Summary: The story thus far, Itachi and Sasuke are now dating, and for his birthday Sasuke decided to go with Itachi to a ressort near the beach so they can have time together. In that time they bump Into Itachi's crazy brothers, Madara and Izuna. They end up playing a game of water guns in which Sasuke and Itachi loose and have to take dance classes with Madara and Izuna. Having enough, Itachi and Sasuke device a plan that allows them to escape so they can have the last day of their vacation together...and now onto this chapter..

Chapter XIX

Clumsy

Deadline One

She'd been awake when she saw Itachi return home.

It was late at night, and a part of her just couldn't seem to believe what she had seen that night. IT was almost like a faraway dream. Takada Ayu had waited long for Itachi to return. It wasn't until around two in the morning that she saw his car pull up to the driveway.

She had grown suspicious that when Itachi didn't open his door, and the fact that his car was missing, and no lights came on, he wasn't there. So she had waited, and waited, and finally all her waiting had paid off.

Itachi was finally back.

She had been in her house, with her binoculars, looking towards Itachi's house, and a smile spread her lips when she saw him. He was finally back, and the thought of just running towards him did cross her mind, but when Itachi turned off the car and turned on the lights inside the car as he stepped out, curiosity rose in her.

It specially flared when a small cat jumped out of the car right behind Itachi, it's tail flicking back and forth as it seemed to keep an eye on Itachi and what he was doing. Ayu watched in disbelief as Itachi walked to the front house, and unlocked the door, leaving it slightly ajar. Then towards the passenger side of the car, opened the door and leaned in. At this point the cat had started to head into the house, further opening the door.

She raised an eyebrow as she watched him, and gasped when a minute later; he pulled back out and straightened, with someone nestled in his arms. Whoever they were, Itachi carefully carried them bridal style, kicking the door of the car closed. Ayu tried her best to get a good look at who it was as Itachi headed more into the light of the front porch of the house, but it was futile. Whoever it was had their face buried in Itachi's chest.

She couldn't believe what she had just seen. Jealousy made itself known in her, and she wanted to demand to know who Itachi was carrying around so lovingly!

A moment later, Itachi returned and he walked towards his car, swiftly turning off the lights and picking out what looked like a plastic shopping bag and his keys. Itachi seemed to drop something and then he moved to lock his car and close it. She decided then to go out and greet him. She needed to know who the person he was with was, and she just really needed to talk to him, about anything! When she noted that Itachi was in the trunk of his car pulling what looked like two backpacks, she decided to go. She stood, slammed her door open and didn't bother to close it behind her as she rushed across the front lawn.

His name was on her lips as she rushed towards him, and was ready to cross the street when he closed the trunk. Just as she set one foot off of the side walk, raised her hand to call for him, a large truck decided to barrel through. It honked loudly, drowning her call, and when it was gone, so was Itachi.

His car was now locked. The house seemed to be the only one that had light. Swallowing hard, she wondered if she should go and knock the door. A cold shiver though, changed her mind and she decided that she'll wait until morning, with a special surprise! She had to think of something now.

Their vacation time was up and Itachi and Sasuke found themselves at Itachi's house. It was still incredibly early in the morning but there was a lot to do today. Despite the lack of sleep, Sasuke was the first to wake up. Groggily glancing at the clock, he wished that it was earlier so he could still sleep. Or at least wished he had nothing to do so he could stay in bed snuggled up to Itachi.

Just as he made a move to get up, Itachi's arms around his waist wouldn't allow him. Sasuke sighed, and nuzzled his nose with Itachi's, "We have to get up," he muttered.

"Just a while longer," Itachi responded, pulling Sasuke closer, "I really prefer to stay in bed with you, are you sure you can't reschedule?" Itachi smirked as he opened his eyes to look at Sasuke.

Sasuke frowned. "No, now get up! Or at least, let me up!" Itachi chuckled. Sasuke attempted to get up again and instead ended under Itachi, who moved down to kiss and nip at Sasuke's neck. "Itachi really, we have to go meet up with Kimimaro and Juugo…" Sasuke said, tugging gently at the long strands of Itachi's hair. Itachi kissed him on the lips.

