Chapter 6:

Sasuke watched Itachi waiting anxiously for him to wake up. For the first time in his life there was so much uncertainty to what would happened. Orochimaru was rearing his ugly snake face into their lives that could turn out to be the beginnings of a war. Yet in all this turmoil the only thing Sasuke could focus on was the blond fox who was driving him mad. They had given his brother and himself something to help with the hormones but from getting to know the dobe in the small conversations they had, he did not want to be told he had to keep away. It would be one thing if the blond dobe didn't want him, but he knew there was chemistry between them.

Sasuke was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard Itachi groaning and beginning to wake up.

"Sasuke...?" Itachi groaned out.

"Here Itachi, drink some water." Sasuke offered after hearing his brother's strained voice.

"Hey ototo… what the hell just happened to me…? I just remember going to say hi to Naru-chan and then It's almost like I blacked out." Itachi said nervously.

Sasuke didn't know how to break it to his brother. Sure, his brother joked about finding himself a good Alpha, but Itachi's powerful and independent demeanor was not conducive to his words. Naruto was extremely powerful and independent, but he loved that about the blond. Hopefully that Kyuubi asshole will like that about Itachi.

"Umm Anki... I don't know how to break it to you, it seems like you may have imprinted on Kyuubi. Uh Naruto's oldest brother." Sasuke said hesitantly.

Itachi looked at Sasuke's serious gaze and couldn't believe what he was hearing. Imprinting was not even a common occurrence. How could that be true? Itachi began to try to remember what happened in Naruto's room and he remembered looking into midnight blue eyes and the shock that hit his system. Itachi unconsciously shivered remembering the promise of power those eyes shone with.

"Anki? Are you okay?" Sasuke asked, pulling Itachi out of his thoughts.

"What time is it Sasuke?" Itachi said getting out of the futon and steadying himself.

"It's almost time for dinner. Were supposed to meet with the Uzumakis about Naruto and me. Although I guess we have to meet about what just happened between you and Kyuubi." Sasuke said.

Itachi shivered at the mention of Kyuubi's name.

"God's Naruto was lucky that he had that seal when he met you. You have been able to get to know him... and now that my memories have come back…" Itachi said with a blush on his face, "I got dragged out of Naru's room begging for Kyuubi like some wanton whore…" Itachi said looking so defeated and embarrassed because it was so unlike him to lose his cool control.

Sasuke was not used to seeing his brother so embarrassed.

"I guess my theory of you being so perfect you were actually a robot is wrong." Sasuke said snickering.

Itachi laughed remembering when Sasuke was a small cub how he would tell Itachi it wasn't fair that he couldn't be a robot like him.

"Well I have no idea what we are going to do about this mess Sasuke. We are both stuck with this imprinting issue and Orochimaru is out there doing god knows what. I am worried about what Naruto will have to say when his full memories return. If that snake did anything to him I will personally…" Itachi's thoughts trailed off into angry muttering.

"Itachi I understand how you feel there are a lot of things going on, but first we have to figure out what we are going to do about the mess we have in front of us. At least Kushina-san likes you. Minato was looking at me like he wanted to plan my funeral." Sasuke said.

"It's okay Ototo we will figure it all out in time." Itachi reassured feeling like his problems could be solved one at a time.

Thump…thump… thump… moan… thump… moan… thump… "nghh Shika…" Neji's voice could be heard panting through the wall.

"Sasuke, please tell me that the room next to us is not Shikamaru's room and please tell me that is not Neji's voice I hear." Itachi sighed.

"Umm Tachi, I think I know better than to lie to you…" Sasuke said.

"Those two are just adding to the list of problems we are going to have to face. Dad is going to kill us when they find out." Itachi said.

Sasuke sighed, "Can you blame them? Honestly, I am surprised they were allowed to come on this mission together. You know they never get to spend any time together and I honestly can't think of a better match. They are adults and can make the decision of who they want to mate. Although I regret agreeing to room next to Shikamaru." Sasuke chuckled.

"God Hayashi Hyuga is going to have my head on a platter at the end of all this." Itachi said smacking his hand on his forehead.

