Dangerous Kitten

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. The good news is that I finished up a couple of my other stories and that Dangerous Kitten has been bumped up to a higher priority story as far as update rates go. So I'm hoping to update this at least once every two weeks, but we'll see. April is going to be a pretty busy month for me. Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this chapter.

Chapter Notation: A group of crows is referred to as a Murder of Crows. Oh and I'm not sure if the crows' ability in this chapter is canon or not. It does sound like something Itachi would come up with though. Happy reading.

Chapter 10

"Suki, I understand." Itachi wasn't completely foolish. "Believe me, I understand that you want to avenge our family." The tigress that stood before him right now was a far cry from the kitten he had known all those years ago and she wanted blood. "But Danzo will not be an easy kill and killing him could cause chaos within the Leaf and outside of it."

He didn't like that fact, but Danzo did occupy an illustrious position in their village. While the man had yet to achieve his dream of becoming Hokage, his influence was still deep and unyielding.

A blur of orange and lavender flits over towards them. "I believe that she understands that." It took Itachi a moment to realize it was Jugo coming to his 'defense.' "That's not going to stop her from pursuing him though, but Karin is right, Suki."

His gaze was almost pleading with her. Why was the gentle giant trying to save him, Itachi wonders to himself. The other man's compassion was impressive, but what was it actually rooted in?

"I'm not going to kill him." Suki shakes her head before looking at Obito. "You're going to tell me everything that I need to know about how to defeat him."

Damn it. What could he do? Itachi was barely able to move at all. He could hardly go after her himself.

"Of course." Obito smiles at her. "The first thing you need to now about Danzo is that he possesses ten Sharingans on his arm." Damn it! Maybe, he could burn the other male Uchiha's tongue off or something of that nature. This was just getting worse and worse.

They all knew what that meant. Danzo was wearing the corpses of at least some of their fallen Clan as armor. It was such a grotesques concept that even Suigetsu vomits.

"Okay, that is some sick shit." He wipes his mouth. "Even by my standards. Sheesh, the guy is like approaching Sasori levels of creepy."

That was a surprisingly accurate way to look at it. It would have been amusing, if the kitten wasn't being so damn reckless. There had to be something that he could do.

Obito shakes his head. "As long as at least one Sharingan on his arm is open, he can turn his body into an illusion and reform after seemingly 'mortal' wounds." The idea of setting the other Uchiha's tongue on fire was looking more and more appealing.

"That doesn't sound good." Karin bites her lower lip. "I don't like saying it Suki, but maybe you should leave this freakshow alone."

That poor red head had no idea who she was dealing with. For some reason, kittens were just horrible at following orders or even sensible advice.

"He ordered Itachi to butcher our family." Suki might as well have been a cobra at this point. "He doesn't deserve to live and I'm going to make him suffer for what he did." She was hissing just as loudly as any actual snake.

Obito laughs as if to prove that he was indeed insane. "Every sixty seconds one of his Sharingans will close." He pauses. "So you merely have to survive against him for ten minutes to change the tide of battle."

Suigetsu really should do that Water Gun Technique castration. Obito was practically begging to be punished in Itachi's mind now.

"Very well." Suki nods as she gestures for Karin and Jugo to follow her. "Let's go. I'll have Jugo watch Karin's back and Karin can heal me, if necessary."

Well, if nothing else, Suki was capable of being strategic to some degree. Itachi just really wished she would stop being so foolish and potentially rushing off to her own death every other day.

"Coming." Her teammates are at her side in an instance and with that, they were off.

Itachi sighs as he watches their forms grow smaller and smaller. Once they were out of sight, he did the only thing he could do in his current condition. He sends a murder of crows after them.

A few hours later, Danzo wasn't sure whether to be amused or infuriated by the youngest Uchiha's boldness. He settles on amusement. The child thought she could intimidate him.

Dear Danzo,

I know what you did and what is underneath those bandages. If you don't wish to be exposed to the rest of the Leaf Village as the murderer you are, you will come to the Forest of Death at midnight or I will come for you.

Suki.

A ridiculously bold or foolish one, Danzo decides. She didn't bother trying to code it at all. Straight and to the point. It was almost refreshing, but it wouldn't be enough to save her if she insisted on this path.

