--Edited by Deaths-child--
Disclaimer: NARUTO was created by Kishimoto. Meaning, I don't own it. This is a fan work made by fans for the fans, but the ideas for this fanfiction are mine. So no stealing! Even if I did steal the characters :P
Parings: ItaNaru, one-sided SasuIta(?) Shounen-ai/yaoi content
Rated T: For action, violence, cussing, blood and gore. I don't care how old you are, just keep in mind that this is made for mature audiences by me (and mostly for my own enjoyment) and will have no boundaries what so ever.
Other Notes: This is an AU in memoriam of Itachi, my favorite character from Naruto. Anyways, thank you for choosing this story and I hope you enjoy the show!
Reapers
Ch. One
The sun lazily fell over the horizon and the clouds covered it like a black curtain of night. The sweet hums of crickets and the creatures of the darkness filled his ears. Konaha was a truly beautiful city, a place that needed to be protected and cherished.
And that's what he did.
Like the critters of the dark he came out only at night to protect the city. It was his job, his duty, and yet he couldn't quite remember how it all came to be that way. It was just how it is and how it would continue to be.
"Itachi are you ready?"
Without looking at the superior officer Itachi casually made his way to the helicopter. So lost in his daydream he didn't even know the helicopter arrived at the headquarters until it was directly above him. Its rotor wash stirred up dried leaves and broken blades of grass around his feet and ruffled his long, shoulder length black hair. He rested the back of his head on the leather cushions, crossing his arms over his chest, ready to listen to the orders.
Once he was inside, the helicopter lifted off the ground.
The voice was drowned with air from the swirling wings of the helicopter. "It's the same old mission tonight Itachi, Konaha is counting on you. The Reapers are counting on you."
Itachi said nothing, but then he never needed to. Speaking was their duty and killing was his duty. That's right, for a moment he had almost forgotten, he was lost in the night. He belonged to a secret society, beneath the sleeping city, was the Reapers. They were the shadows of the government, nobody knew who they were, what they did, only that they survived.
What they did was for the best of everyone; the only way to solve a problem was to eliminate it completely. They killed. Whether it was human, animal… ghost… demon….
"This is a strong one, way stronger then all the others! So we won't be able to land."
While the helicopter was still hovering high into the air, Itachi faced the opening. One the corner of his eye he saw a woman, she had blond hair tied in pigtails, with large breasts. She wore a black tank top with the Reapers logo, a serpent and a lion fighting, a symbol of her inner battles. The people who make up the Reapers join, or in most cases recruited, for many reasons. Sadness, anger, revenge, either way they all end up dead, no one lasted long.
At the edge of the helicopter Itachi moved his arms out, as if a bird taking flight, and with a little push, fell from the helicopter.
Falling …
Falling…
Falling…
Free
His body crashed into the moist earth, so hard all around him was a big crater that dust and dirt flew out of. Oddly he didn't feel any pain.
Itachi was born with a gift. Or maybe he was just…made that way. He didn't know.
"Who am I? What…am I?" Itachi asked himself, staring down at his hands, now brown from the dirt. "And why are you here?"
The woman, who had just landed herself but with an aid of a parachute, stood behind him, staring at the monster in which he was.
"My name is Tsunade," she said bluntly, "I am here to help you."
"How are you going to help me?" Itachi could here his voice sound cold, more then he was used to. "I normally am fine doing these missions on my own. You aren't needed here."
"That may be the case, but those where my orders. I am new on the Reapers myself. You'll be surprised how I can help you."
Glancing at his surroundings, on the left of him was a rushing river, the rustling of the long oak trees overhead, and the over powering smell of grass. The destination was a park just fifty miles from the outskirts of the city.
"Fine," Itachi snarled and pointed to the opposite end of the park, if she wished to help him then staying out of his way would prove to be most useful. "Barricade and eliminate any intruders from that side. I will take the left end field, and don't follow."
Without saying anything, the woman nodded to him and took her leave. Once Itachi could hear her foot fall fade in to the distance did he head in his direction, the one farthest away from the pigtailed woman. For minutes nothing but long trees that sprouted from the earth, and dead silence greeted him.
Following on a path, he walked for a little longer before he saw an abandon building that was once a hospital. It stood, covered by un-kept grass and trees that seemed to be devouring the walls from the outside. Walking inside he saw the name of a hospital that has long since vanished and couldn't help but wonder how many people had gone through those doors to get help from doctors or even die there. It was a place that, even though forgotten and neglected, seemed to be breathing full of life with old hopes and history.
Itachi, only armed with hidden knives, he searched the hospital with only the aid of the moon that lit up the building. It was relatively empty, with some beds and mattresses and old tools littered the floor. Itachi advanced, listening to the eerie sounds of his own footsteps reverberating off the walls. He roamed the empty rooms and was pleased to not have found anything that would jeopardize his life, because even the shadows seemed to jump from every corner.
