later!"

"Yeah, bye, Master 'Sori," I mumbled, smiling slightly. This day had no intention of getting any better.

"Tobi wonders who 'Leader' is. Weird, huh, Deidara-senpai?" Tobi asked, watching Sasori run down the hall at an incredibly fast pace considering all the kids that crowded the limited space.

"I don't really care, yeah," I muttered and started walking toward the lunchroom.

"Can Tobi sit with you today, Deidara-senpai?" Tobi asked, skipping to catch up to me.

"That depends, yeah," I said quietly, looking up at Tobi out of the corner of my good eye.

"On what?" Tobi questioned curiously.

"Are you going to bring up that again, yeah?" I inquired stubbornly.

Tobi sighed and looked ahead of us. "No. Tobi won't. Promise, too."

I directed my gaze back to the swarm of students in front of me and smiled. "Then alright. I could use the company anyway, yeah."

"Yay for company!" Tobi cried, throwing his arms into the air playfully.

"Woo-hoo!" I mumbled tonelessly. Smirking now, we made our way into the lunchroom.

Crap.

I finally have a cliffhanger! I wonder how I'll pull it off in Sasori's point of view...I'll figure it out. Well, I hope I did okay on this chapter, hope it's long enough. Please review!