On the Wings of Revenge
By: Zeida and Maria (Maria)
Warnings: Insanity, crack, violence, blood gore, plotholes, randomness, lack of plot to begin with, language etc... etc...
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
Summary: Poor Naruto, I keep letting him be kidnapped. Zabuza finds Naruto after Haku, and takes him away. This is half crack nuttiness. Vengeful!Naruto. It's starting to look like a foursome to me but it's not. Just brother love? Gaara, Haku, Naruto and Sasuke...nuttiness. Shikamaru shows a lot too! Have I proved myself nuts yet? Inspired by my own nutty-ness.
ChApTeR fOuR: The Fight is On
Sasuke sighed, Ino, Shikamaru and himself left the house in a bored fashion. They headed out to the village, list in hand, and mentally preparing themselves for buying food. Well, really, buying it with Ino.
Ino chatted happily as they headed out to the village, talking about anything from Sasuke, to coming full circle and talking about Sasuke again. It didn't seem to matter to her that this was all in front of the poor boy. Soon they neared a vendor who looked at least ready to try and cheat them with remotely edible substances. Sasuke grumbled as Ino argued with the woman to lower the outrageous prices.
"Now look here-"
"Shut it, Ino." Shikamaru commanded in a annoyed tone. He passed her the original amount and muttered something containing the words 'troublesome' and 'women'.
A strange sort of breeze blew by them. All three spun as a strange presence sped past them. Sasuke stared as he recognized the red head from yesterday, giggling madly and clutching what looked like someone's laundry close to his chest. The cheerful blond, laughing his head off, and the very pretty boy from yesterday soon followed him. The small group of nin stared after them a second, be fore noting something very strange was going on.
"They didn't even notice us." Sasuke muttered, slightly disappointed. Shikamaru snorted.
"No one else noticed them." He turned to the shopkeeper they were just about to leave. "Does this happen often?"
The lady nodded, a small smile appeared on her face. "Yep, That they do. Ever since they was hired by Gatou. You wouldn't believe he hired them, seeing them play around so much. They even played with some of the orphans once."
The young nins looked startled a second. "Wasn't anyone scared?!" Ino asked.
"Well, 'course. At first, we was terrified, but they're prolly just some misunderstood kids that need money. Just like the rest of us."
They were silent a moment, contemplating. But suddenly, the last detail was noticed-
"That boy hardly had anything on!" Ino exclaimed after a moment.
Indeed he didn't, Haku was only dressed in his turtleneck, boxers, and one sandal. He was in a very bad mood.
Naruto giggled as he ran deeper into the forest. He darted right, while Gaara took off to the left. Delving deeper and deeper into the foliage, the blond took a quick peek back, Haku wasn't following him. That wasn't right, he was supposed to be the distraction. The red head had the clothes after all. Naruto, wondering what he should do, slowed to a stop. Hmmm... To return and be murdered for helping, or wait while Haku calms down, then return.
Was there a choice?
The boy wandered aimlessly around, counting down in his head to when Haku will have calmed down. He froze, mentally stuck on a number when he heard a noise to his right.
"Hello, little one... What are you doing out here all alone?" said a deep, frightening voice from the bushes. Naruto stood where he was, in the middle of the clearing. A tall man hopped down from a tree, landing a couple feet from the boy. His hair was dark, as dark as Haku's, and it was long, pulled back into a ponytail. His face seemed young, but it was hard to tell, as he hadn't looked up yet. Naruto could barely make out dark scars on his cheeks, one under each eye. The man looked up, Mangekyo Sharingan whirling as he stared the blond right in the eye.
Uchiha Itachi laughed as the boy fell to the ground, screaming.
Naruto looked around him in confusion, wasn't he just in that clearing with the strange man? The darkness seemed to evaporate slowly, leaving a dark shape behind for a split second.
"You will suffer the deaths of your loved ones..." Itachi hissed.
"What?-" the blond said, before he was cut off by a scream.
A horribly familiar scream...
"Haku!" Naruto race off in the direction of the voice. He slowed for a moment when he saw the Ice Prison rise in the distance. In the middle was Haku, still screaming. the boy rushed closer, worried for his brother.
