A/N: Sorry for the slow update. Things should be a bit faster before school starts though. Here's a long chapter for you. I hope it's not too long though :P

Thank you for the reviews and reading this so far!

Okay, Warning: Language, violence, OOC, etc...

Enjoy and know that most things in this story will not make sense.

^v^

Itachi was not pleased to be woken up by a kick to the head and wet loogie. Nor was he pleased to know that he had been caught off guard and stabbed with a needle in his own kitchen. His mood was already in a deep decline and only grew worse when he blearily sat up from the kitchen floor to see Deidara staring at him and four familiar faces gathered at his table eating the remains of a cake.

"They say they know where your parents are yeah," Deidara's voice snapped him out of his sleepy state.

"What?" Itachi was now attentive.

Deidara beckoned at him with a hand, moving towards the table. "Come on un. I'm sure they'll explain."

Itachi followed him, sending Sasori half a glare for the serum he injected into him.

Sasori merely smirked.

Deidara and Itachi knelt beside each other at the table. The other four now dressed in plain black cloaks sat across from them.

"It's been two years since we last saw each other, hasn't it?" Pein asked with a grin. "You guys look a bit stronger."

"I wish I could say the same for you," Itachi muttered.

Deidara whacked him over the head. "You have no manners un."

Itachi thought about hitting him back but decided against it. There were a few things he needed to know. Like why these guys were in his house and knew about his parents. "I don't mean to sound rude or anything," he started to say. "But how the hell did you get in here and why are you here?"

Kakuzu rested his chin in his palm, staring at him. "We just walked into the village- the guys at the gate knew us from the Chuunin Exams and didn't bother to stop us," he said. "

"As for how we got in here..." Kisame scratched the side of his cheek. "That cousin of yours, Seeweed or something, gave us the house key."

Itachi slammed his head onto the table. Damn him!

"You know you lose brain cells every time you hit your head," Deidara informed him. "Good thing you don't have any un!"

Itachi reached up and smashed the blonde's head onto the table, a vein throbbing. "Really now?"

"You two are getting along as always," Sasori commented with a smug look. "You don't look older at all. I think the only thing's that changed is your height."

"Well you don't look like you've grown at all," Deidara said, rubbing the red mark on his forehead.

"Still think art's a bang like a foolish child?" Sasori shot at him as soon as the Iwa nin glanced up.

"Still an old man trapped in a kid's body un?" Deidara shot back.

Kisame and Kakuzu snickered to themselves, earning a glare from their redhead teammate.

Deidara blinked. "Did I miss something hmm?"

Kisame grinned. "Don't worry about it kiddo."

"Enough small talk," Itachi said, sighing heavily. "If one of you would be so kind as to explain how you know where my parents are..."

Sasori and the others exchanged a glance. "Well...that's-"

"I'll tell him!" Pein cut the redhead off, shooting a hand into the air.

Sasori popped a vein, kicking the teen in the face. "Don't interrupt me you brat!"

"Itai!"

Deidara looked at Kisame with a questioning expression. "What's with the matching outfits?"

Kisame spared Pein, who was currently being swung around by one foot by Sasori, a glance. "He was inspired by those guys in the genjutsu we fought against during the Exams. He handmade them."

Deidara scruntinized the sewing job with a narrowed eye. "Not bad..."

"He learned from me," Kakuzu interjected.

Itachi sat in the middle of their conversation and shouting, brow twitching. He asked a simple question and it led to such a big distraction. That's it! We're doing elementary questions from here on out.

"You're skilled Kakuzu un," Deidara praised the older man.

"Well at least someone appreciates my skill," Kakuzu said.

By then, Sasori and Pein had recollected themselves enough to face Itachi again. "We can answer you now," Sasori said.

"Good..." Itachi slowly said.

"Are you okay?" Kisame asked with a raised brow.

Itachi looked at him. "Peachy."

"Well okay then." Sasori gave him a weird look and then motioned to his 'leader'. "Pein will gladly explain."

