Chapter 17

Meanwhile, Kiba walked through the forest, towards the lake where Sasuke and Neji had been just an hour ago. He needed to cool down a little bit, since his head was still red like a tomato. Fucking Kakashi for saying something like that. He wanted to keep it a secret that he liked Shikamaru.

Shikamaru followed Kiba and frowned. Damn why did he walk so hard? He lost him in a sec. Or maybe he just walked slow. Whatever. Shikamaru reached the lake a little while later and saw Kiba washing himself.

"Kiba." He said.

Kiba turned around a little started and immediately was red again as he saw Shikamaru standing there.

"..Why are you here?" He asked, as he turned around again.

"Because you walked away." Shikamaru said as of it was obvious.

"So?" Kiba asked, as he continued washing himself.

"So. Since you walked away because of what Kakashi said about me, I figured I should follow." Shikamaru said and shrugged. He sat down by the waterside now and stared at Kiba again.

"Well, you know it now, so." Kiba said, shrugging. He didn't knew what to do with it, that was sure.

"So it was true then?" Shikamaru asked as he laid down on the side, putting his hands behind his head and looked at Kiba.

"Yeah." Kiba muttered. "I've been in love with you for three years now."

"Really? I never noticed." Shikamaru said.

"I know." Kiba softly said.

"Then why did you never tell me?" Shikamaru asked.

"I was afraid of your reaction I guess." Kiba said, shrugging.

"Why? I'm not Gaara or anything." Shikamaru said.

"Yeah well, you don't seem interested in things like.. well.. love and stuff." Kiba muttered.

"Oh thanks." Shikamaru said and rolled his eyes. Now that was a nice comment.

"..Can you leave?" Kiba asked, embarrassed.

"..Why?" Shikamaru asked surprised.

"..I feel a bit uncomfortable." Kiba said, shrugging.

"What if I told you I like you too?" Shikamaru asked, still looking at Kiba and obviously being too lazy to get up.

Kiba frowned now and then slightly turned around.

"..What?" He asked.

"I like you too. I can't figure you out like any other person." Shikamaru said shrugging.

Kiba looked at Shikamaru now.

"..In.. loving?" He asked.

"I wouldn't say I love you. Yet. I'm just saying that I like you a whole lot and you make me feel weird. Which in my book means I might be in love with you." Shikamaru said dryly.

"..You don't think I'm an asshole?" Kiba asked.

"Why? You're nice." Shikamaru said, frowning a little.

"Well.. because of what I said before." Kiba said.

"About that first time? I could see right through you." Shikamaru said.

"..Really?" Kiba asked, frowning. "..Why won't you come bath too?"

"Why? Do you want me too?" Shikamaru asked. "And yes. I do have an IQ of over 200 remember."

"Well, it's a bit uncomfortable standing here, naked, with you there." Kiba said. "..And yeah, that's true."

Shikamaru got up now and pulled off his clothes, then got in the water.

"Better now?" He asked.

Kiba blushed a little.

"..Y-yeah, I guess." He said.

"Would you just come here and kiss me so we can get it over with?" Shikamaru asked, rolling his eyes again.

"..Err.." Kiba stammered, staring at Shikamaru.

"Come here." Shikamaru said and looked at Kiba.

Kiba looked at Shikamaru for a few seconds and then walked towards Shikamaru, a bit red.

"Why?" He asked.

Shikamaru grabbed Kiba's face now and then kissed him all of a sudden.

Kiba's eyes flew open now in shock, as he stared at Shikamaru. But after a few seconds, he restrained himself and then started kissing back.

Shikamaru kissed Kiba for a little while longer and then pulled back and licked his lips with a smirk. "There. Now we're past that." He said.

"Oh god, you're much more dominant all of a sudden." Kiba said, smirking as well.

"People just misjudge me." Shikamaru said putting his hands behind his head as he still smirked.

"So it seems." Kiba said, laughing a little. "So.."

"So, what?" Shikamaru asked as he looked at Kiba.

Kiba looked at Shikamaru and then grabbed his head again, kissing Shikamaru passionately on the lips.

Shikamaru grabbed Kiba by the shoulders and kissed back, equally passionate. Damn, Kiba really was a good kisser.

Kiba suddenly tossed his arms around Shikamaru's neck and groaned a little, while he opened Shikamaru's mouth by using his own.

