REVEIWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-bc

Itachi had never felt so many emotions mixing togather into a horrible, black combination.

"Sasuke-kun..." Itachi said to the masked man, reaching out for Kakashi's shirt coller colectivly when he tried to shuffle out of the room. "Is he alright?" He mused in a monotone voice that thrusted Kakashi-kun right back into the past. Hearing the sound of his unrequitted lover's name in the venomous voice of Itachi made him shiver. Itachi was just playing with him. He wasn't concerned at all. He was after somthing else.

"Why is he sick?"

"You know very well, Itachi-kun. You were never the dumb type, as I remember."

Itachi was silent.

I'm not as smart as you think I am. I'm a man without a perpous, I'm afraid. No lover, no family (save Sasuke, who hates me) no future. I'm bound to die before turn twenty five.
Pitiful.

Kisame breathed a sigh of relief, his rough voice etching through the silence.

"Itachi-kun, Itachi-kun, please answer!" The shark-man was starting to panic now, his moment of colectiveness gone in a heartbeat. Sasuke was an extremely powerful ninja, no doubt, he could probably take out Kisame if he really tried, even in this state. All Kisame had before was the eliment of suprise, witch Sasuke clearly was hurting in.

"Itachi!" Kisame sighed. Finally! "Itachi-kun, you know the drill. Stop playing around with those useless little boys and get over here!"

"..." Itachi said nothing but Kisame knew him well enough as to be sure he was there.

"Deidara and Sasori are heading to Naruto's as we speak to create a distraction while you get your Uchiha ass over here. Sasuke's to ransom Naruto, you know that. We've been over it a million times."

"..."

"Itachi!" Kisame was starting to pace in circles. "You have to be here before Sasori and Deidara arrive!"

Itachi was clearly distracted because a moment later Kisame heard an ear-splitting cry over the line.

"W-what the hell!" I have to go check on Sasuke! He might be in trouble! "Where are the others, I know you have a partner somewhere around here. What do you want...Deidara!"

Deidara's smile was sly and cunning, working its way over Naruto's frame, stiffening the blonde's entire body and sending shivers dancing up and down his spine.

"We're here for..." Deidara paused like he forgot, but no Akatsuki member would be so clueless, at least Naruto believed to be true. "You!"

As I feared, Naruto swallowed.

"Rasengan!"

Kakashi Hitake heard everything; the ninjutsu cried from Uzimaki; (as did everyone in the apartment) and turned to Itachi, flashing on his Mangekyou Sharingan. Itachi, it seemed, was as calm as ever.

"Don't move, Itachi."

"What, you don't trust me?" He was being as sincere as Kakashi could tell. "You kissed me; that has to say for something." Only saying the absolute truth. No lies that the jonin could work through.

"Don't move. I really dont want to get into a fight with you."

Itachi sighed as he felt a phone vibrating in his pocket and reached for it..

Kisa, damn you!

That was all Kakashi needed. In an instant, Itachi Uchiha was thrown to the floor, kunai to his throat.

"Should we do somthing, Gaara-kun?" Neji asked quietly tencing. Gaara shook his head.

"I'm about to win!" He flashed a feindish grin and he flipped over Neji's Othello pieces.Neji didn't know weather to kill Gaara or flip over the board and pretend it never happend.

In a second, the two boys-who were usually against public affection- embrassed in a passionette kiss on the arm of Uzimaki's couch, neither seeming to care that there were explosions, people screaming and chaos all around them.

"Kakashi Hitake I am aware you are a very powerful ninja-" A stunningly gorgeous raven haired boy said as calmly as possible. He wasn't afraid; he saw Kakashi coming a mile away; the Uchiha was just determined to see how it would play out. Itachi's breathing was a little out of synch, but it was only normal after being pinned by an opponent. His pale, slim wrists were being clutched by Kakashi's strong, masculine hands and his raven locks were splayed across the beige carpeting. Through thick black eyelashes, even darker eyes blinked nonchalantly up at the older jonin. It was almost suffocating; the other's toned body pressed against his thin frame.

Kakashi said nothing but his thoughts were racing.

Naruto dashed down the stairs once he was sure that a thick cloud of smoke and debris had confused his enimies thinking.

I have to protect you, Sasuke!

"Kakashi-kun! Gaara-kun, Neji-chan!"

Neji pulled himself from the sand-nin's protective grasp and stared up at the blonde, fully tenced.

"Where's Sasuke! Where is he!"

"The...t-the last time I saw him, he was in the bathroom!" Neji flew to the room and called back terrified:

"He's gone!"

Naruto wasted no time, walked right up to Itachi, pulled him from Kakashi's threatening grip and brought the elder Uchiha right up to him until they were nose-to-nose.

"You bastard! You're going to tell me where Sasuke is right now!"

That would be the only-and last time- any one would ever see Itachi Uchiha cry.

Sakura clentched her fists and flew up the stairs twards where Naruto had came from.

I'll protect you Sasuke-kun!

Deidara had never been more pleased with himself.

Not when he got Sasori to acknowledge a peice of his art.

Not when he made a life-sized Zetsu out of clay.

Never.

"That Naruto Uzimaki's a cute kid, Sasori-kun. You should meet him, he's really interesting. That attack was pretty powerful but I can tell he was worried about Sasuke. By the way, have you spoken to Kisame?"

Sasori put the phone to his shoulder as he made sevral handsigns.

"Yes. It's a sucess. But now you come in, Dei. Get Itachi out of here. Kill anyone who gets in the way...Deidara?"

"...click. Beep."

Deidara smirked at a terrified pink-haired kunoichi stunned infront of him.

"Kill anyone who gets in the way?" Deidara rolled up his sleeves. "Yes Sasori-no-danna..."

kyyaa kyaa sorry about the filler. Its going to get interesting soon, i promise!

-bankotsuchick