Chapter 21 is up ^^
Some dark part of Naruto's past in this chapter again! so be carefull when reading ;) just a small warning.

and omg o.o i am just thinking about a sequel of this story T.T
Cause i do have an ending in mind XD, but it's completely open.
Well might just keep that open ending :P
Or might write a sequel one day XD

Previous chapter

Nagato said to Naruto he needed to run and don't look back. Nagato knew he would be facing Madara, but he didn't want to let the blond die, after everything he did for Itachi. He had a reason to life. Tsunade coming back in Konoha, when she heard about it all she couldn't turn her back on Itachi who had asked for her help, for Konoha's help to save Naruto.

Chapter 21:
Get Out Alive

Near the destroyed Akatsuki base:

"What do you think you are doing?" a cold voice asked.
Everyone's eyes went towards the man, wearing the orange mask.

Pain turned around and looked at Tobi.
"From now on. The Akatsuki is gone." Pain answered, not looking directly into the other's eye.

"Wait a second, what is with that voice, un?" Deidara asked, as he backed away from Tobi.
Everyone was on guard now. That voice betrayed a lot. It felt like they were in trouble.

"You let Uzumaki Naruto leave and you disband the Akatsuki?" Tobi asked.
Konan looked worried. If they ended up fighting, it would be one hell of a fight. She looked at Nagato and then back towards Madara.

"Yes. I let Naruto go free." Pain answered.
"What!? Why did you do that?" Kisame asked.

"Yeah, that's what I wonder about. And why the hell fucking disband the Akatsuki?" Hidan asked, while he was readying his scythe.

Tobi reached for his mask. "You got a dead wish, Nagato. I will make you regret this."
Everyone stayed silent, as they watched Tobi discard his mask.
Two sharingans blazing bright red.

"An Uchiha? No… Uchiha Madara!?" Sasori said.

Madara looked at Nagato.
"Sadly I don't have any time to waste here. I am sure you want to waste my time, but I can't afford Naruto to go free." Madara stated. "Altho I will make sure he never reach a safe place." Madara grinned.

Nagato glared a bit. Uchiha's were always clever. Nagato looked at Konan, she was scared. Then he looked at the other Akatsuki members, no one seemed prepared to fight Madara. As they all had backed away.

"If the Akatsuki is no more. I will leave this fucking place." Hidan said, while he jumped off.

"No reason to stay here for me either. Just let me know if you need me. I will gladly come if you pay me for it of course." Kakuzu said, jumping in the other direction from Hidan.

Nagato looked down. This was the end for them. They had failed to achieve what they had wanted. They could have succeeded, if he didn't let Naruto go…

Nagato looked up at Madara, who was still grinning. "You will lose. You really want to fight me, Nagato." It was nothing more than a whisper, but it sounded so dangerous.

"The Akatsuki is gone… then my time here is over I guess." Sasori said as he too walked away.
Deidara looked at the remaining Akatsuki members, it was quite sad. But now it seemed over. They would all go their own way. Deidara then looked at the Uchiha, who was seeming to enjoy this.

"Nagato..?" Konan said as she moved forward and touched his shoulder.
Nagato looked back up at her. He smiled.
"Go Konan. You have no reason to stay here either do you?" he said softly.

"You are my friend, Nagato, same went for Yahiko. I will stay next to you till the bitter end." Konan smiled, although it was a bit sad. The circumstances changed. Konan then glared towards the Uchiha. She wondered if they could buy Naruto the time he needed.

"So now what?" Kisame asked, looking from Pain to Madara, slightly readying his sword, Samehade.
Nagato looked at the blue male. His eyes showed his determination.
"I will not let him take Naruto." With these words he glared back at the Uchiha.
Madara stayed silent. They didn't know this fight was going to be useless…

Kisame sighed. "Well, I got to say it would suck to see Itachi-san hurt because of it." Kisame grinned.
"Count me in." Kisame readied his sword completely, pointing at the Uchiha.

