High school for the broke and stupid
A/N the Christmas special has been discontinued due to lack of interest, so we're going back to the REAL story
Chapter 10
Attempt 2 Tobi
Gaara was back to lying on the roof, though he was done drawing, he was now staring disinterestedly at the blue sky as clouds floated by. He was interrupted however when a lollipop masked boy put his face inches from Gaaras' "too close"Gaara thought as the boy standing over him yelled out a greeting
"Hi I'm Tobi!"
Gaara did not show his discomfort "Hi Tobi" he said drily as Tobi chattered on and on and on… Gaara barely noticed that Tobi had stopped talking when Tobi attempted to poke him on the forehead to get his attention, the sand, seeing Tobi as a threat rushed forward and put a small wall between Tobi's finger and Gaara.
Nearby the group in the bushes gasped while Tobi asked if Gaara was a mermaid.
"…no" Gaara said "Why?"
"Mermaids live at the beach and there's sand at the beach" Tobi explained and Gaara
nodded "But wouldn't mermaids control water rather than sand" Gaara asked calmly and Tobi pondered this.
Meanwhile a certain zealot blew their cover "What the f*ck?" He yelled at Gaara and
approached the red head with the rest of the akatsuki in tow.
"What hell are you!" Hidan yelled as he reached Gaara "I mean first the weird sand thing and then you talk to Tobi about MERMAIDS as if it's normal, it's not normal!" Hidan yelled in Gaaras' bored face
"And you've been spying on me for quite some time now, doing an awful job really" Gaara stated in monotone "Now that we've stated the obvious would you mind telling me why you've been trying to spy on me"
"Well…" Konan started but was interrupted by none other than Deidara
"Oi, stop harassing Gaara!" She said and walked up to the red head
"I didn't hear any explosions, you really didn't blow up the art room?" Gaara asked sounding amused.
"Me blow up the art room?" Deidara said sounding scandalised "I'd never"
"They took away your clay again?" Gaara guessed and Deidara nodded glumly making Gaara chuckle as she mumbled something about "stupid teachers don't know REAL art"
"Still think art is an explosion, brat?" Sasori asked with a smirk on his face
"That's cuz it is, un" Deidara glared
"It's eternal, brat" Sasori glared back
"Fleeting"
"Eternal"
"Fleeting"
"Eternal"
"Eh guys" Konan said gaining everyones' attention "Gaaras' gone"
Deidara blinked a few times "It was probably too crowded for him" She shrugged then hopped nimbly off the roof "I'm gonna go looking for him!" She called without looking back and went to search for her favourite red head (needless to say it wasn't Sasori)
"…Weird" Pain said first and they all nodded in agreement and were surprised when Sasori smirked "They're odd, but they're definitely strong, things are gonna be interesting from now on"
Konan smirked next "True that" She agreed and suddenly the rest of the akatsuki were very scared, sans Itachi and Pain, they don't get scared.
Meanwhile
Gaara sat up on a high branch of the oak tree, he was mentally berating himself for running off like that. Actually he had walked away silently but it was all the same, he knew it was probably a panic attack, but he was only freaking out on the inside. To the outside world Gaara was the picture of serenity but Gaara really wasn't good with people.
"I have got to stop being so paranoid" Gaara groaned
"You got that right" Deidara smirked up at him
"In fairness to myself all the world does seem to be conspiring against me" Gaara said and sighed, Deidara frowned at how old he looked as he ran a hand through his crimson locks.
At the same time Deidara was just a little happy that Gaara let his guard down around her, it was the first time she'd seen him like this. So tired looking, like the world was on his hunched shoulders, his eyes glazed over with haunting memories that someone so young shouldn't have. Deidara didn't know what fuelled he to do what she did next, or maybe she did and didn't want to admit it but in seconds she had clime the tree to where Gaara was sitting and hugged him tightly against her chest, wordlessly offering comfort.
Gaara surprised her by not resisting the contact, "he really has let his guard down" Deidara thought as she ran her hand soothingly through Gaaras' soft hair.
They stayed together like that for a while before breaking apart
"Wanna stay over?" Deidara asked, she knew that when Gaara got home his father would be waiting and Deidara was feeling rather lonely in her house all alone.
"Sure" Gaara smiled as they hopped from the tree making slightly less noise than a whisper as their crumpled dry leaves "No one's gonna miss me"
Authors note
Sorry for the delay , review and tell me what you think ^w^
Also anyone who wants to continue the wizard of Oz thing is free to do so, I really don't care