Ok, this is probably going to be the last chapter, plus the epilogue next chapter, k? Sorry, but I don't have any ideas that could logically happen this soon, so if you guys want, I'll make a sequel, but then again, I might not, I have a new SasuNaru plot I want to write.
Important: Due to a suggestion, I rewrote the part where Itachi and Kyuubi got together so if you want to, go read it. Well, if you're on of thse people who read it in the first 2 or 3 days of the posting, since I changed it on about 2 to 3 days after I posted it. And I bet about 2 percent of you are actually reading this.
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Naruto is made Hokage. Kyuubi and Itachi get together.
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"Hey Sasuke, would you please help me with my paperwork?" Naruto asked, his lips in an adorable pout as he sat at his desk at home.
"I don't know, isn't the Hokage supposed to do that?" Sasuke asked, smirking. After all, he'd had to put up with 5 years of "I'm going to be the next Hokage! Believe it!" so he really had no sympathy. Even if Naruto was giving the best puppy dog look he'd ever seen
Naruto's face gained a new sulky look. "Fine. Dinners in the oven. I trust you can get it yourself." his voice was a hair warmer than cold. Like holding almost melted ice.
Sasuke felt his smugness drop a bit. Naruto had made him dinner, while he still had paper work to do. Naruto had started working on the papers again, not looking at Sasuke. Sasuke sighed, did he really have a choice now?
"What do I do?" he asked, grabbing a spare chair and pulling it next to where Naruto was working. Naruto hid a grin.
"Well, all you have to do is. . ."
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"Naruto has Sasuke wrapped around his finger." Itachi sighed, shaking his head in sympathy.
"He learned from the best." Kyuubi replied, smirking a bit.
Itachi raised an eyebrow. "I'm sure." he replied sarcastically. Kyuubi smirked
"Is that a challenge?"
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The room was filled with the quite buzz of whispered conversations. Iruka and Shian were sitting awkwardly, not sure exactly what they should be doing. With a sigh, Naruto sat down, causing almost instant silence on the part of the advisors.
"Ok, the first thing that we need to do is figure out who the next Anbu captain, as I'm now Hokage, and unable to continue this position. But before they I have another important issue to bring before the council. And as I'm sure you won't believe me, I'm glad that the former Hokage has decided to assist me in this issue." Naruto said, his voice holding all the power and strength of is predecessors.
At his words, Tsunade and a man who face was hidden entered the room. Naruto to nodded to her, than turned back to the council.
"I'm sure that you all remember Uchiha Itachi?" he asked, his voice light. At the careful nods around the table, he continued. "And I'm sure you all remember the mass murder of the Uchiha clan about 12 years ago?" more nods. "Uchiha Itachi was not responsible. He was framed by Orochimaru." there were gasps and murmurs of disbelief.
"Why would he do that? And why didn't Uchiha-san come forward and say that he was framed?" one man asked, not unkindly, with genuine curiosity. Naruto grinned.
"I'm glad you asked. You see, Orochimaru has always been threatened by the powerful Uchiha's, Itachi especially. So he killed all of them, leaving only two alive. One would be hunted and killed by his own village, and the other would come to him for power, leaving him with a powerful ally and no powerful enemies."
"Ok, but why did he play along?"
"Because, Konoha has been looking for someone to be a believable Akatsuki spy. Which means one has to desert their chosen village, as Itachi would have to were his name not cleared. So he did just that and has been reporting back to the Hokages for twelve years. We've had to do it carefully, so no one would suggest. Like when Sakura fought Sasori, Tsunade arranged it so that she would have exactly the right ingredients for the toxins Itachi told us he had."
". . . And why are you telling us this now?" Shian asked. Naruto's grin widened.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you, Uchiha Itachi." he said as Itachi took off his hood with the dramatics fitting an Uchiha.
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Now came the easy part, announcing the return of their favourite ninja to the villagers, who didn't know about missing nins and such, and had so merely assumed that the elder Uchiha had left on some prolonged mission or another. They had taken the return of their captain rather well.
The only other matter that needed to be addressed to the public was the minor detail as to who was going to teach the children now that Iruka was no longer available for the task. Naruto had mused over this before proclaiming that Hinata should take over this task.
Hinata had stuttered that she couldn't possibly, although what she couldn't possibly was interrupted by Naruto saying she could and she would be great at it and that was the end of that.
