Previously: Name: Uchiha Sasuke He just kept looking at him without flinching or moving. "Hello there Uchiha-san."
Somebody appeared behind Naruto and he blocked the kunai that would have been at his neck. Naruto let his eyes fall on the figure behind him and his eyes widened.
Rank: ANBU captain
Village: Konoha
Naruto stood there silently, not making a single move, a calm wind blowing through his hair. Everything was dead silent when he had said Uchiha, and the Uchiha himself flinched. 'How does this guy know my name?!
"It's a surprise that I see one of the last Uchiha here because your brother has followed me all the way here." Naruto sighted to himself. The air seemed to shift. And in a flash a kunai was shot from a shadow. It was easily caught by the masked blond, though. He disappeared in a flash and reappeared behind the shadow. Starting to form hand signs for a justu he slowly began chanting a few words in an ancient language before the kanji for paralyze appeared.
"So I see you found out I was following you." Itachi said. " Leader-sama wanted me to get you, he wants you to join, Akarashi (red storm really Aka-Arashi but didn't sound right so I removed an A), I would have thought I would see you at night though."
Naruto looked surprised at this.Who's Akarashi? I haven't even been out here for a few hours!Well uhm..kit.. Uh.. Kyuubi tried and failed to come up with a good excuse.
Ikindofborrowedyourbodywhenyouwheresleepingtobuild upyourreputation… she said all in one breath. What? Would you please repeat that? Kyuubi sighted before preparing herself for a monster scolding.
I kind of borrowed your body when you where sleeping to build up your reputation.You what!? What did you do?!Don't worry they don't know who you really are, and only the higher missing nin know your alternative personality, Akarashi or red storm. You never found out because your body doesn't need more than a few hours of sleep.
Naruto had enough of the rant and cut his connection with Kyuubi of. He found himself in front of Itachi, while everyone else didn't see what he was doing. He pulled down his mask just a little so Itachi could see his eyes. Naruto saw Itachi's eyes widen when he silently whispered 'Mangekyou sharingan'. Naruto's eyes turned white before turning into the white Mangekyou sharingan version. Itachi slumped down onto the ground and before any of the ANBU, including Sasuke, could react he had already disappeared taking Itachi with him.
Sasuke let out a frustrated sigh. He had been chanting the same line in his head for 4 full minutes now.Don't let revenge control your life. Naruto's words had always stayed with him. He silently thanked that Akarashi person for taking Itachi, while in the back of his mind he hated the guy for doing the very same thing.
_,.-# To Naruto and Itachi #-.,_
Naruto had concentrated his hiraishin on a nearby cottage where he would stay for the night. Out of mokuton he quickly made 2 chairs and a table. He tied Itachi to one of the chairs and sat down opening his connection with Kyuubi once again. He was quite exhausted after using all that chakra. Kyuubi! Why the hell have you been taking over my body at night!? You only made it more difficult for me to travel!Shut up kit you know that isn't true... Sheez I would have thought that you'd grow intelligent over the years.Shut up yourself Kyuubi and don't give me the 'You could achieve more bloodlines' shit. … Oh. So now you're silent huh!? I had to train damn hard to achieve the sharingan and the byakugan to their full level even with the kage bunshin. And do you even know how fucking traumatic it was for me, to kill Sasuke!? Even though it was in my mind it had tofeelreal didn't it? So don't go and push me! First I'm going to deal with the Akatsuki and the Sound, starting with all the information I can get out of the Uchiha here.
Naruto closed the link once again but didn't hear the whisper that Kyuubi sent him.You're both gonna thank me and hate me for what kind of reputation I gave you. Thank me, because one of the prophecies is already in progress of happening. Hate me, because it'll also make you more different from what you already are.
Naruto sat there staring at the table in front of him before he got out a blank scroll and ink. He still had some time before Itachi woke up from his unconscious state and he didn't want to spill a moment. He thought about what kind of seal he wanted to create and silently thanked his father for leaving him the basic knowledge about his bloodline. Apparently he had wanted to hide that he had a bloodline that could place seals everywhere he wanted. So he produced so said 'special' kunai with fake seals on them, and said that he could only do hiraishin with them strewn around. Naruto's guess was that only Jiraiya and The third had known about it and that it caused great panic when he had used it.
