"You've never had a game boy?" Gaara asked in some disbelief. He had done the calculations, but still a game boy is a game boy and everyone should have been exposed to them at one time or another. Gaara reached his hand under the bed and pulled out a small black case and unzipped it. He removed a bulky grey gaming system and put a grey cartridge in it and handed it to Minato. "I can't believe you've never had a gameboy."

"I am old." Minato said in his defense. Gaara showed him how to switch it on and it began powering up.

"This thing probably was out for maybe a year before I left or so."

"You're not that old." Naruto said and moved over to Minato seeing Mario pop up on the screen.

"So, it's pretty easy, we'll start you out on the original. Just press the button to jump, that's this one, use the directional arrows to move. This button turns lets you tunnel and attack from above the enemies." Gaara said trying to give him a basic understanding. "This will change from game to game, but most like this one are the same."

"Just jump over everything and don't fall down a hole." Naruto added. "It's a simple game once you get timing down."

"I used to have this on Super Nintendo…" Minato noted and began playing slowly. He then came across a series of leaps in the game and failed to make the second one. He sighed. "I died already."

"It'll take time." Naruto said and continued to watch death after death of the little plumber. Gaara went back to his bed and pulled open his laptop and began going through e-mails. He found one from Temari and opened it up to see pictures of her latest design project. Gaara smiled at the design.

"Naruto, come see this." Gaara said shoving his laptop back some on his lap. Naruto got up off his bed and flopped down next to Gaara starring a bright colorful space. Gaara began scrolling through the pictures displaying a round bed, floor to ceiling fish tank and the entire team dressed up in hippie clothing. "This is Temari's group's room. They did hippie as a theme."

The walls had swirled golds, pinks, and greens mixed in with huge colorful furniture and lava lamps everywhere. "Wow, it's so swirly. We should so have her design our room. That looks like Austin Power's flat."

"Who's Austin Powers?" Minato asked innocently. Naruto and Gaara looked at each other

"I'll get the movie from the common room." Naruto sighed and got up off the bed looking at his father with a weird smile. He shook his head slightly. "It's so weird having someone so out of the culture. It's going to take weeks to get you up to speed with things."

"Look at it this way, I know exactly where to take you when you turn twenty-one. There's this little bar just across the border…" Naruto and Gaara stopped to look at him like he was strange and didn't fit it. Minato just smiled and looked down at the game trying to figure out how to work the controls better. "I take it neither of you have ever been across the border, maybe for Spring Break then, I know this place that doesn't card."


"So, how have things been going? I haven't talked with you since the beginning of summer. Naruto says next term you'll be a sophomore and be able to move out of the dorms." Kakshi said walking along Sasuke who had elected to stay behind and help him clean up the mess from their project. Kakashi decided that the advanced class should just do most of the work outside the classroom and assigned a fifty count bibliography for their papers on how the country is doing. They spent most of class silly stringing each other and picking out the teams for their papers. Sasuke ended up working with Tenten and Shikamaru as they were the only other two from his grade in the class. They decided to do how the country is failing because of political strife. "Finally be able to live in your mansion."

"It's about time, I've been renovating and updating it for two years." Sasuke said. "Just got the pool fixed up over summer. Talked Itachi in to putting these water safe track lights that change colors, I can have my own pool disco."

"As soon as you go through the papers declaring Minato undead, you should be able to let Naruto move in with you. I know Jiraiya wanted him to stay in the dorms the first year, but dorm life isn't anything special if you've lived in a poorly taken care of apartment building." Kakashi said. He looked at the dorm room door to see Sasuke last name inscribed on it. "Well this is you. I'll see you next week, oh, and make sure Shikamaru actually does some of the work."

"We already told him he has to do ten minimum and get them to us by tomorrow night." Sasuke said reassuring him. He nodded to him and Kakashi began walking away pulling out a book. Sasuke reached for the door knob and heard Kakshi mutter something to some one. Sasuke looked up and saw Itachi walking over to him casually with his jacket slung over his shoulder. "Mon frere! Guess what I just did!"

"By your happiness yet boringness I'm going to say you found a nice silver ware collection." Sasuke then stuck out his tongue and gavea big grin. "How off am I?"

"The draw, cabinet, kitchen and house." Itachi said and pulled out an envelope. Sasuke took it and pulled the papers out and saw the big word 'Deed' at the top.

"You bought a house behind my back? You know I could have…"

"Who bought a house?" Suigetsu said opening the door to butt in on the conversation. The two looked at him. "I've been waiting with my ear against the door for Karin, I wanted to scare the Hell out of her."

"I'm so glad your relationship is going so well." Sasuke said in his most sarcastic tone. He patted Suigetsu on the head and pushed the door open letting Itachi in. "So, we have to help you move."

"Tomorrow. I was going to stay with you two tonight." Itachi said walking by Sasuke. The room was divided horribly. It started with the window, on Suigetsu's Half he had hung up an old tee-shirt to keep the sun out and reinforced it with push pins. Sasuke put up a blue curtain that was tied back. Suigetsu's wall was covered in band posters. Sasuke's wall had a cork pushpin board with several pictures of Naruto and himself up there along with sheets of assignments. "Wow, you two need to find a cohesive design for this place."

"I wanted to paint is black." Suigetsu said as Sasuke shoved him in the room. Sasuke watched as Itachi strolled over to his bed and flopped down. He threw his legs up and leaned against the wall with his hands behind his head. He sighed smiling as Sasuke shut the door and sat down next to his big brother. Suigetsu went back to hovering around the door.

"What made you decided to stay here?" Sasuke asked as he crossed his legs and stared at Itachi. "I'd imagine you have to start getting ready."

"Figured I didn't want go back to the apartment, I'd start packing immediately and I don't even have boxes yet." Itachi sighed and starred at the band posters, most of them horrifying in some way.

