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The Job	By : VRon8899 Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 3531 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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AN:Well..Im back again. This is a 4th of July gift (a day late I know) but I wrote it on my mini holiday so I thought you would all enjoy to read it. I Hope at least. Im really enjoying writing this story but I dont know if anyone is enjoying the reading part of it. I do my best I promise!
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Chapter 13
Missed Rendezvous
Sakura looked up from her vigil over her patients as Ino lowered a bottle water to her. “Come on…drink up, do you want me to make some food?” Ino offered. The pinkette tiredly took the water and made a small shake of her head. “I know I should eat but I don’t think I can muster enough energy to do it” She gave a little weak laugh. It was quiet in the small house. Ino took a seat next to her leg a little as she did so. “Here…at least eat this?” She offered a protein bar and Sakura took it gratefully. “Thank you...” She turned her attention back to Neji her hand dropping to move over his chest, focusing her powers. She didn’t have much to offer right now, but she could at least monitor him. He had been the worst. She had been terrified he wouldn’t make it.
“How’s Neji doing?” Ino asked even as Sakura pulled back and slumped tiredly. The pinkette sighed and closed her eyes. “He’ll live…but just barely…He may have 360 field of vision but the impact of the truck just couldn’t be avoided no matter how much you can see…and the resulting impacts…” her shoulders sagged before taking a deep breath having trailed off. Slowly she released it and sat up looking over at her other charges. Iruka was out still, Kakashi next to him. As soon as they had gotten here the man had just passed out in the threshold. Kiba was near them, cuddled up against Akamaru. The loyal pup had put his body between the impacts and his master. She didn’t know what was wrong with Kakashi except sheer exhaustion, physically he had been fine except some bruising on his leg.
“It’s past midnight…do you think they’re going to make it here?” Sakura turned her eyes away, finding the clock in the room before shaking her head. “Don’t know, regardless we need to keep moving. I know Iruka will want to meet back up with them but…” She took a shaking breath. She hurt all over, and the healings she had to do left her practically boneless on the floor. “They should be here by now” Sakura had said the words before she could stop herself. They hadn’t been that far. The ‘what if’s’ filtered through her mind and she pushed them away. With so many down she couldn’t start panicking! “Here...come on...let me help you to the blankets…we’re going to be ok.” Ino’s voice firmed up as she helped Sakura stand. The young woman shook a little but managed to put some strength into her first step. “We’re going to survive this.” Sakura smiled slightly at Ino’s optimism. Even if it was faked.
“Can we leave off the pep talk for now…Sakura shouldn’t you be sleeping…?” This came from Shikamaru. He was sprawled on one of the blankets on the other side of the dark livingroom. “You’re not sleeping!” Ino hissed angrily at him but he merely waved his hand. “Only because you both have done nothing but blabber the last 3 hours.”
“Why you!!!” Ino snarled but Neji groaned on the floor, “…shut up…..” The man hissed and sucked in a breath. Sakura pushed out of Ino’s grip and moved over, practically staggering before falling on her knees next to Neji.
“Lay back, don’t move. You’ll just undo everything I had to do” Her hands were on his shoulders keeping him down and those eyes slowly opened. “The bridge. The truck…there were two what about the other car…Naruto??”
“I said relax.” She kept him down and looked over as Shikamaru plopped down next to the man. “Go sleep Sakura...you’re in no state to be babysitting. You’re wiped.” He dismissively shrugged her from his side. “Ill fill him in and make sure he doesn’t do any more damage to himself” Sakura sent him a relieved looked before Ino helped her up again and they stumbled over to some of the mats and blankets that were strewn over the floor. Shikamaru watched them both collapse on one and pull another blanket over themselves. He hung his head and rubbed the back of his neck. Fucking whiplash.
“You look like shit.” Shikamaru mused lightly glancing over Neji’s purpled face, he saw the brief scowl before the eyes closed. “Just report…” the man mumbled, his words were rounded as if even talking hurt. Shikamaru was sure it did.
“Oh you want a report? Like we’re some kind of army.” Shikamaru snorted, “What a pain in the ass you are.” He flopped onto his back and tucked his hands behind his head. “I had no idea the extent of Itachi’s abilities but after the semi-trucks cut off the traffic, there was an oncoming ramp, and two big pickup trucks crossed several lanes of traffic just to cut us off.”
“I remember that.” Neji bit out, even the irritation sounded muffled. “I saw them coming…Iruka had slammed on the breaks but we were…ahha...hit anyway…” Neji scowled as Shikamaru pushed him none to gently back to the blanket. A bitter smile twisted over hackers mouth, “If I have to wake up Sakura because you’re bleeding again I think she’ll punch me through the damn wall” He warned him, “And I sure as hell am not taking a beating for your ass” the lazy young man relaxed back frowning even more. “But yes…we were both hit. Damn hard. The van took the most damage it was practically torn in two” He licked his lips a moment. “Anyway…when I came too I was on the ground with Ino. Kakashi was already facing off against Itachi they were…” His eyebrows furrowed deeply, “Locked in some kind of mind battle if I were to guess. Sasuke was just getting up. He was all kinds of messed up but Naruto...” He rubbed his face and winced a little.
