Mission Objective

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Mission Objective: Interrigation

The moon was set low in the horizon, you could see the sun trying desprately to light the sky for one more hour. The birds were laying to rest, while the late night critters were stirring in their hallows. The crickets picked up their instruments that they had layed down for the day, telling those who knew just what temperature it was.

A soft breeze picked up the fallen green leaves, scattering them across the road and into a crimson pool where they drifted uncaringly. The grravel road had greedily swallowed most of the life giving blood before it had pooled in the middle of the road. The last owner of the blood layed on his stomach, face burried deep in a dirt hole where he had inhaled loose dirt and bits of gravel to choke on them, but that had not been the cause of his death. There was a kunai stuck in the back of the corpse where the blood had leaked out before being fried charcoal black. If you looked closely, you could see where lightning had caressed his face brutally, two trees only a foot away suffered the same fate. There was not a cloud in the sky that day.


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It had been a week since their return, Itachi was mysteriously cleared of all his transgressions. Three days earlier the council had pardened him and was even willing to give him back two of his 20 some houses. A certain amount of money was returned to him, enough to pay for food and medication that he was currently on. A member of the Nara family was to drop off some herbs and medicines to keep his mental status in check, which Iruka found was not even in question. He felt that there was something going on that the rest of the villiage was dumb to. Naruto had told him about that day when him, Sakura and the two subs making up team Kakashi had met finally found Sasuke. He told him how the kyuubi had said that the Uchiha blood was more curesed than the well known demon. Also, how the demon's name is actually Kijin*, and that he came from a mixed up family and how he had been tricked into attacking Konoha. But both Naruto and Iruka knew better than that, still, there was a level of mercy that the blond container held for Kijin.

So, Itachi had come back home, part of his estates were released to him, Iruka had not heard anything about Naruto's whereabouts even after questioning the cursed man. Oh yeah, and Kakashi was yet to come home after the fiasco in the kitchen. Iruka had hoped that the copy nin's hand had hurted severly.

Iruka had been leading Itachi to the training grounds when he had bumped into Shikamaru and Lee doing their patrols. Iruka had not talken to them much as friends, or even comrades, but the two boys were still chunin and Iruka Anbu, so their wasn't really much to talk about, not to mention the time between rigourous Anbu missions and chunin patrols.

"Good afternoon Shikamaru, Lee." Iruka had greeted politely. Even after all these years, it was still hard for him to handle seeing these two, any of his students really, carring out missions. "How are things?"

"Fine." was the genius ninja''s reply, even Lee had said his greetings in less than five words. Maybe these two had been up all night, or maybe Lee's energy had finally been contained. "We've got about four more hours of patrol before we can sleep."

The lazy ninja held back a yawn as evidence of his tiredness. So they had been up all night. Lee was keeping an eye out for something. Iruka felt that it was time he let them get back to their duties. Itachi just waited patiently while his leader wrapped up this little conversation. Before leaving though, Shikamaru grabbed his seniors arm and leaned in close to the mans ear.

"There were rumors that Naruto had been to the Hokage tower. Apperantly snooping through the library." Shikamaru's face had not betrayed his emotions one bit. Although deep down inside, he was worried for his friend, he was also pissed that the blond hadn't come to even say 'Hey, sorry I've been gone so long. This was what I had been up to....' But no, the demon container and unofficial missing nin had only come to shuffle through the Hokage's library.

"Nothing was stolen?" Iruka had replied.

"No, It's speculated that he was just looking for something, everything had been taken down then methodically put back in order."

"Well you do know that he passed the genin test with the help of Yondaime's forbidden scroll." The younger ninja looked surprised. He was still so close to his superior, that meant that he still had something to say.

"I wouldn't be surprised then if he copied the scrolls. But that wouldn't explain why everything else was disturbed. Some of the items in there belonged to the Yondaime because he has no heir. Why would he need to look through there, it's only clothes and some jewlery."

Well then that made sense. It was still not revealed to anyone who didn't know that the Yondaime certainly did have an heir, that he was a talented young man who had been here only last night. Still, if nothing was taken then what would be the reason for Naruto's short return. What bothered him the most was that nobody knew till... when were the shinobi notified of Naruto's return? Iruka asked Shikamaru.

