it had been atleast 2 days since we left our last break spot..and 3 days before that was when we started this drastic adventure...so its been five days so far and still no hideout....'talkative tuna' was still out cold, and i didn't think that was normal....had i put him in a coma?? did i hit him that hard??......stupid fucking fish..........how would our 'leader' react to this?? would he try and kill me for it??.....haha..he could go ahead and try...the battle would probably bore me anyway.......then again, what battle didn't. itachi grunted lowly...he was far behind me , as we zipped through the forest un known.. he was somewhat unpleased at the fact i was running far too quickly for him....god....hurry up why dont you!!! i knew he could run faster, he just didn't feel like 'rushing' i guess.....i stayed silent and slowed down, slowing gliding to his pace. maybe he was soo slow because he was carrying that huge fish on his back..weak, mutated, asshole, hes lucky hes alive. oh well, i had to carry his sword, and it was about the same weight as him! so itachi could screw off if that was his excuse for his lack of stability. i was getting very irritated with the Uchiha. he liked to try and order me around....hes lucky i didn't just murder him....right here on the spot.......stupid uchiha....my mood eased a tiny bit as i calmed myself down and continued to rant in my head.

it wasn't so bad. neither of us had talked to eachother once since we had left our meeting place..it was somewhat comfirting....the silence... but i did have something on my nerves. i was getting sick of running and running without knowing where i was heading too... and he hadn't anwsered my perfectly normal questions ONCE. so now was the time to snap.

"....uchiha...........how long is this going to take already........im getting quite impatient...." my words basicailly slapped him in the face the way i had said them. i never sounded happy....just angry.....for another long moment, he didn't anwser me.....i started to wonder if he would at all........i glanced to the side at him, quirking an eyebrow. if he didn't anwser me soon, i would MAKE him this time. i didn't care about my punishment, he would end up getting it if he kept deciding to ignore me.

"..in about 3 hours....we will reach our destination.....Leader will be waiting for you in his office......i suggest you dont be as rude to him as you are to me Era"

he spit my name at me, making it known he dispised me...fine. if thats his intentions then so be it. he continued to speak.

"he will not hesitate to kill you. valued member as you are, if you mock him its asking for it...hn.." ....long enough sentences? thats the longest ive heard him talk the entire trip......eep.....there is probably no blood in his head from all that running........pity. i laughed. a low and dark one at that.

"your master cannot take me down uchiha. i know of his powers. his eye techniques do nothing against mine " i had researched him a bit when i seen him listed in the book of the most wanted. he interested me, but when i found of his techniques and that he was only basicailly a puppet controlled by a man who's name was 'Nagato' or something close to that....i was utterly dissapointed. his techniques were only summons, and the ability to blast his apponent with some type of sheild jutsu....with a 5 second weakness..... but of coarse, my eyes would get through his sheld...it isn't physical OR chakra contained.....and what i learned of his ability, it only blasted physical and chakra attacks...so what were my attacks based on i wonder?....sure, if anyone touched my skin, they would drop down dead...in an instant. no sheild would stop that..there was no saving you if i touched you. no techniques, nothing.....stupid god damn curse....ugh. if none of my kekkei genkeis are chakra based, but not PHYSICAL either....then what would it be?

is there even a NAME for that? my eyes could work just like the tsukuyomi, but it was activated somewhat differently.....all i had to do was touch the person, look them in the eyes, or if i have enough energy just look AT them...it puts the victom into an instant coma for as long as i desire, seeing everything that they fear, and anything painful that i can slip in to really make their stay a lot mroe horrific...all of the details i add drives them to madness so they never wake up...and whatever i do to them in the coma, happens in reality...slit their throat, done.....take out an eye, done.... i could make their spouse appear as an illusion, kill them however i want..and if i have enough energy, they will eventually die in the future when i wish it..but it takes me into immediate exhaustion when i deactivate my kekkei genkei. almost killed myself by accident from using it so much.....it was a very painful expeiriance..my body wanted to shudder at the old thought, but of coarse.......being a living human ice cube, it wasn't going to happen.

i would enjoy battling Pein. im not sure if my eyes would be blocked by his jutsus or not....i guess ill find out, if kisame is really dead that is..The Uchiha chuckled, taking me out of my own personal bubble.. id almost forgotten he was there.

