Hey sup everyone? I do hope you all are having an awesome day! :D Welp, this is my last chapter *cries* BUT I will be doing an epilogue so I'll see you guys one more time before I conclude this story :D

This is a superrrr long chapter (it's not really that long...but in comparison to the rest of the story it's ginormous xD)

Soooo I hope you all enjoy~


"S-Sasori Danna, u-un." The blond mumbled in his sleep, he stirred a bit before settling back down. He snuggled his head into the thing he was resting his head on. He was so tired after screaming and crying caused by the experiments the snake was working on all night that he couldn't care less about what he was laying his head on. All he knew is that it was much softer than the stone cold floors of the cage.

He felt someone petting his head which caused him to abruptly sit up straight. As soon as he did, he regretted it as his head and body ached. He felt light headed from the sudden movement and fell forwards only to be caught by a pair of strong arms.

"Well good morning, koi."

Deidara's head snapped up to see Sasori looking down at him with a soft smile. He felt tears of pure joy prick the corners of his eyes as he embraced his lover. He smiled threw the soreness and pain not really minding it too much at the moment. Sasori didn't seem to mind either as he hugged back just as enthusiastically.

They held each other just enjoying the other's company. Sure they would see each other in the lab, but they would never be able to interact, or hell, if they even spoke out of turn they would get punished by the devilish snake man. Never before were they placed in the same cage together since their abduction either, so this time they had now was blissful enough for them both.

After a while, Deidara decided to break the silence and pull back slightly to look over his lover. "H-how have you been holding up, Danna, un? What has he done to you?"

The redhead smiled sadly at his lover before dropping his smile and lowering his gaze to the floor. He took a deep breath before muttering, "H-he…" The older teen held up his left arm to see that it looked to be pretty normal. But upon further inspection, it was clear that that wasn't his boyfriend's arm at all, but a wooden, puppet-like arm instead.

"He took my arm, and replaced it with a puppet arm." He chuckled bitterly, "That bastard always thought that my love of puppets was stupid, so he decided to make me into my own art."

The blond furrowed his brows as he grabbed the wooden appendage, running his fingers delicately over the wooden surface and tracing each line and joint.

Sasori's gaze followed his lover's finger inspecting the new 'modification' to his body. He cleared his throat speaking softly, "So, what did that bastard do to you, love?" His concerned chocolate eyes locked with his boyfriend's stunning azure ones.

The blond took a breath before holding up his hands, palms up, for his boyfriend to see. Sasori gasped at each mouth in the middle of the younger teen's palms. He frowned before taking his own index finger and tracing the lips of each mouth causing the younger to shiver at the contact.

While they were busy marveling in distaste at their lovers' new features, neither teen heard the footsteps entering the room. Nor did they notice when the figure stopped to stare at them for a moment. They finally recognized the figure when a set of keys were thrown into the cage as the person muttered, "Hurry up and get the hell out of here before I change my fucking mind." Before turning, and exiting the room.

Deidara gapped at the keys sitting on the cement floor. Sasori jolted up and snatched the keys from the ground, unlocking the cage as quickly as he could. Once the 'click' was heard he yanked open the door to the cage and grabbed his boyfriend's wrist before sprinting out the door.

They ran through corridor upon corridor but couldn't seem to find the exit to this damned hideout. They hit another dead end and went to turn around but stopped in their tracks when they heard the oh-so-familiar chuckling of the one and only, Orochimaru.

"Aww, how did you two get out of your cage?" He scowled, "Hideki let you out didn't he? He'll have to be punished as well for this." He sighed and shook his head.

Sasori glared venomously at the raven haired man. He growled, "I'm so fucking done with you, Orochimaru. I thought Pein and I were rid of you back in Suna," he chuckled bitterly, "guess not."

The older male's scowl deepened at the redhead's words. "You and that other brat did do a number on me and my associates," He chuckled darkly, "But in order to kill a snake, you must first cut off its head."

Sasori snorted, "I'll keep that in mind."

"You'll fucking pay for this you bastard, un!" Deidara piped up. He began to tremble in rage, his once sparkling azure eyes were now very cold and harsh. He yanked his wrist free of the redhead's grip before slowly approaching the snake himself.

Orochimaru laughed hysterically at the fearless, determined look on the blonde's face. "And how is a little blond slut supposed to stop me all by yourself?" He said between laughs.

Deidara smirked wickedly, before chuckling sinisterly. "You really need to look over your inventory better, bastard, un." He pulled out a syringe with a mysterious black liquid in it.

The raven haired man ceased all laughter, his eyes widening at the needle in the teen's hand. "Wh-where did you g-get that?" he stammered over his words.

The blond teen grinned ear to ear, "Like I said, un; you really need to look over your inventory better." He chuckled, "I snatched it the moment you left me to suffer on the metal table last night."

