Chapter 11

The next morning Sango woke up to the smell of cooking

She then met the others around the fire all except Itachi

"Hey where's Itachi?"asked Sango

"He said he was going to go train somewhere in the forest."said Kagome

She then pointed to where he was.

"Either way you should bring him back. We gotta go soon."said Kagome

Sango then went into the forest.

As she walked through the forest she spotted him.

Itachi was surrounded by the targets he made hanging on the trees.

Itachi then jumped high and turned his ody so that he was falling headfirst to the ground.

Itachi opened his eyes revealing the Sharingan

He then threw kunai knives at all the targets.

Each kunai hit the target.

As he was about to land Sango called out to him

Itachi was surprised by her voice which made him mess up his landing causing him to fall on Sango.

They then rolled to the ground and landed with Itachi on the bottom and Sago on the top.

"Oh shit! Are you okay?"asked Itachi

"I'm fine. I mean I'm on top right?"said Sango

They realized the position they were in causing them to blush.

Sango then got off him.

"Uh...Itachi what were you doing?"asked Sango

"I was practicing my kunai techniques. Don't wanna get rusty."said Itachi

Itachi then went and took the kunai off the targets.

After he was done he and Sang headed back.

"Hey Itachi are you okay. You know about what happened yesterday?"asked Sango

"Yeah I'm fine."

"When you were talking about your little brother it made me think of my own little brother Kohaku."

"I see."

"I know how you feel, about losing a little brother. My brother was taken over and under the control of Naraku. I just hope we can save him."

Sango then showed a sad expression

Itachi then put his hands on her arms and said,"Don't worry, we'll get him back. I'll not let anyone feel the pain of losing a sibling."

Itachi then smiled at her.

Suddenly they looked into each other's eyes. They then found themselves inching towards each other about to kiss until they heard a large crash.

They then looked up and saw smoke from a great distance.

Itachi and Sango then hurried back to camp.

"What happened?"asked Itachi

"Don't know. We were just minding our own business and we heard this explosion."said Inuyasha

"By the way what took you guys so long?"asked Miroku

Itachi and Sango didn't answer but their faces blushed.

Miroku then narrowed his eyes

He was about to ask what was going on between them when a white bird landed in the middle of the group.

It looked strange and didn't have any feathers. The body looked smooth like well crafted clay.

"What the hell kind of bird is that?"asked Inuyasha

Itachi's eyes then widened. He recognized the kind of animal it was.

"Everybody get down!"shouted Itachi.

At that moment the bird created a huge explosion.

When the smoke cleared everybody was covering or being covered by someone.

Miroku covered Sango, Inuyasha covered Kagome, and Itachi covered Shippo and Kirara.

All of them looked up and saw a huge clay bird.

On top of them were two shinobi, Deidara and Kakuzu.

They then leaped from the bird and landed on the ground.

"Sorry to drop by so suddenly but we're going to need to take Itachi from you all."said Deidara

The group all got up from the floor and put their guards up

"Itachi! Are they more Akatsuki members?"asked Miroku

"Yes. Their names are Deidara and Kakuzu."

"Well that's sweet,he's been bragging about us to his friends Kakuzu."said Deidara.

"Just shut up Deidara. We got no time for small talk. We just need to do the job and go."said Kakuzu

"Geez you're always so serious. Fine then. Let's get started."

Deidara and Kakuzu lunged at them.

"Kagome,Sango,Miroku, take on Deidara. Be careful. His ability is explosive ninjutsu. He can make objects from clay and can make them explode!Inuyasha!. You and i will take on Kakuzu!"cried Itachi

The group then split up to face their opponents.

Deidara jumped back onto his clay bird and shot some explosive mini birds at Miroku, Sango, and Kagome.

They dodged Deidara's birds which hit the ground causing multiple explosions.

He kept shooting explosive clay animals at them and they did what they an to avoid them.

"You all can run but sooner or later you will be caught in my masterpiece. For my art is an explosion!"cried Deidara.

"What kind of art classes is he taking?"thought Kagome.

Mean while Itachi and Inuyasha were ready to face Kakuzu.

Kakuzu then removed his cloak revealing the four masks on his back.

Then suddenly the masks then appeared to move and get out of Kakuzu's and Inuyasha saw how the masks had large black bodies as they were getting out of Kakuzu.

"Disgusting!Yo Itachi is there anything I need to know about this guy?" Inuyasha asked

"Those masks with the black bodies have his herts. We have to destroy every single one of them in order to defeat him."

