The way to your heart Ch.4
(Warning! Contains Yaoi! Granted, it's not a lot but it's the opener for more *wink*)
***Time skip 2 weeks later (yea I do time skips whatcha gonna do about it?)***
Deidara seemed to have finally gotten the hang of things around the station. He'd gotten to know all his fellow police officers and what Sasori called their 'specialties,' although he'd also learned that he, Sasori, Konan, and Pein were probably the most normal in the bunch.
Kisame, his new blue friend was an expert at swords, he could deflect a bullet with his blade but that's not really a shocker, it was HUGE! It had a large probably 1ft wide blade-that was probably just a little shorter than Deidara was tall, and he always kept it wrapped up in a large gauze. Whenever they went out for rounds people would always stare, but that was kind of to be expected, I mean wouldn't you stare if you saw a 6ft shark walking down the street with a huge sword on his back. His partner was Itachi, he was a quiet emoish type of guy, but he was also a genius, in fact he was just a couple of years older than Deidara himself. His specialty was interrogation, he could get information out of anyone, Deidara didn't know exactly how he did it but he knew it had something to do with his eyes being able to change color, when he was calm they were a normal black but it seemed whenever he got upset they would suddenly flash red.
Deidara was getting to be really good friends with Hidan, as explained earlier he was a master on a motorcycle and he knew it. He loved to show off, constantly doing wheelies in the parking lot, especially when Deidara was around. It was rather funny actually, Sasori and Deidara would be driving down the road and suddenly Hidan would come zooming past on his motorcycle, Deidara couldn't help but smile at the man's foolishness. But as for Sasori he would just frown and look the other way, most of the time he would just end up snapping at the blonde to start focusing on their work. Hidan's partner was Kakuzu, the scarred man he had met the first time he had entered the station. His specialty was being able to able to identify any foreign substance, and its value. He was also in charge of the stations finances so they always knew if they had money for new equipment, or in Hidan's case money to party.
Pein and Konan as Sasori had explained earlier were sharp shooters, whenever they would do shooting practice they would always get a perfect bull's eye. Also although Konan was the Chief it was clear that Pein had a large part in the leadership of this place. They could easily calm down a situation that was starting to get crazy or if things got rough and were being threatened with a weapon, most of the time they would just pull out their guns and shoot the weapon out of the suspects hands, Hidan and Kakuzu had an ongoing bet to see who would miss a shot first, the bet has been going on for 3 months.
Then there was Zetsu, a strange greened haired man who seemed to have a split personality, half of his body was tattooed black and the other half white. His specialty was undercover disguises, as Deidara had learned on his first day.
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(YAY! Flash back time!)
Deidara was in shock, there was the man that they had arrested earlier that day, pointing a gun right at him and no one else was even bothering to move! Deidara looked that the faces around him, they all seemed perfectly calm as if this was an everyday thing. Well Deidara surely wasn't about to let himself get killed. Before another moment could pass the blonde was before the man, he brought his leg up and kicked the gun out of his hand, while the man was distracted Deidara grabbed the man's shoulder and flipped him onto his back. Within the next second Deidara was pressing his knee into the other's back and roughly jerking his arms up and behind his head.
"Hey guys a little help here please, I can't move without hurting this kid." The man said from beneath Deidara. (Not that way you sick pervs ^/^) The next thing Deidara knew he was being picked up and set on his feet, hearing laughter from all around.
"What are you guys doing, un? This guy is dangerous we need to restrain him!" Deidara said as he struggled to get free from the unknown grip.
"Would you calm down?" Kisame laughed from behind him. "That's not the same guy from earlier."
"What are you talking about, un! That is the exact same man that Sasori and I arrested this morning!" Deidara said still struggling to get free. But all movement from the blonde stopped when the supposed criminal began to peel off his face. Deidara stared dumbstruck as the rough pale skin of man before him was peeled away to reveal a face that was half black and half white with short green hair.
"Um, Sasori Danna what's going on here, un?" Deidara asked clearly confused as to what was going on.
"HAHA! Deidara this here is Zetsu, he's our undercover guy, and as you can see he's really good." Hidan was laughing so hard that he forgot to curse, but he wasn't the only one laughing.
