Author's Note: I decided to update early since I got it done earlier then planned. This isn't one of my better chapters though, but I hope you guys like it. And please read the authors note at the bottom.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 10

Kakuzu tightened his grip on the boy in his arms, and sprinted with Hidan to the exit of the base. They stayed in the shadows as they ran, so if any of the Konoha shinobi made it into the base they wouldn't be spotted as easily.

" Why the f*** do we have to bring the brat with us?" Hidan asked his partner annoyed, he wanted to fight, not watch their leader's brat.

" Because he'll be safer with us right now." Kakuzu informed. " Now shut up and watch for any of the Leaf shinobi."

They came to a halt once they made it to a dead end. Kakuzu handed Naruto to Hidan, then walked up to the boulder blocking their path, and preformed a jutsu to remove it. Once it was out of their way, they made their way into the forest.

Pein ran as quickly as he could to Konan's room. Without knocking, he opened the door and walked in. Konan looked up from her origami and watched as Pein burst into room.

" Konan, get ready to fight. Konoha shinobi followed Kakuzu and Hidan here, and they're currently trying to get into the base." Pein said quickly before she could ask anything. " Hurry."

Konan nodded and grabbed what she needed, then followed Pein to where the invading shinobi were. She glanced over at her partner as they ran.

" Why are they attacking us? They couldn't be trying to get Naruto, could they?" She asked him nervously.

Pein glanced over at her. " I'm not sure. They may have just followed Kakuzu and Hidan to find out more about the organization, but just to be safe I sent Naruto with Kakuzu and Hidan to one of the other bases." He said after a moment.

" There is no way they could have found out Naruto was here without someone providing them the information. So who could have possibly told them?" She pondered.

" You do think one of the members could have given out the information." She asked Pein, she could feel her anger build up at the thought of one of the Akatsuki members betraying her partner.

" I doubt any of them would be stupid enough to betray me, but it may be a possibility." Pein answered quietly.

' I currently hope one of them didn't, but if they did, who would have done it. I haven't sent them on any missions near Konohagakure, and they've been a the base of the past two months, so there isn't any way the could provide anyone information without me finding out.' Pein thought to himself.

Once they were outside where the Leaf shinobi were, they stayed in the shadows and made their way closer.

" Do you want me to kill them or do you have something else you want me to do?" Konan asked Pein quietly so only he could here her.

" I'll take care of these fools, however I want you to search around the area and see if there are any others." Pein ordered, and turned his attention to the group of Leaf shinobi. Konan nodded at her partner and left to do as he ordered.

Pein observed the shinobi in front of him, they all seemed to be jounin except for a few chuunin. He looked through the group trying to find the captain of the squad, after a moment of searching he found the person he was looking for, he planned on keeping the captain alive for questioning.

" Whats taking so long on moving the boulder!" The captain yelled to the shinobi who were doing their best on moving the boulder.

" It won't move no matter what we do!" One of the jounin yelled back. " We've tried everything!"

Pein, who was quickly becoming bored with watching them, came out of his hiding spot and began his attack. He was able to quickly kill a couple of the shinobi before they had noticed him. Within a few minutes he had defeated the shinobi, and was currently standing over the badly wounded captain.

" Why did you attack my base?" Pein questioned the man. The jounin just glared up at him, refusing to answer him. Irritated by not getting a response, Pein put his foot on top of the man's broken leg and pushed down, causing the jounin to hiss in pain.

" I will ask you one more time, why did you attack my base?" Pein questioned again, he added more pressure onto the man's broken leg with each word he spoke, causing the man to scream. When he received no answer again, Pein stepped down as hard as onto the man's broken leg. There was a sickening crack of the leg being broken more, and the man screamed again in agony.

" P-p-please I-I'll t-t-tell yo-u-u w-want, j-just s-s-top!" The man managed to yell. Pein stepped off of the leg and waited for the man to speak.

The jounin took a couple of deep breaths, trying to claim himself. " W-we attacked b-because we were told that the Akatsuki had the demon brat we're searching for." The jounin said in pain and disgust when he talked about Naruto.

