[Edit: 02-09-2009]
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"..." Talking
"..." Thinking

'...' Kyuubi in Naruto's head

"..." Kyuubi speaking

Immediately after arriving back with Tobi and Deidara Naruto made his way to his room before Tobi stopped him, hugging him from behind.

"We're so very happy you're back! Right sempai?" Deidara only glanced to the side and grabbed Tobi's collar pulling him away from the other blond. Protesting Tobi tried to get loose but stopped when Itachi stood in front of him and chuckled slightly before running away.

Groaning Naruto kept walking as Itachi came next to him. They walked in silence until they reached the blonds room. As he opened the door Naruto couldn't help but feel relieved to see his own room again. Before he could walk inside Itachi placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder and hardly noticed that the other winced at the touch.

"I'm glad you're back, brother." Naruto growled as Itachi smirked at the boy.

"Yeah rub it in, if you wanted me back so badly you would've picked me up like last time." He walked into his room and slammed the door shut in the Uchiha's face. Itachi couldn't help but hide a smile; Naruto was hardly ever so stressed after coming back from a mission. One way or the other, the blond was fuming.

1,5 years later

Sasuke sighed as he made his way back to his house throwing his ANBU mask to the side as he reached the kitchen. He grabbed a carton of milk out of the fridge and quickly emptied it. He tossed the carton in the garbage and sat down on the couch rubbing his face with both hands. He was tired and growled when he leaned too hard on his right shoulder, Sakura was going to kill him for not coming to her right away.

Just at that moment someone started knocking at the door and Sasuke stood up to open it only to look down at a fuming Sakura. He cautiously took a step backwards as she started yelling at him for not coming to tell her he was back. She roughly pushed him back onto the couch and started healing his shoulder.

"You're always worried when I come back from a mission." He hissed when Sakura slapped the back of his head and glared back at the pink haired girl. Sasuke rubbed the back of his head before standing up next to Sakura.

"I've been worried ever since you joined the ANBU, selfish bastard."

Sakura left 5 minutes later and Sasuke could finally relax again. Ever since the incident a few years ago he had gotten even colder towards people. In turn everyone started calling him a selfish bastard and he had gotten used to it. As he sat back down he couldn't help but recall a few memories.

~~~~~ Flashback ~~~~~

Sasuke watched as the blond stalked around in his room. He was still in bed because he had been sick, but was gradually getting better. One thing that kept him going was Naruto who came by every day. He was probably feeling guilty because it was his fault that Sasuke had gotten so sick. Sasuke didn't mind much, the other was good company.

"You know..." Naruto began "The only other person I know who gets better as fast as you is me" The blond suddenly had a serious expression and seemed to be thinking hard.

"Oh yeah and also It- uhh, another friend of mine. He's a lot like you." Sasuke raised an eyebrow and asked about his friend.

Naruto only shrugged and said there was not much to tell about him. Sasuke studied the other boy for a moment and shrugged off his suspicions. It almost seemed like Naruto was about to say his brother's name, Itachi. Finally deciding he imagined it he leaned back against his pillow.

"Why is he a lot like me then?"

Sputtering Naruto couldn't think of anything to say and just mumbled something. "Well, he has dark hair like you and you guys act similar I guess. Only you talk way more, he hardly opens his mouth to even say hi or whatever."

~~~~~ End Flashback ~~~~~

Knowing how stupid he was then Sasuke only shook his head and growled at the thought that he had been right after all. Of course he told himself he was young and foolish. His thoughts were broken when his front door flew open and Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji came into his living room.

"Hey bastard you're finally back and you don't even tell us?!" Kiba flashed Sasuke a toothy grin and sat down next to the Uchiha.

"Were we interrupting something or did you just space out?" Shikamaru waved in front of Sasuke's face breaking his thoughts yet again. They started asking about how his mission had gone and Sasuke reassured them everything went fine. Shikamaru noticed something different in the posture of the Uchiha and noted to talk to him later.

There was a deep silence in the dark room where the men had gathered. They were waiting for their leader to arrive and some even seemed stressed. A few moments later another figure joined them in the room and greeted them. There was another short silence before the leader started speaking.

"As you all know, we have already obtained 6 of the Jinchuuriki and that as we speak, three of our members are after one of them."

A single member cleared his throat to indicate that he wanted to speak and was granted permission by the leader.

"Deidara, Tobi and Naruto might run into trouble. Is that why you sent the three of them after this particular Jinchuuriki?" A single snort was heard from another member, but several glares were shoot at him and he shrugged his shoulders.

