Disclaimer: Who owns Naruto? (o) Akira Toriyama (o) Nobuhiro Watsuki (x) Masashi Kishimoto

A/N: Welcome, welcome. Here goes another chapter of the awesome "Just once more" aka "Itachi and the Come, Come Paradise in use" lol

The summary aka a little arithmetic thing: "Itachi needs a girlfriend to kill her to get Mangekyou" + "Itachi spends time with the Uchiha girl Shuiro" + "Itachi kisses Shuiro" makes: ...?? (embarrassed silence… sudden cry:) A BABY!

Naaaah. though... -thinks- anyway, the result will be revealed in the next two chapters.

Time is ruuuunning ouuut…

The people were starring at them as Shuiro and him walked by. Some in disapproval, others in awe. He couldn't care less. Shuiro didn't seem to notice, too. Even if she did, she didn't care either. But in another way than him.

"How was school?" He asked into the casual silence between them.

„Ah, weird. Sanosuke is trying to make an alliance with me against Tokushu",

"Why should he?"

"Weeell, you know, the whole 'Uchiha is all, everything else is not even worth to live' thing. And when I said I'm fine with his thoughts, but there're not mine, he… well, you know him - he got angry. Calling me disloyal, a traitor and such stuff", She sighed and shook her head.

Itachi's eyes had gotten dark. They were all right in Konoha. The Uchihas had put themselves on a podest, that didn't exist. The fact that they claimed to have their kids in one ninjagroup, despite all others, who were mixed up together, was one proof for it. But soon they would fall from their high horse anyway - and maybe never stand up again. It was up to him.

"Want some dango?" He blinked and looked up to her. Shuiro had stopped in front of an Uchiha-stall, selling warm and cold food.

He bought themselves two pieces, stepped with her to the side to eat. Some guys from the police station stood some metres away from them. He felt their eyes on his shoulder, heard them saying his name – and speculating about his suspicious attitude in the last time.

"You like dango, don't you?" Her grin brought him back. Irritated with the dango hanging between his teeth, he looked at her. It made her even more amused. Quietly laughing she lowered her head. "Sometimes… you still look your age, Itachi",

"Hn?" The wrinkle between his brows got deeper. He finally took a bite from his dango. The police guys were still looking at them. He tried to hear what they were saying, but Shuiro caught his attention once more: "Are you stalking people again?"

"What?" He felt confusion rising up. Though he really wanted to know about the police guys' conversation, he turned to her.

"You have this look on your face again. Like you're listening… and I mean you ARE listening, but just not to me. Are there any interesting girls… or… boys?" She added brightly grinning. He shot her a dry glare.

Slowly and in an impassive voice, he answered: „Sometimes… you still act your age, Shuiro", She was shortly impressed by his tit-for-that response.

„Yeah. Sometimes I need that", She then murmured thoughtfully smiling. "Don't you want to sometimes as well?" They exchanged a long, meaningful glare – as they suddenly got interrupted.

"Itachi-kun. There you are", Shisui – Itachi's best friend – joined them in the shadow of the stall. "Shuiro", He nodded to her. "Enjoying some dango? Is his favourite food", He added to her and smiled with pride at Itachi, who shot Shuiro another meaningful sight.

"Um… I wanted to leave anyway", She said and handed Itachi her last piece.

„Any plans for tomorrow?" Itachi asked as she walked by. Always surprised at his interest of being with her, she stopped and pondered.

"Just school. The evening seems fine. You wanna go for a walk?" He nodded. She smiled at his common, impassive mien, not really getting what was going on in his head and then walked away. Shisui looked after her, sighed.

"I always wondered what kind of girl would appeal to you", He leaned back at the wall, the hands buried in his pockets. "Either a girl that's totally the opposite of you ooor… her", He grinned and shook his head in still lingering disbelieve. "Calm like you. Thoughtfully like you. Loyal like you…",

For a second Itachi wondered if he already knew. His eyes narrowed an inch. "But you're definitely not a dreamer",

"So is she", He responded quietly.

"Really? Well, she seems like… like she's always in another world",

"She's more in the here and now than most of us", Shisui blinked puzzled at his reaction: "You really like her, don't you?" Itachi looked away in response. The police men threw him a last glare and then turned away to their office. It seemed like time was running out. He had to act.

"Shisui – I need to talk to you", He said in a low voice, aware if anybody could hear him. "Meet me tonight at the river. There is something about Konoha, you need to know", He paused for a second. "- Before all others", He added almost inaudible.

"Yeah?" Shisui was immediately all serious. "Do they really want to attack us? I hope they know they don't have a chance – not as long as we have people like you and me around", He growled offensively.

"I will tell you tonight. Take care nobody's following you", Itachi said and nodded to him in goodbye. Shisui looked after him, sighing again. Something really bad must had happened. Itachi was getting weirder and weirder each day. And the weirdest about it, was the fact, that in all this weirdness he got himself a girlfriend.

Unbelieveable. Absolutely unbelieveable.

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