Musical Hands: chapter 5

Summary: He heard the unique and soulful melody on the nights of his border patrols. He's listened for the past 4 years, till it stopped for three years. Believing that the conductor had passed, that was until he heard the beautiful melody once more. This time the music affected him emotionally as the musician for the first time played from the heart. What awaits Kakashi as his curiosity gets the best of him and hunts down the creator?

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"Itachi…" Naruto's eyes were wide and brimmed lightly with surprise. "What are you doing here?"

Itachi made no move as he held the two cups of tea when he replied from the kitchen. "Jiraiya-sama sent word to me about your predicament. Granted, I didn't think the Sandaime's seal would wear of so quickly, but I am here as your teacher whenever I am free." The blonde still hadn't made a move with Itachi further explaining. "If you're wondering about Kisame, I've placed him in a genjutsu 20 miles from here and I've hidden Kisame well. Nobody but you, Jiraiya-sama and I know about this meeting. I've made sure of this, as well as Jiraiya-sama."

Naruto took a step forward and whispered hopefully. "What about the Akatsuki?" seeing his lack of Akatsuki cloak.

Itachi took her hesitant step forward as his cue to move closer to her and did so. Standing before her and held out a cup towards her. "In this house and on this land, we are not enemies Naruto."

"Then what are we?" Naruto looked up into Itachi's obsidian eyes with her own. Those were the eyes of the protector she trusted before the Uchiha massacre. Those were the eyes of her only friend before he was labelled a missing-nin and a dangerous criminal. Naruto was heartbroken when they first met each other after being separated for so long, only to have him wanting to capture him…and then place his little brother in a mind-taunting genjutsu. Naruto didn't know what to believe with this contradicting Uchiha.

Itachi blinked and stared at Naruto deep in thought before replying to the girl he had sworn to the Sandaime Hokage to protect. "The Akatsuki haven't caught you and were never close doing so. Have you ever thought to as why they haven't touched you, Naruto?"

Tears spilled from Naruto's eyes. "Because you'll always protect me…" closing her eyes as she remembered the words Itachi had whispered to her the night he murdered his family and placed her in a deep sleep. She opened her eyes and smiled warmly up to her hidden protector. "Welcome home, Itachi."

Itachi allowed himself to smile in Naruto's presence and handed her the tea he made. "I'm home. Come, we have much to discuss." Walking towards the lounge area, but was halted as a pair of slim arms wrapped around his torso. Itachi looked over his shoulder to Naruto and saw the happiness radiating off her face and allowed her to hug him. "It's been a while, hasn't it, Naruto?"

"Too long you moron." Naruto snorted and followed Itachi into the lounge area and sat beside him with her legs tucked under her rear. She had an excited look on her face as she asked. "So, what are you doing here then?"

Itachi arched a slender brow. "Shouldn't you be asking why I murdered my clan or about my foolish little brother?"

Naruto just laughed. "Please, Itachi. I'm sure you had your reasons considering I highly doubt you did all that to test your power and caved into insanity. I know you better than to do that."

"Are you sure, Naruto?" Itachi questioned as he took a light sip from his drink.

The blonde nodded with a heart-warming smile. "You can't lie to me, Itachi. You never could."

Itachi shook his head and chuckled. "Honestly, Naruto. What am I going to do with you?" Naruto only rolled her eyes and took a sip of her warm beverage.

"So, why did Ero-Sennin choose you as my teacher, Itachi?" Naruto asked and avoided the discussion about Sasuke and his clan.

Itachi knew what Naruto did and sighed. Placing his cup down on the coffee table and faced Naruto with a serious gaze on his usually stoic face. "Naruto, let's not beat around the bush. Sandaime-sama knew and so did Jiraiya-sama when the Sandaime was murdered by Orochimaru. I believe Jiraiya-sama asked me to teach you and in-order to do so, I must be honest with you." he looked to her carefully and saw that she would listen and not interrupt. He smiled. The female and male Naruto were so different from each other. "As you have said, I cannot lie to you and being around each other more often like this, I believe it wouldn't be long before I cave and allow myself the comfort of your embrace."