"No not at all, I only sent Naruto with the other two because this discussion is going to be about our dear Naruto. Because it is our goal to obtain power through extracting the Demons from their vessels, but we have one problem. And that is young Naruto being one of them." Some small gasps were heard and the members started talking to each other beginning the discussion.

"He's pretty handy to have and all, but for power we do need him. Pity."

"Isn't there any other way?" Everyone turned to look at the person who had spoken so suddenly. Uchiha Itachi stepped forward, simply arguing about what should happen to the blond.

"He's too valuable to lose and even you know that Pein. We all know that without him we wouldn't even have already caught 6 of the Jinchuuriki. One thing I also know is how attached some of us have gotten to him."

Another silence followed as everyone thought about what the Uchiha had said, and everything had been true. Even Pein had taken a liking to the boy. He thought about it for a few moments before he started talking again.

"Fine, we will try to find a way to extract Kyuubi without taking Naruto's life, but if there's no other way…" His expression was enough for the other Akatsuki.

Nodding Pein took his leave and teleported out of the room. Some others followed his action, teleporting away. Itachi did as well and he was quickly standing on a mountain, looking over a large forest. He noticed Kisame next to him, but didn't react to the others presence. Even though he had forgotten most emotions long ago, he forcefully hoped there would be a way to save Naruto. He still saw him as his little brother even though they weren't related in any way.

Itachi caught a sight of blond hair from the corner of his eye and made his way down meet the three members, carrying a man along with them. Deidara immediately greeted the Uchiha hiding a slight blush as he approached. There was something about the man that was so intriguing and he almost felt his heart tear as the raven made his way to Naruto, who was carrying the Jinchuuriki.

The blond flashed a smirk as he dropped the man, who coughed as she collided with the ground. His gaze went up when he noticed Itachi was standing in front of him and flashed an even bigger smirk. The Uchiha studied the man for a moment before looking back at Naruto.

"Was one hard son-of-a-bitch to catch, never thought the six-tailed would be so tough."

Knowing the blond was exaggerating Itachi bent down to grab the demon vessel and walked alongside the others as Naruto starting bragging on how he had gotten him down with ease.

Deidara started arguing on how he had weakened him before Naruto stepped in. The two started bickering while Tobi was happily walking behind the others, when he started whistling Naruto and Deidara stopped arguing and were know only shooting angry glares at each other.

A few hours later Naruto slowly made his way outside, he had helped to extract the Demon this time and because of the Kyuubi's chakra everything had gone faster than usual. He sighed as he jumped up into the tree to stare at the star filled sky. It didn't take long before he noticed another presence close and turned to see Deidara on the roof.

Wanting to be alone he made no move to approach the other man. Deidara had also noticed the others presence, but left him alone to ponder in his own thoughts. Biting a fingernail he thought about a certain someone before cursing as he thought how close he was to Naruto. He would have to remind himself to ask the blond about Itachi. He hardly noticed as the Uchiha also appeared on the roof.

"Go- Good evening Itachi." Was all he could manage to say and his eyes followed the raven as he sat down next to him. Itachi only grunted in response as he looked up at the stars. Deidara gulped when he noticed how close the other was to him and prayed he wouldn't do something stupid. He gasped as the raven leaned over and he could feel his warm breath run down his neck.

He whispered something in the blonds' ear before leaning over further to place his lips on the others. Naruto nearly chocked holding his laughter when he saw Itachi lean over. He had suspected that Itachi had liked Deidara one way or the other and smirked at the sight of them making out on the roof.

Knowing he couldn't contain his laughter much longer and decided to surprise the two of them. He jumped over to the roof and giggled when they two didn't notice him right away. They looked up at the blond in front of them and Deidara yelped before blushing furiously. Naruto laughed at the sight of them and winked.

"Congratulations on hooking up!"

Quickly he jumped off the roof before Itachi decided to strangle him, he knew how much the Uchiha hated being interrupted and knew that he was going to have one pissed man in his room later that night. Instead Deidara came to his room still rather flushed. He was mumbling something about never being so embarrassed before. Naruto stopped him by placing his finger on Deidara's lips.

"I'm sorry because I know you've had a crush on me for a while and-"

Deidara was stopped again by Naruto who started shaking his hands. "No stop Deidara, you should know that I've gotten over that like, three years ago?" Deidara nodded and tried to smile. Naruto only smirked and punched the others shoulder, telling him everything was ok.

'As if kit, we both know you're lying.'

Naruto winced as Kyuubi started talking and quickly dismissed Deidara. 'I know you still think about him at night, when you're alone.'

"Shut up!" Naruto covered his face with his pillow as he heard the demon laugh in his mind. There was no way he was even going to deny what the fox had said and chose to ignore further remarks. It didn't take long before he fell asleep.

