Introducing Sasori! Sorry it took me so long, but had some troubles in my private life, so wasn't too motivated to write... I hope this chapter makes up for it a bit!

And thanks for all the reviews. I'm so glad you all like this idea so much and I hope this will keep you entertained for as long as it lasts!The reviews really made me happy and got me through the had period a bit better:) So another thanks for that!

As for Hidan's booty call, I heard some suggestions of who she might be and I don't really care. So it can be either Sakura, Ino or Karin, you can tell me who you prefer. It can also be someone else of course, but the sluttyness must be believable;)

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Itachi walked into the classroom. Immediately he noticed the difference between a normal classroom and this classroom. The desks were made out of wood and all of them had pencils and stuff standing on it. That wasn't even the strangest thing and neither was the disturbing paintings hanging from the wall which had explosions or dead bodies on them. No the most disturbing thing were the wooden puppets standing in the corner, completely dressed and the female puppets even wore make-up. Someone must be kind of obsessed with them.

Itachi then glanced at the tables that were still available and noticed Deidara sitting alone, drawing stuff on a piece of paper. The blonde never looked up, so wouldn't wave Itachi over even if he wanted to. Still Itachi was too curious to know about this crush that Deidara was supposed to have on his teacher, so he walked over to the seat next to the blonde and sat down next to him. His eyes went to the paper and saw lots of colors all forming a big explosion. Well, he knew now whose drawings were on the wall here. Maybe the teacher liked him more than Hidan had thought.

Deidara was still busy drawing when the door closed with a bam. Immediately the blue eyes shot up and watched the teacher walk in. Itachi was also looking, but not as admiring. The teacher seemed to be very young still, he looked even younger than they did, but he must be older. He was also very short and he had fiery red hair. The dull look on his face didn't make him seem very interesting. Itachi didn't see what was so likeable about the guy, but maybe he had a nice personality.

A tanned hand shot up and Deidara almost bounced up and down in his chair to get the teacher's attention. Lazily the muddy brown eyes went towards Deidara, sighing as he noticed who it was. 'Yes, brat?' the guy said. Itachi couldn't believe the teacher just called one of his students', brat! That was insulting and so not fine.

Deidara seemed to ignore it though. Master Sasori, I already did some work for the project. Can you take a look at it for me? he asked, scribbled on his board. Itachi raised an eyebrow then at Deidara. So he did call the teacher master and even by his first name. This was all so strange and even the fact that the teacher walked towards Deidara and took a look at the drawing he made. Usually they just had to wait until they had to turn it in.

'Brat, this is the same as always,' Sasori said annoyed. 'You should widen your perspective and not focus on explosions of colors. Try to make something more calming. Maybe draw humans for once.' The teacher turned again and walked towards the front of the class. He just sat down in his desk chair and went through some of his papers. The other students seem to get to work right away, knowing what they had to do. Again Deidara's hand shot up in the air and Itachi wondered what he wanted to ask now. 'What now, brat?' Sasori asked, not even looking up from his desk.

Again something was scribbled on the board. Master, we have a new student, it said with an arrow pointing to Itachi. The raven rolled his eyes, but the muddy brown eyes then landed on him. He shifted in his chair, not liking how the lazy eyes stared at him.

Sasori turned back to his desk and went through his papers again, taking one out of the stack. 'Itachi Uchiha, I see. You will be paired with the brat since your grades are too low. He might be able to help you,' he said, the paper going down again and his hands folding together. 'Brat, I think you will get him everything he needs?' It was said in a question, but Sasori didn't even wait for the answer. Deidara nodded nonetheless.

The blonde got out a notebook from his back and started writing down a lot now. He ripped the paper out and gave it to Itachi.

The project consists of four different kinds of art pieces. We need to make a big painting, a poem, a statue and something you can make up yourself. It needs to be inventive though. All of the art pieces need to have something in common, like a subject. I already picked a subject, so you have to deal with my vision.

Itachi looked up at Deidara who was drawing in the notebook now. The blue eyes slowly looked up and gave him a nod to see if Itachi had understood. The raven nodded back, but hadn't finished the whole paper yet. There was some sort of schedule on it as well.

Painting: Tuesday and Thursday

Poem: can you write?

