Sasuke began to move stealthily from the destroyed room to safety from both the scary Snake-Man and his old team mate, who seemed to be getting more edgy by the minute. Maybe he should have used a stronger poison, one that would have knocked her out for a couple of weeks.
I'm too kind… he thought to himself with an inner sigh.
Naruto caught sight of the Uchiha trying to escape and pointed, about to yell out. It seemed that he wouldn't have to stop him, as his old team mate ran straight into someone who had been entering the room at the same time.
"Orochimaru, I slaughtered those cows around the back—oof!"
"ITACHI!"
Ah, how everything was slowly turning out to be a hap-happy reunion. Sasuke, who had only been focusing on his mission, ran straight into his brother, Itachi, who was there to tell Orochimaru the good news of his slaughter. The race of cows would surely be destroyed in time for tea, the way the elder Uchiha was going.
Itachi looked down his nose at his little brother with distaste and made to swat him away like he was an annoying little fly. And being the annoying little fly he was, Sasuke dodged out of the way and hovered inches from the other's face, glaring.
"Buzz off, annoying fly from my backside," The older brother said in his usual emotionless tone.
"You killed our parents!"
"Yes, I am perfectly aware of that."
"I will kill you."
"That's nice. I need to go speak with the grown ups now, little brother, so go play with your friends." He flicked Sasuke on the forehead and approached where Orochimaru and Sakura were having a glaring match with each other. Snake-Man was doing most of the glaring, while Sakura just looked really scared.
Sasuke stood there, his fists clenched at his sides, shaking while he silently seethed.
I will kill that man…
Naruto had snuck up on the younger Uchiha while he had been going through the whole I-will-kill-that-man-thing and was staring at him curiously; wondering what could possibly be running through his mind.
If Naruto doesn't get out of my face right now, I'm going to skin him.
The blonde's face suddenly took on a serious and slightly sad look and Sasuke began to dread what he would say next.
"Why do you always want to kill me?"
"Hn."
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Sakura froze when she felt someone behind her, breathing down her neck in an extremely creepy way. It was Itachi, and he was staring straight at Orochimaru with the cow skins he carried outstretched to the older man.
"Here are your…cow skins…"
"Ah, I'm in the middle of something at the moment, Itachi."
"I said, here are your cow skins."
Sakura looked from one man to the other and sighed, snatching the cow skins from Itachi.
"There, I'll take your damned cow skins," She rolled her eyes at their childishness, then realized what she was holding and dropped them immediately, "UGH! Cow skins!"
She suddenly looked as though she would vomit. Itachi looked torn between shock and rage that the foolish girl had dared to snatch anything away from him.
Sasuke suddenly appeared by Itachi and began trying to push him over, "You killed our parents! I hate you! I'm going to kill you!"
"Alright. I shall pay you this attention that you obviously so desperately need, but only to repeat what you've been ignoring the past ten years," He paused for a moment and almost looked thoughtful. Almost. Because if ever the elder Uchiha showed emotion, it would signal the apocalypse, "Hm. Actually, I've forgotten. You know, that really long line you usually remember in your angsty flashbacks? Yeah. I can't remember it. Hm."
Itachi turned away from his little brother and glared at Sakura in a way that said, 'You had so better pick up those cow skins and grovel at my feet, or you will be torn limb from limb.'
Sasuke was ready to kill his brother. He was. He absolutely was. He absopositively was.
Sakura shakily picked up the cow skins and handed them to Orochimaru. Itachi nodded to her in a way that said, 'Yes, pathetic mortal girl child. You will live another day.' And then spun on his heel and walked out of the room. Never to be seen ever again…
…until tea time!
Sasuke looked ready to cry, his self hate striking back in full force. He had missed his chance, because he was weak, and pitiful, and because he was a really big loser.
Naruto walked up behind him and patted his shoulder, even though the heartless bastard had just tried to kill him. And not for the first time, either. The blonde was a very forgiving person. That's why in Sasuke's moment of weakness, he gave him a really massive wedgy and laughed hysterically. It almost seemed like old times, except it was Naruto picking on Sasuke. And Sakura and Orochimaru were facing off, oh, and they were in the Snake-Man's torn-to-shreds underground hideout.
Speaking of Orochimaru and Sakura, they were currently a few metres from the other bickering pair and were glaring at each other, although the pink haired girl's glare wasn't quite as well trained as the older man's.
"Aren't we meant to face off, and like, you know, try to kill each other and then when I faint for no reason, Naruto will save me and Sasuke will change sides at the last moment and together they'll beat you?"
"No, that's not until another twenty five episodes of us doing nothing but having random flashbacks and glaring at each other."
"Ohhh," Sakura frowned, "You know, this all reminds me of this show I used to watch. It was called Dragon Ball Z and it took like fifty episodes for this guy named Frieza to get his ass kicked."
"I wasn't aware that we had television here."
"We don't. I don't know why I said all that."
"Hm…"