Disclaimer: Naruto & co. don't belong to me. They belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

A/N Woohoo! Action action action!

Stuff I created which I really think would look cool if they had it in the series: Katon: Fireworks no jutsu -it looks like how it's named A Hundred Fireworks no jutsu -this too Ice type: Bee no jutsu -ice bees anyone?

Chapter: Sharingan Reunion

The light faded and they were able to regain their vision.

"That was one hell of an impact," thought the red-eyed jounin. They had seen it. If only for a brief second. They saw it. They saw Yuki's hand come in contact with the scroll, the touch creating compressed waves - when they heard a body thud on the ground, it created a tiny shudder on the earth, then a tremor that almost grew to an earthquake if Tsunade hadn't flung herself to the source - the epicenter.

It was Yuki. The source of the vibrations had been her.

She was lying on her side on the floor next to where Uchiha Itachi was sleeping. A long gash covered the side of her forehead, her hair covered the rest of her face so they couldn't see any more damages on her, Tsunade had a hand on her shoulder, helpless to do anything for the moment.

"Repair the barrier," Tsunade ordered, without even glancing at the three outside. "Kurenai-san. Tell Kakashi - tell him..."

"Understood. I'll go now," Kurenai said, stepping away from the other two.

"Tell him that we'll be here for a while." Tsunade turned to the other jounin and the anbu that stayed to begin repairing the barrier. "I'm going to seal the door from the inside-... take care of the village," she said as she put her hand up to prepare for a jutsu. That was the last they saw before the room sealed itself from sight.

The guests of the Hatake household were solemnly eating their meal, when they heard knocking on the door, again. Sakura excused herself to get it.

"Kurenai-sensei?" Sakura gasped when she saw the state the older woman was in.

"Sakura? Where's Kakashi?" Kakashi was beside her as soon as she called his name. He helped her to a couch. "Kakashi..." Kakashi was surveying the damage on her body critically. It was bad. Through her panting, she noticed two more in the room - Naruto and Sasuke. If she found it odd that they were there, she didn't show it. She returned her attention to Kakashi. "We need to speak in private."

"I don't need to hide anything from my students," he said.

"Very well, if you wish." Kurenai coughed before starting again. "Something happened this afternoon. Chakra was rocketing off his body."

"His?" With a look from the woman, Kakashi understood and narrowed his eyes. "Go on."

"It got worse. The Fifth tried to contain it herself but in the end she had to call three others to help her. Me, Asuma and an anbu."

"And Yuki?"

"She tried to seal it - no - she did seal it. You felt the tremor the seal caused. The Fifth stopped it from turning to a full-blown earthquake. They've quarantined themselves in the room with him."

"What?" Kakashi growled. His students all jumped away from him in shock - including Sasuke. It was never a good sign when Kakashi growled. "Of all the-"

"It's too late. Asuma tried to open her seal but-... in any case, we can't reach them now. The room's sealed shut from the inside."

"Who did they quarantined themselves with... Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked. Kakashi looked tense, as if almost ready to explode. He looked at the blonde youth, then to Sasuke, then back to Naruto to answer his question albeit reluctantly.

"Uchiha... Itachi."

Yuki gasped in shock. "Stop it! Tsunade-sama," she pleased. Tsunade was trying to heal her. "You've lost so much chakra already."

"Yuki-chan. I know I'm being selfish but I'll need you to fight him if he stirs. I'm no match for him right now. I've tried to keep the barrier from breaking for so long... and my body has aged too much. You have to do this for me." Tsunade blinked away a tear. "That's why, please let me heal you."

"If he wakes up, he'll be angry," Yuki said timidly. She had seen Uchiha Itachi, once when he was awake. He made her see horrible memories from her past. Even though she had her sharingan, she wasn't immune to his powers.... Uchiha Itachi.... Even the thought of having that man finally awake... was terrifying.

