A/N: Hey, people! So, as I said, school started and chapters might come slower but they will be coming! Enjoy~
-Sasuke's POV-
I really didn't wanna do this. Like, really. I had Suigetsu call the higher ups so we could discuss Uzumaki's stay. The problem was that the higher ups didn't take things like shortening a prisoner's stay well. In fact, if they could, they would have probably made every prisoner stay in prison for the rest of their lives. I sighed as I exited the elevator and walked to my office. I could already hear the shouting coming from it and I prepared myself for the upcoming headache. When I opened the door, everyone quieted down and I greeted the elders before sitting in my chair. When everyone had turned their attention to me, I started speaking:
"As you all know, I've called you here so we can discuss prisoner Uzumaki Naruto's stay. He was interrogated and we had managed to strike a deal with him where both parties would reap something from it. The deal was that he would give me a clue about a certain member of Akatsuki's whereabouts every month for one year and after that he would be released." I finished and waited for their reactions. The higher ups consisted of four people. The first person, sitting in one of my chairs was Sarutobi Hiruzen. He was an old man with grey hair, and a wrinkled face with liver spots of old age. He had a single line running vertically under the outer corners of each eye, which stretched down into his face, until it reached his cheeks. He was wearing a black, long-sleeved shirt, grey pants and only the jacket from a suit. He looked like he was deep in thought, considering the deal.
Next to him, on my black couch were two other elders, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu. Homura had grey hair, a beard, glasses as well as a constant frown that he always wears whenever I see him. He also had a strong jaw-line, a facial structure he had retained even in his old age. Koharu had dark hair pulled back in a twin bun locked by a traditional Japanese hair pin with two pearls dangling off the side. She is also always squinting, barely opening her eyes at any point in time. Both of them were dressed in simple Japanese kimonos, Homura's was white with blue linings on the sleeves and Koharu's was green with white lining. They looked like they were torn between agreeing and disagreeing, their eyes shifting to Hiruzen and to the last person in the room. His name was Shimura Danzō and he was leaning on the wall, his face set into a neutral expression. Danzō was a frail old man, who would normally walk with a cane. He had black, shaggy hair, with some grey strands in it. His right eye was covered by an eye patch and an x-shaped scar rested on his chin. He was wearing a white shirt, with a black jacket over it and grey pants. Danzō was a retired soldier, no longer capable of fighting due to his old age but he was a man who followed the rules. So I was pretty sure this idea wasn't exactly his cup of tea.
"Mr. Uchiha, are you sure you can trust this man's word? He may reap something from this but he is still a prisoner. They always want more and lie through their teeth. The Akatsuki are a big threat and we need to try and eliminate them ourselves - not listen to some prisoner spouting off lies." Koharu said, breaking the silence. Homura nodded his head, agreeing with her. He then sharply looked at me and spoke.
"It has been bothering me for a while but you said a certain member of Akatsuki, meaning information on only one member. Mr. Uchiha, could that member be Uchiha Itachi?" I tensed at the name, and looked warningly at the man. "I know that you want to find him but risking it like this for information that might not even be true is absolutely ridiculous. It would be better if you just gave up on ca-" Homura suddenly stopped when I slammed my fist on my desk, making the paperwork shake slightly. I took a deep breath before addressing the man again.
"Mr. Homura, I assure you that this is not a waste of time. Uzumaki has made a deal with me and I intend to hold my part of the deal, too. Also, for someone as hard to catch as him, I will resort to any and every method I can think of, and if you intend to question my actions, then please leave." I said. If I was thinking a bit more rationally, I would have probably realized that I may have destroyed my chance of getting the elders' agreement. Too bad I was not thinking rationally, I never had when it involved him.
"Now listen here Mr. Uchiha, you-"
"Okay, I think that's enough, both of you." Sarutobi said sternly, looking at both of us, waiting for a retort. When none came he sighed and looked at Danzō, the two of them exchanging a silent conversation. Danzō pushed himself off the wall, before deciding to start speaking. Now that I had calmed down a little bit, I realized that Danzō and Hiruzen still hadn't given their opinion on the matter. I was starting to lose hope, because I needed at least three of the elders' agreement. If Danzō and Sarutobi agreed, I could persuade one of the others but I was sure that the retired soldier was going to side with Koharu and Homura. What he said next came as a pleasant surprise.
"I think it's a good deal. I've been keeping up with the research on Akatsuki and, to be honest, our leads are always a dead end. If this prisoner has any kind of information on the group, I want to know about it. Usually, I would disagree on such blasphemy, but I'm willing to bet on this information, Uchiha, so don't disappoint me." He said with a stern look on his face directed at me.
"I will support this deal, too. But still, Mr. Uchiha, don't forget to be on alert, even if the information turns out to be true." Sarutobi said and I nodded at him in understanding. Well, this was good. Very good, actually. Homura sighed and he looked at me with a defeated expression.
