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Sober

Irritating was the word that came to mind when asking Sakura about Itachi. She wondered how hard it could be to find one person in one city…well she got her answer; really hard. She spent mostly that whole day searching for that dark haired bandit and his wacky crew of misfits, but not one sign of him showed. Not even the blue ones, Konan and Kisame, were seen and they were defiantly the noticeable ones when from a distance.

Her friends thought that she was looking for someone with her purse the whole time, which was in its own way true, but it wasn't really just the purse. Mors like the thief who stole that said purse. She could care less about the purse. She just wanted her money and revenge.

"Sakura come on. The bus is about to leave." Tenten yelled.

Sakura sighed then started towards her friends when a loud thump caught her attention making her turn towards it.

There, in the window of a restaurant. Sat a blonde with his head pinned to the window by a blue hand. He seemed to be laughing even though the hand was choking him slowly. Beside the blonde was a smiling red head, across from him, a blue haired girl, beside her was a orange haired boy with many piercings and across from him was the M.I.A himself, Itachi.

"Hold on, you ass." Tenten yelped from ahead making Sakura turn. "Sakura hurry up!"

"I'll have to catch you guys later, okay?"

"Nani?" Tenten questioned as the bus slowly began to depart.

"Get in!" the driver yelled.

"Shut up will ya'?" Tenten barked back after sliding in before the doors closed, completely forgetting Sakura was outside leaving her by herself.

Sorry girls. She thought. But I just found him and I may never get another chance like this. So I'll just have to catch up with you later.

"Okay, okay Kisame. Un. I'm sorry. I won't joke around with you anymore. Un. Now let go of me will ya'. Un."

Itachi stared at his blue friend then at Deidara and sighed at their idiocy and the embarrassment they were causing. To him, he and Kakuzu were the only sane people in the group…well…whenever Kakuzu wasn't talking about money all the time.

I'm surrounded by idiots. He thought.

"Can I help you with anything else?" a rather fangirl-ish girl sung once she approached Itachi for what seemed to be the hundredth time.

"No. for the hundredth time, we are fine. Please stop coming here. I don't want to see you anymore."

"Itachi." Pein chuckled. "Give her a break will you. It's not every day you get to see people like us."

"But she's only asking me, not you or the others."

"That's because, Pein is taken already." Konan added after tightening her grip around the hand he had thrown around her shoulder. "Deidara's prettier than her, Kisame is blue and Sasori's farther over in the seat then you are. To Americans, it would be considered rude to do such a thing."

"Humph, whatever." Itachi growled. He looked back up and saw the same girl still standing over him with the same goofy smile planted on her face. "What the hell don't you get. I said leave. I've already paid. What else is there to attend to?"

"Um…do you need anything else?" she squealed.

"NO! LEAVE!"

The girl giggled behind her note book. "Okay. Call me if you need anything."

"Ugh, annoying little prick."

"Give her a chance, Itachi. Un." Deidara laughed after joining into the conversation.

"No. I hate fangirls. They frustrate me to unknown extents."

"Haha! That sounds bothersome." Kisame mocked. "I could take them off of ya', but I'm blue right now, so-ˮ

"Kisame, even if you weren't blue, they still wouldn't flock to your side with Itachi around. Un." Deidara laughed.

Kisame lunged at him again only making Deidara and Sasori laugh again, but this time Konan and Pein laughed as well. Itachi just stared at them, uncaring to what was happening. He just wanted to get home to sleep. He didn't get enough of it last night.-(1)-

Might as well get some sleep while we wait for Kakuzu and the others. He thought as he laid his head on the table. Wonder what that Sakura chick is up to? I bet she just now found out that her money is gone. Oh well she'll never find me. This city's too big for her to-

Suddenly a strong force pulled his head back with the ponytail he had tied in the back, making him hit his head on the wooden part of the chair.

"What the hell!" Kisame yelled as he stared at Itachi's hands gripping the back of his head. "Why would you-ˮ he stopped and stared along with the others at the pink haired girl standing behind the cringing Uchiha.

"You bastard." Sakura roared. "Where's my money!"

"Excuse me" the waiter girl snarled. "But is there a problem here?"

