Datenshi: This is a more serious chapter and it will explain A LOT of things. Example: what's going on in Narutoverse, which is where it starts off. Follows episode 139 of Shippuuden of course (but with some added/changed dialogue). It not very funny this chapter, but still enjoy. Thank you all who reviewed the previous chapter!

Cherryboo: Aawww no prob! –glomps- I luvs you too!

Rainy: Happy you like this! And wow really?! So I'm not alone after all! XP –tears of joy-


Chapter Three: Mystifying Insight on Incidences

"I'm getting real tired of this bastard," growled Naruto, glaring up at the Akatsuki that was casually standing high up on a large tree limb doffing a ridiculously bright orange mask, "he's getting in our damn way to Sasuke, dattebayo!"

For the past ten minutes they had been using every team formation tactic against him, but all their attacks went through the cheerful Akatsuki shinobi as if he was practically transparent. Naruto's Rasengan had seemingly passed through him, Sakura's potent punches he had all evaded; everything they dished out had no effect on him whatsoever. At every transient second, the chances of them reaching Sasuke was getting dangerously slimmer.

"Naruto. Calm down," ordered Kakashi sternly, "he's just toying with us all at this point. You're reacting exactly like how he wants you to."

The blonde tsked in an irritated fashion and continued to glare up at literal wall obstructing their path to the raven.

"So then, what shall we play now Konoha shinobi?" asked Tobi excitedly, clasping his hands together expectantly. "Hide-and-go-seek? Red Rover? Duck, duck, goose?"

"This guy has issues," grumbled Kiba. Akamaru barked in accord to his master.

"This isn't a game!" yelled a frustrated Naruto. "Get out of our fucking way!"

"Aww you're no fun at all," Tobi pouted, "I thought blondes had more fun!"

"What the HELL did you just say, dattebayo?!" Naruto rushed heatedly at Tobi, but Sakura caught him by the scuff of the cloak, halting him in his tracks.

"Naruto don't think attacking him by yourself will get you anywhere," she scolded, shaking him slightly, "we've tried that already."

Hinata nodded in agreement and shyly supplied, "N-Naruto-kun we should maybe all attack t-together once more."

"Oh that game again?" whined Tobi. "Let's play something funner."

"She's right, it's the only way we possible have a means to get around him," stated Shino quietly, blatantly ignoring the masked shinobi.

"But he will us that strange ninpo jutsu though," reminded Sai.

"Yosh. Everyone." All eyes went to Yamato-taicho. "We will try a new tactic to get around that jutsu. Any new formation ideas sempai?" He looked to Kakashi.

The scarecrow looked profoundly in thought, face set in a deep meditative trance. We've tried to get around him by means of a diversion…so…instead we should try Shino's technique now…and attempt a combination assail on him…

He glanced back up to the strange shinobi when he noticed something was starting to protrude its way from the thick branch the Akatsuki nin was perched on. It was sap green in color…and it resembled a closed, thumb shaped Venus fly trap. The thing wriggled up like a growing weed and rose up to its limit, stopping shortly.

"You're here earlier…than I expected," stated Tobi, gazing at the appendage as it opened its plant jaws, revealing the two skinned toned man named Zetsu inside. "It's over?"

"Not exactly…"

"What…is that?" asked Sakura in utter astonishment.

"He was on the Akatsuki rooster Kabuto left behind with us," noted Kakashi with narrowed eyes.

"We keep on getting damn interference!" shouted Naruto, clenching his jaw furiously.

Zetsu didn't bother looking at the hyper and very upset blonde below. He looked seriously at Madara before he stated loudly enough for all to hear, "Both Itachi and SasukeVANISHED IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR CLASH. Their presence has essentially erased from existence."

On the forest floor below, every Konoha shinobi's eyes widened in incomprehensible uncertainty. Even Madara had an air of puzzlement about him as he digested those baffling words. Naturally, the kitsune was the first one to shatter it.

"Hey spiky Aloe Vera guy!" He pointed maliciously at Zetsu. "Just what the freaking hell do you mean by that, dattebayo?! Where the fuck is Sasuke?"

The plant man didn't look too happy at being called that name.

"Aloe Vera?! LET'S KICK HIS ASS NOW—NEVER MIND, IGNORE HIM, HE'S AN IDIOT."

"I didn't foresee this coming…" stated Tobi darkly in Madara's deeper voice, crimson Sharingan eye hidden behind his mask narrowing enigmatically, "…What an unexpected turn of events…" He turned to the Konoha shinobi, who were just as baffled and confused as he was. "I'll take you on another time it seems."

