Chapter 2

"What?" Kanari gasped in disbelief. Without waiting for Shizuka to repeat herself Kanari tore off running toward the village. Kanari ran toward the burning village. As her feet grew tired, Kanari made a few quick hand signs and jumped into the air. While in the air a blue flaming cloak formed around her entire body, and sprouted the blue flaming angel wings which carried her up the hills.

When she got to the top, she was the fight that was going on in the village below. She soared down dipping into the smoke contaminated air. She noticed that as soon as she landed everything stopped.

"Kanari Tenshi." The jounin whispered her name in amazement and joy.

Kanari looked at the damage and turn a look of hatred toward the enemy that stood before her. Kanari was a little taken back when she saw that the enemy was only two people, but once she analyzed them more she noticed they were S-Rank criminals who wore black cloaks with crimson clouds lining the bottom of the cloak.

Kanari had seen many of these cloak figures in her bingo book.

'Akatsuki…' she thought dreadfully 'What do they want with this village.'

Kanari, in her emotionless demeanor, said calmly, "Leave this village… Now."

"Ha! You hear this chick. She's telling us to leave, but you know Lead-," the taller man of the two was interrupted by the second and much shorter man.

"Kisame," the other man said sternly, "Kanari Tenshi, we cannot leave this village without you."

Kanari's expression and demeanor never faltered, (AN: I know this is going to sound stupid but does expression and demeanor mean the same thing? Sorry I'm kinda tired at the moment lol) but she was taken by surprise by what he had just said and her comrades around her gaped at the strange enemies as if they grew a second head.

"You're not taking Princess Kanari without a fight!" cried a voice.

Kanari turned to see the last living person, beside herself, of her clan come charging forward. Her guardian, sensei, and uncle rolled into the one and only Sota Tenshi.

"Uncle Sota!" Kanari growled aggravated that he would charge into his own death.

Sota Tenshi stopped Abruptly and turn toward Kanari shock written all over his face that she had actually raised her voice and showed some emotion behind it.

"Stay. Out. Of. This." She grounded out.

Sota stepped back reluctantly, and watched his niece closely.

"I'm not leaving," Kanari said sternly as she turned back to the two enemies, "Without a fight."

The taller one of the two men began to laugh, "You really think you can fight us, girl."

They both removed the hats that covered their faces, and Kanari closed her eyes and took a deep breath when she opened them her once violet eyes were now black with fiery blue rings around the pupil. She scrutinized the men before her.

The taller man who seemed to talk the most out of the two had blue skin and hair, and looked like a shark. The shorter man had normal color skin and black hair. She could tell he was a Uchiha. She was yet again taken back by the sight of the shorter man.

"Itachi…Uchiha…," She whispered to herself.

She had heard stories about him some were good and some were not so good like the whole how he killed his entire clan and spared his younger brother thing.

Usually a normal kunoichi would back down after learning that they were dealing with the Uchiha that killed his entire clan, but Kanari wasn't your average kunoichi nor did she make herself out to be one.

You see Kanari's clan had once been the loyal servants of the Uchiha clan, or that's what it might have seemed to an outsider, but they were more like slave and were treated like they were filthy by almost all of the clan members. Kanari could careless if Itachi did her and her uncle a favor by killing the clan before they could find out where they had hidden for almost 13 years before he killed them. Plus by the time that he did kill them all that was left of her clan was just her and her uncle since the Uchiha clan was hunting down her clan ever since they fled from them. (AN: Her parents ran away a week before Kanari was born to make sure she didn't have to suffer the same fate that they had to suffer with every day, but I'll go into more detail about her parents later. Also Itachi and Kanari are the same age.) Kanari didn't care at all about what he had done to his clan. The only thing that she cared about was staying away from a Uchiha at all cost, even if it meant fighting.

"So be it," Kisame, the shark looking dude, said as he pulled Samehada in front of him. Itachi looked at Kisame and said,

"Kisame, don't take too long Leader-sama doesn't like waiting."

"Princess Kanari! Don't do this!" Sota yelled at his niece.

Kanari ignored his request as she drew two kunai knives and got into a fighting stance.