Several months passed in this fashion before Kyuubi and Itachi finally got tired of Sasuke's stubbornness enough to do something.
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"Why hasn't Sasuke asked Naruto to move in with him. You know, to the Uchiha mansion and everything?"
"I don't know. Maybe he thinks that Naruto wouldn't want to move in with him?"
"If he thinks that, he's a bigger baka than you are, and that's saying something. The whole village can see that Naruto really wants to move in with Sasuke. I even heard some of the men on guard duty betting on when Sasuke would work up the guts."
"When did they find out?"
"You don't remember? When that guard burst in without announcing himself first and caught the two of them making out?"
"Oh right. It was the talk of the village for a few weeks."
"Well, at least it never gets boring."
"You can say that again."
"Hey, Itachi, if you ever do go back to the mansion, can move in with you to?"
"Do you really think that you need to ask? I'm just waiting for outoto to work up the guts to ask Naru-chan so he won't suspect that Sasuke only asked him because I asked you. Naruto might not act like it, but he's pretty sensitive over these sort of things."
"Don't tell me. I not only lived with him, I lived in him. I've never seen some one so confident be so insecure. I think he's scared that one of Sasuke's fangirls will steal him away. And you're brother isn't doing anything to help."
They continued to talk along this line until they both felt Sasuke's presence fade, then exchanged a triumphant grin.
"So, Itachi, can I really move in?" Kyuubi asked. Itachi grinned, before pulling Kyuubi closer and kissing him soundly.
"Does that answer your question."
"I dunno. You might just have to do it again."
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Sasuke wandered down the streets of Konoha. He now had the answer to one of his questions, he at least knew that Naruto probably wouldn't say no if he were to ask the boy to move in with him. But what if Sasuke screwed it up? What if those two were wrong. What if Naruto, now with his own personal harem, found someone more worthy than Sasuke. What if-
He could drive himself crazy if he kept thinking like this. But how should he ask?
"Hey Naruto want to shack up together?" was out of the question, as was the prospect of Sasuke just moving all of Naruto's stuff. In love or not, Naruto did not appreciate anyone touching his stuff, Sasuke included.
Maybe he could ask Sakura? While undeniably annoying on some matters, she knew Naruto as well as Sasuke and in some ways, better. She also knew the romantic crap and laws and strings attached to asking someone to move in with you.
This decided, he altered his aimless wanderings to a more purposeful wander towards the pink haired kunoichi house. He could only hope that her parents weren't home. Last time he had visited, they had tried to get Sasuke and Sakura married on the spot. Damn parents.
But for Naruto, he would take that risk. So Naruto had better appreciate it. It was then that Sasuke realized exactly what he was thinking. He was Uchiha Sasuke dammit and no pink haired parents were going to scare him away from asking his boyfriend to move in with him.
This was probably considered by the normal world, an odd situation. He was not at all concerned about that thoughts of his potential roommates parents reactions. No he was most worried about said potential roommates ex-crushed parents reactions, which also happened to be the creepy deamon (he added a silent 'No offence' to Kyuubi) parents who had tried to force him to marry said potential-roommates-ex-crush. And his head was beginning to spin in circles, so it was altogether a good thing that he had reached Sakura's house.
After peeking in the blinds to make sure her deranged parents weren't at home, he knocked on the door. Almost instantly it was flung open by Sakura, her eyes excited and her hair flying around her. When she saw Sasuke, her face fell.
"Oh, it's you." she said. Sasuke raised an eyebrow. This hadn't been the result he expected. Sakura seemed to realize that that probably hadn't sounded that nice and hastened o reassure Sasuke that she hadn't meant it like that at all, it was just that she had been expecting some one else and also Sasuke was kind of being an oblivious moron at the moment and of course that she meant that in the nicest way possible and-
Sasuke had cut her off there as her face was starting to turn a very clashing shade of blue in her haste to not offend him. Grinning, he asked if he could please come in. Sakura looked slightly surprised and said that sure he could come in.
As they sat down and Sakura had offered Sasuke tea, Sasuke noticed a small smirk lingering on the corners of her mouth.
"What?" Sasuke asked, lowering his cup. Sakura grinned
"You've changed. Ever since you started dating Naruto."
"I have not! I'm the same as I ever was!" Sasuke said. Sakura raised her eyebrows.
"Are you kidding me? You just grinned! You just asked if you could come in! You just protested instead if glaring! You just showed up at my door for romance advice."
