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A/N: Kyaah! My turn again! Ahh I love talking to you people. But that's not the point. So the next chappy is up, and you people who check out the stories we write, we made a Shino/Hinata. Those who haven't seen it, check it out... Like.. Now.. Well, maybe not now...but after you read this chapter...Or maybe now...something... . rawr

Writers: Tenchi and Mika

Warnings: Shonen ai/Yaoi that's boyxboy love for those who don't know.

Pairings: Neji/Deidara and Itachi/Hinata

Neji wasn't stupid; he knew that Deidara would go stand in the rain once he was gone. He let the man have his time alone before stepping outside and draping his coat over the other man's shoulders. "Dei-kun, let's get you inside before you get sick."

Deidara was sitting on the ground by now, huddled up in the small, pale, blond ball. He pulled his head up slightly, sniffling a bit. He had been crying quietly, making him wish that Neji didn't come out. The Hyuuga boy had seen Deidara cry once, he didn't need for him to see again. " I'm f-" hic " fine Neji, I'll b-b" hic " be inside s-soon." The wet stone nin held the jacket tightly as he shook a bit. Odd to say, but the rain did make Deidara feel better. It was like the sky was crying for him and the others who needed to be cried over.

"You're shivering," Neji said softly as he put an arm around the other nin's shoulders to help him stand. "You're going to suffer from hypothermia if you don't dry off soon, and that will only make things worse."

Deidara stood as he hung his head, not wanting to show his blood shot eyes. " Y-yes Nej-ji" Deidara held back quiet little cries as they walked in. Poor Deidara, it was hard to imagine that the hyper blond could be so sad at times.

Neji led Deidara back to his room and had him sit on the bed. He then disappeared into the bathroom to grab towels. He'd only been in the rain a few moments and he was soaked.

Deidara grabbed a towel and placed it over his head, rubbing his hair. Frowning he pulled out the hair tie that he always used, making all of his hair fall. He let the towel sit over his head as he wiped away tares with his arm. That didn't help much though since he was completely wet. he sat quiet and still for what seemed like a long time. I mean, it was Deidara, he's usually talking or annoying the hell out of some one.

Neji toweled off his hair before stripping out of his wet clothes, leaving him in only his boxers. He then moved over to Deidara and started rubbing him down with a towel. He wasn't going to try to get the nin to remove the wet clothes, there were too many ways that could be taken wrong.

Deidara looked at Neji with his hair slightly dripping. His eye was slightly bloodshot, but it was fading. " Sorry for sitting outside, Neji... it's a horrible habit of mine.." Deidara was still shivering, but it wasn't from being cold. " I just have a lot on my mind, and my other eye doesn't help with that."

Neji didn't say anything about that, he didn't know about Deidara's other eye. "Well, we all have our bad habits."

" I guess.." Deidara looked back down as he took a deep breath. He really was sad. "I'm wasting time, I should head back to the Akatsuki" Deidara rubbed his head a bit more in the towel and took it off. He looked nice with his hair down. It made him a bit more girly, but it fit him. Deidara shook his head a bit to spread out the soft blond hair so that it would dry faster, this of course, showed the corner of his mechanical eye.

Neji admired Deidara with his hair down, and, when he spotted the corner of the metal plating, he brushed the blond hair out of the nin's face. "You don't need to hide from me, Deidara." He didn't know what possessed him to say that, or what made him lean down to gently capture the other nin's lips in a kiss, but he did it all the same.

Deidara blushed as he jumped up slightly and crawled back. The kiss caught him off guard. " Wh...what was that..un?" Deidara gave the almost naked Hyuuga a freaked out stare. Deidara knew that he himself was gay, but the Hyuuga? "... and what do you mean by hiding?" Once again, the blond was confused.

Neji was tempted not to answer, but he did owe Deidara an explanation, even if he didn't have one. Why had he kissed the other man? Was it because he'd just looked so adorable just then that he hadn't been able to resist? Neji sighed and ran a hand through his damp hair. "To tell the truth, Deidara, I don't have an explanation."

Deidara blinked as he looked to the side and back to Neji. The Hyuuga was an odd one. " That doesn't do much for my question..." He sat up straight as he crossed his legs. Neji's bed was comfy. " Can you at least answer my second question?" Deidara kept a good distance from Neji. The kiss was something no one would ever do to him again, so it placed him in an alert stage. The mechanical eye made a click like sound, causing Deidara to cover it with his hand. ' No pictures! That's goin- ah damn.. too late... I'll erase it later.' He didn't intend to take a picture, but it took one anyways. ' Cheap piece of crap...'

The stone nin was now stuck with a picture of the Hyuuga boy's profile in his head. "You hide behind a falsely happy face when in reality you're upset. You don't have to around me. I'm not going to judge you on what happened in your past."

