Desert Flower

Itachi and Kisame

  "I'll get it!" Naruto jumped to his feet when there was a knock at the door. It hadn't even been twenty minutes since the blond had sat down, and I glanced at the door as he unlocked it.

  A man in a long cloak stood in the doorway, his eyes red with black markings- Sharingan. Naruto froze as he looked up at the man. ....Did he know him?

  "Really....who'd believe a kid like you to have the Nine-Tailed Fox in him?" Another man stepped into view, taller than the first, and Naruto paled. 'Nine-Tailed Fox?'

  "Naruto, you will come with us." The shorter one stated, and I stood, quickly pulling the blond behind me.

  "Oh? There's another runt!"

  "Shall we go outside?" The black-haired man questioned, completely ignoring me. Holding onto Naruto, I cautiously stepped into the hallway, and the two men stepped back to allow us to exit the room.

  "Naruto....run." I pushed him back before quickly building up chakra, and the blue man grabbed the hilt of a large sword on his back.

  "Long time no see....Sasuke." The black-haired man's words made everyone in the hall pause and look at the boy on the other end of the hall.

  "Uchiha....Itachi!" The boy growled, and within a split second, I noticed the physical similarities between the two dark-haired males. Were they related?

  "Huh.... Sharingan...." The blue man grinned, showing a mouth full of shark-like teeth. "And moreover, he resembles you a lot.... Who the heck is he?"

  "He's my younger brother." The other man calmly replied.

  "But I heard the entire Uchiha clan had been murdered....by you."

  "Uchiha, Itachi....I will kill you!" The boy began to build up chakra at a fast pace as he glared. "It's as you said. I held a grudge against you and hated you. For the singular purpose of killing you, I.....have lived my life!" Sasuke's hand got bright as electricity sparked from his palm and grew more intense.

  My stomach growled, and I clenched my jaw. The hunger was manageable for now, but I didn't know if the boy could build more chakra or not.

  "Sasuke!" Naruto yelled.

  "I'll kill you!" And the boy ran at the man, the lightning around his left hand destroying the wall along the way. "Die!" The attack was diverted so quickly that I barely even saw it, but the end result was the room we had been in was completely destroyed, and the man had Sasuke by his wrist. The man squeezed, hurting Sasuke, and Naruto began to build a chakra stronger than his usual one, making my stomach growl even louder.

  "Sasuke!" Naruto screamed as the other boy went down from a broken arm. I needed to do something quickly before I lost control from the hunger.

  The blue man swung his sword while it was still covered, and suddenly, the scent of Naruto's chakra was gone.

  "Wha-?"

  "My sword Shark Skin has the ability to cut through and eat chakra!" Something beneath the bandages covering the large sword was moving, but my interest was peaked by his words rather than the movement. 'Eat chakra?' "It's a pain in the butt if the kid moves around and uses Jutsu like that.... Before these legs, should I chop off these arms?"

  He swung his sword down toward Naruto again, but I finally made a move. Without building chakra, I jumped and spun in the air, kicking the broad side of the sword and knocking it into the wall. I had taken the man by surprise, and I used that to my advantage, lunging at him while quickly building chakra in my palms.