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"…Sempai…the world has gone dark."

Broken, I couldn't move. The pain was almost too much to bear, but nothing could be done. I couldn't hear. My ears wouldn't stop ringing. I lay there on the hard dirt ground as the same image flashed over and over in my mind. It was a bright light…small at first, but it continued to grow quickly…I didn't move fast enough…the last thing that I remember is, it went off with a bang.

"It was an accident, right sempai?…Sempai?"

Was it? I do annoy him sometimes, but would he really do such a thing? No…of course not…maybe he didn't see me. He was aiming for the enemy…wasn't he? But he looked right at me…was it me he was aiming for? Was it me he was trying to kill?

"Sempai…am I going to die?"

The smoke was beginning to slowly fade away, and the many trees and bushes surrounding the large crater started to come into view.

"I wonder if Tobi heard me, un...Maybe I didn't warn him soon enough…" Deidara walked forward through the thick smoke and falling ash…something orange a few feet away caught his eye. He bent down and picked it up. At first he was unsure about what it was, but soon he saw several other bits and pieces of it. Tobi's mask, it had broken into small pieces and several of them were completely singed.

Deidara stood up, dropping the broken piece of mask back to the ground. It seemed obvious that his partner had been caught in the explosion. The smoke had cleared a bit more, but a lot still hung in the air, making it hard to breath. Deidara walked towards one of the two figures on the ground. It wasn't Tobi…just some stupid ninja from some village not too far away. He wasn't breathing…wasn't moving...wasn't living. He looked up from the seared body and turned towards Tobi.

No motion could be seen. Was he dead? Deidara slowly walked over to him. Most of his mask was intact, just a small portion of the right side was broken off. Deidara saw several scars around his eye, but that was all he could see of his partner's face. As he got closer he noticed his chest slowly rising and lowering. He was half relieved to see that he was alive, he wouldn't have to explain to leader-sama about the death of his partner. Since the mission was finished, all he had to do was fly back on his clay bird, Tobi's injuries could be healed once they arrived at the hideout. It was an hour's trip back...yet, to Deidara it seemed much longer without the loud, annoying voice of his partner constantly talking…there was nothing to do, nothing to say, nothing to be annoyed about. Nothing.

From a farther distance Deidara looked down at were the explosion had been set off. Through the smoke you could see the outlines of the crater caused by the blast. Smiling at the outcome, he turned back around and continued to head for the hideout.

Tobi woke up in his room, it was dark. He looked over at the clock that rested on the small table next to his bed. 3:37 am, is what it said. When he tried to sit up, a sharp pain ran down his arm and his side, he immediately laid back down, noticing the bandages that covered most of his right side. His mask was still on even though it was broken in some places. "So it wasn't just a bad dream…" Said Tobi quietly to himself, as he looked forward and stared off to the other side of his room not focusing on anything in particular.

He breathed in sharply, and without warning the pain from moments ago was rapidly growing worse and his thoughts begun to blur together, he closed his eyes to clear his mind but found it was a mistake because he immediately blacked out again into a long dreamless sleep.

"Get up, we have another mission, un."

Tobi's eyes opened slowly, and he carefully sat up, looking at Deidara. "But sempai, what about my injuries?" he asked confused. "They've been healed, you'll be fine, just hurry up and get dressed, un."

Tobi couldn't argue, he felt fine for the most part, just a little sore. He sat there on his bed for several moments after Deidara left…the thoughts about what had happened the other day seemed to be coming back to him. Questions were building up in his mind…why? Why did he set off the explosion when I was right there? He must have seen me, but he yelled it anyway…katsu.

He shook his head, clearing his thoughts and stood up from his bed. After collecting a new cloak from his closet he headed down the hall to take a shower.

Deidara walked back up the stairs about ten minutes later holding a basket of clean clothes. After the last step he continued forward down a long hallway and stopped at Tobi's door, shifting the basket to one arm as he turned the handle and went inside. He placed the basket on his bed , took a step back and looked around. The room was rather normal looking. It had sorta dark teal blue walls and a couple pictures were hanging here and there. The floor was wood, like the rest of the rooms in the hideout and had several dirty shirts thrown in random spots. A window was on the far wall and was one of the first things you saw when you stepped in. The wall next to the window had a closet with several outfits hung up inside. The bed had a plain white blanket and table next to it. On the table was a lamp, a clock, and a picture of two young boys, a young girl, and an older man with messy bright yellowish hair. Come to think of it, Deidara hadn't remembered that picture ever being there. Perhaps it was there but he never noticed it. The reason was most likely because he was never in Tobi's room long enough to really look around.