Deidara looked down at his legs, eyes half closed in thought. He did feel safe with the Hyuuga, plus, the Akatsuki would help him if he used any information against him. " I guess it started when I was a child..un. I.. wouldn't call them my family. I wasn't treated right as a child. Scared of doing anything bad, but scared to do anything good. I was mostly used to see what experimental justu would do." Deidara took a deep breath, this was hard for him. " Well.. I'll skip the rest... but the way I got my eye.. I disobeyed an order strictly from my birth parents... do you know how horrid it feels to get a chakra filled needle pierced through your eye? " Deidara reached up and touched the area right under Neji's left eye. " Let me tell you, it hurts like nothing you could imagine... " At this Deidara was looking eye to eye with Neji.. or more accurate, eye to mechanical eye.

Had anyone else ever tried to touch him, Neji probably would have flinched away. He let Deidara touch him though and then reached up to remove his forehead protector. When he lowered his hands from his face and set the forehead protector on the bed beside him, the seal that was his curse was visible. "I may not know the exact feeling, Deidara, but I know a pain very very similar."

Deidara looked at the seal on the Hyuuga's forehead. Some one who almost knew the pain he went through. Some one who he could relate to, some one who he could open up to and listen too. The blond nin leaned up and kissed the cursed seal. He felt horrible, but he didn't feel alone this time. He looked back at Neji's white eyes as his forehead pressed against his. He held a small smile on his face, after all misery loves company. " I must be a horrid person to say this, but I'm glad that you have that." Deidara was some what horrible to say that... eve if he was part of the Akatsuki, but he meant it in a good way. It had only been a few moments ago that Deidara was crying over being alone, but now he was crying because he wasn't alone.

For once in his life, Neji was thankful for the seal that made him a caged bird. He still hated it, but for once it had done something helpful. "Perhaps, but then, I think I agree with you this time." He pulled Deidara into a hug that was nothing more then two people who had gone through similar things comforting each other.

Deidara held onto Neji as he buried his face into his shoulder. Tears rolled down his cheek and onto Neji's skin. The stone nin felt protected, happy, sad, tired, and .. something else.. " Thank you Neji-kun." The blond had only know this boy for a couple of days, but he was already acting as if he had knew him for years.

Neji let the other cry, ignoring the cold feeling of wet fabric against his skin. He just sat on his bed and held the crying missing nin, offering what comfort he could.

Deidara had cried for a long time before looking up at Neji and giving him a tight hug. He smiled and let go, rubbing his eyes to make the soreness go away. " You're not so bad, Neji. A good shoulder to cry on, and some one who is also there with me" Deidara gave him a grin as he crawled off the bed and stretched. It really was late now.

Neji gave a smirk that was almost a smile. "Are you going to head back now, or wait until tomorrow?" He wasn't about to talk about what had just happened, at least not yet.

Deidara let his arms fall to his sides as he turned his head slightly. It was a while to the Akatsuki hide out. He turned around and moved his foot slightly on the floor. " Erm.. Do you mind if I stay?" He shoved his hands into his pockets as he waited for the answer. Deidara was really adorable.

Looking at Deidara at precisely the wrong time, Neji had to firmly repress the urge to kiss him again. "You can stay. I have spare clothing that should fit you so you can get out of your wet clothing."

Deidara smiled as he gave Neji a hug. " Thank you Neji!" He let go of the Hyuuga and stood there. He was still wet, so he didn't want anything else to get wet. " .. erm.. Can I have some clothes... now...un?" The stone nin rubbed the back of his neck as he asked. He never borrowed clothes form anyone, in fact he never slept at anyone's house. ' My first sleep over...un!'

Neji chuckled softly as he went over to his dresser and pulled out a pair of shorts and a shirt. "The shower's through there if you want to use it." He handed the clothing to Deidara and started to strip the wet bed sheets from his bed.

: Deidara took the clothing and bowed. " Thanks again..un!" He turned on his right foot and walked to the bathroom. ' Watch, I'm going to get lost and end up in some corner freaking out because it's big and scary...' he opened the door to the bathroom and closed it. " .. It's all neat and stuff... " he looked to the side and blinked. Was it? .. YES! It was! " huh? ... "Deidara picked up a bottle. " Catwalk number 8? ... AWSOME!" It was the same shampoo Deidara used.

Neji finished changing his sheets and changed out of his damp boxers. He sat down and started to brush his hair as he waited for the stone nin to finish in the bathroom. He winced every once in a while as he hit a particularly nasty snarl.

Deidara was happy in the bathroom, the water was warm, and it was filled with bubbles. Why? Because Deidara thought it would be nice. He held a hand full of suds and blew them away. The water felt nice after so much crying and being cold. " Haa... Neji has a nice house ...un" Deidara smiled as he sank into the water, leaving his closed eyes and up to be seen. ' ... wonder what Neji is doing now...'

