Hello everyone! I know, it's been a lot and I'm soooo sorry but I didn't had much time to write. I had to do the few-sentences-whenever-I could-thing, once again. But here it is! Chapter Ten, everyone! I'd like to thank all my noble reviewers! Hope you like it, enjoy!


Chapter Ten: Kakashi's Mission

"At the earth's last breath,

To save it, one must give their all for all

So they can all unite.

For you see, it's all a matter of sacrifice."

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The rain was falling hard as always. People moved on about with their capes, continuing their normal life as if the rain wasn't really there. Ha had arrived about an hour ago and he had sent a shadow clone and Pakkun to investigate where could the base be hidden or if there was any Akatsuki roaming around. Some minutes later, Pakkun came informing him that he had found some hidden place and that he felt some unknown chakra coming from inside. Now he was in front of a strange entrance. He expected the entrance of their base to be more guarded somehow, but it wasn't though it could be a trap.

Then he feels someone getting closer and hides, masking his chakra. The strange door disappears and someone wearing an Akatasuki cloak came out. From where he was hiding, he couldn't see the face but then the person turned and Kakashi almost choked. It was Ike. Ike as in Ike from the other dimension that let him stay at his home and took care of him and Naruto and then came back and was captured by Akatsuki. Only that now, he was with the Akatsuki or else, he wouldn't be wearing the cloak.

"Kakashi, I know you're there." The silver hair's eyes widened. With a sigh, he revealed himself to Ike.

"What's going on, Ike? What are you doing here?"

"Well, I'm supposed to be the one asking questions since you're the intruder." The green eyes said with a lot of seriousness in his voice that made Kakashi believe Ike had forgotten about who he was. But then he knew it wasn't true.

"Let's go to another place where they won't find us. Come on." He followed after Ike to a small room. There were no windows and it was poorly lit, though he could see well with his sole sharingan eye.

"Alright, to the point. Me and the dobe were captured, he was let free when I accepted to join them. They trained me and my abilities to become a shinobi and work for them. Their leader wants me for my abilities as I've been told and they want Ari as well."

"Why Ari?" Kakashi asked.

"It looks like she has something they want, probably abilities as well. But now I'm teamed up with some blue guy named Kisame. He was Itachi's partner but since Itachi is on a mission…"

"He was told to capture Ari."

"Yeah, and they told me he succeeded."

"Yeah, unfortunately."

"But he has to keep her safe and unharmed so she's not in any immediate danger. But still, that Itachi guy is weird… there's something about him that's different from the other guys in this place…"

"I see…but until when will Itachi have her? They already have her so what are they waiting for to do whatever they are going to do?"

"I don't really know." They both remained quiet for a minute or so until Kakashi broke the silence.

"You have abilities?" He asked.

"Yeah, they say it's an eye technique or something. I once made Itachi fall to his knees in pain when he tried to use his own technique on me." The jounin's eyes widened a little. Taking down Itachi's sharingan with an eye technique?

"Is that what they think Ari has?" Kakashi asked.

"I don't know but that would really explain the weird eye color she has." Then the silver haired remembered a conversation he had with Sasuke days earlier when he had visited him.

"She has something." The Uchiha said after several minutes of complete silence.

"Hm?" Kakashi looked at his ex-student.

"She asked me to teach her how to summon chakra. I did."

"And what happened?"

"She summoned it on the first try. And she summoned a big amount. And just before that, we…she pushed me off of her and I felt some force that was too much to be her own normal one. I used my sharingan and saw the flow of chakra on her hands."

"Like Sakura?"

"Something like that. But Sakura summons her chakra all at once, Ari uses her chakra unconsciously, she maintains her flow of chakra all the time she wants other than use it at once. It's really something I haven't seen before, Kakashi."

The jounin finished telling Ike about the conversation and another silence followed.

"So she does have abilities…" The green eyed whispered.

"Then there's another thing going on here… There aren't any people in your world that have those abilities, right?"

"Not that I know of."

"…Then why do you and Ari have those abilities?" Ike turned his eyes back to Kakashi slowly, taking in what he had just said. No, there's no way…How could that even happen?

"C'mon Kakashi, you're not thinking…?"

"Ike, there's something you must learn about this world. Things are never as they seem, you must look underneath the underneath and anything can happen."


"Man, I so miss playing Call of Duty… You know, there was going to be a new release. Black Ops." Jack said as he kept on throwing kunai at a tree along with Natas.

"Yeah, but I've heard it's a little suckish. Specially the online but that the zombies are cool." His younger brother said.

"I heard that too. I was planning to buy it but of course, that was before Ari decided to run back to Sasugay and they did the jutsu and before we ended HERE with NEO, who's been training our asses out!" He screamed the last part so Neo could listen to which said shinobi smirked.

"This is good training and besides, you're just lazy. You've never liked doing exercise."

"Well, I prefer to train our chakra or our speed than our accuracy… or our strength."

Neo narrowed his eyes and approached Jack and Natas.

