A.N: Oh yes the story continues and finally Itachi is going to be doing some productive plot making!

Chapter Seven: Hero's Comeback

Naruto clasped his hands behind his head as he entered the Village Hidden in the Leaves. He Sasuke and Sai had decided to skip sleeping last and killed a day of travel. Though the three were wary they we happy to be home.

"Hmm its noon I wonder were Hinata-Chan would be," Naruto said glancing over at his partners. Sai shrugged and gave his fake smile Naruto's way which annoyed him slightly.

"I'm not sure but I'm going home," Sasuke said rubbing his eye. He couldn't wait to see Sakura for the first time in months.

"Yea I'll check Hinata's apartment," Naruto said mentally agreeing with Sasuke about checking at home for there women.

"I'll catch you guys later then," Sai said "I'll have to take the mission reports to the Hokage."

"Right," Naruto nodded before bounding off to the Hyuga complexes.

"You're such a pain," I sighed as Deidara was backing up the line in the small café we had gone for lunch. He was stuck between getting a cheese or ham sandwich. "If y-you don't hurry I'll choose for you," I grumbled trying to hold back my stutter.

"Hmm fine I'll have the grilled cheese," he said with annoyed sighs of relief coming from behind us.

I quickly paid for his food and we left me not wanting to have to stay in a place with so may annoyed people. Deidara however seemed oblivious to the negative emotions of the people around him. Maybe that's what made him such a good bomber he isn't able to emphasize with the people around. I'm sure there is a name for a disorder like that and I'm pretty sure there is medication for it; I'd have to ask Tsunade-sama.

"Hinata-Chan!" someone called breaking my train of thought. I blinked looking across the street at Kiba and Tenten waving me over. I nodded and tugged Deidara's sleeve to get his attention he blinked and looked at me his cheeks full of cheesy goodness. He looked like a little chipmunk with its mouth full. I crossed the street with him at toe to greet my friends.

"What's up guys?" I asked.

"Oh my gods guess what!" Tenten squealed clasping her hands together. I stared at her and her face fell. "Come on Hinata guess," she whimpered with Kiba smiling next to her. I rolled my eyes.

"I don't know could you just tell me?" I sighed my index fingers coming together.

"The boys came back like twenty minutes ago," Tenten said her brown eyes glimmering "Naruto, Sai, and Sasuke are in the village as we speak!"

"W-what," I blinked my glassy eyes before grabbing Deidara's sleeve and running for home.

I snapped open the door of my apartment looking around. My breath was coming in huffs and my mussels were tense from running in such a sudden rush.

"What the hell was that for Pearl?" Deidara grumbled somehow he had been able to hold onto his half eaten sandwich. I ignored his question and rushed into my bedroom were I knocked into someone. I blinked a few times finding I had fallen flat on my ass and rubbed my forehead that was sore from running into another forehead.

"Hinata?" grumbled a familiar voice.

"Naruto-kun!" I yelped instantly recovering and pouncing onto him. He was still wearing his Anbu Black Ops gear and smelled of a long journey but I could have cared less. He was going to be naked in about five seconds so that really didn't matter. I angled my body over him and attacked his mouth with my own; it didn't take him long for him to realize what my mind set was on. He moved his gloved hands down my back and slickly removed my chuunin vest.

"Um Pearl dear it's nice that you miss your boyfriend but could you do the Kyuubi boy like later tonight when I don't have to fallow you around un?" I heard Deidara say behind me making my pop my head up. I had completely forgotten he was there and now I was straddling Naruto on the floor with him watching. Yes, this mission was officially a pain in the ass.

"Hinata," Naruto said making me look down at him again "um what is an Akatsuki member doing in your apartment?" I sighed in defeat getting up and looking at the chipmunk cheeked Deidara who was nearly finished with his sandwich.

Sakura was as always at home. Tsunade had booted her out of the hospital saying she was in need of bed rest. And the woman was bored as hell with no one to talk to and not being on her feet. So at the moment she was reading a book on her sofa and satisfying her cravings with an odd mix of pickles and peanut butter.

The doorbell rang making her roll her eyes and ignore it. She didn't want to talk to Hinata the girl was nice but was becoming a pain. After about three or four minutes the bell rang again.

"For the love of…," she grumbled carefully getting to her feet and wobbling from the living room to the front door. She crossly opened the door expecting to see a pair of lavender orbs. However what she saw instead were sharp angled black eyes that seemed flat somehow. It took her a few seconds to rejecter who it was but soon her eyes became very wide. "Y-you…w-what are you doing here?"

"Killing two birds with one stone," said the man before her as his eyes turned blood red and she blacked out.

"So that's pretty much what's going on," I said holding Naruto's hand as he cased side glares at Deidara. "Most of the deeper information is classified."

"I'm expected to trust him after what he did to Gaara?" Naruto growled his eyes narrowing and his whisker marks beginning to thicken on his face.

"Do you have to talk like I'm not in the room hmm?" Deidara asked from the recliner chair his eyes glued to the TV. I could feel Naruto losing it next to me, I held his hand trying to calm him down, and it seemed to work. His breath was beginning to slow down as he mentally fought back the Nine Tail Fox's anger.

"Well you're going to have to deal with it," I said "it's my mission to look after him."

"I'll talk to Tsunade-sama in the morning, maybe she can put him under someone else's care," Naruto said and my eyes widened a little.

"W-what? No, I'm perfectly able to control him myself Naruto," I snapped and this time he was the one to blink. "He's not as bad as you think," I whispered and he knotted his brows together.

Deidara seemed unaffected by our conversation as he sat sidewise on the chair with his legs propped over the arm rest and his hair dripping over the other armrest nearly touching the floor.

"Humph if you say so," Naruto muttered and I smiled and hugged him hard.

Sasuke was a bit surprised to find that his front door was wide open. Sakura was a freak about always keeping doors and windows closed after that instinct last year when an Akatsuki member had broken into her apartment and forced her to house him while he spied on Naruto. He walked into the quiet house and instantly having the feeling that something was very wrong.

"Sakura?" he asked and listened to the walls echo his call. He pressed his brows together looking about the living room; nothing seemed out of the ordinary except the bow of peanut butter with a half eaten pickle sticking out of it but having a pregnant wife would explain that. Then he noticed what was right next to the bowl. It was a lock of pink hair tied together with a red hair tie.

Sasuke activated his Sharingan and saw the color of the charka coming off the hair and the tie. The green and black charka was soon visible to him and it was swirling around everywhere. His breath was caught in his throat as he recognized the other charka.

"Itachi…" he gasped then his eyes narrowed "Sakura!"