A/N: At a temple in the far orient...
TG- Oh God almighty...
Kisame, Itachi, and Deidara- *half-heartedly* Oh God almighty...
TG- I pray for good fortune on my college applications...
Kisame, Itachi, Deidara- *half-heartedly* Good fortune... College applications...
TG- I pray to find a good scholarship...
Kisame, Itachi, Deidara- *half-heartedly* Good scholarship...
TG- And I pray that I am able to finish all the literary projects that I have in motion... Including my fanfics.
Kisame, Itachi, Deidara- *half-heartedly* Finish literary projects. Including fanfics.
All - Amen.
TG- Okay, now that that's done. I apologize for the late update, Life just comes so fast, you know?
Deidara- We hope that you enjoy the chapter, hm?
TG- Would you go away?!
Disclaimer- You know...
Amongst the smoldering remians of the Uchiha houshold there was a ruslte. From underneath a broken bookcase crawled a transformed Naruto, tails and all. The blonde groaned, "Oh... My head..." But suddenly Itachi ran by in a terrified panic, and the young alien-experiment changed back to his human-form. Meanwhile, Itachi had made his way through the commotion and ran to Tsunade, who was trying to get Sasuke into her car. He screamed,
"No! Stop!" Sasuke was trying to explain what had happened and had gotten to the part about the smaller alien,
"..And one of them was blue! Not like my friend Kisame-blue, but sea-blue!" Tsunade shook her head and sighed,
"Alright, alright Sasuke. Poor kid probably got hit on the head...", as she closed the door behind the navy blunette. At that time, Itachi came over and pleaded,
"Please... Don't do this." Tsunade replied,
"Itachi, we both know that this is for the best..." Itachi's eyes were filling with tears as Tsunade kept talking. He then snapped,
"You can't do this! HE NEEDS ME!" Tsuande screamed back, fury in her eyes and voice, as she pointed to the destroyed home,
"IS THIS WHAT SASUKE NEEDS?!!" Sasuke had been listening from inside the car, and now he was truly getting the picture. Tsunade took off her glasses and softly said, "It seems that you need him a lot more than he needs you." At that Sasuke slammed the door open and ran into the surrounding forest. Itachi and Tsunade screamed,
"Sasuke!!" After a while of running Sasuke sat down in a small clearing. Shortly after, Naruto came along. The blonde whispered,
"Sasuke..?", only to get a cold glare as a response. Naruto flinched as he looked around and, very conviniently, saw a familiar, albeit burnt, piece of paper. He picked it up and walked over to Sasuke. The blonde held out the paper to Sasuke, who after a minute took it and looked. It was that same family photo that he had shown Naruto, only now it was burnt in some places. Sasuke's look of anger only grew as he looked at the picture. He then turned his eyes to Naruto and said, very low,
"You ruined everything." Narutto's eyes widened as he stuttered,
"B-but... I... I mean..." The blonde finally sighed and then showed his true identity: The red eyes, the long, orange ears, the claws, and the nine, orange tails. He looked to Sasuke with large red eyes. The pale boy eyes widened as he asked in a harsh whisper,
""You're one of them?!" Naruto nodded. Less than a second after, Sasuke's fist made contact with Naruto's face, throwing the blonde to the ground. Naruto hissed as he rubbed his now sore cheek, he then whined,
"Sasuke..."
"Get out of here, Naruto!" Sasuke commanded as he looked at the ground. Naruto replied as he walked over to the raven,
"Sasuke! Please... I'm.. I'm sorry." Sasuke snorted back,
"You probably don't even know waht those words mean." Just as Naruto was about to start again, there was a rustle in a near-by bush. Naruto's ears picked it up but just as he was going to push Sasuke out of the way, a high-tech net flew towards and captured them both. Both of the young teens were screaming for help all the while until a very perturbed looking Captain Zabuza walked over and picked up the net. He then deployed a type of palstic cage and emptied the contents of the net, while saying,
"It wasn't that hard to capture you, little abomination..." When Sasuke and Naruto fell into the cage, Zabuza smirked and stated, "And look, I even caught you a little snack." Zabuza then pressed a button on the cage which caused it to 'grow' legs and start walking behind the captain.
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Itachi had been running through the forest, calling out for his younger brother to no avail. After 45 minutes, however, the eldest Uchiha had to stop and take a breath. "I wish... That.. Kisame was... here... I'm not that good... at constant running...." Itachi kept on panting until he heard a mechanic whirr. He whispered, "What in the..?", right before the grey-skinned captain stomped by, persued by the cage. Itachi's eyes widened at the sight as he jumped into a nearby bush to avoid the starnge-looking man. "What the hell is this, Friday the Thirteenth?! Is my luck that bad?" Just then, Itachi looked at the cage and saw a familiar cockatoo-head and his blonde companion. Itachi groaned, "It is. Sasuke!!!" Itachi yelled as he followed a couple of feet behind the Zabuza got to his black ship he pressed another button on the cage and it promptly tipped itself over into a compartment on the spacecraft. Sasuke rubbed his head while Naruto was frantically looking around the compartment for a weak spot to break through. Zabuza went into the bridge of the ship and called,
"Haku! Start the ship!" The smaller alien nodded as he pressed the 'Countdown' button.
