Invading Darkness

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it's characters of anything else you recognize from the series. I don't make money out of this either, so that's it.

I actually changed the demon's description in the second chapter. Here's the new version for those who had read the other one:

Its body mainly looked like a human's, but it had black spikes coming out of its spine and a, lizard-like, thin tail made of the same weird flesh, also abhorring spikes. It stood on the toes of it's black spiky feet like a feline and barbs came out of the bones of its legs. As for its hands, they looked human except for the claws on the tip of each fingers. It's head also looked human in its general shape, but small spikes marked the limit of it's jet black hair on its forehead and it's eyes were completely black.

Chapter 3

A calm and large river ran at the feet of a high cliff, almost hidden by the trees of the forest that ended there. A small group of ninjas wearing headbands identifying them as Sound ninjas stood at the edge of the forest, Sasuke standing in front of them as he faced the river. The boy turned his head to look at them and then turned back to stare at the river.

"Again…" he whispered, closing his hands in fists.

He closed his eyes, waiting for the rest of the events he knew were going to happen. He knew what was coming. He knew he couldn't prevent it from happening. It never worked and he had tried everything. However, the voice that he waited for never spoke. He opened his eyes, turning around to look at the other ninjas, but he found that he was alone and that the scenery was now bathing in a fog. He rapidly realized there weren't any sounds either.

He activated his Sharingan and looked around. Soon, he saw two shadows approach and took a defensive position, ready for battle. He frowned as two creatures similar to the one Kakashi had seen came out of the trees, standing on their rear legs with their backs arched making it look like they weren't really walking either on them or on all four. He took a few steps back to keep a safe distance between himself and them while he detailed him.

He was greatly startled when he unexpectedly felt a breath on the back of his neck and heard voices whisper his name on the wind. He took out a few kunai, threw them at the two in front and rolled away from whatever stood behind him so he stood a little more to the left, facing it. He saw nothing and he saw the other two demons slowly walk away from the corner of his eye. He gave them a quick glance and then resumed looking for whatever had stood right behind him.

"Sa…su…ke…" the voices whispered once more.

As he tried to move towards the two demons he could actually see, he felt the third one once more. He moved as fast as he could and turned to look directly at it. He found himself looking at what seemed to be Itachi, though his face was almost completely hidden by his black bangs as he held his head low. He simply stood there, not moving a muscle.

Pure hatred began to show on Sasuke's face and he began to make hand seals, barely resisting the urge of simply jumping on his sibling. Itachi finally moved as Sasuke began gathering energy for the Chidori. The younger Uchiha didn't used it right away and jumped back slightly, making a small gap between them.

The older ninja's movements were strange, not to say unnatural. When he began to walk towards his brother, it seemed as though he all his joints were dislocated, his movements were short, sharp and he turned the joints in almost impossible ways. (A/N: Think The Grudge or even The Ring at the worst if you haven't seen it.)

Sasuke was confused, but decided to attack ayway. As his fist was only inches from his brother, the other's arm shot up and caught his own without looking, his neck only twisting slightly in a weird, disgusting way accompanied by a sound just as sickening. Sasuke let out a gasp and Itachi dug his nails that were apparently more like black claws than anything else until it bled.

"Sasu…run aw…" a woman's voice was barely heard, sounding very far away.

"DIE!" Sasuke screamed at Itachi, ignoring the voice, and trying to kick his brother.

His foot connected with the other's leg, but Itachi didn't move an inch. His fingers began to go deeper in the boy's arm and he moved his arm, still in the same revolting manner, towards the young Leaf ninja's face.

"Sasuke…" the voice called again, sounding slightly closer, clearer and more urgent. "Sasuke…"

Itachi's fingers brushed on Sasuke's face and the boy could not help but shiver at the touch. The fingers moved to grab his hair in a rapid movement and held his face in place no matter how much Sasuke hit him. As Itachi began to move his head up, Sasuke stopped struggling. He felt as if his heart had been dumped into iced water. He felt an unexplainable, almost instinctive, fear creep up inside of him as the female voice kept calling his name, louder than the other whispers.

