Transcending My Wings

{Dan} Hello everyone! Thanks for hanging on for this long, I hope that you would still hang for a while until the story is completed because I plan to complete this, after all, this story is my first multi-chapter story in the Naruto-verse!!! Once more thank you for the patience!

{Itachi} Okay I think it would be better if you start writing now.

{Dan} Right, right! Here I go!

SORRY THAT I HAVE NOT UPDATED IN LIKE A YEAR, BUT HOPEFULLY THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN AGAIN…. SORRY AGAIN!

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To Transcend My Wings
: : Chapter 10: : Two-faced Brat
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Within moments from utilizing his sharingan, Itachi found himself in a place he could only describe as a classroom that resembled the ones he had back in the ninja academy. He was torn away from his musings as a blonde blur passed by him.

“Hey dog-breath!” called out the blonde blur in greeting.

“Hey Blondie!” returned the other.

Itachi looked over towards the two loud boys and realized that the one he came to look for was the one right in front of him. He very much wanted to reveal himself and his intentions to the blonde, but upon realizing that this world was a creation of the blonde’s, he figured that it was there for a reason, more likely to protect him like a bubble. A bubble that keeps something in, while everything else out… so what exactly is it that is outside threatening to come in.

“Oh hey look, a new student!” pointed the blonde towards Itachi in the front row.

“Hey! Pointing like that is rude dude!” said Kiba towards the blonde, but it fell onto deaf ears as the blonde rushed on over to the new student.

“Hi! I’m Naruto Namikaze! What’s your name?” asked the blonde excitedly as he stretched his hand out as if to shake the hand of the other guy.

“I’m Itachi Uchiha,” said the other, stunned that the blonde did not know of who he was, but was more shocked that the blonde seemed different now compared to when he had first met the loud-mouthed blonde.

“Are you new here? ‘Coz I don’t we’ve met before.”

“Yeah, I’m new, I just got here today actually.” Itachi decided to play along and see where this takes him, and if his calculating deductions are right, then this was exactly like the world from where the blonde had come from.

“From where? Oh! If you want, you can sit with us up there, the teacher notices us less if we’re in the very back, since if you can’t tell yet, I’m kinda loud.” The jest was obvious in the blonde’s words, but it was amazing to see the blonde so relaxed. So Itachi did what any good ninja would do… blend in.

“Actually, I’ve lived here for a while, but I was homeschooled,” said Itachi as his shoulders visibly relaxed, plus he thought that it was totally genius of him to play along and maybe learn a little bit more about this side of the blonde.

“Homeschooled?! Wow, that must have been tough not having had a lot of people your age around,” said the blonde out loud, though by the look on Naruto’s face, he had just said it out loud even if he hadn’t meant to.

“Not really, but I guess it would have been more fun to hang around people my age, but I don’t think I’d have the time to since my parents have always been strict, well more my dad than mom,” Itachi was thinking of his own childhood as he conversed with Naruto, only changing facts to fit the moment he found himself in. After all, probably saying that his father only wanted the best and frowned upon failures would have ruined the mood between him and the blonde.

“Hehe, so I guess growing up in your household would have been a little bit too choking for me since my dad gives me freedom to do whatever I want, I mean, within reason ofcourse.” Itachi was about to say something like his dad kept him on a short leash, but he was interrupted by the brunette that the blonde was talking to not too long ago.

“Sorry if he’s a chatterbox, but it’s hard to stop him once he starts,” said the brunette to the raven haired boy, “my name is Kiba by the way.”

Kiba stretched out his hand and itachi did the same as they clasped in each other in a hand-shake. Just then, the bell, signifying that classes are about to start, ringed and kids came in along with the professor.

Everything seemed to fall to a routine to everyone around him, but he felt the space shift and found himself sitting on a blue mat, dressed in some plain white shirt and plain blue shorts. But before he could even question what was happening, his surroundings changed once more, and he found himself sitting under a huge looming tree, but before he could eve so much as blink, the environment changed and he was now in a funeral as it would seem.

People all around him gathered in clusters wearing black from head to toe and he could see a little kid, probably around 5 or 6 crying into the arms of a much older man who cradled the little boy caringly as if made of the most sensitive glass and would break if held on too tightly.

Rain started pouring as if mourning the loss of whomever it was that was in that casket, however, he found himself rooted to his stop and everything swirled around him once more.

“Are you okay, you looked dazed for a second there?” asked blonde next to him in sincerity. He couldn’t figure out why things were fading in and out for him until he concluded that the blonde must have had something to do with it.

Deciding that it was time for him to burst the blonde’s bubble, he asked the blonde to come out with him to the hallway since he needed to ask him something and the other agreed, if albeit a little reluctantly. This earned him a smirk from the brunette but he didn’t really care as of this moment.

