Yay, update!

You readers are really awesome, it makes me really happy seeing that someone actually even bothered reading this fic. Btw, happy belated birthday to one of the readers, I hope you had a nice one *cyberhug*

Anyway, since school started for me again, I'll be updating once a week, maybe twice if I'm lucky enough.

Disclaimer: Still don't own Naruto. If I did, things would be...different...

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Kisame Hoshigaki was walking down the streets of Konoha. Most people who saw the man, stopped to look at him. Kisame was used to this. A tall, muscular figure with blue skin wasn't a common look.

Well, thats exactly what Itachi Uchiha was in love with. He loved Kisame's blue skin, his pointed teeth, his sweet attitude and the fact that Kisame loved him back.

A small smile curved Itachi's lips. Nobody but Kisame could see the Uchiha walking beside him. Itachi gave the blue hand he was holding a gentle squeeze and felt a jolt of happiness when his pale hand was squeezed in return.

A part of Itachi worried as well. About the others. About the curse. Itachi hoped that the others had found their soulmates. Deep in thought, he didn't notice Kisame was trying to get his attention until the blue man tapped on his shoulder. Itachi had learned to concentrate his being over the years, so now he could touch things like he could when he was still solid.

" 'Tachi? You there?"

"What is it?" Itachi asked, snapping out of his thoughts.

"If you wanna space out, go ahead, but tell me the address first. I don't know where to go." Kisame said with a grin.

Itachi stared at Kisame blankly for a moment, then shook his head.

"Sorry, I'm just a bit tired." he said meekly.

"I will never understand why you need to sleep but you don't need to eat." Kisame chuckled.

Itachi glared at him.

"Geez, calm down angel. No need to look so angry."

Itachi's eyes softened at his pet-name. Kisame had given him that nickname when they had first met each other in person.

"Angel? That's an ironic nickname for the devil." sounded an amused from behind them. Itachi's eyes widened at the familiar voice. He spun on his heel and came face-to-face with a widely smirking Sasuke Uchiha.

"Sasuke?" Itachi exclaimed, face growing red from embarrassment. That had been meant for Itachi's ears only.

"Nice to see you too Itachi." Sasuke's smirk widened. He put his hands in his jeans pockets and he leaned back. It was clear that he was enjoying himself.

Itachi noticed with a pang that Sasuke was alone.

"Did you find someone?" Itachi asked carefully. It wouldn't be good to anger him.

Sasuke's smirk vanished. He pulled his hands out his pockets and slowly shook his head. "No, not yet."

"...We still have two years time. You'll find someone." Itachi said sympathetically.

Kisame who had been watching them both, decided that now would be a good time to interrupt. "So you're Sasuke? Itachi's little brother? Itachi has talked a lot about you."

Sasuke gave Kisame a curious look and nodded. "You're with Itachi?"

"Yeah, name 's Kisame." The blue man replied. "And yeah, this is my natural skin color." he added quickly, noticing that Sasuke had opened his mouth to ask something.

"Actually, I was going to ask Itachi how he's been." Sasuke's smirk returned.

"Oh...Sorry, I just get asked that a lot." Kisame scratched the back of his head and fell silent.

"So how have you been?" Sasuke turned to Itachi.

"Fine." Itachi stated simply.

They walked a few minutes in silence. Kisame shifted uncomfortably. The air was thick with tension and he didn't like that. He opened his mouth to say something, but Itachi beat him to it.

"We're here." the older Uchiha broke the silence.

Indeed, they were standing in front of the familiar iron gate. The mansion at the end if the driveway looked exactly like the Uchihas remembered.

"We should wait for Tobi." Sasuke said blankly.

"Hn." Itachi agreed.

The three of them stood behind the gate, waiting for Tobi. Sasuke shuffled his feet, Itachi sent his watch occasional glances and Kisame let go of Itachi's hand to study the front gates.

Ten minutes later, Kisame suddenly spoke. "Hey guys, your last name was Uchiha, right?"

Itachi gave him a confused look and Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, why?" the younger raven answered the sudden question.

"Well, this mailbox says Uzumaki/Namikaze. " Kisame rose from the mailbox he had been looking at. He watched the ravens, as their mouthes dropped open in shock. Sasuke was the first to recover his voice.

"What? You're kidding, right?" he asked, absolutely bewildered.

"Wish I was."

The two Uchihas rushed over to look. The small printed label on the mailbox read simply: Uzumaki/Namikaze.

"They must have sold the mansion after we went missing." Itachi said; half to himself, half to the others.

"What do we do now?" Sasuke asked asked after an uncomfortable silence.

Itachi started after thinking for a bit. "Let's wait for Tobi and decide after th-."

