There's some weirdness in this chapter... But that's no surprise anymore I hope.

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They crawled and climbed through the twisty little cave passages, and slowly passed over or under the occasional collapsed support logs and stone pillars to yet another turn in the stuffed passageway.

All that trouble was then rewarded with just another tight and cluttered route onwards. Sasuke and Naruto had to sweat some extra moisture down their faces while pushing a large and heavy rock out of the way. Kakashi stole a peek in his Evil Orange Book and Sakura just walked along, using her girlish powers to make Sasuke and Naruto feel bad about letting her do any hard work. She made quite a decent success there, too.

Eventually they reached something. The group of four dusty and sweaty Leafs looked out from the end of the passageway, which opened to a gigantic bowl-shaped colliseum-type arena - Hundreds of meters ahead and much further below them.

"What the Hell is this place!" Naruto yelled, looking warily down from the edge. He gripped the cave's cracked stonewall tightly with his right hand, since there was no kind of handrail or anything usually seen on such dangerous locations.

The floor just ended most abruptly there, and a huge, long fall against the wall of red stone would be everything that a careless by-passer would experience from here on before hitting the floor.

"Dobe. Don't make so stupid puns." Sasuke smacked Naruto lightly upside the head.

"Shi... Ouch dammit! You almost made me fall! Freaking dimwit!" Naruto turned to yell at Sasuke.

"Shut up, you idiot..."

"Sakura-chan, did you see what that bastard did to me..." Naruto turned to wail to her.

"..." Kakashi implied silently, and sat on a broken stone pillar. He turned away from the bickering students to ponder over how to proceed from here on. And to just check his Come Come Paradise book once more.

This part of the seventh layer of Hell consisted of a single big round arena, at least half a kilometer in diameter, opening up at least two thousand meters upwards from the floor level. Many similar small cave mouths were visible all over the round and otherwise very smoothly carved walls. Theirs wasn't even halfway up the huge wall, but there weren't any useful footholds to use for climbing down.

Kakashi didn't happen to have a half a kilometer long rope with him, either...

"Hmmmm... How are we going to get down from here...?" Kakashi pondered to himself as he let his head sink slightly between his shoulders. A deep sigh followed as Naruto started to yell again. Something flashed briefly in front of the cave mouth.

"Shut up. Watch where we are", Kakashi promptly announced to the three Genin and stood up. Naruto stopped his fist midair just in front of Sasuke's face, and Sakura soon let go of their necks. They got up from the cave floor and turned to look at their team leader.

Kakashi's usual bored face didn't have that leisure look any longer, as the pearl white Hyuuga bloodline eye drilled deep right into anyone staring at his general direction. The four Leafs looked out of the cave mouth into the bowl-shaped area before them, trying to find something useful. This greatly increased their personal confusion levels.

The bottom part was understandable, since it was just a giant colliseum built right into the walls of dark red stone. There was a great amount of seats reserved for audience, and a much, much larger fighting space for the contenders than they had in the former Hidden Leaf fighting stadium. Some boulders offered protection and tactical qualities around the large arena.

What actually confused them was what happened above them. Flashes of shadow passed in front of the cave mouth in increasing intensity, as apparently people jumped down from their caves, heading down towards the stone floor and a certain death.

The ground in the cave passageway shook a little for a second, and a loud creaking sound came from behind them.

"Hey, hey... What is this all about, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.

"How the Hell should I know?" Kakashi thought, and mentally slapped himself for doing the same horrible pun again.

Something started raining softly in the air outside the cave, and a grand smelly, heavy heat wave hovered in from behind the four.

"Ewww..." Sakura groaned. She frantically searched for a way out of the green and slimy and head-throbbing yuckiness that ensued from the cave.

"Look, they are jumping out", she pointed to another cave mouth just above them. Two ninjas jumped down just before red smoke blew out of the cave with a fierce velocity.

Their cave started rumbling again, this time more violently.

"Time to jump..." Kakashi muttered.

"What the...?" Naruto yelled.

"Jump, dobe... Jump!"

"Shut up, you idiot!" Naruto turned to yell at Sasuke.

Something crashed further inside the cave. Kakashi swiftly grabbed the three Genin and jumped off from the ledge.

