Through this sharingan, into the flames

Chapter 4

Don't kill me!! X.x I know I was ages but come on I have a seriously busy life x.x I havent been able to go out parting in like…months, OO my god im meant to be a student x.x

Either way I apologise for the delay so finally the 4th chapter since this fic seems so popular, the neji fic may be next then Gaara

^^ thanks to all the people who supported my writing

Despite that my writing sucks lemons!!

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A silence had filled the air of the desolate land, the night surrounding the forgotten pathways and nature in a silvery blue aura. Nothing was heard out in this land, the life almost dead apart from the odd sound of some lizard which scuttled its way across the rocks to hide in its habitat. It would be morning before this creature would have enough energy to feed, tonight though it would have no chance against the stronger creatures which surrounded it. The famous feathered nocturnal animal known as the owl sat perched on a branch, its golden eyes of high visual accuracy had spotted the lizards hiding place. All now for the predator was to wait for it's pray to show again, this was it's time for dominance, and the next time the lizard showed would be its last. It is only natural in the world, for the predator to finally kill it's prey, wasn't it?

The area had proven a useful place to hide, it contained many natural hiding places including man-made ones created by possible outlaws. The sound of flapping wings echoed off the empty landscape as the owl swooped down and in one swift movement, caught the unsuspecting lizard in its powerful claws.

A barely auditable sound was occurring within one of the caves, the crackling sound of a small fire as it gave a small glow to give warmth to it's creators. Its red flames however were no match for the bold red of the older Uchiha's eyes as he and his partner Kisame sat on opposite sides. A little away from the fire lay Naruto Uzumaki who still lay unconscious from what happened less than two hours ago, his headband had came loose with his little movements and fallen beside his head forgotten for now, the boys hands and ankles bound by a rough rope.

Breaking the ever so well kept silence was that the most noisiest of the two. Kisame, without his manners as usual, grabbed the cooked meat by his hands tearing it, before shoving it in his mouth and chewing as well as starting to talk

"Itachi," the other muttered, ripping off another lump of meat and shredding it within his mouth with his shark like teeth, "The Boss will be pleased". The male chuckled and in silent celebration and shoved yet another piece of meat ever so impolitely into his mouth, "Don't'cha think?', he pulled off a piece of meat now and held it to Itachi in offering, the one piece of manners he showed all night…even though not to well.

Itachi stared at the meat and shook his head in a silent reply as Kisame ate it as well.

"Of course, we got him what he wanted, at least you didn't give us away again by starting another fight, I said that last time as well to just use some steal-" the older Uchiha had to pause when meat was hanging out of Kisame's mouth, he sighed, "-use some stealth so no one would suspect we were after the kid"

Kisame kept nodding to what Itachi was saying, it was best not to question the other as somehow no matter what the mission, Itachi would already have the strategy to the most unrisky way to achieve their goal, and was as you could say the leader of the pair. Maybe that's why they were joined together, yet Kisame was the opposite always wanting action.

Curiosity getting the best of the other, he finally asked, "…what…is….that…you are eating?"

Kisame grinned "It's weasel", and held up a leg of meat to prove his point.

Itachi stared a few moments and muttered, "Right" tossing his gaze elsewhere before he felt anymore sick.

"Its goin ta be a bother", Kisame patted his stomach through the Akatsuki cloak obviously filled by his meal, "You know that kid is energetic and he is just going to piss me off and I might have to break his jaw before we reach the boss"

For Kisame, violent thoughts and words were spoken like that of a true sadist, seeming to enjoy the mental imagery in his head as he said them. Itachi looked back at the fish like partner, his eyes narrowed, "we cant, we were told to bring him back unharmed"

Kisame frowned obviously the boss' orders he disliked when they had their catch, he then patted his stomach again and looked up to the ceiling, "Dear Inari im starved", his eyes fell to the sleeping blonde on the floor, "Do ya think the boss would mind if we just ate him?, at least that Fox spirit will be inside one of us"

Rolling his eyes Itachi sighed, wondering if he always had to be stuck with this guy, though knowing some others in the Akatsuki were stuck with worse, especially with that pervert Hidan. He always told the other, Immortality and expanded life spans does not bring experience to the bedroom, he would have to hide Naruto from Hidan, itachi thought

'He always had a thing for pretty blo-", shaking his head, Itachi dismissed himself of the thought of calling the young male pretty. Curiosity of the thought though brought his gaze to fall on the blonde.

The messy hair reflected different shades of gold from the light flickering from the fire, even though his eyes were closed his long eyelashes were hard not to notice which went well with the soft clear effeminate skin. Itachi knew those eyes were a shocking rare blue underneath.

"What do you think of him?"

The question startled Kisame and came out of his thoughts on the next cooked weasel, he looked down to Itachi whos quick movement of his eyes towards the blonde hinted who he was talking about.

"I told ya, an energetic annoyin little brat I want to beat"

Itachi sighed, "apart from that", he was more daring now to look at the blonde, he didn't know what made him avoid looking over in the first place, the boy still remained unmoving, his eyes still closed.

Kisame stared a while longer before answering,

"Delicious"

"Idiot", Itachi growled, he glared at the other, his eyes looking a bit menacing when reflecting the flickering movements of the fire, "I mean his looks!"

Kisame both startled and shocked by the odd question but always found Itachi a bit odd (look whos talking) looked at the boy and studied him for a few moments.

"Looks like that Hokage your place used to have, he was fun competition" he chuckled at the memories, "Yeah the same, he looks like a girl, even more delicious!!"

Itachi shook his head again at his partners appetite no matter what, "Finally I do agree, he actually does look a little effeminate for his age, usually at that age boys loose their effeminate looks" which earned an unexpected chuckle from the other, "whats so funny?"

