Naruto woke up tired. Yesterday was stressful and he had much to do today. He stretched as he got off his couch and looked over to see Itachi folding up a blanket. Naruto glanced at his cracked clock. It was just after nine.

"You cover breakfast. I have some stuff in the fridge you can use. I have a traumatized friend to kidnap."

Itachi sighed and nodded, setting down the Anbu chest plate he had picked up to polish. He walked to the kitchen with a blank face.

Naruto went to his room to change. He put on a pair of patched black pants and a white tank top. He slipped his jacket on and walked over to his window. He looked back towards his bed where Izuna still slept soundly. He turned back to the window, slid it open, and leap out, using his chakra to boost him to a neighboring rooftop.

From there he jumped from roof to roof heading for the hospital. He slipped a few times, not used to landing on slippery tile. He sped up as he spotted the hospital and landed a little ways from the entrance. He concentrated, looking for Sasuke's chakra. He pinpointed it to one of the upper floor rooms.

He sighed and jumped, landing on a window sill a few floors down. He used his chakra to climb the rest of the way up and jimmied open the window. He slid in and saw his friend asleep. That would have to stop.

He walked over to the Uchiha and poked his nose repeatedly. The raven's face scrunched up and a hand groggily tried to swat Naruto's finger away.

"Hnnnn" Naruto rolled his eyes.

"No. Wake up."

"Hnn." Naruto sighed. The poor boy must have temporarily forgotten.

"Itachi wants to talk."

"Hn?!" Sasuke bolted up, slamming his head against Naruto's. The blond sucked in a breath.

"Aaaagh! Teme!"

The two clutched their heads in pain. When the pain stopped, Sasuke looked at Naruto with wide eyes.

"Itachi? But he..." Sasuke stared at the hospital blanket with clouded eyes. Naruto sighed.

"Te- Sasuke. Itachi did kill your clan. Well, most of them. But he wasn't doing it for his personal gain. He wants a chance to explain before he has to flee the village. Will you give him a chance?"

Sasuke looked up at the blond. He was lost, confused, and wante- needed an explanation. So he nodded, and was grabbed and pulled out of the bed. He yelped as the Uzumaki leap out the window and they free fell. Sasuke closed his eyes, tensed for impact and pain. He was surprised when he was grabbed by the waist and yoinked into a bush.

Naruto tucked and rolled, lessening the impact. He walked over to the bush where a grumbling Sasuke crawled out, pulling a leaf out of his hair. He just shrugged when the Uchiha glared. Again without warning, the blond grasped the Uchiha's wrist and took off towards the forest. Eventually, Sasuke just jumped and tackled the Uzumaki to the ground. "Dobe I can't go as fast as you yet!" His legs ached already.

Naruto chuckled sheepishly and thought of what to do. An idea popped into his head and he grabbed Sasuke, doing the handseal he had seen many ninja in the village do. It had taken forever to reverse engineer and he sometimes ended up in a place he didn't wanna be, but still.

"Shunshin no Jutsu!"

Sasuke shrieked as the two fell onto a pink bed. Naruto looked around. This looked like a- His eyes widened. It was a girls room. He didn't want to get beat by a random girl for accidentally breaking in. A door opened, and Naruto grabbed Sasuke who was swearing loudly. He saw a girl his age run in. She had green eyes and pink hair. He made the handseal.

"Sorry miss! We didn't mean to come! Shunshin no Jutsu!!" And they were gone.

Naruto crashed to the floor of his apartment, Sasuke landing on top of him curses streaming from his mouth. Naruto shoved the Uchiha off of him. He hated the tunnel vision Shunshin gave him.

Sasuke sat up and glared at the Uzumaki, who just shrugged. The scent of egg and- Sasuke ran to the kitchen.

Tomatoes.

