Riayu: Today's chapter will be SO action packed, and the longest one I've made. Just so you know, someone important will die and someone will switch sides.

Sharin & Sye: WHO?

Riayu: Wouldn't you like to know. Ok, thanks to Sye216 for always reviewing.

Sye: THAT'S MY CREATOR! Who's doing the disclaimer?

Shichibi: Hiya! Time for a

Disclaimer: SHE DOESN'T OWN NARUTO! GOT IT? (and thank god)

Riayu: I heard that. Enjoy, k guys (and girls)


Sharin's fury was tangible when the tears finally subsided and her screeching ceased, her face blotched and full of woeful anger. She burrowed her face further into Gaara's chest, wiping her tears way in the fabric of his shirt, her shoulders shaking terribly as she tightened her grip on his shirt. He put his hand on her back and rubbed it carefully, looking around at Naruto and Sasuke, frowning. When she pulled away she had a terrifying look of anger on her face, her tears dissipating into steam that rose and steamed up the windows that were now cracked from her previous screaming. Gaara looked at her and, for the first time in her life, complete fear was visible in his eyes.

"We're going to go save her, and we will make them pay." She had such a ferocious determination in her eyes that no one dared argue or even challenge her on devising a plan to rescue her friend. "We're leaving in ten minutes, grab everything you need. I suggest you all change into something easy to run in." She disappeared into her room and there was a loud, metallic clinking sound as the three men stood in the hallway and stared at each other.

"She's completely insane, Gaara." Naruto said, staring at the closed door to her bedroom.

"Yeah, I know, but I love her." He stared at the door with a strange sort of affection and Naruto nearly passed out.

"Gaara, you're creeping me out," Sasuke and Naruto said in syncopation, both staring at him in utter confusion. Then the three of them went to get ready for the mission, changing their clothes and collecting every weapon they could find. Naruto nearly screamed when he went back into the hallway that led to the front door and saw Sharin.

"Where'd you get all of that gear?" he asked, looking her up and down in silent surprise. She was dressed in tight shorts and a revealing and very tight tank-top, her hair pulled back into a bun and pinned with two senbon, her feet in a pair of black ninja sandals that matched Gaara's. She had a windmill shuriken hooked on to her back over the sheath of her long katana, weapon-pouches hanging from both of her hips.

"Sye doesn't only deliver food; I've been collecting weapons for as long as I've been out here." She put a coil of wire into one of her hip pouches, Naruto catching a glimpse of its contents. There were senbon, shuriken, and kunai in copious amounts as well as scrolls, wire, and soldier pills. "Ready?" the three of them nodded, all of them noting how much calmer she seemed now that she had sharp objects in her possession. They walked outside into the cool air and floating snow, the world a dark landscape with snow that glittered from the light of the stars and moon, the hard wind raw against Sharin's exposed skin. She performed a series of hand signs that none of them had ever seen and watched as she thrust her hand into the thick snow, but nothing seemed to happen, that is, beyond Sharin's sudden change in appearance. He almost black hair turned fire-orange and her midnight eyes turned that astonishing gold color, her skin becoming a more golden brown than it had been before, long, feathered chakra wings emerging from her back, the same gold as her eyes.

A red light began to glow up from underneath the snow, small fissures forming in the white expanse of land. The snow melted to reveal a large, demonic creature made of blazing fire and pure, unleaded chakra.

"Summoning Jutsu: Fire Bird of Silence Jutsu!" the flaming creature took on the definite form of a bird and its flames turned an abyssal black, starlight eyes visible on its head. They fell onto the back of the bird whose flames licked at their skin without heat, the bird lifting itself from the snow and soaring through the sky in a straight line, tearing the light from the air that it passed though.

"What kind of summoning is this?" Naruto tried to ask, but his lips only moved. Sharin smiled and walked over to him before producing another series of hand signs to provide them with a small amount of sound.

"This is Shouten, my summoning."

"Then why didn't you need to use your blood?" Naruto asked, staring at her in bemusement.

