Crimson Clouds

I have often been one of those people who can't stand having holes in history…Especially when it has to do with some of my favorite guys!

Orochimaru for instance, and as I have said it is ALWAYS fun to write about psychopathic villains anyhow, now I turn my um…keyboard upon my other favorite from Naruto…Itachi! Yes Mr. Tall, dark and serious takes the stage as we travel with him, through his long journey to the Akatsuki.

Ch.1

Blood Red

The sun hung low in the red autumn sky… "Though not nearly as red" he thought "as the blood he had spilled the previous day before…the blood of his entire clan." Uchiha Itachi sat up from where he had rested from his journey away from Konoha where he knew they were looking for him and sighed, shielding his eyes from the rays of the sun…Ebony eyes that could on his whim; mirror the red in the sky. "Almost my entire clan" he murmured, getting up.

Itachi swiveled around on the bough of the large elm tree he had napped in and then smoothing back his long black hair into a tight pony tail and checking that his sword was in the correct place he stood and quickly undid the gengitsu that he had cast upon the tree so that any unlikely passerby that happened upon the tree would see just that, the tree…without him in it.

He as many others had been seduced by power and for him that power had a name. He walked leisurely through the woods that surrounded Konoha confidant that no one would be able to find him, now that he was this far out in the forest. He didn't know where he was going…but those people… he would find them …the organization called Akatsuki that had driven him so. He did however regret some things about destroying his clan…he couldn't see his little brother learn to hate him…and he hadn't thought of taking any of grandmother Hinoko's Meat pies along before he killed her…pity.

As he walked he stayed silent, listening, waiting, and then looking up from under his bangs his eyes once before a deep ebony black sharpened to a cold and calculating blood red, the Sharingan, his families only blood line limit…complete now with three swirling dots of heartlessness.

He had finally obtained his true power…now to learn how to use it…

And so he searched.

It had already been evening when he had awoken from his little nap in the tree and now, he noticed; the sun could barely give him enough light to see through the smudgy clump of tree's and bushes before him, he frowned.

"No matter" he murmured softly to himself and looked up to where the sun had turned over the rule of the sky to its sister the moon. He smiled a rare sight indeed… " then the moon shall be my guide" and with a graceful leap he leaped up and ran vertically up the trunk of a large tree in front of him until he stood upon the very tip of the tree and was shrouded in the moons light.

He stood there for a while and surveyed his surroundings, even IF there was a search party of ANBU…he had once been one and one of the best in fact…a genius had nothing to worry.

He looked to the right across a sea of trees and spotted a light some miles away from where he stood… "Someone lives in these woods?" he whispered " how…interesting" and without another word leapt from the tree top and free fell down and lightly dropped from one branch to another on his way to life…and death. He soon found the source of the light, a lantern on the dock of a small lake…and someone was sitting there... "but" he pondered as he slunk among the shadows " who the hell would sit by his lonesome…fishing…in the middle of the night" he grabbed the hilt of his sword, he could simply take the person and make him or her give him supplies, shelter for the night and some other crucial things he would need for his trip…and then kill the person…Or-…His thought was disturbed suddenly as he skidded to the left as a large fishing hook slammed into the trunk of the tree he had been standing under just as few seconds ago…his eyes widened as a gravely voice tinged with amusement rang out from the figure on the dock " its not nice to stare you know."

Itachi narrowed his eyes, now blinking back to the deep red of his sharingan sought the identity of the person who suddenly wasn't there anymore " shit" he snarled as he turned and zipped to the side as three tree's on his right were slashed in half, something that would have separated him the same way… " That's not very pleasant either" he yelled to the stranger and as he glimpsed the shadow of the person within the tree's leapt and twisted above the line of trees, meeting his attacker half way with his jitsu ready…he inhaled, giving the man long enough to figure out what was going to happen, but by then it would be too late " Katon, Goukakyu no jitsu!" he murmured and putting his right hand to his mouth let out a huge stream of fire and engulfed the figure and the tree tops below him in roaring flames.

He flipped down through the air and landed smoothly on the surface of the lake without causing so much as a ripple and waited to see what had become of his foe.

His eyes fairly glowed in the darkness, reflecting the moon in his red irises that swirled around in the vertigo of the situation. A minute had past and he had watched a body fall…but since he couldn't feel any chakra from this person, which he found rather un-nerving, he couldn't tell whether the stranger was dead or alive. And as it happens, his thoughts betrayed him as a drop of water dripped down his cheek…he froze and pulled out a kunai, it had started to rain.

The water wasn't coming from the sky normally as it should, he had guessed as much as the fires were instantly put out and the droplets themselves melded together about a foot from him and formed into a man around two heads higher than himself, draped in a long coat and complete with a huge sword slung upon his shoulder. The man sneered, his teeth saw toothed…like a shark…no in fact, all of him looked shark, he had blue tinged skin, gills and eerie white eyes, but even at this sight Itachi just stared at him as if he saw freaky fish men walk the streets every day, " and you are?" he whispered to the man.

The man suddenly shrugged and pointed his huge sword that was actually around Itachi's height itself at him and smiled again " Names Kisame…just a humble fisherman" Itachi glared " yeah sure…and by the way…remove that veil you have upon your chakra…far away I couldn't notice but now it bugs me." The man called Kisame looked at him strangely and then set his sword back at his side "you're pretty darn sharp for a ninja from the Uchiha clan" Itachi's eyes narrowed "there is no more Uchiha clan…"

That shut him up.

Itachi stood slowly and rubbed the creases under his eyes, caused by using his sharingan so often "so tell me then…are we to fight or what?"

Kisame chuckled which was a strange sound even to Itachi " you've got guts to talk to me like that…but then again" he eyed the boy in front of him " you are really strong…, what is a kid like you doing out here? And what do you mean there is no more Uchiha clan…hmmmm?"

His eyes glinted with interest…Itachi raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms, adapting his bored tone of voice "I am the only survivor of the clan I slaughtered yesterday night…I am a wanted man and I am looking for some certain people" that should do it.

Instead of the guy backing off Kisame stood there, his smile gone but the hostility towards him as well. Itachi lowered his kunai a little as Kisame slowly extended his hand and stepped into the light of the moon…where upon his forehead the protector that marked him as a ninja, the light glittered off a ragged gash in the metal, he grinned and looked down at the boy " So Your Itachi,…well…welcome…to the Akatsuki."

Yaaaay first chapter, it is probably a little shorter than you'd like it to be but with school starting and all its good enough P

This is a new one for me because Itachi really doesn't say much in the anime, much less does he show up that often either sob fest anyhow I hope you like how he turned out. Right now he's around 17-18 years old…he just met Kisame and yeah lets find out what happens next eh? Oh and any suggestions, comments, concerns are always welcome! Review damnit! LOL

Badger ye later!