"I'll pay for them." Sasuke said quickly.

"I'll pay for them, Sasuke. They aren't that expensive. I think I can cover twenty dollars." Itachi muttered. He poked Sasuke in the forehead quickly and turned to watching Suigetsu stalk the door. "So, how have classes been going for you, Suigetsu?"

"Horrible, this stupid broad that doesn't shut up is in everyone of my classes!" He said turning around angrily. "All she does is talk about clothes and hair. Even during Alegbra!"

"Ino?" Sasuke asked quickly looking at him with a weird look. "Blonde with long hair, female version of Deidara?"

"Yea… You know her?" Suigetsu asked and went back to his ear to the door.

"Yea." Sasuke starred at him for a minute.

Suigetsu sighed and sat down cross legged with a scowl on his face. "Freakin' 'I think the project is a stupid idea, we should do something more colorful, blah blah blah.' How colorful is a presentation of the quadratic equation?"

He scratched his head in a very feral manner and growled lowly at the thought. All the while Sasuke simply starred at him confused. "You don't remember Ino from High School?"

"Why, should I?" He asked.

"She's like Karin's best friend." Sasuke said surprised. "Karin blew off your one year to go on a shopping spree with her! They spent the summer joined at the hip."

"Oh… Karin doesn't talk to me about her friends." Suigetsu said and Sasuke face-plamed harder than he ever had before. "Dude, how am I supposed to remember every one of her friends?"

"We ate lunch with her every day for a year." Itachi grabbed Sasuke's shoulder and muttered 'it's useless to continue' but Sasuke pulled away from him.

"I had yogurt everyday for a year and I'm supposed to remember some annoying bitch?"

"They're room mates." Sasuke said simply. Suigetsu shrugged and bit his lip not knowing what to say. "Seriously?"

"Dude… no clue."

"Hopeless." Itachi whispered to his brother. Sasuke flung himself against the wall, more confounded at his best friend's ability not to remember his girlfriend's best friend. His brow furled and he didn't move at all besides the slow breathing in his chest. "So how do you like living in your dorm room?

"I miss being in dorm rooms. I was only here for freshman year and didn't sleep here most of the time, but it was nice." Itachi said quietly. He suddenly smiled and looked over at Sasuke who was glaring at him. "What? I liked it, there was always someone to talk to, I could go into the hall and just have a conversation about anything, usually pizza delivery hours, but sometimes anything."

"Is it too late to get pizza?" Suigetsu asked from the door. He tilted his head and got up on his feet very lightly.

"You have forty minutes to call in an order to anything within pick up distance." Itachi said recalling the hours and places. "I think that the delivery place on College Row next to the game's shop is open until midnight."

"I wonder if they make shrimp pizza." Suigetsu said. He smiled and grabbed the door knob. "Quiet, I hear heels in the hall.

"We'll order our own. I don't like shrimp." Sasuke said in a whisper. He scooted closer to Itachi and looked at him like he was crazy. "Why didn't you tell me you were saving for a house? It's not like I'm going to use all my money. You can have some of it, we both had to put up with Madara."

"But he gave it to you." Itachi whispered back. He sat foreword and sighed lightly. "And because you would have just bought me one. I'm a big boy, I can buy my own house."

"Jabberwocky!" Suigetsu screamed as he opened the door. Karin swung her fist as an reaction and then watched as Suigetsu fell backwards on the floor. He grabbed his nose as swear words began to pour out of his mouth like water. "I think she broke my nose…"

"That's what you get you idiot!" Karin shrieked back. She clicked her tongue and knelt down next to him. She patted his head and looked up at the Uchiha brothers. "I just got off work, someone tipped me fifty dollars with a note saying 'cheer up' and a little flower drawn on it."

"Sweet so you're buying the pizza?" Suigetsu said through breathing. He pinch his nose tight as a small trickle of blood came out and strolled down his left cheek.

"No, it's going into savings or didn't you forget school loans? I can pay off one of this semester's books with it." She said happily. She patted him on the head and walked the few steps over to sit on Suigetsu bed crossing her legs and sitting like a perfect lady. "So, where's our blonde?"

"His father showed up yesterday." Itachi said quickly. It was all he said. Sasuke watched as his jaw slammed shut. 'He's being careful about what he says…'

"Nearly back from the dead, or at least bottle." Sasuke said somewhat excited he smiled and moved forward letting his legs drift over the edge of the bed and land next to Suigetsu's head. "He's been altered like Itachi and I. They looked exactly alike."

"Wow…" Suigetsu and Karin said in sync. The room stayed quiet until Suigetsu got bored of the floor and decided it was time to phone for pizza. He sat up and grabbed Sasuke's iPhone off the dresser. He handed it to Itachi. "I want a small shrimp pizza, if they can't do shrimp I'll take anchovy."

"I want pineapple." Karin said. "If someone could take up the other half of the pizza, that would be cool."

"Want to do half pineapple half pepperoni, mon frère? I'm not that hungry." Sasuke said blankly. He smiled and got up, "I miss my blonde, I'm going to go say good night."

"Right, I'm going to the medical wing, I'll be back in a minute." Suigetsu said. He followed Sasuke out and slammed the door.

Karin and Itachi starred at each other for a minute.

"Do you see how terrible they are at design?"

"It was the first thing I noticed!"

"He wants to get an apartment with me next year! I can't live with band posters everywhere. I'm a girl, I want something nice and all he wants is grey and knives." Karin slumped and pouted.

"Maybe you could make an arrangement to have some nice display swords on the wall." Itachi suggested. Karin shrugged. Itachi dialed the phone number and waited a second. "Hi, do you guys make shrimp pizzas?... A small…"

Karin stuck her tongue out, grossed out by the idea of shrimp on pizza.