He walked around the bed and reached for the picture. The boy on the left had greyish silver hair, he wore a mask over his nose and mouth. The mask was a really dark blue, or maybe black….he couldn't tell, the dark lighting in Tobi's room was making it harder to see the picture. Next to him stood another young boy. His hair was short, and he wore a blue and orange outfit. The girl standing on the right had brown hair that reached just above the shoulders, on her face there were two purple marks, one on each side. Behind them stood the man with bright yellowish hair. He, the girl and the boy in the middle were smiling. Deidara couldn't tell about the one on left because of the mask.

As Deidara stood there looking at the picture, Tobi opened the door to his room and stepped in. He was surprised to see Deidara standing there with his back turned to him. He would have thought his sempai would be downstairs waiting for him to hurry up.

"Deidara sempai, what are doing in my room?" Asked Tobi quite loudly. Deidara jumped and accidentally dropped the picture, causing the glass in the frame to shatter as it made contact with the hard wood floor. It flew in all different directions, and the picture lay there under the broken frame. He quickly bent down and picked it up, careful not to cut himself on the sharp pieces of broken glass.

"I was just bringing your clothes up to your room, un." Said Deidara as he stood there awkwardly, suddenly remembering the picture he was holding. "Uh, sorry about the picture, un" He said as he walked over to his partner, who was just standing there quietly watching him. Deidara was about to hand him back the picture when he noticed there was writing on the back. Deidara read the words… Rin, me, and Kakashi. Frowning, Deidara turned the picture back over. Tobi was in it? Where? The only one he could see that looked anything like Tobi was the one in the middle, it was the hair. Could that be him?

"Uh sempai-" begun Tobi, but he was cut off in the middle of his sentence. "We need to get going, or leader-sama will be angry, un." Deidara handed the picture back to his partner and pushed past him. Tobi carefully set the picture down on his bed and with one last look, he followed his sempai down the hall.

Outside it was cold, and grey clouds filled the sky. It looked as if it was going to rain at any moment. He and Deidara walked until they reached a dirt road next to a forest. A few of the tree's leaves were beginning to turn orange, but most of them were still a bright green. "Uh sempai, what exactly is our mission?" asked Tobi as he and Deidara turned left. Deidara sighed as if Tobi should already know this, "We are to gather information for one of the tailed beasts." "Oh, okay." Tobi said in his usual cheerful voice.

So far for the past 30 minutes Tobi hadn't said anything. Deidara found this rather odd, usually he would be yelling at him to shut up by now. Have I done anything to make him angry? Why isn't he talking? I bet it was the picture…who are those people, anyway? Maybe I sh- Deidara's thoughts were interrupted by a loud clap of thunder. He looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds where getting darker, yet no rain fell. He looked back down and continued to think.

Tobi walked silently. Every so often he would step on a dead leaf or a random stick and it would make a crunching sound beneath his foot. He felt a little uneasy about being on a mission with the person who had tried to kill him. He couldn't understand why Deidara had done it...that's why he thought it might have not been on purpose. He could never be completely sure unless he asked Deidara about it. He wouldn't lie to me…would he? Whether he would or not, Tobi decided to ask him anyway. He looked up from the ground and walked a bit faster to catch up with Deidara, who was at least ten feet ahead of him. With each step Tobi's pace quickened and he called out to Deidara.

"Uh Deidara sempai, can I ask you something?" Deidara slowed but didn't turn to look at Tobi, "What is it, un?" Tobi stopped to think about how to phrase the sentence he was about to ask. Choosing his words carefully, he spoke, "I, uh…was just thinking about the other day…why did you do it?" Deidara frowned at the confusing question asked by his partner. "Do what, un?" Tobi continued to walk a few more steps before he spoke again. "Why did you set off the explosion when I was right there…you saw me…right?" This time it was Deidara who stopped, he thinks I did that on purpose…no wonder he hasn't been talking… Deidara opened his mouth to respond and tell him he was being stupid to think that he would actually do something like that intentionally…not to mention what leader-sama would do if he really had, but before he could speak several kunai flew right past him…inches from his head. Without words he and Tobi dodged several more before they quickly hid out of view for the moment.

Dammit, I should have known we were being followed. Deidara reached for his clay and turned to see three shinobi land on the dirt path a few yards away. "Well this should be fun," Said Deidara sarcastically to himself, as he stood up revealing their hiding spot, and ready to face the enemy.

Okay this is chapter one…hope you liked it! And if you didn't…too bad….