A/N: Oh my god, done! Finally! I am so sorry that I haven't updated in a while but I am seriously looking for some Valentine Day ideas for ItaSasu. One of my friends dared me to write a yuri one-shot and I don't know if I want to turn Itachi and Sasuke into females and have them be the yuri couple or just pick one of the Naruto characters for the job. My heart and writing belongs to ItaSasu so I'm having a hard time here because I want to please you but I gotta do the dare. Stupid bet….

Anyway! I have one more news. I don't think I did this chapter justice on some parts but at least half of this chapter, I want to disinfect myself. You will soon see why and I really hope that this is the last one I'm writing so much of it! I thought of this idea a long time ago before I had the feelings I have now so please bear with me and lend me your support.

I do NOT OWN ANY of the Naruto characters or the story itself. If I did, I would rewrite it similar to this but the ending pairing being ItaSasu, of course. But –sigh- there are some dreams in this world that just can't be granted. Thank you all for your wonderful reviews and your gracious patience. I am trying to do better but I am suffering senioridious right now so for those who know where I'm coming from, yeah. Tell me what you guys think about my ItaSasu yuri idea if you think I should do that for Valentine's Day or just pick another movie and do another parody scene like I did last year. I'm gonna need suggestions on that one too. Thank you and enjoy! Please help me!

Ch. 13: He Knows Something

To say Sasuke was angry would be too cute to say. To say that he's ready to kill someone due to every bit of hatred and anger pouring out of him like he's the demon of hell, would be the understatement of the century! He is more than just pissed off. There's probably not even a word to describe what Sasuke's feeling right now. All the villagers know is as Sasuke is practically stomping his way to Danzo's tent, or a.k.a. the Sixth Hokage's tent, they all backed away in fear that they will feel the full wrath of the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan.

Sasuke had just arrive at Danzo's tent when before he could raise his hand to push aside the cloth to enter, two tantous appear with their sharp edges threatening his neck from behind and in front. Sasuke does not react show any emotional reaction to the threat. All he says to them is, "The move you two made is incorrect."

Rather the two ANBU members are insulted by Sasuke's comment or not, it's hard to tell with their masks hiding away their faces. But they know he's right. With his speed, Sasuke could easily block their attacks and then finish them before they could even think about slicing his head off.

"Do not move a muscle, Uchiha Sasuke." Still one of them threatens him as if believing they can still take the Uchiha out first. Foolish ANBU.

Eyeing the one who spoke first, Sasuke commands, "Let me pass. I do not have the patience for you."

The second ANBU warns, "If you mean any harm to the Hokage-"

"Danzo is not an official Hokage yet until after the Jounin voted!" the Uchiha snaps, still acting calm and cool when he interrupted him. But inside, he is ready to burst. They can all see it. Even though his Sharingan is not activated, they don't need to see it to already know one wrong move against this teenager would mean certain death. "If you worry about his well being until then, don't be. I only came to ask him a few questions."

"Questions about what?"

He does not answer to that.

"Answer us, Uchiha!"

He's done talking to these fools. He wishes to speak with Danzo and he wishes to speak with him, NOW!

As if testing them, he ask, "Will you kill me if I don't? How will that reflect on your reputation?"

After what happened with his Team Hebi, besides the village council Sasuke knows that Danzo is one of the only political leaders that were still in office when the Uchiha Massacre occurred. He has to know something to clear up the confusion clouding everyone's minds. Though when he remembers that it was this Danzo who ordered his execution when he was with Orochimaru, there isn't a doubt that what Team Hebi was leading on might actually be true and that angered him. When he decided he was going to speak with Danzo, Kakashi and Yamato both tried to warn and stop him but it wasn't like he was going to approach him unprepared. They may think that he's acting exactly the same way he did thirteen years ago when he heard Itachi was after Naruto, but it's not the same now. He didn't kill Itachi by being unprepared and he's not going to talk to Danzo and leave empty handed by being unprepared either. He knows the qualifications to becoming an official Hokage and he knows that the way things are, if they lay a hand on him it will reflect on Danzo as Hokage and it will affect the Jounin's votes. Sasuke is one of the Hero's of Konoha now. He is untouchable, and he will use that fact to his advantage. Naruto wanted to accompany Sasuke as well but that was when Kakashi really put his foot down. Because he is the Kyuubi no Jichuriki and if the both of them get thrown in jail if they make the wrong move, then Naruto imprisoned will be exactly what Danzo wants. Lesser the consequences if Sasuke gets thrown in jail alone rather than Naruto joining him. The Uchiha survivor even agreed to that. Also, Sasuke wanted to talk to Danzo alone. Because if he's wants answers about Uchiha clan, it's really no one else's business unless they're also an Uchiha.

