A/N: So I just got finished watching the Black Rock Shooter anime, fight scenes only, and I had to write this story. This story will take place in the anime universe, but without the other self part. So the girls are just fighting. They don't have a reason or question it. They just fight. They also don't have emotions at the beginning, but that'll change when they meet Itachi. I know Itachi isn't the most emotional person, but I believe we never got to see the true Itachi. He had all these problems and burdens so he could never truly be himself. Don't worry I'm not going to make him some crying baby, but he'll be more open and less cold.
Also Itachi is around 15 in this story. And some might ask how he got into their world, let's just say he was on an Akatsuki mission and something went wrong. Yes, I'm too lazy to come up with a real reason. I hope I can inspire people to write about this pairing. I know it's a random pairing, but still a good one.
Fighting.
All she knew was fighting. She never questioned it. Why she fought. Who she fought. None of that never mattered. Why it didn't matter? She didn't know and she didn't care. And she didn't feel. Emotions at least. She felt pain, she just almost never showed it. She was completely emotionless.
But that would all change.
Black Rock Shooter walked silently through the abnormal forest, keeping her eyes and head on a swivel. What made the forest abnormal was a few things. The first was the size of the trees. To put it simple they were huge, in height and thickness. But the most outstanding feature was the fact that strange random objects stuck from the trees at random places.
Black Rock Shooter paid the strange scenery no mind. Lifting her hood over her head, Black Rock Shooter climbed over a fallen tree only to stop midway. Not thirty meters away from her was a cloaked figure walking through the forest.
Her eyes turned into a glare at the figure as she jumped onto one of the branches and began to slowly stalk her prey. She hopped branch from branch silently closing the distant to the seemingly unaware figure. Once she was in position, Black Rock Shooter silently dropped down from her perch, her sword ready to strike.
At the last possible second the cloaked figure spun around and blocked the strike with a ninjato. Black Rock Shooter was pushed back from the block and landed a few meters from the cloaked figure. She stared at the cloaked figure with narrowed eyes taking in its appearance.
The cloaked figure's build wasn't all to different from hers. They were about the same height, she was maybe half an inch shorter, and size of the figure shown a small frame. But despite the figures size, Black Rock Shooter could feel the figure's strength from their brief clash of blades. All her thoughts and planning came to an abrupt stop when she saw his eyes.
They were blood-red with three tomoes encircling the pupil. The face was shadowed behind the hood of the cloak, but the eyes seemed to glow. They seemed to looking into her very being. As she continued to look into those eyes she began to feel something sprout within her.
It wasn't fear. No, it was curiosity. It was different. It was foreign.
It was unpleasant.
Black Rock Shooter launched herself forward with every intention of ridding herself the source of her discomfort. The cloaked figure responded just the same. The cloaked figure caught Black Rock Shooter by surprise when it appeared right in front of her.
'Fast.' Black Rock Shooter thought as she ducked, dodging a stab from the cloaked figure's ninjato that was aimed at her face. After she ducked Black Rock Shooter countered by swinging her sword horizontally in an attempt to lop off the cloaked figure's leg at the knee. Unfortunately for her, the cloaked figure's hand shot out and caught her by the wrist just inches from his leg. The cloaked figure then brought down its ninjato only for Black Rock Shooter to use her free hand to catch the striking hand's wrist.
Both Black Rock Shooter and the cloaked figure stared at each other with eyes that portrayed no emotion, all the while still gripping each others wrist keeping the other from cutting into them. They stayed like that for what seemed like years. Neither one of them moving except from the trembling if their arms as they fought for dominance. Then suddenly in a flash, both snapped out their legs and round house kicked the other in the face.
Black Rock Shooter and the cloaked figure were sent flying in opposite directions from the power and speed of the kicks. The two quickly flipped in the air righting themselves, and pushed off the trees the second their feet touched them. Their blades clashed against each other as they flew by one another. They repeated the process multiple times, pushing off a tree, striking each other as they flew by, only to hit metal instead of flesh.
'This is getting us nowhere.' they both simultaneously. Deciding to change tactics, the cloaked figure changed his direction when he pushed off the tree and jumped upwards.
All the while, Black Rock Shooter stood tense and ready for her opponents attack, her eyes locked dead on with her target. She didn't have to wait long for a volley of shuriken to come raining down on her. To counter, Black Rock Shooter summons her black rock cannon and started firing at the shuriken. After she shot all the shuriken down Black Rock Shooter aimed her cannon and fired right at the cloaked figure's face. Still in the air, the cloaked figure flipped backwards avoiding getting shot in the face, and flicked out a kunai straight at Black Rock Shooter.
