No Itachi for this chapter. I'll put him in the next. No action or fun, either. Aw, well. Maybe next chapter will be more fun.

This time I won't repeat the disclaimer.

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I am in a big room, engines working all around me, the deafening sound of loud machinery ringing in my ears. Suddenly, the room catches fire. I hear screams. I turn my head. Trapped in a metal cage are Sakura, Naruto and Yuki. Everything around them threatens to collapse and kill them. I run, but somehow I ain't approaching them, I am going away from them. I suddenly find myself out of the building. It is a factory. Flames are coming out of the walls and windows. It explodes. I can't move. A young woman walks up to me. Her lean body seems to glow. Her blue-ish, long hair is slightly waving.

"You are Sasuke, nay?" she asks, her soft voice echoing as music.

"Yes, ma'am." I say bluntly. "I am Sasuke Uchiha."

"Aye. The last user of the Sharingan, indeed. Last heir of the Uchiha, too. How sad and lonely…"

She stops speaking. I look in her ghostly eyes. Their colour is emerald and I recognise them a little.

"Are you in Yuki's family?"

"Aye. Her mother." She pauses and her face turns serious. "Have you made your choice?"

I immediately know what she is talking about. "No… I still don't understand…" I reply.

"When the time will be right, you'll know what shall be the good choice. Until then, take care of my daughter."

She smiles warmly. I nod.

"Sasuke!" says a voice, just above a whisper. "Wake up! It's time to go!"

The scenery starts to fade away into blackness. Yuki's mother, too.

"Wait a second, please!" I call up to her. "Why didn't I turn into a werewolf?"

"The Sharingan effect, young man. Absorbed by the Sharingan effect."

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I open my eyes. Yuki is leaning on top of me, her face at mere millimeters away from mine. I quirk an eyebrow.

"What are you doing?" I ask.

"I'm verifying that you are awake, what else!" she says.

I don't answer. She figures out my thought by herself and turns bright red. She backs away quickly and I sit up. It had been days since we exited her hideout. The mists of the Land of Waves are surrounding us, sticking to our skin and lungs. The sun isn't up yet, and the faint rays of the moon are giving some kind of eerie, ghostly white glow to the thick haze. My eyes meet Yuki's.

"Why'd you wake me so early?" I finally ask, after a minute or so.

"I sense them. We're close to their HQ." she answers, looking somewhere through the fog.

I follow her gaze, even though I can't sense or see a thing. "Are there many of them?"

"I'd say a hundred, more or less."

She winces, clutching her coat near her heart. I look back at her with concern.

"You okay?"

"Yeah… That damn beast is just trying to fight its way out…" She relaxes and sighs. "You know why this is our only chance?"

"Because Naruto and Sakura could die, and us, too." I reply, frowning.

She shakes slowly her head. "No. It is true, but that's not the only reason." She looks in my eyes with a dead, sad expression. "My time is almost up, Sasuke."

"Huh?"

"After some time, the beast comes to control our body entirely. That's what happened to the first that had the curse – my mentor – before I abandoned him."

My eyes widen. "You mean…" I gasp, not finishing my sentence.

"Yes. His fate is sealed. And so will be mine in a week or so. The anti-transformation formula only delays the inevitable." She sighs. "This is my last chance of survival. I didn't told you before to not freak you out, but now… I'm afraid I don't even have a week left,"

"So it's an 'all or nothing' mission. Live or die."

"Yes."

"Then we should get going, before it's too late to save you."

Gratitude shines on her face and she nods. We get up and resume walking. But a question bugs me.

'Will we be in time to save everyone?'

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End of 14th chapter. A bit short, a bit boring, but at least you have a bit more infos.

Naruto: That was really lame.

Yuki: I agree.

Me: I don't care. I want more reviews.

Sasuke: Put more action and maybe you'll have more reviews.

Me: But I don't have many ideas for battles!

Itachi: (smirks) Put another lemon, then.

Me: Great idea!

Sasuke: I don't like his smirk.

Naruto: Me neither.

Yuki: I wonder which one of us three will be in that lemon...

Me: I have great ideas, now! (big smile)

Itachi: But since it is a SasuNaru fic, there isn't a lot of choices of pairings...

Me: Except if the reviewers ask for something, I guess I have two or three pairings in mind...

Itachi: (kind smile) Glad I could help.

Sasuke: There's something odd about that picture... (stares at the smiling Itachi)

Me: Review, people! The more reviews I have, the faster I post! And when you review you get a cookie! And Itachi's autograph!

Itachi: (continues smiling) I'm just too kind.