Disclaimer: Not mine. Never mine. But story ideas are mine :D

Warning: Randomness. Lateness. And, as always, stupidity. And implied sex (if you can catch it!)

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19. Why Itachi's Hair is Always Long

Itachi’s day was admittedly turning out to be very strange. Wherever he went, Kisame and Deidara seemed to pop up out of nowhere, and they all stared at him intently. Whenever he looked at them directly, though, they all pretended to be looking anywhere but him.

He was certain that they were either planning to kidnap and sell him to Orochimaru, or they were going to try to throw him a surprise party, even though his birthday was six months ago.

He glared at Kisame, who hastily looked away. Deidara began to giggle uncontrollably. Kisame kicked him and he shut up.

Itachi stalked off to the training grounds to practice his katas and blow up a few trees.

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Two days later, and they were still watching his every movement. The Konoha nin was really starting to get pissed, and ended up trying to interrogate Kisame after their recreational sporting. The shark nin instantly shut up and wouldn’t say a word about anything, even when Itachi tried to hypnotize him.

The next day Sasori sidled up to him looking rather nervous (that is, as nervous as a puppet can look). “They’re coming after you tonight,” the red-head muttered, and scuttled away.

Of course, this just confused Itachi even further. Genius or not, he had no idea what was going on.

Nevertheless, he got into his bed that night with two axes between his legs, senbon needles glued to the roof of his mouth, kunai under the mattress, and shuriken under his pillow. And a cudgel that doubled as a bedside table leg.

The next thing he knew, everything was upside down and he couldn’t move at all. In fact, he was getting very sleepy…

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When he woke up, he was in his own bed, weapons still in place. For a minute he thought that nothing had happened.

And then he looked in the mirror.

And became even more pissed.

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Deidara and Kisame’s jaws dropped when Itachi walked into the kitchen/dining area. The Konoha nin headed straight for them, and, with the familiar swirly-red-eyes trick, sent them all to Tsukinomi hell.

“And that-“ Itachi said icily a few seconds later, “is for shaving off all my hair.”

“But how’d you grow it back?” Deidara asked weakly.

“That? I developed a jutsu specifically for the task after it kept getting cut off during my anbu missions.”

“…”

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A/n- Yes, this is late… Yes, it is short. I haven’t been writing for a long time… because… school is hard. There. Ha! And it’s over in three weeks!