Shikamaru groaned a little as well and he opened his mouth to let Kiba's tongue inside his mouth. He grabbed Kiba by the hips now.

Kiba moaned as he pressed his body against Shikamaru's. He finally got Shikamaru. Hell yeah.

"They're coming." Sasori said and smirked. The rest got ready. They had just attacked the water user's spies and were now waiting for Kisame and his army to come out. They could see in the water that they were. The fight for freedom would begin now.

Everyone prepared their attacks as they got in line now. Especially Itachi, Sasori and Kakashi were. Sasori was making the ground under himself ready, Kakashi was forming electricity in his arm and you could see steam coming off Itachi, his eyes changing into red and his skin started to sweat. The three of them were in the middle of the group, with Itachi in the middle of the three.

Sasuke looked at his brother. "Make sure you don't die." He softly said as they waited for the water users to come out. The rest now started preparing their attacks too. Gaara and Lee already moved up some earth as Kiba and Sasuke started giving off sparks.

Neji was standing behind the group. He was supposed to be the one to heal everybody who got hurt, so he couldn't take part in the fight.

" I won't." Itachi said. After some more minutes, the water started to move and then around ten people came out of the water. They made no move to attack as they stepped onto the ground, but everyone was scared enough of the fact that the one person everyone feared had arrived: Kisame, the leader of the water users. Itachi narrowed his eyes to Kisame, just like the rest of the group.

"Well well well. What do we have here?" Kisame spoke and crossed his arms as he walked past his water users. "All that fuss was about you? I could kill you with my hands tied on my back."

"You wish you could." Itachi said, looking at Kisame.

"We want to fight you." Kakashi said now, gaining Kisame's attention. "It will be a fight between elements. If you really are that strong, try to defeat the three strongest of fire, earth and electricity."

"And who are you hm? Hatake Kakashi, am I right? Hmm you don't look as threatening as I thought. And you are the strongest of electricity? This will be easy." Kisame said and grinned.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes.

"It's not about looking threatening, it's about being so." He said, as he readied his weapons.

Sasori looked at the scene calmly.

"Let's make some space for ourselves." He said. "Why won't the rest go stand with Neji while the four of us fight?"

"Ah the earth user. I heard about you too. Calm as always. Well you won't have the chance to be so calm once I'm done with you." Kisame said. "And Neji. Dear Neji." He continued. "It wasn't so smart of you to become a traitor like this. I had big plans for you. Too bad I will have to kill you after this."

Sasori just looked at Kisame now.

"What kind of big plans Kisame, sharing your bed?" Neji sarcastically said. "I no longer believe in your lies. I found the people where I belong with now."

"Did you now? The people who will lose? How sad for you." Kisame said and smirked at Neji. Sasuke glared at Kisame now, not unnoticed. "Ah the fire user we were all so worried about. I heard you ain't worth a whole lot." Kisame said and then laughed.

"Shut up." Itachi now snapped, glaring at Kisame.

"Oh? Snappy aren't we. Well then show me what you got." Kisame said and nodded his head as a sign for the water users to attack.

Itachi growled as he slammed his right foot onto the ground with an angry yell as he earth broke open, and Sasori used his earth powers to pull the ground open even more. While the steam came rushing out of the hole in the ground, the rest of the water users started attacking the team.

Sasuke, Shikamaru, Gaara and Kiba attacked the water users now. To make sure the water users wouldn't bother the fight with Kisame, they made a big wall out of earth, electricity and fire, a plan from Shikamaru.

"Get them!" Sasuke yelled as he shot electricity to the water users.

The team now attacked the water users, while Neji kept standing somewhere behind. Kiba was attacking with Sasuke now and Gaara was shooting stones towards the water users. Everyone was fighting as hard as they could.

"Well well." Kisame said in the mean time, looking at the three element users amused. "Do you really think you can take me on?" He asked mockingly.

"Actually, we can." Kakashi said, slightly smirking. He then lunged towards Kisame, with the energy ball in his hand. Meanwhile, Itachi was growling while he was putting lots of energy into the ground, and then brought up a huge wave of lava.

Kisame quickly pushed up water and protected himself with it from the lava, then made big icicles and launched them to Kakashi.

"You stand no chance!" He yelled.

