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~Four~
One day the skeletons are gonna come out
One day the Elephant in the room will make a sound
Watch out for lions and tigers and bears
It's about to hit the fan
Better beware
-Tell the Truth – Jussie Smollett
Naruto took a step back in shock. "Itachi." There was just no way. Last he heard Sasuke had killed him in battle. He walked over to the window and unlocked it for Itachi to climb through. Itachi jumped from the branch he was creepily watching from and came inside out of the storm.
"Not that is not nice to see you and stuff but aren't you dead?" Naruto asked scratching his head trying to whisper so Sakura wouldn't wake up. He didn't want to disturb her so he signaled for Itachi to whisper. Itachi was confused for a second why he had to whisper until he looked on the bed to see the sleeping pink haired konoichi. He stood there and looked over at Naruto. "Is this why we are whispering?"
Naruto put a arm behind his head. "It's nothing like that ya know."
"Oh no I'm not getting involved in that. What you do in your spare time is your bu- wait a minute? Isnt that?" Itachi interjected with a whisper.
"Shhhh!"
"But isn't that Sakura Haruno. The one who used to chase behind Sasuke ever since they were really small. How did you manage to-?" Naruto clearly getting irritated because he wanted to go back to bed.
"Itachi its 2:00am. The reason you are here please."
It turns out that the konoichi was indeed awake with her eyes closed. The only reason she didn't get scared on sight of Itachi was because Naruto seemed unbothered by him being there. He wasn't scared at all. In fact he just seemed sleepy and irritated. So she decided she would silently listen. Hopefully they would believe she was still asleep.
"Oh right. You're in trouble. The Akatsuki know that you're looking for Sasuke and they are headed this way to intercept and get revenge for you killing pain. "
Naruto walked in a circle around the room. "How many?"
"Diedra, Tobi, and Kisame managed to get black zetzu to agree to let him go alone at the last minute when he couldn't get any man power."
"Why are you telling me this?" Naruto asked confused that Itachi really wanted to help.
"Have you already forgotten our last conversation?"
**FLASH BACK**
Itachi stepped out of the woods looking directly at Naruto. "I know you're alone. Why don't you run?"
"tch! I could be one or a thousand!" Yelled out Naruto. "Besides, there's no way I'd run. If I capture you I can see Sasuke!" He charged at Itachi who didn't even move. He just looked Naruto straight in the eyes. Before Naruto knew what was happening crows were flying all around him and his vision was distorted. Everything looked weird as if he was in another dimension.
"You are already under my genjutsu." Itachi calmly told him.
"Fuck!" Naruto cried out realizing what just happened.
"Ill say this one more time. I only wish to talk with you." Itachi was looking like a piece of paper waving in the wind. It was weird. "Why are you so concerned with my brother? He is a rouge ninja."
Naruto yelled back "Cause I think of him as more of a brother than you ever did!" Itachi could see the look of determination on Naruto's face. "You want to bring him back don't you? What if he doesn't want to go?"
Naruto was getting angry. "ILL DO WHATEVER I HAVE TO TO BRING HIM BACK!"
"By force if necessary eh?" Itachi asked him " If all goes well and Sasuke goes quietly that's one thing but what if it's the opposite?"
Naruto was not letting his guard down. " What do you mean?" Itachi looked at him harder. "Well you said you thought of Sasuke as a brother. Well, I'm asking you what you would do if Sasuke were to attack Konaha?"
"Sasuke wouldn't do that! Those rumors are bullshit!" Itachi continued to hover over him. "Sasuke is still pure. He can be easily colored by anything. If that should happen would you be able to stop him? Even if it meant killing him? Could you weigh Sasuke's life against Konaha?"
Naruto straightened up feeling insulted. "I'D PROTECT KONAHA! AND FIND A WAY TO STOP SASUKE WITHOUT KILLING HIM!" Itachi had a small small that was almost un detectable. "You are such a child. You talk of nothing but pipe dreams… there are times when a ninja must make painful choices."
Naruto thought of when Jiriaya told him something similar two years ago. "SOMEONE SAID THE SAME THING TO ME BEFORE. BUT THERE'S NO CHOICE. I WONT GO BACK ON MY WORD! THAT'S MY NINJA WAY!"
Itachi looked him straight in the eyes and before Naruto knew what else was happening one of itachi's crows stuffed itself inside of Naruto through his mouth. "I've given you some of my power. Let's hope the day never comes when you have to use it." Itachi turned to walk away.
Naruto shouted after him. "WH- WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!"
"Im going now." Itachi started walking.
