Memo: I am so sorry for the extremely long delay! I am also sorry for what I'm about to do in this chapter. It's full of *gasps* flashbacks! (Readers: No! Not flashbacks! The pain! The horror!) I know, and I'm sorry, but, well, I think they're cute ones and they are very important and necessary. Also, go to my journal and comment (.com/my/journal/1083776/kad-konoha-academy-for-delinquents)! I need help if I'm ever going to get that part of the story done.

---// K.A.D - Boarding School - Deidara Love Story Chapter 15 \\---

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Deidara's POV

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I let out my breath, not noticing that I'd been holding it in. "Thank goodness, un. How is she?"

"She should be fine. She's asleep right now," Haku replied calmly.

"When will she be able to come back to school, h'mm?" There was silence on the other end. "Haku-san?"

"Deidara, do you remember in our last conversation when you asked if we'd be bringing her back to the school? And I said that we would be bringing her home?"

"What about it, h'mm?"

"I meant that we would be taking her out of the school system. She isn't coming back to the academy; she'll be staying here with us, where we can keep a better eye on her."

"WHAT! You can't do that!"

"Deidara," Haku said calmly from the other end of the line, interrupting my rant. "Think about it. She's already been kidnapped from Konoha Academy once even though the security was supposed to be stronger than what they claim. It isn't safe for her there. No matter the cost, she has to stay with us."

It was my turn to be silent, to take in that information. "Will we still be able to see her though?" I asked finally.

"We'll have to see."

"But-!"

"Good bye Deidara." With that Haku hung up the phone.

I just sat there with the phone pressed to my ear, not believing what I'd just heard. Not coming back? Not being able to see her again? Not even being able to say good bye?

The phone began buzzing, telling me that the other party had hung up. I snapped the phone shut and set it down on the table. I reached out mutely and picked up the picture frame on my desk. I deftly pulled the picture out of the frame, flipped it over, and replaced it. The newly exposed photo was of Suki and me from a month or so back. She was standing in front of me; I had one arm wrapped around her waist, the other was partially in the shot, but not completely, seeing as it was I who had taken the photo. I ran my thumb over her picture face. Her face was so alive, so happy, with a giant grin across its features. I noted, not for the first time, that my own face had a slight grin to it. Not my signature smirk, but a real, honest to goodness smile.

We had so many memories together. How was it that they would just come to an end? I remembered the first time we had met. Tobi and I had gone to get Karin's math homework, but had run into her new roommate. The girl had challenged Tobi, so we made her a monkey.

And that first day of lessons, with Vampires vs werewolves before English.

Begin Flashback

"Tell me, what's better, Vampires or werewolves?" Temari demands. Suki almost falls off her chair.

"It's vampires, un!" I proclaim waving my arms in the air. "How can you even ask that, un!?"
Temari ignores me.

"Well, Monkey?" She asks, her sapphire eyes drilling into Naruto's.

"Er…" Naruto looks around, desperate for an escape. Suki decides to help the stupid boy.

"Neither," she says, drawing the eyes of all three blondes. A smile breaks out on my face.

"Monkey Two, un!" I say, leaping across the desks to drop into the seat next to her, beside the window. "Explain, un!" I sit cross-legged on the chair, eye sparkling as I look at her expectantly.

"Vampires and werewolves both have too many weaknesses," Suki says, trying to ignore that Konan and Itachi have wandered over. "In all the movies they eventually get killed."

I ponder this for a moment.

"Yeah, but everyone gets beaten, un," I points out. Suki shakes her head.

"Batman doesn't," she says flatly. "Therefore, Batman wins."

End Flashback

Begin Flashback

"I'm Tasogare Suki," Suki says flatly, staring at the blackboard. "I like music, to sleep in, and read. I don't have any dreams for the future."

She sits back down.

"What do you hate?" Kakashi prods. She narrows her eyes.

"Annoying blondes with speech impediments," she snap. As the class laughs she drops her head onto your arms, intent on trying out Shikamaru's style of napping.

"I'm not that bad, am I, un?" A husky voice whispers in her ear, sending Goosebumps racing down her neck. She turns her head to the side to glare at me. I grins at you. "If you want I can show you my more… fun side, un."

End Flashback

I guess it's no surprise she hated me back then. I was always so mean to her and teased her excessively. She always had the most interesting comebacks and I would always say something back to make her blush so furiously.

Begin Flashback

"Suki, un?" I whisper. Suki looks back up to my eye.

"Y-Yeah?" she replies shakily. I suddenly grin.

"You're blushing, un." I say. She blushes deeper.

"That's because you're in my personal space!"

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"Let's talk about something… nicer, un." I say, eye dancing. "Do you have a boyfriend, un?"

Suki blushs lightly, looking away.

"No," she says, running a hand through her hair. "You?"

I grin, leaning in slightly.

"No, un…" I say, still grinning. "I don't have a boyfriend, un."

Her gaze leaps from the ground to my eye.

"That's not what I meant!" she snaps. I laughs.

"I know, I know, un." I say. "And no, I don't have a girlfriend, un. Why? Interested, un?"

