New Life

Chapter 9

Deidara's P.O.V.

After taking a shower I went to bed...

But I couldn't sleep. I was thinking of Neji, and what Sasuke said.

'Should I text him?'

I grabbed my phone and stared at the number for a while. One of two things could happen. Everything could be happy and Sasuke could be lying to me. Or the more likely number two where I end up getting hurt. I don't want another Sasori incident again... I don't want anything to blow up in my face because of my choices... no pun intended.

I looked at the phone and backed out of the messages and clicked into my photos. Sasori painted his way back into my brain, and reluctantly, my heart reacted. Pain.

Before everything with Sasuke and Itachi had happened, Sasori and I had been going steady for 3 years. The breakup was horrible and painful. He decided that it was time to separate. To keep anyone else from hurting more down the road. It broke me.

I was angry. And sad. And confused. But the anger won and when Itachi offered the plan to escape I took the opportunity. Knowing fully well that it would mean Sasori would be dead before I got to say a 'good bye,' or an 'im sorry.' Not that it would matter much. What's done is done.

Looking at my phone screen with tears running down the screen as I saw a picture of Sasori that I took when I have him a birthday present the first year we were dating. He was so happy. I missed seeing him smile. His brown eyes that knew everything about my soul.

I decided that I should not have been looking at those pictures. I texted Neji.

'"Hey this is Deidara from the party. This is Neji's number right?'"

I waited for a reply. About 4 minutes later, one came.

"Yeah, this is Neji. How are you doing? Can't sleep?"

"Not really. I'm okay though."

"Am I supposed to believe that? Well never mind that, we'll save that conversation for another day. Where can we meet up? I want to get to know you so I don't see you as just another pretty face ;)"

I blushed at his comment, I'm not pretty! I'm a man. Men are not pretty. They are handsome.

I decided to get over that comment and went back to our conversation.

"Umm... I don't know. I haven't been here for very long do I don't know any places. Any suggestions?"

"I know just the place. Ask Sasuke to guide you to a cafe on the side street near the Konoha Hate. He'll know the place. I promise you'll like it. :)"

"Okay sure I'll be there. Time?"

"7:30?"

"Sure. I'll see you then :)"

"I'll be looking forward to it. ;)"

I sighed as I put the phone down. It felt nice to have something to do again. It was exciting.

I  decided to try and sleep for the night. Though it was hard to sleep because I kept thinking about would could happen tomorrow. I turned out the light anyways and got under my blanket and fell asleep after maybe 30 minutes of trying.
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Sasuke's P.O.V.

I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tried. I was too busy thinking about, we'll everything. It was overwhelming to say the least.

The thing that was concerning me the most was how the "relationship" with Itachi is going to turn out. I don't even know if we're a "couple." It's just confusing.