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9. Take Me Under

XxXItachi+Hatsu+Naruto+SasukeXxX

Itachi untied Sasuke.

Sasuke stood and went over to the window, silently.

"You swear it's true?" he said, gazing into the black sky.

"Yes," came Itachi's calm voice.

Sasuke already knew it was true; the truth had been easy to read on his brother's face, but he needed to hear him say it.

"I was a fool!" Sasuke roared, so loudly it made Hatsu and Naruto on the other side of the room jump. "I was an idiot! I was a- a-"

"A Madara-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," Hatsu said, matter-of-factly, whilst clutching her nose.

Sasuke swallowed.

"Yes I was!"

"Well, you can't say it fairer than that," said Naruto, holding out his hand to Sasuke.

Hatsu burst into tears. She ran forward, pushed Naruto aside and pulled Sasuke into a strangling hug, while he patted her on the back, awkwardly, his eyes on his brother.

Itachi went over and wrapped his arms around the both of them.

Sasuke grabbed Naruto and pulled him in to the hug.

The front door banged.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE?" shouted Kisame, slightly unnerved.

Hatsu grinned. "C'mere you," she said, pulling Kisame into the hug too.

"Kisame?" said the small voice of Sasuke.

"Yes?"

"I'll pay for the damages."

"Hahahahahahahaha."

"That includes my nose!" Hatsu said, over everyone's laughter.

The phone rang.

Kisame reached over Naruto's head and answered it.

"Hello?"

"TOBI'S BEEN MISSING FOR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS! UN!"

XxXMadara And Mysterious ManXxX

"They must be finished by now," Madara said, pacing the sitting room.

"Relax," the man took a drink from his glass.

"You can talk, Hideyo," Madara snarled.

"Sure, I can." Hideyo smirked.

"GET DOWN!" the door crashed open, and several agents came in, holding out their guns at arms length.

Madara got down and pulled Hideyo down with him.

Uchiha Itachi, you shall pay for this, Hideyo thought.

XxXEveryoneXxX

Hatsu squeezed Itachi's hand gently as they walked into the building.

They all stood there, at the top of the stairs waiting for the defendants to ascend, so they could go into the court.

"Apparently, they have a really good lawyer," said Kisame, from Itachi's left, pulling at his tie.

"Sasori-danna's better," said Deidara, squishing a clay model of Madara in his palms.

Everyone's eyes turned to watch Madara and Hideyo walk up the stairs assorted by police people.

When they had reached the top, Madara turned, caught Itachi's eye and smirked at him.

"Itachi – NO!" Hatsu screamed as Itachi broke out of the crowd, ran towards Madara and punched him squarely in the jaw.

Shocked, Madara fell backwards, tumbled down the stairs and landed in a heap at the bottom.

He sat up, dazed.

"STOP, STOP, STOP!" Hatsu screamed as Itachi ran down the stairs, jumped on top of Madara and began to hit and kick him repeatedly. Madara began to fight back, slowly regaining his strength, biting and spiting.

Hatsu was screaming, people were running, Hidan was swearing.

Itachi could taste blood, but he didn't care. All he cared about was inflicting more pain on Madara, than Madara was inflicting on him.

Itachi felt a pair of hands rip him off of Madara and slam him into a wall. He almost blacked out with the force of it.

His captor released him, and he limped back to where Hatsu was standing.

Hatsu slapped him fully across the face, so hard his head snapped backwards.

She burst into tears and flung her arms around his neck. Itachi sighed, and buried his face into her shoulder.

"I'm sorry," she kept whispering.

Finally they let go of each other. Itachi stroked her cheekbone. She smiled, took his hand and they made their way into the courtroom.

Itachi sat down, still holding Hatsu's hand. She gave him an encouraging smile and a small kiss on his cheek, before they faced the front.

"This court room is now in session," The Judge called and the room hushed.

Hatsu squeezed Itachi's hand.

"Itachi," she hissed as Madara stood and walked over to the box. "I need to tell you something."

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" the Judge said, as Madara laid his hand on the Bible.

"Shhh," He hushed her, squeezing her hand.

"But it's important!" she whispered franticly.

"So is this, love. So will you please be quiet?" he asked, through slightly gritted teeth.

"Yes," Madara said loudly, his voice ringing around the room.

"But it's about-" she began, forgetting to whisper.

