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Please Note: The ending to this story contains foreshadowing-ish spoilers. I'd have warned ya'll earlier, but I didn't know.

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While Deidara stood above the bird trying to decide the best way to tell Pein he'd killed his partner for annoying him Tobi clutched desperately to the underside of Deidara's bird. Deidara would be the death of him. One day Deidara would blow himself up and Tobi would be unable to escape such a massive explosion, he wasn't even sure he wanted to.

Unaware of Tobi clinging desperately to the bottom of the bird Deidara decided to land and at least look for some pieces of his dead partner. When the bird got close enough to the ground for Tobi to leap off unnoticed he let go of the bird and fell to the ground. From behind a tree he watched Deidara search for Tobi-pieces.

"Damn it! Nothing, un!" Deidara swore before collapse onto a large log.

"You really are stupid, un." He told himself, "Who gives a damn about a dead puppet, un?" Deidara leaned his head back and stared up at the sky and laughed bitterly.

"Tobi is a retard, but he's to only god damn honest person in the organization. You tell yourself ya' want to be loved, but the people you want are dead. And now you had your chance and you blew it up, un." Deidara shook his head; maybe he wouldn't go back to the Akatsuki all. The sound of a breaking twig brought a bit of clay to his hand.

"You know senpai; you sound funny when you talk to yourself." Tobi stepped out into plan view and Deidara very nearly tried to blow him up again.

"If you keep talking to yourself like that Deidara-senpai, people are going to think you're turning out like Zetsu-sama and then they'll wonder how long it'll be before you need a plant pot and start eating people." Deidara just looked at him with a shocked expression. Tobi let his shoulders drop and came to sit by Deidara.

"You know Deidara-senpai; I only annoy you so you'll pay attention to me. I'd rather have you mad at me, then not have you at all."

"Maybe I owe ya' more of a chance, un, but you've got to admit you're an annoying little bastard." Deidara smiled vaguely at Tobi.

Sasori. Itachi. Hidan. He was very use to being something worthless; maybe it was time to give meaning something a try. He glanced over at Tobi and was met with that stomach turning orange mask.

"You know I have no idea what you look like under that mask, un"

"That's the point of a mask, senpai."

"Take it off, un."

"No."

"Take off the damn mask,un."

"No, senpai." Deidara snarled and tackled the mask man to the ground and rip the mask off victoriously. The face that met his eyes was not the one he'd been expecting. A large glassy black eye started up from a pale face its pair lifeless and foggy. The dark hair that hung down in Tobi's face partly obscured the ruined eyes. There was something familiar about the face, perhaps how the nose was set or how the mouth turned, but Deidara wasn't given time to contemplate it because suddenly those familiar lips were one his own.

Hesitantly Deidara kissed back and when Tobi rolled flipping their positions he let it happen. With uncertainty Deidara wound his arms around Tobi to bring him close, but then he felt it. It was faint, but Deidara recognized it. It was an Uchiha's charka, and it wasn't Itachi's. Deidara broke the kiss and snarled softly with animal vindication.

"Uchiha," His voice laced with hurt and the need to hurt someone else. He was too focused to noticed how Tobi stiffened, "Sasuke."

"Itachi's little brother? Didn't you want to try your anti-Sharingan technique on him, senpai?" Tobi's voice sounded shaken, but Deidara just nodded.

"Come on Tobi let's go get that Orochimaru killing bastard, un." As Deidara jumped up and as Tobi reached for his mask he got the sickening feeling that, that kiss would be the only one he ever got from Deidara.

--THE END--

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AN: So is the end bad? Yes, but after two weeks with nothing I decided to sit down and finish this story, and I've discovered that TobiDeidara reallyisn't my thing. Oh well.I'm such a nerd. I was writing about the log and I'll I could think about was logarithms which could also explain a lot about this story. I was also having a 90's day and I was listening to 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys while writing this, which is odd because normally I'm a Linkin' Park or Blaqk Audio type person when I write. Oh and a note on how Deidara talks to himself like he's another person, that's how I talk to myself so that's how Deidara does it! No, I'm not narcissistic at all. Also I know I messed with the time line a little here, but if don't read the manga you probably don't care anyway. –Morana