"Alright, I'll start breakfast," Itachi got up and Sasuke sat up, finally free from his boyfriends demanding kiss, but he was still left a little dazed. Sasuke decided to do as Itachi suggested He went to go shower and dressed. When he headed towards the kitchen, Itachi was still cooking breakfast. Sasuke took over, and Itachi decided to get showered and dressed as well.

Once they had both gotten ready, eaten, and Fatty was fed, they headed out.

Once they were outside, Itachi noticed something on his door that he had not last night. His door had dirt prints of someone that had kicked it with their dirty shoes. Itachi cursed, and was pissed off. Sasuke looked around, wondering who would have come and done such a thing. "Whoever left those prints seem like they are mad with you," Sasuke commented, as he turned to look back at Itachi who was now looking at him.

"Funny, I don't recall ever making anyone hate me." Itachi said, "Not even Izuna would do something so childish, not to mention that somehow he always manages to get my keys. He would have barged in, if it was him. Then again, Madara would have stopped him…" Sasuke shrugged. Itachi pulled him close, and leaned in to kiss him, "Let go, we'll deal with this later."

Sasuke nodded, and headed to the passenger seat as Itachi automatically opened all the doors. Soon, both were on the road and Sasuke was giving Itachi the directions on where to go.

"You are late,"

"What are you talking about? It's ten on the dot" Sasuke pointed at his own watch. Kimimaro on the other hand narrowed his deep green eyes and tapped his own watch.

"Well mine says ten with five minutes, I really think you should get that thing checked Sasuke," with that said, Kimimaro crossed his arms but Sasuke wasn't having it.

"Maybe you should get yours checked! I know it's ten!" Sasuke turned to Itachi, "Right?" Itachi shrugged, and Sasuke had to glare at him with mild anger as well. "You're no help" he muttered darkly and Itachi smirked at him.

"Maybe I'm not, but whether we were later or not, we are wasting time arguing about it," Itachi made his point. "Besides, I never did like coming in between an argument." Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Itachi. Kimimaro on the other hand agreed with the Uchiha. They were wasting time. After all, the faster they could find a place, the sooner they could do something they actually wanted to do.

"Let's get this done and over with, so we have the rest of the day to ourselves. Orochimaru isn't even expecting us to show up to work as long as we complete his list of demands," Kimimaro waved the damned paper. Juugo looked at it warily.

"Orochimaru is a picky man, is he not? How would we start on looking for ball rooms, and all that?" he asked. Kimimaro looked at the list once more and folded it, shoving it into his pants pockets.

"Well, we wouldn't get any information from this paper, but I sure as hell know he will be happy with whatever Sasuke and I choose." Kimimaro shrugged, "the only one we really have to worry about is Kabuto, really," Kimimaro frowned and Sasuke did so as well.

"Why isn't Kabuto coming with us then?" Sasuke asked.

"Surprise, surprise, that's all Orochimaru has in his mind for his husband," Kimimaro said, "guess he really doesn't understand that this is something more intimate and better done if he himself came looking at this places personally with Kabuto…" Kimimaro placed a hand under his chin, "something tells me he wants us to show him the places so he only has to go to one or two and have Kabuto choose in the end."

"Wasting our time for this," Sasuke shook his head. It was damn well that Orochimaru was paying them hefty salaries, or he was going to have to break the snake's neck. Making final decisions, and finally a plan, both couples separated and decided to scout out a few and then they would go and check them out together.

"That place has a pool" Sasuke said in awe as he looked over a top railing, from another building. Itachi had his arms crossed and looking down as well.

"Are there going to be any children?" he asked.

"No," Sasuke responded. "That would be a cool place to get married though," the small raven commented. Itachi briefly glanced at Sasuke and then away, back towards the building with white walls and huge windowed doors.

"Let's go," Itachi suddenly found himself saying, "I have to show you the one where my mother and father got married,"

Juugo and Kimimaro weren't having as much luck as Sasuke and Itachi.

