AN- Oh my... I don't know if anyone else has tried to post stories from an iPad but let me assure you... It is TERRIBLE. Nothing works right, so I apologize for the mess you're about to read through. I couldn't add page breaks or put think in italics or anything that this needed :( but it's the best I can do for now . I'm really just playing around with an Itachi AU x OC. Honestly, I don't know if I'm going anywhere with this so be warned of the plotlessness for the moment. It may evolve. I need a good challenge. If anyone has any ideas they would love to see turned into a story hit me up.
Chapter One, Ebony to Black.
"I am only returning from a mission... I am not here for you. Let me pass." Arisu knew who stood at the base of the tree. A missing-nin. Don't engage. Retreat... Unblinking ebony eyes stared down through the lush foliage, unable to discern much about the enemy. The moment she tensed to make her move a kunai sunk deep into the tree just above her, after slicing along her dark hairline. Fear trickled through her along with instant knowing... She couldn't have dodged that even if she tried...
When the black clad shinobi did not answer her softly spoken declaration she shot away from her perch as fast as she could, flashing several times before she felt even slightly comfortable with the distance between her and him.
Arisu sighed with relief but choked on the sound as she quickly countered a kunai attack with her own. The ninja had just appeared in front of her after what was most likely an effortless chase. The force he used to push her kunai away from his sent her plummeting toward the ground. She landed easily, the long braid of raven hair touched the ground behind her as she crouched low, watching her attacker as his sandalled feet touched the ground without a whisper of a sound. Fear coiled in her belly now, GET A GRIP, ARISU. the kunoichi tried to reassure herself mentally as her mind flipped through mental images in the bingo book... 'Uchiha... Itachi. #1 most wanted missing nin. Master of the Sharingan. Of the Mangekyou Sharingan. Of any jutsu he sees with those eyes...' No, it couldn't be him. He was believed dead. Uchiha-sama had killed him many years prior...
Then he attacked with his kunai. There was no way it was Uchiha Itachi. His eyes were dark, not blazing red. No. He just resembled him. Itachi would not fight without his Sharingan. He knocked her kunai to the side effortlessly and Arisu only has time to block his kick feebly with her right arm. The force of the kick sent her flying back but she landed against a large tree trunk where she squatted vertically. She felt her kekkei genkai react to the threat. It didn't matter, it's not like it was Itachi... But when she looked up at him with her crimson Sharingan, his eyes widened in shock. It didn't matter, anyone would be surprised by the red eyes. She launched herself off the tree and raced back toward him, viciously attacking him without pause. He countered every swipe of her kunai with his, his dark eyes locked on hers, still wearing the shock from earlier. He studied them even as they battled, and Arisu felt a tendril of that fear from earlier return. Even with her Sharingan she couldn't get a hit in. Of course, hers weren't fully developed. She still didn't have the second or third tomoe in her right eye but still, even with the underdeveloped Sharingan as it was she should have been able to at least hit her attacker!
Arisu leapt back and inhaled deeply before lifting her fingers to her lips and releasing a Great Fireball directly at her attacker. To her shock her fireball was met with another, larger one that immediately engulfed hers before rolling toward her with a speed that was unheard of! Arisu leapt back but was unable to avoid the edge of the attack. The force sent her skidding away before she landed hard with a stifled cry. Without looking down at the damage, Arisu leapt away in the direction of the village. If she could just use the last of her chakra to increase her speed and escape him... It was no good!
Within a few seconds she was knocked back to the ground, hard. There was no stifling the cry that erupted from her lips as her damaged hand was crushed under the weight of her body. Arisu leapt up anyway, her red eyes watching as the ninja landed in front of her. Cold black eyes assessed her, from the trembling grip on her kunai, to the left arm she held against her torso. The skin was charred, most of the black material of her jounin uniform had burned away. His stance relaxed and Arisu looked at him in fearful confusion.
Suddenly he was directly in front of her, his hand closed around her throat tightly and Arisu was suddenly unable to move as he pinned her with a matching set of Sharingan eyes. Immediately the tomoe picked up into a spin, her own Sharingan reacted as she sought to counter his hold on her mind. Her kunai dove for his chest but he knocked it away. Arisu clawed at the hand holding her neck but within a few seconds her hands fell away. She could no longer move or speak and the world slipped away as he stole her consciousness...
