! I hope I haven't lost all of my readers due to my negligence... I was overloaded with school work, musical practice, a job, and boy drama (that ended quite well, in my favor ;P) and I literally have next to no time to work on this. So while I have a slight repreive, I shall update! I was planning on doing this over a month ago, but that never happened... GOMEN NASAI!

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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Though, if I did, I wouldn't be stuck at my job...

As you all can probably guess by my epic glompage of Deidara, I said yes when he asked me out. The events that followed in school the following Monday, however, were less than happy.

He was waiting for me when Anko and I arrived. She looked at me in that way that said "I don't entirely approve, but I trust you..." but made you think she really didn't. Ignoring her, he waltzed up to me and grabbed my hand and kissed me on the cheek.

"Good morning beautiful," he said with a devilish grin.

"Morning!" I chirped. We entered the school, hand in hand. I will admit, I was a bit nervous. I thought a lot of people would stare, but really, the only ones who did were my friends. He walked me to my locker before heading to his. As soon as his back was turned, I leaned against my locker and sighed happily, closing my eyes.

"What was that?" TenTen appeared out of nowhere, scaring the crud out of me.

"He asked me out.. I said yes." I grinned again, and I probably looked absolutely ridiculous.

"During your 'non-date' on Friday?" I had insisted that she call it that instead of a date, because it wasn't a date, we were just hanging out... but now, I no longer cared what she called it.

"Yep!"

"You realize Ino is going to bug the heck out of you about this?"

"Yep!"

"And that doesn't bother you?"

"Nope!" I giggled. "I really don't care at this point!"

She sighed and shook her head. "Come on, we need to get to homeroom. Even though Kakashi-sensei is usually late, he has a habit of being on time whenever a student is late."

The day took a turn for the worse in health class. Hidan ignored me entirely. That was the first day he hadn't poked me in health class in the two and a half weeks I'd been here. I was a little concerned, honestly. What was his problem?

At lunch, I sat with Deidara amongst the Akatsuki. I would've sat with everyone else, but it was like Ino banned me for as long as my relationship would last... Actually, her exact words were: "You belong with your man, and I don't want to see your face around here as long as you two are together!" And that decided it.

Hidan avoided both me and Deidara at lunch, sitting as far away from us as he could without leaving the table. Deidara and I got into discussing the musical, and I convinced him to audition. The audition was in three days, and that left us with little time for him to learn his song. The male audition songs were Lancelot's "C'est Moi" and Arthur and Guinevere's duet "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" I had never heard him sing before, so I had to cross my fingers and hope. Kisame snickered when we discussed the plot and he realized the time-period in which the musical takes place.

"So... the costumes..." He bit out between laughs, "Does this mean Deidara... is gonna hafta... wear... tights?" And he lost control entirely, laughing like an idiot. Deidara looked at me, aghast, and I shrugged.

"I'll have to wear a pretty, girly gown most likely." I hoped that the possibility of spandex hadn't discouraged him.

Apparently not. In gym, he asked me when we could practice his songs. I glomped him and said whenever. We decided after school at my house would work. And then... Guy-sensei walked in and told us that even though our embrace was youthful, we needed to break it up youthfully because it was interrupting his class. Which, by the way, he described as youthful. He and Pedo-sensei were enough to make me wish I was graduating this year.

At the end of the day, I was running late, because I had to stay in choir a little bit longer to pick up Deidara's sheet music. Not that I can read sheet music... I learn by ear. When I ran outside, I looked around for Dei-kun, and found him staring after Hidan, who was stalking away toward the parked cars.

"You okay?" I asked as I took his hand. He looked distracted.

"I'm fine, yeah." I didn't entirely believe him, he still had that distant look. He snapped out of it quickly though. "How about we go learn those songs, hm?" I giggled and kissed him, and we headed towards his motorcycle.

Sorry it's so short... I just needed a filler-y chapter until the actual audition, where we will have a nice surprise... *smiles evilly* Trust me, Hidan may be down, but he's not out. Again, check out WolvesKey's story if you want... she would appreciate it, and so would I. And I know I'm asking a lot... wait, let me wipe the dripping sarcasm from my chin... but please check my profile and give me some feedback on my story ideas!