When Itachi and Tobi had returned from their 'business stuff' they walked in on… a sight.

A Monopoly board laid out in the middle of the room with everyone around it in varying states of distress. Sasori was lying on his back, staring up at the ceiling, eyes glazed over and he was mumbling something about railroads. Kisame was the closest to the door and when he saw Itachi and Tobi enter he whispered a quiet, "Help us."

Hidan was sitting on Deidara's back, straddling him, pulling at his hair and screaming about hotels or something while Sakura tried her best to pull Hidan off of Deidara.

"What in the world…" Itachi trailed off.

"Deidara wouldn't give up B&O Railroad," Kisame explained. "It just… Escalated." He gestured over towards the pile of bodies.

Itachi put his hand to his forehead and sighed. "Hidan, get the hell off of Deidara. You know he won't like it if you spill blood on one of his properties."

Hidan, somehow, managed to hear Itachi's curt tone over his own wailing. He stopped mid-sentence, considered something, and released Deidara. "Whatever," he muttered as he pushed past Sakura to sit back in his original seat. "Not worth it."

Sakura looked from Hidan to Deidara to Itachi, perplexed. "What… I… How did you….?"

"Fear works wonders." Itachi looked down at Sasori. "It went fine, by the way."

Sasori gave a quick nod. "Okay, good to know."

"Sasori, are you okay?" Tobi crouched next to him.

"They're just…" Sasori brought his hands up to his face. "So stupid."

"Rude," Sakura stretched her leg out to kick him.

"Not you," Sasori said.

Sakura grumbled as she brought her leg back to sit criss crossed. "Better not be."

"Are you feeling okay, Sakura?" Tobi asked as he came over to sit next to her. "You drank a lot at dinner."

Sakura smiled and nodded. "Yeah. I woke up a little while ago with a killer headache, but Kisame helped. It wasn't nearly as bad as after Kisame's birthday." She winced at the memory.

"Yay!" Tobi hugged her. "Which means you can drink more again tonight! Drunk Sakura is fun."

"What about sober Sakura?" Sakura asked with mock offense.

"Different sort of fun," Tobi assured.

Sakura hummed in consideration. "Alright. I accept that." She hugged him back. "What sorta business stuff were you all up to exactly?"

Tobi waved his hand dismissively. "Boring stuff."

"Immensely," Itachi said as he sat down.

"Happy to not be there," Hidan said.

"Yes, Kakuzu was wondering where you were," Itachi said.

Hidan groaned. "He's here?"

"He was," Tobi said.

"They left when we were finished," Itachi said.

"Thank Jashin." Hidan ran a hand through his hair. "I do not want to deal with that asshole right now."

"He must be such a lovely person," Sakura said. "You should definitely introduce me, Hidan."

Hidan shot her a glare. "Woman, don't make me come over there."

Sakura put up her hands and gestured for him to come to her. "Bring it, boy. Or did you forget how this ended last time?" She gestured to her mouth and stuck her tongue out. "I could always remind you."

Hidan's glare melted into a smirk. "Do I need to remind you how that ended?"

"Return of She-Hulk?" Tobi asked.

Sakura was about to say something but Hidan interrupted her, "I was thinking of something a bit different."

Sakura puffed out her cheeks in a pout. "That was playing dirty and you know it."

Hidan's smirk grew. "Hell yeah I do."

Sakura threw her hands in the air and shot Deidara a glare when she heard him snickering. "Don't you dare say anything."

"What happened?" Kisame asked.

"Hidan was an ass," Sakura supplied.

"Ah," Kisame said as if everything now made sense.

Itachi rolled his shoulders and looked around the room. "Is there anymore of that green bottle left?"

"Yeah," Sasori pointed to a corner of the room. "Should be over there unless Kisame took it."

Itachi mumbled a thank you and asked if anyone else wanted him to grab anything from the large group of bottles. Mostly everyone asked for him to bring something over, but when Itachi looked to Sakura she shook her head vehemently.

"No, no way," she said. "I'm still dehydrated as heck. If I drink anymore I'll have to go to the hospital."