Nagato was shocked that Kisame would help him.
"Same goes for me, un!" Deidara almost screamed.

Nagato grinned a bit. "Same for me I guess." Nagato looked at Konan.

Then the four of them looked at the Uchiha, who still didn't make a move.
Madara grinned. "Let's see what you got then." Madara let his mask fall on the ground, and pulled his hair free, adjusting his cloak a bit so he could fight better.
Tobi was completely gone now, only Madara had remained.

Nagato raised his hand, making the first move. He pushed the raven backwards. Deidara moved quickly noticing this and grabbed some clay. Throwing it around the Uchiha. Madara looked at him. Was this all they got?

Madara swiftly moved out of the way, so the bombs wouldn't make contact or explode near him. Then he felt Konan's jutsu behind him.
He turned around grabbing the girl's hand. Konan was slightly surprised, but let her jutsu go free.

She turned her other hand and the papers were flying straight towards the Uchiha.
Nagato looked at it. Madara wasn't making a move to avoid that attack.

Then the paper was gonna slice him, but it went right through him. Konan screamed a bit, as her hand was hurt by her own jutsu.
Nagato glared at the Uchiha, who now pulled back from Konan.

Nagato raised his hand again and pulled Madara towards him this time. When Madara felt the gravity pull on him, he knew Nagato was going to attack. When Madara was close to Nagato and Nagato wanted to attack him.

Nagato's attack missed as Madara went right through him, landing right behind him.
Konan saw this too. "NAGATO!" She screamed. She raised her hands and let the papers fly towards Nagato and Madara.

Madara turned around quick and kicked Nagato almost in his side, until he felt that he was pushed backwards, away from the orange male. Konan stopped her jutsu, when she saw that Nagato had protected himself

Madara looked up and grinned. "You can't win." Deidara looked at the raven, he was in a tree nearby, waiting for a good opportunity to attack Madara.

But Madara's moves were quick. And his sharingan caught everything that happened. Softly he cursed Uchiha's.

Madara looked at Nagato. His eyes were full of fire. "Playtime is over." He said softly.
Nagato felt that Madara was going to use a jutsu. Altho he wasn't making any hand signs Nagato could feel it.

Kisame noticed that Samehade was reacting to something, something terrible.
Kisame jumped next to Nagato.
"Move, get away from here. Now!" Kisame said.
Nagato backed down. Konan used her papers to move back.

Deidara jumped in front of Madara.
"Deidara get away from Madara!" Nagato screamed at the blond in front of him.
"WE need to buy Naruto time, un." Deidara looked back at them.
"How can we pull back then, dammit."

His blue eyes were sure. "Cause we can't help Naruto if we are dead!" Kisame remarked.
"I don't plan on dying here…" Deidara said softly, while he looked back at the raven. His chakra was increasing. The Uchiha was serious. This attack could kill them.

"Go, go and find Naruto!" Deidara said, while he moved forward, engaging the Uchiha.
Kisame glared at the clay user. He couldn't fight him alone.
Nagato glared a bit. But he raised his hand and pulled Deidara out of Madara's attack.

"What the-…" The blond cursed softly as he felt himself being pulled backwards. Madara grinned.
"You failed, Nagato."

The trees were dying around them. When Deidara noticed that he was shocked. What kind of jutsu was this.

When Deidara looked back at Madara he noticed his eyes had changed, mangekyou sharingan.
"TAKE COVER!" Deidara screamed, as he ran away from Madara as quickly as he could.

Kisame followed him not thinking twice. This attack would be massive…
Nagato had already noticed he had activated the mangekyou sharingan.
"Nagato!" He heard Konan say, as he wasn't making a move to run away.
"Go Konan. Run and stay away. I don't want to see you dying here. Find Naruto. Make sure he is safe."

