who are you? | t/obidei + hidadei ✓

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Deidara steps out of the cave. After the meaningful conversation he had with an old friend, he had more confidence to do what he wanted. The blonde walks towards Obito, he reaches out before stopping suddenly.

Did he really want to do this?

Perhaps faking his own death was better.

But if he does die, he'll be surrending and that would be a waste of his own life. Surrending isn't something that he would want, and it's something that Hidan and Sasori wouldn't want either.

"You've come to join me, right Deidara?", Obito's voice breaks the blonde's unexpected trance, he gives an obedient nod and the raven cracks a smile. "Good. We've got a lot of training to do before the big day comes."

"Okay but where are we going to go? You know you can't just expose yourself in the middle of a training area, un.", Deidara states. Obito stays silent, pondering about his answer.

"Hold onto me."

"I - I beg your pardon?"

"Then b e g.", Obito demands.

"Kinky piece of shit.. No way am I getting on my knees for you.", the blonde sneers as he crosses his arms across his chest.

"Your loss.", the raven replies with a shrug, he activates his Sharingan (was it Sharingan? Deidara couldn't tell the difference between the different stages of the red-eye thing, he never really paid attention to it either way) as a gust of wind pulls the two of them inside.

"Oh for Jashin's sake, what the fuck..", Deidara mumbles, his head was spinning and his limbs felt all weak and drowsy. "Wh-what - Where are we, un?"

"This is a parallel universe that my 'Sharingan' created.", Obito says as he turns to face the blonde. "We can train here."

fuck naruto logic. im too lazy to rewatch the entire shinobi war arc to master obito's abilities and such. in this fic, obito can stay in this parallel universe for more than 5 minutes and can train because i said so.

"Parallel universe, un?", Deidara repeats, he thought the idea of this was sketchy but he had to stick with the whole 'take-over-the-world-plan' for now. "Okay, tell me how this works."

"We fight each other until we get to master each different type of ninjutsu, genjustsu, taijutsu and such.", the raven explains. "It's more like training you since you can only blow stuff up."

"Is that an insult, hm?!"

"No, it's not. Don't get me wrong Deidara but those lips on your mouths on your hands have been sewn together so you can't produce any more of that clay.", Obito says.

"So you took away the only thing that me special and unique? I could've planted landmines and they could've blown a bunch of shit up within a 20m radius but nO. I guess nOT, UN.", Deidara says, every word was tinted with poison. "Taking away the only good thing I liked about myself.. You're an asshole, un."

"Yeah, I know.", he replies low as Deidara rolls his eyes. "But I'm here to help you train Deidara, we can get stronger together. Just think about it, you're doing this for us. We can take all those damned shinobi out together and win, like the good old days."

"Us being in Akatsuki and doing missions has nothing to do with wars!", the blonde argues back. "You may think that this is all fun and games but it really isn't! Just because you're an Uchiha from the almighty Uchiha clan doesn't mean you're high and mighty. It doesn't mean that you're the most intelligent and that you have control over everyone. You're being selfish and a total pain in the ass!"

"Oh, we're having this conversation again.", the Uchiha mumbles, the words of Deidara's 'uchihas-are-shit' rant rambles on, going in one ear and out the other. "At this point, I don't really care. Go on and hate me for all you want but I'm doing this because I care about you Deidara. I didn't think I'd ever feel such emotions towards a guy like you ever since.. Ever since she died."

The blonde stays quiet, he inhales then exhales as his anger vanishes. For his plan to work, he had to work along with Tobito and gain his trust in his current form. He eyes the raven, head to toe as he then takes a seat in this parallel universe, he gestures Obito to sit next to him and the Uchiha does so.

"Who's this 'she', hm?", Deidara asks. The blonde had to trigger some kind of weakness inside of Obito to break him, perhaps this 'she' person was a weakness of his.

Obito lets out a low chuckle. "Have I not told you about Rin yet?", he asks as the blonde shakes his head in response. "Oh.. Well, it's a long story.. If you're willing to listen to my sad life, then you can listen.. Unless you'd prefer to train first."

"I'm here for you Obito. You can always count on me with your problems, after all, I am your partner in crime, un.", Deidara says, trying to sound reassuring and sympathetic. He may have told a lie but part of that sentence meant something to the blonde, he just didn't notice yet.

"..."

"U-unless you're uncomfortable with this topic, un, then we don't have to talk at all. we could always train if that's what you prefer.", the artist suggests instead as a small-sweatdrop rolls down his cheek. He was suddenly panicking mentally, debating whether or not Obito could see right through him.

"No, it's fine. I think it's better for me to open up before I go mentally insane.", he insists. The raven takes in a deep breath, he fidgets with his hands as he lets out a sigh. "There was this girl that I loved, her name was Rin Nohara. You may be thinking 'it's probably just some stupid crush' but it wasn't a stupid crush. I'd do antthing for her and I'd do anything to get her praise."

"Oh.. I see, un.", Deidara mumbles. He needed more information because screw love life stories, he had to destroy Obito Uchiha once and for all. "What happened between you two, hm?"

"I sacrificed my life for and I thought I died."

"Th-thought, un?", the blonde repeats. What did Tobito mean by 'thought'?

"I was given another chance. Someone saved me and he raised me as his own.", Obito says. "Then one day, I went on a rampage. That memory is a blur but I saw my rival kill Rin. He swore that he would protect her. He swore to take care of her. But he killed Rin and I can never forgive him for that."

"..."

"You don't have to respond Deidara, there's no need for you to say anything.", he says as he gets up. "Let's end the day and start training tomorrow. You and I, we've both been through too much down our path of life."

Obito teleports himself and the artist out of the alternative universe. The raven walks away, leaving the blonde alone with his own thoughts.

"Obito must've cared a lot if he wanted to do all this for her..", he ponders to himself. 'If she's the reason why he's going to destroy the universe, then I have to be the one to stop him.. Even if I have to sacrifice myself."