"No." Itachi suddenly popped up and grabbed Sakura before she could say anything else. "We'll be taking our leave n-ow! You didn't have to bite me you little wrench."

"But Itachi," Deidara yelled after him from the chairs. "What about Hidan and the others? Aren't we waiting for them?"

"Call them and tell them we'll be at the hotel." Itachi called out while he dragged a flailing Sakura towards the door. "Ignore her, she's drunk."

"I-I'm not drunk!"

"Saying that while blushing and stuttering isn't going to help you out much, Sakura chan."

"Just ignore the commotion you just saw." Kisame yelled while leaving slowly after Itachi. "Please continue to enjoy your meals." And with that said, he and the others walked out.

"The hell is she doing here?" questioned Hidan. He was staring at Sakura with irritation. She only had one good mark to him, but that was yesterday, now she's just a bothersome girl that doesn't belong with them.

Sakura stared back at him with just as much irritation in her eyes. The whole ride there Itachi wouldn't let her go, Kisame kept choking Deidara for cracking jokes about him to Sasori, Deidara was sitting next to her so she caught the worst of it every time he moved aside trying to avoid Kisame's hands, Sasori had an annoying laugh and Tobi, that idiot, happened to get on the bus while they were heading to the hotel and wouldn't stop talking to her about how much of a good boy he was and crying whenever Deidara told him he wasn't one. Hidan was just the icing to the cake, only egging her on with his constant cursing.

"Fuck you, you ass whole. Does it look like I want to be here? I was mauled and gagged then forcefully brought here, and the whole time I was riding with the three stooges plus one." She signaled at Sasori, Deidara, Kisame and Tobi while talking. "So the last thing I need is some damn Jashinest yelling at me with some useless shit in mind."

Hidan stared at her, a slight blush forming up on his face from her words. He then returned back to normal and growled at her. "Still." He said facing away from her. "What's she doing here?"

"Itachi stole the money she won yesterday. Now she wants it all back and she refuses to leave without every cent of it back in her hands." Kisame ranted answering Hidan's question.

"Then pay her back already. The bitch is fucking annoying."

"Fuck of, Hidan."

"You know what-ˮ

"Anyways" Itachi yelled. "Since she won't leave till I pay her and its clear no one wants her here, I'm going to need to borrow some money from everyone so-ˮ

"Wait," Kakuzu growled. "Why in hells name do I have to give you my money? Why don't you just work it off Itachi?"

"Well that would require time and-ˮ

"Kakuzu's right. This is your own problem. Un."

"What did I tell you about cutting me off, Deidara?"

"That shouldn't matter, Itachi. Both Kakuzu and Deidara are right. This is your problem, so you need to fix it and without our pay. Besides, I want to keep my money." Pein finally put in. Itachi just stared at him.

Damn. Now what? He thought. If Pein says that then I really have no choice but to fallow. Ugh! I blame all of this on Sakura. If she never found me I could have had the money and a care free life after that. Damn prick…pulling my hair…that hurt, damn it!

"Fine. I'll get dressed and head back down to the casino." He gave in.

"How much could she have won in the first place?" Kakuzu laughed.

"About 2,500 U.S. Dollars."

"What the hell!" The whole room yelled.

"That's about 200,000 yen, Itachi!" Kakuzu shrilled. "How much do you have left?"

"…1,010…"

"WHAT?" Kakuzu yelled again. "Now I know why she won't leave, hell I wouldn't leave either. I'm on little missy's side till you get her money back, Itachi."

Sakura smiled then faced Itachi again. A devious look edged its way up to her eyes. Victory was in the bag, and pretty soon, her purse.

So we're heading back to the casino. Well I can't go like this…better borrow a dress from Konan. Ah, but she hates me…for some reason. Maybe I can charm her? Sakura thought.

"Konan," she chimed, "that flower in your hair is so pretty. Where did you buy it?"

Konan blinked then touched the white flower on the top of her head, momentarily forgetting it was there. "Oh." She blushed. "This old thing. I made this, I didn't buy it."

"No way!" Sakura yelped practically jumping out of her seat. "You made this. It looks like a real hair piece. I didn't know you had such a wonderful talent, Konan."