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"Then, next in our program... Is the official introduction speech by our most generous host, Mr. Satan! Here goes... Umm... Mr. Satan...?" A mechanical voice suddenly explained.

Naruto listened to the voice eyes wide for a second, before he inserted his index finger into his right ear and promptly twisted it back and forth, attempting to dig out any excess earwax. He didn't find much though, and another voice already continued the explanation.

"Cough. Hm, guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. Etc. Blahblah blah."

Naruto flew - or rather just freefell - through the air above the stone colosseum. Oh yeah, he was in Hell. In the seventh level of Hell. And he was going to smash against the stone floor below them any moment now.

Naruto raised his arms to cover his face from the hot wind. He heard the weird mechanical voice clearly inside his ears again while heated air restlessly blew against his clothing from below.

"The violent, the assassins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. And so on, no one is interested."

Sasuke suddenly turned sharply around in the air, as did Kakashi. Naruto still tried to memorize all that the voice said to him, and to not think of the stone floor that came towards him at an alarming pace.

"Where's Sakura-chan?" Naruto pondered. He couldn't see her anywhere.

"The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. Go home. There's nothing to see here."

Naruto turned around as well, and spotted Sakura gliding just above the three boys. She had her large white wings spread out with the help of her Furai card.

"In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Who the heck wrote all this stuff anyways?"

He turned around again, and wondered if he should say something nice to Kakashi or Sasuke before dying.

"Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level. Yadda yadda. Life sucks, and then you go to Hell."

Naruto came to a curious conclusion. Even though the stonewall and the cave mouths flashed by them in fast motion, and the wind from the air resistance blew fiercely against his clothes... Uhh. The ground wasn't really coming any closer.

"What the heck is this?" Naruto yelled to Kakashi and Sasuke.

Only thing they saw was Naruto with his mouth open, as the wind picked up his voice and blew it somewhere high above.

The mechanical voice came back again.

"That's that for the introduction. I have been told not to initiate our state-of-the-art torturing devices on living people... Which is a terrible shame, I must say. At least a few got caught in the fumes."

Naruto started to slowly float downwards. He noted that everyone else did the same.

"The temperature of this air blown against you all can be freely controlled from skin-burning hot to a deadly freeze, plus the velocity increased, so the magnificent toxic gas coming at you the other way will make contact faster. We usually keep the tenants up there for about fifty years at a time. Unless a sudden traffic jam gets stuck at the entrance to this level."

A mass of huge sweat drops blew towards the roof of the cave with the powerful air current, as hundreds of ninjas flying in the air each formed their own ones.

"Ok, lets get back to that later then... But always keep in mind, that it's very time-saving to die now, when you're down here already!"

The first ninjas landed on the stone ground, and Team 7 followed seconds later. There were easily a hundred shady figures standing around the fighting arena, almost all clad in ninja-type black clothing with their faces covered up. Naruto had his bright orange jumpsuit, Sakura wore her red Chinese ninja dress, and Sasuke had the dark blue shirt. Kakashi at least looked like a ninja with his Jounin suit and the facemask...

A mechanical voice started talking from megaphones planted in the walls of the arena.

"Ladies and Gentlemen... And Zombies and Demons! Without further ado, the Konohagakure Local Hell Fighting Tournament qualification rounds start right away!", the voice explained.

"This year's main sponsor is no other than... the Akatsuki! The criminal organization without peers!"

"What!" Kakashi uttered.

Sasuke grunted in an ineligible manner.

Sakura looked confused, and Naruto scratched his head, making questioning noises.

A blue and yellow kanji logo reading 'Akatsuki' appeared on a big screen on one wall. The logo rotated slowly over its axis, while short and corny theme music came out rather quietly of the suspicious speakers disguised as megaphones.

"Their memorable slogan for this year is: 'We are your friends! (If you have anything we want to steal)' -- Everyone, please look forward into meeting their members personally at the auditorium downstairs! Remember to bring your valuables with you."

Kakashi turned to look at his team, and walked next to Sasuke. Naruto looked at him, and then at the shaking figure, who was his teammate.

"Sakura-chan, what is that bastard doing...?" Naruto muttered to her.

"I don't know..." She whispered back. "And stop calling him a bastard already!"

