Summary: Sasuke leaves Konoha to go to Orochimaru leaving a heartbroken Naruto behind, yet on that same night Naruto receives a visit from a certain later Sasuke returns to Konoha to take Naruto for himself only to find that he was too late, upon meeting a young child that greatly resembles his older brother in almost every aspect, and in turns of events actually meets his brother inside the village walls. Sasuke later finds out that painful truth about Naruto and The Uchiha Massacre.

Warnings: OCC (yup lots and lots of it baby), some good ol' fluff, romance, bad language, a bit of violence, Mpreg (ah yes, the man babies), and slight angst

Pairings: Itachi x Naruto, and side parings (not going to lie I still haven't decided)

Disclaimer: Plot belongs to me, rest belongs to Kishimoto

I am hopeless at writing, but I still hope you guys will enjoy my story. I was listening to "Fix You - Coldplay" and "The Scientist - Coldplay", so I recommend it.

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Prologue:The Beginning

Dark gloomy clouds shrouded the star dazzled midnight sky, the strong howls of the chilling wind roared relentlessly throughout the night. Street lamps that aligned the dirt roads and paved streets flickered on attracting little creatures of the night. The streets that ran throughout Konoha echoed with silence and emptiness, nothing was heard other than the rushing wind and the sound of tapping feet.

As Uchiha Sasuke, one of the last of the Uchiha clan, neared the large gates of Konohagakure, he was suddenly stopped when he heard the voice of someone very familiar running from behind him calling out his name. Rushing towards him from behind was a blonde boy dressed in an almost all orange attire. When Naruto had finally caught up to Sasuke, he stopped and stared at the young Uchiha until he burst out with pleas

"Sasuke, please... you can't go! Please, just stay here in Konoha with everybody else!"

The raven haired boy didn't turn around to look into the eyes of the pleading boy, he only stood where he was, his pale face shrouded with shadows.

"No. I have to go... I need to become stronger! So I can finally beat my brother and get my revenge, for both my sake and my clansmen! He needs to be punished for his deeds... And for all the years I've had to suffer through because of that heartless bastard!"

The young Uchiha spat out

"Sasuke..."

Sasuke growled with anger and resentment, his teeth tightly clenched together and almost grinding, his pale hands were balled up into a fist shaking from ire. However, even though Sasuke spoke with nothing but selfish and angry words Naruto's eyes only saddened with pity, his cerulean eyes faltering under the street light.

"You don't have to go... You can become stronger here! Along with everybody else! We can help you find your brother! So Just stay dammit!"

'Stop... Please... Don't hurt me more than you already have... Sasuke!'

Naruto bit his bottom lip as his small lean figure trembled.

"No... This place can't give me enough power... I need power! And since this place can't provide me with what I need then I have no reason to stay here any longer..."

With that, he began to walk off towards the gate.

"No... Please... Why don't you understand dammit... I love you for gods sake! Why don't you just get a damn clue already! You damn TEME!"

Naruto screamed out with all his might, his eyes tightly shut, and his balled up fists shook from all his bottled frustrations. The raven haired boy stopped, and just like the last, his head never turned back, not even to take a single glance at the blondes distressed and flustered face. For a while there was nothing but the cold bitter silence between them, when suddenly the Uchiha spoke.

"I'm sorry... But you can't stop me, there's no turning back for me, not now... I can't return your feelings, it'll only drag me down... I'm sorry... Thank you for everything... Naruto... I'm glad I met you and was able to become someone important to you, but this is something I have to do no matter what the cost maybe... So farewell..."

And with his finale words he began his pace once more and walked off into the distance, disappearing into the night, never once looking back to see the blonde boy fall hopelessly to his knees staring blankly to the ground as if to search for any last shred of shattered hope. That is until his heart finally gave out beneath all the pressure, hot tears streamed down his face, his hoarse voice cried out to the heavens for relief. However, unknown to either of the two boys that there had been a third party silently observing the tragic scene from afar, his cold crimson eyes never looking away from the broken boy. Alas, when the stranger could no longer sit and bare to watch such a painful scene he jumped out from the shadow of the trees and landed directly in front of the crying boy. Naruto was about to lift his head to get a look of who the stranger was until he was suddenly pulled into a deep hug by strong arms. Muscular arms tightly wrapped themselves around the small body, the stranger buried his face into the boy's shoulder never wanting to separate from the warmth of the smaller boy.

