Chapter 5

Far away from Konohagakure, near the mountains were Itachi and Kisame who had recently captured the jinchuuriki of the Bijuu king himself was on their way to the lair of Akatsuki. They approached a mountain that had a gigantic lake surroundings it, they simply water-walked on it and hiked onto the mountain. When they finally stopped around the top of the mountain, the approached a few trees and went behind them and with a simple 'kai' a genjutsu was dispelled. What seemed like a normal wall of rock behind the trees turned out to be a small doorway into a cave.

They entered it and walked down the mountain inside. What seemed forever which the arrived underneath the mountain and in the ocean, they arrived at a dead-end.

Itachi and Kisame held one of their hands up as Itachi carefully held Naruto with his remaining hand. The rings on their hands glowed for a second before seals on the wall of the dead-end appeared as the wall split in two revealing a pathway lower in. To others, it seemed as if they were walking down into the gates of hell itself.

Itachi quickly held Naruto with both of his hands as he and his partner walked into the very core of Akatsuki.

Inside were pathways everywhere as well as doors which lead to different rooms. As Kisame went to the leader to report their mission remembering very well to not mention the child who happens to be Itachi's nephew, Itachi went to a room which was the infirmary. The hallways looked like actual caves but the rooms looked normal enough.

He placed Naruto on a bed before nodding to Rin, who was Akatsuki's personal medic. Rin was not a apart of Akatsuki, she was merely a healer not caring who it was she had tended to. Itachi exited the room after giving a last look to the sleeping blond before exiting. Rin watched him until he left as she then turned her gaze to Naruto.

Rin tied Naruto to the bed with hard leather belts and did a put a few tag seals on Naruto's wirsts and legs. These tags would absorb Naruto's chakra if she tried to use it.

Rin examined Naruto's injuries which were already healed before she observed Naruto with her arms cross.

"...So this is the kid sensei sealed the fox in." She said in a soft voice.

Itachi walked down the hallway and met Kisame who was waiting for him outside a certain door since he didn't want to go in alone. They both entered it together.

Red sharp eyes watched them as they approached. The two bowed swiftly to their superior leader with respect. The leader then asked in a emotionless scary voice "Status?"

"We captured the required jinchuuriki." Itachi answered.

The leader eyed him for a second. Itachi seemed different, his eyes which were suppose to be emotionless proved it since it was filled with a far off emotion as if he was thinking about something.

"Hn...What exactly happened in your report?"

It was Kisame who answered this time. "Nothing really sir, the jinchuuriki was heading to Konoha, apparently she knew of our coming." He said trying to avoid the subject of the child who was most likely in Konoha now.

"Hn...Strange, the jinchuuriki went in hiding for eleven years only to appear now, and to Konoha aye?" Amusement danced in their leaders eyes as Itachi and Kisame mentally sweated. This man, their superior is one the very few people that they were afraid of.

Deidera came back from a mission in Wave country and reported that he accidentally bumped into a hot blonde chick but Deidera swore he sensed the nine-tails chakra within her. He tried to go after her but she somehow managed to get him off her tail. Deidera's report had gotten their knowledge of ninth jinchuuriki's whereabouts and their conclusion that the girl was probably run again so they had to be quick as Itachi and Kisame were the ones assigned to capture her.

"Very well then. We'll start the extraction when the rest gets here, you can leave now."

Itachi and Kisame mentally sighed in relief. As they were about to step out the door, their dangerous leader asked in a cold like voice. "Was there anyone else?"

They both froze and shooked their heads as their backs were turned so the leader couldn't see the fear in their eyes. They quickly left as narrowed red eyes watched them like a hawk.

They were both hiding something. That, the leader knew.

Itachi and Kisame walked down the hallway with relief.

"So you captured the girl, un?"

Deidera's voice made them looked up as the blonde man saw their relieved expressions and wasn't surprised, even if it was Itachi who showed emotion for once. Anyone who wasn't near the leader would be happy, even him. When he gave his report about his mission in Wave country, he stood pacing outside the door for 10 minutes since he was to nervous to even look at their boss in the eye, no sane person would.

