Chapter 7

The three Akatsuki had been walking for hours now. Masago was tired, not that she showed that on the outside. Sasori was in a bad mood, and had gone on ahead, leaving Deidara and Masago walking together behind.

"Masago, un..."

"Yes, Deidara?"

He said nothing.

"Deidara, why do you dislike Uchihas?" She asked.

"Cause they're all genjutsu using bastards un!" He replied quickly.

"Oh thanks..." She scoffed.

"Well, maybe not you, but Itachi is yeah, hm!" He tried to recover.

"Itachi, what did he do to you?" She was curious.

Deidara paused, "He is the reason I am here right now. I didn't want to join the Akatsuki, but he came, and challenged me, and I looked into his eyes and lost!"

"Oh... we're sort of similar then. I didn't want to join either but he came along and got me when I was on my way to Konohagakure." She sympathising with the boy.

"Hm, well, it gave me motive to be stronger I guess, I trained my eye to repel Sharingan, so you'd have to beat me some other way anyway, yeah."

"I'll bare that in mind."

Masago and Deidara walked behind Sasori idling chatting until it became dark and Sasori wanted the 'useless brat' also known as Deidara to set up the clay house. Deidara being Deidara forgot to put in another room for Masago again, and Sasori had slumped off to his room, leaving Masago and Deidara in the hall way of the clay house for a second time that mission.

"You forgot again, didn't you." She flatly spoke.

"Ah."

She sighed and went into hers and Deidara's room. It was really chilly and it was annoying her.

"Deidara, does this place have heating?" She questioned him eyebrow raised.

He then smirked, "I can be your heating, yeah, Masago-chan."

She wanted to slap him but he spoke again.

"I can start a fire, I just need to put a hole in the roof for the smoke."

"Can't you just make a clay chimney?"

He stared at her.

"...Maybe"

Masago sighed, and watched as the boy started to mould the chimney. It actually turned out pretty well, and they now had an open fire in their room.

"We need firewood." She stated as she went to the door.

Deidara got up and followed her out of the clay house.

"Uchiha, how old are you, un?"

"Why?" She asked as she walked to the trees to gather firewood.

"I am nineteen." He said whilst looking at her asking for the information.

"I think I am seventeen." She said pondering the date.

"You think?"

"I don't know what day it is, my birthday was due when I left the sand, so I think I am about seventeen now." She replied.

"Oh, well, erm, what was Suna like?" He asked whilst picking up some twigs.

"Deidara, what is with all the questions yeah?" She said but then realised she used one of his slurs and blushed.

He chuckled, "Cause I want to be friends, yeah."

"Friends..."

He nodded. "We're the only people in this stupid organisation that are close in age, un, so we should have the most in common and be friends, maybe, yeah?"

She thought, "Hidan has the same age gap as me and you, why can't you be friends with him?"

He looked offended. "You don't want to know me then, I get it, yeah..."

Masago rolled her eyes. 'Really' She inwardly sighed.

"Deidara lets go talk by the fire, I'm just cold, okay?" She offered.

He perked up. "Okay, hm!"

They both walked back to the clay house and got to their room, where Deidara set the fire up and Masago used a fire jutsu to get it going. They both then sat down on the sleeping bags next to eachother.

"So Deidara, you like art?" Masago offered the first round of conversation.

"Yeah, hm, Art is a fleeting blast." He said for the hundredth time.

"So you explode everything you make then?"

"Yeah, hm."

Silence.

"Why where you brought up in Sunagakure? Uchihas' are from Konohagakure, hm?" He broke the silence.

She thought for a minute. "I am only half Uchiha, my mother was a Suna-nin. My father wasn't able to be there for me for various reasons."

"Uchiha's are bastards hm, I told you." Deidara said.

"I guess, It doesn't really phase me, I am my mothers child, and a child of Sunagakure, the Uchiha thing is just a bump in the road."

"You said you where going to Konoha though, hm?"

Masago was reliving the events leading up to the Akatsuki, would she really of been all happy living in Konoha as the Uchiha replacement?

"It was ordered by the Kazekage. The elders knew that the Akatsuki are swarming around after him, and me being there was attracting them even more to Suna." She stated.

Silence again. This was getting awkward.

"Deidara-san, what about you, why did you leave Iwagakure?" Masago asked purely to keep the conversation flowing.

He groaned. "Back to 'san' again hm?"

Masago just stared at him. He started fiddling with his cloak, she wanted him to crack first.

"Iwa... didn't respect my art, hm."

She looked at him. "What did you do?"

He protested. "Why do you think I did anything yeah!"

Again silence, but she bared her eyes into him knowingly.

He sighed. "I might of blown a few things up, and stolen a secret scroll." He muttered the last part.

She sighed yet again. "You stole a secret scroll..."

"It is how I made my art, un. The scroll taught me how to knead my chakra into the clay yeah."

"It is pretty impressive what you can do with your clay, Deidara." Masago complemented.

He smiled. "Thanks Masago-chan."

Their eyes met, his cyan eyes reflecting the orange fire in front of them. Her eyes to him where golden orbs. He leaned in, and she froze. Masago had various thoughts flying through her head, but by the time she processed one, his lips where on hers.

...And they where still on hers.

Her heart was beating fast. She didn't understand the situation. She pulled away.

"Sorry." He said cautiously.

She looked at the boy in front of her, he was attractive to her, she couldn't lie to herself, but they where S-class criminals, in the Akatsuki, did they have time for actually having a life? She didn't think it was included in the handbook.

But then she remembered Konan. She was with the Leader of the Akatsuki, if they where in love why couldn't she explore that emotion? The leader sets the example after all.

So she lifted her soft hand towards his face, and stroked his cheek.

Deidara looked at her with those eyes.

And this time she kissed him. Softly. Nothing too daring.

"Masago, un..."

She was blushing, and he was also acting bashful, unlike Deidara's normal cocky self.

"We've crossed a line." She spoke.

"Can we walk further on this side?" He asked with none of his normal slurs.

"Perhaps." She removed her hand from his face.

He grasped her hand, and they lay down together next to the fire.

"I want to kill Itachi..." He stated.

"I wont get in the way of that."

"You're an Uchiha like him, un."

"Then why did you kiss me?"

The blanket of silence fell upon them once again.

She squeezed his hand. They where both now tired and on the brink of sleep. Before Masago was fully unconscious the blonde bomber said something unthinkable.

"I've fallen for an Uchiha, yeah."

AngelicEvangelion Here: This chapter I jotted the summary down as "love seed planted" hehe. It took me so long to write this chapter I really got stuck on it and It was because I get to retarded with the fluffyness ^^' so Until next time dears :3

This one was for you Hev ;)