Authoress' Notes: Been a long time and I'm a bit rusty.

The Difference Between me and You

"I should kill you" Sakura stated as she looked at the blonde Akatsuki's battered bleeding form under his torn black and red and white cloak. It was sunny and it's a good wheather to die anyway, Sakura thought. The canopy of the tall trees blocked the sunlight but circles and patches of light still managed to get through, raining on the forest floor. The pink haired kunoichi was on the way back from a mission when she decided to stop for a while, why? Who knows? She spent the precious thirty minutes of her life looking for a hidden place, not risking anything. Because really, even just being out is risking your head. Ang ho and behold, there was a tree-cave large enough to fit her and another person or two (there's a lot of tree-caves here in Stone, caves made by root of strangely uprooted but not trees, but not all can fit people inside) but when the beryl eyed Chunnin peeked inside she saw that it was occupied.

Deidara glared at her from his place, counting in his head the ways to beat this girl and stay alive damnit. But in his head he's also counting the odds –him being low on chakra, a bit battered and her being all well and not even halfway through her chakra level- and it were against him. Oh well.

Sakura cursed him for staring at her and began to enter the tree-cave. The blonde stiffened and slithered away from her or atleast as much as he can. Sakura rolled her eyes and placed herself at the edge of the tree-cave.

Minutes passed.

"You're pretty beat up" Sakura commented sort of wanting to push his buttons because hey, it's not a frequent occurrence to see an Akatsuki relatively harmless.

The blonde bomb specialist glared at her, clutching his side and spat blood at the side. "Good observation, un" he snapped.

"Hey, no need to bitch at me" Sakura snapped back and proceeded to take off her pack to get something. From the corner of her eyes, she saw Deidara flinch a bit.

From Deidara's place he observed the girl. He's seen her before, he thought. Somewhere. It was on the tip of his tongue and he knew because how many girls have pink hair anyway? He clucked his tongue while thinking. Pink hair, red outfit…

"You're the one who killed Sasori-danna, un" He stated. He saw her stiffen and maybe she thought that he bore grudge and to tell the truth maybe he was, a bit.

Sakura looked up, "Sort of" she sighed. Her eyes trailed down to his torso and to his arm. Deidara noticed this and grinned, "Like what you see?" Sakura flushed to the roots of her hair and looked down to the ground, "You wish"

Minutes passed again.

"Do you want me to heal that?" Sakura asked looking at his wound again. Deidara raised an eyebrow, suspiciously looking at her. Sakura can't blame him, she didn't know why she was doing this. Curse medic instincts.

"Why, un?" He asked sitting straight up.

"I don't want you to bleed to death here" Sakura answered getting her supplies and then reaching her water bottle that she got earlier. She drank for it reveling at the way the water worked its way down her throat and the way Deidara stared.

"I thought you wanted to kill me"

"Not wanted. I said, 'I should kill you' not 'I want to kill you' idiot, and besides, to kill someone is different from letting someone die"

When Akatsuki launched a full blown attack at Konoha, Sakura half-expected Deidara to spare her.

But the other half, expected him to kill her.

Actually, forget the half shit. She knew that whatever happened in the past wouldn't stop Deidara's resolve to win and live after all he had swallowed his pride and had let her heal him to live. It was rather…unexpected.

Her city smelled like ashes and blood and she didn't care less because damn it, she herself was covered with grim and ash and blood and if it was a normal day and she wasn't slitting an enemy's throat or punching the brains out of another, she would've freaked. Apparently some other ninja villages deemed it stupid to fight Akatsuki, thinking (knowing) they'd lose, so like the old saying says; "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

Grass and the remaining Sound ninjas had striked a deal with the organization. Akatsuki would get to have the Bijuu while Grass and Sound would work out a deal concerning the ownership of Konoha and its treasure vault.

'Tsk, as if that would happen' Sakura thought as she aimed and fired a kunai with an exploding tad towards a male shinobi. They'd have to kill her and all the other loyal Konoha nins before they ever manage to come close to accomplishing that.

A big explosion was set off from her right and its force was strong enough to knock her to her left even if she was feet away from it. The pink-haired kunoichi hit the ground, sending shocks of pain across her body as multitude of rocks and other debris hit her from Kami knows how many directions.

