Message By The Monty...because...I feel like it: THERE. Monty has fixed the booboos :B!...Now to finish that Zakuro-chan pic..

(Monty dearest beta-ed this one! Whoo! It seems I am getting a new beta for every chapter... )

ANYHOW. To apologize for taking so long for my last update, I am updating really quick this time, as well as answering the reviews for the last chapter!

Udyjay - Haha. If you want, I could put some KisaIta in there... eheh. And I most certainly will try and put more Sasori in... he is actually the hardest to write into the story D:

Fantastical Queen Ebony Black - Aww, thanks. I was really skeptical about that chapter ... Yeah! I love Mana. Mana is love, Kami is dead. :) ...And Deidara is totally trying to get in Kisame's pants all the time. Or rather, he is trying to get Kisame in his pants. Ahaha. Oh noes...

Sevetenks the Ultimate F(owl? THE ULTIMATE FOWL!)(Probably not) - People pick on Zetsu because he is so easily picked on. He is good for boosting other peoples egos. Which is probably why they keep him around. I love Zetsu, though, don't get me wrong.

mnf - Yeah, but being messed p makes it good? YES? Tell me yes :(

Kill SakuSasu - I am glad to have made your day. It is what I live for. Actually, I live for impressing people. Yeah... Iunno, I have seen a few cracky Akatsuki fics... but after I started writing this, of course . I would agree that there is a lot of crap in the Naruto section. Especially in the K-T section, in my opinion. But whatever. (My fic is T? Ahaha.)

Yeah, Zetsu is abused. It is what he was created for. Yeah, I warned about OOC in the first chapter for a reason. But whatever, it's funny, right? RIGHT? Yeah... Sasori is an equal opportunities kind of guy. (Actually, in my opinion, all of the Akatsuki are gay, but I have been trying to tone it down because, like, no one in the K-T section seem to like gay pairings.)

Mistress DragonFlame - Kay, guys, you know, this fic doesn't take much remembering what happened in the last chapter. Actually... I can't remember what happened in the last chapter. Oh, wait, yes I can.

Poor Kisame indeed. Mana is a jerk.

Somebody-unknown - Dude. It is amazing how much praise was stuck into your review. At least, I took it as praise. Whatever. Thanks, I suppose.

Uchiha Itachi had a superiority complex.

As he -knew- he was better than everyone, he had to be the best at everything. Perfect is as perfect does.

This may sound familiar; these sort of complexes ran in the Uchiha clan. This was probably one of the reasons Itachi killed of his clan. After all, how long can a group of people who are all convinced that they are the best get along? It makes you wonder how the Hyuugas lasted so long.

So, naturally, when Itachi saw some young children having fun making paper cranes, he made it his goal to become the best, fastest, awesomest origami-er EVER. So he flounced off to the craft store, and cough-stole-cough some irogami. Which is coloured origami paper. Duh.

He sat himself down at the kitchen table, clearing everything off onto the ground with a crash. He instantly regretted it when he noticed that the blown glass kitty Sasori had made for him for his birthday was shattered. Oh well, things must suffer for progress!

He took his paper out with much care, and set it up so the colours were overlapping and you could see about once centimeter of each colour. Even the set-up had to be perfect, of course. He gingerly picked up a red piece, careful not to mess up the other papers, and started folding.

A few minutes later, he had produced a scrumpled ball. Unintentionally.

"This is harder than it looks..." muttered Itachi sadly. He looked at the picture of a finished crane that had come on the package. "What am I saying! I can do this!"

And another crumpled ball was produced. Itachi roared a roar of frustration. "I can't do this!" Ever so conveniently, Zetsu hear this roar.

"What can't you do?" asked Zetsu innocently.

"Nothing! I can't do nothing because I can do everything!" said Itachi defensively.

"Oh... well... can I do origami with you?" requested Zetsu. He had been abused by his 'parents' and ran away, and of course Deidara and Kisame wouldn't bother him if he was partaking in an activity with Itachi!

"No," said Itachi in the coldest voice he could muster. No way he was going to let Zetsu show him up. Zetsu sighed sadly, and started to walk away when suddenly, a light went off in his head. "Wait, no, yes you can! Sit down, sit down sit down..." (Tuff ghost, tuff crowd, tuff love, sit down, sit down, sit down...)

Zetsu grinned, and whispered something to himself that sounded vaguely like 'Now don't mess this up!'. He sat down, and Itachi seemed to be glaring at him. In reality Itachi just wasn't capable of turning his glare off anymore. "Uh... may I...?"

Itachi nodded and Zetsu picked up a red piece form the top of the pile. "No, you can't have that one. Here," said Itachi, snatching the red paper away and giving Zetsu a green one.

Zetsu was kinda disappointed that he didn't get to use the red paper, but since he has a Lose-Win personality, he didn't say anything. So he carefully started folding, and was rewarded a moment later with a beautifully folded crane. Little did he know that Itachi had been watching his every move intently with his sharingan! Itachi set off folding at record speed.

"Finished!" proclaimed Itachi a few moments later.

"Um... that's a very nice... scrumpled ball?"

"Hey! It's not a scrumpled ball! It's a--" Itachi glanced down. "... scrumpled... ball..."

Zetsu was all like 'I just said that?' but not out loud.

"Quick! Make another one!" exclaimed Itachi, shoving more paper into Zetsu's hands. "Slow this time!"

Zetsu complied and did each fold very slowly. Itachi watched with crazy intensity. The second Zetsu was done, Itachi started on his own.

Another scrumpled ball of paper. Itachi was starting to doubt his sharingan.

