A.N: End of Hinata's narration Deidara takes over after this chapter. What's with the good chapters only coming up when I'm deprived of sleep? I hope you enjoy this chapter!

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Chapter Fifteen: Hinata's Ending

There was a long pause and I slowly looked back to the council shivering slightly from embarrassment and passion for what I'd just stated. I knew my face had to be red because I was biting my lips raw as the council and Tsunade-sama looked down at us. The Hokage had a dark look in her eyes and her lips where a thin line. Gods I hope she's not angry or disturbed!

I cast my eyes to the side so I could see Deidara. His face was crooked in a smirk as always as if my outburst had amused him greatly. His visible eye shown sky blue with satisfaction and glee but I wasn't sure if he was proud of me or making fun of me. It had to be one of the two, or maybe something in the middle. Don't ask me how someone how you can both mock and be proud of someone, I'm freaking out over here!

"Seems you feel strongly Hinata-san," Tsunade spoke up after that long an awkward pause that allowed me to think of so much crap. "So what do you propose?" Wait…She's asking me?

"I-I um," I stuttered trying to win back my composer "I think we should give him a chance…after all there still is a lot of information on the Akatsuki he holds. I'm sure Deidara could be an amazing ninja for us if he wishes to be one."

Everyone's eyes cast over to the blond who at the moment seemed to be examining his hair for split ends. I wanted to punch him in the face. We waited there for another few moments before he casually looked up and noted our presents.

"Oh you'd like to know what I think hmm?" he asked and I narrowed my eyes into half moons.

"Naturally Deidara," Tsunade sighed looking down at the blond with amusement. What a scam she wasn't going to put him to death from the very start this was only to make the council shut up. Deidara gave a cute smile. Sheesh he was in with the Hokage's plot too. He must have only not told me because he liked to see me stressed out.

"Well since I'm not a citizen what I say wouldn't matter anyway so I guess Hinata is the only one able to speak on my behalf," he said off handedly. What a lie he was sure talking a lot before I can to the stand!

"Okay well that's that then Deidara," Tsunade said clapping her hands together "You'll be taking your citizenship classes for four months in that time you'll not be aloud out of the Hidden Leaf unless you'd rather have the title of missing ninja once again. As for your art I'll make arrangements for you to start a gallery of sorts. Um…What else? Oh right your studio apartment is on main street and the rent is 200 yen a month till you get yourself some good income."

I blinked and I think everyone else in the court room blinked except for the Hokage and Deidara. The two just stared at each other politely before Deidara bowed formally and spoke up.

"It's an honor Miss Hokage-sama un," he said incredible sarcastically.

"Better then getting hanged right?" Tsunade muttered.

"Not sure I've never been hanged before yeah," Deidara said thoughtlessly.

"Just get out," the Hokage rolled her eyes.

Well that was anticlimactic…

"Okay please tell me what the hell happened?" I asked as we walked down Main Street looking for Deidara's studio. "That all seemed rather staged."

"Because it was un," Deidara said with a shrug looking down at a small slip of napkin paper that Tsunade had scrawled his address. "Remember I told you a massager had come over this morning to tell me that my court meeting was today yeah?"

"Yeah I remember but that doesn't answer my question," I said knotting my brows together.

"Well that was a lie un," he said (I'm not surprised) "It was really Tsunade-sama and she said I could stay as long as I didn't make much disruption. Well we negotiated and came up to this conclusion. The whole court ordeal was an act to make everyone think everything was legitimate with the council which it wasn't really hmm."

"Doesn't the council know?" I asked wondering how we could get lost on main street.

"Hopefully the old geezers will kick the bucket soon un," he said with a shrug "ever since the last ninja war the need of elders to a economy has went down, now they are nothing more then pests the Kage just need to keep happy yeah." His eyes squinted "Does that say 76 or 79 main?"

"That's not nice Dei," I said with a coy smile as I looked over at the paper "That's a 76."

"Okay so it should be around here," he said looking up at the two floored apartments that sat near down town.

"Here's 72 and 73 is on top of it," I said looking over the building right in front of us. "It should be down here."

We walked down a bit father till we got to building number 75. We looked up and 76 was right there! The building itself looked much like others you'd find in Konoha. Its outside was made of cream plaster and it had a wavy tin metal roof. To get to the second floor we had to climb a wood stair case that was to the side of the cute building that would lead to a small porch and then the wood door that held the copper numbers 76. I looked at Deidara and he looked back at me.

"You going to open it or are we going to stand out her all day?" I asked after a long moment without any movement.

"Ah! Right," he said pulling out a key from his back pocket and carefully sliding it into the key hole. He turned it till it clicked signaling that it was now unlocked and twisted the knob then pushing the door open. He paused looking at the shadowed interior his face uncharacteristically blank as he studied it. "What a shit hole hmm," he said stepping into the tiny home. I fallowed in suit.

There was no electric light to be found, but light still came into the room from the many sky lights. On entering we found ourselves in a small kitchen with a dinning table that sat three pushed to the side next to a large window that had a view of the busy street below. Like I said the kitchen was small but had lovely concrete counter tops and dark wooded cabinets. The floor was white tiled and the plaster walls where also white.

"What do you mean 'shit hole?'" I said looking around "it's cute."

"No electricity means no TV," he muttered as he wandered into the next room which was just an empty space with white walls a giant sky light that filled the whole room with light and hard wood floors. There was another room off that which led to the tiny bathroom with just a shower, toilet, and sink.

"I'll get you a battery powered TV okay?" I sighed as we entered the last room at the very back of the apartment. It had a giant window that took up the while back wall, a few circular sky lights that gave sun light from above, and the floors where all hard wood. The view from the giant window was that of a tiny patch of trees and a small pond that at the moment held ducks. "Holly crap…"

"Holly crap is right," Deidara said his voice echoing through the large empty room. "When she said studio she wasn't lying yeah."