Naruto woke up when his alarm started ringing. He groaned as he looked at the time, set on 7:15. He dressed and made his way through the hideout before stopping as Itachi called his name. He turned around and looked at the Uchiha as he explained they were all going to leave to catch the Jinchuuriki in the Sand.

"Why all of us?" He crossed his arms as the older man started telling him that this one was the Kazekage of the village and they would need a distraction to get to him. Naruto smirked as he asked when they were planning to leave and Itachi only shrugged and left Naruto alone again.

Sighing Naruto went to get some fresh air, it was probably going to be a long week.

Sasuke groaned as someone started knocking on his door and he got up off his bed before walking downstairs to open the door. Sakura was on his doorstep and told him that the Hokage wanted to see him in an hour, not earlier and not later. Sakura then left and Sasuke closed the door before sighing.

An hour later he was in the Hokage's room with a couple of other ANBU.

"You all are going to the Sand, there have been rumors that the Akatsuki are planning to try and kidnap the Kazekage and has asked for aid. I have also heard that a man from Kirigakure was kidnapped. He was the holder of the six-tailed demon."

Tsunade explained that they were to stay for a month and that they were expected by the end of the week. She told them to prepare themselves and then dismissed them. Sasuke waited until everyone was gone before he turned back to the Hokage, who was already prepared for his question.

"Is there a chance that you know… If Naruto was amongst the Akatsuki who kidnapped that man?"

"Yes Sasuke, he also aided in capturing more people." She watched the boy gulp as he slowly nodded before leaving her. Shizune entered the room and asked Tsunade if it was smart to send Sasuke along with the others because of the chance he would see Itachi and Naruto. She sighed when the woman winked and asked for some sake. Typical... Shizune thought as she went to get some sake.

Sasuke looked over the Sand village as he stood on top of the Kazekage mansion. There wasn't much to see except houses and sand. He never really liked the sand country way too hot for his own taste. It felt like he was melting in his ANBU garments and his mask wasn't helping either.

He slowly made his way down and jumped inside through an open window. He watched as Gaara and Shikamaru turned to him and his onyx eyes collided with Gaara's emerald ones. Shikamaru crossed his arms and huffed.

"Took you long enough, this is all such a drag because it's way too hot."

Watching his companion leave the room Sasuke leaned against the wall and slipped off his mask, he wouldn't be needing it in here. Gaara knew who he was anyway and he felt relief as he ran his hand through his raven hair. They had already been there for 3 days and nothing had happened yet.

"So Gaara, how's life treating you?" Sasuke looked up and eyed the Kazekage, who wasn't much of a speaker.

"Fine, the only problem is that the Akatsuki is probably coming to take me and extract the demon from my body which will definitely kill me. But aside from that nothing new." The red head shrugged and stood up and offered Sasuke a glass of water, which he gratefully took.

Gaara frowned as he sat back down. "I also heard that a certain blond was spotted outside the village yesterday."

Sasuke almost felt his heart stop and coughed causing water to drip out of his mouth. He couldn't help but stare at the wall him front of him. The thought of seeing Naruto again, he really couldn't help but feel his heart jump for joy as soon as the words had left Gaara's mouth.

Then the door opened and Temari entered the room greeting the two men. Gaara immediately stood up and glared at his sister. "I don't feel like going Temari. Now go away."

The two started arguing and forgot Sasuke for the time being until he spoke. "Just go Gaara, better than being locked up in this damn room for the rest of the day. I don't mind going with you at all, Kiba's downstairs anyway he'll probably come too."

Temari's mouth dropped open as the Uchiha finished talking and nearly gripped her hair in confusion. Was Sasuke talking? In full sentences? She couldn't believe her ears.

"Since when did you start talking so much?"

"Hn." Was her only reply. She sighed – she was once again back to base one, replies in the form of grunts and shrugs.

Leading the way Temari walked out of the room and Gaara and Sasuke followed her, after said raven had put his mask back on. He explained to Kiba that they were going somewhere and the brunet gladly joined them. Akamaru followed his owner as they walked off. Suddenly Gaara stopped and said he had forgotten something in his room.

Sasuke asked where it was and went back to grab a big yellow envelope. "What in the world is in this thing, it's heavy!" Jumping out of the window again he joined the rest, but the second they started walking again several explosions erupted through the city and villagers were running in panic.

"Kiba stay with Gaara!"

Said man nodded and Akamaru barked in agreement. Sasuke knew exactly what was happening, the Akatsuki had finally come. He hoped he wouldn't encounter his brother but there was a small voice inside him that knew if Naruto was there too he would be with Itachi. All Sasuke had to do was find them to drive them away.

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