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Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes or any OCCness.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 22

Naruto, Sasuke: 17

Shisui: 26

Kakashi: 31

"How good is your aim exactly?" I asked, spread out on the couch. My head was tilted back in the air so I could look at Itachi, reading quietly at the table with a fuming cup of tea.

"Pretty good," he replied without tearing his eyes from his book. I pursed my lips.

"Sure, but how exactly? I've never really seen it." He looked at me above his book.

"Why the sudden interest in my aim?"

"Is Sasuke's better than yours?" I finally asked him. "Or Shisui's? I've seen their shuriken jutsu and they're awesome at it, Sasuke said he was at your level." He sounded cocky when he said that.

Itachi merely breathed out and went back to his reading.

"Just because I'm still on a sick leave doesn't mean I've lost my aim."

"Sure, but the sharingan is used for…"

"You just want me show you." I grinned at him.

"It's pouring outside and it's dark because it's January, I'm kind of bored."

"You have something in mind already then?" I nodded and he sighed, closing his book.

I jumped to my feet and grabbed a pack of disgusting cookies. Itachi got them as a free gift at the grocery store and I didn't touch it, and he took one. I got a few things ready in the kitchen and went back to him.

"They're not that bad," he told me flatly. I raised a brow, took a cookie and threw it against the wall. I picked it up and showed it to him. It was not damaged in the slightest.

"It's concrete, they gave you concrete." I took one and threw it in the pot on the stove. "Now, everything I do you can do as well, right?" He took a cookie, walked to the wall behind and threw it in the pot with no issue. "Okay, now you're just showing off." He smirked smugly as he went back next to me. "Okay, now…" There was a pan behind a covered pot. I threw a cookie against the wall above it and it landed in the pan.

Itachi went to the other side of the table and did the same at a more difficult angle.

"I'm regretting this."

"No, it's fun." He kept showing off for the next fifteen minutes when I decided to get this out of the kitchen and living-room. We ended up in the hallway, all doors opened until it was dinner time throwing cookies around.

Itachi seemed to be having fun though. I did too, but not as much because I wasn't as good.

"Fine, you win, you're good." He gazed at me as if saying 'what did you expect'. "You're impossible sometimes, you know that?" He smiled innocently at that and I groaned, going to the kitchen to tidy up.

"You're making dinner tonight?"

"I did yesterday, your turn!" I replied as he came back in the room.

I woke up with a groan, my back stiff and my neck hurting. The four of us were in the mountains of the Land of Earth away from the town we were in before. Kakashi found us quickly once we were out of town.

Turned out, the Land of Thunder would no longer be neutral because apparently, Iwa had decided to scout the country. The Raikage would not like it, so Pakkun was sent to Konoha with my help with a message.

That dream though...it was before we were together. We had fun though. If we were to do that again today, I wouldn't get one right because he'd touch me or kiss me to disturb me before telling me I should be more focused because I was kunoichi.

"How do we even get in?" Sasuke asked as we were all up now. "You can't get in an enemy village just like that."

"If Mangetsu were here we would," Dai mumbled under his breath.

"The security must be stronger than it was back then Dai, even with the shinobi shortage."

"Wait a minute," Kakashi stopped us, raising his hand. "Are you saying what I think you're saying?"

"I tried to censure the information I was giving Yagura as much as I could," I told him immediately. "Be it Iwa, Suna or Kumo. He wanted to send us to Konoha but...I managed to convince him it was a bad idea."

"So you got in twice then," Sasuke summed up. I nodded.

"There's no way we can get in the same way we did before." Dai snapped his finger.

"Not this time in particular, but we did something similar." We all looked at him. "Remember the first mission we went on after we were promoted to chuunin and aneki went on her own and let us deal with the rest?" I blinked and opened my mouth.

"Right, it could work."

"Mind enlightening us?" Kakashi inquired, looking between Dai and I.

"It was a mission where we had to get information from a certain group and they were dwelling in...sex trafficking."

"I got in because I was a twelve year-old girl and they were...interested in that," I finished for him. Sasuke made a face.

"I see, get in by pretending they won," Kakashi summed up. I nodded.

"I'm sure they'd be interested in getting information out of us if possible, except maybe Uzu because she's too big of a danger, but it's worth a try. Get in by being war prisoners."

