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Gone but not forgotten

Sakura gasped.

"This is..!"

"..." Sasuke remained silent just looking at the information before, somewhat wishing Sakura wasn't so close to him. It was irritating when someone was looking over your shoulder.

Kakashi frowned, "What is it..?" Kakashi asked demandedly.

"Reports and missions that Itachi had done" Sasuke answered, still looking at the information in his grasp.

"Sasuke, what exactly does it say?" Kakashi asked breaking the silence.

Sasuke began to read it out loud.

"xxxx of xxxxx year xxxx

The Uchiha clan is expected to have caused the destruction of Konoha Village during the Nine tails attack due to their power to control the Kyuubi. We suspect they will once again try and take over the Village and control it for themselves. Itachi Uchiha, as an ANBU, we wish for you to find out if our suspicions are true and report back to us.

Signed, Danzo and Third Hokage."

"That is the mission notice and this is the report..."

"Mission is complete
All Suspicions are true. They have ask of me to be a spy of Konoha.

Itachi Uchiha."

"Is that all?" Kakashi questioned.

Sasuke remained quiet.

"Even in writing a Uchiha still doesn't speak much. Right Sasuke-Kun?" Sakura smiled oddly. A smile that looked somewhat irritating. Like his trademark smirk.
"..hn.." Sasuke knew she was right but he just couldn't help but to glare at the pink haired girl.

Sasuke turned away and flipped the page again.

"xxxx of xxxxx year xxxx

Mission: Kill the Uchiha clan for the protection of Konoha

Signed, Danzo"

Sasuke was pissed, it was a mission, a mission to kill his clan, it wasn't on Itachi's whim to kill them just to "test his power", it was a mission. A bloody mission.

Sasuke gulped, a mission is a mission, Itachi would have done it but frankly it's Danzo's fault, he's to blame for the murder and Itachi is just the accomplice, he helped murder them. The next paper would conclude it all, Itachi really did murder his family, Itachi only stays in contact cause he's loyal to the real master mind of the murder. He'll kill them all, save Naruto and it'll be happily ever after. Yes, it was all perfectly set up in his mind.

Sasuke took a breath and began again.

"Mission Refused"

Sasuke eyes grew wide as he looked at the word. Refused. Itachi had refused the mission to kill his family. Then, who killed his clan?

"What else does it say?" Kakashi interrupted Sasukes thoughts.

"That's it" Sasuke said plainly

"He doesnt say why at all, how Uchiha like..." Sakura mumbled.

Sasuke whipped his head around to glare at her once again whilst flipping to the next page.

"It's another mission" Sasuke began to read it.

"xxxx of xxxxx year xxxx

Mission: Take the blame of the murder of the Uchiha clan, Become an S-rank and stay in contact with Danzo SECRETLY about any events occuring outside of Konoha.

Signed Danzo"

"Don't speak yet,theres some scribbled red writing" Sasuke frowned at it as he began to read.

"Itachi Uchiha refused previous mission. Mission was carried out by a deal with an assassin outside of Konoha. Information located elsewhere. Itachi Uchiha disrupted the mission protecting his sleeping brother, later took photos of the massacre whilst being caught by Sasuke Uchiha and then started his mission from that point on. Sasuke Uchiha shall be protected on request of Itachi Uchiha and kept hidden from this information in exchange for Itachi who shall carry out on his current and life mission"

Sasuke looked at the photos, but flipped them over, he didn't want to look at them, to remind him of such a pain, especially now he knows what he saw was all lies.

Everyone remained silent for a long period of time. They didn't know what to say, and they could tell Sasuke was hurt. He was shaking, from anger or sadness they didn't know.

Sasuke had spent seven years hating his brother, when in fact his brother never killed them, instead he fought (or at least what Sasuke assumed) against the killer to protect him and continued to protect him by taking the blame as well as a long life mission.

Sasuke's face was of shock and hurt as he looked at Kakashi.

"He..he never killed my clan." Sasuke stuttered. He began to curse himself for it, he was a Uchiha but heck, these were one of the times Teuchi had said, where he had to throw the Uchiha name away and just be "Sasuke". Whether it was at the Ichiraku or not. He didn't care.

"Sasuke-kun..." Sakura patted him on the shoulder. "You should be happy, you're brother is innocent, and now we are certain that Naruto is safe with Itachi. It's getting late, we're all exhausted, we should rest up for tomorrow."

Sasuke looked at her and nodded, so did Kakashi.

They set up camp, each planning out who would stay watch and what order it should go in.

Sakura stayed up first, second would be Sasuke and last would be Kakashi, because of his hard work of gathering the files earlier that day.

Sasuke lay awake for awhile.

Tomorrow, they'd look around the Valley of the End abit longer, before heading off to search for Itachi. Itachi was innocent, this newly found information had Sasuke in shock, and he was still in shock and probably would be for a while. Naruto, they assumed, was safe since now learning that Itachi isn't actually an S-Rank nin with a bounty. He was just on a mission, a mission Sasuke was now determined to cancel, drag him back to Konoha, have a long talk, celebrate with Naruto and everything would be hanky dory again. This new plan in his head was even more perfect. He could achieve a little more happiness.

He closed his eyes and allowed the blackness to engulf him in clouds and dreams of a thirteen year old Naruto and Itachi smiling at him, laughing and talking.

End of day one. 13 days left.

Haha, Itachi's innocent. Wow. xD

Will Sasuke happiness really come out how he wants it? I hope so too, I don't wanna be cruel to him but even I don't know where this story is going