He was cut off by shouting from the end of the street.

"DAMN IT TOBI GET BACK HERE! WE'LL HIT YOU WITH A CAR IF YOU DON'T! No we won't. YES WE WILL! NO WE WON'T BECAUSE WE LOVE TOBI AND WE DON'T HAVE A CAR! True... TOBI GET BACK HERE! WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!"

The man seemed to be shouting at himself. As he got closer, the Uchihas and Kisame saw that he was chasing a familiar figure in an orange mask.

"...I'm guessing that is Tobi?" Kisame asked pointing at the masked person. Or ghost in this case.

"Hn."

The masked person seemed to notice them, because he let out an excited squeal and sped up. The next thing they knew, he had glomped Sasuke and Itachi.

"YOUGUYSAREALREADYHERETOBIMISSEDYOUSOMUCHDIDYOUHAV EAGOODTIMETOBIDIDTOBIHADLOTSOFFUNANDTOBIWASAGOODBO YTOBIWANTEDTOBRINGITACHIANDSASUKEPRESENTSBUTTOBIRA NOUTOFCASHANDTOBIDID'TWANTTOSTEALBECAUSETHENTOBIWO ULDN'TBEAGOODBOYANDTHEN..."* the masked person continued a high-pitched happy rambling while holding Itachi and Sasuke in a headlock.

"Yeah, this is defiantly Tobi." Sasuke's voice came out muffled, due to the fact that his face was being squished against Tobi's shoulder. Kisame watched as the two ravens tried to pry Tobi off themselves.

"GODDAMMIT TOBI, WE CAN'T BREATHE!" Sasuke roared suddenly. Tobi let go abruptly. The two Uchihas straightened up panting, and started smoothing their ruffled clothes and hair.

"Sorry!" Tobi squeaked apoligetically.

Meanwhile, the man who had been chasing Tobi finally reached them. His face was half-black-half-white, almost as if painted. The man's short green hair was littered with bits of popcorn, kernels and salt. His high collar reminded Sasuke of a flytrap.

"Tobi, what the hell did I tell you about running off like that?" the man wheezed, trying to catch his breath.

"But Tobi saw Itachi and Sasuke and had to go and say hello and hug them and say hello to their partners and meet them and"

"Okay, okay, I get your point. " the man cut off Tobi. "That sentence had too many fucking 'and's in it.'' he continued gruffly.

"Zetsu, don't swear!" Tobi whined.

"Sorry. Are not. Are too. Why should we be? Because Tobi doesn't want us to swear. Tobi also dumped a bucket of popcorn on our head if you haven't noticed. It was an accident. He yelled 'FOR SEMPAI' and poured it!...Oh yeah...I can't believe Deidara dared him to do that..." The man called 'Zetsu' started another argument with himself.

"Zetsu? Tobi's family is here too, if you need to argue with someone..." Tobi began sarcastically.

"Huh? Oh yeah, sorry." the green-haired man apologized, scratching the back of his neck. He walked up to the two Uchihas and Kisame and shook hands with all three.

"I'm Zetsu." the man introduced himself.

"I'm Kisame. I'm here with Itachi." Kisame said.

"I'm Itachi."

"Sasuke."

"Nice to meet you. Yeah, you people seem normal. At least you don't scream when I start talking. I thought they would never shut up." Zetsu talked with two voices - a lower, gruff one and a lighter, mellow voice.

Tobi hopped around excitedly. "Let's go inside already! We have to show Kisame and Zetsu the mansion!"

Kisame and the two younger Uchihas looked at each other.

"Uh, Tobi? About that..." Sasuke looked at his feet and continued. "We kinda...don't own the mansion anymore..." Sasuke trailed off, watching Tobi's good mood deflate gradually.

"Oh." Tobi looked more surprised than sad. He scratched the back of his head. "Well, who does now?" Tobi asked the trio.

"A family called Uzumaki/Namikaze." Sasuke continued, surprised at how naturally Tobi had taken the news.

Zetsu spoke up." Well now what?" he asked the others.

"We should check into a hotel for now. I don't really feel like sleeping on the streets." Sasuke said.

Kisame and Itachi gave each other a sideways glance. The blue man sighed and spoke. "Itachi and I can't do that. I spent the last of my money on a airplane ticket here, so I'm completely broke."

Zetsu clasped his hands together. "Tobi and me have the same problem. Since we didn't really think about the possibility of the mansion being sold, long story short, we are also out of money. We could rob a bank, but that isn't a very good idea." he finished with a mysterious grin. " I don't have any contacts in this city..."he added really quietly.

What the hell does that guy do for a living? flashed through Sasuke's thoughts.

