Well CRAP. I had to watch this arc again, which happened very slowly, and got little time to write :( SORRY about the wait! But hey. It's my longest chapter yet!!

This would be a good example of a chapter I would like to write from Sasuke's point of view, because if you watch this episode, (83) Naruto was doing boring things. Sasuke was running around like mad and thinking about Itachi.

Also, this isn't…fan fiction like. There are teeny, tiny differences and some script change to what happened in the real episode, but it's basically me just following an episode, deepening Naruto's thought. It's very much so like re-writing an episode with twists. SORRY!

I know you're never supposed to start a sentence with 'and', but I'm just using it for artistic purposes. I see it a lot in professional books.

The danger I would face today was already here. I just didn't know it.

I woke up at around nine in the morning, an okay time for not having an alarm clock. I was in Sasuke's bed, alone. He had put the futon back in storage awhile ago. Since my horrid nightmare, we had always slept together.

Whoa, that sounded off. In the same bed, is what I meant.

I yawned, stretching similarly to a cat. I noticed paper on his nightstand, he left a note.

Went to training grounds early. I'll see you when you come back. Have fun with Jiriya. I love you.

I sat up to read it better, then stuck my tongue out at it. Later I would have to tell him that was totally lame. But I really didn't think that.

After a while of figuring out for the umpteenth time how to make his shower work, showering, and packing some essentials, I headed out to find Jiriya.

I found him near the gate out of Konoha. I had to ask, it was the first thing that popped into my head. "So Pervy Sage, what's this new jutsu?!"

"It's JIRIYA!" He growled automatically. "Now listen, the jutsu will take time and tons of training."

"But Pervy Sage-" I started.

"You really don't know who you're talking to when you say that!" He yelled. "I'll have you know, I'm one of the three legendary Sanin!"

I blinked for a moment. "I knew that, Pervy Sage! If your so awesome, why did you pick me to be your student? Do I have lots of potential?" I asked, grinning. "Come on, tell me!"

"Well actually, the fourth Hokage was once my student. You bear such a striking resemblance it's hilarious."

"I'm like the fourth?" I asked. "I'm closer then I thought!"

He growled, "The only thing you share is spiky blonde hair and pigheadedness! Now be quiet and listen!

He explained to me we were headed to an outpost town a ways from the main village. He said we would be traveling a while, and we could spend the night there after training. The rest of the day went on with us arguing and me annoying him. Then in the late afternoon, he saw a pretty girl (perv,) and told me to go up to the hotel room he had rented, practice for awhile and sleep.

Like I could sleep this early.

I still didn't know it. I still didn't know that within the next half hour, my life, and Sasuke's life, would take a horrible turn.

I trained on focusing my chakra to different parts of my body with my clones, but they fell asleep. "When did you guys decide it was nap time?" I asked sarcastically.

Then someone knocked. Twice, very quietly.

"Huh?" I leaped off the bed. "Did she dump you already?"

Three more knocks. Quicker this time.

"I'm coming, geez." I dashed towards the door, and started scrambling with the lock. "Just let me unlock it…"

I still didn't know, and I was opening my door to it.

I got the lock but the door didn't budge, so I pulled it open myself.

And I froze where I was. The next thing I saw surprised me so much, I gasped out loud.

Not Jiriya. Sasuke? Not Sasuke. I thought that at first, seeing his eyes. But he was a lot taller. Then when I took more of the sight in, older. His hair was lighter then Sasuke's, yet still black. He was wearing a long black cloak, high enough in the neck so you couldn't see his mouth. But he had those same, bloody red, Sharingan eyes. He had to be an Uchiha.

But unlike Sasuke, he scared me. I knew nothing about him and he had done nothing, but he scared me. I couldn't move, either.

"Hard to believe such a child houses the nine tailed." Two footsteps was all it took to reveal another figure. He was wearing the same black cloak, which I noticed had red, white lined cloud patterns on them.

But he was completely different. His skin was pale blue and his hair was styled like mine but shorter, a dark blue color. He had a sword nearly, if not the same as Zabuza's. Huge. He was probably a foot and a half taller then the one with Sharingan.

And they knew about Kyubbi. How did they know about that? Only the adults in the village, me, and Sasuke knew about it, I thought.

"Naruto, you're coming with us." The first one's voice sounded something like Sasuke's, even. Both his and Sasuke's voice were deep and fluid, and hid some kind of threat under every word.

I gasped again but didn't move. He knew my name. In any other situation, I would have fought and showed off, (even if I had to resort to Kyubbi,) and escaped. I wouldn't have been going through with this. But something about him, something about him made me unable to move. Made me scared. Horrified.

"Why don't we take a walk?" He stepped to the side a ways, and maybe involuntarily, I stepped out into the hallway. I couldn't think of much else to do. Had I not moved, they could have done anything.