Once they were out of the classroom, he tugged Naruto’s arm and let himself hug the younger boy into an unbreakable embrace.

“Why are you still here?” asked Itachi towards the younger boy, but the boy merely dug his face deeper into the arms of Itachi. “Please, I need to know how to get you out.”

“You can’t,” answered the other meekly as he burrowed even further into the warmth provided by the body he clung to.

“So you do know what I’m talking about,” said Itachi in a mild tone, finally figuring some things out in his head.

“Yeah, sorry I couldn’t just let you know since I wasn’t sure myself if you were real.” Naruto finally detached himself and looked at the older Uchiha in the face.

“I’m real and I’m here to get you out of wherever this is,” Itachi said sincerely.

“Alright, but just to warn you, I don’t even know how to get out of here too.” A pregnant pause ensued before Naruto spoke up once more, “actually, I think I do know, but I can’t go it alone, will you come with me?”

“Anywhere,” was all that Itachi said then Naruto grabbed him by the arms as they raced down the hall and found himself in a museum of some sort.

“I think this is my connection, but I’m really not sure, at first I came here to go back in the real world and I thought it would work again but it didn’t and I-” said Naruto as he took Itachi by the gigantic painting that looked almost entirely like him, but different in a way.

“So in other words, you’re kind of stuck here is that it?”

“Yeah, but maybe you being here can change things, just like how everything kept changing from one scene to another, because before you came, none of those things have happened.” Hopeful in his thoughts, Naruto touched the painting once more hoping that maybe a portal of some kind can bring him back but to no avail.

“Why don’t we try something else then, something else that you might not have thought of?”

“Okay, but for the entire time I’ve been here, this and the classroom are the only two things I’ve been able to get in and out of, like a labyrinth without an exit,” informed the blonde.

Time seemed to pass by as they tried everything they could think of. Naruto even opted to running against the painting or something that maybe a jolt could activate something, but before Itachi could protest the blonde’s idea, he found the said blonde lying in a heap on the floor clearly dazed by the impact. They also tried to go back to the classroom and found that it kept on repeating the same thing over and over like a tape on a loop.

Then when Naruto proposed to run back and forth from the museum to the classroom and so forth, Itachi let himself be pulled along in the plan, but with him running to opposite way the blonde would go.

As they rounded the third time, Naruto stopped by the classroom since he was feeling a bit weary and tired, but something came at him from out of nowhere as he let out a scream.

Itachi heard the scream and ran to where he figured Naruto was and found the blonde boy sitting by himself in the classroom, which in itself was unusual since the people that were previously there had vanished.

“Naruto what happened? Are you okay?” Itachi came around to Naruto’s side and found the blonde dazed, his eyed dilated and unfocused as he muttered ‘it hurts, please stop’ over and over again.

Confused as to what just happened, he tried to sit down next to the boy, but a dark shadow came out of nowhere and tried to attack Itachi, only this time, Itachi dodged in the nick of time as it grazed his left arm.

In that moment, his left arm fell slack to his side before the burning sensation started. He gritted his teeth as the pain intensified, but when the shadow lunged back towards him, he jumped away once more.

“Naruto listen to me! This thing is probably the reason why you can’t leave, so I want you to fight it back!” yelled Itachi as he jumped out of the way one more time.

“I-I-I can’t! It hurts! It hurts too much!” whimpered Naruto, but Itachi refused to give up, he sidestepped the oncoming shadow and grabbed Naruto’s armed which caused the boy to scream bloody murder, but Itachi didn’t let go and hauled off the pained boy to where the painting should have been, but instead he ended up in a living room of some sort. He sat the boy down once more, and looked into Naruto’s eyes. The pupils still seemed dilated, but not as much as before.

Only when Itachi allowed himself to relax did the pain in his arm remind him of the immediate danger that they could be in.

“Okay, seriously Naruto, you need to come out of it and focus. Look! We got here to a different place than before! This might have something to do with you and not anything else!”

“But it hurts so much Itachi,” said Naruto in a silent whisper.

“I know, okay, I know, but you need to be strong, only you can break out of this thing you cocooned yourself in.”

Before itachi could try another pep talk, the shadow had been able to follow them and this time, it had a stronger feel and aura about it that Itachi could have almost sensed the killing intent, the malice it was emanating.

“Leave him alone!” thundered the shadow towards Itachi.

“What are you? Why are you keeping Naruto locked up in whatever this is?!” shouted itachi angrily towards the shadow. Then the shadow merely shimmered and in its place came a carbon copy of Naruto though this one had red eyes and black hair plastered on an almost creamy alabaster skin.

