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Kakashi's eye widened and he slowly turned around.
Standing before him, blocking the path back, there was a figure draped in a black robe with crimson clouds floating on it's cloth. The sign of the Akatsuki.
And those piercing, hypnotic red eyes. They shone through the darkness of the passageway, rubies among stones.
"So it's you then. Itachi Uchiha, I had a feeling you might be here..." Kakashi said, adding false bravado to his words.
Itachi gave him a cold stare, getting right to his objective. "Tell me everything you know about the carrier of the kyuubi."
Kakashi was furious that Itachi thought it was a possibility that he would just give the information over. He wouldn't betray his comrades.
"No. I would never endanger my village or Naruto Uzumaki!" he growled angrily, trying to stay calm.
Itachi paused. "Why am I not surprised... I suppose I'll just have to make you, then."
Kakashi's eyes narrowed. That deathly cold stare again.
Itachi closed his eyes... "Try to stay alive, I won't go easy on you." he murmured, and so the battle ensued.
Kakashi revealed his sharingan eye. Suddenly, he had a fireball heading straight towards him! Quickly performing the Subsitute technique, the flames hit a solid rock.
Itachi soon had knives at the throats of his newly created clones, multiple times.
The fight continued like this, the two ninja almost matched equally in strength. They were both skilled in taijutsu and ninjutsu, but the gifted Itachi's powerful genjutsu was a problem for Kakashi...
If he was caught in Itachi's genjutsu, he would surely be defeated. He had told himself many times to never look into those powerful sharingan eyes again.
The fight was a mess of fire and vibration. The rocks scattered around them, crumbling underneath the two shinobi's feet.
A blood-curdling scream suddenly echoed through the cave. No!
Kakashi turned towards the sound only to be staring into two sharingan eyes.
He couldn't move. But he hadn't been completely caught yet.
"Just how many people do you have in here to kill us, Itachi?" he hissed.
"Just Kisame, actually," was the calm reply, "But he can be a lot to deal with, especially for the low level ninja you've brought. It really should have been elite ANBU Black Ops, such as yourself... Captain." But Itachi's voice was already fading.
"Don't call me that... I..." Kakashi said, as he felt himself falling into pitch black darkness.
Kakashi felt himself land with a bump on a hard floor. Or was it just an illusion?
He didn't know... But... He was in the place that he lived in until he left the ANBU, and there was someone at the sink, someone he knew very well.
Kakashi saw himself desperately trying to wash Rin's blood off his hand, failing every time.
It never did wash off in the end, he thought, But I learned to live with it.
A bright flash of light interrupted his thinking, as it did time and time again as he saw events from his past in the ANBU, 11 year old Itachi's first day, investigating the wood style ninja, the countless assassinations and the run in with Orochimaru.
Orochimaru.
The name echoed in Kakashi's head, getting louder and louder each time, instead of fading.
He was just floating in the darkness now, hearing that name repeated over and over again. He closed his eyes and attempted to cover his ears, but his arms wouldn't move.
Help...
Kakashi's eye flicked open and he found that he was breathing heavily.
He looked at his arms and legs, and saw that they were secured to the stone by the metal restraints he'd seen earlier. This was real, right?
If so, I can get out of these with one of the most basic techniques a ninja can perform. This is Itachi's work... It has to be some kind of trap.
"Analysing your surroundings. I suppose you think this is a trap. But think about it, doesn't your chakra feel too low to perform any jutsu, let alone a strong escape jutsu? Your chakra is being drained by the special type of metal that holds you to the rock." That annoyingly calm voice.
"Now, let's get started. You will tell me what I need to know."
Itachi appeared in front of him and pulled out a katana.
"Genjutsu doesn't seem to break you, so let's see if you can handle this. It's a lot like the Tsukyomi, actually. You just get to keep your wounds."
I'm sorry, Kakashi. But I must play my role as the villain. And I have to play it well.