'No way, Itachi is dead' Zetsu muttered to himself as he disappeared. Another observed the fight and watched as an Akatsuki grabbed Uchiha Sasuke and jumped away, completely ignoring the figure that stood on the back of a bronze bird of prey. The figured laughed and ignored the searing heat that Amatersu flames could only produce. The figure leapt of the bird and slung the oldest Uchiha over their shoulder.

'Ne, just like old times right Itachi-teme' the stranger laughed as they flew over the burnt out Uchiha hideout. They flew for a few minutes until clear of the flames and then the rescuer of Itachi's body gently laid down his body. The stranger flew through a string of hand signs and the placed their hands on Itachi. It wasn't long before the Uchiha opened his sightless grey eyes and groaned.

'Just breathe Itachi-teme' he tried to move his head in the direction of the familiar voice and chakra source but he couldn't move at all.

'Relax your still recovering from dying. My chakra is still making its way through your system although after the damage you've done from your battle plus this sickness that festered in your body I am not sure how much damage I can reverse. If my bloodline is strong enough I may even be able to restore your sight, minus the Sharingan of course'

'I know that sarcastic monologue tone anywhere, Nara Shikaya'

'You still remember your ex-teammate after all, Itachi' the woman smiled as she poured more and more chakra into the recently revived man.

'Just so you know Itachi your fail safe didn't work, Madara got his hands on Sasuke and is spreading lies to get him to be the one to bring down our village'

Itachi was silent trying not to move as Shikaya forced her chakra into him and it got painful.

'Forgive me Sasuke; this will be the last time'

Shikaya recoiled and lost her connection she had made between their chakras.

'What was that?' she asked sharply.

'My last memory before….well it was just my memory before you revived me'

'So what are you going to do about your brother?'

'What are you going to do about yours?' he retorted.

Shikaya sat down on grass next to the recuperating Uchiha and sighed.

'To Konoha we are betrayers to our clans, only I didn't kill anybody. But just between us you took your orders for the Sandaime and his advisors; I took my orders from the Godaime and Jiraiya, they were to protect you at all costs'

Itachi blinked and opened his eyes and could actually see clearly for the first time in years. His former team mate now looked older and more worn. Her hitai-ate that kept her long brown fringe out of her eyes had a scratch through the middle, which hid her storm grey eyes. Shikaya still wore her green mesh tank top and dark blue three quarter pants with the standard kunai pouch. Itachi could see her emerald hilted katana poking over her shoulder and a golden armlet wrapped around her forearm twice, it hid the ANBU tattoo that he knew she still had. Shikaya no longer had a short spiky pixie cut, instead her hair hang down to her waist in a braid. Itachi looked at the woman was just inches from his face, squinting. Itachi back peddled and was amazed that he could.

'Always the amazement Itachi; have a bit of faith in me'

'How did you restore me to life? I thought your chakra reserves were too large to learn medical jutsu?'

Shikaya lifted her head and even though her eyes were tired and weary she winked.

'I told you my bloodline, Itachi-teme'

'The Nara family has no bloodline just their Kage jutsu'

'Your right my mother had no bloodline but my father on the other hand…..'

'Fine I give up who is your father?'

Shikaya smirked at him and gathered the last bit of free chakra she had and touched his arm.

Itachi felt himself fall and when he got up he was in Konoha, but there was only 4 Hokage's faces on the monument instead of 5.

************************* Memory*******************

Jiraiya stood with the last two of his students from his genin cell. His students were now 16 and had just lost their other team mate Akira Mitsiru. Namikaze Minato and Nara Shikayako were walking to the nearest sake bar to drown their loss; with a heavy heart Jiraiya joined them.

'Mina-kun, dance with Shiroi-san she likes you' a very drunk Shikayako slurred at her teammate.

'You go dance with her then Ayako-chan'

Jiraiya smirked at the pair it was for the past week they had been getting closer and he knew it wouldn't be long before they gave him inspiration for his new book. Shikayako was talking to a pretty red haired kunoichi and was laughing; it was rare to see his tomboy kunoichi subordinate even associating with other girls let alone being friendly.

For the second week the two teammates of team Jiraiya were drunk to the point where Minato had walked Shikayako home to her small apartment but couldn't walk straight to leave again. One thing had led to another and the two teammates woke up next to each other with their clothes everywhere.

'Ayako-chan, did we…?'

'Mina-kun, don't look at me I'm naked' and of course Minato being a 16 year old guy and he had obviously been with her just smiled and jumped out of bed and started digging for his clothes. Shikayako rolled her eyes and decided the hell with modesty and threw back the sheets and went into the small en-suite bathroom and threw a towel at Minato.

'Just remember Mina-kun this never happened'

Jiraiya was worried for his only female student for the last three months she had been becoming moody and getting nauseous at the slightest things, so he sent her to Tsunade and get a check-up.