“Itachi had Naruto.” Neji concluded and Shikamaru grunted lightly. “Yes. He did. Sakura warned him to release him...she would bring the bridge down. Didnt fucking know the woman could do that. She’s terrifying.” He whispered lightly and Neji snorted slightly. “What happened?” He pressed. Shikamaru went quiet his eyes staring up at the ceiling.

“I got Ino up, we moved around, outside of the main battle area. While Itachi was busy I wanted immobilize Kisame, try and get Sasuke freed up so he could try and grab Naruto...” His lips pulled downward and he breathed out. “Sasuke’s abilities. They woke up during the fight.” He hesitated a moment seeing Neji’s eyes widen a little. “They’re just like Itachi’s.…he got faster and it looked like he could tell what move Kisame was going to take before he took it. Ino managed to capture Kisame with her mind while Sasuke was blowing his gut up with bullets and knives and when he turned…He saw Itachi holding Naruto’s hair and leaving Kakashi’s slumped body on the ground.” Shikamaru licked his cracked lips and closed his eyes taking a deeper breath.
“With a single look Itachi forced Ino out of Kisames mind and Sasuke lost his shit. He took off after Itachi but went for Naruto instead. He told Sakura to destroy the bridge” Shikamaru gingerly prodded around his eye testing the bruise that was forming there.
“What?!” Neji almost sat up but Shikamaru thudded the back of his fist against his chest. “Don’t get up” Shikamaru warned him. He waited until Neji settled back and heard the man contain a groan of pain before he continued.
“Yes...he told her to destroy the bridge. I don’t know if he was hoping Itachi and Kisame would go down with them but his goal was to grab Naruto and they fell. Maybe he thought he could get Naruto to wake up. Or maybe he’s just an idiot”
“Just an idiot” Neji repeated the words. “No…” Neji frowned heavily his eyes closing a little as he shifted. “No. He’s not an idiot. He had to have known on some level that waking up Naruto would keep that fall from being fatal.” There was no other explanation for such a rash move. He should have been ready though. He should have been able to fight!
Shikamaru went quiet for a moment his eyes closing a bit as he thought back to the memory. He knew Neji was blaming himself for not being fight ready, but that was stupid. Anyone hit with a damn truck isn’t going to be fight ready. Except maybe Naruto. “Besides…I think Sasuke wanted to end the fight before anything else happened. None of us were in any shape to attack. It was a damn good move on Itachi’s part. He had effectively taken out half of his opponents.
“So…why haven’t they made it back?” Neji finally voiced his last quiet question. At that, Shikamaru let out an annoyed puff of air. “I don’t know. We made contact yesterday. They should be here by now. I don’t know what’s keeping them but I know we can’t stay here much longer. Even if Naruto is Itachi’s final goal, annihilating those like us or recruiting may also be part of his plans.”
“Like hell I'd ever join a group like Akatsuki” Neji snarled almost sitting up again but Shikamaru thumped him again non-too gently. “Well you’ll be dead like the rest us then” He pointed out acidly. “Damn you’re such a pain”
Neji winced heavily at the movement and the thump. He glowered momentarily at the other but Shikamaru had his eyes closed. “So. Sasuke’s abilities woke up…and they’ve been missing for over a day now. Why can’t we assume the worst? Sasuke’s been killed and Naruto captured?” He finally asked the question.
“Ive considered that and right now I don’t have an answer. So, if tomorrow Iruka and Kakashi don’t wake up I think we should load them into whatever vehicles we can find, I can drive so can Sakura and Ino. We keep moving and plan our next move. I don’t want to be caught with our asses out like we did this time” Shikamaru was actually scowling, for as smart as he was, he had not planned for that variable but now he knew. Now he knew what he could expect and they could plan for a counter attack.
"Besides Sasuke knows how to reach me. He will." Shikamaru added as if to lighten the mood in the air but he knew it hadnt.
Neji went quiet. He was evaluating his body systems. He was in pain, but that was to be expected. He knew Sakura had done what she could. His head turned and he could see the others lined out in a row. “Sakura really did have her work cut out for her…” He said softly, “But you’re right. We need to keep moving…” He hesitated a moment feeling the eyes on him and finally turning his gaze to the dark ones.
“You don’t trust Sasuke Uchiha do you?”
