Midnight's Moon

Author:Spoon
Pairing: Sasu/Naru

VERY IMPORTANT A/N: If this chapter seems a little familiar it is because it is. I have totally rewritten this chapter. Reasons will be explain at the end of this chapter. Please bare with me and read this chapter. The changes are important in the future. Thank you.


REVIEWERS and READERS FORGIVE ME for the long wait! *Hides as stale cookies are thrown.*


“Talking”
‘Thinking’
Memory

Kuso=shit


Midnight’s Moon

Chapter 13

“Eat the rest of your ramen, dobe.”

The blond nodded as he took the cup still slightly dazed from the avoided mental attack. The raven stood up and with his back still turned away he spoke to the others on the branch.

“I guess we need to talk… Kakashi-sensei.”

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The blond looked up surprised that there were other people the branch with them. He finished the noodles in his mouth and smiled at the group of Konoha nins.

“Ah…Hi?” he said before going back to eating more ramen.

The raven rolled eyes at the blond silly greeting, but didn’t taunt him about it. The blond obviously wasn’t fully recovered from the narrowly avoided mental attack. Besides he had other things to deal with like preventing any of the people in front of him from trying to touch his blond. That sentiment went double for the longhaired brunet with the pale glaring eyes.

‘Why did they have to bring Neji?’ the Uchiha mentally sighed. ‘If he even tries to touch my blond I’ll…’

Unfortunately the raven’s inner rant was cut off by his old sensei.

“Yes, Sasuke I think talking would be a good idea.” The sliver haired nin said as he glanced up from his book.

The onyx-eyed youth was slightly surprised by the protective look his sensei gave the blond. ‘Something happened between them that seems to have Kakashi over protective about the dobe. What is it?’ he was now quite curious, but knew that was a question to be asked another time.


The raven walked toward his old sensei and the rest of the Konoha nins. Their team was made up of Neji, Sakura, Kakashi, Kiba and Akamaru. Even Kakashi’s little pug summon was there. It made sense that they were chosen to be on the team. Kakashi could use his summons to track them, Kiba could do the same with Akamaru, Neji could use his Byakugan and Sakura could well… honestly the raven didn’t know what use Sakura was. He hadn’t really talked to her since he was brought back (dragged back) from Orochimaru’s. For all he knew she was as weak and useless as she was all those years ago. Although he did hear that she was training with the Hokage, maybe she wasn’t a total waste. At least it seems she got over her stupid crush on him.

The Uchiha stopped a few feet away from the other shinobi, still unsure of what they might attempt.

“We’ll talk over there.” The copy nin tilted his head to a branch a few trees over.

The raven looked a little unsure. He didn’t like the idea of being too far away from his dobe.

The branch was far enough away that the blond couldn’t hear there conversations but not too far that he couldn’t see him. Mind made up the raven nod to the suggestion. All the Konoha nins except for Sakura and the pug joined the Uchiha in the other tree. Sasuke wasn’t worried about Sakura taking his blond; she was still weak compared to him. Honestly, how much stronger could she have gotten from her lessons with the Hokage. There’s no way she could have improved that much, right?

Shaking his head from those thought the raven returned to the task at hand. He stared emotionlessly at the others, waiting for them to talk first. Finally after a long silence Kakashi spoke up.

“I’m guessing that you and Naruto have a good reason for leaving the village without authorization?”

“Hn.”

“I so I’m guessing that that means no?” the slivered haired shinobi asked without looking up from his book.

Ignoring his old sensei’s question the raven asked one of him own. “How did you find us?”

“That’s not fair Sasuke. Why should I answer your questions when you didn’t answer mine?” His old sensei asked with a mock pout, even though it was mostly hidden by his mask.

The Uchiha glared at the other. “Yes.”

“Yes what, Sasuke?”

“Yes, I have a good reason for leaving the village.”

“Which is...?”

“My question first. How did you track us?”

“Fine, fine.” The copy nin said flippantly. “I used your own Sharingan against you.”