"I'm not supposed to say. Even if I did know. My guess is that he had been seen by someone in the tower or he told the Hokage. But I wouldn't ask her about it, they're remodeling her office now. Ja." With that said Shikamaru and Lee took off down the street again before taking to the roof tops to do some more effecient patroling. Which meant that the two chunins had spotted Iruka and made their way down to tell him in person. It was common knowledge that once Sasuke left, Naruto took the job to search for him. The same was for Iruka when Naruto had dissappeared, leaving only a cryptic note in the Forrest of Death. Being that there were indications of a battle. There were large boulders crumbled to gravel and pebbles, the gound had been split in many different places, trees had been knocked over from Naruto's newly found wind jutus. So there had been at least two people that Naruto had been fighting against. Whether he knew them or not was still a mystery. Knowing the boy/man, his opponents knew him. There were foot imprints in the ground, so it had been raining that night, and by the way the prints were deep in the mud, they had been talking for a while. There had been three alltogether, but that didn't mean that there were others hidden in the trees and bushes. Not even Akatsuki was crazy enough to send just two people after Naruto anymore.

That was it. He knew that it couldn't be Sasuke who had met up with Naruto that night. There were no lighning strikes anywhere or scorch marks to be found anywhere. And concidering that they didn't find any bodies, that the enemies had left alive, barely wounded. It was just too mysterious, but Iruka had a thought, he wondered if Akastuki had been there that night. He expressed his thoughts with Itachi.

"Possibly. Kisame and I were in Water." was his only answer. The blind man followed Iruka faithfully only two feet away.

"Is that where Naruto found you?"

"No." Iruka didn't want to waste his energy trying to get this clam to give some answers. They had turned a few more blocks when Itachi spoke up again. "He found me in Wind country I think. There was a lot of sand. I had lost my eyesight then. I left Kisame before I was completely blind. I was beaten up before he found me and he took me in."

"If he took you in then why were you locked in a cell?" Iruka couldn't help but remember the way his room looked. A dingy little 9x12 cell with a cot and a small hole too high and too small for anyone to escape from. He wondered if Itachi would give an answer, but when his ears were met with silence he kept thinking, looking over the little things that he had probably missed. And that was it. "The door wasn't locked, he must've just found you then if you claim he took you in when you were beaten up. But that doesn't explain why you were malnurished, and who did a number on you."

He waited paitently, Itachi would answer in his own time. But unfortunately, they had already reached to grounds. He led Itachi over to a tree where he would be protected by the mid-summer sun. Taking his sweater off - it had been a little chilly during his morning run- and giving it to Itachi to look after, he begun his chakra meditation the way his sensei had showed him. His heart clenched everytime when he thought about him.

He finished his meditation and started on a graceful Tai-Chi. Summoning the soothing energy taken to execute the calm moves. If anyone had been looking, you could see the rippling of muscles it took to keep his body tight. This wasn't the typical, relaxing Gentle Tai-Chi that the elders practiced, this was His version. That, when executed in battle, had deadly results. It was created to fight the Hyuuga's, their Gentle Fist was deadly enough without connection, so this new Tai-Chi was just the thing to counter the infamous taijutsu. Hyuuga Hiashi and others in his house had seen the damaging effects of this move. To say that the Hyuuga's were impressed by this man was an understatement.

Iruka made a high powerful kick and flipped backwards to land softly on his feet, finishing this set of moves. He then began what seemed like random kicks and punches against his invisible opponent. But if there were anybody being hit by Irukas punches, you could see clearly that it was the vital points of the body, the nerves being slammed and in short "charlie horsed". If he added any chakra, and hit the vital points in the muscles, they would either cramp or tear, depending on if the muscle was flexed or not.

It didn't take him long to notice that Itachi had moved from his spot under the tree and had temporarily dissappeared. Frantically looking around he almost missed the small pebble that bounced off his hitai-ite. The marksman stood ten feet away, tossing two more stones in his hand up and down, catching them he threw the two, again bouncing off the metal forehead protector. Iruka smirked, genius' turly amaze him.