The older male's eyes widened even more. He opened and closed his mouth trying to form words but nothing came out. For every step forward the blond took, the older male took two steps back.

Deidara chuckled again, "You thought I was paralyzed, huh?" another step, "Well," step, "it'll take more," step, "than that," step, "to stop me," step, step. He whispered smoothly, "from killing you, un." He charged toward the snakelike man at full speed.

Orochimaru's eyes narrowed as he swiftly dodged the charging teen's deadly needle.

Deidara growled. He turned around and swung his leg around and landed a harsh kick to the older man's jaw, sending him tumbling to the floor.

The raven haired man spat out a lost tooth. He snarled at the smirking teen, reaching into his pocket, he grabbed out a syringe much like the blonde's, except his was dull orange in colour.

He jumped to his feet, charging at the blond with the syringe raised and ready to strike. Deidara's eyes widened, before he ducked out of the way.

Orochimaru smirked before slamming his needle down on the back of the blonde's neck, shooting the venomous liquid into the pained blonde's veins.

Deidara let out a pained cry before falling limp to the cold, hard floor.

Sasori finally managed to move from his stunned position. He rushed over to his boyfriend's limp body, pulling him into his lap.

"Deidara? Deidara? D-Deidara, babe, please say something." His eyes began to tear up as he gazed down at his lover's peaceful expression. "DEIDARA!" Tears were falling from his glazed over chocolate eyes, cascading down his flushed cheeks.

Orochimaru chuckled, which soon escalated into a full blown sadistic laughter. "Give it up, Sassy-kun! There's no way the slut is still alive!" He threw his head back and cackled evilly.

Sasori glared at the older male through his tears, "Shut the fuck up!" Each word was dripping with venom and hate.

The raven haired man paused in his laughter to grin sinisterly at the seething redhead, "Too bad, he really was a beauty. With that tight little ass of his-"

"SHUT UP!"

The snakelike man laughed loudly again before abruptly stopping and slumping to the floor in a heap. He choked and hacked before vomiting, blood and bile littering the floor around him. "Hi-Hideki y-you bastard!" He wheezed out. He reached behind his neck to pull out an emptied syringe.

Hideki chuckled, "I can't believe you didn't see that coming, snake bitch." The younger raven haired male walked past Orochimaru's dying body, but as he passed, he landed a swift kick to the withering snake on the floor, earning a pained yelp followed by more hacking.

Hideki crouched down by the couple, he softly pushed Sasori away just enough for him to place his ear on the blonde's chest.

His eyes widened, "He-he's still alive…Quick! Akasuna, pick him up! I can still save him!" He jumped up and began jogging through the corridors to the lab where the experiments were held, Sasori hastily following behind.

"Put him on that table, quickly! But be careful." He motioned his head to the table behind him as he gathered supplies needed to help the blond.

Sasori carefully placed the blond on the table Hideki motioned to. He whipped his tears, smiling down at the blond. He gently took the blonde's limp hand in his own. He whispered softly, "Don't worry, Dei. You're going to be okay."

"Alright, Akasuna, I'm going to need you to give me some space."

Sasori nodded. He gave Deidara's hand one last squeeze and placed a gentle kiss on his cold forehead. "I love you, Dei." He backed away from the table and allowed Hideki the space he needed.

Sasori watched Hideki intently as he worked to keep Deidara alive. He chewed on the inside of his cheek, seconds felt like hours. Time seemed to slow down as he watched the shallow rise and fall of the boy's chest on the table.

His mind seemed to drift back to when he first saw Deidara.

It was the first day of high school. Teens flooded the building moaning and groaning about having to go back to school and how they wished it was still summer vacation.

Sasori was starting his first day of Softmore year. He casually walked down the hallways next to his best friend, Pein. Pein was a year older than Sasori, but he had to repeat the 6th grade, which was the year the two teens became the best of friends.

Sasori sat in the back of his homeroom class, bored out of his mind. He glanced around the room lazily and uninterested. He wasn't lucky enough to have his pierced friend in his homeroom, but he had classes with him throughout the rest of the day, so it wasn't too bad.

"Alright class!" Iruka's voice sounded over all of the talking. "We have some new students joining us today, so I want everyone to give them a warm welcome."

Sasori glanced over to the students entering one by one and introducing themselves to the class. Nothing special really. New people moved to Konoha every year, these brats weren't any different.

A freshman year student entered the class next. "Hello, where are you moving here from?" Iruka offered the young teen a welcoming smile.

The teen grinned like an idiot, "Hey, un!" He jabbed his thumb to his chest, "The name's Iwa. Deidara Iwa. I just moved here from Iwagakure." He made eye contact with almost everyone in the room before shooting a sexy smirk coupled by a wink to the blushing girls, and some gapping boys, "Nice to meet you, un."

