Dangerous Love
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. Hmm not much to say for this chapter, other than I hope you all like it. (Oh and my Gaara x Itachi shippers should be very pleased with this one ;) )
Chapter Notation: The orange in the orange, black, and white blur was Sasuke's prison outfit. The white was obviously his skin and the black was his hair. Reposting this, because I'm not sure if it went through last time. Please let me know if you can see it.
Chapter 21
"Shisui! It's good to see you. I was so relieved that you weren't blown up." Madara says cheerfully, a short while later when Shisui walks into the living room.
"Yes, I'm rather happy at not being blown up, myself." The younger Uchiha replies dryly.
"Well everyone is here. We are going to stay for the next two weeks or so, while a couple of our people heal. One has a broken leg. The other has pretty severe burns on them." Madara explains and Shisui nods.
He was just glad he got there in time. He didn't want to have to try to track down Madara in Brazil. Even for someone with is skills, that would prove exceedingly difficult.
"Where is everyone else?" He inquires.
"My dear great nephews are probably enjoying some quality time with their lovers. Shikamaru and Temari are likely doing likewise. I think I saw Jugo and Kisame head off to the hot tub. Kankuro and Suigetsu are out exploring the farm together. And I believe Karin is hiding in her room. Poor thing probably feels outnumbered. There are only two women here after all." He muses.
"Ah good to know. I can't wait to see Itachi and Sasuke again. I don't think they recognized me. It has been so long since they last saw me. I can't blame them though. So they both have lovers then?" Shisui asks.
Just then the sounds of a bed shaking could be heard. Shisui was almost positive that he heard Itachi's voice. He chuckles. Well that answered that question.
"Yes, though I imagine Sasuke and Naruto will be less physical for awhile. Naruto is the one with the burned legs. Shikamaru has the broken one." He clarifies.
Madara smirks when he heard the sounds of more shaking going on. Itachi was quite vigorous, it seemed. Well Uchihas were known for their sexual prowess and Itachi was no exception in this regard. In a way, he was proud of the boy.
"Well I'm glad that everyone got here in mostly one piece." Shisui offers and his relative nods.
"It is a shame about your bar." Madara states in what the younger Uchiha was sure was supposed to be a sympathetic fashion.
Shisui sighs and nods. Yeah it was. That bar was his baby. He had built it from scratch. But he was a firm believer that when one door closed, another would open.
Now that Orochimaru apparently knew who he was, his hand had been forced. He'd throw his lot in with his family and see where it took him. The young man realized that he didn't have much of a choice. The Crime Lord would come for him eventually. It would be better if he did, while he had Madara, Itachi, and Sasuke fighting alongside with him.
"Thanks. I will miss that place. Oh well. They say nothing lasts forever and that is most certainly true." He says with a wistful sigh.
"Indeed. Come on. I would say after the week you've had, you deserve a drink. What's your poison?" Madara asks with a smirk.
"Russian Vodka." Shisui replies and Madara laughs.
"Ah a man after my own heart. Let's see what Jirayia has in his liquor cabinet." He states and the two head off to explore their options.
The eldest Uchiha walks into the kitchen. He opens the cabinet and looks inside curiously. Hmm, where was the vodka? Ah yes, there it was. He grabs the bottle and hands it to Shisui.
"Do you want any?" The younger man inquires as he pours himself a drink.
"I suppose a glass wouldn't hurt. We've already done all our strategizing for the day anyway." The long haired man answers.
Shisui nods. He quickly fills a glass for Madara. The former bar owner hands it to the Crime Lord and they make a toast.
"A toast to freedom, revenge, and new beginnings." The older man says and Shisui clinks his glass with Madara as they both take a long gulp of the hard alcohol.
"Hey, you two aren't drinking without me!" Jirayia protests as he walks into the kitchen.
Madara laughs and grabs his friend a glass. The white haired man nods his thanks. He quickly downs it.
"Ahhh that really hit the spot. Speaking of hitting, sounds like at least one of love birds is…well doing some heavy hitting. Damn" Jirayia chuckles.
"That would be Itachi and Gaara. Shikamaru has a broken leg. Naruto's injured. I don't think Suigetsu and Kankuro have passed the flirtation stage yet. So it's them by default." Madara states in open amusement.
"Damn, your great nephew is really going for it." Jirayiua laughs and the other two men nod in agreement.
Meanwhile Gaara and Itachi collapse into each other, in a pile of tangled limbs. Itachi disentangles himself and wraps his arms around his red head. He smiles and kisses Gaara's forehead.
"It's great to have a real bed." The Suna leader muses.
"Mhm. Even better to have a hot red head in said bed." Itachi replies and Gaara shakes his head as he cuddles into his lover.
