I don't own Naruto, and I'm not making any profit, but you know what is a good way to make money? Selling you soul to an eccentric millionaire!

"Yorimi, Yorimi wake up-" he heard a distant voice say. "Please wake up," he heard again, with an accompanying sob.

"Sh-Shoji? Is that you?" Yorimi said weakly. He tried to open his eyes, but they felt heavy so he gave up.

"Brother! You're awake!" Shoji cried in relief.

"Shoji…" Yorimi struggled to say.

Dimly aware of what was happening around him, Yorimi nearly blacked out again. The encroaching darkness almost had him, but he heard Shoji calling out for help. He came back to reality again when a pair of hands brought him to a nearby chair.

"Wait, where am I?" Yorimi murmured.

"Somewhere safe," he heard someone say.

It took Yorimi a moment to recognize who was speaking. Realizing who it was, he shot up out of the slouch he was in and said, "Ichuga-Sensai!"

"Now now kid, don't get too feisty on me," Ichuga said, laying a hand on Yorimi's chest and laying him back down in the seat. "The I had to cast some strong Gen-Jutsu on the Guard-Nin that were trying to take you and Shoji away. I hadn't used some of those techniques in a while, so it took more out of me than I thought it would."

"Wait, so what's going on?" Yorimi asked.

Shoji replied almost on cue. "They're trying to kick you and me out of the village!"

"Not only that," Ichuga said, "But they want to hand you over to the next Sound-Nins that come this way, and be rid of you."

"That's… that's unbelievable!" Yorimi cried, leaping up again.

Ichuga laid him back down again, this time a little more forcefully. "C'mon kid, you're going to hurt yourself if you keep doing that," he said.

"What do you mean? I feel-" Yorimi started to say. Slowly looking down his front, he saw several things at once. First, a pile of bloody bandages on his lap. Second, an entrance wound from where a Shuriken had imbedded itself in his dream. "I thought it was just a dream though…" he said.

"What, that spastic fit you were in?" Ichuga said, chuckling. "We all thought you were having a bad reaction to the tranquilizers I used on you. But, when you started bleeding uncontrollably, the Guard-Nin tried to finish you off. That's when I decided to act and take you to my home," Ichuga finished coolly.

"Then how did Shoji-"

"I went out to get him when I managed to stop the bleeding," Ichuga said, pushing a pair of goggles that were starting to slip down his face back up his forehead.

"YOU MEAN YOU LEFT ME ALONE HERE DIEING!?!" Yorimi yelled, bolting upright again.

Laying him back down more forcefully this time, Ichuga said - with a sweat drop by his head -, "Kid, I had to. Your condition was stable and Shoji was in danger. Do you have any idea what be happening to him if I didn't rescue him?" Ichuga said, suddenly pointing at Shoji. "Now settle down so I can finish changing your bandages. Now sit up a little, not too fast now. There, now hold still…" Ichuga said.

Yorimi tuned out his Sensei though, and lost himself in thought. The wound in his chest was real, so what did that dream mean?

Yorimi's mind was made up when Ichuga finished the new bandages. Before he could finish saying, "There ya' go kid, good as new!" Yorimi was already saying, "I have to kill them."

"What did you just say big brother?" Shoji said with a tone of fear in his voice. He had been sitting silently, listening and watching his brother and his brother's Sensai the whole time, but never voiced anything until now.

"The Hyugas. They're the ones responsible for this. I have to kill them," he said, clenching his fists together.

"Now now kid, you're not even a ranked Shinobe yet. If I've done my research correctly, those Hyugas would finish you before you even knew you were under attack," Ichuga said.

"So what then? I'll train, and learn new Jutsu so I can fight them!" Yorimi said.

"It's deeper than that kid. There's only about three Sharingan-bearers in the world right now. Two of them are in this room, and the other one's an amazingly strong Sounin in Konoha, and he only has one Sharingan, if I have my facts straight," Ichuga said. "I'd drop this little quest if I were you. You don't want to know what would happen to you if you went through with it," he warned.

A silence weighed heavily in the room. "Yorimi, Shoji, we cannot stay here for long. When I escaped the Guard-Nin with Shoji, I overheard them declare me as a A-Class Missing-Nin. They have orders to have me captured, then severely punished. Odds are, that means death for me. It won't take them long to retrace my path to this point, so we need to get out. Can you stand at all?" he asked.

Slowly, Yorimi rose to his feet. "Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I can move too," he said. After saying it, he threw his hands to the wound and doubled-over. "Argh… there's still a problem though," he stammered.

"What is it?" Ichuga asked, taking a step forward. The look in his eyes was completely sympathetic, but nearly visible flames burned the look away when Yorimi simply said:

"I haven't eaten since this morning and I'm starving!"

"You idiot we have bigger things to worry about. We can get food later!" Ichuga shouted back.

"What if we have to fight? I'm already weak as it is, so why don't you just give me something!" Yorimi retorted.

"Listen kid, I'll give my fist if you don't… what was that?" Ichuga said. While the two fought over food, Shoji laughed and backed his way into the kitchen, not wanting to get involved. Since he entered a different room, he could hear more happening around him than just the shouting. He heard several thuds on the roof, and heard feet moving outside. He had a bad feeling about what was happening, so he ran back to Ichuga and Yorimi.

"Both of you, shut up! People are coming!" he said.

The two, holding each other by the throat and shouting terrible oaths at one another froze. Neither of the three moved until outside, they heard "Summoning Jutsu!"