Naruto was in a daze and had no idea what was currently going on and exactly who the strange person was, but honestly, none of that mattered to him at the moment, his heart had just been scarred and he needed this comfort, he needed the warmth, and the feeling of being protected and wanted. He slowly reached up and wrapped his trembling arms around the man's neck and drew his face deep into his broad shoulder. His warm tears finally stopped and his painful cries faded into small whimpers and sniffles. Naruto's vision began to blur, but before he could pass out he finally got to hear the stranger's voice.

"Naruto-kun... I promise I'll never look away from you, I will always be watching you and you alone... No matter what I won't turn away, ever... So please, don't shed your tears anymore... Not for someone like him, especially not for someone who can't even look you in the eyes..."

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise at the mans sweet words, but soon his eyes began to slowly flutter close.

'This voice... Why does it sound so... familiar?... I'm sure I've heard it somewhere before...'

After sometime instead of falling asleep with a sad look, he ended up falling asleep in the stranger's warm and comfortable arms with a gentle smile spread on his face.

Itachi lightly sighed with relief as he listened to the gentle pattern of Naruto's breathing. He slowly raised one of his cold pale hands and used the sleeve of his cloak to delicately wipe away the boy's tears, after he wiped away Naruto's tears and dried his face he brought his hand up to lightly stroke the boy's beautiful golden hair that shined ever so brightly even in the darkness of the night. After a few minutes of his one-sided cuddling, he decided that it would be best not to be sitting in the middle of the road while having a boy no more than 13 sitting in his lap while there could be the possibility of Konoha leaf-nin patrolling the streets. He carefully hooked one of his arms under the boy's legs while his other arm around the boy's small back carrying him bridal style, he stood up and disappeared within a swirl of leaves. Once Itachi appeared within Naruto's apartment bedroom, he walked over to the boy's bed and gently and unwillingly set him down as though he would break if he handled him too harshly. Removing Naruto's shoes and setting them as side he grabbed the boy's blanket and gently covered the child's small frame. After tucking the boy in the raven took a step back and simply stare down at the sleeping boy like a creeper. Itachi sighed as his eyes continued to gaze upon the unconscious child.

'My otouto has caused quite the trouble tonight... However, even if he is my younger brother and had thankfully refused my little one's confession, I still cannot forgive him for making my little one cry like this...'

Itachi carefully sat himself down beside the dreaming boy and began to tenderly stroke Naruto's soft sunshine hair brushing away the strands of hair that covered his eyes. His cold dark obsidian eyes never left the boy's beautiful delicate face. He leaned down to the boy's tan ear and began to whisper sweet words as his warm breaths caressed the blonde's ear

"You know Naruto-kun, I'm in with love you, I really really am in with love you... All my life I've done nothing but watch and protect you from afar... But now as my feelings towards you become stronger I continue to find it increasingly hard to stay away from you... I want to hold you close within my arms and never let you escape my grasp... It's so hard for me not to steal you and keep you for myself... I love you Naruto-kun, I love you so much that you make me become such a coward that I can't even tell you directly how I feel about you, but what I'm not a coward about is coming back to take you for myself, so you better watch out in the near future because one day I might not be able to hold myself back and end up taking you far away..."

He moved from the blonde's ear and drew his face closer to the boy's face until his cold pale lips met warm ones. When the raven finally parted himself from the sleeping boy, he gave one last kiss to the boy's forehead and smiled whispering 'good night' before holding up two fingers and disappearing in a swirl of wind. However, unknown to the Uchiha that there had been an eavesdropper secretly listening in on the Uchiha's confession the entire time.

"well well well, what do we have here~ it would seem that a certain weasel has fallen in love with my dear little kit~ humph, took you long enough Uchiha brat..."

And so, as the demon faded into the darkness of the child's mind, the night became still and silent once again; silvery moonlight washed over the land at last as the once dark grey clouds parted and faded into the night sky.