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All the preparations for dinner were set. All of the allies were going to feast in the dining hall while Kakashi, Sasuke, and Itachi had a private dinner with the Uzumaki family.

Sasuke walked into the tea room with his eyes on the floor admiring the lovely tatami mats. Kakashi could not believe all the trouble his nephews were causing and Itachi was terrified to look up across the table at Kyuubi for embarrassment of what happened earlier that afternoon. Minato and Kushina looked calm whereas Naruto was also admiring the tatami mats and Kyuubi was admiring the ceiling tiles. Gaara was just hoping dinner would end soon so he could leave before things got any stranger and that was saying something because there was nothing normal about the Uzumakis.

Dinner was served at the table and they all slowly and silently began to eat when Naruto broke the silence.

"I can't take the silence anymore! I am staying with the teme and that is final! I am not negotiating this." Naruto yelled toward Minato who was looking at him incredulously.

Kakashi knew that blond was a firecracker, but he felt sorry for Sasuke who would have to learn how to contain all that energy.

"Naruto, we have guests at the table and we already discussed this with you and Kyuubi." Kushina said in a hushed tone.

"Well I don't give a rat's ass about Orochimaru. We will go kick his ass as soon as we can, but I am staying with Sasuke." Naruto continued shouting.

Sasuke looked at Naruto with his eyes wide open. He couldn't believe the blond wanted to stay by his side. This was aside from the hormones since they were all on suppressants which made Sasuke feel 100 times better than he had ever felt before.

"Naruto, shut up can you please let us eat dinner?" Kyuubi grabbed Naruto and sat him back down.

"You just say that because they're letting you try to pursue Itachi and mhm….mhfff.." Naruto yelled while Kyuubi turned red and grabbed Naruto to cover his mouth with his hands.

"Ow you bit me you bitch" Kyuubi yelled holding his hand. "Gaara can you please reason with him. You know he only ever listens to you."

"The words reason and Naruto don't belong in the same sentence." Gaara said calmly eating his food. "I got knocked out once today, I am not trying for a second time."

Naruto had the biggest smirk on his face. He loved terrorizing his older brothers.

"Naruto, please we have discussed this, you will do as we say." Minato stated starting to become aggravated with his sons.

"I am sorry to interrupt the clearly one-sided conversation here but can we all talk about this topic and decide as a group." Kakashi stated, "I will represent my nephews here since they seem so shocked neither of them have spoken."

"Let's start from the beginning." Itachi said helpfully. "Why was Naruto captured?"

"Because he's an over confident pain in the ass." Kyuubi muttered under his breath and Itachi couldn't help but laugh when Naruto elbowed Kyuubi in the side.

"I heard that you damn Fox." Naruto said. "I can answer that one now that I have most of my memories back. I was on a mission to investigate one of Orochimaru's inactive hide outs since there had been whispers that he is trying to get an army together to attack the humans of Kyoto. Orochimaru had left Mt. Inari quite a few years ago, but we had reason to suspect he came back as there were many rumors of snakes in these woods. As I was following the trail, Gaara and I decided to split up since he was going back to the rest of the Inari 9 to give them details on the hideouts whereabouts. I stayed behind to begin our investigation."

Naruto paused in his story as some more of the painful memories flashed in his mind. Sasuke's face was full of concern and rage.

"Unfortunately, I have not been able to regain all of my memories because of something that stupid bastard snake did but I do remember being captured, gagged, and moved to another location. There I was tortured for information about the inari gates and the ancient defense mechanism. It seems they wanted to use it in their ploy. I told them I had no idea what they were talking about since most of the general public doesn't know about that information. When they saw I wouldn't give them any information and I was struggling more than they could contain, they drugged me. This is where my memories are fuzzy. I remember escaping, but I can't remember how or why since I didn't have any memories of Orochimaru, I think someone helped me from the inside." Naruto finished his tale his body shaking remembering the trauma much better than his mind could.

Throughout Naruto's story without even noticing it himself Sasuke found himself next to the blond holding him in his arms. Naruto didn't divulge the details of his torture, but he knew what that snake was capable of. He had been kidnapped by Orochimaru as a child once and luckily, he didn't remember everything that happened while he was captive, but he knows he had nightmares for years to follow.

