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Deidara stared at Nagato in horror. He didn't need this. He really didn't need this.

"Why aren't you in school?"

Under any other circumstances, Deidara would have dearly loved to say, "Why aren't you at work?" but that wasn't a good idea. Not a good one at all.

"I...I, uh..."

"Get out of my sight before I seriously hurt you," Nagato growled. He seemed sober but Deidara walked away anyway, not wanting to take any risks.

'Wow...' Deidara thought. He was glad Nagato hadn't turned violent but it was probably because they were in public.

Deidara walked down the street, kicking rocks out of his way. It was beginning to get cold, a wintery breeze was beginning to seep through Deidara's clothes, making him shiver. He zipped up his jacket.

Deidara kept walking in the direction of Midori's house. He needed somewhere to stay, as it had begun to snow. Big, white flakes were floatind down and settling themselves on Deidara's hair. He reached into his pocket but found it to be empty.

"Shit..." he muttered, slapping himself in the forehead. He was out of drugs and had not bought any from Kakuzu because he was completely out of money.

With an angry snarl, he headed to Midori's house as fast as he could. The snow was now falling fast and thick, it had already begun to accumulate on windows and roofs.

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Deidara got to Midori's house a few minutes later and ran inside. His fingers and face had already gone numb and his lips were white.

He slammed the door shut and felt a wave of warmth wash over him.

Deidara walked into the living room and sat down on the warm couch. Looking around he could see the kitchen from there. It made him think of food. He had not eaten since the previous day but he wasn't hungry so he decided not to eat.

Deidara sat there for a few more minutes. He was suddenly overcome with the sudden urge to cry. Sasori kept appearing in his mind and he couldn't forget. But he didn't want to cry, he grimaced at the idea of what Nagato would do to him if he ever caught him crying over someone. Especially Sasori.

Still...he couldn't helpt it. He had been through so much with Sasori and he never imagined it would all end so soon. Deidara's blue eyes sparkled with tears and he blinked them away.

'Stupid...stupid...stupid!' he thought to himself angrily, his face shining with tears.

Two Weeks Later

Deidara was back at school. Against his will, of course. Midori had forced him to go, having told the school Deidara had a serious cold. She had even given them a fake doctor's note. Weirdly enough, they had believed her but he had been out of school way too long and she could no longer cover for him.

He had spent two weeks cooped up in his room, smoking nonstop, causing him to develop a rather annoying cough that he now had to put up with. Midori was reduced to tears on more than one ocasion when Deidara had gotten violent as a result of Midori asking him to please stop and to eat something. She hadn't bothered him about it anymore but Deidara knew that she really wanted to.

She had at least gotten him to eat a little but that was as far as she got.

Deidara felt much better about Sasori's death but still could not bring himself to smile or laugh. He wasn't sad, he felt strangely empty and always tired. Not to mention his attention span had reduced greatly, he couldn't focus on anything longer than a few minutes without his mind wandering.

"Hey Deidara!"

Deidara looked up, startled, and saw Konan rushing towards him. Her arm, unlike Deidara's was still in a cast. He had ripped off the bandages as soon as he had regained a bit of mobility in his arm. Not that his arm was of any use to him anyway, it still hurt quite a lot in addition to being almost immobile. Konan finally caught up with him, she looked much happier.

"Hey what's up? You look terrible, like you haven't slept," Konan said, giving a surprised Deidara a one-armed welcome hug. "And" -she sniffed- "Have you been smoking?"

Deidara coughed and decided not to answer answer.

"So how's it going with Hidan?" he said, changing the subject.

Konan smiled, knowing failry well Deidara didn't want to talk about this but was just avoiding her question. "Good. You've missed a lot at school, you know..."

"Like, hm?"

At that moment, though, somebody ran up to Konan and handed her a bottle of lemonade, which she opened and sipped from. Said person then resorted to double over and pant like a dog over and over. Deidara frowned and stared at Konan who looked up from her drink.

Konan rolled her eyes. "This is Tobi," Konan said. When Deidara's frown deepened she sighed and said, "New student."

Tobi straightened up and Deidara saw him clearly for the first time. He wore a black-and-orange striped hoodie with the hood over his head, which cast a strong shadow that completely obscured his face but Deidara could tell he wore sunglasses. His face was a total mistery. He reminded Deidara of the Aburame kid. His name was Shino or something like that, Deidara couldn't remember.

"Hi!" Tobi said enthusiastically, waving frantically at Deidara.

Deidara's frown was on the brink of becoming permanent. "Uh...hi, hm..."

"Tobi this is Deidara," Konan said. "He came here like a week ago."

Deidara's frown lifted and he stared at Konan. "He went to get you lemonade...why?" he said, coughing a little.

"He will do anything you tell him," Konan said happily. "Pretty awesome..."

Deidara stared at Tobi, who was now sitting on the ground, deeply interested on an ant that was on his finger. Konan looked at him and snorted. She muttered something about an "Immature brat..." just as the bell rang and everybody started walking inside.