"He won't know what happened," Tsunade said, not noticing the changes in her. She began the healing process. "He'll wake up thinking that Sasuke is still around. He'll try to destroy anything in his path to get to him. If he escapes my barrier... I can't predict what he'll do if he escapes. If he wakes up."

"Don't underestimate me," Itachi gasped. He was sitting up. The two women were shocked. "How dare you attempt to seal my chakra away... too bad you didn't know that members of Akatsuki are protected from it. You wasted so much energy."

Yuki pushed away Tsunade to the wall and took a defensive stance in front of her. Itachi pulled his legs over and made them touch the ground. Yuki took off her cloak and gave it to Tsunade. Even if Uchiha Itachi was still drowsy... she had to remove all restrictions to her movement. She had to fight her all against this guy.

"Your mask... you're related to Hatake Kakashi? I see... that's how much time had passed. I never thought that Hatake would be continuing his line... You've proven me wrong." His sharingan eyes snapped open. "That'll never happened again!"

He had overestimated the condition of his body, thinking that it would move as fast as it used to when he ran forward to swipe his feet at her. She dodged and threw him to a wall.

"I guess my body's not used to it yet," Itachi murmured. "Still... This container can't keep me." Itachi began a jutsu. Yuki's sharingan eyes turned on again as she quickly performed a counter-jutsu. It worked. The jutsu was dispelled. "You're an Uchiha!" he gasped uncharacteristically. "H-how can that be? Even Hatake can't pass two sharingan eyes to his children!" The Uchiha's eyes flashed from uncertainty to anger in a second. "So... Sasuke..."

"I'm not either of their children so stop imagining like I'm the daughter of anyone you know!" she snapped. He brought his lips back in a snarl. "It hurts you, doesn't it? How much time has passed?" The formerly expressionless Uchiha Itachi looked panicked.

"Who are you then, you little-" Yuki rushed forward at the opening and side-kicked him, causing him to fall. She retreated a few steps back. "Damn it..."

"Four years have passed, Itachi," Tsunade said, Yuki moved near her in case he decided to lunge at her. "Four years, Itachi... please calm down." Itachi picked himself up and went round to the other side of the room, turning his back to them.

"Damn- he found the weakness-" Tsunade said, but the two were already gone. It happened in the blink of an eye.

A large gaping hole lay in the wall in front of her.

"My brother? Why is he waking up?!" Naruto had to hold Sasuke back before he could do any damage to Kakashi accidentally.

Suddenly there was a gale of wind that shook the house as it savagely attempted to break down the door.

"Shit!" Kurenai cried out. "I hope that that wasn't a bad sign..." Kakashi glanced just once outside the window and started to move. Within seconds, the previously full room was left with only two. The three boys had gone. "Damn... I can't move.... Not yet." Sakura turned to Kurenai and helped her without saying anything.

"You can't stop me," Itachi said coldly.

"I can try," Yuki grumbled. Suddenly Itachi brought his hand up to do a fire seal.

"Katon: goukakyuu no jutsu." Yuki jumped out of its path and ran to cut him off while creating kage bunshins. "That's not going to stop me," he remarked. "Katon: Fireworks no jutsu!"

"Ice type: Bee no jutsu!" Fire met with ice as the two sharingan users increased their speed. Uchiha Itachi was moving dangerously closer to Konoha's gates. None of the other Konoha ninjas were able to help her at the speed she was going. Unless Lee or Gai were around... or.... In any case, she had to trap the Uchiha somehow, before he regained his coordination completely. And she was running out of chakra fast. "You've only just woken up. Your abilities are limited. You can't run away."

"A Hundred Fireworks jutsu!" Her clones disappeared at that moment of weakness.

Yuki herself got injured and nearly got thrown off the rooftops if Naruto hadn't appeared and tipped her back into balance.

"Yuki-chan!" Naruto said in an stressed tone. Two other shinobis caught up. Sasuke and Kakashi. Everything was going around so fast... the gates were so much closer now... not enough time.... Once he got outside of Konoha, he would be more difficult to track down. "Yuki-"

"I'm alright, Naruto-kun," she said through gritted teeth.