"Itachi, we wouldn't want this kid running off. Maybe I should cut off a leg, so he can't get away." I took a step back, but that made me shake, so I stayed still. His name was Itachi.

Itachi didn't answer, just kept his unemotional mask.

"Right," The taller one said, lifting his huge sword.

Oh god, why won't my legs work?

Kit, Move!

I can't!


What do you mean you can't?! I told you to move!

The sword got half way through the air, and Itachi spoke, stopping him.

"It's been awhile." He paused, and I looked around, all but behind me of course, refusing to take my eyes away from them. "Sasuke."

I still couldn't turn, but I knew he was here. Itachi knew Sasuke from somewhere.

The rest of the events were complicated.

After little conversation, I knew why things would change so dramatically. This man who scared me, was Sasuke's brother. The one he lived only to kill.

Maybe that wasn't so bad, but I later realized that I was wrong. I thought maybe Sasuke would be able to put up a good fight. He did. But Itachi was immensely powerful. He shook Sasuke off like he was nothing. I got to see him use Chidori like he had said, and it looked like he had already mastered it. Cool and as powerful as it looked, Itachi stopped it like it was an overly slow punch. Then he broke Sasuke's arm.

Every time I tried to help him, he'd just yell at me to stay away. He wanted revenge, and he wouldn't be satisfied if he couldn't do it himself. It was infuriating.

Despite how Sasuke tried to get his attention, all he got was beat up. All Itachi seemed interested in was me.

But why me? I didn't even know him.

At one point I tried to help Sasuke, but the taller one, (who by more conversation I learned was named Kisame,) stopped me. He came close to slicing me again, but then Jiriya came.

Itachi had used his Sharingan, (god only knows how much you could do with it,) and hypnotized a woman to get Jiriya away from me.

Still, why me?

And why Sasuke? Why did it have to be us? Him to be put through all of this, and me to be captured?

Then Itachi explained. His organization, Akatsuki, whoever they were, had ordered him and Kisame to capture me. They wanted Kyubbi. I was like a super weapon to them.

Jiriya threatened to kill Itachi and Kisame, but Sasuke had other plans. Shaky and with a broken arm, Sasuke told Jiriya to stay away, and he did.

Itachi still wasn't interested, but continued beating up Sasuke anyway. One of his kicks sent Sasuke flying towards the end of the hall, and into the concrete wall. He could have broken bones in his back.

I tried to help him more, but he didn't want it. I stood and watched, grinding my teeth together.

This was the worst part.

Sasuke still hadn't had enough, even after being thrown into the wall. Itachi granted what he wanted, and proceeded to slaughter him.

Jiriya had to hold the collar of my shirt. I growled and trembled. I wanted to make him stop so much.

With a stream of powerful, scream causing punches, Sasuke's neck cracked and his ribs broke. He was bleeding from the throat and nose. He finally had enough, dropping to the ground.

When he had enough, Itachi hadn't. He lifted him off the ground, slamming him against the wall. I couldn't see what was happening, but Jiriya still didn't let go.

A minute passed, and I thought for a few terrifying seconds, Sasuke was dead.

He wasn't dead. Someone dead couldn't scream that loud. He screamed three times as loud as I had in my dream. He did it over and over again.

Kisame said something I couldn't hear, but I really couldn't hear anything but screaming.

Fed up, I ripped away from Jiriya, and bolted across the hall towards Sasuke. I passed Kisame, who was about half a second behind me when he pursued.

No, I had no idea what I would do.

Itachi turned, and I caught glance of Sasuke. He had stopped screaming. Then my feet got stuck in something, and neither I nor Kisame could move.

Jiriya had summoned a jutsu that made the walls and the ground sticky. Leaving Sasuke to be swallowed by the wall, Itachi and Kisame tried to run and escape. They were out of my line of sight when I heard something similar to an explosion.

Jiriya chased after them, and I followed him. We reached the end of the hall way, and sure enough there was a hole through the wall. They were gone. Surrounding the hole they had made were pitch black flames, which I got too close to so Jiriya yelled at me.

He sealed the flames in a scroll, and then said, "Now Sasuke."

As Jiriya's wall's deteriorated, then began to disappear, Sasuke started to fall.

"Sasuke!" I dashed over towards him, he didn't answer. I caught his fall and lowered him more smoothly to the ground, setting him up against the wall. I kneeled in front of him.

I had expected it, but he was completely unconscious. I thought maybe the pain sent him in to shock, but it wouldn't have knocked him unconscious that quickly. His eyes were open but glazed, and he was still bleeding from the mouth.

Then I froze, a kunai flying in between Jiriya and I.

In the most graceful, (or ungraceful, it's more opinionated,) way possible, someone I hadn't expected at all appeared and kicked Jiriya in the face. Gai-Sensei.

