~Anna's POV~

" Sasuke, really? Do I really have to shout at you again? Just eat the damn veggies." I said with a big wooden spoon in my hand, pointing at the untouched vegetables in Sasuke's plate.

" No."

" I'd listen to her if I were you." Eric warned, Max nodded and Shisui, who also wasn't eating his vegetables started eating them.

" But they are green!"

" GREEN IS GOOD IDIOT!" I hit him with the spoon. " Just look at Hulk! He's green! And powerful!"

" Alright fine!"

" That's a good boy." He rolled his eyes and chewed on the bits of greens left in his plate.

" Itachi called yet?" Shisui asked, getting out of his seat and handing me the dishes.

" No-" The moment I said that, my phone which was on the counter, started ringing. It was an unknown number so I knew who it belonged to. " About time you called."

I waved to the boys to take care of the kitchen and went to my room to talk to Tachu. It was 2 PM here in Konoha and I just finished preparing 'breakfast' for the boys.

" Sorry, I had to get away from my parents to call. My mom literally locked me so I would sleep." I laughed lightly.

" She did the right thing. By the way, what time is it there?"

" 8 AM."

" That behind? Wow."

" So, how's it going there?"

" Sasuke is being a baby again. He won't eat his veggies."

" Smack him in the head."

" Already done. That scared Shisui as well." Itachi laughed.

" Did you sleep well?"

" I couldn't. Oh and by the way, I've kept your most favourite black shirt."

" Why?"

" I wasn't able to sleep so I changed into that and well it had your scent s-so.....figure out the rest. And you're not getting it back."

" My favourite person in my favourite shirt. Must be quite a sight." He thought out loud. " Send me a picture."

" N-no." I refused. It was embarrassing enough talking about it.

" Oh come on."

" I'll save it in your lappy."

" Don't tell me you brought it as well."

" I did."

" You won't be able to open it-"

" The password was really obvious."

" Shoot." He cussed. " Have fun searching through my private stuff."

" You're not angry, are you?" I confirmed.

" No. Just don't look in the 'D' folder. Its too private."

" Ok. That much I can do."

" Did you re-discover your inner beast of hunger?"

" No."

" Get it checked."

" I'm just worried about you, maybe that's keeping me from it."

" I'm fine. Don't worry."

" Come to think of it, you didn't get any sleep, right?"

" No-"

" Then go to sleep! You can call me later!"

" Hai hai."

" Don't 'hai' me! I'm ending the call! Go to sleep!"

" Alright-"

" Sleep peacefully." I said in a tone which you rarely use. It comes out only when it involves Max but Itachi is an exception to everything.

" I will. And you try remaining calm. With these many boys in the house, I don't want you to have a stroke."

" I'll try."

" I'll too."

" Bye."

" Mmhmm."

" Hmmm."

" Hn."

" Damn it! Goodbye!" I heard him laugh before I ended the call which had me smile too. I placed the phone aside and headed back in the kitchen.

" What did he say?" Sasuke asked almost as soon as I step foot in the area.

" To smack you in the head when you won't eat the vegetables."

" But you already did that." I sighed, not wanting to reply. I didn't have any energy to talk. The loss of appetite was not a good thing.

" I'm going to sleep."

" Again?" Shisui asked.

" You got a problem with that?"

" No."

" Then bye."

" Sis!" Max stopped me.

" What?"

" When you wake up, teach me some skateboarding moves!"

" K."

I went to my room and fell on the bed. I definitely felt sick but I wasn't. And as if to mock .e more, it started raining within minutes. I sighed and closed the windows and curtained them.

What to do? What to do? Aha!

I remembered promising Itachi to take a picture so that's what I did. I locked the room then changed into his shirt and put the camera on count down then posed.

His shirt was quite big for me especially around the neck area, so I had to cover that. I synchronized the camera with his laptop and copied the pictures there.

Oooo, he has photoshop......

An evil smirk found its way on my lips as I searched through the pictures and found a perfect one for editing. Mexican hats and mustache really made the difference.

Now let's take a look- no! I have to save it for later.

I reluctantly shut down the laptop and placed it somewhere there was no humidity then exited my room and went to the living room.

" Couldn't sleep?" Eric asked. He and Sasuke were occupying the big couch and Shisui and Max were sitting on the floor playing CS.

" No. The rain is just mocking me." I sat on the armchair and buried my head between my knees.

I didn't want to think about anything but my head was always filled with unsolicited thoughts. This time, I thought about what Itachi told me before leaving.

Marriage, kids, legacies, I don't know why but it all felt meaningless to me. Like why marry, what's in it? We are together now anyways, so what's really the point of marriage? People do stuff out of it all the time.

The more I thought about it, the more I strayed away from matrimony alone to meaninglessness in life. We are born, we die and no matter what we do we can't change that. Its absurd. So how should I gain meaning?

I went back to my room and searched for a few things on the internet and copying a few or more books in my usb, I went to get them printed.

When I was back with a big bundle of pages in my arms, I was attacked by Shisui asking too many questions about it.

"What is it?"

I hid the papers behind my back, "nothing. Just something to occupy myself with."

"Why are you hiding it then?" He tried looking over my shoulder. "Is it porn?"

"There are loads of websites for it. Why would I be carrying it on paper?" I said and escaped. Phew.

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" Rain rain go away! Come again another day!" I yelled when even at night, it was raining.

After fifteen minutes of yelling at everybody to go to bed, I made sure everybody was sleeping then went to my room. Knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep, I opened the laptop again and sat on my bed with my back against the bedpost.

