Hate that I Love You
AngolMoaChan
This one is in the same universe as the first one :)
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3. Intellectual
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, seeing newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which is possesses.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"So…let me get this straight, sempai. You're failing all of your classes except for chemistry and art?"
Deidara nodded tersely, his eyebrow twitching slightly. He and Tobi were in another one of their study sessions, and were taking a short break. Taking a bite of his sandwich, Deidara muttered, "Yeah, so?"
Tobi stared at him incredulously, his single visible eye wide. (His other eye was missing due to an unfortunate accident from years back), "How is that even possible?! You're brilliant!"
He shrugged in reply, "I dunno…none of the rest of it is interesting to me."
"…What do you want to do with your life, sempai? I'm curious."
Deidara looked up at the ceiling, the veil of blonde hair over his right eye sliding over to reveal his other strikingly blue eye, "I want to build fireworks."
"Fireworks?" Tobi asked, dumbfounded.
"Uh-huh. I want to prove my old sensei wrong about art."
"Your old sensei?"
"Yeah…Sasori-sensei." Deidara ran a hand through his hair and sighed in frustration, "He thought art was best when it lasted forever, which is totally untrue."
Tobi frowned as he examined his sempai's face. He was staring off pensively into the distance, his eyes clouded over with memories, "Sempai…?"
"What?"
"Did your sensei die?"
Deidara clenched his fists, his gaze snapping from the ceiling to the floor, "He was murdered."
"M…murdered?"
"No one knows who did it." He muttered tersely, "I only know that when I came to visit sensei in the morning, he was sprawled out on his desk with a sword in his back."
Tobi's eye widened in shock. He stared at Deidara for a moment, trying to read his expression. It was obvious something deep had gone on between him and his sensei, and the murder of this man Tobi didn't know had affected his sempai deeply. Slowly standing up, the younger man walked over and enveloped Deidara in a hug, pulling him tight against his chest. "I'm…I'm so sorry, sempai…"
"Don't be sorry, dumbass. You didn't kill him." He replied, slowly starting to move away. Tobi tightened his grip on the smaller man, holding him and keeping him from moving. Deidara stood in his grip unresponsive before his hands slowly gripped the taller man's black and red jacket, slender fingers tangled in the fabric, "… It was some girl…"
Tobi ran his hands through Deidara's hair gently, trying to comfort his sempai, who was shaking slightly, "You don't have to tell me, sempai…I'm just here for comfort."
He shook his head a bit and pulled away from him, "Stupid…I don't need comfort…"
"That's the Deidara-sempai I know!" Tobi grinned in reply, "Now then, can you help me with this stupid Chemistry stuff? You are the intellectual here, failing your classes or not. I'm just the cute one."
Deidara rolled his eyes and hit Tobi lightly over the head. Still, he gave a small smile in reply, "Sure."
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God knows I need this comfort fic stuff D: I've been having a horrible week. (love in the form of Sasori/DeiTobi/hugs/ would be wonderful…I'm just not getting anything from my family right now…)