"Suit yourself," Hidan said as he took a bottle from Itachi. It was still more than half full, but if Sakura were to guess, it would be empty in about two hours. She still couldn't comprehend that they could drink so damn much.

Sakura watched them all begin their new round of intoxication and decided this would be the perfect opportunity to fully enjoy the hot springs - without interruptions.

The memory from only a few hours ago brought a flush to her face and Sakura looked over to Sasori with a small smile. Well, another interruption wouldn't be so bad. Still, she barely had time to enjoy herself last time.

Also she really wanted to get her phone back.

With a huff she stood and stretched, making a sound that was probably louder than it should have been. "Guys, I'm gonna head off to the springs again while you all," she gestured around the room, "do whatever."

"Aww," Tobi whined. "You won't stay with us?"

Sakura laughed and shook her head. "Being the only sober one is never fun. And I kinda left my phone there anyways."

"We'll hang out later, right?"

"Of course," Sakura promised.

She picked up her overly large water bottle and headed out the door, saying her goodbyes. She went straight for the hot spring and didn't bother taking her clothes off in the designated changing rooms. Instead, she let a trail of fabric follow her to the edge of the pool and then she slid in, letting the warmth seep into her.

The plan had been to relax, to let her mind drift and mellow out into white noise. But instead of wandering to nothing, she kept thinking back to the group of men getting wasted inside. How they'd made this one of the best birthday celebrations ever, even if it wasn't even halfway done.

Hopefully Kisame's birthday had been almost as amazing for him, but Sakura was determined to make it up to everyone else. They deserved it.

"Oh, right," Sakura murmured. Hidan's birthday was in less than a week, he'd mentioned that…

Sakura clicked her tongue and rolled her eyes. Of course he'd wait until the last minute to actually tell her. He'd have to know by now how much she loved throwing birthdays, right? What was he expecting would happen now that she had zero planning time?

Even Sakura herself had to laugh at that. She knew what he was probably expecting. And yet… Somehow she knew he'd be happy with a Netflix marathon or even her letting him talk about his religion for a few hours. She smiled. That would be nice.

Other things would be nice, too, though.

Sakura was already flushed pink from the spring, but she knew she was blushing. Her thoughts had a mind of their own right now it seemed. It was too easy to imagine exactly what she'd be actually happy doing with him then.

Bodies flushed pink, quick gasps, writhing hips… Sated smiles, afterglow giggles, now-warm body pulling her close, her eyes drooping as he let her nod off for a bit.

It all brought a grin to her face but Sakura still found herself groaning in irritation because what else was she supposed to do, though?!

"Hidan, you utter dunce!" Sakura shook her first at the pale sky. It was just starting to turn a pale gray, the stars slowly blinking away.

The door inside slid open then followed by someone asking, "What did Hidan do now?"

Sakura turned to see Itachi standing there, closing the door behind him. His hair was down from his usual ponytail and he had nothing but a towel hanging loosely over his waist.

Sakura squashed the initial knee-jerk reaction to turn away and instead shot him a pout. "Hidan told me his birthday is in, like, five days - well, four now."

"Hn," Itachi padded forward. "And that's bad?"

"Terrible!" Sakura threw her hands in the air, honestly uncaring of her nudity in the moment - Itachi made it easy to do; his eyes stayed easily on her face. "He's given me half a week to prepare his birthday! Do you know how long it took to do Kisame's?"

Itachi breathed a laugh and moved to undo his towel - Sakura politely directed her attention away from him, conveniently taking that moment to pick up her phone.

"Hidan wouldn't want anything as flashy as that," he said as he lowered himself into pool.

Sakura turned on her screen and saw she'd gotten a good number of texts. She began to look through them while she kept talking to Itachi. "True, but still. I wanted to repay all of you for this."

"You don't have to do that," Itachi said in a tone that said there was no arguing.

"Yes, I do," Sakura replied easily. Itachi was surprisingly not as prickly as Sasuke. It was easy for Sakura to handle him, truthfully.

