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Lucia-Theresa Horizon: And yeah there's this perception of Shisui being a bit of a chill guy, he's actually pretty into peace, clan and stuff too, but i like the idea of Shisui as the looser character because Itachi as the straight man in a comedic duo is just so.. fitting?
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Shisui sat quietly on the edge of the field. His face stung. His stupid little genius cousin went and slapped him. His stupidly powerful little genius cousin. Settling for the fact his face was going to continue to sting, albeit very much to his displeasure, Shisui let his thoughts drift.
Then the thought of Itachi making a fierce woman due to the strength of his bitch-slap crossed his mind. It was short-lived though, as he quickly rid such a terrifying thought from his head. Itachi was a man. Well...a boy. But he was male. So...no.
He focused on the two brothers on the field. Such a cute set of siblings they were, Mikoto's genes definitely had to be the cause of those looks. Sasuke cheered a little as he managed two kunai at once. Itachi simply smiled at his brother as the breeze wafted through. The breeze had caught his long hair and made it flutter slightly though. The terrible thought crossed his mind again. Itachi would make a pretty woman too.
Mortified by these thoughts, Shisui twitched and shifted, refusing to think such a thing again. However, life decided to screw with him again. Sasuke made Itachi laugh. It was a brief short laugh, one that signals amusement to a slight degree. But Itachi laughed. And it had sounded sort of nice. Itachi's laugh was kind of like when you get a girl to think you're cute boyfriend material.
Upon that thought, Shisui decided it was time to take forceful measures to cease these processes. So he turned and smacked his forehead against the tree.
Maybe life decided to screw with him once more for the day, because when he lifted his head, Itachi's wide grin at his brother's frustrated kunai throwing attempt gave him one more thought. Itachi's grin makes the smile of that cute girl at the dango shop at that travel stop by the capital look like nothing.
And quickly, Shisui fell into a depression as he wondered why the bloody freaking hell he was comparing Itachi, of all people, to a woman.
Sasuke soon became exhausted as the hours passed and he finally managed a 6-in-10 tries succession rate of hitting accurately when throwing two kunai at once.
"Sasuke, we should call it a day. You've practiced long enough for today."
A disappointed pout floated to Sasuke's lips. Itachi smiled and patted his otouto's fluffy poultry shaped hair.
"Come on. Gather your things and I'll get Shisui."
A reluctant smile made it's way onto Sasuke's face.
"...Ok."
As Itachi began to turn, he caught Sasuke's puzzled expression.
"Aniki? ...I think you hit Shisui-nii too hard."
Itachi's head whipped around and was met with a strange sight.
Shisui was indeed in a very strange state. He was seated on the ground at the base of a tree, partially facing it, with his knees drawn up to his chest and his forehead pressed to the bark. The visible part of his face revealed his dark eyes wide and blank and the very cheek Itachi had so kindly graced with his ninja skill.
"Sasuke, get your things and go home. We'll catch up with you."
He heard his brother scurry off to do as told as he began to approach his cousin.
Upon reaching the catatonic Shisui, he heard snippets of Shisui's voice.
"...ditcher...kid..woman...pretty...kid...woman... god...kid...me...slap..."
Itachi remembered his otouto's words.
"Shisui?"
"..no..wrong...me..compare...woman...can't...terri ble...like...must...god...slapped...ditch..."
Itachi reached out towards Shisui worriedly.
"Shisui?"
Shisui immediately utilized his ninja reflexes, swatting away the hand and flipping to land beside the tree behind Itachi.
"Huh?" A very much confused expression made it's way onto Shisui's face as he found Itachi standing there facing him in the odd position of a half-crouch-half bent-forward-to-reach with his hand hanging in the air.
"What are you doing?"
Itachi's eyebrow rose.
"I should be asking you that. You were sitting here like a mindless mental trauma victim mumbling about kids and women. Did I really hit you that hard?"
At this reminder of his lovely face's current state, Shisui glared.
"You bitch-slapped me."
