"Itachi-kun" A deep, raspy voice chimmed from the darkness.
"Orochimaru isn't dead..yeah.. It will be troublesome, finding him again..hm.." Another stated, a female voice this time.
"He has also gotten his hands on the Mangekyou, I assume."
"...NO" Itachi responded finally, defending himself from the blame that was obviously about to be bestowed apon him.
"Now that Sasuke has the Mangekyou, there is nothing Orochimaru can do. Sasuke's capacity has grown tremendously sinse we last met as children. My kage Bunshin was unable to keep up with him, the outcome of this is obvious, as he is still alive." Itachi mummbled opening his large eyes that seemed to give off a dangerous glow within the dark stalagtite cave's bowls. The current meeting place of the Akatsuki members. Though completely shurouded in darkness the outlines of the dark red clouds, and the eyes of each akatsuki member glowed viciously staring each other down with the exact same amount of killing intent as they would an enemy or Hunter-Nin.
The feeling of silent intensity within the cave was enough to make any one go crazy, they had not spoken a word for over 10 seconds now, this was odd. Itachi then knew what had happened, the news about Sasuke's gaining the Mangekyou had caught them off guard.
"Even still..with or without your brothers help, Orochimaru is someone who will not be killed easily. We are on our last year, and we still have not gotten the Kyuubi's powers yet, Itachi. This was your job after all, your little brother is the cloest to Naruto and you're the only person strong enough to take on the both of them at the same time. The fact that this mission hasn't been accomplished yet is partially your fault, Itachi..." That deep raspy voice once again spoke out these words, completely ignoring the fact that he was looking Itachi square in the eyes, a mistake he knew he was making, but knew better than to think Itachi would dare use the Mangekyou on another Akatsuki member.
"You're right...It is my fault that the kyuubi's abilities aren't without our grasps yet, but you must take into account all the things I must deal with while going for the Kyuubi. Sasuke, the godaime hokage, Naruto, and the other Konoha Ninja that stand so strongly at his side. Your missions have all been easy compared to what I have on my shoulders. I dont ask for you to give me a little more leway, but I am warning you...do NOT make me out to be a failure."
in a rage, Itachi's voice remained calm.
"Itachi-Kun.." Kisame spoke from the side of him in a slightly concerned tone. Kisame was known for being a time bomb, and attacking innocent people for the simplest of reasons, but when it came to Itachi being upset he was always the first to catch it and would immediately pick on on trying to keep him happy, otherwise he was sure everyone would be killed.
"Kisame.."
"Yes?"
"Deidara..."
"hm..."
"I am taking the both of you with me, back to Konohagakure for this final attempt at getting what we want, Deidara, because your missions are complete there should be no trouble with helping me out." Itachi said, asking, but also demanding Deidara come along. With that, Itachi's glowing eyes and cloak lining quickly faded from the scene with a small whistling noise, soon followed by Deidara and Kisame.
"Sasori..it wasn't wise to talk to stare Itachi in the eyes like that. Those eyes of his are the reason he's in the Akatsuki, you should remember tha-"
"It doesn't matter..." Sasori interrupted the other man in a very angry, possibly annoyed tone.
"Itachi plans to kill us all I can feel it coming from him. He cares nothing about the Akatsuki...It is to be expected of him, the man who killed his intire clan leaving only his brother to bring it back to its original glory...
"Uchiha...Itachi..." Sasori mummbled, then faded away just as Kisame, Deidara and Itachi had. Along with the remaining three Akatsuki-ninja who hadn't said a word, but understood what they must do. As horrible as it would sound to them, they were sure that they would eventually have to kill Itachi before Itachi killed them, but they needed Sasuke and the Konoha JOunin out of the way first, so they could get to Naruto and the Kyuubi quicker.
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BOOM!
BLAM!
KER-SMASH!
"Naruto-sempai!" A small female childs voice exclaimed with a worried, yet innocent tone to it. The ground had a small crater in it, rocks pulled up from the ground and sticking upwards into the air like boulders, Grass peeled away from its foundation and turnt up. Naruto gasped and spit just a little bit of blood up and paused for a moment, looking into the blue diamoned Blaze people called the Sky, or heaven to some. He jerked himself up from the crater and rose to his feet, whiping the blood from his mouth and glaring at a small male child infront of him. The Child was about 4'2" he had long blue hair, deep black eyes with a small rainbow ring around his pupils, Smooth naturally tan skin that seemed to gleam in the sunlight just as strongly as the sun beamed down apon it. The wind gusted once, causing the boys hair to shoot backwards some, thus eccentricating his feminine, but quiet boyish looks, Mirowa Bazu.
"Now thats a damn Rasengan!" Naruto blurted out loudly, throwing his right thumb up at the kid.
"You almost killed me that time, good thing I was prepared for it. Yeah thats right master naruto is never caught off guard! uh un, nope not me!" Naruto continued his shinaningans, jumping around from place to place with the girl who had come running to his side, holding her hands and spinning her around in the air. She giggled with him, she was the youngest of her team, Muramaru Toushi. She had shoulder length black hair, that had small pin stripes of natural pink here and there, she was slightly taller than her teamate Bazu, but only by an Inch or two.
"Tch..." Bazu said, flipping his hair out of his face, crossing his arms over his chest and walking carelessly away from the scene.
"Oh c'mon Bazu dont be that way!" Toushi yelled, jumping from Naruto's head and landing softly on the ground.
"That guys an Idiot.." Bazu responded while sitting under a select tree.
"The only reason that move connected was because he tripped over himself when he was moving out of the way."
"But aren't you atleast greatful that he taught you how to do one of his strongest moves?" Toushi began one of her world class lecturing sessions before giving Bazu a chance to respond to her question, a natural born mother, definately.
"OOOII, Naruto!" A deep male voice yelled out from behind Naruto. He turned around slowly and laughed childishly before throwing a hand up into the air and waving it about in a greeting.
"SASUKE!"
Sasuke walked up to naruto and smiled, looking over at the two kids under the tree talking to each other...bickering like children would or should in most cases. Sasuke's newly found ability to smile again had become stronger sinse when he was working with Orochimaru. After he killed Sakura, he didn't think he'd ever be able to smile again, so he did it as often as he could. Seeing Toushi argue and verbally wrestle with Bazu really brought back some memories. Toushi was like a mixture between Naruto and Sakura, she was mature and believes in morals and respect, but she was also a complete drop out, loser, dunce of a ninja when it game to techniques like Naruto, but she was a mastermind when it came to strategic planning, like Sakura. Bazu reminded him of himself as a kid, cold, distant and with his own agenda besides becoming a ninja like the others, a lone-wolf.
"Wow..." He mummbled to himself..."wow"
THE END
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I AM SOOOOO SORRY that it took me so long to get this chapter out. I've had alot on my mind, and alot of things to do as of lately, not to mention a total computer shut down that I had to pay about 200$ to get fixed right, but! Quando is back with a brand new invention! PLEASE, if you have read this I DEMAND you leave a Comment so I can know what I did right and what I did wrong. Thanks for reading, Next update coming soon.