"She did say to get in on our own and they'd help us once inside," I muttered under my breath.

"It's incredibly risky," Sasuke pointed out. "I mean, they could decide they want to kill one of us and…"

"It's war, it's a risk worth considering," Dai cut him out firmly.

"Let's...let's keep an eye on the area for...let's say seventy-two hours. Then we'll decide how to proceeded."

My mind was already made up though, just for one little tiny detail.

After three days, we were back around a fire in the middle of the mountains. As I agreed with the plan, I shared a look with Kakashi. He received a message from Suna.

"Sasuke, you have a part to play you will not like." He frowned at me. "You're not coming." He frowned harder.

"The fuck?"

"Suna is behind the border, near Ishigakure," I continued. "They know we're on our own, Gaara took the responsibility to send men in that country because Iwa gave up on trying to fight there and Konoha and Kiri are keeping Ame and Iwa occupied in the Land of Fire. Suna's ready to help us but one of us has to get to them."

"Why me?"

"Because your reputation is the most recent one. Because you have a sharingan, like Kakashi, can use fuinjutsu, like me, and Dai can make you look very dead. You also know Gaara. And...you're the youngest."

"That's not an argument."

"It actually is," Kakashi piped up. "You're given this mission for the same reason my whole generation was kept from intervening during the Kyuubi attack, in spite of me being a jounin and anbu back then. You represent the future more than any of us Sasuke, whether you like it or not."

The silence was deafening. Dai was staring at the dying fire between us, Kakashi and Sasuke were staring at each other in the eyes and I was looking at my toes.

Sasuke grabbed my wrist and pulled me aside, letting me go only when we were out of their hearing range.

"It's not because you told my mom to 'bring me back in one piece', right?" I stared at him for a few seconds before remembering I had, in fact, told Mikoto-san this.

"No, it's not. We do need someone on the outside to extract us if possible, and I'm pretty sure one of the first thing they'd try to do is gouging your eyes out. Not an option."

"Then Kakashi…"

"Kakashi knows what he's doing. We all do, we're all aware of the risks, and he was right." I grabbed his arms gently.

"Do you know what Itachi and Naruto would do to me if I were to announce your death?" he asked me more quietly, gulping. "I…"

"You're strong Sasuke. I have a faith in you to get Suna and get us before we're killed. You're not that snake's apprentice this time around, you're mine, and I like to think I did a pretty good job." His eyes remained in mine for a few seconds and he poked me in the forehead. I smiled at the gesture and hugged him tightly.

"You better not bite the dust nee-san," he mumbled, hugging me back. Yeah, I felt small now.

"You know I'm death's bestie, but not this time." I stretched out my pinky at him. "The first time I failed at my promise but not this time around." He pursed his lips and crossed his pinky with mine.

"You better not or I will find a way to bring you back to strangle you myself."

"Well, once upon a time you used to be so cute."

"Naive is the word. I saw your true colors now."

"And I was thinking of treating you to dinner once in Konoha, now screw you."

"No, you said it you can't take it back."

"You never turn down food, do you?"

"I'm not an idiot."

"You're still going at it?" I wondered out loud. Itachi and Sasuke both put their fingers on their lips.

I left three hours ago to visit Mom. They were playing go. They were still playing. Sasuke had been staying with us for two days only, but he acclimated very quickly.

"Who's winning?" I asked, kneeling next to Itachi.

"It's pretty close," he replied, focused on the game. I shot Sasuke a look and he briefly raised his eyes.

I smirked. He blinked. I fully turned to Itachi as Sasuke made his move.

"Itachi."

"Hn."

"You didn't even say 'welcome home'. Because I'm home."

"I've heard." I deadpanned at him. Winning against his brother really was important.

Even more reasons to disturb him to help Sasuke win this stupid game.

"So I don't get a kiss or anything?" He sighed, still staring at his game and grabbed my hand, kissing my knuckles quickly. "That's just cold."

"Akane, I'm…"

"Being a terrible example of a boyfriend to your brother?" It made him raise his eyes to Sasuke.

"She's not wrong." Eventually, Itachi gave in, groaned and made a move before turning to me.

