It had been weeks since Sasori and Deidara had been forced to go to high school, a so-called new kind of mission. Sasori had quickly discovered Deidara hid clay in his uniform pockets, and thus sewed the pockets shut. A problem unfolded, however. They discovered if Deidara didn't use his clay, his hand mouths would get bored and entertain themselves by making out. So Sasori was forced to give Deidara his clay back, but he was only allowed to use it in science class.

Other than that, the two managed to fit right into the social life of school- somewhat. The other students thought it was weird Sasori never ate. The boys made fun of Deidara for being a flat-chested girl, which generally ticked him off. And on top of that, the school year was going by so slowly.

"And next week is the last week before Winter Break." The teacher said, resulting in some cheers. "But just because we're about to go on break doesn't mean you can act out of line."

Deidara slammed his textbook against his forehead. He was sick of school and everything about it. At least they'd have a two week break and hopefully no homework.

Deidara's thoughts were cut short when Sasori went up to the board, wrote something, then turned to face the class. He remembered they were reciting their speeches on their favorite form of art. Sasori's was some 20 pages, Deidara's a mere 10. But as he looked around the room, he realized the other students' were mostly 5 pages.

He forced himself to listen to Sasori ramble on about puppetry, waiting for the demonstration part. That came and went too quickly, and Deidara was called up. He had already told the teacher the class would have to go outside for his demonstration, so they all filed out into the parking lot.

After his half excited rambling, which the teacher said was the most enthusiastic he'd ever been when talking about something, he created one of his C1 bombs. He willed it to crawl a good distance from the class before setting it off. Somehow, the teacher, who was a little closer to the bomb than the rest of the class, got injured and had to go to the nurse's office. So, for the rest of that class, the students goofed off.

Deidara picked at his food, not in a good mood. "What's wrong with you brat?" Sasori asked, glancing at him.

"I dunno." He replied, setting his fork down.

"Still not over the uniform thing?"

"Sorta. And everyone expects me to use the girl's bathrooms un."

"That must be embarassing."

"You bet it is un! And even though I SOUND like a guy, the people in charge don't believe me when I say I'm a guy un!"

"Maybe you should get your hair cut."

"No way in hell un! Besides, they'll make me take off my camera if they can see it un!"

"What exactly is the point of wearing that thing if no one here can use genjutsu?"

"Recording my experiences in this dump un."

"You've been recording the whole time?"

"Yeah. And I put it all on one of those computer things un. I have proof you beat me up the first day we were here un!"

"Well, it beats writing it down...."

"So that's what you've been doing in that notebook you always carry around un."

"Yeah. Oh well, having both will give some perspctive."

"Right."

"You better start eating or the bell will ring."

"It's not my fault un! You're the one who keeps talking un!"

"Whatever."

Deidara glared at Sasori, then dug into his food, eating as fast as he could without getting sick. The bell rang a few seconds after he finished, and they went on to their next class.

Science- Deidara's favorite and at the same time least favorite class. He loved it when they did experiments with exploding chemicals and he was allowed to use his clay. He hated it because he was afraid of getting chemicals in his hand mouths.

On this particular day, they were doing an experiment to determine which was more explosive: liquid copper and corn starch mixed with water or liquid copper and clay. Of course, Deidara had to switch the clay his group was using with his explosive clay, just to make it more interesting. They were outside for safety reasons, wearing goggles and oven mitts.

The minute Sasori poured the liquid copper on Deidara's clay, it exploded violently, barely giving him time to get out of the way. He watched as someone else in the group poured the liquid copper on the corn starch mixture, resulting in a small explosion after a few minutes. Then he glanced at other groups' experiments and realized Deidara had swapped the clay.

"That was clever, for a brat." Sasori said, walking over to Deidara. "Hope the teacher didn't see."

"If they did, it's no big deal un. To the rest of the world, my clay looks like ordinary clay un." Deidara replied. "Besides, it was a nice explosion un."

"To you, maybe. It's too bad I can't use my puppets."

"You could always wear Hiruko to school un."

"Yeah, I'm sure they have a uniform that big." Sasori said sarcastically.

"Alright, alright, I get it un!"

Sasori rolled his eyes and turned to check on the work of one of the other people in their group. Deidara sat down on the concrete and molded the clay they were supposed to use in the experiment into a small bird. He set it down and created a replica with his clay. Then he tried to find the differences, which there weren't any obvious ones.

He set the one made of normal clay back in the equipment bin, then willed the one made of his clay to go over to the teacher, who was pouring liquid copper from a large container into beakers. A small drop landed on the bird, causing it to detonate and the teacher to reel back, nearly dropping the containers of liquid copper.

Sasori shot a warning glare at Deidara. Then the teacher regained their composure and began questioning the groups near them. They never thought to question the group Deidara was in.

OWARI ~ END!