A/N: Again... Updating at a late time. -.- 10 o'clock here. Enjoy this cause my head hurts a bit. Might just be from the sugar intake. YES most of the words are repetitive and small. If you want to fix it you can. I'd love you forever if you did. Fact is I need a beta. NEED is not a want nor am I joking I -need- one terribly. If you think that you're up for the job please message me. Until then I think I'm gonna rest my eyes for a bit. Toodles.

Dedication: To Anthoinette and Kiisa! Just two of the few people that seem to be super cool and awesome (to me)!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor do I own any of the characters. I'm merely an authoress expressing my creativity. (If they were mine however... Oh think of the possiblities.)

Warning! Contains traces of a bored writer, a moutain of high quality of caffiene, some seriousness, an over dose of reading too many dective/thief stories that has becom an influance and a lame story line! Read with caution! This story contains yaoi, turn back now least ye eyes be bleached white and I call you Neji (that is if you hate yaoi, if not go ahead XD)! Hints NaruHina(I'll explain later), NaruSaku(same), and finally the piece of resistonce: Sasunaru(MAIN pairing). Or Narusasu I haven't decided. Unbeta-ed!

Chapter 2- The two clouds. Part 2

'Tell me Sasuke, you're about 12 now do you want to try to go outside?

Outside...? You mean interaction? No.

It could be fun?

You know I don't like people. They give nothing but sympathy, even you.

I'm on your tolerable list, eh?

Hn.

Monosyllables again. Well guess what? Since me forcing things on you seems to work since you won't own up or do anything that a man should... You're going outside anyway. I already filled out the paper work. Your brother will recover you shortly...

...

WHAT?!

Heh heh I think I'll take the time to record my will... I'd like to give everything to- Ouch! Sasuke no don't turn that off! I haven't recorded my wi-'

End recording... Final day.

Officials concluded that the fire was caused by birthday candles on a cake. Itachi knew better than that. The fire had been put out because of the rain, it was fitting he had decided. The firemen couldn't do nothing, but the elements could. A could put out by a cloud. "So when to I get to see Sasuke?" He asked the doctor calmly staring blankly past the man's head as if paying attention to him.

"As soon as he becomes responsive, Uchiha-san." The doctor nasally replied. "due to the horrific conditions of you mother's and father's body, burnt and drenched in blood which looked to be some form of Satanic ritual... He should respond within the week and if not then he may just remain here for the rest of his life do the trauma and blah blah blah blah blah..."

So that was it... 'Jashin' (Hidan) who did this... Ordered by 'Samsara'(Pein). "I'm stupid... I screwed up. Big time. And I won't be able to teach Sasuke a new soccer move. Sasuke won't get to full fill his dreams because of me. Hahahaha... Stupid so stupid. To think I joined to buy them all gifts and now I can't give them any..."

"Come again?" The doctor asked, quite shocked by the out burst, he'd been listing alternative treatments for Sasuke and looked at Itachi as if he needed them too.

"Never mind..." Itachi said a soft twitch of a smile coming to his lips, rubbing at his face to dry the tears. "You were describing alternate treatments yes? I'll go with the last one since this hospital isn't helping."

"A-are you sure?"

"Positive." Itachi mumbled standing up and walking out of the room.

The doctor looked down at the last name on the list. "He really wanted the unorthodox Kakashi? Who just recently became a therapist? I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him." The doctor mumbled shaking his head. Well what did he care, the fact was that he got paid for this transfer anyway. He scribbled and scratched at the transfer forms, pushing up his glasses with his middle finger. "This will be interesting."

Sasuke wasn't stupid. Oh no, he was smart, cunning some of the hospital staff would say. While other children would play Sasuke would just vaguely stare at a wall and blink a couple times before everyone was herded back to their beds. Eventually with the help of Kakashi he opened up a bit more in a way that most would not have expected. New staff thought that Sasuke was mentally retarded with a few astonishing gifts. His first gift was when he opened up slightly with a soccer ball. A body memory if you will, since Sasuke was still in the daze of ignoring others, he was in a high castle with no key and there was treasure scattered in different levels. This was the first level that had Kakashi had unlocked, a first time doctor, needless to say the staff was amazed and jealous.

The soccer ball had been rolling towards him out on the play ground. He'd been taken out because he was too 'pale' and had been left on the bench after a few minutes of trying to make contact. He had stood up looked at the ball, looked at all of the players, picked up the ball and walked with it until he was at the center of the 'feild'. Sasuke kicked it, sending it flying into the opposite goal. Not only did this trigger silence it triggered cheers from about half of the participants on the field and the others to sulk declaring that Sasuke was stupid and that goal shouldn't have counted. Itachi was called promptly, the elder kneeling down to search into Sasuke's eyes. If he had found what he was looking for no one would've noticed, he had only the tiniest of grins on his face.

