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When Bad Meets Evil

Ricky Ticky Toc, Is the Sound Of The Clock

'I can't see, it's too dark, please, open your eyes to me'

Slowly Itachi opened his eyes, his vision blurred for a moment, but blinking a few times it cleared up and he hissed closing them again. The blazing sun was up high and it burned his eyes when he had opened them. He sighed, his mouth was dry as a desert and he badly needed water, not to mention that he was heavily sweating. Slowly opening his eyes once again he was able to adjust his eyes and notice that he was tied up somewhere….it looked like an old times village, and he was locked, hands and neck like a criminal.

"Ah, I see you are awake my darling nephew" Itachi looked up only to see the ugly face of his grandmother grinning down at him. She then brought out a cold water bottle and pressed it to his lips. He silently drank, without it he knew it was going to be hard to even talk. The cool liquid felt nice, but now that he was more awake do to it, he had to wonder where he was and how he had ended up this way. "There you are, you see, you are such a good boy"

"Shut up" he hissed nearly spitting at her "Where the hell am I you old fart!" There was the sound of heavy footsteps and a burning stench that burned his nostrils. The scent was awful enough to make him want to kill himself. It was already twisting his stomach and he had a hard time concentrating, he couldn't even cover his nose. It left a bad taste in his mouth and he was already becoming dizzy once again.

"I don't think that's anyway to talk to your beautiful grandma, hello nice to meet you." The man said, old as his grandmother, old as trash. Itachi needed to get out of there and begun to move his hands trying to test how well locked they had him and his grandmother sighed.

"Sorry Itachi, but we can't let you go, we need you sweetheart, all this is for your own good" her voice was melodic and soothing, like that of a mother. But you could easily be fooled, as well as you could get to know her all these years and know that she was up to no good. "You see, to bring your twin to us, we have to put you in danger, that'll make Sasuke come running here to save you and we'll kill him. It will be quick and painless. He promised" she looked up at the man as if praising him as her god. Itachi was disgusted.

"There is no way!" Itachi hissed "Sasuke won't come" The man begun to laugh.

"Trust me kid, you are in pain of the heat, your brother will come to save you" The man rubbed his thumb under his nose "I am after all, a twin hunter, I know my game" Itachi looked shock for a second and then he glared.

"Doesn't that make you feel better, Itachi-sweet" His grandmother said in a sing-song kind of way "Soon you'll be just you without a twin" Both begun to walk away and Itachi closed his eyes. A twin hunter? Is that why he was trapped here without knowing how it had happened. Besides that, what was that wretched smell? He needed to escape, he needed to protect his little brother……he needed…..

'Sasuke, please stay away and leave me be, please! Save your self' Itachi cried in his mind 'I couldn't bare if I lost you'

Itachi was shocked when he heard 'Just like I can't let you go, I have to save you'

Deidara, Sasori, Kyuubi, and Naruto, had tried calling Itachi. Ever since the raven haired Uchiha had gone missing they had not left the airport, they had looked around. There simply was no way of telling where he could have gone. Sighing in defeat now, they all sat down on A-40 flight, it was barely coming in so the waiting area was empty, even though soon it was going to be filled with waiting people.

'Incoming flight from Paris, A-40 will be landing shortly, please stand clear' just outside in the huge windows you could see the plane come in and start it's roundabout around the small area as it found it's place to stop and part, so they could unload the people and the luggage. It took about ten or so minutes when the plane was finally stopped and soon people were being let out.

From a long hall people started to come in, Sasuke being one of those passengers he walked down across the hall. Now he needed to go to the reception or whatever they called it and buy a new ticket for West, California. Walking around, out of the corner of his eyes he noticed something blond, orange, and red. Pretty hard to miss people with different hair color.

It was Naruto…..but as he looked around, his brother was not there. he was to late, now he had to go and find him fast. Running the rest of the way, he came to a halt as he was first in line. "Please, I need a flight to West, California, the earliest you have" The lady nodded and quickly begun to type. She looked it over and smiled.

"The earliest leaves in half an hour" she said. Sasuke nodded his head and smiled.

"Perfect"

"Very well" she said and then begun to print him out his ticket, Sasuke paid and headed for E-60, that was on the other side of the airport. There was not time to waste, Sasuke begun to run towards his destination, on the way there were a lot of twist and turns. His heart was hurting in his chest, and he was running out of air. He nearly tripped and fell when he could no longer bare it.

"I can't stop here" he whispered to himself, the worry was eating up at him. The need to rush was eating up at him, and there was nothing that he could do. His palms were sweating, his whole body was shaking in fear, and he wanted to see Itachi.

He needed an escape.

"Let me go" Itachi hissed as he saw his grandmother standing behind him, well more like just her shadow. Itachi's wrists were already bruising, his stomach was growling in hunger and he was thirsty again. He felt sick to his stomach, and he felt a shiver of fear race through him. His body was hurting do to the position he had been for what he knew had to be either a day and a half or more.