So far they had found places that actually had records for couples that only stayed married for two weeks before divorce happened. "Are you sure Orochimaru is even concerned with that? He seems to believe his love with Kabuto is forever."

Kimimaro laughed. "Are you kidding me, that man is superstitious?" Just as he said that, they walked near another ball room. This one was of a gothic theme. "I wonder if they have anything themed on snakes."

"Maybe that one," Juugo said, pointing to a room that almost looked like a wild jungle. Kimimaro's eye twitched.

"That does it, If we ever get married it's gonna be at city hall."

Juugo was shocked by the comment. Silently he kept following Kimimaro who was now muttering that he hoped Itachi and Sasuke were having better luck than them. They left the building they were in and decided to go to another.

"Wow"

Sasuke looked around the huge building. It was almost like a castle. The royal red carpet on the floor, the space could probably fit over five hundred tables. The place was practically open for just about any kind of decoration. There was a small bar on the side, and what looked to be stage lights on the top high ceiling. It wasn't much; it was actually pretty sweet and simple in a way. "Mom and dad had planned on a simple wedding, but their parents had decided to invite more than just a few people. This was the only way to accommodate any of them."

"It's awesome." Sasuke said. "Mom and dad got married in church, with only five people as witnesses. Mom just wanted to get the marriage started, and going, but dad was just being lazy, and in the end that was all they could pull together."

"Our parents sound completely different," Itachi said. "Although some family did try to get between mom and dad, saying that they were only getting married because she was pregnant with my brother, Madara. Heh, they had been married for so long now that it proved everyone wrong."

"Really?" Sasuke asked. "Then maybe they are kind of the same. Dad and mom were getting married when, well, she says, a drunken Iruka decided to show up and say he was against their marriage. Of course, being a lightweight he couldn't hold his liquor and ended up falling asleep and labeled as a mad man." Sasuke tilted his head and looked towards Itachi, "I wonder if the approach by Iruka back then would have been a little more differently, if mom and dad would have ever gotten married."

"They probably would have, if you're dad at the time really did think he was in love with your mom," Itachi said as he looked at his little boyfriend, "Love can be many things, blind, stupid, or confused."

"It would seem." Sasuke said. "Their marriage certainly didn't last long." There was a bitter tone in Sasuke's voice.

"Sasuke, do you recent your father for leaving your mother?" Itachi ventured.

Sasuke stiffened, and then turned to look at Itachi. "Yeah, sort of." Sasuke angrily looked away and fisted his hands, "he left her, Itachi, and there is no one to blame but him for everything that happened! For all of her dumb mistakes, it's his entire fault."

Itachi walked over to Sasuke and placed a hand at the crown of his head, "You know that is not true. Sometimes after a marriage people try to cope and fall for lies. You're mom might not have been perfect but it's not entirely your dad's fault. She let other people manipulate her."

"Yeah and if dad would have protected her, no one would have manipulated her!" Sasuke snapped. For once, Itachi saw the root to Sasuke's trust issues.

"Have you gone to see your mom?" Itachi asked, already knowing that Sasuke was already refusing to see his father.

"That's none of your business." Sasuke said, looking away from Itachi. He didn't care what Itachi had to say. Nothing was going to change his mind about it! Itachi already got him to open up and date, and that was already enough. Sasuke couldn't change himself one hundred percent, not even for Itachi.

"Fine," Itachi said to him.

Sasuke pouted and look at Itachi from the corner of his eye. That was easy. Way too easy, Itachi was up to something. That was when all of a sudden Sasuke's phone rang and he reached into his pocket to answer it. "Hello?"

'Sasuke, I think Juugo and I found the perfect place, meet us at Hebi Monument," and like that Kimimaro hung up. Sasuke turned to Itachi.

"We have to go meet them" Itachi nodded and followed Sasuke. Sasuke on the other hand looked over his shoulder in suspicion. "Are you planning something?"

Itachi looked at him oddly and said. "What would I be planning?"

Sasuke pouted, and the two of them continued to walk in silence. Sasuke as getting irritated though when he noticed that Itachi was watching him all the time that they were walking, "What are you looking at?"

