A/N: So I totally didn't wake up today and be like "Imma update the Wingman story! :D" but I had the night off work and apparently have the night off again tomorrow night so we shall see where things go~ (actually I might work on Parallel Lines tomorrow so don't get your hopes high unless you are a reader of that fic too! ;)))) Enjoy!

FRIDAY

"Hello?"

"Hey 'cuz!" Shisui sung into the phone. "Mi hermano de otra madre!"

Itachi sighed. "Just because you have nothing better to do than harass me at work doesn't mean that I have the same luxury, Shisui."

Shisui frowned in mock-sadness. "So you're busy then?"

Another exasperated sigh. "No, Shisui, I am watching the paint in my office dry."

Shisui recognized sarcasm when he heard it but that didn't stop him from pushing Itachi's buttons anyways. "Really?!"

"What do you want?" Itachi deadpanned. "Surely you called for a reason."

Brilliant. Studious. Focused. Detail oriented. Hard worker. Serious. Intuitive. Itachi Uchiha was many things but "fun" wasn't one of them. Until after tonight if Shisui had a say in the matter. "Let's go to a club tonight."

"A club?"

The raw skepticism in Itachi's voice filled Shisui with unparalleled joy. But the fun was only just beginning. "Yeah."

"No thank you."

"It wasn't a question, Itachi."

"I'm aware but I must respectfully decline."

Shisui pursed his lips. "Nobody's asking you to dance or anything, you know."

"That may be but I dislike the idea in general." He explained.

"Well…" Shisui began to say, "I need you to be my designated driver. I want to go to a club tonight so I can get drunk and dance the night away and if you want to make sure I get home safe you'll come with."

Another skeptical sigh. How many did that make so far? "Why does this sound like I have no choice in the matter?"

"Because you can't bear the idea of losing your beloved cousin because you wanted to stay in and read a book tonight."

"Why tonight? Why is it so important for you to go to a club tonight?"

Shisui leaned forward in his chair as if to whisper the answer in Itachi's ear. "For starters, it's a Friday. People – young people such as ourselves – go out on Friday nights because they don't have to work the next day. And I deserve a night out because I'm a hard working individual." He stated matter-a-factly.

"Sure you are."

"So are you in or not? If not, don't be surprised if I bring somebody home with me tonight because you won't be around to stop me." Shisui said. He could imagine Itachi bringing a hand to his eyes to stave off an impending headache.

"Fine."

"Great!" Shisui beamed. "See you later, alligator!"

"Later." Click.

Shisui stared at the disconnected call until it returned to Itachi's contact information and whispered "In a while, crocodile" with a wide smirk on his face.

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"Tell me,"

"Anything you want, mi primo." Shisui answered.

He received a long hard stare in response and knew exactly what Itachi was currently thinking. I know that you minored in Spanish so there's no need to flaunt your mastery of the language. Itachi was just jealous that he took a dead language like Latin that only lawyers and doctors could understand. Unwilling to bring up a tired old argument that Shisui always won, Itachi turned his head to focus on the sidewalk before him and asked "why did you ask me to be your designated driver if you had no intention of driving?"

"Who said I had absolutely no intention whatsoever of driving over here? A lot can change over the span of six hours, you know." He retorted.

"Then why is it necessary for me to come along with you if you knew – upon getting ready to leave the house – that you had no plans to drive here?" Itachi asked.

Shisui craned his neck so that he could look up at the night sky above them. If he squinted, he could see a dotting of stars amidst the glow of the downtown atmosphere. "Just because we didn't drive here doesn't mean that I won't need your help to find my way back home."

Itachi inhaled deeply through his nose and exhaled.

"What would you rather be doing? Sudoku puzzles?"

"Sleeping. I'd rather be asleep because that is what most sane people do after a long week of work."

Shisui laughed outright at that. "Sleeping? Are you for real? What are you, ninety years old? Itachi, we're still in our twenties! This is a time for insanity and late nights out on the town spent with your mejor amigo getting drunk, and chatting up chicas quapas!"

"Do you think these so called 'pretty girls' want to chat with someone who constantly switches between languages every sixty seconds?"

"I will have you know that women like a man of culture. Plus, my impeccable Spanish accent makes them melt regardless of what I say." He explained with a suggestive arch of his brow.

Itachi sighed. "How much farther do we have to walk until we reach this place?"

Shisui pulled out his phone and pulled up a location app. "Shouldn't be much farther. Another block or so. Maybe less."

"Hn. And you said that a co-worker suggested this place to you?"

"That's right." Shisui nodded proudly.

"How credible is said co-worker?"

"Oh he's got mad cred."

"Shisui that's not what—"

"And here we are!" Shisui excitedly exclaimed, and thrust his arms in the direction of the nightclub entrance as if to present it to his cousin.

Itachi inhaled his last breath of crisp summertime air. "Come on, let's get this over with already." He said and stalked inside.

The Sound, as the club was called, was everything that Shisui expected it would be. Solid bass reverberating the walls and echoing in his ear canal, flashing lights that would cause any epileptic to faint the moment they set foot inside, a well-stocked bar, an a jam packed dance floor. "What a time to be alive!"

Itachi pulled away from his cousin's sudden outburst and grabbed his arm. "Shisui, are you sure you're not already intoxicated?"

"Let loose Itachi! I'm drunk from this place's atmosphere and I haven't even had anything to drink yet!"

Itachi winced. "I can see that."

