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13: Tobi

I was shocked. All I had wanted to do was tell Zetsu how I felt and hoped that he would return the feelings. But instead he went and kissed Sasori. I couldn't believe it – no, scratch that. I didn't want to believe it. I didn't know how to handle it. Maybe this was one of those instances where someone loved a person, but they didn't love them back. I hoped it wasn't, but a lot of that hope had already been demolished.

Kakuzu had told me that Zetsu and Sasori had kissed. He was also the one who told Deidara. I probably would have heard about it later since they hadn't exactly hidden anywhere when they had lip locked. I sighed and stared at the teacher darkly. I needed someone to blame for my bad mood and she was in my sight for forty more minutes.

When I walked out of class, I didn't feel much better than I had walking into it. I was depressed, angry and spiteful. I'd pretty much forgotten to be shocked when it really settled – seventy-five minutes after I'd heard about the damn kiss. My loathing seemed to be the only reason I was thinking at all. I'd never liked holding grudges against anyone – I always thought that it was rude and it always made me feel crummy when someone held one against me – but I was hurt. I totally twisted around the truth to my thoughts and made myself believe that because I was in pain, it was okay to make someone else feel bad too. And so, I walked around in school calmly.

Until I saw Zetsu.

When I saw him, all my loathing came rushing back to me and all the reasons I felt like I should hate him came to mind and all I felt like doing was screaming at him. But I didn't. I walked past him with as much dignity as I could manage – squaring my shoulders, clutching my books to my chest and holding my head high. He looked at me almost apologetically and I practically lost my façade, ready to start yelling at him. I managed to get past him and into my next class before I crumpled. I buried my face in my arms on my desk and suppressed my tears. This was pointless; I couldn't stay mad at him. I was more hurt than anything and making him feel miserable seemed to be failing.

I could kill someone with no regret, but I couldn't hold a grudge against someone without feeling guilty. I was a baby.

After school, I caught up with Deidara…Sort of. I had to run after him and yell his name several times before he stopped to look behind him. "What's wrong, yeah?" He asked.

I had to catch my breath before I could talk to him. "Tobi just wants to talk to you for awhile. Can Tobi?" Deidara nodded and we started walking to his house. "Tobi feels depressed."

"I can't imagine why, yeah," Deidara muttered sourly, shoving his hands into his pockets and kicking a pebble like he had a personal grudge against it.

"Tobi can't figure out why they'd do that…Tobi almost hates them for it, but Tobi's tried hating, and he can't do it," I told him with a sigh. "It's not fair. All Tobi wanted was a brand new start. Well, he got one. One with a lot of depressing reality."

Deidara looked up at me and said, "I just get major déjà vu, yeah. Nothing goes the way I want it to. I just go in big circles, yeah."

I stared at the sky thoughtfully and murmured, "Have you ever noticed how whenever I do something it affects you and vise versa? It always has. Tobi just noticed now."

He stared at the sidewalk as he said, "I don't get that, yeah. What did you do to cause this?"

"Tobi's not sure if he did anything. He just knows that he told Zetsu how he felt and the next thing Tobi knows is Sasori and Zetsu are lip locking," I informed him softly. I wasn't in the mood to get all "what if" with Deidara. I was pretty sure he felt the same way.

We stopped at Deidara's house and faced each other. "Let me know when that falls into place with that kiss, yeah. All I know is that I'm done playing with Sasori, okay?"

I nodded, not really thinking about what he meant by saying that. "Okay. Tobi's gunna see you tomorrow, right?"

"Right. See you tomorrow morning, yeah." He turned and walked into his house, closing the door gently. I turned and made my way home, still too distracted to think of much more than how down I felt.

The next morning, everything that had happened yesterday came rolling back into my head so quickly that I almost had a headache from the jumbled thoughts. It took me a few minutes before I could sort them all out, and I did that over breakfast. On my way out the door, I had reached the most pressing of the thoughts: what Deidara had said before I walked home yesterday. His exact words rang in my head like it was the only occupying thought there. "All I know is that I'm done playing with Sasori, okay?"