Naruto made a mental note not to use the hiraishin unless in dire situations. He made a kage bunshin which started to make a dozen of explosion notes and storage seals. Naruto just shook his head. Why did he still do it anyway? All the seals he had once made where stored in a catalogue in his mind. Every time he used his father's bloodline he would search in that catalogue for the seal he wanted and place it on random objects.
He snapped out of his thoughts when he heard shuffling in front of him and snapped his head up to meet two red sharingan eyes. Naruto activated his own bloodline and his white sharingan clashed with the red. "What do you want from me, Naruto-kun?" Naruto realised that Itachi really had recognised him when he had pulled his mask down. Naruto pulled his mask of and placed it on the side of his head. "So you did recognise me, huh Itachi? What are you going to do now that you know that Red Storm is in reality the Kyuubi jinchuuriki?"
Naruto leaned forward, coming face to face with Itachi. "I will do as leader orders me. To me that order is unknown now, because of you capturing me." Naruto looked deep into Itachi's sharingan and he silently activated his father's bloodline. He could see that several difficult control seals were placed all over his head. So the Akatsuki leader had placed seals on his members, huh? Naruto began chanting in the ancient language again and touched Itachi at a few places where seals were placed.At least I can release the heaviest seals on Itachi right now, the other seals come later he thought to himself and released the heaviest seals with a resounding 'Kai'.
Itachi seemed to blink and shake his head for a few minutes before looking at Naruto weirdly before relieved. "Thank you. Those seals have been pushing my mind to the edge for years." Naruto didn't know where the world had gone when the emotionless killer, Uchiha Itachi, Smiled. Naruto snapped out of thought when Itachi cleared his throat." I know it may be a stupid question but…do you have pokey with you?" Naruto kept his face carefully blank as he studied the man in front of him."Pokey? You want pokey? Why do you want to have pokey?" Itachi sighted at the blond. He had gone without the chocolaty goodness for what seemed like centuries and craved it, wasn't it easy enough to understand? "Because I feel like eating it after all these years?" He answered in a calm half questioning voice.
Naruto sighted and made a hand sign. A scroll appeared in his hand and he bit his finger and spread a little blood over it. Instantly a pack of pokey appeared above it and Naruto caught it swiftly. The pack was thrown to the Uchiha who caught it with a practised ease. He had it open in 2 seconds flat and instantly started chewing on one of the sticks happily. Naruto hid his surprise this time, though. His face still emotionless.
"Care to explain why you aren't trying to capture me and give me to your leader?" Itachi spared him a glance before swallowing the remains of his chocolate stick. " I didn't join the Akatsuki on free will, you know?" He could feel the blue eyes look at him oddly. " They forced me. They killed my whole family in front of me and placed a powerful genjutsu on Sasuke making him believe that I killed them all. They threatened to kill him if I didn't come with them. I didn't want to see him die so I went away with them. Next thing I knew I was in some weird room covered in seals and the leader began chanting. That's the last time I was really in control of my body. They sealed my soul away in a chamber in my mind." Naruto's face hardened. He hated the Akatsuki more and more with the minute.
"Every few weeks the seals get renewed and the control pushes you further from your mind." Naruto looked deep into Itachi's eyes before sitting down in front of him. He could see that the black eyed man was sincere about everything he just told. "What about the others? I remember there being about 10 members." Itachi took another bite from his pokey before continuing to tell the blonde what had happened in the secretive organisation.
"Most of them joined just for the bloodshed and to cause destruction to the world. Kisame, my partner is one of the ones who got seals. The others didn't get the control seals. The ones who didn't get seals where forced to enter. Now that I think about it, only Deidara, Kisame and me were forced."
Naruto's eyes hardened once again. Before determination entered them. A smirk settling on his lips. " Itachi how do you feel about going to save them?" He asked a grin trying to make way on his face. Itachi's lips twitched into a smirk before he said "Why not?" Naruto concentrated and got out another scroll and with a poof 2 beds came out. "We'll make plans tomorrow," he said before yawning. "You should get some sleep too," Itachi nodded and pulled of his cloak before dumping it in the fireplace and incinerating it with a quick fire jutsu. He settled down on the bed and fell into a peaceful slumber, for the first time in over 10 years.
