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When Bad Meets Evil

The Attic

2 Days later

"I know my father is hiding something" Itachi hissed as he sat on the grass with Kyuubi and Shisui who were bored of their mind at the moment. Itachi sighed out, he felt frustrated and like he wanted to kill someone at the moment. Shisui noticed this and dropped backwards on the grass as he crossed his arms under his head for support. Someone was going to have to ask Itachi what was really bothering him.

"It's like when you blow a bubble" Kyuubi said suddenly making both Uchiha's look at him like he was insane "It's round and shinny, yet at the same time is only soap, how does it turn into a bubble, what makes it the bubble, and why does it pop so easily, with no trace as if it never existed" Kyuubi sighed contently, there was no better way to explain the feeling of when you don't get a complicated question answered. He guessed this is how Itachi felt "Empty air, empty answers, empty feeling."

"Oh shut up Kyuubi" Itachi growled as he rubbed a hand to his temple. To him that was the dumbest thing he ever heard, it didn't even make any sense! He swore, Kyuubi was just as complicated as his little brother, so free minded. He had to wonder what it was to be them.

"Well you are in a bad mood cousin; wake up on the right side of your bed today?" Itachi kicked Shisui who was not snickering. The older Uchiha really didn't want to ask his younger cousin directly about what was wrong, after all, he was the most clueless one out of all of them. He didn't want to get on anyone's bad side today.

"You know what, forget I even mentioned anything or that I was ever here this morning. I'm going to go work on my homework or something" Itachi stood up and vanished before Kuubi and Shisui could stop him.

"Something is definitely bothering him" Kyuubi said out loud "Ever since we went to see that house, ever since Naruto mentioned that name, Itachi has been acting like everything he ever knew has been turned upside down. I wonder why" Shisui rose an eyebrow, that explained only part of what could be bothering Itachi. Yet he felt like there was more to the story.

"What was the name?" Shisui asked.

"Sas-something why?"

"No reason"

"Maybe we should have a talk with him or something" Naruto said as he came out of nowhere. "Itachi really isn't himself at the moment"

Later that day for Itachi.

Sasori could feel a migraine popping out on the corner of his head. Not only had Deidara packed their bags and called over a private jet, his blond had limped all the way back to Konoha and all he could do was follow him all the way thinking how he gave the bunny hope a whole new image. Sure he could have argued and stayed behind, but then again the fear that Itachi might kill his lover kept him from leaving Deidara to go on his own.

Sasori sighed, so here they were now standing at the presence of the dark lord Itachi, well that was a nick name that they had given Itachi, for he wasn't a real lord of anything and not to mention that the man looked livid. After all, Itachi had just had two people bust into his study room and just come in, regardless of all the paper work Itachi had to deal with today.

It made him want to massacre everyone around a 50 feet diameter.

"Good morning Itachi un!" Sasori simply watched as said raven glared up at the grinning blond. There's someone Itachi thought he had seen the last off for five more years. At least he hoped the crazy clay loving freak would have stayed away for those five years. The blond simply kept waving at him as if he didn't know that he already had his attention and his red-headed boyfriend Sasori simply had his arms crossed with a bored expression.

"What are you doing here?" Itachi decided to finally ask since glaring was not accomplishing much.

"Well" Deidara got close to his face making the raven arch an eyebrow, daring him to get closer "There is something we wanted to tell you! Un" Itachi looked up at Sasori when he pulled the blond away.

"I didn't want to tell him, I don't think he should know, I told you it is no big deal. He's just a kid damn it, who cares what he looks like you should be caring what I look like but no, you just have to come here and bother Itachi with your nonsense" Sosori finished muttering in one breath making Itachi stare at him like he was insane since the red-head didn't seem to be acknowledging any of them and Deidara simply pouted. Deidara then stuck out his tongue at the red head and proceeded to look at the paperwork in Itachi's desk.

'"Oh shut up Sasori," he said "It can't be that bad just mentioning something that happened that seems more than coincidence to me" He looked up at Itachi with a grin "Would you be shocked that there could be someone that looks nearly identical to you? As in he could be your twin!" Itachi raised a brow, to tell the truth he had no comment for the blond, he had more pressing issues to attend to with all the papers present before him. He didn't have time for this.

"What the hell kind of question it that?" Sasori snapped making the blond turn around to face him with a glare.

"A smart one!"

"Maybe you are the one who should shut up!"

"Damn you!" Then Deidara turned back to face Itachi only to be met by an empty seat and desk. He looked all around before he turned to his boyfriend "Hey, where'd he go?" Sasori simply shrugged, since he had no idea.

Sasuke was working on a school project with Karin and both of them were frustrated to the bone about it already. The project consisted of three essays that were nearly fifty pages long and extensive research and a composed 10 slide power point max. In all it had to be creative and they had to have a legitimated biography of were everything had been found. In all Sasuke's and Karin's little laptops were running out of battery juice.