The raven was slightly confused but didn’t let it show on his face. He was waiting for the other to continue when a loud yell got everyone’s attention.

“He did what to you!?!”, was the evil shriek from a pissed Sakura. “Sasukkkee!”

The pink haired nin left the still eating Naruto and calmly jumped over to the tree where the others were in. She turned to the Uchiha and spoke in a disturbingly calm manner.

“I asked Naruto what had happened since he left and he says you put a sleeping Jutsu on him and kidnapped him in the night. Then when he woke up and you tricked him into a fight he couldn’t win, so that he would follow you. The reason he couldn’t fight was because of that out of style piece of jewelry around his arm. Then you pinned him to the ground and said quote ‘That bracelet is a control device that lets me suppress your charka and have my wicked way with you.’”?

The raven silently cursed his luck. Of coarse the dobe develops a photographic memory at the worst possible time.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw the dog-nins mouth drop at her words. He smirked slightly at the killing intent rolling off the Hyuga. Though, he was surprised by the fact the Kakashi seemed to have reacted badly to her words as well. With Kakashi it was harder to tell what he was thinking but the raven was good at reading people and his ex-sensei seemed to stiffen more and more as the pink girl continued.

“Now you plan to use your clan’s ancient scrolls turn him into a Uchiha baby oven so he can restore your clan. You’re going to do this by quote ‘fucking him into every possible surface until he becomes fat with your child.’ Umm… did I leave anything out, Sasuke-kun?” She asked in an overly sweet and very alarming voice. The raven looked into the eyes of his old teammate and felt what might be considered fear, but Uchiha’s don’t get scared by silly, weak, little girls. Although he would admit that he was starting to feel a little wary because of the look in her eyes that screamed bloody murder. His bloody murder that she was personally going to accomplish.

“Kuso, man run.” Yelled Kiba to Sasuke. It was a good thing the raven decided to listen, because one minute they were all standing on a tree in the middle of a thick forest and the next there was a giant crater which flattened a good ¼ kilometer of forest.

The raven was shocked but didn’t show it, ‘When had she learned to do that?’

“Sasuke I swear I’m going to rip your balls off if you lay so much as a finger on my nii-chan!” she yelled as Kiba tried to hold her back without getting knocked out in the process.

“Kiba take her over to Naruto and let her cool off.” Kakashi said in a slightly stiff manner, but the raven guessed it was not because of the attack the kounochi had just used, so much as the information he had just learned.

“I’ll try.” The dog nin said as he unsuccessfully tried to drag to enraged women away. The raven mentally prepared himself for another attack in case she managed to free herself. He seemed to have underestimated her and he was angry with himself for that. He would not make that mistake again. Everyone seemed to be unhappy about the new information they learned and that made the air tense. That is, it was tense until the blond broke in.

“I ran out of ramen!” was a loud shout from a couple trees away. All eyes turned to the blond still sitting in a tree, waving an empty container of ramen around. “Wow that’s a big hole you made Sakura. Are you doing some gardening? What are you going to plant there? I hope you plant a ramen tree. I like ramen. Oh no, I ran out of ramen!” yelled the blond again. Obviously he was still a little out of it.

Sakura’s anger was lost as she seemed to turn into mother hen mode. Braking free of the dog-nins grip she ran to the blond. “That’s okay Naru-chan I brought some ramen incase you wanted some.” She yelled as she jumped back over into the blonde’s tree.

“Ahh… that was weird. Well weirder than normal. Did you drug him too, Uchiha?” Kiba asked.

The raven glared at the dog-nin.

“Fine, fine you don’t have to get pissy, I was just asking.” The dog-nin said as he too jumped into the blonde’s tree.

