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"Okay let's see how strong you really are!" Kisame said.

The Rowdyruff boys walked out into the middle of the front yard of the base.

"First we are going to start you off easy by sending Tobi in. He is our weakest member." Deidara said.

"Deidara-sama!" Tobi whined.

"Don't complain, just fight!" Kisame yelled.

Tobi got into a fighting stance.

The Rowdyruff boys started to float into the air.

'So they can fly?' Itachi thought but kept his face emotionless.

"What in the world are you doing? What is that? Some type of jutsu?" Kisame yelled.

"Why do you keep using words that we don't know?" The boy with red hair asked.

"Butch, Boomer get into fighting formation number five!" Brick commanded.

'So Brick is the leader.' Itachi made a mental note.

Brick shot up into the sky. Boomer went left and Butch shot to the right.

"Where the hell did they go?" Kisame asked confused.

Itachi didn't worry about them escaping because there is a barrier around the base that only they knew how to get out of.

Tobi looked around frantically. "Where are they?" Tobi whined.

Deidara chuckled quietly to himself. He loved to see his current partner in distress.

Boomer appeared to the right of Tobi and flew so fast into him that he was sent flying into a tree and was unconscious in an instant.

Brick and Butch came out of the bushes.

"Nice job Boomer!" Brick congratulated his brother.

"Yeah! We didn't even have to complete the formation to defeat this wimp!" Butch gestured toward the unconscious Tobi.

"Well, he is our weakest member." Kisame said.

'If they could beat Tobi so easily, why not give them a little bit of a challenge this time?' He thought to himself.

"Deidara, you're up next. Kisame, join him." Itachi said quietly.

"What?" Deidara and Kisame said in unison. "But I can handle these guys without fish boy here!" Deidara screamed in a whiny voice.

"You know I hate that nickname!" Kisame screamed across the field.

Itachi wondered to himself how his teammates ever made it into Akatsuki.

"Fishy?" Brick chuckled. "It totally fits you!" Brick and his brothers laughed to themselves.

"Hey you little red haired brat! Don't you laugh at me!" Kisame said, his face getting red.

Itachi coughed a little to make the men shut up. They remembered Itachi's threat from earlier and were not willing to meet the same fate as their medic. They had no intention of retiring from the Akatsuki any time soon so they shut their mouths and waited for Itachi to give the signal to start the battle. Itachi nodded and they were off.

"This should be fun!" Deidara said as he cracked his knuckles.

He walked out into the field while glaring at the flying boys. They stared back just as intensely as he did. Deidara dug his hand into his pouch full of clay and let his hands chew the clay up as he waited for his opponents to attack. Deidara jumped aside into the bushes to reveal Kisame with his huge sword.

"Okay boys; be sure to be very cautious with these guys. They seem to know what they're doing unlike our last opponent." Brick advised.

The boys were looking every which way they could. What they didn't notice was the tiny clay bird coming up from behind. By the time they noticed the bird, it was too late. It exploded sending the boys flying and hitting the ground hard. Kisame took this chance to attack. He began to charge at them at full speed.

"This is for laughing at me earlier!" Kisame yelled as his sword connected with Brick's back causing a giant crater around Brick.

Kisame jumped back, leaned his sword on his shoulder and smirking because he got his revenge. He never did like the boy. Then again, Kisame didn't like anyone.

"Well this one is done for!" Kisame said triumphantly.

Brick's eyes shot open and stood up as Kisame said this. Itachi noticed this and began to smirk.

"What are you smirking at?" Kisame asked, irritated at his partner.

Itachi only pointed behind him. Kisame spun around only to be punched in the face by Brick. Kisame was sent flying back several feet. He slowly got up, rubbing his jaw. "Why you little brat!"

"Is that all you can say? How about using other words or are they too big for poor fishy?" Brick taunting him.

"Oh I have a lot more names for you but I'll do that later. Right now we're fighting!"

While Brick was fighting with Kisame, Butch and Boomer weren't having too much luck with their opponent. They were trying to find Deidara when another bomb blew up behind them.

"Okay I am really getting tired of all these bombs!" Boomer complained.