"Um... do you not know how, Itachi?" asked Zetsu. Itachi just sort of glared at him. A real glare, this time, and not a 'my-eyes-look-like-this-all-the-time' glare.

"Hit me on my head. Maybe a good shaking of the brain will make them work again..." mumbled Itachi. Zetsu was all '?' "NOW!" yelled Itachi.

So Zetsu hit him lightly on the head.

"HARDER!"

Zetsu hit him as hard as he dared to. Itachi seemed satisfied with this.

"Now make another one."

Zetsu shrugged, and made another crane. Itachi followed suit, and produced an awesome crane like no one had ever seen before!

Actually, no. Itachi made another crumpled up paper ball. Apparently that is when he lost his grip. "ARGH! WHY ISN'T MY SHARINGAN WORKING?" he sobbed.

"Sharingan... isn't working?" mirrored Zetsu.

"Yes! Don't tell anyone, but... I don't know how to make origami so I tried to copy you... but... sniff... it didn't work!"

"But can't your sharingan copy anything?" asked Zetsu, sounding scandalized.

"Yeah... sniff... anything 'cept bloodline techniques..." said Itachi sadly.

"Oh... HEY! Maybe making origami is part of my bloodline! Wow! I have a cool technique!" squealed Zetsu like a fangirl.

"Of course we so, look at us, we're two-toned, green, and plant-like. Plus we have all these other cool techniques," hissed dark Zetsu.

"Yeah, but come on! ORIGAMI! We can totally use this in battle!"

"... How?"

"We could make paper shuriken! And paper kunai! And we could give people paper cuts!" exclaimed light Zetsu.

"... That is ridiculous."

"Nuh-uh! It's practical!"

"Ridiculous."

"Practical!"

"Ridiculous."

"Practical!"

"Ridiculous!"

"PRACTICAL!"

"RIDICULOUS!"

"Um... Zetsu... could you stop it, you're creeping me out..." said Sasori, who had ever so conveniently appeared to save Itachi!

"Uh... sorry... I'll leave now..." mumbled Zetsu.

"Look what you've done now, now we have absolutely no chance to--"

"SHH!"

Sasori was just kinda like '?" and didn't say anything, and just kinda ignored Zetsu's talking to himself.

"Sasoooriiiii..." whined Itachi, was was sitting on the floor, having just had a temper tantrum. "I... I... I can't make origami!" Itachi then broke down into another set of tears. Sasori started patting him on the back in a motherly fashion, letting Itachi wipe his nose on his cloak, because that is just how good of friends they are.

"Shh... It's okay, Itachi... I'll teach you how..." said Sasori soothingly.

"hic really?"

"Yeah. Now please stop wiping your nose on my cloak, it is grosser than gross," replied Sasori. Okay, maybe there are things you shouldn't do even if you are best friends forever.

So they sat down, and Sasori started showing Itachi how to make a crane, step by step. In the end, Sasori's pink crane was much better than Itachi's red crane, but that was to be expected since this was Itachi's first crane that wasn't really just a crumpled up ball of paper. Itachi was ecstatically proud of himself, but was kinda jealous of Sasori's talents. He was just starting on another one when Deidara and Kisame came tumbling into the room.

"Hey, Itachi! We were just talking to our son!" panted Kisame.

"Yeah! And he said that you had discovered a secret bloodline that he had, yeah!" added Deidara.

"Your... son?" asked Sasori, raising an eyebrow.

"Uh, Zetsu," replied Kisame.

"He's abused by his father, yeah, but don't tell anyone," whispered Deidara.

"Uh...huh..."

Deidara and Kisame pushed their way over to Itachi, who was focusing intently on folding a perfect crane. "ItachiItachiItachiItachiItachiItachiItachiItachiItachiItachi!" they screeched in unison.

"What?" asked Itachi irritably, looking up from his crane-in-progress.

"Reveal our secret blood-lines!" said Kisame.

"Yeah! Me first, me first, yeah!" Deidara exclaimed, bouncing up and down.

"Uh... Kisame, you're blue and resemble a shark, and Deidara, you have mouths on your hands," said Itachi, turning back to his crane.

"Noooooo!" whined Kisame. "Our secret bloodlines! You discovered that Zetsu had a origami bloodline! You have to find our new ones, too!"

Both Sasori and Itachi were kinda like 'what?'.

"What else... did Zetsu tell you?" asked Itachi.

"Just that you can't do origami worth shit, yeah," Deidara replied.

Itachi looked scandalized. He could TOO do origami! He looked down at the pitiful crane he had made. Well... maybe he couldn't, but there is not way he was going to tell them that! So, thinking quickly, he grabbed Sasori's pink crane and held it out. "I can so! See!"

Sasori was kinda like 'Uh, whatever,'. Luckily for Itachi, covering for your friends weaknesses happened to be one of the services offered when you buy the deluxe best friend forever package, only 9.99 plus tax!

"Yeah, Zetsu is pretty out of it, so you should probably ignore anything he says about Itachi not being able to do origami," said Sasori, giving Itachi an overly obvious wink. "Now, go and find your lying rat of a son and give him the beat-downs."

"Aww, but I really wanted a cool bloodline..." whined Kisame.

"Go, or Itachi will take away the bloodlines that you already have," threatened Sasori, even though he obviously could do nothing of the sort.

"Okay!" said Kisame and Deidara in unison, running off to go beat their son.

Itachi sighed with relief. "Thanks for covering me, Sasori... You really saved my reputation."

"It's no problem," replied Sasori nonchalantly.

"Yeah, that's what friends are for, right?"

"I thought friends were for sexual favours."

"...No."