I sighed in boredom as Naruto walked out of his room still a bit pink from earlier. He looked at me and I looked up at the ceiling, seeing the sunlight reflect off of the table and onto it. Suigetsu, Karin and Jugo are probably worrying about me at the moment and that was to be expected.
"What's wrong Sasuke? You look stressed out." Naruto said as he was walking over to the fridge to get some milk.
"Just thinking is all. Though I feel like something's wrong." I said sighing and something did feel wrong, and not about Team Hebi but about Akatsuki, I had a bad feeling. Naruto looked at me confused and he took a sip of milk as both of us heard a knock at the door.
"It's Sakura, I'll get it." I said, suddenly opening the door to see Sakura standing there panting from running. She looked up as Naruto peeked around the corner and jumped beside me.
"Hey Sakura-chan, what's up?" Naruto asked smiling a bit more warmly then I wanted. I just pushed it aside though.
"It's about…Itachi's corpse. The medics did an autopsy and it…isn't…Itachi." Sakura said, looking at me with a very worried glance as to what my reaction would be. It was complete confusion.
"What do you mean? It was Itachi, sharingan and all." I said in objection. Naruto nodded in agreement, equally confused. Sakura nodded and sighed.
"Genetic Mutation, it was a deploy, it wasn't the real Itachi. Sasuke, you're brother is still alive." Sakura said. My eyes widened in disbelief.
"I'm going to have to see this myself." I said turning around and sliding my shoes on as Sakura nodded and waited by the door as we got ready. We walked out and waited as Naruto locked the door. Naruto looked at us and Sakura bounded off and we followed.
Team seven was back together and running as one above Konoha once again. We jumped around the roof tops and finally got to where the autopsy was taking place. Kakashi, Tsunade, and Jiriya were there looking at the covered corpse, who was not Itachi.
"Itachi is still alive and still in Akatsuki. They know where Naruto is and who's with him. And now Sasuke…they have you're weakness." Tsunade said right as we got in. Well she didn't waist any time and I was already thinking about this on the way here.
"Yeah, I know and knowing that he's still alive means I can't stay in Konoha." I said quietly and sounding a bit tense too. I had my arms crossed over my chest and Naruto looked at me shocked when I said that.
"What?! But, but, but….Sasuke!" Naruto whined like he was some little kid. Tsunade sighed and nodded understandingly, both of us ignoring Naruto's whining.
"Alright, that will give me more time to talk to the elders also. Do what you can and if Konoha can be of any help…let us know." Tsunade said as I nodded. Sakura understood and also nodded at me, telling that she would help also. Naruto looked at Tsunade and then at me and clung onto my arm.
"Sasuke, but you just got back! You can't leave now, don't go Sasuke." Naruto whined, again saying my name first and last. It almost made me shiver but I was keeping cool since we had more company here.
"Sorry Naruto, but…my teams already here." I said and Karin, Jugo, and Suigetsu walked out from the shadows looking serious but Suigetsu was smirking.
"Well, well, well…looks like Sasuke got played by his brother. Must have been a powerful switch." Suigetsu chuckled as he walked over and looked at the corpse, ignoring the Konoha Shinobi.
"Shut up Suigetsu. You're voice is starting to get on my nerves." Karin growled in annoyance, seeming to have a headache from Suigetsu being the leader. Suigetsu looked at her with a blood lust in his eyes as he grabbed the hilt of his sword.
"What was that you bitch? Don't insult me like that!" He growled to Karin, who didn't seem a bit afraid of him. This was going to annoy me to know extent so I might as well stop them now.
"Suigetsu, Karin stop now!" I commanded with strong authority in my voice. They both looked at me and calmed a bit too only glare at each other. Tsunade and the Jounin plus Sakura were looking at me wide eyed at my authority and the power I had, Naruto was preoccupied. He slung onto me, hugging me tightly.
"No, no! I won't let you go Sasuke! I'm not letting you leave again." Naruto said a bit loudly. Everyone looked over at him confused as I tried to push him off, or at least break apart from him.
"Naruto, let go! After I kill Itachi I'll come back alright! Stop holding me! I promise I'll come back."
"And I promised to help you kill Itachi. Remember? I've never broken a promise before and I won't start now!" Naruto shouted as he pulled back and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were having tears just begging to spill over. Shit…that's not what I wanted. I looked down away from him, my bangs shadowing my face and my hands in fists as I thought.
"It's up to Tsunade, but another team will have to come if you come. The more people the better." Though that was just an excuse to keep me from jumping on him every time I see him. No one seemed to realize this though. Tsunade nodded.
"Alright, Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto will go with you. Sasuke's in charge you three." Tsunade said. Naruto looked at Tsunade happily and nodded as Sakura and Kakashi nodded also. I turned as Karin tossed me my cloak she was holding and I put it on.
"Hurry up you three and don't bother bringing anything except you're weapons. Let's go." Sasuke said walking away as the leader of Team Hebi and Team seven.
InsaneSilo- gah! I'm sooooo sorry this took like friken forever. I had to go to Alaska and I wasn't in the fanfiction mood at the time. TTTT I'm sorry please forgive. I'll continue maybe on a normal basis now, unless I have a fanfiction spree and post a bazillion chapters each day, who knows but hopefully maybe two or three chapters a week since school is approaching too TTTT
Disclaimer- I don't own any of the Naruto charaters.
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