The ice-nin stood unsteadily on his feet. There were senbon flying everywhere, almost too fast for the blond to see. Haku shrieked horribly every time that one of the flying senbon hit him. He was cover in the metal needles, blood pouring out of the multiple cuts and wounds as well as dripping out the corners of his lips. More needles shot out of the multiple mirror, hitting their target every time, no matter how hard he tried to dodge. There was nothing in the mirrors that Naruto could see, or maybe it was moving to fast even for them. Finally the dark haired boy fell, unable to continue any longer. Naruto rushed to his aid, but as he tenderly lifted the already cooling body, it dissolved, fading into dust.
Another cry sounded, it was not pained, but enraged. Naruto ran to it, recognizing it as Gaara's.
Gaara stared at him, bloody and battered and-
Dead. Crushed by the sand that had always saved him before.
Empty eyes gazed at him, blaming, accusing... hopeless...
Gaara faded away again, before Naruto could react. There was a strangled gasp, cut out suddenly with a sickening squelch.
Zabuza-sama. Bloody, and cut up. Both arms looked broken, and he was completely covered in blood, though Naruto couldn't tell if it was his. Swords and arrows and kunai were sticking out of him haphazardly, and his bandages were unraveled, revealing a blood stained face.
He was Dead.
His sensei, the first person who helped him, took him away from all the pain... who wanted him.
Dead.
Again his loved one faded away, re-forming into Haku, or was it Gaara?. Naruto could no longer tell through the tears in his eyes. The dead nin's eyes shot open, staring at the blond.
"Na...Ru...To..." He said, his voice somehow sounding like all of his precious people at once.
Suddenly there was no dead person in his arms. No terrifyingly blank eyes staring at him. Instead he was kneeling on bloody ground, coated in the sickly beautiful red. Haku, Gaara and Zabuza stood around him, still dead, but standing. They stared at him with glazed eyes and an utterly betrayed feeling emitting from them. All of them just said one thing before vanishing, blowing away in the wind.
"Why didn't you save us?"
He screamed.
Haku spun around in the direction of the noise. Gaara froze, dropping the small bundle of the ice nin's clothes. They share a glance before shooting of in the direction to the tortured noise. The clothing lay forgotten in a heap on the floor.
Naruto was huddled in the middle of the clearing, eyes unfocused and tears pouring down his face. He was curled us as small as he could get in a fetal position. A tall, dark haired man stood over him, smiling grimly. two blurs sped down from the trees to the terrified blond. "Naruto! Naruto, wake up!"
"Come on, tell us what happened." Haku coaxed the sobbing boy.
"I happened." said a bored voice from behind them. Gaara stood and turned slowly to the Uchiha traitor.
"What. Did. You. Do. To. Him?" he growled, stalking over the red eyed man. Each word was punctuated by an enraged step closer.
"I saw that he would have to fight my baby brother. He could kill him. I didn't like that, and I was around, so I made sure he would be in no fit position to harm him." Itachi drawled. He smiled sickly at them, then vanished.
"Damn it! Damn him!" Gaara yelled.
Naruto recovered quickly to a speaking ability when he saw that his family was safe.
"Zabuza-sama..." he whispered, drawing their attention. "Is Zabuza-sama okay?"
Haku smiled reassuringly. "Yes, it was all an illusion. Everyone is okay."
"Not for long..." Gaara muttered. "Naruto? You okay now? Can you get back safe without me?"
Naruto smiled, a little shakily, but genuinely, at the redhead. "Don't worry, it'll take more than that to get me. Besides, Haku is with me, too" The other nin nodded, agreeing.
Gaara smiled sweetly, planning the painful, and lengthy demise of the brat that called for this.
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The door to Tazuna's house crashed in. A aura of pure hatred washed over them all, scaring little Inari and starling the shinobi.
Gaara stalked up to the very confused Sasuke. The broody boy took an unconscious step back. The whole room stared at the sudden intrusion.
"Why the fuck did you sic you psycho brother on us?" the red head bit out. The last-Uchiha-that-mattered backed up against a wall, the sand nin kept stalking closer. They were barely a foot apart when the redhead's words hit Sasuke.
