wordsworn: My clockwork heart counts the seconds; I have no time for anyone but myself. (So very true.)
★ Writing Journal for Wordsworn ★ ([personal profile] wordsworn) wrote2008-09-15 05:48 am

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not/Chaos is come again.

~

...Just a drabble, but it's still a victory because I've FINALLY managed to finish writing something in relation to this couple. I have SEVERAL incomplete DeiSaku fanfics in my Documents folder and they just SIT THERE AND TAUNT ME. ;^;

I don't dedicate fics or drabbles to people too terribly often because most of the time, I'm just writing for me, but this one is for [livejournal.com profile] stereotype_vamp for playing a kickass Sakura and being my DeiSaku co-conspirator over at [livejournal.com profile] laststopgakuen. THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING SO PATIENT WITH ME, CELLA. ♥



[Deidara/Sakura. 'Embers']

There’s no doubt in his mind, and likely in her mind as well, that the thing he wants most is to blow them both sky high. Because they, together, are just that beautiful in his eyes--that breathtaking, that perfect, the highest heights of something he hadn’t known could really exist. When they’re together like this, they’re something worth destroying.

But...he doesn’t do it. And he knows (even if she doesn’t) that he probably won’t ever do it. Because Sakura doesn’t want him to. She wants to stay with him, wants them to keep living together, encountering new things, yelling and fighting and bleeding and kissing and making love in all the places they shouldn’t. For as long as they can.

It’s a constantly-changing relationship, fascinating in its erratic cycling through times of intense pleasure and faultless splendor and extreme frustration and raging anger. It’s never entirely the same, but there are certain things about her that never change—the gentle shyness in her gaze when she looks up at him through her eyelashes, the way she tangles her fingers in his hair as he kisses her breathless, the rich, salty taste of her soft skin, the need and want and release in her voice as she sighs and moans and screams his name, the strangely captivating tenderness in her touch.

It’s a slow burn, the steady flickering of a candle or of flames in a hearth rather than the brief snap-flash-boom of a bottle rocket, but the fire is still there.

And so long as those flames are there to hypnotise him with their primal dance of power and light and hunger, he’ll never leave, never let go, though a part of him is starting to wonder if even glowing embers would be enough just this once, because with Sakura, it feels like there’s always more potential, that they could be even more than they are already, more amazing, more perfect, and every time Deidara looks into those heartshakingly green eyes, he can see that potential reflecting back at him, and he feels like maybe one day he could know what it’s like to be full for once, that he could know what it really means to be satisfied.

He was crazy, and he knew it in that same oddly detached sort of way that you sometimes know you’re dreaming and can’t do a thing to wake yourself; you’re trapped, and it all seems so real, everything seems logical even though you know it isn’t. There wasn’t any way to change that, or cure it, but the riotous eruption of mazes twisting their way through his psyche just seemed to make more sense somehow with her there by his side.

Because, unbalanced and violent and crammed full of artistic vision as his mind was, there was still room for something--someone--in his heart. Lonely people always have room, regardless of what they’ve filled themselves with. Art consumed him, but it didn’t fill him. It took and took, but never gave back, and in the end, all he was ever left with was dust on the wind and empty hands.

For years he’d compared his artistic obsession to a fire burning through him, setting his insides alight, tearing apart, ravaging with a thoroughness known only to flames, leaving nothing in its wake but ash and smoke and charcoal.

That was before Sakura. And now that he has her, has her at his side and in his arms and his bed and every single part of his whole goddamn life, Deidara knows that whatever fire he might have felt before was nothing more potent than the strike of a match compared to the inferno her simple presence ignites within him.

He still lives for the blinding flash of light, the feel of the bone-rattling blast setting his entire body vibrating like a tuning fork, the momentary deafness as his eardrums fight to recover from the assault of the overwhelming burst of sound, the roiling cloud of flame and smoke and hot ash defiantly thrusting itself up and out into the sky and blossoming like the world’s biggest and most ephemeral flower, the howling hiss of superheated air stinging his eyes and rushing over his skin like a violently warm breath, the acrid scent of scorched earth and burnt things; but now he lives for something else, too—something more.

Because Sakura has shown him what real fire feels like, and he’s starting to think that maybe for once he’s found something beautiful that he doesn’t ever want to see destroyed.


Deidara/Sakura – It’s a slow burn, but the fire is still there.

[identity profile] lone-gothic.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
... you put in an Othello quote. On top of all that, I love you.

And the way you summarised all the skewed explosiveness of any relationship involving Deidara is just awesome. I like the everything-goes-boom imagery. And Sakura being more interesting than an actual explosion = written really amazingly where other people usually don't.

♥ To the memories.

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
I was an English major. Shakespeare is my homeboy. XD

...Praise from you is adjalkasjfd. <3 I'm glad you liked it.

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh... pretty...


sexy, too.

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it came out pretty. I was worried about it for a while. =\


And of course. I'm bringin' it back. XD

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
You obviously haven't been on AIM recently. I AM the 2nd coming of SEXY!

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
...I was on earlier tonight...though I was just on for RP purposes. ...Oh? How so?

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I heard your kitty meow come on, but I was on the toilet and when I came back and checked, I didn't see you on. *pouts*

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Moar flirting? If so, you're bad. XD

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
No more flirting. Well, just with Matt. Kinda. And maybe a little with Mike, though it's more just for the fun of it now that it's very crystal clear that nothing more is happening there.

