A.N: Hinata and Deidara spend some sister brother like time together lolz
disclaimer: I do not own Naruto it's character's or plot if I did I wouldn't be writing this stuff I'd be talking to my editor about the upcoming manga 'Deidara'
Chapter Eleven: The Artist
"I envy you," he said to me and I blinked surprised. Envy me? "You have everything I don't hmm, but I know one thing you don't have Pearl."
"Huh?" I gaped must have looked like a fish.
"Art of course," he said with a dangerous smile that made me shiver "come on lets go make some art I need to get rid of some frustration anyways."
"But your hands they are bound again," I pointed out but he took my arm and headed out the door.
"Ah we don't need clay to make fleeting art," he said "it's almost dark anyway, this will be perfect!"
"What are you talking about?" I demanded but let him pull me along.
"Come on," he said skidding to a stop in front of a festival shop. I smashed into his arm and rub my nose looking up at the store. "We can buy some fire works yeah," he said with a hand on his hip "they won't be as grand as my explosions but they'll have to do un."
"You're conceded," I grumbled "we only have an hour before your curfew anyway can't this wait for tomorrow?"
"Nah it must be done today," he proclaimed leading me into the store of brightly colored clothing, kites, festive masks, and his goal of firecrackers. "Hmm," he studied said fireworks as if he where a dog show judge and they where the dogs. "I wonder what's going to make the loudest bang…who that must be a nice color…" he mumbled to himself. I shook my head but smiled as he picked out his favorite ones like a little boy in a candy store; it wasn't hard to imagine either just shorten Deidara by a foot or so and change the scenery into a little candy shop and you literally have a kid in a candy store.
"Are you ready?" I asked after a few moments of thinking about what mini Deidara would be wearing in my little daydream.
"Yeah," he said just picking out one last bright red box from the shelf "why hadn't I thought of this before I've been itching to make some good art hmm. It won't be as good as my usual works but I don't think Tsunade would like me blowing up buildings even if it would be marvelous the metal and stone Konoha is built with would fire up beautifully."
"What a lovely thought," I said sarcastically not really wanting to think about how my village would burn if so ever happens.
"Isn't it hmm?" he asked clueless to my obvious discomfort, that or he just didn't care…I'm kind of leaning to the second one really.
I rolled my eyes and paid for the mini explosives with Deidara grinning like mad. He had his hands clapped together the whole time and he was swaying slightly as I gave the cashier the money and as she bagged the five boxes all a different color. I took the bag thanked the cashier and we left with me still holding the bag though it was obvious Deidara wanted to hold them.
We headed to the training field which was practically disserted except for one or two Academy students working on there shadow clone jutsu or whatever. Deidara picked out a spot since he seemed to know about this kind of thing anyway. A clearing with dampish grass that wouldn't catch fire if something went wrong and absolutely no trees around and the sky was black dark with only a few stars shinning. I was pretty sure Deidara was very late for his curfew but it didn't cross my mind as a big deal.
I shrugged off my sweater while at the same time giving the bag to the egger blond. I sat down on the sweater as to not get my butt wet from the grass and watch Deidara carefully open each box then begin setting the fireworks as if already knowing how they would explode. He analyzed each stick of explosives as if they where some sort of rare artifact that must be found a way to be displayed.
"Why are you taking so long?" I muttered having watched him do this for nearly ten minutes.
"Patients hmm," he said still a lining the six sticks he'd picked out for the first explosion. Each was covered in a wrapping paper that was the same color as the box they had come from. The set had three gold and three purples. "The colors must all look good together. Sheesh do you know nothing of art hmm?"
"Well not really," I said with a slight shrug "I like looking at art but I'm no professional."
"It's simple color theory really yeah. You can't make purple with yellow right? So because of that they are flattering to the eye when put together just as are green and red or blue and orange all look right together."
As I stared at the three sticks I found that the yellow and purple paper did look very beautiful next to each other. I wondered why it was like that. My eyes could see so many things and in such detail but I never found anything I looked at rather artistic there was always some sort of flaw that would annoy me to no end. Nothing was ever perfect or really proportionally correct in my opinion. However the colors did look perfect married together like that.
"Where did you learn something like that?" I wondered.
"My mother was a painter," he said simply "I can't dare call it art yeah, painting is below me but she taught me everything I know about color and of course I apply that to whatever I do. Whether it is adding colored ink to my clay to affect the color of my explosions or if it be just too simply paint if I ever find the want to do something so elementary hmm."
"Your mother?" I asked flipping my dark indigo hair over me shoulder.
"Uh huh," he said standing up "do you have a lighter?"
"In the bag I knew you'd need one," I said wryly watching him light the fireworks and quickly move out of the way and planted himself down next to me. We listened to the wick hiss and sizzle as the flame made it's way to the explosives. Then bang! The firecrackers went off in a flash of lavender light. I jumped from the sound but Deidara was just smiling and gazing at the now present scorch mark in the grass. "I've never been so close to one before," I murmured as we both watch the smoke from the mark on the ground rise lazily.
"Want to shoot off another one un?" he asked excitedly leaning forward and looking right at me.
"That's enough for tonight I don't want a guard hear us and sound an alarm for no reason, we are in trouble anyway…it's nearly nine thirty."
"Hmm can't we just stay outside a bit longer yeah," he begged and I rolled my eyes.
"Fine," I grumbled tiredly "what do you want to talk about?"
"Tell me about your family," he said "are all Hyuga so interesting?"
"I don't find myself that interesting," I said with a slight blush scratching my cheek bashfully.
"Don't be stupid you are interesting," he said "different from Sakura but you came from the same palette yeah."
"Is that supposed to mean something?" I asked rather confused at his choice of words. I watched him and he smiled ruefully.
"It could," he said "but you never told me about you family to begin with un."
"Family right…Well I have a big family um…but my closest family I'd have to say are my father who is head if the main family and my cousin Neji."
"What about Naruto?" he asked.
"What about him?" I asked wryly reminding myself that he was once part of the organization that wanted to take Naruto away.
"You going to marry him hmm?" Deidara asked and I blinked at the question.
"There's nothing planned if that's what your asking," I said carefully as a new rose tint came to my cheeks. He looked at me carefully the way he looked at Sakura…I blushed even more. "But if he asked me…I'd say yes in a heart beat."
"No regrets yeah?"
"None," I said with a nod.
"I envy you Hinata," he said for the second time.
"Don't…I just got lucky," I said and we smiled at each other. "I think it's time for bed."
"I'd say your very right un," Deidara agreed standing up to organize the boxes that still held plenty of fireworks. "Keep these safe for me?"
"I will," I said and we began to walk back together to the jail house.
"You know I'd really rather be in a studio then this place hmm," Deidara stated looking around the walls of his plan cell then back at the spot where I was leaning on the wall. "I hate it here."
"I know you do," I sighed "I talked to my father last night and he said that first you need to get a steady income," I pulled a bag from the pocket of my sweater and tossed it to him. "It's about 25,000 yen for the help in finding Sakura from Hokage-sama herself."
"Oh goodie," he said opening the bag.
"He also said that he'd like to meet you," I said making the blond twitch.
"Eh?"
A.N: And so begins Deidara's journey to get an apartment! Reveiw plez!