"We were scouting the are and- and I can't take it anymore!" Pein jumped to his feet, practically running behind Deidara and seizing a large amount of his hair in his hands. "I have to do something about this! You've grown so you need a new style!"

Deidara rolled his eyes up to look at the orange-haired teen. "Does it really bother you?"

"Yes, yes! Just sit here and let me take care of this," Pein resolutely said, pulling a ribbon from inside his cloak.

"We were scouting the surrounding lands for a place to live when we found a piece of tattered clothing. It was a shirt with your fan on it. At first we thought it was you in the area. But when we later investigated, we saw some creep covered in black sending a message out towards Konoha." Pein skillfully weaved the ribbon into the top part of Deidara's hair as he spoke.

"So you decided to take down a messenger bird with a message that had nothing to do with you?" Itachi said in disbelief. Screw elementary questions! What is WRONG with these people?

"It was bothering Kisame," Pein simply said. "Anyhow, we tried to read the message. But it's coded so we couldn't understand it. However, there was a sheet with symbols for deciphering the documents packed along with it. I'm sure if you read through it you'll find something out about your parents. Since the Uchiha crest and name of your parents were on there and everything. It was the only thing we understood."

Itachi stared. "How did you learn these things?"

"Deidara tells us some interesting things in his letters," Pein said, patting the top of Deidara's head. "All done. How does it look guys?" he asked his friends on the other side of the table.

Kisame flashed a thumbs up.

"I'm trying to figure out why you walk around with a brush and ribbons," Kakuzu said wide-eyed.

"Great. Now he looks even spunkier," Sasori drawled, smirking. "Like an overgrown brat."

Deidara stuck his tongue out. "I'll take that as a compliment yeah."

Pein wistfully sighed, shaking his head. "I should have become a hairdresser. It was my first choice of occupation you know," he said.

Deidara tugged at his ponytail, smiling. "Thanks un. It was beginning to get in the way."

"No problem." Pein grinned, reaching for the fifteen year old beside the blonde. "Oh Itachi~!"

Itachi gave him a dark glare. "Don't even think about it."

Pein shrugged. "Your loss."

"Something's wrong with you," Kakuzu mumbled at their so-called leader.

"Itachi, take good care of those letters," Kisame said, pushing to his feet the same time Kakuzu did. "It was really hard to get our hands on that. The messenger bird carrying it was flying everywhere. It almost poked my eye out..."

"And why didn't you guys decode these important papers first?" Itachi asked, looking at the taller man.

"Because it's not our parents that are missing," Kisame said with a toothy grin.

"That and we don't feel like doing all that translating," Sasori muttered. He stood along with the other three.

"We've been here long enough," Kakuzu grouched, checking an imaginary watch.

Pein nodded, looking at those in his club. "That's right. Itachi-" he looked at the raven. "Do your best. We'll see each other again soon enough."

"I would hope not," Itachi uttered under breath.

Sasori, Kisame, and Kakuzu disappeared within the next second, seeming anxious to get back to where they had come from.

Deidara raised a brow. "Why are they in such a rush?" he asked Pein.

"They just wanna call dibs on the rooms in the new base I found yesterday," Pein told him.

"New base?" Itachi questioned.

Pein nodded. "Yup! We gave up on treehouses completely after people kept cutting it down. This time it's a giant boulder. People can't cut through boulders with a handsaw!"

Itachi and Deidara deadpanned. How is that any better than a tree...?

"Take care of yourselves~!" Pein called with a grin as he vanished.

Itachi stared at the spot the orange-haired teen was just at and then looked down at the papers in front of him. "This will tell me where my parents are...?"

Deidara glanced at him, hiding a frown. "Yeah un. Shouldn't you be happy?"

Itachi looked at him and then snorted, getting up and taking the papers with him as he started to leave the kitchen. "Not if you aren't, baka."

Deidara blinked and then looked down, eyes shadowed. "Just do what you need to."

Itachi paused in the doorway, keeping his back turned. "I intend to."

"If...you do that...things won't be the same afterwards. You know that, right un?"

"...I know."

And then Itachi exited, heading for his bedroom. He had work to do.

