16

"Please don't look at me that way" Aline said with a slight smile, Konan smiled back.

"What face?"

"That face! You make me feel as if I were dying"

"Aren't you?"

"Fck you!"

This was the first time she had actually laughed in a long time.

"I won't be dying anytime soon"

Deidara walked to the kitchen and stopped flat when he saw Aline, he hadn't seen her much or even talked to her since the day she'd seen him with Otamu. They immediately stopped laughing, Aline looking down and Konan looking rather annoyed by his presence.

"Hey" he said to them as he poured water into a glass.

"Hey"

Aline froze for a second not sure of why she had acknowledged his presence. She had sort of pretended he didn't exist for the past few weeks and this was the first time she had actually said anything to him since the day she saw them kissing. The tension grew stronger when their eyes met. He had always had a thing for emotion; how people reacted towards things. He loved her eyes, how they spoke to him without saying a word, but right now he wished he hadn't looked at her.

She was broken, like if she'd been stripped off from life. Did she actually care so much? He felt filthy and embarrassed, disappointment was a horrible feeling and her eyes told him he had let her down. Konan walked out of the kitchen, snapping both of them back to reality.

The atmosphere got so thick it was almost suffocating. But maybe this could be his chance to talk to her, sort things out…

"How are you, h'mm?"

"Great"

"About what happened—"

"I don't want to know"

…or maybe not.

She had placed a finger on his lips to hush him, her skin was cold and up close he could see the dark rings under her eyes. He hated to see her like this, and he hated her looking at him like this. She walked away as he merely watched, unspoken words on his slightly open mouth. She didn't want to hear any excuse. Excuses were things people used to feel better, to justify their actions. She didn't need to know what had happened, she'd seen what happened.

Word had spread, even when neither of them had said a thing. Everyone knew about Otamu and Aline's change of attitude had let them know she now knew as well. However nobody asked anything; personal things had nothing to do with the organization, and as long as it didn't affect their performance and success in missions it was unimportant.