She shot off replies to happy birthday texts and comments from Ino about the pictures she'd posted. The phone wasn't even back on the ground before she saw that Naruto had replied. She laughed to herself. It took a few back and forth messages to assure him she was doing fine and everything was going great before he relented and told her goodbye.

"Sorry about that," Sakura said and looked up at Itachi sheepishly. "Naruto likes to take the roll of my mom sometimes."

"It's no problem," Itachi replied. "You really don't have to repay us, though." He reached out to run his fingers down her arm. "We're doing this because we want to."

Sakura smiled and hummed. "And you should know how much I like planning parties. Hadn't Sasuke ever mentioned all the parties I threw for him?"

Itachi looked off to the rippling water, a small smile on his lips. "Yes. He did."

"Then you know!" Sakura laughed. "So, whether I need to pay you all back or not, you're getting them. All of you."

Itachi kept the smile but returned his eyes to look at her. "I look forward to it."

They sat like that for a while, comfortably quiet, with Itachi's hand traveling up and down Sakura's arm at first, and then up to her neck and into her hair. Sakura hummed happily and leaned her head back into it.

"Hey," she murmured with eyes closed.

"Hm?"

"Why'd you come out here?" Sakura asked. "I thought you were going to get shitfaced."

Itachi hummed. "I only needed enough to take the edge off after the meeting."

"Ah, yes," Sakura scrunched up her face. "Business things. Sounds icky."

Itachi laughed. It was more of a small chuckle, really, but Sakura knew a laugh from Itachi when she heard one. "It was very icky. But everyone else had other plans and I didn't fancy being around my inebriated housemates."

"At least not when you're also drunk, right?" Sakura asked. "I saw you last night, you were having a great time with them."

"Yes, but as you pointed out, I was also drinking. Being around them sober is…"

"A headache?"

Itachi nodded. "A bit, yes."

"Do you guys even get headaches?" Sakura asked. "I mean… There's no blood, so…"

"You tell me, doctor," Itachi said.

Sakura dropped her jaw in mock aghast. "Was that sass, Uchiha?"

"Perhaps," Itachi drawled. "Or, it was the couple shots I did in fact do before coming here."

Sakura laughed so hard she ended up snorting. "There are a few things I don't expect to hear in my life, and Itachi Uchiha saying he did shots is absolutely one of those things."

Itachi's fingers moved from the back of Sakura's neck to wrap his arm around her shoulders and pull her closer to him. "I'm sure there are a few things you've done lately you didn't think you'd ever do."

Sakura didn't bother hiding the blush on her cheeks, even when Itachi's lips quirked into the tiniest smirk. "My best friend's older brother is definitely high up on that list." Then, without thinking, she said in a near whisper. "I mean, that's not to say I hadn't thought about it…."

Itachi's eyebrow twitched up. "What was that?"

Sakura chewed on her cheek before answering. "Itachi, I slept over at your house. A lot. I knew well before this year that you enjoy going shirtless more often than you'd admit." Itachi was giving her a look that could almost be called smug and Sakura huffed. "Don't give me that look. You pranced around that house shamelessly even when my young and impressionable eyes were present."

"...Pranced?"

"Pranced." Sakura nodded. "So of course my young and curious mind conjured up miscellaneous ideas." Itachi kept his eyes on her and Sakura knew he was waiting for her to continue. With a deep breath she glanced down and trailed her fingers along the top of his thigh under the water.

"Well, since you asked so nicely," she responded sarcastically to the silence, "I didn't have a very good idea of," she cleared her throat, "measurements… So…" She found it was easier to stare down at their laps than look him in the eye right then. "You're a lot… More. Than I'd imagined." She waited for a reply but when he made no noise she looked back up.

Sakura was surprised to say the least when there was a light red coloring Itachi's cheeks and even his neck. She mused to herself that he must have had more than alcohol to drink….

Then, another thought occurred to her.

"Itachi?"

"Hm?" He hummed and flicked his gaze back to her; Sakura bit her lip and made herself not recoil under the weight of his stare.

"You… Can get headaches after you feed, can't you?"

