Reconnection

Chapter Three

Relieved, he headed back towards his dorm room. Too often had those stupid secretaries messed it up. He did not want to have Tobi as his roommate! They just couldn't understand it. Tobi wasn't roommate material for anyone, for crying out loud, he wouldn't even show his freakin' face to anyone!

Itachi only sighed at the thought of Tobi's lollipop mask as he headed down the hallway. He hated that thing, it was almost like one of those hypnotic pictures you'd find on the internet. He hated hypnotic pictures, they gave him headaches. Unlike, Tobi, who thought they were interesting and put them up all on his side of the room!

...No wonder Tobi never got any sleep. He made weird sounds when he looked at the pictures. Sort of like little coos, and oohhs, and aahhhs. Yeah, basically, Itachi had to put up with Tobi making sex noises all during the night.

...No wonder Itachi had those humongous lines under his eyes. Half the people in college all thought he just couldn't put on eyeliner...but they changed their minds after seeing Gaara. In order to actually stay awake and alert in class, Itachi had to drink coffee...lots and lots of coffee...

...No wonder Itachi had random spazzy moments, especially during these last few days. He wanted to be in the best shape he could when Sasuke arrived, and coffee wasn't the best solution.

And today was the day...Sasuke was here, in this very college campus.

As Itachi headed for the room, he started to think. Sasuke could be different...taller maybe, and hopefully he grew out of that duck-butt hairstyle. Probably not, it was his "signature", as he called it. Itachi called it an ugly ass hairdo, yet he knew only Sasuke could pull it off.

Getting closer and closer to his dorm, he started to hear noises. Tobi's voice was obviously one of them.

"Ah!" Tobi bluntly screeched, then Itachi heard a thud on the ground.

"Do I really have to do this?" Came another familiar voice.

"Yeah! It's fun, trust me!" Tobi encouraged.

"Fine..." The other voice said with a sigh. After a little bit he voice came back, saying, "Crap! I missed!"

"OWW! My butt!!" Tobi screamed.

Itachi knew that voice was Sasuke.

...And only the grossest of things were running through his head right now. Was Sasuke and Tobi-?

No...it couldn't be.

Walking faster, Itachi finally reached the door.

"Itachi!" Sasuke said out of shock as he ran up and immediately hugged Itachi.

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Playing leap frog with Tobi was not fun. First of all, I couldn't leap in these skinny jeans (which I look sexy in, by the way). Second, I knew Tobi would probably pull some trick on me. And last but not least, if anyone was listening in, such as Itachi, it would sound utterly and completely wrong. Especially when I missed the jump.

Of course, with my dumb luck, Itachi was listening in.

Explaining it didn't take long, it was the part where we tried to convince Tobi to be roommates with Sai.

"What's he like?" Tobi asked, sounding completely innocent and clueless.

"He's a dick," I answered bluntly, not really expecting Tobi to understand what I meant.

"Then...no."

I rolled my eyes. "I was just kidding...he likes the same pictures you have. He has them posted up on his walls," I flawlessly lied.

"Really?" Tobi asked. "That's good, because SOMEBODY," he said as his head turned towards Itachi, "doesn't appreciate such beautiful pictures." He got up and pretended to wipe the dust off of his pants, probably to look cool or something. "Well...I want to see."

My heart stopped. Shit! "Well..." I said slowly, trying to formulate a plan. "Go ahead, it's room 98 on the fourth floor," I lied again.

Tobi skipped out of the room. I quickly started to rip down the pictures from Tobi's side of the room. "Itachi," I told my brother, "Let Tobi wander around a little and then tell him I messed up on the room number and tell him it's actually room 12 on the first floor."

"Is that your actual room though?" Itachi asked.

"Yeah...just go!"

Itachi headed out.

I ripped down the rest of the pictures and ran out of the room and to my room the quickest possible. And no, I did not use that elevator. Partly, because it's the most dangerous thing I have come across, and also because I didn't have time to wait for the door to open.

On the way to my room, I grabbed tape from a stranger's hand.

Finally in my room, I got started and taped up all the pictures as quickly and neatly as I could. Thank God Sai wasn't in here at the moment.

Once I was finished, I hid the tape and laid on my bed, taking deep breaths. Holy crap, that was the most last-minute thing I have ever done!

"How could Sasuke mix up the numbers 98 and 12?" Tobi asked.

"He's new here, give him a break..." Itachi said, sounding about as wiped out as I was.

The door opened, and I saw Tobi's jaw drop. Well...not really, because of his mask, but you get what I'm saying.

"He does have the same pictures as me!" He said, surprised. "Fine...I'll be roommates with him."

I heard a chorus of angels sing. This was it! No more Sai, or Tobi for that matter!

"I'll go get my stuff and move it down here!" Tobi said as he hurried up to his room.

Itachi and I laughed. "Can't believe he fell for that so easily!" I said, taking another deep breath. "Ugh...I think that was the most I've run for a while now..."

"Yeah...well, you did it."

"Yeah..." I said with a smile.

It was silent until Tobi came back. "You stole my pictures!"

"It's too late to change the decision...sorry Tobi," I said.

Or, in other words, "You can't split Itachi and me up."