"The qualification rounds will begin immediately. Please assemble at the competitors' area right away. If you look around the main hall, you will easily notice this fifty-seven foot tall bright red and steaming fellow here with a bull's head, he is Minotaur-san. The entrance is right next to his left foot."

People started to shift about, and as surely as the giant colliseum was built around them, on one wall a fifty-seven foot male torso with a bull's head stood as if nothing had happened. His body glowed bright red in contrast to the dark red walls, with red blood freely flowing down the sharp giant horns and further down the fierce face. The literally steaming and very muscular body emitted pure heat and rage out into the air.

"Moo." bellowed the Minotaur. And the walls shook from terror with his voice.

"We can take about a hundred entrants at a time, so please hurry if you don't want to wait for a very, very long time", continued the voice from the megaphones.

"Sasuke-kun, we have to go!" Sakura tried to pull Sasuke with them.

In an instant everyone had entered the door.

"We have now gathered enough entrants for the first qualification round", explained the voice again.

The door next to the Minotaur's foot closed with a loud bang.

Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi looked around. They were left all alone on the colliseum arena with the giant bull demon and an angsted-out Sasuke.

"Kakashi-sensei... Isn't there something weird about this mission?" Sakura asked.

"Aa. This mission started out as a mere retrieval of Inmon-san's reading glasses..." he explained, and walked some steps around the immobilized Sasuke. "But on the way here it has transformed into an international conspiracy... of a gigantic magnitude..."

"Since when did it have time to transform into an international conspiracy after we left from Taisha village..." Naruto muttered aloud.

"That's also a part of the mystery..."

Kakashi walked over to a dark red boulder, and examined it closely.

"And Sasuke..."

Sasuke just looked down and trembled with angst. He didn't hear or register Kakashi's comments in any way.

"Sasuke!" He yelled louder at the Genin.

He snapped his head up, and revealed the red Sharingan eyes. They locked on Kakashi.

"Sasuke... This mission seems to revolve around your brother Itachi!"

That initiated a reaction in the kid.

"Wh.. What... Ita... Chi..."

"We must now enter the Akatsuki Fan Club with fake ID's -- And get into the eye of the storm!"

Everyone looked at the Jounin in silence.

"Akatsuki Fanclub? What have you been smoking, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto grumbled and scratched his head again in confusion.

He made the Naruto-deep-in-though face and contemplated on the matter. Sakura hovered over Sasuke, who didn't care much for happenings of this world.

"We already are in the seventh level of Hell, I hope you aren't going to get us into anything TOO weird..." Naruto finally pointed out, and crossed his hands in front of him.

"Look over there, see that?" Kakashi pointed ahead.

"What's that?" Naruto tried to identify what Kakashi pointed at.

A small object had been placed inside a large glass globe.

"That's the grand prize for winning the tournament."

"Sensei, could it be...?" Sakura suddenly asked.

"Aa. They are Inmon-san's glasses."

"What the heck are they doing there?" Naruto yelled.

"I wish I knew... I really wish I knew..." Kakashi answered.

Naruto looked up to the big screen high up on the wall opposite to the Minotaur. Below the Akatsuki logo read 'Fan Club Sign-up available in the auditorium!'.

"Lets go downstairs", Kakashi said.

Suddenly everything went pitch black.

"What's this?" Kakashi's surprised voice asked.

"MWa Mwa MWa Ha Haa!" a cruel and evil voice laughed from the emptiness.

"Not this again..." Sakura's voice muttered from somewhere behind Naruto.

"Moo?" bellowed the Minotaur, and the walls shook again from the pressure of his vigorous voice.

A single spotlight lit up, revealing a wooden stage hovering some few hundred feet in the air. Someone appeared on top of it.

"MwahwahHWAHAWHAAA!" the person laughed.

He was male, somewhat older than the three Genin, with light brown short hair and a small goatee. He wore a silky white shining cape that flowed around perkily (yes, perkily) with his every movement. The cape also covered his whole body, so the four Leaf nins just stared at this freaky appearance with curiosity and evaluation.

"And who the HELL are you?" Naruto's voice demanded from the figure.

"I am... God", the man replied.

"What?"

"You heard me, insolent punk!" he pointed downwards with his finger. Everything was pitch black around him, though.

"What did you call me? You stupid cape freak!"

