Chapter 1

Itanaru :P
Warning Yaoi(boyxboy)

Chapter one: A Broken Person.

Naruto had really had it. He couldn't stop Sasuke three years ago. He went in training for three years with Ero-Sennin. But he didn't really feel like living anymore. When Sasuke had left and he couldn't stop him. He lost all reason to live. Sakura was mad at him that he had failed and even after three years she still is. Kakashi had been disappointed in him that he couldn't stop Sasuke. And everyone in Konoha hated him for it.

All thanks to that stupid bastard. If Naruto saw him now. He really wouldn't doubt killing him. He had destroyed his whole life that he had tried to built up so long. That one moment at the Valley of the End and his fight with Sasuke had brought him back to square one again. He didn't have any friends anymore and the villagers hated him again.

Naruto stopped in the forest where he spent most of his time lately. He sat down on a nearby branch, thinking that he wouldn't care if he were to die here. He had lost everything and after all no one would really care about the demon boy disappearing again. Tsunade had said to him that the three years that he was gone all the people were happier and less troublesome. Naruto then knew that even Tsunade hated him, she didn't have to tell him what she thought about him. It had been obvious.

He looked up noticing that it was already evening, cause the sky was turning orange.

Naruto sighed knowing that tomorrow another hard day would come. And deep down inside he hoped it would just end, before he was too lost in his pain. Before he stopped to really care about what should happen to Konoha, but he knew deep down he really didn't care anymore

for his hometown. That part died within him when he came back. He got up and left to go back to his "hometown".

Itachi looked around. He knew exactly where he was. It was close to Konoha. He had gotten the mission to capture his Jinchuuriki. And therefore was on his way to Konoha.

He really didn't mind down this mission on his own. Kisame had asked for a vacation for a week, cause he was really tired of all the fighting and chasing after that "stupid brat".

Leader-sama granted it to him, thus Itachi stood alone now. But he didn't care. It was rather fine to be alone again after spending so much time with that shark-man.

"Hm", Itachi looked around feeling a familiar person nearby, but he couldn't tell exactly who, so he decided to stay on guard.

He walked towards the chakra signature masking his own perfectly so that the other wouldn't know he was there.

What he saw was beyond everything he had imagined. The Jinchuuriki sat there on a branch.

But it was the way he looked. His once beautiful blue eyes, now dull. None emotion in it anymore. He looked like he was about to give up on everything. And Itachi looked at him. After some time he looked up to the sky, he sighed and got up leaving towards the walls of Konoha.

Itachi knew if he was inside those walls it would be more difficult to catch him, but he didn't know what to do anymore.

The once so full of emotion's boy was gone and replaced with a hollow person. That looked like he could break down every moment now.

Itachi decided to trace him to look after him, but inside the town he saw the people looking at him full of rage and hate. Naruto just walked on, but now he had a 'false' smile on his face. The other people didn't see this and Itachi knew it, cause they just kept looking at him. But he just walked on and on almost ignoring the people around him.

Then he reached his own house going inside he closed the door. He turned on the lights and one moment after that turned them out, going to his bedroom. Itachi followed his movements from outside looking through the windows noticing every step the blond boy made. And every time he noticed those eyes become more emotionless than before un till there was one emotion left. Hate, hate towards the people, hate towards this town. And also hate towards himself. Itachi could see it all in his eyes and knew that something in his life had gone completely wrong. He looked so broken. Everything in his life was falling apart and the boy couldn't do anything about it, but to accept it. Accept the hate from the villagers, from his friends. He had no choice in it all. And Itachi felt pity for him. Not exactly knowing what to do he watched from outside till the boy slept and went inside from the bedroom window.

He walked towards the bed where the boy lay. He was sounds asleep, but Itachi could see the strains from tears in the corner of his now closed eyes and on his cheeks.

Itachi closed his eyes fro a moment and decided that he would come back tomorrow seeing if the blond was in the woods tomorrow again.

He left trough the window again leaving the blond behind in his own dreams.

"SASUKE. NO COME BACK HERE. DON'T TURN AWAY FROM ME. Please, don't leave me all alone. SASUKE".

Naruto watched Sasuke leave and he woke up rather disturbing. His breathing was hard and he was sweating all over his body.

"Another nightmare.."

Naruto got up and decided to take a shower. He knew he couldn't take on the villagers now, so he decided to go early too the woods. And not through the streets but over the rooftops, so no one would notice him.

