A/N: I would like to point out that while writing this chapter I had other things on my mind. My dad's in the hospital... so yeah. Enjoy the chapter... I hope...

Chapter 185: A Recovery from a Nightmare

Itachi looked at Luffy. He knew Luffy wanted to fight. However…

"I have no intentions of fighting." Said Itachi.

"What?" asked Luffy.

"My job was to make sure that both Naruto and Gaara were alive and healthy on this ship." Said Itachi.

Luffy glared at Itachi. Itachi got up and ran away into the island's trees.

"Why that." Said Luffy.

"Don't go after him." Said Robin.

"Why?" asked Luffy.

That was when Zoro began to stir, everyone went over to him.

"I have heard of the Moon Moon Fruit." Said Robin, "It's a very dangerous fruit."

"But it only causes nightmares." Said Luffy.

"From what I heard you feel everything in them." Said Robin, "That's why they passed out."

"But…" said Luffy.

Zoro mange dot open his eyes, he groaned.

"Zoro are you okay?" asked Chopper.

Zoro instinctively placed his hand on his stomach. The dream that Itachi sent him. Him tied to a cross and being pieced by swords over and over again… well most of the dream. That last few minutes of it… was something else.

"Zoro? Answer me!" cried Chopper.

"Oh sorry." Said Zoro.

"Can you stand?" asked Chopper.

Zoro tried to get up, but he was absolutely exhausted, he shook his head no.

Zoro couldn't help but to look at Sasuke, unconsciously. Laying on the deck. Sakura trying to wake him up.

He then once again passed out.

"Zoro!" cried Chopper.

At a dock elsewhere on the island, Itachi looked at something and sighed. He placed in a pocket then jumped in a small boat. Sailing elsewhere.

Several hours later, Sasuke finally woke up. He looked around and saw he was in the galley laying on a bed, he saw everyone (minus Gaara who was out on watch) asleep except for Zoro.

"So you're finally awake." Said Zoro.

Sasuke nodded.

"Sasuke." Said Zoro.

"Don't say anything." Said Sasuke, "I don't care about defeating him anymore."

"What?" asked Zoro, "Really"

"I'm going to kill him…" said Sasuke.

"What?" asked Zoro, "What about that promise?"

"We were children." Said Sasuke, "Since then you've killed so many people."

"But that's different." Said Zoro.

"How is that different?" asked Sasuke.

"None of them were my brother!" yelled Zoro.

The started glaring at each other.

"I'm going outside to train." Said Sasuke.

Sasuke left the galley.

"You know you can pretend to stop sleeping." Said Zoro.

Both Sakura and Ino sweat dropped, both got up.

"We're just going to pretend we didn't hear anything." Said Ino.

"Yeah…" said Sakura.

Zoro sighed when they said that.

Outside, Sasuke was practicing. He needed new moves if he was ever going to face your brother again.

"Are you sure that's a good idea to be up after that?" he heard Gaara say from the crow's nest.

Gaara used his strange teleportation ability to appear beside Sasuke.

"What do you want?" asked Sasuke.

"Trying to give you comfort." Said Gaara.

"You give me comfort?" asked Sasuke, "That's new."

Gaara stared at him.

"So did you ever care for your brother?" asked Gaara.

"When I was little…" said Sasuke, "Before he killed my sister."

"I see." Said Gaara.

"What would you know about this?" asked Sasuke, "Are you going to discourage me from killing him?"

"You want to kill him now?" asked Gaara.

Sasuke remained silent.

"I know how you feel." Said Gaara, "I wanted to kill my older brother too."

"Wasn't over petty reasons?" asked Sasuke.

There was an awkward silence.

"Yes." Mumbled Gaara, "But I know that you shouldn't kill a relative in anger, it will only make things worse."

Gaara could help but to start thinking about his uncle. Sure the bastard deserved it, but it was the thing that had him kill more.

Sasuke however just looked at him.

"You have no idea…" said Gaara who teleported up to the crow's nest.

"What was that about?" asked Sasuke.

Elsewhere in a mysterious location, which happened to the current location of Sound. Orochimaru was talking to someone on the Snail Phone.

"Really?" asked Orochimaru with an evil smile.

"That's right Uchiha Itachi was on Valley Island, the same location as Sasuke." Said the person on the other end, which sounded like Dosu.

"So did you witness anything?" asked Orochimaru.

"No, unfortunately. However we did see the after math. It appears that Sasuke hates his brother." Said Dosu on the other end.

"Is that so." Said Orochimaru.

"Should I send another offer?" asked Dosu.

"No… I will send the Sound Five." Said Orochimaru.

"I see…" came Dosu's response.

Orochimaru then hung up, he smiled evilly.

That was when Kabuto came into the room.

"So what was Dosu's report?" he asked.

"It seems like Sasuke fought his older brother… and he lost." Said Orochimaru.

"Is that so?" asked Kabuto.

"It looks like it time to try to recruit him again." Said Orochimaru.

The next day Sasuke continued to train next to the ship.

Sakura watched.

"He's going to exhaust himself." Sighed Sakura.

"Why don't you ask him to stop then?" asked Usopp who was playing a game of card with Kiba, Luffy, Naruto and Sanji.

Sakura turned around and gave a fierce glare him.

"Why don't you do." Said Sakura.

"How about one of you guys do it!" said Usopp begging to panic looking at the others.

"I'll do it." Said Naruto and Luffy at the same time.

"Thank you!" said Sakura her mood changing and Usopp giving a sigh of relief.

The D Brothers jumped off the ship and approached Sasuke.

"What do you want?" he asked.

"We were hoping that you would take a break since you're worrying everyone." Said Luffy.

Sasuke said nothing.

"Look, I know you're feeling down after fighting your brother." Said Naruto, "But you just have to get better so you can beat him next time!"

"What would you know?" asked Sasuke, "You get along with your brothers. You have no idea what's I'm feeling."

An angry tick appeared on Naruto's head.

"Great… this is going to get out hand…" muttered Kyubi.

"I'm trying to cheer you up after something bad happened to you!" yelled Naruto.

"Who said I wanted cheering?" asked Sasuke.

The two began to glare at each other, Luffy just sweat dropped, "Hey…" he said.

"Fight me!" said Sasuke.

"What?" asked Naruto.

"I said fight me unless you're chicken." Said Sasuke.

"Fine, you're on." said Naruto with a smirk.

Everyone who was watching on the ship sweat dropped.

"Great he just made things worse…" muttered Sakura.

And so Naruto and Sasuke began their fight not knowing who was going to win… or what was going to be the results.

Next Time: Naruto and Sasuke fight. But this isn't an ordinary fight, things get out of hand quickly. What will happen? Find out next time!