They found a parking space and all of them ran through the crowd to get a decent spot in line. Somehow, Naruto got us in the area right below the stage where all of the mosh pits are.
"This...is going to be awesome!" Yuri and Tsukiko jumped, high fiving.
Naruto spotted a counter nearby. They wouldn't even have to leave the stage area to get something to drink. He made his way over to get the girls something.
The crowd was already lively, and Stance Punks' first song was beginning to play.
"Hey can I get three...cokes please?"
Though this was a bar, not that the blonde idiot knew that. So, the bartender thought he meant rum and cokes.
Naruto carried the three drinks to the three girls. They were all thirsty and chugged them down.
Once the words of the song started, Tsukiko and Yuri sang them obnoxiously.
"Hey, Naruto get us another one!" They shouted in unison.
"Okay!" He shouted happily, rushing through the crowd.
Once Naruto returned with another round, Rumi latched herself on to him.
"You are just *hic* the most amazing *hic* person I've ever met!" She snorted and hiccupped, putting all of her weight on Naruto.
Tsukiko and Itachi had an arm around each others' shoulders, singing the lyrics as if they were in an Irish pub.
Like the idiot he was, Naruto continued to get more drinks for the girls, still not realizing he was just giving them more and more alcohol.
The hoard of people around them were all jumping around and shouting. No one could really hear anything but the loud thumping music or screams from fans next to them. Before long, a mosh pit started, several guys elbowing each other in the teeth. Yuri somehow found her way in the middle of it, sloppily slapping anyone who touched her, though she would just start laughing. Sasuke franticly searched for his drunken redhead, then spotting her in the group of violent men.
"Oh no..." he groaned, forcing his way to her.
Yuri was being continuously pushed around, luckily not being punched.
Unfortunately, her luck did not last forever and one guy that could have been a body builder swung his elbow straight into her eye by accident. She got the wind knocked out of her as she fell backwards. Yuri lost consciousness soon after.
"...shit." Sasuke cursed rushing in to drag the knocked out Yuri away from the fighting.
Meanwhile Tsukiko was standing right in front of the stage. She was delirious by now, and thought she could get away with climbing onto the stage. As she lifted herself up, other over excited morons in the crowd boosted her completely on the stage. Tsukiko face planted right before the lead singer's feet. When she attempted to stand up, she lost her balance, toppling onto the crowd's hands. They carried her for a few seconds before giving up. Tsukiko hit the ground hard, also losing consciousness.
Itachi leaned against the railing on the outskirts of the hoard, shaking his head as he held up his camera. Rumi just stumbled around with Naruto, ridiculously shouting random words that weren't in the song. For example, she yelled 'carrot' because it sounded similar to a word in the song.
Naruto just enjoyed her flirtatious actions, not caring that she was a drunken lunatic.
Sasuke had successfully pulled Yuri out of the crowd and hoisted her onto a stool where he proceeded to lift her onto his back. Then, he sluggishly stumbled to the ramp leading to the parking lot. Itachi followed him out, still amused by all of this.
Sasuke reached the car within ten minutes, getting his brother to open the trunk for him. He tossed her off of his back and through the back of the SUV.
"I should probably go get Tsukiko, huh?" Itachi snorted.
"Ya think?" Sasuke retorted, staying with the car to keep an eye on the drunken damsel.
Itachi made his way back to the stadium, where the concert was at its last song. Rumi and Naruto waited for him at the entrance.
"So, what are we doing?" Naruto asked, Rumi still hanging off of him.
"Finding Tsukiko."
They all went back to the crowd, whose numbers were decreasing. Security was beginning to escort people out.
Once there was barely anyone there, Tsukiko was visible. She was still passed out on the concrete.
"FOUND HER!" Rumi cheered loudly and obnoxiously, running over to her.
Itachi soon shooed her away so that he could pick her up in his arms.
"She's still unconscious huh?" Naruto asked.
"Obviously..." Itachi sighed.
He also put Tsukiko in the trunk next to Yuri, who was talking quite loudly in her sleep.
Itachi and Sasuke got in the front, Naruto and Rumi in the backseat.
They began their commute home, though traffic was in their way. As they drove, the car was fairly quiet except for the occasional snore from the trunk or giggle from Rumi. Everyone was used to the quiet until Yuri sprang up in the back, yelling
"SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR!"
This outburst caused everyone in the car to jump out of their skin, and Itachi accidentally veered off of the road.
