Chapter 19 is up :)
I have been writing a lot xD.
Thanks for the nice reviews ^^!
I'm thinking that it won't be long before we reach the end of this story :) think it will be around 30 chapters, but we will see :)
So like I said, we got another twist in this chapter :P
It was hard to decide which way i wanted the story to go, but i made up my mind :)
Hope you like it and enjoy it ^^

Previous chapter:
Naruto and Itachi leave the Akatsuki base after they had seen Tsunade off.
They asked Konan to transport them to Konoha quickly, since Naruto didn't get real approval to leave the base. Naruto had seemed to have kept a secret from Itachi.

Chapter 19:
The Secret's out.

Konoha:
Sasuke's house:

Sasuke looked up at the blond. Slowly he stood up, his head was still hurting, then he remembered the girl. "Wait? You were that girl?" Sasuke asked in shock.

Naruto laughed. "Yeah that was me alright, idiot." Naruto then looked towards the other. Itachi too had discarded their disguise. Sasuke followed his gaze and his eyes went wide.

"Itachi…" he said softly.
"Hello Sasuke.. it's been some time."
Then Sasuke glared at him, anger, hurt, and tears were visible in his eyes.
"YOU!" Sasuke screamed, but then he let himself fall on his knees, as he cried.

Naruto looked at the younger Uchiha in front of him and then he looked back at Itachi.
"I will leave you two alone for now. Just talk with each other, you have a lot to catch up with I suppose." Naruto then walked towards the door and left.

Itachi had tried to call him back, but of course, Naruto shook his head at him and smiled, before leaving the house in his disguise.

Itachi then sighed and turned back to look at Sasuke, who was looking up at him. Tears rolling down his face. Itachi moved forward and let himself fall on his knees in front of his little brother.

"Sasuke.. I am sorry. I am sorry that I lied. I just couldn't find the strength to take your life…" Itachi said, as he bowed his head down and looked at the floor underneath him. He couldn't face Sasuke's eyes. He couldn't stand seeing that hurt in it, knowing he had put it there.

Sasuke looked at Itachi, until Itachi broke his eye contact and looked down.
"Why…? Why couldn't you just have told me the truth…" Sasuke said, softly, trying to keep his emotions in check.

Itachi looked up, his eyes sad. "You were so young. It was a burden you didn't need to bear, Sasuke."

"And you did!?" Sasuke screamed at Itachi. "You were not much older than I am now!"

Itachi cringed. That was true. Itachi had also being young at that time, but still…
"You were only 13, Itachi!" Sasuke almost screamed. "Only 13…" Sasuke then whispered.
Itachi closed his eyes and moved closer to his younger brother, as he hugged him.

Sasuke lets Itachi close as he feels his brothers arms around him. "If I had known… I have been such a fool." Sasuke whispered to Itachi.

"No, Sasuke. I have been the fool." Itachi said back, as he held him close, not wanting to let him go.
The siblings simply hold each other. They both knew the truth now.

"It's ok. It was not your choice…" Sasuke said. "I forgive you… even if it hurts me I always wanted to forgive you, deep down inside me…"

Itachi smiled, as he buried his head inside Sasuke's neck.
"Thank you, Sasuke." He said softly. "That is all I can ask of you. Your forgiveness."

Sasuke felt how hurt Itachi had been. It had been a terrible burden indeed. And Itachi had been carrying it all alone.

"You know." Sasuke said.
"Hm.?" Itachi replied.
"I believe we need to thank Naruto." Sasuke finished while he laughed a bit.

Itachi smiled. "Yes. I do believe we need to thank him." Itachi pulled back a bit to look at his brother's face. Then he stood up and stretched out his hand towards Sasuke.

"Anyway, Itachi?" Sasuke asked. Itachi looked down at him, wondering what he wanted to ask.
"What is your relationship with Naruto?" Itachi's eyes widened a bit, that question had taken him aback.

"Well…" Itachi then looked the other. When Sasuke noticed it he smiled. He had been right. He had been awake when he had heard Itachi and Naruto talk. They were talking like they were a couple.