Konan was backing down a bit, it had been an order she knew it, but she couldn't leave her last friend to die here.
"No. I will stay next to you, I promised that." She said, while she looked over Nagato towards the Uchiha.

Nagato smiled. The jutsu was almost finished. "I'm sorry then…" He said softly.
Konan looked back at Nagato's back. "Take care, Konan." When she heard those words, her eyes widened. Then she felt a harsh push against her. Nagato was pushing her out of harm's way.

"NOOOO" She screamed. The trees around her were destroyed by the power of the orange-haired male.

Madara grinned. "You will save her life, but forsake your own, Nagato…"
Nagato glared at him and quickly moved forward, pushing himself towards the Uchiha.

Madara shook his head. "You fool…"
"You can't stop me. I will always get what I want." Madara stopped Nagato's attack, with his hands.
Madara then moved so he could kick the other away from him. Nagato let go that second. When Nagato looked up at the Uchiha, he noticed the grin. His jutsu was finished.

Nagato moved forward, surprising Madara a bit. But Madara quickly let the jutsu run free.
An enormous explosion was heard and the ground shake.

Madara vanished in thin air. He had quickly moved out of his own jutsu but he had felt Nagato grab him. He had known he would be safe if he could have grabbed the Uchiha it seemed.

Madara looked up. Half of the forest was gone. A giant crater was everything that was left.
Madara then looked down, Nagato was lying on his stomach. He didn't seem to be alive anymore.
"You lost…" Madara whispered. Madara grinned.
"This fight was useless anyway. Naruto is already in my hands."

Madara shook his head and vanished into thin air, leaving the destroyed site behind.

Naruto:
Naruto had stopped near a small river. He had been running all this time, he was drinking some water right now. He looked at his reflection in the river.

He briefly wondered if Nagato had bought him some time… and if he was still alive.

Naruto's eyes went wide as he felt a presence near him. He immediately stood up and turned around.
It was what he feared. Uchiha Madara.

"You didn't think I would let you go, Uzumaki Naruto?" Madara said, his sharingan spinning.
Naruto took a defensive stance. He knew running away would not help at all. But fighting, he didn't know if he could win against the other Uchiha.

He didn't think that Madara would be so quick to catch up to him. He was not so far from Konoha now. He had been so quick, tapping into the kyuubi's speed.

"I can't afford to die, not anymore." Naruto stated as he looked at Madara.
Madara chuckled. "You will die, you got no other options left."

If only he had been quicker, if only he hadn't stopped to drink. Then maybe he would have reached Konoha in time. Naruto looked a bit sideways, he could see the Hokage Tower in the distance, so close.

"You are close, but you weren't fast enough." Madara stated coldly, noticing the jinchuuriki's gaze.
Naruto growled. His eyes had turned red. He had no option left. Well he could still fight. He wouldn't go down without a fight.

Madara noticed that Naruto's eyes had become red. He was readying himself to fight.
A fight he couldn't win.

"You fool. You already lost. Don't you know anything about Uchiha's."
"What!?" Naruto asked, taken aback.

Madara chuckled. "And you are supposed to be Itachi's boyfriend, how sad… You are not worthy for an Uchiha."

"Don't say I am not worthy! You don't know anything about me or Itachi!" Naruto screamed.

"And you don't know anything about Uchiha's, despite the fact that you have been close to two."
Naruto didn't understand, but then he felt it. How could he not have noticed it. But when…?

"Dammit…" Naruto cursed softly, as he looked up. The grass was still green, but it was different and when he looked up to look at Madara, he Itachi standing there.

Naruto glared. "How dare you!" Naruto screamed. Madara laughed.
"You could never escape Naruto. I saw you leave the base in a hurry. That moment you were already caught in my genjutsu."

"No. this can't be true…"Naruto whispered. He concentrated all his chakra, trying to break free of the genjutsu, but it was impossible.

"You lose, Uzumaki Naruto."
Naruto closed his eyes, as the world around him started spinning, letting him know who was in control.
Letting him know, there was no escape.