Kisame nodded, "Of course, we ain't like a failure like you." That statement earned a fierce glare as a angry vein popped up onto Deidera's head.

"Excuse me, un, you guys together failed to capture her as well when she was only twelve! yeah, un!"

"That ain't our fault! She had a legendary sannin as a guardian!"

Itachi felt a headache coming on as he went to the infirmary to check on the blonde jinchuuriki.

Tsunade sighed. The girls went to take Arashi to Ichiraku to meet Iruka and the Ichiraku owners. The guys went as well since they were interested in the little guy's life. Akago and Kagome was training with their grandfather/granduncle, Hiashi. Kurenai and Saru was visiting Asuma's grave. And Jiraiya had gone to peep on girls to repay his jealousy when Arashi attracted the older women.

Sasuke on the other hand was still sleeping on her couch. He then stirred a bit before opening his eyes as he sat up while Tsunade stared at him and any signs of his reaction.

'What am I doing here in Hokage-sama's office?' Sasuke wondered. He tried to remember what happen though all he remembered was a dream he had about a mysterious son he had with the missing love of his life.

He stood and asked his boss "Hokage-sama, what am I doing in your office?"

"Don't you remember or did you think it was a dream?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow.

"Huh?...A dream, I had a dream about a son-OH MY GOD!!!!!! IT WASN'T A DREAM!"

Tsunade winced before she glared at him.

'He better not faint again.' She thought angrily.

Tsunade also wondered why Sasuke wasn't acting himself like he usually does. He never faints or shouts 'OMG!'.

Tsunade just shrugged, he found out he had a son, what'd she expect? It would explain his oocness.(Is that a word?).

Red eyes watched as Naruto breathed slowly. It seemed Naruto was in a coma thanks to Itachi's sharingan.

Rin went to go get some snack in the kitchen as Deidera went to his room. Kisame was with him, watching the girl.

Kisame looked back and forth between Itachi and Naruto. By all means, he knew Itachi still loved his brother in his own weird little way but the way he watched the Kyuubi-girl like a hawk with different emotions in his eyes was...Totally not like him.

Itachi stared at the blonde girl his little brother gave life to a child with.

At first, he didn't want anything to do with the girl since she was the reason he killed his clan. He remembered as if it was yesterday. He was assigned secretly to guard the girl's life by the Sandaime, he killed his best friend who tried to assassin the girl but died at his hands and gained the mangekyou sharingan from. He killed his clan because they planning to destroy the Kyuubi's vessel so they could become the villages true heroes. The children were spared since they had nothing to do with it but his brother was the only child back then. He then left the village to become an S-class criminal because he couldn't deal with the guilt. He made his brother try to kill him so he would die and won't have to feel the guilt anymore.

It was why he didn't want any connections to Naruto and started to dislike her as it slowly became hatred. But ever since he learn't she was the mother of his brother's child, then the hatred he felt for the girl quickly evaporated. He didn't know what to do anymore. Save the girl and risk his life by the leader or deal with the guilt and let his brother kill him. If he was going to save her, he'd better do it fast since the others will be her from their missions soon and when their back, the extraction will begin.

Itachi had to make up his mind quick.

"Itachi." Kisame's voice broke him out of his thoughts.

"Hai?" He replied.

"What will we do when the boss finds out about that Arashi kid?"

Shit.

That's going to be hard.

If they lie to the leader that they didn't know the kid, he would know they were lying but he didn't know before when they shooked their heads because they can't sense it in their voice.

Arashi sneezed.

"What's wrong?" Iruka asked concerned? The man who wouldn't leave Arashi alone since he found out about the boy's heritage from Kakashi.

"I don't know, I never get sick." Arashi answered cluelessly before he went back to eating his ninth bowl of ramen much to their surprise since he was like his mother in many ways.

"Maybe someone's talking about you." Sakura told him with a giggle.

End of the chapter! The next chapter is when Jiraiya and a couple of the sensei's go start the search of Naruto.