Turning scarlet, she glares at me.

"No!" she shouts. "You started these questions! Maybe you're interested!"

I laugh, shuffling slightly closer.

"Oh but I am interested, un." I say in a low husky voice, looking her over. "And I can admit it, yeah."

End Flashback

Begin Flashback

"Dei-Dei," Suki croons in a sing-song voice. "Dei-Dei!"

"What, un?" I grumble. Suki nuzzles his chest softly.

"Hyuga Neji was hitting on me today," Suki informs him. My arms stiffen around her. "Now, last time I tried to deter a guy from hitting on me, well… here I am. So how do I get rid of him?"

"Hmm…" My arms tighten around her again. "My way or a complicated way, un?"

"What's your way?" She asks curiously. I grin down at her.

"This," I say simply, before latching my mouth to her neck, sucking furiously.

"Deidara!" she hisses. "Get off!"

I look up at her, a mischievous glint in my eyes.

"But if he sees you marked, un," I murmur. "He'll know you're taken, un."

"Am I?" she asks. I look down at her, confused.

"Huh?" I tilt my head to the side. She bites her lip, looking to the side.

"He asked me if I have a boyfriend," Suki mutters. "I-I didn't know how to respond…"

I bite her neck suddenly, causing her to jump.

"Deidara!" she cries. "What was that fo-"

I cut her off with a deep kiss. Suki mewls against my mouth, fisting my hair. I pull her against me, obviously wanting full-body contact.

Breaking away for air, Suki look up at me confused.

"Yes, un," I hiss. "You are taken, un. You are mine, un. You can tell the Hyuga you have a boyfriend, un."

End Flashback

I guess that's when we technically became boyfriend-girlfriend. Who would have thought I'd get some girl who wasn't a delinquent too, who didn't care. I wonder if she knows why... And now I'll never be able to tell her! I'll never get to see her ever again.

Begin Flashback

"Deidara!" Suki screams. "Help! Deidara!"

"Suki! Suki! AKASUKI!?"

"Deidara..." she managed to choke out. "Kidnapper..."

End Flashback

Damn it! That's the last things we ever said to one another. The last word she'll ever have said to me. Kidnapper.

'Suki...' I thought in despair. 'Suki, Suki, Suki.' A tear slid down my cheek. It was followed by another and then another until my eyes became twin rivers pouring down my cheeks.

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Your POV

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You felt the light pressing against your eyelids before you actually could see it. It wasn't a very bright light; in fact it was rather dim, like a door open ajar, or a small desk lamp with a weak bulb. You felt the cool cloth on your forehead and the gentle stroking of your hair and heard the quiet breathing, but neither of them fully registered in your mind. The pressure on your head was slightly damp, a wet washcloth maybe. The hair stroking was nice, quieting. It was probably by the person who you could hear breathing, but they could be anyone.

It could be anyone, but you had a pretty good idea of who it was. You willed yourself to open your eyes and as your eyelids fluttered open you could see a shadowy figure.

"Go back to sleep," the person whispers soothingly.

"Haku…" you mumbled and reached out to touch him.

Haku took your hand and stroked the back of it with his thumb. "Shh… Go back to sleep."

"Mmm," you murmured and just before sleep you were claimed you saw a dark figure in the corner of your room.

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You broke free of sleep again, but this time Haku wasn't the one next to you. You were alone in the room except for the dark figure you had seen before. "Zabuza?" you croaked and a small smile spit your face.

"Akasuki," Zabuza said in his gruff voice and crossed over to your bed side quickly, kneeling down next to it.

You reached your arms up and circled them around his neck pulling him into a hug. "I missed you."

"I missed you too; just don't tell anyone I said that." He wrapped his arms around you as well. "I'm sorry," he said eventually.

"It's fine. It wasn't your fault," you reassured him.

Zabuza was silent for a minute or so before murmuring, "Thank you."

The two of you broke away from each other.

"How long have I been out?" you asked.

"It's been two days since we rescued you."

"What! I've been out for 42 hours?" you asked in shock.

"You've been up off-and-on the entire time, but you weren't really aware of anything, but only vaguely here."

You were about to respond when the door opened letting in more light. Your head snapped over to see who had entered.

"Suki!" shrieked the person and he threw his arms around you pulling you into a tight hug. "Thank goodness you okay!"

"Nice to see you too Genma," you said and gave him a hug back as well.

"Genma, your crushing her," came Haku's dulcet voice.

Genma released you from his tight embrace and moved out of the way for Haku to come over to yourbed.

"Do you want any soup?" he asked setting down a bowl on the table.

"Maybe later, Haku," you told him with a smile.

Two more heads poked around the open doorway. "Hey Suki!" called Kotetsu and Izumo as they made their way into your room which was getting more cramped by the minute.

"Hey guys," you replied. "I guess the gang's all here."

A cough came from the door way followed by another. "Almost the whole gang."

"Hayate! How are you?"

"He's still sick," scoffed Kotetsu and he rolled his eyes.

Izumo elbowed his best friend in the side. "How are you feeling, Suki?"

