Me: again, thank u 4 the reviews! I luv u guys! And I'm glad u like the story. Now on with the story and ignore my complete randomness in case I start talking and can't shut up…like right now! Oh, and I don't know if Deidara says 'un' after every sentence, but he does in here because it annoys Naruto. And Deidara likes annoying Naruto.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own any characters that no one has heard of!

Pairings: (main) ItaNaru (side) one-sided SasuNaru, SakuLee, GaaNeji (I luv that pairing so back off), ShikaTemari, KibaHina, KakaIru, and ShinoKan

Warnings: yaoi (boy on boy. If u don't like it, then leave now), mpreg, violence, swearing, mentions of rape, and very nice juicy lemons (he-he).

'Kyuubi thinking' "Kyuubi talking" POV change "Talking" 'Thinking' Time Skip (if any)

Week after week had passed as Naruto was trained by Itachi. Now, Naruto was about as strong as Itachi himself, though the older Uchiha would never admit it. When the weeks turned into months, Naruto had started to wear some baggy shirts. He was already starting to show. He had a small bump on his abdomen, but one day, he wouldn't be able to hide his swollen stomach when he's at least a couple more months along. He was just hoping to hide it for as long as he could. Him showing was not the only development that had happened. He and Tobi had gotten along just fine, playing pranks on Kisame before running away from the angry shark-man. Deidara and Naruto had started a little friendly enemy relationship. They got along from time to time, but they still had some arguments. If anything, they were starting to act like they were brothers. Zetsu was the only one onto Naruto's pregnancy, and eventually found out. Naruto had made the ninja promise not to tell anyone. Zetsu had eventually agreed. Naruto had been hanging around the plant-nin every now and then, but that was because Zetsu probably knew more about how to heal injuries and stuff like that then anyone, so he could do check-ups for Naruto. (Yes, I'm making him the medic. Don't argue with me right now. That was all I could think of for him.) Kisame was just the main target for Naruto and Tobi's pranks. Naruto hadn't hung around Sasori, Hidan, or Kakuzu enough to start any kind of bond with them.

But that wasn't all that was happening. Naruto had begun to develop feelings towards a certain Uchiha. Naruto didn't know why, but he really was starting to like Itachi a lot. He wasn't going to tell that to the very Uchiha who had murdered his entire clan, leaving no one but one alive. Naruto was often a little curious as to why Itachi couldn't kill his own brother, but he never asked. He asked the others if they knew, but all they did was shrug. They had no clue either. Naruto was almost tempted to go ask the leader if he knew, but Deidara had stopped him before Naruto even opened the doors. Apparently, no one was allowed to enter unless they were called. Then another thought came to mind. How did they know when they were being called? He found out one day when the Akatsuki leader had called for him and Itachi for a mission. It wasn't anything big. Go find Orochimaru and figure out what he was planning. A simple spying mission, but Naruto didn't argue. A simple mission was better then no mission at all and being left to lay around like a lazy bum. Besides, everyone had always given him the same three pieces of advice when it came to the leader. One: Always stare at him in the eyes so he knows that you're paying attention. Two: Always show respect around him. Bow when you enter and before you leave and always call him 'sama'. Three and most important: Never argue with the Leader. Tobi had done it once. Zetsu said that it took him a while to heal all the burns and wounds that Tobi had received from the Leader.

"So, any idea where Orochimaru's hide-out is?" Naruto asked the stoic Uchiha. Naruto had been there before. To get Sasuke. But there was still a chance that Orochimaru had left and hid somewhere else like any snake would once their home was invaded. Itachi gave a small nod. "How far away?"

"If we keep going, then we should be there by noon tomorrow," Itachi replied.

"And if we stop and rest?"

"Mid-afternoon tomorrow." He looked at Naruto out of the corner of his eyes. "Getting tired already?"

