NARtCh1

(To understand what’s going on read the prologue)

Ch.1: Anticipation

“Oh! I can’t wait! Gaara aren’t you excited?” said Sakura. “No.” he replied simply. “Huh? But Gaara you have to be excited we’re going to America.” “ I’m not going .” he explained to her. “ What?! But Gaara you have to come. Naruto already got all of us tickets and I’m so pumped up.” she said in a somewhat whiny voice. “ One: I’m not going ,Two: he can return mine, and Three: I’m sure you can go without me.” he said while entering their apartment building. The apartment building had large and luxurious complexes which Sakura lived in one with her parents(who were never home) and Gaara in one with his siblings.  “Gaara you better come or else I’ll … I’ll …” she tried to think of something to make him come while they went into the elevator. “ ‘Or else’ what ?” he said while putting on a smirk ,confident he won the argument. Sakura thought for a moment then Inner spoke up. I have an idea that’ll make that stubborn b******* come!  As she listened a sly grin came across her face. Gaara noticed “ What ?” he asked inside nervous, for Sakura could sometimes be a very good blackmailer. “Or else I’ll tell everyone on the trip your nickname,… Panda-kun.” she grinned ear to ear at what Gaara was possibly thinking  as  he stiffened. Still facing the front of the elevator , he gave her an angry glare out of the corner of his eye “You wouldn’t dare…”

“Maybe” she said in a sing-songy voice, “ You’ll have to come along to make sure I don’t tell.” Smiling , she knew she won when she heard him mumble “fine” .

“Good, besides if you didn’t come you wouldn’t be able to have some of my homemade cookies till I got back.” He hadn’t thought about that. Shukaku spoke up Tch Tch  Tch shaking his head I’m disappointed in you, Gaara. You’re a sucker for cookies . For shame, for shame. ‘Like I want your approval.’ he said to Shukaku mentally.

“ Oh , which reminds me…” she said as the elevator door opened, “ I made some yesterday . Do you  want so-” she was cut off as Gaara dragged her out of the elevator at record speed to her apartment. When they got there she took her time getting the key  as she knew she was torturing him for taking so long .  When she opened the door ,she saw Gaara sprint inside straight for the kitchen. When she got there he was already finishing his first cookie. “ Slow down Gaara. You’ll ruin your appetite” she said like a nagging mother. She laughed at herself  for making the resemblance. But she stopped laughing , Gaara barely noticed she said something since he was stuffing his face with cookies. She thought about how Gaara never knew his mom since she died right after his birth.  He finally noticed her silence “What’s wrong Sakura-chan?”  “Nothing ,” she said trying to shake away the thought. She put a smile on “ Well better get dinner started.” She went for her cooking ingredients, she usually made dinner for the Sand siblings on the weekends since none of them could cook. They also invited her to join them a lot. “Do you want to help , Gaara?” she said while turning around . The plate of cookies and Gaara were gone , she laughed lightly. “Like a hungry panda.” she said to herself. She then started to cook dinner.

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AKATSUKI

“You IDIOT!” Kakuzu’s yelling was heard through out the base. “ DEIDARA! You could have used that money to solve our bankrupt!!”

“But it seemed like a good idea at the time, un! Danna let me, yeah!”

“I DID NOT! You got out of my reach so I couldn’t stop you!”

Tobi turned to Zetsu “ Zetsu-san , why is everyone mad about going to U.S.A.?”

“I think it’s a waste of our time. No one , not even in America, would hire us.” said Zetsu, not answering Tobi’s question.

Kakuzu stopped in his tracks and yelled “No! ‘Time is Money’ so I guess we have to go along with this plan.” He still gave an angry look to Deidara , who was trying to hide behind Sasori. “Ok everyone get packed, tomorrow is our flight. We’re going to have to find jobs in America!” he said.

Kisame looked to the “Weasel” at his right “Are you gonna leave your brother home alone?”

“Yeah.” Itachi answered. “But aren’t you supposed to take care of him? Especially  since he was abducted by Orochimaru not to long ago?”  Itachi turned to him , still with a bored expression on his face. “Yeah , but he’ll be fine. He saw a shrink and plus he won’t care if I’m there or not so… yeah he’ll be fine. Speaking of the brat , I have to go home and get dinner ready” he said while getting up from the couch . Kisame looked at him “You’re gonna order take-out aren’t cha?” “Of course, I’m tired of Sasuke’s horrible cooking.”

AT THE UCHIHA HOUSE

Itachi opened the door to find Sasuke reading “Death Note” and listening to his I-pod . Sasuke looked up at his brother  “Pizza.” Itachi said answering the question that Sasuke was thinking. Sasuke returned to what he was doing .  He decided not to tell Itachi about the road trip. He might worry about a week  after he was gone, so might call him then.  As Itachi hung up the phone after calling the pizza place he started to have second thoughts about leaving his brother home alone, but then thought not. ’Na. He’ll be fine.’ he thought to himself.