Itachi returned late one summer evening from another B-Rank mission. This one had been easy like the rest for him, but it was still enough to leave him tired and sore. What his father had shown him also weighed greatly on his mind. To weary to change into his nightshirt, he striped down to his boxers and crawled into bed. He slept soundly until that morning.

"Itachi!" the loud whisper made him roll over. "ITACHI!" The whisper was louder, he groaned, but didn't open his eyes. "IT-AHHH-CHI!" The whisperer was shaking him now.

"What!" He opened his eyes, Hitomi inches from his face.

"Ohayou!" she sung to him.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Itachi suddenly realized he was half dressed and sprung to the farthest corner of his bed, scrambling to get the covers over himself. Hitomi looked surprised. "How'd you get in here?"

"You left the window open."

"Baka!"

"What!"

"I meant me."

"Oh, ok."

"What would compel you to climb though my window?" Itachi glanced at his alarm clock, "At seven in the morning?"

"You promised me we would go walking."

"And you couldn't use the front door?"

"It's much more fun this way."

"Could I get dressed first?"

"Sure!" Hitomi sat at Itachi's desk chair, facing him and smiling expectantly.

"In private?" Her face fell.

"It's nothing I won't eventually see anyway." Itachi sighed; she could be so difficult at times.

"I'll meet you at the trail head, ok?" Hitomi shrugged.

"Ok." She slid his bedroom door open. Sasuke stood in the bathroom across the hall, he turned and stared at Hitomi stupidly, his mouth covered in foam and the handle of the toothbrush sticking out one side of his mouth. "You're dripping foam Sasuke-kun!" Sasuke jumped and slid the bathroom door shut. Itachi put his head in his hands. He herd Hitomi say brightly down the hall, "Ohayou gozaimasu, Mikoto-san."

"Ohayou gozaimasu, Hitomi-chan." He herd his mother reply. Mikoto stoped at Itachi's doorway, giving him a quizzical look. "Where is your nightshirt?" Itachi pulled the covers around him again.

"Could you please close my door?"