"You got that right!" Both boys looked around them, carefully examining every little detail. Butch spotted another little white bird flying toward them.

"Fly up!" Butch yelled.

Boomer complied and both boys shot up into the sky leaving blue and green strips of light behind them.

'Now where did they go?' Deidara thought.

He tried to search for their chakra signature to make sure they weren't close by. He decided it was time to make his move. He dug his hand into his pouch full of clay and let his hand chew up some more of the clay. When his hand was done chewing, he pulled out his hand to find a little clay bird.

"Ah, the beautiful of art!"

With a poof, the little white bird transformed into a giant white bird. Deidara hopped on and they soon started to fly. Boomer just happened to be flying a little bit higher than Deidara when he began to fly.

'Oh this is going to be good!' Boomer thought as he smirked at what he was going to do to the hot headed blonde.

Boomer shot down in front of the bird causing it to move backward. Boomer shot up instantly and almost knocking Deidara off of his bird.

'Ok you little pip squeak. Where are you?' Deidara thought scanning the area.

Boomer appeared behind him. Deidara sensed a presence behind him and quickly spun around to meet his opponent's bright blue eyes. Deidara narrowed his eyes at him.

"Guess you're not the only one who can fly!" Deidara flew his clay bird toward Boomer but then he disappeared.

'How many times it this guy going to disappear?' Deidara thought frustrated that the blonde boy.

Deidara was suddenly surrounded by strips of blue. The strips of blue enclosed him and the bird in a blue ball of light. The light dissipated and Deidara found Boomer in front of him, smiling.

"What are you smiling about?" Deidara asked wondering what happened.

"Oh nothing really. Just at what is going to happen right about...now!"

Deidara's clay bird broke into a million pieces and the next thing he knew, he was hurtling toward the ground.

The last thing Deidara heard was, "Now Butch!" He felt something hard like a fist hitting the back of his head, knocking him out cold. Deidara landed on the ground with a thud. Itachi could only shake his head with disgust.

'That is what he gets for being too cocky.' He thought. Now his attention was on his partner who was currently facing off three opponents.

"Guess Deidara wasn't all that much of a challenge for you guys, huh?" Kisame asked.

They shook their heads.

"Well then looks like I will just have to defeat you all myself." Kisame gave a toothy grin.

"I highly doubt you will be able to do that!" Boomer yelled.

"Oh we'll see about that!" Kisame said.

They charged toward him. Kisame brought out his sword. As soon as they were in reach, he swung his sword horizontally. Of course they dodged his attack. They flew up and came straight down pounding their fists into the ground causing the ground to shake and crumble from the impact. Kisame had to a take a few steps back to steady himself. The boys took this opportunity to strike. They flew toward Kisame, putting their fist in front of them while letting out a battle cry. Kisame screamed but was quickly knocked out by their powerful punch.

"So much for being a challenge." Brick said brushing off a little dirt off of his shoulder.

'So now I know their battle strategy.' Itachi thought. Itachi got up and started to clap. The boys turned around to look at Itachi.

"Well done boys. You were able to knock out Tobi, his partner Deidara and my partner Kisame, but can you handle battling me?" Itachi gave then one raised eyebrow.

"You bet we can!" The boys said together with confidents clearly stated in their voices.

"Okay then... Let's fight." With that Itachi disappeared with a poof.

"Wow, where did he go?" Boomer said.

"I don't know but I have a bad feeling about him." Brick said.

"Yeah he seems to be the toughest in the group." Butch added.

Suddenly there was a blur of black and red and Boomer flew to the floor unconscious.

"What just-" But Butch was not able to finish his sentence because he too was knocked out.

"Taking us down one by one. Clever. But it isn't going to work on me!" Brick shot up into the sky.

'He's good but he won't be able to get me!' Brick thought.

He finally spotted Itachi in the bushes.

'Ha! I got you now!' Brick flew straight down toward Itachi. He threw a punch at Itachi's face. Itachi poofed into a log.

'What the-' Then Brick was knocked out too.

'I guess it is safe to keep you. You defeated most of them.' Itachi thought as he walked away. He silently chuckled to himself which could only mean one thing. He had something up his sleeve.


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