"Oh! Oh! I know," Sakura grinned evilly at Itachi. "Shisui told me a story about Itachi messing up on a mission once."
"Sakura, I doubt this is an appropriate time - " Itachi was cut off by Tenji.
"Hush up, kid. I want to hear this story," he said, grinning conspiratorially at Sakura. "I'm certain I'll find a great nickname for you after this one."
Itachi fought back a deep and tired sigh, cringing internally as he heard the tale that Sakura told the old man.
"So. Itachi was supposed to be this amazing shinobi from the time he could walk - "
Itachi scoffed. "Supposed to be," he muttered.
" - so he rose really quickly through the village ranks. His cousin used to take him out on missions, and on one particular mission, they were supposed to meet with an informant who had betrayed the village. Shisui set up the meeting at a dango shop outside the village borders, somewhere in the Land of Fire, but the spy never showed up. Itachi was pretty easy for Shisui to rile up back then apparently, so Shisui bet him that he couldn't eat how ever much dango it was, I don't remember. Well, anyway, Itachi ate it all and then extra." She looked at Itachi and grinned before turning back to Tenji. "They didn't expect the spy to turn up in their hotel room and try to kill them that night. But some time during the fight, Itachi took a punch to the stomach and then vomited all the dango he ate back up all over the spy!"
Sakura laughed heartily and was joined by Tenji, while Itachi's face burned with shame. It was not his finest moment.
"Shisui said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen in his life. The spy was so disgusted he couldn't even react. They caught him really easily after that, but when they took him back to Konoha no one could figure out why he smelled like sickly sweet vomit since he had no memory of being vomited on. Itachi had wiped his memory of it to hide his shame."
Sakura and Tenji clutched their stomachs with the force of their laughter, while Itachi settled on glaring at Sakura to hide the small smile that was playing on his lips at the memory. Shamed as he was, he could admit, looking back almost ten years on, that it was quite an amusing tale.
"I have it!" Tenji exclaimed, a glint in his eye.
"Have what?" Sakura asked, wiping her eyes from the tears of laughter.
"From now until the day he dies, Itachi Uchiha will now be known as Dango."
Sakura blinked and then a smile widened across her face and Itachi really did roll his eyes this time.
"Dango! Dango! Dango!" Tenji sang and laughed.
Itachi questioned why he had bothered to be polite to him at all. Clearly, Tenji was little more than a child stuck in the body of an old man.
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Sacrifices for Peace
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