"I haven't been insulted like this in ten million years!"

"Well it's about time then!"

"Enough, Naruto... Who are you, and what do you want with us?" Kakashi's voice asked suddenly.

"Hmmm! What an interesting question!"

The cape-guy jumped down from the stage that hovered in the air, and dropped a very long way down towards the floor. Spotlights turned on somewhere high up with four of them catching each of the Leaf nins on the ground, and one more following the white-clad guy dropping through the air. He finally hit the rocky ground with a loud thump, but stood right up again.

"What the..." Sakura gasped.

"My name is... Terine Hatu!" the cape guy introduced himself.

"Looks like he is no ordinary guy..." Kakashi said quietly, and crouched his stance a little.

"That is most correct! Because, my wishes become reality!" Hatu said, and made theatretical forms with his hands.

He pointed at Naruto with a hand coming out from behind the cape. His shirtsleeve was made of the same shining white silk as the cape.

"For example, I wish that your head is a banana!"

Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke slowly turned to look at Naruto.

"What?" Naruto asked from them. His head had turned into the end of a very large banana.

"...Nothing", Sasuke said and turned back very quickly.

"I can wish anything I want!"

"AAAAAAA!" Naruto yelled as soon as he realized what was wrong.

"So now I'm going to wish... Hmm... I wonder..."

"Hey you cape-freak, turn me back!" Naruto yelled with his banana mouth.

"Why you! I should wish that your mouth was a pig's butt!"

"Hey, that gave me an idea... I wish that your mouth becomes a pig's..."

Suddenly the pitch-black darkness surrounding them turned to a blue shade… A very deep and ominous shade of blue.

"What's this then?" Naruto asked with his banana head.

"It's the sky... How beautiful." Sakura sighed.

"I don't think it's the sky, since we are underground", Kakashi pointed out.

"Hmph…" Sasuke snorted.

"Look over there, aren't those clouds?" Sakura pointed at a clump of white stuffs travelling across the deep blueness.

"How can something like this happen right now!" Terine Hatu wailed and grabbed his head with his both hands.

"That's no cloud..." Kakashi said as he peered to the distance. "Too sharp edges for a cloud."

"What is it then?" Sakura asked.

The white stuff slowly crawled towards them.

"It's text..." Sasuke said.

"Huh? Text? Why would text come towards us in Hell? Why the Hell is Hell so blue anyways?" Naruto yelled his question aloud. The rest of team 7 tried not to look at him.

"Shit...! The shittiest shit that shitty shit can shittily be!" the white-caped Hatu snapped to himself. He sighed loudly.

"Hey, shut up, you shit-freak!" Naruto pointed his finger at Terine.

He turned to look at Naruto with a fierce face.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU DAMN BANANA IDIOT!"

"WHAT! YOU COME HERE LIKE THAT AND TELL ME SOMETHING LIKE THAT?"

"YOU...!"

"Shut up. I can read the text..." Sasuke said.

"SHIT!" Terine still added.

"What does it read, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked from him.

"Windows has performed an illegal... What is this?"

"Shit... I crashed down the whole freaking world..." Terine Hatu worded, rather emotionlessly.

----

Light years below the Earth stood the four elephants that carried the world disc on their backs. Beneath it was the turtle that everything rested upon. Not many knew though, that the turtle was actually mechanical and hobbit-powered.

"That Terine idiot crashed the Earth again."

"Sheesh, isn't it the third time this month?"

"Something like that..."

"I'll go and reboot the Earth then."

"Pant, pant, pant... We cannot do any more extra work hours!"

"Shut up and work. I'll pour you a cup of tea later."

"Pant, okay..."

Billions and billions of billions of hobbits cycled onwards each sitting on an exercise cycle, which all were actually electricity generators for the turtle that the universe rested upon.

The tides of time turned on once again, as the Earth booted peacefully for the third time this month. No one on the planet even noticed anything.

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"Look. It's the Akatsuki Fan Club membership signup tent. We'll sign up as fan club member to get some inside hints of their activities", Kakashi pointed into the hallway below the colliseum arena.

Sasuke spluttered.

"Huh?" Kakashi asked.

"Nothing..." was all Sasuke answered.

