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Chapter five: High Voltage

Just do something to tell you who I am, ya know?

It's high voltage you cant shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out (x4)

I've been taking into crates ever since I was living in space
Before the retrace, before monkeys had human traits
Mastered numerology and big bang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic so I could start blessing it
And chincheckin kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist mic cords to double helixes and show them what I'm made of
I buckle knees like leg braces
Cast the spell of instrumental-ness and all of the emcees that hate us
So try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on
From now to infinity let icons be bygones
I fire bomb ghostly notes haunt this
I've tried threats but moved on to a promise
I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
(Mixed media)
The stamp of approval is on this

..::H.V::..

Tsunade stared calmly at the people seated before her, but inside her emotions were raging in a mess. They had failed! Not even twenty four hours at the estate and they managed to get the whole clan killed.

She smiled a dark smile making the four people before her unconsciously shiver in slight fear. "Now tell me kindly," she said calmly before she shouted, "Why in seven depths of hell have the three of you have gone unscathed while the other ninjas have died or severely injured! Even Sasuke himself had a few injuries!"

Kakashi gulped before explaining. "Well," he started, "There was this boy…"

"I don't need anymore lies Kakashi!" Tsunade shouted, "Do you even know how serious the situation has gotten! While you three have not the slightest injuries and Sasuke not even hurt that bad the hidden village of Cloud is now blaming us to be in alliance with the Akatsuki."

"What!" three of them said together, however Shikamaru wasn't surprised. He began to speak up, "So troublesome… Hokage-sama, we were caught unawares as the teen, Kukiria Juan, happened to be part of the Akatsuki. He spared us three by just merely knocking us out because we happened to save his life from the fatal wounds he had received before we knew he was an Akatsuki. Also, to add to the fact that Sasuke is only hurt because he had encountered Uchiha Itachi."

Tsunade looked at Sasuke sharply. And Sasuke sighed. "I found him and asked about Naruto. He didn't give me a straight answer and then Kisame came in later saying he and his companion are waiting. Hokage-sama, is it possible that the Akatsuki are now travelling in groups of three?"

Tsunade paused and was in deep thought and then shook her head, "What I've gathered so far, the Akatsuki only travel in pairs and they would rarely ever travel in groups of three. It is just unknown." She closed her eyes. An oncoming headache was making its way to her head. She really needed to speak to Jiraiya. "Okay, we'll continue this talk later," she said rubbing her temples, "Dismissed."

..::H.V::..

Naruto yawned as he stretched and walked out into the clearing. The sun shone brightly overhead as he smiled at the clear skies. Naruto breathed in the fresh air before turning, before coming face to face with Itachi. He shrieked and jumped back in surprise.

"Itachi!" He said, trying to regain his composure and what pride he had left at the moment, "I told you not to do that!"

Itachi uncharacteristically snorted. "And that's going to stop me doing that? It's not my fault you can't sense me."

Naruto pouted. "That's not fair! You're still stronger than me! You could give at least a little warning! Hah! Or you'll regret it when I become stronger!"

Kisame sighed at the bickering as he made breakfast. It had become a common thing in the group since Naruto had joined and Itachi had lightened a hell lot… when there was absolutely no one around.

"Will you two shut up and hurry up and eat before breakfast gets cold." Kisame said sighing, "If I didn't know any better I'd say you two were bickering lovebirds." He looked at them and laughed nervously at Itachi's expression, "Well, lucky I know better, huh?"

Naruto nodded as he swallowed the fish Kisame made for breakfast. "Yup! You know a lot better! Geez, you've been with me for three years and Itachi for even more. You know we're all just friends."

Itachi chewed slowly on his fish as he listened to the two now argue. He mentally sighed.

"Yeah, but ever since you came, things have been a hell lot different!" Kisame shouted at the blonde.

Naruto pouted. "So what? He knew I wouldn't stop annoying him if he didn't talk. Hell, these past three years was to make him talk more and it worked. I never saw you try!"

Kisame glared. "Yeah, but if I did any of those things, I would have been dead by now, you brat!"

Naruto poked his tongue out at Kisame. "You're just a coward!"

If looks could kill Naruto would be dead by now.

Itachi mentally sighed, before stopping the both of them. "Both of you shut up and eat your breakfast. We need to head back to the Akatsuki headquarters later."

Naruto looked at Itachi and smiled, "Sure!"

..::H.V::..

Shikamaru sighed in content as he stared at the clouds overhead. No one was here, the peace and serenity of it all. And was about to drift off to sleep until he heard footsteps. He groaned turning his back to the noise as it got closer to him.

"Oyo, Shikamaru," Shikamaru scowled. He knew that voice and it belonged to a certain Hyuuga who cut his and Naruto's conversation short by throwing Kunai. "Shikamaru, I know you're awake."

"So troublesome," He looked at Neji trying not to glare since he was supposedly a friend… Trying and failing, "What do you want?"

