Sasuke walked down the cold, dim lit hallway. He got to the huge wooden doors and pushed them open to reveal Orochimaru and Kabuto waiting for him.
"What did you want?" He asked coldly. Just because Orochimaru was training him doesn't mean he wanted to spend any more time than necessary with him.
"Orochimaru-sama is training you. You should have more respect." Kabuto said smartly, pushing up his glasses.
Orochimaru waved him off. "I just thought you might want to hear some news I came about." He said, sitting himself down on a chair that resembled a throne.
When he didn't comment, he took it a sign to continue. "It involves your friend Naruto-kun."
Sasuke tensed slightly and tried to look uninterested. "That idiot isn't my friend." He replied.
Orochimaru eyes gleamed and he smiled. "As you know I have many spies around Konoha, and one of them is assigned to… look after Naruto-kun, so when he told me that an Akatsuki member was staying at his house, I thought it would be information you would like to know."
Sasuke's face remained impassive but on the inside he held so many questions. "Who?" He asked, trying to make his voice sound neutral.
Orochimaru smiled wider. "Oh not to worry, it isn't Itachi, the man staying with Naruto-kun is Deidara. You haven't met him of course, but it seems Naruto-kun has known him for a while."
Sasuke felt something twist in the pit of his stomach and suddenly felt angry. "Thank you." He grit out, before stalking off to his room.
He was going to find out more about this "Deidara" person and why he knows Naruto.
"Get up you lazy loser!" screamed Naruto, centimeters away from Deidara's ear. "Good morning to you too." he replied sarcastically.
Naruto put his hands on his hips. "We are going to go have fun!" he said determinedly. Deidara smirked. "What kind of fun?"
Naruto turned red and spluttered. "HENTAI!" he screamed, throwing a pillow at his face. Deidara caught it with ease.
Naruto glared at him but huffed and crossed his arms. "We are going to the festival tonight. We are going to have to go shopping for yukatas…" he thought to himself.
"But won't that be kind of hard, considering I'm a missing nin and all? Wont people recognize me?" Deidara asked doubtfully. Naruto rolled his eyes.
You can just wear a disguise or something. Just cut your hai-""NO WAY!" Deidara yelled, clutching at his hair like a lifeline.
"My hair is like…like…what ramen is to you, except it affects my appearance! No way in hell am I cutting it off."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Okay fine. You can just cast a genjutsu that makes it look like you cut your hair. You can change your eye color and other stuff too."
Deidara relaxed. "Okay, we'll do that." Naruto laughed. "You're such a drama queen." Deidara glared at him.
"So, let's eat breakfast and go." Naruto said, walking towards the kitchen. Naruto made some eggs and they ate in a comfortable silence.
Once they finished, Deidara cast a genjutsu over himself to make his hair appear shorter and brown and turned his eyes green.
Naruto looked him over, "Not bad. I wouldn't recognize you." He said, circling him. "Okay! Now we can leave."
They walked down the busy street and were about to go into the store when Kiba caught sight of Naruto.
"Hey man! I haven't seen you around in a while!" He yelled, running over and tackling him in a giant bear hug with Akamaru following close after.
"Nice to see you too Kiba, but would you mind not crushing my bones?" Naruto laughed. Kiba let go of Naruto and was about to say something, but caught sight of Deidara.
Naruto saw him looking and quickly made up a story. "Oh! This is Len. He's um…Granny Tsunade's nephew. I was showing him around and I told him there was a festival tonight and we decided to go shopping for clothes to wear."
Kiba seemed to buy it and grinned. "Nice to meet ya Len! My name is Kiba!" he said holding out his hand.
Deidara took it and shook it quickly. "So Kiba, did you ask Hinata to go with you to the festival?" Naruto asked nudging his friend.
"Y-Yeah, she said yes." He replied blushing.
Naruto laughed and pulled Deidara's arm. "Okay, well good luck and congrats! We need to get going."
Kiba smiled and started walking off while looking over his shoulder. "Bye Naruto! Nice to meet you Len!"
Deidara waved "likewise."
They went into the store and were greeted with the sight of hundreds of Kimonos and Yukatas. Naruto's face lit up and immediately started looking around.
Deidara slowly made his way around and ended up picking a dark blue one with a red Obi. He tried it on and showed Naruto.
"It suits you." he smiled. "I like it!" Deidara smiled and went back to change into his regular clothes. "I'm going to try mine on!" Naruto called through the door. "Okay." he replied.
Deidara came out and sat on the couch in front of Naruto's changing room. When Naruto came out, Deidara had to try his best not to stare, but failed miserably.
Naruto had a light yellow yukata on with darker yellow sun patterns on it and a dark blue obi with lighter moon patterns on it. The sleeves were long near the wrist and would sway when he moved.
It hugged his body that was surprisingly curvy and it reached his ankles. "Do you like it?" Naruto asked, looking down at himself. "If you don't I could get a diff-""No! It's perfect!" Naruto looked at him strangely and deidara blushed.
"Um, I mean, its fine."
Naruto smiled and went to change back into his clothes. When he came out, they paid for them and left.
People were already putting up lanterns and games for the festival. They had one every summer but he had only been once with team seven.
Naruto smiled at the memory and Deidara caught the look. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.
"Oh, nothing. Just something that happened while I went to the festival with my team." Deidara raised an eyebrow.
"Care to elaborate?"
Naruto smiled again. "Well, we went to the festival together since we were a team and everybody else was going, so we went." Deidara looked down at Naruto. His smile was sad in a way.
"Sasuke didn't really want to go but he caved after "The puppy dog eyes."" Deidara knew how dangerous Naruto's eyes can be and shuddered at the thought.
"There were so many games and Sasuke decided to give me the goldfish he won. I was so happy and bought it a fishbowl and decorations and everything." Naruto laughed. "I even named it Sasuke…and when it died I cried for days."
Deidara wasn't exactly happy about this memory because it was featuring Uchiha Sasuke, but found the story cute.
"Well this time, I'll win you a goldfish and you can name it Deidara." He smirked.
Naruto laughed and hit him playfully.
Deidara smiled, he seemed to be doing that a lot, thanks to Naruto.
So I decided to stop writing in ultra long paragraphs and start writing like almost everyone else. Oh and another thing. I FORGOT TO ADD "UN" TO ALL OF DEIDARA'S SETENCES, but I'm not going to bother changing it now. I'm probably going to end up saying this every time I write a new chapter…Sorry for the shortness! Next chapter, THE FESTIVAL! Thanks to everyone who reviews and alerts. Love ya!