"Sharingan!" [Le gasp! All of the Akatsuki members snapped their heads to Tobi, as the hole in his mask grew red. Itachi smiled, " There you go, that wasn't so hard, was it?" and Itachi laughed maniacally. Deidara somehow slipped from his grasp and slipped away. The rest of Akatsuki sort of backed away…

From the Akatsuki's point of view, the battle went like this.

Itachi: "That won't work on me! Ha! You missed! You think you can –oof!"

Itachi's last sentence had been interrupted by a blast to the stomach. Itachi slowly got up. " Fine, no more genjutsu." Itachi snarled. For those past few minutes the two of them had simply been standing there, and now…. Things would get a bit more interesting.

Tobi rushed up to Itachi to give him a blow to the stomach, but had to quickly leap away as Itachi performed, "Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" If Tobi didn't have his mask on, he'd be snarling. Itachi had a smug look on his face. Tobi made some quick hand seals and… " Katon, Karyuu Endan!" It was Itachi's turn to snarl, but he met the attack with. " Katon, Ryuuk no jutsu!" Itachi's more powerful attack went straight through Tobi's dragon of fire and was heading towards Tobi when… "Suiton, Suijniheki!" and the fire blast from Itachi evaporated on Tobi's wall of water. Itachi frowned at this. However, Tobi kept going. " Doton, Doryuudan!" Mud appeared beside Tobi, and from it a dragon rose, preparing for a devastating blow. " Karyuudan!" Tobi let out a blast of fire that fused with the dragon's blast. Itachi just barely made it out. Itachi was about to make his counteract when Tobi chased him out with, " Suiton, Suijenheki!" and a massive pillar of water appeared. Well, technically it chased them all out. By the time everyone was outside, Itachi was nowhere to be seen.

Pein and Konan walked along the pathway. From a distance they could hear loud rumbling noises. Konan sighed, " Perhaps putting Itachi in charge wasn't the best of our ideas."

" Yeah…" Pein replied, as another loud rumble followed.

Naruto and Kiba were walking along when they bumped into the three girls. For a moment there was awkward silence, but then the five began to talk amongst themselves. It was two in the afternoon when Sasuke appeared. Well, Naruto had almost walked into him. " Watch where you're going teme!"

" It's you who needs to look where your going, dobe."

" Teme!"

" Dobe."

" Teme!"

"Dobe."

"TEEEEMMMMMEEEEE!!!!!!" Sakura sighed. " Both of you shut up! What do you want Sasuke?" she said in an annoyed tone. Sasuke flinched, luckily no one else saw this. " Kakashi says to come for some meeting." Sakura sighed. " Alright." Naruto was still glaring at Sasuke, but was soon gasping for air as Sakura dragged him off by the collar.

At the training grounds, Kakashi stood there. " Yo!" Naruto narrowed his eyes, then began to yell hysterically, "APOCALYPSE! APOCALYPSE! KAKAHSHI CAME EARLY!" this comment received a punch to the head from Sasuke and Sakura while Kakashi frowned. " Ah fine fine I'm early. So what's the big deal?"

Sakura glared at him.

"Hehe… ANYWAYS! I called you guys here cause Tsunade sent us out on a mission!"

Sasuke glared at Kakashi, " Then why couldn't we meet at the Hokage's tower?"

Kakashi sighed, " Let's just say Tsunade isn't really… feeling well…"

Sakura sighed, she hadn't hid those sake bottles well enough.

Author's Note: Yeah these chapters are getting pretty short but there aint much to write about till either Pain meets Naruto or " Tobi" meet Kakashi… I wonder what happened to Rin :S rawr if I get Tsunade to see Pein and Konan imam have to reread the manga to see their real names… grr…