Chapter 26

Shisui groaned as he went through some papers in his home study, it was Saturday morning and he would have preferred to sleep in rather than doing work related stuff, but it was important, because he had noticed some strange movements around the company, and Obito's sudden departure made him suspicious, especially because he was aiming at becoming president although that position would never be his, since everyone knew Madara preferred Itachi in that position, once Fugaku retired, and Sasuke would join the company, than the two brothers would be at the head of the business, and Obito never concealed his dislike for the future arrangement.

Madara had shrugged off his resignations, the only thing he had said was that it was time he grew some balls, showing that he wasn't worried about Akatsuki, which was growing fastly, and Shisui couldn't understand how they could finance their projects, that were giving them tough competition in a field that had been their prime for years.

Shisui was sure they were been financed by someone who had interest in tearing Uchiha apart, and they were probably using Obito, knowing that he would be willing in spilling their secrets and probably even steal their projects before they could put them in the market.

He couldn't understand the reason though, Akatsuki was ran by Itachi's friends, Yahiko had even asked his cousin to accept a high position there, it was weird, and he wondered if the young founder of the company was aware of what was happening or if it was someone else pulling the strings from behind, using the young businessman. Itachi had already tried and get in contact with Yahiko, but with no success.

The phone rang, and he answered almost immediately with a big sigh.

'I hate you' he heard Itachi's chuckling, and he frowned at the younger man, although he knew he couldn't obviously see him.

'Did you find something?' Itachi ignored him, and went straight to the point.

'No, no evidence, nada absolutely nothing! I have neen studying the same documents for hours and came up with nothing, Akatsuki apparently doesn't specify where they get the money, there is no official list of the people working for them or with them, no payments, and the lab data is off limits'

'Hn, it's kind of weird, those kind of information should be registered and public'

He rubbed his eyes as he listened, glancing at the papers with a nod.

'Exactly! Whoever is messing with the system is linked to Akatsuki, it's the only company that doesn't result in the list!'

'Don't you find it suspicious? they're making it too obvious, they are not even putting the effort of masking their actions'

He glared at his empty coffee cup, and got up to go and make some more,while listening to his cousin talking.

'I think we should ask Kisame or Sasori to look into it, thinking about it, you should hire them and let that be your first act as a Ceo, Kisame could hack any type of software, and could get into their system, and Sasori is good at digging in his unconventional ways.'

'Hn, it does help that they're both unemployed at the moment'

'Exactly!' That way Itachi could bother someone else, he already had enough to do.

'Hn, very well dear cousin, I guess I will let you go, you have to get ready after all'

He could feel that Itachi was smirking, he wasn't sure how, he simply knew.

'Get ready for what?' his eyes widened looking at his calendar where he wrote all his appointments and meetings, since he tended to forget them, he double checked the date, and frowned when he found nothing written on it. It was blank.

He thought for a second if Itachi was messing with him.

'You forgot you're supposed to meet Hana's mother for lunch? How disgraceful cousin, Hana will not be happy'

His cousin's voice sounded amused, having fun at his expenses, damn him, he would find a way to get back to him.

'Holy s-' he was cut off by the buzzer, and the other must have heard too, because he chuckled, before saying 'Good luck with that, have fun with your girlfriend and mother in law, I heard she is a very tough woman'

'Go to hell Itachi! It's your fault I forgot'

'Hn, I don't see how'

'Oh really? Maybe this load of papers you gave me will help you see why, I don't understand why I got stuck with them' he muttered, opening the door for his girlfriend ignoring Itachi amused laughter, he was irritating sometimes.

'I've got my stash right here, don't worry, you're not the only one stuck with the extra work'

'Happy to hear that, got to go now, or I will really get killed, see you this evening'

He hanged the phone up before the other had time to reply, and he smiled at Hana that had just walked in, leaving her purse on the kitchen counter, and looking at him with a questioning look.

"Hey! Good morning my lovely lady!" he smiled at her pulling her in his arms with a quick peck on the lips.

"You're not dressed yet?" she rolled her eyes at his disheveled appearance. He looked terrible, still in his house clothes and his hair tousled up, his glasses on the desk and a mug of coffee on the desk.

"Sorry, I had some work to do" he apologized, running a hand across his tired face, and she gave a quick look at his apartment. It was in a terrible state, he probably hadn't had the time to clean up, he had been working long hours that week, except for the day before.