_,.-# Meanwhile in Konoha #-.,_
Sasuke didn't like it. There was something familiar about that Akarashi guy that made him rethink their encounter every time. He lay there staring up at the ceiling and just mushed about the feeling he got from the guy. He seemed harmless on first glance but he was pulsing with power. A power that he knew, but couldn't quite place. It made him weak. And he had no idea why.
The next morning dawned bright and early as Naruto was awakened by cold water hitting him right in the face as he stared up to see an amused Kyuubi. Naruto scowled. He hated it when she did that. He summed a scroll and got some dry clothes out of it and a warm towel. He quickly changed his clothes and noticed Itachi watching his every move.
"You done peaking?" the blond said in a deadpanned voice not even looking behind him. Naruto could still feel the burning eyes though, and turned around. He found Itachi smirking at him. Naruto growled a 'what?' and Itachi's smirk only widened. "Can't a guy appreciate another guy's appearance?" Naruto kept his face blank and blinked. "So you're gay?" He said in a bored tone. Itachi just nodded his head and picked up his discarded shirt and pulled it back on.
"We don't want anybody finding out who we really are," he said while a poof resounded. A blank mask appeared in his hand and he handed it to Itachi. "Concentrate on an animal and the mask will change into it, just don't make it anything suspicious." Itachi nodded and turned the mask into a tiger. Naruto didn't question him, just stared at him blankly until the masks were securely on both their faces. They didn't talk much on their way out of the cabin, when they were outside though, Naruto said they were heading to wherever Deidara was. Itachi just muttered that the blond was headed to Kumo to get the Nibi jinchuuriki. Naruto nodded and hopped of into the trees, Itachi following closely behind.
After about 2 hours of constant running Itachi started talking. .
"So what have you been up to these years?" He asked curiosity obvious in his voice. Naruto simply answered with leaving the village, becoming a missing nin and training. Itachi didn't elaborate and said that even though he was tricked into leaving the village, he didn't miss it. Naruto didn't even blink behind his mask. He had never really felt at home in the village himself. Oh he had tried, yes. But had it worked? Not one bit. His thoughts were interrupted by the Uchiha's voice.
"What's the plan Kitsune?" Naruto kept running while answering. "First we take down Akasuna no Sasori and after that Deidara with an ambush. Take him and release the seals I released on you, then ask him if he wants to come with us or return to his home, wherever that was." It was a pretty simple plan, really. Storm in, fight, kill, kidnap, move on. "There's only one problem though." Naruto didn't even turn his head as Itachi spoke. "Sasori is a puppet and has all the abilities from his victims-turned-puppets at his disposal and Deidara has that bloodline with those hands."
Naruto concentrated and entered his mind, opening one of the archive closets. He quickly got out Deidara's file and read through it, all while still running. It seemed like the blonde had mouths on his hands and used those to activate his explosives. The man had come from a clan that specialized in explosives but had destroyed itself on accident. Leaving only a mere baby behind. The people in the village, always having hated the clan but never strong enough to finish them off, tried to use the boy as a weapon and abuse him as much as possible.
This only hardened his resolve. He would save Deidara from Akatsuki and let him have his own mind, for once in his young life. He quickened his pace. Their destination would be Kumogakure, the village of cloud. The place, he had discovered from Kyuubi's memories of Red Storm, held many of his informants and was as corrupt as can be. Just what he needed to find both Deidara and Kisame, though he wondered if Itachi had been right about him. He remembered Zabuza, and the guy had been insane, except for his love towards Haku. A small sad smile made way on his face.
When he had died it had felt like one of his best friends had left him. He snapped out of his mind when Itachi spoke again. "So which way are we headed," "Where going to Kumo." Naruto just answered simply. Itachi nodded his masked head and continued running.
_,.-# Konoha #-.,_
Sasuke woke up groggily from a dream plagued by flashes, images and blue eyes that had looked right into his soul. He still missed the blonde so much. He realised that he was such an idiot letting this happen. The blonde shouldn't even be able to think about leaving the village. Sure, he himself had left it once, but returned still. It had been so long since he saw that face.
Sasuke sighted. He wouldn't come anywhere just lying in bed and doing nothing. He sat up slowly and got out of bed, putting on a shirt. He was thinking when suddenly a pink flash knocked him over. Ugh. Not again.
