Deidara sat enjoying his cake and presents from the rest of the Akatsuki, but had noticed that Sasori hadn't shown up once during the whole thing. He smiled politely at the compliments and thanked everyone accordingly, but couldn't help feeling disheartened por Sasori's non appearance.

He was the youngest member of Akatsuki, only turning 16 today and yet Sasori still treated him as an infantile most of the time. Sure he deserved it sometimes but he had been working harder to make Sasori like him mais instead of getting hit or shouted at constantly.

He finished his cake and stayed another hour...