Kakashi started at locking eyes with the masked man lone eyehole; a vividly familiar kekkei genkai lurked and glinted within the obscurity. He has a Sharingan?! Instinctive alarm coursed through his body like a blazing wild fire. Who…just who in the world is he?

"I must discover what ensued at the Uchiha Compound between Itachi and Sasuke and find the meaning of this," continued Madara objectively.

"WH-WHAT?! No, oh HELL no!" bellowed Naruto, beyond pissed. Really, first they have to fight that masked idiot (who was incredibly adept, despite what he let on) and get delayed to reaching Sasuke, and second, now Sasuke (Itachi along with him) has just up and disappeared without a trace?! No, Naruto wanted some damn answers and he wanted them now. "You bastards tell us what the fuck happen—"

"Perhaps if you were to head where I am going," declared Madara unperturbedly, "you would find answers. I am just as uninformed as you are to this occurrence." The ex-Uchiha leader abruptly turned to the Venus fly trap. "Let's go."

Zetsu nodded shortly. His jaws gradually closed and with the sound of a groaning tree, he sunk fluidly back into the broad bough like liquid.

Madara took one last look at the Konoha shinobi whom he'd had the pleasure to screw around with for a good while. Mockingly, he raised a hand in a derisive salute, "Later." That same hand slid down and his body slowly disappeared from sight as it came down before his entire body seemingly evaporated into air.

"This is some seriously fucked up stuff," commented Kiba with an angry huff.

Kakashi immediately moved forward, intent on pursuing them, affirming, "Everyone we must follow after them and discover what happed between Itachi and Sasuke!"

"Hai!" everyone exclaimed, in concord with that decision.

"Hinata go on and check for the direction they went at four o'clock!"

"Hai Kakashi-sensei!" She raised her pale hands to her face and pressed her fingers together, activating her Byakuugan and scanned the enormous area. She could sense the receding chakra of the Uchiha brothers… "Ten kilometers ahead!"

"All right then that's where we're heading!" yelled Naruto blue eyes were set forward with steadfast determination and resolve. A tan fist slowly balled into a tight fist as a single stream of conscious flowed through him and a hot feeling bubbled like broth in his broad chest.

Hang on Sasuke! We'll find you!

And so began the race to get to the old and worn Uchiha Compound where Itachi and Sasuke were alleged to have their last showdown…ironically where they had last been.


It was still very quiet in our house… The tension was literally palpable…and suffocating. The four of us just stared at each other till Itachi surprisingly broke the silence this time around by the subsequent statement: "We don't know your names."

"Oh! Well…I'm Sarina." I elbowed my sister expectantly.

"Oof—Kalini." She glared at me.

"Strange names…" muttered Sasuke.

"That's because we aren't Japanese," I said very matter-of-factly. I mean hello…really it's so obvious.

"I'm surprised they didn't try to kill each other on the spot," Kayli mumbled low enough for only me to hear.

"Oh yes they did…well Sasuke instigated it," I whispered back dryly, nodding my head to the "divine" giant hole in the wall by the door, courtesy of Sasuke's Chidori.

She let out a long sigh with a note of exasperation, "Ugh…we gotta fix that. Call the maintenance person tonight."

"Yeah I know…"

"…Sarina…Kalini…" We both looked up at Itachi, thoroughly surprised he had called us both at the same time.

"Yes?" we asked in unison.

Itachi's features took on an extremely somber appearance and he roughly appeared to be…glaring at us as he said, "…I need to speak with my otouto. Alone."

Sasuke's eyes swerved so fast to his aniki that they were in danger of rolling back in his head and becoming permanently backwards. He gave him the most loathing packed glower I've ever seen him yet to do in the anime/manga, lips curled in a vile snarl.

"The hell do you want with me?!" he spat, tone positively dripping with the most poisonous venom he saved only for Itachi.

Even Kayli looked vaguely uneasy at seeing Sasuke enraged up close and personal. I must admit, it was a very disconcerting sight. I could virtually feel the repulsive hate waves just burning off him. It's not the most pleasant sensation in the world let me tell you.

"Silence, Sasuke."

That was all he said in a very sub-zero cold tenor; it was as if he just breathed out frigid ice. And the raven, for the first time, obeyed and fell silent but it was an enormously livid silent.