"I, huh! You-Wha?" Sasuke finished eloquently. Sakura grinned.
"Lets face it Sasuke, you don't do social visits, at least never to my house not after. . . Last time. So the only reason that you'd be here is for advice, and considering that Naruto has been sulking around for a few weeks, you must be here for romantic advice." She ended this with a triumphant wink in his direction.
Sasuke stared at her. "Ok, and where from that did you get, what was it that you called me earlier, oh right an 'oblivious moron' was it?"
"Oh, right, that's for not asking Naruto to move in with you." She nodded, clearly feeling that just words weren't sufficient.
"That's what I came to talk to you about-" he started, before he was interrupted.
"I knew it! You want to propose don't you? Sweep him dramatically off his feet and give him the most beautiful ring ever and-" her eyes were beginning to get big and sparkly and Sasuke knew that it would be best to stop her before it got really bad.
"No! That is not what I want to ask! No way in HELL!"
Her face fell dramatically. "It's not? You don't want to be with him forever? Sasuke, how could you-"
"Shut up! I never said I'll never want to ask him, just. . . Not yet." he was blushing faintly, but Sakura figured that for the sake of her life, she wouldn't mention that
"Ok, than what do you want help with?"
"Like you said, I want Naruto to move in to the Uchiha mansion with me."
"Ok, no problem! What do you have so far?"
"Um. . . ."
Sakura rolled her eyes, the sarcastic unspoken 'boys' she was clearly thinking lingering in the air. "Ok, well I don't think it should be to dramatic, you need to save that for the marriage proposal. It needs to be simple. But not to simple. Hm. . . ." there was silence as they both sat thinking of ideas.
"I got it!" Sakura said after about half an hour and 36.5 failed plans later. "How about this. . ." she leaned over to whisper into Sasuke's ear.
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"And this." he said dramatically "is the livening room!" he opened the door, revealing a large room with a TV that took up almost the entire left wall. There were chairs and couches sprinkled at random, as well as a large cabinet filled with, what looked like, every movie ever made.
Sasuke had been giving Naruto the grand tour of the Uchiha mansion for the last few hours, and they were still only half way through. Naruto had come to the conclusion that he could have fit his own house into each and every one of the rooms, even the bathroom, although that was mostly due to the bath tubs that were attempting to become swimming pools.
"This is my favourite part of the house." Sasuke said, softly pushing a door open, revealing a winding stair case. They both began climbing. When they reached the top of the stair, there was a hatch door, which Sasuke opened, offering a hand to help Naruto out. Naruto gasped.
All the walls were made of red wood. About half way up, they turned into a single sheet of glass that stretched along the entire room. Each wall contained a low book shelf that did not obscure the view. Stretching from one part of the room to the other was a carefully woven hammock, which was covered with plush pillows and such.
Naruto stifled a grin when he saw that most of the books were the same as the books he himself owned. He looked back at Sasuke and was surprised to see that the Uchiha had a nervous expression on his face.
"Wha?" he started to ask, before Sasuke hesitantly took his hand and led him over to the hammock, tugging him down.
"Naruto. I want to ask you something." he said, his voice quite. Naruto felt his heart drop. Did Sasuke want to break up? Was he upset that the villagers had found out? Did he not like being in the spotlight because he was the Hokage's boyfriend? Naruto took a deep breath, preparing himself for-
"Naruto, do you want to move in here. With me?"
-not that. Naruto froze, his mouth dropping open, his eyes widening. Had Sasuke just?
"Naruto?" he asked. "If you don't-" that broke Naruto from his daze.
"Of course I do!" his eyes were glowing again, his grin lighting up the room.
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"We shouldn't be doing this you know." Kyuubi said, not looking away non the less. Itachi looked at him, and eyebrow raised.
"Well than, Naruto shouldn't have left his scrying thing out." he poured himself another cup of tea, and refilled Kyuubi's. "Sugar?" he held out the bowl.
"No thanks. There's enough sweetness here to drown something." Kyuubi made a face at the glass. Itachi grinned.
"So, how did Naruto make this?" he tapped the picture reflected in the circle of mirror, which rippled vaguely. Kyuubi shrugged.
"No idea. I think he just put some of his chakra in it and tweaked it a bit and now when you put your own chakra into it, and think of the place and person you want to see, it appears. Pretty useful, but you still need a specific place and name. And a picture of that person in your head."