There was a quiet pause and Itachi furrowed his brows together. "I… Yes, that is correct."

Sakura trailed her hand higher up his thigh, just brushing the crease that joined leg and body. "Which means you can get other things after feeding, too…"

Itachi caught on quickly. He sucked in a quick, albeit quiet, breath. "Yes."

Sakura subconsciously started biting her lip for the nth time that morning. She was completely sober at this point so the thought of going as far as they could was still nerve wracking, but… Other things didn't sound as intimidating.

"Itachi?" She asked and was answered with a hum. "Um… May I?"

He swallowed and nodded slowly. Sakura might have giggled at his obvious nerves if hers weren't just as bad. It was nice, though. Everyone else had been so confident and sure in what they were doing while Sakura was trying to swallow down nervous babble.

But here was Itachi - Itachi frickin Uchiha - who was nervous and goddamn blushing. It helped. Weirdly, it helped Sakura take that last step and reach forward, ghosting the tips of her fingers over him.

Now she let herself stare more unabashed and took a quick second to remind herself that yes, wow, she was very wrong about her own preconceived notions. And no, she wasn't at all upset about this.

Sakura gently wrapped her hand around him, just feeling and it earned her a quick breath from Itachi. Off to a good start. That was good because Sakura suddenly realized that she had absolutely no idea how to actually proceed. Ino had told her a few things over the years - 'Just in case!' - and Sakura was wishing she'd paid more attention.

"Shit," she whispered to herself, stupidly thinking Itachi wouldn't hear it or notice.

"Are you okay?" He asked in a voice much too even for the situation.

"I…" Sakura stumbled over her words, restarting her sentence a few times.

Itachi took pity on her, though. He reached up to thread his fingers through her hair and fix her with a serious stare. "Sakura, if you're uncomfortable, we don't have to - "

Sakura shook her head. "No! No, that's… Not it." She groaned. "I have no idea what I'm doing," she said in a rush.

"Oh," Itachi said.

"Y-Yeah…" Sakura grumbled but still kept her hand in place. "I want to… But I'm not really sure how…"

Itachi cleared his throat and looked to the side. "You're - It's - I'll… Tell you if something is, ah, not ideal."

Sakura nodded, "Yeah. Okay, that's… Yeah that works." She pursed her lips for a whole three seconds before she let herself giggle.

Itachi looked back at her. "Sakura?"

She waved a hand in front of her face. "It's nothing, it's nothing. I'm happy is all."

"Oh?"

"Mhmm," Sakura hummed as she shifted, swinging a leg over his lap so she could look at him face to face. "Here's Mister Uchiha, the cool and oh-so-suave older brother to the boy everyone liked or envied in high school, and he's stammering almost as much as me." She giggled again. "Can you, like, stop being better than my imagination?"

Itachi chuckled. "Sorry?"

Sakura leaned in, pressing her lips to his. Instead of replying she continued moving her hand over the hardness between them.

It wasn't rocket science, of course. Sakura knew she could make it feel good but what if it wasn't good enough?

She tried emulating things she'd seen online, worried that it might even end up hurting, but then Itachi was forcing down a moan and his hands came up to grip her hips. His head tipped back and Sakura took advantage of the fact to press her lips to the column of his neck.

When she bit on where his pulse point would be, Itachi hissed out a sound that may have been her name. Another bite, another suck, and Sakura was happy for Itachi's sake that there wouldn't be any marks left behind - the poor man was more shy than he seemed.

Itachi's hands smoothed around her waist and started moving to her legs and around her thighs. Sakura tsked and used her free hand to grab one of his while moving her lips up to his ear.

"Just let me for now," she breathed against him. Whatever retort was on the tip of Itachi's tongue came out as a low moan when Sakura slid her hand up his cock and pressed her thumb over the slit. "You can do what you like some other time. I wanna take care of you right now."

It seemed to take a lot of focus for Itachi to nod. Sakura hummed happily and nipped at his ear.

Yeah, Sakura decided, she was happy to let all the focus land on him right now. He deserved it - they all did. Itachi just so happened to be one of the ones who would be more humble about it.