Truth be told, the boy was still brushing his hair. Hair down to your hips may be attractive, but it's a pain to take care of. Neji looked at the mass of black silky hair in his hands and seriously considered cutting it all off for the first time since he'd been called 'girly' during his first year at the academy.

Deidara popped his head out of the water and took a deep breath before dunking himself all the way in, getting the soap out of his hair. He popped back out and shook his head. Deidara got out of the tub and dried off quickly with a towel that he had taken. Deidara seemed really happy. He placed on the clothing that Neji gave him, they were rather baggy on him. But Deidara was rather scrawny for a male. I suppose that added to his girly features. He held the wet-ish towel around his neck when he walked out. " You have a nice bathroom Neji-kun." Deidara held the smug little look that people usually saw him with.

"Thank you. You wouldn't happen to have scissors on you right now, would you?" He was still trying to work out some of the worse knots, his desire to end the problem by cutting his hair off was only growing.

Deidara held a wide-eyed expression. " What?" He went over to Neji and took the brush away from him. " You're not going to cut off your hair, it looks nice! I'll fix it...un" Deidara didn't wait for Neji to say anything, he just began to work with knots easily. " ... Odd... your hair is different from mine... it feels thicker...un"

Neji shrugged and let the other nin brush his hair. It felt...kind of relaxing. "It is thick, but it's perfectly straight. That's probably why it tangles so easily."

" Probably.. it's a lot different from mine... " He fixed one of the knots and began on another." He smiled as e brushed Neji's hair. ' ...hmmm.. Braiding it would be nice... un' Deidara chuckled to himself as he thought about it. He'd look funny with a braid, cute, but funny. He finished quickly an set the brush down. Deidara couldn't resist but hug Neji when he was done. Neji was nice, Deidara loved nice people. For good reasons too.

Neji was surprised when Deidara hugged him, but he didn't move away. He just reached up to undo that rest of the wrappings that kept his hair at bay and set the down.

Deidara kept a hold on Neji. "Neji-kun... promise me that you'll never hurt me... " Pain.. that was one of Deidara's fears, most of it was mental pain though. Physical was fine. He could put up with physical pain. Deidara never got close to people, so he was rather cautious of people who were close. He treasured them.

"..." Neji looked over his shoulder at Deidara, strands of black hair falling into his face and eyes. He was reluctant to make this promise, knowing that he may have to break it someday, but he did all the same. "I promise, Deidara."

Deidara let go after he got his answer. " Thank you... Neji-kun." Dei turned and hopped in the bed, it really was nice. " Haa! Your bed is nice Neji... You're spoiled, ya know? I'd give so much to had had all this when I was small...un!"

Neji gave a very small smile as he walked towards the bed. "Be glad it's large, because I'm not sleeping on the floor."

Dei blinked. "W-what?" He hid under the covers and wrapped himself in it, his one eye showing. "N-No! I'm not sleeping with you...un!" He shifted his eyes and sprawled out on the bed, covers still on him. Deidara was still rather immature...

"You're welcome to sleep on the floor, but I though you'd prefer the bed. I, however, am not sleeping on the floor simply because you're being shy."

Deidara stayed quiet, he had his eyes tightly shut and was still sprawled out, hoping he was taking up most of the bed. " ... No!...Un!" Deidara really didn't mind, but as Neji said, he was being shy. Poor Deidara, he was really succeeding.

Too bad for Deidara that it was a large bed. Neji easily slipped into the space that was left and claimed a pillow.

Deidara stayed silent before trying to push Neji off with a foot. " shoo!" He he poked his head out from under the covers. His expression was one of an annoyed child. Puffy cheeks and all. He kept up the light push that he gave Neji. " uuuun!"

Neji just scooted around the prodding foot and found himself a spot to curl up on. He was pretty much impossible to dislodge at this point.

Deidara stared at him and sighed annoyingly. He curled himself at the other side of the bed and stayed there. The boy was really shy. He laid there for no longer than a moment before turning around and tugging on Neji's arm slightly. " Neji... un" He has a little bit og guilt in his eye.. that and he just frankly didn't want Neji to be in a little spot. It was his bed after all.

Neji looked at him and understood. He stretched out from his curled position. There was still plenty of room left on the bed. "Better?"

Deidara nodded and turned back around. He felt better, but felt rather awkward at the same time. ' Last time i slept in abed with another guy... no- stop it!' He mentally slapped himself. 'No, just stay quiet and... bah.. got to sleep before you do something stupid.' Deidara scolded him self a bit more before closing his eyes. The mental photo album proved to be useful, but annoying at times.