My friend "babylove969" wanted this story to be taken into someone elses hands since she no longer has the inspiration to write it anymore. So I adopted it from her. Not much will be changed until I officially start writing it on my own. Which will be starting on chapter 18. 1-17 will mostly be her work but may have a few tweaks to it before I post the chapters. SO NO I DID NOT COPY I HAD PERMISSION FROM HER TO TAKE ON FROM WHERE SHE LEFT OFF! So please no flaming, and I am well aware that my chapters when I start writing might not be as good as how she was doing, or near as long. But I'm going to do my best!

Summery: What if Sasuke never left Konoha willingly? Konoha finds the truth about Sasuke leaving can they save him in time?

Itachi ran as quickly as he could through the Sunagakure desert, he had managed to get away from the Akatsuki but he was deathly worn out.

He couldn't die though, he had promised Sasuke that he would return.

Finely the bleeding in his lung was so great that he collapsed in the sand coughing up blood.

He could actually feel his own chakra fading and that itself was scary enough.

"Hngh..." Itachi cried trying to stand up again.

"Don't move." a voice said firmly from behind him.

Itachi looked over his shoulder and saw a red headed boy who looked around Sasuke's age.

"I am the Gaara the fourth Kazekage. State your business and..." Gaara stopped when he got a good llook at the Uchiha.

"You're Sasuke's brother..." Gaara muttered.

"Yes." Itachi whispered coughing up more blood.

Gaara moved forward swiftly and started to inspect Sasuke's older sibling seeing the blood coming from his side and mouth.

Itachi eyed the red head as he noticed two more people coming towards the two of them, a blond girl and a brunette male who had a puppet with him.

Then everything went black for Itachi as he fell into a void of darkness and nightmares.

~Konoha (Kakashi's House)~

Sasuke lay in bed beside Kakashi who was sleeping soundly, his breathing low an soft. He could not go back to bed he had woken up about fifteen minutes ago and could not seem to go back to sleep.

He snuggled up against Kakashi who subconsciously wrapped an arm around Sasuke.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door making Kakashi jump and spring out of bed starting to put his clothes on.

Sasuke did the same only he just grabbed a robe and put it on tying the belt shut.

Kakashi mumbled a curse before walking out of the room and answering the door in the living room. He saw the Fifth Hokage standing there.

"Tsunade? What is it? Is something wrong do you know what time it is?" Kakashi moaned.

"I want you and Sasuke to come to the hospital immediately." She said firmly as she saw Sasuke with a robe on standing behind Kakashi.

"But get dressed first you two." she sighed.

"Yes Hokage Sama." Sauske said walking back to the bedroom.

Kakashi was about to shut the door when Tsunade spoke.

"The fourth Kazekage brought Itachi in. He was badly injured, he was stabbed in the ribs and it punctured his lung, his lungs filled up with blood and he was having a hard time breathing. I did manage to heal him but he's still having trouble. He'll live but he needs rest, but he's asking for Sasuke. So I came and got you." Tsunade explained.

"You're serious?" Kakashi asked quietly.

"Completely." the Hokage replied.

"Alright, I'll bring him on down." Kakashi said closing the door.

"Sasuke time to go!" Kakashi called.

Sasuke came hurrying down the stairs and met Kakashi by the door.

"Let's go." Kakashi said.

"Right."

Kakashi opened the door and the two quickly hurried off to the hospital.

~Konoha (Konoha Hospital)~

Itachi lay on the bed, he had an oxygen mask on his face to help get his breathing under control.

He was sore in his chest area and he let out out a small groan as he continued to breath in the oxygen they had provided for him.

The Fifth walked into the room again and he looked at her.

"Is he coming?" he asked tiredly.

"Yes he is. I brought both of them along." She replied.

Itachi blinked a little confused.

"Both of them?" he asked taking a deep inhale of oxygen from the mask.

"Yes...your brother has been dating Kakashi for a year now." Tsunade answered.

Itachi froze in shock he couldn't believe what he had just heard.

"You mean? He's been in a relationship with Sasuke?" he asked.

"Yes. They make a good couple actually. Kakashi takes good care of him, and Sasuke has never been so happy. I don't think anyone has ever seen him so happy in their time knowing him even when he was on Team 7 the first time."

"Oh..." Itachi muttered feeling a little uncomfortable, he had always known that his little brother was gay he had told him so and that was another reason their father had raped him, but Kakashi was much older than him. And it didn't seem right to him.

"I know what you're thinking Itachi...but I can assure you that Kakashi treats Sasuke well and he never makes him do anything he doesn't want to do."

Itachi looked towards the door waiting for his brother to come, he was so eager to see him again.

"So he's happy then?" Itachi asked the Hokage as she lifted his shirt and started to undo the bandages so she could put fresh ones on his abdomen.

Itachi took another inhale of oxygen and let out a hiss, it hurt when he didn't breath in the air and it hurt when he did. Either way it hurt like a bitch.

"Yes. He's been very happy ever since they got together. From what Kakashi told me Sasuke was the one who asked, he was surprised at first but he didn't decline even though it took him a while to get around the fact that Sasuke was his student and much younger than he is. They're both happy." Tsunade replied as she finished up bandaging the Sasuke's older sibling's chest and midsection.

Itachi looked at the door when he felt Sasuke's chakra as well as Kakashi and heard footsteps.

The two walked in and Itachi was surprised at how tall Sasuke had gotten, he was still slightly shorter than himself but he had gotten taller.

Sasuke stared at Itachi for a second before hurrying over to him. "You're back!"

Itachi removed the mask from his mouth as Sasuke wrapped his arms around him carefully upon seeing he had been injured.

Itachi let out a small grunt of pain before a smile spread across his face.

"Otouto...it's so good to see you."

And there we go...updated as promised.

Emily