"Are we playing strip poker? Is that why you have cards?" Sasori asked.
"No Sasori, this is the game of Uno. Now sit back and relax. Wait…..all of us suck at shuffling and dealing cards." Kisame said.
"I can deal cards, give those to me." Lola said taking the stack from Kisame. She then began to shuffle the cards in an extremely elaborate manner. She flipped then around like she knew exactly what she was doing. Lola shoved the deck in front of Tobi for him to cut the deck.
"Lola……how did you know how to do all that fancy stuff with those cards?" Hidan asked as Lola dealt the cards out so quickly that some of them actually went flying off the glass table.
"Are you kidding!? I worked at a casino as a blackjack dealer in Atlantic City when I started my law degree. I made great money working there." Lola said sitting the remainder of the stack in the middle of the table.
"I….never knew that about you Lola." Kakuzu said slightly intrigued by this information.
"There are a lot of things you don't know about Lola." Sasori said pouring the last of the bottle of wine in to her glass. "Is this our first bottle of wine?"
"No, it's your LAST!" Zetsu told him quickly.
"Marisol, I know I'm not supposed to look at your cards but they are upside down, yeah." Deidara informed her.
"Oh this happens like all the time. I never can hold the cards right. I can't fan them out like that." Marisol said struggling to turn her cards right side up AND hold them. But finally the game of Uno was ready to begin. Sasori went first. His card was a blue seven. Some moments passed and no one laid any cards down.
"Um, Lola it's your turn." Zetsu said.
"Sorry, I was looking at Sasori's cards." Lola said laying down a yellow seven. Sasori gasped.
"You can not look at my cards! I'm going to look at yours!" Sasori said trying to see her cards. Lola just laughed and tried to avoid him but Sasori grabbed on to her.
"No Sasori!" Lola laughed.
"Lola! I show you mine you show me yours!" Sasori said to her still trying to unwrap her arms from around her body. She was still laughing wildly.
"I show you mine you show…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA……I show you nothing." Lola was slightly hysterical.
"You know, I always thought you two were hard to handle when you were drunk….I no longer think that." Kisame said referring to Itachi and Deidara.
"Seriously, they drank two bottles of wine. That averages to a bottle a piece!" Hidan said.
"SASORI! Get your hands out of her shirt! LOLA! Lay a card down!" Zetsu's voice booming like the thunder outside. The lights in the house flickered and surged.
"Wow! We just like so almost lost power, yeah." Dana said examining her cards.
"You know it's always better to go through a storm with a friend, that's why I'm good to have around. I'm always a good storm friend!" Tobi said.
"Yeah, whatever Tobi." Kakuzu said. Lola finally laid down a blue two. Zetsu, Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu and Tobi made the game go a little faster by laying their respective cards down….but now it was Dana's turn.
"Hmmm….what do I do when nothing matches, yeah?"
"You draw a card from the stack." Tobi said. Dana took a card. Dana took a card.
"Okay, well what happens when this card doesn't work either, yeah?"
"You just keep it and now its Itachi's turn." Tobi explained. Itachi laid a green five on the stack. Deidara had a wild card and so the stack now turned blue. As for Marisol she laid down a blue skip card…thank god because it was Saosri's turn. Which now brought us back to Lola. Lola laid down a blue one.
"I go before you." Sasori told her.
"You just got skipped." She said. "See, the blue card says skip. So I laid down a one." Sasori didn't say anything he just stared at Lola. Finally he just winked at her.
"What's that supposed to mean? What message am I supposed to get from that?" Lola asked watching Sasori carefully.
"No, no it's not what you're supposed to get from that it's what you're GOING to get." Sasori winked again.
"Oh, you are…." Lola was cut off.
"Sasori it's your turn." Itachi said. Everyone else had taken their turn during this lovely conversation and now it was time for everyone else to wait for Sasori to get his act together and lay a card down.
"How is it my turn already!? Can't you see I was trying to tell Lola something very important…but now I don't even know what it was!" Sasori said. But just as Kisame was getting ready to fight him on this, lightning struck outside……and the house went dark.
"Um…..I think our power just went out, yeah." Dana said. The only light was the wicked lightning that flashed outside.
"Oh Dana, our power isn't out, stupid Zetsu probably just flipped the wrong light switch in the back hallway." Sasori said getting ready to continue this Uno game.
"Sasori! I'm sitting RIGHT HERE! The storm just knocked out power out!" Zetsu said. Sasori laughed.
"Zetsu, I've always thought you were funny…god…you kill me."
"Perhaps the power will comeback on. Maybe this is just a temporary surge." Tobi said.
"Don't count on it. I'd say it's down for the night." Kakuzu said. "It's a good thing I counted my money earlier tonight!"
"Seriously, I don't need any fucking light to complete any of my Jasshin rituals!" Hidan argued.
"Hey! There is a coconut scented candle upstairs in the bedroom. I could so go get that." Marisol volunteered.
"It wouldn't do any good. We don't have any matches and the last time Itachi used a Katon Jutsu he nearly burned a hole in our carpet at the other apartment." Zetsu said.
"You know, it's strange when we unpacked, we unpacked at least 15 boxes…..and there wasn't a flashlight in any of those boxes. Is there a reason we don't own a flashlight?" Kisame asked. It was a good question actually.
"If I had a slogan what do you think it would be, yeah?" Deidara seemed to ask out of nowhere. Itachi laughed.
"Your slogan would be….don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" Deidara thought a moment.
"Hmmm….no I don't think that would be my slogan, yeah."
"Well, my slogan is 'all the fun without the guilt' so you can't have that." Itachi said confidently.
"Oh my god! Deidara! In high school that gay guy that wanted your ass always said he thought you were like a birthday cake candle….pretty to the eye, hot to the touch and just can't wait to blow on it, yeah." Dana said.
"Wow! He said that, yeah!? That is like such a compliment, yeah! So my slogan could be…." Kisame cut him off.
"Wait, before you do whatever the hell this is that you're doing does anyone else notice that Sasori hasn't said anything in the past 5 minutes? I mean, I figured he would have come back with 50 insults by now…..but he's very quiet…Hidan…"
"I'm on it Kisame. I bet his hands are in all he places they shouldn't be during a power outage." This was going to be a long night…..