Disclaimer: Anything and everything Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sensei; which means characters, places, and all the flippin' awesome Justus are not mine. What do I own? My kickass plot tweaks that make the story better.

Summary: Naru is caught by the Akatsuki while on her Training trip with Jiraiya and is held prisoner for about two months before she escapes. While a captive Itachi is charged with watching her but he's not quite what she suspected and finds herself captivated by the mystery that is Uchiha Itachi. Upon her return to the village she decides to go through everything related to him and the Uchiha's and she finds herself falling in love with the Itachi. Will she be able to bring Sasuke home before he confronts Itachi or with she lose the love of her life?

Rating: Rated "T" for language and possible violent and/or bloody scenes (I mean come on they are ninjas).

Regular speech

'Thought'

Flashback

'Flashback thought'

Bijuu speech

'Bijuu thought'

Chapter One

Naru woke up in the same windowless room she had been in for the last two weeks and quite frankly she was getting bored. After the first 5 days of waiting for her demise she figured it was gonna be a while and decided that a break from the perv and his unending comments of how nicely she had "filled out" in the last year. She was no longer scrawny with a boyish figure, she was 5' 4" with nice curves and a B-cup. Her honey-blonde hair with red highlights now reached to the bottom of her butt so she normally braided or wore it in a high ponytail. She wore an orange bra-like shirt that stopped just under her breasts and showed her abs over a black mesh armor top, she also had on short, tight fitting black shorts with an orange strip on the side that stopped just past her ass. She had changed from her orange jumpsuit about six months ago when she learned to control the third tail worth of fox chakra because it raised her body temperature so that she could stand in the middle of a blizzard without freezing.

Just then the door to her "room" opened pulling her out of her thoughts. "oh if it isn't my silent caretaker." She said looking at the man in her doorway, "so are you going to speak to me today?"

The man was about 6' 2" with long Black hair pulled into a ponytail at the base of his neck. His name Uchiha Itachi and he was her assigned caretaker for the time. He came in and set a tray of food in front of her then headed for the door. "I have to leave for a mission with my partner so after your meal you are changing rooms to be closer to your temporary caretaker so don't try anything." He said in a velvety voice that sent unexplained shivers down her spine.

"How long will you be gone and who is watching me?" Naru asked out of curiosity.

"3 days, her name's Konan" Itachi replied then left. Naru ate and thought about how she even ended up in this situation.

Flashback Start

Naru was lying in the middle of the clearing she and Ero-Sennin were using as a training ground. It was a day like any other. They woke up at sunrise in their hotel ate breakfast then her and Ero-sennin worked on her fuinjutsu until lunchtime. Her goal was to be a fuinjutsu master by the time she got home and at the rate she was going and how easy it was for her that was one goal she was going to reach. "Now is only convincing Teme to come home was as easy as Fuinjutsu. Damn stubborn bastard." She thought. After lunch they headed to the clearing outside of town to practice taijutsu. Ero-sennin was teaching her two styles.

One was an Uzumaki Clan style (she actually came from a very prestigious, but extinct, clan; which she found hilariously ironic when Ero-sennin told her. She, "the Kyuubi vessel and outcast of Konoha", belonged to one of the strongest and oldest clans of the elemental continent. Too bad their pacifist ideals lead to their downfall. But at least Ero-sennin told her what he knew of her heritage). It was primarily a defensive style and worked well with kenjutsu (which was something Ero-sennin was also teaching her). The other style was the fourth's personal taijutsu style it was offensive and also focused on speed. She was rather ecstatic when she found that out.

Flashback-in-a- Flashback ;p

"Okay Naru, proficient in the Uzumaki style, which is defensive, but" Ero-Sennin said " you are more of a just jump in and attack kind of person. So I have decided you should also learn an offensive style."

"Okay what do I gotta do?" Naru asked excitedly.

"Well there is one problem." Ero-sennin said "It is in generally a hard thing it combines two styles of taijutsu and it will be even harder to find an offensive one that will go with the Uzumaki style."

"So are you saying it's impossible to combine the two styles" Nary asked crestfallen.

"No. Not impossible," He replied "But you will have to teach yourself the style I chose because it is a style only the Fourth could use. But I have a feeling you can use his style."

"Really?" Naru asked "You think I'm good enough to use the Fourth's style?! That's awesome!"

"yes I think you are the only one alive that can master his style." Ero-sennin said with a grin "These are the scrolls where the Fourth wrote down his personal taijutsu style. Read them then we can practice. I also believe it's the style that goes best will your clan taijutsu."

End Flashback-in-a-Flashback

Ero-sennin said it would work great with the Uzumaki style if she could figure out how to combine them (which in the six months of practice she felt she did real well). After they had practiced taijutsu for a couple hours Ero-sennin went back to town to do some "research" leaving Naru to her own devices. This meant she was allowed to practice what she wanted so she spend an hour going through her kenjutsu katas then spend 4 hours practicing ninjutsu from the scrolls she had received from Ero-sennin. After that it was about time to head to the village for dinner, however on this particular day she had overused her chakra and was lying on the ground exhausted. She figured if she just lay there for a while she would get enough energy to drag herself to town, besides if she didn't show up Ero-sennin would notice and come looking for her. However to today kami decided to be a bitch and while she was too weak to get up she felt two people show up in the clearing.