"Never mind, forget I asked it." Sasuke said as he grabbed Itachi's hand. Itachi looked back at his younger sibling. But he saw the younger one knew about their relationship.
Itachi pulled him back up and gave a nod.
"Shall we go look for him then?" Itachi asked, as he put his disguise back on.

Sasuke gave a small nod, as they left the house, searching for the blond.

Naruto/Michiyo(naruto's female disguise):
Naruto knew it was better for the two of them to be alone with this.
Naruto wanted Itachi to be happy, no matter what. He wanted Itachi to be free.

Naruto looked back at the house they were in. He would make sure that Itachi would get his life back on track. Nothing else matters.

Naruto walked forward and then noticed that Sakura, Ino and Hinata were talking with Neji, Lee and Shikamaru now. He better avoid them. He started to walk the other way and looked up to see Iruka and Kakashi standing there.

Despite the warning he had given they had all stayed, just like he had thought they would.
The will of Fire burns bright, doesn't it.

The villagers seemed happy with the news that the Hokage was returning. She had not yet arrived though.

Naruto knew his time was running short. It would only be a matter of time before Konan and Pain would talk. He needed to leave Konoha as quick as possible, but he too needed to talk to Tsunade.

If she didn't arrive in time, he would need to talk to Jiraiya instead.
When he was walking through the city he noticed that no one seemed to care for the threat of war with the Akatsuki or the kyuubi. It was kind of stupid. He could easily kill and destroy them all.

Itachi and Naruto hadn't had any trouble getting inside the city. Foolish guards.
Naruto stopped and looked at the Hokage Tower, he was now standing in front of it.

"Hey!?" Someone screamed. Naruto reacted, cause he felt it was directed towards him. And of course Sakura came running up towards him. "You are that girl that pulled Sasuke-kun away." She said.

She didn't look happy with that idea at all. Naruto snickered inside. Some things never change.
"Ah, right. Well my husband is talking with him now." Naruto smiled. "Don't worry he is perfectly fine."

"Who are you anyway? Your husband said your name is Michiyo, but what is your full name. since you aren't from Konoha." Sakura said, as she eyed the girl in front of her.

"Sorry." Michiyo replied, as she bowed her head down. "But I do need to talk with the Hokage, could you arrange a meeting with the Hokage for me?" the girl asked.

"Not if I don't know the purpose of why you want to meet him." She replied.

"Any problems, Sakura?" Kakashi asked as he saw her and another girl having some problems.
The black-haired girl looked up and smiled. "Not anything of importance. I want to meet the Hokage."

"I'm sorry. That is not possible in this time. Our defences are at our highest right now. We can't let a person in that isn't from Konoha." Kakashi replied.

"I see." The girl said, looking a bit sad. "It's very important that I meet Jiraiya-san though." The girl said.

"You know Jiraiya-sensei?" Sakura asked a bit taken aback.
"Yes, and he knows me too. Say to him that the girl who met him in a park some years ago wants to talk to him." The girl smiled. "I'm sure he remembers me."

Kakashi gave a nod to Sakura, and a warning to be careful before heading inside.

Sakura looked at the girl, as the girl looked backwards towards the Hokage Stone Faces.
After some time Kakashi returned. "He wants to see, you can come in."
"ah thanks a lot." Michiyo replied, as she walked towards the door she stopped for one sec.

She turned her head and looked past Sakura. Hinata was standing there, with Shikamaru, Lee, Ino and Neji. They had called Sakura to come back and join them again.

Hinata was staring at him. Her byukugan was off. But Naruto could read her eyes. She knew it was him. He smiled at her and gave her a nod, before walking inside.

She would stay silent. She wouldn't say anything about it.
Naruto walked into the Hokage's office. Kakashi had followed him, to be sure she would go the right way.

Jiraiya looked at her. His eyes knowing who it was. Of course he had remembered. It was 3 years ago. When Naruto had made it clear he didn't want to be saved from the Akatsuki.

