---// K.A.D - Boarding School - Deidara Love Story Chapter 17 \\---

"Suki!" cried Naruto as you walked into the English classroom as the bell rang. His call was instantly met with stares of the other students. Naruto ran over to you and gave you a hug. "When you said you were coming back to K.A.D I thought you meant soon! Not two weeks later!"

"Don't squish her, Naruto," drawled Shikamaru who was seated at a desk behind Naruto.

Naruto released you and retorted, "I wasn't going to squish her!"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes at the blond and turned his face up to yours. "Good to see you back Suki."

You smiled in return, "You too Shikamaru."

"Suki, why is your teacher not here yet?

"He's always late, Haku," you replied.

"Wait, what?" asked Naruto, his trademark 'what's going on?' face showing he was completely baffled. "Why are you here?"

"Oh, Haku is going to be—"

You were cut off by the relatively earlier entrance of Kakashi-sensei.

"Alright, alright, take your seats." Naruto scrambled to his seat. "Ah, you must be Momichi Haku." This last part was directed at Haku.

"Yes sir," replied Haku sweetly.

"Introduce yourself to the class," Kakashi directed.

"I'm Momichi Haku, and I'll be here for the next few days before I completely decide whether or not I'd like to attend school here," Haku said with a sweet smile on his face.

"You two can take a seat; Suki, you can take your old one, and Haku, you can sit next to her."

You quickly took your old seat next to Naruto and glanced behind you shooting Deidara a quick smile. Except that Deidara wasn't there. Doing a quick scan of the classroom you found that it wasn't that his seat had been changed, he just wasn't there. That wasn't too strange; he did skip class on occasion. On many occasions actually. What was weird though was how you hadn't been able to contact him at all. You must have tried calling him at least fifty, if not one hundred times since you had regained full consciousness after the incident, but to no avail. He hadn't picked up one of your calls, hadn't replied to one of your messages.

You sighed and turned back to the front of the room where Kakashi-sensei had begun lecturing on parallel structures, which was apparently the new topic. A few tedious minutes later Kakashi-sensei handed a stack of packets to Hinata who was seated in the front row and directed her to pass a packet out to each of the students.

The shy girl handed you your packet and continued on her way.

Part one: Underline all of the parallel structures in the following section. Part two: write your own parallel structures. You flipped the page to see what was on the next page. Part one: Underline all of the parallel structures in the following section. Part two: write your own parallel structures. No way. Was the whole thing exactly the same? Part one: Underline all of the parallel structures in the following section. Part two: write your own parallel structures. You let out a sigh. This was going to be one excruciatingly dull class.

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You entered the math classroom with Shikamaru and Haku and took your seat next to Shikamaru with Haku on your right again. Glancing around the classroom you noted that none of the seniors were there yet.

The thought had hardly entered your head when the door flew open to show Pein and the rest of the seniors in math. Itachi stalked followed by Temari who was having a heated debate with Karin. This duo was followed by a mass of blond hair. Deidara.

Deidara glanced around the classroom and noticed you.

A huge smile crossed your face, but a matching smile did not cross his. In fact, he had looked like he'd been in a bad mood when he'd walked in the door, but now he seemed absolutely murderous. The blond stared at you for a moment before turning his back to you and tossing his hair over his shoulder. He slouched into his chair and pulled out a wad of clay and began molding it in his hands.

'What the hell?' you wondered to yourself.

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"What is his problem?" you asked irritated as you sat down at your lunch table.

"What's whose problem?" Naruto asked around a mouthful of ramen.

"Deidara's! He totally blew me off in math. Geez, I mean seriously. The whole school knows we're dating. He doesn't' have to put up that stupid cold act anymore."

"Sorry, I couldn't help it!"

"It's not your fault, Naruto. It's not in your nature to keep this kind of secret. But really, do you have any idea how many times I called him? Like one hundred times! And he didn't pick up a single one!"

"What?" cried Tenten who was seated next to Naruto. "No way!"

"Way!" And I have no clue what-so-ever as to why."

"Well go confront him!" Tenten suggested.

You turned in your seat to look at the Senior's table and caught Deidara looking, no, glaring, at you. When h noticed your eyes on his, he promptly turned away.

"That's it! I'm going to talk to him!" You rose from your chair and began walking towards the Senior's table.

Shikamaru let out a sigh. "This is going to be so troublesome."