"Wait.. That voice…" Ichuga said. Realizing who was out there he yelled, "Yorimi, Shoji, get behind me," and went on to make several hand seals. "Ninja Art: Summoning Jutsu!" he called. One final seal later, a large puma with plate-armor appeared in front of him.
"Lord Ishikawa, our old friend Daskaga decided to show up. Prepare yourself," he said. It barely had time to leap to the door before a fully grown bear barreled through it. "Everyone, run now!" Ichuga cried as the two animal summons squared off. "Lord Ishikawa, could you hold them off for a little while at least?"

Of course, Ichuga. Just don't expect me to be able to move very much for a while, his summon replied. The bear got up on its hind legs and roared, but the puma dive tackled it in a flash. Very quickly the room turned into a pile of splinters, blood, and animals rolling around. The two squads of Guard-Nin that were at the front door were basically blocked, and none of them dared enter Ichuga's home from that entrance. One of the fifteen-man Shinobe squads leapt to the roof to join the one already out there.

At the back entrance, Ichuga used a special Kage Bunshin that could take, and give a beating to clear the way for his, Shoji's, and Yorimi's escape. They flew down the road, but were quickly pursued by the two squads from the back of the house. Because of Shoji's age and Yorimi's injury, they could only move so fast so Ichuga lead them from the rooftops down to the street level. It didn't take long for them to be surrounded by several of the Guard-Nin though, and soon they had to stop completely. Ichuga, Yorimi, and Shoji found themselves completely surrounded. The three stood in a tight circle, each of them preparing to fight. Ichuga's Kage Bunshin formed a second circle around them, a dozen or so giving the three on the inside some breathing room. Still, another thirty Guard-Nin had them surrounded, and some of them seemed strong enough to make Ichuga worried.

Acting fast, Ichuga made some quick hand seals, and paralyzed half of the Guard-Nin around them with a shadow-paralysis Jutsu, and had his Kage Bunshin attack the remaining Shinobi. "Yorimi, Shoji, quick make some clones. Have them attack everyone I just paralyzed."

Yorimi and Shoji were caught off guard by the sudden order. When they didn't move, Ichuga quickly said, "Listen, we're in this together. I can't fight all of them off. Either you two help me out here, or we all die right now!"

Nodding quickly, the two brothers made their Kage Bunshin. Yorimi managed five, while Shoji managed three. "Make more!" Ichuga yelled as the clones set to work. "We still need seven more. Come on you two!" he yelled.

The two brothers nodded, but when one of the Guard-Nin broke through the quickly breaking line of clones Ichuga made, he landed a kick in Yorimi's chest. Seeing his brother fall to the ground and his bandaged chest redden with blood, something went off in Shoji's mind. He made the seals, and yelled, "Kage no Bunshin," so loud that even the clones beating the paralyzed Shinobi turned to look. They saw a brilliant flash of light as Shoji's chakra rippled through the air around him, and thirty new Kage Bunshin appear. The only person who didn't see this was Ichuga, who quickly yelled, "Get those clones in the fight now, kid!"

The new clones nodded, and set about beating any Guard-Nin they could get their hands on. One Guard-Nin voiced his amazement at the strength of the clones, and his frustrations that they didn't explode when he pierced its shoulder with a Shuriken. "He's not even a Genin! Why can't I kill these damn clones?" he asked rhetorically before getting pummeled by three of them.

The Shinobi that Ichuga had trapped were nearly finished when the last of his own clones, as well as Shoji and Yorimi's initial wave of clones were wiped out. Seeing one Shinobi left standing, Ichuga called out, "Ninja Art: Total Vacuum Jutsu," and killed the Shinobi before it could draw in another breath. "Hey, did you two see that one? I think you two could really… hey, what the hell?" he cried.

Ichuga turned and saw both Uchiha lying unconscious on the ground. He had been too busy with the Shadow Paralysis to see that Yorimi had been kicked in his injury, and Shoji had burnt threw his Chakra reserves with the huge wave of Kage Bunshin. "Damn it. Some guardian I'm proving to be," he murmured to himself.

Master Ichuga, are you OK? a voice boomed through the air. Seeing his summon return bloodied after fighting the bear, and quite possibly the third squad of Guard-Nin that he knew must have been at the front door Ichuga smiled when he realized his choice for a contract paid off.

"Yes, I'm OK. These two though are in rough shape. Think you can carry them out of the village?" he asked.

I'm low on energy, but I'm sure I can make it, Master Ichuga.

"Please, call me Chief. All this Master stuff doesn't seem right. You're the all-powerful one here," he said as he laid the two Uchihas on top of his summon.

I understand Chief Ichuga, the puma said as he and the tired Shinobi leapt off towards the town wall.

"No, just Chief. That's what everyone else calls me," he said in the dark of the night.

Meanwhile, in the Yurokage Tower, the Yurokage watched as the two dots made their way towards the wall. "Yorimi," he said knowing no one could hear him, "I bid you good luck on your quest. The Council distrusts my stand on this, but I know you'll work towards a better future for us all."

Righto. Chapter Four ftw! I haven't gotten a single review yet, and I'm getting a little sad :'( however, I'm still writing this for the fun of it. The story's in my head, and I've put too much into planning it to let it go to waste.

New Jutsu:

Ninja Art: Total Vacuum Jutsu. A-Rank Jutsu. User: Ichuga. It's one of his own creations, and is just one in a series of air-related attacks. They aren't really the same as Roy Mustang's attacks, but more like it shifts various molecules in the atmosphere around someone around so that they aren't near that person. The ensuing vacuum, well, you get the idea.