Neji was almost shocked by the question, his jaw clenched before he winced. That entire side of his face ached. “No. I don’t. I think he will happily trade Naruto’s life for his own. Or any of us for that matter. I get this feeling from him. I can’t explain it but he did something. I don’t know if it was to Naruto or to all of us but he did it and none of us can remember his time there with us except Naruto. Even so, I know he remembers very little himself.”
Shikamaru nodded a little and looked away. “You know when he took the Kyuubi Mission, he knew it was suicide.” He spoke the words quietly. “So the question is, why take a suicide mission? He told me it was his ticket out, but death is a fucking terrible way to get out of an organization.” He slowly sat and stretched languidly on the spot.
“I think it’s more than just Akatsuki wanting Naruto” Shikamaru mumbled during a yawn before his arms dropped. “I think…someone else is pulling the strings. Someone who might want all of his runaway experiments back in his slimy hands”
“Orochimaru is dead.” Neji hissed flatly, “We made sure of it. I SAW it” His voice was flat, as if to end the discussion but Shikamaru shrugged idly. “You think you’re the only ones he experimented on? Don’t tell me you’re that stupid?”
“That’s not possible” Neji snapped quietly but Shikamaru sighed and flopped back anyway. “Well…maybe not but I’m telling you there is something bigger going on.” The night got darker around them and Neji stared up at the ceiling. Maybe he was right, maybe there was something bigger going on. But what?? Was it something Iruka and Kakashi knew about? Another secret they wouldn’t part with? Tomorrow. He was going to find out tomorrow.
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“Sasuke we need to stop” Naruto went to grab him but he sidled right out of his grip limping ahead steadily. The blond let out an exasperated sigh. “Bastard come on! This is ridiculous! We can’t just keep walking all night...again! We need to rest, we need to eat!” He growled as he was ignored and suddenly jumped into a run, leaping forward his arms suddenly wrapping around the waist he hauled Sasuke back a step.
“You need to stop” Naruto growled against the ear. Sasuke stiffened and finally shrugged out of the grip. “We need to get to the house. They can’t wait forever for us, and we can’t get caught out here.” He snapped waspishly. They had gotten to the to the other side of the bridge, he managed one phone call and made sure the others kept going and sent the coordinates for a point to meet but even now they were slow.
“I’ll stop when we get to the house. If we have to walk all night so be it.” His boots crunched at the asphalt and Naruto’s shoulders slumped a little. “We could catch a ride…I’m pretty damn..” “No!” Sasuke bit out, “No rides. I’m armed to the teeth still and covered in blood. Your clothes are practically falling off of you. No. It would bring up too many questions. Besides we only have half a night of walking left.”
“You’re eyes though, can’t you just I dunno trick someone into giving us their car?” Naruto asked scuffing his feet. Sasuke gave him a flat look before turning away moving faster this time. “Oh come on! It’s a viable plan!” Naruto groaned.
“No its not.” Sasuke bit out. They had filched a few things already. A map, a flashlight, some food, but all of that was behind them already. He didn’t want to seem more suspicious than they already were. “It’s not as easy as you think, I know I can control it but I don’t know the extent of the abilities yet.” His brother had said he had ‘woken up’ did that mean he had these abilities before and somehow they were burned out? Did he never show a predilection for talent and what Orochimaru did to him just now manifest? Had Itachi buried his talent? Was that even possible?? He didn’t have any answers to his questions but Kakashi was one he would demand answers from. He had fought Itachi, he had seen his eye, and he was just like them. At least partially so, but what did that mean?!
Naruto snarled picking up the pace then ran to catch up, “Fine…we do it your way…stubborn bastard” He heard Naruto mumbled. Sasuke scowled angrily and whirled on the spot. He ignored the pain as he glared at the blond.
“What do you want to do? Sleep another night out here? Break into another house steal some food? I don’t.” He rubbed his face and dropped his hand looking exhaustedly at Naruto. “We’re vulnerable out here” He relented, “I don’t….” He clenched his jaw. “Even if I’ve woken up, I don’t have the skill set my brother does.” He hissed he was already moving. They didn’t have time for this argument.
“What?? You don’t think I can protect you??” The blond suddenly demanded. “At the rate you lose control? Hardly” Sasuke replied without even looking over. “You fucking asshole!! I didn’t lose control before! I willingly went…I willingly asked…” Naruto went silent suddenly and Sasuke stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly he turned his head staring at Naruto. Willingly asked…?
“There is something inside you, isn’t there” He whispered, he watched over the face and moved closer his eyebrows furrowing a little. There it was, the slightest flicker right over the face. He saw it. He was sure Naruto felt it because he almost stepped back. “I don’t know what it is” The blond admitted, “but from what Shikamaru’s told us I’m not the only one Orochimaru did this too” He touched his stomach and sucked in a breath.