The brown haired woman sighed, and kissed his cheek, pulling some strands of hair from his face, they were getting long, he needed to go and have them cut. He was a mess all in all.

"Go take a shower and relax, I will make some more coffee, you look like a bus ran you over" she gave him a disapproving look, and he smirked at her, giving her a light kiss in her hair.

"You do care for me then" he whispered, he loved when she let her guard down, he knew her tough side was all an act, she was affectionate and loving when they were on their own, and he liked that too. He had chased after her for a long time, and their relationship was exactly how he had imagined it. It was perfect, and he had already planned on making the next move.

She would be in for a big surprise.

"You big idiot, of course I do, now go and get ready, we have to meet my mother in two hours"

He grimaced a the thought, he really wasn't looking forward to that. Everyone he knew had been telling him that Tsume Inuzuka was a scary woman, and if even her son had confirmed that, he knew he was already screwed. Thinking about now, Hana was a lot like her mother according to Kiba.

"What?" she asked noticing his expression, he hadn't even talked, but she knew exactly what was going through his mind.

"Nothing dear, I am looking forward to that meeting" he lied with a big grin on his face. Maybe his mother had a little reason for being concerned for her son, Hana was staring at him with her eyes narrowed and her hands on her hips. Everything hinted for danger, and he swallowed loudly, pondering on his next moves. The plan was to get to his bathroom safely. She couldn't get to him once he was in there.

"Shisui love, are you not ok in meeting my mother?" she asked in a dangerous low tone, and he backed away slowly, raising his hands innocently.

"Of course I am! Why would you ever get that impression?" he asked, tentatively making another step backwards.

"Oh, I don't know, maybe it was your joyful expression that gave you away. Do I have to remind you that I met your mother and half of your family on our first date, I still have nightmares about your Uncle Izuna and his passion for cacti plants!"

He sighed, he knew his uncles were scary, Izuna had an insane passion for cactuses, he didn't even now why or when his passion had started to become obsession, maybe it was the fact he had never married, but his house was full of them, and he had a few of them in his office also. He had even named each one of them. But Izuna, except his weird passions was an all right person. He was very loving and he had been his favorite uncle when he was a kid. Now, Madara, he was the one she had to worry about. He was just scary, and crazy, he couldn't blame Sasuke for being scared of him.

"And you still haven't met Madara" he dead panned in a low voice.

"Don't worry, I am sure I will have the pleasure to do so tomorrow night, that way I will have become acquainted with the whole Uchiha family"

He grinned rubbing his head through his messy hair, she did have a point.

She rolled her eyes at him, and grabbed a left over piece of tamagoyaki he had prepared for himself earlier.

"They are not so bad"

"You know you don't look believable"

Shisui sighed, "It's because I know they are all crazy! Expcept for Itachi, he is evil"

"Still pissed for the extra work he gave you?" she smirked, studying his sour expression.

"It's not like I have much choice, I understand it's important, but I've barely had any time to rest"

It was the truth, he was even starting to get dark lines under his eyes just like Itachi.

"Itachi at least had a day off" he pouted, he had to discover how his cunning cousin had convinced Madara to give him the little vacation.

"My poor baby"

The Inuzuka squeezed his cheek, finally pulling him down to kiss him properly, how she had wished to do, since the moment she had walked in.

He pulled her closer, encircling his arms around her waist, and deepening the kiss that grew fastly, turning rapidly into a heated make out session.

His hands moved from her hips, one of them found the hem of her shirt and wondered underneath the fabric, touching her heated skin.

Unluckily they ha to separate, because they still needed air, and he rested his forehead on hers.

"I better go and take that shower" he whispered, threading his fingers through her long brown hair, leaving a small kiss at the nape of her neck.

"Shisui, we still have two hours before we need to go" she reminded him, taking fistfuls of his shirt in her small hands, her body almost completely against his stronger one.

He raised both his eyebrows, and immediately understood what she was trying to tell him.

"My dear, you are a very dangerous woman" he smirked, his hands cupping her face now.

Hana shrugged her shoulders with a big smirk, and pulled him towards the bathroom by his shirt, ignoring his sudden yelp, he wasn't displeased though, just surprised.