"Hey Itachi-san isn't that the Kyuubi brat?" she heard a harsh voice say, causing her eyes to snap open in horror. 'Shit I'm too weak to fight back! I am soooo screwed.' Naru tried get up but her body was too exhausted. "hehe looks like she's too exhausted to fight back. Should we take this chances to capture her?"

"Leader-sama would be upset if we missed this chance." A velvety voice that sent shivers down her spine responded from rather close to her. She turned her head and saw Uchiha Itachi standing 5 feet to her right with a tall blue man (she thought his name might be Kisame she wasn't sure she only met him that one time when she and Ero-sennin went to find Baa-chan) standing a few feet behind him. "Hello Naru-chan it would seem today is not your best day." Next thing she saw Itachi had activated his sharingan and the world went black.

When she woke up she was in a dark room with no window when suddenly a door opened and Itachi walked in with a tray of food.

"how long have I been asleep and where am I?" Naru asked trying to keep her voice even.

"Two days. The Akatsuki base in Grass Country, you stay with us until you're needed." Itachi replied and once again Naru felt a shiver travel down her spine. He must have seen the thoughtful look on her face because he spoke again "I would not think of trying to escape. Your chakra has been sealed away."

With that he left the room after lighting a lantern on the stand in the corner of the room. He would come three times a day with food but he never spoke to her.

The opening of the door pulled her from her memories. Itachi walked over and took the tray from in front of her.

"Follow me" he said as he left.

Naru got up and followed him out of the room. He led her to some stairs at the end of the hallway they went up a flight of stairs and through a door. It led to what appeared to be a living room with some couches, a coffee table, and a television. They left the living room and headed down the hall to the kitchen were Itachi left the tray before turning back down the hall toward another door. The door led to more stairs which they headed up, after going up four flights of stairs they exited the stairwell. Itachi led her to a door and knocked, soon a woman with blue hair answer.

"It's about time Itachi." The woman said "She is to be placed in the room next to mine." Itachi nodded and Naru enter the room of the door he opened. This room had a comfy looking bed two windows and a light switch which meant electricity. She walked into the bathroom and looked around, not only was there a working toilet but a sink and a shower. 'well that settles it I am bugging that woman until she gives me clothes because I am taking a shower.' She walked out of the bathroom and was shocked to see Itachi standing there.

"Do you still have my things?" Naru asked.

"hn" After spending so much time with Sasuke she could tell it was a positive answer

"could I have my things brought to me?" She asked, Itachi just turned and walked out the door. So Naru sat at the foot of the bed and waited. About a half hour later the blue haired woman walked in with Naru's things and handed them to her.

"Thank you" Naru said, then got up and put her kunai holster on the nightstand. Opening her hip holster she started pulling out sealing scrolls. Finding the scroll she was looking for she handed to the woman. "Your name is Konan right?"

"Yes, why?" Konan replied.

"So I'm not saying 'hey you' all the time." Naru said with a smile "Can you open that for me I would but I don't have access to my chakra." Konan put the scroll on the foot of the bed and opened it, inside was Naru clothes. "Thanks" Naru grabbed some clothes and headed for the bathroom before she paused "If you want to wait 20mins I can give you some of the things I am not going to need seeing as I'm a prisoner."

Twenty minutes later Naru came out of the bathroom feeling clean and refreshed to find Konan sitting on her new bed deep in thought, when she noticed Naru she glared at her.

"if you think good behavior will get you a way out you're wrong." Konan stated.

"Not at all" Naru replied "but I figure we can all still be civil with each other seeing as you're the last people I'm going to see. Now how about we go through my stuff."

"Why?" Konan asked.

"Because some of my things may be of use though there are something's I will keep with me until Kyuubi is extracted from me for whatever it is you guys have planned."

"how do you know that's what we are going to do?" Konan asked sharply.

"I've had lots of time to think over the last week." Naru said as she handed Konan a couple scrolls. "Here you can probably put these ones to use. Two are some of my spare weapons, three of them are food; as long as it stays in the scroll it won't spoil, and the last one is half of my money."

"Why not just give us everything?" Konan asked.

"If I did that I would be giving up and I never give up. So instead I'll just help out." Naru said with a smile.

"I understand." Konan said "Care to tell me what you think the Akatsuki is doing?"

"Sure." Naru said sitting on the bed "Thee most logical thing I can think of is that you are going to extract the beast from the jinchuriki and place them in shinobi loyal to your group or possible even your members, seeing as jinchuriki are a nations strength. So if the Akatsuki have all the tailed beasts they have all the power."

"would that make more sense if we just convinced them to join us?" Konan countered tried to figure out how Naru thought.

"That would be impossible seeing each jinchuriki is loyal to their village or country because no matter how bad we have been treated by the village as a whole we still have our precious people to protect and will do anything to protect them." Naru said with conviction.

"you are definitely different from the average ninja." Konan said.

"Some people called me the 'Number on unpredictable, knucklehead ninja' but honestly I just as predictable as anyone else" Naru said with a huge smile. The two sat up having some idle chatter few a few more moments until Konan got up saying she had things she must attend to.