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What it Takes to Love Someone	By : stephfarrow94 Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1984 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
- 1-What it Takes to Love Someone
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- 7-7
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- 9-9
- 10-10
- 11-11
- 12-12
- 13-13
- 14-14
- 15-15
- 16-16
- 17-17
- 18-17
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- 20-20
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"Itachi...?" Deidara whispered tentatively, running into Itachi down the street six months later.
He hadn’t seen Itachi or Sasuke ever since Tobi's accident, though he still spoke to them over the phone and internet, but looking into an Uchiha's face was enough to kill Deidara. He hadn’t been able to let go of the guilt he felt and no amount of psychologists and medications had been able to make him feel better.
Itachi smiled lightly. "Long time no see."
Deidara felt his eyes watering again. "Itachi... How... how is he? …Un."
"He's still in a coma but the doctors say he should be waking up any day now." Itachi offered a weak smile. "When he wakes up I really think you should see him... It'll make him happy and you'll feel better."
Deidara shook his head, tears falling from his eyes as his small frame shook violently with emotion. "I - I can’t! I'm the only reason that truck hit him! It's all my fault! If only I was nicer to him, yeah!"
"Deidara -" Itachi had grabbed Deidara's shoulders to try and keep him calm but his phone rang and the caller ID told Itachi it was the hospital. He picked the phone up and answered it. "Hello?"
Deidara listened as Itachi spoke warily. There was so much emotion written across Itachi's face -- he loved his little cousin and this was probably one of the hardest things Itachi had ever gone through.
When Itachi hung the phone up, Deidara was almost startled as Itachi burst into tears.
"Itachi, un!" Deidara cried, alarmed. "What's wrong?"
"T-tobi's awake!" Itachi exclaimed, tears coming harder. "T-they thought he was gonna die!"
Deidara's eyes widened at the realisation -- Itachi must have been so relieved after so many months of stress. He grinned himself, just glad to know Tobi wasn’t dead yet.
"That's great news, hmm!" Deidara shouted, hugging Itachi tightly.
Itachi nodded. "I'm just so glad he's going to live! I have to go see him right away! Can you please pick up Sasuke and bring him to the hospital?"
"Of course, hmm. ...Maybe... I'll come, too. …Un."
Itachi hugged back tightly, unable to express his emotions in words. He took off from the shopping centre, probably unable to wait until he saw Tobi awake once again.
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The ride to the hospital was rather quiet for Deidara and Sasuke. They got along well, but the fact that Tobi had finally woken up really made room for thoughts.
Sasuke, the one most affected by Tobi's accident, had thrown his seatbelt off and was out of the car before Deidara had even stopped the car properly at the hospital. He got directions to Tobi's room and waited impatiently for Deidara before telling him the room location and taking off.
Deidara took a deep breath outside of Tobi’s room. It was finally time to look the result of his fault. He placed his hands on the door, not sure on what he should do once his enters.
"I can do this… Un..." He mumbled. "I can do this... He survived so far so Itachi and Sasuke won’t kill me, hmm... But... What should I say to Tobi? Would he... would he still even want to see me after... after that? …Un."
After minutes of delaying, he willed himself not to cry and pushed open the door. Itachi was sitting on the bed beside Tobi, stroking the boy's side gingerly and Sasuke was sitting in the chair closest to the bed, talking to his cousin.
Deidara gasped as he saw Tobi -- the poor boy was covered in bandages and plaster casts, still hooked up to a heap of tubes to feed him and give him blood. Deidara had never seen such a sorry sight.
"...Tobi..." Deidara whispered, wanting nothing more than to slam the door closed and crawl into a hole and die, but knowing that Tobi in this state because of him... well, he just couldn’t look away. "Tobi, un... God... I'm so sorry... Please forgive me..."
Silence.
"He..." Itachi whispered, beckoning Deidara closer. "He can’t talk... "
Deidara nodded, wiping the tears away. He sat down next to Sasuke, not knowing how to handle the situation. It was obvious that Tobi was nowhere near healed and was still probably in massive pain -- it may have brought relief to Itachi and Sasuke having him awake, but to Deidara, it made him feel even worse.
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It was another month before Tobi was off the tubes, and another two weeks before the doctors removed most of the bandages. Another three months and Tobi was given the clear to be taken home.
Tobi was excited, claiming the hospital to be boring and repetitive, and couldn’t stop talking the whole way home.
Itachi was paying close attention to Tobi's words and he was shocked to notice that Tobi hadn’t once mentioned Deidara -- did Tobi really blame Deidara for what happened to him? Or did he even truly hate Deidara for what Tobi had become?
Itachi, before moving Tobi to the car, was told that Tobi was still recovering, and because of the extent of his injuries, he was unable to do anything for himself. He could move his limbs somewhat but he had suffered severe brain damage and had forgotten the majority of natural human acts, such as bathing himself and brushing his hair. He wasn’t even able to hold anything, let alone pick things up -- his muscles had been depleted and he just didn’t have the strength.
The nurses had assured Itachi that it was only temporary but Itachi had a feeling that it would takes months -- maybe even years -- before Tobi was back to looking after himself.
"We're here." Itachi smiled at Tobi not long later. Tobi cheered happily, waiting patiently for Itachi to come and help him out of the car.
Itachi turned the car off before getting out and opening Tobi's passenger side door. He, as carefully as he could, pulled Tobi over his shoulder with one arm supporting his lower back and the other underneath his bottom to hold him steady. Tobi rested his head on Itachi's shoulder, sniffing in the familiar scent.
"Sasuke, please open the door." Itachi said softly, waiting for his otouto to open the door before carrying Tobi into the living room and laying him on the couch. "I'll turn the television on for you and prepare you both some lunch."
Itachi turned the television on to Tobi's favourite channel and left to prepare some sandwiches for all of them. Tobi was happy for the first ten minutes but his mood began to spiral downward after a while -- he hated having to depend on Itachi and Sasuke for everything now when they already had their hands full with him from the beginning. It wasn’t fair to any of them.
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Deidara had known that the Uchiha brothers were very busy with Tobi and he wasn’t surprised when they asked him for help. He had been expecting it -- Itachi had been so busy lately that he had forgotten all about work and lost his job, and Kisame, Itachi's boyfriend, had to work double-time to tide them over.
"Please…" Itachi begged, another indicator of his stress -- Uchihas never begged, no matter what the situation was. "Please help us, Deidara... Sasuke's missed out on so much schooling they're considering holding him back and I have no time for Kisame anymore and Naruto helps out as much as he can but now he and Sasuke are drifting apart and it's just too stressful and I hate this and I wish none of this ever happened!"
By the end of his sentence Itachi was on the ground in hysterics. Deidara, as much as he didn’t want to, agreed to help Itachi and Sasuke.
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