--: Chapter 07 – The Truth Underneath :--

"But, but, how can that be, I mean, chakra's still rushing through his body, even if you use a revival jutsu on a corpse, the chakra of the person who died is stopped forever, and isn't able to flow ever again, not even if you use your own chakra to start it." Tsunade said, shock written all over her face. She just didn't get it, if Sasuke was dead, and his body was under the control of a revival jutsu, then why could she feel chakra, and could she sense where he was?

"I know, I don't get it either, we have to wait and see what it's doing here…" Neji stated, following Sasuke with his Byuakugan. "Beside from the lack of an aura, he seems totally normal though, no disturbances like you sometimes see with revived corpses."

"But I'm still wondering what he's doing here, I mean, if Sasuke's really dead then someone must have revived him, but who… and why?" Tsunade started thinking, trying to compare the situation with things that had happened ever since Sasuke came back to Konoha.

"I don't know, all that happened ever since Sasuke came back to Konoha is that Naruto fell ill…" Neji said, as suddenly, realisation hit both him and Tsunade like a sack with bricks. (A/N: ouch…)

"He's here to kill Naruto!" They both said at the exact same time. Tsunade started pacing back and through the room.

"It does make sense, Sasuke was being kidnapped by the Akatsuki, who killed him, and somehow managed to resurrect him with somehow managing to restore the chakra flow. Afterwards, they sent Sasuke here, to infiltrate, and kill Naruto in a silent way, we'll think Sasuke has gone mad, and then he'll probably drop dead because they end the ressurection jutsu…" Tsunade plotted, pointing out the plan of the Akatsuki. She sighed, running her hand through her hair, "Poor Naruto, even if we manage to get Sasuke off him, how are we going to tell him that his boyfriend's dead?"

"That's a worry for later, now we have to think of a plan to save Naruto, but without letting the Akatsuki know…" Neji sat down on the desk.

"That's impossible since once they'll kill Naruto, they'll get Kyuubi, if they don't get Kyuubi, they know Naruto's still alive." Tsunade said, tabbing her lips with her index finger in thought. "No… we have to think of a different plan…"

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Naruto was sitting u straight in bed, reading a book, as Sasuke entered the bedroom. "So, how did the examination go?" Naruto asked once his boyfriend came in, not looking up from his book.

"hn…" Sasuke said, sitting down on the bed next to Naruto. "Fine I guess, they didn't find anything."

"That's good, I don't want you to become sick." Naruto looked up from his book to give his boyfriend a smile, "One of us is enough."

"Hn… Useratonkatchi." Lying down on the bed, Sasuke closed his eyes, as if he was taking a nap.

Naruto sighed, rubbing his stomach, "The vomitting finally stopped."

"That's good." Sasuke responded, sighing as he turned on his side to face Naruto. "That means you'll probably be better tomorrow."

They lay like that in silence for half an hour, before Sasuke stood up abruptly, mumbling to Naruto that he was going to prepare dinner.

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Neji walked home to the Hyuuga estates, deep in thought about what he had learned that day. If Sasuke really was dead, and they'd have to tell him, then that would mean that Naruto was going to be heart broken once again. But if they didn't tell him, then Sasuke would probably kill him one way or another, and the Kyuubi would fall into the hands of the Akatsuki.

It wasn't a really difficult decision, they'd have to tell him, but for that, they'd need Naruto to be alone, without Sasuke, but because Naruto was Sasuke's prey, it was only obvious that he'd always come up with some excuse to follow Naruto around for a moment.

The reason why Sasuke didn't kill Naruto but only made him sick was actually really clear, Naruto would stay home, and get issolated. Nobody would have to talk to him, and when he'd get better, everybody would just wave it off like a normal illness, and then, when everybody would least expect it, Sasuke would grab is chance, and steal Kyuubi, leaving Naruto to die from chakra disorder.

Neji sighed as he looked over the plan, he really hoped the Hokage was one step ahead of the Akatsuki now, but with Itachi in the other party, his hopes were small.

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Tsunade was pacing back and forth through her room, trying to come up with a plan the Akatsuki wouldn't expect, which was pretty damned hard, everytime she'd have thought of a plan, she'd turn it down because she knew that the Akatsuki would mind that. She had to be not only one but quite a few step ahead of the Akatsuki, but how does a normal Hokage defeat the genius brain of an Uchiha?

She was in the middle of her train of thought when an ANBU member literally burst into the room. "Tsunade-sama, there's something urgent, you have to see this!" Another ANBU member, better known as Genma, came into the door, holding a person in bridal style. He put the person down on the desk.

"We found him in the woods." Tsunade turned to look who they had found, and her eyes gained too times their normal size in surprise. The person who they had found was muscular, pale skinned, and long raven black hair hung down his face in a very familiar way.

"Get Naruto, NOW!"

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Sasuke was cooking the rice as Naruto came downstairs, into the kitchen and hugged him from behind. "What are you cooking?"

