Chapter 9
“Oi, fuck face!” Hidan called out as he barged into Deidara’s room, not even bothering to knock.
He wasn’t exactly still angry, at least not as much as he had been since it somehow brought him and Sasori closer but he was still going to yell at the blonde. After all, he had told Deidara to stop meddling and he told Sasori that he was going to. In fact, the red head had hung back and went to the living room or something just so he wouldn’t get caught between the two of them.
“Hey, Hidan.” Deidara replied, not even reacting to the way Hidan had entered the room. It was a normal thing for the other male so by now Deidara was unaffected by it. “How are yo-“
“No- shut the fuck up. I told you to not fucking meddle and what did you do? You fucking meddled! What part of ‘Don’t meddle’ did you not fucking understand!?”
Deidara paused, pursing his lips as if deep in thought. “The don’t part?” He questioned, unable to help the smirk that formed on his lips. He found himself so funny.
“Fuck you-“
“I thought the point was to fuck Sasori, hm?”
“I- shut the fuck up!”
“Why are you so mad anyways? Did it really go that bad, un?”
“Wha- I- that’s not the fucking point!”
“You want us to stop meddling but it’s working, yeah?”
“I want you to stop fucking meddling period! I can handle this my damn self!”
“You can barely handle yourself, Hidan, let alone asking Sasori – he definitely likes you by the way – so we’re not going to stop.”
“He doesn- wait….us? We’re? Who the hell did you tel-“ He paused, groaning as he realized. “You fucking let Tobi in on your stupid ass meddling!? Seriously!?”
“Hey-! I didn’t tell him everything and I needed someone to help, yeah? He’s the only one dumb enough to not realize what was going on!”
“What did you even fucking tell him?”
“That we’re on a secret mission and he is on a need to know basis-“
“Holy Jashin, and he actually went along with it?”
“Yeah- anyways tell me what happened on your date~”
“Wait- what exactly does Tobi know?”
Deidara shrugged. “Not much, he figured out Sasori likes you for me but not much else. Why, hm?”
“….where is Tobi?”
“The living room I think? I don’t really know why that’s so important-“
“Tobi’s an idiot! He’s gonna fucking say something!” Hidan grabbed Deidara’s wrist and started to pull him toward the living room. “Sasori is in the living room-!” He explained, even though he had no guarantee that the red head was really there he was fairly certain of it.
.
“Sasori-san! You’re back!!” Tobi called out happily from the table he was sitting at when the other walked in the room.
Sasori didn’t bother to reply with much more than a nod as he looked around the room. The only other person in there was Zetsu and, judging by the crayons and paper everywhere but lack of any other mess, it looked like they had been coloring together since Tobi and Deidara got back. He had no idea why Zetsu humored the other man but maybe he liked him back? Not that Sasori cared enough to even ask but it always did strike him as odd, the way Zetsu humored Tobi even Black Zetsu would say some mean things about the other.
“Sasori-saaaan!” Tobi called out again after a moment of silence, realizing that the red head wasn’t going to reply anytime soon unless he spoke again. “How was your date???”
“It wasn’t a date.” Sasori replied easily, not even effected by Tobi’s question. These kinds of things were to be expected from the childish male.
“But Hidan-san and Sasori-san ate dinner together! Alone at a restaurant! That makes it a date!!” Tobi declared.
“So how did your date with Deidara go?”
“It wasn’t a date-!” Tobi declared just as loud as his first declaration, if not a bit faster as if panicked. Had his mask been off the glance at Zetsu may have been unnoticed but, as it was Tobi turned his entire head to look at Zetsu.
To the other man’s credit he seemed completely unaffected by Sasori’s question. Luckily for Tobi, the man knew the truth of why he was here so he knew how unlikely it was for him to have a crush on Deidara.
“Why not? You two ate dinner alone at a restaurant too. Doesn’t that make it a date?” He really didn’t care if Tobi and Deidara’s meal was considered a date in Tobi’s mind but it seemed like a good thing to talk about in order to change the conversation, even if only a little bit. He didn’t want to talk about his possibly-a-date date with Tobi - or really anyone unless it was Hidan himself and he brought it up.
Unfortunately for Sasori it wasn’t that easy to deter Tobi. Not when he had a mission. “But Tobi and Senpai don’t like like each other and Sasori-san and Hidan-san do!”
“I-“
Just then Tobi noticed both Deidara and Hidan in the doorway, attempting to be sneaking, and decided he needed to ask again. “How was the dinner-!?” He blurted out, not caring if it seemed rushed or out of place since he was Tobi and he often times didn’t make sense as it was.
“It was….eventful.” Sasori summarized, thinking of the conversations they had…
“Is eventful good or bad??”
…and the corn incident…
“It can be both.”
“But, Sasori-saaaaan! What was it this time!?”
….and the hair thing and the conversation that happened after that.
“….a good one.” He decided to tell Tobi, a small smile on his face.
“See!?” Deidara blurted out as he playfully nudged Hidan. “Told ya he liked you, yeah!”
Hidan shoved him back roughly, saying nothing in favor of looking at the puppeteer.
Sasori’s eyes widened, a light hue of pink spreading onto his cheeks as he tried to quietly leave the room through the other door.
“Tobi-! Stop him!” Deidara called, deciding that the two of them would have their talk now and finally stop pinning over each other like idiots.
“Okies!” Tobi replied, staring to go towards Sasori until the red head spoke.
“Tobi has a crush in you Zetsu.” He said quickly but calmly, using the resulting panic to hurry away.
“Wha- Sasori-san! Tobi can explain-! Zetsu-san- Tobi- uh-“
“Fuck-“ Hidan muttered as Sasori rushed out of the room. “Look what you fucking did you asshole!” He yelled at Deidara, about to lunge at him before he was interrupted.
“Go after him, dumbass!”
Hidan paused before nodding and rushing after Sasori. He wasn’t really sure what he was going to do or say but he knew he had to do something. Did this mean the red head liked him back-!?
Sasori hurried into his room, not expecting anyone else to follow him. His thoughts were a mess right now, as they rarely ever was. He had just acted out if pure impulse due to his embarrassment and mortification at having been called out like that in front of Hidan. What was he even going to-
The door burst open and was shut just as quickly as Hidan entered the room, eyes instantly landing on Sasori. He was far past thinking having thought himself in circle on his way here. Now was the time to act, not think.
“Hidan, I-“ Sasori started, trying to explain despite not having an explanation available. Before he could even think of what to say, however, he felt a pair of lips on his and realized, with a start, that Hidan was kissing him.
He made a small surprised noise but automatically leaned into the kiss, eyes fluttering closed as he enjoyed the very thing he had wanted for so long. It was even better than either of them had imagined. “Me too, Sasori.” Hidan whispered as he pulled away, forehead still resting on Sasori’s forehead and breaths still mingling. “I like like you too.” He grinned, finding how he used Tobi’s words to be funny – seriously was he in elementary school? Who says like like nowadays?
Sasori laughed lightly before leaning forwards and connecting their lips again, both relishing in the feeling and silently saying that he was more than okay with their development in their relationship – though he was going to make it very clear to the other that if they were going to do this then it had to be just them. He couldn’t do this if he couldn’t trust Hidan.
Luckily Hidan seemed to only care about Sasori so he was sure everything would work out just fine. Hidan’s only thought before he fell into the kiss completely was that maybe he should thank Deidara now that things had ended up the way they did.