Naruto glanced over to his Uchiha lover, wondering why Sasuke looked pissed. Maybe he was mad because they're taking a day break and he wanted to keep moving. Oh well, you don't always get what you want.
"Uh, Sasuke?" The blond walks over to the raven and sits next to him, the raven not looking at him.
"What?" Sasuke asks harshly, making Naruto gulp, not looking at him.
"Are you upset? There's nothing to be upset about."
Sasuke sighs as his face softens, turning towards the blond dobe. "Sorry, I guess I'm just a little worried about being caught by my father."
"That's understandable. But there's nothing to worry about. We're out in the middle of nowhere and very well away from the trail, I should say that we have an eighty percent chance of not getting caught." Naruto smiles, leaning his head onto his lover's shoulder.
"I guess so. But can't it be a hundred percent instead?"
Naruto blanched before giggling, clinging to the ravens arm.
=^-^=
"Are you sure that we're going the right way?" Itachi grumbled, moving a tree branch out of his way, making it smack into Sora. "Besides, we're way off the trail."
"Knowing Naruto, he's going to be off the trail," Gaara replied, sighing in relief when they reached the edge of the forest, coming to a desert like clearing. "He may seem like a dumb blond, but believe me; he isn't."
"I see smoke coming from the south," Hinata pointed at the smoke coming over the hills.
"He must be just beyond these hills," the redhead exclaimed, smiling to himself. "Let's get going before nightfall."
=_=
Sasori's ear twitched as he brought his catch of fish towards the campfire. Somebody was here and he knew it. But he didn't want to tell the others and frighten them. That would end very badly if it were who it thought it would be.
Instead, he smiled at the bickering siblings and happy couple sitting around the fire.
"Did you gut the fish Sasori?" Deidara asked, ignoring his sister's lecturing.
"Yes I did, Dei," the redhead smiled, taking the sticks used as spokes to put the fish on over the fire. Kendra made a face and pretended to gag.
"You didn't have to. I could have done it," the tall blond whined. Kendra got up with a 'I'm going to go look for some berries, I hate fish (I do too).'
"If you would have done it, fish guts would have been spewed all over the place."
Deidara growled at the redhead's words, pouting. "That only happened once and that was because you popped out of nowhere and scared me!"
Naruto laughed, smiling at remembering that incident that happened not too long ago. His ears suddenly twitched when he heard a snap of a twig coming from the woods a couple of feet behind them.
The others didn't notice so it must have been his imagination. But once again, there was another snap, this time louder. Still, no one noticed. So the blond quietly drew his sling shot out from his bag and quickly got a small stone to place into his slinger.
Sasuke noticed the move and looked at his blond dobe in question. "What are you doing dobe?" The blond didn't answer his question as he stood up, his slingshot aimed at the woods.
Sasori smirked when the blond let the stone fly, the rock flying towards the edge of the forest where bushed resided. The redhead's smirk grew when a voice came from the bushes.
"OW! What the fuck is up with me in getting hit with rocks suddenly?"
Sasori's smirk fell when he recognized the voice, along with the raven. A man that looked like a replica of Sasuke came from behind the bushes, rubbing his poor arm.
"Ok guys, I came back with just enough-" Kendra, who had just came back from her berry picking, stopped in mid sentence when she noticed the other raven.
Itachi only stared at her with a mixture of relief, love, and sadness in his eyes. He was ready for a lecture or a beating from the girl, but he wasn't ready when she suddenly gave small smile. Her eyes shining with sympathy.
"Itachi? What are you doin here?" Sasuke asks his hand on his sword, ready if his brother attacks.
"Sasuke, thank goodness you're alright," the older raven let out a sigh of relief.
"Damn it Itachi! You didn't have to run so fast!" Gaara snarled, annoyed with having to run through the woods again. Apparently there were woods on the other side of the hills.
The redhead raccoon stopped at the sight before him. He couldn't stop the smile that formed on his face when he noticed Naruto, a sling shot in hand.
"Naruto!" Gaara cried out as he ran towards the blond, hugging him tightly when he reached him. He suddenly picked up the blond and spun him around before lightly putting him back down.
