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Last time

"Bring your stupid lazy ass to the door and open it or I will give you one hell of a thrashing." She yelled out. Kyuubi and Sasuke look at each other with lifted eyebrows.

Then there were steps, a few cracks and the door open only to show none other then Uchiha Itachi. (Hehe didn't expect that?)

To say that Sasuke and Kyuubi looked surprised would be an underestimation. They were gaping, wide eyed – like their eyes could just fell any moment and on their face were the WTF expression.

And now

Sasuke was gaping at his brother and his mind stop working.

"Ita…chi…but you…wha…how?" Sasuke stuttered as his mind was trying to work as best as it can at the moment.

"What, did you swallow you grammar, little brother?" said a smirking Itachi as he went to his otouto (AN I thing it means little brother if I am not mistaken) and ruffled his hair and poked him on the forehead as Sasuke looked at him with wide eyes.

"You really are alive, that is not so kind of a sick joke?" asked a hopeful Sasuke.

Itachi and Noriko giggled softly and Kyuubi smiled.

"I suggest we go inside so we can explain what is happening" offered Noriko.

Then they come in and sit at the table as Noriko gave everyone a cup of orange juice and set as well. Then she looked up to Itachi and asked.

"You or me?"

"You!" Itachi answered, like the answer was obvious and she was stupid. She looked pissed for a minute but decided to let Itachi off the hook this time – surely Sasuke didn't want his brother to be killed when he just get the news of him being alive.

"Well on the mission we were supposed to bring you back when you killed Orochimaru I was the one to search for you with my kage bunshin (Shadow clones). Well I was supposed to stay with the other but I left my clone with them and on my search I met Itachi he asked if I was to choose of you or the village and I answer him that neither of the sides would be hurt. Then I asked did he kill the clan or Madara. Well he was taken a back at the question and automatically asked "How did you know?" which answered pretty much my question. Then I asked him where he was, where was the real Itachi? But he said that it was too late for him and that he hopes I could save you. When I arrived at the battlefield you were gone and he was lying on the ground." she murmured the last part.

"He was dead when I and my teammates left." Sasuke stated as he narrowed his eyes.

"Well he was but not from long so I was able to bring him back to life. That is part of my bloodline – the dark element and the dead is its most powerful weapon." When she answered him he looked at her with wide eyes again.

"You are able to bring deads back to life?" he asked disbelieve in his voice.

"No always! Not everyone!"

With Madara

"Its time we catch the nine tails" Madara stated to Nagato.

"You want me to take care of that?" Nagato asked with kind of a boring voice.

"You are the most powerful one of Akatsuki and it looks like Konoha has a powerful ally on their side." Madara voiced his opinion as he thought 'I hope that you at least weaken her before you die so I can attack when she is weakened and kill her/finish her.' And he smirked when Nagato disappear.

"I will definitely win" he whispered in the night.

With Noriko

"Not everyone, not always. I wish but I can't save everyone. I am not a God." And she was smiling sadly at that. "I cannot save people that had died from the arms of a Shinigami (God of Dead.) Or people that had died from a long time after all their body had stopped working and you can't give a soul to a body that cannot function. Well Itachi wasn't in a great condition, after all you kicked his ass pretty much so after I revived him I brought him here until he was good enough to walk on his own then I suggested him to stay here until the time he would be able to show comes. He said 'yes' of course. But I have to say I am surprised that Aniki (big brother) didn't sense him at all." She said amusedly and smirked at Kyuubi .

"Well sorry that I cut out my senses when I was here, but well I didn't expect someone to come to abandoned place." Kyuubi muttered with ashamed face which caused Itachi and Sasuke to chuckle and Noriko to laugh.

And that is how they spent the day.

Sasuke began calling Itachi – Aniki or onii-sama (the two means big brother or so I know).

Through the day they talked and laughed and the village was calm and happy but little did they know that a battle was coming their way.

Who is going to live through it and who wasn't? And who was going to win and who to lose? No-one knew. (well I know but being my evil kind of self, I am not saying (evil grin))