A couple of days later Naruto got out of the hospital, being supported between Tsunade and Jiraiya, they were both careful of his wired ribs and arm. Naruto was surprised to find Itachi waiting for them at Jiraiya's jeep.
"What's he doing here?" Naruto whispered.
"He is now your personal tutor. You fell behind in all your classes, and you were already failing geometry. Itachi is a good teacher.' Tsunade replied, "And until your arm is useable, Sasuke and Itachi will be helping you from class to class. Itachi is now your body guard, until you're not threatened anymore."
'But-!" Naruto began.
'if you would have told us what was going on sooner Naruto, like three years ago, it would never have gone this far." Tsunade snapped. Oh, Naruto thought, so this is your idea of a cruel and unusual punishment for not tattling like a good boy, eh baa-chan? Naruto shook his head. It was unusual alright, but he gazed at Itachi leaning against the bright orange jeep and saw his muscles through his thin cotton shirt and felt his cheeks heat up, it would be nice to be around a hunk like him who would have never glanced twice at him if he hadn't overheard a death threat.
"Hi Itachi-senpai." Naruto dipped his head, "Gomen, I don't mean to be a burden." He sighed as he approached the boy.
"Not a problem Naruto-san." Itachi smiled. He lifted Naruto gently, surprising the boy as he sent the blonde in the back seat.
"What'd you do that for?" Naruto yelped indignantly.
'Don't want you to strain your ribs now, yes?" Itachi smirked. She jumped on the back of the Jeep and balanced there as the car drove off. As they drove Naruto frowned; cradling his casted arm- that already had Sasuke's signature with a "stop getting hurt" written next to it. He wondered if Itachi really cared what happened to him. He knew Sasuke was his friend. Sasuke came in before school and talked to him for an hour, than came after school and helped Naruto do a little of the homework he was missing.
Itachi was different. Sasuke had told him that Itachi had rode in the Ambulance with him, then hadn't done anything exept drive Sasuke to the hospital. Naruto shook his head. He would figure out Itachi if the boy wanted to be around him.
The next day there was school, much to Naruto's chagrin. It found him feeling nervous, in a full arm cast, and Sasuke carrying his bright orange fox emblemed messenger bag, and Itachi standing sentry above the two boys. Itachi was utterly silent, listening to his brother and his friend talk.
"So Sasuke-kun, what do you think, Thor or Loki?" Naruto asked.
"I think Thor is better." Sasuke answered, "I admire his strong sprit."
"I like Loki better. He has wits and cunning that Thor falls short of." Naruto replied with a wide smile. He hadn't had too much of a real reason to smile for a while. Suddenly a girl with long red hair and glasses sauntered up,
"Sasuke-kun, why don't you ditch the witless wonder and come hang with us!" she purred, "My name is Karin." Sasuke looked over Karin's shoulder to see a girl with pink hair and a blonde girl giggling.
'I'll take care of this Sasuke;" Itachi droned as he stepped forward, much to the younger Uchiha's irritation. "Hn." Itachi grunted as he flipped the hair out of his eyes dramatically, causing Ino and Sakura to squeal in excitement, "Your totally out of you league."
'Why would you say that?" Karin thrust out her ample chest, 'We can be persuasive."
"Well," Itachi leaned in, his crimson eyes half lidded, and causing Karin's breath to quicken, maybe she would just lean in… 'Were all gay." Itachi's voice ripped Karin out of her fantasy, and caused her to scream,
"No!" she cried and went back to the girls to deliver the bad news. Naruto was actually laughing, even though it hurt his ribs like hell.
'Sasuke are you really?" Naruto asked.
"No. Im Bi actually… but that girl is not my type." Sasuke laughed. They three went to the Junior Sophomore class, and found a party waiting.
"Welcome back Naruto-kun!" Iruka smiled and hugged him softly.
"You gave us quite the scare." Kakashi eye-smiled.
"Yeah Blondie, Itachi was worried." A boy who was so pale he looked blue sniggered. Itachi punched the boy in the side of the head, and the two boys began to tussle,
"Who is that?" Naruto whispered.
'That's Kisame. When we were little Itachi was friends with all the Akatsuki, they stayed in touch while we were away.
"Oh. Can you point them out?"
"Well," Sasuke pointed at a red head and a blonde, "That's Deidara and Sasori," a boy with black hair who looked like he was on a terrible sugar high, "Tobi," a boy with white blonde and a guy with dark green eyes, 'Kakuzu and Hidan," and then a boy with spiky orange hair, and a girl with blue hair, "Konan and Pain." Then a boy with really pale skin and green hair, 'Zetsu" Sasuke smiled and put his hands in his pockets.
"Wow." Naruto smiled, "You guys have a lot of friends." Naruto said.
"Yeah, and you do too. All these people care about you." Sasuke smirked.
"Yeah, Naruto," Konan smiled, "We all wanted to help. But we didn't know how. Were sorry that we didn't do anything, Itachi is the brave one here."
"Itachi scares Tobi!" Tobi squealed. Naruto laughed a little, he actually had friends…
Well here's chapter three! Thanks for the reviews, and yes, XXTakuraXX that is a little weird.