"YOU'RE AFTER ME ARENT YOU? THEN WHY NOT TAKE ME NOW?" Naruto continued to shout after him.
"I have something more important to do."
**END OF FLASHBACK**
"You told me that day that you were going to save Sasuke. I'm trusting you to do just that. I have a plan."
They discussed the plan in full detail for at least an hour.
"Ill be right back. Nature calls!" Naruto quickly said before running into the restroom.
Itachi walked over to the bed. "I know you're awake."
"What gave me away?" Sakura asked not opening her eyes.
"Even his whisper is loud. I have something to tell you as well. I entrusted Sasuke into Naruto's capable hands. I entrust Naruto…..to you."
She opened an eye. "Me?"
"What do you mean?" She quickly closed her eyes and resumed fake sleeping when Naruto came out the restroom. They finished detailing the plans and then Itachi left the same way he came in. Naruto quietly got back in the bed with everything him and itachi discussed on his mind. It all seemed to melt away once he felt Sakura snuggle back up against him the way she was before Itachi arrived. "I still say this is all a dream." He easily fell into a slumber.
The next morning Naruto woke up alone. "What the?" He could have sworn there was a stubborn Konoichi in the bed when he fell asleep. Where did she get to he wondered. He saw what time it was. 9:00am read the clock. "Well I overslept. I'm surprised my nosy father hasn't made an appearance yet. He pulled the covers back deciding it was time to go find her. He knocked on the bathroom door. "Hm nothing." He sniffed the air. "What smells so good? Smells like eggs and bacon!" He followed his nose to the other side of the room where a plastic box sat on a counter with his name on it and a note. Thank you for helping me last night. I really appreciate it. This is for you. Eat. I'll be right back. – Sakura H.
"Alright! Food!" Naruto didn't waste any time eating the food left for him. "She's a really good cook!"
He decided he would meditate until she came back in the room.
Sakura walked around the village staying close to the Inn in case she needed to rush back. She just had to get some air. "Oh my gosh! I actually slept in the same bed with him." She thought to herself.
"You wanna do it again don't you?" Her innerself showed up un invited. "You just LOVED the way his arms felt wrapped around you nice and strong!"
"That's not important!"
"Face it. You're falling. Hard!"
Sakura was getting agitated. "I love Sasuke!" Her innerself clearly wasn't trying to hear it but instead indulged her sarcastically. "Sure you do! So what do you think Itachi meant when he said he was leaving Naruto to you? "
"I don't know!" Sakura insisted. "Why sure you do!"
"It doesn't make sense. They are not even related!"
Inner sakura chimed in feeling bad for her clearly stupid dominant personality. "Doesn't matter. Itachi just gave you both his blessing. His seal of approval."
"But Why? He's Sasuke's brother. Shouldn't he be rooting for Sasuke."
"Itachi is also not stupid. He watched you when you were little chasing Sasuke and seeing it get absolutely nowhere. And now he sees you actually being happy. He probably couldn't talk sense into you then because you thought like a little girl. But you're older now. And it's obvious that Naruto is head over heels for you!"
"He is not! He's just being a good friend."
"Oh sweet one….you really need to get a clue!"
Kakashi was headed out the door to go find Naruto and Sakura to see if they were ok during the storm. He grabbed the necessary weapons just in case. As soon as he walked out of the door he saw Deidra and Tobi standing in a tree a few feet away. He activated is sharingan.
"Sharingan huh? " Deidra asked. "Ready to get to business I guess." He thought to himself "Let me size him up a bit first with some c1 level explosives." Deidra stuck both hands into his pouch and the tongues ate the clay and he cupped a bunch of little explosives in his hand. "TOBI! STAY BACK!" he shouted as he dropped the explosives. Kakashi made a chidori appear in his hand and threw it causing its pieces to slice into the explosives and surround Tobi. Deidra feeling statisfied not noticing tobi made a hand sign.
"TIME OUT PARTNER!" Tobi shouted!
Deidra turned and looked at Tobi. "Tch!"
"DON'T PULL HIM UP YET!" Tobi shouted up towards Deidra. "AHHHH LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Deidra quickly turned to see Kakashi coming up behind him. Deidra thinking fast released an explosive he kept with him causing a big explosion.
**BAAAAAANG**
Thinking his partner was dead Tobi let out a great big cry. "Deidra! Whaaahhaaa Whaaaaaaa!" He may have been strict but he was a good partner! I will never forget him! Deidra!" Just then Deidra dropped infront of Tobi on his feet sliding back. "OK WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!" Tobi looked at Deidra. "Huh? Deidra! You're still alive!"