Two hours and fifteen minutes later, a grinning Shisui, and a very annoyed, with her hair still drenching wet Hana, were scurrying down the road, in a hurry to reach Hana's mother at the restaurant they had agreet to meet at. Her mother was a very punctual woman, and would not be pleased by their lateness.

"Damn Uchiha, my mother will kill me!"

Shisui's grin was still in place, nothing could really bother him in that moment, his mind was still in a daze, he barely was aware of where he was or what he was wearing.

"She won't kill me, I'm too pretty to kill"

She stopped suddenly, and turned to face him, her glare could have killed him on the spot.

"If I go down you're coming with me! Understood? it's your fault too if we're late!"

"I am not the one that wanted to go for another round, despite me telling you we were going to be late"

He smirked, and if it wasn't for the possible witnesses crowding the streets she might have murdered him.

"Shisui?"

"Yes my love?"

"Just shut up, and stop grinning like an idiot, you're scaring the children"

"But-"

The sound of someone chuckling interrupted him, and Shisui turned around, and his expression changed to one of stupor when he saw Kiba staring back at him with a big grin.

"I guess it's obvious who's the boss in this relationship"

The young Inuzuka was starting to re evaluate his opinion on the Uchiha men, he had always thought them to be tough and who would never give control to their partners, but he had witnessed last night in Itachi's and Naruko's relationship, that, and he wasn't really surprised since he knew how the Namikaze was, that she was the one in control, Itachi would comply with anything she wanted, and rarely went against her, and Sasuke wasn't any better, although Sakura was down right scary, so it's not like he had much choice. And now this, Shisui was whipped, and to his sister nonetheless.

"Kiba! What the hell are you doing here?" she was fuming, between her idiot boyfriend and her even worse brother, she was losing her patience.

"What? Mom sent me looking for you, you weren't answering your phone"

Hana's eyes widened, and she checked her purse and her pockets, before realizing she had probably left her phone at Shisui's.

"Damn it! I forgot my phone in your apartment!"

She slapped her hand on her forehead and groaned.

"I don't see where the problem is, we can pick it up later" Shisui waved it off.

"I was waiting for an important phone call about the funds for the kennel I'm trying to open, I might have found someone that wants to give me some financial aid"

Shisui frowned as she explained, he knew the Inuzuka weren't very rich, her mother ran a succesful veterinary clinic, and made enough to live decently, but they didn't have enough to open a new business, especially one that would mostly be sustained by donations, since Hana didn't intend to ask for payment for the pets that needed adoption. She just wanted them to find a good family that would care for them, that's all she wanted.

Both Hana and Kiba had inherited their family's special love and dedication to animals. Hana had graduated in veterinary medicine, and worked alongside her mother during the day, and by night she worked as a waitress to earn enough to afford opening the kennel she had dreamed of since she was a child. She had even found the perfect location, she just needed the money.

"Hey, I will go back to mom, tell her you're on the way" Kiba felt the tension grow, and he excused himself, distancing himself as fast as he could from the couple.

He was aware it was a sensitive topic, since he had heard them argue about it before.

"I don't understand why you have to go and ask someone else when I could give you what you need to start, you know that you just need to ask" he was serious this time, amd his dark eyes met her hazel ones, and she immediately turned away from him, hiding her face.

"We already discussed it"

"And still, I haven't gotten a decent answer"

"It's just that….I would feel uncomfortable, asking money from you...I…I don't want you or your family to think that I am with you for the money. I know your mother already doesn't like me that much-"

His eyes softened and he smiled tenderly, shaking his head at his girlfriend, pulling her to him, and kissing her at the top of her head.

"You're so silly, as if I could ever address you as a gold digger. I chased after you for twelve years because I knew how special and good hearted you are. I could never ever think you're with me because of my social status, so, just shut up and let me help you. I won't accept another no as an answer, plus, my mother adores you just as much as I do"

"Did I already tell you I love you?"

"Of course! You love me so much, you even say it in your sleep"

She rolled her eyes at that, and laughed it off, his humor was one of the reasons she had fallen for him, twelve years ago. She had been so stupid for not letting herself be with him sooner. Her stupid pride, and the fear he was just another rich kid playing with people's feelings were one of the reasons she had refused him for all that time.

"Don't get ahead of yourself now, Uchiha"

"Don't act as if it isn't true"

"You're such an idiot" she laughed as he kissed her on the cheek, and grabbed her hand with a smug smile.

