Weeaay I'm back with a new story :D This was supposed to be a serious story, but it didn't work out that way xD Anyway I hope you'll enjoy ^^

The kazekage wandered through the corridors in the kage-building in the middle of the night. Even though Shukaku had been extracted from him over a year ago sleep still didn't come to him. He usually spent hours turning in bed while pretending to sleep so that his somewhat overprotecting siblings wouldn't worry and drag him to the doctor again. As soon as he was certain that both Temari and Kankuro had gone to bed he started his nightly walk through out the corridors. He headed up the fire-stairs before he walked out on the roof and took some deep breaths to calm his nerves. The Akatsuki was going to arrive the next day to start the peace negotiations between the Akatsuki and the five nations. This would make anyone's heart beat a little faster, but that was still not what bothered him. He could handle criminals and murderers without a problem no matter how disturbed they may be, but it was a complete different thing when it came to stubborn kages' with very determined ideas. Suddenly the young kazekage heard the door swung open and brought up his sand by habit, since this was hardly an unfamiliar scene for him. He threw a look backwards and let the sand back down when he saw his brother standing by the door in nothing but his underwear.

"I don't believe that's appropriate clothing, Kankuro."

"Well nobody is here except us so it doesn't really matter, does it?"

The redhead remained silent.

"There's really no need to worry about tomorrow, you know. Most of the Akatsuki should actually fear you more than you need to fear them", the puppet master said and regretted it the moment the words left his mouth. Luckily Gaara didn't seem to react to the accidental insinuation. He simply walked past his brother back into the building.

"Goodnight, aniki."

As you would expect Gaara didn't go to sleep after he left Kankuro alone on the roof. Instead he returned to his office and decided to spend the remaining hours of the night trying to finish of some paperwork. As the first beams of sun started to shine into the office a young man walked in and silently closed the door behind him. The young man simply stood by the door without saying a word as he waited for the kazekage to take some notice of him. Gaara slowly finished signing a piece of paper and neatly put it on the top of the pile that he had created on his desk before he lifted his head and his green eyes met the bright red ones that belonged to the young man.

"Uchiha Itachi, we weren't expecting you and your comrades until this afternoon. What brings you here so early", he said with a voice that said: "What the hell are you doing here?"

"We travelled through the night. We figured that it would be good if the negotiations start as soon as possible."

"Well the other kages' hasn't arrived yet so that isn't possible. Where is the rest of your group?"

"They are waiting by the entrance. Don't worry they are waiting inside and nobody in Suna has even noticed us arriving", answered Itachi the unspoken question.

"Good", Gaara simply said and walked past his guest and continued down the hall. The raven haired man stood still for a short moment before he followed the kazekage down the hall. Because of his height it didn't take much time for him to catch up with the redhead that was practically racing through the halls and jumping down the stairs. He simply couldn't get rid of the feeling that the Akatsuki members would release mayhem on the town he just left them alone for another second. Itachi spent some time observing the redhead with a small smile before he spoke again.

"You seem nervous, or maybe suspicious is the right word for it."

The younger man suddenly stopped with his hand resting against the handle of a door and turned to face Itachi. "I hardly have a reason to trust you, now do I", he answered with a deadly glare before he opened the door into the entrance hall.

Gaara was, to put it mildly, shocked by what he saw when he opened the door. Sasori had managed to wrestle Deidara down onto the floor and was now laying on top of him in his attempt to stop the blonde from blowing up every piece of art in the kage-building. Tobi had knocked down both of the sculptures that stood next the door which had led to that the floor was now covered of shards, pieces and broken human limbs made out of white stone. But you can't really blame Tobi for that… Who wouldn't run around the room like a maniac if they were chased by a gray haired S-ranked criminal with a severe attitude problem that's shouting out profanities as he's trying to cut you into tiny microscopically sized pieces?

The only ones that actually noticed the two men when they walked into the room was Kakuzu and Kisame that had been standing by the entrance, simply small talking like the scene before them was nothing out of the ordinary. They started to slowly walk through the room but were forced to stop when Zetsu came up from the floor just enough so that his upper body was completely visible, and said "Hey guys, I've found that blonde chicks bedroom. Wanna check it out?"

"WHAT?"

The entire room went completely silent as all the Akatsuki slowly turned to face the kazekage, just before they all flew up and tried to look as innocent and respectable as they could. Needless to say they all failed miserably.

With that in mind so were the first impression hardly the greatest for both sides since the Akatsuki members was... well... Akatsuki members, and Gaara was quite frankly pissed off but was too shocked to completely grasp the feeling. Itachi on the other hand still had the same small smile on his face and seemed quite pleased with how the scene had played out before them. His crimson eyes turned once again to rest upon the redhead, which fuelled the redhead's anger even more.

"All right, listen up everybody. I'm not going to act all frightened and timid in front of you just because you walk around killing random people. I've done that myself for many years so I know for a fact that it's not as difficult as everybody seems to think it is, since it's mostly just a matter of will. With that said I just want to make it clear to all of you that you have to clean this shit up, and that includes getting rid of all the bloodstains, before Temari and Kankurou wakes up because they'll think I've done it. And NOBODY is going to check out my sister's bedroom!"

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