"My... brother?" he said softly, the realization dawning. "You think I told that bastard to attack you?! The only thing I'm gonna do to that... thing, is KILL him!" he hissed. Gaara blinked, and blinked again.
"Wait, what? You want to kill your brother? Why would you wanna do that?" he asked curiously. Wow. thought Sasuke, One track mind.
The Uchiha blinked at him. "Weren't you just about to kill me for that bastard attacking you?" The people around him winced. It wasn't the sanest thing to remind your killer to kill you.
"We'll get back to that! Anyway, you have the Sharingan eyes, right?" Gaara asked, leaning closer and peering into the black eyes.
"Well, not yet-" Sasuke managed, before the sand nin cut him off.
"Do you like or hate your village?"
"I like or hate people in it-"
"A lot?"
"Would you let me talk-"
"Answer the question!" Gaara grumped, not allowing him time to finish... again.
"I dislike more people than I like." Sasuke finished quickly. Where was this going?
"Are you loyal to the village, or is killing that... man your first priority?"
"What are you-!" Don't ask something like that!
"Let's go!" Gaara chirped, summoning large amounts of sand and transporting them away before either jounin or genin had a chance to react.
"Sensei?" Sakura asked, still staring at the spot where her crush had been moments before.
"Yes, Sakura?" Kakashi responded, also staring.
"Was Sasuke just kidnapped?"
"Yes, I believe he was." Did he just... what?!
(2) "Hmmm, I thought that's what happened." she was silent a second before her eyes widened to plates and she screamed. "SOME LITTLE MOTHER FUCKING REDHEAD KIDNAPED MY SASUKE-KUN?! I'LL RIP HIM APART AND STRANGLE THE DICK BY HIS OWN INTESTINES UNTIL THEY'RE FREAKING DEAD!"
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Zabuza-sama!" Gaara called into the large hotel room. "Zabuza-sama! Can I have a pet?"
"PET?! Are you calling me a pet?!" Sasuke objected, struggling to escape.
"Yes. Can I please? He's got Sharingan! Or he will when I'm done with him."
"You're gonna help me get Sharingan?" the boy froze, looking back at his captor.
"Yeah, you won't be any use otherwise."
"What?! I can be useful!" he was fully facing the redhead, glowing with rage and surprise. This was the first time anyone, completely disregarding his brother for once, had ever thought him useless!
"Good! Can you cook? I suck at it. Naruto likes instant and Haku won't cook all the time."
"How... is that relevant...?"
"Well, we have to take turns, right?"
Sasuke blinked, and stopped, forcing Gaara, who had a firm grip on his wrist to stop as well. "What are you going to do with me, and why?"
"I'm gonna keep you and train you if Zabuza-sama says yes. I've heard of that evil-eye Sharingan that that freak has. Sadly no one without Sharingan stands a chance. Otherwise I would have torn him apart on the spot."
Sasuke winced. He had no doubt that the small red head could do just that.
"And you wanna kill him. So you will train, to be able to? I promise to keep you even after he dies."
"You... he... what? You admit that...? He... can't be beat without me? He can only be beat by me...?" Some small part of him swelled with a strange feeling. What was it? Hmm, felt kind of nice. (1)
"Well, you or that teacher that was fighting with you. The one with the silver hair? But he's an adult and all adults but Zabuza-sama suck. It's a proven fact!! Me an' Naruto did research!"
"Oh. Kakashi isn't that bad, but he won't help you."
Gaara gave his a deadpan look for proving what he had just stated. "... See? Besides adults don't like me and Naruto and Haku. They're scared of us. Even when we were just little kids." Gaara looked away, sadly.
Sasuke felt he could sympathize, in an odd way. The elders of his village always judged him before they knew him. He was always the last Uchiha, special, a genius. He shouldn't hang out with those lazy people he does, he should graduate early. Well, sucks to them, they couldn't see how special his friend was. He doubted anyone could, even his own father.
Shikamaru had said that his sensei treated him differently, however, than most people that knew him. But he must have been the only one, if Sasuke's hypothesis was even true. Everyone else focused on himself.
He was as good as his brother, it was a right shame that he went bad and killed his entire family! Sasuke's eye twitched.
