Chapter 1

In the short time since Itachi arrived in this place, he had discovered a few things through observation. First that this was a different world than he had known during his lifetime as a ninja. Of course as He was formally a part of the ANBU and a renowned missing nin he did not panic instead he calmly analyzed the situation. It was either a whole different dimension or the future of the elemental nations from the different devices and gadgets he had seen used by the residents. This theory needed further confirmation by observation of this world.

He had not made contact with any of the residents of this place. Before he did that he would need to assess his current abilities. From what he had sensed, every one that he got to observe had civilian level Chakra. Nature chakra. Weird. He would not come to this place with unknown power levels and tangle with warriors he could not best. For all he knew there could be powerful entities in this world that would have noticed his arrival and would start tracking him. This was why he had suppressed His Chakra to civilian levels and was currently on His way to a tall building to check the surrounding area for a suitable place for Intensive training. He had not seen the power of the authorities here but one could never be too careful.

He was currently looking out of a dark alley way to the tallest building in his immediate area. From his experience people rarely looked up when in a familiar environment. There was no security detail which he could observe.

He ran and vaulted over the fence landing softly. After Looking around and making sure there was no one who noticed his stunt, he channeled chakra to his feet and started running up the building.

He was about mid-way up the building when he was hit from behind and he smashed into the building crashing into the furniture and through a solid wall.

Itachi groaned and forced himself to his feet. A quick diagnostic of his injuries found he had broken his left arm and a few ribs were cracked or broken. Fortunately he had sensed killing intent just before he was hit and had been saved by a quick reinforcement of his body with chakra. With quick natural reflexes he reached for his kunai pouch only to come up empty. His edo-tensei body did not have a kunai pouch though he seriously doubted he was still completely dead evidenced by the sudden sharp pain he felt as the broken bones in his arm reset itself and his broken ribs heal. He really needed to know what kind of condition his body currently was at the moment.

Quickly improvising, he took a piece of debris from where he landed and strafing to his right threw it at supersonic speeds in the direction of his assailant while activating his sharingan hoping to catch a glimpse of who he was up against.

To his surprise it was not the famed pinwheel that alerted him to the location of the attacker but his ears.

Oh he saw the rock every moment in its short flight but it impacted some sort of invisible wall. Then he heard an otherworldly roar then steps of something heavy lifting of away from him and into the air. Itachi then quickly ran behind one of the undamaged furniture in the room and hid. He was not being idle either but stretched his chakra sensing range as far as he could and tried sensing this foe he could not see. To make sure he peeked behind his cover to the hole he had made to check for clues that would lead him to pinpoint the location of his enemy.

Everything was quiet. Itachi heard the flapping of wings getting closer. Quickly making hand seals he prepared a jutsu. He did not get a chance to fire it as he had misjudged the distance of his foe and the creature hit him hard and slammed him into the wall.

Before he could regain his composure, he felt giant claws grab him tearing into his shoulder as it flew out of the building high into the air and dropped him.

Itachi closed his eyes as he was falling, basking in the short peace it granted him. He channeled as much chakra as he could to his eyes and opened them to reveal the pinwheel spinning at unfathomable speeds as he tried to locate his enemy. Suddenly he saw it diving towards him.

The first thing he noticed was that it was huge. Probably three times his size. Now he couldn't see it per say. With his sharingan supercharged and taking in all the details of his environment, all he could see was a wraith like creature. He could tell it was black and the head was white. Like some strange spirit bird come to kill him.

Then he flew through hand signs and blew a fire-ball jutsu at the creature. It screeched in pain as it was ignited giving Itachi a full view of the truly large creature with its wings spread, before it folded in on itself and its streamlined downwards flight became an ungraceful tumble.

Itachi then righted himself in the air and was about to re-enforce his legs with chakra to land safely when the vision from his left sharingan suddenly went dead and his head was filled with a blinding headache.

As he lost consciousness, there was only one thought in his pain addled mind. 'Today is just not my day is it' he questioned himself as he fell.

His unconscious body landed hard on the ground with a limp thud and cracking tiles. Shortly after was another loud noise as his foe landed beside him.

After a short while, the clicking of wooden sandals was heard accompanied by the tapping of a cane.

"Well well" the new comer said as he tipped his green and white stripped hat. "What do we have here" he questioned no one as he looked at the scene that lay before him.