"Suki-chan!" Tobi cried as you came within hearing distance. "Tobi has missed you!"

"Not now, Tobi," you told him. "I came to talk to Deidara."

The blond made no action to show that he had heard you or that he noticed your presence.

"Deidara!"

Yet again the blond ignored you.

SMACK!

"What the fuck, Suki?" the blond cried out as he turned to face you. "You didn't have to whack me!"

"IT was the only way I could think of to get your attention, seeing as your giving me the silent treatment," you argued back.

"Well why don't' you just go back to your friends and I'll get back to that, un."

"God, Deidara! Why are you avoiding me?"

"What's it to you, un?"

"I'm you girlfriend!"

"Says you, un!"

"No, says you! This whole arrangement was all your idea, in case you've forgotten."

"Well then, I say we're over, un!"

You let out a stunned gasp. "Well you sure as hell had better have a damn good reason!"

"Okay un. You want to know why I'm ignoring you, un?" Deidara questioned as he stood up and crossed his arms over his chest.

"That kind of was the question in the first place," you replied snippily.

"Because they told me not to see you again, un!"

"Who do you mean by 'they'? Your friends? I can't believe you're dumping me just because your friends –"

"It's not them, un!" Deidara interrupted.

"Then who the hell is it?"

"Your so-called 'family,' that's who! I hate them and I hate you!"

You stared blankly at the blond while the rest of the student's kept their eyes drawn to the two of you. Your heated debate with Deidara had drawn everyone's attention.

There was dead silence in the cafeteria when you finally spoke. "'You won't regret it, un.' Weren't those your exact words, Deidara? Well guess what. I'm starting to regret it." And with this you spun around and raced out of the cafeteria towards the closest girls' bathroom with Tenten quick on your heels.

"Tenten!" you sobbed as you flung yourself into your friend's waiting arms. "He -- and then I!"

"Shh," soothed Tenten as she rubbed your back. "It will be alright."

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"Tenten!" shouted Naruto as he pounded on the girls' bathroom door, "Tenten!"

"Not now, Naruto!" Tenten called back to the blond.

"But Tenten!"

Tenten broke away from you. "I'll be right back," she told me as she walked over to the door and pulled it open to reveal a very disgruntled Naruto. "What? This really isn't the best time, Naruto."

"I know, but –" Naruto took Tenten's wrist and pulled her into the hallway and the door fell closed behind the pair, muffling their voices.

You crossed quickly to the door and pulled the door open a crack.

"I don't' care about Deidara. He's a complete asshole!" Tenten was saying.

"Yeah, I know you don't, I hate him too, but it's Haku, too."

"I don't care about that girly freak either."

"But he's about to beat up Deidara!"

"WHAT?!" you cried as you yanked the door open.

"Suki," Tenten reached out for your arm. You evaded her grasp and tore down the school hallways back to the lunchroom where you met an ugly site.

There was a semi-circle of students congregated next to the wall; the seniors where being blocked out by the mass of students. In the middle of the circle were two figures, a brunet and a blond.

'No!' you thought desperately to yourself. You ran up to the outer circle of students. "Move!" you shouted at them, but no one budged. You scanned the cafeteria looking for something you could use to help you.

'This better work,' you thought to yourself as you clambered onto on of the schools' long lunch tables. This table ended just in front of the mob of students. With a running start you jumped off the edge of the lunch table and landed skillfully in the clearing surrounded by students, using the extra momentum of your jump into propelling yourself into Haku and forcing him away from Deidara, who had been pressed up against the wall by Haku.

"Leave him alone, Haku!" you shouted at the brunet. "I don't care that he's a total asshole, just leave him alone!"

"But he —"

"Break it up!" a loud booming voice called. "Break. It. Up!"

The crowd surrounding you quickly disbursed as Ebisu came over.

"You three, my office, now!"

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"This is all your fault, Haku," you whispered to Haku, who was seated next to you in Ebisu's office.

"My fault? How in the world is this all my fault?" he replied, slightly irritated.

"If you hadn't told Deidara I wasn't coming back he wouldn't have been such an ass and broken up with me for breaking his heart!"

"How was I supposed to know you would talk Zabuza into letting you come back?" Haku questioned.

"I can talk Zabuza into anything, you know that. And you shouldn't have jumped to conclusions."

