A/N: Well, this is another almost filler chapter, but ACTION IS PROMISED IN NEXT CHAPTER! IM SO EXCITED! :D
Thanks to kittykat6625 for keeping me in the mood for this story! This is all for you ladybird!
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It was very late that night that I finally decided to leave the tree. I dropped to the ground, landing on my feet and spooking a few of the birds that were in the trees. I smiled at them as they flew off, towards better places, and I trekked towards the hideout, hunched into myself as I realized that Tobi was gone with the red eyed man-Itachi- and left me on my own again. I made it inside as someone was trying to leave, smashing into me and knocking me out of the doorway.
"What the hell was that for, baka?" I growled, glaring up at the blonde haired shinobi that knocked me over. He closed his cerulean eye in a silent apology, offering me a hand and pulling me up. I squeaked as I felt something wet almost lick across my palm, and I snatched my hand back, wiping it quickly against my thigh to try to get the nasty feeling off my skin. He laughed, showing me his palm, and I had to fix my earlier thought. Something had licked me earlier, for he had mouths in his palms. Ewww.
"Where are you going in such a hurry Deidara-san?" I asked, and he blew his hair out of his face, annoyance flitting across his features. He rubbed the back of his head with his other hand, letting the one he was showing me drop to his side like a sack of dead meat. I waited for him to either answer me or take off again, but he stayed quiet, his eye unfocusedly fixed on the horizon, and I was again reminded of daylight starting soon. I brushed by him, huffing in annoyance that I managed to break the only shinobi that was possibly my daytime entertainment, for I was nowhere near tired now.
"Ehh?" he asked as I let the door shut behind him, rolling my eyes at his confusion. Either he would follow or he would continue. I walked down the hallway slowly, looking at the differing spider webs that trailed the corners, and I heard the door open behind me.
"Did you want to talk to me, yeah?" he asked, and i turned to him, annoyance radiating off me in waves, my dress fluttering with the slight breeze I had kicked up accidentally. My eyes narrowed on his figure framed in the doorway, and I paused in my walking. I motioned for him to walk closer to me, and he shook his head, a smirk pulling at his mouth, and I growled, low and audible, the sound echoing through the empty hall.
"Either in or out, if you let in the light, I will have no choice but to find all your clay and scatter it to the wind!" I said, the threat almost vibrant, and he quickly ducked into the hallway, the door shut firmly behind him. It was my turn to smirk slightly as he heeded my anger and my threat; I held some tiny semblance of power while Tobi was away.
"I wanted to know why you were leaving in such a hurry, Deidara-san." I said, and he walked towards me, his cloak fluttering away from his legs as he walked. I was distracted by the movement, the red and black of his cloak contrasting sharply with the drab grimy grey of the walls. I shuddered slightly, dragging myself out of the thoughts of bird sized spiders and webs that entangled small children. I hate spiders.
"I wanted out of here, yeah." He said, and I cocked my head ever so slightly to the side, one of my eyebrows quirked in an 'don't you think I want that too?' position. His smirk grew slightly, and he pressed in my personal space, almost driving me through one o the open doors. I caught the doorframe with my fingertips, suddenly glad of my super strength as I held myself by the tips of my index finger and my middle finger on my right hand. My balance teetered, and I grabbed onto Deidara's cloak, hauling myself upright and rather close to his face. Our mouths were an inch apart, and both of our faces were full of shock at the almost intimacy of the position. His smirk, which had faded with the onset of shock, reappeared, and he made the slightest of movements forward, kissing me lightly on my lips before I even had a chance to remove myself from this situation.
We broke apart, my face heated as I touched my lips, my thoughts scattered besides the whole 'Tobi's gonna kill his partner'. He watched me with something in his gaze I couldn't put a name on. He moved forward again, but this time I fisted my hand in his robe, almost locking my elbow with the effort to keep him away from me.
"Do you have a death wish?" I said, my eyes snapping to his as my thoughts focused together to form a keep Deidara alive plan. He shrugged, the movement almost boneless, as he tried to get around my hand. I moved with him, keeping him at bay and keeping myself away from the walls of the room I suddenly found us in.
"Do you, yeah?" he asked, and I glared at him, the wind coming alive and crackling with energy as my anger snapped into place. Deidara's eye widened as his bangs were blown away from the metal device over his other eye, the metal reflecting the fire I suddenly formed around myself. It was bright orange and not very hot, flickering over my arms and dying out when I concentrated on it, but it was fire. The wind whipped around us, keeping us in our own light cyclone, keeping the weak flames away from anything flammable in the room, and I decided to ignore the fire that licked at my skin but didn't burn me turning my attention back onto the blonde I was holding onto.
"I can deal with being friends with you, Deidara, but anything else is just wrong. Now, either I let you go and we both act like this never happened, or I will find all of your clay and destroy it, and then proceed to tear off your arms to render you useless for Akatsuki, got it?" I said, and he got an odd look when I mentioned the arms. He nodded and I let go of his cloak, my eyes narrowed on his form as the wind died down slightly, the flames dying out altogether.
"The arm things been done already, yeah, so get your own threatening move, yeah." He said, and I growled, stepping towards him as the flames burst from my step, flickering brightly. He cringed away from the sudden fire, and just like that, it was gone.
