Hmm, I wonder about this because I've been having a very emotional week...so if that has affected this chapter in a negative way I apologize profusely and will read over it again tomorrow when it's not like 3 in the morning.

Disclaimer: Bahaha the things I would do if I owned Naruto }:D

"What...what the hell happened?" seeing Deidara so quiet was unsettling to Hidan. Kisame quietly urged the blonde to continue, rubbing small circles on his back.

"W-well, un..."

Flashback

"Wh-why?" the blonde could feel his world slowly crumbling around him.

"Lately you have been...disinterested in our relationship." The redhead stated.

"That's not tru-" Sasori cut off the blonde with a brisk, angry tone.

"We haven't talked in 3 days, we haven't gone on a date in longer than that. Ever since you started this bet you've become obsessed with Hidan's love life and very uninterested in your own." Deidara could swear his heart literally dropped into his stomach.

Sasori was right.

2 weeks ago when Kakuzu had become the manager work became much more tiring, which made Deidara want to go to bed first thing when he got home...resulting in less sex, cuddling, and Sasori time in general. After the bet started any of the remaining 'Sasori time' was dismissed for 'Hidan and Kakuzu time' and 'Taunt Kisame time'. Oh God.

"Deidara, I hate having to wait around for you to find time for me whenever you feel like putting our relationship as second priority to everything else, namely Hidan. You frequently let him sleep on our couch without my consent...-"

Sasori's voice seemed to blur as he listed complaints about the Blonde's and Hidan's friendship. Deidara couldn't take the way the redhead was attacking his best friend, and brother figure, and found the dread being pushed away in order to make room for pure anger.

"-...You stay over at his place after you get yourself stoned or too exhausted to walk home and never bother to let me know, leaving me to hope I won't wake up to a policeman telling me they found your body in some alley-" The blonde didn't even seem to notice that the redhead had just admitted to worrying about him, instead he was caught up in his own defensive anger.

"My friends are important, Danna! Why should I have to give up time with them because your being over sensitive, un?" the blonde yelled, knowing full-well the redhead is not one to overreact or be, as he so eloquently put it, 'over sensitive'.

"Then when have I been important? All I want is for you to spend a little less time partying with Hidan amd Kisame and more acting like you care about your relationship!" something to be noted was Sasori always regarded it as Deidara's relationship, never 'our'. The blonde had once thought it to be a self-defense of sorts...nowadays he assumes it to be the redhead's lack of affection.

"I do care! I just find it stupid that you want me to sacrifice having friends just because you want to control me, un!" There was no turning back now, both of them knew it.

"I want you to acknowledge that I am not a toy for you to play with whenever you get bored." He clipped out, silently appalled that the blonde would suggest that he, Akasuna Sasori, wished to possess him.

"Who would want to play with such a dull emotionless toy, un? You never act like you want to be with me anyways!"

"Who wants to be with such an inconsiderate brat? Your emotions are as fleeting as your so called art, I was probably just a whim of yours." Deidara's anger reached it's peak, the redhead knew how much he resented that Sasori viewed him as a child due to their 7 year age gap and suggesting he didn't love him...that was too much.

Sasori didn't even flinch when a fist swiftly connected with his nose, blood running down and dripping off his chin.

The room was completely silent. Deidara, suddenly realizing what he had done, shrunk back, expecting some kind of explosion from his bo...ex-boyfriend.

It never came.

The redhead slowly moved past the blonde, grabbing his jacket off of the coat rack on his way out.

The door slamming broke Deidara out of his trance and panic set in. Running out of his apartment to try and stop Sasori came as instinct, putting on his shoes had never seemed like such a long and grueling task. Sasori had always been waiting for him...He had always thought of himself being the one who had to wait.

Now that he thought about it...Sasori had been the one to ask him out...had been the one to sit in the living room every weeknight waiting for Deidara to get off work and as soon as he walked in the door he would hear a baritone voice say:

"Let's go to my house." every time the blonde would chuckle, thinking it humorous that the older man insisted on going to his own room to have sex, claiming it to be his house even though the apartment was under Deidara's name. A charming joke between lovers.

Deidara always thought that he was waiting on the redhead's love, to see a definite sign that he was important to him...he had never noticed that Sasori showed it all the time.

When he got outside Sasori's motorcycle was already zooming out of sight, he was too late.

He was too late to say "I'm sorry"

He was too late to realize that the words "I love you" hadn't escaped either of their lips in weeks.

He knew full well Sasori was gone but he ran towards the asphalt anyway, hoping Sasori had gotten stopped at the light. No such luck.

Before he could even see down the road his heart stopped.

Not because he saw cars stopping for no reason.

Not because the drivers of those cars were getting out of their vehicles and dialing a three digit number.

No, his heart stopped because of the screeching of tires followed by the sound of scraping metal and broken glass.

He couldn't even tell if the strangled scream had came from himself or not.

All he knew was that there was a mangled motorcycle by the side of the road and a couple feet away a man lay there, blood pooling around him.

Okay, i am so emotionally spent and just plain exhausted. Has anyone else had 'One of those weeks' when everything turns from good to shit in like 2 hours? good, I'm not alone then.

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