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five years later

"C'mon Deidara! Time for school!" came Seiryu's voice from the hallway.

A little blond boy was lying on a bed, asleep. He looked about five years old. He stirred and opened his large, azure eyes. He scratched his head, messing up his already tangled, neck-length hair.

"Get up, Dei," Seiryu said, coming into the room and helping deidara out of bed. "We have to get you to school before your father wakes up-"

"Seiryu!"

Seiryu sighed. "Nevermind..."

Once dDeidara was ready, he ran down the stairs for breakfast. Seiryu was busy in the kitchen making pancakes and Nagato was already at the table.

"Morning," Deidara mumbled shyly, not facing Nagato.

Nagato grunted, staring daggers at the little blonde. "Hurry the fuck up, seiryu," he growled. "I'm hungry..."

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"G'bye, Dei," Seiryu said, lowering the sleeve of Deidara's sweater to hide the day-old purplish bruise on Deidara's arm that had been the result of him leaving his backpack on the hallway. "Have a nice first day. You sure you don't want me to walk you?"

"I'm fine," Deidara said, rubbing the bruise and receiving a kiss from his mother.

He got out of the car and waved goodbye as Seiryu drove away. She couldn't walk him inside anyway because she had to get to work- she was already late. Deidara walked through the open gates and into the courtyard were everybody was talking. He had never had a friend before (Nagato had forbidden him to talk to the neighbors for reasons known unknown to everyone but himself) and wasn't sure he'd be able to make one. He sat down on one of the only deserted benches.

"...be just fine, Yahiko," a voice was saying.

Deidara looked up and saw three kids walking in his direction. A girl with black hair tied up in a bun, a boy with orange-red hair, and a boy with black hair the same length as deidara's and covering one eye. the girl was talking to the boy with the orange-red hair, or Yahiko.

"I s'ppose you're right..." Yahiko replied.

The girl with the black hair looked in deidara's direction. Her eyes widened andher face reddened sligthly. she quickly turned away and began to talk to the black-haired boy. Deidara, puzzled, continued to look in her direction and did not notice the little redhead run past him. Deidara felt something hit his outstretched legs and then heard of groan of pain.

Deidara quickly turned and saw a small, skinnyt red headed boy getting up from the ground. he turned and his angry, large brown eyes met Deidara's surprised blue ones.

"Watch it, you dumb girl!" the boy yelled, dusting off his pants. He was not crying.

No one payed them much attention. everyone continued to walk away around and talk as if nothing had happened.

Anger rose up inside Deidara. Had that kid just called him a girl?

"I'm not a girl! And you should watch where you're running!" Deidara shouted back.

"You're dumb, go away!" the other boy screamed.

Deidara got up from his place and suddenly the bell rang. The redhead turned on the spot and began to walk away as everyone in the courtyard began to move around as a whole, trying to get to class.

Deidara already knew where his classroom was. He had seen it during registration. quickly, he headed inside and went into the first classroom. A large window, the only window, allowed sunlight to pour into the room. Four circular table with four chairs each were in the center of the room. the floor was blanketed by a large, colorful carpet with numbers, much like the posters adorning the walls. A small fridge was in a corner, next to a tiny bookshelf, three feet high and filled with small books.

Deidara took a seat, the one closest to the door. more kids began filing in. The girl from before and her two friends joined Deidara at his table. A small boy with white-blonde hair and violet eyes stepped in, sitting on the table to Deidara's right. A boy with black hair and brownish-red eyes joined him. As did a boy with pale skin and eyes the color of gold and another with small black eyes, and hair as pointy as his teeth. The redheaded boy that had yelled at Deidara before sat at a table at the far corner followed by a boy with long blak hair, a pale face and golden eyes and a boy with the hood his jacket over his head, the only things visible were his bright green eyes.

Everyone was seated, the room was alive with the chatter and laughter of the twenty kids inside of it. Someone stepped inside- a woman.

"Quiet," she muttered and the talking died almost instantly. She was a short woman with short brown hair and stern black eyes that swept the room back and forth. Her lips were thin, but they went well with her small frame.

"Alright. i'm your teacher, Ibiki-sensei. I'm not usually mean, but i can be if you break the rules. I only have a few rules: Number one, No yelling. Number two, No hitting or name-callling. Number three, do not take what is not yours. That's it, they're not hard follow, right?"

"Yes, Ibiki-sensei," came the class's reply as one.