"Rice and steamed buns." Sasuke said plainly, continuing his cooking without even spending a glance at his boyfriend. A tanned hand sneaked into the pan, got out a bun, and put it in Naruto's mouth before Sasuke even had the time to slap it away. Munching on his price, Naruto's face flushed in a dreamy way.

"hmmm, delicious!" He said, swallowing the bun at one time in whole. Sasuke looked at him in wonder, 'How the heck does he do that?' He smirked, it had been 5 years since they officially started dating, and no matter how well he had gotten to know Naruto over the last 5 years, there was always something Naruto would surprise him with…

Naruto was just about to get his second bun, when the glass of the kitchen window shattered, and scattered all over the floor. Both Naruto and Sasuke jumped back, trying to dodge the glass that was on the floor now, as two ANBU ninjas jumped in. Once they saw Naruto, one of them rushed over to him, and before Naruto knew it, he was swung over the shoulder of the ANBU member.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Naruto angrily yelled, trying to look at the ANBU's face for as far as he could. The two ANBU looked at one another, the other nodding to the one who held Naruto, as he nodded back.

"Godaime-Sama wishes to speak to you." The ANBU said, making his way towards the now broken window, as Sasuke butted in.

"And you had to break the window for that, you know, there something called a FRONT DOOR, you should try it sometime!"

-"You see, this is why you could never join the ANBU Sasuke-san, you need a stealth requirement." The ANBU said, stepping out of the window as if he did it every day.

"Yeah, good for you it wasn't an intelligence requirement, but even if, it's not like shattering glass makes a sound, oh no gentlemen, that was very stealthy indeed." Sasuke said sarcastically, waiting for the ANBU to say something back, but it never came. 'Sasuke 1, ANBU 0.' He thought.

"Well you can either protest, and we'll take him forcefully…" the other ANBU started.

"Oh, so this is not forcefully?" Naruto said from behind the other ANBU's back, making notice that he was still there.

"Well uhm…" Naruto could, to his disgust since he was over the shoulder of the guy, see the sweat breaking down the ANBU's face. Apparently, Sasuke and he were making their missing difficult because of all the sarcastic remarks. He blinked, before looking at Sasuke, who was just plainly smirking in amusement at the two ANBU.

"Well, I'll let you leave because I'm in a mercy full mood again, but if you ever break one of my windows again, or destroy my just cooked meal..." Sasuke said, referring to the forsaken food that was still on the stove, cooking. Naruto looked over to it, and saw some shatters of glass in it, boiling on the surface. "I'll not be so merciful. I'll go to the living room to get some peace and quiet. I want total silence, so you might want to think twice before breaking another window."

"That's ridiculous, we have broken a window already." The ANBU member holding Naruto retorted.

"Yes you have, but are you sure it's stealthy enough for your so called stealth requirement?" Sasuke asked in a silky voice, as Naruto's sniggering could be heard from the backside of the ANBU member. "You see, I'd suggest to take the broken window, since it's the same stealthy way as you came in, but that's just me, but since apparently I'm not one of the ANBU because of my lack of stealth, I totally don't want to get involved into thinking up how it's the most stealthiest way to leave." Sasuke threw the ANBU members once last smirk, before leaving the room, slamming with the door as he did so. "Oops, sorry for my unstealthyness." Could be heard from the other side of the door, before footsteps indicated that Sasuke was making his leave.

"…Unstealthyness, is that even a word?" The ANBU member who hold Naruto asked his colleague, getting a shrug as an answer.

"I shouldn't talk if I were you, stealthyguy." Naruto said, kicking his legs free, before jumping on the ground. "But enough fun for today, what does the old hag need me for, that you two required such a grand, and stealthy entrance?"

"Godaime-sama found something out about Sasuke-san, but because you were already there earlier today, we were sent to not cause suspicion."

-"Oh yes, and breaking through a window instead of just knocking on the front door doesn't cause any suspicion at all…" Naruto said sarcastically, raising his eyebrow in the process, "But anyways, I'll just go with you, just so I can hear what she found out, and to make someone pay for my window. I can assure you, with all the debts she has, and now a bill for a broken window, she will not be pleased."

The two ANBU members gulped visibly as the imagined what was going to be their future once the Godaime would know about the broken window. Naruto smirked, as he started walking towards the Hokage tower, after a few steps, he turned around, "Well my stealthy gentlemen…" He mocked, "are you coming along or not?"

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A/N: ºclimbs back on the face of the earthº hi guys, yes I know, it's a very short chapter, and it's unlike me to make them so short, but I was having a major writers block here, so I'm glad I wrote through that… a bit… yes I'm still in it, but I'm trying my very best to get out of it… I will finish the story damn it! Even if it's the last thing I'll ever do! ºgets overrun by a carº X.X I'm fine, really.
well anyway, stay tuned for the next exciting chapter of Psychic About You! (… I watched too much Dragonball… oh well, I'm done re-watching it anyways.)