Warning: I can't remember all of what happed here, so like with everything else in this story it will be different.

Just covering myself here as the changes are also to make it easier for me even if I do remember some of what happened.

Max's clones will be referred to as people, Mu will be referred to using male pronouns despite being Max's clone but Psi will be referred to as female.

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Mu sped through the trees like there was a fan girl on his tail, he would need this to look believable as an accident and the faster you were going the better it tended to look.

He was rewarded as the trees dropped away and he went flying into someone's open hand. Itachi had noticed his approach and caught Mu by the throat. Playing the panicked 'what-just-happened' card Mu just looked like he had just sobered up. At least he could breath, well if he was real.

"This isn't grandma's house," he said dumbly. "No offense dude but my grandma's prettier than you." He noticed Naruto and companions looking at him strangely. "I don't suppose you've seen a girl with blue hair around here, kinda short and annoying. No? I'll be on my way then." Mu tried to pry Itachi's fingers from his throat but got no where using that average civilians strength.

"Are you insane?" Naruto yelled. Sakura hadn't quite turned up yet so he didn't know of her supposed situation.

"No, I'm looking for my grandma's house." Mu found himself flying through the air, connecting solidly with the solid ground. He mused that if he had planed to use that excuse then he should have been a girl with a red hooded cloak.

"He's an S-ranked missing ninja!" Naruto informed him. Said Ninja had walked over and was pressing a foot to Mu's chest slowly crushing what would be his ribcage.

"Ah shit, today is not my day, damn black cats," Mu cursed. He noticed they had stopped fighting completely, they didn't want to hurt him as a civilian. He needed to get them to do something.

Itachi wasn't paying any attention to him so Mu slipped out a kunai fully intending to hamstring the foot crushing his chest. Itachi picked that point to move his foot and the kunai's blade sliced through the material and a good few centimetres of Itachi's calf.

The reaction was instantaneous as Mu was kicked away while the ninjas tried to use it to their advantage. Sakura dived out of the tree trying to sneak up behind Itachi. The missing nin wasn't S-Ranked for nothing though as he evaded the attacks. Sakura managed to drag Mu out of harms way.

"Where's Max?" Naruto asked, he had figured she would be stubborn and try to help. He was hoping she would be safe in the hospital.

"We couldn't find her. There was so much blood in the area I don't think she could have moved herself." Sakura informed them in the same way she told the next of kin when someone died. There was a silence as this sunk in.

"She could be alive, right?" Naruto asked pleadingly.

"If she is then she could be anywhere, in anyone's hands, enemy or allies," Sakura said shaking her head slightly. Naruto turned his gaze to Itachi, a burning fire in his eyes. Kakashi couldn't help but wonder what had become of the team that had worked so well together in the past.

Sasuke couldn't help but fear what would happen when Laura and Louise found out about this. Images of villages burning popped into his mind, fear not seen since Kyuubi in peoples eyes.

Sakura had obviously seen Sasuke's expression but mistaken it for pain over Max's possible demise.

"I'm sure she's ok, she'd want you to keep fighting," Sakura whispered. Mu hid a look of panic, that was dangerously close to confirming Max was alive.

"That's not what I'm worried about"

"Then what?"

"Two words. Laura. Louise." Shivers ran down the spine of every ninja in the clearing, even Itachi.

Mu sat behind the ninjas pretending to be very confused but not stupid enough to ask about it. He spared a thought to let his own imagination wander. Laura and Louise could be very vengeful if scorned.

"Can someone unconfuse me here?" Mu asked, he had intentionally phrased it that way to grab their attention.

"S-class missing nin," Kakashi began pointing at Itachi, "may have killed, whether directly or indirectly, a close friend." Kakashi paused to let that sink in.

"Close friend has two crazy friends who will murder S-class missing nin," Sasuke finished.

"Ah… So do you plan on a least maiming him now?" This seemed to click with the group as they all burst into action, relentlessly attacking the elder Uchiha. Mu only then noticed he wasn't alone sitting on the sidelines, an old woman was also there. He could only assume it was the old woman who eventually saves Gaara in the series. Mu was determined to stop her sacrifice from being needed.

It felt weird to not be taking part in a fight, especially one that was going so interestingly. Mu wasn't the kind to stand on the sidelines and watch but he wasn't about to blow his cover. Luckily no one was paying to much attention to him with Sharingan. On the bright side if they did, they would only see him as a clone, not who he was a clone of.

He took some sadistic joy from watching the team beating Itachi to a pulp. His chest was bursting with happiness at the thought they would do this for their friend. Something didn't feel right with it though. Something was off with Itachi, maybe he had actually been affected by Max's apparent death. That didn't seem so likely, it was something else.

"There's more to you than meets the eye." It took a lot of Mu's training to not react to the old woman's whispered words as they pierced the quiet of the sidelines. Old people were always excessively perceptive.