"Shhh it's okay Naru you're not there anymore." Sasuke whispered into Naruto's ear tenderly.

Itachi still wasn't used to seeing the tenderness that his brother exhibited towards Naruto. He was used to the cold asshole his brother usually was.

Naruto cuddled up to Sasuke and visibly relaxed.

"I know teme. It was awful, but I am safe now." The blond said looking at Sasuke with deep blue eyes. There was so much emotion behind that statement.

"Well based on what I have learned from my father, the Uzumaki's, specifically, the Inari 9 are the ones who guard this mechanism that is supposed to be a last resort for a mass attack to the demons who live on the Mt." Itachi stated.

Kyuubi was attentively listening to Itachi loving the eloquence in which he spoke.

"Yes, Itachi you are right." Minato answered. "We don't want to bring the battle to our clan's village because of the dangers that this could mean for the village and the access to the defense mechanism. We want to strike him while he thinks were down. He knew Naruto was one of the Inari 9 and leaving with a seal would weaken us."

"Well our clan and our allies would love to assist you with this, but bringing this topic back to my nephews and your sons, why is it that you will not allow Naruto to be with Sasuke, but you would allow Itachi and Kyuubi to be together?" Kakashi asked.

At this Itachi and Kyuubi began to turn red. Neither of them being used to being in situations like this. Here they were discussing their mating and they barely knew each other. Itachi was still embarrassed about his earlier behavior.

"Well," Minato sighed. "Those in the Inari 9 are not allowed to have mates. Once they find someone they want to mate we work on finding their replacement. It takes a while because the requirements and qualifications are quite extensive. All three of my sons are Inari 9 shinobi."

"We are in a critical time right now needing the whole group of Inari 9 to be available and fully focused on the attack we want to launch. Kyuubi is older and we had been preparing his replacement since Minato had planned on mating him to another clan to form an alliance. Now that we have witnessed him imprint on Itachi, we think this is another opportunity to build relationships with the Uchiha and potentially keep our son closer." Kushina finished.

"So basically, you had prepared for Kyuubi to leave the Inari 9 ranks due to mating, so this would be simple." Kakashi said.

Naruto was sitting in Sasuke's lap enjoying the preening and attention he was receiving but become increasingly sad as the conversation continued.

"I already told you. I can stay in the Inari 9 until you find someone to take my place. Sasuke teme will totally stay here with me." Naruto said.

"Naruto, the Inari 9 cannot have mates! Not even while we look for their replacements. The missions we send you on are too dangerous for you to be distracted. That's why we have this rule." Minato started.

"It's a stupid rule. This teme here would push me forward and give me 100 times more reasons to make sure I make it home." Naruto said with a blush. "You haven't even asked Tachi and Kyuu if they want to be together. Sasuke and I already told you we will do what we have to, but we want to be together."

Itachi almost choked on his food when he heard Naruto's statement. He had subtly been checking out Kyuubi the entire meal. Growing jealous of the spoon he held that had the honor of touching his lips. Itachi shook his head to pull him out of the stupor he was in.

"Ehhem... I… uh think my parents wouldn't mind a marriage for alliance, but we do already have Naruto and Sasuke who seem to be more willing than Kyuubi." Itachi said with his ears folding on his head subconsciously nervous of what Kyuubi was thinking.

Kyuubi saw that and understood that Itachi thought that he was being rejected.

"I never said I wasn't willing." Kyuubi said surprising everyone, even himself. He had never been attracted to men, but honestly, he had never been attracted to anyone. He didn't understand what he felt when he looked at Itachi, but he didn't want it to end.

"I know we don't know each other Itachi, but I would love the honor of getting to know you. I had always heard about imprinting and thought it was a load of bull, but I am man enough to admit how wrong I was… I feel complete with you at my side… I know we don't know each other but based on all the wonderful words Naruto had to say about you, I want to do this with you and get to know you." Kyuubi finished with a giant blush on his face.

"Woah Kyuu has feelings? I just thought he was a Dick 100% of the time." Naruto said with his mouth open.

"Naruto has anyone told you, you're so much prettier with your mouth shut and words not coming out of it." Gaara told him.

"Gaara! You ass!" Naruto yelled.