Pein narrowed his eyes down at the man when he called his son the demon brat. " Who told you we had him?" Pein asked, glaring down harshly at the man.

" I'm not sure, the guy had a black cloak covering him, and it was yesterday night when he told us so it was impossible to see him." The jounin answered uncertainly.

Pein raised an eyebrow at the answer. " Since you couldn't see him, by his voice was he a young, or older man?" He asked the nervous looking jounin, by his description of the man Pein couldn't be sure if it was one of his subordinates or not. He had a feeling Madara was the person who did it since he often wore a black cloak, and if the jounin said it was an older sounding man it had to be Madara. ( This is before Madara acted as Tobi, so Pein doesn't know that Madara can make himself sound younger.)

" He sounded very young still, he had to be at least twenty." The jounin replied after a moment, it was becoming harder for him to focus with all the blood he lost.

Pein, seeing the man was about to pass out decided to ask two more questions. " Why are you searching for Naruto if you hate him so much?"

The man made a disgusted face. " I don't want to, but its orders. The Hokage wants the demon back for some reason." The jounin said angrily. He yelped him pain when he felt a foot collide with his face.

" Don't you dare call him a demon in front of me, or I'll give you a fate worse then death." Pein snarled angrily, he was getting tired of the jounin insulting his son. " Last question is there anyone else from Konoha near here or coming."

" N-no one else that I know of." The jounin said weakly, stuttering slightly, it was becoming hard for him to stay awake.

The last thing the jounin saw was the orange haired man take out a kunai, then everything went black. Pein quickly killed the man after he passed out, then reached down and shut the man's eyes. He stood back up and looked around at the corpses, making a mental note to have Zetsu dispose of them before bringing Naruto back.

It had been half an hour since he sent Naruto with Kakuzu and Hidan, and neither of his subordinates had contacted him yet. ' Did they make it to the other base yet?' He wondered to himself. The base he had sent them to was only used for situations like this, since it was only ten minutes away.

When he heard a noise behind him, he quickly turned around to see Konan running towards him in a panic. " They took Naruto!" She shouted as she ran towards him. " Leaf ANBU attacked them, and they managed to get Naruto!"

" How long has it been since they took him." Pein asked placing his hands on his partner's shoulders to help her stand, outwardly he look calm but inside he was just as panicked as her.

" I found them about five minutes ago, the ANBU had severely wounded them so they weren't able to go and get Naruto back." She answered.

" Take me to them." Pein order, removing his hands from her shoulders. Konan nodded silently, and began heading towards Kakuzu and Hidan, Pein following closely behind.

Currently the only thing Naruto could feel was the massive headache he had. He tried to move but found his hands were tied behind his back, and his ankles were tied together. When he opened his eyes, he also found that his eyes had been covered.

He whimpered slightly when he felt someone pick him up. " You don't need to be afraid, your safe." He heard someone say, as the blindfold was taken off of him.

Naruto winced at the sudden light, and blinked at the man who was carrying him. The man who had spoken to him was wearing an ANBU mask, as were his team members. He couldn't help but whimper again when he realized he had been kidnapped.

Wolf ( the guy who's carrying him) couldn't help but feel bad for the scared child. He unlike his teammates Bird, and Mouse, he didn't hate or see the child as a demon. " We won't hurt you, we're just here to bring you home." Wolf said softly, trying to comfort the boy.

This didn't comfort Naruto at all, he didn't want to go back to Konoha where everyone hated him. All he wanted was his dad. He felt his eyes begin to fill with tears at the thought.

" Why, everyone hates me so why bring me back?" Naruto asked sadly, he couldn't understand why they would want him back.

" Not everyone hates you." Wolf replied. " You should sleep now, its late." He said changing the subject. After a couple of minutes, he saw the boy wasn't going to go to sleep willingly, he pushed the child's pressure point and knocked him out. He tightened his grip on the boy, then quickened his pace.