After stopping Jiriya's one nose bleed not from perverseness, and Gai apologizing, we were back to the situation.

"Get Sasuke to the medical core." Jiriya ordered.

"Right," Gai replied.

"His left arm and rib's are broken. He also suffered, perhaps extreme, psychological damage from an eye technique." He explained.

"Pervy Sage," I asked, leaning to look closer to Sasuke. I wanted to do more, but I didn't need either of them to know about my feelings. "Is Sasuke…Going to be okay?"

"Physically yes, but I'm not so sure about the mental damage. That could do as much as kill him, or as little as keep him out for an hour. I don't know." He answered.

Remembering the scene from earlier, I wasn't surprised that man had killed his clan. He was unbelievably powerful, and I was afraid of him. Now I realized more and more, I wasn't afraid, I was furious. First reason being he was the cause of Sasuke being in so much pain, and I don't mean just from today. He's the one Sasuke seeks revenge on.

The reason I can't drag Sasuke away from his hate. This whole encounter was a reminder for Sasuke.

Another reason being, they wanted me. No, they wanted Kyubbi. I knew how powerful I was, and up until now, had not known villainous people would desire my power.

"What…What did that bastard do to Sasuke?" I growled. "He never did anything to deserve this! I'll admit I was really scared back there, but I'm not now! Next time I'll kill them! They want me, don't they?! I'll happily go to them!"

Jiriya sounded annoyed. "If you follow them, all you'll get is killed. You're much too far apart. It was hard just getting them away from you."

"Are you suggesting I hide from them forever!?" I screamed back.

"Shut-up for a moment!" He yelled, his patience lost.

I did shut-up, and turned my head.

"You're weak." I shook at the words, but kept quiet. Instead of saying I was lower then they were, he came out with the truth. I was weak. Compared to them, him, almost everyone in the village, and maybe only better then the girl Genin in my graduating class.

"I'm sorry Gai," He changed subject. "I took the boy's feelings into consideration, but I should have stepped in sooner."

"Kakashi…Suffered from the same technique earlier this morning." He said. The last part was rushed.

"Kakashi, too!?" I asked.

He nodded.

"Oh, come look at this, for a moment." Jiriya motioned to Gai to come down the other hall and see the wall. Maybe if he had seen the eye technique, he could have seen the black flames as well.

I had only an adult-sized conversation's time alone. Adult sized conversations were small.

"You reckless idiot," I knew Sasuke couldn't hear me, but I spoke quietly to him anyway. "You should have given up before things got this far."

I almost said, I wish you would forget about Itachi, revenge…but that sounded like saying forget about your ambition. Ironically he couldn't hear me. The talking was for my benefit.

But I did want him to forget. It was more or less selfish, but I wanted him happy. To always be here. I wondered if this reminder would have a big impact. Unfortunately, even though I didn't know it, it would.

"If you die, I'm never going to forgive you. Or Itachi." I mumbled. I kissed the side of his face, mostly again for my own benefit. I wish he was conscious enough to know.

"Now hurry, I told you what I had planned. If his training goes well, and she cooperates, this won't take more then two months or so." I heard Jiriya's voice ring louder, coming back. I got up to my feet, wondering, she who?

"She?" I asked. "She who? What are we doing?"

"Going to find someone to fix up Sasuke," Jiriya answered. "Another of the three legendary Sanin. Tsunade. While we search, I'll teach you that jutsu."

I nodded smiling. "Okay…but I heard you say two months."

"I don't know where she is, and your training will be extremely difficult." He answered.

Two months without Sasuke.

Minutes later we were outside of town. Gai had the unconscious Sasuke over his shoulders. "I'll get him back to Konoha, I'm sure he'll be just fine." Gai assured, mostly me since I was starring at him.

"And we'll find this Tsunade person," I answered. "No question!"

We went separate ways, waving. Jiriya and I started down the path further away from Konoha. We walked for a few minutes in silence, and then he said loudly, "I saw that."

"Saw what?" I asked defensively, dreading the answer.

"You can tell me your feelings. I won't judge you."

"I don't know what you're talking about!" I growled back.

"Are you really going to make me say it out loud?" He asked, annoyed.

"Yes! Because I have no clue-"

"I saw you kiss him, why were you hiding it?" He asked, sincerely, but I was too embarrassed to notice.

"Because that's weird!" I answered. "Especially for a girl perv like you! How would you-" I started.

"Well master pervert or no, I've never had a relationship in the course of love with anyone. I'm on the outside looking in, and things like that don't bother me. I don't see why other people make such a big deal about it." I knew he was referring to the people in love, not the people observing.

Why did I make such a big deal about it?

He cleared his throat, "Gai saw too," His voice was more joking.

"You guys SUCK." I muttered.

P.S. Thanks for all of the support about the idiot from earlier :D