Gone and Forgotten

Summary: Orochimaru has launched a full out war on Konoha once again demanding for the last Uchiha, Uchiha Sasuke. With the newly appointed Rokudaime, Uzumaki Naruto, Konoha strikes back. A message written in an ancient code that was passed down from Tsunade is to be sent to a strange man. All of Konoha is troubled: Who in the world is this Uchiha Sasuke?

Previous Chapter: The wheels of motion are turning. Naruto and Shikamaru are finding Uchiha Sasuke, hopeful to keep the man away from Orochimaru. Kakashi has revealed little about his knowing of Sasuke, it won't be too long before he reveals more. Uchiha Itachi's intentions are unclear, no one knows what he's up to.

Author's Note

Wow, I may actually post five chapters before I leave. O.o I loved everyone's great guesses, some came too close for my liking, way too close. You people need to stop being so observant and knowledgeable! Better yet, I have to learn how to confuse you even more. Now I remember something my friend told me after reading some of the reviews.

'This is fiction, if everything was so clear then why would anyone bother to continue?'

I decided that she was right. Just to let you know, I've decided to create some more loop holes if I follow them down I don't know.

Chapter Three: Confusion

Kakashi that damn son of a… Naruto thought growling with rage. A thought hit him just a while ago, why not go to Kakashi and get some straight answers? After his encounter with the silver haired ANBU reminded him why he went to Shikamaru instead, but right now he wouldn't think about the morning's confrontation.

Red eyes bored into his skull, Naruto shot a quick glance at the man behind him. Those crimson eyes weren't the man's normal colored eyes, which were pure black, nor were they decorations. A windmill like decoration made with comma shapes in his eyes kind of freaked the Rokudaime out. He seldom saw Kakashi's Sharingan, which brought himself back to the morning.

"Kakashi-sensei," Naruto started to ask but stopped and corrected himself. "No, Kakashi, why are you avoiding me?"

"Hokage-sama, I have no idea what you're talking about," the Copy Ninja said looking out the large paneled window of the Hokage's office. "I've been busy, that's all."

"Well, no sane man would do ten A rank missions in a week," Naruto said hotly, emphasizing on three words.

"You're questioning my ability?" Kakashi asked calmly raising an eyebrow.

"No, I'm questioning your S-A-N-I-T-Y," the Rokudaime stressed out the 'sanity'. "I'm questioning your lack of cooperation to help your leader."

"I don't see what's the problem," Kakashi said softly, he walked toward the window with soft clicks of his sandals. "I've done my best on missions with my team."

"I'm not talking about missions, Mr. ANBU Captain," Naruto snorted at his former sensei's way of avoiding his real meaning, the blonde was no longer a clueless Genin. "You know perfectly what I'm talking about."

"Actually I don't, fill me in on what I missed," the silver hair ANBU said putting on an air of fake confusion. "I have been gone on that mission for quite a while."

"Uchiha Sasuke!" Naruto hissed slamming his fist on the table. "You know something. You know something that might prove useful. You know why we can't remember this man, you know. I know you do."

"…" Kakashi didn't answer immediately, a tense silence fell upon the two men. Finally it was broke by Kakashi low voice. "Naruto, some things you shouldn't rush into. After all it's not my rightful place to say anything, is it, Uchiha Itachi?"

Red eyes stared through the window of the Hokage's office, a cloaked figure sat leisurely against the tree outside Naruto's office. No doubt listening to the whole conversation though the thin glass.

Almost tripping over his feet made him remember the man behind him, stuttering an apology for dozing off Naruto opened the door to his office. The first thing the blonde noticed almost immediately about Itachi was that the man was silent. Way too silent. Even his footsteps were hard to hear with his abnormal hearing adapted from Kyuubi.

Both of them entered the office, Naruto had Hinata pull the curtains over so no one would know about their surprise guest just yet. The Hokage took another glance at the Uchiha, his large cloak was already set onto a chair next to the desk. His dark hair was pulled up in a ponytail that ran to a little higher than mid waist. Somehow his right eye was twitching from time to time. His clothes were all black, but the purple nail polish that was inked onto his fingernails caught the attention of the blonde Hokage. Didn't some group he knew wear purple nail polish and large black cloaks?