"Alright, time to spar. Jack versus Dart and the winner against Natas and whoever wins then, will go up against me."

"Great…" Both Jack and Dart said as they stood in front of each other to fight. Natas went to stand next to Neo to watch them.

"Hey Neo, why did they chose you to train us?" Natas asked the green eyed jounin.

"Well Natas, I was more prepared for this." Neo answered as he sat down and rested his back against a tree.

"Uhhh, but why?" Natas asked again.

"Because I have been to your world." The chubby green eyed answered and the dark haired widened his eyes.

"You've been to it? Really?" He asked again.

"Yeah, that's why I'm so fat right now. The food there has too much cholesterol and fat but it's so good…"

"Yeah, it's called fast food." Natas decided not to interrupt Neo on his thoughts about the food so he just kept on watching how Jack and Dart fought against each other.


Now two weeks had past.

She had gotten even more used to being there in that small house with Itachi. There was something she had noticed recently and it was that she no longer feared him. Not that she liked him either, of course, but the fear that he might do anything bad to her or hurt her in anyway, was gone. In fact, he had been nothing but a gentleman to her.

He makes food for her, buys things that she uses for her, he washes the dishes, cleans some of the house (Though she convinced him to let her help) and trains her. It's very hard to believe someone like him, who Sasuke had described him as a criminal and a madman, was able to do all that. Not to mention that he showed care for her well being. When she sneezed too much or coughed, he had went out and come back with some medicine; and when she had fallen asleep writing or reading on the living room, he had pulled a blanket to cover her so she won't be cold.

Right now, she was taking a bath. Itachi had taught her how to do some other things with chakra like clones, replacement techniques and even some fire jutsu. The Fire Ball Jutsu was the one, I think. He had taught her how to fight as well; how to punch correctly, evade attacks, know how to counter them, how to prevent what the opponent will do. He always said it was better to wait and for the opponent to attack first, to always be analyzing what was happening and be ready for whatever it had in store.

She got out of her bath, put on some clothing and headed to the living room where he probably was waiting. She wasn't wrong because there he was, sitting in the table reading another book. Itachi was wearing the usual black shirt and light gray pants he always wore to be in the house and he was bare foot. He looked up at her and nodded to let her know he had acknowledged her. She nodded back and sat down in the chair across him in the table.

"Umm, Itachi?"

"Hm?" She looked at his sharingan eyes directly, she didn't had to evade them anymore because she was no longer afraid of them.

"Can you tell me about the sharingan? That's how it's called, right?"

"The sharingan is a kekkei genkai or a bloodline trait, passed down within a clan. The Uchiha are the possessors of the sharingan. There are others like the Hyuga that have other kekkei genkais."

"I see, and which is the strongest?" She said.

"Every bloodline has different abilities that the other doesn't have. It's difficult to say which is the strongest, Ari-san."

"Oh, alright…why do you keep calling me Ari-san?"

"Hn."

"Geesh, you too? Your brother is the same way…that stupid 'Hn'. Is that part of your vocabulary or a family thing?" She said that and crossed her arms. He smirked and raised an eyebrow.

"It is just a matter of manners, Ari-san. Did you not had manners in your world?"

"Of course we did, but we didn't had to call anyone san as a way of showing manners. Why do you have to say that?" She tilted her head to the side.

"Here we use suffix to show respect. We say 'sama' after the name of someone important. We say 'san' after the name of a normal person. 'Chan' is for a female friend and 'kun' is for a male one."

"Ohh, so that's why I've heard Sakura refer to Sasuke as 'Sasuke-kun'."

"That's correct." She smiled and thought of something.

"Then I can call you…Itachi-kun?" She said shyly. He stared at her and raised an eyebrow.

"If you consider your captor as a friend then I do not mind." She frowned. He was right, he was her captor not a friend. But he felt like that one week ago. Now, he felt like something more than a captor because a captor didn't do all those things he did for her. He was a friend or at least was beginning to be one.

"Alright, then Itachi-kun it is!." She giggled and got her papers to keep on writing her story. He smirked at her enthusiasm.

He stayed watching her as she kept on writing. She was so into the story that she didn't noticed it. He had been wondering what was that Ari had that the other girls in the village didn't. Two weeks was all it took for him to realize what but he couldn't put it in words. He could brainstorm them but he wanted to put that reason in a single sentence, though it seemed impossible, but he could give it a try.

First, she was honest. She always said the truth even if she shouldn't, that could bring her problems later on. Second, she was smart. He had found out when she always asked him questions and always analyzed everything he said. Third, she was a very enthusiastic person. She was cheerful and optimistic and she had a way to make people smile or amuse them like she had done with him.

Being in the Akatsuki changed anyone. He was once happy, he was once cheerful and smiled but that ended one day when his father had taken him to one of the clan's meetings. Until he found out about the coup d'état. His clan was going to destroy the village he loved so much, his home. Many innocents would be killed, many would suffer and the war would start all over again. He had fought in the war himself when he was four and he preferred to stay with that horror than let any other child pass by it again. Then he had to take a decision, the family or the village and he had decided the village; for the sake of all the people of Konoha. But he couldn't kill his brother…no, he couldn't kill his little Sasuke, the only one that showed him unconditional love. And now, here he was, with his little brother's girl, reading a book. Life sometimes is so amusing.