"Sasuke...." came a low growl from Itachi. Sasuke growled right back. The four leaf-nin were still chasing after him. "There you are... you've grown...." He stopped suddenly. "Where have you been hiding-"

"Shut up!" Sasuke roared. "I'll kill you!" Blue-tinted chakra was jerking out of his body and was collecting at the palm of his right hand. Chidori.

"Yuki-chan, you go back," Naruto urged. "We can take it from here."

"Don't you dare," she hissed right back. Naruto spared a few seconds to look over at her. She was a complete mess. Less than half-an-hour before, she was all pretty and happy, now her hair was a mess, tinted with dirt and blood. Her forehead was gashed on the side. Her clothes were torn and her eyes reeked of murderous intentions. "Kakashi-niichan." Kakashi moved closer to her but did not take his eyes off from the two Uchihas. "Niichan, Naruto-kun, Tsunade-sama needs people to re-construct the barrier that held him in. Leave now. Sasuke-kun and I will deliver him back there. Go. Go now." Naruto-kun, she knew, would not go, no matter what she said, but Kakashi had dragged him behind them.

"No way! Sasuke's more likely to kill him and you'll-"

"It's important to reconstruct the barrier," she interrupted him. "It broke earlier because there wasn't enough chakra to keep him in. It's important that you do this, Naruto-kun. They need you."

"Let's go, Naruto." Naruto hardened his face but consented and followed Kakashi back to the Hokage's office.

"Don't underestimate me." Yuki had taken a position beside Sasuke against Itachi. All their sharingan turned on. Sasuke was looking very pissed. The chidori barely singed the target. Although... the effects of pushing himself were starting to seep in. Itachi was breathing hard. Yuki found herself doing the same.

"We're both weak right now," Yuki thought grimly. "But Sasuke-kun is here. It's two against one. We still have the advantage."

"Step aside, Yuki-chan." Itachi heard it and smirked maliciously.

"Yuki-chan now is it?" Itachi narrowed his eyes. "Well, Yuki-chan, since you also have the sharingan, and we're all family, why don't you introduce me to your roots?" There was that moment of tense silence while Yuki debated with herself on whether to continue with the useless conversation or not... she chose to answer him.

"Uchiha Taka was my father."

"Uchiha... Taka...." While he was talking, Sasuke had taken out a number of kunai and had jumped into the air. Itachi moved to a defensive position as Sasuke rocketed back to the ground. Yuki took the opportunity and shot herself forward as Itachi dodged the attack and slammed her foot to his neck in a sickening crunch. But her eyes told her that it wasn't Itachi. The 'body' turned to a log of wood. Kawarimi no jutsu. The substitution skill.

Itachi had launched himself upwards to lash out at Sasuke. Kicking him down towards Yuki, who deftly caught him. But that was a mistake Itachi took advantage of. While the two were trying to regain their coordination, Itachi lunged forward and threw both of them off to the wall of a watchtower.

Two chuunins gazed downwards in surprise. They hadn't even seen anyone coming. They had moved that fast. They heard the voices but were unable to locate them. Finally they had a clue. Sasuke dragged himself off the wall into a standing position, holding on to a very uncoordinated Yuki and looked up. Kiba and Neji were looking down at them.

"Yuki-"

With a groan, Yuki leapt from her position, sporting a pained look, blood running down her back, and lunged right back at Itachi before he could start running away again. Sasuke was about to do the same but found himself coughing out some blood. Itachi hit a vulnerable spot on his chest. Sasuke growled in frustration and looked up, again meeting the eyes of the two chuunins.

"What's happening here?" Neji asked, feeling a little off-the-center because he was looking straight at his sharingan. Akamaru let out a little yelp. Really, Kiba and Akamaru were inseparable.

"What is it, boy? You smell something dangerous?"

