Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

This fic is AU ItaDei. It's a homosexual fix, so don't like, don't read and all that stuff. I'll ignore any annoying flame or comment about it being two guys.I hope it will be what I want it to be, namely both an emotional and physical thing! So yes, rated M for a reason!

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The simple life

Chapter one: New keychains

Itachi was walking the familiar grounds of his school once again, after a two month summer break. He was one of the few that was actually relieved to finally be back. His days usually contained of studying and with summer break, well there just wasn't anything to study about.

Instead he had gotten so bored he had spend half of his time having his younger brother, who was walking next to him in a far more depressing mood, over for company.
The only relief he had had from his boring vacation was the visiting of an old friend, Kisame, which had brightened up a week of the two months.

Needless to say, Itachi was thrilled to be back at school, even though he didn't show it. He could finally do the things that were important again.

"I can't believe school already started again." Sasuke huffed from next to Itachi. "And I especially can't believe how you can be so happy about it either."

Itachi simply smiled at Sasuke, knowing that telling him school could be fun if you paid attention, something he knew Sasuke rarely did, wouldn't make him like school any better.
They said goodbye's when the bell rang and Sasuke spotted his friends, leaving quickly and reminding Itachi he needed a ride home before he got out of sight.

Itachi went to class quickly, not wanting to be late on his first day (or any other day) and he found himself to be one of the first to arrive. He felt pleased with himself as he sat down and got his stuff. People started walking in rapidly after that and soon the class started.

Itachi was scribbling down anything of importance the teacher was speaking off, in the mean time taking in what was in his textbook next to him, when suddenly the class was being interrupted half way in. The door opened brutally and a small blonde appeared in the doorway, frowning deeply.

"I'm sorry… Is this room 203?" He asked carefully. He was lost, Itachi figured.

Probably new to the school. How annoying that he choose this classroom to interrupt, just as Itachi was enjoying the subject. Biology was his favorite class.

"No I'm sorry. You must be new. Room 203 is two stairs up." The teacher told the blond, but he got a confused look in return.

"And then?"

"I'll send someone with you." The teacher said and Itachi could just feel this going even more wrong. He knew exactly who the teacher was going to pick to bring this boy to his class.

"Itachi. Would you mind?" The teacher asked, and despite that Itachi did in fact mind very much, he shook his head, gathered his stuff and left the classroom. He knew this was going to happen.

His teachers seemed to think that if anyone could miss a class, it would be Itachi. He always had perfect scores after all, he didn't need that much studying. It was very annoying though, even though it was true. He liked spending time in classes.

Almost forgetting why he wasn't in class in the first place, he turned to the interruptive blonde and looked at him, putting up a friendly face.

"Room 203, follow me." He told him and started walking. The footsteps sounding loudly and oddly behind him indicated that the blonde was following him indeed.

"I'm Deidara yeah." The guy said after a few moments of silence. Itachi nodded, not planning on making converse with this guy.

"You're supposed to tell me your name now."

Itachi sighed, hoping his annoyance wouldn't be heard in it before speaking. "Itachi. Uchiha Itachi. Nice to meet you Deidara."

He said it perfectly mannered like he should have. Good.

"You looked quite annoyed when I walked in yeah. Was it an interesting lesson?" Deidara asked. Itachi inwardly groaned, but answered politely.

"I was finding the lesson very interesting, however I was certainly not irritated."

"Is that why I could see that vein popping on your forehead?"

Itachi could see Deidara grinning from the corner of his eyes.

"That never happened." He simply answered, ignoring the fact that this new guy was probably right. Sasuke had told him many times that his vein popped when he was irritated.

"Right. So are we there yet yeah?"

Itachi couldn't help but notice but the childish question (seriously, who still asked 'are we there yet' at this age) and also the manner of speaking Deidara had.

"Almost." He kept his cool.

They walked in silence the rest of the time, until they reached Deidara's room. An art room, Itachi noticed.

"This is it. Goodbye." Itachi said and turned around.

"Wait, I didn't even thank you yet yeah!" Itachi could hear Deidara yell behind him, but he was already turning a corner, hoping he wouldn't have missed most of the lesson and have to revert to doing homework when he got back instead.

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The next morning, Itachi was walking through the school's hallways once again. He had left Sasuke once they were inside, looking for a certain someone.

Sasuke had asked him on the ride home the day before, if he had gotten a sudden artistic attack, which Itachi hadn't quite gotten until Sasuke had pointed out his bag. His new bag. Which had now been drawn on with a hideous colour of pink marker, showing a bunnycaterpillar and a melon and a scribbled 'thank you', under it.

The second he saw it, he was in a slight shock, but as his mind wandered over the day, he had a pretty good guess as to whom had destroyed his bag. And he was about to confront the blonde he had only met for a brief while the day before, before class would start.

He spotted Deidara not soon after he had entered the locker hallways and went up to confront him. Deidara was easy to spot luckily, with his bright blond hair. Itachi grabbed him by the shoulder once he reached him, turning him around. Itachi knew he looked calm, but he was fuming inside.