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Guy and Kakashi were taking an early morning stroll around the village discussing about the usual common everyday things they always talked about, Guy always going on about the power of youth and Kakashi just taking the pain and listening to grown man go on and on. Then Kakashi decided to bring up a usually untouched topic.

"Say Guy, I'm beginning to worry about Sasuke, he's been acting quite strange and douche baggy lately. I'm afraid he's planning to do something."

Kakashi gave and exasperated sigh as though he was already waiting for the world to end

"Isn't he always douche baggy?"

Guy so graciously added

"Yeah but more so than usual."

"Hmmm... Well I don't exactly know what's going on, but I will say that he has certainly been distant lately... Well more so than usual that is."

"Right? That's what I'm talking about. I have an uneasy feeling that it's going to be a problem that will cause quite a lot of trouble later on."

Suddenly, a shadowed figure swooped in from the shadows and landed a good distance away from the two Jounin's. The two men instantly jumped into their fighting stances with their kunai's in hand and within a split second were ready to fight. The shadowed figure didn't bother to move and only stood there glaring at the men. Then both Guy and Kakashi noticed two blood red circles glowing from the dark figure. No words were needed to tell that the man was none other than

"Uchiha Itachi... What business do you have here again, are you planning to take Naruto away again!"

Kakashi threateningly questioned. Itachi only scoffed and smirked angering the silver-haired Jounin even more

"Actually, I'm here by my own means, it has nothing to do with the goal of the Akatsuki I can assure you that. I've just finished taking care of some 'business' so I decided to wait here for someone to pass by so I could tell them the 'news'."

Kakashi's visible eye narrowed dangerously

"And what might this 'news' be"

"My otouto has left the village, he is planning to join Orochimaru in order to gain power to defeat me. It'd best if you go and stop him before he manages to reach that snake."

Kakashi sneered and continued to glare at the young adult

"And what's to make us believe that you're actually telling the truth and not just making up some story in order to find a chance to capture Naruto?"

'Though now that I think about, it's not that hard to believe... Sorry Sasuke, I'm doubting you right now...'

"Kakashi, you should know me better than that. I have no reason and nothing to gain from lying to you; however, it is your choice whether you choose to believe me or not. But I warn you... You should hurry."

The two adults slowly lowered their kunai's and began to relax out of their stances. Itachi turned away and was ready to leave, that is until he realized he had forgotten to answer one of the Kakashi's questions

"Oh, and I reassure you that I will take Naruto one day, so you best prepare for that as well... *smirks with Sharingan spinning wildly*"

And with that the mysterious weasel dispersed into fleeting crows and disappearing without a trace. The two Jounin's shivered and simply stood there contemplating the weasel's last words, it felt as though they could just feel the hidden meaning behind his words and especially behind that smirk of his, they looked nervously at each other as though fearing for the worst for the poor unaware blonde.

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As the sun peeked over the mountains, morning skies shattered the night. Early morning sunlight crept through the window of a certain sleeping blonde. He stirred in his bed looking for a comfortable position to hide himself away from the intruding blinding rays of sunshine. Lousily he grumbled and decided to sit up in his bed, his half lidded eyes were fogged with sleep and his head full of nothingness. He made a big yawn stretching his arms out before falling back onto his bed, wrapping himself cozily with his blanket, and drifting off into sleep again. The great demon, that resided within the blonde, was now awake and gave a sigh and face palmed himself.

"Uh kit?... Aren't you forgetting something important? Even though I could careless"

Kurama reminded grumbling the last part to himself. There was a long silence before Naruto's eyes shot open and springing up from his bed in realization.

"Ahhhh! I forgot! Sasuke left the village! I have to go tell Tsunade-baa-chan about this quickly!"

"Good job! Now get up."

As he was about to hightail it out of there that was when the events of the night before came crashing down on him like a ton of bricks. He suddenly stopped and simply stood at his bedroom doorway, his face towards the ground and his trembling hands drawn into a tight fist. He bit down on his bottom lip and tightly shut his eyes trying to gather the rest of his broken heart in order to go tell the Hokage of the current situation.