“Because I am him, I am the part of him that wishes for destruction, the part of him that wants to cause pain to whatever it is around him.” The shadow seemed calm all of a sudden, but there was malice in its voice and Itachi could tell that it wasn’t happy he intruded the boy’s mind.

“Are you trying to take over? Is that why you’re trying to get rid of your counterpart?”

“No, I am trying to merge him to my being to be whole; I cannot exist solely if he was vanquished, just like how he cannot live on without me.” The shadow took a few steps forward, but this time the blonde on the couch stood up as well to face the shadow version of him.

“But I don’t want to hurt anyone, I want to protect the people that I love, I can’t be truly happy if I knew that I was the cause of someone’s suffering.”

The shadow took another couple steps towards the blonde, and the elder Uchiha wanted to interfere but he was glued to the spot when Naruto looked at him and shook his head.

This time, Naruto also took the remaining steps between them and he let the shadow wrap its arms around himself.

“I think I know why neither of us can get out of here, it’s because we needed each other, but whenever I sensed you near I tried to block you out since I couldn’t stand the pain, and I think that was how my own little world was created to separate you from me.” Naruto nuzzled his cheek to those of his counterpart, and when they finally understood each other, the shadow lost form and disappeared.

“What just happened?” asked Itachi towards the blonde standing in the middle of the room where the shadow once stood.

“I think it’s time for us to leave don’t you think Itachi-san?” With a smile on his face, Itachi couldn’t very well deny that face anything.

“Alright, but how?” Itachi asked as he moved to where Naruto was and enveloped the smaller blonde in his arms.

“I don’t know actually, but maybe-” Naruto was cut off as he and Itachi were pulled away from each other so fast that both lost consciousness.

When Itachi awoke, he found himself surrounded by the familiar faces of Kakashi and Sasuke. He groaned in slight pain as he sat up, but immediately looked over to the side to note that Naruto’s eyes had suddenly popped open and he heaved in a massive amount of air, before resuming breathing normally once more.

“Well, it seems that both sleeping beauty woke up at the same time! Pay up Sasuke!” said the grey-haired man towards the unimpressed younger Uchiha.

“Wha? What were you guys betting on?” asked Naruto as he regained his composure.

“Oh nothing much, just that Sasuke here said that one of you will wake up first before the other one does, and I said that you’ll both wake up at the same time.”

The blonde grinned in response and tried to sit himself up but, he felt dizzy all of a sudden and found himself falling back, but not before Sasuke had caught him in the instant.

“Thanks,” murmured the blonde, but the raven caught it and grunted a reply before helping the blonde back onto the bed.

“How long was I out for otouto?” asked Itachi in a calm voice as he rubbed his left arm, he could still feel traces of the pain he had felt not too long ago.

“Just about 13 hours, mother was worried about you,” said Sasuke, but all he got from Itachi was a noncommittal grunt.

“I have to ask, where are Sumaru, Haku, and Zabuza?” asked Naruto as he laid down in a more comfortable position on the bed.

“They should be here soon,” said Kakashi then continued, “the council asked to talked to them along with the Godaime.”

“For what?” inquired the blonde.

“Well, they’re from a different village plus Haku and Zabuza are classified as missing-nins so I doubt it’s for some party.” The blonde could feel a slight amusement coming from the grey haired male, but he just dismissed it.

“Will they be alright though?” implored the blonde though this time it was Sasuke who answered.

“Yeah, Zabuza will more likely get the brunt of the whole thing since the other two are your guardians.”

“Will Zabuza-san be punished?” asked the blonde once more in hopes of easing his burdened mind, he wouldn’t have asked them to come to the leaf village altogether if he knew that Zabuza would have been in trouble.

“No, I doubt it, but maybe you can vouch for them instead so they don’t get in trouble?” asked Sasuke out loud more than stated.

“Can I just barge in on them like that?”

“Yeah, why not? After all, they were only here for you.”

“Alright, take me to them.”

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

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{Dan} Whoo! I finally got over my writer’s block! Well it was more like a wall actually…

{Kiba} True, took you forever you know…

{Dan} Hey! Not fair! It was just that I got distracted by the other things I needed to do!

{Neji} Alright calm down… start on your next chapter then if you’re still up to it.

{Dan} Oh right!! Okay! I’ll be in front of my computer if you need me!

{Sai} -comes in- Is Dan here?

{Kiba} On the computer…

{Sai} Hehehe, you thinking what I’m thinking Kiba??

{Kiba} Totally!

{Neji and Choji} Uh oh…. Well we gotta end here so in behalf of the author, please rate and review if you could! Thanks!