"Yuri!?" Naruto looked behind him.
Her eyes were still closed.
"She yells like that in her sleep?!" He shouted.
"All the time..." Sasuke and Itachi said in unison.
"That's nothing. She'll get up some nights and stand right next to you. So, when you wake up, she's just standing there asleep. Swaying back and forth." Sasuke explained in an eerie tone.
Naruto's eyes were wide, looking franticly between Yuri and Sasuke.
"That's creepy..."
Itachi and Sasuke nodded.
"Yea she did that to Tsukiko one night. When Tsukiko woke up she screamed 'WHAT THE HELL!' and woke us all up." The rest of the car ride was quiet thankfully. Yuri made no more near accident causing comments and they turned into the street of the neighborhood. Tsukiko was just waking up as Itachi was pulling into the driveway. In her groggy state Tsukiko undid the latch for the trunk opening it. As the car bounced pulling into the driveway Tsukiko fell out and hit the street.
"Did you hear something?" Naruto asked.
Itachi looked back and saw the trunk open.
"Shit..."
He parked the car and got out quickly going to retrieve his half awake girlfriend.
"What am I going to do with you?" He said quietly as he lifted her up into his arms. They all filed into the house Sasuke and Itachi heading down the hall to put their drunken girlfriends to sleep. Sasuke came back out to the living room a few minutes later.
"So ,you guys can stay here for the night if you want but I think the rest of us are going to bed." He told Naruto.
"Yea okay we'll just sleep on the couch. See you guys tomorrow morning I guess."
"Yea night."
"Night."
Rumi had finally passed out on the sofa. Naruto leaned himself against one arm, heaving Rumi up onto his chest. He combed through her hair, grinning as his eyes slowly closed. It was around 2:00 in the morning when someone crept into the living room. The figure stopped in front of the couch that Naruto and Rumi were sleeping on. Rumi, feeling a strange presence slowly opened her eyes. When her eyes adjusted to the dark light she saw a still asleep Yuri standing right in front of her. Rumi screamed causing Naruto to wake up. He saw Yuri and his eyes widened.
"Y-Y-Yuri!?"
"Whaa?" She responded groggily.
"A-are you still asleep?"
"Uummmhmmmm."
"G-go b-back to bed t-then okay."
"Oookayyy."
"S-see you in t-the m-morning then."
Yuri started drifting back down the hall and back into her room. Naruto and Rumi let out a breath and eventually drifted back to sleep. Everyone had gotten out of bed early the next morning. Itachi and Sasuke walked down the hall to the living room neither one wearing a shirt.
"I understand now." Naruto said as they sat down on the opposite couch.
"What are you talking about?" Itachi asked sleepily.
"Yuri..." Naruto said, wide eyed
"I thought she got up last night..." Sasuke said absentmindedly.
"What now?" Yuri said as she bounded into the room with Tsukiko behind her.
"You. Scared. The. Shit. Out. Of. Us!"
"Whaaa how?"
"You were asleep standing right here!" Naruto shouted.
"Hey shut up we've got setting up to do before Aki wakes up."
"Oh yea today's her birthday right?"
"No shit Sherlock." Tsukiko said dryly.
Yuri grabbed a few bags and tossed them to random people.
"Grab decorations and move it people!" Within the hour there were blue and white streamers going across the ceiling. White and blue balloons filled the living room, with a huge box in the middle of the floor. A large chocolate ice cream cake on the island in the kitchen with a buffet of bacon, toast, and chocolate chip pancakes. Tsukiko grabbed the lighter from the drawer and lit six candles. Yuri turned off the lights and everyone dove behind the couch.
Aki's sleepily padded into the living room
"Tsuki? Yuri? Why are the lights off?"
Yuri flicked them on and everyone jumped up yelling "HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKI!"
Tsukiko scooped the girl up in her arms and carried her to the table setting her in her chair. Itachi then placed a paper crown on her head that Rumi had made. Sasuke came around and placed a plate of food in front of her. Everyone ate breakfast and then Yuri brought out the cake. Everyone started singing happy birthday and at the end of the song Aki blew out all of her candles except for one. She blew on the last candle and it went out and then lit again. She kept blowing and blowing but the flame kept coming back. Naruto started laughing.
"NARUTO! did you put in a trick candle!" Tsukiko and Yuri yelled. Naruto kept laughing.
