"Marisol." Deidara asked half asleep on the couch with Marisol curled up beside him. "

Hmmm?" she asked just as sleepily."

What were you going to talk about as one of your most memorable experiences, yeah?"

"I was going to tell about that one time you and I made out New Years Eve." Marisol said.

"Oh wow...that was...yeah...that was amazing..." Deidara didn't say anything for a moment. "Wait a minute...we did a whole lot more than that on New Years Eve, yeah."

"I would have told about that too."

"Seriously, it has stopped storming out there just a nice rain now." Hidan said looking out the solid back glass of the house.

"Does that mean we can go outside now?"

"Um...no Tobi. It's 2:39 AM who the hell goes outside then?" Zetsu asked.

"And more importantly why the hell am I still awake? I'm going to bed." And with that Zetsu checked out for the rest of the night.

"He's right, Marisol come on sweetie let's go to bed, yeah. I'll carry you upstairs." Deidara scooped Marisol up from the couch and slowly maneuvered through the dark house and to the staircase.

"I would laugh my ass off right now if he dropped her." Kisame said.

"Man, she would not be happy." Kakuzu said.

"You obviously don't know Marisol.She'd just laugh then fuck his brains out." Kisame said.

"You know everyone else has the right idea, I'm going to bed too. It's late and there's no reason for me to be up any longer." Hidan said and he was the next to leave. Now Kisame, Tobi and Kakuzu sat there in the dark living room. Tobi kept tapping his fingers on something.

"Tobi? What are you doing? What do you want?" Kakuzu questioned.

"Well...um..it's just that...will you read me this book before I go to bed?" Tobi handed the book to Kisame.

"Okay Tobi, first off the power is out meaning there is no light to read this stupid book to you. Secondly, what book is this? It feels really really thick." Kisame asked opening up Tobi's book and flipping through the pages.

"It's Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey." Tobi said.

"Tobi, 2001: A Space Odyssey is over 200 pages long." Kisame said.

"Yes! 376 to be exact! I counted them!"

"Alright, Tobi, do you realize you asked me to read a book to you that would take...I don't know how many hours to read to you!" Kisame asked trying to magnify the stupidness of what Tobi had just asked.

"Well, it's just that usually before I go to bed I like to read!" Tobi said.

"A stupid 376 page book!? Whatever happened to reading a magazine article or the newspaper!?" Kisame asked, irritated with Tobi.

"Okay, well anyway I'm not reading to you...especially a novel. I'm going to bed." Now Kakuzu and Tobi were the only ones up, but this didn't last long. It was nearly 3:00 and Kakuzu had to make certain Tobi didn't trip on anything and kill himself on his way to bed. By the time everyone had gone to bed, the storm had passed. The house was quiet...until the next day of course.

Seven peaceful hours later...

It was 10:23. Itachi was slowly waking up.

"Dana." He called for her still mostly asleep.

"Yeah?" she answered not very much more strength in her voice.

"This stupid clock is blinking at me..12:00...12:00...12:00...12:00...12:00...how do you reset this stupid thing?" Dana rose up to her elbows and stared blankly at the clock.

"12:00, yeah...12:00, yeah...12:00, yeah...12:00, yeah." She repeated over and over in her mind as she watched that dumb digital clock blink at them."Hmmm..we can set this thing, yeah." She yawned and climbed over Itachi and took the clock from their night stand. Dana stared at the 19 buttons on the top of the alarm clock. "Hmm...what does this one do, yeah." Dana punched something on top of the clock."AND A NICE MORNING WE HAVE TODAY WITH HIGHS OF 75 EXPECTED BEFORE NOON AND REACHING AN OVERALL HIGH OF 85 TODAY FOR THE AREA..." Dana had obviously pressed the radio button and of course the volume was blaring. "Okay so that's not the clock, yeah."

"Here let me try one." Itachi took the clock from her and hit another button only to set off the horrible shrieking alarm clock. "Oh god! Stupid ass radio clock thing!" Itachi said to the awful electronic device.Meanwhile downstairs Hidan was already awake and checking on everything in the kitchen to make certain all power had returned. He was of course wearing his 'Orochimaru is my Bitch' apron because Hidan decided this would be a perfect time to make a brunch consisting of hash brown potatoes, toaster pastries, biscuits, pineapple and ham. He was basically emptying out the refrigerator so he could do some intense grocery shopping later on. Kisame joined Hidan shortly.

"Hey, looks like our power came back on." Kisame said.

"Seriously, it did I've already reset the microwave clock. And by the way, before Deidara and Itachi get started on their little home improvement project today, they have some work to do in the pool." Hidan said beginning to chop the pineapple. Kisame walked over to the glass side of the house that opened up to the pool. The pool was pretty full of leaves from the previous nights storm.

"So I made some new coffee this morning. I found it in the cabinet, it's French Mocha." Hidan said.

"Hmmm, that sounds interesting; I think I'll...well well well." Kisame's thoughts were interrupted at the sight of Sasori slowly making his way downstairs. Kisame smiled all over, it was a combination of 'I can't wait to give you a hard time' and 'I can't wait to give you hard time until you freak out'. "Good morning beautiful! Why, Sasori why ever do you look so hung-over and sleep deprived!?" Kisame said with joyful spite. Sasori didn't say anything as he walked slowly to kitchen counter bar stool. He sat down and laid his head on the counter between his arms. "Hey, um Sasori? How did Lola sleep last night? Oh wait...she didn't sleep that much did she? That's right!" Kisame was having way too much fun although he knew if Sasori had a little more strength he would be in for a major ass kicking. Sasori still didn't say anything, he just sat there listless.

"Hey man, you want some coffee and maybe some headache medicine?" Hidan was so caring. Sasori shook his head yes but didn't bother looking up. Hidan poured a cup of coffee and shoved it toward Sasori he then began to search for anything that knocked out a headache...a really awful one. Sasori finally sat up and stared blankly at the coffee while his head spun. He looked around as Hidan handed Sasori two pills. Sasori was probably the only person who could swallow medicine with black coffee.

"You know, Sasori I know you haven't said a word yet but you really should eat something with that medicine here." Hidan shoved a biscuit at him. Sasori just stared at it for a moment. He seemed to be in deep thought.

"Why are there two bottles of wine missing from the wine refrigerator?" Sasori said weakly looking at the wine refrigerator. Kisame laughed out loud.

"Because you and Lola put away two bottles last night like it was water." Kisame said. Sasori was still staring at the biscuit.

"We did? I thought it was one."

"Nope, you drank one bottle all through dinner and then you started in on another bottle during Catch Phrase." Kisame said.

"We played Catch Phrase?" Sasori asked.

"Oh my god Sasori! We played Catch Phrase, you sucked at it, there was a storm...we played Uno?"

"Huh?" Sasori asked finally taking another sip of the coffee.

"Here let's make this easier for him. Saosri what DO you remember about last night?" Kisame asked frosting a toaster pastry. Sasori stared off into nowhere again.⌠

"I remember...Lola... I remember Lola making a man out of me."

"Hey Hidan, something tells me Lola is going to need an ice pack when she comes down here." Kisame said.

"I'm on it." Hidan said pulling out a giant freezer bag and filling it full of ice.