"No, just curious," Naruto replied. He knew that eventually, he would get tired and need to rest. But he didn't want Itachi thinking he was weak. Last thing Naruto wanted was to show weakness in front of an Uchiha, especially one that he liked a lot. Night had fallen upon the land. Itachi had said that they were halfway there about an hour ago, and it was midnight now. Naruto could feel his chakra levels growing lower with every leap since he was using some chakra to keep up and move fast. Eventually, he stopped on a branch. He placed his hand on the trunk, resting all his weight onto that one hand. Itachi stopped and turned around to look at Naruto. He could easily see beads of sweat forming on Naruto's brow and when Itachi used his Sharingan, he could see the Kyuubi vessel's chakra lowering.

"Need to rest?" Itachi asked quietly.

"As if," Naruto replied. "I'm just catching my breath."

"Stop lying," Itachi said. "I can see that you're tired. We'll rest here for tonight."

"I can keep going."

"If you do, you'll pass out."

"No I won't!"

"I'm not starting a childish argument with you. We're resting here, and that's final." Itachi had leapt down from the branch he was on before Naruto followed him. They didn't talk much. They started a fire and Itachi had left to get something to eat. He wasn't going to let Naruto go in case the blond passed out. He came back with a few fish, cook them, and they ate in silence.

As they sat in the silent darkness, Naruto decided to just ask Itachi the question that had been bugging him for a while. "Hey, Itachi? Do you mind if I ask you a question?"

Itachi cracked an eye open. "You're going to ask me anyway."

"Well, I was curious. You killed your entire clan. But why did you leave Sasuke alive?"

Itachi's eye had closed again. "I was testing my limits. Killing Sasuke would not benefit me in any way."

"Liar." Itachi, with both eyes opened, looked over to the smirking blond. "You forgot that I have Kyuubi No Kitsune sealed inside of me. That means a lot of side effects. I can smell a lie as fast as you can make one. Why not tell me the truth? No one is around to hear."

Itachi had looked at Naruto long and hard before he closed his eyes and started to speak. "Since you won't leave me alone until I do tell you, I guess I have no choice. I have cared for Sasuke ever since he was born. I had practically raised him. When he need comfort from our parents, and they turned him away, saying that Uchiha do not fear anything, he came to me. The clan favored me more then him, and that was starting to make me quite upset. Especially when they called him the 'weak-link in the chain'. I was the 'strong-link'. They often saw Sasuke as a figure that kept me from my training. They had even told me to kill him in his sleep. I have never done so, and they were angry with me. I killed them when I overheard them talking about me and my hesitation to killing my foolish little brother. They were about to take it into their own hands." Itachi had only talked this much around Naruto. He didn't know why, though.

"So you did it to protect Sasuke. Why did you tell him a lie?"

"So he would grow and become stronger. I knew for the crime I had committed, I would have to leave Konoha. I needed Sasuke to get strong so I wouldn't have to think about him getting harmed."

"So you are just an ordinary caring older brother. But one of these days, you're going to have to tell Sasuke the truth. Guy acts like the biggest emo in the world."

"Hn," Itachi's reply came. Naruto knew that the older Uchiha wasn't asleep, but he was done talking. With a sigh, Naruto had fallen asleep.

The Next Week: In Konoha

"What do you mean you haven't found him yet?!" voice yelled from the Hokage tower.

"Just as we had said, Hokage-sama" a calm voice stated. "There have been no traces of Naruto. We searched his apartment and the woods, but with no luck."

"Hyuuga's correct," Sasuke stated.

"Do you think the Akatsuki kidnapped him?" Hinata asked.

"Not a chance!" Kiba stated, wrapping an arm around the Hyuuga heiress's shoulders, pulling her closer to his body for comfort. "Even if the did, Naruto would have found a way out and would have come back here after a couple of weeks. He's somewhere. We just gotta find him."

"And hope he's alive," Sakura whispered to herself.

"Naruto is fine," Shikamaru stated. "He's too stubborn to just lay down a die. He's alive."

"Shikamaru's always right," Neji stated.

"Just find him and bring him back here!" Tsunade yelled out. The ninjas were all a little surprised at her constant outburst, but she did care for Naruto, so it was expected. With a bow, they all disappeared in a poof of smoke. Tsunade grabbed her sake bottle with one hand while resting her head on the palm of her other. "Gaki, please let Shikamaru be right. Please be alive and well."

