Key:

"Speaking"

'Thought'

"Mystical being speaking"

'Mystical being thought or jutsu'

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A/N: Alright before someone else asks it is true that Sasuke, Shikamaru, and all them are still in the academy but remember, Neji, Tenten, and Lee are all year ahead of them so they are already genin and the rest of the group are about to become genin. Just to clear up anything that may come up later. Enjoy! ^^

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Lee and Guy where the first to their respectful targets as they both did their grand opening technique in unison as they flung themselves at Naruto and Itachi. Naruto and Itachi stood there motionlessly as the attacks came, aimed at their heads. Both Naruto and Itachi moved their hands up catching their legs an inch away from the side of their heads and in one swift movement used Guy's and Lee's momentum and smashed them into each other. Neji and Tenten where soon on Naruto as was Kakashi on Itachi.

'How come nobody sticks with the plan when they get angry?' Kakashi thought as his kunai was block by Itachi's. Neji was throwing everything he could at Naruto in the way of gentle fist but Naruto kept dodging or slapping away his attacks.

'Guess he knows of my bloodline's technique to know not to block my attacks directly' thought Neji as he stopped his push to leave enough room for Tenten to throw a kunai over his head. Just as the kunai flew over his head he began to charge again at Naruto. The kunai was deflected toward Neji cutting him on the shoulder. Neji came to a halt and analyzed the wound to find it was not that deep.

'Better be more careful. He is using our own strength against us' thought Neji and Tenten as they made a grave mistake. They looked Naruto in the eyes and Neji and Tenten where caught in a powerful genjutsu. As they fought in Naruto's genjutsu, Naruto steadily made his way to them picking up a kunai in the process and putting it to Tenten's neck. Just as Naruto was going for the kill Naruto stopped and brought up his arm to block the kick courteous of Lee, making Naruto slide away on his feet.

"You where going to kill your friend Naruto!" Lee yelled. Naruto just stared at Lee with emotionless eyes.

'I better not look into those eyes or I'm done for' thought Lee as he looked at Naruto's legs for his movement. Naruto just stood there as Neji and Tenten where starting to stand up.

"Look at his legs and not in the eyes. If you do he will get you into another genjutsu," Lee said.

"But then we can't face him at full strength! We will be relying off of predictions!" Neji said angrily knowing Lee was right. 'Hopefully Guy and Kakashi are fairing better than us.'

"Don't look at his eyes Guy! He will put you into a genjutsu!" Kakashi yelled as he blocked a punch from a clone Itachi while Itachi stood in the background holding up a one handed hand sign.

"Water Dragon no jutsu!" Kakashi yelled as a large water dragon shot toward Itachi.

"Grand Fireball no jutsu," Itachi said as a large fireball shot towards Kakashi's dragon. The two forces met and made a large steam cloud in the middle. Itachi looked at the cloud but suddenly Guy shot out of it quickly. Guy was about to hit Itachi but a Naruto blocked the attack and pushed Guy back slightly. Itachi and Guy looked at Naruto which was in the midst of blocking a bunch of weapons that where being thrown at him.

'How was he able to make a clone while blocking all those weapons?' Guy thought but was interrupted as an Itachi clone was sent at him.

Naruto was in the middle of blocking Tenten's Twin Towering Dragon technique while Neji and Lee throwing in any attacks they could if he tried to retreat. 'Hmm… I need to get out of this mess some how' thought Naruto as he did one handed hand signs at blinding speed and whispered "Sinking Sand no jutsu" effectively sliding him underground.

"Where did he go?" Neji said as all three walked up to where Naruto slid underground. Just as they stopped at the spot a thunderbolt shot Tenten and Lee from the side and knocking Neji off his feet. Neji tried to move but was unable to.

Neji looked over at Tenten and Lee to find them both knocked out and Naruto advancing onto him. "Why? Why are you doing this Naruto?" Neji asked.

As Naruto was right over him, Naruto said, "To test my strength." All Neji saw was the bottom of Naruto shoe before going into a harsh unconscious.

Naruto looked toward Itachi and to see how his battle was going. Guy could be seen knocked out with blood coming from a cut above the eye and many bruises scattered across the body along with his spandex suit torn up. Kakashi was no better except for he was not knocked out like his friend was. He seemed to be charging up for his last attack as his hand had lighting shooting out of it. "Chidori!" Kakashi yelled.

Naruto stood there copying the jutsu Kakashi just yelled. 'Hmm… interesting jutsu Kakashi. I'll store that away for later' Naruto thought as Itachi and Naruto both felt the presence of two figures followed by what seemed to be 30 other chakra sources; all ANBU level.

'Hmm… guess the Hokage sent reinforcements' thought Itachi as he continued to stare at Kakashi as he continued to charge up his Chidroi.