Day One: Matter of Friendship (its what any caring friend would do)

Sasuke and Naruto laughed, splashing each other in their front yard with sprinklers and water guns as they raced through the grass. Although summer was coming to an end, it was still incredibly hot out, and the two boys found it fit to get as cool as possible after Academy classes let out.

More towards the side of the main household were Deidara and Itachi. The latter had taken the news about his missing parents pretty hard and had been holed up in his room all day until Deidara had Shisui come and lay next to him in his futon.

That seemed to get the brooding Uchiha up and out of the house.

Now they were tending to the garden and bushes- since Shisui was unable to after the condition Itachi put him in after the momentary room scare.

Itachi stood several feet away from Deidara, using a watering can to sprinkle the bushes. After all, he wouldn't want to damage the plants. They were creating oxygen for him after all. Or is that trees? Oh great. Now this is going to bug me…

Deidara was watering the bushes too.

With a fire hose.

Itachi just chose to ignore him for his poor sanity's sake.

The blonde kept a careful watch over the older raven lest he suddenly snap from the pressure of the Akatsuki's expectations. Even he would have some trouble being forced to keep a secret from everyone when it concerned his parents. Then again…he didn't really take too kindly to his parents…so relating was kind of difficult.

Itachi was deep in thought, his stream of conscious moving from trees and bushes to wondering what could have possibly happened to his parents. And if it was serious enough that even Pein and his group came down… Just what is going on? He stopped watering the bush he had been drowning with water for the last few minutes.

Deidara frowned.

And then blasted him with the fire hose.

Itachi sputtered from where he had been shot up against the wall. "What the hell was that for?"

Deidara smirked. "Oh no reason. Just thought it might be fun un."

Itachi's eye twitched as he stalked towards the blonde. "I'll show you fun, annoying little-"

Deidara just blasted him again before dropping the hose and running off laughing through the dirt roads of the Uchiha Compound.

Itachi gave chase, all thoughts and worries gone for the time being.

They were now replaced with the mantra of- Kill Deidara, kill Deidara, kill Deidara…

And Deidara wouldn't have it any other way.

Day Two: Games (everyone loves games!)

"Itachi?"

"..."

"Itachi?"

"Go away Deidara."

"Hey Itachi."

"Go away!"

"You're going to get old if you keep sitting in the same spot Itachi!"

"Get out of my room brat."

"This is my room too ugly."

"Nice insult," Itachi sarcastically drawled, taking his glasses off the bridge of his nose and setting them on his desk. "Why are you bothering me?"

Deidara stared at him all full of smiles and shit, rocking back on his heels like a mischievous Sasuke would. "Sasu-kun and Naru-chan are at the Academy and there's nothing to do. You didn't look busy, so I figured you could keep me company un."

"Didn't look…" Itachi shut his eyes, raising a clenched fist. "I've been working here all morning long!"

"On what un?"

"None of your business."

"Oh real mature meany head."

"Because that was just as mature baka," Itachi muttered at him. "Look, I'm just trying to decipher these codes that tou-san sent, and I'd appreciate it if you left me alone for a while."

The younger blonde innocently blinked. "But I don't want to leave you alone."

Itachi felt a vein pop, turning back around to glare holes into his desk and the papers that lay scattered across it. "Just leave."

"No."

Itachi gripped his writing pencil very tightly. "Leave."

"No hmm."

"I said leave moron!"

"Never!" Deidara happily cheered.

"…"

"…"

"Hey Deidara, wanna play a game?" Itachi asked, never once looking at the bomber.

Deidara nodded. "Yeah! I love games! What is it un?"

Itachi felt an eye twitch. "It's called the SHUT THE HELL UP AND GO AWAY GAME!" he roared.

Deidara laughed, smacking him over the head before beginning to skip out the door. "Boy do I love pissing you off."

The pencil in Itachi's hands snapped in half.

Day Three: Dysfunctional Brothers (there shouldn't even be a need to explain this…)

The four that were a part of the Uchiha main household were an interesting bunch.

