Chapter 10
Another week later, Sasuke and Neji were standing on Itachi and Deidara's doorstep. After Sasuke had finally decided to answer Itachi's phone, he had invited both of them to come and eat dinner. And Sasuke wasn't so sure anymore that saying yes was the smart thing to do. He rang the doorbell anyway.
"Deidara is going to kill me, I swear." Sasuke said to Neji.
"Don't worry, he'll forgive you." Neji said. He had heard Sasuke's story already. "He probably only wanted you to realize your mistakes."
"Well he did a good job then." Sasuke said. "I'm glad you decided to come along. If he tries to kill me you can save me." He smirked at Neji now and rang the doorbell again.
"Sure Sasuke." Neji said, giving Sasuke a shove, and then the door opened.
"Ah, you're right on time." Itachi said, greeting them. "Come in." He gave them both a smile. Neji nodded and when Sasuke kept standing out of the door, he just dragged him with him inside.
Sasuke looked at Itachi and then sighed.
"Why did you invite us?" He asked.
"It's not like I hate you all of a sudden Sasuke." Itachi said. "I still love you and like it when you are here."
"Deidara made it pretty clear that I was ruining a lot." Sasuke said, looking away. He hung up his coat now.
"It was heavier on Deidara because of his past, but it's up to him to tell you about that, he barely told it to me." Itachi said.
"... Well just so you know I never meant to ruin your relationship. Deidara makes you happy." Sasuke softly said.
"We know that un." Deidara, who walked into the hallway from the bathroom. He had heard Itachi and Sasuke talk.
"It's not like we think you don't want us to be together. What you did, you didn't do on purpose." Itachi said, nodding to Deidara.
"Right. It was just annoying un. Now that you have Neji again, I'm sure you're gonna leave us alone." Deidara said and smirked, making Sasuke laugh again.
"So you don't actually dislike me?" He asked and Deidara shook his head.
"Of course not." Deidara said. "Sure you can be obnoxious and such, but I think everyone in this room has that quality un."
"Thanks." Neji suddenly dryly said, leading Itachi to snort. He remembered that Neji and Deidara barely knew each other.
"I heard things about you, don't deny it un." Deidara said, just barely able not to point his finger at Neji. "Now, let's forget about all the obnoxious things we did and let's eat. Itachi made a feast."
"It's not that much, Deidara just praises me because he doesn't want me to stop cooking." Itachi said, smirking a little.
"Yes I do un." Deidara said, admitting that he was guilty for that. He then walked into the dining room. Sasuke smiled a little.
"He's nuts. You picked a nice boyfriend there." Sasuke said sarcastic and laughed. He was glad Deidara wasn't angry anymore.
Itachi snorted.
"Say so yourself." He said, as he saw Neji was inspecting all of the jackets that were hanging in the hallway.
Sasuke looked at Neji and shook his head grinning.
"Maybe it runs in the family, picking out weirdoes." He said as he grabbed Neji's hand to drag him along to the dining room.
While they walked to the dining room Neji started questioning Itachi about a jacket he had seen in the hallway and said person send him over to Deidara. As Neji continued his questioning with Deidara, Itachi gave Sasuke a smile.
"I'm glad we're cool again." He then said, as he walked to the kitchen.
Sasuke watched Itachi leave to the kitchen and then sat down with a smile. He got involved in Deidara and Neji's 'jacket conversation' and not long after, Itachi put the food on the table. Their evening together went by and there was no yelling and no angry people. Sasuke smiled to himself. Things were fine again. And he could take on the world now.
End of story.