From inside the tent, the three shinobis hear, "Let him pass."

"Danzo-sama!" ANBU number one exclaims when he heard that order.

But on his command, Sasuke uses his speed to swiftly push the two tantous back by grabbing both of the ANBU's wrists. Both of them look at the Uchiha, probably caught off guard under that mask because how Sasuke grips both wrists, all he needs to do is squeeze with just enough force to completely dislocate their wrists.

"You heard him, move." The kid is dead serious, and if they didn't knew before, they know now they don't stand a chance against a pupil of Orochimaru and heir to the Uchiha bloodline.

Sasuke releases their wrists and they stepped back, just like the good little Hokage dogs they are. Now that he's in the clear, Sasuke pushes aside the cloth door of the tent and sees Danzo, calmly and casually sitting on his bench with his arm prompted on a pillow, piles of books stacked up besides his bench, and lanterns hanging just above him. When the Uchiha sees the bandaged man sitting there looking so relaxed when the teenager is just filled with exploding emotions like an active time-bomb, it irritates him all the more.

"What is it you wish to know, Uchiha Sasuke?"

But Sasuke needs to keep a cool head in this. He can Chidori a forest after he stays focused and stays smart about this meeting. He just needs to remember his training with Orochimaru. Never let your enemy have the opportunity to know what you're really feeling. They will use it to their advantage and rather it's with weapons or words, they will find a way to use it against you.

Face and eyes blank out of any emotion, and with a monotone voice of nothing but dead seriousness, Sasuke replies, "I want you to tell me everything you know about the Uchiha Massacre."

What came after his words is an extremely tensed and deadly silence. If the feeling of the room could be a fog, someone could cut right through it with a knife. No doubt those outsides, especially those guards, can feel the tension and caution spilling out through the small creeks and openings of the tent. Danzo's calm and authority aura that he had before disappears in an instant. It became an extreme round of a staring contest. Sasuke looks at the Hokage dead in the eyes, no specs at all in his eyes that he's going to back down unless he gets what he wants, and in Danzo's eyes, he looks unwilling to just give it to him on silver platter.

"The knowledge I possess is the same as everyone else's. What on earth could possible make you believe I know would anything else?"

"You've been involved in politics before my father attended the academy, and Uchiha Itachi was a member of the ANBU Black ops. Surely you've kept a close eye on him, even if he wasn't a part of the Root ANBU." Danzo's grip on his cane tightens when he heard that. Root ANBU is meant to be a secret from the rest of the village. It is the ANBU he has secretly run even after it was supposed to have been disbanded. Did Sai tell Sasuke about it? No, it's impossible. The tattoo on his tongue would prevent him from uttering a single word about it. Did Orochimaru tell him then? "Let me ask you again, what do you know about the Uchiha Massacre that no one else already knows?"

No matter. If Orochimaru told the boy everything he knows about him, it would do him no good. Orochimaru only knows the basic facts about him. He doesn't have any descriptive details that Sasuke could use against him. Danzo's posture relaxes when he realizes this himself. There is nothing for him to worry about. He only needs to play his cards right.

But such a disappointment. He would think the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan would approach him a bit more prepared than this.

"You poor, poor soul. Even now when you have everything you could possibly desire, you still dwell on the past." Sasuke did not take kindly to that. Instantly, to keep his emotions under control, he balls his fist at his side and grits his teeth tightly clench together; forcing him to just stand there and not say a thing as he listens while feeling his own inner monster roaring and writhing violently inside with each syllable this bandage man spits out. "Forget about it and move on with your new life Princess Tsunade has given you."

Not at all did that sound like a command that was meant to be advice to live a bright and promising future. It sounded like a threat and Sasuke does not take kindly to threats.

"The funny thing about the past, Danzo, is it always follows you no matter how fast or far you run away from it. It always comes back to haunt you. If you wish for me to leave and to forget my past, then answer my question so that I may be rid of it."