"Saaaaaaasukkeeeee-kuuuuuun~~~ How are you? Are you alright? Wait my LOVE WILL HEAL YOU," she touted her lips and tried to kiss him but he was quick to avoid her soul sucking kiss of death. He pushed her away and ran out of his bedroom in his boxers. He absolutely hated when Sakura did that.
Stupid pink haired bitch. Sasuke's eyes widened in fear as he heard her come down the stairs and he quickly hid away in a closet. (I almost typed cupboard XD) The pink haired menace ran past and out of the house all the while screeching his name. Sakura hadn't changed at all. You would think that after training under Tsunade that she would have had a different mindset. It had seemed for the few months that Naruto had been there after his training that she was stronger and better than before. How wrong he was.
She didn't change at all. She just returned to fan girl mode right after he was dragged back by Naruto. He let out a sigh and turned to leave the closet to hear something creaking under his foot. He opened the closet door and quickly closed the front door, to prevent Sakura from entering. He walked back to the closet and noticed that one of the tatami mats bulged up. He tilted it up and found a little black book. He picked it up and placed the mat back before going to his room.
He closed and locked the window and cast a defence jutsu over the door, before sitting down on his bed. He opened the black book and turned to the very first page.
Well, I suppose I should give you a name shouldn't I? God, I feel stupid even beginning to think about keeping a journal. Sorry about that, little black book thingy. Well. A name…how about Azumi then? Sounds good to you? Well then Azumi it is. God I feel so pathetic writing to a person who doesn't exist. Even so, let's begin shall we? Let's talk about the reason I'm going to write in you anyways. So. My father is training me to become an emotionless machine. I don't like it. Sure, the power is great and all, but I don't want this. I want a normal father and mother. I feel so unlucky sometimes, you know? I won't state obvious things in here, just my thoughts and feelings. I feel so jealous of my little brother. He has the love of our mother, at least, while I'm to be the perfect son who does everything right and if I do something wrong than I'm in for some enormous shit. Still. I love him so much more then the rest of my family. He's just so naïve. He asked me to play with him yesterday. I told him no, because I had to train. As if I would become much stronger anyways. Alas, father demands it.
Sasuke frowned in frustration, who was this mysterious person anyways? He flipped to the middle of the book.
God. I swear it was an accident. Why the hell did that happen? My god what have I done? How could I have killed the one I love? I mean yeah, I'm young but I killed before. I had too. You can't survive the ANBU without killing at all. I feel sick. I want to throw up and cry and scream. But I can't, can I? I want to leave this godforsaken life that I have lived for so long. I loved him so much. The rest of them already assume that I've killed him. How could I have done that? What possessed me to spar with him? I'm so stupid. I should have known that he wouldn't be serious. Or was he? I didn't know. God I didn't know. You would think that after a year of being in a romantic relationship with your best friend/ lover, you would know when that person was serious or not. But I guess I didn't see. How pathetic. I'm bawling my eyes out. Only fitting isn't it? I just figured out about my new sharingan. I failed a mission that day. I saw 3 women and their children being raped and murdered, while I could only watch. This is sick. I don't want to do this anymore. God has kicked me in the gut to many times already. The only reason I haven't killed myself yet is Sasuke.
Sasuke's eyes widened in realisation. This was his brother. Itachi. But that couldn't be true could it? This surely wasn't the Itachi he knew at all? He quickly flipped further a few more pages. He didn't read the full context, though. The words just flying in front of his eyes.
…an organisation named Akatsuki…don't want to…Shisui…mother and father didn't accept gay…Sasuke…only shard of hope…Azumi…
Sasuke felt himself tearing up as he pushed to the last page.
The Akatsuki is here, and they are killing my family as I write… they'll spot me if I come out now. I have to find Sasuke and protect him... he would be the only one I'd miss if I died. God how I wish this had gone differently… They're breaking the door do-
The sentence was cut off and Sasuke could see that the writing had been fast and the ink hadn't dried before he closed the book. It looked worn and old. The state he had found it in was too easy. Itachi must have rushed to hide it before they ran into the house.
He curled up in a foetal position and just stared into space. His brother hadn't wanted to kill Shisui, he had been gay. He had loved his little brother, him. He hadn't killed his family. Sasuke just knew that Itachi's words in the book were true. Azumi had shown him the way.
He stayed there, curled up on his bed until the sun fell and twilight took it's place. And he fell into a fitful slumber.