They fought and they argued and they pulled pranks that would have otherwise killed them had it not been for their wonderful shinobi reflexes. They'd been together for three years- and while they had their rough patches- they could never truly stay angry at one another.

So it was like this that Itachi was proud to say his younger siblings liked to stick up for one another.

Or rather…

The three of them just liked to gang up on him.

Itachi popped a vein as he swung upside down from the roof of the main household. "You idiots let me down right now!" he shouted.

Sasuke giggled. "You're a ninja nii-san."

"Yeah," Naruto guffawed. "Get out yourself!"

Itachi's eyes turned crimson.

Deidara smirked, patting the two kids on the head. "Uh-oh un. The beast is awakening," he mocked.

All three of them laughed merrily among themselves.

Until Itachi cut himself loose and went after them.

"YOU MORONS ARE DEAD!"

Sasuke's eyes widened. "We're gonna die!"

Naruto pumped a fist into the air. "Awesome!"

Deidara pushed Naruto and Sasuke ahead of him, cupping his hands around his mouth as he ran. "ITACHI'S ON THE RUN! UCHIHA'S UNITE UN!"

Itachi paused in his tracks.

And then let his eyes bug out as all of his relatives came swarming out of their houses to mob him.

"Dammit- not again!"

Day Four: Reminiscing (a calm day...)

Itachi sat on the living room sofa, looking through a photo album he had found under his bed. There were a few other things under there, living and dead, but he didn't really want to think about that at the moment.

Now he sat relaxing, making snide comments in his head or smirking when he saw a picture with a particularly funny memory.

"Aww, I didn't know you still kept these pictures!" a voice cooed from behind him.

Itachi ground his teeth together at the chakra signature. "What are you doing?"

"I got bored and wanted to see you," his older cousin said. "Plus Deidara was complaining about you lounging around doing nothing. I guess he was right."

"Where is that moron anyway?" Itachi questioned. "I haven't seen him all day."

"Running from Kakashi." Shisui leaned over his shoulder, smiling broadly.

"By the way..." Itachi's eye twitched, moving his head away. "How did you get in here?"

Shisui's smile grew. "Well-!"

"Nevermind," Itachi muttered, turning back to the album in his lap. It was a picture of him as a three year old, trying to kill a five year old Shisui with his first kunai. He smiled. "Good times…"

Shisui plopped down next to him, looking at the picture with a raised brow. "Good times for you maybe," he said, sweatdropping.

Day Five: Solo Task (sometimes...)

Itachi stood in the Hokage's office by himself. Naruto and Sasuke were off at the Academy learning more ways they could possibly endanger the world and Deidara was helping Shisui in his garden. Why? He didn't know. But he said nothing when the Iwa nin took their fire hose with him.

The Third Hokage looked at the fifteen year old raven from behind his desk, smoking calmly on his pipe. "I called you here for a mission," he said.

No shit. Itachi politely nodded.

"It's really easy and I thought you'd be able to take care of it without the help of your talented cousin turned brother," Hiruzen happily said. "Deidara's such a good kid!"

Itachi inwardly rolled his eyes. "Of course. The mission Hokage-sama?"

"I remember when I used to farm," Hiruzen started to say. "We used rakes and machine guns and all sorts of weird thingy-ma-bobbers. But we planted our crops good. They were the best in the land. People from everywhere came over and bought our food and then ate it. It was a great business. We became rich. Now naturally this was a dream. Because I'm running a village and there are no farms around. But it was a nice dream." The Third Hokage grinned. "And my ducky was there! Isn't that great?"

"…"

"…"

"What…does that have to do with anything?" Itachi slowly asked, an eye twitching.

The Third Hokage grinned at him. "Nothing! Now get to your mission sonny!"

"You didn't tell me what my mission was," Itachi muttered.

"You're going trash picking in the river!" Hiruzen cheered. "Don't drown!"

"A severe storm is supposed to come in tonight," Itachi told him, hoping that he had just heard wrong and the Hokage was pulling him leg.

"Are you telling me that the pollution of this world doesn't concern you?" The Third Hokage exclaimed. "I'm appalled Idachi!"