"ITACHI!" It suddenly screamed loud and very near…also very familiar to Sasuke, though he couldn't identify it.

He didn't take time to think when he found himself on the ground while Itachi was prey to violent convulsions and let out almost human groans and cries. He got up about to attack his sibling, the fear still there but much less present.

"Sasuke-kun!" he heard a different voice call in a worried manner, but he could recognize this one easily as Sakura.

"RUN!" The other female voice screamed, already sounding far away again.

With an angry scream, he turned around, ran on the water and began climbing up the cliff. He heard a splashing sound and looked down. He realized it wasn't such a good idea when he saw Itachi also climbing the cliff in his stomach-turning movements at quite a surprising speed for someone, or something, with such disorganized gestures. He looked back up and climbed as fast as he possibly could, telling himself it was only a dream. He was almost convinced and about to turn back to kick some ass when the other called his name. His voice was different from usual. It was as if his own voice was mixed with another one, lower and less human. The intuitive fear took hold of the boy again and his logical mind could not convince the rest of him that he could not die in a dream.

He grabbed the edge and pulled himself up. Just as he did, Itachi grabbed his ankle and the boy fell forward as it was pulled violently and strongly. He flipped on his back with the intention of kicking his older brother, but Itachi's fingers dug deep into his ankle and grabbed the other leg with the other arm and pulled as if Sasuke was nothing more than something on which he could cull himself up. Rapidly, he pulled himself up like this and soon his hand were digging into Sasuke's chest, his face still down and hidden. At this point, Sasuke couldn't move enough to really do anything anymore. He seemed paralyzed, though not because of the fear. It was there, screaming in his heart, but it wasn't that intoxicating. He could hear the woman call his name from far away. He looked away from his brother in hopes of finding a potential weapon and found none.

As he looked back, Itachi's head was at the level of his neck. The older ninja twisted it in a few movements and finally looked directly at his brother. His teeth were now incredibly sharp, apparently sharper than that of any animal's Sasule had ever seen, and his eyes were two black pools, no white left in them, dark ring below them. For some reason, the fear Sasuke felt became stronger than ever, though the face was that worst than the rest. Itachi dragged himself up to equal level by pulling and digging his fingers into Sasuke's shoulders.

"Uchiha…power…ours…soon…" Itachi said with his altered voice.

Sasuke could barely control his fear as his brother spoke. He wished he was still living the same dream than before. It wasn't so bad after all. As he thought this, Itachi's eyes changed into the Sharingan and the fear became a panic. He began trying to break free, but to not avail. He closed his eyes not to look into the Sharingan Master's eyes, which he knew could be devastating.

"We see you…We know you…" Itachi declared.

Sasuke shot his eyes open when Itachi plunged an hand into his abdomen and screamed when he pulled something out. Then Itachi bit his brother in the neck with ferocity, earning another scream.

"SASUKE!" a desperate female voice screamed, but Sasuke was in too much pain to even try to identify it.

Itachi pulled a chunk of flesh away from Sasuke's neck, miraculously not injuring the artery. His gaze met Sasuke's as blood dripped from his mouth. The boy turned his head keeping his gaze, which was blurry from the tears of pain he couldn't keep in, away from Itachi's.

"Ours…" Itachi said, his hands moving to Sasuke's face as the boy closed his eyes.


At the light of the morning sun, a duo of young ninjas and an adult one were gathered around another young one who was apparently asleep. Indeed, Naruto, Sakura and Gai were gathered around Sasuke who seemed to be sleeping and having a terrible nightmare. Sakura was looking for any injuries or sign of sickness, but couldn't find any. They had tried to wake him but nothing worked. The two teenagers seemed worried, but it was nothing compared to how they were about to feel. Sasuke suddenly let out a loud scream of pain and tears ran down his cheeks. As Sakura looked him over for any injuries, once again, a bite mark appeared on his neck as if an animal with very sharp teeth had bitten him.