"Undercover guy, un?" Deidara asked, suddenly the green haired man named Zetsu stepped forward a creepy grin on his face.
"My job involves going into situations where there can't be a recognizable face, or the exact opposite. I go undercover as someone unexpected and take the enemy down from the inside so that they never see it coming, hehe."
"But how did you know about the guy, un?" The dumbstruck look on Deidara's face was enough to send everyone into another fit of laughter.
"Deidara….remember how…we said…..that we….saw you through….the….cameras?" Kisame said, struggling to form coherent words through his laughter as he tried to explain what was going on.
"Yea, but…this….and the….face….un?"
"I guess you could say it's an initiation for these knuckle heads." Deidara turned his head to find that Konan, Pein, and Kakuzu had entered the room, it was Konan who spoke.
"Although they haven't done anything like this in a long time, they only do it when they think the new recruit will stick around for a while and be a good part of the group. They must have already taken a liking to you, which is strange considering this is only your first day."
"Yea, but did you see that spinning kick flip thing he did."
"Also he was quick to take down that fucking bastard in the field, he may have needed a little help but I think the kid has promise." Hidan said, putting his hand on the blondes shoulder and giving his a friendly shake. Deidara looked around at everyone before his eyes finally fell on Sasori, suddenly he remembering the redhead's injury.
"Hey Sasori Danna are you sure that you're alright, un?"
"Awe that's cute, he calls you Danna." Konan smiled.
"Yes brat, for the last time I'm fine." Sasori growled holding up his hand to prove his point, but Deidara wasn't fooled, he reached out to examine it himself but Sasori pulled his wrist back before he could touch it.
"Come on Sasori you might as well get it over with and show him already, I can tell he's the type who's going to figure it out eventually." Pein said.
"Figure out what, un?"
"The brat doesn't need to know, it's none of his business!" Sasori snapped before leaving the room.
"What's his problem, un?" A hurt Deidara said he didn't know why it bothered him so much, he barely even knew the guy, so why was he letting a few harsh words get to him.
"You'll find out eventually, once you're one of us nothing stays secret for very long." Zetsu said, Deidara looked at the green haired man curiously.
"But-"
"If you really want to know so bad then just go to Sasori's office, chances are he's taking care of it right now, he usually does when he's mad." Kisame said.
"Should I be scared, un?" Deidara asked, nervous as to what 'it' is.
"Depends on how you take it some people don't care, but then there are those idiotic bastards who think it's a crime against nature and hate him for it. That's why he doesn't like showing people, even if it's someone who already knows." Zetsu explained, a weird look on his face because the white half looked sad while the black half looked angry, giving him a face that looked like a crossed between having to go to the bathroom and looking like he just ate something sour.
"But blondie isn't like that, I mean look at em' he has absolutely no problem with fish face here, it's those damn, snooty, overachieving bastards who have a problem with people being different." Hidan smirked.
"Sad thing is we can't guarantee that because we've seen people like him before, in the end it all turns out to be an act." Kakuzu stated, crossing his arms a frown on his face. Deidara felt slightly hurt at the man's comment, but he understood that because of the way he looked covered in scars that he must that endured some rough times thus having reason to not trust Deidara.
"I'm sorry if I've given you reason to dislike me but you're not the only one who's been shunned because of their looks, un." Deidara said with a sad smile on his face.
"What are you talking about kid, out of everyone here you're the most normal looking." Kakuzu said the now prominent frown clear in his voice.
"Hn." Itachi said.
"With personality to." Kakuzu finished.
"That's not completely true, un." Deidara said reaching up to removed the hair that covered his left eye. Once the hair was out of his face, everyone's eyes widened, all except Itachi's who just stared in mild disinterest.
"Add that to the fact that people sometimes mistake me for a girl and you'll understand why I'll never ridicule someone for their looks, un. I mean who am I to judge when I myself would be considered weird just for my appearance." And with that Deidara left the room, leaving the other's with a stunned Kakuzu to search for his redheaded partner.
"Hey Danna, un?" Deidara said knocking on his partners-and technically his-closed door. When no response came he slowly began to reach for the handle. But just as he was about to turn the knob he heard a click. 'great he locked the door, un' Deidara thought. But that doesn't mean that that could stop the crafty blonde, he reached into his pocket pulling out a small needle like piece of wire. Carefully positioning the pick at the key hole he twiddled it around in practiced moves until he heard the satisfying click and opened the door.