I noticed Kayli swallowing nervously at the rapidly recuperating strain between us all, her hazel eyes darting uneasily between the Uchiha brothers. And I myself felt exceedingly uncomfortable…especially when Itachi, without prior notice, turned his crimson eyes on me and my imouto, activating his Mangekyou Sharingan.

The three black tear shaped markings in the scarlet background came together and the precarious pinwheel formed. It was as portentous as ever. All the more making it very evident that he did not want to see us right now.

"Leave," he stated bluntly.

I gulped fearfully, trembling from tip to toe at the baleful tenor in his profound timbre and my skin crawled in transparent apprehension.

…Well, he didn't have to tell me twice after that.

I grabbed my sister's stiff hand and yanked her up the stairs faster that you can say Super-Calla-Fraja-Listic-Ecspealli-Docious. But at the same time I felt kinda hurt (more woes of being an Itachi fan girl yet again)… What the hell did we do to deserve that mean stare? No…think positive; this actually works out for us. Now we could discuss just what the hell we would do with them.


The eldest Uchiha watched the two sisters hastily retreat upstairs and, with a loud slam of a door, he knew they must be in a room. Perfect.

"Itachi," growled Sasuke suddenly, "what do you want?"

The man in question diverted his menacing Mangekyou Sharingan to his otouto and stared impassively at him, regarding him with a hardened, cold look.

"Listen otouto…just because we are here in this…unusual world…do not think for a second that you are safe."

Sasuke's orbs narrowed darkly, lips automatically curling into a faint snarl.

"So it was all a lie huh? About us not finishing it all here?"

Itachi remained stoic, his scarlet orbs never wavering for an instant as he replied, "Believe me Sasuke…I meant that. But I warn you, do not let your guard down around me just because of the simple fact that I will not take your eyes at this moment. Do not think for a second, not an instant, that I will ever revert back to the aniki you so adored in the past."

At that searing, heart rendering reminder of his tragic childhood life, Sasuke lost it, and rushed in up close to Itachi, snatching him viciously by the front of his Akatsuki collar. He slammed him against the nearest wall, making the thin barrier tremble at the intense raw power. Decorative paintings hanging from the walls wobbled, nearly falling off, but fortunately (for the sisters) remained in place.

Itachi just looked down at Sasuke with vacant eyes, no feasible sentiment of any trace or form deflected in those empty eyes that beheld the noxious Mangekyou.

"You…you fucking bastard!" the younger hissed wrathfully.

"I am merely warning you," Itachi calmly repeated again, "because though I am ostensibly pleasant to these two girls…I don't want you to forget what I have done to you. What I want from you—your eyes. Once we return I will take them. They are my light, foolish otouto."

Sasuke snarled vehemently, tightening his grip on his aniki's collar. He wanted nothing more than to eradicate Itachi's life right where he stood. The raven never felt so much hatred as he did now for his detached aniki. The prolific quantity of odium coursing through his body was almost unbearable, sensibly eating away all rational deliberation.

Everything here was just another phony act, a misleading charade, a pretense illusion.

Like a masquerade, Itachi would wear a facile mask of amenity with both him and those two girls, and yet underneath it, there lay the malevolent man who had cruelly ripped everything away from him without a care, a hint of emotion. It disgusted him; he was wholly repulsed by this man, no, this fiend's, fraudulent conduct.

Sasuke gritted his teeth and, which must have took a great moment of self control, released Itachi, taking a couple of step away from him.

"That's perfectly fine then," he announced in a cold, direct manner. "I will play along." Both Sharingan wielders locked eyes for a split second—Sasuke suddenly smirked. "I wonder when they'll realize what you're hiding."

Itachi straightened himself up from the wall and looked coolly at his otouto, deactivated his Sharingan completely.

"I've reason to conclude that they already know."


Upstairs in my room, my sister and I were having colossal all consuming panic attacks.

First, Itachi basically, though nonverbally, flat out threatened to Mangekyou us on the spot. Not that I think he actually would waste it on us but hey, it scared the living crap outta us, that's one thing for sure. Second, the Uchiha brothers must be having a little squabble/feud down there, hence the sudden mini earthquake that shook our small house previously. Good grief, if they keep treating the poor house like this it's just gonna collapse on us.

I was most concerned, however, about Itachi going all bi-polar on us, while Kayli was worried about the possible occurrence of two shinobi having an all out clash in the house.

"H-holy crap…" she whispered, face pale in apprehension. "Did you feel that tremor?"

I nodded, brow creased in bothersome worry.

