Got a little excited last chapter? Ah I hope you did .

So this is the first real mission of Itachi and the others :D enjoy

Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto


A mission fraught with difficulties

"Where do you think you're going?" Kakashi watched his little sister skeptically as she stuffed tons of clothes into a giant bag. Sayuri turned around and smiled proudly. "A C-mission!"

Her ANBU brother, who just came from a S-Rank mission wasn't too impressed. "I see.. So where do you have to go? One time around the globe?" Sayuri continued to pack dress after dress. "Well.. no.. we have to find some criminal.. only a few miles away.." Another dress vanished in her bag. Kakashi shook his head. "A criminal? And how long do you think you're away? Finding a criminal takes you one or two days. If you mess up one week at the very most." She climbed on the cram-full bag and started to jump on it to make it easier to close. "I know!", she said.

Kakashi lifted his brow. "So why are you packing for 6 months?" "What do you mean? That's what I need for one week." She let her body fall on the at least 20 dresses inside the bag.

Eight years and she still managed to make him wonder. "Forget it!" He grabbed her arm and dragged her from the bag. "You're a Ninja, act like one." With this words he began to unpack the bag while Sayuri stared at him dumbfounded. "What do you think you're doing?" How did he dare?

He ignored her. "What kind of criminal?" She was shocked. Sometimes she couldn't believe her brother. "What the..? Why are you so interested all of a sudden? You didn't care for my missions for an entire year!" Kakashi stopped. "Oh sorry when I didn't want to know every detail of your babysitting experiences. I sure missed a lot." Evil eyes. The situation was close to getting out of hand.

"But now things have changed! W'll search for a pervert who kidnaps little girls. Hokage-sama entrusts us with the fate of those girls. Isn't that enough to prove that we are no longer used for the dirty work?"

Kakashi's look changed. He looked at his little sister. If he hadn't seen her right after her birth, he wouldn't believe that she was eight years old. She looked far older. Yet she was only a little girl. "Be careful, will you? Tell your two friends, that I'll kill them if anything happens to you." Sayuri rolled her eyes. Now she finally had a good mission and her brother was being overworried. "Don't worry, I'm strong enough to look after myself."


Same time on the other edge of the village.

Itachi laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling. What would he need for the mission? Were some Kunai and Shuriken enough? Maybe some money. He should have some just in case Sayuri got hungry. And she was always hungry, like a bottomless pit she ate and ate and didn't gain a pound. And if she put on weight it was because her breasts had grown. What was he thinking? If she was hungry she should buy something for herself. As if he allowed her to use him even for one more time. Well he needed money anyway, they had to sleep somewhere. And he had to eat something as well.

While he was lying in bed he thought through the mission. He planned every step they would make in advance, the other two wouldn't do so anyway. Just when he was working on a strategy how to take the pervert down best, he was interrupted by a well-known voice.

"Good evening, Itachi-chan! What are you doing?"That was the last thing he needed. His.. whatever, he was pretty proud of knowing his relation to his brother, anyway, Shisui from his Clan suddenly sat on his bed. "What..? How did you get in here?" Shisui smiled. "The window was open." That's what he always said. "It was NOT!" Itachi was quite sure that he had closed the window properly because he checked it several times only to prevent this from happening. "You sure? Well.. then it's open now." A cold air draft ran through Itachi's room. Indeed, the window stood wide open. It seemed to be a hopeless act trying to keep Shisui out of sight. "How did you do that?" "Have you forgotten that I am Konoha's number one spy?" "You are NOT!" If he was, Itachi's father would have already rubbed his nose in it.

"Well, but I'll be soon!" Self-confident as ever. But with his abilities it wasn't even that improbably.

"I've heard you have a C-mission? After only one year? Congratulations!" Oh come on, that ironic comment wouldn't have been necessary. Everyone knew that he was a Jounin and did one A mission after the other.

"Just wait, I'll catch up with you in no time!" Itachi sat up. "I see.." Shisui was sitting with his back to him. "Then.." He vanished and less than a second later Itachi felt arms wrapped around his neck from behind.. "..I definitely won't lose to you, Nii-chan", he whispered into his ear. "I'm not your brother." Itachi tried to free himself from Shisui's hug but it was useless. "But we're friends, are we not? So if you need any help, just call me, I'll always be there for you." He snorted derisively. "Guess I'll pass this time."