Naruto frowned at the choice of words Itachi used, but nodded anyway and gestured for him to continue with a simple nod.

"As I said, we have much to discuss and to start this I must start from the beginning and hopefully answer all your unspoken questions." Itachi started and closed his eyes. "What I'm about to tell you cannot simply put into words, so I must show you in order to believe in not only me, but also your beloved Sandaime. Bear with me, Naruto. What you are about to see…haunts my every breathing night."

Naruto felt her body tense like ice as Itachi's eyes opened to reveal his fully-matured sharingan eye. She gasped as the tea dropped from her hand and spilled all over the carpet and passed out.

Itachi quickly grabbed Naruto and pulled her into his arms. Stroking her hair softly as a tear leaked out of his eye. "Please forgive me, Naruto. All I need is your forgiveness."

Naruto was left in a whirlwind of emotions as she was seeing and feeling everything from Itachi's point of view right from the beginning. From when his clan was slowly receding themselves from Konoha to plan the coup to the Uchiha meetings, double-agent for the Sandaime, a man named Shisui apparent suicide and the eye he gave to Itachi. All the way to the night Itachi killed his clan and the anguish, guilt, grief he felt for taking his family's life that contradicted with the honour and will of fire to protect the love of his village and its people. To when he visited her during the night he murdered his family filled with guilt and heard the thoughts of wanting to take her with him and to beg for her forgiveness for his treachery to when they met again after all those years, when he joined the Akatsuki, and tried to kidnap her. She could feel his emotions after seeing not only her, but also Sasuke with those eyes of hatred. Itachi felt sorrow and immense guilt seeing the damage he did for his brother.

What Naruto saw next had shocked her greatly and wished she was conscious and not stuck in the damn genjutsu Itachi placed her in. What she saw the aftermath of Orochimaru's death at the hands of Sasuke, with Itachi taking Sasuke and showing him exactly what she saw during the coup incident and the brief and emotional fight between the brothers. They were working together now and Naruto had no idea and bet Jiraiya did, but said nothing about for the respect he held for Itachi. The two Uchiha brothers were now going around destroying all of Orochimaru's existence and slowly, very slowly taking down the Akatsuki one-by-one. The last image Naruto saw from Itachi's eyes was of Sasuke and him sitting in a tree overlooking a familiar lake listening to a heart-felt melody coming from the pier with the smooth words coming from Sasuke as the music ended before the genjutsu finished.

'Will the Dobe ever forgive us for our ways, brother?'

Naruto gasped as her eyes flew open. She felt confined as the arms around her tightened and struggled against Itachi that was trying to stop her from harming either of them. "Let me go, Itachi! Let me go!" she demanded.

Itachi listened to her request and watched as Naruto stumbled to the ground with wide eyes at him. The blonde had been unconscious for over two hours and spent that time cleaning up her spilt tea and sending clones out to secure the area. He stared blankly down at the blonde and awaited her reaction to the sudden twist of events. Closing his eyes as soon as Naruto went running out of the house. He saw this coming. Of course Naruto wouldn't want to talk to him after finding out, not only the truth, but also working alongside his younger brother to take down the organisation that wanted the fox within her. Her trust had been played with and Itachi needed to fix it somehow as to not lose the girl he saw as a little sister. Standing silently, Itachi left out the open door to look for Naruto.

Naruto:

Naruto was sprinting through the forest till she broke out into Konoha's streets, knowing the risks but was desperate to get away from Itachi to clear her head. If she knew the older Uchiha as well as she did, he would follow her soon after and narrow the gap between them. Naruto looked over her shoulder as she slipped into the night crowd and kept as close as possible to the shadows. Bending around streets and slipping down alleyways. If she calculated correctly, Itachi would catch her within a 6 minute time frame, leaving Naruto that time to think over what that Uchiha just showed her.