The second level was his ability to draw. Which wasn't always the nicest of pictures seeing as he got rid of nurses easily drawing them as he had seen his parents. When he wasn't drawing dead bodies(which only got increasing more vivid and realistic the more he drew) he drew things that he saw that others wouldn't take a second glance as. Among these pictures was a small crystalline egg in the lobby of the hospital, a spider, and an apple. But where the apple drawing had come from no one could tell seeing as no apples where laying around the day he drew it. Neither were the children given apples for breakfast or lunch.

The third level was the small form of speech that he had which was 'Hns' that at first was the recognition that he heard you. These later developed into 'Yes', 'No', 'I guess', 'shut up', 'Interesting', or just plain 'hn'. Sasuke was gradually opening up and Itachi visited even more frequently just sitting by his brother, each obviously enjoying the fact that they could recognize each other. Not to mention the younger Uchiha had other body memories, such as tugging on Itachi's sleeve.

And finally stage four was activated when Kakashi bought the boy a book for his birthday, it being a detective book he cursed the staff and was probably laughing his ass off in his office. Sasuke would habitually sneak up on hospital staff and ask them a series of questions about what they were doing and anything else he wanted to know. During this stage her made it more apparent that he was looking for something and constantly searched all over, but each day proving fruitless. Yet there seemed no end to his recovery, his passion for trying and besting in everything, his small bits of kindness extended to those that were on his tolerable list, and no bound to his determination. There were more stages to come, but the the Uchiha was finally dispatched from the hospital, sent into school and excelled better than expected.

As time passed Kakashi managed to be the two boys' guardian, which meant that only he and Itachi could see Sasuke's true self. A man that could laugh, cry, be frustrated, and occasionally make smart ass jokes only to be countered by either of the two. And as time past Sasuke eventually forgot what he was looking for in the first place, figuring that he had everything he needed. But not everything he wanted.

The eye candy of women for what they couldn't have and an eye sore to men who wanted their girlfriends to stop oggling. Sasuke was one of the rising-and extremely talented-detectives in the area of Japan. None of his cases had gone unsolved, which lead to sulking about the house rereading one of his long ago presents(the detective book) and wishing that he could have cases similar to those. The close room murders, the tricks, the traps, and the rush of it all. Itachi and Kakashi dubbed this as his early midlife crisis(Sasuke was 20 going on 21 at the time). So with a little pushing and shoving from Itachi Sasuke finally struck gold. A thief that is, that managed to terrorize the fabled city of 'Konoha'. A regular modern Robin Hood some rumors said.

Sasuke thought that was bull. He would catch this thief and bring him into custody. No other would do it, the Uchiha had him down as a marked man.

"A-A-Aaaa..." Naruto sighed, he thought he was going to sneeze, "CHOO!" Ugh never mind. Naruto wiped his nose off on his sleeve.

"Heh, I think someone is talking about you." Konohamaru chirped cheerfully looking over Naruto's recent catch, a few diamonds and a tiarra. He looked at the tiarra disdainfully then back at Naruto,"Hmm... Are you trying to say you're the Queen of Trash by buying this?"

"Konohamaru." Naruto growled, his eye twitching, "You trying to call me a queer, huh punk!?"

"..."

"You WERE! Aggh! Get back here and take it like a man!" Naruto growled dashing after the boy that fled down the hallway. "AND stay outta my room!" He snorted closing his door. "God when I send those brats off to school I'll be blessed. Hm... Will I still steal?" He looked down at the stuffed bag, tiny in comparison to his other pulls. "This should send them off... But will The King of Thieves just drop off the face of the earth?" He sighed running a hand through his hair, taking off the bandages on his face. 'Ngh... I'm too tired to think about it right now... I'll just sleep. Whats the worst that could happen from stealing a trinket or two?'

A/N: If you happened to notice there wasn't a commentary from death, like his own little random babbling is because he's done with that and is technically a narrator, occasionally he'll add a side remark in parentheses if he feels the need to, but for now its plain old story. If a big even pops up, introducing one of the special characters or a mood change in the story happens then he'll have one of his random little one sided conversations again.

My readers and -non existent- reviewers please review because they are LOVE. Not only(like I've said) do they make me happy, but it boosts my morality. I'm not a slave just writing! Erg... Maybe I'm being to demanding? -looks at her review count- Its a big goose egg...

I may just decide to drop off the face of the earth if this continues. -sighs- Nah, just joking.

-KittG