"Wow, it's so high up—your big bird is really useful, Deidara!"
"After the mission is done, we can just fly right back, huh?"
Soaring through the clear sky on top of the big bird, the chattering voices were unusually noisy.
With one foot on the bird's head, Deidara, looking down at the scene below, was lost in thought and silent.
Seemingly completely unaware of the strange man next to him.
Deidara's attention was focused on the clay in his hands, as well as inspecting the buildings below.
He hadn't yet made up his mind to deal with the noise generator behind him.
It's not very easy to use.
Neither the clay nor this newly attached arm.
The sleeves of Deidara's Akatsuki robe were blown up by the high-altitude wind, and the arm where Deidara's arm had been broken had quite thick black stitches.
The color of the arm also gave off a strange dark color.
Compared to his other arm, it looked like an arm that had been cut from a dead person and reattached.
After all, his original arm was crushed directly by Gaara.
There was basically no possibility of restoring it.
Deidara's eyes moved a little helplessly. Fortunately, although it was ugly, the performance was still good.
"You have to pay more if you want good stuff."
"It's already good enough that I could find a hand with a mouth in the palm."
Kakuzu had said this to him with a righteous tone when he went to take it over.
After Deidara poured out all the remaining coins from his tool bag, it still wasn't enough money.
He spends most of his money researching his art. Artists need a lot of money!
Although it would be okay to just steal a lot of things.
"That merchant..."
Deidara squeezed the clay in his hand unhappily and couldn't help but sigh.
He used up a lot of his clay stock when he fought the One-Tail previously.
The reason why he didn't take too much clay out at that time wasn't really because he underestimated the tailed beast.
He really didn't have any stock left.
Although it's not impossible to use ordinary clay, it always feels like something is missing.
It's like an artist reaching a bottleneck!
Very uncomfortable.
He should find a chance to deal with this soon.
He still remembered the place that Sasori had recommended to him before, so he could go there first to see what the quality of the clay was like.
Deidara looked down at the ground below, and dazzling porcelain glittered with various lights.
Deidara squinted one eye slightly and took a few pictures with the camera in his left eye.
That place should be about it.
"You can go this far. Get off here."
The white clay bird soared in the air. Deidara wouldn't directly fly into the Land of Pottery and make a highly noticeable landing.
Instead, he had the bird circle above the forest, preparing to find a suitable place to land among the trees.
"This direction isn't the way back—."
"Get off? You're not going to take me to some weird little forest, are you…"
The noise generator was muttering behind him, and each sentence was becoming more and more outrageous.
With that affected voice, Deidara could feel his mind being assaulted at almost every moment.
He wasn't constantly being talked at like this when he was with Sasori before.
It wasn't annoying exactly, but it was a little uncomfortable.
"I'm not planning on taking you to a little forest. You get off here and report back on the mission."
"I have things to do. Yeah."
Deidara interrupted Tobi's increasingly outrageous words and turned to look at the cookie-cutter mask head that was looking around on the bird's back.
"Eh—but missions are supposed to be carried out in pairs, aren't they? Isn't that the rule?"
The yellow spiral mask moved closer, and two fingers, looking cheerful, made a peace sign in front of Deidara.
"Speaking of this place..."
Tobi turned to look to the side. Although the part under their feet was a forest,
After separating one country's distance, the other side was a large stretch of desert.
Going further in that direction would be the Land of Wind, which is very close to the Sunagakure Village.
"Deidara! You're not going to visit Sasori's grave, are you!"
"This place is very close to the Land of River and the Land of Wind!"
"I didn't expect you and Sasori to be so close. Is there still a chance for me to get in between you two?"
What the hell is this guy talking about?
Deidara pushed Tobi's approaching mask away speechlessly. That mask, which only had a hole in it, was still constantly shedding tears.
For some reason, it feels like it's a good thing this guy wears a mask...
He can't even imagine what his expression would be if an adult male was being so silly next to him.
Although he's pretty cute, you can also feel that this guy is a little abnormal...
"My art needs clay, and I don't have enough clay right now."
"I want to go down and take a look. That place might have good stuff, yeah!"
"It has nothing to do with Sasori, and it has nothing to do with you, yeah."
Deidara crossed his hands in front of his chest to show his denial.
This new teammate's easy familiarity and various strange behaviors made Deidara get annoyed from time to time.
"I'll go back after I find the clay, but in terms of time, it's better for you to go back first."
Deidara nodded and said.
However, getting rid of Tobi wasn't entirely for this meaningless reason. There was also a bit of his own selfish purpose.
Although seamlessly connecting with a new teammate is good, Deidara still needs some time to be alone.
Tobi hardly does anything during missions, but he's the best at logistics and running away.
Besides that, he says all sorts of things that don't sound like they should come from the mouth of an adult male.
Or rather, things that sound like they would be said by a patient who escaped from a mental hospital.
Maybe if it were a different time, he could joke around with Tobi.
But Deidara is not in the mood right now.
And from his words and actions, Deidara can't feel any artistic sense from this guy at all.
He can be communicated with as a person, and his jokes are pretty funny, but there's nothing to talk about on an artistic level.
Although Sasori's aesthetic was different from his, Sasori could at least grasp that artist's aura.
"Ahhh—really, is this how older people boss around younger people?"
"Oh well, I'll report the situation for you then."
Tobi paused slightly, then still responded to Deidara with that smiling attitude.
Then he jumped off the big bird and disappeared into the forest.
"..."
Deidara raised his eyebrows slightly and flew the big bird towards the distance.
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