"So you got bored huh?" of course there was no answer, only a stiff shift into a stance that Itachi hadn't gotten into since childhood (author's note: i haven't seen him get in a stance at all either in the manga series or anime. so childhood it is ^_^) Iruka smiled fully this time and made his way to the tense ninja infront of him. Getting into a similar stance, he barely had enough time to block the attack of a knife strike. Itachi's hand was flat and painfully stiff when it was blocked by Iruka's forearm. Close. Had Iruka not seen it at the last minute, he would have been hit on the side of the head. He didn't know if Itachi meant it so that when it landed, it wouldn't have knocked him out when connected to the neck, or if it was because he couldn't see. When Iruka was in attacking position, he was about a head shorter than when normally standinng. Itachi must've taken this into his consideration and miscalculated. Nevertheless, Itachi engaged Iruka in a mix of strikes, punches and kicks. Not all of them had been blocked, so Iruka would have a number of bruises to tend to when he got back home. He had only landed a few himself, he didn't want to hurt the scrawny man too much. When Iruka had almost punched Itachi in the temple he had stopped the fight. The Uchiha looked worn out, but pride kept him from falling to the ground. Itachi faught for air with just as much energy it had taken him to throw each punch.

Iruka came behind him and held the tense man around the waist, telling him silently that he could relax and trust him. Which surprisingly, he did. Itachi relaxed almost instantly and threw his head back to lay on Iruka's right shoulder. This little ten minute fight had almost taxed Itachi's body. He wondered for a moment how long he would last if they 'faught' under the sheets. He shook his head to rid himself of the thoughts that Kakashi had most likely placed there through sublimination - Damn Jaraiya too!

It was a peaceful moment as Iruka leaned against a boulder and Itachi layed comfortably in his arms. Itachi's breath was a little ragged but thankfully his lungs were still working. Iruka could feel and see his heart beat. His paper thin looking skin revealed the miniscule rise and fall of his heart pumping precious blood throughout his body. The vein in the neck looked most tempting. He kept trying to keep his lips from firmly attaching themselves to that pale ivory column.

"Sasuke." it shattered the air around them and Iruka quickly looked up. "Saske found me first. I wasn't eating before. Naruto convinced him to leave me alone."

"So they had made contact with eachother." Iruka thought outloud. It made a little more sense why Naruto was gone. But it still didn't explain why he left, came back without telling anyone, then left again. There was definately something going on that the Hokage wasn't telling him or anyone. Iruka was caught off guard when a warm tounge licked his jawline. He looked down to see the pink thing retreating back into Itachi's mouth. It had happened so suddenly and so out of the blue that Iruka was caught off guard.

"I felt you looking at me." Itachi gave as an answer. Iruka gazed into Itachi's sightless eyes. His eyes looked as if the pupils had exploded and that this was the result of it. And according to what Kakashi had explained to him about the functions of the Sharingan and the reason why Itachi, at that time, had been losing his sight.

"You're beautiful." was all Iruka said before leaning down to take Itachi's lips with his own. He had opened his mouth immediately and allowed Iruka to gently suck the pink muscle into action. They didn't fight for dominance, they just simply ran eachothers tounges against eachother, as if drawing somesort of energy or pleasure from the other. When Itachi tried to deepen the kiss, Iruka ran his hands over Itachi's body. He felt his chest underneath the shirt, there was still muscles there, evidence of what kind of strength he had once had. Over the stomach where the hollowness is, the muscles had been. Strangely it didn't turn Iruka off, it made him want Itachi more. Only to help him, in any possible way, gain back the strength he once wielded without trouble. One of his hands- Iruka wasn't sure which one- had grazed over the man's hip bone, eliciting a moan from the usually stoic ninja. Iruka's member sprang to life unwillingly, Itachi felt it and ground his hips down to create a wonderful heat. Iruka couldn't handle it. . . Oh god it was good.

He quickly switched his positions so that Itachi layed under him.

"If you think I'm going to be bottom.. think again." And with a strength that returned to Itachi for a moment, had quickly switched their positions again. Iruka laying wonderfully helpless underneath. Itachi, never knowing sexual pleasures, had dove strait to Iruka's lap, nuzzling the hard-on there. Seriously, for someone who had no experience, he knew exactly what to do to make this man squirm. Itachi slowly pulled down the pants, Iruka lifting his hips to help out. When the pants were at mid thigh, Itachi roughly pulled them down to Iruka's ankles. The Anbu's cock bouncing almost painfully against his stomach. Itachi bent Iruka's legs at the knees, crawling under the captive ankles and between the man's tanned, velvet soft thighs. He licked at the underside of the large cock infront of his unseeing eyes, hands guiding him all the way. Iruka gasped at the sudden touch. It was gentle at first, but then he felt a warm tounge envelope his head and Itachi's mouth sucked so strongly he felt he would have cum just like that. But for some 'prodigal' reason, Itachi's right hand had a vice like grip at the base of his cock, keeping him from cuming violently.