"You mean he has more than one heart?"asked Inuyasha

"Technically those hearts belong to the people he killed. He used them to expand his life span."said Itachi

"That's even more disgusting!. Using the hearts of dead guys to expand your life span!"

"Call it disgusting as much as you want,but I assure you that a more gruesome sight will be shown...which will be your bloody corpse!"said Kakuzu

Itachi and Inuyasha then came at Kakuzu.

"Inuyasha you handle the mask monsters. I'll fight Kakuzu."said Itachi

"Screw that , that guy's mine!"cried Inuyasha and he rushed to Kakuzu with Tetsugaia

"Damn he's stubborn. Well I think fighting the masks might be a little too complicated for him. But still...Kakuzu's no pushover." thought Itachi

Itachi then ran to fight the masks

Inuyasha swung his sword but Kakuzu dodged his attack.

Inuyasha kept swinging but Kakuzu kept dodging

"Hmph. Such sloppy form, You're basically using it as a club."said Kakuzu

Inuyasha then became irritated remembering how his half brother Sesshomaru said the exact same thing.

"Then how about this!Wind Scar!"cried Inuyasha

The wind scar then Kakuzu causing him to go flying and hit the ground.

"Ha! Now who has the sloppy form?"said Inuyasha

Kakuzu then rose.

He had some scratches and cuts on his face.

Suddenly they started healing.

"Interesting. Maybe I'll play with you a little more."

Inuyasha and Kakuzu then came at each other to continue their fight

Meanwhile Kagome, Miroku, and Sango were trying their best to survive Deidara's explosives

They took cover behind a huge boulder

"Damn it! We need to get him off that bird."said Miroku

"Okay, I'll shoot some of my arrows at the bird and take it out."said Kagome

"Alright. I'll use my wind tunnel to suck up any explosives."said Miroku

"And I'll deal with him personally."said Sango

"What're all of you whispering about back there?Can't have you making plans."said Deidara

Deidara then shot a stream of explosive clay spiders.

"NOW!"shouted Miroku.

With his wind tunnel he sucked up the explosive spiders.

Kagoe then shot a multitude of arrows which hit the bird at it's neck and wings

It then started to descend

Sango then climbed a tree and jumped from the branch and landed on the bird

"You're done for!"Sango cried as she came at him with her sword

Deidara grabbed her wrist that was holding the sword.

"You should put that down sweet heart. Someone could get hurt."said Deidara

Sango then kneed him in the stomach,punched him in the face, and kicked him off the bird.

As he was falling Deidara then smiled and made a hand sign.

The bird then exploded with Sango in it

"Sango!"cried Miroku

As she was falling Miroku rushed and leaped and caught her

He then put his head on Sango's chest. There was a heart beat.

"Thank God."Miroku thought

He then put Sango who was unconscious under a tree at a safe distance

Miroku then joined Kagome to fight Deidara on land

Itachi however was using his good reflexes to take on the mask monsters.

The 4 monsters had 4 elemental natures.

One had fire,one had lightning, one had wind,and the last one had earth

The fire and lightning mask shot fire and lightning at Itachi

Itachi leaped to dodge it but suddenly the wind mask appeared in the air with him and struck him causing him to plummet to the ground.

Luckily he was able to do a back flip and land on his feet

But suddenly the earth mask appeared from the ground and grabbed Itachi's feet

Unable to move the rest of the masks saw their opportunity to attack him.

They shot fire,lighting,and wind blasts at him

Itachi turned into a flock of crows and got out of the earth mask's grasp and dodge the attacks

He reformed back in the sky.

As he was in the air the three masks shot the same attack at Itachi

Itachi then weaved many signs as fast as he can and combined his elemental natures of fire,water,and wind.

He knew which element was best to defeat the masks,so he shot water at the fire mask's attack, wind at the lightning, and fire at the wind.

The attacks then collided causing a jutsu clash.

Due to Itachi's element nature being superior then the masks his jutsu was stronger and hit the masks causing an explosion

When Itachi landed and the smoke cleared he couldn't believe his eyes

After all that only the lightning mask was destroyed

At that moment the earth mask came at Itachi with an earth spear.

Itachi kept dodged it an kicked the earth mask

The earth mask then slammed it's hands onto the ground and made the earth rise and knock itachi off balance

The earth mask then leaped to attack Itachi but he closed his right eye and opened it again using Amaterasu

The Earth mask then started burning to death

Itachi's eye was bleeding which disturbed his sight in his right eye which caused them to barely dodge the fire mask's fore breath

He then quickly wiped the blood off and got ready to start fighting the other two monsters.

"Two down. Two to go." thought Itachi and he charged to face the lightning and fire masks.