Itachi crept slowly and quietly into Deidara's bedroom. His suitcase was open. So Itachi helped himself. It should be made clear that Itachi and Deidara were always….always taking clothes from each other. Itachi knew that Deidara had other swim trunks in that suitcase and his curiosity had gotten the best of him. "That bastard." Itachi lipped to no one. He had found Deidara's micro fiber, ultra smooth and water resistant Michael Kors swim trunks. "Like he can actually pull off black and yellow." Itachi thought to himself. It was at this moment that a huge pile of items fell on Itachi from the closet shelf above him. "Oh! What the fuck is this?" Itachi yelled as various plastic pieces and plastic containers of Play-Doh hit him in the head. "What the hell? Play-Doh barber shop? Figures…stupid…plastic…scissors! What moron brings Play-Doh barber shop to the beach?" Itachi thought. Deidara started to stir and so Itachi quickly slipped out of the room.

Zetsu, Kisame and Sasori had only recently awoken and they were ready to hit the beach. The commotion had successfully awoken Deidara. Itachi quickly changed before Deidara could fight him out of the trunks.

"Are those new?" Sasori asked.

"Um…yes…yes they are….do I look hot?" Itachi asked.

"When do you not?" Sasori said. Itachi laughed lightly.

"True." Zetsu was outside floating in the pool and Kisame was sitting on the deck talking to him. The ocean could be seen in the distance.

"Itachi! I was going to wear those today, yeah!" Deidara said storming into the living room of the house with a towel wrapped around him.

"Well, you're not now. I figured yellow would work better for me than you."

"Alright then I'm getting in your suitcase, yeah." Deidara said making his way into Itachi's room.

"No! You stay out of my clothes!"

"See, this is what I like about me, Kisame and Zetsu…we don't give a shit." Sasori said getting up from the couch and going poolside to inform Kisame and Zetsu that they were ready to hit the beach. Deidara emerged.

"I'm so glad we wear the same size Itachi, yeah. This dark blue/light blue/ white combination really works for me, yeah." Itachi let out a silent scream but he decided not to fight about it right now. They really wanted to get to the beach. The five of them looked like cumbersome mothers toting beach paraphernalia for their children. Deidara had a giant bag of reading material, a huge ass umbrella and a sheet. Kisame had a 6 foot surf board (it's still a mystery as to how they got that in the minivan without it knocking someone out), a radio (because that's intelligent to have near the water) and a stack of towels. Sasori had three beach chairs a Frisbee and the 'family size' body of sunscreen. Zetsu had a huge ass cooler full of god knows what. Finally, Itachi had an elastic hair band…he had literally let his hair down (this is the part where we drool).

Now, the five of them setting up their beach stake out was rather…disorganized. Sasori was so anxious to start building sand castles that he dropped the chairs, sun block and the Frisbee in front of Itachi…fortunately he remembered his rage pill that morning so no one died. Deidara was the worst 'stick the umbrella in the sand sticker' there ever was. He never got it deep enough and it always leaned sideways. It was a giant umbrella with 'Akatsuki' written across the top…that wasn't obvious or anything. Zetsu was supposed to put the cooler down after Deidara spread out the sheet under the umbrella, but the wind always blew pretty hard across the beach and Deidara would go rolling around in the sheet screaming because he was stuck. Itachi was supposed to help Kisame drive the surf board in the sand but that never worked because Itachi was only 5' 8" and he couldn't ever reach the top of the board to steady it without jumping. Several dramatic moments later…their area of the beach was appropriately set up. They admired the rolling ocean before them and the group of 7 women that walked along the beach...the beach trip had officially begun. Sasori was preoccupied with sand castle construction and Deidara had taken off down the beach and decided to spend the morning sculpting birds. Besides, he had to outdo Sasori. Kisame hit the ocean to swim…again. Zetsu stayed with Itachi under the no obvious at all 'Akatsuki' umbrella to catch up on his reading.

"Itachi, what's in the bag?" he asked. Itachi started digging through the bag. "Hmmm… Nuclear and Hydrogen Bomb Making for Blondes, 'Good Housekeeping', Seven Easy Steps to World Domination, 'Field and Stream', Evil Schemes and Diabolical Plots, Kabuto's Diary…Kabuto's Diary? Damn, I'm so reading this later." Itachi said.

"Oh! I'll take that!" Zetsu said.

"Hold on there's more." Itachi said throwing books and magazines everywhere. "Danielle Steel's Lost in the Heat of Your Passion." Zetsu cut Itahci off.

"Oh my god! I must have that! I've wanted to read that!" Itachi handed the book over. "Oh here it is!" Itachi said. His choice of reading was Chicken Soup for the Misunderstood, Incredibly Sexy, Anti Social, Bipolar, Power-Hungry, Soul with Intense Rage, Parental Attachment and Sibling Rivalry Issues. It was good stuff…

For now we'll, leave our beloved Akatsukis and check in with their beach adventures a little later…