You Only Mate Once Chapter 6: Too Easy, a naruto fanfic

A/N: Oh my god! After writing the last chapter, I had to keep writing. I didn't care if I was going to be tired as all heck the next day, I just HAD to write this chapter! Finally the chapter you've all been waiting for! Sasuke is checking-in this chapter. I hope you all like it!

I do NOT OWN ANY of the Naruto characters or the Naruto story. Itachi would be alive and happily living with Sasuke if I did. –sighs- Such impossible dreams… Anyway, thank you for those that have reviewed and please keep them coming. I love every single one of my reviews and they just inspire me so much.

Oh by the way, I wonder if you guys can guess who these first three people are? Hehe. Thank you and enjoy!

Ch. 6: Too Easy

Continuation of what happened but away from Zetsu's spying eyes…

"How many of them?" a voice asks.

After a few moments, a strong, tough feminine voice answers, "There are three of them, but only two are moving with murderous intensions. The other one is the same presence I've been sensing these past few months."

"So we have two who are going to attack and one who's watching," a different voice asks, sounding slightly amused with this little report. Besides being entertained, sounds like a trouble-making punk teenager that's always finding ways to cause excitement, not caring who gets involved or the consequences of it later. "Either that one is a coward or he just likes to watch things go by."

"No," the first voice corrects. His voice sounds smooth and firm while also sounding like a quiet, stoic boy in high school; not caring about the world, only his own goals and problems. All attention goes to him as he says, "The one who is only watching has no battle skills so instead he watches and reports while having the other two do the dirty work."

A small gasp is heard and it's from the same female. They turn to her and she says, "They're moving fast. They've already arrived at the gate. One of them just flew over while the other is having trouble climbing."

"Flew over? What kind of hunter flies? Is he using some type of weapon of some kind?" the playful male voice asks.

"No," she answers and that brought confusion to the other two males. She looks confused as well as she describes, "It's like he can naturally jump great heights without any trouble at all and…his presence is…different somehow."

"Different? How different?"

"Like…he's human but not fully human. Or he could be a vampire with very weak powers."

"A vampire? You're kidding me right? I can understand if it's a human vampire hunter with some strange birth given gifts or someone who has been training like crazy since the day he was born but what vampire would hunt their own kind?"

"It's the same as asking, 'Why would a vampire turn on his own kind and despise it with all of their being?'" Then there was silence. Not the woman or the other man said anything. After a moment of thought, the serious one decides, "We'll let them go and see what they're after. However, I already have an idea of what it is. Just don't wake him up. He's exhausted and needs a long rest. Don't wake mother or father up either."

This time when the woman spoke, she spoke a little softer with care, confusion, and concern. "But what are you going to do?"

"I am going to greet our guests on their way out. They're not entering this castle and getting out alive."

With Deidara and Itachi from Zetsu's view…

Deidara peeks his head out from behind the wall and he sees two guards standing in front of a door, the door that will be the last shield for the Kyuubi's reincarnation. Seeing that there only two guards and they're human, Deidara smirks and cockiness takes over his expression. "Child's play, un," he comments. Itachi stands besides him, listening to the blonde's remarks and calculating in his head of what to do next. But then his partner turns to him and asks quietly, "Hey, can I use some smoke bombs on these guys? Since there's two of them, one for you and one for me."

"This is not a game, Deidara," he says, being serious.

But he whines, "Yeah, I know. But don't you want it to be fair, un? Besides, my smoke bombs are really quiet. The only sense these guys are going to be using is their sense of sight. They won't hear these bombs coming, un." Since the guy is begging him and someone is bond to find them sooner or later, how can he decline? The vampires may be asleep but that didn't mean that their humans are completely worthless. They don't have time for this.

Eventually, he gave in. "Do as you please."

With permission granted, Deidara goes to his pack that's resting on his hip and he takes out two small little white birds. He kneels down to the ground and almost like they came to life, the tiny white birds hop away towards the guards. The blonde watches as his two birds make their way to the guards without being seen. Since the tile floor is white they blend right in. When each bird landed on a guard's foot, they exploded and like how Deidara promised, they were silent and the guards only had a second before becoming completely blinded by the smoke.

"What the hell?"

"Where did this smoke come from?"

Then they felt hits. Multiple ones targeting every limp on their bodies. Before the smoke even cleared, the two guards are on the ground at Deidara's and Itachi's feet. They didn't stand a chance, being blinded like that. But to be defeated so quickly is simply disappointing. The hunters would think that being the Kyuubi's guards, they should have at least tried to fight back an invisible enemy. Instead they took it all and are now unconscious before them. Pathetic…

"These were supposed to be the reincarnation's body guards?" Deidara wonders, poking the guard with his foot. "It wasn't even much of a warm up, un. This job is going to be done before we know it. Looks like to me we don't need that backup plan, un." But Itachi wasn't convinced.

