Neonn: Firstly, thanks to all who reviewed. I luvr you!Nextly, this is actually based on a real experience I had once. It REALLY sucked, let me tell you! Looking back on it, it inspired me to do this chapter! Yay for smoke detectors!

Friends of Foot Lee

By Neonn

Chapter Nine: Smoke Detectors

As one may or may not remember, Sasuke and Itachi are currently hiding in a tree house. Somewhere. It's been so long, even the author forgets. Woops. Anyway, there they are, sitting there. When, suddenly, they hear a noise.

Chirp!

This noise is very loud, high pitched, and piercing. Both of them jerk reflexively. At first, they think it's a bird.

"Sasuke?" says Itachi.

"Hmm?"

"Did you just hear that?"

"I think it's a bird."

"Oh."

They lapse back into silence, when, one minute from the first Chirp, they hear

Chirp!

"Stupid bird." Says Sasuke.

sixty seconds later-

Chirp!

"I'm beginning to think that isn't a bird," said Itachi.

"What is it then? A cricket?" said Sasuke sarcastically.

Itachi shrugged. "Maybe."

nine hours later-

Chirp!

"Augh! No more! Where is that sound coming from?" screamed Sasuke at no one. For the past many hours, there would be that annoying Chirp! sound. It happened exactly once a minute, on the dot.

"I think it's that smoke detector," said Itachi, pointing up at it.

"What the heck is a smoke detector doing in a tree house?" demanded Sasuke. Itachi shrugged. Sasuke twitched.

Chirp!

"Hey, let's try taking out the batteries!" said Itachi. He gave Sasuke a boost, and the batteries were deftly removed.

"Maybe now it'll stop," said Sasuke.

sixty seconds later-

Chirp!

"Nope," said Itachi, as they both curled into fetal positions.

sixty seconds later-

Chirp!

"Ok, now let's see if putting the battery back in will stop it!" said Sasuke. They put the battery back in.

sixty seconds later-

Silence

"Yes! It worked!" Itachi and Sasuke began to dance in joy.

five minutes later-

Chirp!

"No!" cried Sasuke, stopping the victory dance, "I thought we fixed it!"

"It's alright, we'll just have to…um…gah!" Itachi took off his pants, showing his bright orange boxers (with flowers of every type and color), and wrapped his pants around his head, in an effort to block out the noise.

"Nice boxers," scoffed Sasuke.

"During the most serious and formal events and occasions, wear outrageous underwear," said Itachi firmly, refusing to be goaded into making it so only 1.001 of the clan was left. "Now, we just wait."

Chirp!

"Why are we waiting again?" asked Sasuke.

"…"

"You mean, we've been in here for nine hours…and you don't know why?"

"…"

"I'll kill you!"

"…!…"

sixty seconds later-

Chirp!

"No! Don't hurt meeeeee!"

"Die! Die! Grrr…"

"Gir? What does the G stand for?" asked Itachi randomly.

"What?" Sasuke paused.

"Well, come on. What does it stand for?" Itachi prompted. Sasuke glared at him. Itachi sighed, reached over into his cloak-cape-thing, and gave him a script.

"…I don't know…" Sasuke read from the script.

"Finish it," said Itachi.

"Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Whoo!" Sasuke than began to laugh crazily.

Ok, now we may continue, as if the last six or seven paragraphs never happened.

"Now, now, Sasuke. Don't take your anger out on me…it's Foot Lee's fault we're in here, remember. Him and his crazy, obsessed mob," Itachi tried to reason with his brother.

"Allright, let's go get him, then…and afterwards I'll get you," decided Sasuke.

Itachi breathed a sigh of relief as he led the way out of the tree house. It was time to get Foot Lee.

TBC…

Neonn: Well? How was it? Yes, the smoke detector thing actually happened to me. It was in my room, and it went the WHOLE night. I tried sleeping upstairs, as far away from my room as possible, but those things are LOUD! I eventually found replacement batteries, but that happened around six in the morning…many hours after I had gone to my room for the night. I suppose I could've bugged my mom about it, but I really didn't want to wake anyone up. I wonder if anyone will get that random little 'Gir' reference. I'll laugh if someone does. Ok, so it wasn't one hundred percent appropriate, but I was watching Invader Zim and felt the need.