Didn't I want to shorten my chapters and release once a week?

I wonder why it doesn't work..

I also wonder why it doesn't work keeping this from becoming a yaoi..

Somehow nothing works as I want it too..

still no sharingan.. hmm.. next chap for sure!

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Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto

Mission and Misunderstandings

"I'm home!" Itachi opened the door and entered his house. Before he was able to close the door behind him, his mother was already running towards him. She grabbed her son and wrapped her arms around him, so he had to pant for air. "You're back! Finally! I was so worried! Where have you been?" Itachi's mother was extremely hysterically and broke into tears. She looked as if she hadn't slept for a single second last night. "Mum, calm down.. I've told you that I would be with the others to.. talk about our next mission.. didn't I?" His mother sobbed. "But that's been yesterday! That's been nearly 24 hours ago! I thought something happened.. I thought.." "Mum.. sorry.. It overran it's time and then it was so late that I stayed at Seishi's house.. I know I should have told you, but.."

Terrifying how easy it was for him to lie to his mother. Of course, he could tell her the truth. He could tell her that he fell asleep in the middle of the day and didn't wake up until 15 minutes ago. He had found himself on Seishi's coach in his living room and had been wakened by his ironic smile and the words "Good morning, sweetheart!" When Itachi had told him to fuck off and let him sleep, Seishi had kindly pointed out that he was in his house on his couch and it was already 2pm. "I'd love to let you sleep even longer, but we meet our teachers in an hour and I thought you might would want to take a shower before that." Seishi could be quite nice from time to time.

"I was worried sick! This boy you're with.. this.. Seishi.. Did he do something to you? I heard lots of stuff about him.. that there's no girl in Konoha he hasn't played with yet! What if.. if he now is focused on boys.. did he touch you? You know, you have to tell me!"

What? It was true that Seishi most likely wasn't the very best company, but that went to far. As if he.. no this was ridiculous. His mother was paranoid. "Mum, I'm fine!" "Are you sure? Are you sure he didn't do anything to you while you were sleeping?" "Pretty.." It would explain Seishi's friendliness this morning. But it was more probable that he had been making fun of him than the possibility that he had done some mischief to him. At least that's what Itachi was hoping.

"Mum, It's alright, really! Don't worry! And now I have to hurry, I have to go in half an hour." With those words he freed himself from his mother's hug and went straight to the bathroom. She sighed something like "They grow up so fast.." when Itachi left her behind.

As expected, Itachi was the last one to appear at the arranged meeting. Everyone else was already waiting for him at the place which seemed to have turned out as their personal meeting point: The Dango restaurant. And it seemed as if Sayuri had already made the acquaintance of the three new teachers. She stared at them dumbfounded and didn't know what to say, not to mention to think.

And though, all she knew yet was that those men were really strange, she had no idea, that they had some sexist veins, too. Or at least one of them. "E!"'s eyes laid on the only girl among them and were filled with prejudices and bad thoughts.

"You know, looking at you I remember some very funny jokes." "I see..", Sayuri really was speechless. She didn't even realize what was waiting for her. "Why can't women be pretty and bright at the same time? Because otherwise they'd be men!" Three men who called themselves adults roared with laughter and even Seishi had a very hard time to hold himself back. Itachi sighed and Sayuri, who wasn't sure if she had just been called ugly or dumb, looked even more confused. But as the laughter faded, her face changed and became furious. As Itachi was waiting for her to go berserk and kill her new teachers, something unpredictable happened – Sayuri countered: "What's the difference between a man and a Q? There's none: Both are zeros with weenie!" Silence. Everyone looked at her with big eyes. Sayuri smiled proudly. She didn't know that she just declared war.

"Why did god steal a rib from Adam and made the woman? Because he wanted to show that nothing good ever comes of burglary." In other circumstances this would might have been funny. But now it was only becoming ridiculous.

"Whereof dies the intelligent thought of a man? - Of loneliness." Now what? Will this go on forever? Someone had to stop them. Both were filled with anger and became more frantic with every passing minute. Even the funny, easy E! had his limits. He was about to cross the line.