She repeated the action from before and the grip on her hips tightened. Instead of keeping his head tilted back, Itachi sat forward and shifted them so he plant open mouthed kisses to Sakura's neck.

Sakura's ministrations stuttered for a quick second and then she was back to drawing muffled groans from the man underneath her. Every now and then Sakura would do something with her hand that would make Itachi press further into her, muffling any sound, but also pressing his fangs against her. The sharp prick got no where near piercing skin, but the light pressure still sent a tingle down her spine.

Heat began to flicker in her abdomen, but she wasn't able to think long on that. Itachi was reaching over to halt her with a panted, "Sakura, wait, I'm - "

Sakura halted and ran her free hand up his arm. "That's kinda the point, you know."

Itachi looked up at her. His voice was strained but steady. "Not in the water."

Sakura blinked back at him and then it clicked. "Oh! Right." She looked around and saw a few lounging chairs not far off from the pool. She pointed. "Go lay on one of those."

Itachi followed her gaze and nodded. They both settled in about the same position but this time Sakura stalled, looking down at him.

"Sakura?" Itachi asked.

She licked her lips - an action that did not go unnoticed by Itachi. "Can I… Try something?"

"Try what?" Itachi brushed the hair from her face.

Now the blush she was sporting was even more visible. "I want to… Use more than just my hands."

Itachi's face wasn't nearly as red as Sakura's, but it was getting there. "If - If you do, I may not… I won't last long."

Sakura shook her head. "I don't care about that. As long as it feels good, right?"

Itachi's shoulders relaxed a bit. "Yeah, that's right."

She gave a reassuring smile and scooted down his legs so she was straddling his knees now. "Same as before, yeah? Tell me if I'm doing anything wrong." She leaned forward, butterflies exploding in her stomach.

Itachi reached forward to brush her hair out of her face and Sakura felt her heart stutter. Of course that simple gesture is the thing that actually flusters her and not the cock she's gently wrapping her fingers around again.

She looks down at him for a moment before leaning in and giving a tentative lick to the head. Itachi's hand tightened in her hair and he back another groan.

So far so good.

This time she was bolder, swirling her tongue around the head and then pressing into the slit - in this moment she was oh so glad for the Internet and the plethora of porn on it. Otherwise she'd have no idea what she was doing. But Itachi looked and sounded like she was doing the right thing, so she pressed on.

She leaned in and licked a stripe up from the base of his cock to the head and then pressed it past her lips. With barely more the head in her mouth she gave a tentative suck and Itachi grit out a quick, "Shit."

Sakura preened and continued the motion. She bobbed her head slowly, minding her teeth and hollowing her cheeks. Her hand followed the motion and soon she found her rhythm. It went on for almost a minute before Itachi was tugging at her hair, warning her he was close.

There were a few things she was up to trying today, but there were also many more things she'd rather not do. At the warning she pulled off of his cock with a wet pop and was immediately pulled back to her original position.

Itachi's lips found hers and Sakura let him kiss her as he pleased as she continued her quickened pace. A quick gasp was the only warning and then Itachi was moaning long and low as something warm hit across Sakura's stomach and hand.

They sat there for a while, Sakura running her clean hand through his hair. The both of them listening to each other's breathing.

Itachi broke the silence with a chuckle.

Sakura returned the laugh. "Oh come on, I can't have been bad enough to laugh!"

Itachi shook his head and gave her another kiss. "No, it's not that," he paused for only a second then continued, knowing Sakura would press him. "It usually lasts longer than that is all."

Sakura rolled her eyes and gave a half hearted smack to his arm. "Don't you even. I told you, all that matters is that you enjoyed it." She crossed her arms. "You did enjoy it, right?"

Itachi nodded and looked down between them. He grimaced. "We should get you cleaned up."

"Probably, but first." She leaned in again until she felt his lips against hers once again. This time the kiss was slow and gentle, but it still made her stomach flutter.

