First I wanted to thank everyone who reviewed or added me to their favorite stories - THANK you all!! I've never had so many replies in just two days! And as promised, here is chapter five. I know that there has been a small mistake in chapter four - perhaps some people might have read it but the chapter five that was accidentally added to chapter four was the wrong one! Here's chapter five as it should be. Enjoy :)

PS: I don't own Naruto

Chapter five: Dinner

"And? How are things going?"

The question came from Sakura's best friend, Ino. She was blond and could be very nice if she wanted to, but wasn't really the cleverest person to talk to. Right now, she sat next to Sakura on the wide couch of her new apartment, and Deidara sat as far away from the two girls as possible. He looked outside of the windows, at the still dim stars, and had an expression on his face that could best be defined as "Bored as Hell".

Sakura shrugged and remembered the little accident in the shower. "Quite okay," she muttered, feeling the little wound on her upper lip. As Deidara had pushed her against the wall so that she lost balance, she had smacked her face against the hard tiles. "I mean, if you look in what kind of situation I'm in.."

Ino nodded, suddenly serious. "Haven't they found a solution yet? They cant let you walk around with this criminal forever, can they?"

Sakura sighed, feeling drowsy all of a sudden. It had gotten evening and Ino hadn't been the first one to visit. To be exact, three others had come before her, and she had been forced to tell the entire story three times in a row. To Hinata, Temari and Ten-Ten who had dropped by all on different times.

"I don't know, really. Tsunade-sama seemed quite… well… uncertain about these chains."

She remembered a short visit of the Hokage, a half hour after the shower accident. She had told them that there would be no interrogations today. Not because of the dare between Sakura and Deidara, but because of the fact that Ibiki was currently on a mission and thus unable to interrogate anyone.

"It seemed like she really panicked when she saw me stuck to… him."

As an answer, Deidara sniffed at the two girls and Sakura rolled her eyes. Ino raised an eyebrow and then frowned. "Why isn't he talking?" she asked, lowering her voice. "Did something happen to his voice when you two got connected or something?"

Sakura shook her head and then blushed. "No, that's not it. You see, he can make you wish that you didn't have gotten ears. And this morning, well, I dared him not to talk for an entire day." She grinned. "Not actually daring, more like suggesting us not talking to each other anymore. He agreed, but gave me a condition."

Ino stared at Sakura with a blank expression. "So you mean he would only stop talking if you did something for him?"

"That's right."

"And have you already done that or…"

As an answer, Sakura blushed so deeply that her cheeks looked like giant strawberries and she bowed her head. "Not exactly."

This made Ino curious, as could have been suspected. "Then what is it that you have to do?" She asked, sounding slightly thrilled. "Not something…" she lowered her voice. "Perverted? Coz in that case you should just ignore him, you know. I mean, it's not like he owns you now he's stuck to you…"

Deidara cleared his throat quite loud and the two girls looked up from their conversation.

"Oops," Ino giggled. "Forgot he was here too."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Happens to me all the time." And Deidara poked her side with his elbow, still looking bored.

They started talking about all kinds and sorts of things, and Sakura was happy that she had found a way to talk herself out of the awkward situation. After a while, Ino suggested going home as it was late, and the three stood from the couch.

"So then I'll see you tom- wait a second."

Ino glared at Sakura, who felt a drop of cold sweat run down her neck. "What?"

"Forehead, you changed the subject!!" Ino shrieked, pointing at Sakura. "you still haven't told me what he made you do! Tell me tell me!" and she pouted at Sakura like a small child begging for cookies.

Sakura, again, felt her cheeks flush. She hadn't told Ino about what happened that morning and hadn't really been planning on doing so either. She was just about to start lying her way around this when Deidara poked her side lightly. He smirked at her and then nodded, earning a rather quizzical look from Sakura and Ino both.

He sighed and then walked to the counter, grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and then started quibbling down something. Ino and Sakura shared some puzzled looks. Sakura shrugged when Ino gave her a what-the-hell-is-going-on look and then Sakura tried to read what Deidara was writing.

He didn't let her though but passed the little white note to Ino, who took it from his hands and started to read. With every word she read, her eyebrows raised up further until Sakura thought that they were going to disappear in her hair.

She glanced at Deidara, but he didn't react at all so she walked up to Ino. "What does it say?" she asked, noticing that her voice was trembling lightly. Ino looked up to her with gigantic, shocked eyes.

"Is this true?" she whispered, barely able to talk. Sakura frowned. "What is true? What does it say!?" and Ino handed the note over to Sakura who started reading.

"This morning, your little pink haired friend over here woke me up in a rather interesting way. I wont go in the details, hmm. But she seemed so eager to do it again that I gave her the opportunity. So the little story she just told you wasn't the complete one, as she left out the fact that she was licking my neck this morning, drooling all over me. You understand what I'm trying to say?"