But Kakashi now shot electric attacks to the icicles, breaking all of them. Sasori meanwhile let a slight smirk come up his face.

"Got you." He said to Kisame, slightly grinning. He'd let the ground suck Kisame into it, and now he hardened the earth so Kisame was stuck.

But Kisame wasn't stuck. He moved water under the ground and froze it, then broke the earth and came right out again. "Don't think so!" He yelled and froze the earth towards Sasori now.

But Itachi growled as he now quickly let the magma in the earth rise up and then it shot up, right onto Kisame's hands, face and body.

Kisame gave out a yell but then quickly moved water over him, healing his face and body easily.

"You won't get me with that." Kisame yelled and then move water from under the surface to the ground, making it shoot up right where Itachi stood.

Itachi let out a groan as he quickly jumped up and Sasori now shot stones and waves of earth towards Kisame. Kakashi started shooting electric balls towards Kisame.

But all Kisame had to do was move a wall of ice and water in front of him, stopping everything from hitting it. He moved it away again and then made a whip from at least ten meters long out of water and moved it around, trying to hit the three.

Itachi and Kakashi were able to dodge, but the whip hit Sasori hard and tossed him to the side.

"Sasori!" Neji yelled as he saw Sasori hit a rock and fall down onto the ground, unconscious. Neji ran towards him now, to heal. Kakashi meanwhile kept tossing electric attacks towards Kisame, cursing.

But Kisame moved his whip to destroy the attacks and then grabbed Neji with the whip to and threw him away against a tree. "No healing here!" Kisame yelled maniacally. He then destroyed his own whip and spread his arms creating a large wave of water, covering twenty meters of the surface. He pushed it forward to Itachi and Kakashi.

Itachi now jumped forwards as he created an even bigger wall of fire, which took care of it that the water evaporated, while Neji fell down onto the floor unconscious.

"You're good, but not good enough." Kisame said and smirked, then shot water from under the ground again, this time hitting Kakashi.

Kakashi groaned as a shock went through his body and he fell down onto the floor. Itachi frowned as he shot fire balls towards Kisame, and Kakashi tried his best to get up and shot more electricity towards Kisame.

But Kisame wasted no time as he made a wall of water again, blocking the attacks and then made the water from underground hit Kakashi again and then another time.

And now Kakashi was unconscious as well. Itachi cursed as he jumped onto the ground and let more lava come out of it. He created whips of it and send them flying towards Kisame, out of all directions.

Kisame started turning around now, creating a whirlpool around him that destroyed the whips. He then suddenly disappeared into the water from underground.

Itachi frowned as he tried to feel in the ground where Kisame was now, but he couldn't. He made the ground as warm as he could.

Kisame then suddenly came from under the ground and grabbed Itachi, pushing him down onto the ground, binding him up with water. He sat on top of Itachi and smirked. "Hmmm you would be so nice to have. I've never seen someone so fierce and yet you're just slightly weaker then I am. You'd be great." Kisame said and licked his lips.

Itachi let out a low growl as he made his body as hot as he could, so the water around him evaporated and then let out an angry yell as made a huge fireball and pushed it right into Kisame's body.

"How dare you!" He yelled, as he let the fire destroy Kisame.

Kisame yelled now, pain obvious in his scream. "What the! How!? AARGH!" He yelled and then his eyes rolled back. He died from the damage his body and organs suffered from the fire, and all the water that disappeared because of the immense heat.

All the water users now stared at it in shock. Not knowing what else to do, they turned around and quickly got out of there, diving into the water again.

Itachi let out a groan as he let his head fall back, panting and sweating. God... he did it.

The dead body of Kisame fell back too. Sasuke and the others turned to him and Sasuke ran to Itachi. "Are you OK?" He asked worried.

"You did it." Shikamaru said panting as he got to Itachi too.

" ..Y-yeah I am.." Itachi groaned, as he let his hands go over his face, wiping the sweat off it. " ..G-go help Sasori, Kakashi and Neji.."

Kiba looked worried as well, as did Gaara. Gaara quickly walked towards Sasori and started to put some of his energy into Sasori's body.

Sasuke nodded and walked to Kakashi, making sure he was OK. Kakashi still was like a father to him. He then quickly hurried to Neji and picked him up.