"Me... entering... the Akatsuki fan club? Are you a freaking lunatic after all?" was what he actually thought to himself. The wild look in his Sharingan eyes easily gave it away.

"Sasuke, this is for the mission", Kakashi explained.

Sasuke didn't look too happy.

But then again, when did he?

They walked to the tent and waited their turn in line. In less than a minute it was their turn to stand in front of the small desk facing the Akatsuki Fan Club member behind it. He wore a red cap with the text "Itachi is my love" written in pink letters on the forehead. It looked pretty freaky on a middle-aged smiling guy, who hadn't shaven his face at all during the past weeks or more. The black messy hair under the cap was just the sugar topping. Sakura bet he smelled like a garbage bin too, but it wasn't possible to notice it in the heated heavy odour of Hell.

"You all are here to sign up? Who might your names be?" he asked from the four nins.

"Me? I'm... Umm.. Hmm.. Err... Katake Hakashi."

"Here's your AFC membership card. Congratulations!"

"Thanks..."

The scribe turned his gaze at Naruto.

"Old man, gimme a card", he demanded from the clerk.

He just gaped at Naruto for a while with his mouth open, before continuing.

"Hmm? Fancy seeing a talking banana here. Who might you be?"

"Whoa... I'm... Umm... Nazumaki... Uruto... Uhh... He! He he hee!" Naruto chuckled at the clerk and scratched what would have been the smooth skin of the banana, if not for the rebooting of the whole mankind. But it seems due to a bug in the worldclass() routine some people still mistake Naruto for a banana.

"Here's your AFC membership card. Congratulations!"

He turned to look at Sakura next, and smiled.

"Saruno Hakura!"

"Here you go. Congratulations!"

He finally turned to stare at Sasuke with the deep gazing eyes.

"Sachiha... Usuke..."

"Congratulations on entering the AFC. Thank you all for your participation!" he beamed at the three innocently smiling nins and one Sachiha with a twitching eyebrow.

The scribe gave Sasuke his card, and turned to smile at the people behind Team 7 in line. Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura quickly pushed Sasuke away from the explosion zone.

"Crap", Naruto muttered and stopped. Sasuke froze up completely.

"What is it?" Sakura asked.

Kakashi stared ahead further into the tunnel, where a cloaked figure stood in the middle of the path, and gazed right back at the group with red eyes.

"Hmmm..." Sakura pondered.

"That's... Uchiha Itachi..." Naruto said.

Sakura's eyes widened.

"Naruto... Who is Uchiha Itachi?" she whispered in his ear.

"I think he's Sasuke's brother or something. Wonder what he's doing here..." Naruto mused.

After that... They had no time to react as Itachi suddenly ran straight at Sasuke faster than their limited minds could even begin to comprehend, and grabbed the AFC membership card from his hands... He stopped to stand a head's height taller in front of his younger brother, and glared down at Sasuke from the corner of his eye...

"Sachiha..."

The red Sharingan appeared again in his eyes... Stronger than ever... Its deep bloody gleam fit the dark red despair of Hell just perfectly...

"Usuke..."

Sasuke had been frozen cold on his tracks, hands loose and forgotten on his sides. His mouth was slightly open, and cold sweat poured down his neck in large gushes.

"... Is it?" Itachi finished ominously... He looked around at the three other Leafs... No one dared to intervene between the brothers.

Itachi loomed over Sasuke's trembling and shocked form with full force, like a predator in a drive-in meat shop... Or like a cat in a grill (Itachi was the grill then, or the cat, if there was fish in the grill too) ...

Sasuke felt minutes and hours passing slowly as he shivered under his big brother's deadly glare.

Itachi kicked the Sharingan up and running around his eyes and muttered... "For seventy two hours... You will become a nutcase..."

"Onii-chan..." Sasuke whispered with a broken voice. His body shook back and forth for a short moment, and then swiftly passed out.

"Oh well... Gotta split... See you later, Naruto-kun..."

Itachi hopped away to the shadows... The AFC membership card clattered on the floor. Sasuke dropped down face first to the red rock floor, and Sakura immediately hurried to help him up.

"Sasuke-kun..."

"I'm afraid exposure is the only answer", a male voice cunningly explained from the sidelines. "There's the opinion of the entire staff, that Sasuke is criminally insane!"