"Oh hello yeah." Deidara said and smiled at Itachi as he recognized him.

It annoyed Itachi even more. "What do you think you were doing?" Itachi asked and earned an innocent look from Deidara, obviously fake.

"I don't know what you mean." He said, turning back to his locker and pulling out some pencils, Itachi noticed.

"You know what I'm talking about. I bought that bag just before school started again. It was brand new."

"It needed something to cheer it up. It was dull yeah." Deidara said, talking as if it was the most normal thing in the word to write on someone else's bag.

"No, it didn't."

"Yes it did."

"No."

"Yes." Itachi sighed in return.

When was the last time he had played that game with anyone? It was immature, something Itachi was sure Deidara was.

"I win." Deidara said triumphantly. Yes, very immature.

"It's not polite to draw on people's stuff." Itachi said now, trying to be polite again and teach Deidara some manners.

"It was a thank you for showing me my classroom yeah."

Deidara gave Itachi a sheepish look.

"You should have just said thank you and left it at that." Itachi said.

"But that's no fun yeah." Deidara protested. Before he could say another thing though, Itachi cut him off.

"Don't do it again. Have a nice day." He said and started to walk away, only to hear footsteps behind him.

Now footsteps behind him weren't abnormal in a busy school where students and teachers went to find their classrooms, however, Itachi remembered the annoying tap the blonde had in his walk, and he could hear it now. After a while of ignoring it and finding his way to his classroom, he knew he was still being followed, so he turned around. He was proud of himself for getting his calm façade on again once he did.

"Why are you following me?" He asked, crossing his arms. Deidara just smiled at him a little awkwardly before answering.

"Room 067?" He asked hopefully, actually earning a groan again from Itachi, who shook his head.

"You can ask someone else." He said, turning to the door and wanting to open it.

"Please?"

Itachi sighed, not being able to turn down such a pleading sound and turned to the annoying blonde once more. "Fine." He said. "But you'd better not make me late for class."

He grabbed the blonde by his arm, steering him in the right direction for a second, before heading off in front of Deidara. He also ignored the apparent proud grin on his companion's face.

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Itachi had been late after all. The classroom Deidara had to be in was too far away to walk to and head back to his own class in mere minutes. He had shown up late for the first time in his life and he hadn't appreciated it. However, when his class was over and he was ready to leave it behind him, deciding he should just be five minutes early next time, he was met with the reason he was late.

Deidara was standing next to the door Itachi came out of and looked up immediately when he spotted him. He looked at him with that same hopeful look he had had before and Itachi sighed.

"What do you want now?" He asked. "You don't have class, it's lunchtime."

He started walking to his locker, just knowing Deidara would follow him. He was right, because when he got to his locker, Deidara stood next to him.

"Do you want to have lunch together?" Itachi managed to catch himself in time, almost having snapped at Deidara that he should find another person to follow around and replied politely again once more.

"I'm sure you can spend your time better. I need to study as well."

"But you're the only one I know here." Deidara said.

Itachi could hear a minimum amount of that pleading voice in that sentence. He wanted to smack himself for the answer he gave this time.

"Ok fine, but don't disturb me from my reading." He said, grabbed his lunch (he never ate out of the cafeteria, finding the food unhealthy), his books and went off to the cafeteria.

Deidara quickly caught up, a grin on his face and they seated themselves down at a small, empty table. Itachi just noticed that Deidara had some art supplies with him.

Deidara put the stuff down and excused himself to get his food. When he came back, Itachi was reading one of his biology textbooks .

"Aren't you going to eat yeah?" Deidara asked as he sat down next to Itachi and started eating his sandwiches. Itachi wanted to ignore him at first, but decided it was his own fault for agreeing to spending lunch together, so he answered.

"I'm eating in a minute, I need to read this chapter first."

He saw Deidara shrugging and picking up some of his markers he had put on the table, then started to draw on the table. Itachi let out a groan, hoping Deidara would get the hint. Deidara just scribbled on though and Itachi felt obligated to step in. The school was supposed to be a neat place and he wouldn't let anyone vandalize school supplies.

"Don't do that, that table is not yours." He said calmly.

"I paid for this school so I paid for the table, so it's mine yeah." Deidara said, a grin on his face.

That grin faded quickly and was replaced by a glare when Itachi snatched the marker from him.

"What'you do that for?" Deidara asked annoyed, and hissed something at Itachi when he grabbed the other markers away as well.

"You're not supposed to be writing on the tables." Itachi said, putting the markers away.

"I wasn't writing, I was drawing. Give me back my markers, they aren't yours." Deidara mimicked Itachi's voice when he said the last part.

"You can't draw on tables either." Itachi ignored Deidara ridiculing his words.

"Well give them back, I'll draw on something else." Deidara said, reaching over to Itachi to get them from where they lay on his other side.

"No."

Itachi tried to push Deidara back, but the blonde was persistent and pushed back, laying almost over Itachi to get to his markers. He finally captured one and quickly sat back, leaving Itachi to glare at him. Deidara was now smiling.