‘What is with everyone going all mother hen around the blond. First Iruka, then the Hokage, now Sakura and even Kakashi seemed to have developed it. Well maybe Kakashi wasn’t a mother hen. Actually from look Kakashi was giving him it was almost like he was facing Naruto’s dad or something. It was one of those looks that someone received from the dad after keeping his daughter out too late on a date or something. It was a little unnerving coming from his old sensei. Why was everyone one so protective of the blond all of a sudden? They were all treating him normal before they left so what sparked this over protectiveness? What had changed? What had… the mental attack! It made sense that they were worried about the blond, but at the same time wouldn’t they want to check he blond over to make sure he was truly alright? The only reason they wouldn’t do that is if they knew he was going to be fine and that only lead to one conclusion. This wasn’t the first time the blond had an attack.

“How many other metal attacks has Naruto had?” the raven asked suddenly. Neji looked slightly surprised he figured it out, but Kakashi didn’t.

It was the sliver haired shinobi who answered and there was something in his ex-sensei’s voice that made his blood run cold. “Since the first time I found him…6 times. Some worse then others, but most were about as bad as the one you just avoided.”

The raven nodded stiffly for the other to continue.

“We have been watching him pretty closely since the first time, that is how we found out you and he were missing so quickly. All 6 times he has had someone to watch over him while he slipped deeper into his mind. All 6 times we have had to just stand by uselessly as he was in pain. There was nothing we could do to stop it and nothing we could do to prevent it. We tried to make sure he was never alone.”

The Uchiha felt that there was something more that his old sensei hadn’t told him and even though something that something was making his blood turn to ice he needed to know. Keeping his face emotionless he asked the question that would give him his feared answer.

“You said ‘since the first time you found him’ so it’s possible he has had more before then. Kakashi… how did you find him that first time?”

The raven watched both Neji and his ex-sensei stiffen at the question.

Kakashi lowered his book and tucked away in a pocket and then looked directly into his student’s eyes. He knew Sasuke was going to ask that question, the raven was too smart not to, but still…it was hard to think about that day. ‘Naruto, I’m sorry I couldn’t do more.’ He thought to himself.

Sasuke needed to know what happened, even if it was painful to recall. The raven seemed to have a connection with the blond that no one else had. That meant that he was the one with the greatest chance at helping the blond.

The copy-nin mentally sighed at his uselessness in helping the blond ball of sunshine. ‘I guess I know how Iruka feels. Some how Naruto’s wormed his way into my heart even after I thought I had sealed it away so deep inside myself. I had lost all my precious people once and didn’t want that to happen again. I lost the one I loved and was left feeling so alone even though I carry a piece of him within me. I didn’t want to get hurt again, so I learned to hide my true self away in the dark, but that human ball of sunshine lit up even the darkest corners of myself. He made me care again and it’s because of him that I met Iruka. I’ve been given a second chance at love and I plan on taking it. That day…the day I found him…found them attacking him, I snapped.’

Kakashi looked deep into his ex-students eyes. He could see that beneath the Uchiha’s mask that he was worried about what he was going to hear. Kakashi began to explain.

“There are things you need to know about. Things that happened to Naruto…”

“Kakashi I don’t believe he deserves to know this.” Neji said sternly. “He wasn’t there at the time that this happen, because he deserted Konoha and his friends. He has no right to know what happened while he was gone.” The Hyuga glared at the raven.

“Neji I understand your side of the argument, but I disagree with you. He does need to know and I’ll will be telling him. If you wish to leave for this conversation please do so now.” Was the copy-nins even reply.

The longhaired brunette glared at the copy-nin but didn’t argue further. Instead he hopped from branch to branch back over to where Naruto was now happily eating another cup of ramen.

Kakashi watched, as the Uchiha’s eyes seemed to soften as he watched the blond eat happily. “Sasuke, you seem to truly care for him and that is why I believe you needed to know what happened the first time I found Naruto.”

The raven’s eyes hardened once again as nodded for the other to continue his story.

Kakashi dropped by the blonde’s apartment because his Iruka-koi wanted to take the blond out for some ramen. It wasn’t until the sliver-nin approached his student’s door that he realized something was wrong. The blonde’s door wasn’t fully closed.

‘Naruto isn’t that careless.’

The jonin heard rustling and thumping from the other side. It sound as if something was getting the crap kicked out of it. The sliver-nin slightly smirked to himself.