"You came." He hears a feminine voice nearby. "I thought you'd hide like a coward in your ivory tower. A soft voice, but every word drips with venom. "I didn't know that you ever left it other than to order genocides and to rob the graves."

Well, that was probably fair from her perspective. "Brat, you shouldn't speak of things you do not understand." Though he wouldn't tolerate such insolence from an overgrown child who knew nothing of the world.

She was fortunate that Itachi had begged for her life. Danzo shakes his head at the thought as he begins unwrapping his bandages. Otherwise, he probably would have killed her for her vile mouth alone.

"You shouldn't send a boy to kill his family then." Suki glares at him. "I'd say you'd live to regret that mistake, but you won't."

Ten minutes. "That's odd." She wouldn't last more than one or two at most, Danzo thinks to himself with a smirk. "I was about to say the same to you."

The crows fly faster and faster. Itachi knew that he couldn't be there physically, but he could have at least his Summons there. Honestly, what had Suki been thinking?

"There's Jugo." Itachi watches through the eyes of his crows.

That had to mean Suki was nearby. She had even said as much. Her intention was to have Jugo protect Karin and the red head was there to heal her injuries, should she need healed.

They were in the Forest of Death apparently. That was another clever choice of Suki. Close to the Leaf, but far enough away that most ninjas probably wouldn't hear the sound of battle. Maybe.

"Damn it." Itachi sighs as he sees Suki had already found Danzo.

Suki smirks at him. "You really shouldn't be so confident in your abilities." That's when he realizes what had happened. So, she had been listening to Obito.

Danzo had already undone the bandages on his arm. That meant he had ten minutes maximum left of his invincibility. Minus however long Suki had been taunting him.

"I'll lend her assistance, but it seems she's grown at least incrementally less foolish today." He chuckles to himself.

As he watches a crimson red eye close, Itachi decides it that had been for precisely sixty seconds. Danzo was too smart to allow himself to be talked into oblivion though, but it was a good start.

Suki must have sensed the same thing because she charges at Danzo. Though there was most assuredly more than one Suki.

"LION'S BARRAGE!" She was now attacking from the air.

Those kicks and punches were vicious. Bone crushing. That was another good way to describe it.

Had Danzo been a regular elderly man, he would have been dead. That sort of damage to fragile old bones would have been fatal, but he wasn't. He was Danzo and easily able to use the corpses of their kin to dematerialize and appear behind Suki.

"A Shadow Clone." Danzo rematerializes behind her. "I can't believe that I fell for such a childish trick, but I assure you that it won't happen again." He was about to attack Suki, but a blur passes by them.

It took Itach a moment to realize what had actually happened. Jugo truly meant it when he said he was Suki's shield.

"DIE!" He was also psychotic at the moment. "DIE!" His arm was now made out of chakra and had taken on the shape of an axe

An axe that he uses to cut off the elderly ninja's head. Sadly, that wouldn't do the trick and they all knew it. That didn't make it any less terrifying as Itachi's eyes scan their immediate surroundings to see where Danzo had gone though.

He could reappear anywhere. Suki was playing a dangerous game and it was one that made his heart pound in his chest, even though miles separated them and he was only a spectator.

"Jugo!" Karin's voice sounds justifiably horrified. "Calm down! You can't lose control right now."

Her efforts were in vain though. "Baku!" Danzo had apparently reappeared and Summoned the giant tapir (or something along those lines, Itachi wasn't entirely sure what Baku actually was) creature to his aid. "It's time to end these childish games! Attack!"

It was then that Itachi notices another eye had closed. Good. That made two. There were eight more to go.

"Jugo, control yourself." Suki hisses as she narrowly avoids being sucked into Baku's mouth.

Itachi had no choice. He had to act. "It's powerful with its suction, but vulnerable to fire." So he did the only thing he could do, he had murder of crow hurl fireballs from their mouths straight into Baku.

The beast roars in pain as Suki looks up at the crows and glowers. Nevermind. He had been wrong earlier.

'She's still just as foolish as ever.' Even now while fighting a formidable opponent such as Danzo, Suki was upset that someone was helping her.