"I'm sorry but it was too hard to resist." Tsukiko walked over and smacked Naruto upside the head. Itachi took the candle and threw it in the sink. By the time Aki had finished her cake her face was half blue from her chin to her nose. Tsukiko, Yuri, and Rumi laughed at Aki and Yuri took a napkin to clean her face. Aki then ran over to the big box and popped the lid off. Inside were lots of foam peanuts. Aki climbed into the box and started digging through until she popped back up with a bag. She opened the bag and pulled out the stuffed animal that Tsukiko and Yuri had made for her.
"Do you like it Aki?" Yuri asked.
Aki just nodded her head repetitively to overjoyed to speak. She clutched the bunny tightly against her chest.
"Thank you guys sooo much!" She finally said. Running up to Tsukiko and Yuri and giving them both a big hug.
Aki spent the rest of the day on the couch with her bunny and never once let it go. As it got late Naruto took Rumi back home and Everyone else went to bed.
The next day went on like normal. Itachi and Yuri took the subway to work and Sasuke dropped off Tsukiko at the cafe. There outfits for the day were low cut and short, short camo. Even though veterans day had already gone by they still went with the army outfits as the theme for the month. Tsukiko's fan boy was still hanging around and while she was talking to him a certain blonde came in.
"Hey, Tsukiko!"
"Oh hey Naruto?"
"Where's Rumi?"
"Oh she's in back she'll be out in a minute."
"Alright I'll just wait."
"You do that."
Naruto took a seat at the same table Tsukiko's fan boy was sitting at. She shot the kid an 'I'm terribly sorry he's so rude look'.
At the office Itachi was keeping close tabs on Yuki like he usually did while Yuri kept her distance. Thankfully Makoto had a lot of work for her to do. At the end of the day Yuri loaded up a couple of manga's to edit at home and headed to the subway with Itachi. When they got back to the house Sasuke, Tsukiko, and Aki were sitting around watching TV. Yuri joined them on the couch while Itachi was looking for something.
"Sasuke, where'd you put the keys to the car?" His brother asked.
"There on the kitchen counter why?"
"Huh, oh I just need to go pick something up I'll be back in a minute." Itachi said picking up the keys. He went down into his room and then came back out and made his way to the door.
"You want me to come?" Tsukiko asked. Sasuke noticed that Itachi got nervous at the question. "No I won't be gone long you don't need to come." Sasuke watched his brother leave and was quite certain he was up to something that he didn't want Tsukiko to know about. Sasuke got up and walked down the hallway turning into Itachi and Tsukiko's room to do a little snooping. He looked around and saw that Itachi had left his jacket. He dug into the pockets and found that Itachi had also left his phone.
Sasuke turned the phone on and the first thing that came on was a notification. Itachi had set a reminder on his phone telling him to go pick up a ring after he got done with work. Sasuke smirked as deleted the reminder and put the phone in his back pocket so that Tsukiko wouldn't find it. From taking in all the context clues his brother was leaving he knew exactly what kind of ring he went to get.
When he got back to the living room he heard Tsukiko ask, "I wonder where he ran off to so fast?"
"Who cares," Sasuke said putting his hands behind his head.
"Well your nice bro," Tsukiko replied. Sasuke had to try not to laugh when she said bro, given the new information he had. Tsukiko and Aki went to take a nap and Yuri retreated back to her room to work on the manga she brought home. A little bit later Itachi came through the door. Sasuke walked up to his brother and handed back his phone.
"You are soo lucky I found it before Tsukiko did."
Itachi took his phone, his eyes wide.
"I hadn't even realized I had left it. I owe you Sasuke."
"Yes, yes you do big brother."
Itachi placed the keys back on the counter and sat down on the couch.
"Where did the girls go?" Itachi asked.
"Yuri's doing work, Tsukiko and Aki are taking a nap."
"Ah..." Itachi sighed.
"So..." Sasuke started to say.
"So what?" Itachi asked.
"So what does it look like?"
"Hmmm?"
"The thing you had to 'pick up'." Sasuke said sarcastically.
"I'm sure you know what it's for."
"Well, yea, I mean why else would you be hiding it from Tsukiko."
"Yea..." Itachi looked at the floor. Sasuke smirked.
"Well, I'm gonna go to 'bed'." He air quoted.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Itachi asked, not sure that he wanted to know.
"Yuri awaits..." Sasuke said, waving his hand as to tell his brother not to worry about it.