If a shinobi was in the room with them right now, he would fear for his life to the highest maximum. He would be quivering and cowering because the tension between the Uchiha and the Hokage is enough to make even a normal man cry like a frightened child. Danzo's one eye, which usually always closed and has remained since Sasuke has been here, is open and it narrows dangerously at the Sharingan heir. How dare this pup walk into this room and act as if he can threaten him and expect Danzo to obey like some shameless coward who would give up valuable information in exchange for his life. Oh how the boy doesn't know a thing about him.

"Persistent wretch, aren't you? But yet again, that's the problem with all of you Uchihas. You're so stubborn and headstrong when it comes to what you want." When he said 'Uchihas' this time, it sounded like he was spitting out the word like it was filth in his mouth and his voice went deeper into irritation and distaste. "Even if I did know something about it, I wouldn't tell you no matter what you do to me. It will do you no good when there is nothing for you in the past. Your brother was cruel and ruthless since the day he was born and he remained so until the day he died. Shouldn't you know that?"

He should but hearing this man talk about Itachi like that, it did nothing to calm the Uchiha's temper. Sasuke fought with Itachi and he saw how bent his brother was about killing him and taking his eyes. But it was still that last moment of his life that really haunts victor. What happened to Sasuke in his self-conscious was nothing more than his own self-conscious. Something he most likely created from the deep goodness of his heart that wanted to break free of his darkness. It was an epiphany that finally shined light into his cold miserable soul. It wasn't like Itachi was really the kind compassionate brother he used to be and his soul spiritually made contact with him to free him from these heavy chains. It wouldn't sound like that murderer at all. And yet Danzo's words made Sasuke want to punch and scream at the top of his lungs in denial that Itachi, the man he fought and killed, was not cruel and ruthless at his last moments. But if he does that, then most likely Danzo will take advantage of that, question Sasuke's unsupported theory, and then anger the boy even more with his obvious discriminating comments.

"Now leave this tent, or I will be forced to call my ninjas to escort you out."

Danzo is not going to budge and even if Sasuke stays true to the stubbornness inherited from his clan, it would only make the man more shut off from him even more. He came here to get full information about what Team Hebi was talking about and he failed. Only a few small questions were answered. None of the big ones.

But this isn't over and the Uchiha boy gives Danzo one last look to tell him that before turning around to the exit and walk out of that tent more furious and deadly than when he was walking towards this tent. Inside, Danzo still stares with his one good, open eye at the entrance of his tent and he rubs the handle of his cane in thought. It is official in his mind. That boy can pose as a problem for him in the future.

'Damn that shit to the fuckin depths of hell!'

As Sasuke is marching through the village, his mood is worst than when he was making his way to Danzo's tent. It's actually so bad that when his aura is sensed by everyone he passes, not even the children who look up and respect him are too afraid to approach him. Heck! Even the female population who got their past infatuations started up again after he saved their village didn't look at him with hearts in their eyes anymore. The Uchiha is fuming in his head. Besides that one thought above, he's starting to say all kinds of colorful words as if someone just gave him a seven page list of them all and he has to try to save it all in one breathe. Then repeat the whole process again ten more times.

He's in so much rage right now that he doesn't realize that he passed right through where the medical tents are. Sakura was inside working when she felt this dark menacing aura coming from outside. She went outside, expecting an enemy, but instead she sees Sasuke stomping away to who knows where. With worry, she wonders, 'Did something…happen?'

Oh you think!

Turning back into the tent to tell a passing nurse that she's going to be out for a bit, Sakura goes out to follow him. Many would think that she's probably crazy to try and approach him and ask what's wrong when he's like this. But rather they're dating or not, she still cares for him and if something is troubling him, she wants to help.

"Sasuke-kun!" she calls. He still keeps walking, rather he heard her or not. "Hey, Sasuke-kun!" Reaching him, she grasps his arm and he stops. In truth, he heard her. He just didn't want to talk to her when she's like this. Since he stopped and he closed his eyes to try and breathe, Sakura asks him, "Sasuke-kun, what happened? Did Danzo tell you anything?"

"That old man didn't tell me squat!" he snaps with his dangerously low soft voice. Now Sakura is starting to be afraid of him. If she wants to know so much, then fine. He'll vent to her since she wants it so bad. "But he knows something. I don't fucking care if he's the hokage. If he doesn't tell me what I want to know-"

"Sasuke-kun, please!" the worried pink-hair girl pleads him. Sliding her hands to his, she tries to give it a comforting squeeze as she tells him, "I know you're upset but you can't harm him. Just as he can't touch you, you can't touch him."