'Congratulation's, Ayako-chan your pregnant'

'Great, I bet dad and my brother are going to be real happy about this, I already moved out because they wanted me to because Shikaku and I were competing for the position as heir and father was favouring Shikaku. And the kids father how the hell do I tell him?' the young jounin ranted.

'Ne, Ayako-chan you have to tell the father he has a right to know and plus I at least need to know the paternity of the child just in case of any birth defaults or bloodlines'

Shikayako grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a name down and folded up the piece of paper and left it on Tsunade's desk.

Shikayako left the hospital to try and find her sensei and Minato to tell them the supposed good news. She found Minato talking to Uzumaki Kushina at the ramen stand and they were getting very close.

'Ohayo, Ayako-chan, how did the check-up go?'

'Check-up, Ayako are you alright?'

'Yeah, Kushina I'm fine' she plastered a fake smile on her face for her two friends.

'Hey Mina-kun have you seen Jiraiya-sensei at all?'

'Yeah he's talking to Sandaime-sama about something'

Shikayako nodded and jumped on to the nearest roof and blurred out of sight.

'Huh, she's acting weird and way more energetic than normal'

'Excuse me Sandaime-sama; Jiraiya-sensei, I am going to need to go on leave from missions for a while'

'Why, Shika-chan?'

'Shut up Jiraiya-sensei, you know I hate being called Shika I hate anything to do with what my father named me or my father in general. Anyway I need to go leave because I am four months pregnant with Minato's child.'

The Sandaime's eyes widened at thought of the Namikaze family being continued, especially with their bloodline limit.

Jiraiya interrupted his musings 'does Minato-kun know yet?'

'I was hoping you would be there when I tell him, sensei'

'Well no time like the present right, Shikayako?' the jounin nodded at her sensei and they both left the Hokage.

'Minato-kun, we are having a team meeting now so say good bye to Kushina-san and follow me please'

After being told the news, Minato blinked at his teammate and sighed; he was going to be a father and he would be helping raise a child, with his bloodline to it was going to be a handful of child once born.

'Tell me more about this bloodline that the child could inherit, Mina-kun'

'The Namikaze bloodline the "Nagareru no Taiga" or the flow of the river isn't that much of an amazing limit. To a Namikaze we can do anything with our chakra. We don't usually have any particular elemental affinities so we can use any ninjitsu with low cost to our chakra and we can manipulate our chakra however we please, even in ways that should be impossible and we usually have an overflow of stamina and an excess of energy'

The memory skipped and Shikayako was holding hands with a child only five or six years old, with big grey and alert eyes and she was bouncing around. Akimichi Chouza looked at his friend's sister and her daughter and decided to talk to the 22 year old jounin; after all family shouldn't fight in such dark times such as a war with Iwa.

'For a little Nara, she sure has a lot of energy Shikayako-neesan'

Shikayako looked down at her daughter who was peeking from behind her legs at the large 20 year old chunnin.

'Aya-chan, say hello to Chouza-ojisan and stop hiding honey, don't worry; Chouza-ojisan only eats naughty little kids' the jounin laughed at look of horror on her child's face.

'Relax, Aya-chan; Chouza-nii would never hurt anyone. Although Chouza can you tell Shikaku-nii and Shikamatsu I will be a bit late for dinner tonight?' the jounin asked nicely.

'Ayako-neesan, you shouldn't call your dad by his given name; it's really disrespectful considering he did let you move back into the Nara compound again after Aya-chans birth'. Shikayako nodded, with a laugh she had hoisted her daughter on to her shoulders and waved goodbye to Chouza.

The memories seemed to get even more jumpy and distorted to Itachi. He could only see brief snippets of memories that seemed to belong to Nara Shikayako, who was long since deceased.

'Kushina-chan and I are getting married'….. Namikaze Minato

'Kushina-chan is pregnant'…..Namikaze Minato

'Ayako, look after Naruto for me and Aya-chan; tell my children that I did this for them'….. Namikaze Minato

'Shikaku, they are my best friends they need me to buy them some more time for the sealing ritual'….. Nara Shikayako

'Shikaku look after my little Aya-chan and her half-brother Uzumaki Naruto'….. Nara Shikayako

'Goodbye nii-san'….Nara Shikayako

*********************end memories***********************

Itachi sat up right in the physical world and he could see that it was now nightfall; Shikaya was looking into the flames of the camp fire distantly.

'What do we do about our brother's Aya-chan?'

Shikaya looked at Itachi, stunned nobody had called her that since she was a child.

