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ISHIYAMA CASTLE AND THE TOWN AKIO AND ITS PEOPLE!!!!
Inner Pyro: HELL YAH!!! TAKE THAT YA STUPID LAWYERS!!!!
Title: Welcome to Dead House
Chapter Title: Itachi's Suspicion
Rating: PG-13, rating will go up later for violence, death, blood, gore, etc.
Pairing: SasuNaru
Warnings: None, for this chapter
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-Normal Pov-
The doctors had been absolutely furious when they came into the room and saw Sasuke on Naruto's bed. That is, after they had gotten over they relief that Naruto was alright. They had been yelling at Sasuke for the next half hour about how walking could damage his legs forever, and that he was already in bad enough shape as it was.
Sasuke was not one to show his emotions easily. But the doctors were really starting to piss him off. His eye kept twitching and he was sure that any moment now a blood vessel was going to snap. So he decided to try and solve this in a calm and sensible fashion.
"Um, Dr. Makoto?"
A male doctor looked at Sasuke. "Hai, Uchiha-san?" he asked.
"I'm feeling a bit tired... And all this noise will prevent me from sleeping..." Sasuke hoped that would work.
Dr. Makoto nodded. "Minna-san," he called over the noise. "Uchiha-san wants to sleep! We all need to leave so he can recover."
There was a murmur of agreement and the doctors and nurses began filing out one by one. A few were still grumbling about Sasuke, but no further fuss was made.
When they had all left, Sasuke looked over at Naruto. He was sleeping now, and he looked like an angel-
Sasuke blinked. Did he just say that Naruto looked like an angel? That's not what he meant! But Naruto did look kind of cute, in the sense that an elder would think a baby curled up was cute. Yeah, that was it....
Sasuke shook his head and he drifted off to sleep.
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-Dream-
Sasuke blinked and looked around him. He was in a dark room. With a bed, desk, dresser and end table. There were two doors, one leading to a bathroom and the other leading to what was probably the rest of the house. He blinked again, and gasped. The room had changed. Instead of just seeing the dim outline of figures he could now see what they looked like exactly and he could also see what the floor and walls looked like. The furniture was all oak, painted black. The dresser had five drawers, all with a kanji symbol on them. They were death, blood, katana, trick, and shinobi. Sasuke wondered who the dresser belonged to, to have those symbols on it. The desk was a regular office desk, with drawers and a space for a chair, which he could now see. The chair was black like the rest of the furniture with dark red cushions on the seat and back. The end table was the kind with a drawer on top and a space on the bottom for something like books or magazines. The bed was just a regular futon, with dark red sheets that had black boarders.
The walls were black, and the floor was dark stained oak, with a dark red rug. Whoever had this room was very into black and red.
Sasuke blinked again. Now there were objects around the room that were visible. There were books in the end table, which also held a digital clock. On the other side of the bed there was a floor lamp. The desk had various papers scattered across it, along with a... laptop? Sasuke wondered where he was to have a modern appliance such as that one. He had only known that laptops even existed recently.
The dresser was home to several hair bands, a brush, a C.D. player and several C.D.'s. Sasuke couldn't see what they were. It also had an incense burner and a few candles on it. Now that he thought about it, Sasuke noticed that there were candles, incense burners and scented oil burners all around the room. There were shelf's on the walls that housed the candles. They were all scented, Sasuke noted. He blinked again, and yelled.
His brother was sitting at the desk, working on the laptop.
But his brother was dead! Sasuke had seen him die with everyone else in that house of the dammed! He had heard his brother screaming, he knew how he had died! His body, the flames, the skeletons that jumped out from them, screaming when they found they couldn't reach him and Naruto...
Sasuke felt like vomiting. Why did his mind create such images to haunt him? He never wanted to remember that once his brother, his friends, his teachers, had been happy, living normal lives that were not to be damned, That they would have all dies deaths that they expected... Not like the ones they did... Not like that...
Sasuke wanted to sob. Why? Why did God torment him?
There was creak behind him. Sasuke spun around to face the shark man he had seen with his brother when he had attacked him to get to Naruto. If Sasuke had to guess, this was the Akatsuki head quarters, and this was where his brother lived. He wanted to ask the shark man what was going on, but the Akatsuki member walked right through him.