"Come on kit... If you want to save him you have to get it together and go save his dumb ass. Oh! and if you ever meet that man from last night again be sure to give him a proper 'thank you' from both me and you, you know, for comforting you last night~ *smirks*"

Bam. There came the brick. Naruto dropped to his knees clenching his head and staring to the floor while blushing bright red. After remembering his embarrassing actions from the night before he couldn't bare the embarrassment and just wanted to crawl into a corner and fade away as though he never existed.

"Oh my god... Why am I such a dumbass! Seriously! What is wrong with me! I just crawled into some stranger arms and let them see me in such an embarrassing state! I can't believe myself! Oh god it must've been so awkward for that guy. I just suddenly clung to whoever showed even a little bit of kindness to me! Ugh, I just want to die!"

"Hey hey, if you die, I die, so don't even think about it."

Naruto pouted and proceeded to curl up into a ball and wallow in his own shame and humiliation.

"*cough* ahem, sorry to intrude on your little... Wallowing, but I think you have forgotten that there's a certain dumbass that's getting farther and farther away from the village!"

"crap..."

Naruto grumbled to himself. He got off the floor, gathered his wits, and ran out of his apartment quickly rushing towards the Hokage tower as fast as he could.

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Without warning, Naruto suddenly burst through the Hokage's door yelling.

"Tsunade-baa-chan! Sasuke left-…. Huh? Why are you guys here?"

Already standing in the room were Shikamaru, Choji, Neji, Kiba, Lee, and Shino. They stared worryingly at the flustered blonde that burst in through the door uninvited. Tsunade stared at Naruto, anxiety clearly written over her features. Naruto slightly tilted his head in bewilderment.

"Naruto, how do you know about Sasuke leaving the village? You weren't there, were you?"

Shikamaru asked with a quirked eyebrow. As Naruto calmed his breathing his eyes drifted downwards meeting with the floor, his shaking hands were gripped tightly into a fist, and his eyebrows furrowed.

"Yeah... I was there..."

Everyone in the room looked confused and silently exchanged glances with each other.

"If you knew why didn't you come and tell lady Tsunade sooner?"

Kiba questioned, Naruto gritted his teeth for a moment and proceeded to tell a summarized version of the story.

"Look, a lot of things happened and he left, I'm not going to go into detail so don't even bother asking. And then, well... There was this guy that came out of nowhere and helped me out, and before I knew it I passed out and ended up waking up in my apartment. I have no idea how that guy knew where I lived, but I just woke up in my bed, that's all I'll tell you."

Everyone could see the obvious distraught and frustrated look on the blonde's face. Figuring that it was probably a pretty sensitive topic they decided that it would probably be best to leave things at that.

"Ahem!... Anyways, back to the problem, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akamichi, Neji Hyuuga, Rock Lee, and Kiba Inuzuka, I want you all to go and retrieve Sasuke Uchiha-"

"Wait! I want to go too!"

Naruto demanded, determination plainly seen in his clear cerulean eyes. Tsunade's own eyes saddened with sympathy as she stared into Naruto's large sky blue ones.

"But Naruto-"

She didn't even get to finish her sentence when Naruto cut her off and proceeded to badger on

"No, please, you have to let me go... Please Tsunade..."

Tsunade's eyes widened and her mouth slightly gaped along with everyone else in the room. This was the first time Naruto had ever pronounced her name without calling her an old lady. There was no way that she could turn down the pleading blonde, especially when he looked at her with so much resolve in his eyes, voice, and face. The busty blond was reluctant to agree, but of course like everyone else who's gone against Naruto when he's had such an expression, she had no other choice. She closed her eyes for a short moment and she gave a heavy sigh.

"Very well then, but are you sure about this Naruto? I mean... You know..."

Naruto only continued to glared at her with tenacity. Tsunade gave another heavy defeated sigh, she lifted her head and gave a stern look to all those who were present.

"Alright then, retrieve the Uchiha! Failure is not an option! Dismissed!"