Opening a door, which did take some force on his part because the hinges were rusty with age. As he pushed through the cobwebs he heard a sound. It was a sound of bones crunching, walking further in his sight was caught by a man huddled in the far end of the corner of an old emergency room. In its claw like hand was a carcass of a dead animal.
"I'm hungry, I'm so hungry it burns." The man spoke as if in a trance, repeating the same lines over and over. Cautiously walking to the man, Itachi put his hand on his shoulder while knelling down to get a better look at the man. It was his target; the man was a demon, obviously because instead of two arms he possessed six and a third eye. The demon needed to be killed immediately, or else chaos would destroy the city he protects. Standing up, with calmed nerves Itachi moved away.
"I am your Reaper for the evening sir." His voice was devoid of emotion, it was after all, the words he had repeated for what seemed like an eternity. "I will be the one sending you to your death."
Harsh laughter filled the small room from the demon.
"Why is it that humans kill what they don't understand? Is it fear? Yes, that's what it is, fear. But what you don't know is that I was born from fear…" The demon started to explain himself.
Useless. Itachi pulled out his knives that were strapped to the lower part of his belt. Taking them out, he aimed for the Demons chest, hoping to kill him without any more useless talk.
"I have taken down Reapers before." The demon said, surprisingly catching his knife midway in the air. Itachi knew he was his organizations last hope and was called out only when they had no other options.
In a blink of an eye, more demons came crashing through the wide window, stepping over the broken shards of glass trying to come closer to him ready to attack. Itachi glared at four of them, not flinching a muscle, as if he had seen it all before. This made the demons furious, they glared and grinded their fangs together, yet they still halted waiting for orders.
"I can duplicate as many as I want. No one is able to kill me yet, and neither will you." The five of them said all at once.
"We shall see about that."
"Kill him!"
-o0o-
"Where did he go?" Even though Itachi had ordered her to guard the opposite end of the field, Tsunade knew he just wanted her out of the way so he could be the one to active the glory. But the thing was, she is useful, before the Reapers she was a high-ranking officer and long mastered the art of sniper rifle.
The wind howled through the trees. Then behind her about ten yards away she heard the crunch of a twig being broken. With her knowledge of battle, she knew that someone was following her.
"Why don't we skip playing games and show yourself. NOW."
A demon with six arms grinned mischievously. "Your good, not as good as the other guy though." He lifted his nose in the air, sniffing softly. "Yes, he seems to be still alive, fighting my duplicates, but he's wounded now, and hopefully his efforts won't last long. So, my lady, what is it you want. I have done nothing to you, why don't you leave me alone."
"We would leave you alone, if you didn't have to eat human souls to survive."
He snorted and waved his head in dismissal. "And you humans don't kill to survive? Please, spare me the useless shit that spills from your mouth. Enough of this! I'm going to kill you now, that's all you need to know."
She pulled out her rifle and slipped the cold leather strap over her exposed shoulder, taking off the safety; she aimed, and fired blindly. Opening her eyes she found herself to be looking at a dust that floated from the earth. She turned left, looking into the bushes, nothing. Then right, found silence, then nothing. Where did he go?
Then warm breath hit the side of her ear; it made every hair on her body stand on end. "Behind you." The demon then laughed as he wrapped his arms around her stomach, knocking away the rifle from her hands and dug his nails into the side of her arms.
"What to do now? Huh sweetness? I don't feed from souls like you presume, I feed on human fear and right now my belly is filled from it! Your heart is beating so fast…is he going to kill me now you wonder. Will it be fast or slow? What is he waiting for? But I have a surprise for you! I am not going to be the one to kill you, someone else will, someone close to you. You see, when I touch a human they have their life flash before my eyes and I can see inside you."
"Let me go!" Tsunade elbowed him in the stomach, but the force of the blow didn't even make the demon flinch.
"Wait and see my dear, wait and see."
The branches rustled.
-o0o-
Itachi kicked the head demons corpse with the tip of his boot; he turned around silently counting all of the corpses in the hospital room. Five, and all were dead, however it wasn't over, far from it because it wouldn't have been this easy to take this type of demon down.
Then he knew, he didn't know how he knew, he just knew that the battle was taken elsewhere and that woman was in need of assistance. She disobeyed his orders, he shouldn't even help her for that alone, but he had orders as well and that was to keep every human alive.
It was five hours till sunrise. That was his time limit. Once the sun raises it takes away all the creatures of the darkness with it and the mission would have to be prolonged. Something Itachi hated doing. He liked finishing all his missions in one night.
"Lets end this."
To be continued...
A/N-Well here you go! How did you like the first chapter of Reapers? What did you think so far? This was supposed to be an original story but I decided it resembled the Naruto characters so I made it into a fanfiction :D It gets better, I promise.
And if you have some free time please vote in the poll on my profile page, it would be very helpful, thank you. –bows-
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