"How do you know Kukiria-kun?" Neji asked getting straight to the point since he knew that somehow Shikamaru was angry at him. "And why in hell's name did he say sorry if he was opposing us."

"So troublesome," he looked away, "He said he wanted to spare our lives because we saved him," he said, his mind working quickly. "So my guess is he didn't want to hurt us and he was an old time friend, so that's what probably made him hesitate."

Neji narrowed his eyes at Shikamaru. He was acting suspicious. He didn't know how he seems suspicious, but he does. "You still haven't answered my first question Nara."

Shikamaru glared back equally to Neji before he turned away and slouched looking in a different direction. "You wouldn't know even if I told you." He said and doing something as troublesome as getting up. "So troublesome. Anyway, I have to be somewhere right now."

Neji stared as Shikamaru walked away. The boy was being odd. Hell, these last three years have been odd… and who the hell was Kukiria Juan? He needed to look that up soon. Something was definitely not right here.

..::H.V::..

On the other side of Konoha however, there was one person who was thoroughly confused as he sat in his room thinking.

See you Kakashi Sensei…

The words never really left his mind. What in world's name was that about? Sensei… Why would he be called Sensei? Sasuke and Sakura were the only ones that called him Sensei and he was pretty sure Naruto is dead. I mean, what use would a dead last be to them once they extract Kyuubi?

Kakashi sighed and looked outside from his seat by the window and frowned. There was something not right here… Was Naruto still alive? No, that can't be right. He leaned back into his chair and looked at his ceiling with a small sigh before closing his eyes. An image of Juan came before him and a soft smile graced his face: The one smile that caught him off guard. Why did the boy smile at him? He needed to check up files on Kukiria Juan… He opened his eyes with that new resolve… he needed to check the files now.

..::H.V::..

An hour later Neji and Kakashi bumped into each other in the file room as they both stared at each other with a blank look and frozen on the spot. Kakashi cleared his throat and straightened up, him being older and of a higher rank asked in such a dignified manner, "Neji, what on earth are you doing here?"

Neji raised an eyebrow, "I'd like to ask the same thing Hatake-san."

They stared at each other before Neji sighed in resignation. "I'm curious about the Kukiria kid. Wanted to check on his records..."

Kakashi nodded before holding up a folder that was in his right hand and smiled under his mask, "This is his file." Neji blinked for a while with the lack of punishment before his face broke out with an unnatural smile. They could finally find out with who Shikamaru had associated with in the past with.

And in a ramen bar of Konoha, a certain ninja sneezed. Kiba laughed and grinned at Shikamaru, "Hey, someone must be thinking of you!" Shikamaru shrugged mumbling something about troublesome people. "Aw, c'mon, you haven't really said much to any of us in three years. What's up?"

Shikamaru sighed. It had taken three years for Kiba to ask what was wrong. His left eye twitched unwillingly. What was with people and asking so many questions and why in heaven's hell three goddamn years later. Three! He mentally sighed and looked at Kiba with a calculative look before turning back to the ramen he was eating. "Tell me Kiba, what did you think of Naruto?"

Kiba blinked with the unexpected question and stared at the young adult who seemed to take a liking to ramen three years prior. This was where you could find the lazy shinobi half the time. At least he wasn't bad as Naruto. He looked at his dog, Akamaru, which had grown into a hell of a big dog before answering with a frown. "I feel guilty y'know? I was one of the people that caused him to run away. Yes, I believe he did actually run away and wasn't really kidnapped. I mean, who could really handle the rejection and hatred of every single person in the village.

"It's not that I hated him, y'know? I was shocked at first and needed to think so I stayed away for a while and when I came to the conclusion, Naruto was still Naruto it was too late. Everyone had already drawn him away. He was gone never to be seen again," He let out a sigh before grinning at Shikamaru, although the guilt still held in his eyes, "Now you must hate me for thinking Naruto as a friend, but that won't change my thinking."

Shikamaru let a small smile fall on his face that Kiba looked at him shocked. Shikamaru hadn't smiled in years and he just saw a smile then and it wasn't a fake one that was for sure. Shikamaru looked at Kiba, "That was what I wanted to hear."

Kiba looked at him for a while, before the message of what Shikamaru had said dawned onto him and he grinned happily, feeling more content than he had in three years, "You don't hate him either!" he exclaimed happily laughing, glad he wasn't the only one in this god forsaken village.

Shikamaru's smile grew a little more and shook his smiling a bit. "You're all so troublesome," he said pointing in chopsticks at Kiba, "Especially you. You come second to Naruto's troublemaking here."

Kiba grinned proudly, glad to have the title... I mean, who could ever beat Naruto's troublemaking, Kiba was one of the closest people in Konoha to actually cause some ruckus here and there. And he was second. God help them if was someone that could actually beat someone like Naruto in the art of pranks.