Sasuke stood there, stunned. Then he summed it up. His brother was dead, and he had never seen this place before, and the shark man had walked right through him... So either this was hell or a dream. The latter made more sense. But from the looks of things, it was a memory of Itachi's, one that had somehow found it's way into his mind. A bit more relaxed now, Sasuke decided to survey the scene before him.
"Itachi-san." The shark man said. Itachi did not look up from his work but made a small noise of acknowledgment.
"There are some men downstairs that wish to see you," the shark man said.
Without looking up, Itachi said, "Send them up, Kisame."
Kisame nodded and left. A few minutes later he returned with the same men that had offered the genins there proposition.
"Konichiwa, Uchiha-sama," said the fat man in a falsely polite voice.
"State your business and leave," Itachi said coldly without looking up from the laptop.
Sasuke smiled with satisfaction as the fat man flinched. "Now, now, Uchiha- sama, we're not here for just any old mission-"
"Then leave. I have no interest in you if you're not here on business standards," the older Uchiha said. He had not looked up even once.
Sasuke saw the fat man growing frustrated. He could not help but feel a sense of pride for his elder brother.
"Onegai, Uchiha-sama. Hear us out," said the tall man nervously. "You may regret it if you don't."
Itachi sighed. "Fine. What do you want with me? And make it quick."
The fat man nodded. "But of course. We have a proposition to make. We are going to try and open-"
"Get to the point already," the Uchiha snapped. The sense if pride fro his brother welled up inside Sasuke like a balloon. He smiled at him brother, even though he knew Itachi could not see him.
"We would like you to stay in and old castle for a month so we can make sure it is all right for tourists," the tall man said.
"Am I to receive pay?" Itachi asked, making it clear that if he didn't he would not do this.
"Yes. One million U.S. dollars," said the fat man.
Sasuke noticed that Itachi's eyes narrowed. The Uchiha still was working on the computer.
"Why so much?" he asked.
"A month is a long time, and we're not entirely sure that the castle is 100 percent safe. So we decided to up the pay," the tall man said.
Sasuke could tell that his brother didn't buy it. "And I take it I have to sign a contract," he stated.
"Yes," the fat man said. "He opened his suitcase and pulled out the contract, then handed it to Itachi.
Itachi took it and read through it. He sighed. "Fine, I'll do it," he said.
The fat man smiled. "Very good. Here's pen." He pulled a pen out of his pocket. Itachi took it and signed. Then he handed the pen back to the fat man.
"Now get out," he said coolly.
The fat man shivered. He and his partner made there way towards the door.
"Oh, and just to let you know, pinstripe suits and blubber don't go well together," Itachi said with a smirk.
Sasuke laughed as the fat man turned scarlet. "I'll make a note of that," he said and left.
Itachi returned his attention back to the computer. "Ishiyama castle," he muttered under his breath. He clicked on the internet browser and pulled up google.com, and typed in the castle name. A few sites came up. Itachi clicked on the first.
Sasuke watched as for the next 45 minutes his brother read up on Ishiyama castle. When he had finished, Itachi leaned back in his chair. "Not 100 percent safe, my ass. Sounds like a fucking death trap to me," he said with a frown.
Sasuke caught the sound of someone yelling, "Oi! Uchiha! Dinner's ready!"
Itachi closed the web browser and went out of his room.
And Sasuke woke up.
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-Hospital Room, next night, Naruto's Pov-
I sat in silence as a nurse presented me with food. I've never been one to trust hospital food. I've had bad luck with it the past. But this stuff looked okay. I picked a fork and put some into my mouth. Scratch ok, this stuff was great! Almost as good as ramen! Bu then again, nothing's as good as ramen!
You and your ramen.
Huh? Who said that? I looked over at Sasuke, who was reading a book. I still remember hugging him last night. I'm not really used to hugs, and that one was really nice. Sasuke was warm... AAAA!!! I DID NOT JUST THINK THAT!!! SASUKE IS NOT WARM!!!
You can't deny it.