"Brat what are you doing in here?" An enraged Sasori yelled, as he stood before the blonde, holding his supposedly injured hand behind his back.
"It's technically my office now too, un." Deidara stated, in a way that said 'I'm not trying to be rude about it but you should know this….un' ^^
"I don't care brat, that doesn't mean that you should come barging in, how did you get in here anyway I locked the door?" Sasori said closing said door.
"I picked the lock, un." Deidara said with a shy smile.
"Well that's just great, not only do I get a partner who can follow orders but, he also can't respect people's privacy."
"Well sorry if I care about my partners well being, un." Deidara snapped right back.
"'Well being', you don't even know me it's your first day!" Sasori yelled walking closer to the blonde in an attempt to make him back down. But Deidara was never one to be intimidated he stood his ground allowing himself to be trapped by the tick off red head, for his back was to the door. Both stood like that glaring at each other neither one about to back down, but what happened next was something neither of them expected.
"Hey Sasori, Deidara is everything ok? I heard shouting." A concerned Kisame called from the hallway, the blue skinned man opened that door forcing it to hit Deidara square in the back pushing him forward into an unsuspecting Sasori. Only Sasori was determined to keep his one hand behind his back so he ended up catching the blonde with his one available arm, unfortunately for the redhead that wasn't enough to completely stop the falling blonde. Sasori's arm was what stopped Deidara from falling to the ground but nothing stopped the blonde's lips from making contact with that of the redheads.
"Sasori? Deidara?" Kisame asked from behind a slightly cracked door, not having opened it all the way upon realization that something was blocking it, so he could not see what lay beyond.
Neither Sasori nor Deidara dared to move both staring wide eyed at each other, both in a state of complete shock, lips still pressed against each others.
"Guys are you in there….I'm coming in." Sasori was first to come to, jumping back to that at least 3ft now separated him and the blonde.
"Don't come in Kisame, everything is alright just a little argument noting to be concerned about." Sasori said, still a bit shaken, thankfully the shark didn't notice this.
"Alright, just try not to kill each other." Kisame said closing the door, the pair listened as the shark's footsteps grew fainter and fainter until they could no longer be heard.
"Sasori Danna, un." Deidara said nervously.
"Just forget about it Deidara." Sasori said walking over to his desk and picking up something that Deidara couldn't identity. The redhead turned around so that his back now faced the blonde, apparently struggling with the object in his hands.
"Dammit!" Sasori cursed as whatever was in his hands dropped to the floor, he immediately reached for the item but it was too late, Deidara had already seen the item in question.
"Sasori Danna what happened to your hand, un?"
"That's none of your business brat." Sasori said, turning around, both of his hands now inside his pockets.
"Danna let me see your hand, un." Deidara said taking a step forward.
"Brat you better not take one more step." Sasori said clearly pissed off now.
"Sasori Danna I'm sorry if you've been treated weirdly because of that, un." Deidara said taking yet another step forward.
"What would you know about being treated differently besides the fact that you look like a girl." Deidara frowned at the statement but didn't comment. Instead he repeated his previous actions from the kitchen, moving his hair aside to reveal what lay behind it. Sasori's eyes widened but other than that no other part of his face moved. Deidara released his hair once again covering half of his face, looking at the red head, waiting for him to speak.
Instead of speaking, Sasori simply removed his hands from his pockets brings up the one that was previously injured for Deidara to see. Deidara took the hand it looked completely normal to him, it even felt real. Then he began to push the redheads sleeve up it still seemed to be a completely normal hand, it wasn't until he reached the halfway point to his elbow that Sasori turned his head away, curious Deidara looked back down to see a thin indentation in Sasori's skin, Deidara reached with his other hand to touch the thin but prominent line, but Sasori quickly pulled his hand away.
"There you've seen it now quite pestering me about it." Sasori said pulling his sleeve back down.
"What was the crack I heard earlier, un?"
"That was a different wrist, the one I have now had to replace it because there was too much damage, I'll have to repair it later."
"I'm sorry about that, un." Deidara said genuinely sad that he had caused his partner such trouble, especially on his first day.