‘I wonder what’s got Naruto so excited that he’s ripping his apartment apart and forgot to close the door.’

Shaking his head at his old students silliness, the copy-nin was about to push open the door when he heard something that made his blood freeze.

“ghhumm…” came Naruto’s low voice in the from of a pained whimper.

“Scream demon! You lousy filth, I said scream!”

That was all the jonin needed to hear before he quickly pushed open the door. What he saw at that moment would forever haunt him. A group of 7 attackers prowled around the unconscious form of the blond. It was at that moment that one of the attackers standing over the blond brought his foot down onto smaller bodies chest. A sickening crack filled the small apartment followed by the cruel laughter of one the attackers.

The group didn’t even notice the presence on another person until the laughter turned into a howl of pain. The group members turned to see the crumpled form of one of their own and the famous copy-nin standing over him.

All occupants in the room froze at the pure malice rolling off the regularly care free jonin. Two of men made a run for the door but didn’t even get close before pain engulfed them and they to fell the ground unconscious.

“Get him.” Cried the leader who still had his foot planted in the blonde’s chest.

The copy-nin stood there with his eyes hidden from view. You might of even thought him a statue if it wasn’t for the lightening that started to crackle in his one hand.

With almost no effort he dodged the first attacker. He sidestepped the second one, sending him crashing into the first. The third he didn’t dodge. The third came at him with a kunai in each hand. They aimed for the copy-nin’s neck and shoulder, but the hit never connected. Instead the attacker coughed blood onto the jonin’s vest as the cry of the chidori sang inside his chest.

With his eyes still hidden the sliver-nin pulled his hand from the others chest only to put it into the second attacker and then the third. They had fought him with there all but, there was no chance that they could have won.

7 bodies lay on the ground. One was his ex-student, 3 where beaten and unconscious and the last three were barely breathing. Meaning that there were only 2 people in the room left standing. Himself and scum that had finally taken his foot off the blonde’s chest. It seems this one had lost his confidence as his friends were mercilessly beaten one by one.

“Why are you trying to protect this demon?” The man emphasized his point by kicking the bloodied blond.

Fury boiled in his blood as the man kicked the blond. There would only be one left standing at the end of this.

With that the copy-nin pushed up his headband and looked up. Two mismatched eyes pieced the other shinobi’s eyes. One eye fill with cold fury and the other a blazing Sharingan.

The quite world outside small apartment was broken with a strangled scream.

The man crumpled to the ground as his blank eyes rolled up into his head. There was not even a scratch on his body, but the damage he received was 10 times worse then the other occupants in the room. He would live, if you could even call his existence living.

With his killing intent slated, the sliver jonin made a couple hand signs and with a puff a small pug appeared.

“What do you wan…” the dog summons words were lost as he looked upon the battlefield of bodies lying in the apartment.

“Go get the Hokage. Tell her, her little brother needs her help.” The copy-nin spoke emotionlessly.

The pug nodded and then took off through the window running as fast as his legs could carry him, to deliver his message.

The sliver-haired shinobi knelt down beside the blonde’s broken body. No… no longer was his hair blond for the crumpled body was stained red with his own blood. There was no trace of the golden hair, because it was completely matted with blood. Cuts adorned the naked form and the blonde’s right arm was twisted in a way that was not humanly possible.

‘He’s so pale.’

Kakashi stared at the blond, if it weren’t for the slight rise and fall of the fragile chest he would have thought his old student was dead. Kakashi traced his fingers over the younger boys face. Was he going to lose another person precious to him? This boy, he was like…like a son to him. He couldn’t handle it if he died because of this stupid village’s hatred. Oh Kami, Iruka. This is going to kill him. His little koi thought of the blond as a son also.

It wasn’t even 3 minutes before the Hokage poofed into the small apartment with her assistant and Sakura.

The rest was just a blur to the copy-nin. So much happened and he was so tired. Three chidoris, his full Sharingan and all this mental pain were getting over whelming. He slightly remembered the Hokage forcing him to lying down and rest.


