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This is amazing, I want to thank everyone so much! I realize that there have been a few questions I have been ignoring . and I feel really bad so I am just going to take a second or two to clear things up and thank people properly =D Of course you could obviously just skip this part and scroll right down to the story.

NOTES:

-Excuse of the day: Okay so exam week started last week, sue me. I am took time off my studying schedual so that I can write this for you because I have been getting brain cramps and I needed a change of scenery, not that I don't love you guys enough to write it anyways. I know this is waaaaaaaaaay off topic but, good news! Last exam tomorrow xD chemistry so wish me luck!

- Yes, Hidan loves soaps, feel free to sue me again xD Doesn't he seem like the type tho o.o?

-OKAY! So I've had a few people ask me what the novel In the Garage is actually about, frankly it follows the plot pretty closely except that the two main characters are not romantically involved and they are of opposite genders. PLUS I fully intend to add my own twist to the plot before I conclude this story so I warn you, BE PREPARED!

-I am sorry, I forget almost all of the details about the book that this is about because I actually read it about two years ago :/ I wrote most of the first part of the story while it was fresh in my mind which is why I have some quotes and stuff, but now I can't even find it at my local library D:

- Shadow of Astarael, Sorry about causing your brain hemmorage a couple chapters ago ._. This one's for you to make up for it =)

-I LOVE all of you reviewers! You're all so great and supportive! It's awesome, I couldn't do this without you.

"Who's going to start today?" Tsunade asks as I sit in group. When nobody raises their hand or volunteers immediately her eyes rest on someone on the other side of the circle and I sigh a breathe of relief. "Hidan? Why don't you share something with the group today?"

As close as I have gotten to Hidan, I have never heard from him why he tried to kill himself. My interest has peaked and I lean forward in my chair to see Hidan's face as he talks.

"Screw off," he says while crossing his arms. He looks around at all of the faces in the circle and takes a quick second glance at me. "I wouldn't have died anyways," he says. I sit back in my seat properly and blow some loose hair out of my face. For some reason I was a little disappointed.

Tsunade frowns and scribbles something on her clipboard. This time she tries someone new. "Sasuke?" she calls out, "What about you?" I snap to attention and look to where her attention is focused towards the back of the room. Sure enough there is Sasuke, one of the boys who used to make fun of me when I went to school sitting high and mighty on his folding chair, but something is different about him. He isn't sitting as high as he should and he doesn't appear as mighty as I remembered him. Instead, with his raven hair and his bloodshot eyes he seems dead to me.

Sasuke looks at Tsunade and he begins to shake, but not just any shaking, he seems to be convulsing and it looks like the cheap chair he is sitting on is about to break. I can tell Doc is getting worried, but watching him is almost mesmerizing. Right when it looked like Tsundae was about to say something, Sasuke burst.

"I HATE MY BROTHER! I hate his godforsaken eyes! I hate how mother and father love him and I hate how they don't care about me! I hate how he's the best at everything and I am always supposed to be more like him, but I don't want to be like him, but I HAVE to be like him and the only way to get away was to down a bottle of pills and hope I die but,

"I

JUST

DIDN'T

DIE!"

"Well that's an easy way to get out of group therapy!" says Hidan cheerily.

"Yeah, but then you get a one on one with Doc and that sucks just as much," I tell him, "I'd rather sit in a group and not say anything any day."

"True," he goes, "why did you try to kill yourself in the first place anyways?"

"I didn't," I tell him.

"You did too!" This kid from our group named Naruto goes, "Sasuke told me, he goes to your school and he said that he heard the tape of you telling Sasori that you didn't love him even though you were his boyfriend and all."

"So that doesn't mean anything. I didn't even say that shit anyways. It was fixed and I didn't try to off myself, you weren't there anyways," I snap back at him.

"Like anyone believes that," Naruto snorts.

"Well you're here too, you probably tried to off yourself, but I sure as hell didn't!" I shove him hard against the wall and glare at him.