"Lift off in 11.. 10.." Naruto's sensitive ears heard the countdown and started to panic but then found a space small enough to squeeze through. With a lot of effort, he popped through but stayed on top of the compartment to see if he could get the teme out of there.
"5..4.." Itachi arrived just in time to see his brother in the compartment and Naruto trying to get him out.
"Sasuke!!" Itachi screamed as he tried to run towards them.
"3..2..1. Liftoff commencing." It was too late. The ship started to rise, the force of the exhaust flinging the eldest Uchiha back. Then, when the ship started flying, Naruto lost his grip and fell to the ground, screaming,
"TEME!!!" Sasuke looked on, terrified as his blonde friend fell to the ground and his brother flung away. He screamed as the ship flew off,
"Itachi!! NARUTO!!!"
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Naruto groaned as he woke up from being knocked out. He rubbed his hair and groaned,
"Agh, my head..." Suddenly, Naruto was whacked with a branch two feet away from his location. "Ow..!!"
"Show your true face, you awful little monster!!" Itachi screamed, holding said branch. Naruto frowned but transformec just to humor Itachi. Bad mistake. "AAH!! I knew it!!" Itachi screamed as he swung the branch again, making contact with Naruto's face. Naruto landed and then groaned,
"Please, stop..." Itachi grimaced,
"Why should I? You ruined my family! Sasuke and I would have made it if you hadn't come along!" Naruto stood up and started sobbing,
"I never meant for this to happen!!" Itachi flinched as he saw the blonde alien's tears. Naruto was still crying even when suddenly Yondaime and Iruka burst from the nearby bushes and the elder blonde tackled Naruto to the ground. Yondaime was laughing,
"Ah hah! See, I told you that I would be getting you!" Iruka beamed,
"Finally, it's over!" He brought out his communicator and sent a message to the Chancellor. In the midst of all the commotion, the aliens barely heard the whisper of,
"..Sasuke." Yondaime and Iruka flinched, with Iruka asking,
"He's talking to us! What do we do?" Yondaime responded,
"Just ignore him.", and turned around, Iruka following suit. Itachi, however, wasn't going to be ignored.
"..Sasuke.. M-my brother. Do you know..?" Yondaime answered,
"Err, ah, well... We don't know this..." At that, Itachi lost it,
"SASUKE!! HE'S A TEENAGE BOY, SIXTEEN, WITH NAVY-BLUE HAIR AND GORGEOUS BLACK EYES!! HE WEARS BLACK AND BLUE..!!" He stopped and pointed to Naruto. "AND HE HUNG AROUND WITH THAT THING!!!" Itachi spat the last two words out with pure venom, Naruto still crying, his tears softening the soil. Yondaime then sighed, walked over and began,
"You see, we are only here for him." He pointed at Naruto who now had another pair of handcuffs on. "We do not know about your brother." Itachi couldn't hold the moisture welling up in his eyes as he asked,
"So, that's it then?" Yondaime's silence was enough for Itachi to fall down to the ground in tears. All three of the aliens look on as the elder brunette sobbed out his long list of surpressed feelings. After a couple of minutes, though, Naruto had had enough of the sobfest. With a growl of
"Get off!", he shook Iruka off of him. He then walked over to where Itachi was and kneeled down besides him. He touched Itachi;s head with both of his hands and started,
"You two found me..." Itachi looked up, eyes already red from crying. "Someone who I like very much once said 'When you find family, no matter how they act or where you find them, you have to accept them. Through good and bad; Through thick and thin'..." Itachi was silent as he heard the little blonde speak those words. "You two helped me find... something that I didn't even know existed." Naruto's face turned serious as he whispered, "Now I'm going to help you." He stood up and walked over to Yondaime. When the two blonde's were face to face, Naruto held out his wrists and barked something in an alien language.
"WHAT?!" Yondaime screamed. "You think that after all this hell I'm going to let you go and help you rescue your cockatoo friend?!" Naruto let out a small
"Eenh!" It was quiet for a minute. Yondaime then said,
"Alright." He began to unlock the cuffs. Iruka screehed,
"WHAATT?! Your just going to let him go?"
"Yes, and help him." Iruka just stood there gaping as Yondaime took off the restraints. He then turned to Iruka and stated, "What? He's a great debater." Naruto, upon being freed, growled,
"It feels good to be free!" He then turned to the three elders, "So how are we gonna do this?" Itachi stood up and asked,
"So we're going to save Sasuke?" Iruka then sighed,
"Or die trying..." Then both Naruto and Yondaime chimed,
"I like those odds!" Itachi smiled a bit, wiping tears from his eyes, and then asked,
"How are we going to chase them?" To this, Yondaime smiled a smile that proved without a doubt that the two blondes were related.
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"One, Two... Three!" Iruka and Yondaime removed some leaves, revealing a large, sleek, shny-red spacecraft.
"Oohh..." Naruto cooed as he ran over to the ship. Yondaime smirked,
"What? You think we walked here?" After a few minutes, all four of them were in the ship. Iruka then stated,
"Alright, now everyone put on your seatbelts." Iruka stated, causing everyone else to look questioningly at the dolphin-alien. Iruka sighed, "You know what? Fuck it. Liftoff in 10, 9, 8, now!" The ship started to fly. As they reached the sky, Naruto exclaimed,
"Alright, Operation 'Rescue Teme' is on!"
TG- Come on... Just a few more chapters and we'll be done! Reviews always help people, I mean, Please?
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