"Ready?" Itachi looked at his subordinates who actually weren't. With a heavy heart Sayuri had come to an agreement with her brother and took only one dress to change and the most important cosmetics with her in a small handbag. Who knew what Seishi was hiding in the large pockets covering his pants. However, if there weren't those headbands with Konoha's sign on it nobody would think they're serious Ninjas. Yeah, those headbands, Itachi would never forget the day they got them. The Hokage himself proudly gave them to his team when they passed the test and became Genin. When Sayuri had seen them, her face fell saying it wouldn't fit her style and claimed one in black. Even harder to believe was, that she actually got one and now she diverted it from its intended use as belt for her lolita dresses.

"Ok, first we're going to investigate. We'll interrogate the victims who have already been found, then we search our target and arrest him. Any problems with that?"

"Yeah! Who made you the leader?" They've been walking now for less than five minutes and Seishi already started to complain. "My grades. If you hadn't been so lazy, maybe yours would have been good enough to be a leader." Why was he still sticking to such old stories? Well, it couldn't be helped, Shisui had kept him awake the whole night and now he was groggy and huffy. "You're such a pain today! Where's your enthusiasm? It's our first proper mission. Where are we going first?" Sayuri was pretty hyper today, but in a kinda tense way. Itachi ignored her criticism and pointed in a direction. "A few miles away is the village with the first case." The moment he started his sentence Sayuri ran in the direction he showed her. "Hey! What's up? There's no need to hurry!", Seishi screamed after her puzzled. Maybe because she was so worried about the girls? Maybe because she identified herself with them and couldn't bear the idea of a pervert doing mischief with them? Maybe that was the reason she hurried to get them out of that hell as soon as possible? Not quite.

"I only have one other dress with me, I want to finish this before I go crazy!" She vanished in the trees. All Itachi and Seishi could do was sighing and following after her before she was out of sight.

The girl's eyes were dull and unfocused. She just stared perturbed on the ground. Her mother said, she's been like this ever since she was found in the woods. She had been such a good girl, always laughing and playing tricks, just what little girls do. But ever since she was kidnapped she was almost autistic, alienists have reached their limits. "Seems like we won't get any information from this one, either." Itachi looked annoyed at the child. Fifth girl, fifth failure. Fifth depressed mother, fifth dead loss, fifth time they didn't get any leads for their mission because the victims just won't talk. "Don't be so insensitive!" Fifth time he was scolded by Sayuri, fifth time she tried to comfort the girl and talk with her though she knew it was hopeless. The mother watched her with a worried expression in the face. Fifth time they were doubted for being capable of the situation and Sayuri was told, that she should be careful. "I SEE!" A voice came from the room next door. The girl's room. Fifth time Seishi came with tweezers in his hand. Fifth time.. ok, let's stop this.. anyway.. Seishi proudly presented his discovery to the others: A brown hair. His theory: As neither the girl nor her parents had brown hair, the hair had to belong to the criminal. Itachi's theory: As it was hard to believe that the criminal lost exactly one hair at every crime scene and it was still lying there easy to be found even though it's been some days since the crime took place, the hair belonged to Seishi and he was simply trying to get some attention. Either way, the hair was pretty useless because it didn't help much to know the hair color of the target, especially when it was such a usual one. The fact, that the children were kidnapped right in there bedrooms while they were sleeping has already been told them by the parents.

The whole thing was tougher than they thought. They wasted the whole day by going from village to village without getting any further. When they sun set, they decided to call it a day and went to a hotel. There they sat, depressed and unsatisfied. Sayuri got nervous, because she was pretty sure that the one dress she had wouldn't be enough. What was so wrong with wearing one dress for two days or maybe three?

"So let's see.. how about we mark the victims' houses and the places they've been found in a map? Maybe we'll find some connection?" The good thing was, that Sayuri seemed to think better when she was under strain. Seishi pulled a map of the surrounding area out and marked the places in chronological order. The outcome depressed the mood even more.

"Oh come on, why didn't we do this from the very start?", Seishi complained pissed. Itachi didn't feel any better. "That pervert is so simple-minded..", he couldn't believe that they were wasting a whole day with these useless little dolls, "he simply kidnapped them and when he was ready with whatever he wanted, he dumped them on the way to his next victim.." Sayuri shook her head. "You're talking about them as if they were things! They're human beings don't forget that!" Why didn't she suggest that map thing a little earlier? They could've been at home by now. "Ok.. if we act on Itachi's assumption, the criminal's hideout should be anywhere around there.." He drew a circle on the map.

"Fine, then let's do this tomorrow. I want to sleep now." Itachi had been tired the whole day.