"think what you'd like...i could take you down anyday, just the same as him..."

..was an Uchiha....challening....ME??.......haha...foolish man! what a stupid mistake to mock a hakai!! i snarled at him, my teeth gleaming and flashed..........i would show HIM who the weaker one is!! i could take him in a second! the Uchiha was much to full of himself......BAKA!!!!!! i was only 5 feet from him, i could get him so EASILY...i was faster than him....i already knew that much........he coudl see through my tricks though...in physicail terms that is.....id just use my eyes on him so he cant hit me..i growled again, a warning....he did nothing, he just continued running beside me. ignoring my presence......he still continued on to act like nothing happened.... and he did not take it seriously....making his situation worse...i decided to wait for a bit and catch him off guard......i would get him...i wouldn't even really hurt him. just show him that i can take him down.

it had been atleast 7 minutes, and i was still just as angry.....he definately wasn't getting off thinking he could push a blood thirsty hakai around.....baka!....i glanced at him for 3 seconds..he was staring at me through the corner of his eye.......examining me almost....my stomache zapped and my face got all fuzzy and warm....but i couldn't identify these things..and i knew is my mind screamed 'bad bad bad bad BAD!' ...i saw him chuckle and grow into another evil smirk that he always played, at first i thought it was because he seen my odd reaction to him watching me, but that wasn't the case..............well he had smirked his last smirk.... 30 seconds later, just as my foot met the next branch to boost my run.........i kicked off to the side towards him, and lunged at him at full speed. ==|

Itachi's POV

[~+~] Era had tried to make a statement that she alone, could defeat Pein. my LEADER...... and as an Uchiha.....i had no leader.....which made him very very strong..if he is strong enough to rule over me, he would crush this child in a blink of an eye......she doesn't seem powerful at all.....though that ability she used against kisame was quite impresive....something i should watch for.....

"think what you'd like...i could take you down anyday, just the same as him..."

her eyes went cold....and she growled at me....a warning of some sort....haha, naive girl. as if an Uchiha would take to a warning of someone like hers. she would not have the guts to battle me. no one did. sure, she was a mouthy one.....obviously has the ability to take care of herself if she took down kisame in 10 seconds tops...and kisame was a worthy opponent......and i couldn't say she cheated.....because in the world of the shinobi.....no one could cheat............i could take her down, i have the sharingan. nothing escapes that.

Era growled again, this time making herself known...i chuckled lightly and a smirk somehow found its way onto my face...a very rare event.... but i could not help it, she got angry so easily..such a weakness. pitiful waste for someone who has such interesting powers......Pein hadn't told me much about her.....just that touching her was OFF LIMITS.........at first i had thought he wanted her for his harem or something in that category...............his whore. but then when i got a look at her file a bit....i seen why... if you touch her skin, you DIE. just drop dead out of the blue.....one poke by accident, one caress of any sort, sends you straight to hell. so thats what those gloves are for... from what the file said in that department, she murdered her entire clan with that power. at a very very younge age....7 or 8. i couldn't quite remember. somewhere around there.......

i glanced over to her without her noticing the shift in my eyes, to sort of get an idea of her, public personel you could say.....her hair was coal black....and quite smikey in some random areas...but in a nice way. what most women call 'layers'...but these were natural, they looked better....... her eyes were circled in thick black lashes, long and curled infront of her porcelan face..but her hair covered half of it..her bangs were pinned on her left ear by 3 red senbon pins....... criss crossing eachother just infront of her ear....the black side bangs just barely showing her different coloured eye...and above her right eye, on her eye brow was a peircing. red black and silver...interesting. i wonder how many she had?.....she wore a mask on her face, it was a black half mask. it covered her face up to just above her nose, revealing the entire top half of her face.....her twisted, twilight coloured eyes....