The young ninja's exited the room to prepare for departure. Once they had all gone, Tsunade rested her arm on her desk and propped her head in her palm and gave another discontented sigh for the zillionth time in just one morning. She turned around in her chair to gaze off into the distance beyond the village. It was so difficult to allow Naruto to go along with the others because she already knew of the Uzumaki's feelings for the youngest Uchiha. She was in fact one of two people that knew of the secret, the other being the prevy sage Jiraiya.

She didn't want Naruto to be forced fight against the person he loved and be hurt in the process, both physically and emotionally, she just couldn't handle the face of a disheartened Naruto.

Even though Tsunade would never admit it she loved the way Naruto smiled, she loved the way he was always so happy and energetic uplifting the hearts of everyone even during the saddest of times, she also loved his friendly and warm attitude towards everyone he met allowing himself to be deeply engraved into peoples hearts, and she especially loved the warm feeling she got whenever she was around the boy. Naruto made old forgotten feelings of happiness and comfort resurface in not only herself but everyone he came in contact with. Tsunade knew that if people were to see Naruto ever sad or hurt it would in no doubt break their hearts as well. No matter what, Naruto was always there to help and protect his friends no matter difficult the situation got, and because of this people were always willing to be there for him, but because Naruto was and still is always such a hard head and keeps all of his bottled up feelings of sadness, pain, and loneliness to himself no one could ever really tell when he needed comfort, instead he always wore that stupid smile of his, the smile that hid away the sadness of his soul and the aching of his heart, the smile that hid his tears and pained expression, the same smile that no matter what could always fool the world. She wished that one day there would come someone who could care for Naruto and give him all the love and affections he deserved, someone who could always see past the boy's smiling mask and comfort him when he needed it most, and above all, a person who would always be there for Naruto no matter what whether it be through the good or the bad, someone who would never leave his side.

Suddenly, something clicked in her mind.

"Hmmm... Now that I think about it... Kakashi reported that it was Itachi who had given him the information, and Kakashi also mentioned that Itachi had stated that he'd just finished taking care of some 'business'… And Naruto said that there was a stranger that helped him, plus the fact that he passed out and ended up waking up in his apartment... So could that stranger have been... Uchiha Itachi?... But why? Was he there on just a whim and decided to help Naruto? But then why was he even there in the first place? Exactly what kind of connection does Uchiha Itachi have with Naruto?... I don't understand... Wait, but if he was there for Naruto, he could've just taken him; however, Kakashi did tell me that he had said he was there on his own accord, but what business does he have here in Konoha? Damn, none of this makes sense, I feel like there's just one important component that I'm missing to solving the mystery... Geez, just what in the world is going on?"

Tsunade clicked her tongue and scratched her head in dissatisfaction, she sighed as she sagged into her chair allowing her facial expression to show every last bit of annoyance she felt at the moment.

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In the end, Shikamaru's team managed to successfully return from their mission, thankfully without any losses, though each were heavily injured; however, other than their obviously battered bodies the one other thing that people noticed most were their defeated expressions when they had woken up from their recovery. Even though they had succeeded in defeating the enemies they were faced with they had heard from other ninja's and nurses that Naruto was unable to retrieve Sasuke, but that was not the reason why they wore such defeated expressions. The reason why was because they knew they'd have to face a disheartened Naruto, and everyone knew what that meant- smiles would not be seen for quite sometime until the blonde was fully healed.

Naruto was safely recovered by Kakashi and immediately brought to the Konoha Hospital to be treated. He laid asleep in bed for a few days slowly recovering from his injuries. He had a few quiet visits from his close friends every now a then, most hoping that the blonde wouldn't be too discouraged once he'd woken up, and thankfully that was what happened. When he'd woken up he had gone back to smiling like the idiot he was... But of course, only those who knew him well enough could plainly see that it was all nothing but an act; the only ones that managed to figure this out were Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Iruka, Shikamaru, Neji, Hinata, and Shino, the ones that were almost always the first to figure things out before everyone else, especially when it came down to Naruto. To them, they could clearly hear the almost unnoticeable hoarseness of his voice, the sadness hidden away in his dull blue eyes, and the forced smile he put up as a way to fool people into believing that he was 'fine'.