"Because she isn't a normal summoning, like Gamabunta, she's part of Lilusal, which means she's part of me." Sharin sat down on the black flames and stared up into the black sky as Shouten devoured all of the light. "She feeds off of light and eliminates it for a short time, almost like a black hole."

"What were all of those scrolls in your pouch for?" Sasuke asked, eyeing her carefully.

"You'll have to wait and see. I suggest you guys rest as much as you can, something tells me that the battle ahead is going to take a lot out of you." Naruto and Sasuke curled up at the base of Shouten's neck and Gaara lay down next to Sharin, looking at her quizzically. An hour passed by, and then a second, in the middle of the third they came to an area that Sasuke recognized all to well and landed, preparing themselves to fight tooth and nail to get Sye. It was Sharin who was the first one inside, her eyes wild with fury and her skin hot with angry chakra that focused itself into the wings on her back and the claws on her fingers until they seemed to be almost solid. They met Kakuzu first, an easy target.

"Who the hell are you?" he asked when he saw Sharin, but he knew who the others were and he pressed a button concealed beneath his cloak, alerting Pein of their arrival.

"Where's Sye?" Sharin pulled out her katana and held it to his throat, tapping his Adam's apple with the blade, a twisted smile creasing her lips as fear filled Kakuzu's eyes. He moved his hand to indicate a corridor to his left and she smiled. "Lead us to her." The blade's point migrated to the small of his back as he led them through the base to the holding cell where Sye was kept, she wasn't there.

"You bastard, you lied to me," Sharin was about to lob his head off when she saw movement in the corner of the room and a head moved up to look around at them.

"Shut the damn door." The boy was completely naked but he didn't seem to care very much, he was probably just cold. It took him a few moments to register everything, and when he did and spoke again Sharin was very surprised. "Where the hell is Sye?"

"You know Sye?" Sharin was in the room and kneeling in front of him in a flash, her katana striking the floor with a loud, metallic ping.

"Yeah, I know Sye; she was locked up with us. I like her."

"Who's us?" Sharin looked around the otherwise empty room, as did the boy.

"Where the hell is he? KAKUZU, WHERE'D MY BOYFRIEND GO?!" Kakuzu stood there looking very uncomfortable.

"I will shove that blade up your ass if you don't answer his question, and I mean it." He swallowed hard then began to speak in a hollow voice.

"He's in a meeting with the rest of Akatsuki; they're discussing what to do with Sye."

"So you knew Sye wasn't here? You little piece of shi-"

"NO! I swear I didn't know that they moved her, they weren't supposed to move her for another hour, something must have happened." He stood there, his eyes slightly crossed as he stared at them.

"'S he okay?" then the body fell forward, a dart sticking out of his back. "…THE HELL?!" Sharin screeched indignantly.

"It came from there," Gaara pointed to a little hole in the wall that was just slightly bigger than the diameter of the dart. "I think it was supposed to hit me though, c'mon, we should start looking for Sye."

"Right, oi, you, what's your name?" she stared at the guy sitting naked in the corner as she stood up.

"My name is Koori Yoru, may I ask who you four are?" his black eyes gleamed like polished ebony as he rose, standing up to his full six feet.

"I'm Sharin, this is my boyfriend, Gaara, and those are the love birds, Sasuke and Naruto, Naruto's the one with the stupid grin and the severe ADD."

"Hey! I do not have AD- Hey look, a fly."

"Please tell me he's acting," Yoru said doubtfully, watching as Naruto chased a small fly around, a small string of drool sliding down his chin. He stopped abruptly.

"OF COURSE I'M KIDDING!" Naruto turned around, a vein pulsing on his temple and his jaw clenching, a look of total disdain on his face.

"Guys, as much as I find this conversation fascinating, we gotta go." She was off in an instant, running at full speed down several corridors, scanning the surfaces with her chakra-enhanced eyes, scanning for Sye's chakra signature. She found it and followed it a long way before losing it to a more definite signature of crimson, she followed that one next. It led to a doorways set into the rock wall with a complex lock on the outside, but by the time she got there someone was tailing them, and that someone was a threat.

"What do you want?" Sharin asked, turning to face the figure that was detaching itself from the inky shadows of the tunneling corridor.