"Neji wake up right now!" Sasuke said panicked.

"He only hit his head against the tree Sasuke." Kiba said as he saw that Sasuke got no reaction of Neji. "He'll be fine." He meanwhile started putting some energy into Kakashi's body as well, since he had electric powers as well.

Sasuke picked up Neji and walked back to Itachi now. "Why is nobody a water user?" He grumbled. Thank god Neji was still alive though.

Itachi sat up now and winced a little at feeling that he'd burned his own skin. He'd gone far too far for his own body. But it was worth it.

"He'll b-be fine.." Itachi said, as he moved a hand through his hair. Meanwhile Kakashi woke up with a moan.

"You OK?" Shikamaru asked, who had gone to Kakashi as well.

Sasuke now grabbed Itachi's hand. "You burned yourself idiot." He said.

Kakashi nodded, as he sat up.

"..Did we win?" He asked.

Itachi meanwhile shrugged.

"It happens." He said.

Sasuke laid Neji down and then hugged Itachi.

"We did. Itachi won." Shikamaru said as he sat down and sighed.

" ..Thank god." Kakashi said with a sigh.

Itachi hugged Sasuke back, silently. He sighed.

"Should I go get some meat?" Kiba asked, as if nothing had happened.

Shikamaru hit Kiba in the head now. "Shut up." He said.

Sasori woke up too now and sat up. "Wow...what was that?" He asked.

" What was what?" Gaara asked, as he stared at Sasori.

"Wait we were fighting. Who won?" Sasori asked.

"We won." Sasuke said as he let go of Itachi. "Thanks for still being alive." He said to Itachi.

" You're welcome." Itachi said, snorting. Now a soft moan came from Neji's body.

"Can I go get some meat now?" Kiba tried again.

"Sit your ass down and be normal." Shikamaru said, pulling Kiba onto the floor. Damn, sometimes he was annoying.

Sasuke turned around now and sat down next to Neji, pulling him on his lap a little.

Neji let out a soft wince and then opened his eyes, blinking a little against the light. He then saw Sasuke looking at him.

"..Sasuke.. what happened..?" He asked.

"We won." Sasuke answered and hugged Neji happily. It was all over. Everything was over. Every terror. Everything.

The next day, Sasuke and Neji were sitting together. They were enjoying the victory and the peace that would come now, with just the two of them.

"..I'm glad it's all over.." Sasuke softly said.

"Me too." Neji said, smiling at Sasuke. He leaned against him, while they were holding hands. "..And I'm so glad everyone is still alive.."

"Almost everyone. But yeah. I'm glad about that too." Sasuke said as he kissed Neji on the head.

"..Sasuke, I want to ask you something." Neji softly said, as he laid his head onto Sasuke's shoulder.

"What is it?" Sasuke asked as he put an arm around Neji, holding Neji's hand with the other.

"..Do you.. want to have a baby with me..?" Neji softly asked.

Sasuke looked at Neji confused now. "..Excuse me?" He asked.

Neji looked at Sasuke now, as he sat up a little.

"..I'm a water user, remember.." Neji softly said, as he looked at Sasuke. "I love you so much, I want to be with you forever.. and.. I want to have something with you, something only we can share.. like a child."

"Oh right.. you can have babies.." Sasuke said, thinking deeply.

Neji looked at Sasuke with a frown and then looked away again. It seemed like Sasuke didn't wanted it.

"Are you sure you want to have a baby with me?" Sasuke asked, pulling back Neji's head and looking at him.

"Else I wouldn't ask right?" Neji asked.

"Right." Sasuke said and then smiled. "Well I want it too."

"Really?" Neji asked, as he looked at Sasuke surprised.

"Yes really. I want us to have something only we could have." Sasuke said.

Neji smiled now as he hugged Sasuke close.

"Thank you." He said, as he gave Sasuke a kiss on the mouth.

"Don't thank me. I should thank you for being able to even give me a child." Sasuke said and gave Neji a kiss back.

Neji smiled at Sasuke.

"Everything for you my love." He said, and then leaned against Sasuke again and sighed. "..We'll be happy."

"We will. Forever till death do us part." Sasuke said and kissed Neji's head with a smile, pulling him close again.

They enjoyed the peace for now, the silence around them. As did the little breeze that blew around them.

The End!