He grabbed my waist and kissed me intensely. He broke the kiss after a few seconds.

"Happy now?" he asked me quietly. I nodded.

"So, so happy nii-san." I saw Itachi blinking and I pursed my lips, moving away from him quickly. Slowly, he looked at the game, that Sasuke had just won.

I high fived Sasuke under Itachi's stern gaze.

"It doesn't count, it's cheating," he accused us with a frown.

"You're a shinobi, you should know when someone's trying to distract you." He looked at me, pouting. I shrugged.

"It's for all the times where you surprise me and say I should be more aware of my surroundings as a kunoichi. I'm not that clingy and you know it."

"Don't hold grudges like that Akane." He stood up and walked up to us.

"It's not grudges, it's getting back at you."

"I thought you were glad to see me and wanted my attention. You used me." I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms.

"You're being dramatic. I just betrayed you to help Sasuke win." He shook his head slowly and grabbed my hips.

"It's even worst." He kissed me, not giving me the time to answer. Except he was...well his hands were traveling.

Sasuke, still here, cleared his throat when Itachi started to grope me. He broke the kiss.

"You're still here Sasuke?" The poor teen was bright red.

"Well yes! I never left the room! Don't you have some...some decency or something?" Itachi just pressed me tightly against him, his right hand still on my ass. He looked down at me and smirked, his thoughts clearly not being family-friendly. "It's gross!" Sasuke basically fled.

"You were right, it is fun," Itachi admitted with an amused smile. "But I'll get back at you too."

"Come on! You can't get back at me for getting back at you!" He raised his brow.

"Watch me." I rolled my eyes as he hugged me again. "That being said, welcome home."

"...finally." He pinched my hip.

We would get our happy days back. It was the only thing I could think of as I watched Dai and Sasuke run away, Kakashi most probably already captured by Iwa. To make our capture more believing, we...made sure to be exhausted, causing a clumsy accident that made Iwa notice us and then go after us.

I body-flickered to avoid some of the earth to close around me before being caught in a stick material. I blinked at Kurotsuchi, who came out of nowhere, spitting water on the stick thing, hardening it.

"Another one," she stated coldly, standing in front of me.

She knocked me out. I briefly woke up as we were getting near the village, but I was knocked out once more.

"Can I ask you something incredibly personal?" I asked Itachi as we were in the bath, my back against his chest.

"Try and you'll see if I answer." I pursed my lips. I...what I wanted to ask...it had bothered me for a while now.

"The first time we slept together, why did you look like that?"

"I'm afraid you need to give me some precision," he replied, running his fingers on my left arm.

"Surprised. You were surprised that...I don't know, I was turned on?"

"That's because I was." I craned my neck to look at him with a frown. He raised a brow. "I really was surprised."

"I doubt Izumi had zero reaction when you'd do it." He pursed his lips. He didn't really like when I brought his relationship with Izumi up.

"It…" He sighed and put his arms around me, pressing me against his chest. "Making love with you is totally different than when I'd...have intercourse with her." I blinked.

"The choice of words is deliberate, isn't it?" He nodded. "Were you even in love with her? Just a tiny bit?" He looked down. "Itachi, please tell me you didn't get in a relationship with a girl who was desperately into you but it wasn't...Oh come on!"

"I did tell my father I've been in love with you since I was a teen, it wasn't a lie." I blushed a little. "I'm aware it's not something I should have done, but I can't pretend I had a good grasp on my feelings back then. Shisui was obviously into you and if I did anything that showed I was too it would have been too complicated of a situation. I liked Izumi, I did but...it's not comparable."

"Why did you even ask me advice about her then?"

"...I don't really know actually, maybe deep down I was hoping you'd get jealous or something." I chuckled a little. "Point is, I never was in love with her like I'm in love with you so sex was...not the same. I didn't really want to have sex with her anyway."

"Huh? She's pretty. She…" I showed my chest. "They're bigger you know?" He smiled and kissed my shoulder as I leaned my head against his shoulder.

"I wouldn't change anything about your body. It's perfect to me." I blushed hard.

"Smooth talker." He chuckled. "She wanted to do the dirty with you then."