He finally got in the forest and sat down on the branch resting his head on his hands. He sighed deeply, knowing he was nearing his end.

"How much longer can I take this. I'm really losing this. I just want it all to end. Sasuke won't come back anyway till he killed his older brother. The villagers don't care about what happens. I have nothing left to live for. Nothing at all."

He looked up and sighed.

He then looked down again noticing that it started to rain, cause the ground was getting wet.

Then two feet appeared before him. He looked up again plastering his face in his smile.

But then noticing the cloak and two red eyes looking at him. And inwardly he cringed.

"It...Itachi.."

He was startled to say the least, but he wasn't afraid of the other man.

"Are you going to take me to the Akatsuki"?

"Hai, Naruto-kun."

Naruto looked down again.

"I won't fight. I will go with you with my own free will." Naruto looked up to look at the other.

"That's fine with me. It's your own choice after all. It is your own life, Naruto-kun."

Naruto snorted. "It's my own life after all, but then why don't I have to say anything in it. Or against it. I don't care if the Kyuubi is removed from me and I die. You understand that Uchiha".

"Itachi".

"Huh". Naruto looked up in wonder seeing that the other still stared at him, but the Sharingan was turned off, so this time he looked in beautiful black orbs, that somehow reminded him of Sasuke.

"Call me Itachi". Naruto was shocked. And looked down again not knowing what to say or do. Gladly Itachi made the choice for him.

"Do you want to write some note or something before we leave?"

Naruto looked up. "Yes, then at least they know that I'm gone an not coming back anymore. Will you come with me? We can go over the rooftops so that no one sees us."

"If you want me to come with you, then I would."

"Alright, then let's go." Naruto smiled. And his blue eyes lit up for a moment.

Itachi nodded and tried to remain emotionless, but he felt so much emotions in him right now. He felt glad he could see that beautiful smile again and this time it was thanks to him. He felt sorry for the blond knowing what his fate was.

They left for Konoha and went over the rooftops to Naruto's house. They went inside through the window. And Naruto decided to pick a paper and started writing while Itachi watched him, while the blond boy clearly was thinking how he should say what he wanted to say.

Naruto looked up noticing that the elder Uchiha was looking at him.

"Uhm, what exactly do you say in such a note."?

"Hm. Something that makes it clear it is a goodbye. Maybe something that explains why you left willingly with an Akatsuki member."

Naruto smiled a sad smile. "I can't write that last part. They would kill me. Not save me, but kill me for it."

Naruto looked down on the paper again and begin to write something.

"Naruto".

Naruto looked up to notice the Uchiha standing near him. He felt a bit awkward, but ignored it. "Yes?"

"I wanted to ask you something, before we leave".

Naruto heard that Itachi was serious and he looked at him in wonder.

"What do you want to ask?"

"What happened that you would leave willingly with me?"

Naruto knew that the question would come, but he didn't think the Uchiha would ask him, cause for him Uchiha's were just an emotionless bunch of people. From what he felt with Sasuke anyway.

"Your younger brother happened to me. If you want to know more. Ask that bastard about it".

Itachi heard real rage in the boy's voice. And wondered what he little brother did to Naruto that caused him so much pain and grief.

"Sasuke and I aren't on really good terms with each other, Naruto-kun. I doubt he would tell me anything about it." Itachi needed to know more, so he decided to try and look if the blond boy fell for his trap.

"I haven't told it to anyone. Why should I tell you? Your are just like Sasuke anyway. A stupid ignorant bastard that don't care about anything except his own life."

Naruto's eyes looked at him full of hate an he didn't really care that he was compared with his brother right now. He just needed to know what happened, so maybe. Maybe he could help Naruto.

"Don't compare me with my little brother, Naruto-kun. There you are wrong."

"Why? You are the one who killed his whole clan without feeling quilt and then leaving Sasuke behind to kill you. So that Sasuke's life resolves all around YOU."

Naruto screamed the last part, before he sat down again holding his head in his hands. Letting the tears run free once again.

"Naruto-kun. I never wanted to do that. But it was an order. If I could have. I would have stopped it. But is that the reason you are angry? That Sasuke has gone off to find his power?"

Naruto sighed and stopped the tears looking up at Itachi who looked at him and for a moment Naruto thought he could see an emotion in his eyes. Something that looked like quilt.

"Yes. Before he left we were together.. Itachi-kun".

Itachi looked at him and raised his eyebrow.