"WHAT'S THAT!" Naruto asked Sakura, getting up in a bewildered way.

"Sakura-chan, do you have any idea what's wrong?" Gai asked the girl, who shook her head negatively as she tried to stop the bleeding.

"We HAVE to wake him up…" she said, feeling completely helpless as he friend seemed in great pain.

Sasuke still had his eyes closed, but he realized something had happened because he felt no more pain safe for the bite on his neck and felt like the person touching him was now rather protecting him than attacking him. He could also hear the forest's noises. The person slowly let go of them as he opened his eyes.


Sasuke found himself looking at a younger Itachi. He seemed about 12 or 13 years old and sat in front of him with his usual unemotional face. Sasuke's hand shot to his neck and he registered the fact the he was also apparently younger. He detailed his brother, but the boy looked normal. Not dislodged joints or anything of the sort.

"What was that!" Sasuke screamed angrily.

"I thought I had more time. I was stupid." Itachi said.

"I'll kill you!" Sasuke exclaimed.

Itachi''s expression softened and he smiled sadly at his younger brother. He nodded and looked away.

"Yes. It's a possibility, Sasuke." He said absently before getting up. "You should hurry, though."

He kneeled only inches away from Sasuke looked at the bite mark. Then he got back up and turned his back on him.

"I was wrong after all. They still want it." He turned around and looked at Sasuke right in the eyes. "Listen, I don't have much time to talk…You're going to wake up. Go back to the village!"

"Why would I listen to you, bastard!"

"I'm there." Itachi said, his expression blank once more. "Come and get me, if you think you're strong enough."

"I'll come and I'll kill you, Aniki!" Sasuke growled, spitting the last word as if it had a disgusting taste and he disappeared with that.

Itachi looked around and then closed his eyes as if he was extremely tired. He sat down on the ground, opened his eyes and looked up at the sky.

"Sorry, Sasuke, but there's been a change of plan." He whispered.


Sasuke shot his eyes open and sat up as he did so, ready to fight or defend himself. He almost knocked Sakura over, but she got up and actually knocked Naruto down, almost making the teenager fall.

"Good job, Sakura-chan!" Gai exclaimed giving her a thumbs up as the three teenagers sweatdroped as they looked at him.

"What happened?" Naruto asked, coming to stand beside Sakura as Sasuke got up.

"We've got to go back." He said.

"We can't. We haven't finished the mission." Gai stated, but no one listened to him.

"I…I really better get back." Sasuke said, trying to find a reason.

Saukra sighed, realising he didn't really have a "good" reason to tell them and decided that she'd trust him. He had come back in the end, after all. Okay, so it took a lot, but still.

"Right. You should get a check up anyway!" she said gesturing to the bite mark.

"Let's go, then." Naruto replied. "This mission was boring anyway. Somebody else can do it."

"You can't…" Gai began but sopped as the three walked away. "It must be Kakashi's influence! Yes! That's it. After all, my team listens to me without the slightest hesitation or doubt!" (A/N: That's is point of view, anyway)

As they walked the way they had come the day before, Sasuke kept touching the scar, the only indicator that it hadn't just been a dream. But then, what was it all about. He was almost certain that it hadn't really been Itachi that had attacked him, but, then again, he didn't really know. Sakura kept trying to guess what was going on and wondering if she should ask him or leave him alone. Naruto also wondered about the bite mark, but he was extremely happy to go back and, hopefully, get Kakashi back.

This time it was Sasuke who was OOC. I try to convince myself that since the fear was instinctive, that it's not that bad…but I do know it's not, deep inside. lol. I'm really sorry about this. It's my first Naruto story…okay, another lame excuse. Eheheh…

Anyway, please review! Tell me if there's something I could change, without being just mean, and I'll take it in account for the next chapters. Or if there's something you'd REALLY like to see and I MAY consider making you a favour. wink It's always fun to please readers.