"What's the difference between a woman and a hippo? - One has a big mouth and a fat ass, the other one lives in the water." Yup, just as predicted. Enough was enough. Everyone knew his limits and Sayuri had reached hers. "YOU DAMN!" She raised her fist. If Itachi and Seishi hadn't grabbed her, she would have done god-knew-what to the sensei. "LET ME GO!", she screamed. Though the boys were two and stronger than her, it wasn't easy for them to hold her back. What perfect preconditions for a good collaboration.

"Gee, E!, you went to far..", A! shook his head. "Yeah.. if your girlfriend gets to hear this joke.. that's not nice..", G! nodded. E!' s expression changed. He seemed to think about what his friends had told him. "You think so?" Sayuri was still frantically trying to free herself from the boys, but E! didn't look like he'd give a damn. His two friends nodded vehemently. "Maybe you're right.." He looked at Sayuri. She bared her teeth and glared at him as if she wanted to tear him into pieces. E! smiled at her and said "Sorry". That was it. He dared to insult her like that and then even had the impertinence to smile as if nothing had happened. In this cases women had the unbelievable potential to develop amazing abilities. With an unexpected move she managed to get away from Itachi and Seishi and ran right towards the teacher.

Before she even was able to land a single hit, four other arms held her. A! And G!, who have just stood behind E!, now were preventing Sayuri from doing anything inappropriate. Itachi and Seishi looked at them confused. What happened? They didn't even realize when they started to move. Three serious faces looked at Sayuri. "Little girl, he apologized, didn't he?", A! suddenly looked kind of scary with his Afro. "There's one thing you should never forget : The three of us are all Jonin." This face really didn't suit the childish, crazy G!. Sayuri didn't say anything anymore. She didn't even try to free herself. She was just as shocked as everyone else.

After a few more seconds of awkward silence, E! finally changed the topic. "To the reason why you're here: You – or better we - are having a new mission" He pulled a scroll out of his pocket with a big C on it. "It's a little bit more difficult than your last, but with us it should be alright. All you have to do is to protect a village not far from here. They got a message from some bandits which said that they were going to be attacked. So when those bandits come, it's your job to make sure nobody gets hurt. Defeat and arrest the bandits. Arrest not kill! Did you get that?" The boys nodded daunted. Sayuri didn't do anything. Bandits weren't too strong, nothing against real Ninjas. That was going to be no problem.

"Everyone of us..", he nodded towards his two mates, who were still holding Sayuri, "could do this all alone, so there's no need to worry. Though there's a rub in it. The three of us are having another mission and are only able to catch up with you later. You'll have to wait for us until tomorrow. All we can do is hoping that there won't be an attack up until then. And if there is.. Well.. Bad Luck!" None of the three knew what to say. "You'll head out this evening so hurry and prepare! And you.." He walked towards Sayuri so he was standing right in front of her and looked deep in her hateful eyes. "You learn how to treat higher-ups, honey." With those words he forced the scroll between Sayuri's teeth so she couldn't answer anything. When she spitted it out, she wanted to shout at him, but before the scroll hit the ground, the adults were already gone.

Sayuri had been quiet the whole way to the village. She apologized for behaving so badly and Seishi told her that it was alright, that it has been his own fault and that he was a bloody asshole for treating her like that. Yet she just nodded at didn't say anything anymore, she just stared at the ground and looked depressed. Shortly before they reached their destination, Sayuri suddenly stopped. Itachi and Seishi looked at her. She went red and stared at her hands which played with one of the ribbons on her lolita dress. It seemed like something was bothering her. "Can I ask you something...?" Her face blushed even more. "Sure.." Seishi looked not very confident.

"Do you think I'm.. ugly or stupid?" This had to be another bad joke, but Sayuri's face was serious. Neither Seishi nor Itachi could believe what she just had said. "Please say you're kidding.. you don't actually believe in that crap.. this was a joke, Sayuri-chan!" Their eyes locked. "Honestly?" The scene reminded Itachi of the day, when Sasuke accidentally overheard a conversation and his mother desperately tried to tell him, that Santa did exist.

"Believe me, Sayuri-chan, you're the beautifulest and smartest girl I've ever met." With this words Sayuri was satisfied with the answer and her smile returned. It really was just like lying to a little child.

Not surprisingly, the Ninjas were greeted in the village with great suspiciousness. They were to be attacked and Konoha send them some children. "This has to be some kind of misunderstanding.. when we said we needed help, we were expecting.." The mayor looked the three hopes of his people sceptically over. Just how old were they? Maybe eight..