Statue: Saturday

Other: Come to my house on Friday and I'll show you

Black eyes went to Deidara again, studying his face. He pointed towards the schedule, asking for a better explanation. The blonde nodded and grabbed the paper, scribbling stuff behind it. They would work on the painting on Tuesday and Thursday and Deidara wanted to do that at Itachi's place. He would need to ask his father, but the house should be big enough for it. Deidara was also asking if Itachi could write the poem since the blonde didn't really have a way with words. Itachi nodded, saying he would try. The statue would be worked on every Saturday and other was self explanatory once Itachi had seen it. He was getting curious to what it was now.

Deidara scribbled something new on his white board again. Tomorrow it's Tuesday, so after school we will go back to your place? Itachi nodded, knowing he had to ask his father tonight then. Maybe he should just ask his mother and let her deal with it. She knew how to play his father better than he knew.

Deidara was studying Itachi's face carefully. He found it strange that Itachi had sat down beside him in the beginning of the lesson, but he didn't mind much now. At least he didn't get a glare anymore or weird threats. Maybe the raven had started to like him or maybe Hidan threatened him instead. It was probably the latter.

His blue eyes went to the front of the class again, his eyes landing on Sasori. Immediately he felt sick, his stomach churning. Why did Sasori make him feel this weird? It wasn't fair! Especially since Sasori knew Deidara liked him. It had earned him the nickname brat, because Sasori didn't want to say his real name anymore, saying it would make the crush even worse. Deidara thought he was just being called brat, because Sasori wanted to tease him. It would be in the teacher's nature.

Sasori's eyes glided up from his desk again and landed on Itachi, staring at him for quite some time before looking over at Deidara. The blonde swallowed hard, feeling his heart rate go up. He cascaded his eyes down, looking at his drawing he suddenly hated. It was ugly and not even worth Sasori's time. How could he have been so stupid to actually show it to him? When he dared to look up again, he noticed Sasori staring at Itachi again. The raven didn't notice it, still studying the piece of paper Deidara had hadn't him.

Deidara felt a sting of jealousy, not really liking the fact that Sasori was actually staring at Itachi. What was so great about Itachi anyway? Maybe it was the low voice, sounding so velvety. Although Sasori hadn't heard it yet. Maybe the piercing black eyes that seemed to look right through you. No, Itachi hadn't even really looked at Sasori. Couldn't be the long black hair, since Deidara's hair was long as well, although not as well kept as Itachi's. There were a lot of things to like about Itachi, so maybe Sasori was right to stare at him.

Suddenly Itachi's eyes snapped up to Deidara, looking right into his blue eyes. Deidara felt himself wanting to look away, the piercing gaze scaring him a little. But still he kept looking back, keeping their eyes locked. Eventually the raven blinked, his eyes going down to the table before going back to the piece of paper. Somehow Deidara's heart rate had sped up even more and he couldn't help but wonder about what Itachi had thought about.

He kept looking at Itachi for almost the entire lesson, the bell shocking him out of his thoughts. First Deidara just sat there, his thoughts now jumbling together. He had always looked at Sasori when he was in art class, but now he was actually looking at Itachi. This was all so strange… When he found the class empty, even Itachi had left, he quickly stuffed everything in his bag and sprinted off. What he hadn't expected was Sasori calling something out to him.

'He's a good looking guy, brat and he seemed to be interested in you. Maybe you should go for him instead of me,' the redhead said, glancing at Deidara out of the corner of his eye. Of course Deidara couldn't respond quickly to him, so he kept silent, just nodding at Sasori's words.

What Deidara never had known was that Sasori did care about him, but not in the way the brat wanted. When he found out Deidara had a crush in him, he knew he had gotten too close to his student. He had taken the boy under his wing, motivating him to do more with art. Deidara just had that effect on people and he had sucked Sasori right in. But Sasori knew he couldn't keep treating him like his friend or his son for that matter. That's when the insults started and he started to push the blonde away. Not the right way to approach it and Sasori wasn't even sure it helped. Deidara was now clinging even more to him, doing work beforehand and wanting his help.

But the way Itachi had looked at Deidara for a moment, the black eyes sparkling a bit, Sasori knew that it might change now. Itachi's report didn't say very good things about the raven and maybe he would be a bad influence on Deidara, but that was not something Sasori believed. Deidara could change everybody and he could certainly change a miserable student like Itachi. Sasori had seen to how many different schools the boy had gone to and he knew it had nothing to do with him getting expelled. He just moved a lot.

Sasori would hope the best for them and he smiled softly when he saw that Itachi had waited for Deidara outside of the classroom, walking with him to the next class.

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