Kakuzu was sewing Hidan back together, when he saw Konan and their leader coming towards them. " Took you f****** long enough." Hidan grumbled.

" What happened?" Pein asked Kakuzu, ignoring Hidan.

Kakuzu sighed. " We were ambushed by three ANBU. They surprised us and were able to wound us enough to be able to grab the kid and run." Kakuzu answered, he flinched slightly when Pein narrowed his eyes at him.

" How did you not sense them." Pein asked calmly, trying to hide how upset he was.

" We started arguing, and weren't paying enough attention to our surroundings." Kakuzu answered, he winced again when he felt his leaders chakera spike in anger.

Pein closed his eyes and took a couple of deep breaths. " I'm going back to the base to get supplies, I'm going to go get my son back." Pein said as he turned around and made his way to the base.

" Leader-sama if you don't mind me asking, is the kid really worth it?" Kakuzu questioned curiously. He had nothing against the boy, he just didn't see why the leader cared for the kid so much.

Pein shot Kakuzu a glare over his shoulder. " Of coarse." Pein snapped.

- Four days later-

Naruto opened his eyes slowly and looked around trying to figure out where he was. He concluded they had made it to the village, since he was in a hospital room. The entire time Naruto traveled with the ANBU they would only allow him small breaks, and then knock him back out. Naruto could whole heartedly say he never wanted to have to through something that again.

" How do you feel Naruto." An old sounding voice asked, snapping Naruto out of his thoughts. Naruto jumped slightly and looked over to where he heard the voice, and saw Sarutobi sitting in a chair by the window.

Sarutobi was elated when his ANBU team brought Naruto back. He had been so worried about the little boy for the past couple of months, and for a while he had began to believe the boy was dead. One thing that surprise him though was how healthy Naruto was. The boy had gained weight, and grown taller by a couple of inches.

" I feel fine." Naruto answered him quietly, and stretched. " I just feel stiff from not being able to move for awhile."

" I'm glade your ok, I've been very worried about you." Sarutobi said giving Naruto a warm smile. He watched the child wiggle around to loosen his stiff muscles.

" Naruto." Sarutobi said after a moment. " Do you know who took you from here?"

" Ya." Naruto replied, looking over at Sarutobi curiously.

" Can you tell me who he is?" Sarutobi asked hopefully.

Naruto had a feeling that if he told Sarutobi something bad was going to happen. Naruto stayed silent and looked away from Sarutobi and down at his hands nervously. Sarutobi frowned at Naruto's unwillingness to answer him.

" Did he harm you?" Sarutobi asked worriedly. ' Maybe hes afraid of being hurt by him, so thats why hes not telling me.' He thought to himself.

" No, he would never hurt me." Naruto said almost angrily, looking up at Sarutobi. His dad would never harm him.

Sarutobi was surprised how defensive Naruto had just gotten, it made him wonder how close Naruto had gotten with captor.

Before he could say anything else, one of his ANBU entered the room. " Hokage-sama, Danzo wishes to see you." The ANBU said.

Sarutobi sighed. ' What does he want now. I hope it isn't about Naruto.' He thought glancing over a Naruto.

" Alright tell him I'm on my way, also send someone here to watch Naruto." Sarutobi ordered, getting up from his chair. The ANBU bowed, and quickly left to follow orders.

" I'll see you later Naruto, and then we can finish talking." He said giving Naruto a smile, he then walked out of the room before Naruto could respond.

' I hope everyone is ok.' Naruto thought worriedly, looking down at his hands again. He missed everyone badly, and wanted to go home. He wondered if Pein was going to be mad at him for getting captured. " I wanna go home." Naruto whispered to himself, unaware that someone else was in the room with him.

" Wheres home to you now?" Itachi asked the boy curiously. Frankly Itachi couldn't blame Naruto for not seeing the village as a home since it seemed all the villagers hated him. Itachi personally didn't hate him, or really judge him since he didn't know Naruto.

Naruto jumped at the sound of the unfamiliar voice, and looked up at Itachi with wide eyes. " How long have you been in here?" Naruto asked still a bit shocked.