"We better go now, I just can't wait to meet the mother in law"

She winced at the thought, her mother would probably already be in a terrible mood, and Kiba was there, which might help a bit. Still, the risks of this being a catastrophe was terribly high.

"Oh man, this is going to be one hell of a ride"

"What do you mean, she will love me, just you wait and see, I will be her favorite son in law ever, well, when we marry I mean"

She sighed and chuckled hearing him say that. Her mother was a tough woman, she had scared off her own husband, and some of Hana's exes, and a few suitors, she hoped she wouldn't scare the Uchiha, thay was the reason she had told her mother before hand, how important he was to her, and had avoided telling him exactly why, her father had ran out on them.

Her mother was going to be a hard bone to pick, but at least Shisui was an idiotic optimist.

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"So, how did it go with the mother in law?"

Itachi was sitting in front of him with an amused smile as he sipped a bit of his cocktail, his dark eyes were attentive and studying every expression that passed Shisui's equally pale face.

The older Uchiha groaned as he too took a sip from his iced tea, and the long black haired man raised a perfect brow in question, his lips already turning in a light smirk.

"It looks like it went terribly"

Deidara grinned from his spot between Sasori and Naruko, that was too busy looking at the menu, and frowning for the lack of ramen in that particular restaurant, to listen to the conversation.

"Meeting the family, nasty business" Sasori muttered, he too had gone through the experience when he had introduced Deidara to his grandmother. He had been worried, because the old hag was a prejudiced old woman, but he was proved wrong, when the two had met and they had suddenly teamed up against him, pulling any type of pranks on him, his grandmother was just as crazy as Deidara, and that was never a good combination.

"It wasn't so bad, it's just Shisui doesn't think straight when he's under pressure, he was sweating and he even stuttered at one point. My mother even asked me if he was always like that, and if I was sure about my choice of a partner"

Hana grinned, still amused by the memory of a red faced Shisui interrogated by her mother about safe sex.

"I didn't know that!" The Uchiha felt like slamming his head on the table. He had been so embarassed. Tsume Inuzuka really was a scary woman. He didn't look forward in meeting her again. Luckily Kiba had been there, but he hadn't stayed long.

"Man, I would have loved to see that" The blonde artist deadpanned, eyes wide in admiration, and both hands under his chin as he stared at the poor Shisui. Anyone that could get him in that state, had to be powerful. Nothing could ever crush his cheery behaviour.

Hana chuckled and stroked her boyfriend's back, to soothe him a little bit.

"She doesn't hate you"

"Oh really? What about the part that she said she hates Uchiha's because Madara didn't fund the public kennel twenty years ago, when he had promised he would? And it ended up closing because of that!"

Itachi furrowed his brows at that.

"I didn't know anything about that"

"Madara is evil, the kennel was ran by one of the organizations that received charity money from him, but when he discovered that it was ran by Tobirama Senju, cut the funds, being as the major source of money, they were obligated to close a year later."

Shisui explained, his face still resting on the table.

"Figures we would end up being hated because of a nutty family member" the younger Uchiha muttered, eyeing his blonde girlfriend and rolling his eyes at her. She was still reading the stupid menu.

"We will get some sukiyaki, I heard it's very good here, we can share" he smiled at her and she sighed.

"Fine"

Itachi smiled, and finally managed to take it away from her, and called for a waiter.

Naruko then looked at Hana, she had heard the last part of the conversation and she was curious, and worried.

"What happened to all the animals that stayed there?"

"Most of them got adopted, but the ones that couldn't find a home by the time they closed well, you can imagine"

The blonde gasped, and turned to look at her boyfriend.

"Did you know about this?"

"It happened twenty years ago, I think I could barely talk at the time"

"Madara is a bastard" Shisui muttered, and Deidara looked at him with a smile, his blue eyes shining, looked straight into Shisui's.

"I can make him explode if you want" he offered with a big smile.

"No!" the three men shouted at the same time, and the blond artist pouted.

"You have no consideration for my art" they didn't understand, he was a sensitive person, under all the crazyness.

"Not when it contemplates murder"

Sasori explained, his face expressionless as if he was discussing the weather.

"I wasn't going to kill him! Who do you take me for! I would just have just given him a scare"

"He's old, and subjected to heart attacks, you might kill him anyway"

"Madara will never die. He will outlive us and come back to torture the next generations"

The waiter finally came to the table to take their order.