"Don't judge us according to our appearance. We're strong." Itachi was pissed. And the fact, that the man didn't calm down until he was told, that the teachers would come later, annoyed Sayuri and Seishi as well. "Why would someone attack this shithole, anyway? You can't get anything from here!" Seishi looked around. It appeared to be just a usual, peaceful place. "Don't judge our village according to its appearance!" Now everyone was angry. "So what's so great here?" Sayuri felt as if she had to say something as well. "I'll show you."

The Ninjas deeply resolved NOT to be impressed whatever it was, but the truth exceeded their expectations by far. The mayor led them to his house. It looked like all the other ones from the outside, but beneath it, in the basement was a big, dark room. It was empty apart from a huge, black chest in the middle. The three were flabbergasted,but they hadn't even seen everything. "It's been passed down in our family for generations. It's useless for me, though.." He opened the box and the friends were stunned. "They.. They are beautiful! That's the beautifulest thing I've ever seen! I'm so happy!" Sayuri's face was soaked with tears as they stared at content of the chest. The two, nearly 5 feet long double-bladed Kunai were shining white as snow. They definitely were beautiful. They were amazing. Four blades looking so sharp as if there was nothing they couldn't cut and their proportions to the middle part were simply perfectly harmonic. You could fight about it being a weapon or art. "Oh my gosh..", Sayuri was hypnotized. She reached out to touch the Kunais, but the mayor shouted at her. "Don't you dare touching them with your dirty fingers!" Sayuri flinched and looked disappointed.

"But those are Ninja weapons.. how come you have those?" Itachi didn't quite get it. What a waste.

"I've told you, they were passed down. Long ago our family was a very strong Ninja Clan. Those were a custom product for my great-great-great-grandfather. But then we stopped fighting and became ordinary people. These are nothing more than nice looking heirloom, yet bandits keep coming to steal them and cause us trouble." He seemed to be just as annoyed as proud. "Then just give them to me!", Sayuri squealed with a quite high voice. "Are you nuts? That's nothing for a little girl.." She snorted offended. "Anyway.. let's look around and set up some security preparations around the village before it's dark outside." Itachi didn't want the situation to escalate. It's been bad enough the last time.

"Main entrance – finished"

"Northern entrance – finished"

"Southern entrance – finished"

"Well done everyone, Quitting time!" Tired and hungry Seishi, Sayuri and Itachi met in front of the mayor's house. The sun had already set and everyone was exhausted from setting up traps and alarm systems just in case the bandits would come at night. "Come on Itachi.. we can't do the same mistake twice. Let me share a room with Sayuri." Of course, it had taken a bad end last time they let Sayuri alone, but this time it was different. The bandits wanted the weapons, not the girl. All Seishi wanted was to derive advantages from the misfortune of the last mission. "I said NO!" Would they ever be able to have only one single peaceful dinner? "Who do you think you are to decide this, anyway?" Seishi stuffed his food in his mouth and laid the chopsticks down to show Itachi he was finished with eating and ready to deal with this issue outdoors. "I won't fight with you about that! I told you, you won't share a room with Sayuri and that's it. Live with it." Itachi sipped at his tea. He felt utterly cool.

Seishi jumped up. "YOU DAMN..!" "Ehm.. I'm sorry to interrupt you guys, but..", the mayor stared confused at his guests. "I don't really get your problem.. What exactly is it that you argue about?" "You see.. I think it's not safe to let Sayuri sleep alone, but this idiot.." Now he tried to get the mayor on his side. "But you don't get it, do you? There's no problem at all!" The old man smiled amused. None of the others understood what was so funny. And they didn't understand that the last thing they should do was asking about it.

"What's that? A wall closet?" Itachi wasn't very thrilled when the mayor showed them the place where they were meant to sleep. "Exactly. But I think for a closet it's really big and comfortable!" This didn't make the situation any better. Only if you turned plenty blind eyes to it, this was big enough for three people to sleep in, even though they were only children. And the word "comfortable" was absolutely out of place. "I told you there is no problem at all! I thought it would be the best to have you right in my house.. just in case.. and this was the only free space I had. So make yourself at home! Good night!" And the door closed behind the three shocked Ninjas who didn't get there eyes from the three pillows and blankets on the floor. "Sooo.. I sleep next to Sayuri!", Seishi got over it pretty fast. "What? No! I sleep next to her!" As if Itachi would let him win. "Ehm.. boys? I can sleep in the middle. It's no problem at all, really..", Sayuri didn't like this situation. One day they'd kill each other.