" Not long." Itachi said shortly, he looked the boy over and noticed how much better he looked from the other times he had seen him.

" Who are you?" Naruto asked curiously, he notice the boy in front of him looked similar to the man with red eyes he had met in his father's office. He only hoped their personalities aren't similar too.

" My name is Itachi." Itachi answered. " Your Naruto correct?"

" Yep!" Naruto exclaimed happily, giving Itachi a smile. He always like meeting new people, and Itachi didn't seem like he hated him, or was crazy.

" Are you going to answer my question from earlier?" Itachi asked, he was still curious but he wouldn't force Naruto to tell him.

" Um what was the question again?" Naruto asked hesitantly, hoping he would make Itachi mad about forgetting what he had asked earlier.

" Where is home to you now?" Itachi asked again. " You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

Naruto thought about whether he should say where or not. " I don't really want to say, sorry." Naruto said softly after a moment.

" Its fine." Itachi said giving him a rare smile to show he wasn't mad about not receiving an answer.

They ended up talking to each other ( Naruto did most of the talking) for the rest of the evening until Naruto had finally fallen asleep. Itachi stayed and watched Naruto sleep for awhile until a nurse came in and told him he no longer had to watch the boy ( Itachi is the person the ANBU sent to watch Naruto).

As Itachi walked home he went over his conversation with Naruto. The small boy had been very happy to talk about just anything, but he noticed Naruto would skip talking about certain things, and it made him curious about what the boy was hiding. He found it was enjoyable being around Naruto and now that he had met Naruto he could say that he liked the boy quite a bit.

Sarutobi was close to snapping at Danzo. They had been discussing Naruto and what they should do with him all evening. Danzo wanted to make Naruto talk about what he knew about the Akatsuki by force, instead of waiting until the boy was ready to talk about what he knew.

Sarutobi could easily tell that Naruto was no where near ready to tell them anything, if he did actually did know anything. He wanted to find out how Naruto was treated by them before doing anything, but Danzo was completely against it.

" Hiruzen, making the boy talk now will allow us to find out if we have another threat to the village. We need to find out all we can on this organization, and its obvious that the boy won't tell you anything." Danzo said angrily.

" I'm done with our conversation, we'll talk about this later." Sarutobi said firmly, leaving no room for argument.

" I want you to know that I will get the boy to talk, no matter what I have to do to him to make him, and I'll have plenty of people who will agree with me on this." Danzo said while glaring at Sarutobi.

" Leave him alone Danzo. I'll talk to him in the morning and if he refuses to talk then we will have a council meeting on what we should do." Sarutobi said glaring right back at Danzo. By the end of their meeting neither of the men noticed the shadowy figure quietly leave the room.

Naruto who was sleeping soundly, was awoken by the sound of creaking. He sleepily opened his eyes and looked around the dark room where the door was. He frowned when he saw no one had entered the room, and turned towards the window. He froze when he saw a dark figure crouching in the now open window.

Author's Note: There something I want to go over that I've a couple of people ask me about. In this story Pein is Yahiko not Nagato, I switched the two around since Nagato would fit in as well with my plot. The ways Yahiko has the rinnegan in this story is by before Nagato died he gave it to Yahiko. After Nagato's death Yahiko became Pein, so he can do everything Pein did in the anime. I will have a flashback like thing on all of this later in the story. Either next chapter or the one after it I'm not sure yet, with give you more on the scrolls Madara gave Pein and more of a look on all his plans. Itachi and Naruto's relationship will be important later in the story, which is why I had them meet and kinda get to each other before Itachi becomes a member of the Akatsuki. I'm sorry about Itachi being ooc, hes one of the harder ones for me to keep in character. Also so you guys know there be little to no fighting scenes in this, I suck at writing them.

Can you guys guess who the cloaked man is that gave the Leaf shinobi the information about Naruto? ( Its not Madara so you know) Review and tell me who you think he is. Next chapter will be posted Thursday, so until then goodbye! :)