"Kakashi, you may leave." Jiraiya said. Kakashi gave a nod, although he was looking a bit suspicious. He didn't question or say anything.
When Naruto had heard the door close behind him, he walked further in, undoing the disguise.

Jiraiya watched him. "I would have to kill you for what you have done to Tsunade, Naruto…" Jiraiya started.
Naruto grinned and shook his head.

"But…" Jiraiya continued. "It was her own choice."
Naruto looked at him carefully, wondering how Jiraiya knew about that.

Jiraiya said down on the chair. "She was prepared you know, Naruto. She had left me a letter, in which she explained it all. How she would leave Konoha with your side. How she might never return."

"I see." Naruto replied with a small grin. "Quite clever, I didn't know about that."

Jiraiya smiled. "You aren't the only one capable of playing games." Jiraiya looked serious then.
"But I wonder Naruto. What game are you playing now?"

Naruto smiled. "I am sure you heard about the Uchiha's massacre?" Naruto asked.

"Yes. Sasuke came to me about it. He was quite upset that the truth had been kept from him." Jiraiya replied, knowing it would be the best to not lie right now.

"Good, that saves me time." Naruto said, he walked towards the desk and past him. He looked down on Konoha through the windows.
"What do you want then Naruto..?" Jiraiya asked as he followed his students gaze.

Naruto smiled, although it was sad. "You will find that out soon enough. I don't have much time left though."

Jiraiya rose his eyebrow, he didn't understand what the blond meant.
"I had wanted to wait, till Tsunade would be back, but it seems I can't wait much longer. The circumstances are a bit different than how I had hoped."

"I don't quite follow you." Jiraiya said.
"No time for a full explanation I am afraid." Naruto said while he looked at his sensei.
"Long story short. I brought Itachi back home and I will leave again. He doesn't know I will leave, so keep it quiet for as long as possible."

Jiraiya looked at him. "what happened? You got into a fight with him or something?" Jiraiya asked, remembering how close they had been.

"No, not at all." Naruto replied. "it's just…" Naruto looked outside, his eyes seemed distant. "My time is up…" He finished.

Jiraiya stood up and was going to stand next to Naruto.
"I will leave, Jiraiya-sensei. And I will never come back…" Naruto said, still looking outside.

"When enough time has passed I want you to say this to the Uchiha brothers, to Itachi and Sasuke."
Jiraiya looked back at his student and saw a small tear running down his face.

"Naruto.. why?" he asked. Naruto simply shook his head.
"Tell them. That I want them to be happy, no matter what.."

Naruto looked up at his sensei. "Let them stay here, keep them safe from the Akatsuki." He said.

Jiraiya had a feeling he didn't like where this was going. "You stay here too, Naruto. Don't leave."

Naruto shook his head again. "I got no reason to stay. If I have one. It would be Itachi."

"But I don't understand, why are you leaving." Jiraiya asked, feeling hopeless in this situation.

"It was all a lie. I had lied about wanting to attack Konoha and I think I got even Itachi fooled." Naruto laughed a bit at this.

"I want him to be happy. And I don't want to hurt him. So for now…" Naruto looked back up, his eyes were uncertain, but he felt like he had no choice. Running away the rest of his life for what he knew would come one day. He couldn't do that. He wouldn't run, not even from dead itself.

He didn't want Itachi to be running with him the rest of his life, cause he knew the raven would.

"So for now, make sure that Itachi doesn't find out. He mustn't find out about me leaving. Tell him I am in jail or anything. But make sure he stays here…" Naruto said.

Jiraiya looked at him. "What are you planning Naruto. I don't like this at all…" Jiraiya replied softly.
Naruto smiled. Although it didn't reach his eyes anymore. His smile was dead.

