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He eyed her suspiciously for a moment, before she burst out laughing. His lips began to curve upwards, but he stopped himself. His Uchiha pride was already reprimanding him for earlier, and wouldn't let it happen again. He knew he was being paranoid, but he couldn't help it!

It was an irritating drawl, in his fathers most boring voice. "Sasuke. You are an Uchiha! Uchiha's, in history, were known as the emotionless clan. Why, you may ask? The answer is simple. Showing emotion betrays your weakness. Weaknesses are things that can allow the enemy to make you vulnerable. Being vulnerable, is not in the way of the Uchiha. You will not be vulnerable. You will do no such thing." he sighed.

Shisui's voice cut in. "Sasu-chan! You must be strong! Uchihas just don't know how to have fun yet! We, the new generation, can fix this! Come with your brother and I, and we will go to a nightclub! I believe that Plutoenail has a lovely variety of girls! er… Aliens! I bet even Sakura-chan would love to come! She could be my date!"

Sasuke growled inwardly at his cousin's voice.


Naruto came out of the washroom and began to talk with Sakura, about anything he could. Ramen, what he saw on television last night, the weather, what colour underwear he thought the model who was on t.v last night was wearing and why, just about anything. Though the last one, had Sakura hitting him on the head. About midway through their conversation, (Sasuke has tuned back in by now) Sakura gasped. "Crap!"

Everyone stopped walking, and looked at the fretting pinkette, wondering what she had just remembered.

Naruto looked at her quizzically, and was the only one brave enough to ask the eccentric pinkette, about what she had just remembered, or realized. "What's wrong Sakura-chan? -ttebayo."

"I totally forgot about the weekly milk run!"

Everyone stared in shock. Though, they should have known that the answer would be abnormal. They didn't know why they thought she forgot something normal. "Weekly? Does your family really use that much milk?" Kiba asked.

Sakura sighed. "It's not about how much we use, it's where we get it from."

"Soo... Does your royal highness get hers straight from the cow?" Tenten asked, clearly joking.

Sakura widened her eyes. "How... How did you know? Our neighbour has a cow and he lets us. Also, I'm not a royal highness. Hinata-chan fits that description SOOOO much better, what with her gorgeous midnight blue hair, and pale eyes. She's way prettier than me!" Sakura said, clearly not joking.

Everyone sweat-dropped. 'Is she serious?' they all thought. Of course, they all know Sakura. They know her quite well.

Maybe, they even know her too well. (We will just have to wait and see for now.)

They all know she was being QUITE serious.

It was actually a scary thought.

Naruto gulped. It was such a scary thought, he was sure he would be having nightmares about it for weeks. If not months. But certainly not days.

Just then, Sakura bid her goodbyes, and ran off.

After she ran off, a voice appeared. "Awe! Shes gone? I had to ask Sakura-chan out on a date! I missed my chance!" shusui said. The group jumped in surprise.

A few even screamed from fear.

Poor Sasile. The Uchiha in him seems to be continuously put in jeopardy.


About 5 minutes later, she reached her neighbour's front door. After knocking twice, they let her in. "Good afternoon, Sakura-chan! Are you here for the milk?" they asked.

Sakura nodded. "Yup! I have the money right here!" she exclaimed, handing them a $5 bill.

The neighbour smiled. "Very good! Come on! She's in the barn today. Just warning, she may be a bit rough. She has been for us as well." the neighbour warned. (we have no name for the neighbour, so we will forever refer to them, as 'they', 'the neighbour' or 'them'. Sorry!)

Sakura nodded, and followed them out to the barn. They were right. The cow was NOT in a good mood right now.


Once Sakura was finished milking the cow, she had been kicked by it twice, it had head butted her a bunch of times, and it had made her run away screaming about 50 times. It had even tried to BITE her!


After Sakura had gone to her neighbour's house, she went to her house, in hopes of taking a long shower, to rid herself of the stench of cow spit. However, when she passed the living room, something... Strange... caught her eye.

