Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Art of The Business ❯ Who's To Blame ( Chapter 11 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

There was just a vague sense that told Itac‚ˆi today would end up annoying. To begin with he had woken up earlier than usual just to make sure Sasuke dragged his butt home, but still no luck. Even for an independent older sibling as himself he couldn't so easily ignore things that went out of the norm under his own roof. Sasuke was his responsibility whether he liked it or not. The older brother in him demanded he go out searching for Sasuke, but Itachi took it cool and merely called back the number that was used last night. From there he didn't have much time to himself before he suddenly received a call to return the office. Much to his dislike, he went. Perhaps when he got back Sasuke would be home and things could go back to normal. He could ignore Sasuke's presence entirely and stay the man his job portrayed him as; heartless and vile.

"This is all your fault, dammit!" Sasuke bellowed. Kicking his legs wildly in the air. They had been taken to some abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere then chained at the arms and thrown into some cellar. Sasuke was uncomfortable with this for one thing he got thrown on his back and couldn't manage to sit right up again, only amusing Naruto more as he was already sitting up and enjoying the scene.

"Oh come on, you can't mean that. It's not like I hired guys to kidnap us." Naruto retorted quickly. "I was just going have us hang out around town and then come to the meeting point later." Naruto sighed and lowered his head. This was not how he planned to spend his day at all.

"This is so your fault!" Sasuke roared back. "Everything you touch turns to crap!" he demanded. "You suck as model, you are a horrible host and your help is like a curse!" This was totally not worth a good lay. Sure the blond was hot as hell but treasures were better left observed from afar. Just trying to know him blew up in his face and here he laid now, rolling around like a stupid turtle. If Itachi really did find them, he was going to accuse Naruto of everything and have his ass arrested.

"Well aren't you just a pampered brat! You can't just blame all your problems on everyone else!" Naruto lashed back.

"Will you two just shut the hell up already?!" Naruto and Sasuke both shudder with shock and locked to one of the men standing at the cellar door. He was left to guard them but was obviously easily aggravated by their bickering. Perhaps it wasn't the best of ideas to get on their captor's nerves. But they still felt as though their fighting had no resolution yet and so dearly wanted to let it out on one another. "I better get paid more for this." The man grumbled before turning his back to them once more.

"So now what dobe?" Sasuke pouted. "Have you even thought of an idea to get us out of the mess you put us in."

Naruto was infuriated once more. He scooted over to Sasuke and kicked him viciously in the side. "You selfish bastard! We're only in this mess because of you. Last time I checked, I didn't do anything sketchy enough to get me in trouble with theses guys. Which means its your fault we're in this situation. After this, I would be dumb to think you and your brother are just in the 'family business'." Naruto retorted grumpily. This wasn't fair at all. His life would end before he even got to make a name for himself. Why did he have to be such a kind hearted person and help out Sasuke with his stupid family problems anyway? Naruto sighed to himself. Curse his good heart. (<-bigheaded much?)

Unknowing to them all, Naruto and Sasuke wouldn't be there too much longer. Itachi was a quick worker. Despite wanting to do something or not, he always made sure to get the job done. He was at the front of the warehouse in ten minutes flat after finding the letter left in Sasuke's room. One could only imagine his annoyance and slight worry upon coming home to find the boy's room in shambles and him no where in sight. Things did seem a little out of place for he knew Sasuke was not such a rowdy person as to struggle that much. And if the kidnappers were truly after something more they would have at least searched his room as well. More importantly the letters left didn't connect with one another. The one in the room merely said Sasuke had been taken and would be exchanged for a large sum of money while one he found downstairs by the door only mentioned a meeting place as if leaving the rest to be self explanatory.

Whatever they were after, Itachi was sure it had to do with himself. Having the jobs he did, ensured he would have many enemies. People were obsessed with money and so they would hate him for putting them out of business. But also those that had their bosses and family killed by his hands would want his head all the more. His only regret was allowing himself to be so careless as to forget Sasuke might be affected by all this as well. Sure they would think it was fair, one's family member for another. But if they dared harm a hair on his head they would be six feet under before the blink of an eye, he swore that much would be done.