"Tell me about it," I muttered "you could paint and sell them."

"Yeah," he said "then I could charge for people to see my art shows yeah."

"Uh huh," I mouth and we both blankly stared at Deidara's amazing view. "Are you planning on being a ninja too?" I asked and this made him look over at me.

"I still have revenge I need to finish with Itachi," he said and I pressed my lips together. "And I'll need the money if I even want to start getting art supplies like canvases, paint, clay, some brushes, and maybe some dynamite…you still have my fire works right?"

"Yeah I have them," I said with an eye roll.

"This is going to be amazing hmm," he said leaning on the door frame "people are finally going to appreciate my art yeah. I have you to thank you know Pearl." I looked at him questionably "You got me to keep hold of whatever sanity I have left. I'd probably be long dead if you hadn't been there from the very beginning un." He closed his visible eye and smirked. "As a criminal I have no pride left to stop myself from saying thank you Hinata hmm."

"You're welcome," I said with a half smile. "I'd better go Naruto must be worried sick."

"S'okay," he said opening his eyes again "I'm just going to go out to get myself a hammock with the money you gave me so I have somewhere to sleep yeah," he said as we left out together. Half way uptown Deidara stopped seeing a shop he became interested in. "Well I guess this is my stop hmm," he said taking my hand "I bid you adieu hmm," he bent down and kissed my finger tips before smiling up at me and disappearing into the store.

I stood there shocked for a few seconds blushing like a mad woman. "Bastard," I grumbled but couldn't help smiling as I turning around. I needed to find Naruto and remind him forcefully how much I missed him now that our missions where over.

Deidara's Narration Begins

It was dark when I was comfortable in my newly purchased hammock. I had hung it in the smaller empty room that I'd chosen to be my bedroom. The larger one with the big view would be my art studio once I had the supplies that would fill it.

For now however I just stared up at the sky light of my bed room and the little white stars that blazed millions of miles away from my calm spot. I don't care who you are stars are beautiful and happen to be one of those things that I don't mind not being fleeting. Kind of like love.

I mumbled something I didn't even understand and rolled over in the soft fabric of the hammock and shut my eyes. I was second for falling asleep when a knock on the door rang through the tiny apartment. Since it's practically empty in here the sound echoed loudly startling me and making me flip out of the hammock and onto the hardwood. I groaned loudly grasping my left hand because I'd smacked the teeth of it on the floor when I fell. I massaged my palm for a moment as another knock came from the door making me get up still holding my hand.

I padded bare foot over the cool tiles of the kitchen before getting to the door. I opened the door and asked grumpily. "What?"

"Hey Deidara," said a soft voice making me blink a few times before registering who was in front of me.

"Sakura-Chan?" I asked looking her over. She was wearing her usual red medic uniform but had a bag slung over her shoulder. "What happened?"

"I had a fight with Sasuke," she replied and I raised a brow. "He kicked me out."

"I thought it went the other way around for married couples hmm," I thought out loud "Not that I know much about marriage yeah."

"He has his name on the house I had no choice but to leave if he wants me gone," she said her brows pressed together and her emerald eyes filling with fire.

"Girlie you look ravishing what brings you to my domicile un?" I asked with a smirk knowing she'd become flustered.

"I-um need a place to sleep the night," she said in a very small voice. I gave her a troubled look and cupped my chin in my hand.

"Well this is quiet a predicament isn't it hmm?" I asked and watched her face get hot with embarrassment and anger. Her emotions where always so artistic. "Well alright but only because I love you yeah," I said moving aside so she could come in. Sakura tensely entered and I examined her carefully as she put her bag on the dinning room table. "I don't have an extra bad…I don't even have a bed for myself just a hammock yeah."

"That's okay I have a sleeping mat with me," she replied looking into her bag her face distorted by coral hair. God I missed that soft sweet smelling hair. My eyes trailed her lines and curves as she unpacked a tiny gray ninja sleeping mat. She'd gained a tiny bit of weight but that was only because she'd been pregnant but it looked already as if she'd begun training it off.

"Are you hungry?" I asked even though I knew I had no food in the house. The only things I could afford was the hammock and a small black and white battery TV that could only receive four channels.

"No, I'm okay," Sakura said giving me a small smile that didn't reach her eyes. Quickly she looked back to what she was doing. "I'll just sleep here. I'll probably be gone by the time you get up tomorrow."

"Tomorrow is Sunday," I said "your day off right hmm? Maybe we could hang out."

"Maybe," she shrugged leaning on the table her eyes on the floor.

"Sakura," I said moving close to her and she turned her head away. I took her chin carefully in my hand and gently moved her head so she was looking at me. She didn't fight back but her face was stone like. It only made me want her more! "Sakura I miss you so much. I thought I'd lost you when Itachi kidnapped you hmm." I leaned in till our faces where only inches apart then softly kissed her. She didn't kiss me back but it was nice to feel her pink lips on mine and after a moment I pulled away and looked at her. "I love you okay girlie? No, matter what you do to me yeah."

With that I stepped back looked at her blank face for a moment more before going back to my hammock waiting in the next room. For hours I waited for her to leave the cold tiled floor and make her way over to me. So she could climb in next to me thinking I where asleep then I'd carefully put my arms around her waist and hug her warm body close to mine. We wouldn't have to have sex I'd be happy if we just slept like that but sex was an extra bonus I kept in the back of my mind.

I waited for hours smiling giddily every time I heard the faintest movement thinking it where her. But soon sleep came over me and I forgot all about my thoughts. She never did come to my room and as predicted Sakura was gone before I woke up the next morning.

Poor Dei-Dei-KUNNNNN!!