*Your POV*

While I was on house arrest for seeing Tani late at night, Itachi and Orochimaru went out on a mission, I stayed behind and kept an eye on Aiko. Konan kept her distance, trying to act out Pein's punishment. I would be lying if I said I wasn't bored, I just hate being trapped in one little spot. Dinner rolled around and no sign of Itachi or Orochimaru. I was starting to get a little worried. It was just a simple mission right?! Right?! I sat in the kitchen feeding Aiko, for some reason she loves little rice balls.

She finished eating and smiled at me, before throwing up all over me. I dragged myself to our bathroom and cleaned her up, rubbing her back and stomach as I put her to bed. I'll gather all the medicines that I can for her. After a while she fell asleep and I left the room, I started on our dinner. I began to chop and cut up the ingredients. There was a loud crash into the hideout and I ran to see what it was, Itachi laid there on the floor, bloody and bruised.

"Itachi! What happened!" I yelled as I ran to him. He seemed unresponsive and it scared me. "Kakuzu Come Quickly!" I yelled as I held the injured Uchiha in my arms, his breathing was uneven and shallow. "Itachi please stay with me, don't leave me just yet okay!" I said as help soon arrived.

"What Happened?" Leader demanded, I don't know who he'd get answers from but it was obvious that Itachi couldn't answer. Leader sighed before giving Konan and Kakuzu the go ahead to move Itachi into the small hospital like room we had. I waited anxiously in the living room, I wondered what had happened to my friend, will he be okay. Aiko soon woke up and I tended to her, she was the best thing to happen to me, instincts that I didn't know I had, made their presence known to me. I smiled at my small child and held her close changing her and feeding her before letting her crawl away. I walked to the room where Itachi laid, opening the door I saw him sleeping.

"Is he okay?" I asked.

"He should be waking up soon" Kakuzu replied, "when he does try not to worry him to much if he doesn't remember anything" he added as he left the room.

"Oh Itachi! I was so worried that you wouldn't be okay, but silly me! I never should have doubted you!" I said to him as I hugged his sleeping body. He slowly moved his arms to hug me back.

"Silly girl, I wouldn't give up that easy on you" he said to him and I kissed his cheek.

"What happened?" I asked as I pulled away from him, his face was bloody and bruised, cuts and scratches littered his arms. Stab wounds covered his chest, Itachi stopped my wondering eyes.

~Flashback~

It was a warm and clear day, the two males walked in awkward silence, neither male wanted to talk about the task at hand or the underlying problem. Both males focused on the mission as hand, get the scrolls and focus on the target. A man was selling information about them, this information was obviously fake but to anyone looking for a challenge any information is good. Itachi stopped and sent a Kunai out into the trees stopping the target in its place.

"Impressive Uchiha" Orochimaru commented.

"Don't talk to me" Itachi replied before going after his kill, the Sannin was bothered by this and soon that rage drove him into madness.

Orochimaru charged at Itachi who was checking his targeted kill. Orochimaru drove a sword through his shoulder, or what he thought was but it ended up being a clone.

"This is just what I would have expected from my foe" Orochimaru stated before going after him, sending his snakes after him. Kabuto joined at some point and tried to help his master. Itachi took care of him quickly and then focused on Orochimaru.

"What's your deal?! You've had it out for me since day one! What's wrong!" Itachi yelled as he blocked attack after attack from him.

"You are so naive to think that this power is all so powerful! No one will ever want this power once they know the truth! It's a curse to those who have it!" Itachi added. Itachi carefully attacked him, before falling to sharp pains in his eyes.

"I never wanted your eyes, I want your power. I need your body for the power. I'll be the greatest Sannin out there! I'll have immortality and then the Sharingan! I'll be powerful! Unstoppable!" Orochimaru shouted out, before chuckling like a crazed maniac.

Itachi stood to fight once again before Orochimaru abandoned the fight, Itachi gathered everything he had before sending a crow to deliver his messages to the group. Itachi began the long walk to the base, he slowly healed himself with that little medical he knew, bandaging his wounds before Orochimaru attacked him again, this time succeeding in wounding him.

"With this amount of blood loss no one could possibly survive it. You'll be good for the ground before she discovers you" he said and pushed him to the ground, licking his blood clean off his sword. "I'm surprised that Hidan hasn't tasted your blood, it's quite delicious" he added.

Itachi rolled his eyes before fighting back, despite bleeding he smirked at the male before him, "your body looked a little weak, Are you sure this is what you want to do?" He teased. Iatchi attacked him again and again before Kabuto came and took him away. Itachi turned back around and continued to make it home, he walked closer to the base before falling on his knees, he crawled a few feet before standing and then walking again. Itachi made it to the door before collapsing on the bases floor

My eyes widened in horror as reality hit me, "Orochimaru left?" I questioned. Something I knew would happen, I just didn't except it so soon. I looked at him again before sighing. "I'm so sorry he attacked you, he's just a power hungry maniac" I added with a small fake smile.

"Please don't stress about this (y/n) I don't want you to stress about anything. You tend to get stressed out quickly, so please promise me you won't blame yourself" he said to him.

"I won't! I promise!" I replied with a huge smile, I stood up. "I'm going to go finish dinner and I'll be back to bring you some, you have to regain your strength" I added as I walked out of the room.