"You obviously"

"Why?"

"I want to."

"Quit it."

"I don't think so."

"What are you two arguing about, just get your buts down here!" Kimimaro snapped from just down the street. This made Sasuke's eye twitch and he walked over to Kimimaro and Juugo with Itachi following right behind him. Once they were close, Kimimaro pointed to the building in front of him. It had a kind of gothic look with silvery greens and an aura that just screamed Orochimaru's name.

"Wow, all we are missing is the purple."

"Funny you mentioned that," Juugo said, looking a bit amused.

"It's all purple on the inside!" Kimimaro exclaimed.

"I never thought such a place would exist," Itachi said as he looked at it. Sasuke nodded in agreement with him.

"Let's go in then," All of them walked into the building and looked around. Before long a woman was at their side, asking them questions.

"Are you here to get married?" she asked. "Oh my, such adorable couples you are, will this be a double wedding? It wouldn't be the first that we've had here and it's totally accommodating" She hummed, and waited expectantly of them.

"Actually, we are here to book a day for a wedding, but not for us" Juugo said. Kimimaro nodded in response and handed over the folder with Orochimaru and Kabuto's pictures.

"Those are the two getting married and we wanted to know what we could get out of this place to set their wedding."

"Oh," the woman looked at the files and then said in a more concerned tone, "Wouldn't it be better of they came here and asked for what they wanted?"

"Our thoughts exactly," Sasuke said, "but we are just here scouting the area. We would like to set up an appointment for tonight at seven, for both of them to come in and book a time best suited to their wedding day."

The woman smiled brightly. "That can be done." She said and took in more information before deciding she had a plan as to what she could show the couple and then turned to them with a smile. "What about you four, any plans of marriage soon?"

"None," Sasuke said.

"Nope" Kimimaro added.

"Maybe later on," Juugo amended when it looked like the woman was about to argue with them.

Itachi opted for staying silent. Her eyes turned to him and she grinned. "Does that mean you are single, mister tall, dark and mysterious," she batted her lashes at him. Itachi was about to tell her that he was happily taken when Sasuke suddenly latched himself around his waist, and hugged him, glaring daggers at the woman that was trying to flirt.

"He's mine." He snapped, "Get your eyes away from him."

Itachi ruffled Sasuke's hair, making the boy pout.

"Aww," the girl said. "Really, you're taken by that little boy; wouldn't you rather have a real woman?"

Sasuke growled, hating that the girl had ignored what he had just said! Hadn't he just told her that Itachi was his!

"It wouldn't matter how much of a woman you are," Itachi said before Sasuke could say anything, "I'm attracted to this little boy here, and not you," Itachi wrapped his arms around Sasuke's small waist, making him blush.

"I'm not a little boy!" Sasuke hissed.

"Oh, I meant this little man here," Itachi pocked fun, making Sasuke roll his eyes.

"You're really not helping matters!"

Itachi chuckled.

"Anyways, we better get going, we have better things to do than hang around here," Kimimaro said, wrapping his arm around Juugo's. "Our boss will come and check the place tonight at seven, please don't forget. Juugo started to lead Kimimaro out and Sasuke and Itachi followed. Itachi placed his arm around Sasuke's shoulders and pulled him close to him. Sasuke on the other hand glared at the girl at the counter over his shoulder.

Itachi noticed this and then leaned into Sasuke, "Jealous type are you?"

Sasuke turned to him with a sharp glare, and moved in to capture Itachi's lips instead of saying anything.

"Well, deadline number one is done, what do you guys want to do now?" Kimimaro asked when they were outside.

"How about we go watch a movie and then go eat something." Juugo suggested.

"Sounds kind of normal" Sasuke said.

"Normal?" Kimimaro looked at Sasuke oddly.

"Yeah," Sasuke said.

"How about we go shooting?" Itachi asked, "There's this gun place…" he trailed off when he saw the other's look at him in shock. Sasuke soon snapped out of it and smiled at Itachi.

"And that's why you're my boyfriend"

An update. I know it's been so long Sorry everyone.