"Aren't you guys done yet?"

"No"

Suigetsu sighed as he dipped himself more into the couch, he'd been watching both ravens frantically working on this project for nearly a week, night and day, twenty four seven "Aren't you two even close to being done" and yes, all he had done between that time was whine to them of why they were not done. All Juugo ever did was make sure they ate and drank water and got small breaks in between.

"Why don't you go entertain yourself by writing one of your poems?" Karin snapped, she was in the verge of tearing her own hair out and her eyes already hurt and becoming blurred due to staring so much at the screen of her computer. Suigetsu let out a dramatic sigh.

"I would if I could, but do you have any idea where the inspiration for them comes from?"

"I have no clue" She snapped/

"Sasuke's cute sleeping face, I have to look at it to be able to write as good as I have been lately" He sighed as he grinned a toothy smile. Sasuke and Karin turned around to look at him like he was insane before going back to work. The rapid typing of keys resumed and there was nothing that Suigetsu could do as he listened to it. Even though now Sasuke could stop wondering why he had sometimes woken up only to find Suigetsu's face close to his, it was really creepy. Suigetsu sighed dramatically once more.

Then another thing popped into Suigetsu's head.

"Have you guys ever tried typing and doing your work naked" there was no pause to the research, they didn't have time for his crazy questions "come on guys, I just want to draw naked portraits of you…well in particular Sasuke" the fact that the keys had resumed clicking meant that they weren't even listening to him and he knew it, but he wanted their attention.

Juugo walked in then.

"Are they done yet?"

"Apparently not" Suigetsu grumbled. Juugo took a bite out of his sandwich and settled for just standing there and staring out into space. Suigetsu began to draw the portrait of him. There art clubs came in bunches and he could not believe that he was actually bored enough to write a poem and draw something. Especially now that he could not bother Sasuke without getting literally killed.

Back to the Uchiha estates.

"Fugaku!" Mikoto called out for what seemed like the twentieth time that morning; since she woke up she could not find her husband. Ever since Itachi's eighteenth birthday all suspicious activities with the man had stopped. There was no longer that distance, but still between him and his mother something was not right. She could see it in his eyes that it was maybe not something that he was hiding from her but his mother.

She hated that damned woman.

That woman always got in the middle of everything and her nose was still in the middle questioning their marriage. She was gritting her teeth, pulling her hair, but there was nothing that she could do to get rid of the pest that was that woman. She was after all her husband's mother and she had to learn to live with it.

Oh, if only her wish had come true.

Mikoto's dream was to bear Fugaku many children, all male and all on her side. They would be an army and take out that bitch on their own by running her down. But no, somehow she had a miscarriage and not she only had one child. It also hurt her that she would never be able to give Itachi a little brother like he always wanted. "FUGAKU!!!" She growled out at the top of her lungs.

She has had enough.

Fugaku walked out of no where to his wife who was looking for him. "There you are! Where the hell have you been, I've been calling you for about four hours now!"

"I have things to do as well you know, woman"

"Fugaku, please, I've asked you already a hundred time to clean the attic, don't make me nag you more than I have to nag Itachi" Fugaku sighed and closed his eyes as he crossed his arms. Sasuke, well lets say no amount of nagging could get him to do anything, the boy always did things on his own in his own time. He wondered how the boy always manages to slip by, and Itachi, well eventually he caved in to his mother's nagging. Why else would Itachi still come here for dinner and gone to a university close to here.

"Fine, woman, I'll get to it" Mikoto glared at him.

"What do you mean by that, next year?"

"Uh…no…." She stared him down. "Fine, I'll get to it now woman, geez!"

"Man!" Mikoto yelled after him as Fugaku begun to walk away.

"More like OLD man" Itachi muttered as he walked in between the space, between his parents. Fugaku turned around to look at his son and Mikoto only smiled at the boy sweetly.

"Make sure you finish your entire homework sweetheart"

"Yes mother" and the boy was gone.

"Oh yeah, you call him sweetheart"

"Of course I do, he's smarter than you are" Both parents glared. He wished he could brag about how much better Sasuke was, but no. Since Mikoto got Itachi and managed to raise him on her own and tried to keep his mother away from the child as long as possible, Itachi had become her pride. Sasuke, on the other hand was his pride and he had to act like the boy didn't exist! It pissed him off!

"There will be someone else out there better than him"

"Hmph" Mikoto pouted and then left the room.

"Now I know where he got that from" Fugaku shook his head, in some ways Sasuke did carry some of his mother's characteristics, maybe that's what made him have such strong characteristics that didn't come from him. Sasuke had a tongue though, that was sharper than his wife's. One thing Sasuke could say could cut completely through you.

