One thing I wanted to point out...you know and I know that Gaara is alive. Personally I don't think that the Akatsuki know and I also don't think Orochimaru knows either. At least not at this time.
To those who are hoping that I do not kill Akatsuki members off...I don't really want to but I happens and I want to follow the Naruto storyline as much as possible. Sorry. You can pretend they are alive. That's what I do...Sasori dead? That didn't happen—purposefully forgetting.
This chapter brought to you by: Getting to school extra-ghetto-early. I have over an hour before class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This means that if I do not have homework (which sadly I usually do) I can write!
Confrontations
"Who is going to go get Akira back from Orochimaru?" Pein asked doing one of his creepy ghost conferences.
"Well I can't do it." Itachi said thinking that it was stupid to hold this conference since Pein could just tell someone to get her.
"I need to know who is able to do it." Pein answered.
"I can't, un." Deidara said.
"I can." Zetsu offered.
"You eat her and I will kill you." Itachi threatened.
"I wouldn't send you there alone to take Akira back. Can anyone else go."
"No." Everyone said.
"Well any ideas?" Pein asked.
"What about Tobi?" Zetsu offered.
"It could be his initiation, since there are some open spots now." Pein announced.
"Fine, but if anything happens to her I will kill you both." Itachi growled out.
"We need Akira to help us get the nine-tailed fox, among other things, so I will give Itachi every opportunity to kill you if Akira is harmed." Pein announced disconnecting the conference.
"Tobi is a good boy." Tobi announced interrupting an important meeting between Orochimaru, Sasuke, Kabuto, Akira and some other random people.
"Tobi, you should knock before entering." Zetsu scolded.
"Akira-chan!" Tobi shouted going to hug me but I used Sasuke as a human shield.
"Hello Tobi, Zetsu." I said knowing that the two of them had nothing to do with Gaara's death. Unless Zetsu ate him.
"Akira we are here to take you back to the Akatsuki." Zetsu told them.
"Goodbye then." I said seriously as Orochimaru, Kabuto and Sasuke gave me a weird look.
"You're just going to leave?" Sasuke asked glaring at Zetsu and Tobi.
"Well I don't plan on staying here. Besides I can't punch Pein in the face if I am still here." I explained.
"Where's the Akatsuki base?" Sasuke asked bluntly.
"Subtle, Sasuke, real subtle." I muttered.
"Why don't you join us?" Zetsu said using his I-will-eat-you voice and making his i-plan-on-eating you face.
"I wouldn't accept that invitation if I were you." I whispered to Sasuke.
"Why not?" he whispered back.
"He will eat you." I answered him.
"Will he eat you?" Kabuto asked after having appeared behind Sasuke and me.
"No, he wouldn't eat me, but you yes." I answered.
"Tobi is a good boy, he wants to whisper too!" Tobi said attempting once more to hug me but I once again side stepped him and hid behind Sasuke.
"Akira it was lovely to have you here, come back at any time." Orochimaru said eager to get me to leave. Apparently I get annoying after a while, perhaps it was because I distracted Sasuke or because I kept tripping him in the hallways. Oh maybe it was because I glued Kabuto in a chair and then duck taped his mouth shut because...well because I could.
"Goodbye then." I said waving to them all. Sasuke merely glared at me, Kabuto looked sad, Orochimaru happily waved back. Yeah Orochimaru needs to work on his I-am-evil attitude, he kind of fails at evil.
The first place I visited when I reached the Akatsuki base was Pein's room, area, office, thing. I don't know what it is but that is where Pein was and technically I am supposed to report to him after completing a mission.
"Welcome back, Akira." Pein greeted me with a sickening smile on his face.
"What was the purpose of sending me to Orochimaru?" I asked not looking at him in anger.
"I'm sure that you probably figured it out already." Pein answered, not very helpful.
"Was it so that you could seal the demons without me interfering?"
"Yes."
"If I am a member of the Akatsuki why would you think that I would get in the way?"
"I still don't trust you."
"Then I am not really a member than, am I?"
"You are, I don't trust any of them either."
"I really hate you, you realize that?" I asked finally looking up at him my chakra flaring as I rushed to him and hit him in the face. This time I think I broke his nose, it started bleeding. I also, since I was still pissed, kicked him in the leg and then he started blocking me. I kept trying to hit him but we just kept fighting. I would try to hit him and he would block me.
"Akira, why are you so angry at me?" Pein asked confused.
"First you sent me on a bogus mission, secondly you sent me to Orochimaru, and finally you killed someone who I liked."
"Who did I kill?" Pein asked smirking, even though he is the one bleeding.
"Why would I tell you?"
"Are you angry because Sasori is dead?" Pein asked.
"Sasori is dead!" I shouted in shock causing my chakra to go back to it's normal non-existent state.
"Now I really want to know who I killed." Pein remarked. "Are you done?"
"Yes, I will go to my room now." I informed him. Actually I will go to my room after taking a shower in Konan's room, but he dose not need to know that.