Sakura did her best to keep her head and major organs safe by blocking them from shrapnels flying as she tried to find her equilibrum. Sakura quickly stood up sending waves of vertigo and blurring her vision. And when her vision cleared, she saw Deidara.

The tables had turned and this time, he was the one who was all well and healthy, while she was the one half-way through her chakra levels, wounded and dizzy.

Deidara stared at her, abandoning his bird creation which was hovering few feet off the ground.

"I should kill you, save us from re-killing the people you'll probably heal if I let you live un" The blonde bomber said almost mimicing what she had said a few months ago.

Sakura glared. He should and he probably will, because she's not dying and even if she was, she doubted that he will save her.

"But…" Deidara walked towards her leisurely taking his time as if Sakura's entire world wasn't burning down. The pink haired almost-woman backed up a bit, looking for ways to escape but before she even managed to find one, the blonde was already in front of her centimeters away from her face.

"I'll grant you a request first, un. Consider it a 'thank you' slash an 'you're an idiot for making me live' token" The Akatsuki smirked. Because really, his mother taught him manners, you know? Before she was killed.

"Like I have any request to ask from you, you nutcase" Sakura spat and jumped away, taking out one of her remaining kunai. She can probably wound him enough to escape but not enough to kill him. Not now.

Deidara rolled his eye, here he was trying to make a deal while she was being a stubborn woman.

"Fight me." Sakura challenged and threw her kunai towards him. He effortlessly caught it by the ring and started to twirl it with his index finger.

"You'll lose and you know that, un" The blonde threw the kunai to the ground, embedding it to the soil. He stared at the woman-girl who saved his life and wondered why. Why she did it and why he was doing this.

He walked towards her again, speaking. "What's left worth living for in this place anyway, un? Your comrades are dead, your village is burning down to ashes, the Kyuubi was already extracted –"

"That's not true!" Sakura objected, throwing a boulder towards him. Deidara jumped out of the way and stared at her. He can see the crazed in-denial look in her green eyes and the tears welling in them as she registered the truth behind his words.

"It's true, you know it is, un. Tell me, can you feel your comrades' chakra? No you can't, because dead people don't have chakra—"

"You bastard!" Sakura flew towards him, throwing punches here and there. She got fire and she would've been beautiful.

Deidara kept on dodging until he git fed up and decided to end it. He grabbed Sakura by her right elbow and then by the her left. He jumped behind her still holding her arms and locked it behind her.

"I'll kill you now, un" Deidara said as he drove her to the ground and took out a kunai. He said it as if he was asking permission but Sakura knows he wasn't.

Sakura stared at the ground, at her homeland and smelled the stench of the end in the air. They lost. Sakura can't believe they lost. Konoha, one of the most powerful shinobi villages in the world, gone. And here she was, the best medic in Konoha, one of the best in the world, about to be killed by the man she saved.

Sakura laughed ironically.

She wasn't going down with a fight

"What's so funny, un?" Deidara leaned down to see her face and Sakura turned to him. Eyes glinting.

"Do I still get my request?" She asked, licking her lips. Deidara stared at her and for the first and maybe the last time, he saw her as a woman. A dirty, messed up woman but a delicious looking one as well.

"Yes." Deidara let her up after tying chakra ropes on her hands. Sakura frowned and limped towards him.

"I want a kiss" Sakura said. Her chakra levels are low but its still enough to launch her final technique.

"How do you want to do this, un?" Deidara asked, taking his kunai out once more and grabbed her face between his hands. But his right hand, the one holding the kunai was at the back of her neck.

"Like the world's ending. Kiss me like the world's ending Deidara"

They kissed.

Sakura activated her technique and launched poison out of her mouth straight into Deidara's system and the moment he felt it, he dug the kunai at the back of her neck, effectively killing her.

Now as they start to end side by side, bodily functions shutting down, Deidara learned his lesson a little too late.

'Don't kiss girls you're supposed to kill'

END NOTES: I have no idea, where this came from, seriously. But please review yeah? I'm searching for a BETA reader by the way. Please pm me if you're interested.