Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto characters or the Gakuen Alice characters. Masashi Kishimoto and Tachibana Higuchi does.
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Itachi went to shut the trap of his little brother. Sasuke had gone left, along the forest edge.
Itachi didn't like this scenario. Sasuke was supposed to chase after him, not the other way around. 'He's too weak to beat me. It's a pity, really. Now I have to kill him.'
Sasuke stopped when he thought he was far enough away from the students. Itachi soon caught up.
Sasuke couldn't stand the sight of him. His hand began to sparkle blue.
"I'm going to kill you!" He shouted and ran at Itachi with a chidori.
Itachi easily deflected and kicked Sasuke away. Sasuke flew through the air, but was caught by a certain blond, blue eyed person and put back on his feat.
Another blond, blue-eyed person stood nearby, along with five other people. They were eight in all.
Sasuke nodded at the person who caught him, Naruto, and viewed the other six persons, all of them alice.
Itachi also eyed his opponents. Only two ninja and a bunch of alice brats. This was going to be easy.
Mikan couldn't quite grasp this whole kidnapping business, so she called out: "What are you going to do with all the students!"
"None of your business, little girl," Itachi said with a cold smile and an icy stare.
"Tell me!" Mikan shouted and stepped forwards. Hotaru grabbed her back, preventing her from doing anything stupid. "Shut up! Do you want us to get killed?" She hissed.
Itachi was beginning to feel very annoyed. That brown haired girl was very irritating.
"Don't look into his eyes!" Sasuke warned his fellow students. He looked at Mikan, who was still glaring at Itachi. "Do you hear me Mikan? Don't look into his eyes," He said urgently.
Mikan lowered her gaze.
"Aren't we noble, little brother?" Itachi said mockingly
Mikan almost looked up in Itachi's face again from shock.
"Brother! Sasuke, is this your brother?" she asked in disbelief.
"Yes," said Sasuke through gritted teeth.
"But we can't fight your brother!" Mikan exclaimed
"Yes, we can," he replied, fists clenching.
Mikan was about to argue, but Naruto put an arm on her shoulder and said: "Don't."
"But," she said weakly
"The Uchiha family was as happy a family as any other, but one day Sasuke came home and found his whole family, his entire clan, murdered. By his brother. That man over there killed his entire clan, except Sasuke. Sasuke's goal is to avenge his family by killing Itachi, nothing you can do about it, so let it be, Okay?" Naruto explained silently.
Mikan nodded meekly.
Itachi watched as the blond ninja talked quietly to the annoying little girl. He didn't hear what was said, but he figured it had something to do with why Sasuke was perfectly fine with killing his big brother.
"Can we please finish this before Christmas?" Itachi taunted.
Sasuke was about to launch himself at Itachi again, but someone clearing their throat behind him made him stop.
"Ehm aren't we being a little rash?" Natsume's cold voice said.
"Yeah, we need a plan!" Yuu piped up.
Sasuke hated to admit it, but they had a point, so everybody grouped closer together to form a plan.
Itachi watched them from where he was standing, wondering if they were going to come at him soon.
After a while, he suddenly noticed the presence of somebody next to him. He sensed danger and stepped quickly away. That was a good thing, for Itachi anyway, not for Sasuke who had nearly gotten him with his Chidori. He managed to grace Itachi's arm though.
'Why the hell is Sasuke suddenly here? I can fucking see him over there with the other brats. Am I caught in a freakin genjutsu? Me, the genjutsu master? ' Itachi's train of thoughts were interrupted by a slight rumbling from the ground, and he stepped away just as Naruto burst from the ground with his Rasengan.
Itachi quickly threw a kunai at the two boys, but they weren't there anymore.
"They're not there anymore. Were they real or are the real one's over there with the rest. The Chidori felt real enough, but if this is some kind of genju… wait! My thoughts are being voiced out loud! There!" Itachi thought and threw a kunai to the place the voice seemed to come from. But the knife didn't connect with anything.
Itachi was getting seriously freaked out. Had there really been someone speaking his thought out loud or was it just a part of this genjutsu or whatever it were. Had Sasuke and Naruto been real?
As he pondered he spotted crows coming at him. He quickly threw a couple of shurikens, and the birds dissolved. So these birds were fake. Something red caught his eyes and he noticed a ring of fire had surrounded him. No heat. Must be an illusion. Illusion? That must be it. This wasn't a genjutsu created by a ninja but some kind of illusion created by one of the alice brats. But which one? He just had to throw a kunai at the person and the illusion would stop.
He studied the 8 kids standing in a circle, as if still discussing what to do. Meanwhile, the birds kept coming. Itachi stopped studying the brats when one of the supposedly fake birds clawed at his face. He quickly brushed the annoying crow away, but the next one seemed just as real. But the one after that flew right through his face. So there were real ones mixed with the illusion? That didn't make sense.
The flames around him were growing hotter too. Real flames this time or was it just the next step of the illusion?
And then Sasuke broke out of the circle in front of him, coming at him with his chidori. That he could handle. The only problem was, there wasn't only one Sasuke, but four, coming at him from four different directions. And there was the circle of flames, which he didn't know was real or not. And the pesky birds.
He heard a "baka" from the crowd and seconds later his head was spinning from the impact of a missile from the gun the dark haired alice chick had shot him with.
Itachi made a quick decision. He would retreat for now, and come back with Kisame or some of the others. He turned around quickly before Sasuke reached him or that girl shot him again, and attacked the Sasuke in front of him. It wasn't the real one, but it wasn't an illusion either, because it went up in smoke. A shadow clone.
He stopped briefly and looked back. The flames were coming after him, and he didn't think they were fake. One of the three remaining Sasukes must be the real one. He got up ten shurikens, threw one at each Sasuke and the rest he aimed for the other brats. Then he disappeared.
The real Sasuke was hit in the shoulder by the shuriken and the other two went up in smoke. Naruto had jumped in front of Mikan and Hotaru, arms up to protect his face, the two knifes heading the girls way lodged in his arms. The five remaining knifes graced Koko's cheek, Natsume's side and Ruka's arm. Had they been trained ninja they may have been able to completely avoid the knife, but they thankfully avoided any serious damage. Two knifes flew by harmlessly and Yuu had passed out with the effort of making all those illusions.
Naruto drew the throwing stars out of his arms and Sasuke drew his out of his shoulder.
Mikan seemed stunned for a moment, before she noticed the wound in Natsume's side. "Oh! You're hurt!" She was at Natsume's side in a second. "Is it painful?" she asked, and poked the wound experimentally.
Natsume jumped back and hissed: "Quit poking it, polka-dots!"
Sasuke poked her on the shoulder and gave her a roll of bandages from his pouch. "Thanks!" she smiled and turned back to Natsume. Without further ado she lifted his uniform shirt to get a closer look at the wound. Natsume tried to jerk away, but Mikan wouldn't have anything of it, and held his shirt firm.
Natsume gave in and let her bandage him up. He quite enjoyed the sensation of Mikan's hands wiping the blood away and winding the bandage around his waist. But he wouldn't let her know that.
Hotaru examined Ruka's arm. It wasn't very deep but it was bleeding a lot. She had gotten a kunai and bandages from Sasuke, and used the knife to cut of Ruka's sleeve. She silently dried up his blood with the cut of sleeve, then she bandaged the arm.
"Thank you," Ruka said softly when she was done.
"I'm glad you're ok," She said and gave him a rare smile.
Sasuke put a plaster on Koko's cheek and Naruto picked up you and slung him over his shoulder.
"Let's head back and see how the other are doing," Sasuke said, and so they did.
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