The broody boy sighed an lightly put a hand on the others shoulder. "Believe it or not... I kinda know what it feels like, even though you had it worse, didn't you? Is that why Naruto left our village?"
"How do you know he's from Konoha?
"Well, I recognized him. He was in my class, and I kinda, sorta I don't know, we just got along in a strange way. I didn't remember any of that until just lately.
"You forgot about him." Gaara stated.
"I think it was to hard on me to lose someone so suddenly... again. I was just a kid."
"That's why you want to kill that man?"
"..."
"You don't have to tell me why, you just have to improve like hell."
"Don't you have to ask that missing nin-"
"Zabuza-sama!"
"Yeah, well, didn't you say you were going to ask if you can," he winced. But this was going towards killing Itachi. "keep me?"
"Yes, he does." Zabuza said, having listened to the entire conversation from the door.
Sasuke stared at him, backing away unconsciously.
"I'm not going to kill you, kid. Gaara can have his fun but," he turned to the red head, who was grinning like no tomorrow, "You have to take care of him. Haku and Naruto are in your room, waiting for you. You had a pretty good idea." he turned to go back into his own room, stopping only to toss one last thing over his shoulder. "Naruto will be fine, don't worry."
Gaara jumped up and dived down the hall, yipping and cheering. "Narutoooooo!" he crowed, tackling said blond onto the bed and nuzzling him until one side on his face was red.
Naruto laughed and hugged Gaara back, assuring him silently that he was fine.
Haku smiled at them before turning to the bewildered newcomer. "Hello, Sasuke-san. My name is Haku." he held out his hand to the boy. Sasuke frowned but shook it. Were they enemies not five minutes ago?
"Don't worry, you'll have fun here. Naruto and I will help with your training as well."
"Oh... Thank you, I guess."
Naruto and Gaara sat on the bed, whispering together and throwing the occasional glance at Sasuke. They giggled suddenly, turning to he ice nin. "Haku? Can you get us a scroll? We need to make the lesson plan for Uke-chan." They giggled again.
Sasuke started. They were moving fast. Wait...
"UKE-CHAN?! I am NOT an UKE!"
They blinked at him, Haku going red and quickly leaving the room to find the scroll, and a couple brushes.
Black eyes glare at blue and green ones. "He needs a collar." Naruto decided, rather abruptly.
"Yeah... that would look cool." Gaara agreed, tilting his head slightly to the side and scrutinizing their latest 'friend'.
Sasuke twitched.
"Hmmm... What color do you like, Uke-chan?"
He twitched again. "If I did not think that I would greatly benefit from your training, I think I would try and kill you right now..."
"Is that a compliment or a threat?" Gaara asked, mock bewildered. Naruto snickered.
"I don't know. Compliment, I think." Sasuke decided, sitting in a chair opposite the bed. Haku returned then, sitting with his brothers on the bed. They started writing on the multiple scrolls, informing Sasuke verbally of a few of their ideas, and asking him his opinion on what he needs to work on.
"Genjutsu. I really can't do genjutsu, or break it." Sasuke admits after a moment. Truthfully, this was after about half and hour of wheedling that he had to have at least one thing he wasn't good at. Naruto said 'god', but it was the same thing, really.
"Hmmm. We should get that done... And he should learn most of the basics and lower levels of skills before getting his Sharingan." Haku muttered, writing on a scroll in precise small handwriting.
"Why?" Sasuke grumped, indignant that they should think that he even needed to.
"Well, your Sharingan can instantly teach you a move, well most moves anyway. It could actually be dangerous for you to do that move in some cases, if you don't understand what you are doing. It is also easier to improvise if you know what you doing, and not just how to do it." Naruto informed him, taking a schoolmaster tone of voice.
He sounds like Iruka-sensei.
"It also just feels nice when you get something right from hard work alone." Haku chirped, smiling brightly.
Sasuke nodded, waiting for another suggestion, or question.
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Shikamaru sighed heavily and sped up to catch his team, who was leaving him behind. Chouji appeared next to him giving a worried look.
"I'm fine." The shadow nin signaled silently. Not too many people could understand their code. The three of them had come up with it on their own. Shikamaru had researched the signs that the ANBU of their village used and they used it to try and make their own code as unique as possible.
