*comes out from large hole in the ground* I am so, so, sorry! Ive been gone for a long time and basically abandoned all of you readers that like my story...*sweatdrop* it's not my fault! ok, well it kind of is...but whatever! I have it out now, so be happy! Even though by the end you will totally hate me. Remember back when I said that there might be CHARACTER DEATH? Well its official now. and this is the second to last chapter, including the epilogue. But hopefully by then you will love me again! Now enough of my ranting and excuses, I shall now let you read the official story!

Dislcaimer: I do not own Naruto; Itachi does though ^^; but I do own Riku and Ookami, so no claiming them as your own characters! *growls*

Music used: The Good Left Undone by Rise Against

Beta'd by: iscreamdrizzle (my skarchett friend who has also been absent for a while now!)

All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long.
When I do I dream
of drowning in the ocean;

Itachi had found his blond, but the strangest thing was, said blond was trying to stab his little brother repeatedly with a single kunai. Itachi blamed it on the music that was playing.

He threw a small barrage of shuriken into the small battle that was taking place, causing both of the participants to jump backward.

Longing for the shore
Where I can lay my head down.
I'll follow your voice;
all you have to do is
shout it out!

The music abruptly stopped and Naruto felt all of the emotions inside him go out like a candle.

Or, from Loyalty and Anger's position, all of the trapped emotions had just been tethered to the large oak tree, yet again.

Anger looked at Loyalty. "I hate this damn tree."

"So do I, Anger." the black wolf replied. "So do I."

But the sudden flow of apathy had made the blond's world spin. The last thing he saw was the blurred image of black with blood red mixing with it.

Itachi moved his blond out of the way and stood down his opponents. "Come." he said.

Meanwhile, Kyuubi was messing with the seal upon Naruto's chest. So far, he had only managed to almost blow the duo to bits.

"Damn it! Fucking seal and it's fucking defenses!" he muttered angrily. He slashed at the seal with his chakra and it was rearranged into a different seal.

Instead of the cross, the seal consisted of small Celtic knots in the general shapes of right triangles that all connected in the center at each ninety degree angle. The knot from one triangle continued in the one that was to the immediate left of it.

At this point Naruto decided to wake up. "Ugh...where the hell am I?" he asked no one in particular.

"You are in your mindscape. Do you feel anything?" Kyuubi asked with bated breath.

Naruto glared up at the fox. "What the hell did you do to me, you stupid fuzz ball?!" he yelled.

Kyuubi was internally grinning his special victory grin, and dancing his awesome victory dance to his equally awesome music. Basically, it was a giant nine tailed fox doing "Thriller". 'Hee hee. I win.' he thought to himself as he started to explain. "I fixed you! Now you can feel emotions without music playing! Or at least that's how I think it works now..." he trailed off with a small sweat drop on the back of his furry head.

Naruto's glare subsided and he looked at his bare chest. He saw the seal and he poked it; resenting his choice as a burning pain shot through him.

He groaned and doubled over.

"Yeah..." Kyuubi drawled. "You probably shouldn't do that again. You might die this time."

Naruto managed to look up at the fox with a dark glare, before he arrived in the real world.

The one time Itachi was actually having fun, the stupid Konoha nin had to be killjoys.

They had shown up only a few moments after his battle had begun. They consisted of: the pink banshee, Kakashi, the Inuzuka heir, the female Hyuuga and Kurenai.

Here was his brother, trying to attack him and the 'ancestors' of Naruto at the same time. He didn't use shadow clones, so he was trying to be in two places at once.

To say the least it was rather amusing.

Or at least it was until the dog-boy started to help Sasuke in his 'Quest for Vengeance', 'I-Shall-Avenge-My-Clan!' bullshit.

He knocked the Inuzuka away from him with a simple bat of his hand. "I grow tired of this, little brother."

Sasuke glared at his older brother with the patented 'Uchiha Glare of Doom'.

"Why not take out the common enemy before you attack me?" Itachi suggested.

Sasuke then seemed to find logic in Itachi's words and, grudgingly and extremely reluctant, agreed.

"Oh, but why attack me?" Riku complained. "What did I ever do to you? All I wanted to do was spend some quality time with my grandson. Is it so wrong of me to want that?"

"It is when you want to suck out the fuzz ball and use him for your own good!" a voice called.

Itachi froze, as did the rest of the nin around him.

"Naruto...?" He whispered.

Riku looked at his descendant. "Ah, Naruto-kun! How good of you to join us!" he said in an unnecessarily sweet voice.

Ookami sat close to the treeline, simply watching the scene before him in silence. 'I cant help the feeling that something is going to go wrong.' he thought.

Naruto turned his head slowly to meet the ancestor. All that came from his mouth were two words. "Fuck. You."

Sasuke blinked. He knew Naruto had crude language, but never had he dropped the 'F-Bomb'. He meant business, the blond did.

Riku glared at the young blond. "You dare to insult me?" He snarled and suddenly Naruto was thrown into a tree. "You shall pay for your insolence, boy!" In his hand, appeared a long spear.

Everything went in slow motion for Naruto from there.

Riku started to charge him.

He knew he couldn't dodge.

'Thirty yards away.' he thought.

He knew he couldn't block.

'Twenty yards.'

And he knew he couldn't attack.

'Ten yards.' he closed his eyes.

Accepting his fate with a sigh, he slumped to the ground, allowing his chest to be completely exposed.

'Five yards.'

A sickening crack and the sound of sharp metal piercing through soft flesh and cloth was the only thing that was heard.

Naruto opened his eyes. He couldn't breathe.

Riku sneered, disgustedly. "And another falls into the world of the deceased."

Wide eyes of ocean blue stared, horrified at the sight in front of him.

Blood was caked on his face, chest and arms; a large hole where the blade still resided, as though content with it's current position. The wooden handle could be seen showing out of his body and black hair obscured his face from the views of all but the Jinchuuriki in front of him.

"Naru..to..." he whispered softly. He looked at Naruto's face and wiped away the single tear that had ran down his cheek. "Don't cry, my love." the raven's face held a small smile.

Riku quickly grew tired of this scene. "Now, I shall be cutting this reunion abruptly shorter then you would like it to be." He then ripped the spear out of the raven's body.

The force of this caused him to fall onto Naruto, who held him close, despite the blood coming from the gaping wound that sat upon his chest.

A pale hand caressed a tan and whiskered cheek. "Aishiteru, Naruto." he managed to cough out, blood running from his mouth.

The raven slowly closed his eyes and his hand fell from his lovers face.

Naruto looked at him with wide eyes as his breathing slowed and finally came to a stop. "No..." he whispered, tears gathering in his eyes once more.

Not a single rain drop fell, nor did any creature of the forest flee from the tortured scream that one human let out.

"ITACHI!"

see what I mean when I said you would hate me? But hey! Maybe this will get me a flamer or a couple very angry fans! I would love to respond to a couple of those! So feel free to yell at me for Killing off one of the main characters!