8

When Bad Meets Evil

Searching truth

Deidara narrowed his eyes, as soon as Itachi had given the word; he and Sasori were already showing him the way. Great, not that he didn't want to; it was just that it was hard to keep a straight face with Itachi asking for their help. Imagine that. Thought there was something that still bothered him, who invited those two over there?

Deidara kept looking over his shoulder every ten seconds, and Itachi raised a brow after a while, what had the blond looking at so uneasy? Itachi decided to look over his own shoulder and saw that Kyuubi and Naruto were following them. He stopped and turned slightly to regard them; Kyuubi and Naruto simply grinned at Itachi's stoic face and then waved at him. After a while they stopped about a foot away from the raven haired male. "Why are you following us?" Itachi asked flatly.

For a moment it seemed that none of the blonds were going to speak until Naruto shoved his brother forward. Kyuubi scoffed "Well, we've got nothing to do and whatever you are searching for seems interesting" Kyuubi stated with his arms crossed. Naruto only nodded his head. So, that was what they were doing!

"So, come on let us come with you Itachi!" Naruto yelled out loudly startling everyone, said raven thought it over for a while, well as soon as he could get his head to stop the head ache these two gave him. Would taking them with him make the search for his little brother simpler or would it just end up complicating things. He sighed; life was nothing if not complicated. He really just wanted to find his little brother and get this over with. Deidara and Sasori were soon standing beside Itachi and looked over at the Uzumaki brothers. This could not be good, if they were going to come.

"Are you really going to let them come?" Deidara asked.

"Yeah, sure, whatever" Itachi shrugged after a while. It was official, he hated blonds. Not that he had anything against them, just all of them who were around him. Even if Kyuubi did have orange hair, he was no exception and still annoying.

Deidara and Sasori looked at each other and shrugged as well as they continued to walk Itachi soon followed after them. Besides, nothing else mattered at the moment more than him reaching his brother. To finally meet him and be face to face……what would he say when he first saw his brother……what would he do…? These questions had no answer up to now, but something told him they would be answered in do time. When ever that was.

"So where are we going anyway?" Kyuubi decided to ask after a while of silence. They were all still moving slow and across the woods, were they going to leave out of state or something? Sure enough they came to a halt just outside the border line around their home and to Deidara's and Sasori's huge Jeep. They were going to have to drive to the airport.

"The University of Humboldt"

"What for?" asked Naruto.

"Itachi's little brother….or should we say, twin brother, un" Deidara smirked while the Uzumaki brothers looked shocked. Everyone made to get in, but had to hold their ears when the Uzumaki Brother's stated their shock.

"Twin what!"

"Please, luggage can not weight more than the required 75 pounds, please make sure you do not exceed that weight"

"Please, stay in like till you've had a turn." A woman and a suit smiled "Please have everything ready for when it's your turn, but please don't cross this line" Man, could these people give you a head ache or what. So annoying, even though it was their job to tell you that.

Being glad that he was ready to go Sasuke looked around the airport, he was planning to travel somewhere away from Konoha, Japan. He always wanted to see Russia, or Paris, or somewhere, for one. Looking over a brochure of the place he waited for his plane number to be called. Out of his pocket he brought out the picture of his twin brother and smiled slightly. "Maybe we'll meet, it might be today, it might be tomorrow, and you never know where life can take you"

'Flight number 145B, now boarding' Sasuke glanced at his ticket and made his way over to the departing area. The lady smiled at him as she looked over his ticket and then let him pass through. Suddenly the way that lead to the plane seemed to long a journey and to much of a burden.

Looking out the window, he knew he could not run away for ever.

All he needed was a plan, but what?

Some time later

It had taken them at least two days, but they made it all the way to the university, as grandiose as that was. It really was huge, that alone made it seem like an impossible maze in bright colors of fall and green forests. Itachi sighed in relief, thought he felt dread rush into his heart once they were there. He was scared that he had come all this way for nothing. Deidara and Sasori in the other hand kept leading the entire way as they neared the dorms. Crossing some buildings, over some hills and finally to a door room place….

So this was a university….

They rushed through the doors, walking through the halls startling both girls and boys who were walking out peacefully to start the day. Many of them started to whisper when they saw the Uzumaki brothers, but yelled in admiration when they saw Itachi. Damn Uchiha's and their fabulous looks "Damn, Itachi, already popular, un" Deidara smirked and Sasori rolled his eyes. He hated the attention, but Itachi seemed to always draw it in no matter where the hell he was. In the end you got used to it.

Who didn't like Itachi? Oh yeah, people who knew him close and personal….Maybe the girls who didn't like the silent type who could scare you with a look, on the other hand, chicks were just weird. No one ever knew what they wanted since they always hide their feelings, or play with them. Either way, once they reached dorm number, 158, a dorm made to fit a group of students, they knocked the door and waited for it to be answered. A girl with black dark hair, mascara all around her light brown eyes, short and pouty. Wearing an upside down cross and dark, wearing a blue shirt stripped with gray, and tight black jeans and matching black shoes opened the door and looked them over "May I help you?" she asked. For an instant her face turned cherry red at the sight of so many boys and then relaxed a bit.