Suki glares at the crows. She couldn't believe this. Itachi was more than half dead and he still was interfering with her life.

"You have no right!" She hisses as Suki quickly darts away from the massive beast that was suffering from the attack.

Itachi had actually taught his crows how to throw fireballs. It would have been funny, if it wasn't so damn enraging.

Even worse, the crows look apologetic. She was about to fry some birds when she remembers something very important.

"TAKE THIS!" Danzo was still on the battlefield and despite his age, he was still strong.

CRACK! "Ahhh!" The bastard had apparently decided it was in his best interest to target the medic of their group.

Suki would have none of that though. "Chidori Sharp Spear!" A large spear forms and she slams it straight into his treacherous heart.

There was just one problem. He still had eight eyes to go. That meant she hadn't killed him. Yet.

"Vacuum blade!" The fossil reforms and stabs her in the back with some kind of blade.

The pain was immense and Suki could feel blood pouring from the wound. That was no normal weapon. He was channeling chakra in it and it felt as though her insides were on fire.

"DAMN YOU!" She yanks the blade out of her back and whirls around to face him.

Their firsts and legs were in a battle of wills. Faster and faster, they went. The very earth trembled underneath the force of their blows and against the might of their speed.

For someone who had one foot in the coffin, he was fast. "You should have just accepted things they were. "He grimaces. "Itachi understood what had to be done and he went so far out of his way to keep you safe and yet, here you are. Throwing your life away."

Something inside Suki snaps as he says those words. "You have no right to speak his name." Hatred. It was a feeling that Suki was all too familiar with, but rarely had it ever burned brighter even inside her soul. "He is the boy you sent to do your dirty work. So you could become a glorified grave robber!"

A sword made out of lightning was how she would make him suffer. She slams into his chest, brutally slicing into him. Not that it did any good.

He smirks as he fades into nothingness and reappears a few feet away from her. "You're such a child." He takes a deep breath. "Always allowing your emotions to control you. Well, I suppose it's a shame really. Such potential was wasted on someone like you." That's when he expels a giant sphere of wind from his mouth.

It slams into Suki and was more than enough to make her scream. She could feel it cut into her skin. She was bleeding badly, but she couldn't help but smirk at one small victory.

"Another one." The words were barely more than a whisper to her own ears.

So she knew that Danzo hadn't heard them, but a third Sharingan eye had just closed. Three minutes had passed. If she could get them all to close, the tide would change in her favor.

"Suki!" Jugo's and Karin's cries were frantic.

It was touching in a way. The red head was injured and Jugo had to tend to Karin's broken…something, but they were still worried about her.

"I'm fine." She slowly raises to her feet. "He won't be though."

It would be ironic, if a Fire Jutsu would be what killed him. For now though. A fire dragon should reduce him to ash quite nicely. At least for a seconds anyway.

"Brave words for a child who is about to die." Danzo smirks at her.

He was gearing up for another attack. She could feel it, but he never got the chance. The crows descended and slammed into his eyes.

It wasn't enough to kill him, but his screams were extremely satisfying as the dragon roars to light. The mythological beast made short work of this latest 'reincarnation of Danzo and a fourth eye closes.

It didn't take long for him to reform though. "Suki, look out!" Jugo's warning was only half successful.

Giant waves of wind where now being thrown at her. Suki dodges, but misses being sliced to ribbons by what she knew was likely a fraction as she Summons Garuda.

Blood. There was blood running down her arm. The pressure from the nearby wind waves must have cut it, but she was alive.

"A second Summon was unexpected." Danzo smirks at her. "It seems you really are related to Itachi, after all." He glances at the crows. No doubt pondering whether he should eliminate them now or later. "It's a pity that you aren't nearly as intelligent as him though."

Let him ramble. Suki smirks as she sees another eye close. That made five. It was time to put her Genjutsu Skills to work.

"It's a pity that you aren't half the tactician you boast of being." She snarls at him as she charge up another Chidori and Garuda flies straight at Danzo. "IT'S TIME FOR YOU DIE!"

Let him think her a stupid child who had no sense of strategy. It would be all the sweeter when his blood stained her sword and she spat on his corpse.