"Alright. Well, it's the first day of school so I have no assignments for you. Why don't you all talk and get to know each other?" Ibiki suggested with a smile. "Or you can go to the play areas or the reading areas...if any of you can read.... Just be sure to clean up after yourselves!"

Deidara got off his chair and went to the bookshelft grabbing the first book he saw. Seiryu had slowly taught Deidara to read, taking advantage of the many nights that Nagato had spent the night sleeping in a bar, completely drunk, or at a friend's house and not coming home until three in the morning.

Deidara opened the book. It was a book of colors:

Blue. The ocean is blue.

"B-bloo. Blue, the o-shun...ocean is blue," Deidara read aloud. He turned the page and brushed his bangs out of his eyes.

Yellow. The sun is yellow.

"Yell-oh. Yellow. The sun is...yellow," He turned the page and some whispers reached his ears.

"Oh, but look, he's so cute, Mikku!"

"I know, Konan! Ooh, i like his eyes..."

Deidara knew they were talkig about him.

Orange. The carrot is orange.

"Or-enge. Orange...the care-rot. Carrot-"

"You think we should talk to him?"

"You go first konan..."

"-is orange..."

Deidara heard carpet-muffled footsteps approaching. He kept reading, nevertheless.

Purple. The grapes are purple.

"Purple. The grapes are purple-"

"Hello there!" came a girl's high-pitched voice.

Deidara looked up and, through his bangs saw two girls standing before him. He brushed his bangs out of his face again and saw that one of the girls was the black-haired one that he had seen outside. The other was much shorter and looked very small, her thin legs threatened to break with every step she took. Her eyes were light gray, almost transparent and her straw-colored hair looked smooth; it pooled around her shoulders and cascaded down her back stopping at her tiny waist. A single pink bown adorned her hair.

"Hi," Deidara muttered, his voice barely louder than a whisper. It was never much louder than that unless he was in the presence of his mother or someone he knew.

"I'm, Mikku," said the gray-eyed girl boldy, taking a step forward. She pointed to the black-haired girl next to her. "This is Konan. What's your name?"

"Deidara," the blonde replied.

Konan. It had been she who had called deidara "cute", although he had no idea what she meant by it and did not consider it an important enough comment to remember later on.

"Ooh. so, how are you doing?" Mikku asked.

"'M fine," Deidara replied quietly.

Deidara's complete lack of enthusiastic answers seemed to disappoint Mikku more than Konan. It was not that he wasn't interested, but he was very shy. Mikku's eyes looked from dDeidara to her feet to Konan.

"Alright...well, we'll see you around," Konan said, grabbing Mikku's arm and leading her away.

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Deidara sat at one of the stone picnic tables behind cafeteria. He was the only one there besides a couple of fifth graders sitting on a table nearby.

"Nana, gimme those chips if ya ain't gonna finish 'em," said a tall, lanky, black-haired boy. "I'm hungry..."

"Alright," said a girl, throwing said bag of chips across the table to the boy. She had long, reddish-brown hair that was cut just below the ears. "You eat too much, Sei..."

Deidara went back to his food as laughter issued from the table.

"Oi, what's with that little...is it a girl or a boy? The hair...oh, it's a boy," said another boy next to sei. He had brown eyes and black hair that made his chalky skin seem even chalkier still.

"Haru, be quiet," said nana. "He's so small..."

Deidara ignored them.

"He's still got his bag of chips, Sei," said a boy next to Nana. His dark hair went well with his green eyes.

"Oi, little kid!" Sei yelled.

Deidara looked up, knowing they were speaking to and about him. Who else was there besides him?

"Y-Yeah?" Deidara half-replied, half-asked.

"Are you gonna eat those chips?" Sei yelled back.

"No," deidara replied.

"Bring 'em here, then," Sei said.

Deidara grabbed the bag and began walking towards Sei's table. He handed the bag over and turned to leave as Haru stuck his foot out. Deidara tripped over it but managed to steady himself just in time. The three older boys threw their heads back, howling with laugher. Nana, it seemed, did not approve.

"Leave him alone, he didn't do anything to you," she said flatly, but sternly. "Pick on someone your own size!"

Haru sighed, annoyed. "Fine, nana. Go away, kid..."

Deidara quickly walked away as the bell rang. His first day at school was not what he had wanted it to be.

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Aw...evil!! deidara's so cute!! it took me two hours to finish this chapter because i was on the phone with my boyfriend and he straightened his hair (for the first time in forever) and wouldn't take a pic so i could see dx. more evil. well, i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!! r&r please?? thanx!!