"Somewhere, there was a tiny dream. Such a tiny dream it was,

No one knew who had dreamt it. The tiny dream began to think.

'I don't want to disappear this way.

How can I make people dream of me?'

The tiny dream thought and thought, and then came up with an idea.

'I'll make humans get lost in me, and let them create the world.'"

Naruto of the Human Sacrifice

Chapter One-The Tiny Dream

CRACK! "AHH!" Sasuke cried out as his now broken wrist was hanging uselessly as he looked up at his abductors his back against the cave wall. "You bastards, take me back right now!" Sasuke yelled his sharingan activating as he looked at the large group hidden in the shadows in front of him. "That's my word, teme" Naruto said as he came out of the shadows along with Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Lee, Gai, Gaara, and Temari staring at the angry Uchiha in front of him. "How did you find me?" Sasuke asked as he glared at the now smirking blonde who looked around at the group before answering Sasuke's question.

"We had a little help…from some people who knows Orochimaru a little better than you" Naruto said as he looked back at the shadows where Sasuke saw some outlines of people who were too far away in the shadows to get a good look at. "Who are they then and what the hell are you doing here?" Sasuke said glaring at Naruto who looked sad and turned to Sakura who had tears in our eyes. "We're here to bring you back to Konoha-" Naruto started saying but was interrupted by a growl from Sasuke who clumsily grabbed his katana with his right hand. "I'm not going back until I kill my brother for what he did" Sasuke screamed as he tried to attack Naruto with the katana but soon had the katana stolen from him in the darkness. "What the-" Sasuke barely had time to say before he felt a punch enter his gut that took his breathe away.

"Damn it, teme we don't have time for this" Naruto yelled as he tied a white bandana around Sasuke's eyes so he didn't use his sharingan as somebody picked him up and hefted him onto their back. "Let's get the fuck out of her all fucking ready. It's fucking cold in this shitty cave and that asshole of a snake could be on our fucking tail." "SHUT UP HIDAN" virtually everybody in the cave cried out before gagging sounds were heard hinting that somebody had done something about Hidan's mouth. 'Hidan…why does that name sound familiar?' Sasuke thought as he felt whoever was carrying him shift as they left the cave and back out into the unknown woods between Oto and Taki countries avoiding Orochimaru as they had "taken back" Sasuke from his clutches. "Dobe who is carrying me and who is Hidan and why does that name sound familiar?" Sasuke asked as he started kicking whoever was carrying him trying to make them drop them.

"Stop kicking" an angry voice said that made Sasuke's blood run cold then burn hotter than his fire jutsus as he started kicking harder and cursing his carrier. "Itachi, what are you doing here and with Naruto rescuing me from Orochimaru? Why the hell is the Akatsuki working with Konoha in kidnapping me anyway?" Sasuke yelled out, confused at it seems that nothing was making sense anymore. "As smart as you're supposed to be, you made the stupid mistake of going to the snake bastard who shouldn't be trusted at all. Trust me I know from first-hand experience since he was my old partner" Sasori said as he looked at the blind-folded Uchiha who had turned his head towards the sound of the voice. "I mean all the snake wants is to take over your body for the sharingan, un" Deidara said as heard the growl come from Sasuke as he continued to kick the back of his brother's legs. "Ouch, Hyuuga numb his legs for me" Itachi told Hinata who squeaked before complying running behind Itachi and hitting the points in Sasuke's legs rendering them useless. Sasuke tried to continue to kick his brother but with no prevail. Angry he began to scream saying that he wanted the power to destroy Itachi and to avenge his clan before something wet and gooey was stuck in his make effectively shutting him up.

"Detonate that clay and I will make the rest of your life a living hell" Itachi said glaring at Deidara who had stuck some clay to shut Sasuke up like he did with Hidan's mouth who was also glaring at him. "I wouldn't mind if you detonated Hidan's clay that way we won't have to listen to him complain" Kakuzu said as Hidan started mumbling behind the clay in his mouth, most likely curse words. "The coast is clear behind you for now…I wish he was coming I wonder what snake taste like…I don't know why we had to save him Itachi...I think we should eat him if he screams again" Zetsu said phasing in with the tree ahead as the group slowed down as they finally checked their surroundings. "Here should be a safe place for now, by the way WHY did we kidnapped Sasuke and how is Pain going to take all this?" Konan asked looking mostly at Itachi who sat his brother down before jumping away quickly as he started swinging with his left hand.

"Because my foolish brother decided to go to Orochimaru for power when he was supposed to unlock it himself and Leader-sama already knows of my plan as I told him all about Madara and Orochimaru's true plans. It helps that Zetsu is actually on my side and is relaying everything he learns from their secret meetings." Itachi said sitting down and looking at the group around him as he heard hacking and coughing sounds coming from Sasuke who was trying to spit out the sticky clay. Sighing, he went over to his brother pulled out the clay and listen to his brother rant about what the hell was happening in the world. Naruto went over to Sasuke and begin to argue with him about leaving Konoha as a distraction as Itachi reset his wrist in which Sakura healed as Hinata unsealed the chakra to his legs. Seeing that he could move and make signs again he started some hand signs before being stopped by Naruto who slipped some kind of cuffs on his wrist which he realized was chakra cuffs that blocked the user from making hand signs. As they heard Sasuke growl and most likely say some more he felt arms wrap around him as Sakura began to cry saying that they all had been through so much just to bring him back. Sasuke went quiet and turned a bandaged face towards Sakura before… he head-butted her causing her to fly back as she clutched her forehead.

