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Deidara ([info]artgasming) wrote in [info]last_stretch,
@ 2009-10-17 12:40:00


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Entry tags:closed log, deidara, zetsu

Avoiding Expulsion [CLOSED]
WHO: Deidara ([info]artgasmng) and Zetsu ([info]_feedme).
WHAT: Deidara getting in trouble for skipping class. Also top sekrit shenanigans.
WHEN: Backlogged to late September / early October. A Thursday.
WHERE: Zetsu's office.
WARNINGS: Top. Sekrit. Shenanigans. And a lot of supposedly meaningful glances to create plotholes.



Deidara had woken up too late to arrive at seven, but he'd managed to make it to that side of school before twenty minutes past the hour. He'd gotten himself a coffee, possibly to keep himself from being too irritable at a guy who was probably going to decide his fate (like he actually gave a shit) for acting like he was better than him because he knew big words and had some stupid paper saying he was smarter, but mostly because he'd forgotten why he'd woken before seven in the first place until the coffee gave him a bit of a brain boost.

This whole thing was stupid, in his opinion.

Why couldn't he just email him and say, "You suck. Get out of school and go do your art." At least he could have respected a guy with that kind of balls, and hearing that sort of thing would probably give him the sense to do just that because he couldn't have cared less about all this degree and education crap, though he'd still probably have wound up leaving a bomb in his office drawer or something, just for kicks.

So caught up in his thoughts, Deidara didn't realise he'd passed the office he was looking for, checking the numbers on a nearby door, and circled back. He didn't bother knocking before he let himself in.



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[info]_feedme
2009-10-17 08:24 pm UTC (link)
The first comment brought an actual smile to both halves of Zetsu's lips. There was always something charming about people who were unfazed by authority. At least, by this sort of authority. It would have been fascinating to learn, of course, whether or not setting his SW1911 on top of the file would have had any sort of effect on the debonair attitude of the little spark-plug in front of him. Another nice part of effectively having two minds was that a good deal of his energy could wander off into the world where he wouldn't get a slap on the wrist for pulling a weapon on a student while the other part pursed his lips a little and flipped through the pages of the file on his desk.

"Your academic career, however, is not, Deidara," Zetsu replied evenly in his calmer, more serious voice. His index finger tapped absently at a few lines while his thumb toyed absently with the ring adorning his pinky finger.

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[info]artgasming
2009-10-17 08:57 pm UTC (link)
Deidara couldn't help but roll his visible eye, but it was mostly over the word choice. Academic career. It made it sound like he was getting something out it other than headaches and the chance to interact with morons. There were a million other ways to say that, he was sure, that didn't make him sound like such a stuck up.

"So where the fuck's it takin' me, ah? What do I gotta do?" It wasn't like he really cared, and Deidara leaned back, shoulders hitting the chair and nearly knocking his coffee off his knee with the motion. He saved it, lifting the paper cup up to his lips and keeping it there, fingers wrapped around it.

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[info]_feedme
2009-10-23 09:30 pm UTC (link)
There were answers. There were moments of academic rote, words to be said to ensure that the land (in its most metaphorical form) could continue its growth and development by the encouragement of the youth. There were things Zetsu was paid to repeat, which he could already feel his tongue curling around, which his lips were parting to allow to escape.

Then there were the details he was rewarded for noticing, like the way the lines of a person's annoyed expression made them suddenly look a good deal like another person or the frustrated intonations a boy could make that matched a recognizable speech pattern of a man he knew or the much more obvious flash of a ring on the hand of a person seated before him.

The answers remained in the back of his consciousness, ready to be pulled up and played back at will. His lips, however, paused completely, head tilting to the left as he remained focused on the connections his brain was creating at a rapid fire. With the slightest hint of delicacy to his tone, Zetsu responded calmly, "It's taking you a good deal farther than you'd have gone on your own, dumbass."

Well. Maybe as much delicacy as a sledgehammer to the conversation.

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[info]artgasming
2009-10-24 04:54 am UTC (link)
He wasn't much concerned with the fact that Zetsu calling him a dumbass probably broke some sort of protocol, seeing as how he'd never read the student hand guide and really didn't care to. Tapping the cup against his lips, tip of his tongue showing enough to touch the rim that still tasted of coffee, he considered what sort of argument he could make against his need for being here. It didn't take long to settle, as his mind was only ever truly focused on one thing.

"It ain't like I got too far to go, yeah," Deidara said with a rising grin that threatened to split his face. It almost challenged Zetsu to try and deny it.

He didn't expect the man before him to understand what he was talking about - art. It was always art for Deidara. He'd come to understand long ago that he was surrounded by morons that knew nothing of the world as he saw and experienced it, and though he'd not given up trying to explain, he figured he didn't have enough time in his life to throw his opinion at everyone he came across.

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[info]_feedme
2009-10-27 01:55 pm UTC (link)
As with most challenges in his life, this one was accepted with the blunt calm of unstrapping a (in this case metaphorical) glock and leveling at the face of the person standing in his way.

It took half a second to seal his lips, click his tongue against the back for his teeth and make his mind forcibly shift into a more calculated tone of voice. "I wouldn't be so sure about that. For the sort of life you're clearly intending to live," he gestured slightly toward the boy before him, a less-than-critical brow arching slightly, "you'll need to drag yourself farther to keep yourself afloat. This isn't the market to be throwing yourself on the whim of eccentric collectors."

True, Zetsu wasn't completely sure what Deidara intended to do with his art. That didn't mean, kind and thoughtful dean that he was, that he wouldn't make his best effort to save yet another starving artist from the edge. Particularly such a well-connected one as this.

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