Hey! Someone talked to me again! Who the hell is doing that?! Am I saying this stuff out loud and not knowing it?
I looked over at Sasuke again. He's still reading. I don't think that he would have said those thing so who...
Hey, did it just get colder in here?
Yeah, it's getting colder... Wait, now I'm warming up. Like there's a fire inside my body. But there's something wrong... I made a move to get up...
Stay here.
ALRIGHT WHO THE HELL IS SAYING THAT- Sasuke?
I notice that Sasuke has gone all ridged. He slowly turned his head to his left, which was away from me...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
Oh my fucking god, Sasuke! He screamed and now he's scrambling and he's fainted and he's dropping. Out of instinct I tried to go over to him, but...
Stay here, Naruto!
What? Who's saying that? I blinked and all the sudden I saw the Kyuubi in front of me, with glowing red eyes and screamed in fury...
I screamed and black out.
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-Same scene, but with Sasuke's Pov-
I was reading while Naruto ate, when I noticed the room getting colder. I was about to call a nurse the close the window, when I realized it wasn't open. And then I heard it...
"Sasuke..."
There was a bark.
I froze. Don't look, I thought, but my body didn't listen. Slowly my head turned toward my left.
There was Kiba and Akamaru, standing next to me, with arrow sticking all out of them like they were pin cushions. They're eyes were bleeding because they had arrows in them, blood was all over them, it reeked.
I screamed and fainted.
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-Dream, Normal Pov-
Sasuke looked around him. He was back in Itachi's room. The Uchiha was packing stuff into a bag. Many of the candles, incense and oil burners were lit. Sasuke noticed that Itachi looked like he was going to have a blood vessel break any second now...
"Itachi-san!"
"What?!" he snapped as his head turned to the doorway. Kisame was there.
"Please can I come with you?! I want to have one million U.S. dollars!" Kisame pleaded.
"Kisame, I told you NO! The contract said I was the only one coming!"
"So sneak me with you!"
"No!"
"Please?!"
"No!
There was a hustle outside Itachi's door as other Akatsuki members showed up. Sasuke could figure out that Itachi had all these candles and such lighted to relive stress.
"Itachi, I wanna go!"
"No me! I want all that money!"
"Itachi, buddy, let me go!"
"Itachi-san, I'm your partner! How can you say no!?"
Itachi snapped. In the blink of an eye he had taken Kisame and thrown him into all the other members. His eyes flashed with murdering passion.
"Listen up you fuckers," he said. "I cannot take anyone with me, and I don't want to take anyone with me. The proposition was offered to me. So all of you fuck off right now, or I'll fucking kill you. And I promise, it WILL hurt." There was danger radiating from him like nothing Sasuke had felt before. It was almost scary.
The Akatsuki members nodded. Itachi stalked off down the stairs. He opened the front door...
And came face to face with Orochimaru.
"Hello, Itachi-kun. I heard that you're going to get one million dollars..."
Itachi's eye twitched.
Five minutes later, there was a bloody heap on the ground that had once been know as the Sennin Orochimaru. Sasuke actually had to close his eyes for part of the beating Itachi had given Orochimaru. The older Uchiha had stalked off in a very bad temper, and heaven help anyone that was to disturb him on his trip to Ishiyama castle right now.
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-Hospital-
Sasuke groggily opened his eyes. There were some nurses and doctors in the room that were tending to him and... Naruto? Oh crap, was Naruto alright? Sasuke didn't realize he had voiced this out loud.
"He'll be fine," a nurse said with a smile. "You should get some rest Sasuke. That's probably why you're fainting so much. Hallucinations and rest lack. Sleep," she said.
Sasuke closed his eyes. He had almost drifted off to sleep when he realized that Itachi had signed the contract with his left hand. And Itachi was right handed.
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Pyro: I'M SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING FASTER!!!!! BUT I GOT A WRITER'S BLOCK ON THIS FIC!!!! Damn, those evil plot bunnies... THEY AMBUSH ME AND THEN ABANDON ME!!!! DAMN YOU, PLOT BUNNIES!!! DIE!!! (Pulls out a bazooka and starts shooting them down)
Sasuke: O.O
Naruto: Freak...