Easily swatting it away with her cannon, Black Rock Shooter dashed forward while charging her cannon. She planned to get to the cloaked figure before he hit the ground. Black Rock Shooter pushed her cannon forward trying to shoot and punch the cloaked figure at the same time, but the cloaked figure was able to get a foot on the ground and flip backwards. As her cannon discharged and tore through the trunk of the tree Black Rock Shooter looked up and saw the cloaked figure land on the tree, which was now slowly falling backwards. She was instantly following, she jumped on the slowly falling tree and dashed after the cloaked figure.
She fired her cannon as she ran along the falling tree, forcing the cloaked figure to leap back multiple time to create space. Black Rock Shooter glared as the cloaked figure continued to block and divert her attacks. Eventually, the cloaked figure reached the end of the tree and leaped backwards into the air. Black Rock Shooter leaped after the cloaked figure, charging her Black Rock Cannon, only to become curious (which irked her) once again when the cloaked figure started forming hand signs.
Then to her surprise (another emotion that was foreign to her) a large stream of fire came flowing out the cloaked figure's mouth. Directing her cannon to the side, Black Rock Shooter fired sending her flying to the side and out of danger.
'Incredible. To be able to dodge in mid air like that...this girl dangerous.' the cloaked started forming a different set of hand sings to counter Black Rock Shooter, who landed on a tree branch and began firing. A volley of small fireballs came shooting out of the cloaked figure's mouth, hitting the rock bullets that were fired at him.
The both stared silently at each other from their positions; one on a tree branch and the other on the forest floor. As they stared into each others eyes, Black Rock Shooter once again felt the unknown feeling of curiosity bubble up inside her, and once again she didn't like it. To show her dislike, she transformed her Black Rock Cannon into its Gatling gun form and began firing.
The cloaked figure broke into a dead sprint, making sure to run behind as many trees as possible for cover. Black Rock Shooter continued her assault leaving a wake of destroyed trees and earth behind the running cloaked figure; only to draw out her sword, spin around and block her opponents ninjato.
Her eyes were wide with surprise. She was just shooting at the cloaked figure less then a second ago. So how did he get behind her so quickly? She had to jump back to avoid another strike, but this one was from the cloaked figure she was firing at earlier.
'An ally?' Black Rock Shooter thought as she landed on a far away branch and changed her cannon back into its first form. 'No. I doubt too many people have eyes like those.' the red-eyed cloaked figures jumped off the branch they were standing on and swung their ninjato's at Black Rock Shooter. Letting herself fall off the branch, Black Rock Shooter shot at the cloaked figure on the left, which was dodged, and used her sword in her other hand to block the other cloaked figure's kunia attack.
'If it's not an ally then what?' Black Rock Shooter's eyes darted left and right as the cloaked figures landed on both sides of her. 'It's not an illusion.' the cloaked figures advanced on her, both sweeping their ninjato, one aiming for her head the other for her legs. Jamming her sword into the ground to block the ninjato that was aimed for her legs, Black Rock Shooter brought up her cannon to stop the other attack, before she kicked the cloaked figure in the chest causing it to disappear in a puff of smoke. 'What?'
Black Rock Shooter didn't have time to dwell on what she saw as the remaining cloaked figure made a stab from behind at her midsection. To avoid the attack, she back flipped and intended to land behind her attacker, but she was kicked in the gut and sent flying. As she scraped her feet against the ground to slow herself down, Black Rock Shooter aimed her rock canon and fired.
'This girl.' the cloaked figure jumped in the air to avoid getting shot. 'There's no emotion in her fighting.' pushing of the side of a tree, the cloaked figure just barely avoided being hit by a hail of rock bullets. 'It's like she's fighting for the sake of fighting. It's mechanical.' flipping through the air, time seemed to slow down for the cloaked figure, who was putting all his focus into his eyes. Black Rock Shooter's trail of gunfire closed in on him, but the cloaked figure blocked that and everything else out. He was only focused on getting the perfect angle and timing right.
With a quick flick of the wrist the cloaked figure sent a single exploding tag, wrapped kunai through the air. Perfectly timing it, the kunai entered in Black Rock Shooter's rock cannon barrel, then exploded. Letting out a grunt of pain, Black Rock Shooter changed her rock cannon back into her arm and dashed towards the cloaked figure who landed a few meters ahead of her. Picking up her sword along the way, Black Rock Shooter charged with it pointing straight forward.
'I wonder...' the cloaked figure mentally trailed off as he watched Black Rock Shooter close in on him. As Black Rock Shooter drew closer the cloaked figure dropped his ninjato to the ground and stood perfectly still. The irritation known as curiosity shot through Black Rock Shooter once again as she saw her opponent give her a chance to kill him. And just as she was about to end it, she stopped, her blade less then an inch from piercing the cloaked figure between the eyes.
