A/N: This story is close to completion. Just two or three more chapters and I'll finish it up. My plot bunnies have been switching my attention to a new and vastly more complex epic story. It too is a Sasu/Naru pairing along with many others, some yaoi, others boy/girl, or hetero. I've already finished the brain storming… twelve pages of it... and I've started writing, but I will be out of it while writing the story because it calls for my full attention. When I can, I'll probably only update my song fic on shots, but I wanted to finish this story first. I am truly sorry guys that it has taken this long for me to even update this fic. My only excuse is that once the ideas flow I have to write them down or else I lose them... that and I've been a bit lazy reading other fan fictions. Anyways, I'll try to post two chapters by midnight, no promises, but I will try my best. Thank you all for your support, it is greatly appreciated. I'm sorry for those I haven't replied to. Just know that I'm very thankful that you guys took the time to review.
Disclaimer: I am currently the proud owner of a box of brownies, but there are only two left cause I'm a choco-monger. As for Naruto and all affiliated characters or themes or elements, I do not own those, but I like to borrow them for my fan fictions cause they're fun to play with.
Warnings: A bit of ouchness… Next chapter should have a bit more ouchness in it cause that's when… yeah… anyways… Lil violence, pain, feelings of betrayal and stupidity are rampant. And I'm feelin a bit centered today, so the text is centered as well.
It's hard to move when you're stuck, but even harder when you brought the sticky situation upon yourself…
One minute, they're walking companionably through the forest just outside of the village walls, the next; they're fighting a losing battle. After getting thrown around, his back and the rest of his body used as a tool to bust up huge boulders and trees around them, Naruto was growing tired of seeing his own blood and watching his father get beaten almost as bad as he was. Some how Kyuubi was suppressed by some jutsu set up in the area. Unfortunately for him, they'd anticipated both his and his father's usually random reactions and movements and neither of their victims noticed the seals drawn on the forest floor even though they were glowing black with dark chakra. Soon enough, the Akatsuki had both blondes imprisoned in very powerful seals that ran a constant surge of chakra repressant through their bodies and had both passed out and very vulnerable.
Satisfied for now, the bad guys make their plans while others start missing the men who wanted to walk the land…
He was looking for Naruto. Everybody was looking for Naruto. All they knew was that their Hokage and his sire had been missing for the past four hours. If Sasuke hadn't been on a mission for the past five hours, they would've found out much sooner. Kakashi and Jiraiya, who had only arrived about thirty minutes ago, were with Shikamaru, strategizing. They needed a game plan if the Hokage had run into some trouble and it didn't look like Sasuke was up to thinking clearly enough to help them out.
Hinata was in Suna with Gaara, so Sakura had to be dragged away from her medic nin training with Tsunade who would be serving as temporary Hokage until Naruto was once again found. Shikamaru would team up with Kiba, Chouji, and Lee. He'd decided women were too troublesome for him to deal with since Naruto was missing. With one of his best friends MIA, he was not about to deal with estrogen and PMS. Kakashi was teamed up with Sai, Sakura, and Genma, who was bored. Jiraiya was happy because his team consisted of TenTen, Hinata, and Ino. All decided that Neji should join them to keep the girls from killing the perverted old man.
Teams decided, plans made, and Sasuke tagging along with Shikamaru, the teams were off on their rescue mission, not knowing what to expect, but knowing exactly what they had to do…
Secrets known and secrets kept, wonder why we never asked the sky why it wept…
The Akatsuki were currently settled around a small campfire, discussing in low voices what to do first with their captives. Said captives were tied up with chakra over their own personalized seals of imprisonment which Arashi recognized all too well as seals he himself had come up with while a member of the organization. They were using his own seals against him and his blood… irony was never a favorite of his anyway.
Naruto just rested in place; bonds making him hover a little over the ground, thinking about his father's betrayal. Wondering how he could've done such a think and why he did it. "Oi Yondy, What were you thinking, turning us over to these assholes like that?"
With a sigh, Arashi answers in the same hushed, calm tone Naruto used. "There's still a hole in my memories Naruto. They only had to tell me that I was working with them to rid you of the Kyuubi so you could live a normal, happy life and I considered it. It wasn't an easy decision, but at the time, I felt it was the right one. I hope you can forgive a foolish old man Naruto."
"Che, you're not old til you're eighty, and you have a valid excuse. You don't have a full memory of your life as I do, and you thought you'd be helping your only son. Only you learned that instead of listening to anyone in the Akatsuki organization, you should just ignore them as if they are non-existent. But I can definitely forgive my father's honest mistake."
Arashi smiles and Itachi's cold, condescending voice ruins their lil moment. "Aww, how quaint, you're having a family moment… You're pathetic, both of you. You can't even hate each other a little bit unless brainwashed." He eyes Naruto disdainfully, "You didn't try to make my worthless. otouto like me again did you? I want him to hate me. He'll never be able to kill me unless he does."
Naruto snorts softly, "Now who's pathetic Itachi? You can't even kill yourself. Sasuke has always held a love for his aniki whether you like it or not. You may be a monster personified, but he doesn't hate you, he just wants vengeance. If you don't have the balls to kill yourself and end your own life in a way befitting a traitorous bastard, then piss him off. As it stands now, you will never be able to touch him because you see, you have Sasuke's most precious person. The moment you captured me, your life was forfeit any damn way because Gaara will feel my chakra flicker to dangerously low levels and back Sasuke up. Both are possessive bastards and very overprotective over me. Yes, you will die and I won't have to lift a single finger to help. You want your death at your otouto's hands, you've got it."
Itachi snorts softly, "Hn, that weakling could never kill me Naruto, you should know that by now. We have decided that we will deal with you two tomorrow at dawn. Get a good night's rest, you'll need it. Well, at least, you will Arashi, Naruto will die once Kyuubi has been released and saved from his entrapment, so say goodbye to your precious little boy."
Looking at each other, the blondes communicate through their expressions, both sad. Their only hope is that Sasuke and the others find them well before dawn….
Rescue is on the way, but will they beat the light of day?
A/N: Sorry for the shortness guys. I'll try to get another one posted for you all tonight, but I'm not promising anything. With the new story by plot bunnies are nippin at my heels for, I'm just going to try to give this story an ending that is good and fits it. I wish I'd have planned this story as well as I did my newbie. The newbie will be called, 'Mending Time and Healing Scars.' It's going to be an AU story because I'm definitely not going to be following the canon at all. I'll give you a short summary for it at the end of this story and hope you guys will be interested in it enough to read it when I finally get to the point where I'll be able to type up what I have on paper and start posting it. Just know that it is complicated and will probably not be the easiest story to right. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, sorry it took so long to update. Review if you wanna and have the time to drop me a line or two.