"That boy needs therapy."

"Psychosomatic", he confirmed, and took a few steps around Sasuke.

He sat on a bench in a dark office in the middle of nowhere, at a table that seemingly stood on nothing. Sasuke's shirt had been taken off at some point, and someone had attached a blood pressure meter to his wrist.

"That boy needs therapy", another male voice pointed out.

"Clearly psychosomatic..." the doctor added and stopped on the other side of the desk. He placed his hands on the table and peered at Sasuke hard.

"That boy needs therapy", the voice said again.

Sasuke stood in a dark office in the middle of nowhere, and there was a couch next to him.

"Lie down on the couch."

"What does that mean?" Sasuke asked.

"You're a nut!" the doctor exclaimed. "You're crazier than a coconut!"

"What does that mean?" Sasuke asked.

"That boy needs therapy", the voice said again.

"I wanna kill you", Sasuke growled at the doctor.

"That boy needs therapy."

"And when I count to three..." another male voice explained.

"He was as white as a sheet", the nurse added.

"And he also made false teeth", the second doctor noted.

The doctor straight across Sasuke grabbed the report paper from the desk. They had asked for Sasuke to write about anything that bothered him.

"Did I ever tell you the story about cowboys and midgets... and indians, and frontier psychiatrists?" he read from the paper.

"Why, why, I was strangely hypnotized. I was in another world!" he looked up from the paper at Sasuke for a second with an evaluating look. "A world of twenty thousand girls! The man with the golden eyeball. Entighten your buttex... Put juice on your chin!"

The doctor stylishly snatched his glasses off by grabbing the left side earpiece between two fingers.

"I promised my girlfriend, I'd get her a... violin", he finished Sasuke's story.

A female doctor walked up to Sasuke.

"Can you think of anything that talks? Other than a person?" she asked from him.

Sasuke looked blankly somewhere ahead of him.

He turned his face slowly, and looked at the woman.

"A... A bird? Yeah..." he said.

"Craa! Craaa! Cra! Craa!" a raven cawed with a clearly plastic voice.

"Sometimes a parrot talks", Sasuke added as an afterthought.

"Craa! Cra! Cra! Craaa!" the raven continued.

The doctors all looked at Sasuke.

"Hehehe..." he chuckled all of a sudden.

"Yea some birds are funny when they talk", the female doctor said with her warm voice. "Can you think of anything else?"

"Ummm... A record?" Sasuke tried.

"Shut up! Go away!" Sasuke shouted at Sakura, as she tried to hold his shoulders up. He shoved Sakura back with a lousy swipe, and attempted to stagger up from the floor.

"But... I didn't say anything..."

Sasuke stepped into a mental mine. The ground under his left foot lit up and started sucking him into the darkness.

"Stop it", Sasuke latched at Sakura, and grit his teeth.

"Stop what...?"

"Stop them! Yikes!" Sasuke's eyes widened.

Sasuke swiftly skipped up the wall and stuck his feet to the cave roof with Chakra. He glared down at Sakura and the foot-eating floor, and drew a kunai with one hand.

Kakashi watched the scene without saying anything. Naruto made some thinking noises and a clearly baffled face.

"Hmm..." Naruto pondered aloud.

"Stop THAT!" Sasuke's eyes gleamed as he pointed the kunai at Naruto.

"You say stop them stop that... Stop what? Aaa-aa... I still don't get it..." Naruto gnarled aloud.

"Hyargh! THAT! Those THREE DOTS OF EVILNESS! Always the THREE DOTS!"

"What?"

Sasuke just stood quietly on the corner of the cave roof and wall. He held his kunai protectively in front of him. The red Sharingan was well activated and glaring down on them.

Sakura, Kakashi, and Naruto all sweatdropped on the ground.

"Umm... Sasuke..." Naruto tried.

"Agh!"

"Jeez..."

"Hyaaargh!"

Kakashi scratched his silver hair with one finger for a moment, and sighed.

"It seems something like this happens every time he meets up with Itachi."

"Oh..." Sakura sighed.

"Aaaa!"

"I still don't get it..." Naruto muttered.

Sasuke went totally nuts with these words and alas, it took lots of effort, kunai wounds and hot chocolate to calm him down again.