Ho mah gawd. It took me HOW LONG to get this out? I iz sorry! I just got this new game, and I think I stopped eating for awhile because of it...*sweatdrop*
I think I get to the point of obsessive when it comes to new games...
Hey, has everyone seen the new Birth By Sleep commercial yet? Fricking awesome, yo. I'm still pining for 358/2 Days, though...hey, is it true you get to play as all the Organization members? Is so...I WANNA PLAY AS ZEXY~~! Lulz.
Do not own Naruto. I own Kira, cause she pwns all :P haha, she's cooler than youz~~!
"Take extreme caution! Strike quick, and strike true, or he will kill you!" A pony-tailed woman in a butterfly ANBU mask informed her three team members, already in their ANBU masks as she was.
"Understood." Cat told her.
"Cat, you lead point. You'll be able to track the tracer better than I can. I'll follow behind, Crow, you take the rear. Let's go, we're burning daylight!"
"Jeez, it must be a Uchiha trait to want something done, it had to be done yesterday." Hawk sighed. "What a slave-driver. If I wanted one of those, I'd've stayed home with Temari."
The four took off, Cat leading point as instructed. When he suddenly veered a sharp left, Butterfly froze.
"This is towards the Final Valley." She told them when they stopped. "He couldn't've gone there. It's almost like-"
"-He WANTS to be caught." Crow finished the sentence. "Then let's home he doesn't fuss when we do!"
butterfly nodded and stayed level with Cat, as she knew the way better than he did.
The sound of rushing water greeted them, along with a dark-blue back, adorned with a Uchiha crest, the cockatoo hairdo they were all familiar with had disappeared, leaving behind a very Itachi-like ponytail.
"Sasuke!" Butterfly yelled, jumping ahead of the others.
The Uchiha turned slowly, one hand on the hilt of his Kusunagi. He scanned the masks as if looking for a familiar face and sighed, finding none.
"I guess Naruto couldn't be bothered. I don't blame him."
"You're showing remorse?" Cat asked, shock filling every crevice of his voice.
"Did any of you actually know me? Or did the Hokage only send veterans who haven't even met me besides knowing me as the last Uchiha?"
Butterfly started chuckling and relaxed her stance.
"Oh please. The only veteran of us in Crow. And he knew you as well. Maybe just as much as I did..."
Butterfly pulled a move from her hat and side-stepped back and forth towards Sasuke, before disappearing altogether. Sasuke crouched, training his eyes on the nature around him.
"Who are you? What are you doing?"
"See you when you wake up." A voice said in his ear. Sasuke turned his head, just for the other side of his neck get hit sharply. Sasuke started to fall before Crow and Hawk moved fast to catch him before he hit the ground, Cat unrolling a length of rope to bind Sasuke safely -for them- before Crow slung the unconscious Uchiha over his shoulder.
"That was too easy. I'm sure he planned something for when he gets into Konoha." Hawk said, full rights to being paranoid.
"I'll take care of him." Butterfly told him. And Lord Hokage will be there. He's going to personally question Sasuke with Morino and Mitarashi present."
"Is that so? I just might to have to feel bad for Uchiha little bit." Cat said. "But are you okay with it, Butterfly?"
Butterfly nodded and sped up to lead the group back home, a surefire way to end the conversation when it meets the discomfort zone.
"Take him straight to containment." Butterfly informed Crow. "I'll alert Lord Hokage."
"Understood." The three chorused and left her behind. Butterfly teleported straight into the Hokage's office, scaring the bejesus out of Naruto.
"MY GOD, HAVEN'T YOU ANBU EVER HEARD OF A DOOR?"
"Oh, shut up, Chibi." Butterfly said, removing her mask to reveal the one and only Kira Uchiha.
"Kira? Didn't you leave to find Sasuke?"
"I did."
"And?"
"We got him."
"ARE YOU FRIGGING SERIOUS?" Naruto yelled, jumping out of his chair. "You were gone three hours!"
"We believe...he WANTED to be found, Naruto. His eyes..." Kira took a shuddering breath and crouched down, pressing her face into her knees.