He stepped out of his car after parking it by the next building. He walked over to the trunk and started searching through it's contents. “Which will do the job best?" He questioned out loud, rearranging his collection of weapons. Several different guns were in the back as well as some weaponry not yet legal or humane. He had access to everything with his connections. For now his top priority was getting Sasuke's ass out of there without having his cover blown. For that he would only need a proper explosive. He could handle the actual kidnappers without much work.

Itachi closed up and left the car on so he could make a quick get away. Now to find where Sasuke was being held. He wandered around the building two times, observing the layout as well as the people inside and out. There were very few people guarding outside which lead him to believe there was a fairly small party of kidnappers he had to deal with. From there it was pretty easy to assume that they would make up for the lack of manpower by hiding his brother somewhere below. Itachi walked over to the base of the building near the back. He lit a simple bomb by there and rushed off.

It exploded and caused only a small rumble. As expected several men came racing over to the back. With the distraction already in play, Itachi headed for the front and walked through the entrance without any problem at all. He headed towards the elevator and went down to the bottom floor. Only two men were waiting at the door when he came out. That was an easy case to take care of. Having caught them by surprise in@the first place, Itachi merely had to stab one in the back with a knife he kept on hand always. The other naturally charged for him with the attempt to stop him. Itachi merely caught his arm and flipped him before crouching down and twisting his neck until it crack quite pleasantly to his ears.

"Who the hell am I wasting my time on?" Itachi asked with a tired sigh. Surely they would prove to be a harder challenge than this if they had the guts to trash his home and mess with those directly tied to him. It was a small distance down the hallway until he found a single man guarding a steel vault door. How typical.

"How did you get down here?!" The man shouted suddenly spotting Itachi. He grabbed his gun quickly and aimed to fire. But Itachi was there in seconds.

"You're in my way" was the last words the man heard before Itachi slashed the jugular vein in his neck from behind. Instantly the man fell at his feet, blood flowing from the wound freely. Itachi was irritated more by the blood now staining his shoes than the fact of having come here in the first place. Sasuke was going to pay dearly himself.

With a bored roll of the eyes, Itachi took the keys from the man's pocket and unlocked the door. "Alright you pain in the ass, let's get out of here." Itachi grumbled opening the door. He was expecting Sasuke to be chained to a chain or something of the sort, looking like shit after a thorough beating for information, but instead he was greeted with the surprising sight of a familiar blond headed sun spot. "N-naruto?" Itachi managed to say in his shock. Why the hell was he here?

"Gah?! Itachi?" Naruto shouted, his draw dropped low. He would have pointed, but his hands were tied. "You're Sasuke-bastard's brother?!"

"Hey!" Sasuke lashed at him. Itachi turned to glare at the pathetic teen laying on the ground. He couldn't believe this. Was he suppose to believe this was the friend Sasuke spoke of? He thought Sasuke had better taste in company than this. "Don't look at me like that you asshole! What took you so long anyway?!" Sasuke demanded, once again trying to roll over into a more comfortable position, but to no success.

Itachi sighed. He stepped back and closed the door once more. "Get yourself out." Was his simple order before he walked off.

"What the hell?!" Sasuke exclaimed. "That heartless bastard! What did I tell you! He doesn't give a damn about anyone!" Sasuke tried to persuade, looking over to Naruto.

"Forget that right now, we got to get out. At least he left the door unlocked for us." Naruto pointed out. "Now help me up" Naruto requested. Sasuke took a deep breath trying to keep from losing his temper. This had to be the worse day of his life.

Naruto scooted closer to Sasuke. he was going to try to use the other's body as leverage to stand himself up. But Sasuke obviously didn't understand why the hell Naruto started rubbing up against him. "What do you think you are doing dobe? This is no time to get all frisky." Sasuke stated in a matter of fact tone. He wouldn't admit this, but he didn't mind it as much as he played it off as.

"Shut up! I'm trying to get up." Naruto remarked. He moved on his stomach like a snake and managed to get his chin along the other's chest. Sasuke couldn't hide the sudden blush that arose on his face at hearing that statement. His mind was in@the gutter most of the time and having Naruto massaging his chest with his face wasn't really helping. Naruto pushed closer to him trying to get up fully across Sasuke. It was harder to do when Sasuke started to chuckle lightly to himself. "What's so funny you jerk?!" Naruto grumbled in frustration.