"You are not worthy to be loved by an Uchiha…" the voice said.
"You would be better off dead, Naruto."

Naruto closed his eyes, trying to keep that voice out of his mind, trying to break free from this curse.
He tried anything, but he couldn't stop it. He had trained with Itachi, with his genjutsu, but with Itachi he could have countered the genjutsu if he had known it was cast upon him.

But that moment he left the base, he wasn't careful at all. He should have known.
"You don't care what happens to your beloved Uchiha, Naruto?" Naruto's eyes shot open.

"Don't you dare to hurt him." Naruto screamed looking at the black sky for the first time.
This was so different than Itachi's genjutsu… so much darker.

"Hm, it doesn't matter. He won't be able to save you, no one will."
Madara chuckled. "Who would come and save a demon like you…"

"Stop it!" Naruto said, but his voice was faltering. Madara was getting through to him. Naruto felt what he was planning. He was planning to break him, before killing him.

"Well. You are lucky though. Nagato bought you some time you know."
Naruto was shocked. "What did you do to him?" Naruto asked, feeling worried about the other.

"You better care more for yourself right now." The voice echoed through the realm.
"You won't leave this genjutsu until I want you too." The voice seemed to disappear, since it was becoming distant. " Have fun, Naruto-kun." Were the last words he heard, as the world started spinning again.

Madara couldn't hold him here could he… that was impossible.
"demon! Just die." Naruto opened his eyes at these words.
He was in Konoha. He saw himself standing there, no a younger version of himself.
"You want to be Hokage! Don't make us laugh!" someone said.
"You should have never been born!"
"Look, there is that demon boy.."
"Stay away from him, son.."

Naruto heard all these words running through him. His eyes werw wide as he tried to push it all away. It was a genjutsu, but still…
Naruto thought he had put the past behind him… but now Madara was using it against him. Letting him feel again how he felt then.

Then the little blond boy turned around. His eyes red.
Naruto stood up and backed away.
"They are right…" Naruto's younger voice said. "I am a demon. This world would be better off without me here."

"NO!" Naruto screamed back at his younger version. "I am not like that anymore!"
The little boy grinned, everything around then was disappearing, except the two Naruto's.

"We should kill then all. We should make them feel our pain. Make them feel our hurt…" the boy said.
Naruto closed his eyes. "You aren't me anymore." He whispered.

"But I am you. I am deep inside you. Don't you see. We are one and the same." The boy answered.

Naruto let himself fall back on his knees. He needed to ignore this. He could survive this. He would. He didn't want to die. Not like this. Madara couldn't break him.

"Why did you stop me?" a voice asked. Naruto was shocked. Sasuke…
"I should have left for Orochimaru. I shouldn't have stayed for such a pathetic person like you!" Sasuke screamed.

"No, this isn't true…" Naruto said softly.

"Naruto…" another voice said.
"Jiraiya…" Naruto replied softly.
"I am disappointed. I thought you would do better. If I had known it would end like this, I would never have become your sensei. You are a failure… you only have the strength of the kyuubi, nothing more."
Naruto shook his head. Madara was winning… he was feeling that despair creeping up.

Naruto couldn't take it anymore. "Stop… please stop this." He whispered. All these voices. Even from his friends.

"Naruto-kun."
Naruto's eyes went wide. "no, no no no.. not him.." Naruto said, as he dared to look up. He looked into Itachi's face.

Itachi's eyes looked at him, his eyes were cold, no emotion at all. Naruto wasn't used to seeing his eyes like that.

"It was a mistake. I never loved you. I just needed to keep you close." Itachi's words hurt him, like a knife running through his body. "So when the time would come for the kyuubie to be extracted, you were still in the Akatsuki base."
This was his limit. He knew the real Itachi would never say words like that. But right now he couldn't take it.

Naruto's eyes turned sad, as he let himself fall backwards, so he was lying on his back. He didn't try to fight the genjutsu anymore. It was over, if no one would come and save him, it was over.