Sasuke isn't happy to hear that in the least. "I am the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan. I deserve to know what happened to them if what I know isn't what happened to them!" He full on snapped at her. Raised voice, rejecting angry eyes, and everything. His words actually stung the kunoichi because it sounded the same as she should back off and leave him alone. Her hand slips away from Sasuke's and only then does he realize the damage his words just caused.

"That's right," she says to him, her voice sounding meek and fragile and her eyes reverted to the ground. Sasuke's eyes slightly widen in realization. "If something happened to my parents and something was hidden from me, I deserve to know what it was more than anyone. I'm sorry for being insensitive."

Her insensitive? Not this time. He's the one being insensitive. Sakura's just worried about him since obviously confronting Danzo did not go so well and he's taking out his frustrations on her. She doesn't deserve it. Well she always said for Sasuke to be his true self. One of those qualities is being a jerk, but not like this.

"Sakura, I…" He tries to find the words but he can't. He needs to apologize but when was the last time he actually apologized to someone face to face? Really? "You don't need to apologize. I do. I'm…I'm sorry. I know you're only worried and I thank you for your concern." A bit iffy, but at least it has the large-forehead girl's desire to look at him in the face again. She still looks a bit hurt and apologetic but Sasuke just lets out a sigh and reaches for her hand this time. "Truly."

Him holding her hand of his own accord and saying those words with pure sincerity and compassion in his eyes, it all just instantly melts away Sakura's anxiety and despair. Her heart is pounding again and his hand just feels so warm to the touch. So strong and can do some of the greatest terrifying things Sakura can only imagine. Such a warm hand…

Feeling peace, Sakura returns the grip and smiles. "I guess…I'm just afraid that you would leave this village again," she confesses. Bringing the hand to her face, she presses the fingers against her cheek lovingly and then says to him, "Please promise me something, Sasuke-kun. Promise me that whatever those people were talking about, you won't make the decision on your own on what to do. You'll talk with us first and we'll work something. Alright?"

Because more than anything, she doesn't want him to leave her ever again. She won't be able to handle the separation and she knows Naruto wouldn't be able to either.

Sasuke knows this and that's why he gives her the softest look he can possible manage at this point and tells her, "Alright."

Hearing those words bring a brighter and a more relieved smile on Sakura's face. Seeing that beautiful smile, it actually made Sasuke's earlier anger die down a bit. It's s still there but at least now it's not a roaring burning forest fire. It reduced to just a spark, waiting to start again but maybe another time. For now, enjoy this peace for a little bit longer because he knows that his team will come back. They swore they would and if they, maybe then he can get the answers he wants without leaving Konoha.

After a moment of sweet bliss, Sakura tells him, "Come on. We got patients to heal." With their fingers still entwined, Sakura turns around and starts leading him back to the medical tent. He follows her.

However when Sakura was chasing Sasuke, they went quite a few ways. They're actually back in the carpenter work area and as they're walking through, Sasuke notices something at the corner of his eyes. He sees Naruto and Hinata talking, alone, possibly hiding from everyone else.

The Uchiha didn't say anything. He only stopped walking and when Sakura notices, she turns towards him to ask what's wrong but seeing him looking at something, she follows his gaze and sees the same thing he's seeing. Even Naruto grinning like the moron he is and rubbing the back of his head while Hinata waits patiently to what he has to say to her. Probably what's so important that they have to hide from everyone. Instantly, Sakura knows what this is.

First she gasps before whispering, "Don't tell me he's…"

Sasuke still doesn't say anything. Both of them just watch, not being close enough for hearing range, but all of a sudden Hinata's eyes grow incredibly wide, her cheeks are the color of roses and Naruto has a slight similar shade on his own cheeks. Then like tea pot, Hinata's entire face becomes the same color red as Sasuke's Sharingan and steam escapes right out of her. It didn't take too long till Hinata loses balance and starts falling backwards. It kind of took a while before Naruto realizes that the Hyuuga heir just fainted and already lying on the ground, Naruto calls for her.

"Ah! Hinata!"

Naruto just asked Hinata out. Finally.

I told you guys I wanna disinfect myself. That was just…-skin crawls- Oh well. At least Naruto and Hinata are now dating so I guess not all things are lost. But what do you guys think? You think Sasuke will keep his promise to Sakura once he hears the truth about his brother? Give me your opinion on that!

But how was the chapter? Bad? Good? As injustice to the story as I thought? Let me know. Till next time!