SCHOOLS OUT FOREVER! Not really but yeah, lets celebrate.
"And you don't see these two becoming an issue?" Ozpin asked taking a sip of his steaming coffee.
Itachi shook his head. "No, Hidan may be immortal but he's without a doubt the weakest of the Akasuki. With enough effort, and if their good enough, a team of huntsmen shouldn't have to much trouble incapacitating him." Itachi responded raising his own cup to his mouth, though his was filled with tea.
"What about the other one, Kakuzu I believe?"
Itachi set his cup down. "Yes, he's a much larger threat though an easy one to handle. According to Deidara he seems to be able to gain the semblance of anyone whose heart he takes and integrates into himself. He could do something similar in the past as well. To my knowledge he can only have up to five at any given time but I'd rather not jump to any conclusions over whether or not that has changed. Deidara also informed me that he currently doesn't have his max number of heart and is looking for more, hence why he attacked them in the first place. The only ability we were able to identify for certain was that he can now create and control ice. I'd highly recommend not confronting him in battle if possible, he's got more battle field experience than anyone you could send and is incredibly skill, he's on a totally different level than Hidan."
Ozpin listened closely absorbing as much information as he could. "You said he was easy to handle, please explain."
"His motives are and have always been the same, money. If offered enough he'll do just about anything, he couldn't careless about who he works for or why they want him to do it, as long as he's paid. Though this also brings up the possibility that an enemy could out bid us for his allegiance."
Ozpin smiled slightly. "Well hopefully it will not come to that, but if it does, Beacon has a rather large budget." Pulling up his scroll he flipped through several files. "In the meant time I'd say we should keep those two busy, here." Itachi's scroll vibrated. "Send those to Kakuzu, their a list of bounties generally kept from the public and reserved for hunters, hopefully that'll satiated them for a while. Now, how are Mr. Iwa and Ms. Valkyrie?"
"Nora wasn't ever touched by those two, Deidara made sure of that. He on the other hand suffered a puncture wound through his right thigh and a bite wound to his left shoulder. Nothing serious, he's been through far worse. Still, I'm gonna ask that he doesn't have to fight in class for a few days."
Ozpin smiled again. "Of course, I wouldn't let a student push themselves like that, even if they are a 'ninja'."
Itachi stood and bowed to the headmaster. "Thank you sir, now if we're finished I need to take care of a few thing."
"Dismissed." Ozpin nodded before the Uchiha burst into a cloud of smoke. Ozpin chuckled slightly before turning to look out the window. "Ninjas."
The next day
"And then it was like BWAAAAAH and we were like WOOOOH! It was seriously the COOLEST, art rules!" Nora exclaimed from her spot at the lunch table.
Sasori scoffed. "Until a piece of wood spears you in the leg from a stray blast." He referenced the false story they had invented to explained to everyone how Deidara got injured. Deidara was originally against a story that would make him sound 'amateurish' but in the end wasn't given much of a choice, Nora had to be convinced to lie about the events but after some reasoning from Deidara they managed to get her on board.
"Oh shut it." Deidara growled at the puppet master before taking a swig of his soda.
"Still though, blowing stuff up sounds like the best kind of art I've ever heard of." Yang added. Next to her was Blake who was still purposely avoiding eye contact with Kisame after the two shared words, Ruby had noticed this and was still thinking of a way to fix things.
"Yeah and then Deidara asked me out on a date!" This caused Deidara spit his mouth full of soda out onto Itachi who had been about to take a bite of his lunch across from the bomber. The Uchiha sat completely motionless as the sugary liquid mixed with spit dripped off of him.
"Really? But I thought you and Ren were a thing?" Jaune asked looking at his two teammates.
Ren shook his head. "No, Nora and I have been together since we were kids. We're closer to siblings than anything." Nora smiled and hugged the pink eyed boy who cringed in slight pain at the tightness of the hug. Once she let go he turned Deidara who looked mortified that she'd just blurted that out. "Two things, first, hurt her and you'll regret it." He spoke while giving of a small amount of killing intent, though that could have been coming from Itachi who now had a kunai in hand and was being restrained by Kisame. "Second, do not give her caffeine. It won't end well for anyone involved."
"Hey Arc!" The group, minus Kisame and Itachi who were now standing and fighting over the kunai, looked over to the table where team CRDL sat. "Come over here a sec."
Jaune looked down and quickly stood making his way over to the team of bullies. "Whats that about?" Sasori asked as he continued typing on his scroll.
Pyrrha stood with a frown. "Our leader has found some new friends it seems." She then quickly walked away in a huff not even acknowledging Itachi and Kisame on the floor with Kisame holding Itachi in a necklock while Itachi managed to pull Kisame's leg into an awkward but painful looking hold.
The table was silent for a few seconds before Nora spoke up. "So when do you wanna go out?"
Kisame then slammed into the table turning it to splinters as a panting Uchiha held his kunai in the air in victory. "I'm going to take a shower." He then said before making his way to the exit.
Deidara sighed. "Well theres a great band in town."
