~The Black Leaf~ Chapter 3: Mission Complete!

A/N: Sorry for the wait! By the way, before you read, my Itachi is not cryptic. (What cryptic means? LOL! ppl!) Oh and sorry for the short chapter :(

Disclaimer: Do I look like I own him? Right, you can't see my clothes. I do not own Naruto! I just love him :)

Kakashi went out of his hiding place, and then the rest followed.

"It's been a long time, Kakashi-san, Naruto-kun, Sasuke.", Itachi said with an emotionless tone.

"Sasuke, I heard,", Itachi remarked, "that you killed Orochimaru."

"…."

'I can't move, I can't talk… Is this… fear…?'

"Where's that hatred of yours, Sasuke? Don't tell me you fear me now. You want to avenge that clan of yours, right? You can never do that when you're afraid.", Itachi said.

'Don't listen to his lies… I have to talk if we want him to go back… Talk, Sasuke, talk!'

"I don't want to avenge the clan anymore.", Sasuke managed to say.

"And why?"

"I don't want to… because-", Sasuke bit his lip. He didn't want to go any further than that. He looks to his sensei. Kakashi nods and continues Sasuke's sentence.

'Sasuke's scared?', Naruto thought.

'It's natural for Sasuke to be scared of him. After all… He is the savior and the murderer. ', Sakura thought.

"Because you did it for his sake.", this almost, almost caught Itachi off guard.

"What do you mean?", Itachi said with no change of emotion.

'What amazing self-control…', they thought.

"Don't pretend that you don't know this, Itachi, you killed the clan for a reason.", Kakashi said.

"The only reason I have for killing the clan is testing my capacity, and Sasuke was still too young for that, that's why I let him live. For my sake alone."

"That's the fake reason. You did it so there wouldn't be a Fourth Great Ninja War. And for my sake, too…", Sasuke murmured, but everyone heard it.

"And where is this nonsense all coming from?", Itachi asks. He's so hard.

"The village elders.", Kakashi said. Itachi was slightly surprised.

'Danzo… he must be the source of this. He'll pay for this.', Itachi thought. He sighs in defeat. He knew that they were now trying to say to go back to the village.

Team Seven sighed in relief. Lord, it was finally over.

Then they suddenly remembered something else that the old man said.

'Itachi has a disease going on for months now. Apparently, it's a disease that eats away your chakra reserves and your stamina becomes very low. It slowly kills you and only some people can survive it for more than a month. There are hardly strong-willed persons like him.'

"Fine. I'll go back to the village.", Itachi said, but with a gentle voice. Then, he deactivates his Sharingan.

'A while ago, he seemed so cold and now he's so gentle. He's so unpredictable.', they all sweat dropped.

"Wait! Itachi, before we go, can you still walk?", Sakura said suddenly.

"I can still walk.", Itachi said.

"Are you sure, Nii-san?", Sasuke says worriedly.

"Yes, I'm sure. Sasuke, we'll have to talk later."

"Before you go in a private talk with Sasuke, you need to see Tsunade-sama first.", Kakashi said.

"Understood."

"All right! Mission complete!", Naruto said happily.

They all went back to the village with Itachi.

~End of third chapter.~

A/N: Ok, first of all, I honestly think it's bad. And if you're complaining how short it is, it's okay. But, I didn't have much time to do this, trust me. I'm rushing because in 10 days, I'll go to school again and I want to finish this in time. Anyway, I think this fic will end in one or two chapters, then I'm going to start a new story called "In the World Once Again" (summary is at my bio) I guess that's all for now. Sana naman na gustuhan niyo, dahil ako hindi talaga. (Translation: I hope that you all liked this, because I certainly don't.)