Akanishi-san: Woot so many reviews! i reached 100! Thanks everyone! So like I promised, here ya go its not really an epilogue tho. Kinda added story-ish. lol.

Ch18

Few Years Later

4 people jumped from tree to tree soundlessly, keeping up with what they were going after. When they came to a halt, they had formed a circle covering their target that stood in the middle of it, lthe target ooking frightened and angered.

The man in the middle of the circle cursed, trying to get free. He wore the Akatsuki cloak, and was panting heavily. It seemed the ninjas had been following the man for a long time. The man threw a kunai towards one of the shadow, trying to earn just a secound to leap away, butthe person who was there earlier was gone, and appeared behind the man in a flash.

The Akatsuki member gulped as he felt the kunai on his throat. "You traitor." He muttered, sweat dropping from his forehead. "You betrayed us..."

Itachi raised an eyebrow as he pressed the kunai at his throat harder. "Did I ever say I was part of your group?" He asked mildly. Itachi wore anbu outfit, and was wearing a weasel mask, that covered his face.

The Akatsuki narrowed his eyes and smirked. "Die." He muttered devilishly. A kunai launched at Itachi from behind, but Itachi didn't flinch or move at all. Instead of hitting Itachi, the kunai was deflected by a man wearing a hawk mask who jumped into rescue.

"Oh, he won't die so easily." The newcomer said, almost glaring at Itachi through the mask. "Trust me, I tried killing him couple of times. I know by experience." He smirked under the mask, turning to Itachi and the Akatsuki.

"Sasuke." Itachi shrugged.

The man who was captured growled. "Do you think that was my last weapon?" He asked, and kicked at a sting in front of him.

The string broke, and a fuuma shuriken came flying at Itachi. (The shuriken that is bigger, remember, Sasuke used it when he fought against Zabuza. At that time, Naruto was the shuriken, of course.)

"You don't give up, eh?" Someone else muttered and jumped from the tree he was hiding in, landing in the middle of Itachi and the shuriken. This man wore a tiger mask. "Kaiten!" He yelled, and the shuriken, of course was deflected with Hyuuga's defense.

"Thank you, Neji." Itachi said pleasantly, and pressed his kunai harder. "What do you say? Tell us where the rest are?" He asked. "Personally, I would like to see no unnecessary blood shed."

The man shuddered from fear, but he kept it cool. "No." He muttered. "Never on my life."

"That could be arranged...but..." Itachi closed his eyes and sighed. "Izaki?"

"Yes yes." A female voice said, and jumped down to the ground in front of the Akatsuki member. She wore a wolf mask, her eyes on him, carefully studying him. "Well…"

"You!" the man growled, trying to lash at her, but Itachi kept him back. "You!" He yelled again.

"Yes, me." Izaki said, shrugging. "So what?" She didn't have any of her wolf-ish features; she was in her regular human form, wearing the anbu outfit, matching the others. She seemed perfectly normal, except maybe the fact that she now had a dangerous aura around her. The man flinched when she glared at him through her mask, he felt the wolf glaring at him through it.

However, the man did not give up. He was not chosen Akatsuki fornothing."You and Itachi are traitors!" He yelled at them, once again trying to get her, but of course, Itachi kept his grip on him. No way was he going to let him hurt Izaki.

Itachi rolled his eyes, playing it cool. "Again, did we ever tell you we ever wanted to be part of your group?" He asked. "Now, tell us, or we can end your life here." He said to him with his icy voice. "Painfully." He added.

"Heh, I will say again, Itachi," The man smirked. "That do you think that was my last weapon?" He whistled. "Now!" He yelled.

Out of the bush leaped a large dog, growling furiously, its eyes gleaming at that capturer of its owner. It howled, lashing at Izaki. Izaki jumped back, and chuckled. "A dog?" She asked. "It will not harm me." She said simply.

"Ha, then what is it doing?" The man retorted. "He is trained very well and will not cower to anyone!" He growled. "Kill her!" He ordered his dog.

Izaki sighed as she formed a tiger sign. "Kai!" She yelled, and slowly, her wolf features came up, first her red tail and ears. Then, her fangs grew, her hair turned slightly red, and her nails were transformed to a deadly claw. "You forgot I was the container for the wolf." She said to the Akatsuki member. "Dogs are not idiots like you. They do not go against others who are stronger than them." She gave one glare at the dog through her mask.

Soon as the dog caught the glare, instantly the dog's ears went flat, and its tail went between its legs, and was now lying in front of her obediently, cowering. "Looks like your dog is smart." Itachi said, trying to hold down a laugh. "Of course, before we kill you, you can tell us where the others are without any painful death, or, I could use my Mangekyou Sharingan and make you tell us, and end your life very painfully?"

"Yes, you should tell us, because, well, we spent years trying to track you guys down." Izaki said, petting the dog that now wagged its tail at her."So we won't be happy if you make more trouble. We went through enough."

"We can, of course take our stree out on you." Sasuke added, cracking his nuckles. Truthfully, they were all tired of this mission. They really didn't want to do more than what they needed to do.

Neji sighed. "And they will. Trust me."

The man growled and said nothing for a while. But feeling the pressure of the kunai at his throat and the glares, he gave in. Although named Akatsuki, he did not want a painful death. Every human being feared death, he was no different. "Southern Cave." He muttered.

Itachi looked at him. "The Southern Cave?" He said thoughtfully. "Thanks." He muttered to him, and released him. The man choked, and was on the ground.

Izaki sighed and took her mask off. "Nice." She said to him. "No blood mess." She said, looking at the Akatsuki member now lying flat on the ground, motionless. "You need to teach me that later."