Deciding he was thinking too much, Naruto shoved that question to the back of his mind. How could Tsunade give him a message to be sent to the most dangerous organization that wanted Kyuubi? He couldn't be from the Akatsuki.

Naruto made a pained smile, and started to speak, "Uchiha Itachi, nice to meet you. As you probably know, I'm Uzumaki Naruto."

"…" the man didn't say anything, but somehow the blonde knew that he wanted to get right to the point.

"Well, I don't know what was written in the message that was sent to you," Naruto said grimly. "It was written in a code used by the ANBU squad from quite a while ago. I suppose that you were once in the ANBU, am I correct?"

Naruto paused for while, it only added to the uncomfortable air that seemed to swirl around them. After a slight conversation that was literally one sided, Naruto didn't except Itachi to make anymore move than a small nod or a frown that seemed to disagree.

"Well, Itachi-san, we would like to know more about your younger brother, Sasuke?" Naruto learned by now not to wait, so he continued. "Orochimaru is on his way any day now, we would like to…"

"There's no need to worry about that snake for now," Itachi seemed to be slightly disgusted at Orochimaru for whatever personal reasons, Naruto had yet to know. "He won't be attacking the village, doesn't have enough recruits…"

Itachi stopped there and seemed to be picking up his thoughts, that was plainly ignored by the Rokudaime.

"Excellent!" Naruto clapped his hands, no matter how mature he looked; he was still quite optimistic and believing. Itachi seemed to be a believable person. After all they don't say 'Innocent till proven guilty' for nothing.

In his glee, Itachi said two words that could have changed the out come of the future, "Until yesterday."

Shikamaru couldn't believe the success, it was a month after Itachi came to Konoha and the lazy one actually did something. He found lost records of Konoha's history in forbidden scrolls that accidentally came loose. They were records of the first Uchihas that settled in Konoha when the Hidden Village of Leaf was first started.

The Uchihas were probably the strongest clan second to the Hyuugas. Their 'eye' the Sharingan, could copy almost any jutsu as well as physical abilities. This red eye is also known for looking through illusions and placing illusions. They even had a secret Sharingan that you needed to pass a certain requirement in order to get. What surprised him was the history of the Uchiha clan just eight or nine years ago. Uchiha Itachi massacred his whole clan leaving only his younger brother alive.

Only Uchiha Sasuke as an eight year old boy had survived.

And Uchiha Itachi was currently with the Hokage.

That worried Shikamaru, at first it was the Akatsuki, now a massacre?

Kakashi stared at a picture; it was Naruto and Sakura when they were only Genin. Another boy was in it, no, it wasn't Sai. The boy had dark hair and eyes just like Sai, but a constant scowl as well. The boy in the picture has his eyebrows furrowed together, lips curved downward as if the whole world was against him.

The silver haired man knew he shouldn't keep such a thing, what if someone found it? That boy in the picture would be questioned about.

Kakashi could still remember Sasuke's bad habit of twitching his right eye. It was downright hilarious sometimes when it twitched faster than usual because of Naruto's latest prank, yet with the Sharingan it even freaked Kakashi out.

He remembered Sasuke, of course. He was the one that was decided to become the one to keep this secret. No one except Uchiha Sasuke himself knew about this.

"Godaime-sama," the usually stoic boy said, Uchiha Sasuke was sixteen and brought back to Konoha by Naruto just a week before. "Please consider my last request…only one request…one selfish request…"

A/N: Well, I'll be ending it here. Kakashi leaks out some info to the readers! I guess you already now what Sasuke's 'selfish' request was…-.-" But hey I'm trying! Since some of you were asking why Naruto didn't go to Kakashi instead of Shikamaru I decided to add that little flashback in the beginning. Something in this chapter hints about Sasuke and where he is, read it closely again if you have to.

Preview

Kakashi reminisces about Sasuke's last request and how it was handled. Shikamaru confronts Uchiha Itachi on his own, unknowing that Sakura was actually there all along. Orochimaru was going to get there at dawn of the New Years. How chaotic is that?

All in the next chapter: Happy New Years!