Deidra looked straight ahead determined to see if his trick worked. Just then he saw Kakashi jump out of a nearby tree and land a few feet infront of him. They just stared at eachother.
"He's fast. I somehow managed to escape staying hidden in the bomb blast. Good thing I kept the chakra level at C1 ." Lets see about this. " Deidra said as he stuck both hands back in the pouches and stuck his hands out and let the clay just spit out of his palms creating to clay puppet monsters. "I think I'll play with you a bit!" He shouted. The clay figures made their way toward Kakashi. Kakashi tried to fight them all off with his lighting blade. The more he sliced through them they began to multiply and get bigger. Deidra laughed watching Kakashi struggle with all of the of the clones. "Ahaha not done yet!" Kakashi tried Tijutsu. It wasn't working. They just kept getting bigger.
"Almost time." Deidra said with a big smile on his face. Just then there was a puff of smoke.
"NO WAY!" yelled Tobi as Kakashi jumped out of the smoke and landed a few feet to the side on a tree trunk. "Just as I thought!" said Tobi irritating Deidra.
"SHUT UP!" Shouted Deidra The clay monsters ran over to the tree jumping towards Kakashi who took off running. He continued to dodge all of the explosions that the clay monsters were making every time one landed on the tree. Just as Kakashi was getting ready to jump out of the tree one of the clay monsters grabbed his foot and pulled him back as more jumped on him until he was covered in the clay and then it exploded.
**BAAAAAAAAANG**
'Hows that!" Deidra said looking satisfied. Tobi looked closely watching the smoke settle. "Guess the copy ninja is not so great after all." Deidra said. Just then a log popped out of the smoke and landed on the ground. Kakashi jumped down landing infront of the log.
"Yup! I knew it!" Tobi said as Deidra got more frustrated and turned toward him.
"LOOK TOBI, JUST WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON ANYWAY?!"
Deidra stuck his hands back into the pouches. "Substitution huh? Well he is every skilled. Which means c2 is my best bet." Deidra clasped his hand stogether.
"Huh, But that's?!" Shouted tobi just before there was a puff of smoke. Just then a giant clay dragon appeared.
"TADA! PRESENTING! ONE OF MY PARTNERS SIGNATURE PIECES! HIS SPECIALTY THE C2 DRAGON! " Tobi shouted. Deidra jumped on the dragons head. "You know what to do Tobi?!"
"Yes sirrieee partner! We're going with that?"
"Yep! That is the plan!" The dragon opened its mouth and a bunch of small clay explosives poured out of the dragon's mouth.
Kakashi thought to himself "Is this big thing also an explosive?"
"Im counting on you Tobi! Deidra said not sounding all the confident in his partner.
"Yes sir!"
"Judging by the way that thing looks it can probably fly to." Kakashi thought to himself before charging at it.
"HERE IT COMES! NOW LETS SHOW HIM! LETS SHOW HIM THE POWER OF YOUR POP ART PARTNER!" Tobi shouted at Deidra causing a look of disgust. "Pop is dead! My art is an explosion!" Deidra shouted as a mini dragon came flying out of the dragon's mouth and flew at Kakashi. It chased Kakashi around the yard until it exploded.
"This one was different. It was a guided missile.
Sakura and Naruto were gathering their stuff getting ready to leave the Inn when Kisame burst through the window.
"Just where do you think you're going nine tailed fox?!"
"Kisame! I was wondering when you'd show." Naruto said smiling.
"You killed Pain. Did you think we were just gonna over look it." Kisame said putting a hand on his shark sword.
"Get out of here Sakura! Go get the others." Naruto shouted.
"But!-" She started before he interrupted her.
"GO!" He yelled back at her. Sakura jumped out of the window and took off toward the house.
Naruto turned his attention back to Kisame and glared.
Kisame smacked Naruto clear out of the inn room all the way to the lake 30 feet away. He jumped toward him. "Wimpy little fox! Don't even think about playing any games now. He was about to smack him again when a Naruto clone in sage mode came up behind him and yelled. "RASENGAN BARRAGE!" Kisame went flying backwards but landed on his feet.
"Cute." I,ve got something better. Kisame did a series of hand signs. "WATER PRISON JUTSU!"
Naruto was trapped. He couldn't move. He was stuck.
"Well nine tailes you sure made this easy for me. I sure was hoping you would have at least put up some kind of fight. Oh well. Its time to go."
Just then Kisame was punched flying into the air at least 400 feet away from Naruto causing the prison to drop. "CHAAAAAAAH! HES NOT GOING ANYWHERE WITH YOU!" Sakura yelled out.