"NOO!" Both boys shouted at her in unison. She sighed and gave in. The guys glared at each other. "There's only one way to settle this matter like a man.." "Exactly!"

"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS"

What was the problem with Seishi sleeping next to Sayuri? It wasn't his problem! Why can't he let them do whatever they want? It was no big deal! Why should it bother him? Why should he care? No matter how long he thought about it, he didn't come to any answer. No, only more questions came to his mind. How should he manage to get his eyes of this peaceful, angel-like face, these slightly opened lips, this soft, silky skin? How should he sleep while smelling that hypnotizing lily fragrance? How should he get rid of that strong desire to run his hand over her silver hair only one time? How long will it take until he finally understands, that it was a crazy idea sleeping right next to Seishi? Now, was it luck that he skipped the singing and kicking and wrapped his arms around Itachi's body from the very start? These question also remained unanswered.

Itachi didn't know how, but he woke up, which meant he must have fallen asleep. It had to be quite early, because Sayuri was still lying there next to him just like he had left her. But something was odd. Where did Seishi's arm go to? He didn't feel it on his hip or anywhere else anymore. Not that he had anything against it. But then he saw where it went. Seishi's hand was over him, reaching out for Sayuri. "Nearly.. only a little bit more..", the other end of the arm whispered. When the fingers were only centimeters away from Sayuri's face, Itachi had enough. "Good morning", was all he needed to say to crush Seishi's concentration and make him lose balance right over him. The whole weight landed on him. "Morning..", Seishi seemed to be too depressed to lift himself up and decided to keep lying on Itachi. "What were you doing?" "I just wanted to know how her skin feels like, that's all.. why do you have to keep being such a drag?"

"Oh, her skin is incomparable. It's the softest thing I've ever felt. Why didn't you ask me from the very start?" "Sometimes I want to kill you, you know that? Man.. you're so lucky. It's sick how lucky you are. You have everything and get more with every single day." Saying those words he rubbed his head on Itachi's chest as if he wanted to make himself comfortable up there. Itachi was used to be hugged by him, but the fact that Seishi was pretty conscious this time made it odd. It was so odd, that Itachi had a hard time to feel sorry for him. Sorry, because he knew that Seishi didn't only mean with lucky the day he saved Sayuri and his one-time chance to sleep next to her, no he meant everything, his family, his parents, his brother. Everything he had and Seishi had lost.

"Why do you look so sadly? Are you jealous because I prefer Sayuri to you?" Ah okay, now he was the one sad and jealous. "Don't worry, to me you're still number one!" He bowed his head over Itachi's and acted like he wanted to kiss him on his cheek. Of course, he wasn't serious. Of course, he was only making fun of him. Itachi knew that, that's what Shisui was doing all the time. There was only one problem: Sayuri didn't know. "What are you doing?" If it was luck, that Sayuri had to open her eyes now of all moments, Itachi could fuck his luck. "It's not like it seems!" Seishi tried to save what he could, but it was already too late. "Don't talk to me!" The next moment she was already standing on her feet and ran out of the.. closet. "Shit!" Yeah, that hit the spot.

"Sayuri-chan.. please come out..you've got the wrong idea.." Seishi and Itachi were standing in front of the bathroom door and knocked against it. Inside Sayuri were locking herself in and made no attempt to come out. "It's a misunderstanding! We weren't serious!" Officially, Itachi didn't give a damn about whatever Sayuri was thinking of him and was only standing here because Seishi blamed him for everything. Unofficially, Itachi was definitely innocent and maybe he did give a damn or two. "Believe me.. I still hate him.. I could kill him right on the spot!" How nice of Seishi. "Same for me!"

"What do you want anyway? She doesn't even like you! You didn't have anything to lose to begin with!" Now the desperateness devoured Seishi. Itachi knew he was right, though it was like a knife stabbing his heart. The imagination, that this beautiful being had always hated him and will always hate him brought him down. Knowing it was his own fault brought him even more down. And the fact that it brought him down made him sick and hating himself for being so horrible pathetic. He really hated being pathetic. That was soooo uncool.