"You're going to regret not listening to him, girl," Kisame laughed as he swung his sword toward her.

Kanari flipped backwards and threw both kunai knives, which she hoped would pin him to the ground by his shoulders, but he deflected them with one swing of Samehada. Kanari kept pulling out kunai after kunai, and throwing them at him. It almost looked like he was dancing with the way that he would dodge on coming kunai.

She finally had enough of him dodging all the blows or deflecting them that she decided it was time to take to the sky, so as Kisame tried to take her out with a water jutsu, Kanari jumped in the air as the angelic wings on the fiery cloak spread wide she began to fly overhead. She began a set of hand signs which created great, big, blue flames that she sent down on the big fish man below. Kisame dodge her attacks yet again (barely), and stopped suddenly when Kanari did another set of hand signs sending more blue waves of flames at him.

She was finally able to knock him down.

"Now who's regretting ever standing toe to toe with the great Kanari of the Tenshi clan? Ha!" Sota yelled.

Kanari, though deeply embarrassed, kept her focus on the situation at hand. She placed her hand to where it was hovering over his chest. Oh so familiar blue flames engulfed her right hand. She pointed her fingertips down, so they were aimed at right at his chest near the area where his heart was located. The blue flames began to build as it formed into a fiery blade of some sort around her hand.

She then went to plunge her hand into his heart only to be abruptly stopped when she had to deflect kunai and shuriken that came from Itachi's direction. Itachi appeared in front of her so fast that she didn't realize he was standing there until he pulled out a kunai. Kanari flipped backwards kicking Itachi in the jaw at the same time. She landed on her feet then crouched down to the ground readying herself for the next attack.

"Princess Kanari! Give up you don't have a chance against them!" Sota cried once again.

"Gee you were so supportive of earlier, Sota-san," the jounin grumbled around him.

"Well that was because she was only fighting one. Now she is fighting both of them, and she doesn't stand a chance against Itachi Uchiha," Sota grumbled.

Kanari wanted to so badly say, 'Thanks for the support, Uncle Sota!', but at the moment she didn't have the opportunity to say anything because she was waiting patiently for another attack and didn't want to be distracted by a smart ass comment.

Finally Itachi threw more kunai at her and at the same time Kanari launched herself in the air the fiery, blue, angelic wings extending and carrying her out of reach. She did a few more hand signs, and held out her right hand yet again but this time a fiery blue wind shuriken appeared in her hand. She dipped down just far enough so she could throw it and actually hit what she wanted to hit.

As she went to throw the shuriken though, she was met by the sight of Kisame wielding Samehada. She threw herself to the side to dodge the swipe he made at her, but she didn't know that Itachi was behind her. Itachi grabbed her from behind and threw her to the ground.

As she fell, she lost concentration, and the fiery cloak disappeared making the impact harder. Itachi pinned her to the ground, and turned her head toward him. He notice her eyes were their original color again. He also noticed she wouldn't meet his gaze which made him smirk at this.

"Princess Kanari!" Sota exclaimed at the sight of his niece. Itachi looked at Kisame and nodded. Kisame smirked as he cut her arm with Samehada. Kanari struggled underneath Itachi and let out a strangled cry of frustration. She felt her chakra leaving her body. She felt weak, but with the last ounce of strength she did have she brought her legs up to her chest and slammed her feet on Itachi's chest shoving him off of her.

Kanari rolled over on her side and cradle her injured arm close to her. She looked toward her uncle and whispered in a raspy voice the song he use to sing to her before she would go to sleep. "Hush now my angel. Be still love don't cry. Think of me while you sleep. Dream and remember this lovely lullaby. We shall reunite somewhere."

With that being said everything in her view became blurry.

"I'm sorry… Uncle… Sota," she whispered as everything went black and she passed out.

Sota Tenshi looked devastated when he seen his nieces eyes close. Rage filled his very soul as he ran at the men that picked up his niece. He drew his katana, but he made one mistake and looked Itachi in the eyes. Sota was under a genjutsu, and Itachi and Kisame disappeared from sight with Kanari's unconscious form.