Sakura let out a roar of anger and then turned to Deidara. "I… You… I cannot… you shall… RAAH!! EAT THIS DAMN IT!!" and she grabbed his shoulders and then smashed her knee full between his legs, aiming for the most painful spot. She hit it full and he collapsed, and the next moment an awful pain hit Sakura as well. It wasn't really coming from one spot like the other injuries, but that could've been suspected by the part of Deidara that had gotten hurt and what Sakura obviously lacked. But the pain was there still.

Sakura clang to Ino as Deidara stumbled on the floor, muttering curses between his clenched teeth and holding the hit spot carefully. "Ino," she said, shaking and trying not to vomit, "I think its best for you to go home now," and she gave the blonde a trembling quick hug with one arm. "I'll be fine, okay?"

Ino just nodded and then walked outside, her face still frozen of shock. She didn't even close the door behind her and Sakura was forced to drag Deidara to the door to close it.

She would never, ever, kick him there again. This pain was… awful. Horrific.

"Why did you… why did you write that?" she asked, still hanging onto the doorpost. He looked up to her and gave her a foul smirk, and then he shrugged. This made Sakura a bit irritated. "How do you mean? Did you just ... do it on a whim?"

He waited a few seconds and then nodded, still smirking. Sakura gave him a death glare and then felt ready to walk again. Also did Deidara as he got up slowly.

"Let's eat some dinner. I'm starving," Sakura stated and she dragged herself to the kitchen, with Deidara following her in just a feet. Then she started searching through the fridge and the cupboards to see if there was any food. She found out that there was, but, for a weird reason, she could only find boxes with ramen-to-go.

Must've been Naruto who helped Tsunade out in getting food here, she thought sighing while she got two boxes and read the heating instructions. I guess that eating ramen as complete dinner wont hurt if you just do it once…

Just when she was about to put the ramen into the microwave, Deidara tapped her on the shoulder. She looked around. "Something wrong?"

He pointed at the ramen, gave her a very puzzled look and then shrugged. It took Sakura a few seconds to realize what he meant. Her jaw dropped to the floor.

"You've never eaten ramen? You're serious?"

Deidara got a bit of a color and gave her an angry glare. Sakura giggled. "Well, let this be the first time then. Do you know that Na- I mean the Jinchuuriki you're chasing on eats nothing else than this?"

When he shrugged she continued. "He eats it all the time. For breakfast, for lunch, for dinner. I cant believe that he's still so healthy and everything. I've warned him several times for the fact that it really isn't very nutritive and so has Tsunade-sama, but he just wont listen…"

She stopped herself. She was babbling. Babbling against an S-Class criminal who obviously didn't give a damn about it. She heard him sigh and then gave him a slightly apologetic look, a bit ashamed of herself. Then she put the ramen into the microwave and adjusted the heat to the right temperature.

A few minutes later the microwave beeped to state that the food was ready, and when Sakura opened the door of the microwave a delicious smell floated out of it. She took the two steaming boxes of ramen and gestured to Deidara to grab some chopsticks and then the two made their way to the little dinner table. They sat down, with their chained arm lying on the table and their other arm hanging next to them.

Sakura stared at the chopsticks and then to her free hand, her right one. In the afternoon they had eaten a small sandwich so she hadn't been forced to use chopsticks. But now… she was left handed. She could never eat her ramen with her right one.

She tried it, and under the gaze of Deidara, dropped a large pile of ramen next to the box in her clumsy attempt on eating. She blushed and then shove the ramen back into the box and tried again. Same result.

Deidara didn't seem to have the same problem as she. The bastard, she thought while looking at him. He's left handed too. At least he can still use his left hand.

But he wasn't eating. He was just staring at the ramen that hung onto his chopsticks with a fascinated look on his face. "Are you going to eat that?" Sakura asked, getting slightly irritated with him. She tried another time and this time she managed to grasp one wisp of ramen and then slurped it inside. He raised an eyebrow.

Then he opened his mouth and carefully shoved the ramen inside. Then he started chewing while looking at the ramen box intensively. Sakura felt herself glaring at him but couldn't help herself as curiosity got the better part of her and she kept staring.

Suddenly Deidara's eyes flew open. He looked at Sakura and for a moment she was afraid that he would spit it all out on her, but then he started eating like in a marathon, holding the ramen box with his chained hand and thus pulling Sakura over the table while shoving in the ramen at top speed.

"OY! Deidara! Oy!!" Sakura lay on the table in a very uncomfortably position while Deidara kept swallowing more and more ramen with disgusting sounds. "I'm still here too!!!"

