Title: Weirdest Place Ever
Characters: Main - Sasuke and Itachi. Mentioned (vaguely) - Kisame, Deirada, Zetsu, and the Leader.
Challenge: Modern Times
Word Count: 444
Bonus: Unlikely jobs

Sasuke really hates it when his brother picks him up from school. Not really because he has anything against Itachi, but because the place he works at is just really weird. First off, Itachi doesn't need to work. The inheritance that they got from their parents deaths could pay off well into both of their old age. But he does anyway, and Sasuke supposes the three things he'll never understand in this world are girls, his brother, and why people say he'll collapse a lung when he inhales helium from a balloon.

He can tell when they're going to the bar and when they're not. They actually travel the same route, so it's not the scenery Sasuke watches. It's Itachi's eyes. When they go home, Itachi keeps in his normal contact lenses. When they go to the bar, Itachi will pull over and replace them with a pair of blood red ones. They're creepy, but Sasuke has to admit they're a little cool, too.

Sasuke's pretty sure that a standard for working at a weird place like Akatsuki is to be a complete and utter weirdo as well.

The first time Itachi brought his little brother there Sasuke literally clung onto Itachi all through his shift. For the love of all things holy, there was a man there who looked like he had a venus fly trap around his head. And the most normal person there, besides his brother, had tattoos on the palms of his hands that looked like mouths.

Eventually Sasuke got up the courage to let go of his brother and go to the bartender to ask for something. Itachi had said Kisame would have given it to him if he asked, but just to remember to say he wanted it virgin and that he was Itachi's brother. He hadn't even made it within a yard of the bar before he turned around, found his brother, and looped his fingers back into Itachi's belt-loop the way he had for the all the other times he had been there. Itachi had just rolled his eyes at Sasuke when he started rambling about how Kisame was blue and how that was not normal.

Sasuke's well aware that he's never seen the owner of Akatsuki. He's also aware that nobody who works there actually uses his name. He supposes that's more of a blessing, considering the people the man had hired.

So Sasuke either sits in one of the dark corners of the bar or follows Itachi while he waits tables because he's not allowed to stay in the car and mumbles to himself about how he'll never work at a place like Akatsuki.