I quickly rounded the corner and was hit, full force by a blur of black and red. It sent me tumbling backwards, over the railing, towards the water. I caught myself, balancing out my chakra in my feet. I jumped back up, flipped over the railing and landed where I had stood before I was hit.

My reaction was by far faster than that of my adversary. The thing that I ran into was still crumpled on the ground, a mess of black and red. There was another person standing next to the crumpled figure. His face was shadowed but it was obvious that there was something different about him. He was blue, and had gills. Kisame Hoshigaki.

I had been told about the organization when the Jiraiya had first arrived here. If I remember correctly, Kisame traveled with Itachi. That would mean that the person I ran into, that was now lying on the ground, is none other than the great Itachi Uchiha himself. That meant that it was very dangerous for me to be here. I had to leave before this turned ugly.

By the time I realized this he was already standing. I began to turn away. "Kiyomi," his smooth voice spoke emotionlessly. I froze at the sound of my name coming from his lips. I could feel the fire of my rage licking at the fringes of sanity. It took all of my strength not to turn back and attack him.

"Itachi," I spat. I hated the sound of his name. It ran icy chills down my spine and made my stomach turn in disgust.

"I thought I had killed you. It's nice to see you again," his voice made it sound like that was a lie, but his… mental state made it seem like it wasn't. I've always been good at being able to tell what goes on inside someone else's mind.

"Ha," I laughed sarcastically. "I would say, I wish I could say the same, but that'd be just as much of a lie as what you just said, and I'd like to think that I'm better than you when it comes to telling the truth."

"Hm," was his response.

"You two know each other?" Kisame asked.

"Unfortunately," I replied.

"Ha, sounds like you knew him well," Kisame said.

"So tell me, my old friend, what are the Akitsuki doing here?" I smeared the term of endearment so that he'd know that I didn't mean it.

"You talk about a secret organization as though it's a topic for the dinner table, girlie. I suggest you turn around and forget everything you've heard. I'd hate to have to kill someone like you." Itachi looked at Kisame as he spoke. He seemed to be trying to tell Kisame what he had said was the wrong thing to say to me, which it was.

"Funny, I was just about to tell you the same thing. If we fought, you wouldn't be able to touch me."

"My hands don't need to touch you, just my blade," he said, overconfident.

"Kiyomi," Itachi said my name again. I could feel my skin warming to match the heat of my rage. The edges of my vision began to turn red. "Lets not fight, not here. Why don't we just sit down and talk for a little while. I think this is all just a big misunderstanding." He was trying to get me somewhere where no one could hear me scream, I guessed.

"I neither need nor do I want to 'sit down and talk', Uchiha."

"Then what do you want?" It seemed to be a surprise to him that I didn't want to talk with him about why he did what he did to me.

"I want you to get out of Kohana and leave Naruto and his team alone." My voice was strong and confident.

"What would you be willing to give for that?" he asked. I just glared at him.

"Itachi," Kisame spoke again. He always seems to do more damage to himself when he speaks. "She knows about us. You know that it's our duty to bring her back with us."

Itachi sighed. "Idiot," he said. So that's what he was getting at. He wanted me to sacrifice myself for team 7, agree to come with him if they'll leave them alone.

I shook my head, chuckling. "I guess I know what you want, now. But you should know that I don't go own without a fight. And Kisame just said that it was your 'Duty' to bring me back. You take care of duty to allegiance before missions, if I remember your rules correctly."

"She does know you well, Itachi. Who is this girl?" Kisame asked.

"She's no one," he said coldly.

"Yep, I'm no one, so you do best to just forget about me, and your mission, and go home."

He smirked, something I didn't expect to see on him. "No one does a lot of talking."

"DON'T TOUCH IT!" I yelled at the little black haired boy who was about to touch the fledglings in the nest. "Their mom won't come back if you do!"

He turned around faster than I had ever seen anyone my age turn. "Where did you come from?"

"Nowhere," I replied.

"Well why don't you go back there?" he said. That was rude.

"Not until you leave the birds alone."

"Would you rather have their parents not return or me to train using their tree and have the possibility of me hitting them?"

"You aren't training here." My voice held a command in it.

"Oh, and who are you to say I'm not?" he asked.

"I'm no one," I didn't give my name out to strangers, especially mean strangers. "I'll show you a better place to train if you leave the birds alone."

"Well, no one does a lot of talking, doesn't she?" he asked as he jumped down from the tree to the ground. "Lead the way." I glared at him. "Shut up!" Even I could hear the growl in my voice.

He laughed at my rage.

"Kiyomi," A voice called from somewhere behind me. I easily recognized this voice.

"Oh, a Uchiha family reunion, how nice," I said to Itachi. "I'm over here Sasuke!" I yelled to him.

It took less than a second for the two to flee. Sasuke appeared beside me less than a second later, or rather my clone of Sasuke. I dismissed the clone and continued on my way home with a lot more to think about than before.