Two days later
"Your team deserves a great leader Jaune, and I think that can be you. Have a good night Jaune." Itachi smiled as he listened to Ruby speak to Jaune from around the corner. Normally he wouldn't take any interest in this sort of thing, but after several weeks his team had begun to form something that slightly resembles friendships with the members of teams RWBY and JNPR. That in mind and after noticing how the blonde had been neglecting his team as of late, the Uchiha felt he should say a few words to the boy. Unfortunately for the blonde leader, Itachi only knew one way to show people back to the right path, and it was generally less than painless.
Plus according to Sasori the boy had also forged his transcripts and after revealing this to Pyrrha denied her help getting stronger. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do to come to a place like this unprepared, he needed to be shown the true error of his way.
Stepping around the corner he heard Cardin speaking over his scroll telling him to get rapier wasps for some reason. "Jaune." The boy jumped at his voice.
"Oh, Itachi, what's up man?" Jaune gave a wave.
"Come with me, we need to discuss a few things." Itachi turned and gestured for the blonde to follow.
"Actually I've got a few things I nee-"
"I insist." Itachi interrupted with pure authority in his voice that practically dared him to refuse.
Sweating slightly Jaune nodded and followed behind the Uchiha who lead him out of the dorms and towards the cliffs overlooking the forest. "So uh, why are we all the way out here?"
"Draw your sword." Itachi told him earning a confused look. "Now." Instead of waiting for the blonde to do as instructed he threw a shuriken past the boys head grazing his earlobe and drawing blood.
"Ah! Wha- why did-" Jaune jumped back as Itachi swiped at him with a kunai, once the blonde finally drew his sword and shield and dropped into a very off balanced stance.
Itachi flared his sharingan causing Jaune's eyes to take on a look of fear just before Itachi delivered a strong punch to the boys face sending him to the ground. "Hey Uchiha, I got the girl just like you asked." A voice came from behind the blonde who was trying to pick himself up, turning around he saw something that made his blood run cold. Kisame was standing there holding a unconscious Pyrrha up by the hair, the redheaded spartan was covered in cuts and bruises.
"Good, now we can begin." Itachi nodded causing the blue man to drop her to the ground.
"Whats going on!? What did you do to Pyrrha!?" Jaune screamed before charging towards Itachi and swinging wildly at him only to miss every swing and have a knee buried into his gut.
Jaune fell to his knees and emptied his stomach onto the ground. "You faked your transcripts to get into Beacon didn't you Jaune?" Itachi asked looking down at the boy on his knees clutching his stomach.
"What does that have to do with anything, why are you doing this, whats wrong with Pyrrha?!" The boy stood and grabbed his sword, swinging it at the Uchiha again.
Itachi caught his wrist and turned it slightly causing his to cry out in pain and drop his blade. "You've also probably never been trained before have you?" Jaune didn't reply as he was still in a large amount of pain as Itachi turned his wrist further. "And now you've been made the leader of your own team. Do you know how much danger you've put your friends in by coming here?" Itachi released him letting him stumble away cradling his arm.
"What are you talking about?" He panted while tears fell from his eyes.
Itachi stared for a moment before looking and nodding to Kisame who raised a foot and then brought it down onto Pyrrha's fore arm snapping the bones in half causing the girls eyes to shoot open and her to let out a agony filled shriek. "PYRRHA!" Jaune screamed running towards the two only for Itachi to appear in front of him and slam a fist into his nose breaking it as well as knocking out a tooth.
Itachi watched the boy force his way to his feet with a fire in his eyes that earned a genuine smile from him. "If you can get past me, Kisame will let her go. However, for every minute you don't."
"I break another bone." The kiri nin chuckled be dealing a harsh kick to the redheads side causing several cracks to be heard. "Whoops, I think I broke three there." He started laughing again.
"STOP IT!" Jaune screamed before he charged over and over each time getting smacked around, after several more of Pyrrha's bone were broken she'd stopped screaming in pain and instead simply sat there whimpering. "Please stop it... I'll do anything... just stop." Jaune finally pleaded from the ground openly sobbing now.
"Do you understand now how you've put your team in danger? How you were to weak to help them?" Itachi continued looking down on the boy.
"Yes."
"Do you admit that you will never become strong enough to stop the from ever happening again without accepting help when it's offered?" Itachi demanded.
"Yes!"
"Are you willing to train and fight and bleed to stop this from ever happening again!?" Itachi shouted, the earth almost tremble beneath his voice.
"YES!"
Then everything stopped, all was quiet. "Stand up Jaune." Itachi finally spoke.
Jaune raised his head, his eyes filled with tears. Looking up at the Uchiha he quickly realized something, raising his hand to his face to confirm it. The pain was gone, his nose wasn't broken and he had all his teeth. Whipping his head over to Pyrrha he soon found that she wasn't there. "What's going on, how..."
"Sasori told you that I could create illusions." Itachi answered evenly.
"So... none of that... was real?" Jaune asked sounding almost as if he were in shock.
"No, but it could have been, and you were to weak to stop it. You said you were willing to do whatever it takes to keep that from ever really happening, this is your chance to prove it." Without another word Itachi left, ignoring the loud sobs coming from behind him.
Damn Itachi is brutal but shit if he's not effective. Now some of you may think that he was a bit harsh but lets not forget that what he force Sasuke to watch over and over was far worse than that, and I'm not even gonna mention the torture session with Kakashi. The point is the guy can be brutal as hell when he needs to. Anyway, leave me a review and tell me what you all think, until next time.