Pink Bunnies and Pictures

It was never supposed to end that way. It wasn't suppose to be a hard mission at all. Itachi and Kisame were given a simple task. Well, simple for an S-ranked criminal anyway. Assassinate one of the fire countries leaders,it's just said leader had gotten smart. He, being rich, had highered and army of ANBU. There was no way just two S-ranked shinobi could come out without a scratch.

Kisame hadn't gotten it all that bad, a minor concussion, and a few gashes on his arms and legs. Never the less, he had to get his wounds taken care of, or he would die of blood loss. But for the moment, he wasn't worried about any of this. HE would be okay, but ITACHI had gotten it pretty bad.

He was unconscious, with a large concussion, a broken wrist, leg, and several broken ribs. He had also been stabbed through the stomach. Kisame really felt guilty.

"Itachi-san!" Kisame screamed. The Uchiha whirled around, coming face to face with a raised kunai. But right before it could hit its mark, Itachi brought his arm up and knocked it out of the hands of the ANBU that were currently on their tails.

"Kisame, move." Itachi warned. Kisame brought his Samehada up, knocking a nearby ANBU unconscious, even though they just kept coming. Another ANBU dropped out of a nearby tree. "We need to get out of here, Kisame." Itachi continued. Kisame just nodded in response as they both ran towards the edge of the wood. They were going so fast they were surprised when an ANBU dropped down from a tree in front of them. Kisame, being in the front, new this was it for him. The ANBU brought his katana up and began to thrust it forward, and time seemed to stop short. Kisame squeezed his eyes shut and waited for the sharp pain coming from his stomach, but it never came. Slowly he opened one eye. What he saw not only caused him to open his other eye, his mouth dropped open, and he was at a loss for words. He kept opening and closing his mouth like a fish. Taking the seen in.

There stood Itachi, blood fell from the corners of his mouth and the katana was protruding from his back. As for the ANBU, he was already dead on the ground.

"Hey, Fish-head." Itachi wheezed, "Are you going to come help me, of are ya' gonna let me die?" And with that Itachi dropped to the ground, hurling blood.

As soon as Itachi was done vomiting, Kisame hoisted the prodigy over his shoulder in a fireman's' carry and headed off towards the nearest hospital, because, weren't the people the obligated to help anybody and everybody?

Which brings us to where we are now.

Kisame raced along with Itachi over his shoulder. Just a few more milesto the nearest hospital, he just hoped it was used to people coming in with pretty bad injuries. If Itachi died, he would never forgive himself.

But there WAS one TINY little problem: Kisame was starting to get a little dizzy, and if he passed out Itachi was as good as dead.

But it would seem luck was on Kisame's side because as he ran up the next hill, the hospital was in plain sight.

He rushed into the building and up to the receptionist desk. She looked like she was about to die of fright.

"Make sure this man doesn't die." was the last thing that came out of Kisame's mouth before he lost consciousness. The nurses rushed up to the two men lying on the floor and started pulling them apart. Then, they quickly got them to their hospital room where they were hooked up to blood and fluids and about a hundred other things. As soon as the nurses had finally finished bandaging both their wounds, the doctor came in.

"What in the seven Hells is going on here?" The man exclaimed. One of the nurses ran up to him carrying a huge stack of papers. The doctor motioned the other nurses out of the room all of which were empty handed save for one who held a large black cloak adorned with red clouds and a plain navy blue jumpsuit.

"Sir!" the remaining nurse exclaimed "These men, they're S-ranked criminals! Here are their files!" she looked back at the beds. "What should we do with them?" The doctor sighed.

"Treat them for now, but in the meantime contact the Leaf's Hokage and inform her of this."

"Hai." the nurse nodded and ran out of the room.

Kisame woke up to a dull pain, but a throbbing headache. He brought his hand up and pinched the bridge of his nose.

He looked his body over and after determining his condition wasn't that bad, he got up to have a good look around. That was about the time his eyes fell on Itachi.

He was hooked up to all sorts of machines. but Kisame was only worried about the heart rate monitor. It clarified that Itachi was going to be alright. Or at least that's what Kisame assumed. If the Uchiha had a strong heartbeat, he could pull through. Kisame had learned that over the years of his partnership with the prodigy.

The shark-man was snapped from his thoughts when a nurse came into the room. "Oh, you're awake." she murmured, walking over to Itachi. "How did this happen?" Kisame stared at her.

"What happens if I don't want to tell you?" he inquired in a threating sort of way. The nurse said nothing but changed Itachi's bandages and quickly left the room.

Once she left Kisame walked over to Itachi and stood over him as his eyes slowly fluttered open.

"You're awake." Kisame stated. Itachi rolled his eyes.

"Obviously." The Uchiha sat up on the hospital bed causing the covers that were once pulled up to just below his chin to fall onto his lap. Kisame struggled to hold in a laugh. Itachi cocked an eyebrow.

"What, may I ask, is so funny?" Kisame pointed at him and Itachi looked down.

Those idiotic nurses had taken away the Uchiha's Akatsuki cloak and jumpsuit and had replaced them with a hospital gown. Just the gown would have been bad enough, but no.This one had to have pink bunnies all over it.

Kisame couldn't take it anymore. He laughed long and hard. Then, he walked over to his bag which was sitting by his own bed. He dug in it till he found what he was looking for.

From out of his bag he pulled out his camera. Itachi's eyes grew wide as Kisame ran over to him and pulled the contraption to blue-tinted (now grinning) face. Itachi would have ran out of the room if not for his broken leg.

"Say cheese!" Kisame called. Itachi just glared at the camera.

"What are you going to do with that?" Itachi questioned. Kisame stared at him like he should have already known the answer.

"Why, send it to your brother of course!"

Sasuke walked out of the giant Uchiha dojo and down towards the white mailbox sticking out of his front lawn. (AN do they have mailboxes?) He flipped through the mail.

'Bills, magazines, ads, fan mail, letter from Itachi, bills... LETTER FROM ITACHI?' Sasuke flipped back to the plain, white envelope and ripped it open. He pulled out a white piece of paper when something fell from it to the ground. He bent down to pick it up. His eyes widened as he looked at the picture.

There sat a very unhappy Itachi. In a hospital gown adorned with pink bunnies. Sasuke was at a loss for words. So, he opened the note and began to read.

Dear Sasuke,

How are you doing since the last time you saw me? I just wanted to say I'm terribly sorry about all I've done to you. I'm coming home, let's be brothers agai

(Here there were making it looked like two people had fought to get a hold of the pen the writer was using. Then the handwriting changed dramatically.)

Kisame, stop being an idiot. Sasuke, none of the above is true. And that picture? If you show it to anyone you're dead, foolish little brother. Now, rip it up. Better yet, BURN IT. That is all.

Goodbye.

Sasuke was still at a loss for words. He flipped the envelope over and saw something his brother had forgotten. The return address. They were at a hospital just outside Kanoha.

Sasuke ran from the Uchiha dojo to the hospital, stopping only twice.

'Note to self:' Sasuke thought, 'Eat less ramen with Naruto.' Finally the Uchiha burst through the doors and ran up to the secretary.

"Which room belong to the two S-ranked criminals?" Sasuke half yelled.

The secretary was an old woman and she looked up slowly, and the reached for her records.

"Come On!" Sasuke yelled. "One looks like a shark, it's hard to forget!"

"Oh, them? Room 214." She then pointed to the room and Sasuke was off again.

He stopped in front of the door to 214 and pushed it open slowly. Nobody was there.

Sasuke walked over to the bed he had seen in the photograph. On the pillow, a note had been laid out. The note said:

Foolish little brother, did you really think I was that stupid?