Chapter 12

They had been traveling for almost a ay and a half now. They were only half a day away from Konoha. The problem was they only had a rough idea where Itachi would be. It could take years to find him and Sasuke didn't have that long. They had decided they would look all night and if they didn't find him they would turn back. They couldn't leave Sasuke too long they knew that Fugaku would scare him into coming back. That's when they found him. Itachi was sitting on a rock by a river he was alone so it would appear that they caught a break. Now they just had to convince him to leave his mission of five years to help his little brother. Naruto and Neji decided to go over. They didn't want to put the girls in danger and they figured Lee would just annoy him. They walked over to him Itachi didn't even look at them he knew they were all here. Why he didn't know and he had to admit he was just a little bit curious.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't take the nine tails and kill you all."

"Sasuke needs you." Naruto said

"I don't care about my foolish little brother."

"Itachi look drop the act we know you're on a mission. Sasuke is in serious danger and you need to come back to Konoha." Neji said.

"You think that I am able to just up and leave a mission. A mission that I have been doing for five years now Hyuga."

"Dammit Itachi your father is alive and other male Uchihas are to. He's been abusing Sasuke for the last four months now. He had him locked away in the house for three of those months. The only way we know about this is because he went on a mission finally and Kakashi got him out. He's been raping him and has him addicted to some drug called heroin. He needs your help. He needs you to be a big brother not a ninja." Naruto stated

"I never wanted to kill them I felt horrible after I would kill one of them. But father I couldn't think about killing him enough. Where is Sasuke right now?"

"He's in the hospital with Kakashi, Shino, Kiba and Shikamaru. Well he was when we left a day and a half ago. Your father was supposed to be back that night." Neji said

"Then lets hurry."

They started to make their way back to Konoha. Itachi was hoping that Kakashi was able to keep Sasuke away from their father. Once he was there he knew he could protect Sasuke he just had to get there.

It had been two days since the others had left to find Itachi two days now that Sasuke didn't say anything didn't eat and didn't sleep two whole days. He just shook and scratched the back of his hand. The four ninjas sat there at times in silence and at other times when Sasuke's shaking got to the extreme they would talk and try to get his mind off of it. Occasionally Sasuke would be sick. It was starting to get worse just last night he was sick five times. He had a very high fever today of 105F Tsunade didn't know why he had a fever so high it wasn't common for that to occur in drug withdrawals.

It was dangerously high for her liking she was going to monitor it. Kakashi was getting worried he still sat behind Sasuke. When his shaking got to the extreme it would cause his breathing to quicken. He would wrap his arms around him tight to calm the shaking down. Fugaku is due back by nightfall and still there was no sign of Itachi. He also didn't know how Sasuke would react to Itachi being there. All Kakashi could do was hope this worked and not make everything worse. It was almost one in the afternoon when Itachi walked through the door.