Konan blinked again. Another blush formed on her face from the attention the origami on top of her head was receiving. "Thank you." she flushed clearly being affected by the flattering. "Actually, it's made of paper, but it's not my best work. I actually design and make clothes, too."

"Really!"

"Yeah, like this dress, "Konan smiled pointing at the blue dress with white flowers swimming through the fabrics to match her flower. "I made this one."

"So cool and it's very pretty too. You should think of selling your work. You could really make a living off of it."

"You think so?"

"You bet!" Sakura smiled.

Konan smiled back at her. The flattering went over her head completely and she fell for it…entirely.

"Well how about I make you one, a flower I mean."

"Really!"

"Yeah, I mean you're not that bad for a poser with that pink hair. How about I give you a dress too."

"Gee thanks, Konan!" Sakura cheered with real joy for once.

"Let's go, Sakura." Itachi griped.

"Hold your horses, grumpy." Konan bellowed. "We're discussing more important matters. A girl can't go to the casino in jeans and a t-shirt."

"Yeah." Sakura jeered, "So, you can just wait right there for a while, Itachi."

I'm really starting to get annoyed with this girl. She's purposely getting under my skin.

"Tenten, Temari," Ino clucked when the two girls minus one appeared. "Where's Sakura? Did you lose her again?"

"No. she said she'll catch up to us when we were getting on the bus. Is she not here yet?" Temari questioned, worry for once showing on her face for her pink haired friend.

"Shit. We lost her again. Sakura just doesn't have that much luck here does she?-(2)-

"I guess that's kind of true. Hey have you heard from the guys yet."

"Neji-nee-san told me that they're a good 10 hours from here now."

"So they just left the airport an hour ago?" Tenten asked.

"Hai. So it seems."

"…I'm still blaming Naruto for everything. It's because of him that Sakura is lost, because if Saskue was here, she would have never left his side."

"b-but, Tenten that's a little-ˮ

"No it's not, Hinata. It's so his fault. I'm even blaming my previous hangover on him."

Ino sighed then looked around, hoping to find her childhood friend, but that was pointless. All I can do is hope she gets back okay. Oh Sakura you, baka. Why do you keep doing this every time we go out of the country.

"No!" Konan yelled her hands were stretched out in front of Sakura, a rather protective stance. "She's not going anywhere. Sakura is hanging with me, Itachi."

"Why." Itachi growled. "Didn't you say you hated her?"

"That was before I realized that she appreciates true art such as mine." She signaled at the flower on top of both of their heads and the flower imprinted dresses they both wore. "Now I don't want her to leave. She's the only girl I can talk to about…well…girl stuff."

"…Your joking."

"No. now if you'll excuse us, me and Sakura have other things to do, ne Sakura?"

"Hai." Sakura giggled as she and Konan walked off.

Itachi and the others just stared back at the two girls as they ran off.

"Well at least we don't have to deal with her afterwards." Sasori stated.

"Not likely," Pein began. "She'll probably just bring her back to the hotel to talk some more. Which means-ˮ

"Sakura will be there to collect." Itachi finished. "Whatever, let's just get this over with."

"Good luck, Itachi." Tobi smiled.

"Yeah, cause you'll need it. Un."

Itachi glared at the group of people walking off before sighing. I just want to go home. Why the hell did this have to be me? I hate Vegas.

"Um, excuse me." A shrill voice sang.

Itachi turned and stared into big blue eyes that seemed to be staring back at him with a rather unwanted intensity. Shit, just my luck, another damn fangirl.

"You look a little lonely. Are you by yourself?"

"…Sort of, but I'll be okay, so-ˮ

"Nonsense. There's no harm from having someone around you, right. Besides, I'm all alone too, and a strong and handsome guy like you can always protect me from all the big bad boys."

"Let go of me. I'm here with someone. She's just not here right now."

"Well she must be dumb to leave a guy like you alone. She may not want anything to do with you, so how about hanging with me instead." The fangirl cooed, pressing her breast against Itachi's arm to make them seem bigger.

"No."

"Pretty please." She pressed harder. "I just want someone to protect me."