"How did he think of that?" Itachi asked incredulously. Kyuubi shrugged again.
"His father made up jutsu's to. And since he has no Kekkei Genkai like you Uchiha's or Hyuuga's, I think that this is his bloodline. Passed through the Uzumaki blood."
"Huh, go figure."
". . . Itachi, we should really turn this off. Their making out now."
"Really? Let me see!" he tried to snatch the glass out of Kyuubi's hands, only to be swatted. "What? I just want to see if my outoto inherited my awesome and mighty kissing prowess."
Kyuubi snickered. "Awesome and mighty? We've been making out for almost three moths and I have yet to see and 'Awesome and mighty'"
"Really? Let me show you."
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"Naruto, what are you doing?" Sasuke asked, having found Naruto rummaging under his couch. Hr had let it slid when he found Naruto under his bed and behind his TV, but this was a bit much. Naruto's head popped out, his hair ruffled and his face smudged with dirt.
"Checking your house for cameras." he said matter a-factly. "Unless you want your fangirls selling pictures of us again." he grinned.
"Again?"
"Oh, yeah, I caught one of the secretaries with a 'yaoi calendar.' guess what was the main feature."
". . . I don't want to know. I really don't." he said as Naruto's head disappeared under the couch again.
"Why didn't you stop them?" he asked.
"Oh, I figured it wasn't that big of a deal. And I demanded 25 percent of the sales."
"Please tell me your kidding."
"Nope. Oh and you'll never guess who was running the whole thing."
"Who? Sakura?"
"No, that Hikaru girl, the one who gave Itachi his nail polish. And she says Itachi and some red haired guy gave her the pictures. Two guesses who that was. I thought you might want to take care of that."
"Oh, he is so dead." Sasuke stomped off to find his brother in the other half of the house. Naruto would have grinned, had he not been afraid of landing himself with a mouthful of dirt. This was going to be interesting.
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"Hey, Kyuubi?" Sasuke asked a few weeks later, "Whats wrong with Naruto?" he was referring, of course, to the unusually long amount of time that Naruto had been spending in his 'studio' of sorts. Kyuubi gave him an innocent look.
"What do you mean?" even his tone was innocent, eerily reminiscent of a small child. Sasuke, how ever wasn't fooled and proceeded to give Kyuubi a look. Kyuubi just blinked at his, his ears not even perked as they were when he was in his most mischievous mind frame. So it wasn't prank related.
Which reminded him, how had Kyuubi managed to pull that off? The villagers had accepted that Naruto was a separate entity from the nine tails, but there was no way that they would accept Kyuubi himself. And close-minded they may be but they weren't blind. They did notice when one of the new comers had auburn ears and a tail.
When he asked Kyuubi about this, Kyuubi had explained that he had told the villagers that he was a deamon half blood and that he had been rejected from the deamon clan and had come to pledge his service to the Legendary Rokudaime, although the village girls said that he spent most of his 'services' with the Anbu captain that the Hokage.
Now, hoping that he would have distracted Kyuubi enough with this question, he rephrased his earlier inquiry, hoping to surprise an answer from him. Kyuubi just grinned and patted his shoulder in an almost sympathetic manner.
"Don't worry Sasuke, it's for your own sanity that I don't tell you. And for you that he's going to all this trouble." and he had walked off, his tail waving in mocking triumph.
Sasuke resisted the urge to stick out his tongue. That had been completely useless.
Turns out, that when he did find out, he had passed out, so maybe Kyuubi had been right about his sanity, although he had been long since convinced that it had been lost the day he and Naruto had gotten together in the first place.
But that was a sacrifice he was willing to make.
- - - To Be Continued (Sort of) - - -
Those of you who can guess what the jutsu is get that SasuNaru calendar. Oh, and next chapter will be the epilogue. I'm sorry. See you! Review! (goes off to write chapter 2 of Sound Of Lies, which you should read)
Oh, and I have reached a new level of patheticness. I am up at 6 in the morning, having gotten no sleep, because I was reading FMA fluff. I need to get a life. I really do. Oh, and I loved the episodes of Naruto that were on tonight! (goes off to rewatch the scene where Naruto decides he wants to live for Sasuke) Oh! And we heard Itachi's voice for teh first time! And I was confused at one point, becuase there was a person who I could swear was Orochimaru, but they were a girl. and they were from Grass. T.T (Any one who can explain that, please do)