Most of the girls squealed, while others fainted. Some of the boys blushed and looked away as the blond snickered at the reactions he received before strutting to an empty seat by the window, making sure to add a little extra swing to the hips for those still staring.

Sasori gawked at the young teen. He was gorgeous! The way his long golden blond hair cascaded over his shoulders and down his back, to his stunning azure eyes, the boy was beautiful.

The blond seemed to since a few stray eyes on him and smirked, turning his head slightly so he could get a peek at who was still staring. He looked around until dazzling azure eyes met curious chocolate ones.

Deidara winked before returning his gaze to the outside. Sasori blushed slightly and raised a brow. Did he just wink?

The older teen shook his head. Of course not! He's just a little brat who thinks he's hot shit! Even though he is…and he's got a cute little ass…

Sasori's eyes widened as thoughts of the blond filled his head. Inappropriate thoughts. Inappropriate thoughts that he wished he could do to the blond right then and there…

He shook his head again. No no no no no no no no! …Maybe…shit! He groaned as he felt his pants becoming tighter. Shit shit shit! Stupid blond brat!

He excused himself from the classroom to fix his 'problem' in the bathroom.

Over the course of the year, Sasori had watched the blond from a far, creepy right? He'd come to the realization that his attraction to the beautiful blond was more than just physical.

He had learned that the blond had a very bright and bubbly personality, which would later change. He also found out that the younger teen was into art; he wondered what kind of art the boy enjoyed but he would never ask.

Not now anyways.

What would be the point of falling for the blond when he's already dating someone? Yeah that's right. The gorgeous blond had a boyfriend. Uchiha Itachi. Bastard.

Oh well, Sasori was never really into dating anyways, so he opted to just try and forget about the blond.

Until the day they bumped into each other again, that is.

"D-Danna?"

Sasori was pulled from his memories by the weak, raspy sound of his boyfriend. He rushed over to the awakening blond attempting to sit up.

He gently gripped the blonde's still cold hand, intertwining their fingers. The blond weakly opened his azure eyes to see the smiling face of his boyfriend. He returned the smile, "Hey, Danna, un." His voice was barely a whisper.

Sasori gave the blonde's hand a light squeeze, bringing the back of it to his lips. He placed a soft kiss to the back of the younger teen's hand, muttering, "Hey, love."

"Alright, alright. Gross." Hideki made fake gagging noises before smirking. "Let's get outta this shit hole." Sasori and Deidara both nodded, and with Sasori supporting Deidara, they both headed to the door.

"Aaahhhhh!" Hideki blinked but didn't react fast enough to dodge the syringe pircing through his calf.

"Shit!" Hideki hissed as he fell to the ground.

"Didn't I tell you; to kill a snake, one must first cut off its head?" Orochimaru chuckled weakly before limply falling to the floor, beside the withering Hideki.

"Hideki, un!"

Deidara used all of his strength to sprint over to where Hideki now lay. He sat on the floor, placing the raven haired man's head into his lap.

"Fuck." Hideki coughed violently, hacking up some blood in the process.

"Danna quick! We have to do something, un!" Deidara franticly began to attempt to lift Hideki, an impossible task considering he was still weak from the poison from earlier.

The older male gripped the teen's wrist, chuckling, "Don't bother. I'll be dead in minutes without the antidote right away."

Deidara's face dropped as his eyes began to fill with tears. "Hi-Hideki, un." He pulled the older male into a gentle embrace. "I f-forgive you, u-un."

Hideki smiled at the teen, returning the embrace. "Thanks, kid." He chuckled weakly again before going into another coughing attack.

Sasori placed a comforting hand on the blonde's shoulder as he crouched down beside the duo. He softly said, "Orochimaru's dead. For sure this time."

Hideki and Deidara nodded. "Good." Lifeless onyx eyes met tearful azure ones, as he smiled again. "Deidara…thank…you…" His eyes fluttered shut, and his chest ceased its rising and falling.

Deidara stared down at the corpse of his stepfather and smiled at the content expression on his face. "You're welcome, Hideki, un."


D'awww! This was so touching T^T (for me anyways :P)

I just wanna say, thank you all so much for sticking with me all this time. I've really enjoyed writing this and it makes me super happy that you all liked reading it too. Your reviews and comments on this make my day 10x better and it always puts a huge grin on my face :) I love reading every review you all leave and I usually respond to all of them as soon as I can. This has been my first ever story (like a lengthy story, not a one shot) so maybe in the future I'll rewrite it to improve it once I've had a bit more experience with writing good fanfics. Asdfghjkl; YOU GUYS ROCK! x3

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