Me: This chapter is dedicated to my friend SoulSpirtHeart because of the awesome ideas she gave me for this chapter. Thank you!
Gaara: When I give you ideas you don't thank me.
Me: That's because you're a little voice inside my head. If I thanked you I would be crazy.
Gaara: True enough.
Me By the way I've stopped telling who's POV it is so sorry if it's confusing.
A thank you so much to all these people: SoulSpirtHeart, iloveme5895, and deadanimals.
Gaara: She doesn't own Naruto in the least.
"And how does that make you feel?" Ms. Anko leaned back in her chair, clipboard in hand.
"Um, that my brother put me here just for his own amusement? Mad I guess." Sasuke raised an eyebrow at his councilor. "But that's not the point. I'm not depressed!"
"Sure you're not kid. That's what they all say." Ms. Anko took out a tootsie roll and chewed on it nonchalantly.
Sasuke gaped at the woman.
"That's it I'm leaving." He started to get up but Ms. Anko was fast. She had pinned him back in his seat in a matter of seconds.
"You're not getting out of here that easily, boy. If you would just talk to me this would be painless." She looked at the raven-haired teen with a threatening expression on her face. "Fine." Sasuke grumbled half-heartedly.
"Good. Then let's get started."
"What was that?" Itachi scratched his head and growled in frustration.
The Uchiha had been in his room for days now trying to figure out what had happened to him almost a week ago. He knew he was missing valuable days of college for this but he didn't care. He was brilliant enough to not really need the education and he certainly had enough money to support him with whatever he did.
All Itachi really wanted right now were some answers. So far, though, he could only find magic tricks involving people replacements; none of which good enough to completely change the scene.
A few times Itachi had stumbled upon some crazy things about alternate universes and the likes. Even a nutty guy like him knew not to believe that kind of thing.
Maybe Sasuke had wanted to get him back for reveling his and Naruto's secret to the school by playing a trick on him, but what had happened was just too strange.
Itachi was beginning to believe that he was really going crazy.
"If only Shisui were here." Itachi said to himself. "He always was good at mysteries and riddles and stuff."
Itachi leaned back in his chair; he had gotten barely any sleep over the past few days. He yawned lowly while he stared up at the ceiling. He supposed that a little rest wouldn't hurt him and so the Uchiha closed his eyes and let himself fall into the darkness…
"Itachi, Itachi get up." Itachi opened his eyes and smiled at Shisui.
"Morning love."
"Morning, 'Tachi." The younger boy's dark brown locks fell into his eyes and his perfect pink lips stretched into a smile. "We have school this morning. Mom said I could only sleep over if we weren't late, remember?"
"We won't be late. Just a few more minutes." Itachi stretched and rapped his arms around his beautiful boyfriend, unable to keep an out of character smile from settling on his face.
He kissed his angel playfully on the nose before giving him a small, sweet kiss on his lips.
Shisui laughed. It sounded like music to Itachi. "Seriously, we need to go. Get u-"
Itachi shushed his boyfriend with another kiss, while picking him up bridle style and carrying him out of bed.
By the time he had set him down on the floor Shisui was giggling hysterically, looking as happy as Itachi had ever seen him.
Itachi again embraced the boy and rested his forehead against Shisui's. As they gazed into each others eyes the shorter boy stopped giggling. He just stared, and Itachi stared back
"I love you."
"I love you too."
Itachi woke with a start. He could still feel Shisui's warmth against him and his kiss on his lips.
God Itachi missed him. With every passing day Itachi felt more and more anxious to see his lost love. He didn't know why, he hadn't spared him more than a thought for the last couple of years and now it was as if he was obsessed with him. Maybe it was because Sasuke's new romance with Naruto but whatever it was Itachi wanted to find Shisui.
Itachi closed all the internet sites he had found and walked out of his room.
He had a few hours before he had to pick up Sasuke. In the meantime he was going to the library. Not just to find out the answer to his problem but also to find Shisui.
Being that Shisui's mom used to be married to an Uchiha and that she had inherited a small portion of the Uchiha business in some remote area, locations of which not known to Itachi, she was often in the news.
The public library near Itachi's house kept record of all newspapers and Itachi thought he was sure to find something about Shisui in one of them. At least he hoped.
"Please let this work." Itachi said as he grabbed the keys and left the house, confident that by the time he retuned he would have found Shisui.
"Anything else?" Anko prodded Sasuke. "You hate your brother? Is that really it?"
Sasuke nodded with a grumpy look on his face.
"Can I go now? I'm starting to get hungry."
Ms. Anko gave the Uchiha a long measured look. "Sure, but don't forget to come back tomorrow."
Sasuke nodded and moodily left for lunch. He resisted the urge to slam the door on the way out. Now that would just be childish.