"Y-Yuki-" Sasuke said hoarsely as he coughed out a little blood as he returned his attention to the fight. Yuki was dodging Itachi's hits. Itachi was completely in control at that moment. At one point he managed to grab her arm and then slammed her to the floor with a sickening crunch. Something had broken. They couldn't see Yuki's face - or what expression she was making, but they knew that she was in dire pain. Her body twitched erratically, as if electric shocks were being passed through her. Itachi stood over her for a moment with an almost triumphant look on his face as he neared her body.

Sasuke angrily launched himself to his brother again right as Neji focused to turn on his byakugan. Yuki rolled herself away as Sasuke knocked his brother over, distracting him for giving her another round of beatings as she attempted to right herself.

Her chakra was running out fast. Her body was weakening just as fast. They had to finish the fight soon, that was all she could think of; that was all she wanted to think of - the pain... was overwhelming... her back... her legs.... Too painful. But she took a step forward as she regained her coordination, looked at Itachi in the eye and then joined in the fight once more.

"Uchiha Itachi...." Neji murmured.

"What? That guy is here?!" Kiba mumbled disbelievingly. Neji was looking in the direction Sasuke had gone, but Kiba still couldn't see anything but a few blurs. Even Sasuke was beginning to disappear. "How is that possible?"

"Alert Shikamaru. They're alright now. But I'll stand by here if it starts getting too tough." Kiba nodded in agreement. Meanwhile, Neji's attention was directed towards the unfamiliar silver-haired girl. She had dived into another kawarimi. Itachi's speed was picking up. Sasuke moved in time to block the kick Itachi had aimed to her back and shoved him away from her by throwing a kunai towards him. It missed.

"You're weaker than I remembered Sasuke," Itachi huffed as they paused for a moment to collect themselves. Sasuke was standing next to Yuki, who was panting heavily, blood still flowing quickly from the gash on her forehead, and a wound from her back. Half her face was red. It didn't take long to figure out that she could only remain standing for only a few more moments... she was losing blood fast... and yet there she was still. Itachi was very damaged himself. He knew that if he didn't get away soon, he wouldn't be able to get away at all. If more shinobi came.... But Sasuke was still looking spry. "Then again, you've always had that blonde fox to help you out, haven't you? Without him, you're nothing but a-"

"Shut up!" Sasuke bellowed. Yuki saw something from the corner of her eye that made her heart skip a beat. There was one more comma to his left eye. His eyes now resembled her own... but Itachi still... Itachi was still the more developed of the two younger ninjas. The years didn't do anything to his eyes. They were still fully developed.

"Sasuke-kun," Yuki said, as if to remind him of her presence as he seemed a little too preoccupied with Itachi.

"Yuki-chan...?" His sharingan eyes were even more menacing now. It alarmed her that his eyes had jumped up one level so easily.

"We need to trap him, fast. Now." Sasuke seemed to waver.

"Understood." But she wondered if he had really.

Itachi ran towards them and leaped. Yuki shot a handful of shuriken at him, at the opening, but he managed to evade them. Sasuke back-flipped as Itachi aimed a stray shuriken right at him. The shuriken embedded itself on the roof. Then Yuki leaped up, performing kaze no jutsu so she could stay airborne longer, so she would be on level with Itachi. Itachi shot his hand out... and missed. But something was missing. He had taken her holster.

"Shit..." Yuki's eyes grew wide in alarm at the slip. The move was unexpected. Itachi had struggled with Sasuke and had eventually slammed him to the floor, swiping his holster too, and was taking out all their weapons. His lips curved up to a smirk and Yuki realized what he was doing.

She was still on air and, being relatively foreign to that element, and unable to twist unless risking more damage to her bones, it would've been almost impossible to escape every single shuriken and kunai that he had aimed up at her. To make it worse, he was right below her so in any way she dodged, at least one of the weapons would find its way to her. True to her thoughts, he threw every single shuriken and kunai towards her.