"No. It's not that."

"Uh? What do you mean?" Deidara asks.

But he doesn't answer. Itachi approaches the door and then just stares at the door knob, calculating in his head again. He thinks, 'Weak body guards and other humans should have noticed us by now. Rather it's by accident or they already found out that we're here. This castle is too quiet. Something is not right. This job is too easy.'

"Deidara, give me one of your shoes."

Not a mind reader and was still waiting for his question to be answered, Deidara asks, "What? Use one of your own, un." But all Itachi had to do was look at the blonde from the corner of his eyes and Deidara instantly felt like those eyes are saying, 'Either give me the shoe or I'm gonna rip it off. You choose.' He sighed. "Alright, alright, un. Stop glaring." He takes his shoe off and throws it at the dark brunette in hopes that Itachi got the message that Deidara doesn't like to be bossed around. But Itachi just catches it with one hand and then uses the bottom part to touch the door knob. Nothing and that made Itachi all the more suspicious and Deidara all the more confused. "Okay. What the heck is going on?" Still no answer. Itachi still uses the shoe to push the door knob down and pushes the door open before tossing Deidara his shoe back. As he puts his shoe on, Deidara says, "Itachi, if you don't tell me what's going on right now, I'll-"

Interrupting him, Itachi raises a finger to his lips and the blond stops. When it became quiet, Itachi looks inside and Deidara looks over his shoulders. Inside, they see a room with the common accessories: a dresser, a desk, a counter, a book shelf, a closet, a bed, and a person sleeping on the bed. When Itachi looks at the dark figure on that bed, he becomes even more suspicious as Deidara becomes excited. This really is too easy.

The guards are too weak, there have been no alarm, no one else has noticed they're here, and there have been no traps as of far. What exactly is going on?

"Target locked." Deidara steps in front of Itachi and walks right into the room. Then Itachi sees a very skinny string being pulled as Deidara walks right in. But before he could say anything, the string breaks and the alarm goes off, blaring out loud sirens and flashing red lights. There's the trap.

Covering his ears from the earsplitting noise, Deidara asks, "What the fuck?" But his voice is being over powered by the alarm. Since there is now light in the room, Itachi, while also covering his ears, looks over to the bed and he sees a dummy. On the face is a marked drawing of someone sticking their tongues out and giving the peace sign. It was a child prank and they fell for it.

Then Itachi senses something. He looks up at the door frame and he sees a metal bar wall coming down. He quickly steps inside the room and the wall just barely hit him but now both him and Deidara are locked inside the room. Seeing Itachi, Deidara turns around to see the same thing. But being locked in wasn't the half of it. Itachi looks up at the ceiling when he senses danger and he sees arrow guns coming out of the wall and aiming at anything in any direction. If every arrow is shot at the same time, then there is no blind spot for them to escape. Seeing Itachi looking up, Deidara looks up and sees the same thing too. Then the guns fire. But Itachi quickly takes a big, deep breathe in and creates a circle with his fingers in front of his lips. When he blew out, a giant fireball appears and burns every arrow into ash. Deidara had to raise his arms up to protect himself from the hot flames. When it stopped, he looks up to see the arrows miraculously being nothing but ash. But when he looks at Itachi to know what the heck that was, he sees the man looking completely exhausted. It was like he used all of his energy to create that fireball and now he looks ready to pass out. Then it got worst. All of a sudden, Itachi's chest tightens and aches. He places his hand over his heart in reaction to it while the other over his mouth. He starts coughing and blood seeps through his fingers and rolls down his chin.

'I've only seen him use his vampire powers to heat up his serum when it's not defrosted. I never see him use them in training and practice and Kisame never mentions anything about him using it on their missions. Using all of his energy to create that fireball must have really damaged his body, un. If I recall correctly, he didn't even take one of his serums for the past two days. Did he forget to pack them or something? No. It's not that, un. He never forgets anything. He left them on purpose, un.'

Now knowing the real reason to why Itachi is suffering like this, Deidara looks back at the metal bar door and goes to his pack. That's the way they came in and that's the way they are getting out of here. He takes out at least six millipede sculptures for the three polls and tosses them at it. Once attacked, the bombs exploded and there became a semi-loud boom. Itachi stopped coughing, finally and look behind to see that the door is open to them. Deidara quickly yells, "Come on, let's get out of here!" Instead of waiting for a reply, Deidara just grabs the guy's wrist and pulls him out of the room with him. They ran out of that room and down the hallways. It didn't take long till they started to hear voices of guards coming after them. But from Itachi could sense, they're not human.