"I could say the same about you, but it would be in both of our interests to work together and stay quiet about what we may know"

"For the time being I will respect your wishes"

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Psi was running across dusty plains, she knew Kisame would meet team nine here somewhere. Her way of being different from her normal persona was being more animalistic, she had resorted to running using all four of her limbs for speed. It wasn't as awkward as she had first imagined it would be, her inner wolf had probably helped. The fact a clone's physiology could easily be manipulated helped a lot. It also reduced the air resistance in the more streamlined position.

She cocked her head as she heard movement and altered her direction to intercept. It would be easier for her to join in as none of team 9 had worked with Max much. She only had to be careful around Neji in case he recognised some of her behaviours from Hogwarts.

Water lapped around her hands and feet as she drew near, a sign she was going in the right direction. Kisame had already started his fight. It wasn't too far away she could se two obnoxiously green clad people with two other kids recognisable as Neji and Tenten.

Unfortunately as she drew closer she could see they were all stuck in water prisons, while Psi knew they would get out of it, it wouldn't hurt to help. Using what ever grip she could get on the water using as little chakra as possible, Psi launched herself at Kisame, or who she hoped was the solid one. Each of the water prisons had a clone holding them together.

Almost predictably, as Psi headed for Kisame, the fish man reacted, using his sword to block her leap. Psi knew if she came into contact with that sword her cover was as good as blown. Its chakra eating nature was not unknown to her. She narrowly dived passed by twisting in the air. Bright blue painted nails drew blood as she took the opportunity to shock the guy.

Usually she would have gone for the lightning route to incapacitating him but she was trying to stay anonymous and while it would be effective she would be figured out quicker.

"Another brat," Kisame muttered swinging his huge sword around. Psi was glad for her lupine agility as she danced around the sharkskin blade.

"I'm not a brat" Psi said, she changed her targets to the clones, taking down Kisame on her own as a clone was almost impossible, a series of high speed manoeuvres disabled two clones, freeing Gai and Neji. Using that surprise Psi managed to take out another, while Neji shoved a chakra covered hand through dispelling it. "The name's Psi, remember it." She winced slightly, that had sounded a bit to much like Max.

The five of them were facing down Kisame. The water covered plains being their battle field, lending itself in Kisame's favour due to his affinity. Psi narrowed her eyes at the blue man, something wasn't right. It only then occurred to her. Kisame hadn't recognised her chakra, while she had managed to change it slightly, the sword had a finer sense than any shinobi could ever achieve. He wasn't the true wielder of Samehada, ergo he wasn't Kisame.

So what was going on?

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Mu wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad when Naruto had delivered the killing blow.

What confused all of them, was when they saw the dead body did not belong to the person they thought they had been fighting. Mu was almost dispelled out of shock from Max.

"Wow. Plot twist… Was not expecting that," he said masking the shock pretty well, he was only a clone though, so it wasn't to hard.

"You should probably go to you grandma's house now," Kakashi advised looking at the boy, luckily he had covered his Sharingan to preserve chakra or Mu's cover would be blown.

"But I want to see how this ends, the only entertainment waiting for me at my grandma's house is my cousin arguing with everyone"

"It's dangerous, you'd get killed within seconds of encountering someone," Sasuke stated, he could not have looked less impressed right now. Mu supposed he felt cheated of the death of a traitor. Sasuke had always felt any sort of betrayal more than the others, especially after the massacre, then finding out what he had been told was a lie then finally finding the killer was still a family member.

That reminded Mu, Shisui was still out there somewhere, he would get around to it. When was Sasuke's birthday again? It wasn't that far away, only a month and a bit after Itachi's. July 23rd if she remembered rightly.

Mu would get round to that after the current issue was sorted. Gaara was still in trouble. She had no idea how much time was left.

An absence of people cause Mu to realise he had just zoned out. It was disturbing when a clone began to zone out and dangerous as the person directing it was losing control. At least the ninjas weren't there to tell him not to follow. He leapt of into the trees to follow the chakra signatures. They hadn't gotten that far. Sakura was probably slowing them down. Medic nins didn't train with speed.

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Psi was having the same feelings of being cheated, a man lay in Kisame's place, dead. At least she had refined her different style of fighting. It was difficult on water, as such Max's clone was a lot weaker than she would have liked. There was possibility that it would need to be remade, if Max had enough chakra.

Most clones could normally get small boosts from the excess chakra given off in fights. Unfortunately Samehada's' presence had stopped that. But on the up side, the real Kisame couldn't be far away, he would collect it at some point. Psi doubted she could persuade team 9 to take it with them, not with it's defense mechanism. There was also no way Psi could come into contact with it or tell them of what she knew.

It sucked. Undercover missions always generally sucked. Being limited in behaviour and what you're supposed to know.

At least both clones were heading closer, it would be easier to control them Max though as she held her meditative pose. She could also use the different point of view to help them fight. If it came down to that.

She could feel a migraine approaching, she had expected it but was hoping she could stave it away. When ever she held something back like emotions, she got a migraine, the two clones that needed fine control didn't help.

After this was over she planned to hide out for a few days and sleep. Then she would resume being a pain to the world.

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