The sun was raising in the horizon, its rainbow colours seeking across the sky, washing out the black from the night before. While light was able to cover the landscape once more, the large clay bird had flown once more into the sky with two companions upon its back.

For the whole journey I was grinning to myself. I knew that once we got upon his clay bird, there would be no escape. So I tried, yet again, to question Deidara about what he knew.

"Ready to tell me everything now? Or do I have to push you off this bird?"

Deidara sighed and I could feel his uneasiness. "I shouldn't un."

"Why not?" I frowned. "It's my life, my past, I have the right to know."

"Well… If I do tell you, you have to make a deal first un."

"Okay…"

"Firstly, You must not tell anyone that I told you this. Secondly, I want something back in return."

I searched through my pockets and pulled out what felt like a squashed piece of fudge. "How about this?"

"Not what I meant un,"

He quickly took the fudge out of my hand though. "Thanks un!"

"Hey!" I pouted.

"So what do you want to know?" Deidara said after he finished eating.

"Err…" I didn't know where to start. After a few minutes of thinking, I decided to start from the very beginning. "Why did Akatsuki kidnap me?"

It took Deidara awhile to reply. Whether it was because he was hesitating or thinking I don't know.

"For your information un."

"Information?" The answer left me even more confused than before. "What information?"

"About Orochimaru, un, and Konoha."

"What makes you think I know about them?"

"It will all come back to you eventually un, which is why they haven't killed you yet."

"…"

Well that made me feel a lot better.

"How much do you know about me?"

Like before, he took a while to reply. I absent-mindedly rested my head upon Deidara's shoulder while the wind blew strongly through my hair.

"We know that you were a famous spy from Konoha. You were sent on a mission to spy on Orochimaru. However, for an unknown reason, you were caught."

"Unknown reason?"

I sighed and mentally kicked myself. The one piece of information I couldn't see, and desperately wanted to know, was always the one piece that Akatsuki didn't know.

"Anymore questions un?"

I nodded slowly.

"What will happen to me if I do remember and if I don't?"

"If you do, then you will become an important part of gathering information on other villages. If you don't un… Akatsuki will find you useless and you'll be killed."

"I might as well jump of this bird and end it now." I muttered.

He chuckled and placed his finger under my chin, moving my face in his direction. My cheeks heated up at his touch. He seemed to have noticed, because he chuckled again.

"Is that all?"

I nodded, unable to speak at the moment.

"Good un,"

The next part all happened so quickly.

My heart beat painfully in my chest as I could feel Deidara moving closer towards me. I tried to move back only to have his arm wrap around my waist and pull me back towards him. I almost forgot to breath as I felt his breath upon my flushed cheeks. I couldn't escape. A part of me didn't want to even if I could. Before I released what I was doing, I found myself moving closer to him, closing the gap between us.

All of a sudden, his lips crushed down into mine. I melted into that single sweet kiss. At the moment, that strange new feeling from before came back, a million times stronger than ever before.

I wrapped my arms around his neck, allowing that emotion to sweep over me. His tongue was begging for entry against my lips. I hesitated but slowly opened my mouth slightly. He pulled me even closer to deepen the everlasting kiss.

I could hardly breath, but it didn't matter. Deidara was now my air, my oxygen. My heart was beating so wildly now, I have expected him to hear it as well. But still he refused to let me go. His tongue wrapped itself around mine and pulled it into his own mouth. I gladly explored his mouth with my tongue as we continued to kiss upon the large clay bird.

The time went so quickly to when we finally pulled away to catch our breath back.

"That's all I wanted in return un," Deidara said happily as he kept his arm around my waist.

I smiled faintly in reply and rested my head against his chest to hear his heart beating just as loud as mine.

It was at that moment did I release what that strange new feeling was…

… It was Love…

… I had fallen in love with Deidara.

Author's note

Wow! This has now become my longest ever story! I have never got this far with a story before. I want to thank everyone who has left a review, therefore encouraging me to continue! Let's see if this will be the first story for me to complete!

I'm already thinking of a plan for a possible sequel… maybe Fukuko starts getting visions of the future - cough Deidara in the Shippuuden cough - cough Deidara fighting Sasuke cough -

Thanks again! And if you can all do one little thing for me… Can you all read my bf's story? I enjoy it myself, but no one else seems to read it. His name is School Stranger, and you'll see his account on my favourite authors, and the story is called Forgotten Ninja, Attack Konoha.

Thank you!!