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
I was offered $200 to do a nude or lingerie photo shoot - roughly 50 poses... would be kinda cool...

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
a guy that I know...


I'm not doing it. Matt made me promise not to. After I told him I wasn't going to and had no plan to, he made me promise not to because when I have no plan to do things, or even plans not to, it doesn't always work out that way. Still, I'm not doing it. It just makes me feel good that I was offered... ^_^

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Tch. Matt is not allowed to make you promise or not-promise to do things. He has no authority anymore. But I'm glad you're not doing it.

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
check my journal. I has somethings for you there.

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
..............ilu. <3

Better be careful, or I might fall for that amazing voice, too~ XD

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and of course you can has The Black Symphony, too, if you don't have it yet. It's Within Temptation's newest album.
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[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! :D

[identity profile] wintersolstyce.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
You are an amazing writer.

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Considering that I know who some of your favourite writers are...it's really, really flattering that you think so. ^\\\^


If I could only make myself FINISH things, I might actually get somewhere with it all someday.

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not at all a bad thing to be when it comes to choosing favourite authors.

[identity profile] wintersolstyce.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose. I would have thought you'd have been more surprised that I liked the subject matter.

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, sometimes it's possible to ignore the subject matter and look at the writing itself instead. ...I didn't realise you really knew anything about Naruto.

[identity profile] hiwatari-ivanov.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
This was a wonderful piece of writing to read in a rainy evening. Keep writing!

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And I couldn't quit writing even if I wanted to. XD;
strange_quark: (naruto: sakura hair)

[personal profile] strange_quark 2008-09-17 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
I really, really like this. I like how you've done Deidara's character (this is the kind of crazy I see him as, and hurrah for nutty!Dei/Sakura) and the compare/contrast you've done between Sakura and his art.

Well done <3

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you enjoyed it. :D ...Ahaha, compare/contrast manages to sneak its way into so many of my drabbles. That's what comes of being an English major, I suppose.
strange_quark: (naruto: punk naruto)

[personal profile] strange_quark 2008-09-17 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, compare/contrast essays. The bane of my existence.

Well, okay, not really.

D'aww, your punk!Naruto icon is cute. <3

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm too used to them to hate them. And now that I've graduated, I actually sort of miss them which is probably why that element comes up in my pleasure writing sometimes, heh.

But MATH, now, THAT is the bane of my existence.
strange_quark: (naruto: kakashi reading)

I think that would be his reaction to having to write an essay.

[personal profile] strange_quark 2008-09-18 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I actually don't hate them that much. Mostly it just feels like you have to find equal amounts of things to compare and equal amounts to contrast which I don't often find and it's therefore very annoying. I prefer to have more free reign when I write.

I like math a lot. I don't know why. Working out calculus problems was always really calming for me. Yes, I understand how painfully nerdy that makes me sound.

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Free rein is always the most enjoyable, I agree, though having boundaries to work within can be a welcome challenge every now and then.

Actually, I'm rather jealous. I'm a lost cause when it comes to most forms of math--it just doesn't compute the way grammar and writing and words always have. I did enjoy equations, but if they didn't work out, I got terribly frustrated with them, so they were still more of a chore than a means of relaxation.
strange_quark: (naruto: punk naruto)

[personal profile] strange_quark 2008-09-18 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I had a professor who would assign papers by giving us an outline of exactly what he wanted us to write and where he wanted it to be, and there was almost no way to write that kind of thing without it sounding like a disjointed pile of crappy writing. So... I'm a little leery of too many boundaries.

I'm kind of that way when it comes to economics. Which, given the economic environment, is probably not good. People start talking about mortgages and the Fed and the stock market and it all flies right over my head. I've stopped trying to understand it.

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, TOO many boundaries are annoying, but I was thinking more like...guidelines. XD And not always, just sometimes.

...I don't care enough about any of that to even bother with it. 8\

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
I love this so so much. This is exactly how I imagine Deidara and exactly how I imagine his inner feelings for Sakura. It's like you took the essence of DeiSaku that I keep in my head when I'm writing them, and turned it all poetic and pretty. This is awesome and it's going on my rec list for sure. :D

Write more DeiSaku!!!

[identity profile] alory-shannon.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
asldkfjah compliments from you are...yeesh. It's just, I love your art so much--I can't ever get enough of your gorgeous DeiSaku pics. <333

Planning on it!

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I also write DeiSaku, most of my DeiSaku art are illustrations of my fanfics. :D

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I know...I just fail epically in that I've never gotten around to reading them. DX I have too many IRL books lying around that are far too tempting.

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehe, well I hope you get a chance someday. I think you would like them, since our ideals about the essence of DeiSaku are practically identical, which is why I love this little introspection you've written. :D

[identity profile] shortitude.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
;_; I'm so glad I made you write this. BEST thing to return to from exhausting exam weeks. And...I'm just--I love you, Bekahhhhhn~-- I'm in AWE. so I'm gonna reread it again.

[identity profile] wordsworn.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee, I'm ridiculously pleased that you're happy with it. -^__^- And you know it never would've been written if not for all our RPing and our chats about the DeiSaku dynamic, so it's at least half your fault. <333

[identity profile] irishmastermind.livejournal.com 2008-09-19 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew something was telling me to get my ass back onto LJ. This is awesome, and I absolutely loved the way you characterized Dei in this. The sense of wonder and awe on his part at the way the world might be a bit different than he thought is fantastic, and the prose is, as always, beautiful.