"From what? No one would want to touch someone as slutty as you."

She laughed. "Aw thank you, doll, but you'll have to do a lot worse than that to get me off of you. Say, what's your name anyways?"

"…That's-ˮ

"Itachi!"

He turned away from the girl and stared at the pink haired girl approaching him. God I haven't been so happy to see that snob.

"Sakura…"

"Hey, did you know that Konan can't hold her liquor. One glass and she's bouncing all over the place. I kinda' left her with Pein, he was fallowing us." Sakura turned, realizing the blond blue eyed girl clutching to his arm. "Who's she?"

"No one important."

"The real question is who are you?" the blond barked.

"She's my…date." Itachi announced as he wriggled his way out of her grip and over to Sakura. "Didn't I tell you I was with someone else already? Well she's that person. So leave. Now."

"Uh…yeah. Were here together, and I don't appreciate you clinging to him like you know him."

"Humph." The fangirl stirred. "Why would you pick such a plain girl like her over me. She doesn't even have a chest. What is she an A?"

Sakura flinched then looked down at her rather small chest. It was true. Out of all of her friends she had the smallest chest, even Tenten and Temari, the tomboys in the group, had bigger breast than her.

"But that's what makes her…different." Itachi chuckled after realizing Sakura's reaction to the girls words. "Besides I'm not a fan of big breast. To me they just get in the way of everything else."

Sakura looked up then smiled thoughtfully before hugging him. "Thanks, babe." She giggled to finish their act.

The fangirl bought it and huffed before walking away twitching what little hips she had.

"You're welcome, Itachi."

"…Hm."

"You could say thank you."

"Don't wanna."

"What's this? Are you acting spoiled?" Sakura laughed, but Itachi never once turned back around. "Thanks for backing me up back there, Itachi." Sakura cooed after feeling the inventible quiet approaching. "Even though it was a lie, it still meant a lot to me and-ˮ

"Who said that was a lie?" Itachi wondered aloud, leaving Sakura staring at the back of his head. A light blush covered her face as she pondered on what he could have meat with that comment.

Don't think that way, Sakura. She told herself. That didn't mean anything. He's just toying with you.

"I'm not toying with you."

…did he just read my mind?

"Maybe I did." He chimed a smile threatening to show on that unmovable face as he watched Sakura physically freak from what just happened. "Let's just go, Sakura."

Sakura stood still, not wanting to follow him, but not wanting to be alone either.

"Thank you." Itachi whispered just loud enough for her to hear.

She smiled at him no longer seeing that evil picture that was painted in the back of her head by Saskue, but now seeing a rather nice-ish young adult on the verge of being a considerable candidate for an angel in training.

Maybe he's not all that bad. Saskue's over reacting. I don't think he's that bad. I mean he's been real nice to me, so he can't be as bad as Saskue was saying he was.

"Sakura, let's go." Itachi yelled from ahead.

"Hold your horses, you noob!"

"…I'm not a noob…"

Sakura laughed at him, for what seemed to be the hundredth time to her.

She felt comfortable around him for some unknown reason. She was at ease really around the whole group of hooligans, except Hidan and Tobi, but she felt the most comfort around Itachi's cold fixture. She found interest in his unchanging face. She found something charming in his deep tone of voice. She felt stimulated whenever he touched her, no matter where it may be, her arm, her hand, her shoulder, head…her lips, her chest, her butt, her stomach, everything.

And he, he felt some kind of tingle every time her warm unyielding voice echoed through his ears, every time she laughed, she touched him, she kissed him, and when she felt him. Neither one of them were drunk, but it didn't seem like either one cared.

The amount of money they won together, about 4,500, but it didn't matter in the end…it may have never mattered to begin with…

-(1)- I'm just going to let your imagination run free on that part Meh he he. =)

-(2)- in a way she does, in another, she doesn't.

P.S. Sorry for the late update. I had basketball practice and games, and this weekend my teams going to nationals .So wish me good luck. Also, I'm trying to apply for a job cause let's face it…teens need money, and I just hope I can get it. So wish e luck…again…REVIEW!1!11!

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(Keynote A.K.A Kicho)

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