Penelope ~ Pov

After the whole incident that happened yesterday, Sapherya has been a little bit more distant. I'm not sure if she's just stressed or if she's depressed or what, I just know that it is something to be concerned about. I know my best friend and this is definitely not like her. "Hm, I wonder what we can do that'll take her mind off of a few things." I thought out loud to myself as I wiped the sweat from my forehead. "Fuck it's hot." That's when an idea hit me. The temperature was supposed to reach about 104 degrees. How about we hit some Dihydrogen monoxide? A.K.A. Time to hit the pools! With that awkwardly fist pumping the air I turned around running into a humanoid figure.

"Whoa, Penelope what are you in a hurry for, Hmm?" A swish of blond hair hit me in the face along with a strong chest. I felt my face heat up ever so slightly. I jumped away scratching the back of my head awkwardly looking around trying to avoid eye contact.

"Nothing much, I was just trying to come up with some ways to help cheer up Sphere. She's been kind of off lately and I wanted to help bring her spirits back up." I couldn't help but admit to him. When I finally looked up to meet his gem like blue eyes I felt like I couldn't breath. This man in front of me is just so handsome in real life. Hard to believe he's really here.

"So, what did you have planned, hmm?" I was pulled from my inner fangirling and slight drooling. Embarrassed I wiped my mouth and then remembered what I was previously going to do.

"Oh yeah! I was going to drag her to the pool. There's a pool in our neighborhood that not many people use, so we go there sometimes. Plus it's going to be really hot today so I mean what better way to cheer her up then having splash wars!" I grinned evilly and then dash out of the room skidding across the hall, which in turn stunning Sphere who was in the living room. I darted into the bedroom and grabbed the two male trunks we had purchased yesterday. At the same time putting on my own black and purple bikini. Grabbing Sphere's red and black one and darting to the living room throwing the black and red ones to Itachi and the bikini to Sphere. As soon as I caught sight of Deidara I threw him his yellow and orange ones. "Come on guys let's get dressed! We are heading out!" I commented rather excitedly. Sapherya looked a little lost but then I guess it clicked because she jumped up and ran to the bedroom at mach-20. I began laughing while we waited for her to finish. Itachi followed her and Deidara took the bathroom and soon everyone was ready. Boy was I ready for today to happen.

Once we had arrived at the pool we paid the $6 we needed to get in and I plopped the swim bag down in a nice shady spot with some chairs. Walking, well more like hopping to the pool because the cement was so damn fucking hot I jumped in screaming. "Cannon ball!" With that I felt my head splash underwater with the rest of my body while I hugged my knees in close. Thankfully there were only a few people here; a mother and her two kids and that was it.

Coming up for air I took a big gulp and looked around moving my hair away from my face in search of my best friend. She as always was taking her time getting in by the steps. Itachi was already in his hands held out to her in case she needed assistance. I wasn't sure what to think, I did think they were a cute couple but it still makes me wonder what happened while she was with the Akatsuki alone. I mean Deidara's cute and all but I don't know if I'd ever fall in love with someone like that. I was too deep in thought to see it coming, a big streak of yellow blurring followed by a big splash and a lot of coughing. Snapping out of it I notice a wet blond monster next to me and I think I died. I wasn't sure if it was from shock or if it was from laughter either way I died. "Oh my fucking god Deidara, you look like a drowned rat!" cackling I move his hair away from his face an adorable pout adorning his features.

"Shut up, un! Or you'll pay the price!" He shouted at me. I felt my face scrunched up on its own accord, oh it was on, if he wanted a challenge I'll give him a challenge.

"Bring it prissy girl I'll take you any day of the week!" I hollered, looking at his reaction I second thought myself seeing the sadistic grin on his face. "Oh shit"

"You asked for it, hmm!" With that he grabbed my waist and swam towards the deeper end of the pool and dove under. I took a deep breath and began squirming trying to release myself from his evil grasp. Fuck, I've made a grave mistake. When I was just about to run out of air he surfaced us and released me. Coughing I shot him a glare and began splashing the shit out of him.

"You'll fucking pay for that you fucking little prissy boy!"

"Oh you want to bet, I'll do it again hmm!"

"Fuck that you have to catch me first!" shit, shit, shit, I really need to learn how to keep my mouth shut. I swam as fast as I could narrowly dodging a hand swiping at my side again. Squealing slightly I hid behind Sapherya who was looking at me like I was crazy, I guess I am but that's besides the point.

"Penelope, what do you think I'm going to do? I'm tiny!" She raised a brow and looked at me with an odd expression trying to gain an explanation from me.

"Well, I know that Itachi wouldn't let anything hurt you so… in any case I am trying not to get dragged under again!" My best friend just rolled her eyes and smirked an evil glint in her eyes, soon a splash of water hit me in the face. Sputtering for a moment I grin just as darkly and thus, a splash war has begun between the four of us. Now let me see if I can draw a picture of this for a reference. All I saw was Sapherya laughing and giggling sputtering and coughing as the water was up to her just below her chest in the 3 foot zone. She's trying to escape Itachi and Deidara who are both going after her, the water up to their waist because well they are indeed taller then she is. A look of horror on her face when Itachi has a grin on his face, not quite his usual smirk but a devilish grin lingering as he picked her up bridal style and threw her in the air causing her to splash into the deeper end. Her brunette hair finally poked above the water as she attempted to tread the water shooting him an evil glare and then lurched forward under the water to sweep his feet out from under him, at which point she failed.

"How dare you!" She screeched and laughed trying to squirm away from him as he caught her. This was definitely amusing, watching her finally smile and laugh. It lifted my spirits knowing that we can help bring her out of her sadness, summertime sadness. Swimming over I grinned and bellowed cheeks puffed out and fist on my hips.

"CHICKEN FIGHT!" I saw Sphere roll her eyes.

"No way! I'm too damn heavy to sit on Itachi's shoulders." She blushed and looked away looking as if she felt awkward. Soon thereafter a shriek could be heard as a tiny Sapherya was on top of Itachi's shoulders. A bright red blush on her cheeks, pouting she mutters a small fine in return.

"Yes!" I grin and climb onto Deidara's shoulders who was stoked about having a chicken fight. Soon we were in position, and I called go. Saphereya was hand in hand with me and pushing against me a blush dusting her cheeks as she fought me and I smirked trying to push her off balance but Itachi kept them balanced. Damn Uchiha. I was about to knock her over when I felt Deidara tumble under the water a smirk on the Uchiha's face and Sapherya was grinning.

"Ne, Ne, Penelope you should know not to challenge the infamous Uchiha." I rolled my eyes and laughed.

"Yes, yes, but I'm pretty sure it hurt Deidara's pride more." I looked over to the sulking blonde. "Either way I'm hungry we've been here for almost 6 hours, so I think we should go home and eat something." Everyone agreed and we got out of the pool. Drying off we headed towards the car where we all climbed in and drove home.

"Thank you for today." A very tired Sphere said and fell asleep leaning against me in the living room. I smiled and petted her haired comfortingly.

"Of course, you deserve happiness…" I smiled and yawned as the four of us crashed out on the living room couch. We played hard today. It was a day to remember, that is for sure.