"Farewell, Ero-sennin..."Naruto said. Then a wall of smoke appeared and Jiraiya backed down a bit, but when he looked up he noticed that Naruto was gone, no his clone was gone. Naruto had already left the village…

Akatsuki base:
Pain and Konan:
Pain was still working on the scroll. It was almost done, it won't be long and they finally found a way. It took him three years…

"Pain-sama. Is that scroll..?" Konan asked.
"Yes. It's the scroll to seal the kyuubi." Pain answered as he let go of the scroll and looked up at Konan.

Konan's eyes changed a bit. "Does Itachi-san or Naruto-kun knows about this?"
Pain looked at her in wonder. "No. why would you ask that?"

Konan looked away, while she was thinking. "Pain-sama?"
"Yes?" He replied, as he eyed her. Something seemed wrong.

"Have you approved of Naruto-kun and Itachi-san leaving the Akatsuki base?" She asked, as she looked back up to Pain.
Pain stayed silent, as he tried to understand, before answering: "No, I haven't."

Konan closed her eyes. "Then we have a problem. They have left yesterday evening for Konoha. I helped them, but Naruto had said he had gotten permission to leave…" Konan said.

"What!?" Pain said, jumping up from his chair, as he looked at the girl in front of him.
"They left?" Konan only nodded.

Pain then looked down at the scroll. Why did they left, without permission. Had Itachi or Naruto found out about it?

Konan looked at the leader. "Pain-sama?"She asked, worried about him.
He didn't reply he was watching the scroll.
"One of them found out about it. But who?" Pain said.

Pain remembered that day he had talked to Naruto. They both had said Itachi would never know about that conversation.

Flashback:
"Naruto, I am glad you made your decision to stay with us. And you made some amazing progress with controlling the kyuubi." Pain said towards the blond, who was sitting on the ground.

He was tired. He was being pushed to his limits in these trainings. It had been one year since Naruto had said he would stay loyal to the Akatsuki. They had started training him.

But in secret Pain was trying to find a way to get the kyuubi out of Naruto and not lose control of the tailed beast.

Naruto looked back up. "You have something you want to talk about right? Normally today Itachi would train me."

Pain smiled. "You are quite clever, Naruto-kun." Pain replied.

His eyes turned serious. "I do have something I want to discus with you indeed."

Naruto stood up from the floor and moved over to a chair inside the training arena.
"Then start talking." Naruto said, while he drunk a bit of water after that.

"One day. I will find out how I can extract the kyuubi, Naruto."
Naruto looked up at him.
"That day you will most likely die." Pain continued, watching for a reaction.

No reaction came. Naruto just watched him.
"I am not scared of death, I wished for it in the past, Pain-sama." Naruto replied.

Pain looked at him. He was still so young, but he was a jinchuuriki. He couldn't escape fate and he seemed to know.

"You are wise for your age. Although you never showed it to anyone." Pain stated.
Naruto laughed. "You are the first one to call me smart too." Naruto said.

"I'm glad I got to live my life like this, here in the Akatsuki with these people. But some day I will still have one wish."

"What would that wish be then Naruto?" Pain asked.
"To see Konoha destroyed, before I die." Naruto replied with a smile.

"I see." Pain said, and answered his smile.
"You ready for another round, Naruto-kun?" Pain asked. The blond was tired, but he needed to train and he was training a lot. His speed had improved a lot. He could become a really dangerous shinobi one day.

it was almost a pity, he wouldn't live to become that old.
"Oh, one more thing." Pain said.
"What is it?" Naruto asked while he stood up, getting ready to spar against Pain again.

"Keep this conversation a secret for Itachi." Was all Pain said.
Naruto didn't even reply as they began sparring again.

-End Flashback-

After that he and Naruto never talked about it again. Itachi never showed any sign he knew. Otherwise he would have killed them all, for even thinking about extracting the kyuubi and killing Naruto with it.

"Pain-sama." Konan said, she was shocked by something.

He looked up and saw Naruto standing in his doorway.
"Naruto-kun?" Pain asked.

He simply smiled. "I guessed. My time is up. Right Pain-sama?"

End of this chapter. So sorry it is so short again T.T
And don't worry next chapter, everything will be explained!
Hope you enjoyed and till the next chapter ^^