"Don't care. I'll use what I got, Deidara." I said, and he sighed, reaching into the pouch on his hip. I took a single step forward, and he pulled his hand out of the pouch, holding it up to show me the grinning mouth on the palm. I winced slightly at the mouth, but my yes flickered from his 'empty' hand to his face. He smiled, but it looked more like a cringe, and I looked at his hand to see that the mouth was no open and held no clay whatsoever.
"I just wanted to show you something,yeah." He said, and I nodded, rolling my shoulders back slightly as I looked around the room, noting small details at random. This was what appeared to be a storeroom, random and broken bits of furniture scattered through the place, and there was no window, thank goodness. Deidara moved forward slightly, cupping his hands, which now held some sort of clay creature in his hands. I moved forward, curious, and he smiled at me, his blue eye alight with happiness now that I wasn't trying to hurt him, and that he held one of his own creations.
"This is something I want you to hold onto for me, yeah." He said, and I glanced at him, an eyebrow raised in a unasked question. He laughed, a masculine flighty thing, and then shook his head slightly.
"No, it's not so that I can steal you for bad purposes or whatnot, yeah." He said, and I kept my eyes on him, the eyebrow still raised. He laughed again, shaking his hands, and the creature slithered slightly, moving out of one of his hands so that the other could grab one of mine. I tried to pull away, but the clay creature was suddenly on my wrist, coiled there, thin and fragile. He made a hand motion, and said "Katsu!" and it doubled in size, its weight slightly more noticeable, and it started to move up my arm, I went to grab for it with my other hand but Deidara pinned my wrists, his eye on mine as looked at him with irritation on my face.
"Wait, please, let me explain, yeah." He said, and I felt the snake continue to move up toward my neck, curling around it like some sort of choker. It settled, the coolness of the clay heating up quickly with my body heat. I looked pointedly at Deidara, waiting for a good explanation.
"This is one of my special types of creations, yeah. It is one that I can track, and I can relay messages through it, yeah. If you ever need a last minute weapon, it is made of a special type of exploding clay, yeah." He said, and he let go of my hands as I relaxed my body posture.
"Grab the snake, throw it at the person or thing you need destroying, and shout 'Kage', yeah." He said, and I waited for an explosion, but nothing happened. I sighed, running a hand through my hair, and then I poked at the clay snake. It hissed slightly, and then returned to being quiet.
"Why did you give me this?" I asked, and he shrugged, walking out of the room with a slight smirk on his face.
"You seem like a blast to have around, yeah. And I'm curious as to why Tobi wants you around so damn bad yeah." He said, and he walked out, his voice trailing off. I ran after him, seeing him walk into one of the other rooms, and he left the door open. It was clearly his room, from the half finished clay sculptures scattered over the floor and the clothing strewn around. I shook my head at his clutter, pausing outside of his door to watch him strip down to a fishnet shirt and his pants. He turned towards me, his hair loose and the ponytail holder nowhere in sight, causing his hair to fall in golden waves over his head. I shook my head, thinking over how much he looked like a girl, with his almost feminine figure( minus the chest, of course) and his long hair, manicured nails, and overall kept appearance.
"Cant a man get undressed without a girlie like you peeking, yeah?" he asked, and I blushed again, turning around and walking quickly to my room, embarrassment flooding off of my in waves. I heard his laugh follow me, echoing through the otherwise empty base. I quickly opened and shut the door, putting my bodyweight on it to make sure it stayed shut as Deidara's laugh haunted me. I sighed, closing my eyes and letting my body sag as I blew the hair out of my face, reaching up to grab the snake, which hissed, and I ripped it off of me, tossing it onto the bed where it slithered onto one of the pillows and curled up. I glared at it, rubbing Miyako's pendant in thought as I tried to think of a way to get rid of the damned thing without hurting Deidara's feelings.
And what the hell was with him? Kissing me like that when he knows I'm Tobi's? A slight blush gathered on my cheeks as I thought about that statement. I sat down on the bed, ignoring the slithering clay creature as it made a break for my body. I put a hand over my lips again as I thought about the crushing needy kiss Tobi gave me in the forest. What was that for? Why had he shown he actually had emotions? And then Deidara had to spoil everything by kissing me. At least I can say it was an accident. I flopped down on the bed, letting my body fall backwards and I snuggled into the slightly warm blankets, letting the exhaustion I had been holding off creep upon me. I reached for the soft blanket with the red and white fan on it, tracing the symbol and I fell asleep, the snake wrapped around my wrist and alert for anything suspicious.
Deidara smirked in his room, fiddling with his clay as he made sculpture after sculpture, crushing the ones he didn't like. He had felt Tori rip off the sculpture, which would have ticked him off if it didn't wrap around her wrist as she fell asleep, letting her guard down. He let his thoughts drift as he looked through the snakes eyes and around Tobi's room, curious. There was nothing special about it, the scroll names looked cool, but he didn't trust Tori to not wake up if he sent the snake after it, and the blanket she was ,for lack of a better word, cuddling,had a rumbled Uchiha symbol in the center of it. In her sleep, her fingers twitched, tracing the symbol in a gesture Deidara thought was odd. It looked like she was tracing it from memory, a slight smile on her face as her body relaxed, inch after inch, into much needed sleep.
"Ryuu…" she whispered, her slight smile blooming into a brilliant one, and Deidara watched her a little more, intent on figuring out who this Ryuu was, and why Tobi's girl was talking about this Ryuu charecter like she was his lover…