"That's not my name."

"What?"

"Nothing...Hokage-sama," Itachi said, vein throbbing.

"Good! Then hurry up!"

Itachi left the office with a very big thundercloud over his head.

~X~

It was still there six minutes later when he entered his house to pack.

Where he was greeted by a blonde in a rubber suit.

"What are you wearing?" Itachi questioned, an eyebrow twitching.

"That cloud above you is starting a lightning storm un," Deidara told him.

Itachi shielded his face with a hand, beginning to walk past the Iwa nin. "Great. Now I'm even more scarred for life. Take that thing off will you?"

"But then I'd be naked. Today was commando day hmm."

The oldest Uchiha violently twitched.

Deidara grinned, opening an umbrella as he walked beside the moody fifteen year old raven. "Nice weather huh?" he asked.

Itachi scowled before promptly drop-kicking the laughing blonde.

He was soon mauled by two wild kids afterwards.

"Leave Deidara-nii alone!" Naruto cried as he charged out of nowhere, tackling the older teen to the ground.

"Yeah! You're so horrible nii-san!" Sasuke shouted, stomping on his brother's stomach.

Itachi felt a vein pop. "GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!"

Deidara started to walk away, umbrella still open and a large smile on his face. "Well- see you later Itachi-kun. Have a nice time on your mission un~!"

"You can't just leave me here!" Itachi shouted after him as Naruto began gnawing on his arm. Oh my God- rabies!

Day Six: Once Upon A Time (bedtime stories are fun!)

It was storming violently outside. The streets of Konoha were whipped up in a typhoon, harsh rainwater pounding mercilessly against the glass windows and doors of buildings and homes.

The front door to the Uchiha main household slammed open, a dark figure covered in mud and grime with twigs and leaves stuck in his hair standing in the doorway. Lightning flashed and the figure was revealed to have long dark hair covering his face. A red glow seemed to be coming from underneath. They took one step inside the house, killer intent rising off their body.

"Hooray! Itachi-nii's back!"

Itachi flipped his hair over his head, leaving him with a very long slicked back hairstyle. He deactivated his Sharingan and glared as his younger brother's best friend ran up to him, clad in warm pajamas and a large grin. The blonde skidded to a halt in front of him, eagerly bouncing on his toes with the faint hint of hot chocolate smudged on the corner of his lips. Now he hated Naruto more than ever before.

That...and he was still angry at him for the large bite marks in his arm.

"Hi Itachi-nii!"

"Hello..." the raven grit out. There was water in his pants. And it was highly uncomfortable. If I don't change out of these things right now I'm gonna-

"Me and Sasuke were waiting for you so you could tell a bedtime story," Naruto excitedly said.

Itachi stared. "You mean 'Sasuke and I'."

"..." Naruto blinked. "What?"

"Nevermind." Itachi sighed heavily, rubbing his brow. "Look- I just got back from a mission Naruto-no-baka. I really don't feel like telling you anything at all."

Naruto pouted, crossing his arms. "But you have to Itachi-nii! We can't go asleep 'til we hear a story!"

Itachi felt a vein pop. "Then tell one to yourself!"

Naruto took in a deep breath, glaring angrily. "If you don't come then I'm gonna get Hiruzen on your case!"

Itachi stared. "You wouldn't."

"Try me."

"…"

"…"

Itachi smacked a palm to his head, leaving a big red mark to match along with his throbbing vein. "I can't believe Deidara's influenced you so far…"

Naruto grinned, grabbing him by the hand and beginning to drag him towards the room he shared with Sasuke. "Deidara-nii is great!"

Maybe to you… Itachi gruffly thought. But he allowed himself to be pushed into the children's bedroom anyway.

And then came to a screeching halt in the doorway, brow quirking.

Naruto ran to his shared bed and waved him over as he snuggled beneath the sheets. "Hurry up!"

Sasuke expectantly looked at him. "I hope you've got a good story nii-san."

"Yeah, me too un," Deidara said.

Itachi popped a vein. "What the hell are you doing!" he roared.