"Will the witnesses please be quiet?" the Judge said, glaring at them.

Hatsu turned red, and went quiet.

Madara was standing in the box now, gazing coldly at Sasori, who had stepped out of his pew, in lawyer mode.

"Full name." Sasori said.

"Uchiha Madara."

"Age."

"Forty-three."

"Date of birth."

"December twenty-four."

"Members of family."

"Uchiha Izuna and Fugaku were my brothers. Fugaku married Mikoto, who had my nephews; Sasuke and Itachi."

"Can you please tell us where you were on the day of the alleged car crash?"

"I was at home with my nephew Sasuke."

"Right, and when Uchiha Itachi phoned from the hospital to tell you that your brother and his wife were dead, what did you tell Uchiha Sasuke?"

Madara met his gaze, unflinchingly. "I told him that his parents were dead, and that we were going to the hospital."

"Nothing else?"

"Nothing else,"

"Are you sure about that."

"Yes."

"Two weeks ago on the twenty-fourth of June, where were you at nine o'clock?"

"In my house."

"Who else was there?"

"Sasuke."

"Did you, or did you not, make a phone call to 080096333 at ten past nine?"

"Yes."

"To Takenaka Hideyo?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Old time sake," Madara shrugged off the comment, casually.

"So, a forty-three year old calls a twenty-nine year old for 'old times sake'" Sasori smiled, humourlessly. "How did you meet Mr. Takenaka?"

"We met at a business deal."

Itachi snorted quietly.

"So, after you made the call, Mr. Takenaka came over?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because I invited him."

"And he came over to where your nephew, Uchiha Sasuke, and his friend, Uzumaki Naruto, were?"

"I didn't know Naruto was there."

"I see. And then you gave them a mission to assassinate Takenaka Hatsuko?"

"Not guilty." Madara said, calmly.

"So you plead 'not guilty'?"

"Yes."

"Take him down," the Judge ordered. Two guards stepped forward, put a hand on one of Madara's arm and lead him back to his pew.

"Witnesses." The Judge called.

One by one, alphabetically, Hatsu, Itachi, Sasuke and Naruto swore on the Bible, and then gave their testimonies. When they sat back down, Hatsu let out a slow breath. Itachi gently took her hand back in his once more.

Hideyo was called. He stood, took the oath like the others, and stood in the box.

Sasori took a sip of water and stood before Hideyo.

"Full name?" he asked.

"Takenaka Hideyo."

"Age."

"Twenty-nine." Hideyo leaned back, carelessly.

"Date of birth."

"First of March."

"Members of family."

"Mother; Takenaka Hanako. Father; Takenaka Hideki. Brother; Takenaka Yuuto."

Itachi stiffened, and his head slowly turned to look at Hatsu.

"Sister… well, she's here. Aren't you, sis"? He laughed coldly, looking at Hatsu.

Hatsu's face turned red, and she looked down at her feet, tears forming.

"Why didn't' you tell me?" Itachi asked, putting his hand under her chin and forcing her to look at him.

"I tried," she said, thickly. "I thought…. I thought…"

"You thought what?" he urged, gently.

"I thought you wouldn't want me any more," she whispered.

"Hatsu you are the most… I really don't deserve you," Itachi said, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her close.

Sasori motioned for them to face the front, they did and so did Hideyo, but not before he had shot Itachi a sneering look.

"Can you please tell us where you were on the day of the crash?"

"I was at home."

"Were your parents in?"

"No, they were dead."

"Ah, yes they died around the same time their son did. Where did they go?"

Hideyo shrugged. "I killed them."

The whole court erupted in whispers and struggles. The Judge barked for silence and it fell, uneasy.

Sasori swallowed and tried to continue his questioning. "Two weeks ago on the twenty-fourth of June, where were you at nine o'clock?"

"At home. Madara called me, I invited myself over and I went over. Happy?"

"Uchiha Madara said that he invited you."

"I guess his memory's going with old age. I. Invited. Myself."

"And you went over to where, Uchiha Sasuke, and his friend, Uzumaki Naruto, were?"

"Yes. Haven't we already established that?"

"I see. And then you told them to assassinate Takenaka Hatsuko?"

"Guilty." Hideyo said, calmly.

"So you plead 'guilty'?" Sasori said, amazed.

Hideyo smirked, and leaned backward, his hands resting on the edge of the box behind him. "Yes."

