Sakura seemed as bubbly as ever when he walked into her hospital room. Her and Itachi were sitting on her bed, and she was laughing and talking like normal. In fact, she seemed so happy it was a shock to Sasuke when she turned around and greeted him, her pale pink hair hanging near her face.

She brushed the strands back with a hand and smiled brightly at him. "Come on," she waved him over. "Did you bring the CDs?" The two scooted over so Sasuke could sit on the bed as well, Itachi reaching over to drape the blanket over Sasuke as well.

Sasuke smiled. "Of course I did, you've been bugging me for days about them." They had finally set a date for their Menma marathon. Of course, the show would take days to watch, so they chose the movies to binge-watch in a day.

He took the CDs out of the bag he carried and slipped them into the hospital room's TV and played the first movie. By the time he sat back down, Sakura and Itachi had taken the Menma merch and had donned the t-shirt and headband, Itachi offering him a shirt and headband of his own.

The movie flickered to life on the screen and suddenly, Sasuke felt like a child again, watching with Itachi, Izumi, and Shisui.

"Izu, Shisui called me Charasuke again!" a ten-year-old Sasuke cried to Izumi.

Shisui appeared behind the boy, chuckling. "Gosh Chara, no need to get so angry." Sasuke screeched in protest again, and Shisui cackled, only to be stopped by a smack on the head from Itachi.

"Will you shut up, I'm trying to watch the show here!" A fourteen-year-old Itachi rolled his eyes.

"No need to be such a grumpy-pants Itachi," Izumi giggled. She opened her arms and becomes Sasuke over. "Come here Sasuke." Sasuke stuck his tongue out at Shisui, who was pouting.

Itachi only shushed them again, and Shisui laughed. "Hey, just because Tsunade is on screen doesn't mean you can lust over her boobs, Itachi."

Itachi flushed and threw a pillow at the boy, embarrassed. "I'm not lusting over her boobs, Shisui," Itachi said between clenched teeth. "And besides for all you know, I might not even be straight."

"You don't have to be straight to ogle someone's boobs," Shisui laughed. Raising an eyebrow he slyly looked over at Itachi, "...are you gay?"

"Dunno, still figuring stuff out," Itachi shrugged. "Why?" He wiggles his eyebrows, "You planning on asking me out on a date or something."

Shisui threw a pillow at Itachi face. "Sorry to get your hopes up, sweetie, but you're a little too uptight for me. And besides I'd have to compete with Sasuke for your attention, so no thank you."

"God, the two of you are such children," Izumi groaned. "Can we just watch the hecking thing already or should I just take Sasuke home with me to watch and the two of you could do...whatever the hell it is you two do."

"Awww, is Izumi missing us, Itachi you should really include her more often, so mean!" Shisui teased. Practically jumping on her, Shisui wrapped his arms around Izumi and rubbed their cheeks together. "I'm so sorry, Zumi. Itachi just doesn't know how to include people."

"Gross! Shisui, get off of me!"

They all began to laugh, minus Sasuke who's innocent soul couldn't comprehend what was actually going on through everyone's stupid heads.

Sasuke smiled at the memory. He had been close to ten when it took place and Itachi hadn't been diagnosed yet.

"Aw, yes!" Sakura squealed from beside him, "my childhood."

Itachi made a move to agree with Sakura, but Sasuke quickly interrupted, "Nu-uh, Itachi, this wasn't you're childhood. This was mine with you watching beside me."

"Oh yeah," Itachi smirked, "then do pray tell, what was my childhood?"

"Avatar. And that other show with like a bajillion freaking episodes and still going. Dammit, I can't remember what it was called!"

"Blue people?" Sakura asked, her popcorn filled hand stopping midair? "Wasn't that pretty recent?"

"Yeah, like ten years ago recent. But, no, it wasn't that one, it was the one with the dude with the arrows."

"And I'm assuming the show with a, as you so eloquently put it, 'a bajillion freaking episodes' was...crap...what was it called again?" Itachi ran his fingers through his thinning hair, "Dammit! I can't believe I forgot! Sasuke this is all your fault!" He grabbed a fistful of popcorn and threw it at his younger brother.

"Hey!" Sakura's yelped as most of it landed on her instead. "Learn how to aim, Itachi!"

"Your fault for being in the middle," Itachi shot back at her.

"On the bright side," Sasuke said grabbing her, "you make a wonderful human shield!"

Itachi grabbed another handful of popcorn and Sasuke muttered a quick "sorry" to Sakura as he steadied his human shield.

It became a full-blown war. Itachi hogged all of the ammo, which mostly consisted of various snacks, and Sasuke continued to use Sakura as his human shield despite her attempts to throw him off.

"Sakura, you traitor, stop trying to help the enemy. You're my girlfriend, not his!" Sasuke cried as Sakura tried to elbow him, "the betrayal! I feel it going straight through the heart!"

Sakura turned as Itachi threw a pack of M&Ms at them. "No, not the candy! Itachi, you monster!" She doge to catch the package before anything could spill out.

Now no longer blocking his view of Sasuke, Itachi attacked and threw the bucket of popcorn onto his brother's head.

"I win!" He grinned victoriously. His eyes lighting up as he took in his brother dejected but covered head, "Admit it, Itachi Uchiha is the best!"

Sakura strained up to look at Sasuke from her place half on the bed and half on the floor, her body straining in weird ways as she clutched the box of candy in her hand. They gave a slight nod and before Itachi could see anything the two of them had pounced on him.

"Sakura, now!"

Itachi yelped, "What the f—" as both Sakura and Sasuke grabbed some of the fallen popcorn and threw it at him, the popcorn flew everywhere, bits and pieces of it were also landing inside of his shirt and squirmed to get them out, but instead it just made things worse.

When all was done, they sat tangled in a laughing heap atop of the bed.

Sakura breathlessly said, "Dang, we just missed like half of the movie."

"Only you would be worried about it," Sasuke said from his place sandwiched in between her and Itachi, his voice muffled by the bed.

Shoving his brother off of him, Itachi sat up. "Okay, but seriously, we should probably start, visiting hours aren't exactly forever y'know."

"Okay!" But let's take a picture first," Sakura exclaimed. "I wanna remember this forever. Ooh, what if we pose the same way they do in Menma! That'd be so fun! And we're also dressed up for it—!"

"We're also covered in food," Sasuke muttered.

Sakura slapped him upside his head, "Oh, shush, you. Now everyone get in position. I'll lean my phone on my bottle and put a timer on the camera and then we can start!" She clapped her hands together.

They all got into position. Sakura moves the nightstand a little bit and placed her phone there, setting the timer for ten seconds she got into position her position leaning next to Sasuke, her back against Itachi's, and Sasuke's hand on top of her head.her lips broke out into a huge smile as the camera flashed, taking their picture.

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Written by arahabaki