Title: Remembering My Love

Author: nikki (nikkichan0829@yahoo.com)

Chapter: 10/11 plus epilogue

Chapter Title: Remembering What Is Precious

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Romance/Drama

Warning: INCEST, YAOI. OOCness. If you're squicky about this, don't read. Oh yeah, and like my other fics, it's unbetaed.

Pairing/s: Itachi/Sasuke, Naruto/Gaara, a bit of Lee + Sakura, one-sided Sakura + Sasuke

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.

Author's notes: So, okay... I took my time before finally resuming this chapter. (See dates down below.) Thankfully, the writer's block is gone. I got volumes 11 to 20 of Naruto!!! WAH!!! Itachi is soooo cool!!! HAHAHA! (You can thank those manga for the revival of my muses. hehe.)

Chapter Summary: (None I could think of...)

//blah// - thoughts

"blah" - speech

//"blah"// - speech from a past memory or speech that was not really part of the dream



~Chapter 10: Remembering What Is Precious~

Naruto closed his eyes, expecting his end at any moment. //Gaara...//

CLANG!

The sound of blade breaking caused his eyes to fly open in time to see a wall of sand receding and Gaara stepping out from the shadows.

"No one hurts my kitsune and gets away with it."

Kisame snorted. Just who does this boy think he is? It doesn't matter. Since he's so eager to die, he might as well go after him first. Save the kyubi for later.

He didn't think that he would die regretting just how much he underestimated that boy.

~~~~~

"If I can't have him, no one will!"

Bloody and beaten, Sasuke tried to get to his feet but only succeeded in getting onto his hands and knees. Blood was now running down from the gash on his forehead where his forehead protector originally was. Now, the protector was lying on the floor not too far away. Part of the cloth was shredded.

The thick red liquid was running down his lips, the cuts on his arms and it was quickly staining his clothes. But that didn't matter to him as his body froze as the insane Sennin charged at him.

Then, all of a sudden, Itachi jumped right in front of him. The older Uchiha's hands were moving rapidly, doing several hand seals that even Sasuke's Sharingan couldn't follow.

Then, Orochimaru's hand connected with Itachi's chest and sunk in, drawing out metallic-scented crimson blood. The older Uchiha vomitted blood and slowly looked up, a smirk on his bloodied lips.

"I win."

The Sennin's eyes widened as Itachi finished one last seal. And the world went white.

~~~~~

Kisame's eyes went wide in horror as sand enveloped him. No matter how hard he struggled, it wouldn't give. For the first time in his life, he felt a deep-seated fear coursing through his body.

He didn't think that this boy was a demon too.

The last thing he saw was the sight of him tugging the kyubi away before the darkness took him, then there was pain... then nothing more.

~~~~~

Having been temporarily blinded by the bright light, Sasuke blinked several times to get his senses back to normal. He looked up and saw that Itachi's back was to him and Orochimaru was nowhere in sight.

Orochimaru was gone!

He smiled. "Aniki, you got him! He's gone!"

But the smile on his face wavered when he saw the blood pooling at his brother's feet.

"Sasuke..."

Sasuke snapped his head up as Itachi turned to look at him and collapsed. Forcing his body to move, Sasuke rushed to catch his brother.

"ITACHI!"

~~~~~

Three shadowed men watched the scene below them. Their cloaks were covered in cloud designs. Members of Akatsuki...

"It looks as if Kisame had failed."

"Orochimaru was no good either."

"At least we've gathered enough data to be able to handle them the next time."

"Aa. And next time, we get the kyubi."

"Let's go."

Then, in the blink of an eye, they vanished.

~~~~~

~TBC~

Author's notes: Man... This is short. At least I'm uploading it with the next chapters ne? I hope that makes up for it. And yeah. This is chapter 10. There would be a chapter 11a and 11b. Then the epilogue would follow.

Now to clarify a few things for you. You have the option to disregard 11a. It's just something this sick twisted thing in my head decided to screw around with.

If you like chapter 11a, then you have the option not to go further. Yeah. Just stop right there.

11b and the epilogue are the ones that completely follow the my storyline. So you could say that 11a is an extra.

Anyway, please review! Flamers can go to hell and kiss Zabuza's ass (that is if they can get through Haku)!

P.S. Would it be really bad of me to advertise my other Itachi fic? =.=;;; Yeah... I guess it would. *goes back to drooling over Itachi scenes in the manga*

Started: November 26, 2003

Ended: November 26, 2003

Resumed: February 25, 2004

Ended: March 1, 2004