"Only two other people we can ask." Kikai pointed out as soon as they'd finished laughing. Frowning as she looked at the bag of oranges Fuyu held "We may never get those open...maybe we should have brought pineapples" she paused, thinking of the hell and havoc it would cause to have purchased pineapples instead of oranges. "Or maybe we should have just stuck with apples and grapes. It looks like opening fruit is a mystery the S-class kick ass shinobi criminals of Akatsuki just can't solve." The girls sighed as one.

As the turned the corner, they nearly ran into Kisame. Fuyu's eyes sparkled. 'Oh dear kami. Not again' Kikai thought rolling her eyes.

"Kisame-san!!" Fuyu attached herself around the shark-man's waist – as high as she could reach.

"Fuyu-kun!!" Kisame stooped over to hug her back and Kikai mumbled something about excusing herself to go throw up as an after-effect of their joy party. It was just too much unneeded happiness, she complained.

Coming back to sanity (or the bathroom in Kikai's case) Kisame realized he had a message to transfer to the wrathful looking blond shinobi. "Kikai-dono, Itachi-san asked me to find you. He said you two weren't done training yet and he really wanted to finish"

Kikai turned several shades of red until she reached the color of a tomato. The look on her face was an expression of pure terror. Fuyu tried to stifle her laughter while Kisame stood there, looking quite confused. "Tell that pervert he can go screw himself for all I care" She said, lower lip stuck out in a defiant pout as well as turning the color of Itachi's sharingan.

Kisame looked uneasy. "I'm not sure I'd live through that Kikai..."

He now looked back and forth between the two sisters several times. Fuyu continued to laugh and, getting fed up with her sister's snickering, Kikai turned back around and whacked her little sister in the back of the head. Fuyu only laughed harder. These two were definitely a strange pair; they were so alike and yet so very, very, almost impossibly different. They were a strange pair alright.

"Kikai please," Kisame pleaded, "don't make me go back empty handed."

Between gasps and giggles Fuyu managed to get out "Y-yeah Kikai, ya don't to have any unfinished business" she burst out in laughter again. Frustrated, Kikai lovingly kicked her in the butt. Her sister sure had their father's humor, if only their parents were alive to hear it...Kikai decided she'd have to enjoy her sister while she stayed with her before having to escort her back to Konoha for another month with two her younger brothers. What a hell that day would be.

Blushing now going down to a pink that stretched only across her cheeks and pouting once again she said "whatever, I'll come with you..." Kisame breathed a sigh of relief "...under one condition" Kikai bargained, smirking. This conversation was turning in her favor.

"Huh?" Kisame was a little surprised. "one condition?" Kikai was nodding before he was finished.

"Yeah, ya gotta at least try to open this orange...c'mon! For Fuyu!" Kikai added after seeing a bit of regret on his face. But she knew he'd do nearly anything to avoid facing Itachi's wrath if he came back empty-handed. Sighing, he agreed. Kikai began to lead the way.

"W-wait! You know where he is?" Kisame looked up from the orange to Kikai.

"Uh...yeah." her tone was that of one who speaks to an idiot.

Kisame gave up. This chick was strange. Unpredictable. And way too random. For instance, the only reason she forgot things so often was because even she couldn't follow her own thought track. It was pointless trying to follow along.

Itachi sat in a blossoming sakura tree and at a glance it looked as if he was patiently waiting, but in reality it was quite the contrary. He'd been up and down, sitting, standing, walking, pacing. Kikai and he had been training, then it got ... er ... irough/Ii.a/n: nd by 'rough' I mean ...um...lemony rough... And Kikai had left saying she'd bring back a surprise. Sadly the 'surprise' he was so impatiently waiting for wasn't what Kikai had originally planned nor something he wanted. He abruptly stopped pacing. Itachi thought he had heard voices. Angry, frustrated, pissed-off voices.

"How the hell do you expect me to open this thing!?" That voice he was familiar with, it was most certainly the voice of his aggravated Akatsuki parter, Kisame.

"How the fuck should I know? I've only asked every dick-brain in this stupid...stupid cult!!" That voice Itachi knew ivery/i well. He'd heard it yell, laugh, cry, moa–. He stopped his thoughts so he could focus in on the rest of their conversation.

"You know you're in this 'stupid cult'. Sorry to inform you!" Itachi could tell Kisame was trying to not lose his temper...

"Yeah, and I'm fucking sorry too! Sorry you're so fucking dumb!" ...whereas Kikai sounded like she'd already lost it. 'Like she's been talking to Hidan' He thought. Luckily they were getting closer. It wouldn't take long for him to stop their arguing.

They were close enough now that Itachi could hear Kikai's little sister – only by 4 years – trying to calm her sister. "Kikai! Stop swearing! You have such a dirty mouth."

"Don't even get me started with YOU." Itachi chuckled, imaging the look of pure wrath on Kikai's ever-changing-emotion-filled face. His laughter seemed to have distracted Kikai because the fighting had stopped.

"Over here Kikai!" He called out.

Kikai felt as if the world had been lifted off her shoulders. If Itachi couldn't open this damn orange...maybe oranges weren't meant to be opened ... only poisoned, pierced, and sacrificed.

"Screw this, it's unopenable!" Kisame shouted with his final attempt at orange opening with his Samehada. No matter how many times his shark-skinned sword had cut through flesh and whatnot, it bounced right off the orange. His outburst threw the world back onto Kikai's shoulders.

"God dammit Kisame! You're going to keep at this until it fucking opens!"

"Kikai, how did and hour away from our 'training' turn you from a sweet-mouthed woman into a trash-talking man?" Itachi teased his girlfriend.

"That's not funny!" Kikai whined, then decided to tease him. "Oh. By the way, Hidan likes my underwear." She had to stop herself from bursting out laughing when she was his expression to that.

"Ah, that explains it all." He smirked, "the reason why you're late and why you have such a filthy mouth...So tell me Kikai how far did you two go? Any farther than we have?"

She blushed, embarrassed and angry. "You only got one of those two predictions right."

"Ok, so now I just need to figure out the reason why you have such a dirty mouth." Itachi teased her, knowing she'd never betray him.

"Whaaaaaa—!? N-no!That's not what I mean! You perv!!"

He chuckled againand 'poofed' only to appear behind her, wrap his arms around her waist, and rest his chin on her shoulder. "So..." He whispered into her ear, "What about my surprise?" She felt him nibble on her ear and flick his tongue out to make her shiver; she did, letting out a small 'eep!'.