But he didn't react and didn't stop eating for five more minutes. Then he smacked the now empty box of ramen on the table and burped out loud. Then he saw Sakura still lying on the table, on her belly, looking at him with eyes that shot fire.

He raised both of his eyebrows and then placed his chained arm back on the table, allowing Sakura to get back on her chair. She did and then grabbed her chopsticks again, gave Deidara one more angry glare, and then started eating ramen. Or trying to.

After ten more futile attempts she heard Deidara sigh. She was just about to gave him an angry retort when she suddenly felt Deidara's hand on hers. She looked up at him but he didn't meet her gaze.

He took her chopsticks out of her hands carefully and then used them himself. He took a large pile of ramen out of the box and Sakura got angry again. Her cheeks got redder than before. "HEY! That's MY food you know!!"

Now he finally met her eyes and Sakura became totally silent. His eyes… they had changed. Changed dramatically. The harshness and the early competitive stare had disappeared and had left an emotion that Sakura could only define as… care taking. And soft…

When he slowly moved the chopsticks with ramen to her face, she realized that he was actually trying to feed her. She gave him a puzzled look and felt her cheeks flush heavily when he carefully pressed the ramen against her still closed lips. Then she opened her mouth a little bit, allowing him to feed her like a baby.

The ramen were delicious even though they were a bit cold, and she couldn't help closing her eyes and sighing out of relief. She heard him chuckle and quickly recovered, seeing that he had another chopstick of ramen ready. So she ate that too, and the next one too, until the ramen box was empty and Sakura felt so full that she was afraid she might explode.

"Thank you," she whispered while he sat back on his chair again, leaning back a bit. He shrugged at her and then smirked and Sakura saw that his eyes had turned back to normal again.

"You know," Sakura said while they threw away the ramen boxes and cleaned their chopsticks. "I could ask Ino to do your hair. I mean…" she looked at him. "I'm not really a barber and… well.." she giggled. "You can see that."

He gave her a slightly angry but more irritated look.

"Well? What do you think? Should I ask her?"

He tilted his head sideways and was obviously thinking it over, until he nodded. Sakura smiled at him. "Then I'll ask her tomorrow, okay? We cant get out of the apartment now, it's evening."

He nodded.

"wait… it's… it's evening…"

He nodded again.

She felt her pulse increase. It was evening. The end of Deidara not speaking. The end of the lovely quiet time, and the beginning of fulfilling the condition he had given her early that morning. In short saying: She would have to kiss him.

She felt her stomach knit together and swallowed hard, looking at her feet. "Where?" she muttered, slowly looking up at him again. Inside of her she was pleading that she would have to kiss his neck again, like this morning when she had thought he was Sasuke. But when she saw him looking at him, she knew that he wasn't going to let her go with that.

Slowly, torturing slowly, he placed his finger on his lips, and then grinned full at her. She felt her cheeks flush and her palms getting sweaty as she stared at his lips.

I'll make it quick, she thought while stepping closer very slowly. A short kiss… like a peck on the cheek. Just imagine that he's Sas- NO, DON'T imagine that he's Sasuke, that'll make things worse.

He gave her a satisfied smirk. Sakura's insides were running around aimlessly as she knew that she had to do this. And on top of that, as soon as she had done it, he would start talking and thus start irritating her again. And then there was the fact that she was actually dating Sasuke – or something like that. She saw him a few times a month when he came back from his missions, but their relationship was romantic and they were very close.

And kissing Deidara did make her feel guilty.

She caught herself staring at his lips and then looked up at his eyes. She took a deep breath and then stepped forwards. Her chest touched his as she placed her hands on his shoulders to steady herself as she went on tiptoes very slowly. She forced herself not to look into his eyes as she felt his breath tickle on her face and his body warmth radiating off him.

Then she leaned in and placed her lips on his.

She was amazed by their softness as she hadn't expected that at all. He didn't touch her, he didn't do anything, while Sakura still stood there, her eyes closed firmly, her lips on his.

Something inside of her started screaming. She had to stop. She had to pull back now, she had to stop now, she HAD to stop now or she would… no, perhaps he would…

But she couldn't. She couldn't pull back. It was like she was GLUED to his lips, like there was something keeping her there. And then strange feelings started to rush into her brain, dazzling around and making her feel dizzy.

She felt his hands on her shoulders and then he applied small pressure on them, carefully pushing her away from him, breaking their lips off each other.

She panted and looked at her feet, totally from earth, unable to concentrate on what happened.

"Well, that was… unexpected," she heard him say. She didn't react. "For a moment I thought that we had melted together again…"

She looked at him. "This is never going to happen again," she hissed while slowly regaining her self control. "Never."

He raised an eyebrow. "Sure, hmm."

And so he's talking again! Only one thing though: remember the surveillance camera's...:)

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