Just as Kakashi was about to lunge a large scythe was across his neck. "I wouldn't do that if I where you," said Hidan from behind Kakashi with Kakuzu beside Hidan. The Chidori Kakashi was charging was fading and Kakashi put up his hands in surrender. Hidan lowered his scythe and with Kakuzu knocking him out with a quick swipe to the back of the neck.

"So I see you two took care of everything here? Good, because we've got like 30 ANBU behind us so we need to take them out before we leave or they will follow us to no end," Hidan said as they got ready for the attack.

They where bursting through the trees throwing kunai like crazy while all four where blocking them with their own kunai and scythe. Suddenly Itachi had an idea. "Naruto lets try our new weapons," Itachi whispered.

Naruto nodded and they both said in unison "Mangekyou sharingan!"

Everything became clearer as his brain was able to read their attacks like child's play. "What is this? This feeling… it's amazing! I'm able read their attack much clearly now!' Naruto and Itachi thought.

"Naruto! Use amaterasu!" Itachi yelled over the sound of battle.

"Alright! Amaterasu!" Naruto and Itachi yelled in unison. Itachi got seven and Naruto hit five with the black flames. Naruto felt his eyes change but paid it no matter because of the pain he felt in eyes after using his mangekyou sharingan. 'Damnit! Why does it hurt so bad after using it for the first time!' Naruto thought as he looked over at Itachi who was in the same position.

As Hidan and Kakuzu finished off the stragglers Itachi made his way over to Naruto. "Using the mangekyou sharingan for the first time is going to hurt your eyes more than it will the second. Our eyes won't hurt at all the second time but if we use it a lot or in large quantities then they will," Itachi said as he looked into the eyes of his student and saw the fourth extension on Naruto's golden mangekyou sharingan.

"It also seems you have the fourth level of the sharingan," Itachi said as Naruto nodded. "I will have to help you learn how to use that as well."

Hidan and Kakuzu walked up to the sharingan pair and said "Damn that was some damn fire guys! I put the shit out!" Hidan said while putting chakra into his cloak and repairing the burn marks.

Itachi looked at the black flames and they disappeared from sight. "Hmm… strange, well whatever lets get going before they send more reinforcements," Kakuzu said before the four sprinted away from the bloody battlefield.

Itachi looked over at Naruto to see he was kind of depressed. "What's the matter?" Itachi whispered out of earshot from the two other members that where with them.

"I didn't want to hurt and act so cold toward my friends," Naruto said.

"Look it might be hard to believe but this will make all your friends stronger and believe it or not you as well. They will train hard to get you back and you will have to train even harder to lengthen the gap you have with everyone back in Kohona," Itachi said with a rare smile. Naruto seemed to brighten up again as they continued on their trek to the Akatsuki base.

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Tenten grumbled as she got up from her downed position in the field. She looked around to find that the rest of her team and Kakashi where up and checking all the dead bodies that where scattered throughout the field. 'Did Naruto and the rest of the men with the long black cloaks do this?' Tenten thought as she thought she was going to vomit from all the dead bodies that where around her.

"We got one that is still alive over here!" Lee yelled from across the field.

As the group ran up to Lee Kakashi asked "What happened and who did this to you?"

The ANBU with the Owl mask struggled to answer but still got the words out "the one with the large scythe said they where apart of a group know as Akatsuki," said Owl as Kakashi went wide eyed as he has heard the rumors of this organization. "He said that they where going to initiate Naruto and Itachi into the organization."

"Oh god," Kakashi said, "that was the organization Orochimaru joined when he defected from Kohona but eventually he left that organization as well. Alright what else did you find out?" Kakashi asked but when he looked down Owl was dead.

"We need to report this back to the Hokage ASAP," Guy said as the remaining ninja sprinted back to Kohona.

As they where sprinting back Tenten began to cry. "Whats wrong?" Guy asked jumping back to her.

"It's just that… how could Naruto do this to us? The reason he told us was totally not like him and now he is apart of a criminal organization? This is just to much," Tenten said between sobs.

"What did he say?" Guy asked fearing what he told the three genin.

"He said he did it to test his strength but do you think that is the real him? Do you think he set up this up since the start?" Tenten asked still crying.

"I don't know. Only time will tell," Guy said sadly.

"Well, do you think we will ever see him again?" Tenten asked desperately.

"Yes, I think we will see him again, and I hope he will be on our side," Guy said looking up at the sky. He knew everyone else was listening to their conversation but they needed to hear this as well as himself. The rest of the trip back was in silence as they all thought back to their fights and how powerful the pair of sharingan users have gotten and how much they have to train to bring back Naruto.

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A/N: Well hoped this was what you where looking for. I tried my best on the fight scenes but it was my first time writing one so I hope I did well!