So this is chapter 5 ^^.
I got the question how old Naruto is in this story and he is 12. This is before shippuuden, even before Sasuke left for Orochimaru.
Hope that clears things up a bit :).
Warnings remain the same! Yaoi(boyxboy)
Enjoy this chapter ^^
Previous chapter:
Itachi has said he cared for Naruto. It meant a lot to the blonde, since no one had said that aloud to him. Itachi also warned Jiraiya, giving him important information about the real Naruto.
Chapter 5:
Leaving for the park:
Itachi and Naruto:
Itachi was packing his stuff, it was still early in the morning, but with the Konoha nins close it was better they left early.
Itachi looked at the blond who was still sleeping, knowing he would soon need to wake the blond.
Itachi stopped packing his stuff, thinking about yesterday evening. Did Jiraiya understood that he better not follow them.
And he wondered if Naruto knew how much he really cared for him.
Said blond groaned a bit in his sleep and turned around so he was now lying on his back.
Itachi stood up and walked over. "Naruto-kun, it's time to wake up". No reaction. "Naruto", Itachi said, while he reached out his hand to touch the blond to wake him up. He touched his shoulder shaking him a bit.
"Ugh, a little bit longer, Itachi." Naruto said half asleep. Itachi chuckled lightly at this.
"Sorry, we can't stay much longer. We need to leave early for the park remember? You still want to go there right, Naru-chan"? Itachi teased a bit.
Naruto eyes shot open while he turned around to find a rather amused raven looking at him.
"Ah that seemed to work, now get dressed." Itachi said smiling while he turned around to finish packing their stuff. Naruto closed his eyes while he stood up. "That was really mean though, Itachi." "Hm, what was?" Itachi asked not looking up from the stuff.
Naruto followed every movement. Not answering the question, Itachi looked up to see why the blond remained silent, only to see him watching him.
Naruto was taken aback as the Uchiha looked up and he blushed slightly, while he excused himself and ran into the bathroom.
Itachi closed his eyes and smiled at that little action, only Naruto was able to act like that. Naruto closed the door behind him and sat down on the floor. This was really strange. He kjnew the raven had asked him something, but his mind had shut down completely. Until his eyes looked back at him.
Then Naruto realised he had been staring at the elder Uchiha. He sighed, how did this happen. Did he really love Itachi? Or was it just some stupid crush? He thought back, at their first meeting.
Itachi has asked him yesterday if he had still remembered it.
Of course he remembered it. How could he forget. Slowly Naruto stood up and walked into the shower, while his thoughts run back to that one day.
Flashback:
Naruto was sitting on the bed in the hotel room, trying to focus his chakra right, just like Ero-sennin had said to him.
It wasn't working at all, besides that said sensei was out with a beautiful girl leaving all alone.
He was really a perverted sensei, but Naruto knew he could learn from him anyway. So he decided to accept it for now. Then all his thoughts were interrupted when someone knocked on the hotel door.
Naruto was taken aback by it, cause Jiraiya had a key, did he forget it.
Naruto was so shocked, he lost control of his chakra completely all his clones disappearing, while he fell off the bed.
"Dammit, Ero-sennin", Naruto cursed while he reached over his head, that hurts a bit now. He walked over to the door, reaching out his hand to open it. While cursing: "Next time make sure you don't forget your damn…"
Then he stayed silent as he looked up to someone else.
Two persons were standing in his doorway. One looking like a blue shark, while the other looked a lot like Sasuke. Naruto's eyes widened a bit, as he saw the sharingan spinning in those eyes.
He felt trapped, completely trapped. He didn't move, he didn't say anything.
Those eyes, that hair. He felt like he couldn't escape. Hell he felt like he didn't want to escape, until he heard a voice calling him out of his trance.
"Naruto-kun", the raven said coldly. "You are coming with us." The shark looked at him and the raven too.
Naruto knew they were strong, even if he fought them he couldn't win.
He was not so stupid to test it, besides was that person before him an Uchiha, with the sharingan.
Tough opponents, he knew cause he had fought Sasuke sometimes.
Naruto cringed when he remembered Sasuke. Sasuke had been the only survivor of the Uchiha then how?
Who was this person before him? "Maybe I should just cut off his legs and we carry him, cause it looks like he won't be coming out of the room.
It looks like he is a statue." The blue man said, smirking.
Naruto finally moved as he looked at both of them. Slowly he walked forward, while the Uchiha got out of the doorway a bit. Itachi had noticed that the blond had stared at him, but Itachi knew he had done the same.
He had been scanning the blond and was taken aback by what he had seen, unknown to the blond of course. When Naruto stood in the hallway, Itachi coldly said. "Its been a long time, otouto."
Naruto felt a shiver run over his spine, at the cold words, as he looked past both of the nins where he saw Sasuke standing, anger in his sharingan eyes, no. murder was in his eyes. 'Otouto… Sasuke was his little brother?
Then why was Sasuke so angry at the elder Uchiha.' Naruto looked back from Sasuke towards the elder. The elder Uchiha was looking at him. Naruto's eyes widened at it. Who was this person? What did he want..? Naruto felt scared but at the same time he felt safe, under those eyes. He felt safe…
End Flashback
Naruto turned off the shower, as he walked back into the room, he saw Itachi was standing near the window looking outside.