Inner Pyro: HELL YAH!!! TAKE THAT YA STUPID LAWYERS!!!!
Title: Welcome to Dead House
Chapter Title: Itachi's Suspicion
Rating: PG-13, rating will go up later for violence, death, blood, gore, etc.
Pairing: SasuNaru
Warnings: None, for this chapter
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-Normal Pov-
The doctors had been absolutely furious when they came into the room and saw Sasuke on Naruto's bed. That is, after they had gotten over they relief that Naruto was alright. They had been yelling at Sasuke for the next half hour about how walking could damage his legs forever, and that he was already in bad enough shape as it was.
Sasuke was not one to show his emotions easily. But the doctors were really starting to piss him off. His eye kept twitching and he was sure that any moment now a blood vessel was going to snap. So he decided to try and solve this in a calm and sensible fashion.
"Um, Dr. Makoto?"
A male doctor looked at Sasuke. "Hai, Uchiha-san?" he asked.
"I'm feeling a bit tired... And all this noise will prevent me from sleeping..." Sasuke hoped that would work.
Dr. Makoto nodded. "Minna-san," he called over the noise. "Uchiha-san wants to sleep! We all need to leave so he can recover."
There was a murmur of agreement and the doctors and nurses began filing out one by one. A few were still grumbling about Sasuke, but no further fuss was made.
When they had all left, Sasuke looked over at Naruto. He was sleeping now, and he looked like an angel-
Sasuke blinked. Did he just say that Naruto looked like an angel? That's not what he meant! But Naruto did look kind of cute, in the sense that an elder would think a baby curled up was cute. Yeah, that was it....
Sasuke shook his head and he drifted off to sleep.
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-Dream-
Sasuke blinked and looked around him. He was in a dark room. With a bed, desk, dresser and end table. There were two doors, one leading to a bathroom and the other leading to what was probably the rest of the house. He blinked again, and gasped. The room had changed. Instead of just seeing the dim outline of figures he could now see what they looked like exactly and he could also see what the floor and walls looked like. The furniture was all oak, painted black. The dresser had five drawers, all with a kanji symbol on them. They were death, blood, katana, trick, and shinobi. Sasuke wondered who the dresser belonged to, to have those symbols on it. The desk was a regular office desk, with drawers and a space for a chair, which he could now see. The chair was black like the rest of the furniture with dark red cushions on the seat and back. The end table was the kind with a drawer on top and a space on the bottom for something like books or magazines. The bed was just a regular futon, with dark red sheets that had black boarders.
The walls were black, and the floor was dark stained oak, with a dark red rug. Whoever had this room was very into black and red.
Sasuke blinked again. Now there were objects around the room that were visible. There were books in the end table, which also held a digital clock. On the other side of the bed there was a floor lamp. The desk had various papers scattered across it, along with a... laptop? Sasuke wondered where he was to have a modern appliance such as that one. He had only known that laptops even existed recently.
The dresser was home to several hair bands, a brush, a C.D. player and several C.D.'s. Sasuke couldn't see what they were. It also had an incense burner and a few candles on it. Now that he thought about it, Sasuke noticed that there were candles, incense burners and scented oil burners all around the room. There were shelf's on the walls that housed the candles. They were all scented, Sasuke noted. He blinked again, and yelled.
His brother was sitting at the desk, working on the laptop.
But his brother was dead! Sasuke had seen him die with everyone else in that house of the dammed! He had heard his brother screaming, he knew how he had died! His body, the flames, the skeletons that jumped out from them, screaming when they found they couldn't reach him and Naruto...
Sasuke felt like vomiting. Why did his mind create such images to haunt him? He never wanted to remember that once his brother, his friends, his teachers, had been happy, living normal lives that were not to be damned, That they would have all dies deaths that they expected... Not like the ones they did... Not like that...
Sasuke wanted to sob. Why? Why did God torment him?
There was creak behind him. Sasuke spun around to face the shark man he had seen with his brother when he had attacked him to get to Naruto. If Sasuke had to guess, this was the Akatsuki head quarters, and this was where his brother lived. He wanted to ask the shark man what was going on, but the Akatsuki member walked right through him.