When he opened the door to his room, Yuri was mumbling quietly as she slept. She hadn't gotten under the covers yet, so she lay in Sasuke's shirt and a pair of his boxers on the bed.
He snorted, carefully climbing next to her and laying on his side to watch her.
What he did not expect was for Yuri to suddenly open her eyes and pounce on him.
"Surprise!" She yelled, giggling as she settled on his lap.
Sasuke began to speak, but Yuri cut him off with her lips. They laced their fingers together as the two embraced.
Shortly after, Tsukiko was woken by Yuri's voice. Itachi had snuggled next to her and fallen asleep minutes ago. Aki was passed out near her legs still clutching the bunny, thankfully not affected by Yuri and Sasuke's activities.
The next morning, Tsukiko and Itachi were up long before Yuri and Sasuke. Itachi took the liberty of making breakfast since Yuri wasn't up.
Once she did come out, Sasuke was not with her. Though she did creep down the hall to where Aki was and scooped her up, taking her out to the living room. Aki had wrapped her little arms around her neck, the bunny resting in her lap.
Yuri seated herself on the couch with Aki jumping on her knees. She was still in Sasuke's boxers and shirt as she tickled Aki, who giggled and collapsed. Tsukiko and Itachi joined them, Tsukiko holding three plates.
"Putting your maid skills to work Tsukiko?" Yuri asked.
"Ha. Ha. Funny. Now get your plate before I dump it on you. Remember I only have to be nice to customers at work."
"Kidding kidding jeez." Yuri took her plate and Aki's from Tsukiko. They ate their breakfast quickly so Yuri and Itachi could get ready for work. As soo as she was done, Yuri raced to her room, where Sasuke was still peacefully slumbering. She smiled adoringly at him, crawling onto the bed to peck him before throwing on an outfit. Before leaving the room, Yuri couldn't help but lean over and kiss him once more. When she did, Sasuke grabbed her waist pulling her down onto the bed.
"Sasuke!"
"Payback..." he growled, hungrily kissing her.
"I want to stay with you so badly...but I can't." She sighed, getting up and shutting the door behind her. She slung her hair into a loose bun with random strands falling around her face.
Itachi was ready when Yuri came out, so he kissed Tsukiko goodbye and Yuri nuzzled Aki before they left for the subway.
When they arrived at work, almost late, they discovered Yuki called in today.
"Wonder what he's up to...?" Yuri thought aloud as she seated herself with Makoto and Kabuto. The rest of their manga team did all the running around to bookstores and what not. This disappointed Yuri because she adored the homosexual couple.
Itachi realized no one would be in Yuki's office except for him. He saw this as a chance to snoop. All the filing cabinets Yuki locks that Makoto has keys for were now at his disposal.
He grinned.
"What else will he be hiding, I wonder?"
Itachi convinced Makoto to unlock the drawers. All that was in it were receipts and a flash drive. There were about twenty or so receipts with expensive charges on them. One was a plasma screen television. Another from various jewelry stores. Probably trying to woo several women.
"This is all charged to the companies account..." he murmured, continuing to look through them.
Next, Itachi took the flash drive out to Yuri's computer. Once he explained the receipts, the two plugged it in. There were two files. One for fiancés and another had attachments to it. They looked at the finance section first, seeing all of the bank account charge emails. They were all to Yuki's email telling him about the charges. So even things he bought and did not have the receipt for were all on here. Then, the attachments. They were all pictures of women with some sort of writing below. One picture of a girl whose name it stated was Momoka had information on her family. Apparently, her father owned a multinational organization with tons of money.
"These are all women with wealthy families. Yuki probably tries to get close to them for their money." Yuri said, disgusted.
"Makes sense. Dates the girl, asks them for money on top of what he's already taking from the company." Itachi added, still grazing through the pictures.
Then, they saw a picture of Yuri.
"What? Me?" She stared intently at the screen.
"He's targeting you because your parents earn all that money from their 'charity functions'."
"Well, he's out of luck anyways, I don't even talk to my parents."
"I suppose he doesn't know that."
"Not only could we report him for taking money from the company he works at, but so company money he's swindled out of rich women. We could nail Yuki to the wall with all this!"
"He isn't very bright. At least get a separate lock for that cabinet. He has the same key for all of his cabinets. What a moron."
"A smarmy, manipulative moron."
Makoto peeked at the screen from behind them.
"What are you guys up to?"