'What in the world is going on?' he wonders, confused as can be. Deidara doesn't have the sensing ability Itachi does so when he turned at one corner and nearly ran into a guard, he was shock to see him as a vampire.

'The fuck?'

"I've got you now, intruders." But that's what he said before he saw Itachi. When his flaring red eyes sees the beautiful dark hair brunette, his eyes widens when he recognizes him. "It can't be… Prince Itachi?" Then before Deidara could blink, Itachi gets out of the blonde's hold and his hand covers the guard's eyes. All the bomber could do was watch as soon the guard's head bursts into flames and Itachi pulls away to allow the guard to scream and collapse to his knees as he slowly dies. It took minutes but Deidara felt like it happened all too fast for him to progressed it actually happened. That's why it became a shock when Itachi spoke to him, breathlessly.

"Deidara, use your bombs, now!" Then he starts coughing again and more blood comes spilling out. Seeing him like that pauses the blonde bomber from acting so fast. The sight of someone as strong as Itachi fall this much is truly frightening and unbelievable, like a terrible nightmare you just want to wake up from but can't. But right now, that fallen man is asking Deidara for help and he needs to do something, NOW! Quickly, Deidara goes to his pack and takes out a bigger sculptor. This time, it looks like a spider.

"Over there!"

"Get'um!"

Deidara looks over his shoulder, down from the path they came from and he sees more guards coming at them, most of them vampires. If it's near dawn, why are these guards still awake? The Akatsuki bomber didn't have time to wonder on such petty things right now. Since Itachi is occupied and with his sweat-soaked, damp hair on his face covering it, the other guards didn't recognize him. All they see is a blonde, a dark brunette, and the dead body of a vampire guard. Deidara has to act fast. Quickly, he throws the spider bomb on the wall right in front of them and right when it was attached to its target, it explodes, hitting some of the guards themselves and blocking the others from coming any closer. It also made a hole in the wall for these escape.

Deidara was so occupied with his bomb, he didn't see Itachi wiping the blood away from his face and then bending down to the guard to take his sword for safety reasons. The blonde turns to him and yells, "Let's get out of here, un!" Then he runs out and Itachi follows him. Now being outside, they both can see that sky has gotten lighter. Very soon the sun will come out and any vampire that gets touched with the sun's rays will be burned to a crisp like they're supposed to or be totally exhausted under the shade. How is it that they're not?

Being outside, Deidara goes to his pack again and takes out a sculptor of an eagle this time. But when he tosses to it, he tosses it up and it suddenly expands in the sky, flapping its wings and flying as if it were a real live giant bird. Deidara jumps up and lands on top of the bird. Then he looks down and offers his hand to Itachi.

"You're not dying today! Get on!"

Itachi does jump up but he jumps up higher than the bird's flight level. That was because someone appears behind Deidara with a sword in hand and ready to slice the blond in half, or at least the bird. Seeing him rise higher, Deidara quickly turns around to see his attacker first look surprise by Itachi's sudden appearance and was just able to block Itachi's attack. But he quickly pushes Itachi's stolen sword back and this time attacks him. Itachi blocks it but the attacker still pushes forward till they're both falling down to the ground. The blonde bomber only watches as Itachi soon pushes his attacker off of him right when they were going to hit the ground. Both of them land safely on the ground with ease. The attacker raises his sword at Itachi, positioning himself in a powerful offense pose. One thing for sure is that he's a swordsman and from the power in his attacks and his stance, a very skilled one at that. Itachi positions himself as well before telling Deidara, "Go."

"Uh?"

"You heard me. When I tell you to go, I mean go. Now move it. You'll only be in my way."

But the bomber still looks reluctant to go. Sure he said that he would go when ordered to but that was when he thought Itachi was going to die after killing the Kyuubi and Deidara was going to be chased by the loyal human guards. How can he just leave a comrade in battle when it's obvious that what Itachi is doing right now is pure self sacrificing and suicidal?

The swordsman, then all of a sudden, changes directions on whom he's targeting. He charges at Deidara and the blonde didn't react fast enough. Using as much strength as he could muster, Itachi does the same thing as he did to the arrows by creating his giant fireball. Seeing the fire, the attacker glides back down to the ground and Deidara had no choice but to fly up and away from the Uchiha castle. If his bomb catches on fire, it's all over. He'll be the unfortunate one to explode into a million pieces. Seeing him leaving, Itachi stops his fireball and a wave of pain shots through his whole body. Sweat is already forming in the size of golf balls on his brow and his hair is sticking to his face like glue. He used too much of his vampire powers that he really shouldn't be using and without taking his serum for several days, he could either die or his body will suffer immense amount of damage; if this vampire is merciful enough to let him live.