The fury rolling off the Uchiha was so thick that it seemed to darken the air around him.

“Calm down Sasuke that is all in the past now. Focus on the Naruto of the present.” Kakashi said.

The raven slipped back into his emotionless mask.

“I understand. Is that all I need to know?” asked the emotionless teen.

“Yes…” The sliver haired-nin opened his mouth to say more but seemed to decide against it.

There was silence for while and then the older nin spoke. “You stopped the mental attack from happening. Something neither I nor anyone else has been able to do.”

The Uchiha look at his ex-sensei in slight surprise, when he said that he sounded truly mournful of that fact, but also there was something else in his tone. Bitterness maybe? Was Kakashi bitter because he unable to protect the blond like he had? His ex-sensei seems to have deeply bonded with the blond. This was another person the raven was going to hurt by taking the blond away. Any guilt that he might have felt for that was washed away at thought of what that village was doing to the blond. It was killing his blond, ever so slowly, piece by piece.

“I’m not going to let you take him back.” The raven said, his voice full of certainty and determination.

“I know.” Was the copy-nins only reply.

The raven thought about the blonde’s metal attack again. He was suddenly faced with the memory of kiss. Shame seemed to follow that memory as he remembered breaking the age-old traditions of his clan. His face must of given away what he was thinking about because the older shinobi spoke as if he had read his mind.

“It wasn’t a real kiss.”

The Uchiha was surprise by his words but quickly schooled his features. Unfortunately when he spoke there was still bitterness in his tone.

“Yeah, so then what would you call it?” he bit out.

“Honestly Sasuke I’d call it exactly what it was…saving your friends life. If anything it was more like a crazy version of CPR then a kiss, only Naruto needed ramen instead of air.”

Any other time the Uchiha might have thought that his old sensei was teasing him, but it was obvious from copy-nins serious expression that he meant what he said. The more the raven thought about it the more it seemed to make sense. It wasn’t a kiss, it was a serious medical procedure that result in him saving the blond from a potentially harmful mental attack. The raven was once again content that he didn’t ruin his clan traditions.

“On the other hand that kiss you two share in your academy class room is a different story.” The sliver-nin said off handedly.

The raven felt like he had been punched in the gut. One second his clans traditions were safe and the next they all go to hell again. ‘That pervert is enjoying that fact that I forgot about that… that incident. It was most definitely not a kiss! That was the dobe’s clumsiness and nothing more. I swear Kakashi gets some sick pleasure in torturing me.’

The raven could even swear that his ancestor turned in their graves at that accusation.

Kakashi was thoroughly enjoying himself. He was smirking wildly under his mask and his one visible eye was sparkling with mirth. ‘He owes me for everything I’m doing for him, even if he doesn’t know what I’m doing yet.’ The copy-nin thought to himself.

Not feeling need to defend himself from such a stupid and obviously untrue claim, the raven decided to ignore the jonin.

Realizing the younger male wasn’t going to respond to him he decided to give him a break and drop the subject and move on to something else. “Neji was pissed.”

That statement got the Uchiha’s attention quite quickly. Seeing his ex-student was listening his elaborated.

“About the CPR kiss.”

A raven eyebrow twitched at the inappropriate name for what happened.

“It was actually quite amusing to watch.” The Silver-nin continued as if he didn’t feel the others glare. “Although at one point Sakura and Kiba had to hold him back.” The copy-nin said with a smirk.

The Uchiha let a smirk of his own grace his face, but it disappeared just as quickly as a thought came to his mind. “You were close enough to watch all of the mental attack happen?”

“Yes.”

“How long were you there for? I used my Sharingan to scan the area and didn’t see you so how did you get there so fast. Better yet how did you track us with out me sensing you?”

The sliver-nin was about to answer before a familiar voice shouted his name.

“Hey, Kakashi-sensei!” was the cheerful cry of the blond-nin as said nin landed on the tree branch next to his sensei.