"I'm fine. What happened though? I remember being at the Haunted House and blacking out and them coming round… well, I don't know where I was, but I drank something and fell unconscious again. Next thing I can remember is waking up here. It was that guy from before, Aio. I thought you'd dealt with him last time."

"As did we," Haku told you.

"So how did you find me?"

"We'll a certain someone called us," Izumo said and smirked. "A certain blonde someone. Hey Kotetsu, what was his name? It was something with a "D" in it." Izumo was clearly teasing you by now. "We actually got to meet him. Nice boy. But—" Izumo was cut off by Kotetsu who had elbowed him again.

"Oh god!" you cried. "You met Deidara?"

"That's what it was!" This earned Izumo yet another elbow. "Quit it!"

"All of you?"

"Everyone but Raido," Kotetsu told you.

You look around the room. "Where is he?"

"He caught my cold," wheezed Hayate, "so we told him to go home and get some rest."

"Oh, I hope he gets better soon…" You trailed off, remembering what you had been discussing before you had began to wonder about Raido. "Oh god."

"He seemed like a very… sweet boy."

You turned to Haku, an expression of pure exasperation on your face. "Haku!" you moaned. "You met my boyfriend! Oh god. Did you give him some grand inquisition or something?"This last part was directed at Zabuza, but it was Genma who replied.

"Not yet, but—" he began, but was cut off by you.

"Not yet?" you moaned. "As is you're still going to give him one?"

"But we have done a background check on him."

"You researched my boyfriend?" you asked, thoroughly shocked. "How could you do that? That is a complete violation of his personal privacy!" you ranted.

"I told you I was going t run a background check on him," Zabuza pointed out.

Begin Flashback

Slouching off towards room eighteen, you fumble for you phone, drawing it out of your pocket. Hitting speed-dial one you wait for Zabuza to pick up.

"Suki?" His voice drifts through. You grit your teeth.

"Konoha Academy for Delinquents?" You growl.

"Oh." You hear him sigh heavily. "Look, Suki…"

"Why am I here?" You demand.

"Because your parents think you need to be there." He says heavily.

"Why?" You demand, stopping in the hall. "When are they ever there to see me to know?"

"That's exactly it." Zabuza says. "They're never there, and when they are, you always end up in a shouting match with them."

"…oh…" You say, leaning against the wall. "Well… do you think I need to be here?"

"No." Zabuza answers immediately. "But they didn't believe me. Don't worry, once the school sees you're normal, they'll leave you alone. And think about it, K.A.G.T is an acclaimed school, you'll get a good education there."

"Right…" You say. "Thanks Zabuza…"

"It's ok." He says gruffly. "So how was your first day?"

"Ugh, don't get me started." You say, switching the phone to the other ear. "First up I had Engli-"

"Monkey Two, un!"

Your head jerks up and you cut off mid-sentence. Deidara is striding down the hall, a smug look on his face, his clothes covered in paint and clay.

"Crap. It's Deidara…" You mutter.

"Deidara?" Zabuza demands. "Hmm… should I go into over-protective Guardian mode?"

Your face heats up.

"No." You hiss. "Don't even think that!"

Zabuza chuckles.

"I'll be running a background check all the same." He says.

"Monkey Two, un!" Deidara says stopping in front of you. "No phone calls, un!"

"Gotta go." You sigh. "I'll call you back."

"Right." Zabuza says. "Can't keep Deidara waiting."

"Shut up!" You hiss into the phone before hanging up, cutting off Zabuza's laughter.

End Flashback

"I thought you were joking!" you cried in dismay.

"Would I joke about something like that?" inquired Zabuza.

"Well no, but…" You trailed off and reached over for the bowl of soup that Haku had brought in. You had only just realized that you were hungry; ravenous really. "Never mind. Just be nice, will you?" you requested and took up a spoon full of the soup which had cooled quite nicely by now.

"Of course we'll be nice!" assured Kotetsu.

"'We'll?' As in 'we will?' As in all of you? Yeah, no way."

"I don't think everyone will need to be there," Zabuza grunted.

"Oh yes, of course you'll be there," Kotetsu replied and rolled his eyes.

"Of course I'll be there, I'm her guardian."

"So are we."

"Yes, but—"

"Guys! Quit it!" you yelled. "Go fight over who gets to question Deidara somewhere else, will you?"

"Yes, we should all be going. This is plenty of excitement for one day for Suki," added Haku.

With some grumbling and a few more hugs everyone made their ways out of the room.

"Hey, Haku?" you called before the dark haired boy left with everyone else.

"Yes?" he asked, turning around to face you.

"How long will it be before I get to go back to school?" you inquired.

Haku did not reply immediately; instead he closed the door quietly and crossed the room to perch on the edge of your bed. He let out a small sigh. "Suki…"

You eyes flitted to Haku's and saw sadness there. "Haku? When can I go back to K.A.D.?" you asked again.

"You won't be."

Your spoon slipped out of your hand to fell to your now empty bowl making a clinking noise. You eyes had widened and your breath had caught in your throat. "I'm… I'm not going back to K.A.D.? Never?"

Haku looked at you sadly and shook his head ever so slightly.

"Wait… what?"