"Yeah. She told me she was ready, wanted to do it and came at me...I just didn't really think about these things." I scoffed. "It's true, and I thought I was responsible for you death back then, so it was not my priority. But she wanted to, so I did. It was...well, now I know it was cold and mechanical. But until we started to live together I thought it was how it was supposed to be in the end."

"Like something where the main goal is baby making and not pleasure or intimacy." He hummed in agreement. "Having feelings for your partner plays a huge part in it." He kissed my neck.

"It does, I know now. I figured out there was something because of the tension between us, and then when we did it and I saw how much you were enjoying what I was doing and how my body was responding to your touch and kisses...I was nicely surprised."

"I see...I kind of feel bad for Izumi now, it sucks for her." He sighed. "But you can't change the past. I was just curious because I always knew it as…" I smiled dreamily. "Even if we were both virgins."

"Well...you may technically be the second woman I'm with but it's the first time I'm enjoying it that much, so it doesn't really count."

"It does."

"No, I make love to you, it's totally different. Now there's intimacy, closeness, complicity...heat." I put my hand on his thigh as he buried his face in my hair. "We see the other entirely, there's no shame or anything...I never did more than the bare minimum with her whereas with you...you have no idea of what goes through my mind." I smiled faintly and turned around, my hands running up and down his thighs.

As expected, he was blushing and was getting hard.

"Keep talking," I whispered to him in a sultry tone.

"You made me realize how dirty my mind can get I swear." I chuckled. "I want to do so many dirty things to you but with all the respect I have for you." He leaned his forehead against mine with a quiet growl.

"Such as?" He looked in my eyes.

"You're not giving up?" I shook my head. "I...don't want to say it until you say it."

"Some of my fantasies?" He nodded and I looked at my fingers, playing with them. His hand ran down my spine to lay on my butt, giving it a delicious squeeze. "Well...I trust you and sex just...flows naturally between us, like it's obvious that we'd end up in bed together."

"Can't deny that," he replied with a smirk.

"But I...I guess...I wouldn't say 'no' if you were to tie me up...or blindfold me...or being rough, pulling my hair, maybe spanking...but once in a while I wouldn't mind being on top and totally in control."

"Oh?" He took my wrist in his hand and kissed it. "I wouldn't use rope." I blinked. "No, I would turn it into shibari and use red silk, I want your skin to be a little bit red maybe but nothing that won't go away quickly. Hair pulling, blind fold, being rough...I can do that. If anything I've surprised myself wanting to be rough with you but I'm scared of hurting you, so I just wait for you to ask for it." I blushed. I figured that much from the look in his eyes. "You'd tie me up?"

"You'd be okay with that?"

"To be unable to move while I get to see you fully naked pleasuring yourself with my body? No, I'm fine with that." His hand moved around my butt. "But I have other…"

"Like what?"

"Hum...like trying this way," he whispered huskily, his hand traveling between my butt cheeks. I blushed a bright red.

"Oh. That's…" We wanted to try anal before, but never got to it. "Yes, that's…"

"Really?" I nodded. "If I ever become Hokage, I'm taking you on the desk, your legs on my shoulders that's for sure." I whined, my face against him, my nails grazing his back. "I want to lick whipped cream from your body too, or use ice cubes, maybe glide a kunai over you, maybe hot wax…" He grabbed my waist firmly with an arm, the other hand on the side of the bathtub. Slowly he pushed me down toward the other side of the tub, my head now against it. "Cock warming after a long day...just anything that means we trust the other…"

"There are condoms near the sink," I mumbled, turned on by his speech.

He immediately got up, me in his arms and took me against the wall.

Later that night, he came up to me with a list, asking me to highlight those I wanted to try too with the most determinate look on his face. It was cute, and kind of hot.

They threw me back in my cell, beaten and bruised, my left eye too swollen for me to see with it. I somehow pulled myself in a seating position in spite of the pain running through my entire body. Having memories of Itachi and I in steamy situations was way more...enjoyable than this.

I kicked the wall. Kakashi kicked it as well in the cell next to mine, saying he was still alive. There was a weaker kick in the cell next to his.

Dai was sensei's brother, Iwa did not forget that and I was afraid they were...going harder at him. He was resourceful but...I had lost Mangetsu already, I wasn't about to be the lone survivor of my genin team.