itachi hissed at himself internally. he meant nothing of that..just that they were weird...one was blue..and one was green..like where did you see THAT?...ive seen many eye colours being a sharingan user.......red,blue,black,green,yellow,white,CLEAR,brown,pink....all of the listed.....but never two different ones. they interested me. thats all....i moved my gaze down more. she wore a lone black hooded coat of some sort. it had a zipper in the middle and lots of stitching....fishnets...a million CHAINS... and other un neccasary zippers everywhere on it? it was like she was..GOTH or something....wow...rarely seen those chicks around these days..unless they worshipped zombies or something like kakuzo...as i recall the coat was called a HOODIE......and it held an interesting symbol on the back that read 'Hakai' in scripted Kanji....her last name.......she must have made that jacket herself then....moving on.

it came down to her mid hips, hanging to her figure quite nicely unlike most woman, and it wasnt very loosely fitted at all....she was just tiny...she had a very nice and small frame...but she was still slended and shaped... a cut off skirt hung loosly from her torso, quite short for someone like her to be wearing i would have guessed..it was black and red..one square hanging cloth hung in the front, cut off on each side to show the fishnets she had underneith, and then the back cloth. they were connected by two loose chains on either side..she wore fishnets beneith her tiny skirt, and they only went down to about 6 inches above her knee....and she had long slender legs.....a creamy pale colour...the colour of the moon...how nice. she sported knee high boots, with chains,clips,and zippers everywhere just like her hoodie.... it was interesting.....that was a combination id never seen either..........what an odd girl, and she was what...16?? she was different i guess.......she was even somewhat beaut-..but before i could finish my thoughts, she lunged for my throat!

i Had no time to stop her, she was a fast opponent. even when i used chakra in my feet to stop on a tree i dropped Kisame [HAH FISH BOY HAHA xD srry continue with the story] , and as she came at me i could see what she was going to do, foolish child. i went to kick at her adomen, but i only ended up kicking AIR!! where she once was, was now faded into a blur as her fist connected with my cheek! i felt my face pulse in heat with the blood flow as i spirolled to the ground!! before she could get to me again i performed a couple hand signs under my cloak and hid in the far off trees....leaving a clone to face her.

HOW DID SHE OUT MATCH MY SPEED!?-..its not even that she was faster, but she MOVED out of the way, my sharingan didn't catch it!!? i heard her cuss as she killed my clone....she KILLED IT?? just like that-? she KILLED IT?...........hn..........i peeked through the tall tree, it conceiled me well......the thick branches and leaves would do well on covering my black hair and peircingly noticeable red eyes....she stood where my clone was last sitting, and she had her arms crossed and she was leaning more on her right leg..where her weapon pouch resided. then i noticed that the glove on her right hand was missing........so thats how she killed my clone so quickly....she just touched it. how much chakra does that use up on her? is it a jutsu she just always has placed? or natural?....it was dangerous......note to self uchiha, dont let the Hakai touch you.

"Get your ass out here Itachi.."

Era wanted a fight, id give her one. id use my tsukuyomi on her...ha. Pein wouldn't need to know the truth, id just say she attacked without reason. and had to stop her before she touched me....yes....it would work just fine.........

"hn...."

i jumped from my hiding spot and landed with an 'oof' about 15 feet from her......i needed to stay a good distance away from her. close combat was bad with this one...or so it seems, seeing she somehow avoided my moves......it probably had something to do with that move she used on Kisame...yes! that was it........i used my eyes to look at her stomache, a life form of her chakra suddenly came into my veiw, and it was at FULL capasity. there was NO use of it at ALL!??? how is that possible?? and she had LOTS of chakra too.......about the same ammount as Peins.......my eyes narrowed, maybe she was tougher then i would have thought....but she was still an infant to me...her chakra colour was-....RED?? it wasn't blue......or even green...it was RED??...a firey red...

"stop gauking at me Uchiha. im not a peice of meat for your collection. so come on, show me what you can do, i-ta-chi-KUN."

she mouthed the words, teasing me yet she was still just as harsh and cold.... a smirked playfully happened itself upon her face and she held out her hand. palm facing up, moving her fingers gesturing me to start.

"..hn...you asked for this...Er-a-chann" and i activated my tsukuyomi.