"So let me get this straight. All of you are broke?" Sasuke pointed at them.

"The Uchihas aren't technically broke, we just can't use the funds right now." Itachi shrugged.

"Why not?"

A sigh was heard from Zetsu. "Tobi, I thought I already explained this to you. It would be suspicious as hell if a person missing for five years suddenly used their money which had been untouched the whole time. The police would start investigating and before you know it,copscrawling EVERYWHERE, secrets uncovered, press notifiedlots of scandals, and somebody will most likely be arrested. And I really don't want that to be me. Okay?" Zetsu finished.

"Got it!" Tobi chirped happily.

Kisame and Sasuke blinked in surprise. Zetsu was a lot smarter than he looked.

"Well actually, I might be able to help." Itachi began. When everybody turned to look at the Uchiha, he sighed and continued. "I used to have a box filled with cash money in my room for emergencies. It might still be there, unless my room was renovated thoroughly. If it is, we could use the money to stay at a hotel."

Everybody was silent for a few moments. "What the hell, it's not like we have anything to lose from it. I say we should try."

Sasuke stared at Itachi. "You never told me about this box."

"You never asked."

Sasuke scoffed at his brother's answer.

"I'll see you soon." Everyone turned to see the Uchiha pass through the closed gates and continue going towards the mansion.

"You think it will be okay?" Kisame asked Sasuke.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked in return.

Instead of answering, Kisame frowned.

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Itachi wandered the corridors of the mansion. To his relief, whoever lived in there now, had liked most of the original interior, replaceing only most of the furniture. Although, some of the rooms had been repainted.

Atleast they didn't tear down the walls, the raven thought as he climbed the stairs. He had liked the walls.

Itachi stood behind the door to his room, hesitant to go inside. The door had been replaced. He knew that he would have to open it instead of passing through it. If the money-box was there, he couldn't pass through the door with it later.

Itachi glanced around, making sure that nobody was in the hallway and prayed that the room would be empty as well. He held his breath and tried the doorknob. To his surprise, the door was locked. Itachi decided to enter the room and search for the key, or pick the lock if he couldn't find it.

Itachi walked through the door and shuddered. He hated walking through things. It always made his head spin. He closed his eyes to get rid of the unpleasant sensation. When he felt better, Itachi opened his eyes and looked around. It had been his bedroom once, now it looked like a study. A cluttered desk sat in the corner, barely visible under a mountain of papers and pens. Bookshelves covered most of the walls, stacks of papers sat on the ground. The floor and walls looked the same, meaning his room hadn't been renovated.

Itachi turned towards the door. The lock on it was simple; a dial could lock and unlock it from the inside. From the outside, it would have been done by a key. The Uchiha was a bit relieved that he wouldn't have to look for a key in the mess. He unlocked the door and pushed it open.

Itachi walked over to where his bed had once been; the scratches on the floor helped. There, he started knocking on the floorboards to find the one with a storage space under it. He had built that himself a long time ago.

There! Itachi thought victoriously as the knocking sounded hollow under his hands. He reached his fingernails into the cracks and pulled. The floorboard shifted slightly. Itachi turned his back to the doorway and propped himself on his knee for more leverage. He pulled again, the floorboard rising up a little bit. The Uchiha bit his lip and yanked on the board with more force than before. With a creak, the floorboard came off and Itachi lay it beside him.

The raven peered into the gaping space under the floorboard. It was pretty dark and dusty, but he could make out a shape in the bottom. Itachi reached into the storage space until he felt a box underneath his hands. He grabbed it and pulled it out of the hole. The Uchiha studied the box in the light streaming in from the windows. It was dirty, yet the lock was untouched and the box felt heavy.

So nobody found it after all. Itachi sighed in relief and started cleaning off the grime. Once the box was clean, he pulled it into his lap and took out a small silver key from his pocket. He had kept it safe for five years, now he wanted to check on the box. The lock clicked as Itachi turned the key. The Uchiha put his hands on the top lid.

"Um, can I help you?" a male voice asked politely.

Itachi froze and turned his face towards the person in the doorway.

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*you guys are already here, Tobi missed you so much. Did you have a good time? Tobi did, Tobi had lots of fun and Tobi was a good boy. Tobi wanted to bring Itachi and Sasuke presents, but Tobi ran out of cash and Tobi didn't want to steal because then Tobi wouldn't be a good boy and then...

AHAHAHAH CLIFFHANGER! I know, I know, I'm sorry. It just fits better with the next chapter. The story of how Itachi and Tobi met Kisame and Zetsu will be written sometime in the next chapters.

Anyway, thanks for reading, I'll update as soon as I can.