"For someone to have such a weak presence as a vampire…"

Itachi wearily looks at the swordsman as he finishes, "you certainly have some power." However, thanks to his hazy vision caused from his body's deep desire to just give up, Itachi can hardly see this person's face. But by his voice, he could be a boy; too deep for a young boy but not quite a man's voice. It sounds so serious and cold, so much like his own. Itachi says nothing as he can tell that this vampire is possibly looking at him with monster red hungry eyes, staring at the brunette's weakened form. "I wonder why exactly a vampire such as you will go out of his way to save someone who would very much kill you once your back was turned."

'You don't know him.' Itachi remains silent, panting and trying to get some air in his lungs. He can tell that he has very little time left so he has to make this quick and at least try to bring this swordsman down with him if he really is going to die. 'At least I got Deidara to escape and return to the others. If I do die here, then that just means that I'll get to see you very soon after all, Shisui.'

Itachi raises the sword again and prepares himself to act on either defense or offense. The swordsman can tell that the vampire hunter before him won't last very long and he might make this fight a little boring. But at least he could be entertained with the fact that this hunter is even considering the chance he could kill him. It truly is entertaining. Enough for the swordsman to slightly smirk before making the first move. He may not see very well but Itachi could see that he needs to go on defense.

Cling, clang

It went on. The swordsman keeps attacking, not giving Itachi enough time to make an attack himself and only able to move on defense. The swordsman is pushing him back with such speed and strength, it amazes Itachi on how well his control is. The speed is great but the attacks are only strong enough to clang with his sword instead of breaking it. He's either toying with Itachi or he must really enjoy fights and just suddenly ending it would be no fun at all. Soon, Itachi's back is up against the wall of the castle and he only had a second to realize that. The swordsman then took the chance to go in for the kill. He thrusts his sword towards Itachi's heart but the vampire hunter only slightly moves to the side to avoid it. Now the swordsman sword is stuck to the wall. Itachi moves completely out of the way and by the time his enemy has his sword free, Itachi's already behind him with his sword high in the air for the swing. One slice off the head and it'll be over. But as Itachi noticed before, the swordsman's speed is incredible. He was able to swiftly grasp Itachi's delicate-looking, slender wrist that held the sword and swings his sword to cut Itachi in half. He does the same. Itachi grasps the wrist that's holding the sword and with both hands occupied, both Itachi and the swordsman are standing before each other, wanting to kill the other. But with the other holding the other back, they're pretty much just standing there with a test of strength. And yet because they're holding each other back and are this close to each other, Itachi is actually able to get a good look of his enemy's face.

But the face of this vampire became the most shocking sight of all.

The vampire before him truly does look like a boy. Possibly around the age of sixteen or seventeen. But knowing the vampire age rules, he's most likely somewhere in his mid thirties. There was no doubt at all that this vampire is attractive, like many others. In the small light of the new day, his porcelain skin looks absolutely radiant from it. It looks so beautiful, so flawless. It reminded him of how his skin used to look when he was a vampire. Surprisingly, his eyes are not red with the excitement of battle or the hunger for Itachi's blood. They are an onyx black color that is just like his voice. So firm and serious. His raven black hair compliments his skin and his small, round face so perfectly. It's shoulder length and the back of it appears to be defying gravity. Gazing upon it, Itachi had this urge to just run his fingers through it and feel how soft that hair would be between his fingers. But, he feels as though he's already done that. Most swordsmen that Itachi have met are tall and huge with big buff muscles on their shoulders, arms, torso, and legs. This one is a little shorter than him by a few inches and he has more of a slender form than a muscular one. But the muscles are there and they're visible on his body since he's able to push Itachi back. However, it wasn't the size of his muscles, the form of his body, or the incredible beauty that causes Itachi to take a closer look on this man. It was how his hair was styled, the color of his eyes, and how his face structure looks so familiar. Then it clicked. Realizing who he is, Itachi's eyes widen and his mind becomes a blank. A long time ago, there was someone with the same features this swordsman had. It was a little boy and he used to have the world's most beautiful, adorable smile.

"Sa..suke?" he asks, unable to believe.

Curious as to how this vampire hunter before him knows his name, Sasuke takes a closer look at him. Then his eyes widen and his breathe hitched when he realizes who exactly this man is.

"Aniki...?"

Dun-dun-DUN! Now what's Sasuke going to do and what's the rest of his reaction? Well just got to wait and see. Tell me how it went, kay? Till next time!