Why? Why did he stop and allow her an opening? And better yet, why did she not take it? She never hesitated before in a fight. So why now?
"Why?" Black Rock Shooter growled.
"Why, what?" the cloaked figure didn't even blink when Black Rock Shooter pushed her sword against his forehead, causing a small stream of blood to trickle down his face.
"Why did you stop fighting?"
"Why did you start fighting?" why did she start fighting? What kind of question was that? They fought, that's what they did. All Black Rock Shooter knew was fighting. Did he not want to fight?
"...You...don't want to fight?" the thought was absurd to her.
"No, I don't. I wish to avoid violence as much as possible."
"But you're strong. How can you be so strong and avoid fighting?" she didn't understand. Don't you become strong by fighting? So if he avoids fighting how can he be strong?
"I'm became strong in order to protect what's important to me." slowly Black Rock Shooter pulled her sword away from the cloaked figure with a look of complete confusion on her face. "Which is why I don't wish to continue this fight. It's pointless. I would understand if you had a grudge against me, or you had a goal to achieve and I stood in the way. But that doesn't seem to be the case here."
"I have no reason to fight you." the cloaked figure firmly stated.
'Reason to...fight?' Black Rock Shooter was at a loss. Was is really necessary to have a reason to fight? She never had one. No one in her world did. They just fought. It was killed or be killed. But here stood this cloaked figure who refused to fight her. Here stood a cloak figure who was causing her to feel...things. They were emotions. Confusion and curiosity.
"You're...unique." Black Rock Shooter stated as she took off her hood. "I've never met anyone who didn't want to fight in this world."
"I guess that would make me strange in your eyes wouldn't it?" the cloaked figure chuckle lightly. "I'm Itachi. Itachi Uchiha." Itachi introduced himself as he also removed his hood.
"Black Rock Shooter." said person replied while taking in her former opponents features. He was about her age (15) had long black hair, light skin, and tear troughs under his eyes. "Your eyes. They're no longer red." Black Rock Shooter noticed as she eyed Itachi.
"Yes. What you saw earlier was my Sharingan. It's a sort of weapon unique to my clan, I can turn on or off at will " Itachi explained before he asked a question of his own. "Your arm. It changed into a weapon I've never seen before. What do you call it?"
"Black Rock Cannon. I've had it as far as I can remem-." Black Rock Shooter was interrupted when a soft ball size, metal ball landed in between them. They were just able to jump out of the way before the ball exploded. Itachi and Black Rock Shooter both landed on a tree branch and stared down as the dust settled.
"Was that aimed for you or for me?" Itachi questioned.
"That was aimed for whoever enters this forest." Black Rock Shooter answered, but she wasn't looking at Itachi. She was looking up and all around them. With an eyebrow raised Itachi followed her lead.
"Are those...monkeys?" their numbers were in the hundreds. They resembled monkeys but they weren't animals. They were machines and they were everywhere.
"Drones." Black Rock Shooter answered. "Each territory has drones and they kill on sight." Black Rock Shooter changed her hand into her rock cannon as Itachi readied his shuriken. All the while the monkey like drones were preparing their own attacks, which were the same metal balls that was thrown earlier.
"You can trust me." Itachi said causing Black Rock Shooter to glance at him. "I know the concept of trust is foreign to you, if you're always fighting on your own, but you can trust me to have your back." she stared into his now blood red eyes and contemplated if she could. Normally she wouldn't even entertain the thought of trusting anybody else, but as she looked into his eyes, she believed him.
"You get the ones on the left and I'll get the ones right." was Black Rock Shooter's reply.
A/N; Ok, time to explain a few things.
As you can see I didn't waste much time for them to meet. Why? Simple. I couldn't wait. Some fanfics start out slow, but I wasn't in the mood for that. I wanted them to meet right away so I can have them interact.
For the drones, I made those up on spot. I wanted fighting but I didn't want them fighting the other girls so early. Also I'm really leaning towards making this a harem (of course Black Rock Shooter will be the main girl) so I'm going to make oc's. Why? Because after a while Itachi will eventually make the other girls into his allies, so I'm going to need someone for them to fight.
Also the girls are eventually get emotions, meaning they'll get personalities. And since in the anime and this story (at first) they seemed pretty emotionless, the girls will probably become ooc, but I'll try to make the personalities fit.
I'm not sure when but I'm thinking of having them all getting sent to the real world. Have them try to fit in and be normal, give the story a casual feel. Of course, that doesn't mean there won't be action when they're sent there, but this is in the future.
And if anyone wants to give me some ideas of what the oc's should be, I'll be happy to listen.