Itachi shrugged. "All right, let's go back to that annoying kid and report this." He said and picked up one of the body part of the Akatsuki they needed. "Then we can finish off the whole Akatsuki group."

Izaki rolled her eyes. "He has a name, Itachi-Oniichan." She said, but placed her mask on once more. "He is the Hokage, and you can't call him a 'kid.' Besides, if he didn't become the Hokage, you wouldn't be placed in anbu and living in Konoha peacefully."

Itachi rolled his eyes but said no more. They ran silently all the way back to Konoha.

"Hey kid, we have the information." Itachi smirked as he knocked on the Hokage's door.

A yell of frustration was heard inside the door. "I'm no kid!" The voice yelled through the door.

The others held down a laugh as they entered. They had dropped the dead Akatsuki at the hospital to be checked earilier, and they were dead tired. "Sure you are. Well, you are a kid to me, anyway." Itachi shrugged. "Unless of course, you grew older in couple secounds." Oh, he loved playing with his mind.

Naruto growled but turned to Izaki. "Izaki-chan?" He asked. "You tell me, I don't think this 'adult'" He said sarcastically, glaring at Itachi, "wants to tell me."

Izaki nodded and handed him the scroll she was carrying. "The Akatsuki told us the remaining 2 are at the Southern Cave."

Naruto took the scroll and scanned it. "I want you guys to go there tomorrow. Report here tomorrow at 9, is that al right?" The 4 anbu nodded. "All right, dismissed. I have to get back to these files..." He growled at the papers on his desk, and got back to work.

The 4 of them exited the room without another word. When the door was closed, Izaki turned to Itachi and Sasuke. "Can I please go?" She asked. "I'll be back before dinner?" She asked, hope in her voice.

Itachi and Sasuke looked at each other and shrugged. "Go ahead." Itachi said. "Make sure you watch her." He told Neji firmly.

Neji blushed at that comment. He had his mask off, so it was visible to them. "How did you know?" He asked the 2 Uchihas. "That she was going to come with me?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Today is that festival thing. And you two looked like you wanted to go back quickly today."

Izaki blushed as well, matching the Hyuuga. "I think you guys are spying on us." She muttered but turned away from them and grabbed Neji's arm. "Let's go, hurry up!" She said, and dragged Neji away formthe 2 brothers who were smirking.

Izaki kept dragging Neji into the anbu headquarters and threw him intoa dressing room. "Wait for me out here!" She said, and went into another dressing room. "It might take me a while." She added, and closed the door behind her.

Neji sighed as he also got dressed into his casual wear, the Jounin outfit. (I don't know what the anbu wears usually, so I'm thinking that the anbu wears Jounin stuff while out in regular places.) He leaned against the door when he got out, seeing that she wasn't out yet. What was taking so long, anyway?

"Hyuuga-san." Female voice called down the hall. Neji turned and saw 2 girls looking at him intently.

Neji frowned. "This is the anbu headquarters, how did you get in?" He asked them casually.

One of the girls giggled and pushed the other forward. "Go on!" She whispered to the girl encouragingly.

The girl who was pushed forward fiddled with a letter. "P…please read this!" She said, and offered him the letter. "I know about you and Izaki-san, but…but…" She turned red and dashed away, the other following her closely behind, giggling.

"A love letter?" Another female voice asked, walking towards him. "Ah, I see..."

"I don't…" He stopped when he saw her.The woman in front of himwas wearing a white silk kimono with red momiji leaves on them; her hair was up in a bun,red chopsticks sticking out.

Izaki blushed from his gaze. "How do I look?" She asked shyly.

Neji blushed as well once again, they seemed shy to each other all the time. "You look beautiful." He said.

Izaki smiled at those words and walked towards him. "Hehe." She smiled. "So, let me see that letter." She said, motioning to the letter in his hand. She was curious to know what she wrote. Plus, she didn't want Neji to read it or even hold it.

Neji looked at the letter. There was a heart sticker on it that kept it sealed. "No." He said simply and threw it into his pocket. "I won't open it. I'll give it back to her tomorrow."

Izaki raised an eyebrow at him. "You are?" She asked. "She was pretty cute?"

Neji chuckled. "Really? The only one that looks cute to me is you." He muttered, kising her forhead.

Izaki smiled. "Thanks." She said, hugging his arm. "Shall we go?" She asked, looking up at him with a grin.

Neji nodded. "All right, lead on." He said with a smile. "But make sure you don't get overly hyper like last year. We have a mission tomorrow." He reminded her as she walked in front of him, skipping towards the festival.

Izaki puffed out her cheek. "Hey, last year was different." She said. "I didn't know we were going to have a mission the next day."

"Yeah, and you almost fainted during the mission from lack of sleep." Neji said, chuckling. "Besides, ninjas are supposed to be always prepared. You weren't that time, you totally used all of your energy." It seemed as Itachi's mind messing was rubbing onto Neji.

Izaki glared at him. "Hey!"

Neji pulled her into a hug before they exited the head quarters. "But don't worry, if you ever faint tomorrow, I will be there for you." He said, smiling. "I will protect you."

Izaki smiled. "Of course. I'm counting on you."

Akanishi-san: Well, so waddaya think? I really don't know if this counts as an epilogue. What is an epilogue ne way? Extra chapter? > Haha, anyway, here it is, and hope you liked it Well cya soon everyone, hope you join me on my next coming story, which will be SasuxOc. More info and plot line of this is in my profile Agian, thanks for reading this far!

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