"Don't look at me like that yeah. I'll draw on something that belongs to me."

The blonde resorted to drawing on his own pants now and Itachi gave him a confused look before getting back to his reading. Deidara sure was a weird guy.

They sat in silence until lunch was almost over, when Deidara decided to break the silence.

"How old are you?" He asked.

"Twenty-one. Why do you ask?"

He looked up from his book slightly.

"Trying to talk to you yeah. I'm nineteen." Deidara said and put his marker away, then looked at Itachi hopefully again.

Itachi sighed and handed him the rest of his markers. He couldn't help but feel like a mother, withholding his child from doing something bad.

"You'll walk me to class again right?" Deidara asked now.

Itachi wanted to shake his head and tell him once again to go and ask someone else, but for some reason, he decided not to. It would probably lead to Deidara wining anyway. The guy had been acting like an eight year old from the start.

So Itachi agreed to walking Deidara to class again. It eventually led him to walking with Deidara to all of his classes that day.

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At the end of the week, Itachi found himself walking Deidara to class every day, to every single class.

Somehow Deidara had managed to find him every time and Itachi had given up trying to avoid him halfway through Wednesday.

Itachi had also found Deidara's company to be less of a drag then he had expected it to be. As long as you granted him some things, he was easy to talk to and not nearly as annoying as other people who tried to befriend him. Not that Deidara and him could be considered friends, but at least Itachi didn't despise his company.

Speaking of the blonde, he could hear the funny tapped footsteps coming his way and he soon heard his name called. He turned around from his locker, giving Deidara a slight smile as he arrived. Deidara returned it and it didn't go unnoticed.

"Hello Deidara." He said, getting one more book out of his locker before closing it.

"Hey. Did you sleep well yeah?" Deidara asked and Itachi nodded.

"How about you?"

"Like a rose. Walk with me yeah?" He asked, but Itachi knew there was no arguing, so he followed the blonde to his locker.

Something was a little off though, Deidara acted strange. Almost as if he was nervous. Itachi decided not to ask, knowing that might only make Deidara more nervous, for whatever reason he was in the first place.

Deidara opened his locker, but instead of grabbing a book, Deidara pulled out a neatly packed present.

Itachi frowned.

"What is that?" He asked. For a second, Itachi thought he saw Deidara blush, but when Deidara turned to him with a grin, he figured it was just his imagination.

"I bought you a present yeah." He handed Itachi the present and Itachi frowned.

"Why?"

"I thought I'd apologize for ruining your bag this way."

The blonde was still having a grin on his face.

Suddenly Itachi wasn't so sure he wanted to know what was in the small present. But he opened it anyway and was met with a keychain with several hangers on it.

One was of a book, another was a DNA strap and the last one was… very much Deidara. A little caterpillar, one that resembled the one drawn on his bag.

Itachi had to suppress a chuckle at the last one.

"Thank you Deidara." He said. "You didn't have to."

"I figured you could hang it from your bag yeah. Give me." Deidara pulled the keychain from Itachi's hand and put it on his bag.

"There. Do you like it?" He asked, smiling broadly at Itachi, who smiled back slightly.

"Yes it's nice. What's with the DNA thing?" He asked.

"You were in biology class when I interrupted you right? It's a reminder from where we met."

Itachi couldn't say he wasn't a little bit touched by that. They had barely known each other for five days and Deidara was already bringing up these kind of things as if he knew they were gonna be good friends.

"Thank you." Itachi said. "Let's get you to your classroom." Deidara nodded, grinning again. They walked together all day that day again.

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Once the day was over and Deidara had picked up Itachi from his final class, the two walked to Itachi's locker. They were chatting about their last class. Deidara was wining about how math was the most useless subject in the world.

"I just don't get why we would have to know all these things. They're so useless yeah."

"Math isn't useless, it comes in handy all the time."

"I don't mean subtracting and adding, but all those formula's. They're so stupid."

"You'll find out that it can be very usefull some day." Itachi opened his locker and pulled out the books he needed to study that day.

"Hey Itachi. Can we do something after school today? It's the weekend and all." Deidara said, looking at Itachi.

Itachi didn't know what to say for a second. He never took people home, he never had friends over or went to their places (mostly because he didn't have any), so this was new. He would normally study all day long, but he had to admit, this might be a nice change.

"Sure. Your place or mine?" Itachi asked.

"Yours yeah."

Itachi wondered why Deidara had answered so quickly, but he let it rest. He closed his locker and turned to Deidara.

"Ok. Do we need to go by your locker?"

Deidara shook his head and grabbed Itachi's arm, pulling him away with a smile on his face. It made Itachi smile in return. Deidara really had a weird effect on him, Itachi noticed, and he wondered why that was. He made him forget about things like homework, classes and all other things Itachi found important.

It also made him forget all about Sasuke, who needed a ride home as well.

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Author's Notes: Poor Sasuke has been left behind!

This is my first story on my own and I hope people will review.
Hope you enjoy!

The next chapter is also here already, just because I felt this was more of an intro, the other chapter is more fun to read.