“Ah, hello Naruto. You look like you’re feeling better.” The copy-nin said flippantly as he pulled out his book. Even though the sliver-nin sounded emotionally even inside he was relieved that the blond ball of sunshine was alright.

The rest of the group landed on the tree branch too. With Neji standing a little too close to the blond for the Uchiha’s liking. He growl mentally at longhaired pain.

“Yeah I feel much better sensei. All I needed was a little ramen, teme.” The blond said as he playfully stuck out his tongue at the Uchiha.

Even though the raven knew that the blond was just joking with him, he still felt a pang of guilt at not giving to blond the ramen sooner.

Seeing his ex-students discomfort the copy-nin decided to change the subject. “I believe you were asking how we were able to track you weren’t Sasuke?” he asked already knowing the answer.

“Hn.”

“Well since you asked so nicely I’ll explain. Honestly your trail was very hard to find even with Neji’s Byakugan and Kiba and Akamaru’s sense of smell.” Kakashi’s eye turned into an upside down ‘U’ as he smiled. “The trick you pulled with Naruto-kun’s pants was very clever. It had Kiba and Akamaru running around in circles for almost a day.”

“Hmm… my pants?” asked the blond wondering what had happened to them.

“Yes and I can tell you that when we finally caught up to the little fox Sasuke tied your pants to, Kiba was…upset. In fact little fox wasn’t in any better spirits. I guess running around with a pairing of orange pants tied around your waist would annoy anyone.

“Hey I liked those pants!” The blond growled. “Did you bring them with you?” he asked hopefully.

“Ahhh…no.” the copy-nin replied not looking up from his book.

“Aweeee… come that’s not fair.” The blond pouted.

The raven smirked at the blond.

“Dobe.”

“Teme!”

The raven turned his attention back to his ex-sensei and pretended to ignore the fuming blond. “ How did you avoid me sensing you?” the Uchiha asked.

The raven could swear that if his old sensei weren’t wearing that mask that he would be smirking at him.

There was short silence before the sliver-nin answered.

“You see Sasuke I knew that we wouldn’t be able to get close to you without your knowing, because you would most likely be using your Sharingan. You are too reliant on it and I used that to my benefit.”

There was another pause and the raven nodded for the other to continue.

“Once we found your trail, and freed the little fox from the pants…”

“Which you didn’t bring.” The blonde grumbled.

“Ahh yes anyway, after finding your trail again I knew you were expecting people to track you. Once we arrived at the cave you two stayed at I was surprised at the amount of chakra residue still left in the air. I knew we were catching up because it was still fresh and also that you had used a lot charka and wouldn’t be able to travel as fast.”

“He was tired because he put this frick’n charka leech on my arm.” The blond grumbled again.

Ignoring the complaining, Kakashi continued. “Even with you being low on charka I was banking on the fact that you would be too prideful not to use your Sharingan.”

“I still don’t see how this answers my questions.” The raven spoke irritably.

“I’m getting to that. I knew that when you’re tired your Sharingan isn’t as effective. Knowing you, you would focus your Sharingan on only human charka signatures to save energy. I was right too because Pakun was able to get close enough to spy on you two right before your little nap.” The jonin said with a smirk.

‘I knew I felt eyes watching me then.’ The onyx-eyed teen thought to himself.

“We avoided having you sense or see us with your Sharingan by using Neji’s Byakugan.” Sakura said. “His Byakugan’s range is further then your Sharingan especially when you’re tired.”

The Uchiha glared at the pale eyed teen when he felt the other smirk at him.

“We just stayed out of your range until you let your guard down and Pakun told us to come.” She finished.

“We were about to approach you when Naruto started to have an attack. Kakashi made us stop and observer instead. He still hasn’t explained why he needed us to observer the event instead of helping.” The pale-eyed nin growled at their scare-a-crow leader. It was obvious that Neji was upset about the kiss.

The last Uchiha nodded in understanding before his eyes darkened. “Okay you have answered my questions, but I must warn you that I will not let you take…”

“Hey look an orange butterfly.” The Dog-nin yelled cutting off the Uchiha who glared at him.