Perfect. As far as Gaara was concerned, life was perfect. He was free and had Itachi. Even his siblings had escaped. He was glad that Naruto was going to be okay. Itachi would have been devastated because Sasuke would have been. That and the red head was fond of the blonde.
"You weren't kidding when you said you adored me." The younger man says and places a light kiss on his lover's chest.
"I would never kid about something like that. Once Orochimaru is dead, we can travel the world together. Where would you like to go first?" He inquires.
Gaara tilts his head to the side. Hmm, he hadn't thought about it much before. Where would he like to go with Itachi?
Did it really matter? It wasn't likely they were going to leave their room much. A fact which didn't bother him. He was perfectly content just to make love and curled up in his lover's arms all day. Hmm but still, this seemed important to Itachi. He should come up with some sort of answer.
"Ireland." He says after awhile.
"Ireland?" Itachi asks in surprise.
"My family is Irish. Immigrated over after the Great Potato Famine. Besides, you'd fit right in. You're always after me lucky charms." He says.
"Well they are magically delicious and that does explain the red hair. Alright. Ireland it is." He says and snuggles into Gaara.
The red head smiles. Truly, he would go to the ends of the earth for this man. He hadn't known it was possible to love someone this much. He had never thought he'd actually find love, let along with another gang leader. Life could be strange sometimes.
Itachi smile as he runs his hands along Gaara's biceps and stomach. He enjoyed this. He liked to feel the well defined muscles of his lover. Gaara wasn't bulky. He was built much like a cheetah really. That red head was a fast motherfucker when he wanted to be.
"So where did you learn to throw knives like that?" Itachi asks.
"Probably best not to talk about it." Gaara mutters, suddenly turning serious.
Itachi raises an eyebrow. He decides not to push the issue. The past didn't really matter. They had a beautiful future to look forward to and he knew Gaara would tell him when he was ready.
"Alright. Good night, my love. You should probably get some rest. I was rather rough on you." He says with a smirk.
"The day I can't handle your love physically, is the day I suddenly decide to dye my hair blonde." Gaara scoffs.
Itachi tries to imagine a blonde Gaara. He just couldn't do it. Of course, no matter what color hair he had, he'd still fuck his brains out. Gaara was Gaara. (Though he did find himself rather fond of the blood red locks.)
"I love you. I don't think you'll ever understand how much." Itachi states and kisses his forehead, as he wraps the blankets around them.
"Mmm I think you are pretty good at getting the point across. I'm surprised the bed didn't break." He states dryly and earns a chuckle from his lover for his efforts.
"I have to admit, I am also a little surprised. I'll just have to try harder next time." He muses.
Gaara smirks. Well if Itachi was going to give him that easy of an opening to work with, who was he not to take it? He couldn't resist the pun.
"Oh I'm sure something will be harder alright." He replies.
"You are quite the sassy little nymph." Itachi says and shakes his head in amusement.
"What can I say? You inspire me. You always have. Even when we were rival gang members." Gaara replies and smiles as he remembered the first time he met Itachi.
Gaara hadn't been in the prison long. But he understood enough to know that it was run by three gangs. The Akatsuki, Sound, and Taka. It seemed like the leaders of the Akatsuki and Taka were brothers. They had a major problem with the Sound. The red head had tried his best to stay out of it.
"Hey, red. Heard you used to be a pretty badass drug lord on the outside." Gaara heard one of the Sound members say to him.
"I did alright." He replied and turned his attention back to his lunch.
Prison food was utterly disgusting. He supposed that was half of the punishment of being in prison. He sucked it up though. The criminal figured he'd get used to it, sooner or later. Apparently it was going to be much later in his case though.
"Well you could do even better in the Sound. We are one of the biggest gangs in this prison and a global enterprise." The man continued.
"That's nice. I'm just serving my time. I'm not looking to get involved in the drama." The red head said.
"I don't think you understand. This isn't optional." The Sound member said and grabbed Gaara by the wrist.
Gaara's eyes narrowed. Oh he understood perfectly now. He wasn't going to be forced into joining a gang, he didn't want to join. He slammed his knee into the man's gut and he soon barreled over, clutching his stomach.
"I said no, thank you." The Drug Lord stated.
"YOU ASSHOLE. GET HIM!" The Sound member ordered in outrage and suddenly, Gaara was surrounded by a group of men who all had sound tattoos.
He counted at least eight in all. Damn it. Without a weapon, he could probably take 4, maybe 5. But eight was just too much. Oh well, he'd go down fighting.
"He said he wasn't interested. Honestly, eight against one? Could the Sound be anymore pathetic?" Gaara heard someone say and looked up.
