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CHAPTER 3 – Art is a BANG!
"Sasuke-chan!"
Sasuke heard his name yelled from downstairs and wanted to run back upstairs and hide under his bed till they all left. He was about to do just that, turning slightly to head back upstairs. Too bad for him he has Itachi as a brother.
Said brother walked up to him, and joining their hands he walked Sasuke downstairs, enjoying the glare his brother had aimed at his back.
He just had to get out of this. Pride be damned, he had to convince his brother to get him to leave. He was not in the mood to deal with all these crazy people in the morning.
"Itachi, I know I don't tell you a lot, but I love you bro." Sasuke tried, making his voice as nice and sweet as he could muster.
"Yea, love you too Sasu-chan. Too bad for you that changes nothing." Itachi said, smirking evilly.
Sasuke whined, yes WHINED, trying to get his brother to understand how desperately he didn't want to go down there. Why couldn't he just stay in his bed thinking about his night? He'd so prefer doing that at the moment.
"'Tachi. I promise I'll do anything you want, just don't make me do this." He was really trying hard. This was the hardest he ever remembered begging for anything. The first time he ever begged, but the situation warranted begging. It was that bad.
"Sasuke, because I know you don't want to, that's exactly why I'm making you do this. Nothing you say will change that Otōto." He said, a sickly sweet smile on his lips.
Stupid evil older brother.
Sasuke scowled, finally reaching the bottom of the stairs.
"Fine, be that way, but I refuse to be held responsible for what may happen."
With that said he entered the room, fully prepared to kill whoever pissed him off.
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Deidara obviously didn't care much for Sasuke's killer aura, if the way he'd glomped the young Uchiha when he entered the room was anything to go by.
"Deidara." He tried between gritted teeth, but Deidara was too busy rubbing their cheeks together to pay attention. That did not help his mood at all.
"Brat, Sasuke's going to kill you." Sasori said, looking bored.
"No he won't Danna, he would never." Dei said, completely oblivious to the glare boring holes in his head.
Naruto looked over to where his cousin and Sasuke were standing and shrugged, too busy eating ramen to care much about his cousin's impending doom. He did remember warning him not to bug Sasuke, if he didn't want to listen, not his fault.
"Naru, get your crazy cousin away from that guy before he dies."
Naruto looked at Konan like, are you kidding me? Raised eyebrow and all.
"Sheesh, your own cousin doesn't even care."
"Would you all stop over reacting?" Dei said, still hanging from Sasuke's arm.
Sasuke was livid by now. Torn between wanting to rip the stupid blonde to shreds, and clawing off his own arm to get rid of any stupidity Dei had left behind. Deidara'd been living with Naruto since they were kids, and look how he turned out! He was convinced that form of stupidity was contagious.
"Instead of draping yourself all over Sasuke, why don't you tell them why you dragged us all out here in the first place." Sasori said, finally deciding to end Sasuke's misery and prolong Deidara's life a bit longer.
Thank you Sasori!
Sasuke thought, as the blonde finally released him, trying to think of the answer to Sasori's suggestion.
It took a full minute for Deidara to remember why the hell he dragged them all there, but when he finally remembered he was all excited and jumping around like a drunk bunny.
They all looked at him like he'd grown a second head, waiting for him to regain some of his sanity. It took a while, but when he calmed down enough he was able to tell them just what was going on.
"ART SHOW!" He beamed, excitement seemingly returning.
Sasuke deadpanned.
"You allowed my psychotic brother into my room, made him drag me out of my bed, traumatize me, then pull me all the way downstairs, to tell me you want to go to some stupid art show." Sasuke said, disbelievingly.
"You're kidding me right?"
"No he's pretty serious." Itachi said, suddenly appearing beside Sasuke.
Sasuke stared from him to Deidara and back, then at everyone else in to room.
Naruto was loudly slurping noodles, Konan was watching him intently, Itachi was.. being Itachi, Sasori was counting dust specs on the coffee table, and Deidara was beaming at him, excited about his art show.
All he needed was one minute, and he was walking back up stairs, mumbling about stupid blondes and asshole brothers.
Deidara pouted. "Sasuke-chan, don't run away." He whined, folding his arms across his chest and getting ready to throw a mini tantrum.
"Dei, don't act like you're four. You're a big boy, get over it."