" 'tachi. . ." Iruka groaned out. That was the word that got the head of Iruka's cock to get swallowed past Itachi's tonsles. That constricting heat and the barely noticed finger probing his anus made him buck wildly. He was about to somehow mumble an apology when two more fingers had abruptly entered the first. The pain was more excrutiating than his first time with Kakashi. The mouth left his dick, leaving it weeping for the lost attention.

"Don't. .. " *thrust* ". .ever. ." *thrust, dig* ". .do that. ." *curl* ". .again." Itachi said forcefully. Not that it didn't hurt, but he thought it was the right thing to make Iruka totally his. And it was. With every milimeter of movement from the invading appendages, Iruka yelled and growled feraly. "Understand?"

Iruka's back was arched so sharply, one would think it would have broken in half. He couldn't answer, his brain had translated the pain for imense pleasure, which made his penis impossibly hard. Itachi leaned up as far as he could to Iruka's ear and said in a husky voice.

"I asked you a question. . . lover." he had not said 'pet' or anyother offending nickname... yet he called him lover. Itachi quickly thrust his fingers in and out of Iruka, dry fucking him with his fingers, searching for an answer. Iruka yelled out a the top of his lungs.

"YES! OHGODFUCKINGYES!" Iruka never knew he could be this turned on by pain. Yet here he was. Cock at full, painful mass, his tight, surely bleeding, almost virgin-like hole being roughly dry fucked by three bony fingers by a man who's other hand had a tight grip at the base of his dick.

"Good." Itachi left Iruka's ear alone, and on his way down to his lover's cock, he gently licked both nipples, one after another while, gently this time, massaging inside Iruka. The onslaught of touches and caresses drived Iruka on the brink of insanity, literally. Not a single thought was going in or out of his lust induced mind. His body was wound tight so that each muscle in his body was tense.

Itachi finally reached Iruka's dick and licked the slit of the head. Iruka dimly remembered not to buck this time. The Uchiha grinned in fullfillment as he took the whole appendage in his mouth suddenly, testing the Umino's will. Iruka's back arched again and he let out a throaty moan that was sure to ruin his vocal chords, if the yelling hadn't already. The three fingers in his ass had hit a bundle of nerves the same time the damn man above him swallowed his head. So, inevitably, he bucked again. Which Itachi proceeded to punish his lover by hitting Iruka's prostate so quickly and repetitvely that Iruka came in his awaiting mouth..... hard. His essence had somehow made it passed the tight ring that Itachi's hand made and erupt painfully through his small slit. Wave after wave of orgasm. When he was almost done, Itachi fucked his prostate again in the same manner, making him cum again. The term 'I'm spent' faintly ran through Iruka's mind after his second orgasm, he was a pool of a man after Itachi's minstrations. Itachi sucked as much cum as he could from his lovers penis, then removed his bloodied fingers and gently licked Iruka's ass to rid him of some of the blood.

If Iruka was concious enough to ask "What about you?" he would have been replied by, not the traditional, "Don't worry about me." but with, "You're fucked, through and through, I would only put you in the hospital if I fucked you again."

So Itachi wondered over to the tree he had been sitting at earlier and grabbed the sweater Iruka had deposited. He laid it over his lovers prone body and cradled Iruka's sleeping head in his lap, wondering just how they had gotten this far already.... actually he was wondering about the next time he would be able to ride Iruka.

(Authors POV)

And we leave our two mixed up lovers alone in the woods where a smile rests upon Itachi's lips, and a pair of cerulean eyes look upon them in the most devilish mirth one had ever seen alonge with a pair of yellow, murderous eyes looking in the same direction.

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midnight: So?So?So?So? How'd you like it... told you I'd give you guys something juicy.... ^_^ Who do you think is the other on with Naruto? Please review.

author's note: Kijin* means evil.