In the middle of the living room, Hidan and Itachi were tied up, blindfolded and gagged. She ran up to them, and set them free. "What happened? Why were you guys all tied up?" she asked. 'I guess I can say goodbye to taking a shower for a while...' she thought, extremely annoyed. Inner grumbled incoherent words, under her breath as they both cursed her mothers timing. Her mothers very horrible, couldn't be worse timing.

"Your mother... Lasagna... SAVE US!" they pleaded.

Sakura sighed. 'Not this again! She couldn't have done this tomorrow!? she knows after the milk run I like to take a shower! HOW DARE SHE DO THIS TO ME?!' she thought. Inner just groaned.

Of course, once they processed what they had just said, they both were pale as wax. Sakura sighed, knowing full well how this would end.

Just as they were about to scream, her mother popped her head into the room, making great use of her terrible timing. Hidan and Itachi were about to escape, and Sakura was about to go take a shower and pretend she never saw any of it. "Are you boys trying to escape again? You already failed 5 times. You see, screaming and running around like maniacs, is not the best way to escape."

Sakura face palmed. 'Maybe I'm not going to be able to take a shower after all! But I really want one!' she whined to inner. Inner simply hugged her outer, and tried to be as sympathetic as she could. But even she was having a hard time hiding her anger towards their mother.

"I'll just have to tie you up again. And better this time. You keep getting away! You boys are quite athletic. Are either of you going to, or are currently, dating my daughter?"

Both boys stopped the screaming and running rampage, to stare at her. Hidan had a pensive look on his face. "I think I took her on one date..."

Her mother turned to Sakura (who was panicking over the trail of smoke coming from the kitchen) "Did he really?"

Sakura stared at her mother. "We did? Oh yeah... We did."

There was a gleam in Mebuki's eyes, that just spelled trouble. "Well, you'll just have to tell us all about it over dinner! Oh, and dears?" she paused for a second.

Everyone in the room, was afraid of what monstrosity of words she would utter next, and what their pre-determined fate (Sakura and Hidan both hear the authors evil cackling, and them mumbling about the terribleness that awaits them. They both involuntary shudder.) would be, after those words leave her mouth. The teens were REALLY not liking where this was going. "If you like my lasagna, you'll simply LOVE my spaghetti! It's simply to die for!" she sang, as she pranced back into the kitchen.

The teens shared a look of dread.

Hidan was the first to respond. "Does she mean it's to die for, in a literal way, or in a way that we might actually, in some parallel universe, like her spaghetti, and it won't be something like shredded intestines?" he asked.

"How did you know? I mean, no one has ever been able to figure it out before. Does that mean you... No. That can't be it. Otherwise... But then... Or maybe! Yes. that's it. You have to know because of that. Its the only possible explanation! But... Why do they both look so surprised then" Sakura thought out loud, in utter surprise.

Hidan and Itachi were confused by what she had said, but then went pale. "Do you mean it's good, or to die for literally, or it's made of intestines?" Itachi asked.

Sakura, being unsure of how to answer, simply shrugged. "Yes." she responded.

They both freaked, but only one voiced their frustration. "YES TO WHAT?! WE NEED TO KNOW DAMNIT! I JUST CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS! WHY WILL YOU NOT TELL US!? I really need to know!" Itachi screamed. This was really getting to him.

Hidan and Sakura shared a look. THE look. The look that said it all. The look that meant they knew this would end badly. Especially if Uchiha Itachi was getting scared and frustrated.

They all got a little bit more scared.


(if, at this point in time, that's even possible. It probably is, but that's highly unlikely. Especially so early in the story! We will be scaring them more later on. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

DUN DUN DAH! Kelpie threw a book at Cait123, for the added use of sound effects. "They are useless! Stop putting them in!" she yelled.

Cait123 pouted. "But... They are so funny!" Cait123 said back.