And soon, he was going to die at the hands of that very same brother.

"Hey, Ita-kun…" He was brought out of his thoughts.

"Hm?" He smirked at the 'Ita-kun'.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend?" Itachi Uchiha almost choked.

Yes, last but not least, this girl was unpredictable.

That night

It was about midnight and Itachi was ready to go to sleep. He was walking to his room but stopped when he heard some noise coming from Ari's room. He got closer to the door to hear better and could make out the sound of short, loud intakes of breath. She's sobbing…

Why was she sobbing? She had been alright the whole day. Maybe she was hurt or maybe she was sad. Of course she was sad, she had been captured and was now alone with a criminal. Your friends have no idea where you are and even if they did, the chances of them getting her out were so small it was almost none. Then he got that feeling, the same feeling he had been having the last week and now he knew very well what it was: Concern…caring. He cared for her. He had just known her for two weeks and he cares for her. He hasn't cared for anyone than his little brother and now he cares for his woman. Maybe it was because of that, because she was Sasuke's girl and he wanted his little brother to have a normal life with her.

But what could he do now? Should he burst in and ask her if she's alright when she's clearly not? His hand was reaching for the handle of the door but he stopped when he heard her whispering between sobs.

"Mom…Dad…I miss you so much…Jack, Natas, Ike…Sasuke…Oh, Sasuke… Why me?...At least…I-I'm with Itachi…h-he's very good with me but… I miss you all…so much…"

Itachi turned around and leaned against the wall next to her door. It was like she was talking to some invisible person and probably that was her way of taking it all out. He sighed and thought about his family once again. He missed his mother a lot. She was caring and sweet, like any mother should be. His father…well, his father's a special case. He loved him of course, every child loves their parents but… that's it. Itachi just loved him because of that, because he was his father, nothing else.

He heard some movement in the room and then the doorknob turned. He looked back at her door and saw when it opened, revealing a face wet with tears and with swollen eyes. That sight made his heart chest tighten and an unpleasant sensation ran through him. He didn't liked to see her cry.

The Uchiha remained silent and watched as she looked up to him, her lavender eyes clouded by sadness. She gave him a sad smile and just lunged herself on him. He stood frozen as she cried into his chest, loud and hard. Then her body slowly went to the floor, her legs too weak to keep her standing and her hands clinging to his shirt. He let himself be taking down, his back sliding down the wall until they were both sitting on the floor. She was still crying and her hands were now around his neck, hugging him as she let it all out. Itachi was still at a loss to what to do. He tried to understand what she was saying but the sobs didn't allow it.

Finally, she started to calm down and her body relaxed a little more, shaking much less now that the sobs were subsiding. Only then did his hands came up to her back, slowly at first, as if he was scared to hurt her but then he tightened his hold around her, embracing her. He could feel her shaky breath on his neck, his shirt was now wet with her tears but he didn't minded. Slowly, he rested his chin on her head and that somehow calmed her even more because her breathing was now more even. After several minutes of remaining like that, she looked up at him and that's when he noticed exactly how close they both were but apparently, she didn't minded because she smiled to him.

"Thank you, Itachi. I don't know what got on into me but…thank you for letting me get it all out. You're really a good friend." And then she smiled again and rested her head on his chest. She curled herself up against him and chuckled.

"You know, I've never had a big brother but if I did, I know he would've been a lot like you."

His eyes widened. She just said he was like a brother to her? That he would make a good older brother of hers? How can she even think that? He had killed his family, tortured his own little brother and now, taken her away from him. But then he realized why; because she was Ari. She was just being herself and he had learned that she posses a heart that almost no one has. She can't hate, maybe she did hated him at first but now, she had known him and didn't cared for what he had done.

He looked down at her and saw she had fallen asleep on his chest. His eyes softened and he smiled lightly. And then, his heart filled with an ache that made his chest tighten. An older brother. He was already an older brother and he didn't wanted to be the older bother to someone else, only to make them suffer as much as he's made Sasuke suffer. He wanted to be something more, he needed to be something more, his heart was aching for that. He looked at her closed eyes and at the small smile playing on her lips as she slept. His eyes widened slightly when he realized what it was, the sensation, the feeling, the ache…

His sharingan eyes closed and a sigh escaped his lips. He knew it all along but he had tried so much to deny it, to forget it. But now he couldn't, he had to tell it to himself what it was. It was something he hasn't had in several years and thought he would never know again. It was love.

Itachi Uchiha, for the first time, had fallen in love with someone.

And that someone happens to be my little brother's girl.


Yeah, yeah, I know. A love triangle xD But don't worry, No one will dump anyone to go with the other (No one being Ari) -cough- But anyway, very interesting things will happen in this story. You all just need to keep on reading to find out ;D Thank u for reading and remember to review! See ya!