Ch.11
New Guest
It had been a month since Itachi had become one of the Akatsuki and so far everything was going well, he was nearly the best member they had acquired since, well…back to the matter at hand everything was great and dandy and even the huge guy from the lightening country who, even though he was so tall he had to duck to get in the door to the lair and even so because of his gruff features he actually turned out to be a nice guy who loved chess…strange indeed.
However, the leader of the Akatsuki was NOT happy…he was positively furious, it turned out his little brother had been snooping around…mindless weirdo…so this is why little brothers are always the cause of murder later on in life…j/k
No but in fact, that wasn't the case at all…it was actually serious, one of the members of the Akatsuki had gotten caught by the ANBU while completing a mission for him and obviously hadn't been able to escape…damn fool, he had been told not to get caught…he was either dead or being tortured to the point…it didn't matter to him whether the man died or not just as long as he didn't accidentally leak information about them.
But more troublesome was that they were now in need of yet ANOTHER new member. He smoothed back his long spiked hair with his two shadowy hands and his eyes snapped up…for it was then he felt a strange and very cold pulse of chakra that wasn't anyone's he knew of…and he suddenly realized something else just a little unsettling…that the chakra he felt wasn't that far away.
In the main room four members of the Akatsuki were in attendance, each sitting on small wooden chairs and each with a glass of sake and each…with at least three or four cards in their hands.
Kisame looked up, his eyes gleaming dangerously as he looked at the others at the table then back at the cards he held in his large hands. A large dark looking man with beady eyes glanced his way and made an effort to grin. "Well what are you gonna do Kisame?" Itachi watched this with a bit of cynicism but still kept a fair eye upon his own cards, he had finally gotten to meet Sasori. The shady one messing with Kisame…but he didn't seem as interesting as he had thought when he was younger. Kisame flipped cards and a very grouchy and bandaged up Deidara kept throwing sharp glances at Itachi as he collected his cards and looked for every opportunity to trounce him.
Kisame picked up a card and suddenly his eyes went wide and he slammed down a full house and stood up grinning like a maniac and pointing to Sasori
"DRAW BITCH!" Sasori nearly fell off his chair, Deidara started laughing and Itachi rolled his eyes " there must be something better do to than take cheap shots at each other with poker" he thought, smiling lightly at Kisame and adding "wouldn't it be better to just kill him over a royal flush?"
Everyone burst out laughing.
After a few minutes order or at least cheap shots resumed and they all got back into their chairs and looked at their cards.
"So…is it my turn yet?" a deep voice questioned. All four of the card players widened their eyes and nearly fell off their chairs again as the leader smiled playfully at them from the other side of the table, four cards already in his hand and his dark swirling eyes fixed on them.
Itachi recovered quietly and smoothed his coat down, first unbuttoning the collar so his face was fully visible "is there something wrong sir?"
The leader of the Akatsuki glowered at him for ruining his fun but didn't move and laid his cards flat on the table "we seem to have an unexpected new guest wandering dangerously near the area…and as far as I can tell he has some very strange chakra with very little difference in power than our own…do you see what I mean?"
Kisame stood up "you mean to have this person join us then?"
Sasori looked up slowly and moving his enormous weight to the side allowed something resembling a wooden scorpion tail from the back of his coat to whip around like a cats " assuming he's not hostile…I could always use a fresh amount of blood for my paintings"
Deidara snorted "you maniac…blood dries up too fast!"
Itachi sighed "artists…" he rubbed his head and then opened one of his eyes to look back upon the leader "so then…who should go check first?"
The leader smiled and Kisame started laughing
"How nice of you to go and volunteer Itachi kun…you can go and check first!"
The leader patted him on the back and Itachi still trying to regain something of dignity pulled a face of disgust that started Deidara to laugh aloud.
Kisame pointed at Itachi in his humility "hahahaha, sucks for you pretty boy, have fun"
"Oh no Kisame Kun…your going with him…twice the fun you see "
Itachi stood by Kisame as the room emptied at the leaders command to prepare for hostility on the lair.
They both took a breath
"Ready?"
"Yeah"
"Seriously?"
"No"
"Damn…this sucks"
"I agree…lets hit it."
Badger Notes
Ok ladies and germs I do agree…I had waaaay too much sugar before I wrote this chapter and with my step dad constantly playing poker the two just collided LOL and obviously I know nothing about card playing, but here we are entering an important part in the story, the conclusion to Mr. snaky pants and what he plans to do with Itachi! Yaaaaay! Confetti
I hope you enjoy and ill keep trying to bring you these chapters as soon as possible.
Ja nae!
Badger Nin