His disguise already in place. Naruto cringed at the thought, he was going to be a girl again. Itachi looked back.
"Ah, you are finally finished?" Itachi asked. "What do you mean finally?" Naruto asked back while he went to the mirror and combed his hair.
"You were in the shower very long, Naruto-kun. I was almost afraid something had happened, but I respect your privacy."
Naruto's eyes widened, through the mirror he looked at the back of the raven, who was looking outside again. "How long was I in there then?"
"Long enough that I would think that maybe you had drowned yourself." Itachi said softly.
"What!? Why would I do that!?" Naruto asked while he turned around to look at the back of the other. Itachi turned around, looking at the blond wondering what happened in there a bit.
Naruto blushed a bit and turned around. "I was just lost in thought a bit ok. Nothing to worry about." Itachi rose his eyebrow at this, lost in thought. About what. He had seen that the blond had blushed.
"What were you thinking about then?" Itachi asked. Naruto looked into the mirror to see those black eyes still looking at him. "Nothing important." Naruto said while smiling as he turned around and said: "Ready to leave 'Tachi-san?" Itachi noticed that Naruto had gone back to his usual self, teasing him again. "Always", was the reply Naruto got.
Itachi knew he wouldn't let the blond get away with it though, he would get his answer about what he had been thinking about. Cause Itachi knew it had been important. Naruto changed into a girl, they both nodded at each other as they left the room, walking to the reception desk to bring back their hotel key.
Jiraiya, Sasuke and Sakura:
Jiraiya decided to leave early, so they could get enough time to move to another village, waking up the pink-haired and black-haired early also, made them wonder a bit if something had come up.
Jiraiya stayed quiet about what had happened though. It was better for them not knowing.
At least not until he himself knew what had happened exactly. Jiraiya was waiting for the other two, to come and give their key back. He was sitting near the reception desk. He stared at the girl tbehind it, remembering last night.
He had caught him looking into a room. But she didn't seem to remember it at all. So Itachi had used a genjutsu on her. Jiraiya sighed, trying to think what the Uchiha had meant with everything he had said.
He already had send a message to Tsunade about it, she should know about it anyway. It was all just really strange. Then he looked up to see Sasuke finally walking to the reception desk. But from the other side he saw the familiar disguises from Itachi and what he thought was Naruto. Itachi looked up to him, giving him a small nod. Jiraiya remembering last night, simply gave a small nod back.
The girl looked at him and said something to the other. He saw that brown haired guy nodded. The black-haired girl walked over to him, while Sasuke was still at the reception desk, it looked like he had lost his keys, as he excused himself and ran back to his room.
The brown-haired guy simply returned his room key as he followed the girl towards me. Jiraiya smiled. "So… what do you want with me?" he asked at the two standing in front of him.
The girl spoke up. "You are Jiraiya, a sannin from Konoha right?" she asked. Jiraiya simply nodded. As the girl continued. "Go back. Go back to Konoha, and give this message to the Hokage." Jiraiya's eyes closed a bit and glared, wondering what the message would be.
"Leave this mission. Let Naruto go." The girl said. Jiraiya's eyes widened.
"Why!? Why would I abandon this mission? We came to safe you, you know."
Itachi smirked. The girl just smiled, answering. "I don't want to be saved." Itachi looked back at the reception desk to see that Sasuke and Sakura were there. It seemed like Sakura had already gave her key back, but Sasuke had still not found his.
Itachi took something from his coat and threw it to where Sasuke was standing. Naruto and Jiraiya both saw this. Naruto knew this was a warning for them to leave, as he saw the Uchiha react to a sounds that something had fallen onto the ground, as he reached down he picked up his room key.
Sakura shook her head, as Sasuke said. "Where did it come from?"
Sakura turned around to go to the sannin sitting there waiting for them. Jiraiya looked up and saw the girl smile at him, saying: "Take care, Jiraiya-sensei. Cya later." Itachi simply nodded. Jiraiya did the same as Sakura came to stand beside him, looking at the two leaving. "You knew them Jiraiya-sensei?" Sakura asked while the other two left the hotel. Jiraiya looked at their backs.
"Yeah, somewhere in my past I thought I knew them." Sakura wondered and looked at the sannin, noticing he looked kind of tired. She wondered what had happened, but decided to not ask it. He would say it if it was important to their mission.
Jiraiya had seen that no genjutsu had been placed on him. He was the same as normal, but at the same time a completely different person.
Had they really not known the real Naruto? Jiraiya sighed while he looked up he noticed the raven was also standing near him.
"Let's go". They were going to go to the next town. Jiraiya knew if he would abandon the mission after this, they would become suspicious. But he also knew, this mission was going to be a failure. He didn't want to be saved…?
Then he remembered the Naruto from Konoha. The goofy ninja asking for attention wherever he went. The small kid that was teased, bullied, left alone. And now he had someone beside him, watching over him.
The three of them were walking towards the exit of the small town. They were all silent.
Jiraiya wondered if they had suspicions anyway. But they still all remained silent. 'Naruto? Have you really changed so much…? Or.. was Itachi telling the truth? Do we really not know you..? The real you.'
Next chapter will be the park ^^, pls look forward to it. And i want to thank everyone for their nice reviews :D!