I had never gotten big details on Deidara and his ex's breakup, but the one thing that Deidara had always made clear was that he had been called a game. Taking that into consideration, I realized what he had meant when he had said that he was done playing. This realization made me reanalyze my assumption yesterday. When I thought about it all, it made a big chain reaction that was still happening: I had told Zetsu that I liked him, it must have freaked him out and so he went to Sasori looking for comfort. I wasn't sure how the kiss got there, but I knew that after that, Kakuzu told Deidara and me. This meant in all truth, I had been the one to cause the kiss and it was going to urge Deidara into breaking up with Sasori.

It had been my fault.

I walked to school thinking about what I could do to stop this, who I could talk to. And I was also dreading what would happen if I couldn't prevent the breakup. I was so deep in thought, that I wasn't paying attention to anything and crashed into Zetsu in the halls.

"I'm sorry," he said, with a look that told me he wasn't talking about the collision.

I screwed my face into a hurt expression that I wish he had been able to see. "Whatever. Tobi doesn't care what you are." Then a new thought occurred to me. What if I managed to get past my resentment enough to tell Zetsu what was going on and that I needed his help?

"Look, I didn't mean to hurt you or anything. In all honesty, you kind of freaked me out and I didn't know what to do. I went to Sasori and then…" He trailed off, seeming to want to explain further, but not knowing how.

So I took the liberty of finishing for him. "You kissed him. Tobi heard. And now, thanks to you, Deidara's so hurt and angry that he's planning on breaking up with Sasori. Tobi didn't mean to freak you out, he's sorry for that. But now you and Sasori have created a déjà vu for Deidara and you can blame Tobi or you for what's gunna happen." Actually, saying it like I was made me feel better. Maybe I was hoping that putting all the blame on him would incline him to want to help me.

Zetsu was quiet for a minute, his face an unreadable expression. "You're implying that what I did is going to make Deidara breakup with Sasori?" he asked thoughtfully. I nodded. "What can I do? What can you do?"

It was my turn to think. "Tobi's not sure. The only thing he knows is that it should be stopped."

"We don't even know when or where Deidara's gunna breakup with him, how are we supposed to stop it?" Zetsu snapped, probably realizing my intentions of blaming him.

"Tobi knows when and where. When it's darker, in the woods behind the school. That's where they got together and that's where Deidara's planning on ending it," I told him, my voice a bit farther away than I would have liked.

"How would you know all that?" he barked, his anger obviously catching up with him.

"Because Deidara-senpai is Tobi's best friend and because Tobi watched them ditch lunch and go to the woods and because Tobi knows that when Deidara-senpai wants to breakup with someone, he knows it'd hurt a lot more when they broke-up in the exact place they got together!" I shouted, remembering one conversation when Deidara had mention that his ex dumped him in the exact spot that they had first kissed.

Zetsu scrutinized me for a moment and then said, "What do you want to do about it?"

I stared him down too. "Try to get there before they do and talk Deidara-senpai out of it."

He hung his head and said, "Sounds easy. But wait…I really am sorry for what I did. You threw it at me so fast; I didn't feel like I had had time to think anything through and panicked. But when I did get to think through it all, I knew I'd reacted badly and I should have told you how I felt too." He paused and I felt myself wait in anticipation for what he was going to say next, hope coursing through me. "I really like you too, Tobi."

I broke out smiling and almost threw off my mask so he could see. I barely managed to refrain myself from doing so. "Tobi's sorry he got mad at you. But now, all Tobi can think of saying is, YAY!" I couldn't help but jump once and didn't bother to ignore the smile that brightened Zetsu's face at the sight. He was forgiven for now. But then we had other things to worry about and walked down the halls whispering about what we could possibly do to stop the breakup.

I hope we can do something…

A/N: … Well, that was interesting. In one excruciatingly long chapter, Tobi got mad at Zetsu and then forgave him. It was in a period of two days there, but still.

And now, the chapter I have been waiting for…The big breakup!! –jumps up and down a few times– I am so glad that it's finally here! Because I have been anticipating this part for a few months and planning it for about as long. It's not the end however. –sighs– But the end may be drawing near…I wish.

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