'Madara has just told Naruto about the blood soaked history of your clan, and just convinced Naruto that your brother is entrenched in darkness due to his Mangekyou. And he was going on about how Sasuke was going to take out Konoha and the village elders. As for Sasuke himself that is easy we just have to kill Madara'

Itachi did something that he had not done in a long time; he genuinely laughed.

'You make it sound so easy Aya-chan'

'That's because it is Itachi-teme. I just need to get close enough to him and Naruto at the same time so that I can transfer all of my memories to Naruto; like I showed you my mother's memories, tonight. And then one ultimate ninjitsu later and Madara is dead' she smiled at her fellow missing-nin.

'And what of Sasuke, what would you have me do?'

Shikaya smiled and said nothing in reply, instead she gestured with her hand to the empty bedroll on the other side of the fire pit, so his back would be to a tree.

Itachi dreamt of his past and occasional bits of the memories of Shikaya's mother. The Nara woman watched her ex-teammate even though it had been close to 8 years since they had been face to face it felt like yesterday they were on the same genin team and then transferred to ANBU at the tender age of 13 for him and 14 for her.

Aya remembered the day she had left had been a beautiful day and she was watching clouds with her favourite younger cousin, Shikamaru; it wasn't too long before she sensed something was very wrong. Before Shikamaru could ask her the jounin had Shusined into Tsunade's office.

'Shikaya-chan, my network has gathered some vital information about Akatsuki and the fact that they are starting to get suspicious of Itachi. Akatsuki is on the move they have majority of the bijuu and they are on their way to Fire Country'

'So you want me to take them out then?'

Tsunade shook her head at the impetuous Nara jounin in front of her.

'Not quiet, you are going to try and kill Jiraiya, because he hid your heritage and then escape with the Namikaze blade as part of your cover story.'

'You intend on revealing my father's identity then?'

Both the Sannin nodded.

'Fine, watch over Naruto for me please and be careful both of you. I have a bad feeling about all of this'

Shikaya stood, getting rid of her memories of Jiraiya and Tsunade and silently rose to extinguish the fire.

'Guess this is goodbye Itachi, I lied about your Sharingan just so you know. There is a failsafe though so you might not be able to activate the Mangekyou either that or it has evolved so it is no cost to you. I dunno, but good luck Itachi-kun' she told the sleeping man as she disappeared in to the nearest tree. Itachi stirred as he felt his old teammates chakra disappearing but by the time he was fully conscious he could no longer sense his friend even with his finely tuned sensory skills and Shikaya's large reserves which should of made it have a piece of cake. Itachi felt a prickling sensation in his eyes and he could see every minute detail, including the indent from Shikaya's sandals on the first tree branch she had jumped on, even from the ground. On the same tree he noticed some kanji cut into the tree, he recognised it as the same code that they had developed as genin under Kasumi-sensei.

Teme,

Do not follow me

If you're reading this then Mangekyou back for good

Going to fix everything with bro,

If all fails will go back

Aya

Itachi shook his head at the encrypted message on the tree and channelled some chakra to his hand and wiped away the cuts so they would be unreadable. He looked down and on the branch there was a piece of fabric pinned by a kunai, without any hassle Itachi could see the small Uchiha emblem on the piece of fabric. Shikaya had left a piece of Sasuke's clothing so Itachi could track his foolish younger brother.

Shikaya landed without a sound in the dim cave, she saw a gruesome looking statue with its hands outstretched and she shuddered. The Nara knew she had to find Sasuke before Itachi did, he had killed Danzo and now Kakashi was going to be Hokage that is if Tsunade didn't awaken and she couldn't bear for one of her brother's precious people to die; let alone be killed by Sasuke. Shikaya had come across an Uchiha but not the youngest it was Madara.

'Well this is a major cluster fuck; you aren't the Uchiha I am looking for Madara-chan'

The masked man said nothing as he disappeared and the reappeared directly behind the only daughter of the Yondaime. Shikaya didn't even bother to turn as a tanto pierced through her back and straight out of her stomach. It was only when Shikaya coughed up some blood because the blade had perforated something and given her internal bleeding did she turn her slightly to meet the one of showing eyes under the mask. Shikaya made a striking figure with determined, sharp grey eyes and blood tricking down her mouth and chin; her long braid shifted as she tossed her head back. The dying woman gave a disturbing smirk to the Akatsuki leader. With her chilling smile Shikaya started a signing a string of hand signs; Dragon, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Snake. Shikaya smirked at the Uchiha and had used the last resort jutsu of the Nagareru no Taiga as Madara begun to feel the familiar feeling of time/space jutsu he didn't have time to realise it was a technique being formed by the women in front of him. Finally Shikaya called the jutsu name with the last of her strength 'Nagareru no Sekinen Saigetsu'

Jutsu List and Bloodline list

Nagareru no Taiga- Flow of the river

Nagareru no Sekinen Saigetsu -Flow of many years