"Fine, then, I will agree to this but if I see the information is useless, you will bear the consequences, Mr. Uchiha." He said, his glasses glinting in the sunlight. It was already around lunch time and I was glad that we were finally finishing this up. Koharu was the only one who wouldn't change her decision but I was okay with that. I only needed three people to agree, so whether she said yes or no, it wouldn't matter to me. Everyone stood up, preparing to leave, when the office door was slammed open. A police officer came in, bowing quickly out of respect when he saw the elders, before turning his gaze to me.
"Mr. Uchiha, we have a problem. There was a fight in the cafeteria and the prisoners started throwing their food around." He said, before I noticed he had spaghetti in his hair and a tomato stain on his shirt. I sighed and the elders told me to go, we were finished here anyways. I slightly bowed and excused myself, before following the officer. I followed the officer to the elevator, adopting a brisk pace.
"Who were the ones that started the fight?" I asked as the officer pressed the button for the fourth floor. The fourth floor was where the prison cells were, along with the last one, but this one also had a cafeteria at the end of the corridor.
"Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura." The man answered when we went out of the elevator. Haruno Sakura? That name rang a bell. She was transported to this prison, because of some accident on her way to her original one, as far as I remember. So she knew the idiot. Great. She was also known for being a fierce fighter, so I hoped the cafeteria didn't look like World War 3. We walked to the end of the corridor, some prisoners that weren't in the lunch room sneering at us from their cells, and opened the metal door to the cafeteria. I could hear objects falling and a lot of shouting, but I thought I could handle it.
Oh, how wrong I was. The cafeteria was pure chaos. There were chairs flying around and some of the tables were broken, with passed out prisoners lying unconscious on them. But what was the worst was the food. Oh, the poor, poor, innocent food. It was being used like it wasn't food but water balloons. As I was looking around I spotted a blonde-haired man having a food fight with a brown-haired man and a pink-haired girl. The three of them had pulled a table up to act as a shield, and were tossing food around like mad men. I marched to Uzumaki, barely dodging the flying ingredients, and tapped him on his shoulder. I was startled when he jumped away before yelling "Gotcha!" and the next thing I knew I had a pie thrown at my face. Suddenly, everyone had stopped fighting and the room was filled with silence. The pie's plate slowly slid down my face, before falling on the ground with a clack.
I slowly swiped my hand across my eyes to remove the pie and I saw the idiot staring at me like a fish out of water. He was going to pay. And his sidekick, too. I smirked darkly at him before he chuckled nervously.
"Oops...?" He muttered before I turned my head to address all of the prisoners.
"I want all of you back to your cells this instant. Officer, call the others to help you move them. And you two" I said as I looked at the two people who started this mess "are going to stay here with me."
When everyone was gone I made the two of them sit seiza-style on the floor. I left them like that for about half an hour before I decided they had had enough.
"Alright, you can sit normally now." They immediately fell to the floor, breaking the position and then groaning at the sudden strain on their muscles.
"Oi, Sasuke-teme, why did you make us go through that? I can't feel my legs anymore!" Uzumaki whined at me.
"Well, that's too bad, because you are going to clean every bit of food from the floor." I said as I smirked and threw the mops and dishrags at their feet. Their faces paled at that information, before the idiot tried to stand, failed miserably, and started shouting at me.
"Are you kidding me? You do remember you made us sit like statues for half an hour, while you were watching like some evil sadist from the sidelines, don't you?!"
"Of course I do. But you could only blame yourself for this whole mess, Uzumaki. If you hadn't started this food fight, then you wouldn't have to clean this right now." I retorted.
"Just admit that you want to see me suffer, Teme!"
"Hn, life makes you suffer every day, Dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Te-Ow, Sakura-chan, don't hit me like that, it hurts!" He said, while rubbing the bump on his head.
"You were starting to annoy me, so I decided to silence you." The girl, Sakura, said while shrugging her shoulders. As I had heard, she was a skilled fighter, which meant that her punches hurt a lot.
"I would have said I pitied you, because that punch looked like it hurt a lot but since you don't really have any brain cells I don't think I have anything to pity, do I, Uzumaki?" I smirked when the blond fumed with anger but before he could do anything, I turned around and walked to the door.
"Oi, Sasuke-teme! One last thing, stop calling me Uzumaki, my name is Naruto!" I turned around and saw him grinning at me. I felt the corners of my mouth twitch again, before turning around and opening the door.
"As you wish, then, I will see you in the interrogation room next time, Naruto."
A/N: Hope you liked the new chapter. To be honest with you, I already have the ending planned out but we are faaar away from it. Also, you might have noticed but I've been using Mr. and Mrs. instead of -sama or -san but I use things like teme and -chan. I will be using Mr. and Mrs. but things like "Sakura-chan", "Sasuke-teme", "Dobe", and "Teme" will be used, because I'm used to seeing them like that. I wanted to clear that out and also some words you might not know:
Dobe - Idiot
Seiza-style - It is a Japanese-style sitting position. You kneel on the floor, fold your legs underneath your tights and rest your buttock on your heels. I think sitting for half an hour like that must be painful, unless you have gone through "training", which our two characters haven't.
R&R and cya in the next chapter~