Every time I turned the thing on, it made me smile because Itachi had the desktop wallpaper of a picture me had taken in the field.

It was a rough day that day and going to the field always calmed me down so we both went there and he just snapped a picture. My hair were running in a million directions and there were some remnants of the make-up Konan and Amalie applied on my face when I had lost a bet. All in all, that one picture was really something.

Okay.... What to search?

I moved the cursor here and there and it landed on the D-folder and I smirked evilly.

D-folder it is, then.

Double clicking the folder, I closed my eyes for a moment, the light from the lappy was blinding me. When I opened my eyes, I was awestruck at the number of pictures in there. Not just any pictures, mine and his pictures. Random clicks actually. I scrolled through them, taking my time watching each one.

So this is what he do when I'm asleep half the time....

I smiled and were just looking through the last of the pictures with Facebook in the background, when there was pop-up chat named 'Grizzly'. Mine was 'Charger'. I abandoned all the tasks at hand and opened it.

Grizzly: I see you aren't asleep yet :-P

Charger: What do ya expect? I need you to make me sleep :/

Grizzly: I can't do that now can I since I'm miles away...

Charger: Sing me that lullaby then :-P

Grizzly: It definitely will help if you can sing the lyrics on your own B-)

Charger: MEANIE! >:( Btw, are you free now?

Grizzly: No. They just gave me a 10 minutes break...

Charger: I see..... So what did they need you for?

Grizzly: Some issues and paper signing for being a permanent member of the Force and well, they don't plan on me going to college.

Charger: WHAT?! :-O. They can't do that! ........ Can they? I mean, are you OK with that?

Grizzly: Not exactly. I want to go to college and well, study medicine for your sake.

Charger: My sake? :-?

Grizzly: Yes. You can't take proper care of yourself and who knows what kind of trouble you'll get into when we are married and I'm not around most of the time.

Charger: Who said anything about getting married?!

Grizzly: Here we go again...... *sigh*.... And I know you stuttered behind the screen. :-D

I laughed quietly to myself. He knew me so much...

Charger: Whatever. And why the hell is your gay brother teasing me about 'that'?!

Grizzly: IDK.

Charger: Reject the permanency.

Grizzly: why?

Charger: you said you won't be around most of the time.... I don't want to be alone....most of the time.... :-(

Grizzly: Awwh. I'll see what I can do. I'm not fond of leaving you alone much too.

Charger: I see you don't want me dying behind your back :-P

Grizzly: Glad you understand. ;-)

Charger: *yawn* oh ya, I went through the D-folder. Sorry! :-D

Grizzly: I was going to show them to you anyways. I used reverse psychology for that :-P

Charger: -_-

Grizzly: ^/_\^

Charger: AWWH! THAT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE YOU!! <3

Grizzly: IKR... :-D

Charger: Your 10 minutes are over dude

Grizzly: You don't want to talk to me? :-O :'(

Charger: Not that. I prefer your voice over your messages. :-)

Grizzly: S-a-p-p-y~~~

Charger: :-P can't help it.

Grizzly: Oh well, here comes my dad... Talk to you in the morning?

Charger: Your or mine? Oh wait. It doesn't matter. Call whenever you want, I'll be awake.

Grizzly: I will and go in the F-folder. I've recorded the lullaby for you.

Charger: REALLY?! THANKS! Good night!

Grizzly: :-) Good night.

Charger: Talk to you when I do. Take care.

Grizzly: You too.

Then the chat ended and I couldn't stop myself from grinning. It was a nice thing he always planned two steps ahead.

So I searched through the F-folder and eventually came upon the lullaby and transferred it in my phone then plugged the earphones and thankfully, fell asleep listening to it.

" SIS!"

" Who died?!" I woke up with a jolt when I heard Max yell.

" Nobody. You were just asleep for too long." He stated simply, jumping on my bed. I sighed then something clicked.

" How long?"

" Its 4 PM now." He stopped jumping and sat beside me.

" Geez.... I can't believe that really helped...." I mumbled under my breath then got out of bed.

" Itachi-nii called but you were asleep."

" Did he say anything?" I asked from the bathroom where I my face.

" Just told me that he'd call when you will wake up."

" Did you have breakfast?"

" Hmm! Shisui-nii can cook!" I gave him a disbelieved look.

" Alright." I picked Max in my arms and descended the stairs and into the living room.

" About time you woke up." Sasuke said without looking at me but when I didn't respond and he did look back, his jaw hung open. " That's nii-san's favourite shirt! Why do you have it?!"

" Stop freaking out duck-butt. I'm allowed to have it. He doesn't mind." I placed Max on the ground and plopped on the couch beside Eric.

" Of course he doesn't.." He rolled his eyes. " He called by the way."

" I know. And now I'm hungry. Any leftovers, ugly?"

" Your brother told me you liked blueberry pancakes so they are in the fridge."

" Thanks." I got up and went to warm the pancakes then ate them in the kitchen, sitting alone, wanting some time to clear my head of the thoughts pouring in my mind like water.

" SIS!" I nearly choked on my food when Max scared the hell out of me.

" What?"

" It isn't raining." He grinned.

" So?"

" Teach me some skateboard moves!"

" The roads might be slippery."

" I checked, they are not."

" Its gonna rain again soon."

" It won't. Its sunny outside!"

" Sunny? Then its hot outside." He pouted.

" You're just making excuses sis cuz you don't wanna teach me."

" Fine. Get your equipment."

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Itachi_Warrior desu~ ^/_\^

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