A/N: : Thank you to:

Lady Massacre, MarzSpy(x2), Shadowkissed-hime, Bookbaby, XxCryingAngel67, Hikuza Mayumi.

You guys ROCK my socks! Which brings up my randomness: I just stubbed my toes cuz my dad keeps moving the armchair back, and I was walking around in the middle of the night. I think I broke the one that's like a ring finger on my right foot. Idk. It's red, swollen, I broke the nail basically off, and when I move it, it feels like someone's stabbing it…

I need an Ice Pack…-_-'

Well, on to my CHAPPIE!

Chapter 11: What's with a Name?

Itachi stared at the page in front of him. Peace? Peace? Honestly. Where did Pein come up with that one? Did Kisame leave the liquor cabinet open last night? He was tempted to go ask the Leader what that meant at that moment, maybe give him the blank glare that always set him off, and would make the leader tell him everything. Not to mention all the stuff Itachi had on him. The guy wasn't impervious to black mail. He stood up, about to leave…

And then Sakura walked into the room, and he just sat down. Eh, Pein could wait. Maybe till tomorrow. They were just here so that Deidara could keep a lookout on what Stone's government was up to, now. Kisame and Itachi staying to act as back-up if the idiot blew something important again.

He handed the file to her, turned his back, and looked out their bedroom window, feeling Sakura's suspicious eyes on his back. He heard her rustle the papers, and turned to find her actually reading them, not lazily skimming them like he had. Maybe it was from years of having to read report after report when she was helping out the Godaime.

As soon as Sakura reached the last page, with the ring taped to it, she looked up at him, a smile on her face.

"Itachi?" she asked.

"Hm?"

"Do you know what this means?"

Itachi sent her a questioning gaze.

Sakura smirked, she wanted to see his reaction.

"I get my own room!" Sakura yelled. "One I can paint so it's not…plain!"

Itachi looked around his room. Taking in the mostly lack of color, except the red comforter and black sheets. He liked things simple. He didn't care if his favorite colors looked evil, they were his favorite colors.

Then he finally caught on. He wouldn't be seeing her as often. He sighed. Well at least now he could take her on a proper date, going over to her door to ask her out, not sleeping in the same bed with her…unless he had a "reason."

Sakura caught his sigh, then saw his lips curve eventually upward. What could he be planning?

I hope it's something fun! Her inner popped in for her.

Ugh, you again.

In the flesh.

...

Well, in the thought.

"You have to speak to leader," Itachi told Sakura, pulling her out of her digression, then remembered the "incident." "Tomorrow," he amended.

Sakura looked up at him. "Why tomorrow?" She asked.

"Never mind," Itachi muttered.

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Is everyone still alive?"

Itachi looked over at her, smiling. "Yes. Technically. Pein can't die. He has…quite a few bodies that he can use."

Sakura looked over at him. "Ew."

Itachi chuckled.

"Well…as long as everyone's alive, I don't care what happened," Sakura told him.

Itachi rolled his eyes.

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Shikamaru had been sitting outside his and Ino's apartment door for the past hour.

"I love you," he called through the door. It was what his dad had suggested: "KISS UP!"

"Go away, Shika!" Ino called through the door. He could tell she had been crying. Her voice cracked on his name. He sighed.

"I'm sorry. I've always talked in my sleep! I used to complain about you all the time. What's really wrong, love?" he asked.

Ino opened the door enough for half of her face to show, keeping the chain attached. "I need Sakura here!" she told him.

Shikamaru sighed, looking at her, tempted to mutter the troublesome word again. "A lot of people need Sakura back, love. Not just you. Take a look at Tsunade the next time you see her. Her illusion's down, for the first time in thirty years. Look at Naruto and Hinata. They both look happy, but they go visit her house almost every day. I think she did what she felt was best, but that doesn't mean that what she did is ever going to help anyone."

Ino glared at him. Shikamaru noticed she was keeping herself together proudly. "Why don't we put off the wedding. Maybe... maybe we can see if we can get a hold of Sakura."