At Akatsuki Headquarters

"Tobi! Naruto!" Kisame's voice let out a fierce yell. Somewhere in the hide-out, Naruto and Tobi were hiding, trying to stifling their laughter at their new prank on Kisame. "Where the hell are you two hiding?!"

"What did you two do this time?" a still voice in front of them asked, causing them both to jump in surprise before they looked up. It was Sasori.

"Look at Kisame," Tobi said, still trying to hold back his laughing. Sasori looked at Tobi strangely before he peered out his door to see Kisame at the end of the hallway…half pink. Sasori just stared blankly before going back into his room and looked at the two pranksters. "We made a trap for him. He trips over a wire-"

"-And a bucket of pink paint falls on him!" Naruto finished for his partner is mischief.

"And if it didn't land on Kisame?" Sasori asked. "What if it landed on Itachi or Deidara or someone with an even worse attitude?"

"That's why we set it over his bedroom door!" Tobi and Naruto replied at the same time.

A knock on the door warned them of someone standing outside. Tobi and Naruto were in a fits of giggle, thinking that maybe it was Kisame and they couldn't wait to see what he looked like. "Hey, Sasori? Have you seen Naruto?" Zetsu's voice came through the door.

"He's in here," Sasori replied as he opened the door. "Hiding in the corner of my room with Tobi from Kisame."

"Yeah, I saw Kisame. Mind if you throw Naruto out for me?"

Sasori disappeared from the doorway for a minute before he dragged both Naruto and Tobi from his room and threw them out. "He didn't mean you have to throw us out literally!" Naruto argued. "Just have us leave the room!"

"Thanks," Zetsu said before he picked Naruto up. "Come on, Naruto."

"Check up?"

"Yep."

Naruto turned around to look at Tobi. "Find somewhere else to hide for a while. Don't try my room or yours. Kisame would look there first. I'll come find you later. Then we can play another prank on Kisame."

"Okay!" Tobi replied before he picked himself up and ran off down the hall.

"You both act like children," Zetsu's black half stated.

"Well Naruto is a child," Zetsu's white half responded. "Tobi…we just can't leave him alone for very long."

"I'm not a child," Naruto stated. "I'm a teenager. Sixteen years old here!"

"Child," Zetsu's black half replied.

"Shut up," the white half said.

"Make me."

"Now I see why no one can really stand it when you talk to yourself," Naruto stated. "Why don't you just talk to your other half in your head? That's what I do when I speak with Kyuubi."

"We tried it once," the white half replied.

"But then we started talking out loud," finished the black half.

"I give up!" Naruto stated, throwing his hands into the air. "You two are hopeless!"

"I'm only one person," Zetsu stated.

"With two personalities!"

Zetsu was quiet for a minute. "Good point." Zetsu opened a door and walked in, followed by Naruto. "Sit and take off you shirt."

"Can't I keep it on?" Zetsu gave the Kyuubi vessel a look that said 'no'. "Why not?"

"Because it would be easier and go by quicker if the shirt was off."

"All you do is look at my stomach."

"Why are you complaining about the shirt now and not the times before?"

"Because he is hiding something," Zetsu's black half stated.

"You need to shut up," Zetsu's white half spoke. "And you need to take off the shirt," he pointed to Naruto when he said his next sentence. Sighing, Naruto did what he was told and removed his baggy black shirt. Zetsu saw something on Naruto's stomach, and it wasn't the bump. "Is that the seal for the Kyuubi no Kitsune?" Naruto nodded. "And that's why you didn't want to take off your shirt?" Another nod. "Moron."

"Hey!" Naruto nearly yelled.

"To tell you the truth, I could care less about that mark. Looks like it's been screwed around with, anyway."

"Yeah. Ero-sannin messed around with it so I could get more chakra. He thought he was helping me control some of the fox's chakra. Then he threw me off a cliff and I kind of used more then I really needed. I summoned Gamabunta." Zetsu raised an eyebrow. "Ero-sannin was teaching me how to summon and he said that I needed to feel like I was about to die or something like that. I'm going to throw him off a cliff one of these days."