The byakugan turned on. It turned on just as she performed The Heavenly Spin. It was a mistake... but a life-saving mistake... she had to do it. She had to execute the spin.... The ninja weapons bounced off the sphere of chakra she had created. It wasn't the ultimate defense for nothing.

"W-wh-why... that technique is only known to members of the Hyuuga clan!" Itachi cried, clearly stunned. Sasuke and Neji, who had been watching, were utterly shocked and speechless. They were practically petrified. "Why do you also have the byakugan?!" Yuki felt her head start throbbing. Throbbing. She had both her bloodlimit abilities on... the nerves in her head were throbbing something horrible. Releasing that much chakra, right after turning on her byakugan, with her sharingan still on, while having a low level of chakra in the first place... it was too much of a strain on her body. Yuki felt the first notes of faint.

From the corner of her eye, she saw Sasuke lunge at Itachi, knocking him to the ground. Wrestling against him. She saw something blue start to sparkle in Sasuke's hands. Itachi took notice of it in alarm, knowing that, in his present state, another brush off the chidori could- Itachi kneed Sasuke away. Sasuke's body fell to the ground in a sickening thud. Itachi's entire body was flushed. He was nearing his limit. Yuki watched, her head still throbbing in pain, as he shakily stood up. No, Itachi could still beat her if she didn't finish him off immediately. Never mind that searing pain in her back. Never mind the pain. She had to-

But she couldn't move. Every time she tried to move her feet, her balance shook uncontrollably. Until her knees gave out. She fell face-down to the ground.

"Yuki!!" she heard someone call out. She brought her two hands up and tried to lift herself up. Shakily. As if the slightest wind could knock her over, but she still tried.

There was someone standing in her place... that boy that was watching them. Hyuuga Neji. She watched his back as he took a stance. In the back ground, Sasuke lifted himself up. The two leaf-nins had Itachi on both his sides. Neji was the first to move.

"Uchiha Itachi. You won't be able to escape this. You are within my attack range. Gentle Fist style: 64 hands of Hakke." He dashed up to him and performed it while he was still in shock. He closed off all his chakra openings, sending him to the watchtower - right where he had slammed the pair into earlier.

That did it. That did it. Yuki could've died happy.

"Damn..." he choked. His eyes were threatening to close. "I'll get you back for this." Itachi sank into the ground. Unconscious.

Yuki felt a huge wave of dizziness crashing down on her as her arms weakened. It was too much. Too much. It got way over her chakra limit. Damn... She started coughing out blood. But the blood collected itself inside her mask. It was choking her. Too much blood. It was clogging her air supply.

Sasuke was by her side in a flash. The two conscious men looked at each other with blank expressions on their faces.

A/N Yuki's byakugan is not as developed as Neji's. She can't see those 64 chakra openings on the body like Neji can. Yuki's a little low on chakra, half at least at the beginning of her fight against Itachi since Tsunade 'healed' her and Itachi's really drowsy. And his muscles aren't used to... well, moving. Those two plus a very very very surprised Sasuke who'd never thought in a gazillion years that his brother would awaken was very unprepared and... unprepared. I was calculating the odds in my head and thought that it was a pretty even match. 'Even' as in, the-good-guys-are-gonna-win-as-always-roll-eyes-whatever match. Neji staying on towards the end cinched their victory. Regardless that Sasuke could've taken Itachi in on his own. Which was why Kiba or Naruto or Kakashi did not enter the fight.

I know I might be driving you crazy with this looong note. It's just this whole 'calculation' I did in my head that I needed to rant on.

Zen: I haven't been on ffnet for long either, but I -sort of- got the gist of the meanings. OC, I think, means Out Character or Own Character, or Own Creation... haha, somewhere along those lines. and OOC I'm pretty sure means Out Of Character. yeah... AU would be Alternate Universe. I'm still not sure what PWP means but it's along the lines of 'come cheap paperback romance novel'... and I only just found out what a MarySue is... I'm sure you got the gist of that if you've read most of my a/ns heehee. I hope that helped.