When they pulled away from each other Sakura started stretching her legs out while Itachi grabbed one of the many clean towels scattered around. He dipped it into the water and walked over to stand behind her, bringing his hands around so he could press the cloth to her stomach and also nuzzle into her neck.

Sakura had to cover her mouth to keep from giggle-shrieking. Now that her senses weren't interpreting everything as pleasurable, her ticklish nature returned. She wriggled in his grip, nearly screeching for him to stop between giggles. Itachi kept assuring her he had no idea what she was talking about. He was only trying to help her clean up!

In the end the both of them were entangled in some strange tickle/wrestling competition when Sasori and Deidara came by. Sakura tried to bribe them with freebee spells if they helped her hold Itachi down so she could tickle his feet.

Itachi countered by threatening to purge their room while they were at class.

Itachi won.

"That's a stupid idea," Hidan said with what he hoped was finality.

Sakura disregarded his tone. "It is not!"

"It absolutely is. There's only one reason anyone ever plays it and every one of us can kiss you whenever we want. Also it's boring." Hidan nodded to himself.

"Truth or dare is not boring. Ino and I played it all the time in high school!" Sakura defended.

"Fuckin' stop the presses everyone! Teenage girls played truth or dare! Sakura, how could you have not told us before? Seriously, this is groundbreaking. Do tell, what scandalous acts did you get up to? Frozen bras? Whipped cream on people's faces?" Hidan rolled his eyes. "Give me a break."

Sakura crossed her arms and was about to retaliate but Itachi spoke first.

"I do not have a heavy opinion on the game itself, but I can say that if your games with your friends were anything like the ones you played with my brother…" Itachi trailed off and seemed to see a memory rather than Sakura's face. "Deidara never started a fire nearly as big…"

"Excuse me?" Deidara leaned in. "You told me I did a helluva lot of damage that time I blew up the bathroom."

Itachi nodded. "Indeed. And four months later the western quarters experienced something worse."

"You said you were remodeling," Kisame said. He was staring at Sakura with an odd mixture of awe and perhaps terror.

Sakura smiled sweetly and shrugged. "We were going over attack spells that week and one thing led to another. My point is," she pointed at Hidan, "truth or dare is fun! And the stakes are better now that alcohol is involved."

"How?" Tobi asked.

"Well can't you decide to take a shot instead of do a dare or answer a truth? As a sort of punishment?"

"Sounds fun," Deidara said. "I'm game."

"Same," Kisame came to sit in the circle.

"Yeah!" Tobi chimed in, bouncing in his seat next to Sakura.

She looked over to the other three with a pouty face and puppy dog eyes.

Itachi cracked first, coming over and taking a seat silently. Sasori grumbled something unintelligible but walked over as well.

"Oh, fine!" Hidan threw his arms up in the air and plopped down next to Deidara. "Maybe I can at least fuck with some of you."

"Who asks first?" Deidara asked.

"Why not the birthday girl?" Kisame looked to Sakura.

Oh, she'd hoped they'd pick her early on. She grinned, trying to keep it sweet. "What? Little ol' me? Well if you insist!" She put a finger to her chin and hummed, pretending to think. "How about…" She pointed straight to Hidan.

He rolled his eyes. "What a shocker."

"Truth or dare, bitch?" Sakura asked.

Hidan smirked. "Fucking dare me."

Sakura clapped her hands together. "Fantastic. Now… Whatever could it be?" She put her hand to her chin again. "Oh, I just have no idea! Whatever could I possibly pick?"

"Just hurry up, damn." Hidan gripped.

"I dare you to kiss Deidara."

"Excuse me?" A pair of voices rang out.

Kisame had to slap a hand over his mouth to keep quiet and Itachi was obviously biting down hard on his cheek to keep from smiling.

"What?" Sakura asked innocently. "You're the one who said this was the point." She looked to Deidara and mouthed 'sorry!'

Deidara recovered quickly and shrugged. "Could be worse."

Hidan glared at him. "Oh really?"

"Yeah," Deidara said like it was obvious. "Am I worse than tasting literal ass for a week?"

"Hell yeah!" Hidan shot at him.

