Chapter 7
One year had passed since Uzumaki Naruto left Konoha, all of his friends and his only love.
Thoughts of him still passed the mind of the one's close to him, however those thoughts had to wait... Konoha was in the middle of a war, due to the assasination of the tyrant who took over the Wave Country, the Rock Country decided to bring Konoha to his knees.
Death was all over the place, corpses laying everywhere...
In the Hokage's Tower Sakura and Tsunade tried to heal the many wounded people, while Sasuke and Sai stopped who ever entered the Hokage's office.
Outside things were nasty, Fire burned the village to the ground, enemy shinobis killed everyone who showed resistance but Konoha wasn't going down that easily, at the north gate Kakashi plus Gai and his team were having the battle of their lives, one by one the Rock Country shinobis felled, the same thing happened at the rest of the gates, the enemy troops were backing away due the greatly skilled Jounins and Chunnins of Konoha.
However something completely unexpected happen, a tremendous wave rampaged against the village, everyone struggled not to drown. When the water finally come to an end two figures were standing above the Hokage Tower.
Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigake Kisame had unfinished business with Konoha.
The first one's to notice the Akatsuki group were Kakashi and Gai.
"Gai let's go!" Kakashi ordered while jumping to the top of the Hokage Tower.
"Okay. Lee, Ten-Ten, Neji you wait here." Said Gai while doing the same thing that Kakashi.
Both of the Konoha Jounins landed in front of Itachi and Kisame.
"Itachi, I take care of this scum, you go on ahead and look for the Kyuubi brat." Kisame advised.
"Not so fast!" Screamed Kakashi while launching himself against Itachi with a Raikiri on his hand.
Kisame stepped in front and tried to slice the copy-ninja but without luck, Kakashi jumped on top of Kisame's head projecting himself to Itachi.
Raikiri successful! Kakashi hit Itachi right in the hearth or so it seemed...
"This isn't right..." Thought Kakashi.
In an instant Itachi's body exploded, Kakashi hit the floor unconscious.
"Kakashi!" Gai shouted.
"Ha ha falling in Itachi's exploding clone jutsu... so naive." Kisame mocked.
From the ground an arm was raised full of electricity that almost chopped the shark's head, instead Kisame dodged backwards.
"I don't fall that fast." Stated Kakashi as he landed near Gai.
"You got me worried there Kakashi... I thought my eternal rival was dead." Said Gai making his nice-guy position.
Kisame took that chance to ran into the Jounins, he raised the Samehada above his head and swung it down, Gai dodged to the side sweeping Kisame legs, the shark used his sword to leap backwards just to be countered by a direct kick at his head by Kakashi. While on the air Kisame leaped backwards and shouted while doing a numerous hand seals:
"Suiton: Suikoudan no jutsu!" A water shark emerged from the ground heading into Gai.
Gai placed his arms in front of him to ease the impact, instead a huge lightning came crashing down against the water shark making it disappear.
Maito Gai looked at Kakashi, he was panting hard.
"I owe you one Kakashi."
Kakashi made a few hand seals and smashed his hand to the ground.
"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" Five dogs jumped from the smoke at Kisame.
The Akatsuki member just swirled his sword devastating each one of the summons.
They all disappeared as they arrived, in a poof of smoke, what Kisame didn't expect was for Gai to show up and try to elbow him. The shark blocked it with the Samehada making Gai's arm to bleed intensely.
"Kakashi do it now!" Shouted Gai.
From behind him the copy-ninja jumped with a Raikiri and shoved it through Kisame's chest.
The shark widen his eyes in complete surprise.
"Maybe I underestimated you..." Whispered Kisame as he fell to the ground with a hole in his chest.
"That takes care of one... How's your arm Gai?" Asked Kakashi.
"It's fine!" He answered while doing the nice-guy pose once again that day.
-Hokage Tower-
"I think that was the last of them..." Sai was interrupted by a huge explosion in the celling.
Tsunade, Sakura, Sai and Sasuke ducked avoiding the debris.
When the dust settled a man was standing in front of the Konoha shinobis.
"Nice to see you again...little brother."
"Itachi... This time I'll kill you once and for all!" Screamed Sasuke.