"Just forget about it, I was about to replace it anyway."
"But-"
"I said just forget about it!" Sasori snapped, effectively ending the conversation.
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On many occasions Deidara had tried to find out exactly how the redhead had come to losing his hand but all his fellow officers had the same response.
"It's just one of those things that you can't push him on, if he wanted you to know you'd know. The only ones who know are Konan and Pein but they refuse to tell anyone without Sasori's permission." Kisame said, one day when he, Deidara, Hidan, and Kakuzu were all in the kitchen enjoying a friendly lunch.
Deiara frowned but agreed to not question the shark any further, Kisame was right if Deidara was meant to know then Sasori would have told him, by now after all it had been 2 weeks since his first day, 2 weeks since they chased down that runner…2 weeks since their kiss. Deidara shock his head, 'No that kiss was an accident I shouldn't even bother thinking about it, even if his lips felt really soft and warm and….' Deidara smacked himself 'No, bad thoughts, bad thoughts, he's my partner for crying out loud!' Deidara looked up from his lunch to find the others staring at him strangely.
"Um, I think I'm going to go get some air, un." Deidara said getting up and leaving the kitchen, the others looking curiously after him. When Deidara made it outside he was happy to find that Sasori's cruiser was gone, that meant he could think about this clearly without the redhead as a distraction….
"Hello earth to Deidara! Snap the fuck out of it!" Deidara jumped, he hadn't realized that someone else was out there with him. He turned his head to find a grinning Hidan standing next to him, but once he saw the frantic look on the blonde's face his cheerful smiled turned into that of a concerned one.
"Hey are you ok?" Hidan asked, for once not cursing.
"Yea, I'm fine, un." Deidara smiled back, all thoughts of his and Sasori's kiss temporarily forgotten.
"That's great, because I was wondering if you wanted to go out this weekend."
"…Like a…date, un?" Deidara hesitantly asked, not wanting to ruin his friendship with the silver haired Jashinst but also considering the option, he had always liked Hidan and he knew he was at least bi while Hidan knew that Deidra was gay, having accidently walked in on the blonde while he was in the bathroom getting a little 'reading' done. XD
"If you don't want it to be it doesn't have to, but the options open." Hidan smiled, but clearly a bit nervous from the blonde's reaction.
"Um…"
"Deidara." Sasori called walking over to the blonde.
"Yes, un?" Deidara said his heart pumping faster, 'this is not good, this is not good, un!'
"What are you doing out here?" Sasori said, eyeing Hidan in a suspicious manner.
"I'm just getting some air and…"
"And if you don't mind puppet fucker we were in the middle of a private conversation." Hidan said turning his attention back to the blonde.
"So what do you say?"
"Um…. I…"
"Say about what?" Sasori asked frowning.
"None of your damn business that's what?" Hidan snapped.
"What did you say to me?" Sasori said stepping closer to Hidan, his fists clenched.
"You heard me!" Hidan said, mirroring the redhead's moves.
"Guys! Guys! Calm down!" Deidara said stepping in between the two.
"Sasori Danna relax, Hidan just asked me if I wanted to hang out this weekend, un."
"Well you can't, you and me are signed up for rounds this weekend." Sasori stated clearly not happy.
"Fine how about tonight, seeing as it's a Friday." Hidan said, putting his back to the red head to smile at Deidara, but at the same time giving Sasori the finger on the other side.
"Um…"
"You can't, you have work." Sasori snapped, debating on whether or not he should snap off Hidan's finger with a pair of rusty pliers.
"I get off work at 5, un."
"Well you still can't." Sasori said crossing his arms.
"And why not, un!" The blonde said putting a hand on his hip.
"…Because…. because…."
"Sasori Danna you may be my partner who has a lot more police experience than me but my personal life is none of you business, un."
"Brat, just get back to work!" Sasori snapped.
"Fine, un, that won't be a problem, come on Hidan!" Deidara said, grabbing the silver haired man's hand and pulling him along, while Sasori just stared furiously after the two.
"And by the way Hidan, un, I would love to go out with you tonight!" Deidara called, loud enough for Sasori to hear. The redhead watched the pair as they walked on, feeling a lump forming in his chest.