The courtroom exploded.

There were screams of delight and outrage. Madara was trying to claw his way past the guards to fight Hideyo. Itachi had pulled Hatsu out of the way of Sasuke and Naruto, who were trying to break the barriers that held them in the section.

The Judge banged her gavel and order slowly crept back into the building.

"Uchiha Madara will be taken to jail. Takenaka Hideyo will be hanged by the neck, for six hundred accounted crimes against the law."

Madara let out a scream of rage, while Hideyo shrugged, and said, indifferently; "Suits me,"

"Let me at him!" Hatsu yelled, trying to fight off Itachi's arms, which were wrapped around her waist to stop her from getting to her brother.

"Hatsu, if you kill Hideyo, though I wouldn't blame if you did, you'll be thrown into jail for murder and you may end up in the same cell as Madara," Itachi muttered in her ear.

All the fight went out of her, and she turned around and began to cry into his chest. Itachi rocked her gently, whispering words of comfort.

XxXOne Week Later: The HangingXxX

"Takenaka Hideyo, you have committed six hundred crimes against the law, you shall be hanged by the neck." The speaker said, as Hideyo walked up to the gallows, hands tied behind his back.

"Yeah, yeah, get on with it." He muttered, as he stepped on to the raised platform, above the trap door, and looked past the rope to the watchful crowd.

"Any last requests?"

"I'd like some water. Please."

A guard roughly shoved a glass of water into his hand. He drank it before handing it back, so hard it broke.

"Oops." He smirked. "I'd pay for the damage, but I'm gonna die, so find your own money."

"Any last words?"

He nodded. "Faites attention à petite soeur... N'arrivez pas à confortable."

The words; "What did he say?" echoed around the crowd, bouncing around like a ball. Everyone stared at him.

Then the man put the rope around his neck, tightened it and walked off the platform.

Hideyo smiled and caught Hatsu's eye.

She shivered and Itachi pulled her closer to him.

"Now," the Judge ordered.

There was a crack and his body dropped like a stone, swinging gently in the breeze. His face bloated and his last smile still upon his face.

XxXKisame's CarXxX

It was utter chaos.

Hatsu was sitting, asleep, on Itachi's lap. Sasuke and Naruto were in the boot, messing around. Deidara and Sasori were talking quietly. Zetsu was gazing out of the window, shouting at himself. Kakuzu was counting money. Pain and Konan were entwined on the backseat. Hidan was reading Icha Icha Paradise out loud, shouting. And Kisame was driving, his radio's volume on max.

Kisame parked and everyone bundled out and they walked into the mall.

"Can I blow it up?" Deidara asked.

"No," Eleven voices rang out.

Deidara pouted. "Tobi would've said yes, un."

"Well, Tobi's not here," Sasori reasoned.

Deidara picked up some clay and moulded it into a Tobi shape. "I'm just saying he would. Un."

"And I'm saying shut up," Hatsu said.

Deidara changed the Tobi into Hatsu and threw it at her.

Hatsu ducked and gave Deidara the look.

"One word. Then BOOM! Un." Deidara warned as they all squished into a lift.

"This lift smells funny. Believe it!"

Everyone sniffed.

Hidan looked at Hatsu. Her nose had been banged up in one of those bandages that made her look like a panda. He leaned over.

"You ani't styling that after me are you?" he asked, smirking.

"In your dreams," she said, dismissively.

Itachi chuckled slightly, wrapped his arms around her waist and whispered something in her ear that made her blush delicately.

"What did you just say to Hatsu?" Naruto asked, curiously.

Sasuke hit him over the head. "Shut up,"

The lift door opened and they all bundled out.

"I miss Tobi, un." Deidara said mournfully. "He's the only fun one. Un."

Hidan gave Deidara the look.

"Apart from Hidan, of course! Un!"

Sasori started to have a coughing fit that spread quickly around the group.

"Okay! You're all fun! Un!" Deidara said loudly. "Now, into Clare's. It's Tobi's favourite shop. Un."

They all walked into the shop.

Then the whole mall blew up.

Glass splayed over the running figures of people. Screams were heard everywhere as people fought at the doors, to try to escape. The building started to crumble, slowly. A slab of concrete crushed people from the upper floor fell down from the ceiling, then, or they were already dead from the force that they had hit the floor. The walls carved in. The Akatsuki stared in shock as the building collapsed around them.

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