They had always had a sneaking suspicion that their Academy sensei, Iruka, could understand it and so they made the whole language for privacy.
"Don't worry about Sasuke. We'll get him back." Kakashi said suddenly from up a head.
"Yeah," Asuma added. "We'll get him back. But now we have to protect Tazuna-san." The remainder of the team nodded and sped ahead.
Zabuza stood alone leering at them in an amused fashion. Upon entering the area, still a bit away from the bridge, most of the ninja noticed a familiar chakra. Shikamaru instantly spun to stare at a tree ten feet beyond Zabuza. He could just barely make out pale skin and black hair standing next to the blond boy from yesterday, who was seated on the tree branch. The shadow nin noticed the red headed kidnaper standing in another tree to the left of the man in the clearing and the black haired boy to the right of Sasuke's tree. Shikamaru pulled out a kunai and attached something to it, biting his thumb and scribbling hastily. Zabuza looked at him, getting into a ready stance. Then he threw it, straight into the tree where his old friend stood.
Sasuke easily caught the poorly thrown knife, looking at it cautiously, and noticing the little note in blood.
'Remember this? What happened?- Shika'
The black haired nin laughed to himself, remembering all too well the time that his friends and himself had come up with this strange little game. The started playing it during class one day, perfecting their writing speed (for summoning and a couple other more advanced jutsu, should they learn them), and accuracy all in one. Poor Iruka-sensei had thought they'd gotten in some sort of war until he got a hold on one of the note heavy weapons. Sasuke sighed, his first detention.
Quickly biting his own thumb, he slipped out a scrap of paper and wrote a reply and attached the note. Naruto watched in amusement as the kunai went sailing back to the boy with the ponytail three seconds after he received it. Uke-chan was better than he thought! He barely caught that Sasuke was writing something, and couldn't even make out what. What a fun game.
Down below, just about everyone had gotten a very different impression. Both the sensei had noticed that their missing charge was in the tree and were none too happy to see that Shikamaru had attacked him. The feeling merely grew when the kunai was returned with deadly accuracy.
Zabuza smiled, so the boy had made his loyalties known. That was good to know, that he was at last going to stay for a little bit. The Sharingan was a very useful ability, and the boy would fit right in. Haku and Naruto had proven to be excellent teachers and the Uchiha would soon be up to standards. Now all that was left was to take out some stress on these walking punching bags.
Shikamaru looked down at the note, smiling to himself at the response.
'How could I forget? I'm leaving the village for a little bit. Training. I wouldn't attack you or Chou.'
Again, he scribbled away using the back of the slip, as it was too troublesome to try and figure out where he had left any other scraps.
'Are you going to be gone long? Who is who?'
Haku watched as the kunai went sailing back even quicker than before. Something was going on here. The accuracy of the throws was amazing but there was no strength behind it. How strange.
On the ground, several others were noticing his little bit as well, mainly a certain silver haired jounin who stuck out a hand to intercept the knife as it went speeding back to the deer boy. With one eye, he grazed the note, recognizing the writing as Sasuke's.
'As long as I need, I'm thinking a year or more. The blond is Naruto like they said, The black haired boy is Haku, my kidnapper is Gaara.'
Kakashi raised one visible eyebrow, and flipped the paper, looking for any other messages. Shikamaru snatched the note then, glaring at the sensei and reading it for himself, he quickly sent another reply out, nearly collapsing in surprise as the jounin intercepted that as well.
'Cool. Sorry about that. I'm gonna miss you. Visit.' The man read it quickly and before the shadow nin could steal it back, sent it off to Sasuke. Receiving it, the boy scowled at his sensei, knowing he could at the very least feel it. The black haired boy scribbled down another reply, sending the kunai off at an odd angle, along with another, right at his friend hoping to distract the increasingly annoying man.
It didn't work. Kakashi went after the correct one right off the bat. Shikamaru , in boredom, caught, and pocketed the extra.
'Maybe. and Dearest Sensei? GO THE FUCK AWAY!' Kakashi snorted and tossed the note to Shikamaru, while keeping the kunai as of to say no more playing.