Naruto took a look around at the night crowd and slipped into a discreet alleyway and propped herself against the wall as she caught her breath with a frown. "What the hell, Jiji? A coup on the village by the Uchiha clan. To think of that burden Jiji and Itachi faced." She muttered as the frown creased more on her beautiful face. "Then there's Sasuke. Them bastard Uchiha's are going to be the end of me one day. Stupid brothers and their stupid brains and stupid plans. Pervy Jiraiya from hiding all this from me. No wonder Ero-Sennin's been more focused on his spy activities. Must be looking for Orochimaru's hideouts or the locations of the Akatsuki."

5 minutes left.

A strange scent entered Naruto's nose with her shoulder's tensing as she focused on her surroundings. She growled and used her shirt to cover her nose. Someone had been following her…someone with a putrid scent that had Naruto's anger rising. She just couldn't get a break today. "I though you weren't supposed to touch me." Naruto hissed towards the darkness as a broad drunken man that was with Sakura this morning.

The man staggered as his glazed eyes focused on the blonde angle before him. "Well, well, well. Look what uncle has found without her one-eyes guard dog." He barked in laughter when she glared at him. "Oh, no need to act brave for me, Princess. We both know what I want and what I want, I get. I may be s—slightly tipsy, but I still got my moves." Flexing a bicep to the blonde in hopes of catching her attention in another light. Instead she gave him a look of disgust that made him frown. "Oh no, Baby. You're supposed to love this body right here, cause tonight, Honey it's just going to be you and me. There's no one around for an ear-shot to save you this time, babe." He waved his arms about ridiculously. "Just you…" he pointed at the disgusted blonde, yet she was still hot in his glazed eyes. "And me, Babe. Come to uncle." He grinned lecherously and made a come-here motion with his two index fingers.

Naruto's eyes widened when the man pounced towards and barely rolled out of the way. Crashing into a row of trash cans as the man ran head first into the wall. Naruto groaned as she hit the back of her head as her middle was still raw. Pushing the trash can away from her and shook away the dizziness as the bearded man got up too with a groan.

4 minutes.

"Aye-aye, looks like my kitten likes to think she's a tiger." Gazing over to the woman that was picking herself up from the trashcans. He drooled a bit when her shirt rode up to reveal her succulent tanned abs, despite the bruise his niece had placed their earlier. He ignored the pain over his body from that beating the Hyuga girl had given him. Ahh, the wonders of alcohol covering for his pain. Right now, the Haruno man just wanted to burry himself deep within that delicious blonde babe. "Come to papa." His grin returning as he made another move to grab her.

Naruto saw the drunken man coming and wondered how he was so fast for being under the influence of alcohol. Naruto shook that thought away from leapt away from the man. Yelping in surprise when he caught her ankle and slipped. Knocking her head into the brick wall and hissed in pain as a flash of white covered her eyes. "Shit…" Naruto cursed as she felt a warm liquid running down her face and closed her eyes tightly as she felt her body locking down when the oath started dragging her towards him.

3 minutes.

Naruto wheezed as the Haruno man elbowed her middle and lost wind. Finding herself on her back as she tried to move her trembling limbs to attack him somehow. She just had to prevail for less than three minutes. "G-get o-off…" Naruto half-screamed, half-choked for air. She could feel her eyes stinging as all she saw was the blurred man above her. 'Scream…I have to scream…make noise…help…I need help…I need to survive…"

The Haruno man smirked as slapped the blonde across the face and hissed dangerously in her ear. "Stop moving, Princess, or it will hurt for you." pressing his arousal against her thigh. Barking lightly in laughter as her eyes wide in fear, yet she still struggled desperately against him. The man easily pinned her arms above her head with one hand as the other trailed down her body and slid underneath her shirt.