Itachi's face turned sheepish.
"I didn't mean to slap you that hard! You were losing your mind!"
And upon Shisui's usage of the Uchiha Ninja Glare at 45% power, Itachi sighed.
"Sorry, Shisui..."
A defiant pout made it's way onto Shisui's face. Pointing to the fading red mark of Itachi's hand on his cheek, he ground out the summary of his day.
"You bitch-slapped me in front of your little brother, after you dragged me into this, to get rid of said little brother's problem creatures that we failed to get rid of, where I then met the kid with the worst freaking timing possible in the whole damned universe, and have possibly become a freak with mental issues of questionable nature with my title now possibly altered to Shisui the KID DITCHER! SO NO. SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT KIDDO."
Itachi conceded to the events of the day as to his cousin's description, knowing he was partially right and mostly just enraged. But how Shisui kept people's respect while being this undignified and childish was a mystery to Itachi. At the moment, however, he really couldn't be bothered to care. He needed to un-angry-fy his cousin. So he did the one thing he could. He used the low road.
"Shisui, I'll get Kaa-san to make you dinner and lunch tomorrow."
A silence ensued. He could practically hear the gears turn in Shisui's head.
"Tonight's dinner too?"
Itachi bit back a smile.
"Yes."
Shisui dusted himself off very slowly, knowing it would bother Itachi a bit. Finishing that menial task, he sniffed and began on the path back to the living area of the compound.
"I shall accept this offering of peace. You are forgiven."
Itachi smiled and rolled his eyes at the antics of his best friend. No matter when, where and whatever it was that happened, Shisui always wanted Mikoto's homemade food.
Shisui and Itachi easily caught up with Sasuke in minutes and all walked to the home of the clan head in comfortable silence.
They watched Sasuke dart the last half of the block to the house and heard him announce his presence.
When the duo arrived, Mikoto was already at the entrance hall, helping her youngest in his attempts to maneuver his way out of his sandals and bag all at once. She smiled at them warmly, "Hello boys. Just in time for dinner. Want to join us, Shi-oh!"
Her eyes found the red on Shisui's face.
"Shisui! Your cheek! What happe-"
A chipper Sasuke piped up, a wide grin on his face.
"Aniki slapped him in the face!"
A tense silence followed. Mikoto's eyes flew over and bore into her eldest with a scalding warning.
Itachi pinched the bridge of his nose in exasperation. He had forgotten about Sasuke. His beloved otouto had yet to develop any sense of subtly or any sense as to how things would sound when phrased in certain ways. Now he would have to pacify his mother and his cousin.
Shisui could only stand there with a smile frozen on his face.
"Itachi."
The clan heir looked over to his cousin.
"I hate you right now."
Yeah, so a tad Itachi and Shisui centric for this bit, but I felt like I should give them moments too. I feel bad for abusing Shisui's mind though xD DON'T WORRY SHISUI! I STILL LOVE YOU. IF MY READERS CONSENT I'LL FIND YOU A NICE GIRLFRIEND. [one pretty just like 'Tachi muahahahahaha -evil smile-]
So I feel like some might wonder if this is going to be a ItaShi or a ShiIta fic and so I'd like to state now that I won't make it a romantic fluff pairing. I'm going to keep with the canon where they are rather unusually close, and just kind of make it a questionable bromance that they have. So since Itachi's practically asexual in the entire span of his life during the manga, I'm going to leave him straight. And Shisui will also be straight because he simply didn't get more than a panel or two for us to actually know him [hence the fun with his personality traits] and I personally feel like since Itachi feels like he sense Shisui in Naruto, I'm going to include a low-level of Jiraya perv, so he would indeed need to be heterosexual.
And if you want, you can borrow my bromance moments and write your own ItaShi/ShiIta.
AND SOMEONE RECOMMEND A ITACHI/SHISUI/UCHIHA/TEAM 7 Crack fic to me? I'm all out of my literary crack.
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Many loves,
Silent-Himitsu