Gaara had never been one to judge based on looks along. But this man was stunning. Smoky gray eyes, silky black hair that billowed in the wind rather dramatically (how did he get his hair to do that?), and sun kissed skin. His build was medium, all sleek muscle. But he walked with such a predatory grace that the red head almost forgot that he was about to get attacked by eight gang members.
"Oh Uchiha. Didn't realize the red head was your bitch. No wonder he's being a cocky asshole. But you are delusional if you think you can take all of us." The original gang member said.
"It seems you are the one who is delusional." Itachi replied and darted at the other man, slamming him into the ground.
When other members of the gang went to get Itachi off of him, Itachi did a split while still on top of the man, that delivered a kick to the side of two gang members heads. This knocked them out instantly.
"1, 2...and 3." Itachi said as he slams his first into the other man's throat, effectively knocking the wind out of him.
The other five came flying at Itachi. Suddenly, a black, orange, and white blur darted in. Said blur sent one of the men flying. Gaara finally got a good look at him. This was Sasuke. The leader of Taka. He knew that he was Itachi's brother. It seemed he had decided to lend a hand.
"Thanks, Sasuke." Itachi said smoothly as the brothers began fighting back to back.
Once Gaara got over his shock, he started to help them. Now that the playing field was somewhat leveled, they tore through the other Sound members with relative ease.
"You alright?" Sasuke asked, Itachi who nodded.
"Good. I'm going to get back to my gang." He said and walked off, as if nothing happened.
"You alright?" Itachi asked Gaara.
"Yes, thanks to you. But why?" The red head asked in confusion, not sure why the leader of Akatsuki had interceded on his behalf.
"It was eight against one. I despise cowards." He replied simply.
"Thank you." Gaara told him.
"You're welcome. Though it really is safer if you are in a gang." Itachi offered.
"Yeah. You're right. That's why I'll just start my own." He said.
"Good luck." Itachi said with a smirk and headed off.
Gaara hadn't had a gang exactly on the outside. He'd been a Drug Lord, but he mostly organized selling. He hadn't actually gotten his hands dirty with blood before.
Running a gang, had been a new experience. He probably wouldn't have started his own gang, if it wasn't for Itachi. In a strange way, he became a role model for the red head. Though of course, he never admitted that out loud.
Elsewhere on the farm, Shisui had gotten pretty drunk. He stumbled off to find a room. He ended up walking into Naruto and Sasuke's room without realizing it.
"Hey, it's the bartender!" Naruto says in confusion.
"Yeah. What are you doing here?" Sasuke asks in confusion.
"Oh Sasuke. It's good to see you. I'm not surprised you didn't recognize me. I'm Shisui. You've grown quite a bit since I last saw you playing with your toy soldiers." He says with a chuckle.
Sasuke blinks. That was Shisui?! No wonder Madara had been so sure that the bartender could be trusted. He was family.
"Shisui? Is that really you?" The Taka member asks in disbelief and the bartender nods.
Sasuke smiles. He lunges at the other man and gives him a tackle hug. Naruto wasn't sure if he should be jealous or not.
"Sasuke, who the fuck is Shisui?" The blonde demands to know, not liking the fact that he suddenly felt very much out of the loop.
"Oh right. Sorry, Naruto. This is Shisui. He's my cousin. I haven't seen him since I was like four though." Sasuke says.
"Oh. Cousin. Cousin is good." Naruto says, seeming to accept that answer.
Shisui chuckles. It looked like the blue eyed criminal was the jealous type. Sasuke was going to have his hands full with that one.
"No. I'm not going to try to seduce your lover. Don't worry. I love my family, just not in THAT way." Shisui offers.
"Good to know. I'd have to kill you if you tried to seduce him." Naruto says cheerfully.
Sasuke shakes his head in amusement. The hacker was really possessive. But Sasuke didn't mind most of the time. He didn't want anyone else and honestly, it just showed he cared. It was kinda hot really. (Though he'd never admit that to Naruto.)
"Ignore him. He can be a bit of a caveman sometimes. Eventually, he'll get it through his thick skull that he's the only one that I want." Sasuke says.
"You have the strangest way of saying, "I love you," you know that? Only you can insult someone and then say you love them. It's weird!" The other man protests.
Shisui watches in amusement. He could see that if nothing else, he definitely would never be bored with this group. These two had such a passionate relationship, it seemed. He wondered how long they had been together.
"I was just looking for a room. I didn't realize this one had been taken. But it's so good to see you again, Sasuke." He offers.
"You to!" Sasuke says with a smile.
"How is your leg, Naruto? I heard you got hurt when the bomb went off?" The bartender inquires.
"Oh. Still stings like a bitch. Sasuke is such a good nurse though. He got me pain meds and everything." Naruto says cheerfully.