Naruto's inside's erupted into flames as panic overwhelmed her. "H-HELP!" she screamed and shocked her attacker when she slammed her head into his. It worked so little and used that short timeframe to yell for help. It seemed the man was hurt, but not from her. An earlier injury. "SOMEBODY HELP ME! HEL…!" Naruto was cut off when the man's bear-like hand was slapped over her mouth with him squeezing dangerously tight in warning. Naruto's mind was fogging and knew that her head injury and the shock she was about to pass out before Itachi found her. She had to hold one somehow and prayed to whoever was listening to her plight that somebody would help her. Her chances were slim.

2 minutes.

"Hold still, Princess. I've been waiting for this moment ever since I laid eyes on you all those days ago." The Haruno whispered dangerously and licked her cheek. Making her whimper and for him to laugh. "Did you know I masturbated to your crying face as I took you over and over and over and over again? Sometimes with that one-eyed freak watching helplessly as I rammed deep within you. Begging for me to stop as you cried for me to go harder, go faster." As he was speaking and the blonde underneath him was trying her best to fight off the darkness, he had already unbuckled his pants, releasing his arousal and moving onto her bottoms. "Calm down, Baby. Sshh…I'll take good care of you." he whispered with a long slur as he tried to kiss her tears away. It only proved to scare her further as she began trembling hard.

1 minute.

"Sshh, we're going to have fun. I promise." The Haruno grinned and ignored that his hand covering her mouth, was also blocking her nose. Giving her no room to breathe as he tried to remove her underwear and spread her legs at the same time. "We're almost there, baby. Uncle is going to have so much fun with you. So much fun." He leered and leaned down to try and claims her soft pink lips as he pulled his hand away. "What the…? Argh!" the man yelled in shock as he was hefted off his prey and thrown back into the wall. Barely clinging onto consciousness.

"Are you okay, ma'am?" A gravelly, yet soft voice wafted around the night.

Naruto blinked several times as she gasped in the fresh air. Feeling a hand as the back of her head being brought up and flinched. About the shove the offender away, when she recognised that the touch was safe and gave off no ill-intent. Looking to the groaning man that tried to rape her looking pathetic against the alleyway wall before gazing into the eyes of her saviour…or more like eye. Naruto's eyes widen in surprise and stuttered out. "D-Danzo-s-sama…"

Danzo Shimura gazed down at the blonde cradled in his arm. He had heard her screams from the other side of the district thanks to his trained ears and went running. He had no idea why her voice had him running to her rescue, but was glad he did. This poor girl was so close to being taken unwillfully. "You are safe now, My dear." He saw a tear escape her eye and gently wiped the offending mark away from her beautiful young face. Hearing the man groan and threw a kunai at the man. Getting the offender right in the arm and ignored his screams as the kunai ripped right through his arms and pinned him to the wall. Danzo faced the shocked and surprised blonde and moved her ruffled hair out of her face. "Are you okay?"

Naruto gulped and soon found her body relaxing as she was no longer in Danzo's arms, but in Itachi's. Naruto looked to her brother-figure and was greeted with purple eyes and white hair. he was in disguise and leaned against him. Taking in his scent as a means of comfort. She had barely survived the night's encounter.

Itachi had seen Naruto in Danzo's arm and without thought, henged and taken her from his arms. Yet he had the courtesy to bow to the Elder. "Danzo-sama, I must thank you for finding and saving my beloved younger sister." Holding Naruto tighter as his eyes moved to the man that had attacked the blonde in his eyes. Itachi felt rage burn within him for the first time in years and went to take a step forward towards the target when Danzo stood before him. Itachi paused and reigned in his anger and faced the elder. "Don't think of me as rude, Danzo-sama, but that man will be prosecuted by our family and our family alone for this treachery."

Danzo placed his cane before the victim's relative, from what he has observed, and shook his head. "Although the crime commit is quite horrid against your family, young man, but I am the one who has found the offender committing the crime of attempted rape and assault against your younger sister. Since I have arrived at the scene first and have witness the crime, I shall hand out punishment to this disagreeable man and I assure you and…" he gazed to the blonde that had stopped shivering in her brother's arms. "Your beloved sister that this man will be punished accordingly. If I am not too rude, may I ask fo the name of your family, young man?"