Deidara put the back of his hand to his forehead. "I am wounded."

"Come on, you idiot." Kisame nudged Hidan. "It's that or you're taking a shot from that bottle that smells like a zoo."

Hidan groaned and turned to Deidara then looked back at Sakura. "Wait, how long?"

"However long a good kiss lasts," she told him. "I know that must not be something you're familiar with, but I know Deidara can help you through it."

Deidara couldn't hide his smug grin.

Hidan grabbed the collar of Deidara's shirt with one hand and pointed at Sakura with the other. "You must have had too much to drink. But don't worry, I'll be over to give you a reminder of how fucking amazing I am once I'm done here."

Sakura hummed and gestured with her hand. "Stop stalling."

Evidently Deidara was also tired of waiting. He clicked his tongue when Hidan still didn't move and grabbed the back of his head, pulling him in.

Sakura joined in with the rest of the guys in cheering them on. She couldn't help a quick excited giggle that slipped past her lips - the whole situation was sinking in and it all felt surreal. Fucking Hidan and Deidara were making out because of a dare of Sakura's and she was cheering them on.

And on top of the whole strangeness of the situation, Sakura found she did not mind the sight in front of her one bit.

...That would be a thought to revisit another time. Sometime when the two men weren't parting and Hidan wasn't turning to fix Sakura with wild eyes.

Sakura barely had time to swallow and then he was on her, his hands rough on the back of her head. The kiss was still rough but Sakura felt the underlying care when their teeth didn't clack together and he didn't crush them together with a bruising force.

Sakura let him take control, letting Hidan press his tongue past her lips to slide against her own. She tightened her grip in his hair and nipped at him - it earned her a pleased groan that still sent shivers down her spine even if she was surrounded by people.

And yet… Sakura should be embarrassed - she should be pushing Hidan away and firmly reprimanding him. She should say this large amount of PDA is unacceptable but… The urge isn't there. In its place is a pooling warmth that may or may not be because of the eyes on her.

Another thing to think about much, much later.

Just as Sakura's lungs were beginning to burn for air, Hidan pulled away. There was a split second where his expression was just as dazed as hers but it easily melted back into the cocky smirk he loved to wear.

Sakura huffed. "Yeah, yeah. Gold star for you."

Hidan laughed. "Awesome." He leaned in to press a chaste kiss to her forehead and then he was going back to his spot. "My turn to ask now, right?"

"Uh, yeah," Deidara said.

The game, from there, dissolved into what Sakura would categorize as chaotic nonsense. Sure, Sakura played some pretty stupid fucking games of truth or dare, but this was ridiculous. One would think these guys had never actually played this game and were getting out the stupid, idiotic things they would have taken care of in their teens.

To their credit this game probably didn't exist when any of them were teenagers, but that's beside the point.

Sakura, whether she wanted to or not, knew a lot more about her boys now.

At one point Kisame was asked just what the hell kind of piercing he'd gotten in the seventies. There was a lot of stalling and when he'd finally said the name, the meaning flew over Sakura's head. Deidara had to explain that basically he'd had metal in his dick.

"Kisame, why?"

"I was drunk and Suigetsu made a good argument," he explained.

"It's not still…" Tobi asked and glanced to Kisame's lap.

Kisame shook his head. "No, god no. Hell no." He shook his head and took a sip from the cup next to him. "Never again."

"Who the hell is stupid enough to do that?!" Hidan hollered from his position laying on the ground. There were tears in his eyes from laughing.

Kisame gave Hidan an unimpressed look. "Like you haven't done anything stupid."

"Not that stupid!"

"Truth or dare, Hidan." Kisame said.

Hidan wiped his eyes and sat up. "Oh no, how scary. Dare."

"Tell us about that girl from 1867."

Hidan's pale face went whiter. "You son of a fuck." He weighed his options for two seconds and then grabbed the bottle to drink from when you forfeit a turn.

"Are you serious?" Sasori stared at him warily.

Hidan took a swig straight from the bottle. He coughed and groaned for a bit. "We're not digging that up, no way. No how. Nope. Fuck all of you."