As Naruto yells someone knocks at the door and walks in. It's a brunette with his fox mask on. He looks at Naruto and says, 'where did I go wrong with you?' under his breath.

"Naruto, your parents must think I have been the worst uncle to you. Here they trust me to raise you and yet I have heard you screaming profanities throughout the grounds all day. You're cuddled up to some Alpha and you haven't even come to say hello to me in the time you have been back at the compound." The brunette started.

Naruto jumped out of Sasuke's arms and runs to the newcomer.

"Iruka! I missed you sooo much!" Naruto yelled.

Iruka lightly bushes his hands in Naruto's hair and gives him a soft smack and begins to remove his mask.

"I taught you to be a strong and independent Omega and here you are betraying me melting at some alpha you only met yesterday." Iruka said holding Naruto in his arms.

Naruto's ears droop and Tsunade walks into the room with some more needles.

"I came by incase we needed additional doses." Tsunade said with an evil glint in her eyes as she looked at her grandson.

Naruto guarded himself behind Iruka when he noticed Iruka was all warm and flush.

"Hey Iruka, what is wrong with you?" Naruto said.

Iruka and Kakashi had their eyes locked on to each other. Luckily being able to control some of their more primal instincts due to their age.

"Please tell me the lovely Iruka would be available to mate." Kakashi said through gritted teeth trying his self-control.

In a moment's notice Tsunade had injected Kakashi and threw the needle at Iruka who immediately injected himself.

"I didn't expect that, but wow that was convenient." Tsunade said.

"Iruka-sensei, you gave me shit over falling for Sasuke, but you don't even know Kakashi-sensei's name and you're weak in the knees." Naruto said snickering and walking towards Sasuke.

"Naruto Uzumaki, I am telling the chefs no ramen for a month!" Kushina said. "I am tired of your language."

Naruto sat next to Sasuke with his ears drooping, knowing to be silent lest he loose ramen for longer than that.

"Iruka it seems like you have become part of this meeting." Minato said.

"This is Iruka Umino yet another one of the Inari 9. Can you please stop imprinting on my strongest soldiers?" Minato asked pleadingly.

"Whoever said this imprinting thing was rare was full of bull shit." Tsunade said and Kyuubi agreed.

"I should stay away from the new kids. I personally don't want to have the stupid ass look everyone in this room has on their face. I am used to Naruto looking like an Idiot but damn this is too much." Gaara said seriously.

"Gaara get the fuck out of here before I personally kick your ass." Naruto and Kyuubi said in unison.

Gaara shrugged being used to this treatment. Those two temperamental foxes were not used to hearing the truth. Gaara and Tsunade decide to leave the room since they did not want to get involved with any more of these crazy antics.

"Well it seems that the longer we discuss this the messier it gets." Minato started, and the door was opened once again. This time he was face to face with Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha.

"Hello Minato and Kushina, it has been awhile." Fugaku said with a smile on his lips. He and Minato were close friends in their youth.

"Hello old friend, it seems we may become family soon." Minato said. "Please sit."

Fugaku took the site of the room. He didn't know what had gone about but Itachi sent him a messenger bird saying they would be discussing with the Uzumakis and that they should come. Kakashi usually disinterested face was staring at a brunet who was standing on the opposite side of the room looking like his whole world had shattered. Sasuke had a smirk on his face as he held a whimpering blond saying something about ramen. Itachi was flushed red in the face while a man with long red hair was intently staring at him.

"So, what is it that were discussing today?" Mikoto said cheerfully dragging Fugaku to sit next to Kushina and Minato.

"Well, my dear sister, to bring you up to date. Sasuke and Naruto have imprinted. Itachi and Minato's oldest Kyuubi have imprinted and it seems as if I have imprinted on that beautiful brunette fox who is trying to hide from me and I do not appreciate it." Kakashi stated making Iruka turn a whole brighter shade of red.

"Wow, I leave you all to go on a simple mission to bring Naruto home and you all are trying to bring everyone back with you?" Fugaku asked incredulously.

"Fugaku, I cannot let Naruto and Iruka, the previously mentioned brunet, be mated at the moment." Minato stated.