"C'mon, we've got first period English..." Konan said dully. They all hated English. Except maybe Itachi, who always slept through the whole thing.

"Wait up!!" Tobi screamed shrilly, having stayed behind to return the ant to its home. He ran frantically towards them until he caught up to them. "I have English too!!"

Deidara rolled his eyes. There was no way he was going to be able to not murder this guy...

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Deidara sat down across from Konan, who was already looking bored. Hidan, who was next to her, was curling a lock of Konan's midnight blue hair around his pencil. He let go and it fell back down, curly instead of straight. Hidan, out of pure boredom, smiled at it as he grabbed another lock of hair. Itachi came and sat down next to Deidara and put his head down on the table, ready to fall asleep. Next came Kisame, closely followed by Tobi who looked like he had ran a long way.

"Hey, hey! Five to a table! Only five!" said a shrill voice, belonging to Mrs. Briggs, their English teacher. She was a tall, black-eyed, black-haired woman who spoke hardly any Japanese. Years of English class hadn't gone to waste on any of them, though, they all understood fairly well what she said.

Hidan sighed and pushed Itachi to another table. The Uchiha never noticed, however, seeing as he was already asleep.

"Sit down," Mrs. Briggs said, picking up a piece of chalk and writting the word 'Verbs' on the wall.

"Sex counts as a verb..." Hidan muttered, smirking. Konan and Kisame laughed quietly. Tobi stared at them, as though he had not understood.

"Hey! In here we speak English!" Mrs. Briggs said with a smirk, clearly thinking she had caught Hidan at something embarrassing, which she had not. "Now, what did you say? Say it loud so we can hear you..."

"I said, 'sex counts as a verb'..." Hidan said in thickly accented English.

The rest of the class (This time Tobi also laughed, he had finally gotten the joke...), except Deidara, burst out laughing. Mrs. Briggs, however, was not pleased. "Get out of here!" she shrieked. "To the office...now!"

"See ya! By the way, you need a good fuck! Seriously, Briggs!!" Hidan shouted from the hallway, causing yet another fit of laughter from everyone.

They spent the next hour listening to their teacher blab on about verbs and how to apply them to sentences. As if they didn't know, but she liked to review things. Or maybe she enjoyed murdering people with boredom so boring it would cause anyone who passed by her classroom to drop dead.

Deidara felt his mind slowly detach itself from her words and begin to wander off.

"A verb can be easily described as an action..."

'Sasori if only you were here...'

"...in this sentence I have written..."

'If only you hadn't driven that day, you idiot!'

"...where is the verb?..."

'Sasori...'

"...are you paying attention?..."

'Sasori...'

"...I'm talking to you, Deidara..."

'I miss you...'

"...Deidara..."

'What the hell am I supposed to do without you?!'

"...Deidara!"

'Sasori...'

"Deidara!!"

Deidara turned around, startled out of his thoughts, and stared right at his teacher. She scowled and marched forward. "I am tired of your attitude!" she yelled, grabbing him by his arm (the unbroken one, thankfully) and making him stand up. "You never work, you don't turn in assigments, you're gone for two weeks and you don't even bother to pay attention!! That's it, I'm done with you! To the office, NOW!!"

"Fine!!" Deidara lashed back. His English, like Hidan's, had a thick Japanese accent to it. He gathered his things and wriggled violently out of her grip. He shot her a death glare before leaving, slamming the door as hard as he could behind him.

xxxxxx

"Well, Deidara? What have you done this time?"

Deidara sighed impatiently and sat down in the rickety wooden chair in front of Tsunade's desk. She didn't look angry, she was used to Deidara coming to the office.

"I wasn't paying attention, hm," Deidara muttered. He looked up at Tsunade, who didn't seem to be troubled by the news.

"Well..." she reached into a drawer and pulled out a thick file folder. "According to this that's not the only thing you've done..."

Deidara raised an eyebrow, puzzled. What had he done now?

"You're absent from school way too much, you don't turn in any work..." she said, flipping through the pages. "...and the only class you're passing is Art..."

"So?"

Tsunade stared at him calmly. "There's also the fact that you were seen smoking on school property today..."

Deidara rolled his eyes. "And? I'm eighteen I think I'm old enough to decide what to do to my body..."

Tsunade couldn't help but smile a little. "Unfortunately, it's against the law to smoke on school grounds so we're going to have to give you a fine..."

The blonde sighed angrily and glared at her.

"I'm going to need your father's phone number, I'm afraid the one we have is no good," she said.

Anybody but Nagato!

"No!" Deidara blurted.

Tsunade looked at him, puzzled. "What is it?"

"I-I mean...he doesn't...doesn't have a phone anymore, hm. Um...his girlfriend Midori she...she has one. Call her, hm..." Deidara said hurriedly, not wanting the news of this to reach his father.

Tsunade looked at him suspiciously. "Is there something I should know, Deidara?"

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