Flashes of orange bounded around the Uchiha house hold, their maker using every skill at his disposal not to get caught.

'Crap, crap, crap! Sasuke you jerk, why did you run after him without me! Am I not fast enough for you? Did you think I would slow you down? KUSO!'

He thought as arrows pelted down at him. Honestly, for someone Sasuke constantly refers to as 'a certain some one' he sure had a lot of minions! Naruto jumped onto the castle wall, surprising the guards slightly, just enough to smash half of them against the wall knocking them unconscious before they could even start attacking. Needless to say, he came out of it without a scratch. And it wasn't that the guards weren't top level ninja, it was just Naruto had mastered the art of speedful attacks, and that he had the Kyubi-no-gakku, and that he happened to be very angry at all Uchiha's in general at the moment.

He flickered through the hallways, looking for some sign of his team mate and lo- lov- friend who he was extremely affectionate of. Yes, he was pathetic, want to make something of it! Aaaaaannnnyyyyyway, he contemplated as he went, wondering what Sasuke found wrong with him.

'It couldn't be speed, I suppose. I'm faster than him, after all.'

He flicked a kunai at a vicious looking man, who got caught off guard and got the kunai through his helmet, getting it embedded just enough to knock him out for a few hours. He wanted as little fatalities as possible, because blood tended to give the nine-tail a bit too much of an adrenalin boost for the blue-eyed hosts' comfort.

It would not be good if he accidentally killed the person he was coming to save, or as the others pride would allow, 'help'.

'It couldn't be that he was afraid Sakura would also come. Na, he's smarter then that at the very least. So what could it be?

Sasunarusasunarusasunarusasunarusasunarusasunaru

The door to the room the last remaing clan member's were in slid open unexpectedly and a warrior walked in and got down on his hands and knee's to bow to the elder.

"Uchiha-sama sir!"

The taller turned from his tied up brother, frowning as his fun was disturbed.

"Yes, what is it?"

The warrior paled even more than he already was at the sound of the Uchiha's' obvious displeasure but after a quick gulp he still continued.

"We have lost contact with over half our ninja at the east wall onward and we continue to lose track closer and closer to here so Uchiha-sama, you should probably… leave…"

What threw him off this time was the soft chuckle from his master and after hearing muffled sounds he noticed the younger; he was screaming into his gag, struggling agenst the ninjitsu-protected restraints so hard that his wrist were bleeding slight from the strain.

But what was the most noticeable were his eyes; the unnatural shiringan-red, dilated with fear that could not have been more prominent; the news was not good.

"Well, little brother, it looks as if he is very determined to get you back, wouldn't you say?"

The words were the only reason he remembered his master was in the room, and he straitened himself and gave the eldest his full attention. No matter how difficult it was to look away from the tied up moon-god of a brother his master had.

"Please tell your men to leave the perimeter from this room to the disturbance; I want our dear guest to be nice and rested when he arrives."

The warrior trembled but bowed and left; you do not contradict a master such as his.

When he had left, Itachi turned and smiled at his brother. "Soon there will be no one left to take you away from me, brother. I'm sure you will get used to life with me, given time. Only a little longer 'til we see who the real one who is worthy of you is."

Sasuke struggled harder.

Narusasunarusasunarusasunarusasunarusasu

Inwardly, Naruto growled at this new development, disliking every untested step he took. The enemy Nin where gone. Only the thought of the things Itachi could do to his Sasuke kept him from turning back on the obvious trap, but he still hated this.

He could feel his demon stirring inside of him fueled by the anger that he was feeling towards the older Uchiha, begging to be released and tear apart whoever dared touch his host's mate(Naruto may be in denial, but he was 500 years older and far wiser).

Naruto came closer to the room he could feel the two Uchiha's chakra coming from, Sasuke's almost down to a flicker of the furnace it had once been.

Closer.

Closer.

Closer still.

He threw open the paper-screen, his eyes almost purple from the mix of sky-blue and blood red, his longer-than average nails and powerful grip breaking the wooden frame of the door as his demon-fused voice roared "IF YOU HAVE HURT HIM, I WILL DESTROY YOU, ITACHI UCHIHA!"

Sasuke's naturally pale skin became pasty white; the older lounged nonchalantly near his brothers place on the floor, smiling. "Let us play, Naruto-no-Kyuubi. I assume you know the stakes?"

If anything, this seamed to add to the tower rage of the blonde, his mouth showing huge canines' as his fury-filled half-whisper was spoken.

"He is not a prize, nor a plaything, nor anything that your disgusting mind can wrap around; he is untouchable by you and I will not have you anywhere near MY MATE!"

The last bit left him in a roar, and not until after the words were said did he relies they should not have been. Itachi let out a low chuckle that would have made a normal ninja turn tail and run; but one must remember that Naruto is no ordinary ninja.

Itachi smirked and half purred his next words. "He may not be a prize or a plaything but…" he fixed Naruto with an obvious, contemptuous, holier-than-thou look. "You have given me one heck of a bargaining chip."

Hoot!

I am both flattered and disturbed. My most angsty, painful, horrible, guilty pleasure induced story…

…is by far my most popular. How sick is that? Anyway, I was going to discontinue this fic but I was looking through my old review and you people (mostly INSANE people) inspired me to write again. Thanks, you psychos you. And to kazoua's comment, I actually despise and detest all things Uchiha. Really, this whole thing is an excuse to have Naruto save Sasuke's but for once. And yaoi. Yay yaoi. But darn, now that I wrote a cliffy, I have to commit to this story. Darn. Ah, well, review, minions of the internet! (And anybody else, I'm not picky.) Flames will be used to make giant yaoi temples.