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Arisu awoke with a cry. She flipped away from a small fire and disappeared behind the nearest tree, panting as her body shook with shock and severe chakra depletion. She scanned the dark forest carefully before she struggled to control her breathing. Her left hand was completely bandagesd, each finger and up to her elbow, as only a ninja medic would. Her vest and weapons were gone... All her weapons. All she was wearing now was her black undershirt and black cargo pants, but all the pockets were emptied. Even her hitai was missing and been replaced with a strip of bandage, coving the cut on her forehead. Stilling her breath she quickly peeked around the tree. Surely if it had been a Konoha medic who helped her they would have already called out to try and stop her or assist her.
It was HIM! Uchiha Itachi! He was sitting, cross-legged before the fire and looking casually at the tree she was hiding behind. "Come Uchiha-san." His voice rang out and Arisu covered her mouth to stop the cry that nearly escaped. "Do not try to flee. I will stop you... And you will not like how." A few moments of fearful contemplation passed as she leaned against the tree. "Come, now."
Arisu's progression from her hiding tree to the furthest spot from Itachi yet still near the fire was pathetically loud for a ninja. Her Sharingan eyes burned into him as she stood there, looking down at him. He wasn't even looking at her, rather staring down at the fire. "You... You bandaged my arm? W-why?" Arisu nearly winced at the sound of her own voice. She sounded weak, and frightened, not like a true Leaf ninja.
"It was not my intention to harm you to this extent. I was unaware of the state of your chakra... You should not have even been able to form that fireball with such depletion and low reserves." Itachi replied, the sound of his deep voice making her tense further. "Sit. I will not let you leave."
Arisu watched him intently with her Sharingan, trying to discern the truth until her vision tilted sharply and she fell to one knee. Her eyes darkened to black as she gripped her head in an attempt to keep from falling over. It wasn't enough and she barely managed to roll to her side, avoiding her hurt arm before she fell into darkness once more.
When Arisu woke this time she jerked up and would have slumped directly into the fire if not for the hand that gripped her shoulder and pulled her back. Immediately she jerked away from the hand only to be then firmly secured by two arms against a hard body. "Enough!" When she struggled, the black clad arms squeezed until she cried out from the pain in her wounded arm. The pressure eased and Arisu shook, panting on the verge of collapse once more. "I said, enough. Stubborn Uchiha." The voice was close to her ear and Arisu shook her head, trying to clear it. "Rest... Or die from chakra exhaustion... Your choice."
When Arisu woke the third time it was to rays of blinding sunlight obscuring the view of the trees above her. Immediately she covered her face with her arm, groaning at the pounding in her temples. "Chakra exhaustion always comes with a price." A now familiar deep voice sounded from just to her left at the exact moment the scent of cooked fish reached her. Arisu sat up slowly and looked at the shinobi that was seated to her left. Then her eyes locked on the fish he was holding out to her.
Uchiha Itachi grinned for the first time in over three years. It was at the sight before him. A young female Uchiha, who looked at him, her enemy, with eyes black as night but when the large captivating orbs locked on the cooked fish skewered on a stick they flashed to red. Those bright eyes widened and he watched as they took in every detail. The charred skin, the juices dripping over his fingers, the tendril of smoke still wafting up. To think she had so little control over her Sharingan still, she had to be at least 16. A second tomoe had blossomed in her right eye during their battle, a sight he shan't soon forget. Her bandaged hand moved and reached slowly for the fish but she winced and was brought out of her food fantasy by the pain and stiffness in the fingers. Then her Sharingan was all for him, despite what his honed instincts told him, he broke eye contact, looking at the fish instead. She watched like a little Uchiha hawk as he lifted the fish and took a small bite of the exposed white flesh. Her eyes dropped to his throat as he swallowed slowly then back up to his face. He met her eyes as she waited for him to have some kind of reaction, as if he would even bite something he'd poisoned... Itachi let 60 seconds pass before he reached out with the fish once more and once again he was forgotten as her eyes locked on her meal. She didn't even take it from his hand! She just attacked it like a starved wolf cub! Itachi's eyes widened as she kneeled there, her good hand holding one end of the stick and the other, wounded hand, was squeezing his gently. If not for the shock of her touch he might have laughed out loud. There was no way she was aware of it, as scared of him as she was. As tempted as he was to let her keep a hold of him, he eased his hand away and turned to let her eat like a savage animal privately... And also to hide the small grin on his face.