"I could ask you the same, this is my home," Pein said disdainfully, looking them all up and down. "I'm glad to see that you brought Gaara, we have something for him." He brought a hand out from under his cloak and took the lid from it, a sudden flurry of angry energy releasing itself into the air.

'It's Ichibi, they're giving him back,' Lilusal said from inside Sharin's head, her voice calm and sweet. The whirling energy attacked Gaara, shoving itself into his pores and nose and mouth, becoming a shaped entity before being completely consumed by Gaara. Pein smiled triumphantly then grabbed Sasuke and disappeared again, Naruto running after them and yelling in anger, leaving Sharin and Gaara by the locked door.

"Wish I had some sand with me," Gaara said sadly, staring at the door with a concentrated anger as Sharin ripped it opened, what she found inside made her dizzy with nausea. Sye was laying, sprawled, on the ground, her skin bare and flesh split, blood running over her body and tears slipping down her face as metal tools stuck out from her bleeding core. Her eyes were closed and she didn't look as if she were breathing at all, but it wasn't the blood or the utensils sticking in her still body that disturbed Sharin, it was the blood seeping from her lower region in an obvious sign of rape. Someone had raped her friend; someone had cut her, tortured her, killed her, then had the nerve to rape her dead body and leave it, unceremoniously, in the middle of the cold room.

"Sharin?" Gaara whispered her name to her, a look of complete grief on his face, as she walked into the room, her entire body shaking with anger as she looked down at the decimated body and the running blood, the cum splattered over the exposed flesh. She fell to her knees and took Sye into her arms, hot tears falling onto her lifeless face and mingling with the tears that already stained her skin.

"Sharin…?" the voice was barely a whisper, the single word was both the most beautiful and horrifying thing she had ever heard. Blood dribbled heavily from Sye's mouth as she stared up at Sharin with fogging eyes, the blood gushing from the wound on her stomach and the instruments twitching. It was obvious that the single word had put an impossible amount of strain on her body, it was a miracle that she wasn't dead yet, or maybe it wasn't so good.

"Hold on, Sye, I'll fix you, I promise. Just hold on, ok? Just don't go to sleep." She laid Sye's head back down and began to work on the gaping hole in her abdomen, sewing it shut with chakra strings and pumping copious (A/N: My new favorite word) amounts or chakra into the wound to heal it, stopping only when faint color had come to Sye's face and the bleeding had stopped.

"Is she going to be ok?" Gaara asked from the doorway, he had been watching in mild fascination as Sharin mended the broken body that lay before her.

"She should be fine, but I'm not completely sure." She pulled off her tank-top and folded it into a pillow, exposing the purple bra that she wore underneath, then looked around the room. "The crimson chakra is here too; when I find out whose it is I'm going to-"

"It's Kasai's," Yoru said from behind Gaara, his voice tremulous and his eyes slightly watery. He stood there, his body stiff, his face contorted into pained rage, his hands balled into fists at his sides, his fingers curled so tightly that the tendons and veins stood out strongly.

"Your boyfriend?" Sharin asked, looking at him with motherly concern, a look that almost frightened Gaara, very rarely had he seen that look on her face, he was used to fear and pain and longing for something he couldn't quite grasp. "These guys are digging their own graves." And they were off again, Sharin tracking Kasai's chakra trails in hopes of finding the meeting room so that she could rip his head from his shoulders and watch his blood spatter over the walls in a beautiful fountain of…

"Sharin, you eyes are starting to creep me out." Gaara said from beside her, his breath coming in shallows pants as he worked to keep up with her rapid pace. When she stopped abruptly Gaara and Yoru slammed into her, nearly toppling her to the ground, but she managed to hold her ground. The three of them, after righting themselves, stared up at the huge door that stood before them, black with red clouds traced with fine, white lines. Sharin stood there, motionless, for just a fraction of a second before lifting her foot and kicking the door in, the wood splintering and shattering to sail through the air, someone screaming out as it pierced their skin. Sharin had her katana to someone's throat before the dust settled enough to see, Sasori's chin resting on the flat of the blade, his eyes wide in frightened surprise.

