i went to itachis house first where he was sitting on the front steps reading a scroll to his little brother sasuke.

i could see the admiration in sasuke's eyes and when he turned to me i could see a small bit of resentment, hmmmm maybe its because i'm the one who always takes his brother away.

thinking it over i noticed itachi hadn't seen me yet keeping up my genjutsu would be easy today, walking over i picked up sasuke and ran off to where we were meant to be meeting shisui.

a loud HEY!! was heard from itachi as i ran off with his little brother.

sasuke didn't deserve to have his brother taken away from him every time i came over.

grining i carried him over to an already waiting shisui. and place sasuke on the floor and henged into shisui.

itachi finally caught up and instantly punched me in the head and i knew i deserved it, what kind of idiot hides from a sharingan user with a henge?.

itai!, ne itachi we can take sasuke to this mission and he shouldn't have to miss out all the time!

he smiled and ruffled both mine and saukes hair even if i was two feet taller in the genjutsu henge mix

i grinned and we made our way to the cat lady who lived on the out skirts of konoha.

when we got there and told of the mission i could see the determination in sasukes eyes.

grinning we went of with a seal scroll full of one giant scroll.

we put the pink ears on sasuke since he's the youngest and went into the cat kingdom with one goal in mind...

every single paw print without ANY fighting.

it took us an hour and all of us had mutually agreed to let sasuke do the printing while we did the convincing.

after another hour all the cats were done except one the large boss cat easy pickings for us but not for sasuke.

i stopped the group and spoke to itachi, "ne itachi the boss isn't all that strong, do you want to leave the boss for sasuke when he reaches genin?"

i could see itachis soft smile as he nodded.

i was reading to my cute little ototo and suddenly he was gone from my shoulder and I was instantly on my feet alert before seeing the caramel hair of naru running off with him.

smiling softly i remembered when i'd first met him when he was only four, of course at the time he looked like he was three.

id been worried because he tapped something in morse code which made my blood freeze, i'd heard my dad talking to someone one day about how some of the war prisoners from konoha would eat very little and had become sick because of it.

dad had later told me they didn't eat enough because in the enemy camps they were starved.

naruto had disappeared trying to go home and i caught him before he passed out on the road and carried him to my home.

carrying naruto like i would normally carry my own ototo i froze when i heard him hiss in pain carefully holding him out so not to hurt him i saw him rubbing his chest and simply carried him bridal style so as not to hurt him.

he started shivering in my arms and i sped up, my pace becoming more and more frantic speeding through the hallways of my home i found otosan and kaasan in the kitchen

as soon as they saw my panicked face they rushed into action and i carefully laid my ototo down careful in case he was hurt.... wait my ototo?

his lips were turning blue and he was shivering so bad i had to hold him so he wouldn't fall off the couch.

kaasan came over with her medical ointments infused with chakra and scanned him with medical ninjutsu

her frown nearly made my heart stop, i'd grown attached to the silent blonde whom accompanied shisui.

she asked me to take his shirt off and i went to do it his hand stopped me and i knew no matter how much he hated it i had to take the shirt off.

i could see him give up and the tears running down his cheeks as i lifted his shirt over his head and away.

looking back at him i froze my heart going a mile a minute, who could do this WHY! would they do this he's young probably younger than sasuke and more scarred than ibiki morino.

it was then that my resolve to become an anbu hardened i would stop things like this from happening i thought as tears spilled over my eyes and slid down my cheeks.

i took the hand he'd reached out to me and traced some of the already healed scars especially the odd one out.

i saw the problem, we all saw the problem his whole chest was red from infection and the scar which said monster, i gritted my teeth was weeping open.

after kaasan healed him he just had to sleep it off, not in the mood to go to the red light district to his apartment i carried him to my bed and let him fall asleep there.

i tried to go to sleep but every time i closed my eyes i saw his tear stained face with all those disgusting scars running across his torso and i woke again worried.

so i stayed up all night checking on naruto, it wouldn't do for shisui to lose one of his best friends after all.

the only thing shisui had talked about since naruto joined the academy was naruto.

around 5 am narutos face screwed up in pain and tears were falling from his sleeping eyes.

i tried to wake him by shaking him but he wouldn't wake his cries were getting louder so i lifted him up and cradled him to my chest rocking him the way i used to when sasuke was sick.

he slowly woke up and i had been shocked when he used an unknown jutsu of high ranking to speak to me in my own head.

we'd gone for breakfast and he'd gone for the acadamy exam after shocking me with his gravity seals.

now after all this time he could eat properly well for the most part and is speaking again! sure not in his actual body but he still is.

i smiled softly as he offered to leave the leader of cat kingdom for sasuke when he was a genin.

if only naruto knew what i would inevitably have to do.