His eyes looked at the black clouds. He knew Itachi was still standing there.
"You finally give up, Naruto?" Madara's voice asked. Madara felt the boy breaking beneath the genjutsu. His willpower disappearing, his struggles to break the genjutsu were stopping.

Inside of him nothing had changed. Naruto was still looking for that love. He was looking for people to accept him. That was his weakness and Madara used that against him.

Naruto didn't reply. He didn't need to.

Outside the genjutsu Madara watched the blond boy sitting there. He had seen tears running from the closed eyes. The blond was weak. He was weak cause he looked for approval by other people. If only he had completely accepted himself, he would be really happy.

Madara looked outside of the base he had built up in a short time. Nagato betraying him was a big trouble. Especially since Nagato had burned the scrolls for sealing the kyuubi. It would take some time to remake those. But not as long as before.

He had looked at the scrolls quite often lately, so he remembered every detail. He only needed a good place to use it all. But with Naruto caught in the genjutsu he had nothing to fear.
The others wouldn't find them. He had set up a barrier around them, if they should walk into this part they would see nothing, only the place like it is supposed to be.

Well maybe a sharingan user could see through it, but they were few. And he doubted that Itachi or his younger brother would come looking for the jinchuuriki, besides he would move from this place anyway.

Madara closed his eyes. Damn Nagato for burning those scrolls.
"But well I still have won, since I have Naruto." Madara said, while he grinned looking outside the genjutsu barrier.

Madara had left Nagato there. He didn't care about him right now, he needed to get the jinchuuriki and himself to a good place, then he would go and retrieve Nagato's body.

Konan/Deidara/Kisame:
Konan had wanted to go back, to go back and see if there was any trace left of Madara, but more importantly. Nagato… that explosion had been enormous, they could have seen the lights of it reaching the sky and the ground was shaking violently. This was Madara's strength….

"Why the hell can't we find one damn lead about where that little brat went!?" Kisame said, quite irritated. They moving towards Konoha, Naruto had needed to take this road. But there were no traces someone had been here at all.

Deidara moved forward. "We won't give up this easily. Naruto is depending on us, un."

"Let's just move to Konoha." Konan said, as she readied her jutsu. She was sad to leave Nagato behind. But right now… she knew that Nagato wanted to keep Naruto safe, that had been his last wish so she would do anything to make sure the blond was safe.
Raising her hands, the papers were flying around them, bringing them into the sky, while she carried them too Konoha.

Konoha:
"Where do we start to look for Naruto?" Tsunade asked at Itachi.
"I don't know if they will be using the bases I know, but.." He looked up at the map on the table. "The closest base is here." Itachi pointed in a forest. "It was the base were we brought you. I have already sent a crow to check it out. It will be arriving there shortly." Itachi said.

Tsunade gave a nod. "Any other base they could be using?"
Itachi looked at the map. The Akatsuki had several bases through the whole world. They didn't have the time to check them all.

Naruto could be dead before they reached him. Tsunade sighed, when the raven looked at the map, but didn't answer. They were all worried. She looked to the other ninja's inside the room. They had all stayed silent the whole time.
Sasuke was standing close next to Itachi though, also looking at the map.

"They have too many bases. We can't check them all out in time…"Itachi whispered softly.
Sasuke glared. They couldn't afford to lose Naruto now. Not now.

Itachi looked up, his eyes full of shock. "Uchiha?" Tsunade asked, noticing the shock in his eyes.
"Something happened." He said. "The base is destroyed…" Itachi said looking at the map.

"What?" Sasuke replied. "What does that mean?"

Tsunade eyed them both. "Are they erasing evidence?"
"No. we never destroy a base, no matter what…, but there are also traces of a terrible fight." Itachi answered.

"I will let the crow fly around the area a bit, trying to see what I can find." Itachi said.
"Sounds good." Tsunade replied.

