Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other characters for if I did Naruto would be loved a lot more! ;)

Please Read and Review

umm..I apologize for the long wait..forgive me?

Sight

"How was today?" A brunet asked as Naruto, Gaara and Sai walked into their small apartment.

"Fine…but it's going to be a lot more work than we thought." Naruto replied as he flopped down on the couch.

"Naruto made a fool of himself again." Sai said.

"I did not!"

"Naru, wherever you go you make a big fool of yourself. There's no denying it." The red haired boy put in.

"Whatever. Iruka, everyone loves me as per usual." Naruto said ignoring his best friends.

"You didn't use Charm?"

"Like I need to." Came the reply. Iruka looked to the other two for an answer.

"No, he is just a natural." Gaara said with a fond smile.

"and dick-less." Sai added his two cents.

Iruka sighed, "Must you?"

"The human languages are so much fun; and they have so many funny words!" Sai pulled out a dictionary from his backpack and began reading it.

Naruto turned on the t.v., "and they have such delightfully brain-frying stuff you can watch; I can watch these so called "soap-operas" forever!" and he was zoned out.

"And you?" Iruka asked Gaara, "What has caught your attention?"

"Video games. You can kill mindlessly forever and there are no repercussions." He took out a PSP and fell to a chair stiffly.

Iruka sighed once again, "How are we going to get anything done like this?" before smiling and getting on the computer; there was so much you could do on this little box.

Sasuke walked back into his house and was greeted with a thundering "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASUKE!"

Sasuke cringed at the sound and looked around the living room. It was as he thought; the room was packed with his brother's "friends" or "gang buddies", which ever you liked to take it. His parents favored the first ignoring the fact that Itachi's friends looked shady and acted even more so.

So he smiled like he was expected to and said, "Thank you, everyone" as packages were shoved into his face and the cake was cut and eaten. After his parents left to go upstairs everyone dropped their nice and normal act and turned to Sasuke.

"So, little brother.." and that was when Sasuke knew he had to escape. But alas, he was soon held down and tied up with nowhere to go.

"This little brat thought he would be able to escape." Hidan, the crazy cult guy said.

"little brother, there's no need to be afraid…"

"Who said I was? I just wanted to get away so I wouldn't come in contact with any diseases, mental or physical." Sasuke attempted a sneer.

"A venerable act," Pein commented with a blood-thirsty smile covering his eyes.

"Sasuke, something tells me something very interesting happened at school today…"

"If you know already, then why are you asking me?"

"Tell us, or I'll fucking have your head." Hidan screamed.

Itachi sighed, "Hidan, that's my brother you are talking to. So, Sasuke?"

"Nothing much…just some new kids are being admitted into the gifted program"

"Really? That's rare…"

"Three kids, all male. A red head, a blond and a black head."

"That's all you can tell us unn?" Deidara asked, while playing with some art supplies.

"I don't like to socialize."

"Their names then?"

"Gaara, Sai, and…" Sasuke hesitated, he had a feeling he shouldn't tell his brother and his friends the name of the blond boy.

"The last boy?"

"I don't remember…"

"Sasuke, I can always tell when you are lying." And there was no escape.

"Uzumaki…He introduced himself as Uzumaki Naruto." And silence was one thing Sasuke hadn't anticipated from Akatsuki.

There was a contemplative silence for a few minutes before Sasori, who was by the way playing with some puppets, asked Sasuke in his metallic voice, "And why would you try to hide his name from us?"

All eight pairs of eyes swiveled towards him, "And that is the question…"

Then the barrage of questions came.

"What do you know about him?"

"Who is he?"

"How would you describe him and his companions?"

"Was there anything suspicious about them?"

"Where does he live? I suppose he lives with his companions…so where do they live?"

"What color of underwear were they wearing?"

"How did they smell?"

"How did they taste? Like heaven? Something other worldly?"

The questions were getting weirder by the minute. When the questions finally stopped, Sasuke took a deep breath. He knew he wasn't going to get away with not answering their questions. And anyway, he owed the newcomers any loyalty at all.

"I know nothing, don't know how they smell, taste or what underwear they wear. I know nothing about them, I didn't talk to them." At the last part, his brother and his friends nodded.

"And I somehow knew you were going to react this way if I told you the blond's name…" He trailed off. "Now, let me go." He struggled against the rope to no avail.

He knew he would be sitting here for quite a while when the group gathered themselves up and relocated to the kitchen. He sat quietly and listened in as much as he could to their twisted conversation. All he got out of it was evil cackles and some sinister planning concerning the new kids. The evil plan to capture the kid was confirmed when he heard, "We shall catch him yet…and his companions too."

Sasuke could see the evil witch and her band of monkeys. But the problem was he didn't know which one was the evil witch in the gang, they were all rather disturbingly evil and witch-like.