"You have five seconds to convince me not to kill you." Sasori swallowed hard, brought his neck away from the blade, then locked lips with Sharin. Gaara stood there, his mouth agape, his mind reeling, and his temper flaring. He rushed forward, yanked Sasori away from Sharin, and punched him the face, Sasori's nose shattering under the force of impact.

"You touch her again and your dead meat, got it?" Deidara stood there, staring at Sasori, who was trying to stem the flow of blood coming from his nose. Sharin simply stood there, the pommel of the sword against the palm of her hand, the blade resting on the ground, her eyes opened wide and her mouth hanging, unhinged slightly. Before she could move there was a small spurt of blood and a man fell out of his chair, a kunai in his throat.

"That's for betraying us." Yoru's voice was stately and he had a look of complete control and sanity, though it was the exact opposite in his head. The other members in the room sat silent, Itachi, Kakuzu, and Pein the only ones missing.

"Where's Itachi?" Sharin demanded of the bunch.

"Off with his brother, he said he had something to settle." That was Tobi, his kind nature somewhat out of place in the dismal room.

"And Pein?"

"He was taking Sasuke to Itachi." Deidara offered, leaning over his bleeding partner.

"Right then, if I weren't a pacifist you'd all be dead now. C'mon Gaara, Yoru, we have to go find Naruto and Sasuke." They disappeared into the hallway and Sharin began to search for Kyubi's signature, sure that he had left some trace.

In another part of the base in the same cold, dark room, Sasuke lay on the floor, his wrists and ankles chained so that he lay spread-eagle on the dirt floor.

"Tsk tsk, little brother, you ran off before I could give you your present. I'll have to make sure that you get it when we're finished here." Itachi was already naked when he approached Sasuke, his manhood already erect with pure lust. He pulled Sasuke's pants and boxers down around his ankles and looked down at his brother's limp cock. He leaned forward and touched his lips to Sasuke's earlobe, sending a shiver through the young man. He bit it sharply; making Sasuke scream out in surprise, then began to suck on it, running his tongue over the tender skin. He kissed along Sasuke's jaw line and down his neck, leaving a large love bite there before lowering his mouth to his nipple, playing with it with his tongue and raking his teeth over the bump of skin. Sasuke hissed in pleasure and entwined his fingers in Itachi's long, loose hair, all the time telling himself that this wasn't what he wanted.

"No, Itachi…s-stop. I do…on't want it." Sasuke tried to move away from his brother, he knew that he wanted it, but he didn't want to want it.

"That's not what your body is saying," Itachi purred as he touched Sasuke's erection with his fingertips, a gasp escaping Sasuke. Itachi lowered his mouth to Sasuke's cock and ran his tongue along its length then around the swollen head before taking it into his mouth, all of it. He touched Sasuke as he deep-throated his cock, fondled his balls and touched his thighs, feeling Sasuke pulse inside of his mouth as he moaned and hissed in pleasure. Sasuke bucked into Itachi when he gave an especially hard suck, surprising him so much that he moaned, his lips vibrating against Sasuke, making him scream out in unbelievable pleasure. Itachi, sensing that Sasuke was near his limits, took his mouth away and began to stretch Sasuke, looking down into his hateful eyes and smiling.

"You don't still hate me, do you, little brother?" he whispered as he brought his lips close to his ear, his breath hot on Sasuke's flesh. "After all I've done for you, after supplying you with such strong pleasure?" Sasuke tightened around Itachi's fingers, his eyes hardened and his mouth set into a scowl.

"You cock-sucking bastard, you've done nothing for me!" Sasuke managed to move away from Itachi and tried desperately to take his hands from the chains so that he could pummel the man. Itachi, slightly crestfallen, stared down at his struggling brother, shrugged, and thrust himself into Sasuke, moaning as Sasuke tightened around him. He thrust hard and fast, not bothering with being romantic anymore, this was sex, raw, unadulterated sex. Sasuke screamed out in pained pleasure as his brother tore apart the tissue in his ass and hit his prostate, he screamed as Itachi grabbed his cock hard in his hands and began to pump it, and he screamed when they both released their seed. Itachi pulled away and wiped the sweat from his brow then lowered himself near Sasuke's head and smacked him over and over until blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. He backed away, rummaged in his discarded cloak, and tossed the box on top of Sasuke's still body.

