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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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It wasn’t until the next night that Deidara was able to go over and help with Tobi. He knocked on the door, waiting patiently. He could see that Kisame's car was here as well -- was he trying to help with Tobi, too?
The door opened and Sasuke stuck his head out. "Hey, Dei." He said happily, though with a hint of exhaustion in his voice. "Aniki said you would be coming!"
Deidara smiled softly and patted Sasuke's head. "Is Kisame here to help, too?"
"Um... Kinda...” Sasuke frowned. “He's more looking after nii-san than Tobi..."
Deidara frowned. "What's wrong with Itachi?"
"Oh... He's okay... he just forgets to eat cause he's so busy looking after Tobi and he doesn’t get much sleep anymore... He feels unwell so Kisame is looking after him."
Deidara nodded, stepping into the house after Sasuke. He could hear Kisame and Itachi arguing in the kitchen.
"Itachi, eat something right now." Kisame's usually kind voice was stern and anger was seeping through his words. "You're as thin as a rake now, Itachi."
"I've always been skinny, Kisame..." Itachi mumbled.
"Not to this degree you haven’t!"
Deidara covered his ears as he remembered how his parents used to always fight. He hoped that Kisame wouldn’t hurt Itachi.
Sasuke grabbed Deidara's wrist, getting the elder’s attention. "They're not gonna fight badly, you know... Kisame's just worried about Itachi -- that's all. He won’t hit Itachi -- I promise."
Deidara nodded, reluctantly releasing his ears. He heard Kisame continue on, this time in a softer tone.
"Itachi... I know how stressed you are about Tobi, and I'm sorry -- I should have understood that you have your hands full, but... How about you eat something?"
"No. Tobi needs his bath."
"Well, what if I bathe him, Itachi-kun?"
"Tobi won’t like that."
"Oh, come on, Itachi -- he hasn’t got anything I haven’t seen before." Kisame chuckled at his statement.
"...Hn..."
Deidara looked at Sasuke. "So... if Kisame's helping out, too... what am I supposed to do?"
"We'll ask nii-san, okay?"
Deidara nodded, entering the kitchen with Sasuke. Itachi was perched up on a stool at the bench, quietly eating a plate full of dango. When he turned around to face them, Deidara gasped -- Itachi looked like a different person, and if it wasn’t for his rich, raven hair framing his face and the two stress marks on it, he wouldn’t have thought that this person was Itachi.
Itachi's face was hollow and sunken in, and the bags under his eyes were black from no sleep. His usual baggy clothing was baggier than ever, and from what Deidara could see of Itachi's waist, the older male had lost so much weight his hips were on the verge of jutting out. But what confused Deidara the most was Itachi's eyes -- they used to be so shiny and bright, a sign of Itachi's carefree life, but now they were dull and losing that spark that Itachi had had ever since Deidara had known the man.
"Itachi..." Deidara whispered, feeling his eyes brimming with tears. "Go and rest, Itachi -- you look horrible."
"Gee, thanks..." Itachi mumbled, turning his back on the two. "Kisame has already filled me in on my looks, so don’t you start, Dei."
Deidara shook his head. "N-no, I'm not calling you ugly or anything, but..."
Itachi sighed, placing his dango on his plate and getting to his feet. "I am ugly, now, Deidara... Even Kisame thinks so... he won’t make love to me anymore - says he won’t even think of me sexually until I get better again... But it's okay, Dei... I don’t care if you think I'm ugly -- I'm not your boyfriend so your opinion doesn’t matter to me... Just... make sure Tobi is okay... I'm going to lay down for a while..."
Deidara was stunned -- Itachi had rarely spoken so much in just one sentence before.
"Nii-san," Sasuke called, grabbing Itachi's arm, "don’t be like that -- you're not ugly, aniki! I -"
Sasuke was cut off by a loud thump and a pained scream from the bathroom. The three of them hurried to the bathroom, finding Kisame holding Tobi in the bath, a look of worry on his face, as he placed his hand on top of Tobi's head.
"Kisame, stop!" Itachi cried, panic in his voice. "Don’t touch his head!"
Tobi was crying now, quivering, a look of pain on his face. Kisame turned to Itachi, panic on his face.
"Itachi, I swear I didn’t hurt him on purpose!" He exclaimed, holding his hands out in front of him defensively. "I knocked a shampoo bottle down and it hit his head! I swear I didn’t mean it!"
Itachi went to Tobi's side, placing a hand on Tobi's cheek and scrutinizing the top of his head. He let out a sigh of relief.
"He's fine, Kisame," Itachi said softly. "Just don’t touch his head -- it's not fully healed yet and he still has stitches. I don’t want them to open or anything.”
Kisame nodded, looking relieved. "Itachi, I'm so, so sorry..."
"It's okay, Kisame -- I know you wouldn’t have done it on purpose... I want Deidara to look after Tobi from now on, okay? It's just that Deidara has a bit of experience in this field. He'll know more about looking after Tobi than you would. I'm going to lie down for a while -- do you want to come with me?"
Kisame smiled and nodded, hugging Itachi gently and nuzzling the younger boy's neck gently. Deidara watched them leave, leaving him, Sasuke and Tobi alone in the bathroom.
"They're going to do the naughty," Tobi whispered, breaking the silence.
Sasuke chuckled.
"No, they aren’t, Tobi." Sasuke turned to Deidara. "Don’t worry about washing his hair, okay? Nii-san doesn’t want anyone to touch his head until the doctors say it's all healed properly."
Deidara nodded, watching as Sasuke left him and Tobi alone in the bathroom. He turned to Tobi, seeing the way the younger boy only stared at the wall, facing away from Deidara.
"Hi, Tobi..." Deidara said weakly, forcing a smile.
"..."
Deidara frowned, deciding it was best not to say anything and get Tobi cleaned and ready for bed. He gently took the sponge cloth, lathering it with soap and running it over Tobi's scarred and stitched body as carefully as he could.
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Deidara's dreams that night were horrible. He had dreamt about his family again -- something he hadn’t done for two years now, and something he didn’t want to ever have to dream about. He dreamt about the way his parents would fight so horribly, so aggressively; dreamt about the way he had come home from school, only to find his mother laying in a puddle of her own blood, courtesy of his father and her husband.
Deidara had dreamt about how he had panicked and cried and called the ambulance; about how when the hospital had fixed her up, he had to look after her for a year, only for her to die in the end.
About the way the school had considered his grieving time to be enough to force him to repeat the same school year that he was doing so well in.
But then, for some reason, Deidara had dreamt that his mother had turned into Tobi as she lay on her deathbed. Deidara woke up with a start, and he had made a decision -- he didn’t want to ever see any of his friends suffer like he did, and even if it meant having to relive the pain of his mother's death once more, he would help out with Tobi as much as he could.
Itachi and Sasuke had already suffered several losses in their lifetime, but knowing that there was something he could do to prevent just one more loss in their life, well -- he was willing to do everything he could to make sure that didn’t happen.
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