Two more weeks passed on, and the village had began to get repaired a bit. Deidara himself couldn't do anything to help them, and still no missions.
The land outside the village hadn't changed that much, only that there were some burned trees and ruined open areas. But it was okay.
He had been taking long walks nowadays.
The days were long and gloomy - in about a week the missions were going to start again. Sango had been a bit injured, and was put into the hospital for a while.
Three knocks rumbled the door a bit to Deidara's apartment. They were small though.
He slowly got up from his bed from where he was laying, and walked to the door. He opened the door, but saw no one.
A man cleared his throat.
Deidara looked down, and eyed the Tsuchikage.
" Lord Tsuchikage? Un.. " , the blonde muttered monotonic.
" Deidara, I'd like to come in if it doesn't bother " , the older male nodded. Deidara nodded, and held the door open for the other to walk in. He closed it after his guest had entered. " Well, this is my den, hmm.. " , the blonde nodded slowly. " Make yourself at home ".
Ohnoki looked around calm, " Shouldn't you move out of here? This building could collapse at any time- " , got cut off by Deidara that shook his head. " Nope, I want to stay here. I'm too poor to buy another house, plus, this is ok with me. ".
The older male shrugged, " If you say so ".
Deidara sat down in the kitchen, " I only have cookies and juice to offer. There's no warmth in here at the moment so I can't make any tea. And I don't know how to make coffee. " , he explained. The older male chuckled amused, " There's no need to. I just came here to talk about your future. ".
Deidara tilted his head, " My future? I'll just carry on as a ninja and- ", he cut himself off as the elder shook his finger.
" You'll become a fine ninja. I came here to ask if you'd like to be my apprentice. Since you have a different ability apart from others, and I have the book that tells all facts about it, I thought we could figure something out from that, right? ".
The blonde blinked confused. " You mean.. You'd like to.. Train me? ".
" Yes. Exactly. You may have a forbidden technique, but it could be useful. If you train to fill clay with chakra, you can create bombs. Just like the jutsu is created for. ".
The blonde nodded understanding.
He agreed, and the training would start tomorrow. Deidara was welcome to the Tsuchikage office anytime at the day, and they'd practice for four hours. So perhaps he'd finally be able to use his 'failures' professional. Maybe the tunnel wasn't ending right there, perhaps there were light at the edge of it?