"You and Sasuke?"

"Yes".

Itachi didn't know what to think anymore and decided that he had been better off not knowing after all.

"Are you ready to leave?" Itachi finally asked.

Naruto looked down on his paper and signed his name on it.

Then looked up walked towards the window looking back at Itachi who was reading his paper. He left through the window afterwards.

Itachi was reading the note Naruto had wrote. He looked up to see the blond was already outside waiting for him. He placed the note on the table and went through the window, closing it behind him.

"You ready? We have a long trip ahead."

Naruto looked at him and smiled. "I'm ready. You just decide how fast we go. I will follow."

Itachi nodded and took off feeling Naruto's chakra signature following him through the town and then through the woods.

It was evening when they had left. And day when they made their first stop. Still in the woods surrounding Konoha.

Itachi was making a small fire so that they could eat something. They had caught some fish in a nearby river., which didn't taste so bad.

Itachi wondered how he could ask the blond about his younger sibling, but he didn't really know how, cause it had been a kind of awkward subject for the blond.

"What really happened between my brother and you, Naruto-kun? "

"Huh." Naruto looked up in shock at the other Uchiha's question.

"Why do you want to know"?

"Just curious, I guess. I wonder what my stupid brother did that caused you so much pain".

Itachi decided to be honest against him, cause them maybe Naruto would also be honest with him.

Naruto smiled a sad smile. And looked down. For a moment Itachi thought he wouldn't receive an answer, so he decided to ignore it, till he heard Naruto's voice.

"You know he had left Konoha three years ago, right?"

"Yes. I have heard of it. He left, going after Orochimaru."

"Right…I was in a team to stop him. So he wouldn't leave and do something this stupid. I was really prepared to bring him back, cause for me he meant everything then."

Naruto looked up to see if the other was listening. He saw the other Uchiha looking at him wanting him to continue.

"In the end I was the only one to really reach and speak to him… the others were stopped by Orochimaru's people. I couldn't stop him with words anymore, so we fought. And he really wanted to kill me then. But I survived to find that he had left. Afterwards I was accused of his betrayal of Konoha. The villagers hated me and my friends were disappointed in me. Leading to where I am now. Lost, broken even hopeless. I lost my life the moment Sasuke left me. He destroyed my life, Itachi. He destroyed my life just to gain power to kill you. And here I am telling my story against his worst enemy. Rather ironic, isn't it?"

Itachi had listened to him and now knew what his foolish little brother had done.

"I'm sorry. I know it won't mean much. But I really am."

"You aren't at fault Itachi-kun."

"But I am. If I hadn't killed our clan. Then Sasuke didn't have to leave to get revenge on it."

"I never looked at it that way. It is Sasuke's choice. He shouldn't have followed the path of hate. He could just have loved me, like I loved him. He could haven been happy, if it wasn't for the hatred he couldn't control."

"I don't understand this, Naruto-kun? You say it is Sasuke's fault. Not mine."

Naruto looked up to see doubt in the Uchiha's eyes, but it disappeared the moment he looked up.

"Yes. It is Sasuke's fault. And I don't know if I can forgive him for it. He did have a different choice then. He didn't have to choice going after you."

"Hm. I understand."

Itachi put out the fire after their talk. And wanted to leave.

"Itachi".

Itachi turned around to see Naruto looking at him. And he wondered what he wanted.

"Yes, Naruto-kun?"

"Arigatou".

Itachi knew what he meant, so he just nodded. And went into the woods again. Feeling the chakra signature following him.

They travelled through the woods quickly, leaving the forests of Konoha behind them.

Quickly travelling through the land of Waves. Where Itachi had said the base was.

Naruto wasn't afraid of his fate to die. He knew it would happen, but he didn't think it would happen this quickly. But he was happy about it. He really was, cause he couldn't have had a week more of this life. His two days with the elder Uchiha had been more promising then his life in Konoha. Even though this path was leading to his own death.

He followed the other still at the other man's pace.

But he didn't mind. He felt at ease.

Itachi knew the other still followed him and he had noticed how the other boy had opened up to him. He had also noticed that Naruto felt more at ease now. It was almost like he was happier then he was in Konoha for these years.

He felt bad knowing what fate lies before the other boy. It was rather sad, but he also knew that Naruto had come past the point of caring if he was to die. Itachi even thought that Naruto couldn't take another day in Konoha anymore.

End of chapter 1!
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