The moment that the village elder/leader and Itachi both heard the front door slam, the Kage looked at Itachi before asking in a semi stunned tone, "What the devil was that all about?"

Itachi merely shrugged his shoulders before replying simply, "I asked him to run out and grab some things so that I can make dinner. Sorry that he almost mowed you down."

The Hokage chuckled quietly in amusement as he waved Itachi's apology off. "It's fine. It's fine. I used to deal with the same thing from various youngsters coming and going while excited about something. It's good that he wants to do these things for his classmate. It shows just how much he worries and cares."

Itachi said nothing for a moment as he silently agreed with the man before finally realizing that his Kage was in the kitchen with him. Which probably meant that he either had something to say, or ask perhaps.

"Did you need something Hokage-sama? Tea or-"

"Tea would be nice. But aside form that I just thought I'd ask you if you needed any help preparing dinner. I also thought it would be a good idea due to the fact that Naru has very specific dietary needs, and the information may help keep her from needing to undergo a trip to the ER later."

Itachio blinked, obviously a little startled at hearing about the girl's dietary needs and was a little uncertain as to what to say. "O-Oh." He said awkwardly before mentally kicking himself for letting his little brother run off since he doubted that he knew anything about Naru's...er needs. And also because he wound have to replan what to fix and didn't have the time to hunt the child down.

"You needn't worry Itachi. Sasuke knows about Naru's specific dietary needs. The poor boy sort of caught her trying to take care of them after leaving the hospital a few months back. Naru was so mortified by being caught like that, that she freaked out on him and told him, and I quote, 'If you dare to say so much as a word to anyone about this, I'll beat you so hard that you pee your pants!' end quote."

Itachi blinked at the elder and then glanced towards the door, unsure of how he should react to this news. On one hand, if the girl was as mortified as the elder said- her threatening to beat his brother until he wet himself would be considered rather comical.

But on the other...should he be worried that she may actually attempt to carry out her threat if she thought that he told? The Hokage must have seen the gears turning in his head as he thought and obviously sought to lay his concerns to rest.

"She was understandably upset both about being caught doing what was needed to stay healthy and alive, and by her actions towards your brother. She bemoaned it for quite a while even after apologizing to him. So I doubt that she would actually injure him on purpose. Besides, it takes much more than a small betrayal like that one to earn her wrath. Besides, your brother has been attempting to help her ever since he found out."

Again Itachi blinked at the elder before finally saying. "Ah. I see. Very well then, please tell me what she needs specifically."

The elder smiled and then said, "Naru due to the Kyubbi sealed inside of her as well as her age, needs a great deal of dairy, and either raw or medium rare meat. It can be seasoned. Beef and chicken are the easiest things for her to digest. The vitamins and other things in the rare or medium rare meats help her. I'm not a hundred percent what it helps her with, but I think it has something to do with her anemia."

Itachi leaned down so that he was in the Kage's personal space as he practically gaped at the man. He'd never heard of any demon vessels being anemic before. It fact it was positively unheard of for one to be anemic. Unusually they were so unfathomably strong that it simply boggled the mind.

But then most other demon vessel's that he knew anything of were all adults with the exception of one other aside from Naru herself. And that one was incredibly unstable.

"S-She's anemic? How? Why?"

The elder reached up and placed his hand on Itachi's cheek and gently pushed the younger man away from him as he said, "I believe it's partially due to the fact that her chakra coils are slightly underdeveloped. They have been ever since she was born. Couple that with her poor diet and her specific needs going unmet- and she tends to collapse more often than she should as a vessel. With enough proper food and her needs being met more often, she wouldn't collapse and would inevitably grow out of the anemia."

Itachi hummed thoughtfully as he backed off and went about fixing some tea for the elder to drink while he then pulled out some of his pots and pans so that he would have them out when Sasuke got back with the food. While doing so, he even pulled a few meat seasonings from his spice rack to show to the Hokage and see if the elder would let him know whether or not he could use them.

He must have done this for quite some time, because once he finally ran out of spices to ask the Hokage about and carefully sorted them on his counter- Sasuke had finally come back with two large bags full of all of the meats and veggies that he had asked him to get plus some. And three smaller bags chocked full of dressings, rice, dipping sauces and so on.

"I got everything you asked for nii-san!" Sasuke chirped happily as he handed Itachi what was left of the change. The older Uchiha took the coins in his hand and then glanced down at his grinning little brother and then let his gaze slide to the bags before he finally arched a brow in question.

Had the little brat robbed a candy store on the way back or something? Where the heck was the rest of his- His thoughts were cut off rather abruptly as the Hokage began going through the bags until he found what he was obviously looking for and then held up his prize/prizes with a soft sound of triumph.

"Yes! Thank you Sasuke for getting these for me. It's mine and Naru's favorite tea and sweetener."

"Your welcome, lord Hokage-sama." The boy said brightly before he then skipped off, leaving his somewhat perplexed older brother standing there wondering what the hell had just happened. And why had his money paid for it?