Sasuke twitches at being called a nurse. He mutters something about dumb blondes. The elder Uchiha shakes his head in amusement. Yes, there would never be a dull moment with this group, it seemed.
"That's good to hear. Good night." He says and heads off.
"Well he seems nice." Naruto muses and Sasuke nods in agreement as he cuddles into his lover.
A hundred miles away, Tsunade wakes up in the trunk of a car. She mentally panics. Then she realizes the idiots hadn't tied her up. She could move!
With that thought in mind, she slams her legs and hands into the trunk. Thankfully, she had always been strong. It popped open. She gulps when she saw the car was moving at a pretty fair speed. But she knew one thing, she'd rather take her chances going splat on the road, than wherever they were trying to take her. So she jumps.
"AHHH!" She cries out in pain when she lands on the ground.
"Did you hear something?" One of the men in the car asks and the other gestures at the radio.
"Just the radio. Come on. Let's get going. The boss wants this bitch delivered to him, ASAP. You know what happens when he's kept waiting." The other men replies as they take off.
Tsunade sighs in relief when she sees them drive away. She winces, trying to ignore the pain in her badly injured arms and shredded knees. She continues walking off in the opposite direction, as the car continues to drive off.
"This is bad." She mutters.
She knew she had to get to a gas station or somewhere with a phone. Maybe she'd see a sign on the way there, so she'd have some clue where she was and when she called Kakashi, he could come and get her.
"But who wanted to kidnap me in the first place?" She mutters.
The blonde shivers as she imagined the possibilities. None of them were good. She hurries off, trying to find a place with a phone.
Elsewhere Orochimaru sighs, he told himself that he just needed to be patient. His employees would show up with Tsunade soon. Judging by what Sai said, it was likely Madara would come for her.
"One can't fault his taste. If I was interested in women, I might share them." He chuckles.
He didn't have a problem with Tsunade. She was just bait. He needed to get Madara on his home turf. Then he could take out the other Crime Lord. It was the perfect plan.
If he could get Madara here, he would have the advantage. He had men. Orochimaru had guns. He had all sorts of traps he could set. Yes, all he had to do was get the lion to walk into the cobra's den.
"Soon he'll just be a historical footnote." He smirks to himself.
The Uchihas had caused him no end of grief. Truly, Itachi and Sasuke had once been his crowend jewels. It was unfortunate, that he had to abandon them. But Madara was a completely different ballgame.
He was a wild card. Sasuke and Itachi were motivated by very logical drives. They were highly intelligent. But more often than not, he could anticiptae their next moves. Unfortunately, the Crime Lord couldn't say this about their Great Uncle.
"Sir, your wine." A maid says as she walks over to him, carrying a tray with the wine on it.
"Oh yes. Thank you." He replies and waves his hand, dimissing her.
He was fighting to maintain his crown and his life. Orochimaru quite liked the lifestyle that being a Crime Lord entitled him to. Fine wine, cars, houses, and so many beautiful lovers he could play with. What could be better?
Nothing. That is what. He sighs. He missed Kabuto deeply. It was a pity the silver haired man had died. Oh well. He would just find a new play thing.
"Speaking of playthings, I shall have to keep an eye on Sai." He mutters.
Sai was a powerful weapon. But he was one that was also highly unpredictable. Who really knew what was going on behind that creepy smile? Orochimaru certainly didn't.
Privately, the elderly man knew that Sai was one sick puppy as the saying went. God only knows what he was capable of. Thankfully, with the proper guidance, he had flourished.
"I was burned once before though." He states, remembering the Uchiha brothers.
He had taught them everything he knew. Perhaps, he had taught them a little too well. He would never make that mistake again. The students must never surpass their master.
He sighs as he looks out the window. The Moon was full. He knew Madara. The man had some sort of obsession with he Moon. Apparently, Izuna had been killed on a night with a Full Moon. So the symbolism was powerful to him.
"Wherever you are, I will find you. There can only be one Crime Lord." He says with a smirk.
Oh yes, his revenge would be sweet. How dare Madara speak to him in that fashion? Orochimaru was a Crime Lord! He had EARNED his position. Just because he hadn't bathed the city in blood, didn't make him any less of a criminal than the other man. And he was going to prove that to the world.
He hears the car pull up. He smirks and goes to see Tsunade. The two men quickly open the trunk and blink. No one wast here.
"WHERE IS SHE?!" Orochimaru seethes in rage.
"She was here! We knocked her out and stuffed her in the trunk!" They say in shock.
Orochimaru notes the trunk had a major dent in it. Tsunade had fought her way out. The idiots didn't bind her hands.
"YOU IDIOTS! YOU LET HER ESCAPE!" Orochimaru roars in rage and shoots them both, honestly it was so hard to find good help these days.