Kisame grinned, "Nothing, just saying nothing as Itachi, you look like a girl still as we-"

He could have sworn the room just got darker, and Itachis eyes were changing…

"Im kidding!, wow don't go like your Orochimaru crazy mode" Kisame chuckled still, it was normal to piss Itachi off every so often, but even Kisame knew his limits and although he didn't show it to the other, slightly feared the Uchiha.

"Just go find some normal food for me to eat", Itachi folded his arms over his chest with the more demanding request.

Kisame gasped, "But why me?!"

Itachi glared death once again at the other, "Because this girl says so"

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Itachi, getting bored waiting on the other to find normal food in the middle of no where began to take his attention back to the blonde.

"He sure sleeps a lot…"

Itachi moved around the fire to where Naruto lay, he did what he did to get anyones attention in a more friendly way.

He poked the smaller boys forehead

The action resulted in a small groan of the other, who shuffled a little but did not wake up. Itachi sighed about to poke him again but with his hand this close, the temptation for one thing was undeniable.

…That soft skin which glowed with a sense of serenity under the firelight.

Itachi placed his hand on the cheek and almost gasped at the feeling, the skin was indeed as soft as any girls, or any babies. He couldn't help explore it further as he ran his thumb over the cheek markings which reminded one of whiskers. From an observing view one would expect there to be thick deep scars which were cut within the soft skin, but instead it was a thin, barely felt line beneath the Uchiha's thumb as though someone who had left the scar was careful to do it in a delicate action.

Entranced in what was occurring, the Uchiha failed to notice the small movement of eyelashes as Naruto's eyes fluttered open to reveal the slightly dim atmosphere, his body slowly becoming aware of the slight warmth of the room, but mainly the comforting warmth on his cheek. His vision adjusting to that of the raven black hair and red eyes,

"…S-Sasuke?…"

Itachi's eyes widened and drew his hand back as though he was burnt, a very faint blush barely visible across his cheeks as well as the light blush on the others.

Narutos realization of who it was before him, and the memories of what just happened caused him to emit a shocked "Gah!" sound as he tried to move back but fell flat on his back with the ground when he had not realized he was bound.

Naruto stuttered, "Y-You, You're the guy..who cap-, S-Sasuke's…."

Itachi, in the boy's confusion, had got a chance to study the boys aqua eyes, they were indeed stunning to see and worth the wait of the male waking up, he decided to clear the boys confusion

"Yes I am to both your statements…and yes we are currently returning you to our boss, yourself and the Kyuubi"

Naruto snarled low, finally knowing he was in danger, despite his tied hands they were placed in a good spot as he reached into the pouch on his belt, but his eyes widened to find nothing there, "H-Huh?! HEY wheres my stuff?!"

Kisame was not kidding this kid was loud and could reveal himself to be very annoying to the Uchiha, Itachi studied the confused boy with the neutral expression his enemies had expected of him and replied, "We are not amateurs, we had removed your weapons and supplies at first opportunity, you can not escape us this time"

Naruto's eyes narrowed defiantly at Itachi, though despite that defiance Itachi could still see the fear gathered behind them. "Y-You Bastards!! You better not have touched Sakura or Sasuke!!"

Itachi tilted his head, he was kneeling and still very close to the boy, "Sasuke, hm? I did not harm either of them, they are not part of the mission", Suddenly Itachis hand had grabbed Narutos chin forcing the other boy to look deep into his eyes them only inches away from each other.

Narutos eyes widened in shock, unable to avoid the stare or the closeness of the older male, expecting to be sent into an illusion but instead was met with words,

"So you are the one slowing down my Brother's progress", it was shocking still to hear Itachi refer to Sasuke as brother after all they both went through, "Listen to me, your little friendship is getting in the way of my plan, Sasuke is not allowed to be close to anyone, especially to the likes of you"

Naruto was near trembling in the hold, Itachi's smirk could almost be seen at how much control he already had over the blonde through fear alone.

Itachi watched the soft pink lips of the other part then close in hesitation before he spoke with that annoying defiance and determination the other never seemed to give up, "Sasuke…Sasuke is my friend and…I will help him!"

Itachi chuckled low in an almost pleasured tone, "fool, Sasuke is the least of the worries for you to help, when right now you cant even help yourself"

Both the males gazed into each others eyes, and for a moment, Naruto swore he saw Sasuke behind those cruel red eyes he seen so many times.

The moments silence was broken when Kasame waltzed in through the entrance,

"Ah the little runts awake, about time" he grinned in an unexpected way before he held up a bag,

"Itachi I found a bunch of dead Lizards, some animal must be having some fun with its prey out there"

Itachi had backed away from Naruto at this point, and sighed, knowing he could not trust the other to get a decent meal, but at least he had some time on his own.

"Whatever," he said, standing up and dusting his black cloak of the cave floors dust and small bits of stone, "prepare yourself"

Kasume blinked in question as he already had a lizard out of the bag to cook.

Itachi walked to the door, his hair illuminated a dark blue by the moons rays, "The hidden leaf…I know they are close"

Naruto watched the two, moving his legs in order to push his back against the wall to sit upright, his eyes widened in shock of the issue he was caught, and not just by normal thugs, he was defenseless against someone who Sasuke constantly trained to defeat and right now he hoped, deep down, that the hidden leaf would find him, the only thing held in his hand that of the headband of his village. He looked up at the older Uchiha who stood at the caves entrance and studied him, the only thought comforting him right now, is that of the male looking like Sasuke.

…Sasuke would probably never know what their friendship meant to him anyways, he needed him

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One more done!!

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And yes hidan will be in later chaps!