Sasuke stood there, stunned. Then he summed it up. His brother was dead, and he had never seen this place before, and the shark man had walked right through him... So either this was hell or a dream. The latter made more sense. But from the looks of things, it was a memory of Itachi's, one that had somehow found it's way into his mind. A bit more relaxed now, Sasuke decided to survey the scene before him.
"Itachi-san." The shark man said. Itachi did not look up from his work but made a small noise of acknowledgment.
"There are some men downstairs that wish to see you," the shark man said.
Without looking up, Itachi said, "Send them up, Kisame."
Kisame nodded and left. A few minutes later he returned with the same men that had offered the genins there proposition.
"Konichiwa, Uchiha-sama," said the fat man in a falsely polite voice.
"State your business and leave," Itachi said coldly without looking up from the laptop.
Sasuke smiled with satisfaction as the fat man flinched. "Now, now, Uchiha- sama, we're not here for just any old mission-"
"Then leave. I have no interest in you if you're not here on business standards," the older Uchiha said. He had not looked up even once.
Sasuke saw the fat man growing frustrated. He could not help but feel a sense of pride for his elder brother.
"Onegai, Uchiha-sama. Hear us out," said the tall man nervously. "You may regret it if you don't."
Itachi sighed. "Fine. What do you want with me? And make it quick."
The fat man nodded. "But of course. We have a proposition to make. We are going to try and open-"
"Get to the point already," the Uchiha snapped. The sense if pride fro his brother welled up inside Sasuke like a balloon. He smiled at him brother, even though he knew Itachi could not see him.
"We would like you to stay in and old castle for a month so we can make sure it is all right for tourists," the tall man said.
"Am I to receive pay?" Itachi asked, making it clear that if he didn't he would not do this.
"Yes. One million U.S. dollars," said the fat man.
Sasuke noticed that Itachi's eyes narrowed. The Uchiha still was working on the computer.
"Why so much?" he asked.
"A month is a long time, and we're not entirely sure that the castle is 100 percent safe. So we decided to up the pay," the tall man said.
Sasuke could tell that his brother didn't buy it. "And I take it I have to sign a contract," he stated.
"Yes," the fat man said. "He opened his suitcase and pulled out the contract, then handed it to Itachi.
Itachi took it and read through it. He sighed. "Fine, I'll do it," he said.
The fat man smiled. "Very good. Here's pen." He pulled a pen out of his pocket. Itachi took it and signed. Then he handed the pen back to the fat man.
"Now get out," he said coolly.
The fat man shivered. He and his partner made there way towards the door.
"Oh, and just to let you know, pinstripe suits and blubber don't go well together," Itachi said with a smirk.
Sasuke laughed as the fat man turned scarlet. "I'll make a note of that," he said and left.
Itachi returned his attention back to the computer. "Ishiyama castle," he muttered under his breath. He clicked on the internet browser and pulled up google.com, and typed in the castle name. A few sites came up. Itachi clicked on the first.
Sasuke watched as for the next 45 minutes his brother read up on Ishiyama castle. When he had finished, Itachi leaned back in his chair. "Not 100 percent safe, my ass. Sounds like a fucking death trap to me," he said with a frown.
Sasuke caught the sound of someone yelling, "Oi! Uchiha! Dinner's ready!"
Itachi closed the web browser and went out of his room.
And Sasuke woke up.
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-Hospital Room, next night, Naruto's Pov-
I sat in silence as a nurse presented me with food. I've never been one to trust hospital food. I've had bad luck with it the past. But this stuff looked okay. I picked a fork and put some into my mouth. Scratch ok, this stuff was great! Almost as good as ramen! Bu then again, nothing's as good as ramen!
You and your ramen.
Huh? Who said that? I looked over at Sasuke, who was reading a book. I still remember hugging him last night. I'm not really used to hugs, and that one was really nice. Sasuke was warm... AAAA!!! I DID NOT JUST THINK THAT!!! SASUKE IS NOT WARM!!!
You can't deny it.
Hey! Someone talked to me again! Who the hell is doing that?! Am I saying this stuff out loud and not knowing it?
