Consequences

Everyone must accept the consequences of their actions.

Both the living and the dead


Chapter 1

A Bad Feeling


Sasuke woke up to a growling stomach. He went to stand up, but a hand grabbed him arm and pulled him back down.

"It's Saturday," a sleepy Naruto informed Sasuke, "Stay."

Sasuke sighed, but didn't try to stand up again. His stomach growled again. He tried to ignore it. He was having a hard time doing so. He didn't have to eat when he was dead. Naruto had fallen back asleep, and Sasuke, finally too hungry to ignore his empty stomach any longer, crawled out of bed, and went to make breakfast.

After a while Naruto stumbled his way down the stairs.

"Sasuke?"

"Yeah?"

"What are we going to tell everyone?"

Silence filled the room. Neither one of them had figured what they were going to tell everyone. Finally, Sasuke spoke.

"We're going to say that my name is Sasuke Uchiha," there was a sound of protest from Naruto, which Sasuke ignored, "And that I'm the younger cousin of the deceased Sasuke Uchiha. I'd come to see the house, met you, and we fell in love."

There was quiet for all of three seconds after that statement.

"Who knew Teme was so corny!"

"Do you want pancakes?"

Naruto shut up.


"Itachi-san?" a blue shark demon knocked on the door of his partner's room, then opened it. The room was very dark. It had no windows and the walls were painted black. His partner, a sprit who had once been human, was sitting on a bed, his eyes closed. He was concentrating on something, as usual, and, as usual, was mad that he was disturbed. Not that the sprit ever showed that. After all these years, the blue shark demon had learned to read his partner, even the sprit showed as much emotion as a stick.

"What do you want, Kisame?" the sprit asked back, never opening his eyes.

"We have our next mission, Itachi-san." Replied Kisame.

"What is it?" asked Itachi.

"We're going after a revived ghost, and an half-demon."

"Half-demons fall out of our jurisdiction, and Pein knows that," replied Itachi, "He's sending us after someone we have no right to arrest, and if the half-demon court catches wind, we'll be in for another war."

"The half-demon brought the ghost back to life."

"And their names?"

"Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke."

Kisame felt a shiver as anger and thrill came off of his partner. This was personal if the sprit could get worked up this much.
Itachi finally opened his eyes, revealing them to be a blood red.

"Let's go."

Kisame moved aside to let Itachi pass, and paused before following him, thinking: 'That sprit's a real demon.'


Naruto walked happily into Iruka's shop, Sasuke walking in after him, a bored expression on his face. A second after walking in, Naruto found himself being hugged tightly by Iruka.

"I heard you were in the hospital! Are you okay? Why were you there?"

"Iruka-sensei, calm down! Yes, I'm fine! And I just fell down the stairs! I came here to introduce you to someone."

Iruka looked up to see Sasuke standing there. He paled a bit.

"Hey, sensei." Sasuke said.

There was a thump as Iruka fainted.

"And I didn't even tell him we're going out yet!" said Naruto.

Naruto had insisted on telling Iruka the truth about Sasuke. At first Sasuke had refused. It was unreasonable and stupid. But then Naruto had pouted, so Sasuke gave in.

Iruka woke up after a bit.

"Iruka-sensei, are you okay?"

"I'm fine… But Sasuke! He's alive again! And you were asking about him the other day-" Everything clicked into place in Iruka's head – Except for the "They're in love part – And he looked from Naruto to Sasuke, stood up, and hit Naruto very hard over the head.

"What did I tell you?! I said not to raise anyone from the dead! Do you listen at all?!"

"But he was haunting my house, and we sorta fell in love with each other!"

Iruka looked towards Sasuke, hoping that Sasuke would deny what Naruto was saying.

Sasuke nodded, agreeing with Naruto, and just to prove it – or maybe just because he wanted to – Sasuke pulled Naruto into a very heated kiss. Iruka sighed, and was very grateful that he had closed the shop for the day so he could put out some new things.

"Naruto, Sasuke," Iruka said when they had finally pulled away from each other. They looked at him, Naruto wondering what he was going to say, Sasuke ready to argue if Iruka said that he needed to be a ghost again. Iruka continued, "Just be careful. I won't tell anyone."

"Thanks, Iruka-sensei!"


"So… Itachi-san, why is this mission so important to you?"

"To become a sprit I killed my family. Including my little brother, Uchiha Sasuke."

Kisame once again had the thought that this sprit was a true demon. He couldn't have killed his family in cold blood and talked about it casually later. Heck, he couldn't even bring himself to imagine killing his family in the first place!

"Are we going to talk to Tsunade?" asked Kisame.

"Yes. That's the only way we're going to be able to find them."


Gaara looked at the door leading out of the hospital.

"What's wrong, dude?" asked Kiba.

"I have a feeling something terrible's going to happen."

"Like what?"

"I don't know. But it's going to be absolutely horrible. When was Naruto's fifteenth birthday again?"

"It's in two months, why?"

"Because half-demons go crazy on their fifteenth birthday."

Kiba paled and Akamaru whimpered.


Author's Note: If you like the beginning of this, and like the fact it came out early, you have Spring break to thank for that. I totally forgot about it, and then when I was told my first thought was: Cool! Now I have time to work on all the fanfiction! –cough- So. Yeah. Somehow the scene with Iruka turned from a scene having to do with Iruka being the only person they confide with and how close Naruto's birthday is to one having to do with Iruka's reaction to them being together… and alive… and a very bad attempt at humor…

So for the reviews from the last chapter of Sprits:

Kiisa: Thanks! But I'm not that good…

Mochiusagi: You'll see, be patient! And is this soon enough for you?

Sasukesgirl89: Don't be sad! My fanfiction's not that good! I'm glad you're excited! This one's probably going to end up longer than the last one. –sweatdrop-

Sunny Soul: I hope you don't mind the PM I sent you! You wanted me to tell you, so…

MelissaKS: Thank you!

Dragon77: I know, we just want them to be happy. But then there wouldn't be any plot, would there?

Kurotorachan: Did you guess any of what I've revealed so far?