"I jumped to conclusions? What about Deidara?"

"What do you mean, 'What about Deidara?'?"

"True, I did tell him that we were withdrawing you from the school system here," you glared at Haku at this comment, "But I never said he had to cut all contact with you. He went to the extreme to try and protect himself from any more heartbreak by doing just that."

"But if you hadn't told that I – AHG! Never mind! I give up trying to reason this with you!" you shouted at Haku.

"Well it's not that easy to be rational about this with you, Suki! You're still completely head over heals in love with that delinquent!" Haku barked at you.

"Well newsflash, Haku. I'm a delinquent according to the school too! So back off, Mr. Gifted!" you spat back.

"WHAT IS GOING ON OUT HERE?" Ebisu thundered as he came into the main part of his office where you and Haku were fuming.

Neither of you spoke.

"It's all his fault," you said under your breath to yourself.

"Suki, you can't pin all of this on me," Haku snapped back.

"Fine, then it's just mostly your fault. Happy now, Mr. Gifted?"

"Well it's your fault too, Suki."

"My fault? My fault?! What the hell, Haku? How is this my fault? Did I ask to get sent to this school? No, my parents sent me because they thought I was a delinquent. Did I ask to be room-mates with Karin? No, and if I hadn't been, I wouldn't have ended up being a monkey for the Seniors, courtesy of Deidara and Tobi. Did I ask to get kidnapped? No, but I didn't and it was ANBU's job to protect the students at this school. Did I ask to have by boyfriend be told I wasn't coming back? No, but you told him that anyways. Did I ask to fall in love with Deidara? No, but that's the thing about love. You can't control it. So get off my back about any of this mess being my fault, would you? And you know what? I still love him and there's nothing you can do about it." You turned your head away from Haku to be staring directly into Deidara's face.

'Oh shit,' you thought to yourself. You had totally forgotten that Deidara was behind Ebisu.

Haku was saying something to you, but you weren't listening. You were entranced by Deidara's blue, blue eyes. Those eyes that held everything about Deidara's emotions. You could see the hidden emotion. Betrayal, hurt, confusion, and love. Love for you.

"You still love me, un? After everything that I've done, un?" he inquired quietly.

"I'll always love you, forever and always," you replied, as you stared deep into his eyes. "Do you love me?"

A smile tweaked the edges of Deidara's lips. "Forever and always, yeah."

Someone coughed and you looked away from Deidara and re-noticed the fact that both Ebisu and Haku were still there.

You instantly started blushing.

"Would someone mind telling me what the hell is going on here?" Ebisu asked.

"Well I got kidnapped, and Haku told Deidara that I was never coming back, and Deidara wouldn't answer my calls, and I came back to KAD, and Deidara broke up with me really rudely, and Haku tried to beat him up, but I stopped him, and then you took us here to your office where we all settled everything."

"That about sums it all up, un," Deidara agreed.

Ebisu stared at the trio for a moment. "Deidara, you didn't try to beat up this boy, did you?"

"No, he pinned me to the wall too fast, un," Deidara replied.

"And Haku, this is your first day here, is it not?"

"Yes sir," Haku replied.

"Then I'll let you off with a warning, seeing as this is your first day here. One of the rules here is 'No Fistfights.' Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes sir."

"Suki, in the future, please refrain from jumping off of tables."

"Huh?" you replied confusedly. "How did you know about that?"

"I saw."

"Oh... Yes sir, no more table jumping," you agreed.

"Then the three of you are dismissed."

Deidara walked past Ebisu towards the door and took your hand as he passed you.

"Bye, Ebisu-sensei," you said as you exited the office with Haku following you.

The three of you made your way into the school quad.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you, Haku," you said apologetically.

"It's fine," Haku replied.

"No it's not. I shouldn't have been so mean. I'm sorry."

"I forgive you, Suki. Now would you two just kiss and make up already, or do I have to shove one of you?"

A bright blush covered your face, but Deidara didn't seem to mind the request.

"I'm sorry for ignoring you and being so mean, un, Suki-chan," he whispered huskily.

"I forgive you," you mumbled back, rather embarrassed to be having this conversation with Haku so near by.

That thought didn't occupy your mind for long, but cause Deidara chose just that moment to press his lips to yours. Your mind went blank of everything else.

The two of you broke away.

"I love you, un."

"Love you, too."