"Gaara?!" Naruto yelped when he spun around. "What are you doin here?" He asks when he's put back down.
"The others and I were sent away by Tsunade before our village was attacked. We were sent out to find you," the redhead explained, sighing when the blond dobe frowned.
"Others? Attacked? What's going on here?" Sasuke pipes in, standing next his lover.
Gaara takes a deep breath before called out to the others who were hiding in the bushes. Sasuke and Naruto were surprised to see Shikamaru, Sora, Ino, Hinata, and Sakura step out; the pinkette running to the blond's arms.
"Naruto!" She cried when the dobe took her in his arms. "I missed you so much!"
"Sakura-chan? Ino-san and Hinata-kun? What's going on Gaara?" Naruto was so confused that he probably couldn't tell you what two plus two was.
Gaara let out a sad sigh and sat down. "You may want to sit down for this."
Naruto quietly sat down, his heart beating against his chest. He was nervous and confused; maybe even frightened. But he sat and listened as his redheaded friend the situation and how they and Itachi met.
The blond dobe frowned and almost cried when he heard that his adoptive mother was murdered. But his raven had held his hand throughout the sadden news. Sakura, though, was balling.
Throughout his seven years in living with that village, he knew nothing but hate and fear for those people. But a few taught him how to love and smile. Naruto knew nothing of his past life for he had forgotten. He had amnesia; all he could remember was being taken away from his aunt and uncle, who he thought were his parents, before he could be killed.
But now he knew who he was and felt proud of it. He even has a lover who'll protect him and keep him from harm. He made two new friends and now his old friends are here with him.
Now, here he was, hearing about his now burned down village, his dead mother, and that Itachi wants to kill his father. Never saw that coming.
Naruto was truly frightened now. He had nowhere to go now when this… thing settles down now. He didn't think he could live in another village. How could he? New people, new friends, new… everything!
He couldn't live with that. Not again.
Maybe he could live out in the wilderness and make his own little village with his and Sasuke's children… Wait, his and Sasuke's children? What made him think that Sasuke would want to have children with him?
Heh, oh yeah; when the raven said that Naruto could give birth and wanted them to be his children. The Uchiha may not have said it to the blond's face, but he might have said it in his sleep.
Now, back to where we were.
"So," Naruto started, "the village is gone, Tsunade's dead, and now we have to go kill Fugaku?" Itachi and Gaara nodded. "Could someone please tell me that my heart is still beating?"
"Look, Naruto, you don't have to be a part of this if you don't want to," Sasuke confirms the blond's thought. Itachi grunts in agreement. "I don't want to get you hurt."
"No, I need to be in this. They killed someone precious from me; I'm going to take something precious from them," the dobe states, eyes narrowing.
"Naruto," the young raven warns. "You don't need to; you want to."
"Want, need, same thing. I want revenge. Fugaku wants revenge, so why can't I have revenge on him? He destroyed my life, so why can't I destroy his?"
"Because," Itachi stepped in, "he's the wealthiest man on this side of the earth. He has people working under and for him. It's impossible to even get near outhouse near the wall to his temple without getting caught."
"So how do we get in?" Deidara pipes in, getting a glare from Sasori that said 'you become apart of this, I'll kill you.' "Oh hush Sasori. You don't own me."
"So… what do we do?" Sora, who had stayed quiet until now, asks. A snarl on his face.
"I think I have a plan," Gaara smirks.
=-=
"Ah, Hidan," Fugaku smiles evilly at the silver haired man. "Any good news?"
The violet eyed man smiles nervously at the man and looks around the room, trying to think of something to say. "Well, Itachi is gone and went to find Naruto."
"What?"
"Well, he's gone, yeah, gone."
"Dammit! I should have known he would have betrayed me."
Hidan scratches the back of his head and chuckles nervously. "Well, at least that's the last one to betray you."
"Master Fugaku!" A little boy runs in, dressed in special robs. "Kakuzu is gone!"
"Ok," Hidan shivered. "That's the last one to betray you."
"Get me a search team and search the whole southeastern part of Japan," the man demanded behind clenched teeth.
Ok, it's almost time for bed for me so I'm going to end it right now.
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