"Minato, I understand where you're coming from, but don't you know how strong the imprinting bond can be? All I have heard are speculations but seeing my youngest son there tenderly holding your son and smiling. It must be so strong, he never smiles. He is usually always brooding over something." Fugaku stated.

"I understand, I see the changes in Naruto. I see changes in Kyuubi and these two imprinted less than two hours ago." Minato said.

"I can see that. My know it all heir would've spoken up by now if he weren't so embarrassed. Honestly an emotion I didn't even know he could have." Fugaku said laughing.

"Well what do I do Fugaku. These are three of my Inari 9. One third of my strongest." Minato said pleading.

"Minato don't you think it's time to change traditions? Let them all figure out their mating situations. They're all grown. We will station our allies here and we will be ready to defend the grounds while things settle down. I have enough people on the Uchiha grounds and you have the Inari Gate Defense to protect." Fugaku suggested.

Minato was thoughtful, and he looked at Kushina who was not pleased with this idea.

"I am not marrying off my little Naru. That is final." Kushina said. "I am not pleased with Iruka nor Kyuubi leaving, but they are both old enough to make that decision for themselves."

"I am old enough to make the decision for myself!" Naruto started when Sasuke held him back.

"Kushina I understand how you feel. Sasuke is my youngest and I consider they are far too young, but if you try to keep them apart they will just be miserable. There are two of our allies who did that with their sons and it has been so devastating to watch." Mikoto said.

Sasuke and Itachi gave each other a knowing glance. They both knew the couple their mother was talking about was no longer apart or suffering. Unfortunately they knew exactly what they were doing at the moment.

"Darling," Minato stared into Kushina's eyes, "I am not ready to let go of them either, but Fugaku is right… this is a decision they need to make on their own. This is a decision we cannot make for them. Fugaku is giving us the back up to buy them a bit of time to sort things out. Tsunade can give them medicine to make sure there are no cubs to worry about after their first heat together and we may have to revisit some of the old laws about the Inari 9 and amend them. They will retire when they no longer wish to be shinobi." Minato finished. He didn't want to be part of making his son unhappy.

Minato's words gave Kushina some peace. Just as Minato finished speaking there was a resounding slap in the room and all eyes turned to a very red Iruka and Kakashi with a red handprint on his face.

"You hentai!" Iruka screamed while running out the room.

Everyone looked at Kakashi. If looks could kill, Kushina would've been Kakashi's downfall. Sasuke and Itachi could not believe what just happened because Kakashi was always so smooth with his previous partners.

"Man, I haven't seen Iruka so insulted since the last time Ero-sen was reading is erotica to him." Naruto laughed, "Damn Kakashi I don't even want to know what you said to him that rivals that."

"Let's just say Iruka is not off the mark about Kakashi." Itachi said and Sasuke nodded in agreement. Kakashi was glaring at them.

"Well since we have decided we are figuring out the mating situation as adults, I have a fox to catch." Kakashi said with a perverse grin in his eyes as he ran in the direction Iruka went.

"We're not too attached to him so if he goes over the line I wouldn't mind having one less uncle." Sasuke said looking at Kushina and giving her a polite small smile.

His mom smacked him on the head not believing what he had said.

"Since when did Sasuke get a sense of humor?" Fugaku said. "Well Itachi and Sasuke take your new uhh friends uhh or whatever y'all decide to be and figure your stuff out. Minato and I need to start talking strategy and mobilizing with the documents that Gaara and Naruto were able to salvage from their last mission." He said shooing them off.

The four boys stepped outside, and the door slammed behind them.

"I bet ten bucks that they are planning our weddings and betting on what we decide to do." Naruto said.

"Shut up dobe, lets go get to know each other." Sasuke said as he held Naruto's hand and dragged him in the direction of the courtyard.

Kyuubi looked at Itachi, held out his hand and led him in the opposite direction.

Author's Note:

Hey yall! I made it by Sunday! I tried really hard to. I didn't get as far as I wanted because this was a little more long winded than I wanted to be but I had a lot of fun at the character's expense. The next chapter is going to be about the main relationship pairings and developing so there will be some fluff but get ready to incorporate more of the characters and add a little bit of angst to the mix. At least that is the Idea! Thank you for reading and Thank you for reviewing!