The boy knew how to play, manipulate, and dance words.

In several languages, may he add, after all he was proud of Sasuke, having to raise him and all. So far he feels like he did a really good job. For that he was proud in himself, because for once he had accomplished something that he had decided to do on his own and not for anyone's sake. But now, he had to go to his doom and clean the attic, he begun to walk towards it again when Itachi's voice stopped him, again.

"Old man"

"What?" He asked as he turned around, his voice firm but indifferent. On the other hand, it didn't matter; he and Itachi were never close.

"I need some money"

"What happened to your job boy" With Fugaku it was always boy and woman with the ones he loved. It was a way to show that he cared about them, its affection based.

"Got fired, and I don't want mom to know" Itachi shrugged like he didn't care.

"You are quiet a rebel" Not like you're brother who'd be screaming his head off about losing something that was important to him, specially a job. He'd never live with himself and he would try his hardest to find another without asking anyone for anything. Something he never got about Sasuke was that the boy never told anyone of his needs and wants; it was always guessing games with him. "Why don't you go find another?"

"I have a few interviews to get a new one in the way, but for the time being I need some money, for it I'm offering to clean the attic" Yeah, but unlike Sasuke Itachi could always keep a cool head in his shoulders and solve his own problems. Sighing, Fugaku had to think about this, his money was already tied up in paying Sasuke's tuitions and everything for the university. To give some to Itachi could break him….well more than he already was.

"Fine, I'll give you a hundred"

"A hundred, that's it? Fine" Itachi sighed. "Just need to find where I can get the other 7,900" Fugaku's eyes widen and then he sighed in defeat. In a way he always had a soft spot for his children.

"Alright, if you want me to pay your Tuition just say it" Fugaku begun to walk away "You better do a good job and if your mom asks why all of a sudden we've gone bankrupt, tell her you don't know a thing, I'll transfer the money to your account" Itachi tilted his head as he watched his father walk away, he could not really understand the bankrupt thing. He thought that they were rich and could at least afford these installments with a minimal blow.

Walking the way his father had just gone Itachi then took a left to the hallway that lead to their rooms, well his used to be room, he didn't sleep there anymore, but he did keep some personal things there. As he was about to reach up to pull down the stairs for the attic, he was attacked by something blond that seemed to be grinning, besides that hugging him tightly. "What the hell!" he hissed.

"Sorry, un!" Suddenly he was pulled up and the blond guy before him that nearly looked feminine smiled at him like the cat that ate the bird. "So I was saying before you mysteriously disappeared on me last time" Itachi pulled down the stairs and the blond was pulled out of the way by his red headed boyfriend. Damn, and Itachi really wanted to knock him out so he'd shut his mouth.

"I don't want to hear it, I don't have the time" Itachi hissed and Deidara pouted. "I'm sure that it's not that important"

"See, told you he didn't want to hear it"

"Hmph! He should know" Deidara blinked "Ne, why are you going up there anyway?" and the blond and red head followed the long haired raven up the stairs to a dark room above, Itachi reached up and turned on the lights illuminating it. It was blue, thanks to the decorative wall paper the place had and everything in it was a mess, with the boxes opened and paper and things pocking out of it.

Itachi was not sure where to start so he decided by the small box that was right by his foot, he bent down to pick it up and he started to look through everything in there. They were papers full of math problems, math books, and notebooks and nothing else; there was only two initials at the top that read S.U and the date, but nothing more. When these things were done he was probably around five also solving these kinds of problems.

He knew his writing, this was not his.

What was it then? More likely said, whose? Never mind, Itachi thought as he pushed the papers back down on the box, it was none of his business. He then closed the lid of the box and went on with his work, to search for tape to close it. "Are you two just going to stand there?" he asked suddenly as Deidara and Sasori where just dumbfounded looking around the room.

"Ano, do you need help, un"

"Yeah, bring me some tape" Deidara was just about to do that when he paused and pointed a finger to the long haired raven. Itachi on the other hand was thinking of ways to break the blonds finger completely off.

"On one condition, you have to listen to what I have to say!" Itachi blinked and shrugged.

"Fine, what ever, it is the only thing you can do since you already possess four mouths or so!" Deidara glared at the long haired raven, nothing mattered more as long as the guy heard him out.

"This really smells like a soaked rat to me" Sasori said as he started to help Itachi move boxes.

When you clean an attic, you never know what you might find.

Both Sasuke and Karin sighed in relief "Done" they both said at the same time.

Suigetsu brightened up like a little puppy then and brought out a sketch book "So now I can draw you guys naked!"

"Not in your life!!" Karin snapped.

"You are so asking for a death wish!" Sasuke growled.

Seigetsu's hopes had been shot again.

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