Naruto was there moments later and Itachi fell at his hands, his throat laying several feet from the rest of his body and his arms bent at unnatural angles. He knelt beside his bleeding boyfriend and wiped away the cum and sweat and blood, setting the box to the side for a moment.

"I'm sorry Naruto, I came for him." Sasuke's voice was bitter and woeful, he stared up at Naruto with clouded eyes and his body lay limp in his arms.

"It's ok Sasuke; it's not your fault." Naruto took the box that had been laying on Sasuke and opened it, a tear falling when he saw the contents. Inside the box was a scrap of paper in neat script that clearly belonged to Itachi. Under the piece of paper was a necklace with a picture of Itachi in it, the only picture in existence with him wearing a smile, not a smirk, not a grimace, but a smile. Naruto opened the folded piece of paper and read it aloud to Sasuke.

"Dearest little brother, this is my last token to you. I wanted to make sure you got this before I died, yes, I am going to die, or I may already be dead, I'm not sure. I have probably already had sex with you, most likely against your will. I did it only because I needed to feel alive, just once, before my life came to an end. I'm not sure how I died, maybe you killed me, maybe I killed myself, or maybe that blonde kid killed me. But however I died is unimportant. I have one thing that I need to say to you, one thing that I never said.

I love you.

So honor a dead man's wish and wear the locket, I beg of you, my dearest brother, so that I may go into the next world in peace.

Your brother,

Uchiha Itachi"

"Bastard should have told me," was all Sasuke could say for the longest time, tears running down his face, his emotion echoed by Naruto. "Is he dead already?"

"Yeah, I killed him. I'm so sorry, Sasuke." Naruto looked over at the bleeding body of Itachi and swallowed hard, if only he had known he wouldn't have… "He changed sides, Sasuke, he was on our side; he was just a little late."

"Yeah, I guess your right." Then Sharin, Gaara, and Yoru appeared in the doorway, the three of them covered in blood spray and Sharin's chakra raging and fighting the air. She ran in and took the two boys into her arms and hugged them close, ripping the chains that held Sasuke to the ground out in the process. She was crying hysterically while Gaara stared down at Itachi's decimated body and Yoru went back to see how Sye was doing.

"I'm not going to stay in that ice hut anymore, guys, we need a real home." Sharin said to them when they had all gathered at the entrance of the base, Sye leaning heavily on Yoru, wrapped in Itachi's old cloak.

"Like where?" Naruto asked, looking at her as if she were crazy.

"We could go to Suna, or Konoha, I'm sure they would welcome you." The word 'you' was directed towards Gaara and Naruto.

"But they want nothing to do with Sasuke," Sye pointed out, coughing hard after she had pt her say into it.

"We can explain it to them, I'm sure it'll work out. And if not…" she cracked her knuckles and neck and the message was made clear.

"I don't want to go back to Suna, I say we head to Konoha," Gaara said, wrapping an arm around Sharin's waist.

"Then Konoha it is." They ran off just as the sun peaked it's first few rays above the horizon in a beautiful gold and red glow, the view was spectacular and each one of them was filled with the feeling that it would be a great day.


Riayu: Bet you guys weren't expecting that. And I know, no one really important died, but to semi-important people died.

Sharin: The part after Itachi died made me sad.

Sye: Why'd you kill Kasai?

Riayu: 'Cause I didn't like him. Oh yeah, guys, I had to make a change in the previous chapter. Yoru means night, not snow. Whoops, sry.

Itachi: Why the hell did I die?

Riayu: Because everyone I like is exposed to near-death situations, or dies.

Sharin: Does that mean you don't like me?

Riayu: Uhm...we're outta time! Bye and thanks for reading. Please leave a review or else I won't update! BYEEEE!

Sharin: WAIT I WANT AN ANSWER!!!!!