Itachi knew what Danzo was aiming for. He wanted their 'family' name and more specifically, Naruto's name. "I am the eldest child of the House of Yuki, Raiden. This is the youngest of the Yuki House, Narumi." Once Itachi gave his alias and saw Danzo nod, he took that as his queue to leave and leapt onto the rooftops and left the scene.

Naruto felt at ease with the night's winds and glanced up to Itachi as his henge wore off. "Itachi…what's going to happen to that man with Danzo?"

Itachi looked to Naruto briefly before gazing back to his path as he entered the forest. "You shouldn't worry about him or Danzo, Naruto. You should worry about yourself and your recent plight."

Naruto wrapped her arms around Itachi's neck and snuggled in. "I'm okay, Itachi. Scared? Yes, but I'm not broken and never will be. Just scared."

"And with me?" Itachi knew it was bad timing to ask, but he was desperate for her answer.

"I could never hate you for what you have done, Itachi. I know you better than you think. Pissed? Yes. Betrayed? Slightly, but what you did…and if we were in each other's positions, I would've done the same. For the sake of our village, I would live a life of solitude, guilt and hate. If I wasn't so tired, I would kick your ass right now and if Jiji was still alive, I would do the exact same. Just wait till I get my hands on Jiraiya thought."

Itachi leapt from tree branch to tree branch as he asked. "How can you be so brave after an assault like that, Naruto? Is it the Kyūbi?" changing the subject since he didn't want to know what Naruto would do to him or Jiraiya once she was feeling up to it. Her punishments were quite brutal.

Naruto snorted. "Me brave? Not really, not right now. All I want to do is cry, scream and rage while Kyūbi wants to tear that bastard limb from limb and other cringe-worthy tortures. I am currently weak, Itachi and as each day passes, I strive to overcome the shadow from yesterday. It's slow, but I feel myself getting better, Itachi. Just give me time. If I were my old self, that oath would've died the moment he was within my radar…"

Itachi glazed to Naruto as she was slowly nodding off in his arms and landed gracefully in the backyard of the Yuki residents. He didn't enter normally, but threw Naruto's window. He sensed that Jiraiya and Tsunade were home, but in their rooms. Itachi quickly tended to her head wound before he tucked Naruto under her covers and slid in beside her after he closed the window. stroking her hair and whispered. "I promise to help you get stronger, Naruto. Past that retched experience."

Naruto gazed tiredly at Itachi with a small smile. "Should place me in a genjutsu then." She yawned and yelped a little when Itachi flicked her forehead.

"Foolish little kitsune. That would only ruin your mind. Whatever you are doing now, is suited for you and you alone. You know the difference between a bad touch and a good touch. Konoha has perverts, yes, but most of them know decency while others don't have boundaries. About 2-5% of those perverts are like that retched man. A small population, but they are there no less. You have done well for yourself, Naruto. Don't stop whatever you are doing."

Naruto snorted and tucked herself under Itachi's chin. "I haven't done anything special." Sighing in ease as Itachi's arms wrapped around her comfortably. "If Sasuke saw this, he would kill you. better yet, I should kill you for showing him that I'm a female."

"I forgot." Itachi muttered, yet Naruto stifle exhale told him otherwise. "He wasn't mad, if you were wondering. Just shocked."

"I'll deal with Sasuke later." Naruto grew tired by the second and asked Itachi. "Wake me up around nine. I have to be somewhere after 10."

"Aren't we going to train?" Itachi questioned. "I do have limited time with you."

"Then kill Kisame and sell his sword for extra bucks." Naruto muttered. Not in the mood to talk any more as she quickly drifted off into dream land.

Itachi just sighed at Naruto's logic. "Sweet dreams, Naruto."