Not too long after Naruto had woken up from his long sleep in the hospital, Tsunade was going to his room to examine him. When she reached his room she silently opened the door just in case the boy happened to have been sleeping. She quietly entered the bright naturally lit room and approached his bed hidden behind a blank white curtain. Tsunade peeked her head just a little past the curtain to take a look at Naruto, and the sight that greeted her was indeed a painful one. There quietly sitting on the bed was Naruto, who gazed silently at the open window with the plain white curtains fluttering in the wind that gently blew into the room, his mind deeply lost in thought, and his bandaged hands tightly gripped the pure white sheets that covered him. He had the most sorrowful and anguished look anyone had ever seen. The look on his face said it all, it told a tragic tale of bitter betrayal, bottled sadness, agonizing pain, and above all... that of a heart broken beyond repair...

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That night Naruto quietly sat in his room staring out the window into the brightly lit village. Whenever Kurama was asleep and had a chance to be alone he did nothing but continued to gaze over the village and allow his mind to wonder and replay the bitter fight between him and Sasuke. He could clearly recall everything that happened that horrible day, the sour words that had been thrown at him, the hateful glares that bore into his soul, and anger filled punches and kicks that beat him down to his very core, he could remember it all. Before he knew it, warm tears glided down is face like rain on a smooth surface. He was surprised by his sudden tears and frantically went to wipe them away with his sleeves, when his own sleeves become soaked in by his tears he went for his blanket. Wiping away his never ending tears he slowly gave in and found himself sobbing and whimpering into his blanket, his muffled cries echoed throughout the noiseless empty room, his eyes became red and puffy from all of his tears.

'Naruto-kun... I promise I'll never look away from you, I will always be watching you and you alone... No matter what I won't turn away, ever... So please, don't shed you tears anymore... Not for someone like him, especially not for someone who can't even look you in the eyes...'

Naruto gasped at the sudden memory of the stranger and his loving words, he quickly stopped crying and began wiping his face dry of all the tears that had drenched this angelic features.

"I won't cry anymore... I won't cry... Not for him, I won't cry because of him any longer... He told me not to cry because of Sasuke... So I won't... I promise I won't anymore..."

Naruto sniffed one last time and quickly took a glance to the village before flopping into his bed and covering himself with his blanket telling himself good night. Kurama gave a faint smile and whispered good night to the unknowing blonde.

'The rest is up to you kit, I'll continue to replay his words as many times until it leads you to the right person who has already been waiting a decade for you...'

Unaware to the blonde that there had been people soundlessly watching him from an adjacent tree while skillfully masking their presence.

"Oh my kami-sama! Itachi-san he's so cute! I just want to hug him so much!"

Konan screeched like a school girl

"Indeed, he is very adorable. He makes me want to pamper him like he is my little brother or even as my own son."

Pein willingly admitted

"Hey Itachi, is it okay if I hug him when you guys get together?"

Konan sweetly asked, her eyes beaming with hope

"Hn, as long as you don't squeeze him to death"

"He certainly is a cute one, he stopped crying when he remembered about you. He will surely be a loyal one once you're both married~."

Sasori added smirking at the raven. Itachi faintly blushed that had luckily gone unseen by his comrades. Scratch that, the Akatsuki were actually more than just comrades, they were more like one big family that just stuck together and help one another whenever they needed it. Itachi gave the usual Uchiha trademark smirk and continued to stare at his cute blonde who had fallen fast asleep. When the four agreed that it was time for them to take their leave they each disappeared in their own style in an instant leaving no traces of their presence behind.

And so began the story of the fox and the weasel coming together to create a future that would not only affect themselves but the entire course of history as well.

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First: If you're wondering why I chose Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Iruka, Shikamaru, Neji, Hinata, and Shino, I chose them because they are all generally the ones that can keep a secret and are also still close to Naruto.

Second: Why I chose Konan, Pein, Sasori, and Itachi, everyone else were busy, that's all

I hope you enjoyed it, and if you find that I need to improve in a certain area then please do leave a review on what you think, I'd really appreciate reading what you think. And please do remember, it is my fanfiction so I can do as I please, so if you do not like my story then please refrain from making any unnecessary comments. Thank you and have a nice day.