A/N: This used to be at the end of chapter 29, but as I'm now making a new… story? Link? Substory? (I have no idea how to brand this) for After the Rain here, I thought it would fit better with the other omakes and scenes.

THIS IS A COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT OMAKE! IT IS ONLY BASED ON AFTER THE RAIN, AND THE CONTENT OF THIS CHAPTER DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN AT ANY POINT IN THE STORY. It's just a bit of silly writing on my part, and I wanted to make that clear, which is why I used block letters and underlined words.

This Omake idea was made by ReVeaLxMeMoRieS!

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Omake - Lost on the Road to Icha Icha

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It was exactly what he needed.

Ever since Shisui had introduced him to dango Itachi was sure there couldn't be anything more sweet tasting in all the nations. He was starting to gain new respect for Shisui's teammate Anko too. She was the only one who agreed to the same extent. Though it had resulted in some squabbles between them whenever Shisui was evil enough to serve dango with both of them present.

Putting down the now dango free stick Itachi sighed in content. It was days like these that Itachi couldn't help cherish.

Sasuke had even acted like the perfect little boy Itachi knew he was. Despite not always letting it show.

There had been no hair grabbing, mud throwing or pulling cloths of the kitchen tables today. Oh no, instead he'd played with his wooden shuriken and laughed adorably under Itachi's watchful supervision.

And after his mother had come home with a box of dango for him he was sure Kami was smiling down at him. It was almost too good to last, but for once Itachi chose not to be a pessimist, and expected the day to come to completion the way it had set out.

With dango still lingering on his tongue and a beautiful summer's day ahead of him Itachi decided to take a walk around the village, his shiny forehead protector displayed on his brow for anyone to see he took his training seriously.

The walk was peaceful, but around the marked square he caught sight of the man disliked by the Uchiha clan, namely Hatake Kakashi.

Even Shisui seemed to be a bit miffed about the guy. Though Itachi never got the impression it was for the same reason as the rest of their clan.

Kakashi had always been a bit of an enigma to Itachi though. He'd heard his father speak of how he'd gotten his Sharingan from his old teammate Uchiha Obito during the war. A few years ago he'd heard Shisui curse his name too. Repeatedly. And Anko said the guy reminded her of Itachi, because they both hid their craziness behind stoic and detached masks. Figuratively in Itachi's case and literally in Kakashi's.

While musing over the peculiar reputation of Hatake Kakashi, Itachi didn't really register he'd started to follow him.

The young man was walking down the street before turning into a store, which was when Itachi realized what he was doing. Thinking over it for a moment Itachi decided to go for it. What harm could it do anyway?

Opening the doors he saw that Kakashi had already reached the other side of the room. Though the only reason he did was because of the silver hair sticking up above one of the aisles.

Casting a quick glance around the store and deeming it harmless enough Itachi walked up the aisle parallel to the one Hatake was browsing while pretended he was checking out the merchandises instead.

Between the shelves there was a gap, and he could easily see how the Hatake was holding up multiple items. Probably unsure of which to get.

There were some magazines in his handa. The Ninja Guide was one of the up and coming magazines, but it didn't seem to catch the older boy's attention, and he seemed to be leaning against the Konoha Post. Their weekly newsletter.

He really couldn't tell much about the ninja from this superficial observation. Just that he was indecisive in his reading material. Hardly anything that told Itachi what made the man tick.

Kakashi put down the magazine on the shelf when a familiar voice caught his ears.

"Hey,"

Stepping back once Itachi realized the greeting came from his cousin. Shisui came strolling the store towards Kakashi with his hands in his pocket. He was still in uniform, which meant he must just have gotten off duty.

Kakashi nodded back politely, "Have you seen your neighbour? I have something that belongs to her." Shisui said and lifted up a jacket that was several sizes too big and masculine for something he could picture a girl wearing. "Anko is so not bringing her boyfriend over to my place again. I found this in the guest bedroom, which is strange since they were only over for lunch." Shisui mumbled with a roll of his eyes.

Though he was wearing a mask Itachi imagined Kakshi was smiling. "I'll bring it over." He offered and reached out to take the jacket.

As Shisui handed him the jacket he spotted Itachi, and a smile lit up his face.

"Itachi? I didn't see you there," Shisui said and looked back at Kakashi. "Have you met my cousin? This is Itachi. Itachi, this is Hatake Kakashi, Anko's neighbour." Shisui introduced, before walking up to him with Kakashi in tow.

"Nice to meet you Hatake-san." Itachi said formally, realizing this was a better approach anyway. He could learn much more from interaction, and Shisui had just given him an excellent excuse.

His cousin peeked around curiously, before setting his curious eyes at Itachi, "What are you doing here?"

Itachi thought quickly and made up an excuse as to not blow his cover. Reaching out slowly - as to show nothing was out of place - he grabbed the most prominent item in reach. "I was looking for this" He replied casually, briefly noting he was holding a brightly coloured book.

Shisui and Kakashi looked at the cover for a long moment, before Shisui's cheeks started taking a pinkish shade and Kakashi's eyes widened slightly.

"Uh…" Shisui stuttered, straightening up and rubbing the back of his neck. "Okay."

Itachi turned the book in his hand, and for a moment hoped his eyes were malfunctioning.

A blonde, well endowed woman in a barely covering outfit was pictured with large black kanji of "Icha, Icha - Make-Out Paradise" written as the title. Swallowing Itachi peeked up at the others, hoping the earth would come up and swallow him whole.

Kakashi glanced back and forth between the book and Itachi, now more curious than surprised.

"Ah," Itachi stuttered, placing back the book so fast it might as well have been teleported, "I took the wrong-" but then he stopped, realizing he was standing in the adult section of the book store, and there were precious few books here for him to make an excuse of.

Shisui was now holding a hand over his mouth, trying to keep in laugher while Kakashi was looking the shelf up and down with renewed interest.

"It's okay, Itachi. You're still a bit young but you were always more mature than others your age, and I know your father isn't the type to explain these things to you. You see the woman pictured on that cover? I am pretty sure she was under a henge during the photo shoot. The company producing these books wish to sell more copies, which is why they use an idealized model they believe will appeal to us consumers. But in truth they promote an unrealistic body image, and you should not expect this in real life. It's-"

Shisui continued to explain the finer points of unrealistic body images and that though it was no shame in being curious, he should make a choice in partner based on more than just looks when the time came.

But all Itachi could think was that this could not be happening.

Itachi was praised as a prodigy and genius of the Uchiha clan, and no matter how many proofs to the contrary he was not standing in the porn section of a book store while receiving the sex talk by his cousin.

With Hatake Kakashi as witness.

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Two weeks later Itachi ducked out of the street and into a passage when he saw Kakashi again.

He could feel his cheek burn just from the reminder of the other week, and he noticed Kakashi was reading the same book Itachi had so stupidly picked up at the book store. As the silver haired jōnin walked down the street with the book visible for everyone to see Itachi swore to himself he'd never let curiosity get the better of him again.

And to make sure Shisui hadn't picked up a copy too.

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Fin.

A/N: Please forgive any mistakes. English isn't my native language and this was not beta'd.