It was time to direct the attention to another problem. Three people and two rooms. "No problem! Sayuri and me will share a room, right?" Seishi took advantage immediately. Before Sayuri could say anything about it, Itachi intervened. "I don't think you'd sleep even for a second if you were together in one room. I think we should keep it traditional, boys/ girls." What was he doing? He could have had a room for him alone. Seishi glared at him, Sayuri, on the other hand, looked thankful.

It's been a while since he regretted something that much like this. What's come over him when he decided to share a room with Seishi? Some people snored, some people talked while sleeping.. Seishi sang and lashed about. First, Itachi suspected that he was just doing this to annoy him, but then he realized that he was actually asleep. When he finally calmed down, he mistook Itachi for his stuffed animal and wrapped his arms around him. How come a eight years old boy was so strong? Itachi spent half the night trying to free himself and when he gave up at last, he had a hard time to fall asleep. In the end the night was over and he didn't get a wink of sleep.

"Ah.. I've slept so well!" Seishi stretched his arms carefree.. Itachi wanted to beat him to death. All he could think of was going home and sleeping in his own nice bed. This time he'll put a lock at the window. "Let's wake Sayuri up and get going..", he moaned and knocked on her door. No answer. Was she really still sleeping or in the bathroom? He knocked again. "Sayuri?" Again no answer. She seemed to be a sound sleeper. Itachi didn't want to wait any longer. He opened the door and went inside, but the bed was empty. Maybe she was really in the bathroom, but why hadn't she answered then? He went to her bed. It smelled like lilies. Seishi once told her that he liked her fragrance and asked her about the name. She said she didn't use any and that she was simply smelling like this since she was born. She was lying, wasn't she? Is it possible for a human being to smell like lilies just like that?

"Where is she?" Seishi leaned against the door. "Still in the bathroom, I guess", Itachi answered. In that moment he found something suspicious on the bed. "What the..? Did you sneak in here, last night?" How was that possible? He staid awake the whole night, how did he trick him? A Kagebunshin?

"What are you talking about? I didn't move from the spot the whole night!" That was a lie. Itachi had the evidence in the form of bruises covering his entire body. But he didn't seem to have been here according to his confused look. "So you want to tell me this isn't yours?" Itachi held a brown hair in Seishi's face. He looked assaulted. "How often do I have to tell you? THAT'S NOT MINE!" He hasn't forgotten Itachi's accusations from yesterday. Itachi got pale. Even paler than he was anyway, even paler than he has been because of two days no sleep. "But.. when it's not yours.. then... SHIT!"

Slowly Seishi's face changed, as well, while he realized what this little hair meant. It meant, that Sayuri wasn't in the bathroom, it meant, she wasn't in the hotel, it probably meant, she wasn't even in the village anymore. Impossible! Itachi ran to the bathroom door and ripped it open. Empty. It couldn't be.. she was a Ninja, she couldn't be kidnapped just like that. It couldn't be, that Itachi didn't notice anything although he was next door. "I'm asking the hotel staff.. maybe someone saw her.. maybe she's just.. on a walk or something.." Seishi's voice was weak. While he was frantically trying to make the staff remember, that Sayuri came by just a few moments ago, he imagined the girl he loved so much, the girl who was always so cheerful and happy, the girl whose smile melted ice being like those others, broken, quiet, with a dull gaze to the ground.

When he came back to his room, Itachi sat on a chair, his head held up by his hands. On the table sat a bird from Konoha. "They want a report.." Seishi lost stability, his knees gave in. Why? Why now? Couldn't they wait for a report until the mission was over? Until they had rescued Sayuri and he held her safe and sound in his arms? "I have to tell them.. I'll take responsibility.. I should have known this could happen.. I was reckless.. They'll send us back and call reinforcements.." Itachi couldn't imagine what was worse.. Sayuri's brother trying to kill them or Shisui's gleeful smile. Why didn't he let Seishi share a room with Sayuri? Then this wouldn't have happened and Itachi would have gotten his sleep.

"No! Don't even think about it! Just tell them.. everything is alright.. and that we'll have the bastard in no time!" Seishi was so desperate, his voice was hoarse.

"You're asking me to lie? You're asking me to forge a report? Do you have an idea what will happen to us if the Hokage gets to know it?" "I know..but I don't want to be sent back! I want to rescue Sayuri right now! You can't give up , just like that!" Seishi was right. If they gave in they'd be a shame for Konoha. They couldn't give in, not now. Itachi sighed and started to write on a paper. "Keep it a secret! You mustn't tell anybody!" Seishi nodded.

