The Fox and The Weasel at Red Dawn: rewrite!

Chapter 8: The almost confession

Itachi was taking his shift, as the other two slept, and he couldn't help but think of what had just happened.

Flashback

Itachi was taking his shift for the night, and Kisame had just started snoring. Naruto had been asleep hours before, and he couldn't help but wonder about all of the occurrences. Everything just didn't add up. It was just too confusing to him.

Just as he was going to try and put everything together, he noticed movement beside him. It was Naruto. He was starting to shiver and Itachi could just barely see Naruto's eyes turn red underneath his eye lashes whenever there was a view of them.

"No," Naruto whimpered suddenly, and Itachi was surprised by how much pain was added to that voice. "No, get away. Don't! Don't touch me, please!"

"Naruto," Itachi whispered, hoping Naruto would get away from this nightmare. He couldn't bear to hear anymore.

"Please don't! Get away from me," he sobbed.

"Naruto, wake up," Itachi said, not caring anymore if he woke Kisame. He was desperate to get Naruto out of the dream.

"No, GET AWAY," Naruto screamed in his sleep, efficiently waking Kisame in the process, but he didn't seem to be able to get away.

"What's going on," Kisame questioned, his voice groggy.

"Naruto, wake up now," Itachi said urgently. Then, Itachi was surprised when the Kyuubi's red chakra started seeping out of Naruto as if acting like a cocoon to get Naruto away from the mental harm. Kisame quickly grabbed his sword, but Itachi held him back. They watched as Naruto whimpered as the dream continued, both unsure of what was going to happen. They were trying to figure out how to figure out how to wake him up when Naruto screamed, making birds fly into the air.

"Naruto," Itachi yelled, going to try and shake him awake, but Kisame stopped him before he could touch him.

"Don't forget; the Kyuubi's chakra is like sticking your hands into a fire," Kisame warned him. "Let me try something." Kisame brought his sword up, but Itachi stopped him.

"I can't have you harming Naruto," Itachi growled.

"Itachi, if we don't do something and he goes out of control—"

"The Kyuubi's trying to protect him. I can feel it." Kisame was hesitant for a moment longer before he lowered the sword, but he kept his sword beside him, just incase.

"NO," Naruto screamed, sitting upright urgently, gasping for his breath. He put his bowed head into his awaiting arms, and Kisame and Itachi watched as Naruto gasped for his every shaky breath. No one moved for minutes, seconds, hours. They couldn't tell, especially Naruto.

"Naruto," Itachi whispered when he had had enough of the silence. He started moving towards Naruto, watching his every reaction. He didn't like seeing his crush in this kind of state. He put his hand on Naruto's back, and that jolted Naruto to life, making him look around wildly, to see if the danger was still here. When he saw that it was only Itachi and Kisame, he immediately burst into tears at the sight of Itachi and launched himself into Itachi's arms. Itachi was shocked by what had happened, but then he cautiously wrapped his arms around the smaller boy.

"I'll take watch," Kisame grumbled as he got up to give them some privacy. Naruto was still sobbing in Naruto's arms, and Itachi was waiting for Naruto to settle down enough to let him know what had happened. It scared Itachi that Naruto was in this kind of state. He wished that he wasn't, but he was, and now, all he could do was wait.

And wait he did. He waited for two hours until Naruto had finally calmed down. Naruto looked tired, but Itachi was animate to know what was going on with his blonde.

"Naruto," he stated. "Naruto, what happened?" At first, it was quiet for a long time. Itachi was almost convinced that Naruto had fallen asleep, but then he started the explanation.

"I can't get it out of my mind. I tried, oh how I tried to erase it from my mind. The Kyuubi has been trying to get it out also, but everything we try is not working. And now, I have the consequences for this action inside of me, and I still have no clue what to do. Then you came along, and I was able to get away from that retrenched scene. But I still can't get it out of my mind."

"Naruto what do you mean," he questioned softly, afraid of if Naruto would start sobbing again.

"Itachi, I'm pregna—"

"We have to leave," Kisame interrupted as he rushed forward. "Someone must have figured out that Naruto wasn't there anymore, and now we've got some ANBU running after us."

"Let's go," Itachi stated as he threw Naruto on his back softly, and they took off running, leaving anything that wasn't valuable to them there. Naruto fell asleep as soon as Itachi was running through the trees again.