"Umm, we are looking for Sasuke" she smirked slightly as she moved her hand through her hair and around her ear. 'Alright, so I am not crazy and for some reason Karin, Suigetsu, and Juugo, have forgotten Sasuke' The girl tapped a finger under her chin as if in though 'But who are these guys, might as well find Aoi' She then gave her attention back to them, she smiled sweetly and toothy, she was practically candy spilling over in her own voice.

"I see, I see" she got out of the room making them all back away and closed the door behind her, she grinned at them slyly. Life really knew how to throw unexpected curves your way. "Follow me and I'll fill you in on the way" She walked all the way down the hall way and they reluctantly followed. Inside of his stomach, Itachi's stomach coiled painfully in dread and he knew that there was no chance of finding his little brother here. Just great, why could things go easy for once and fall on his lap. This girl's appearance just showed how impossible that mission was going to be today.

"Who is she?" Naruto asked suddenly.

"Her name's Stephenie Flores, but she's usually a shy girl that doesn't talk too many. One of Sasuke's odd roommates from America" Sasori explained lightly, Itachi's sighed out and Kyuubi and Naruto looked at each other before the name hit them. "she really is a weirdo"

"Wait. Did you just say Sasuke!?" Naruto yelled and Itachi, Deidara, Sasori, and Stephenie looked at him weird. Was the boy slow or something? They had gone over there to ask for Sasuke after all. No matter. She kept walking until she met with an even shorter girl, about two inches shorter that had blue hair layered out barely reaching her back, large blue eyes, incredibly thin that she still looked like a kid. Well, they both looked like kids. The blue haired girl just looked their way innocently, her eyes sparkling with something they couldn't name.

They just knew she was dangerous.

"Aoi!" Stephenie called out with a laugh. Said girl waved back, about her name and who she was, there was a long story behind that. But that story was not to be told here, but she was also a psychic, for her eyes were clairvoyant. "How is your ass?"

"Hey! Have you seen Andrew! I can't find him and I am afraid that I have lost hi m!" Stephenie shook her head. Disappointment crossed both their features.

"No, but we have an even bigger problem on our hands at the moment than our damned boy toys" the shorter girl looked over at the new comers and smirked, she was so not as innocent as she looked. Aoi on the other hand licked her lips, she had already seen this coming, but it was never in her nature to tell what she saw or did not. She could also sense the distress and hopelessness coming out of the particular raven haired Uchiha.

'Sasuke's twin brother' she thought. "More immortals, the party grows and grows, ne?" was what Aoi said out loud in place of her thoughts.

"Ummm, what do you mean, un?" Deidara asked.

"We know who you are, and we know about Sasuke as well. But all of a sudden he has gone missing, and somewhere far to my knowledge to make an accurate prediction he has erased himself from everyone here, but us" Stephenie said and looked them straight in the eye, maybe even Deidara and Sasori, but they were not going to mention that. Stephenie opened her hands to the side and introduced herself and Aoi "We are demons, from another dimension; we travel through space and time, looking for our beloveds, who wish to elude us every time. The whole ordeal can be annoying, but in the end rewarding, so please don't mind us"

"But when we met Sasuke and felt his pain, we decided to help him and stay here. So who are you and why are you looking for him" Aoi interjected. It was not like she didn't know; she just wanted to make sure she had the right people. After all the future could never be clear, and it was not always as you saw it, it could be worse if not better.

"Well, this is his twin brother Itachi Uchiha" Deidara pointed at Itachi. Aoi rubbed her aching head.

"I know"

"Well, sorry to say we don't know where Sasuke is," Stephenie worriedly glanced at Aoi who was holding her forehead. She needed to say something "all we know is that he erased every ones mind" Stephenie explained again and Aoi rolled her eyes. The girl liked to repeat herself sometimes, and she was also mostly worrying about everyone around her.

"But Itachi, you do have a connection to him, don't you" Aoi spoke again making everyone to look at her. "You'll just have to find it, once you do, he might just come to you. More than one, but one is not necessary as the other is crucial"

"And this is Stephenie getting Aoi to shut her big trap as she spilled the fortune telling for this story" She grabbed Aoi by the waist and jumped up.

"Put me down Steph! Put me down!" Aoi protested.

"Sayonara, find your true north" and they were gone. Itachi gritted his teeth.

"Come on, we're leaving"

Sasuke looked down at his cell phone and thought about what his father would say when he didn't find him anymore. Sasuke was not someone who liked to make others worry about him, and he hated to even think that his father would worry about him. The old man, he should really be out enjoying life and forget his brat. Looking down at his cell phone, he pressed his contacts and looked at the one that said dad.

All he had to do now was press send…..

To call him…..or not to call him….?

Sasuke held the phone to his forehead, the screen shinning and he bit his lower lip. Fuck it all to hell, finally deciding on it, Sasuke pressed the send button, then pressed the cell phone to his ear waiting for his father to pick up h is cell phone. There was something strange though when the first ringing sound reached his ear…..

'This is the first time I'm nervous to call my dad…..why is my heart beating so fast….it's never been like this'

I'm sure you all know who has Fugaku's Cell Phone. Thank you for all who reviewed and are keeping up. xHiromixSukichix, please don't loose your sanity -.-' LOL Anyway. I hope you are all exited for the next chapter.

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