Deidara grinned from where he was tucked in between Naruto and Sasuke. "I'm waiting for a bedtime story. Duh."

"Yeah nii-san," Sasuke chimed. "Duh."

"Duh," Naruto added.

Itachi sat on the very edge of the bed, aware of the three pairs of eyes boring holes into his head. He reluctantly turned to look at them. "I'm only going to tell you one. And it'll be short so don't bother me for anymore," he warned.

The three younger boys clapped.

"Don't do that!" Itachi shouted. "Kami-sama!"

"Someone got angry," Naruto loudly whispered to Deidara and Sasuke. They nodded in response.

Itachi exhaled heavily, choosing to ignore them. "Okay. Once upon a time there was a boy-"

"This sounds like a good one!" Deidara sarcastically cheered.

Itachi glared at him. "There was a boy named...Evan. Evan was an innocent boy with everything he could ever wish for-"

"What a brat," Deidara snickered.

Itachi threw a pillow at him. "Shut up! Anyway, Evan was very pleased with what he had made of his life. But then everything changed."

"Ooh, cliffhanger," Deidara eagerly said. Sasuke and Naruto 'oohhhed' along with him.

"Will you quit interrupting me!" Itachi yelled in his direction, vein throbbing.

They laughed to themselves.

"Evan's parents went off and had a baby. That baby grew up to somehow have friends- a particularly crazy friend who managed to get all three of them in stupid situations. Evan's sanity was on the brink of leaving. And just when Evan thought he'd go completely mad- his little brother brought in some random stranger to make his life a 'living hell'."

"This sounds really familiar," Naruto mumbled.

"Yeah. I can't place it though," Sasuke mumbled back.

Itachi felt an eyebrow twitch. Are they serious...?

Deidara just there grinning.

"True to his word, the three of them soon took it upon themselves to annoy the living crap out of Evan," Itachi slowly continued. "They got good, honest, Evan into sticky problems that followed him everywhere. A long time passed and for some odd reason, Evan's parents didn't show. He was stuck in his house surrounded by people off their rockers. Evan was miserable with his life until a mission came up for the two of them to go save Evan's parents," Itachi ominously said.

"Hmm. I don't think I like this story," Sasuke suddenly said.

Itachi blinked, looking at the group of three who were frowning in his direction. "Well why not?"

"Because you make it seem as if the main character gets picked on all the time," Deidara wisely said, although the smirk could be heard in his voice. "He should man up and fight back un."

Itachi's eye twitched. "Oh he would if he was able to..." Unfortunately, having half the village and the Hokage against you makes it kind of difficult.

"Fine," Naruto huffed. "Go on. I wanna hear what happens next."

Itachi resisted the urge to strangle the blonde, gritting out the next few sentences of his story. "Evan and his annoying friend went up against the evil overlord where they learned to get over their differences and work together. The overlord got his ass kicked, the annoying friend died somewhere along the fight, and the parents were released from their makeshift paradise jutsu."

Deidara raised a hand. "Question!"

"What. Do. You. Want?" Itachi growled.

Deidara rolled his eyes. "How come the friend has to die un? Why not this 'Evan' guy?"

"Yeah, yeah," Sasuke and Naruto agreed.

Itachi felt several tic marks pop onto the back of his head. "Because Evan is the main character. Now shut up and let me finish!"

"Whatever," all three sneered.

Dear Kami- Deidara's influenced them both... Itachi hopelessly thought.

"Happy to be saved, the parents forgot about all the trouble that had been caused by the annoying friend and psychopathic villagers and came back home pleased with their son. Everyone in the village soon become his personal servants, going to do his bidding like the dictator he had become. And after that, Evan got his happiness back and they all lived happily ever after like in every fairy tale," Itachi muttered. "The end."

He looked up when no smart comments or laughs were made, immediately raising a brow.

All three of them had fallen asleep, snuggled up against one another with the sounds of their soft breathing filling the air.

Itachi sighed before standing and turning the lights out. He closed the door quietly behind him and then went to take a much needed shower.

If I get sick from being in water-clogged clothes for over three hours, I am so blaming those idiots...