Just then, a light haired man with glasses and a really low cut scoop neck t-shirt sauntered up to them with an alcoholic beverage in hand. "Hey Shisui." He purred. "I'm glad you could make it out here tonight."

He purred. That was Itachi's first red flag.

Shisui forced a brighter than necessary smile and opened his arms up wide. "Yeah, and I gotta say, this place is legit! Wow!"

Kabuto batted his eyes and leaned into the hug, but really only gently patted Shisui on the back. "Thanks."

Batted his eyes. Second red flag.

"You said that your friend owns this place?"

The man in glasses playfully swatted at Shisui's shoulder and took a sip of his drink. "Oh, Shisui, you know I only said he was my 'friend' because I haven't come out to the guys at work yet." He said, taking a sip of his drink. His eyes flitted over to Itachi who stiffened where he stood. "Is this your boyfriend, Shisui? He's cute. Well defined jaw, broad shoulders, trim figure and that assssssss— "

"Kabuto! Kabuto!" Came a shrill voice from the dance floor.

"Uh-oh. That's my que to take my leave. First drink is on me tonight, Shisui~" He said and trailed his finger down Shisui's chest before fleeing to the sound of his name being called. "Coming Orochimaru!"

"Did you hear that, Itachi? First drink's on him; let's go!" Shisui said and moved to find a seat at the bar when Itachi roughly grabbed his arm and yanked him backwards.

"What are you doing?"

Shisui blinked his eyes in confusion. "Going to get a drink? Kabuto just said—"

"I heard what he said, Shisui!" Itachi shouted over the sound of the bass and ran a hand down his face in exasperation. "Look around you! Do you notice anything different between this club and every other club you've ever been to before?"

Shisui lowered his eyelids a little and regarded Itachi with a playful expression. "I wasn't born yesterday, Itachi, it's a gay club."

This time it was Itachi's turn to blink. "So if you knew it was a gay club then why did you drag us both out here then?!"

"Listen, in my defense, that guy you just saw two seconds ago – Kabuto – I didn't know that he was gay! Okay, maybe I had an idea but he doesn't act that gay at the water cooler!"

"And yet he suggested this club to you and you thought he was talking about a straight club given his sexuality!?"

Shisui raised his shoulders in surprise. "Look! I overheard him talking about a club! He didn't say that it was a gay club or anything like that! The guy said his friend owned a club, okay!"

"And you believed that!?"

"Yeah. I did. But what's done is done and I'm going to get that free drink I was promised." He said and took a few steps closer to where the alcohol was being served.

Itachi matched his pace and was soon standing in front of him, effectively blocking the path to the alcohol. "You're not honestly thinking of staying."

"We walked all this way so we might as well." Shisui explained. Itachi was nonplussed. "I've been wanting to take a break from the stress of work and just have a night where I can dance and get drunk and be hungover the next morning and not care about anything! Yeah, we walked all the way out here and yeah it's not what either of us expected but you only live once—"

"Oh please,"

"—and I'm going to need a lot of alcohol to make it through the night."

Itachi raised his hands in surrender. "Fine. You know how to find your way back home and you have my number on speed dial I'm sure so have fun living it up or whatever."

"Stay!"

"Excuse me?"

"I know I bug you on a daily basis but can you just do this one thing for me? Just this once?"

Itachi sighed and looked around the room. "Are you aware of how sketchy this place is? That co-worker of yours clearly has a boyfriend or husband or fiancé or whatever lurking around here somewhere and yet he was still openly flirting with you! Do you honestly think this is a place where you want to spend your evening? And drunk at that?!"

"Which is why I need you to stay! Let me have my fun and if things start to get out of hand and you see someone trying to take advantage of me with those keen, hawk like eyes of yours then drag me back home!"

"What's to stop me from dragging you home right now, Shisui?!"

"You and I both know that I took martial arts when we were younger and that I can win in a fight against you any time, Itachi!"

"Need I remind you that I took martial arts when I was a kid too and surpassed you in rank?"

"Whatever, just let me have my fun, chill out at the bar or in a corner or in the bathroom for all I care and make sure nobody tries to take me home in their van or something!"

"And what do I gain from this?"

"I won't force you to sit through another crime drama with me for the rest of the week."

"The rest of the month." Itachi bargained.

Shisui rolled his eyes. "You and I both know that I'll be done watching it before the end of next week."

"Fine." The younger Uchiha relented.

Shisui pumped his fists with a loud holler which caused Itachi to wince from the noise and cover his ears. "Time to get wasted!"

Rule #3: Like movie trailers, same-sex clubs "whet" the audience's appetite for what lies down the road.

Funny story - my tablet was being stupid and told me that I had written like 3,000 or so words of this chapter so I cut it short because I didn't want this chapter to dwarf the previous and future chapters only to realize that it was almost 2,000 words instead. *clicks tongue* Yup. That happened. That and I wasn't feeling so hot and wanted to go to bed T^T Needless to say, the next chapter should be fun!

*note: if the "rest of the night" (clubbing) ends up being another 1,000 words I may add it to the end of this chapter*

SHOUT-OUTS:

****To JigokuShoujosRevenge: It's been less than one month you should be proud~ ;)

****To AbsoluteAnarchy: Was this smooth enough? Or is it too soon to call? :3

****To P. Cythera: Like I said in my author's note at the top of this document, I totally was not going to update this today and didn't see your review until I logged on to update it so needless to say, you came in at the best time! Hope you enjoyed it!

Until next time~!

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