There was no time to lose. Two boys rushed through the trees as fast as they could, to the place marked on the map. The pedophile's hideout, the place he abducted little girls to and later left them in the forest, naked. He didn't rape them, he didn't hurt them, but he did something awful, which made his victims apathetic and unresponsive. "Wait!" Seishi stopped and jumped on the ground. Itachi couldn't see what he did thanks to his Byakugan, but he seemed to have found something, so he followed after him. Between weed and bushes was a naked body. The blond girl was not older than the boys and unconscious. Their faces turned slightly red when they saw her, though there wasn't much to see anyway. "That's the girl who vanished three days ago.. take her and bring her back to her house.. I'll go for Sayuri." Itachi averted his eyes, not because he was ashamed, but because he couldn't stand the cruelty that girl was treated with. Seishi protested. "And leaving you alone? Forget it. We'll do this together!" He hesitated one moment, then formed a figure with his fingers and created a perfect copy of himself. "You know, Kagebunshin only has a quite short range." "I know, but it'll be enough to get her to the next village" The copy took the girl's body and turned back, the boys headed forward.

"I found it, it's only a few hundred meters in that direction." Seishi nodded towards south-west. With every step they came closer, Itachi got angrier until it felt like the hatred would make his body burst into pieces. How dared he? How could he dare doing this to all those innocent girls? And, above all, how could he dare doing this to Sayuri? If she was hurt, if she was different than before, if he has touched even one hair on her head, he'd kill him.

There it was. Itachi and Seishi landed on the court of a big building which seemed to be an old slaughterhouse. What was a slaughterhouse doing in the middle of the forest? Maybe it was used illegally and had to be hidden. A door opened and an ugly, dirty and fat bum with brown hair appeared. He had a disgusting smile and the teeth he had left were something between green and dark brown. "Are you the asshole who kidnapped those girls?" Seishi shouted at him. He sounded as if he wanted to tear the man into pieces. He laughed despicably. "That's right! I'm sorry boys, but I'm only interested in girls! You're quite cute..though" This voice.. Itachi's stomach churned and he felt that the breakfast he skipped made his way back up. "GIVE SAYURI BACK!", Seishi shouted. His face was white and his eyes burnt with anger. "Sayuri? Ah, you mean this girl with the silver hair I got last night? She has such a nice body, I'll have a lot of fun with her!" He roared with laughter. Itachi couldn't believe it. This damn.. he'll kill him for sure. "Itachi..", Seishi's voice trembled as he tried to keep himself from going berserk, "I'll handle him, you go rescue Sayuri. I guess she's somewhere inside." That was the first time Seishi actually called him by his name. Itachi didn't like the idea of leaving the pervert to him.. he wanted to make mincemeat of him, but when he was already that mad, how mad would Seishi be then? The moment he nodded, Seishi lunged screaming at the ass.

It definitely was a former slaughterhouse. The corridor was lined with stables and the stench was still present. It wasn't surprising that the girls lost their sanity when they were kept inside here for some days together with that dirty old man. Hopefully it wasn't too late for Sayuri.

"SAYURI! Do you hear me?" Itachi kept calling for her, but he didn't get an answer. Finally he got the impression that he heard something. "Itachi? Is it you?" The voice was weak and hardly audible but it was unmistakably Sayuri's. It came from a locked stable at the end of the corridor. "Sayuri? Are you all right? Don't worry, I'll get you out there!" Itachi started to tinker with the lock. Did they have any lessons about opening locks? Did he skip those? That would be a situation he needed Shisui. "NO! Don't come in! I'm fine! I'll free myself somehow." Itachi was confused. Did he mishear something? "What are you talking about? Don't be stupid!" He looked around and searched for something like a key. "NO! I mean it. I.. don't want to be rescued by you! Go away!" Nothing.. Well, it couldn't be helped.

"What's that? False pride? As if I'd care. Watch out, I'll crush the door." With a skillful kick he reduced the decayed door to pieces.

He shouldn't have. He should have listened to Sayuri and let her handle things herself. It's been only a second, no, even less than a second, but it has been more than enough to engrave the image in his mind for eternity. He stared at the wall with a deep red face, knowing exactly what was behind him. Sayuri was sitting on the floor, her hands being tied up over her head. This was all to be expected, the only thing was.. she was naked.. stark naked.. and Itachi has seen like.. everything. And it hasn't been like before with the other girl in the forest. Sayuri might wasn't any older.. but she looked like that.

"S-sorry.. I d-didn't know.." Maybe this was making things even worse. Sayuri didn't say anything. "I-I'm really sorry.." What should he do? How should he get out of this situation? He started to take his shirt off. "W-what are you doing?" Sayuri asked him confused. Itachi threw his shirt back, where he thought Sayuri should sit. "Here.. wear this." That wouldn't be of any use.. but better than nothing.