"You're so mean Danna!"
"It's in my nature." Came the curt reply, and instead of answering Deidara turned to Itachi.
"Itachi he ran away."
"That he did."
"But if he runs away we can't go to the art show together."
"Guess you can't."
"But, but-"
"No, no buts." He turned his attention to the chess game he was playing against himself. Apparently, himself was the only suitable opponent.
"I thought you said Sasuke liked art."
"He does."
"Well obviously he doesn't if he ran away."
"No he does."
"He doesn't"
"He does."
"Does not."
"Does."
"How can you be so sure?"
"I'm his brother."
Deidara deadpanned.
"I don't think he does."
"Of course he does. Have you seen the girls he sleeps with? Truly works of art." Itachi said, an appreciative look taking over his features.
"THAT"S NOT ART!"
Itachi shrugged, that's the only art he'd care about.
"Well we're going to that art show. I refuse to miss it cause of you guys."
"Why don't you just go alone."
"Of course I'm not going to do that. If no one else, you're coming with me cuz."
Naruto turned white, every inch of life seeming to drain from his body at the prospect of going to an art show with his cousin alone. With no one else there. HELL NO.
"Danna, you are so coming. Konan is coming since it's her friend's studio, and Itachi is coming along cause he doesn't want me telling his parents exactly what kind of a 'study group' he has every damn week."
"You have enough balls to threaten me Naruto?"
Naruto looked at Itachi completely unphazed.
"I'm more scared of being alone with Deidara, than I am of you. If you knew him your entire life, you'd understand my fear."
Itachi looked at him sympathetically, completely understanding his feelings.
"I'm right here you know? Offended!"
"So completely ignoring Dei-baka, what are we going to be doing for the next couple hours?"
They all contemplated this. They could always just stay here and chill, the Uchiha home was far from disinteresting. With their games room, mini-movie theatre, amazing chefs and their cleaning staff, one could stay here away from the outside world for months and not get tired of it.
Too bad they'd all been for years on end. They'd already, sad to say, grown bored of the place.
With that thought in mind, the option of staying was quickly disregarded. With nowhere to go and nothing to do they quickly found themselves in a predicament.
"Why don't we just wing it?" Naruto suggested.
"Wing it?"
"Yup. Just leave and walk, and see where it takes us."
They looked at him like he was strange. Looked at each other, back at him, then shrugged.
Gathering their things they all shuffled out of the Uchiha manor, not sure where they were going to go, but deciding to just go with the wind, and have fun doing it.
Or at least, they hoped that's what would happen.
"NARUTO YOU ABSOLUTE IDIOT!"
"Don't you DARE blame me for this! This is your fault just as much as mine!"
"It's because of both of you dunder-heads! I swear, you guys are worst than I am!"
Both continued to argue between themselves as they followed everyone else back to the parking lot.
The group had decided to go window shopping for the remaining hours. Well mostly Konan decided, but it's not like they could disagree with her. They'd been at it for a few hours before Naruto decided he'd start pulling pranks. They'd warned him on stopping, after laughing at the 5th security guard that had ended up chasing them around because of reports of 'disturbances' around the mall. They'd decided to take refuge in a clothing store, no idea what the name was, and were having a mini runway show for whoever would watch. It was mostly just Konan, Naruto and Deidara though. Sasori and Itachi were way too cool to model in a clothing store. Sad to say, that ended up causing another disturbance, especially since they had no intention of actually buying the people's clothes. The management ended up calling security on them. Again. And it just so happened that the guard they sent was the guy from before. And this time he had his little mall skooter riding in so he could actually keep up. It turns out he ran them out of the mall completely, while yelling about crazy teenagers nowadays. They would have been laughing, except now they had nothing to do. Which brings us back to now.
"Now we have nothing to do."
They were currently sitting on some random curb, looking like some homeless rich kids. Mostly cause the security had chased them out before they got to change, so now they had some new clothes on, their own clothes in one big bag they managed to grab before evacuating.
"What do you suppose we do now you two? It's your fault we're in this mess." Konan said, while the three looked at the blondes.
Feeling a little ganged up on, they shuffled closer to each other, looking at each other, wanting to defend themselves, but not getting the chance.
"Didn't you say the art show would be starting at like 7? Its like after five now, we could go back to Itachi's and get ready and head over to the show."