The 2 continued arguing for quite a while. We are not writing it, due to use of language our mothers would not appreciate. It is the language of 'Speaking in half sentences so that no one actually knows exactly what we are saying, so we can keep it a secret.' Our mothers really hate that language.)


Their self pity didn't last long.

Soon, they were called to their doom! Or, what Sakura's mother calls dinner. The 3 teens all share looks of terror, and shock, and (in Sakura's case) a look of resentment, and apology. She is truly sorry that they have to go through this.

But, her pity for them will be short lived. The dinner itself is quite entertaining actually.

Kizashi told Itachi to sit next to Sakura. Kizashi then sat on Sakura's other side. Hidan ended up being sandwiched in between Kizashi and Mebuki. Mebuki was across from her daughter. Hidan, who sat in front of Sakura, and over a bit, shared a knowing look, that said that he knew her mother would ask about the date.

They both planned to avoid that conversation as long as they could.

"We have some matters to discuss." Kizashi said, eyeing Itachi and Sakura. He then laid out a whole pile of about 100 wedding magazines on the table, and took out a notepad. "Who's invited?" he asked.

Sakura and Itachi sweat dropped.

Hidan choked on what Sakura's mother claimed was spaghetti, even though it looked like it had died and been buried, then came back alive and crawled out of it's grave, then died after it got hit by a car. (all in all, it looked gross and completely inedible.) though no one knew if he was choking because of the mention of the wedding, or because he had dared to eat a little piece of Sakura's mothers cooking.

Kizashi took no notice of Hidan, and looked at Sakura and Itachi.

The 2 teens in question shared a look, before they both glared at Kizashi, and simultaneously answered "NO ONE!" well, Sakura screamed it. Itachi said the same answer, just in monotone.

At that answer, Hidan nodded as best as he could. Even though he was still choking, and probably dying.


Mebuki was grinning ear to ear, and Kizashi was muttering curses under his breath. Of course, the moment was ruined when Sakura's mother chose now, to ask a question.

The question that would start up the very conversation, Hidan and Sakura had been trying to avoid.

"Hidan, dear? Weren't you dating our precious Saku-chan? Why are you not defending your right to be with her and preserve the love triangle?" she asked.

Hidan sighed. "Oh no. Itachi you bastard. You cannot take away my Blood Blossom. How dare you." he said, monotonously, and bored, just to please Sakura's mom. He then had another bite of 'spaghetti' and began choking.


"Um.. Sakura-san? Is Hidan alive over there?" asked Itachi.

Sakura turned to the side, facing Hidan. "Itachi-san? I'm actually not sure. He seems to be passed out on his spaghetti.."

The 2 turned Sakura's parents. "We apologize, but Hidan is currently unavailable at the moment." Itachi said, in that bored tone of his.

Sakura nodded. "It all was a bit too much for his brain and mind to handle. He should come to in a couple minutes." she explained.

Itachi turned to her. "Well, if that's the case, it may be more than a couple minutes. His brain fries after a little bit of information. Since this was a lot, it could take anywhere from an hour, to 3 hours, at the most. Maybe if we get lucky, it will only take 30 minutes, but at this point, that seems unlikely." Itachi explained.

Sakura nodded. "Ok." she then turned to her parents. "He will remain unavailable for quite some time. Sorry for the confusion." she corrected, as if her parents had not just heard the conversation between her and Itachi.

Hidan, of course, was silent throughout the whole ordeal.

Mebuki and Kizashi just simply stared at Hidan, who was still face planted in his 'spaghetti'. Sakura really wanted to laugh at his misfortune.

"Sakura, dear? Why don't you tell us about your date with Hidan?" Mebuki asked. Or rather, demanded. She left no room for argument.

Ok. i promise the date/ flashback will be in the next chapter. So those of you who think we won't put it in, you are mistaken. And the entire date was written by me! Cait123! Hey, that rhymed! Cool! See you in 2 weeks! Please review, fave, and or follow!