"You're nerds." Itachi looked at his brother, Sakura now on her way home. Sasuke was...grumpy though.

"Rude," I commented idly, stirring my dish.

"But they are! It was impossible to make them stop talking about that atrocious book!" Itachi frowned.

"You don't like it but it's not 'atrocious'."

"It's philosophy from two centuries ago."

"Useful to understand how we got there. Sakura gets it. Akane, you get it." I nodded distractedly. "You're just upset she didn't give you any attention, Sasuke-kun." It ticked Sasuke off, who got up from the couch.

He went to the kitchen and hugged me from behind, an arm around my waist, the other around my neck.

"I'm engaged to your girlfriend." I looked up at Itachi, who was now scowling.

"Your fiancee's cheating on you with me and lives with me."

"I'm still her favorite Uchiha."

"As if."

"She told me." Itachi frowned at me. Well, I thought I'd get through this quietly.

"Is it true?"

"Well...I did say it…" Itachi got up as well. "But it's not the same at all an…" Sasuke left. "Sasuke you jerk!"

"He's your favorite Uchiha?" Itachi was in my face now.

"But you're my favorite...person?" He shook his head. "Dang it."

How long…

"You're grounded." I blinked at Mom, like Naru, as he stopped pulling on my hair.

"I don't live here anymore!"

"You're gonna act like a five year-old under my roof, I will treat you like a five year-old!"

We were helping Fuu moving. She bonded with the Aburame clan very closely and was offered a one-bedroom apartment in their compound. She accepted, thanked Mom and Naru for their hospitality and we were helping her move.

Naru teased me. I teased back. It turned into taunting, which then turned into arguing and then hair-pulling and cheek pulling.

"You're grouuuuunded," Naru mocked me with a grin.

"You're grounded too."

"She started it Aunty!" he defended himself as I snickered. I stopped when Mom glared at me.

"Do I look like I care? No, I don't. Now clean up the mess you caused!" She threw Naru a broom and I got a trash bag. "It better be spotless when I'm back or else…" I gulped, like Naru at the dark glint in her eye.

"Yes Ma'am!" we replied in sync. She left with one last insistent look, going with Fuu to the Compound.

"Nee-chan?"

"Hum?"

"She scares me sometimes."

"Sometimes?" I repeated, dumbfounded.

...until we could see the light again?

"You've seen his face!?" Team Seven screamed to me. I glared at the amused Itachi.

"As if you've never seen Kakashi's face before!"

"I never have actually," he replied with a smile.

"What does it look like? Rabbit teeth? Big nose? Some deformity!?" They were still scarily in sync.

"He's annoyingly handsome." I terminated Itachi's fun in three words.

He deserved it.

How long had it been since…

"Check her vitals." Yeah...the door was opened...someone was getting close.

The moment a hand was checking my pulse, I wrapped my leg around the arm, the other leg doing the same and finishing around their neck to force them on the floor.

"Akane, Akane," a male voice said. I froze and opened my right eye.

"Kakashi?" He nodded. He looked like shit, his hitai-ate missing, his hair hiding his left eye. He was wearing the same disgusting brown prisoner outfit as me. His mask was still there though, damaged but there.

He nodded and I felt a weight out of my body. Whatever they were using to restrain my chakra was gone. I made the tiger sign with my right hand and released the medical seals I had on me. I wasn't at a hundred percent, but my swollen eye was probably just a bruise as I could see. I didn't have all of my chakra but...it would do. It had to.

"How long has it been?"

"Three weeks," the shinobi with Kakashi replied, the blond kunoichi keeping an eye out.

"Is everything ready yet?" Kakashi shook his head.

"Your friend has been sentenced to death, as a message for your Mizukage." My blood froze in my veins. "And it's today, at noon." Kakashi helped me up. I dusted myself silently.

"Where are our gears?"

As if they would execute my teammate.

I was quite disoriented. I had spent apparently three weeks in a cell, sometimes being tortured, sometimes just in plain dark and silence, unable to use chakra or anything and...it seemed like a fever dream almost. My memories had been keeping me going but...I didn't think this would affect me that much. However, there was no time to dwell on that.

They wanted to execute Dai. We had to stop this.

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