Itachi didn't look back as she finished off the fish, he only lifted his water skin to his lips, took a sip, swallowed and passed it to the girl, without ever even looking at her. She hesitantly took it and his eyes widened at the tiny 'arigato' before she downed all there was, swallowing loudly. Soon he heard her settle back down on the ground heavily, with a tired sigh. "What do you want with me, Uchiha-sama?" Came a soft question.
"I have some questions for you... I realize you will not betray your village or your clan, no need to make such declarations." Itachi cut her off when she tried to and she fell silent.
"Our clan." Was her only reply but she jumped when his head snapped to her, her red eyes wide. After a moment he looked back to the dying fire with a sharp nod. "Uchiha-sama... Errr... Sasuke-sama is the head of the Uchiha clan now. There is myself, Sasuke-sama and his children-."
"Children!?" Itachi demanded, turning bodily towards her and making her tense. He met her red eyes, "and their mother?"
"Their mother is... Asami... My sister." Itachi's dark eyes widened again. "She's not a shinobi... We didn't even know we were Uchiha, until our mother came out upon Sasuke-sama's revival of the clan and offered him Asami. Oka-san proved we were Uchiha by unsealing my Sharingan... Even I didn't know."
Itachi nodded, absorbing the information. Not overly surprised. Of course there was Uchiha blood in other families around Konoha. Probably quite a few would come forth. "The children?"
"Ryoto is the youngest... He was born just this past summer. Then Akemi, and the two oldest are twin boys... Shisui and... Itachi." The girl said the last as quietly as possible and flinched with he started in shock.
"He named... Them..." Itachi fell silent, lost in his own contemplation...
Arisu watched the shocked Uchiha for a time. This man was supposed to be dead, but here he was, sitting not three feet from her. He'd bested her in battle, easily, then patched her up and fed her... But why? Arisu turned back to the fire after a moment. Maybe she shouldn't have said so much... "I need to go now, Uchiha-sama." Arisu stood shakily.
Itachi stood now too and Arisu was forced to look up at him, not realizing how tall he was till them. He nodded at her words. "Tell me your name." The shinobi suddenly demanded.
"Kimura Arisu." He raised a brow at her response.
"Sasuke lets you get away with that?" Itachi remarked a bit dryly making her eyes widen in surprise. Then he was less than surprised by the hint of anger there.
"He can't force me to change my name! Just because I have these cursed eyes doesn't mean I have to become someone else en-entirely!" To Arisu further surprise his black eyes seemed to soften which only roused more anger. "He has taken everything from me! Even... Even my... My..."
Itachi waited when she suddenly looked away, blinking tears back from her crimson eyes. "Your what, Arisu?" She looked back and met his eyes fiercely.
"My love. He took away my heart!" Itachi took a step closer when the tears threatened to overflow from the suddenly emotional female. Yes... She was Uchiha. There was no doubt in his mind now. Love, anger, hate, sadness all rolled up into a crying little girl. There was no love like that of a Uchiha. It was eternal. But when the love is lost... The hate and rage is also eternal.
"What happened, Arisu?" Itachi asked, lowering his tone so not to scare her off.
"We were to be married! M-Makoto-san and I... We'd been in love since we were children! Uchiha-sama said he wasn't worthy! How would he even know that?!" The slender kunoichi turned away from him now, pacing in front of the fire. "He forbade me to ever s-see him again! And soon confined me to the grounds... And when I finally did escape, Uchiha-sama promised to..." Itachi waited patiently as the girl choked on a sob then turned her wet Sharingan eyes back to him. "Uchiha-sama said he would kill him if I disobeyed again!" She took a step toward Itachi who only watched her. "Would he?"
Itachi saw it when her expression suddenly turned hopeful. Most likely Sasuke was in the right. The brother he knew would be a ruthless clan leader. His compassion hidden behind cold red eyes. Sasuke's Sharingan would have pierced this Makoto down to the very source of his intentions toward his sister-in-law. If they weren't pure he would have known within a few minutes of meeting the man. "Yes, Arisu-san. Sasuke would kill this man you love. And he would punish you severely for denying your true name as well."
Her whole body tensed for a moment before she turned away, her shoulders slumping in defeat. Uchiha females didn't often possess the Sharingan. Their emotions were even deeper than the males, and wild, uncontrolled emotions were never good in a shinobi... And much worse in a Sharingan wielding one. "My true name is Kimura and I will never share HIS name!"
Itachi watched her go and made no attempt to stop her. Was Sasuke so quickly turning into their father? Could he allow his nieces and nephews to turn out exactly like he had? Never! Arisu would help him whether she wanted to or not!
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