Title: Sinners' Devotion

Summary: What if Sasuke decided to keep Itachi alive instead of killing him? And they went back to Konoha together - although not consciously. How would this affect the Uchiha's, Naruto and Konoha as a whole? future ItaSasuNaru yaoi - rating may go up

Words: 1,818

Date: 12-29-09

Disclaimer: Do you see delicious yaoi smut every episode/chapter? I didn't think so.

Chapter 1: What Was Found

I stared in shock at the body that had collapsed in front of me. I panted in exhaustion and my vision blurred, but I had one last thing to do. My body protested against me as I leaned down to pick up that fallen body. My legs and arms screeched in pain as I crouched down to heft the larger body onto my back, arranging the arms to hang limply on my shoulders and hooking the legs in my arms piggy-back style so it wouldn't fall off. I groaned along with my body as I stood back up.

I paused, knowing that they would be nearby somewhere, seeking out their chakra signatures. Finding the one I wanted, I headed in that direction, ignoring the pain that my legs were screaming at me. I swayed slightly, my vision blurring even further, but I pressed on, knowing that if I stopped, even for a second, my life along with the one on back were forfeit. I chuckled at the irony. Not three minutes ago, -or was it ten? thirty? an hour? I've lost track of time- I had been trying to kill the one on my back. But the last words to come out of his mouth made me feel empty, made me want to find out his reasons.

Why? I... I have to find out... and I can't do that with a dead body... She... She'll know how to get him back... There's still a chanc-

My thoughts got cut off as I tripped on a stray root. I laid there for a moment, under the dead body that was on my back, not wanting to get up and go on, but lay there and go into a peaceful slumber I know I wouldn't have to wake from. My eyes started to close. Suddenly, I felt the dead body's chest press into my back and heard a quiet cough in my ear. My eyes snapped open. I could feel the chest rise and fall with shallow breaths. Renewed energy filled my body as I realized that the dead body was not as dead as I thought.

I can do this! Come on! MOVE! MOVE, DAMN YOU! I forced my tired body to get up and continue. Even though he was alive, he would die very soon. I had to hurry.

My feet shuffled faster along the damp ground and the sun beat down harder onto my head as if it didn't want me to go on, wanted me to give up. But I refused. I have to, I need to know why--

I felt the chakra signatures I wanted not ten feet away from me, hidden by the forests large plants. I saw the shock on their faces and heard shouts of my name as I stumbled into the clearing.

"Please," my voice was raspy and not even a whisper but they heard and quieted. "Please, save him." I dropped to my knees and laid the body down as carefully as I could in my state. I ignored their surprised and worried stares. I stared the woman who I knew could save him straight in the eyes and pleaded one last time, "Please..." as my world faded to black.

Different Person's P.O.V.

"Bye Bye!" I growled as the man we had been trying to get past for the past ten or so minutes left some sort of disappearing jutsu.

"Come on! We have to move fast if we want to get there before him!" My team leader announced.

He was about the leap up into the trees to scout out the direction we needed to head in when I heard something coming from our right. "Wait!" He paused and looked in the direction that I was looking at.

"What? I don't sense anything. I need to scout so-"

"Quiet!" I cut him off mid-sentence, shock spreading throughout the team. I closed my eyes and concentrated only on my ears. Someone was... No... There are two heartbeats... One was extremely slow -dying, I realized- and the other was a little faster but would probably also die within an hour or so... I only heard two feet crashing through the underbrush, so one was being carried... I opened my eyes. They were closer, not ten feet away. The others, now hearing the feet crunching sticks carelessly underneath them, tensed and waited - not getting out their weapons for they could tell by the low chakra signatures that they wouldn't be able to put up much a fight.

I gasped as I saw who came into the small clearing we were in and I called out his name along with a few others, but no one moved - too in shock to. The boy's -no, young man now- eyes swept over my team and an unconscious smile tugged at his lips, seemingly satisfied with who he found.

"Please," his voice sounded tired, and we barely heard it so we quieted. "Please, save him." The man dropped to his knees with none of the grace that he usually possesses and dragged a body -that I just noticed was on his back- and seemed to gently place him on the ground, as if not to hurt him any further. My eyes, and the others that knew this person who was on his back was, widened in shock as we realized who the man wanted us to save. [AN:confused?] The man who was still on his knees searched the party I was in before landing on my female teammate - our medic.

The next word out of his mouth sounded so painful to my ears. He never sounds like this. Only emotionless, angry, or annoyed. Never pleading - begging.

"Please..." His eyes rolled to the back of his head and he tilted forward. I screamed out his name and ran forward, catching him. I called out his name again, trying to wake him, but before I could shake him a hand landed on my shoulder. I looked at the team leader.

"Lay him down, gently and let Sakura take a look at him." I bit my lip but I followed Kakashi's orders and laid him down as gently as I could, twisting his body so he could lay comfortably on his back. I moved a little to the side so Sakura could check the damage before remember the other body.

I watched as Sakura knelt by the body that was previously in my arms - Sasuke. Her hands glowed green and hovered just about his pale skin, no doubt inspecting the damage. I remember the body that was on Sasuke's back and looked over to it, seeing Hinata using her Byakugan to assess the damage - not as affective as Sakura's but good enough for now.

"A few minor cuts and a few big ones," Sakura began to name the damage done to Sasuke. "He has Chakra Exhaustion and he's lost a lot of blood."

"U-Umm," Hinata also began to give out the damage on the other person. "H-he also has many m-minor and major wounds... and lost a lot o-of blood judging b-by the wounds. B-but there's so-something e-else wrong with him, but I-I can't tell. I think yo-you should take care of hi-him first Sakura-san. He won't last a-as long as Uchiha-san."

Sakura growled and her eyes flashed. "I refuse to treat that... that... murderer." Hinata, and the others who didn't know who the man was, were shocked and their eyes widened.

"Wh-what?" Hinata squeaked out.

"Sakura." She snapped her eyes to me when she heard my voice. My eyes hardened and my voice became serious. "You should treat him."

Sakura's eyes widened in shock. Then they blazed with anger. "NARUTO-!"

I cut her off before she could continue. "Sasuke begged, Sakura. Begged. Sasuke never begs. He really wants him to live. I think you should treat Itachi-san first."

No P.O.V.

"Bye Bye!" Madara giggled quietly to himself as he transported further away from the Konoha group before becoming serious again. He turned to Zetsu –AKA Aloe Vera (as named by one certain Kyuubi Jinchuuriki)- "Where are they?"

The white side started, "about 8km," and the black side finished, "to your right."

He nodded and lazily jumped in the trees to his destination. After all, why should he hurry? They aren't going anywhere. He giggled at that thought.

Ten minutes later, he found the battle grounds and did a quick sweep of the area with his eyes, looking for the two Uchiha's. He froze when he finished looking around the area, not seeing any bodies. He did another, more thorough, sweep. Still not seeing anything, he grit his teeth. Maybe they are under a rock or something. He jumped from place to place, upturning rocks and other objects trying to find the two bodies.

His frustration grew and grew when after another thirty or so minutes of looking throughout the whole area, under every single pebble, he still could not find those fucking bodies.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY??!?!?!" He screamed out his frustration. He couldn't even search for their chakra signatures because they were too low from the fight and would blend in easily with the natural chakra of the plants and the residue chakra from their battle.

He growled again. "Zetsu! We're going back! NOW!" He needed to discuss this with Pein.

OMG! THIS WAS SO HARD TO WRITE! I KEPT ON WANTING TO PUT NAMES!!!

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