"..I'd love to.. but.. I'm enchained just in case you forgot." Shit.. she got a point there.

"Then.. I'll go and get Seishi.. just wait!" That was a good idea. Fighting was more in his nature, anyway. "What? Are you crazy? Isn't it enough that you've seen me? Don't you dare!" Well, it's been worth a try. "So what should I do then?" Was it already too late to leave things to Sayuri? It was..

"..C-close your eyes.." She wasn't actually being serious? "So how should I unleash you when I close my eyes?" "You're a Ninja.. think of something!" Fine. Good thing to know that she was still the same. No matter how hard he thought about something he didn't come up with anything better. He closed his eyes and turned around. Sayuri gasped for air. Did she have any problem now? It's been her idea.

He slowly walked forward. Sayuri would lead him. Stop, she said, when Itachi was standing right in front of her. It wasn't necessary for her to tell him anyway. He could sense and smell her. His heart beat far too fast. "Ok.. now reach out.." Sayuri's voice shivered. Itachi did as he was told and grabbed for something that was in front of him. It felt as soft as silk. Sayuri's face. "Higher!", she squealed, her voice has gone about three octaves up. Itachi drew his hands back and reached higher. "S-sorry.." The frequency of his heartbeat sure was deadly. He felt his way, until he found something else which felt like silk. This time it was Sayuri's hand.. hopefully. He carefully opened one eye. Fine.. if he focused the rope her hands were enchained with, he didn't see anything else. His hands trembled but he somehow managed to open the knot.

Seishi already looked confused, when he saw Itachi leaving the house only wearing his pants. But when he saw Sayuri desperately trying to twitch his shirt accurately so it wouldn't reveal to much of her body, he was close to fainting. If she pulled it down, her breasts would jump out, if she pulled it up, it didn't cover as much as it should. She couldn't even think of turning around. Why couldn't Itachi be a just a little bit bigger?

The criminal laid on the ground and screamed. His legs were unnaturally twisted, Seishi seemed to have broken them in all his rage. He didn't appear to be seriously hurt apart from some bruises and scratches. Sayuri ran towards them, still trying to adjust the disadvantages of Itachi's shirt.

"WHERE ARE MY CLOTHES?", she shouted to the pitiful creature rolling on the floor. When he saw his prey, his eyes turned bright and he grinned once again his ugly smile. "Why do you want clothes? You're so beautiful without them! Get this off.." He reached his hand for her and grabbed her arm. Sayuri screamed in panic. That was enough. In this second of pure hatred and anger, Seishi took a Kunai and threw it right between the pervert's eyes. Blood splashed from the wound. He stopped moving. He was dead.

It got quiet on the old slaughterhouse. The three looked at the disgusting corpse with impassive faces. After a while, Sayuri went back into the building to search for her clothes, a few seconds later Seishi drew a cigarette out of his pocket, enlightened it and took a deep puff. "Since when do you smoke?" Itachi looked at his comrade, still with dull eyes. The mission was over and the target was dead. They failed. Seishi shrugged. "About three years.. I tried to stop several times but it was useless.. sorry, I've just committed my first murder, I need it now" A boy who was smoking since he's been five. Itachi's body still shivered slightly. Every time he closed his eyes, every time he blinked, he saw Sayuri's naked body in front of him. "It won't be your last", he said. "Give me one, too!" Would it help? Seishi was too dazed to be surprised. Without taking an eye from the corpse, he gave Itachi a cigarette and the lighter. "Since when do you smoke?", he asked. Itachi took a puff and coughed. "Since now" It tasted awful, but at least it calmed down. When Sayuri returned she wore her dress. It was dirty and all crumbled and she didn't wear it properly, just as good as she could in the short time, but at least she wore something. With a week "thanks" she returned the shirt to Itachi and looked at the cigarettes. "Want one, too?" Seishi offered her one. "Does it help?" She asked. "It's good for the shock." Sayuri hesitated, then took it and smoked along.

They stood there another few minutes, they've lost any sense for time. Seishi stared in the sky. It was blue, it would be a nice day. "You know what? There's one good thing to all of it.." The others looked at him dumbfounded. "Sayuri didn't need another dress.."


Sorry if the end is strange and full of mistakes.. It's easter monday and I just had my fifth glass of wine.. it's a miracle I'm even able to writing this.. everything is soo.. NICE o.O

anyway I hope you liked this chap.. I know I skipped the fighting scene but I'm not good at such things..

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