"That...tickles..." Sasuke snickered.

Naruto blinked in confusion. "Oh it does?" A mischievous grin quickly graced his face. He started repeating the action, drawing out more laughter from Sasuke. It was the first he had ever really heard Sasuke laugh. And with him always being as grumpy as he was, Naruto did wonder about his sense of humor.

"S-stop...it!" Sasuke laughed. Naruto chuckled in return as he managed to wiggle his stomach over Sasuke's because he was wiggling around so much.

"What's going on in here?"

Sasuke and Naruto quickly stopped their fooling around and turned back to the door. Itachi was standing there with a menacing look in his eyes. A small spot of blood remained on his cheek and hiss hair was slightly ruffled. It suddenly occurred to them that Itachi only left to take care of the rest of the people before coming back to help them.

"I leave you two idiots alone for two minutes and you are already trying screw each other. Does the dangerous situation excite you?" Itachi questioned in a taunting tone.

Sasuke gritted his teeth and thrashed up, wanting to kill Itachi for that. The want enough helped him use enough force to sit up, causing Naruto roll down until his head landed in Sasuke's lap. "You didn't have to leave us in the first place Ita-chi!" Sasuke hissed offensively.

"Sasuke!" Naruto grumbled trying to roll out of the current situation.

Itachi waltzed over with obvious reluctance and pulled Naruto up by the collar. "That's enough Blondie, you can eat later." Naruto flushed furiously and didn't have time to defend himself before Itachi suddenly lifted him up onto his shoulder. " We're going home now and you can explain this whole thing to me." Itachi insisted. He leaned down and picked up Sasuke likewise placing him on his other shoulder.

"Hey! Put me down!" Sasuke demanded, wiggling about.

"If you really want me to leave you here, I will..." Itachi mentioned absentmindedly. Sasuke went quite but still managed to glower at the wall because he was facing Itachi's back. As Itachi carried them out Sasuke noticed the trail of blood starting from the entrance of the door and leading to a space behind a column. Was Itachi trying to hide the body? Sasuke knew he had to have killed the guy so there was no use in hiding the body. But with Naruto with them he was sure Itachi felt the need to hide it from him. And it was a good thing Naruto didn't even notice the blood. He was too busy trying to look over Itachi's shoulder to see where they were going. Perhaps he didn't like not knowing even simple things like that.

"Um...Itachi...can you not tell Iruka about this?" Naruto asked softly. "He would totally kill me if he knew I got myself kidnapped." Naruto pointed out.

Sasuke at a loss of thought. Naruto knew his brother? And by the sounds of it Itachi had even met his guardians. It was all pretty hard to believe after all Itachi wasn’t the type to have friends or even associated he knew that well. he knew Kisame was sort of a friend to Itachi but Itachi never mentioned anything about Kisame's personal life.

Itachi remained silently, neither agreeing or disagreeing about the terms. He set Sasuke down on his feet when he reached the car and let the teen in. He sat Naruto in the back with Sasuke before getting in himself. He didn't quite feel like untying the two just yet, besides the only blade he had on him was bloody and he'd rather not have to explain himself to a simpleton like Naruto.

They had drove a few feet before a sudden loud bum filled the air. Naruto and Sasuke jumped in their seats and jerked around to see the back window. The warehouse was on fire from what they assumed was a large explosion just now. Sasuke looked uncomfortable with the fact the all the people responsible for this were still in there and Naruto was just at a lose for words, watching the dazzling firework show.

"Now...do you two want to explain yourselves or not?" Itachi questioned, drawing back there attention. Just who were they dealing with?

To Be Continued...

A/N: Hello again everyone^^ thanks so much for all the wonderful reviews, I look forward to them after each update. They lift my spirits. Now I just want to say the updates might come in a little slow since I start school this week. But I will do my best to never stop the fic completely^^ Thanks for being this patience so far. I will try my best to get a little fan service in the next chapter, so get pumped up, Naruto and Sasuke certainly will,lol