Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and not me.
A/N: I love Tobi. He's such a cute character.
Anyway, the summary for this is: Tobi loves a lot of things. He likes to draw, but only in secret.
What Tobi Thinks
Tobi loved his mask. It was orange and had a spiral on it, swirl, swirly, swirling towards a hole where his right eye could peek out without anyone seeing in. It was like he was inside his own little fort, where he was invisible and nobody could touch him.
Maybe it was for that reason he was always surprised whenever someone seemed to penetrate that invisible barrier and talked to him or touched him.
Tobi didn't like it when people did that. He liked it when he felt like his mask made him invincible. Sometimes when he was bored, he'd draw that he was a superhero, flying through the sky and punching out bad guys with lots of 'WHACK!' and 'KAPOW!' sound effects.
He knew that being a real superhero was a dream however. But it was fun to pretend in real life though. In real life, he was a ninja – kinda boring really. The world had lots of ninja, but they didn't have any superheroes. And ninja couldn't fly, not that he'd seen anyway. The only ninja he'd seen fly was Deidara-senpai, and that was on the back of a bird… before he blew it up.
Tobi thought Deidara-senpai was awesome. Really awesome. Super awesome! He made sculptures out of clay and then they would explode! Tobi called it 'pop-art', because it went bang, just like a balloon. But Deidara-senpai didn't like that term. He thought it was too cute to properly express his art form. It was more 'super-flat', because that's what it did.
Deidara-senpai was pretty cool, at least according to Tobi. He was like a best friend, one that'd threaten to kill you if you made fun of them. Tobi liked to make fun of his senpai, but only when he knew the most he'd get was a strangling. Deidara-senpai's art was cool, but only if you weren't near it when it went off. And Tobi had seen enough dismembered limbs to get the point.
Tobi liked to draw more than just him as a superhero. He liked to draw other things – flowers, butterflies, monster trucks that turned into giant robots and went on killing sprees... He secretly kept a drawing book and a packet of crayons in the pocket of his coat at all times.
He'd never shown Deidara-senpai his art. He was too embarrassed. Even when he one day drew a portrait of himself and his senpai with flamethrowers running through a forest burning small woodland animals, he'd been too nervous to show him. He didn't know why he felt so nervous. He liked to draw, but his senpai was like an art professional! He probably wouldn't like anything that wasn't worthy of being in an art gallery.
But his mask made him feel invincible. Maybe for once it would bring good luck too?
"Deidara-senpai?" asked Tobi, edging towards his partner nervously, his hands behind his back.
"What is it, Tobi, hn?" His senpai glanced up from eating lunch. He took a bite of his sandwich.
Tobi couldn't think what to say. Panicked, he slammed his picture down on the table and ran for it, arms waving madly in the air in the rush to get away.
Deidara gulped down the rest of his sandwich and picked up the picture.
Later, when Tobi managed to find the courage to tiptoe back to the kitchen, he saw something stuck on the fridge – his picture. There it was, hanging on the fridge, kept in place by a big shiny fridge magnet of a bumblebee. And a note was stuck under the magnet as well. Tobi pulled it out and read it.
"Keep up the good work. At this rate you'll start to make me look bad."
Tobi still thought Deidara-senpai was the best.