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Kira leapt through the trees as fast as she could, glancing over her shoulder to see if she had lost the ANBU of Konoha.

She sighed and turned her head back to face the front.

She screamed as an ANBU crow popped up in front of her. She quickly spun to the side and was faced by another ANBU.

She felt four more on her other sides. She threw kunai at them and disappeared in a burst of fire.

The ANBU quickly caught the knives and disappeared also.

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Kira came upon a, what seemed to be, house deep, deep in the woods.

She opened the steel door and closed it behind her, utterly exhausted.

"Brother?" Kira called out.

"Yes," came the quiet response behind her.

"I have succeeded in burning most of Konoha and I have also succeeded in capturing…him." She said, throwing down a sack she had brought with her from Konoha.

The sack struggled and moved about until it fell over with a thud. Itachi smiled grimly and opened the sack.

Inside it was Naruto, the demon-boy.

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Kakashi planned Kira's fall. Sakura helped him because Sasuke couldn't, seeing as he was in the hospital, recovering from the blow to his neck.

Kakashi had told Sakura his plan.

Before Kira had kidnapped Naruto, he had planted a tracking device on his neck. It was so small; it was nearly invisible.

"That is where the Akatsuki currently hide," Kakashi said pointing to a virtual map, explaining to Sakura and whatever was left of the ANBU. They nodded.

"That," Kakashi pointed in a place not to far away, "is where Naruto and most likely the Uchiha girl is."

Sakura flinched as her ex-friend was called by her clan name instead of her real one.

"Move out," Kakashi commanded.

Itachi nodded and said to Kira, "Nice work. Go get some rest before you collapse."

Too late.

Right as he was saying that, she kneeled and then fell face-first to the floor, completely exhausted and because of that, she had fainted.

Itachi backed away, startled.

He then looked down at the girl in the dark green chuunin vest with the black pants and long sleeved shirt with a mask covering the lower portion of her face, lying on the floor. His sister.

His eyes softened as he picked her up. He kicked the sack, causing Naruto to hit his head against the wall, knocking him out.

His sister in his arms, Itachi walked upstairs and laid her down on her bed. He then ruffled her hair and whispered a promise only he could hear.

"I swear I'll protect you always."

Kakashi and the others raced towards the point where they hoped that Naruto would be…alive.

Naruto suddenly appeared in the doorway and said, "You're going soft, Itachi. SIMPLE ROPES CANNOT HOLD THE NEXT HOKAGE!"

Naruto found himself two hours later bound and gagged once again.

Only this time he had been stuffed into a duffel bag about three times smaller then the original sack.

Naruto cursed and worked on getting the ropes off of his wrists.

Kira woke up and yawned. She turned over in her bed to find…Kisame?

Kira shrieked and flipped away from him, causing the sheets to tangle up in her legs, bringing her down to the floor.

Kira groaned.

"What are you doing in my room?" Kira shrieked up to the figure on the bed.

"This is MY room, in case you haven't noticed," Kisame retorted.

Kisame then also tried to get up, but because of the tangled mess that was his bed, he tripped and also fell, landing right on top of Kira.

"Get OFF of me!" Kira roared.

"What the heck?" Itachi chose this moment to stick his head into the room. "KISAME WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY SISTER!" he yelled.

Itachi strode across the room and picked up Kisame easily. He then proceeded to throw the other criminal across the room, causing the poor innocent guy to slam into the wall. He groaned and cursed.

Itachi sliced through the sheets with a kunai knife and helped Kira up.

"Did he do anything to you?" Itachi then fired the first question at her.

"No, Itachi," Kira sighed.

"And you didn't do anything either…right?" he questioned.

"No, Itachi," she answered.

"Good," Itachi said roughly.

Kira walked out of the room, shooting apologetic glances at Kisame.

Itachi strode over to Kisame and said, "Stay AWAY from my sister, Kisame. You tell Sasori that too."

Kisame nodded.

Itachi threw the torn blankets on top of the criminal and left the room.

What just happened? Kisame thought.

Kakashi and the other ANBU spotted the hideout in question and proceeded to surround it.

Kakashi gave the signal and down the steel door came…

I know this chapter is very short. Please understand that I am writing this at 11 at night and I am tired, so please forgive any grammatical errors.

Goodnight!

-ZK