"Anyway," Shikamaru said sighing, "I think the both of us need to pay the Hokage a visit…"

..::H.V::..

Naruto sighed as he looked at the caged person in front of him as the person happily ate. They were now in the Akatsuki headquarters as Itachi and Kisame explained their mission to the leader. Naruto was to wait out the room. For reasons unknown, the leaders didn't quite trust Naruto as of yet to show their faces to him.

"Are you alright?" Naruto asked the trapped person before him.

"I'm fine Naruto," he said after swallowing, "You can't blame them for caging me. After all, I attempted to run away at least, hm, fifteen times in this lifetime." He grinned at Naruto. The boy was a year younger than Naruto. His skin was pale due to lack of the sun and his silky brown hair had grown just past his shoulder and messily cut. His clothes were ripped and torn, but not so much and an Akatsuki cloak in the corner of the cage as a coat to keep him warm.

Naruto stared at the boy, blinking, "But why do they need you?" he asked the smiling boy before him.

"Ah well, that is for me to know and you to never find out," he said, grinning. An odd look for someone inside the cage.

"Aw... that's not fair... Oh! I know," he said grinning, "How about if I ask Itachi to ask the leader if they could let you out and stay with me and I'd keep watch. That way you'd be able to move around and the Akatsuki, meaning me, Itachi and Kisame, will keep an eye on you at all times. That is if you promise not to run. C'mon Juan, it'd be fun and if you trust me enough, you can tell me why the Akatsuki has you."

Juan tilted his head to the side a bit, contemplatively, before smiling at the grinning blonde before him. "I don't know why you'd do this for a simple person such as myself, but go ahead, I promise not to run, but as for telling you..."

Naruto cheered as Itachi came into the room and looked between the two with a questioning gaze. Naruto explained what he wanted to do and with many puppy dog eyes and pouts, Itachi fell in and mentally sighed, and left the room to talk to the leader. "This better be worth it Naruto," he said before exiting the room.

..::H.V::..

Kakashi frowned over at the file they were looking at. What was this? The picture of the ten year old didn't even look anything alike the seventeen or eighteen year old they saw in their mission.

"He was the son of a farmer in the Earth country and was kidnapped at the age of ten and thus dubbed missing," Neji said looking over the files, "It is unknown if he is alive or not and why he was kidnapped."

Kakashi blinked at the sheet before him, "Here it says that he was kidnapped by some missing nins, or to be exact, the Akatsuki…"

"And to be a normal son of a farmer," Neji said, "He seems a lot stronger and how in heaven's hell had Shikamaru met him…? In a mission somewhere…?"

Kakashi looked at Neji with slight shock. "Shikamaru knows him?" He asked.

Neji nodded. "I don't know how either. They must've been really good friends as children because God knows how he encountered this Akatsuki member and not been killed. But something does not add up."

"If Juan is from the Earth country," Kakashi said, "Where did Shikamaru find the time to go to Earth country? As records state he didn't leave the Fire country much and there was no way that Kukiria could get passed the guards at such a young age without the Hokage knowing and meet Shikamaru…"

They looked at each other… Who on Earth was Shikamaru associated with?

..::H.V::..

"Jiraiya, but this doesn't make sense!" Tsunade said to her old time best friend, "The Akatsuki has always traveled in twos and it just isn't known and what kind of Akatsuki member would give their real names away?"

Jiraiya sighed, "That's just the thing isn't it. Apparently, as my sources have said, there is a newer member in the Akatsuki and he or she is traveling with Red and Shark. You could only guess whose name those codes go under and the newest member's codename is Fox and I don't even want to think about who that is."

"Jiraiya! Naruto would never--!" But she was interrupted by Jiraiya.

"Think about it Tsunade!" he said suddenly, "He has lead such a hellish life, I wouldn't even be surprised! Everyone, but Iruka, you and I have turned their back on him! I would have probably done the same thing if your best friend has tried to kill you and your friends turned their backs once they learned the secret!"

"But not all of his friends," a voice said at the door with a sigh and Jiraiya and Tsunade turned their heads immediately towards the door. Shikamaru slouching and Kiba grinning like an idiot, they stood at the door.

"So troublesome," Shikamaru said as both of them entered the room and closed the doors behind them.

"We were going to wait to be called in, but we couldn't help but overhear." Kiba said grinning, "Look, we both knew you two have always been a special part of Naruto's life so we decided to talk to you."

Shikamaru let out a long dragged sigh, "I have information on where Naruto was last seen, if you both are willing to let it be confidential."

Jiraiya and Tsunade stared at one another before looking at the two teens, finding it hard to believe.

"Alright, spill."

..::H.V::..

It's high voltage you cant shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
It's high voltage you cant shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
It's high voltage you cant shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
It's high voltage you cant shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out – 'High Voltage' by Linkin Park

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