Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters.
If no one hasn't noticed, I'm actually winging the storyline and planning it like a few steps ahead as I type.
I honestly dont remember what the storyline was when I orginally made it in 2008. So I'm winging it.
Chapter 3
"Do you understand me?" Tsunade spoke as she leaned back in her chair.
The Uchiha had been five minutes late, later than Kakashi, the man who's always late. The moment the Uchiha had entered the room, and lined up with the other two at front of her desk, her rant began.
She had ranted on about how valuable the time is and how they shouldn't waste it, because one second could be a minute and the minute could be an hour and so on. Two weeks might sound like plenty of time, but it can vanish in a blink of an eye. She went on about her previous meeting again with the council and how they'd allow it, with no extensions unless something was found.
They nodded and agreed and accepted, no arguments were made. A surprise to the hokage because she was sure that Sasuke would want an extension, but he stood there, confidently, like he knew something that no one else did. He was enjoying himself but she dismissed it.
"Do you understand?" Tsunade repeated.
"Yes!" Sakura and Kakashi shouted in unison as they bowed.
"hn" replied Sasuke giving her a quick glance before looking away again.
'This brat...', the Hokage thought. She opened her draw and pulled out written documents and evidence that had been already found. It was a forehead protector.
Sasukes eyes focused on it. It was his, the one he lost.
"Take these with you," Tsunade spoke. "they might prove useful." She handed them to Kakashi.
"I wish you good luck." She looked away and continued to sign, her left hand waving them away. Dismissing them.
They left, and were on their way to the Valley of the end.
"Kakashi-sensei, are you really sure about this?" Sakura asked as she jumped ahead on the branches to catch up with Kakashi.
"hmm? Well I am sure on trying to find Naruto, I thought you'd want to find him too?" Kakashi questioned.
Sakura shook her head. "No, I didn't mean that, of course I want to find Naruto, but our time limit, is that really possible?"
Sasuke interrupted in. "Hn, of course Sakura, because I already have evidence"
Kakashi and Sakura stopped running and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke halted and jumped down from the trees to the forest ground.
"What do you mean Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked confused.
"Do explain Sasuke" Kakashi said too.
Sasuke took out the night cap from his pocket and unfolded it. He took out the two letters he previously found, as he stuffed the cap back into his pocket.
"Was that...?" Sakura began to say.
"It was nothing.."Sasuke mumbled, shooting a look at her.
He handed one letter to Kakashi and the other to Sakura.
"Read them, I found them in Narutos apartment this morning..."
Sakura interrupted him with a shout. "You went into Narutos apartment!"
"I cleaned it too" Sasuke added.
Sakura had just about to shout again but then what he had said registered into her mind. "...really?" Sakura asked.
"yes" Sasuke confirmed, waiting for some idoitic comment from the kunoichi.
"what are you a maid?" Sakura laughed.
Sasuke twitched. "Just fucking read it." He growled.
He waited as they finished reading it.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes at it.
"It's obviously aimed to the Anbus. Only them. But who could it be?" Kakashi questioned.
"Itachi" Sasuke answered without hesitation, "if you look on the envelope, theres a poorly drawn Uchiha symbol and a tiny chicken scratched name, made only to be read by certain people."
Kakashi read the name, he understood it because he too was an anbu once, and this hand writing was a style that they had to learn. (1)
"That means the Akatsuki have Naruto!" Sakura shouted.
"I thought that too Sakura, but if you read the letter Kakashi-sensei is holding there, he mentions as long as it aint with them, everything is safe. Which makes me wonder about Itachi now."
Kakashi and Sakura nodded, there was indeed something deeper into all this, why would an S-rank nin try and contact as well as protect something their organization wanted.
"It must have been hard for Itachi to try and contact someone for Naruto, as well as look after him and protect him as well as balance being in the Akatsuki without being suspicious" Kakashi said thoughtfully.
"Is there any way to know more about Itachi? Any reasons he could do this?" Sakura asked.
They lay in thought for a moment. Sasuke knew what he wanted to say, but he wasnt so sure they would be okay with it.
"It could all be in the Anbus place, is there no way to sneak in and retrieve any files or information about Itachi, mostly about the Uchiha massacre..." Sasuke trailed off.
"What you're suggesting Sasuke, could make us traitors." Kakashi pointed out kindly to Sasuke.
"But he has a point," Sakura said undertanding what Sasuke was talking about, "There's always a reason, and there is one hidden here. Kakashi, you use to be an Anbu, you know the way around the building, are you able to find it?"
Sasuke stared at Sakura amazed. She was right, Kakashi would be able to do it.
Kakashi sighed.
"It's for Naruto" Sasuke said. 'and for me' Sasuke added as an after thought.
"okay, I'll do it. I still have some inside people who might do it for me. You guys go on ahead. Sasuke, if this is really your brother, try and think of places he might take Naruto to"
Sasuke and Sakura nodded, watching as Kakashi turned to leave and head back to Konoha.
"Lets head to the Valley of the end first, from there, maybe you know of a place not far from there, that he might have taken him to"
"hn" Sasuke knew she was right. But what place would there have been?
As they continued on their journey, Sasuke dazed out, thinking about the letters, what had been written, and about the Valley of the end.
'In the letter it said his condition was critical. That he would have died. That means he would have had to take him to somewhere quickly and easily. Unless he preformed first aid quickly, but Itachi isn't really a medic nin, he wouldn't have known what to do. Then how did he stablise his condition? Was there more than one person? Maybe it wasn't Itachi? Maybe it was a set up to look like it was Itachi when it wasnt? But then again, that wouldn't explain the Anbu writing, Kakashi-sensei even confirmed it was their style of writing too.'
Lost in thought, Sasuke didn't notice they had arrived at the Valley of the end until Sakura spoke.
"Sasuke-kun, we're here."
Sasuke blinked and looked up at her. He looked around at the familiar surroundings. Indeed they were.
"I'll begin looking for anything missed or-"
"Look for a cave or a tunnel" Sasuke said
"huh?" Sakura mumbled, confusion in her eyes.
"His condition was critical. Maybe he was taken to somewhere not far from here. Just look!"
Sakura frowned, but didn't question. They begun they're man hunt. Or cave hunt.
Hours went by as Sasuke and Sakura looked for a place, any place, somewhere that might have been used. They rushed around, back and forth and past each other, jumping and walking on the water, using charka seals on the rocks for any hidden entrances. So far, nothing.
Sakura sat down, and so did Sasuke, they were exhausted.
Footsteps could be heard, they both looked up and saw an Anbu. Their eyes widened in surprise, until the Anbu took of his mask to reveal himself as Kakashi.
He was out of breath as he grabbed both of them, and yanked them, signalling them that they had to run with him. They ran as far as they could, following Kakashi until he stopped. Sensing they were safe.
"I got the files." Kakashi finally spoke, "Luckily, they didn't realise it was me"
"You nearly got caught?" Sasuke asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"I shouldn't have answered a question..." Kakashi answered shamefully.
Kakashi handed the two the files.
Sasuke began to flick through them.
Sakura gasped.
"This is..!"
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(1) Have you never had like a lesson, where they teach you how to write fancily? In my primary school, they taught us how to do this weird chicken scratch writing, and when I used it in secondary school, my teachers could rarely read my hand writing.
Just finished writing this, and I'm eating my dinner. And I've brunt the roof of my mouth. it bloody hurts now. o.O