There was a collective sneeze from behind a closed door.

Itachi smiled.

Day Seven: Discovery (how did he not realize this?)

Itachi had been decoding the parchment Pein had given him all day. Over the week he had managed to understand tidbits of it, but now he had come to the last page and was almot eagerly flying through it. Once he got the hang of translating the weird symbols, everything became so much easier to rewrite in his native language.

He wasn't alone in his room as he worked at his desk though. Naruto and Sasuke were working on Academy homework and helping each other out on the floor behind him while Deidara sat cross-legged on his futon reading through an Uchiha scroll.

Although Itachi gave him clear intructions not to try out any of the jutsus inside.

They couldn't afford to pay for the expenses.

"What's for dinner?" Naruto randomly asked to break the silence that had been hanging over the group. Anything was better than focusing on mathematical equations.

Sasuke hummed, idly doodling on his worksheet. "I want something sweet."

Deidara looked at them. "You can't just eat desserts. Although... I wouldn't mind it. But Ita-kun over here would throw a fit yeah."

"Maybe Itachi-nii should get the food then," Naruto suggested.

"Don't even think about sending me out again," Itachi muttered, working on the last line. His pencil flew across the sheet of paper.

"Wouldn't dream about it," Deidara snickered. He turned his attention back to the two kids on the ground. "I dunno guys. It depends on what mood you're in un. But please Naru-chan. We are not getting ramen again."

"Why not?" Naruto innocently blinked. "We've only had it for the past week."

"That's exactly it," Deidara sweatdropped.

"Huh?"

Sasuke smacked his friend over the head. "That's every day except for today."

"Ow! You jerk!" Naruto cried.

"Don't start fighting," Deidara said.

"But Sasuke started it first!"

"I did not!"

Itachi laid down his pencil with a light sigh, ignoring the bickering in the background. He finished decoding in a week. Not a bad job if he did say so himself. And now to re-read all that he translated...

"So seriously- what are we gonna eat?"

"Stop repeating yourself Naru-chan," Sasuke chided.

"We don't have a lot of money anyway hmm."

Sasuke looked at the blonde bomber. "We could ask Shisui to lend us."

Deidara waved a hand. "Nah. I pickpocketed him yesterday."

"Shouldn't you have the money then?" Naruto curiously asked.

"I lost it un."

"Oh."

Ten minutes later Itachi got to the most recently finished sheet with the three in the back still discussing dinner and who to put the responsibility on.

He stared at the last page of the document.

And stared.

And stared.

And then it clicked in his brain.

"What...in the world...IS THIS?" he exclaimed.

Deidara looked over in surprise. "What is it? What's the matter un?"

Itachi leaned back, eyes wide. "I know where my parents are."

Sasuke and Naruto exchanged a glance. "Tou-san and kaa-san?" they asked in unison.

Itachi felt an eye start to twitch, a dark aura rising off his body. "Yeah…and a certain someone knows exactly where they have been for these past few years…"

~X~

Shisui stared at the two teens glaring at him before sheepishly laughing and scratching the back of his neck. "Ahahaha….what brings you two to my humble abode?"

Itachi popped a vein, grabbing his older cousin by the ear. "Don't play dumb!" he shouted.

Deidara popped a vein too, but only because Itachi had stepped on his foot. He shoved the fifteen year old raven off of him and into Shisui's flower garden. "Get the hell of un!"

Itachi shot him a poor look. "You're lucky we have important business to take care of or else you'd already be six feet under," he muttered, stomping back on the front porch.

"Whatever Itachi," Deidara sneered. He then turned his attention to Shisui. "You have some explaining to do, don't you think un?"

"That's my line!" Itachi exclaimed, drop-kicking the blonde.

Shisui sweatdropped, stepping back in his doorway. "Um…why don't you guys just come on inside and keep the fighting to a minimum?"

They huffed. "Fine!"

A/N: Surprise! Sort of... -_-u

I believe the story will take a plot soon. Actually, I'm pretty sure its already had a plot since the first chapter :P

Next chapter out soon

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