Itachi tried to think, but he felt that his mind wasn't working kind like he wanted it too. He was seriously worried about Naruto.
Then he saw paper pieces flying through the sky.
"Konan…" Itachi whispered.

Tsunade looked at him, not knowing what he meant. That direction they were going too… Konoha. He ran outside. "Itachi!?" Sasuke yelled after him. Everyone looked at the other's not knowing what the elder Uchiha had seen. But they all decided to follow him outside.

When he stopped, he was atop the Hokage Tower looking through the sky, scanning for those paper pieces and whoever Konan would bring along with her.

Everyone had followed him.
"Itachi, what have you seen?" Kakashi asked.

"Someone from the Akatsuki is coming this way. I don't know who or why. But I saw them travel towards Konoha." Itachi replied, still looking at the sky.

Kakashi followed the raven's gaze. Hinata walked a bit closer to both of them and activated her byukagun. In hope she might see something too.

The crow was silently scanning the area, inside the giant crater he noticed someone's chakra. 'What the..' Itachi thought as he send the crow to go fly lower.
His eyes widened, when he noticed Pain lying there. The crow landed next to the male. He was lying on his back.

They waited for some time, but when everyone was going to give up Hinata said: "I see chakra moving towards us."

"That's Konan's jutsu." Itachi replied, as he closed his eyes to turn his sharingan back off.
They all noticed pieces of paper. Moving pieces of paper. When they were near them the pieces started to move slower. Itachi walked towards it, noticing that they had no intent to fight.
Itachi wondered what had happened, that Pain was lying there. But he knew he would ask Konan about it.

Kisame, Deidara and Konan stood in front of them. They all looked sad. Itachi then knew something terrible had happened.
"Itachi-san." Kisame said while he greeted his partner.

"Kisame." Itachi replied back.

Konan moved forwards looking at the other Uchiha. "Has Naruto arrived?" She asked.
Itachi eyed her silently. "Naruto is alive?" He asked back.

"Last time I have seen him he left the Akatsuki base." Konan said and then she looked down.
"Pain let him go free…"

Everyone was shocked. Itachi looked at the girl, now knowing what had happened.
Pain had betrayed Madara and let Naruto go free. That's why…

"What happened? The base is destroyed. And Pain…" Itachi said.

Itachi shook his head. It was good to hear that Naruto was alive. But in the hands of most likely Madara. That was awful news.

"We have checked the area around the base, we couldn't find a trail of Naruto." Konan said softly. "We had hoped, he had arrived here…" she had ignored Itachi's question.

Deidara and Kisame didn't say anything. They had seen that Konan had been pushed away from the dangerous site, by Nagato's jutsu. They didn't know whether he was still alive.
They had left him all alone, but it had been his choice to stay and not flee.

Itachi looked at Kisame. "What happened to Pain-sama?"

Kisame shook his head. "After battling with Madara, Madara used a dangerous jutsu. We all ran, but Pain-sama pushed Konan away. He most likely got caught in Madara's jutsu." Kisame said.

Konan closed her eyes and turned around walking away, looking at the they had come from.
Then Itachi understood. His crow was sitting next to the unconscious body of their leader.

Itachi let his crow land on the male's stomach. He let his chakra run into the body beneath the crow.
Feeling if he was still alive, even the smallest pulse then he could still be saved...

Konan knew if the impact on Yahiko's body had been too harsh, then most likely Nagato had died too. She would end up alone.

Tsunade had ordered some ANBU cops to scan out the area surrounding Konoha, they needed to look for Naruto.
Hinata looked at them all. She couldn't believe Naruto would have been caught, no one wanted to believe it…

End of this chapter :)
I might go and take a break for a few days o.o. i need to get some things done in real life XD
And i need to make sure i ain't addicted to writing my own stories T.T
Well hope you enjoyed :)
And till the next chapter!
Thanks for the nice reviews ^^