"Sakura what are you doing here?! I told you to go get the others. You were half way there?!" Naruto yelled out snatching her and running off headed toward the house.
"That's not important right now. We need to get to Kakashi." She said looking at him. He was looking straight ahead. She came back for him. She stood up to Kisame for him. She was brave for him. And in that moment he knew why. As soon as he had the opportunity he was gonna talk to her alone But first they had to get to his dad..
Kakashi and Deidra were both nearing the end of their Chakra. Deidra had enough chakra for one more move. Kakashi put his sharignan away.
"You've really retracted your sharingan! Do you really take me that lightly?!" Deidra snatched off his torn shirt. He put the palm of his hand on his chest and the mouth pulled at the strings on his chest revealing a giant mouth. Kakashi looked astonished. Deidra grabbed a bunch of clay and stuck it in the giant mouth. You could see veins forming on Deidra all over his body. And two strands of clay, one on each side of Kakashi.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed manically. "This is my ultimate art! This time I'm going to explode myself!
"He's insane."
"In death I shall become art itself! No one's seen an explosion like this! One that shall leave behind a scar on the very earth itself! And then I'll receive more adoration for my art than anyone has ever seen before!" Deidra yelled out before thinking to himself. "Sorry Tobi."
"Huh?" Tobi turned around and looked at his partner.
"But while I will be admired. You will most definitely be dead!" Deidra shouted out.
Kakashi tried to get up and move but he couldn't. They had been fighting so long he was almost out of chakra.
"THIS EXPLOSION WILL COVER TEN KILOMETERS! THERES NO WAY YOU CAN RUN FROM IT! TREMBLE! BE AFRAID! RECOIL IN DESPAIR! COWER IN AWE! AND CRY YOUR HEART OUT!" Deidra yelled before turning into a floating black ball.
"BECAUSE MY ART IS AN EXPLOSION!" Just then he exploded! Everything around was blown away. But at the last possible second Naruto had swooped in and grabbed Kakashi and snatched them upward out of harm's way.
They had to travel further out to get away from all of the damage. Yamato had to carry Kakashi on his back. Naruto, Sai, and Sakura followed behind them. Once they were a safe enough distance he laid Kakashi down and made a new house from scratch. "We have to stay here until he is good enough to travel. He's hurt real bad."
Sakura ran over and applied some of her healing chakra over Kakashi. "It wont fix him. But it will help. When he's better we need to go back to Konaha and regroup. Sasuke will be fine. Kakashi is more important right now." After she finished applying her healing chakra she got up and went in the house.
Naruto just stood there shocked. "For the first time he had seen her put Sasuke on hold. Usually if there was any kind of delay she would be in tears. But now, she actually said that he would be fine. Was she just masking her feelings for Sasuke? Was she just trying to sound brave for Kakashi? Or did she really believe what she said? All these questions were really starting to rack his brain."
"Deidra is Dead. At least he went out with a bang." Black Zetzu informed Kisame and Itachi's chakra holograms. "Oh dear. It looks like we have lost another Akatsuki member. And I really thought he was one of the stronger ones."Kisame said. Itachi just stood there watching not saying anything.
"He blew himself up. He tried to take Kakashi with him but the nine tails swooped in at the last second and pulled him out of harm's way." The black Zetzu said clearly aggravated.
Itachi thought to himself. "Naruto, Sakura, you did well." "How did the nine tails manage to get away from you Kisame?"
"I had him in a water prison and just as I let my guard down that Haruno kid ….. never mind."
"You got hit by a girl Kisame. It's ok. It happens to the best of us." Itachi said with a half a smile.
"Don't start Itachi! But it's funny I feel as if we've forgotten something." Kisame said directing his attention back to Black Zetzu.
"It looks like Tobi is dead as well." Black Zetzu said calmly. "Deidra had no regard for his partner."
"Tobi! That's what I had forgotten. It must have been quite a jutsu that Deidra set off if that escape artist Tobi couldn't escape." Kisame said sounding kind of sad.
"No matter. We can easily replace someone like Tobi. But losing Deidra is unfortunate." Black Zetzu said with no emotion in his heart.
"Don't get me wrong. I liked Tobi. He managed to lighten the mood of this rather gloomy organization. He was rather talented if you think about it."
"I must go. Let us try to mourn Deidra quietly." Black Zetzu said before his chakra hologram disappeared.
"And I shall mourn for the loss of Tobi." Kisame said looking at Itachi.
"You're that bored huh?" Itachi said before they both disappeared.