"Did you know he was going to die Itachi?" I asked him as I walked into our room.
"Yes." Itachi answered simply looking at me with his usual emotionless face.
"Is that why you already knew I was leaving?" I asked closing the door and locking it. I don't know exactly why I locked it, maybe because I wanted our talk to be uninterrupted. Perhaps it was so that no one would stop a fight we might get in. Maybe it was simply so that the door wouldn't open.
"Yes." Itachi said his face still hard.
"What am is supposed to say to that? How am I supposed to feel, act?" I asked tears beginning to fall down my face. As Itachi swiftly crossed the room and hugged me to him.
"Why does his life matter so much to you?" Itachi asked still holding me to him, not allowing me to escape his arms. Okay Itachi, being jealous of a dead man is not good for your mental health.
"I cared about him." I stated talking into his shoulder but he somehow understood me anyway. I decided to cry on his shirt and ruin it, take that Itachi.
"The same way you care about me?" Itachi asked. What kind of a question is that.
"Not exactly but similar." I admitted after a long silence where we just stood there me crying him clutching.
"Then I will make you forget about him and make you use all your feelings on me." Itachi said still holding me but pushing me away from him so that he could stare at my face. He finally released me and used his thumbs to wipe the tears that I was crying away.
"But...I don't want to love you completely." I admitted, no longer crying. My comment hurt Itachi and he glared at me.
"Why not?"
"Because you will leave me just like everyone else I loved did." I answered not looking at him, I did not want to see his hurt face.
"..." Itachi did not say anything for a while.
"Why do you want me to love you?" I asked breaking the silence finally looking up at him to discover that he had been staring at me the entire time.
"Because I love you." He stated simply acting like he was merely saying that the weather outside is nice today.
"You..." I said unable to finish my sentence or my thought because Itachi decided to start kissing me.
"Please..." He whispered in my ear after he was done kissing me and decided to hug me to him.
"I..." I stated looking around the room trying to find the solution to my problem. My eyes landed on the umbrella that Gaara had given to me at the chunin exams. I remember when I discovered it was missing after Itachi left me in Konoha during the chunin exams...
"Where is the umbrella?" I questioned searching my room in Konoha. I found a pair of Itachi's pants but no umbrella. "I could have sworn that I left it in the closet." I stated talking to myself like a crazy person.
"What did you loose?" Gaara asked entering my room uninvited and unexpectedly.
"The umbrella you gave me." I admitted looking a little sheepish.
"Why do you care?" Gaara asked blinking at me in confusion.
"Well for one it is raining outside, and for two it was a gift from you." I answered.
"You value a gift from a demon."
"Well I value a gift from you." I countered.
"..." Gaara merely stared at me.
"I guess it's gone." I stated giving up. I give up easily, too lazy to continue looking.
"Why is my umbrella here?" I asked Itachi a day after I returned—Alive!--from the chunin exams.
"I took it with me planning on destroying it but then I thought of how mad you would be so I merely brought it will me." Itachi stated simply not looking at me but reading a scroll.
"Do you know what that means?" I asked.
"What?"
"It means that you are finally learning not to destroy my stuff! I am so proud of you!" I said in a proud mother voice hugging Itachi. Itachi took that oportunity to hug me back and place my on his lap as he continued reading. So boring...
...And when I discovered it in Itachi's room. I realized it was the only thing that I had to remember Gaara with. "I don't want to forget him." I whispered finally.
"I never asked you to do that, I just want your love." Itachi said looking me in the eyes.
"I-I love you, Itachi." I finally stuttered out and Itachi practically pounced. He instantly started kissing me and forced me down onto the bed. I kissed him back just as passionately grasping onto his back.
Then stuff happens...or ends there if you are a strictly Gaara fan. I won't write about the stuff here for two reasons 1) this story is rated T and 2) I don't think I can write it good enough and I would probably not be able to stop blushing for a week after I posted it...maybe I will write it some day and post it separately under M...or not...depends...
Even if Itachi does find out about Gaara being alive I really don't think that he will be telling Akira anytime soon...bad Itachi....
Preview from next chapter: Once again the Plot!
"Akira did you punch Pein in the face, again?" Kisame asked as the tree of us were eating breakfast before our meeting with Pein.
"Yes." I answered simply and a bit smugly with a small smirk. Smirks must be contagious or something.
"You never cease to amaze me." Kisame said while shaking his head. I am not quite sure if that was an insult or a compliment but I like compliments better so I will be treating it as such.
"Thank you, I try. No actually I don't." I answered back as Itachi continued eating, not even glaring. I guess this is Itachi's happy face, he is smirking at nothing.
"Is Itachi acting weird to you?" Kisame whispered to me after he noticed Itachi's smirk randomly switch to a grin and then back to a smirk for no apparent reason.
"Yes, but I know why." I answered taunting Kisame a bit with the fact I know something he does not know.
"Why?" Kisame asked.
"I'm not telling." I sang out.