Itachi could have wallowed in self-pity forever, but then the door finally opened and Sayuri appeared. That was unexpected. Suddenly she had unbelievable curly hair and her eyes looked twice as big as usual due to her make-up. In her curls stuck a lily, white and pure. She looked more like a doll than ever before. "Ok Itachi! Look at me! Can you say NO to this face?" What do you answer on such a question? "Ehm... No?" Sayuri smiled confirmed. But then she hesitated. "Wait.. but you just did say NO.." What the..? "Yeah?" Sayuri was confused. But as she was Sayuri, she soon found a solution pleasing every party. "Right, Itachi has no heart so it won't work on him! But it will definitely work on the mayor!" How can she say this right into his face? Itachi has no heart! Well, thank you! Thank you very much! Now Itachi was really down. "What's with the mayor?" So he had to do his best to not letting on anything. "I'm having a impeccable plan! I'll ask the mayor once again for his double-blades and this time there's no way he can refuse me!" That was exactly why Itachi was the captain here, why Itachi was the one who decided over plans. Because as soon as Sayuri started to think such things happen!

"You know, at the risk of calling your mastermind in question, but when he didn't want to give you the Kunai because you're a little girl, why should he give them to you when you look even more like a little girl?" There! That should have hurt her! Itachi didn't even care that it was pathetic picking on others to make yourself feeling better. But Sayuri didn't seem to be offended. She just widened her far too big eyes and cocked her head, making the curls covering her face. "You've got a point there.." Come on.. she should cry now, shout at him, anything, but all she did was agreeing with him. That was just no fair.

"Anyway.. Sayuri.. about what happened before.. you're not mad or something? Do you understand it?", he really seemed to be worried about it. Sayuri smiled kindly. "Why should I be mad? You can do whatever you want. Just tell me before so I can leave the room in time!" She didn't understand. "No! I don't.. where are you going?" Sayuri just stopped listening and walked past the boys straight to the door. "Itachi could be right, but it's worth a try!" And she was gone. Seishi sighed. Itachi, too.

Itachi has no heart. It really bothered him. That's what she thought of him. He wished it was true, then he wouldn't feel the pain. Before Itachi drowned in self-pity this time, he realized that Seishi was staring at him. "What?" "Oh you poor boy.. I believe you have a heart!" Oh no.. he didn't say this loud, did he? Seishi hugged him. Maybe he thought this would comfort him. Well, not quite.

Somebody cleared his throat at the door. Sayuri had returned and caught them red-handed another time. "I really hate to interrupt you two loving birds, but I guess you should have a look at that. Before one of the boys could say anything to her, she was gone again.

"She's a pitiful girl.. alone among five guys and all of them are gay..", Seishi was still wrapping his arms around Itachi. "We're not gay.." Itachi tried to get rid of him. "Oh right.. I forgot.."

A huge column of smoke came from the forest. "That's obviously a trap. They want to lure us out and attack the village." Itachi only needed one look at it to realize. "Yeah.. but what if something happened?" Sayuri wasn't as smart. "Can you see anything with your Byakugan, Seishi?" "No, it's too far.."

"What should we do?" - "We could split up.." - "But how?" - "Why don't you two go looking for the smoke? You get along so well. I'll stay behind and protect the village." Sayuri was mad. And she got it all wrong again. "No!" - "Then I'll go together with Sayuri.." Seishi saw his chance. "No!", this time it was Sayuri. "I'm mad at you, Seishi, I thought we were friends! You should have told me how you feel about Itachi! But all you did was lying to me!" The villagers stared at them dumbfounded. "No, you get it all wr..!" "STOP LYING TO ME! I know what I've seen! I'll go with Itachi!" Something was going utterly wrong here. "But.. he lied to you, too!" Right! He did! "So what? I couldn't stand him from the very start!" Ouch. But it couldn't be helped. For Sayuri the topic was settled.

oh.. poor Itachi.. somehow I feel sorry for him..

wait for the next chap! I'll try to update ASAP

What will await our friends when they reach the smoke? And will Sayuri ever stop believing that Itachi and Seishi are in love?