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Now I want to know more."

Hidan glared. "Never." He pointed at Itachi. "Your turn, pretty boy."

The game started to wind down after that and Sakura was planning on heading off to bed after Hidan's next turn.

Everyone really liked picking on Hidan, it seemed. Sakura had only had a handful of turns and none had been horrendous.

"Dare, obviously." Hidan said.

Deidara grinned. "You still got the 'emergency' credit card on you?"

"Yeah…?" Hidan answered warily.

"Excellent," Deidara reached for his phone. "I dare you… To…" He paused and opened something on his phone. "Ah! Here we go." He turned the phone to show Hidan. "I dare you to buy this with that card."

Hidan's mouth pressed into a straight line. "You want me to buy a fucking fifty-five gallon drum of lube with Kakuzu's card?!"

"Yes, exactly." Deidara smiled.

Hidan looked from the bottle to the phone and back again. His face changed expression from pissed to confused to what Sakura could only categorize as fear. But then he was throwing his hands in the air and bringing them down to snatch Deidara's phone and take out his wallet.

"I hate all of you." Hidan grumbled.

"Hey!" Sakura whined.

Hidan glanced up and winked at her. "Okay, not you."

"That's more like it," Sakura said.

Hidan went back to the phone. "Definitely hate the rest of you, though."

"He's gonna kill you," Sasori said in a bored voice.

"String you up by your thumbs, probably," Kisame added in.

"How much is it?" Itachi asked.

Hidan grit his teeth. "¥156,800.4"

"It's half off!" Deidara defended.

"He will skin you alive." Itachi said.

Hidan pressed hard against Deidara's phone and then flung it across the room. "There. Done. Happy?"

"You have no idea," Deidara said, smiling even as he went to his probably cracked phone.

Hidan huffed a sigh. "Fine, fuck, okay next - " Hidan's phone rang. "Already?! How?!" He pulled out his phone and glared at the name.

"Better answer it," Kisame said. "Or he'll come here himself."

Hidan rolled his eyes and swiped to answer. A voice boomed through the speaker and Sakura decided right then and there that Kakuzu was not high on her to-meet list and it had been nice knowing Hidan.

"We'll give you a lovely funeral." Sakura said.

Hidan got up and flipped them all off as he exited the room, screaming back at the phone. "Blame Deidara! He's the fuckass who thought it was a good idea! … Shut up you old fuck, it's fine. … It hasn't even been shipped!" Hidan threw his free hand up. "It's called a refund you complete fucking dumbfuck!"

Sakura didn't try to hide her laughter. No one could hear her over the rest of the boys laughing anyhow.

With Hidan gone to be scolded, the game fizzled out. Sakura scootched over to Deidara and leaned against him, hiding a yawn behind her hand.

"Thanks, and sorry," Sakura told him.

Deidara absentmindedly brought his hand up to run through her hair. "Hm? For?"

"The kiss, obviously." Sakura sighed and leaned into the touch.

"Please," Deidara said with a click of his tongue. "It was hilarious."

"He is the one that said truth or dare was for kissing," Sakura said and stifled another yawn. "Shit, I should get to bed. I mean it's already - " she looked at her phone, " - shit it's already midnight?! How?"

"Time moves forward," Deidara said.

Sakura rolled her eyes and stood up. "Well, this human needs sleep."

Deidara stood up, too. "I'll walk you there. I gotta get something from the room."

"Okay!" Sakura smiled and said her goodnights to the rest of them.

On the way back to the room Sakura slipped her hand into Deidara's and made a point not to let go when they reached her room.

When he gave her a puzzled look she said, "If you don't have anywhere to be, I'd kinda like a cuddle buddy. At least until I fall asleep?"

Deidara smiled down at her. "I'd love to."

Looky at that, I'm alive. Amazing!

I'd like to take a quick moment to thank tumblr user gabb-yeet for helping me with this. I probably couldn't have posted this without her help lol. I'd also like to thank starbucksscaresme for their kind words over the past few weeks!

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