“Where?” yelled the excited blond looking everywhere for the butterfly.

“Over there, look.” The dog-nin pointed distracting the blond.

“Shh Sasuke. Do say that in front of him.” Sakura whisper so that only her, Kakashi and the Uchiha heard.

“Sasuke the Hokage could pretty much guess what you were attempting to do by stealing Naruto. In all honesty understands why you did what you did but that didn’t save the desk from her wrath.” She continued.

“Hokage-sama does, on the other hand, believe that Naruto needs to be away from the village for an extended period of time.” Kakashi said also keeping his voice quiet so he would not attract the blond who was still searching for the orange butterfly. “She has decided that you two are to be sent on a temporary scouting mission. This is a way to keep the counsel from declaring you missing nin and more importantly prevent them from accusing Naruto of kidnapping you or whatever other nonsense they might come up with. Out of everything I’ve said the thing I want you to remember the most is this is only temporary.” The copy-nins eyes hardened as he spoke these words. “We expect you two, to return to the village eventually.”

The Uchiha’s eyes widened slightly with this information. They weren’t going to try and steal his blond away from him. Well at least not yet. He nodded showing his understanding.

“The Hokage has given you a two years to be away from the village. Also you have some homework.” The copy-nin smirked.

The raven scowled slightly.

“You will be doing some reconnaissance and basic investigations on the other hidden villages. You will send monthy missions reports updating the progress you have made in these matters.” The scare-a-crow finished.

The raven wasn’t stupid. The Hokage didn’t want information on other village’s all she wanted was to keep tabs on him and his blond. He wouldn’t complain though, not yet. For the moment having this mission as cover for leaving the village was benifishel to him. When the two years came to an end he would pull off the greatest disappearing act the shinobi world had ever seen. He was leave no trace of where he, his blond and future heirs had disappeared to.

The raven looked at his former teacher and nodded his understanding. He could tell his old sensei knew he wasn’t going to come back willingly after the two years. In the jonin’s eyes there was a promise that nothing would stop him from bring the blond home.

Kakashi sighed to himself at the defiance in his ex-student’s eyes. Well at least he would have two years to improve his tracking skills. He knew at the end of the two years he was going to need all that knowledge and more to bring those two back again. He put that aside for the moment and called the blond over.

“Awwwe come Kakashi-sensei I haven’t seen the butterfly yet.” The blond pouted, Kiba was biting his tongue to keep from laughing at his friend. “What did you want?” the blue-eyed teen asked curiously.

“I need you to sign these mission scrolls. It seems that Sasuke was so excited to start the mission that he forgot to get you to sigh them before you left.” The sliver-haired jonin said.

“Ehhhh? Mission? What mission?” asked a very confused blond.

“Oh I see Sasuke hasn’t told you yet. You were sent on a 2 year scouting mission.” The copy-nin replied not looking up from his book.

“Ahhhh… Huh? Really? Teme why didn’t you just tell me that in the first place? Here I thought you were stealing me away like some crazed up fruit loop. Hey wait then why did you put this bracelet thing on me?” The blond asked.

“I think Sasuke was a little worried you’d run away before he could explain.” Sakura covered for the Uchiha. It was a bad lie but the blond seemed to buy it.

“Ahh… okay I guess, but that means you can take it off now right?” the blue-eyed teen asked hopefully.

“Hn.” Was the raven’s only response.

“Teme!” the blond growled before remembering he still needed to sign the mission forms. “Yeah a mission! Where do I sign Kakashi-sensei?”

“Just there on the dotted line.” The copy-nin said, magically producing a pile of official mission request forms.

The blond grab the pile of papers and the pen that also magically appeared and started signing. Once done he handed them back to the copy-nin and they magically disappeared again.

‘Okay that was just weird.’ The Uchiha thought eyeing his ex-sensei carefully.

“What are the mission specifics?” the blond asked.

“Sasuke already knows everything, so you can asked him later. The main thing for you to know is that the deadline for this mission is two years from tomorrow.” The Jonin said giving a stern look to the raven.