Zabuza, by now slightly bored and itching to spar called out. "Alright, alright, I think you got the point on who's side the kid's on, can we get on with this?"
The two jounin sensei stepped up to face Zabuza, happy to except his challenge. Behind them, Sakura set up a powerful genjutsu as the rest of the genin left to do something a little different.
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--Flashback; Tazuna's House--
"Now, everyone I need you to listen very closely. From the information that Ino, Sasuke, and Shikamaru have give us, Asuma and I have come up with a plan. If we are right than Zabuza and those boys will not fight if they have no one to pay them.
"What I need you to do is to find Gatou and kill him or bring him to us to kill. I'm afraid he must be dead for several reasons, mainly because they may decide to try and rescue their meal ticket." The genin around Kakashi nodded seriously. Asuma took it from there and explained the mission and who would do what.
"We need one of you, who is good at genjutsu, to stay with us, Kakashi and myself, and create an illusion of the rest of the team. Me and Kakashi will be distracting them, and the rest of you have to track down that man." The men looked apologetically at the genin. They would likely be funding 'first kill' therapy after this mission. It was really unfortunate.
Then, of course, Gaara has to smash in and kidnap Sasuke.
Who knows the plan.
And is working with the enemy even if he is still a friend.
--End Flashback--
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Shikamaru sighed, snapping back to the present. They had a mission to do.
Earlier that day, they had located the house that Gatou stayed at, and was supposed to be at this time of day. They would arrive shortly.
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Naruto and Gaara kept on giggling to themselves and looking back at Sasuke. Needless to say the Uchiha was getting very annoyed. Haku kept glaring lightly at the two mischievous boys and glancing sympathetically at the newest member of their group. This probably wouldn't be good for a weak stomach.
They arrived at the tree house soon enough, and the group split up with orders to reach the center of the tree house. Gatou's meeting room. Sasuke had to get there without a scratch.
In his hideout, Gatou surrounded himself with every kind of bodyguard possible. From traditional samurai to modern hit men.
They stood no chance.
Sasuke perched himself on a branch-rafter as he watched them annihilate the unfortunate punching bags. He was fuming a little about being told that he could only sit back and watch, but Gaara had promised something extra-special in surprise.
Haku motioned for him to catch the greedy businessman, who was currently attempting to escape in the chaos. The Uchiha made quick work of him, binding him to a chair at the head of the expensive and bloodstained table. Naruto and Gaara smiled sadistically at the man. Haku looked at him with disgust while Sasuke directed his disgust at the distinct scent of the coward wetting himself.
"Kill him." The red head ordered suddenly.
Sasuke started, "What?!"
"Kill him." he insisted, tossing the black haired boy a bloody kunai. He stared at it a second, then at the evil man. His eyes grew cold suddenly and he slashed the knife through his throat.
Sasuke twitched as a small wave of red liquid splashed across his face and chest. It was covered in another's blood that he turned around to Shikamaru yelling his name in fear.
Owari!
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OMG! While editing this, I found this huge mistake that I really can't beleive my dear reviewers didn't spot! Then again, I can't beleive I wrote it.
"Sasuke grumbled as Ino argued with the manto lower the outrageous prices.
"Now look here-"
"Shut it, Ino." Shika commanded in a annoyed tone. He passed the woman the original amount and muttered something concerning the words 'troublesome' and 'women'."
(1) He feels needed, but he doesn't understand that yet. It's a nice feeling. I think Sasuke needs to feel needed, not just desired by Fangirls, biased villagers and creepy pedophile snake-people. That puts him in common with Naruto, Haku and Gaara who need to be needed(and loved in canon Gaara case, but I changed that, just a little) as well. The only difference is that Sasuke is dense and didn't recognize this(in canon too). XD
(2) Warning: Extream Language ahead! XD
I would like to inform people that since Naru-chan wasn't in Konoha, Mizuki is still at large, but for the same reason, he couldn't steal the scroll. You guys want him to show later?
Also, don't you love cliffies.
I made this longer as an apology. I SOOOOWWWWY! ((sniff)) I wuv you all, really! It's just that school has started again, and I got really sick (ish behind in studywork)
So, I hope this makes up for it.
Reviews are my... HW inspiration!
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