"Oh god, those EYES, Naruto...they were so DEAD-looking. Where did my little brother go? Sasu-chan was nowhere in those eyes. They were flat, and cold...oh, god." Kira whimpered for a second. "I-I think I'm gonna be sick..." She whimpered. Naruto had come over and kneeled next to the ravenette in order to hear her better, hurrying to grab his wastebasket so she could vomit. He rubbed her back comfortingly as she spit up stomach acid, nothing had gone into her belly this morning for this very reason, scared of what might happen between her and Sasuke.
"Is he in containment?" He asked seriously. She nodded. Naruto stood to leave, but was held back by a tight fist grasping his cloak.
"W-wait. I'm coming too. I'm fine now, honest." She gave him a weak smile and stood, wiping her mouth and tying her mask so it rested on the side of her head.
"Gah! Damn stubborn Uchihas!" Naruto mocked playfully.
"It's all a conspiracy to purely drive you insane, Naru-chibi."
"That's explains it all." Naruto grumbled, leading the way out of his office and down the hall, yanking on his Hokage hat. If he was gonna bust some Uchiha ass, he'd do it in uniform to rub salt in the wound, dammit. Kira didn't count, because it was already proven that one genjutsu from her, and he'd lose a month's amount of sleep from nightmares.
Damn Uchihas.
Maybe it WAS a conspiracy!
Gah, he's just being paranoid.
Or was he?
Kira just watched the hamsters turn in Naruto's head, so tempted to grab her stick and poke his head, just to see if it would spontaneously combust from the extra stress.
"DAMN YOU UCHIHAS!" Naruto finally shouted, stopping in the middle of the hall just to shout. Everyone that was milling about nearby froze and either looked at Naruto weirdly, or lifted an eyebrow, conveying telepathic messages to Kira.
"The hell you do this time?" Was the general message.
Kira cleared her throat and tapped Naruto's shoulder.
"Eh-heh...Lord Hokage? I'm right here."
Naruto grinned and sweatdropped, scratching his cheek sheepishly.
"Lord Hokage." Ibiki greeted as Naruto entered the sealed room, his face it's normal stoic look through the scars.
"Morino-san." Naruto greeted. "What is Sasuke Uchiha doing in here? Can't see what information he has that we don't already know."
"Can't be too careful with a rogue like Uchiha, Lord Hokage."
"He doesn't know anything Ibiki. Turn him loose. Lord Hokage wants a private audience with the prisoner." Kira told the interrogator seriously. Then grinned. "C'mon, big guy. You can have the honor of treating me to dinner!"
Ibiki smirked and followed the ravenette out.
The door slammed shut, leaving Naruto and Sasuke alone, the Uchiha held in place by chains and chakra seals.
"Naruto." Sasuke nodded, his voice flat.
"Been awhile...Sasuke." Naruto greeted, stepping closer.
"You're alone. Thought the Hokage was supposed to be flanked by bodyguards."
"A single chakra flare and the ANBU stationed outside would bust in. I'm not worried. Why did you do it, Sasuke?" Naruto asked, referring to the slaughter of the outpost.
"Because I knew it would call attention to me. I'm sure your Butterfly ANBU already told you what happened."
The blonde nodded, sliding the Hokage hat off, leaving his blonde spikes bare. "Then why not just come home straight off the bat? You would've gotten off as lightly as possible, after all of the enemies of Konoha you slaughtered over the years. Orochimaru, Itachi, Madara, Kabuto..."
"Itachi wasn't a enemy. He was a protector. But after all of that, I still haven't found what I was looking for after I left."
"What was that, Sasuke?" Naruto asked, genuinely curious as he cocked his head to the side.
Sasuke looked down. "Home...the last of my family. Itachi told me our sister was still alive, but the last he heard, she left..."
Naruto pulled the 'Uchiha smirk' that he learned from the very person Sasuke was talking about.
"Sasuke...Your home is here." Naruto told him. "I've been telling you that for twelve years. As for Kira..."
"How do you know her name?"
"That woman that was just in here was her, Sasuke. The lead ANBU in your capture? Kira. The Hokage's Aid for three years? Kira. She came back...oh, what was it? eight years ago? Baka."
"Why didn't she say anything to me, then?" Sasuke yelled.
"Because you've been gone longer than she was! she was on a mission, you became a nukenin! There's a difference!"
Sasuke was silent as it all processed, then slumped so the side of his face was pressed against his shoulder.
"I am a idiot..."
"I know. Baka~!" Naruto grinned.
Note: I do not care that these chapters are short as hell. Get over it.