"could you bring a bottle of the strongest sake you have?" the young artist asked the male waiter, that raised a brow at him.

"He's kidding, right?" he asked looking at Itachi, he probably looked like the more serious person of the group.

"Does he look like he's kidding?" Sasori looked at the waiter from under his long eyelashes, that made him look even scarier than usual.

"Our friend is depressed" he explained, stage whispering at the poor waiter, that sent a glance in Shisui's way and

"Our friend over there, is quite depressed, you see" he stage whispered at the poor waiter, and he glanced quickly at Shisui's way, nodding in understanding.

"I see"

They had gone to a restaurant to eat something, before going to the movies, they had all decided, mostly because Naruko had opposed horror movies, after spending the night hiding in Itachi's arms because Kiba had insisted on watching 'the Ring' to impress his new girlfriend Tamaki, her eyes had been protected but she still could hear the horrible sounds that had scared her so much, she had forced Itachi to disconnect his house phone and both their cell phones once they got back to his house with Menma and Sasuke, afraid of some weird voice calling to inform them they had seven days before being

Itachi had banned horror movies just for that.

That was the reason, Deidara and Naruko had chosen the movie and they were going to watch 'Despicable me 3' Sasori had already planned of falling asleep during the movie. He had already passed his limit by allowing himself to buy a ticket for sucha thing, but it made Deidara happy, and it was the only thing that mattered to him. Shisui had been enthused, that was before getting depressed, and Itachi and Hana were neutral, not really caring, just wanting to enjoy a relaxing evening.

Once the waiter left, Itachi frowned at the blond artist.

"Sake, really?"

"What? I'm trying to be helpful!"

"Getting him drunk?"

Hana reprimanded him this time, not really wanting to see her boyfriend get drunk, especially if the cause was her mother.

"You know what Shisui? You better get over this right now, or you're going to get a good use of your hand for the next month!"

"You can't do that!" the Uchiha looked immediately more lively than he had all evening.

Naruko blushed looking at Itachi, and whispered close to his ear.

"Does she mean what I think she means?"

"I am afraid she is"

"I didn't need to hear that" she yelped with a disgusted face, and her boyfriend rubbed his hand on his face.

"None of us needed to hear that" the red head sighed, imitating Itachi.

"Man, I can almost picture it! Where is the damn sake?" Deidara looked around nervously and Sasori face palmed.

"Why would you ever need sake now?"

"To forget that conversation! You have no shame! you're scarring Naruko's virgin ears" he pointed his index fingers towards a fuming Hana and a dazed Shisui.

"Hey!" the Namikaze blushed heavily, Deidara wasn't wrong, but he didn't need to shout it out for the whole restaurant to hear.

"Maybe I will be the one needing sake by the end of the evening." Itachi muttered, pulling Naruko to his chest with a smirk, feeling her hide her face in his white dress shirt.

"Man, you guys are all crazy!"

The red head sighed, but a small smile graced his lips.

The waiter came by, and Deidara smirked pulling the bottle to himself with a wide grin, and raised it pouring his content in five glasses, Naruko wasn't of legal age to drink yet, and looked at the newly celibate Shisui.

"To Shisui's month of celibacy! Cheers!"

Naruko laughed, showing her face again, and Itachi raised his glass with a visible smirk, even Sasori couldn't hold in his amusement.

"You big idiots" The Uchiha glared at the blonde, before taking a sip from his glass, but he was glad he had such friends, that would make him forget his troubles. Were they a troublesome mother in law or his girlfriend's threats.

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Author's note:

Ok, this chapter might be a little nonsense, but I really wanted to make a lighthearted chapter, and focus on Shisui and Hana, I hope you liked it, because I had a lot of fun writing this.

Obviously, Shisui and Hana are older than Itachi an Naruko, Shisui being 26 and Hana 22 ( Itachi's age) so, at that age I think relationships are different, sex is something they would be less shy about, while Naruko is still 17 and a virgin, I thought it wouldn't be weird for them to be already involved in deeper relationship that contemplates sex. It's the way I feel it would be more realistic, and obviously everu relationship is different, so, let me know what you think!

Thank you as always for the reviews! I simply love you guys! And for the rest that has added the story as their favorites/ followed a big thank you!

Till next time!

Darkshadows92.