This caused a riot between Naruto, Lee, and Ino as they started yelling and asking why he did that when his only response was that he hated clingy females which then caused Gai and Lee to restrain Naruto as he tried to beat the shit out of the smirking Uchiha. Naruto had just gotten free before he was once again restrained this time by Gaara's sand that managed to drag him back from Sasuke as Itachi and Konan sat in between the two. "Sasuke that was not necessary in what you did" Itachi said to now frowning brother who he felt was glaring at him through the bandage. "It's getting late we should set up camp and find the nearest town tomorrow" and they brought out several tents and went to sleep as Zetsu and Hinata had first watch then Sasori and Naruto later on. Everybody but Zetsu, Naruto, Hinata, Itachi, and Sasuke got into the tents and was fast asleep within minutes as they all used a lot of chakra. Zetsu faded into the forest as Hinata jumped up to a high tree and used her byakugan ever once in a while. Naruto and Itachi were watching Sasuke as he seemed to be fighting sleep as he glared at the two sensing their chakra in front of him. "I'm going to let Naruto-kun take off the blind-fold now but remember I can use the sharingan too so don't try anything" Itachi warned before Naruto unraveled the blind-fold and looked it Sasuke's red eyes.

Sasuke tried to head-butt Naruto but it turned out to be a clone as the real Naruto was standing behind him, a sigh escaped his mouth. "Teme, would you stop thinking about power and revenge for 5 minutes as to listen to the truth as to why we teamed up to save your sorry behind" Naruto said as Sasuke's right eye twitch before looking at his brother who remained quiet watching the exchange between the two fellow friends. "Fine" Sasuke said through clenched teeth as he seen he really didn't have a choice as Itachi told him the truth about that night, that Orochimaru, with Madara's help had killed the clan to get their hands on the both of them for they were the only ones destined to unlock the full power of the sharingan. (a/n: well at least in this story it's the truth) As suspected, Sasuke didn't believe them at first so they decided to calmly and patiently explain everything to him…at least the first 5 seconds before Sasuke called them a bunch of weak idiots which riled up Naruto and they went back to arguing with Naruto yelling at him saying it's the truth as Itachi sighed and said that he was going to bed seeing as the two kept arguing into the night. Itachi then called to Hinata and told her to take a rest as Naruto didn't look like he was going to see any time soon.

Blushing before nodding, Hinata made her way down into one of the girl's tents and Itachi took one last look at the bickering duo, smiled a little before entering his personal tent to catch some sleep. Sometime during the night the two finally started arguing as they both were too tired to go on and instantly fell asleep next to a fire that was still burning until Itachi took pity on them and shared his tent with the sleeping pair. The next morning everybody woke up, ate a light breakfast, and broke camp before going back to traveling, this time Sasuke walking along-side them. "Hey Itachi, where the fuck is Zetsu's ass at because he needed to be here a fucking long time ago" Hidan said as everybody groaned knowing that they would have to deal with his every-sentence-with-a-cuss-word-in-it voice as they looked around for the black and white plant man. No sooner had the sentence left his mouth Zetsu appeared a little worse off as he came out of the ground fully his clothes shredded and dirty as if he was in a battle. "No time to lose, Orochimaru has found you"…"He had help from some nerd in glasses"…"They are not far behind so you must hurry to the next town about 10 miles away"…"However we never been in this forest before so watch out because there is something strange about this area."

The group cursed and started jumping through the trees as Zetsu went back into the soil only to appear in a tree about farther down as to lead them where to go. "We will try and lose him in the forest but be careful and stick together" Itachi said as he looked at the large group that somehow managed to form four teams as they continued jumping until they met a sign hanging in between two trees that looked like doorways. "The world of the tiny dream: Four of you will be tested…who will survive…" The group looked at each other before noticing that there was no other path as the trees somehow became knitted together where they couldn't jump or walk through them so, seeing as they had no choice the four teams entered the forest. As soon as they entered they realized something was wrong as they soon found themselves separate from the other teams and what sounded like a little voice in the wind laughing at them from all around. "Who will be the next Alice?" the voice seemed to say before dying away along with all the other sounds of the forest as the four teams looked at each other before going ahead.

"It seems that each team is on their own now, we must hurry to find the others and the exit in this place for something tells me that this will be the biggest danger of our lives" Itachi said something that sounded a little like fear in his voice as he lured his team deeper into the forest as everybody else did the same. Unknown to them, something was around and watching all of them a smile on its nonexistent face as it looked at the team consisting of Sasori, Gaara, Hidan, and Sakura who he felt was the first to be challenged. "Who will be red Alice of spades?" the voice said before disappearing in the wind and towards the four unsuspecting shinobi.