The Uchiha smirked, Kakashi pretty much gave him all the freedom to drag the blond around the globe and say it was for the mission. As long as they returned in two years, which he didn’t plan on doing.

“Oh, okay.” The blond responded happily still unaware of the tension in the air.

“Well that was all we came here for. Good luck on you mission.” The sliver haired-nin said. “If you guys want to say your goodbyes you should do it now. Sasuke I would like to speak with you privately.”

Naruto was happily talking with the others while the raven and sliver-nin moved to another branch to talk.

“This mission was Hokage’s idea and I already told Iruka about it too. You understand that if you were to even keep his Naruto for even an hour past the two year mark he would kill you very, very slowly. Also, if he finds out that you plan to make Naruto into an Uchiha Baby Oven he will find and castrate you. There are a great deal of people who care for Naruto and you will be sign your own execution order if you are planning on not returning, like I believe you are. You may think that you can disappear without a trace and you may be able to hide for a while, but know this, his friends will never stop looking. You are an Uchiha and may consider yourself as perfect as humanly possible, but close doesn’t cut it. We will find you. Besides do you really want to do that Naruto? Take him permanently away from the only people that ever cared for him?” The jonin said, in an icy tone.

“I care.” The raven almost growled.

“I never said you didn’t. I was simply warning you of the consequences of that course of action.”

The raven looked at his old sensei. He understood fully what the other was implying. He was free to take the blonde as long as he was cared for, protected and promptly returned at the due time. He still wouldn’t do the last part even if he had to face the wrath of a million mother hen Irukas and Hokages. Still the raven felt the strange need to leave his sensei in better spirits.

“Thank you… Kakashi-sensei...for taking care of him while I was…foolishly…in search of power.”

Slightly surprised the copy-nin nodded. “I have come to…care for him…greatly. As have I come to care for all of Team 7…greatly. No matter if they had once gone astray.”

The jonin’s last comment was directed more so at him, but still the raven felt his chest warm at his ex-sensei’s words. It was obvious that they weren’t easy to say. Not from a man so used to hiding his emotions.

The air turned serious once again as the copy-nin looked the onyx teen in the eyes. “You stopped the mental attack from happening. Something I could not. It would be good for him to stay near to you. Keep him away from that which haunts him and help him to pick up the pieces that people have smashed him into. Help him heal. Keep him healthily, keep him safe and Uchiha keep him happy…”

The raven nodded.

“Or else there will be Tsunade to pay.” The copy-nin said threateningly, but there was a lighter quality to his tone.

A shiver ran the Uchiha’s spine at the thought a of a pissed Hokage, mother hen Iruka, an evil Sakura and not to mention all the blonde’s other friends.

With there conversation obviously ended and raven turned back to the branch where his blond dobe was only to freeze at what he saw. The blond was lip locked with the pale-eyed freak Neji. ‘That Hyuga piece of kuso, I’ll kill him.’

The raven jumped to attack the longhaired shinobi only the have him dodge and take off running back to Konoha.

“Good bye Naruto-kun.” The Hyuga said as he moved further away from the fuming Uchiha.

Naruto was confused as to why Neji had kissed him but decided it was probably his clan’s way of say goodbye. “Ah…Bye?”

The other also bid farewell to them and followed quickly after Neji.

The blond turned to his raven mission partner.

“Let’s go.” The Uchiha growled as he took off in the opposite direction of the Konoha nins.

The Kyubi vessel sighed at the raven’s poor mood. ‘Great I have to travel with a sulking Uchiha. Oh, joy.’ Then took off running, to where he didn’t know.

TBC


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Okay this chapter has totally been rewritten more so the last half. It was originally 5936 words, now it’s 6558. And I’m finally happy with it. Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth like that. This chapter just really bugged me so I got ticked and threw it aside, when I couldn’t figure out how to fix it. Hopefully now my writers block is gone. I hope to have the next chapter done in a couple of day. Mostly just fixing typos.

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