"Oh, ya know...just gathering evidence to lock Yuki away for a decade at least."
"I'm in." She stated immediately.
As they compiled all their evidence into Yuri's bag, Itachi sighed.
"What is it?" Yuri asked him.
"I just uh...have a lot on my mind is all."
"Well what is it other than taking Yuki down?"
"Oh uh nothing. It's nothing."
"Whatever." She rolled her eyes and went back to stuffing receipts in her bag.
It was nearing the end of their work day, and Makoto decided to go home with Yuri and Itachi. The subway was packed, so Itachi stood in front of the girls just in case there was a pervert.
Tsukiko and Sasuke were surprised to see Makoto, though they didn't mind. Well, Tsukiko didn't mind anyway. Sasuke, however, wanted him and Yuri to be alone.
"So how was work today guys?" Tsukiko asked.
Yuri grinned and pulled out some of the recites from her bag. Tsukiko took the papers and looked at them bunching her eyebrows together.
"Ummmm, what's all this?"
"Evidence against our boss."
"Oh yea he's stealing company money right?"
"Yup and tomorrow we'll nail him!"
Itachi got up and went down the hall, Tsukiko walking after him. They got in the room and Tsukiko flopped down on the bed.
"So what are you going to do once you get Yuki arrested, I mean isn't the company like, bankrupt now?"
Itachi shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know?"
Itachi pulled off his shirt and tossed it onto the bed. He then grabbed a towel from the closet and went to the bathroom. Tsukiko went back to the couch and sat down.
"Where'd Itachi go?" Yuri asked. "Shower." Tsukiko responded.
"Oh."
"Hey Yuri?"
"Yea?"
"Has Itachi been acting a little strange to you?"
"Come to think of it, he has been acting a little strange!" Yuri exclaimed. "Yes, like this afternoon, when you asked him what was wrong?" Makoto added. "Yea, he said it was nothing but, he also said he had a lot on his mind!"
Sasuke tensed a little at the girl's conversation. He wanted his brother's surprise to be kept a secret and feared they might figure something out.
"Leave the poor man alone would ya. I know he's been acting strange but he's never kept anything from you before so just give him time and I'm sure he'll tell you what's on his mind."
Itachi had finished his shower and climbed into bed where Tsukiko met him.
"Tomorrows a big day." She said.
"W-Why do you say that?" He asked timidly.
"You get Yuki arrested duh." She chuckled.
"Oh right." He sighed in relief. For a moment he thought she had caught on. But, then again he wasn't proposing tomorrow anyway.
Yuri also wanted to sleep so that tomorrow would come sooner. She clung to Sasuke, sleeping happily and most likely dreaming about Yuki in handcuffs.
The next morning, Itachi and Yuri were getting ready for work as fast as possible. Sasuke would drive them this morning so they could get there faster, while Tsukiko got a ride from Rumi. Before sprinting out of the front door, Yuri snatched her bag full of evidence. She bounced in her seat as they drove.
Yuri opened her door, ready to go, when Sasuke held her hand and pulled her back. His lips softly caressed hers.
"Good luck," he cooed in her ear seductively after breaking the kiss.
A chill rolled down her spine as she giggled idiotically.
Though, once she faced the Yoshino building, her blush faded and seriousness swept over her.
"Let's do this." Itachi encouraged, walking up to her and holding out his fist. She bumped it with her own fist, smirking cockily. They walked through the doors seeming calm on the outside, while on the inside they were bursting with excitement.
Makoto winked as she saw the two come out of the elevator.
"Yuri! In my office!"
She nervously entered, keeping her distance.
"Why are you so giddy today?"
"No reason..." she said cockily.
Yuki stood from his chair, walking intimidating over to her." I don't believe you, Yuri." He put both of his hands on Yuri's arms, forcing her against the door.
"What happened to your attitude the other night?" He purred, lowering his head closer to her.
"I don't know what you mean. I was acting no different. Besides, this is extreme sexual harassment, as usual."
"I don't really follow the rules." Yuki whispered, nuzzling his nose in her hair.
"I've caught on to that..." she said, moving her head away from his face.
Yuri remembered previously in the elevator once how she had warned him. She chuckled, swinging her leg up to slam painfully into his groin.
Yuki cringed, backing up to use his desk for support.
"I would fire you for that, if you weren't so damn cute."
He wheezed.
"Your disgusting." She said, walking briskly to where Itachi was.