Booyah, so much positive feedback thank you all! If ever you think the genre or rating should be changed let me know. I'm still not sure where I want to take this.
Instantly I awoke when I felt movement against my chest. I soon realised that it was only Sasuke waking up. "Niisan?" he mumbled tiredly, obviously his dreams had not been pleasant, waking up tireder than when he went to sleep.
"Yes Sasu chan?" I replied, sitting the both of us up. Judging from the sun or rather, lack of it, it couldn't have been any later than 5 am.
"I'm hungry." he said, rubbing his eyes.
"We'll have to eat as we move." I said simply, picking up the bundle containing the supplies. Really, we had over-slept as it was. The bodies would have been discovered ages ago. We had to move right now.
I had to piggy-back Sasuke most of the way. Being so young, there was no way he could possibly keep up with my pace. I knew it would, at the very least, take another five days to reach Amegakure.
At midday we crossed the boarder and I allowed Sasuke a few minutes to stretch his legs. Here, it was momentarily safe to stop moving for awhile. The Nin who were hunting me would be expecting traps, but I hadn't set any. Enough Konoha ninja had died as it was. Of course, the only ones following me would be those who didn't know what the elders had ordered me to do. The Hunter Nin would not be ANBU. Perhaps they were mere Chuunin.
"Let's go now." I said, coming up behind Sasuke, who was performing some leg stretches. He must have been serious about those cramps.
"Already?" he complained.
"The faster we get there the better." was my simple reply.
The next few days pretty much followed the same pattern. Though, not intending on taking Sasuke with me, there was very little food to go around. I had to eat very sparingly. Of course, after five days of relentless travel, I found myself extremely fatigued by the time we reached the outskirts of Amegakure.
After a short break, I took Sasuke by the hand and led him into the relentless rain. I soon found that Amegakure had a very advanced security system when I was confronted by a highly ranked ninja (judging from his chakra) almost immediately. I must admit, I wasn't concealing my own chakra at all. If my power wasn't exposed, how else would I attract the attention of the Akatsuki?
I already expected I would have to prove myself in combat before joining, but still I thought about the dangers for Sasuke. Was there somewhere he could stay? But I couldn't get ahead of myself, these matters would be addressed in time.
"Who are you, and what is your business here?" the clouded figure demanded.
"Uchihas Itachi and Sasuke of Konohagkure." I replied, still walking forwards, pulling Sasuke closer. "I wish to meet with the leader of the Akatsuki." At last I was close enough to see the other man more clearly. Something about him seemed to say 'snake' and he wore a distinctive coat. Black with red clouds.
Seriously, I almost smirked at his reaction when he saw the source of this threatening power was but a teenage boy.
"Leader sama says he wishes to hear what business has brought you here. Follow me." he replied, simply walking away. Sasuke gripped my hand in understandable apprehension. Something about this man repulsed me as well. But how had he known what the leader had wanted? Was he lying? Was it a trap? I rested my other hand on a kunai, just in case.
Just as these thoughts occurred to me, a barrage of senbon needles came from seemingly no where. My energy and reaction time had slown considerably, I only just managed to get Sasuke to safety before blocking with the kunai to protect myself. As I blocked the first attack, a second round had already been fired from another direction and hit me in the shoulder area and along my arm.
No vital damage had been done, but there must have been some sort of fast acting paralysing poison on the needles, soon I couldn't move my arm at all. "Sasuke! Get away!" I yelled before the effects took my voice as well.
"Niisan!" he cried, running towards me instead.
'NO!' I mentally screamed, but of course, he couldn't hear me.
'We won't hurt him.' a voice, seemingly from the inside of my head assured.
'Who-' I wondered.
'Uchiha Itachi? I am the Leader of the Akatsuki.' he replied simply.
'Why are you revealing yourself in this manner?' I asked, feeling my consciousness slipping away.
'I want you to join us. I have no doubt your ability already exceeds that of the Sannin, Orochimaru. He was the man you came across.'
"Niisan!" Sasuke yelled again, crouching next to me. Briefly, I saw an oddly shaped figure with the same coat Orochimaru wore. The figure addressed my brother, "Don't panic Uchiha, its only a temporary dose." Obviously he had no idea how to talk to children.
In my last seconds of consciousness, I felt my body being slung over Orochimaru's shoulder.
Again, its short, but I have a really short attention span, so there isn't much I can do about it. Sorry.