Naruto sighed and walked into the kitchen where Sasuke dug into a tomato stuffed omelet. The blond looked to Itachi who was staring at Sasuke with a soft gaze. Naruto walked over to the table and saw his own omelet, with no tomatoes. He quickly ate before walking out of the room. He could hear the shower going, so assumed Izuna was bathing. He sat on his bed and stared at his cracked ceiling.

So much had happened in the last twenty-four hours. Naruto suddenly sat up and pulled out a cracked hand mirror and channeled chakra to his eyes. He watched as his left eye bled into a ringed metallic amethyst and the other into a crimson three tomoe Sharingan. It looked so.... strange.

Naruto turned his head at the sound of a throat being cleared. He then proceeded to avert his gaze upon seeing Izuna wrapped in a towel. She looked uncomfortable and was weirdly fidgety.

"Naruto-san? I-I need clothes. Itachi said mine needed washing."

Naruto sighed and gave her a smile. "I got ya."

He stood and walked over to his closet. He looked through what he had to see if any of it would fit her. He found a large t-shirt he never wore because it had a weird flowery pattern. He also found a pair of boxers that must have shrunk in the wash because there was no way they would fit him anymore.

He turned to let Izuna change and when she poked his back he turned and looked at her. It didn't look bad, and the shirt was long enough to be a dress. It was really loose waist wise and Naruto motioned for her to turn around. He grabbed the back of the shirt and separated it into two flaps, tying them and making a cute bow on the small of her back. Now it truly looked like a dress.

Izuna spun around and did a few surprisingly good taijutsu strikes. It didn't hinder her movement so she nodded. Naruto smiled.

"Why don't you go to the kitchen and meet Sasuke and grab some breakfast?" Naruto suggested. 

"Yeah. Thank you Naruto-san." Izuna turned and walked into the kitchen. Naruto followed behind and watched the three Uchiha talk. Sasuke looked distraught and Izuna was blank-faced. Itachi's voice was a soothing low murmur.

"-n't the Hokage. It was-"

"Shimura Danzo." Naruto cut in. Itachi clearly wasn't used to talking so much so the Uzumaki took the liberty to take over.

Sasuke looked confused. "Who?"

Naruto sighed. "An elder. He lied to Itachi and told him the Hokage had given the go-ahead for Itachi to kill your clan. Trust me, Itachi really, really didn't want to. He didn't kill Shisui either, as he was previously accused." Itachi and Naruto had spent most of the night talking. Turns out this was a complex web of lies and accusations.

"Then who killed Shi?" Izuna looked at the blond.

"Shisui jumped off of the cliff to the Naka River. He had had one of his eyes taken, presumably by Danzo. The other, he gave to Itachi."

Izuna looked down at the table, a few tears splattering against the table. Sasuke was beginning to look angry.

"Why can't the Hokage do something about this Danzo guy?!" He said.

"Because. The old man is too kind and believes Danzo is still good somewhere in that black hole of a soul. He also doesn't have enough evidence." Itachi nodded in agreement.

"Well, he deserves to die for tricking Itachi-nii!"

Naruto nodded. "You're right Sasuke. But we can't just go and give away the fact that we hate Danzo. We need to be strong enough to kill him. Itachi has to leave the village under the guise of a missing-nin. He has a mission from the Hokage."

Sasuke looked at Itachi devastated. "You're leaving?"

"Otouto. I must go. I will return." Itachi motioned for the younger Uchiha to come forth. Sasuke walked over to him and Itachi poked his forehead. 

"I'll stop by every now and then and give you training tips. Until then, do what you can to become strong."

Sasuke's eyes watered but his face was full of determination. "I will nii-san!"

"Itachi." 

The Uchiha turned to Naruto who tapped his wrist. They were running out of time. The nurse would go check on Sasuke in the hospital any minute.

Itachi hugged Sasuke, who looked shocked before he hugged his brother back. Then the two vanished and Naruto sighed at the leaves he would have to sweep up.

"Izuna would you grab the broom from the closet?"