Sasuke slowly breathed and his hand snapped out grabbing the wrist pulling it away before he lightly dragged up the tattered shirt his fingers grazed the scarring. “Sasuke.” Naruto hissed but Sasuke pressed his palm to it. “You need to learn to control it or he’s going to use it against you…I think…” He was tired but his eyes shifted and he gripped Naruto’s arm harder. “I think…I can get in your head…and see what it is…” For some reason he knew he could do this. He could slip into Naruto, he’s done it before? Right. It would be so easily. He could help him. Get him to control whatever this was…
“Fuck you! No!” Naruto jerked out of his grip and actually put a good few feet between them. Sasuke lowered his hand. He licked his lips. “Ive already done that haven’t I?” He whispered, the reaction alone was a testament to that. Those blue eyes looked angry and scared.
“I don’t know” came the reply from Naruto but it was small, almost timid. “I just don’t need you in my head!” His voice rose and he crossed his arms protectively over his chest.
Liar. Sasuke looked away and started moving again silently mulling over that thought. Why now? Why Naruto…and why was he so terrified of him doing that? Did he already know what was in him? Did he know what he had done to warrant such memory scrubs?? They walked in silence for a long while before Naruto moved over and hooked his good arm over his shoulder taking some of his weight. Sasuke tried not to feel so relieved.
“I really don’t remember” The blond mumbled, “But…I think…I feel like you’ve asked to do that before. And I feel like it…ended badly…”
Sasuke closed his eyes a moment. It seemed like everything he did ended badly. He felt Naruto’s warmth against this side as he helped him walk. He needed to know though. He HAD to know. He was going to find out.
He twisted in Naruto’s grip grabbed the front of the man’s shirt and hauled him into a rough kiss. The surprise on the face was all he needed. Those blue eyes widened. “Im sorry” Sasuke mumbled and the power flared through him. He knew how to do this. There was this sensation, as if he stepped out of his own body and into Naruto’s. It was like he was shedding one skin for another. He ignored the protest coming from Naruto because it was too late he was already in.
Nothing but blackness greeted him at first. Then slowly he began to hear dripping water. His eyes carefully adjusted and his senses took in the deep recesses of Naruto’s mind and body. It was warm in a way that was almost uncomfortable. He carefully stepped forward towards a light at the end of this tunnel. There was something there. He was sure of it.
“BASTARD!”
Sasuke side stepped without looking. “Don’t fight me.” He warned but Naruto turned and came right back at him. “Get OUT!! Get out right now!!!!” Sasuke waited until he got close and he slammed Naruto up against the wall. He felt the brush of something against this leg and glanced down. Sword? He breathed out. A curved katana. That’s what was missing in his arsenal. So even in this mental part of him he knew what belonged there. What an archaic weapon to know how to use.
“Stop. Fighting. Me” He whispered. Naruto curled back his lips in a snarl. “GET. OUT” His voice was low and deadly. He bucked hard before swinging his free fist towards Sasuke’s face. Sasuke idly stepped back. Naruto staggered forward and lunged at him. They went down in the water hard. Sasuke rolled them over and with a practice ease he had his blade across Naruto’s throat.
“I said stop fighting me” He warned him. Naruto bared his teeth before a chilling growling laugh came echoing down the dank tunnel. Sasuke whipped his head around towards the sound. It sent the hairs on the back of his neck to rising.
He pulled away, slipping the curved sword back into its holder and stepped towards the direction the sound came from “Sasuke! Don’t!” This time there was a plea in Naruto’s voice. Sasuke slowed and looked back at him, he hadn’t gotten up from the ground. No he had to know. He turned his back on Naruto and began a steadier walk in the direction of the light.
His feet sloshed in the water. Why such a dark place? What was so bad it needed to be in a place like this? Locked up in someone like Naruto?? Why Naruto??
He heard the running feet behind him but didn’t bother to slow his pace. “I said stop!” Naruto grabbed him practically throwing him in the opposite direction panting hard. “Get out! Why the fuck are you such a bastard! Why would you do this...AGAIN?!”
The words jolted him, “You do remember” Sasuke scowled as the blond blocked the way. Naruto was panting hard his arms outstretched as if that would really stop Sasuke from going to the end of the line. “No! It’s just...I know…You don’t…” He took a breath trying to find the words to explain. Sasuke took a step towards him. Another rumbling noise erupted in the direction Naruto was blocking and the blond turned his head his breath going shallower. Sasuke went still. The sensation that washed over him had his hackles practically raising. A sinister drawling voice, pitched with dark amusement, crawled down the deep tunnel to them.
‘I smell…an Uchiha…’
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AN: Thank you for reading, hope you guys like this better then the last chapter...??
Hope to be back soon with the next installment...please please please R&R, they actually make me feel really good, and it helps to know if you guys enjoy reading so far
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