"Yeah…but I don't think they're doing anything, you know…over the top."

"But one definitely just attacked the other."

"No offense, but I'm pretty sure it was Sasuke."

"You just say that because you don't like him!" snapped Kayli, going on the defensive for the raven as per usual.

Sighing, I shook my head no back and forth and added, "I'm sorry, but it's probably true. But I'm pretty sure Itachi provoked him, because…I know how he is."

Kayli pursed her lips but seemed satisfied with my reasonable rationalization and she shrugged nonchalantly.

"Well whatever. As long as they're in one piece when we go downstairs…it's okay. We gotta discuss things."

"True…"

I closed my eyes tiredly; this will surely generate one big migraine in the morning. Not that Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke aren't already causing me one particularly massive one. I don't want to deal with this, but I've no choice.

"First things first," I began jadedly, "we need to find out the exact time frame of Naruto Shippuuden they came from."

"Yea…any ideas…?"

I pondered thoughtfully. Hey, I know all you all think I'm a bit silly and flighty but I'm not (well at least half the time). When a severe situation like this occurs, I rise to the occasion! Or try to.

"Aneki," began Kayli, breaking me from my musings, "did they say anything that might hint at which point they came from…?"

"Well…" I paused, "…the minute I came in the house, Sasuke was up on Itachi like white on rice…"

"Ok and?" she urged encouragingly.

"And…well first off I must say that Itachi was acting weird."

She raised an interested eyebrow, hazel eyes broadening ever so slightly.

"Weird huh? How so? Speaking of which, how'd you meet up with him?"

"Oh," I sighed deeply upon recalling the incident, "let's just say it wasn't as great as I'd hope it to be…but he encountered me when I was going to the store obviously—aw damnit, now that I think about it, I forgot the grocery bag there. Oh and a couple of girls chased us."

"You're an idiot…and girl's chased you? Why the hell are girls hanging out by the store at nine at night?"

"Beats me," I shrugged nonchalantly. "Anyway…Itachi carried me to get away—"

"What?! You lucky bitch!"

"Heh." Now I grinned smugly upon remembering that occasion. "I know. But that's not important. After I got off him, he collapsed."

"He what?! Holy damn!" Kayli burst into a fit of loud, amused laughter, holding her stomach as she gasped, "My goodness, that's just plain sad!"

I frowned darkly and folded my arms, waiting for her to finish. When she kept laughing, I gave up and resumed speaking.

"He said it wasn't cus of me, for your info."

She stopped abruptly. "Oh."

"Yeah. But I think something's wrong with him. Did you notice how pale he looks? Just what the hell was he doing before—"

And then it dawned on me: Sasuke's specific choice of words the minute he and Itachi ceased fighting.

"Itachi!" I heard Sasuke hiss intensely. "So you're here in this strange world too? I'm glad I don't have to waste my time tracking you down again!"

(Again, again, again…) The simple word echoed repetitively and annoyingly in my mind like an incessant mantra (ironic is it not?).

"Oh my Jashin," I whispered as icy cold realization sunk in. Brr.

But if this was true…even remotely true…then this could be an epically HUGE problem. Everything seemed to explain itself in my head…Itachi looking pale…Sasuke attacking Itachi without any restraint…even the both of them looking a bit worse for wear—okay a lot worse for wear.

This was not good to the T.

Why couldn't we have just got all the Akatsuki here like other fan fictions instead of only Itachi and Sasuke? It is soo not fair. Must I always get settled with the worst of luck?

"What's wrong?"

I looked to my imouto, who was giving me a puzzled look. I probably looked zoned out, like I had seen a ghost or something. Or like that time we watched Ghost Hound. That is an awesome but creepy as hell anime.

"I just had an epiphany…" I said gravely.

She narrowed her hazel brown eyes disbelievingly.

"Well, that's a miracle from above."

"Shut up, I'm serious. Itachi and Sasuke…I think they came from their final battle."

"Really?" She bit her lip gently and swallowed. Apparently she realized I was being dead serious. "Oh damn."

"Oh damn indeed."


Datenshi: That's all for now! Thanks for reading! Ok so next planned update is next Sunday which is Valentine's Day! XP So it is decided that Itachi will be giving you all a lovely message in the beginning of the next chapter! Isn't that right weasel?

Itachi: …

Datenshi: Don't worry he will even if it kills me!

Itachi: … -sharpens kunai-

Datenshi: -swallows thickly- …Um…which it may…