He walked down the hall until he saw a blond haired boy leaning against some lockers, apparently waiting for him.
"Hey, 'Suke. How was counseling?" Naruto asked with a timid blush on his face. There were a few other people in the hallway, staring at them in disgust.
Sasuke just smirked and closed the distance between him and his boyfriend. To the horror of all the homophobes around him he planted a kiss on the Naruto's lips, pulling back with a small smile.
"Fine. Now let's go to lunch. I'm starving."
Naruto smiled and grabbed Sasuke's hand, pulling him towards the cafeteria. "Hurry up Sasuke! I have ramen today!"
"Slow down dobe!"
"Neva!"
"Naruto!"
"I don't need to be looked at by a medic, Kisame. I'm perfectly fine!"
"Itachi, you thought you had captured the demon container even though you haven't even stepped a foot outside of the camp! How can you be alright?" Kisame said. He was worried about his partner. Though they weren't particularly close, it was his duty as a comrade to make sure Itachi stayed sane. "As soon as you get looked at you can go to find Kyubbi."
"This is ridiculous. I'll be back by sundown." Itachi strode out of the camp and dashed into the woods. Kisame cried for him to come back but Itachi ignored him.
After a while of running Itachi realized that he recognized none of the area. The trees were larger then he remembered from just a few moments before and they seemed to be of a different type. The forest was also denser than on his first trip and less light shown through.
Itachi was sure that this was the direction he had taken when he had left before to find Naruto. He was almost positive of that.
He looked for signs to tell him if his brother or the kitsune had been through the woods and came up with nothing. Eventually he came to a stop, deciding to form a plan on how the find the blond target. He sat against a tree and began to formulate what he would do.
Suddenly his surroundings began to flicker. Itachi jumped up with a swift intake of breath.
The woods were gone and he was standing in the middle of a crowd of people. They all had usual clothes on but seemed to stare at Itachi as they walked past, as though he was the freak.
He looked on either side of him and he found that there were shops of various assortments on both his right and his left. Itachi looked up and his eyes widened in amazement.
He was inside a building. A very large building, but a building. How could he have been in the woods one second and be indoors the next?
He felt someone bump into him from behind.
"Opps sorry!" A familiar voice that Itachi couldn't quite place broke the dark haired man out of his trance. He turned around to glare at the person who had dared to touch him and stood still in shock.
It was Shisui, his best friend. No. The love of his life. He was standing there looking just as stunned as Itachi must have looked, but he still found a way to look as breathlessly beautiful as the older man remembered.
"Itachi?" Shisui whispered disbelievingly. "Itachi!" The young man threw himself at the Uchiha, grabbing him in a warm hug. There were now tears forming in his eyes. "I thought I'd never see you again! But I waited for you. Just like I promised."
"Wait." Itachi said, pushing the his old friend away reluctantly. "I killed you. I killed you for power because that was what I wanted, no what I want, more than anything. You can't be alive."
"Huh?" Shisui giggled. "You can be so weird at times, 'Tachi."
"You can't be alive…"
And with those words Itachi found himself back in the forest sitting on the ground in a meditative position, more confused than ever before.
"I really think you should talk to her." Naruto munched on his ramen with a rare thoughtful look on his face.
"What!?" Sasuke looked horrified at the prospect. His less stoic friends laughed at his expression. Honestly they cared very little about the fact that Naruto and Sasuke were together. Some of them had even seen it coming.
"Yeah, I think it'll be good for you." Naruto downed the rest of the broth and gave a long sigh of satisfaction. "Just try it once. For me?"
Sasuke couldn't stand the pleading look in his boyfriend's eyes and so broke down. "Alright just once. But if I don't feel better afterwards I'm not doing it again. I don't just open my heart up to random people you know."
"Yeah, yeah, you like you privacy blah blah blah. Just have an open mind k?" Neji said beside him. Sasuke sighed at his friend but nodded when Gaara glared at him.
"Good." Naruto smiled. "So tomorrow right?"
"Yep, tomorrow."
Itachi slammed the door behind him as he walked into the Uchiha residence. He was more frustrated then even having not found either the location of Shisui or a magic trick complex enough to completely change his surroundings.
All his time at the library had been a waste.
He wasn't going to give up, though. Not now not ever. Maybe he really was going crazy and he had imagined the whole Sasuke and Naruto gone wild thing but that mattered very little to him now.
For all Itachi cared all those questions he had spent the past few days worrying about could scurry into a dark corner in the recesses of his mind. Now he had different, more important, things to do. Things like finding Shisui. Until he found him he would not stop looking. Itachi had gone far too long without him. He would waste no more time.
Me: Thanks for reading.
Gaara: As she would say…until next time.
Me: Not happy enough.
Gaara: Until next time!
Me: Good boy.