Naruto glares back at me and spits out, "I overdosed by mistake, you tried to kill yourself because everybody knows you're a faggot and Sasori hates you!"

"Shut the fuck up!" I scream as I lunge forward, but Hidan has beaten me to it and has already hit him between the eyes. Although I didn't think he fell hard enough, he probably got the message so I stomp off with Hidan.

"Shut the fuck up?" He repeats, "am I rubbing off on you?"

"Maybe," I smile at him, "could have had worse people rubbing off on me though I suppose," I say offhandedly and Hidan throws his arm, around my shoulder.

"So if you weren't trying to off yourself, what were you trying to do?" He asks.

"Trying to get rid of the mouths on my hands," I say sheepishly and look towards the floor.

"By cutting them off?"

"Yeah"

"Well that was stupid."

"…Yeah…"

"They put me in here because nobody believes in Jashinism and they're all going to hell." I am eating lunch with Hidan and daydreaming about getting out of this place when I hear him and he startles me awake. It's not that he was talking particularly loud, nor is it that him talking is particularly surprising, but I doubt that anyone here has heard him talk about his past and Hidan had been pretty quiet since group.

"Who's they?" I ask wearily.

"My parents, I mean seriously, fuckers were all 'fine and dandy' when they just thought that it was my hobby to rip open rodents in our backyard with cutlery, but as soon as I stick a piece of fine china in ME, the assholes lock me up with people like you!" Hidan practically yells at me. He might not be the most complimentary friend there is, but right now he is my only one. "You know they probably cared more that I busted their fucking china plate more than the fact that I busted open my gut." Hidan's eyes have become red and I can tell that he is straining to keep himself composed before he nearly jumps out of his chair. "I have to go," he says almost quietly. Before Hidan leaves, I think even as he looks at me now, he doesn't see the little details you can pick at and he doesn't see the bandages around half my face and arms. He just sees a person who happens to be called Deidara, and happens to be the only one who listens to him rant.

As the people around here got more accustomed to me they've begun to stare and whisper when I walk by. Hidan has returned from his leave and we are no longer in the cafeteria. Instead, we have taken up residence on the sofa while watching our soaps. As I realized earlier, Hidan is pretty upset and we don't talk as we watch the characters move about on the TV set. It's easier to follow the plot now that Tsunade has changed my meds and my head is a little clearer, but it's also harder to remember what has already happened.

Out of the corner of my eye I see a boy walking towards us grinning maliciously and my chest tightens up. Gossip tends to travel fast even in a place like this where every kid has more problems than the last. By now, I bet that the whole ward knows that I am gay due to Naruto's outburst this morning. I turn my head and glare daggers at the boy as he approaches.

"Hey faggot, what's shoved up your ass?" While he was talking, the kid has made his way around to my side of the couch and has gotten an uncomfortable distance away from my face. He is vile and as he leans in to talk in a hushed voice I want to vomit because he doesn't smell right.

Hidan is smart, but he must have forgot to check if the nurses were looking before he clocks the kid in the face. "Don't call my friends anything but their name you son of a bitch!"

Hidan has surprised me again with his willingness to stick up for me. He doesn't take shit from anyone and I like that. It kinda reminds me of someone I know, but I must not have known them very well because I can't seem to remember much about them.

My head is pounding and a bright light is sneaking its way in-between my eyelashes. When I open my eyes and look to the bed across from me I see Hidan looking back at me just as groggy. He says something and I ask him to repeat it. The first couple of words just come out in a jumbled mess until I can understand his message. He is trying to tell me that he thinks our meds have been changed back due to the fight yesterday between him and that asshole, which quickly turned into a fight that I joined in on. I hope we can go back to the other meds soon because I can't concentrate on anything and out of the corner of my eyes I can see something red, but every time I try to look at it properly it just keeps disappearing. I close my eyes and try to sleep some more, I didn't want to go see Tsunade anyways.

Done! o.o Hope you like :) Sorry so short, but it was hard to write....

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