"Not until your brother comes" she said "what's the matter, feeling hungry, thirsty? Need to go to the bathroom" She mocked and then left laughing. The way Itachi was sweating he was dehydrated; there was no way he needed to go to the restroom at the moment. No, what he needed was some shade, air, and a nice cool drink. Food would be nice as well. Damn, it was hurting.

He needed to escape these chains. Itachi tried to test his hand once more to allow a flame to appear on his hand, he needed it to reach, but once more, and he himself was suffering from the lack of air in his own chest. His eyes already had become watery do to the fact that the dust was getting into them. The flame was small and thin, barely doing anything as he directed it to the lock and the wood around it, slowly burning it. If only he could weaken in enough so he could snap it open before he lost all his strength.

"How much longer do you believe this is going to take, I don't want him to die" Annabel hissed to the old man, the old man wrinkled his nose as if he was actually thinking about it. Inside his head, he was just so glad he was going to get to kill three dumb souls.

"I don't know, are you sure, he is not the evil twin?" he asked. His eyes were narrowed, he knew her after all. She wouldn't keep her distance most of the time, she wouldn't be passing out some times when she stayed near to long. She was defiantly from a twin set.

"Huh, no, I have personally made sure that he was the good one, the one that is at least bad but not evil" she hissed "Don't mock my skills" The man nodded. He was trying to read Itachi, but it was hard to do. He couldn't even tell if Itachi was connecting with his twin brother or not. But one thing was for sure, he could read her and he had no choice but to get rid of them all.

"Well, if you say so" he mumbled.

He had taken down twins all over the world in pairs and never once left one alive. He had even heard the case of triplets and quintuplets, to even more, octoplets. But those were rare cases to twins. Who were either identical or fraternal, and he had learned that fraternal twins were the most hardest for him to understand. They were more individual, they sometimes looked alike…..and what he feared the most.

They sometimes switched up their roles up.

So, to not kill both of them was something hard for him to do. Looking over his gun and other tools the old man decided to come to a decision. Whether or not this woman was right in the head was none of his concern, he was going to go with his belief here, and she to was going to die. Even if she said that she wanted this bastard to live, there was something in him that could not let him continue to breathe.

Before anything else happened, he was going to make sure BOTH twins died.

And as for her, being a part of a set of twin herself, needed to die as well. After all, only twins found him to smell foul.

This was his job, it was what he was born to do, and his population might not be large anymore. His family members might have died under the hands of twins who were in love, but that was rare. For twins couldn't be in love with each other, twins simply didn't see each other that way. Only on rare occasions was one of them gay, either way the other one will always be straight. Just like the twelve years ago he found two male twins in love with each other. They were always back to back and it was hard to get at them.

Inseparable, and envied by all at how beyond normal their bond was, and he was the one who ended it. He had led them into a play house of mirrors; both of them had such a strong link they could communicate. He had pretended to add to the pursuit, at the end of the day, the fire was their down fall. He had blown up the place and made sure that they could not get out. There was nothing but ashes left, his toughest kill of all and he had managed it. Still, for that to happen all over again, for two twins to fall in love was for another life time and not this one. He smirked.

So, he had no doubt in his mind that this kid and his twin were nothing for the other. He snapped his gun into place and tested it.

This was going to be an easy kill.

Just like every other story of bad and evil

Sasuke had tripped over his own two feet as he made it to the other side and it was an effort to stand up again. Panting hard he saw that the people were already boarding and he needed to hurry. His chest hurt, his entire being felt heavy with despair as he shakingly made it to where he had to get on the plane. The woman who was collecting and looking over the tickets smiled and looked at him and looked at it. "Please continue down here and have a safe flight" she said as she tore a part off and handed the rest to him.

Sasuke only nodded, walking as calmly as he could. But it was killing him, the thoughts that were racing on his mind, the fear that covered him, the need to do something. He managed to make it to his seat, at the same time worriedly looking out the window. It was going to be a three hour flight and Sasuke was not sure if he was going to be able to survive the plane ride.

"Just wait for me Itachi…..I'll be there to save you" Sasuke closed his eyes "As fast as I can"

Sasori brought out his cell phone, everyone else around him was already asleep. His own eyes were heavy with sleep but he still managed to look for the cell phone number of Itachi's dad. He pressed the send button when he found Itachi's dad's cell phone number and dialed it. The ringing seemed to go on forever and he nearly fell asleep right there and then when all of a sudden a raspy, almost little girl, but old and familiar voice said "hello" he froze at the voice.

"Granny Annabel" he said through the phone.

"Hey Sasori, don't worry. Itachi is just fine, we're just waiting for Sasuke." there was laughter and the line went dead. Sasori sat up suddenly in his chair waking up Deidara who was now glaring at him. What were they going to do now?

Itachi was in trouble.

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