I looked over at Sasuke again. He's still reading. I don't think that he would have said those thing so who...
Hey, did it just get colder in here?
Yeah, it's getting colder... Wait, now I'm warming up. Like there's a fire inside my body. But there's something wrong... I made a move to get up...
Stay here.
ALRIGHT WHO THE HELL IS SAYING THAT- Sasuke?
I notice that Sasuke has gone all ridged. He slowly turned his head to his left, which was away from me...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
Oh my fucking god, Sasuke! He screamed and now he's scrambling and he's fainted and he's dropping. Out of instinct I tried to go over to him, but...
Stay here, Naruto!
What? Who's saying that? I blinked and all the sudden I saw the Kyuubi in front of me, with glowing red eyes and screamed in fury...
I screamed and black out.
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-Same scene, but with Sasuke's Pov-
I was reading while Naruto ate, when I noticed the room getting colder. I was about to call a nurse the close the window, when I realized it wasn't open. And then I heard it...
"Sasuke..."
There was a bark.
I froze. Don't look, I thought, but my body didn't listen. Slowly my head turned toward my left.
There was Kiba and Akamaru, standing next to me, with arrow sticking all out of them like they were pin cushions. They're eyes were bleeding because they had arrows in them, blood was all over them, it reeked.
I screamed and fainted.
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-Dream, Normal Pov-
Sasuke looked around him. He was back in Itachi's room. The Uchiha was packing stuff into a bag. Many of the candles, incense and oil burners were lit. Sasuke noticed that Itachi looked like he was going to have a blood vessel break any second now...
"Itachi-san!"
"What?!" he snapped as his head turned to the doorway. Kisame was there.
"Please can I come with you?! I want to have one million U.S. dollars!" Kisame pleaded.
"Kisame, I told you NO! The contract said I was the only one coming!"
"So sneak me with you!"
"No!"
"Please?!"
"No!
There was a hustle outside Itachi's door as other Akatsuki members showed up. Sasuke could figure out that Itachi had all these candles and such lighted to relive stress.
"Itachi, I wanna go!"
"No me! I want all that money!"
"Itachi, buddy, let me go!"
"Itachi-san, I'm your partner! How can you say no!?"
Itachi snapped. In the blink of an eye he had taken Kisame and thrown him into all the other members. His eyes flashed with murdering passion.
"Listen up you fuckers," he said. "I cannot take anyone with me, and I don't want to take anyone with me. The proposition was offered to me. So all of you fuck off right now, or I'll fucking kill you. And I promise, it WILL hurt." There was danger radiating from him like nothing Sasuke had felt before. It was almost scary.
The Akatsuki members nodded. Itachi stalked off down the stairs. He opened the front door...
And came face to face with Orochimaru.
"Hello, Itachi-kun. I heard that you're going to get one million dollars..."
Itachi's eye twitched.
Five minutes later, there was a bloody heap on the ground that had once been know as the Sennin Orochimaru. Sasuke actually had to close his eyes for part of the beating Itachi had given Orochimaru. The older Uchiha had stalked off in a very bad temper, and heaven help anyone that was to disturb him on his trip to Ishiyama castle right now.
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-Hospital-
Sasuke groggily opened his eyes. There were some nurses and doctors in the room that were tending to him and... Naruto? Oh crap, was Naruto alright? Sasuke didn't realize he had voiced this out loud.
"He'll be fine," a nurse said with a smile. "You should get some rest Sasuke. That's probably why you're fainting so much. Hallucinations and rest lack. Sleep," she said.
Sasuke closed his eyes. He had almost drifted off to sleep when he realized that Itachi had signed the contract with his left hand. And Itachi was right handed.
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Pyro: I'M SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING FASTER!!!!! BUT I GOT A WRITER'S BLOCK ON THIS FIC!!!! Damn, those evil plot bunnies... THEY AMBUSH ME AND THEN ABANDON ME!!!! DAMN YOU, PLOT BUNNIES!!! DIE!!! (Pulls out a bazooka and starts shooting them down)
Sasuke: O.O
Naruto: Freak...