Team seven had gotten re settled into the new house. This one wasn't as big as the other one. It was still big enough to where they each had their own room but nothing more. Yamato settled Kakashi into his room. Kakashi wouldn't be waking up any time soon. Sai decided to sit in the living room for a little while and draw in his book. Sakura decided the best thing to do was to take a shower.
**45 minutes later** (Seriously do they get a water bill for this?)
Sakura came walking in her room wearing a pink tank top and white shorts with her towel around her neck. When she walked in Naruto was standing in her room facing her window.
"Seriously?" She said walking further into the room. "Really?" He said turning around. They had just shared a bed with her in his pajamas. This was nothing.
"How is he?" Naruto asked about his dad.
"He can be saved. His chakra's low. I healed the outter wounds. But there are still (she sighed because as she was talking Naruto was getting closer.) some wounds that need to be attended to by the hospital. But he'll be fine."
"I'm not giving up on Sasuke." Naruto said looking in her eyes.
"I know your not." She said looking right back at him.
"As soon as my dad is healed I promise we will leave Konoha again and I will get Sasuke back!"
" I know you will."
He let go of her hands and stepped back. "But before I do I need you to answer one question?" She looked at him as if saying okay?
"Why did you come back?"
"What do you mean?" She folded the towel trying not to look concerned with his question.
"I was in Sage mode. You had already made it half way there. You came back. Why?"
She scoffed. "You were under attack, Naruto."
"Yes but I told you to go to the others. You instead came back. Why?"
"I couldn't just leave you like that by yourself. It was too dangerous." She threw her arms up.
"Were shinobi everything we do is dangerous so what was it?" He did that eye thing that made her go weak. She tried to fight against it but found herself being drawn closer to him. "Why are you being like this? "
He walked closer to her until they were face to face. "Why did you come back Sakura?"
"I didn't wanna see you get hurt or taken okay! I was –"
He raised is eye brows for her to finish. " I was worried about you…" She said looking him straight in the eyes.
In that moment everything he suspected he knew to be true. She was starting to care about him. He smiled at her. He knew that wasn't all she was feeling but instead he said "Thank you." He did that eye thing that makes he go weak at the knees then turned to walk out of the room. She turned toward him and scoffed again. "Yes Naruto, I worry about you. Why do you need me to say it?" He turned back around and walked toward her. He wasn't playing games anymore. He cupped her face in his hands and placed his forehead on hers. "Because when I drag Sasuke back from the edge kicking and screaming like a little girl and deliver him to you I want you to remember the things you felt while he was gone."
In that moment it hit her like a wave pool. She had feelings for him. She was about to say something when he touched her face and said "Good night Sakura." He walked out of the room and passed by Yamato in the hall before going down the stairs. Yamato stood in the door way and looked at Sakura. "You know what you're doing there?" She looked at him nervously. "No….I don't."
Sakura tossed and turned. No matter which way she laid she just couldn't get to sleep. She sat up and sighed before she heard a noise coming from outside. She got up out of the bed and peaked out of the window. She saw Naruto throwing Kunai at a tree.
"He's still up training. It's late. He should be resting." She thought to herself before putting her cloak on and sneaking outside. She hid behind a bush because what she saw shocked her. There he was in the moonlight training with no shirt on. She saw his battle scars. She knew where each one of them was because she had healed them all. She watched his biceps flex as he threw each Kunai.
"Where those biceps always there?" She thought to herself. "Maybe I can sit for a little bit."
She had been sitting there staring at him for fifteen minutes. She bit her thumb. "I could get use to this view." Just then her thoughts were interrupted by a voice behind her.
"That's called being a pervert you know?" Sai said with a half a fake smile.
"Dammit Sai!" She whispered before dragging him back to the house.
Naruto never turned around but he knew she was out there the whole time. He smirked and went back to his training until he was tired and called it a night.
Itachi's plan within a plan
Itachi had this whole thing planned out from the time he walked into the Inn room and saw Naruto and Sakura in bed together. He only went over Naruto's part of the plan with Naruto which was to basically have a shadow clone in sage mode ready for when Kisame would show. Itachi knew when Kisame left so he knew when Kisame would arrive. He already knew that Naruto would try to send Sakura away because that's just who Naruto is. He also knew that by Entrusting Naruto to Sakura was going to give Sakura the boost she needed to do what was already in her to do. He knew that she wouldn't let anything happen to him. And he knew that by Sakura being able to save Naruto mean that Naruto could escape and save Kakashi. He saved three lives in one plan. He is a freaking genius!
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