Akira smiled.

"You can celebrate now, Suzuka-chan. Coz' I'm done." She said to her.

Suzuka grinned.

"HALLELUJAH! Finally! And I thought you would be as slow as a turtle."

Akira groaned.

Sweatdrop.

"Hehe. I was just kidding!"

-0-

"How?! How?! How could you have possibly figured out where the mines were?!" Deidara shouted out.

Sasuke smiled.

"I already told you…didn't I? My eyes give color to chakra." He replied.

"You could see where the mines were."

-0-

"How long will this take?" Suzuka asked.

"Hmm…forever?"

"WHAT?!?"

"No, no…just kidding. Hahaha…"

-0-

"Now…tell me…where…is…Itachi?"

Deidara didn't answer. Instead, he made clay snakes that held on to Sasuke's feet.

Sasuke was ready for a counterattack. The moment the clay snakes held onto his feet, he gave them an electric shock, causing Deidara to be thrown off backwards.

"Hehe…I'm gonna win…even if I can't move…my exploding clay can still…" He paused for a moment, "C'mon…let's see if you get a little scared, un?"

Now, what was Sasuke's opponent up to now?

"My art's gonna finish you this time…no doubt about it." Deidara then started to laugh then his facial expression changed. "THAT'S WHAT PISSES ME OFF ABOUT YOU!!! YOU AND YOUR ACCURSED BROTHER! STOP ACTING COOL!"

Sasuke kept on listening.

"THOSE EYES…THOSE GAWD DAMNED COCKY EYES OF YOURS! IT DRIVES ME INSANE! EYES THAT REJECT…THAT DISDAIN MY ART! I REFUSED TO BE LOOKED AT BY THEM ANYMORE! EYES THAT SHOW NO WONDER…NO APPRECIATION…EYES THAT IGNORE MY CREATIONS."

"I couldn't care less about all that. Now, tell me where Itachi is!" Sasuke ordered.

Deidara couldn't believe what his opponent said.

Sasuke then deactivated his sharingan.

"Even without his sharingan…he still takes me lightly…"

Sasuke was surprised when he show Deidara taking off his shirt. He then took notice of some stitches on Deidara's chest.

Deidara smiled.

-Flashback-

Two months ago, while in bed, Akira took notice of some stitches on her lover's chest.

"Deidara-kun, what are these stitches for?" She asked.

"Hmm?"

"What are these stitches for?" Akira asked again.

"Oh…this? It is simply my masterpiece…"

"Masterpiece? How?"

"In time, Akira-chan, in time…I'll tell you…when it is the right time…" Deidara said before he pressed his lips on Akira's.

-Flashback Ends-

I didn't tell her…what this is really for, Deidara thought, Oh well...

He then started to pull out the strings.

"Ouch." He uttered.

With the hardest tug, the stitches were removed completely and a mouth was seen.

Deidara started to laugh yet again.

"Behold…my masterpiece! SELF DESTRUCTION!"

He's insane, Sasuke thought.

"Death will transform me into a work of art! An explosion unlike any of the others…one that will leave scars in the earth like nothing else!" Deidara exclaimed, "A creation worthy of praise unlike anything before it!"

Sorry Tobi…Akira, he said in his head.

Tobi didn't know what his sempai was going to do.

"And you…will…DIE!!!" Deidara shouted out.

Sasuke had to move in order to escape this attack. But he couldn't. He couldn't move.

"The blast will cover more than ten kilometers! You'll never get away, un! Now…SHOW ME YOUR FEAR!"

Then, black lines appeared throughout Deidara's body.

"DROWN YOURSELF IN THE AWE…AND DESPAIR! CRY LIKE A LOST CHILD!"

Sasuke could no longer see Deidara in human form. Instead, Deidara turned into a black sphere…which was about to explode…

He had to get up…now…

-0-

"Suzuka-chan, it is done…" Akira said with a smile on her face.

The scroll began to glow.

"Well then…" Suzuka said, smiling as well, "…see you later!"

-0-

"BECAUSE MY ART…"

-0-

Akira looked up to the sky by the window.

Deidara, she said in her head.

-0-

Katsu.

"…IS A BANG!!!"

Indeed, the explosion was the biggest Sasuke and Tobi has ever saw.

"Kuh!" Sasuke said.

"What?!" Tobi uttered.

-0-

Everyone in the nearby village saw it. All were amazed.

"What on earth?!?" Akira exclaimed as she ran to the balcony.

That explosion…could it be? She thought, No…it can't—

"Akira! You're forgetting about the—"

The process was complete.

Akira's and Suzuka's eyes widened. Their bodies could no longer move at that moment.

Deidara, Akira said in her head yet again before both girls fell down on the floor, unconscious.

-0-

"WHAT'S THAT?!?"Sakura, who was among the crowd, said.

-0-

"Kakashi," Pakun called out, "Is that…"

"From this feeling of chakra, it seems…it's Akatsuki." Kakashi said to him.

-0-

Meanwhile, everyone else (Naruto, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Sai and Yamato) saw the huge explosion too.

"What was that?" Hinata asked.

"Let's go check it out." Naruto suggested.

-0-

"That area…" Suigetsu said.

-0-

"Sasuke's in that area!" Karin said to herself. She then checked if there was any sign of his chakra there. And unfortunately, she couldn't. "I can't sense Sasuke's chakra!"

-0-

"It seems that Deidara blew himself up…" said one of Zetsu's halves.

"But where's Tobi?" asked the other half.

"Died in the explosion…yeah, most likely. He was in it…"

-0-

"That area…is our meeting place..what if…!" Suigetsu said to himself, "…it really happened!"