✔︎ Two Morons And A Mad House (2/2)

Chapter 10; The Waffle House

It took all of twelve hours for the Akatsuki to lose patience and slam her door down. Really, Sakura had expected their patience to run out in half that time.

She was marginally impressed.

She also owed Kakashi ten bucks now. Bastard.

"YOU LITTLE DIPSHIT, YEAH!" Deidara.

"I thought we'd agreed to not break more things?" Kakuzu.

"THAT WAS BEFORE BLONDIE CUT IN FRONT OF ME! HEY, PINK HAIRED BITCH, WHERE IN JASHIN-SAMA'S FUCKING NAME ARE YOU!?" Hidan.

"Squirt's gonna kill all of you." Kisame.

"Hn." Itachi.

"Brat." Sasori.

"DANNA." Deidara.

Blue picked his head up off the floor near Sakura's place on the couch-not even bothering to turn her head as she heard the Akatsuki at her door . . . not even when said door flew off its hinges, nope, not even then-and raced towards Deidara at full blown puppy speed.

There was a very feminine scream when Blue tackled Deidara to the floor. Sakura was unsure if it actually came from Deidara or from Hidan, who had reared back the moment he noticed a small fluff of blonde fur darting towards them at full speed. His arms were in the air and he was balancing on one foot as Deidara went down and multiple explosions could be heard.

Sakura slowly placed her bookmark on the page she had been reading from and set it down on the coffee table next to her. She sighed, and wondered when Naruto and Sasuke would get home.

She turned halfway around to face the Akatsuki members in her doorway. "So I take it you've all seen the flashdrive?"

"Damn right we've all seen the fucking flashdrive!" Hidan bellowed, like repeating her question verbatim made it all the more important.

Deidara whimpered under Blue.

Kisame was watching Blue maul Deidara with a funny look on his face, the corner of his lip occasionally quirking up.

Itachi came over to the couch Sakura was still perched on and sat down next to her. He looked pointedly at the cup of tea left untouched next to her. Sakura swallowed and looked away.

He picked up the book she'd previously been reading from and quirked an eyebrow. "I wouldn't have taken you as a fan of Hardy," he said, flipping through her highlighted and tattered version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles left over from her AP high school literature class.

She quirked her head. "You've read it?"

Itachi nodded.

She raised an eyebrow. "And?"

"Angel is an asshole."

Sakura let out a shocked laugh. Of all the things she'd expected him to say, that hadn't even been on the list. She couldn't even remember the last time she'd heard Itachi curse.

"I don't read it for Angel."

Itachi quirked his head at her. "Alec, then?"

Sakura shrugged. "And Tess, of course. Alec is a right asshole, as you say, but he's an interesting character at least."

There was a loud groan behind them. "Please, for the love of fucking Jashin-sama, stop fucking talking about a damn book!"

Itachi daintily cleared his throat. "Yes, well. I believe you know what we came here to discuss, Sakura-chan."

"I don't regret it."

Kisame had made his way over to the couch and leaned over the side of it. "What part, squirt?"