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Itachi gently pulled out from under the girl sprawled on top of him. It had been laundry day, and while they had waited, she had fallen asleep, giving him the perfect opportunity to go see the leader.

He knocked on the door as soon as he reached it, waiting for Pein to let him in. As soon as the order came, he opened the door. The Pein with longer hair looked up from the body on the table in front of him. "I hate you right now, Uchiha," he growled.

Itachi looked down at the body, chuckling. I was expecting Kisame to be the idiot that tried it.

Pein began to repair the body again. "You're lucky the body's still functional, or else I would have sent you out to find a replacement, or used your corpse."

Itachi felt like rolling his eyes, but that just wouldn't be him.

"I assume you're here about your girlfriend's new name?" Pein asked.

Itachi nodded.

Pein sighed, moving his other form off to one side. "You know, usually, I would have arrived to find the prospect dead, the house torn to shreds, and Deidara's arms gone. You would be brooding in your room, Kisame would be on a killing spree in a neighboring village, and some sort of barrier would be on your door to prevent Deidara from coming in."

Itachi nodded. At least he hadn't mentioned the fact that Midori, Deidara's pregnant wife, would be throwing a hissy fit. Or maybe, if Kisame had brought his five year old son, that there would be finger paint on the walls. It had happened.

"Well, I come here, everyone's alive, no one's dead…yet, Deidara's in a joking mood, when he's awake, and you keep cuddling with Sakura whenever you think no one's around to see," Pein continued. "She must have some 'peaceful' effect on all of you. At least, she keeps you from killing or maiming each other."

Itachi nodded.

"And this is the longest I ever have, and ever will talk to you. Now go away, Uchiha!"

Itachi felt like rolling his eyes again. "Sakura wants to know if she gets her own room, and what she can do to it," he told Pein.

Pein looked up. "She can have the room to the right of yours. If I remember right, Deidara's is on your left and Kisame's is across from you. Tell her to do whatever the hell she wants to do to it. Now go away! This takes concentration."

Itachi turned around and walked down to the laundry room, popping open his cloak a bit to let in some air. It was great for walking around in blizzards, or going through windy, sandy places, but it was a royal pain in the ass to wear in the house.

What was even more of a pain in the ass was a horny Deidara, he decided, as he walked into the laundry room and found said male with a pair of Sakura's underwear. He reached out, grabbed the underwear, putting it back in the folded pile, and threw Deidara out of the room.

He carried Sakura to his room, balancing her in one arm and the basket on his hip. Setting her on the bed, he put the basket down next to the dresser and tucked her in. Looking at the clock, he noticed it was only eight thirty. Usually, the girl stayed up late. He would fall asleep, and she would just play with his hair, or curl up on the other side of the bed and wait until she fell asleep herself.

He put up all of their clothes. She would have to move her own stuff to the room down the hall. She had to "redo" it anyways.

He took off the cloak, throwing it to the chair next to the window, then stripped to his boxers and slipped into the bed beside her. He glanced at the cloak. That was another thing that he needed to get her. He yawned, turning on his side to hug Sakura. Tomorrow.

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Sasuke had left behind Hawk, moving toward the Village Hidden in the Stones. They had just made a deal with the Akatsuki a few days earlier. When he asked where Itachi was, they hadn't hesitated to tell him. Pein was there, with Deidara, Kisame, Itachi, and a new recruit.

He was going to kill Itachi. Here and now. There was nothing, no one, who could get in his way. Not now, not ever.

He came in through the front door, using the ring they had given him, as the only true member. He went upstairs, looking for the tell-tale chakra signature of his brother. He found a barrier on the door of a room on the third floor, but couldn't feel past it.

He knocked three times, expecting his ever ready brother to open the door.

But he didn't.

Green eyes looked back at Sasuke, tired. "What do you…"

"S-Sakura," Sasuke mumbled. What?

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A/N: Hmmmm…….I show you another daydream in….TWO DAYS!!!(hopefully)

I think I'll make Sasuke's name BAKA!!(j/k)