#mixelation

“He found something labeled ‘food prep gloves’ in one of the drawers. It had never occurred to Itachi to use gloves for cooking before. It really was just like medicine, he decided. Sakura was definitely an expert at this, no matter what she thought.”

[“Sai thought that might be the case,” Gaara replies mildly. A lot of people have problems with Sai, apparently, because a lot of people are wrong.]

“They bow. This is going excellently, Gaara thinks. Sai is extremely socially savvy. This is just what he needs.”

“They’d moved the machines back into the laundry room, after Kiasme had used his most polite sentence structures possible to appeal to Sakura.”

“Haruno Sakura, official Akatsuki medic as of approximately thirty hours ago, was living in their laundry room. She was in there because the three-bedroom farmhouse had no other space for her besides the basement’s evil-lab-slash-art-studio-slash-infirmary, which she’d refused to sleep in.”

The Two-Body Problem