Saved by Sasori! Again. Deidara had better be glad he had such a good friend.
"Right! The art show! Great suggestion Sasori!" Deidara said, jumping up.
"Itachi, get us a ride back to your place and we can go get ready."
Itachi regarded him with a simple "Hn." before reaching for his phone, saying a couple words to someone over the phone, and within ten minutes they found themselves in one of the Uchiha vehicles, heading back to the manor.
It was nice having rich friends.
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It being a formal event, all the guys were dressed in suits, ties, vests, or all three, and the females sported beautiful dresses for all shapes, colors and sizes. No matter how formal the event though, in a setting where 'explosive' art was being showcased, Deidara would always be as giddy as a five year old high on pocky sticks, and tonight was no different.
"Dammit Dei, stop fidgeting already." Konan hissed, slapping him lightly on the wrist. her words had no effect however, as he continued jumping around the room, gaining almost as much attention as the pieces themselves.
Konan felt like running after him, then taping him to some wall so he would stop moving. With her silver pumps, running was no easy task, and her short, silver chiffon dress was definitely not made for running. Her blue hair was in a low messy bun, and she wore just enough makeup to enhance her already beautiful features. Her lone accessory was a blue rhinestone encrusted silver watch that complimented the outfit beautifully. All in all, if Pein hadn't already staked his claim on her, she'd have a hard time deciding which guy she'd be going home with tonight, even if she played hard to get.
Keeping it simple, the guys had decided on a less colourful outfit. Itachi wore a simple yet sophisticated black suit, with a crisp white shirt underneath. The first two bottons of his shirt had been undone and he wore black dress shoes. His hair was in his trademark low ponytail, and despite the simplicity of his outfit, he had everyone sneaking glances at him every now and then. Sasori was no different, in his black dress pants and shoes, white dress shirt and sleek black and red vest. He wore a black bow-tie which completed his look. The other two males of the group, naruto and Deidara, wore black dress pants, shoes and shirts. Deidara wore a black and white vest, with a white tie, while Naruto wore a grey vest and tie.
Overall, they all cleaned up pretty nicely, one could say. They had been browsing through the pieces, commenting on a few here and there. They had to admit, the art show was nothing like they expected. The owner had made sure that only the best was at her 'party', that goes for food, music and even people.
Deidara had been too excited to sit still, moving around the room as if he was the host and greeting everyone else there. He had even ended up bringing said host to their little circle.
"Guys, guys, guys, look!" he said, placing the girl in front of them all. She looked exasperated, probably from having walked all the way over here from the other side of the room, not a small room mind you, with Deidara.
"You must be the host of this little shindig. Nice to meet you." Konan said, smiling at the girl. "Don't mind our friend, he always gets like this with art. And he's just naturally a few brain cells short of stupid, if you know what I mean."
"Hey!"
But as usual, he was ignored.
"I like you, you're funny." she said between giggles. "I'm Anko. My sister and I put on this event.
"I'm Konan, the idiots are Deidara and Naruto respectively," she said, pointing out who they were, ignoring their protests. "The red head's Sasori, and the other quiet one's Itachi."
"Wow, this even attracted the attention of an Uchiha?" she asked, referring to Itachi.
"Well, even Uchihas like art every now and then." he said, surprising them that he actually answered. Anko smirked, but didn't respond otherwise.
They spent the next couple hours hearing Anko explain the meaning and idea behind each of her pieces, and a few of her sister's. It wasn't until the event was near ending that Itachi noticed something, or rather someone that looked really familiar.
He didn't know her, but he did well enough to recognize her coffee brown hair that was currently down and curled slightly. Even he was able to recognize those chocolate brown eyes, and that petite figure that had walked away from him a few hours earlier. She was dressed in an elegant red gown, long enough that he wasn't able to see her shoes from where he stood, but it hugged her figure perfectly. Yup, she was definitely a work of art, and a bit more special than he had initially thought. His brother had better be grateful he love him so much, if he ever wasted his efforts at getting him his trophy, he'd really show him hell. This was one trophy Itachi would kill him for if he ever damaged, and it turns out, she just so happened to sign her pictures with TNT.
Smirking he turned away, his plan already underway in his mind.
There you have it, chapter's complete. Please review, comment, state suggestions, all that nice stuff. Till next time, love you guys ^^