"When was it first tampered with?"

"When I was learning how to walk on water. That was about three years ago. Maybe a little longer. I don't exactly remember the length of time." Naruto had a thoughtful look on his face like he was trying to remember. Zetsu ignored it. Once Naruto's check-up was over, he put the shirt back on before he ran out the door to go find his partner in crime and mischief, Tobi. He found him in the living room, hanging upside down from the ceiling. "How did you get up there?"

"Kisame threw me up here!" Tobi replied.

"Want down?"

"Yes! The blood is rushing to my head!" Channeling his chakra to his feet, Naruto walked up the wall and on the ceiling until he reached Tobi before he untied the Akatsuki member. Tobi fell, but landed on his feet. He looked up before saying, "Thanks!"

"No problem." Naruto jumped down from the ceiling. "Where's Kisame right now?"

"He thinks you're with Zetsu, but he went to go wash off the pink. He looked really funny half pink."

"Take a picture?"

"Deidara did. It's in his mental photo-album."

"Then we'll never get it or see it! Deidara will be the only one who can!"

"Let's talk to Dei-chan about that!"

"Good idea!" They ran down the halls, looking for Deidara's room. Eventually, they found it. They knocked on the door before the bird loving artist opened it.

"Un?" he asked.

"Tobi says you have a picture of the half pink Kisame."

"Un."

"Is it possible to get it from you?"

"Nope, un. It's in my mental photo-album, un. You can see it, just not get it, un. And that takes lots of concentration, un. Something I doubt you can accomplish, un."

"Stop saying 'un'."

"Un."

"Dei-chan!" Tobi spoke up. "Can we please see the picture?"

Deidara looked at the overly hyper Akatsuki members. Sighing, he nodded. "But you gotta come in here, un. Not stand in the halls, un." He stepped aside and allowed the two to enter his room, closing the door once they were both in. "Okay, in order to look at my mental album, you have to channel your chakra into your fingers, un. Then when I tell you, you put those fingers to my head and you'll be able to see the pictures I took, un."

"How many pictures do you have of the half pink Kisame?" Naruto asked.

"A few from different angles, un. He thought I was just circling him, un. It's fun to annoy Kisame!"

"You didn't say 'un'! And we agree on something for once!"

"Un!"

"He's starting to say it again," Tobi whispered into Naruto's ears.

"I know," Naruto nearly growled out.

"Just like it's fun to annoy you, un," Deidara said, pointing at Naruto.

"Can we see the picture now?" Tobi asked, hopping up and down like a five year old who had sugar cookies, chocolate, and a soda. Sighing, Deidara closed his eye. Naruto and Tobi started to concentrate their chakra to their fingers before Deidara gave a small nod, telling them that he found the pictures. They placed their fingers on his head and closed their eyes as well. The images just appeared in their minds. All three of them had to hold in their laughs when Deidara brought up the Kisame pictures. Nothing except for his eyes were seen under all the bright pink paint that covered him from head to stomach. That was as far as the paint could go down his body. When they finished going through all the half pink Kisame pictures, Deidara closed his mind and opened his eye. Tobi and Naruto opened theirs and removed their fingers. They all looked at each other before all three burst out laughing.

"How did you ever come up with that plan, un?" Deidara managed to say while he was still laughing.

"It was Naruto's idea," Tobi stated, still laughing.

"I did it to a villager at Konoha a few years back," Naruto admitted once he had his laughter at least a little under control. "Only it covered him head to toe." They all started to laugh harder when Naruto told them that.

"I am so glad that you joined the Akatsuki, Naruto," Tobi said, swinging his arm around Naruto's neck. "It's more fun then ever! And I have someone who understands me!"

"Now you're being dramatic."

"Tobi's always that way, un," Deidara stated. "Now out of my room before I blow something of yours off of you." Both Naruto and Tobi 'eep'ed before they ran out of Deidara's room.

Me: there. We now have my reason y Itachi killed the Uchiha clan and a little humor. Now I have a challenge for you. Imagine Kisame covered halfway with pink paint. Got it? Funny rite? Okay, I'm done talking. R&R every1!