Kyoshi appeared a few miles from the gate of the lightning village, he didn't wanted to walk the rest of the way, he wasn't ready for this but he was forced to do so. Kyoshi had spent three days walking, and disappearing to somewhere farther, he didn't need to rush he knew exactly where Kidiri would be. Kyoshi continued to walk admiring the forest surrounding him, looking up at the crisp winter sky, snow was gently falling, Kyoshi hardly saw snow, and he liked watching as it landed on the ground but he had more important things to do instead of gaze at these flakes. The cold would get to Kyoshi time to time; it was mildly cold to the point where it left Kyoshi shivering, although he had his robe on and his normal black pants and long sleeve shirt on, with an ANBU style chest protector. It was then night fall when Kyoshi reached the gates, he decided not to start this bout at night but wait until morning; he picked a safe spot away from the gates and sat down taking his robe off and leaning his back on a tree. He took out the mission note and looked at it.

"Who knew it would come to this…" Kyoshi muttered under his breathe, he ripped the paper and threw it in the air, seeing it drift away from the wind. Kyoshi then lay down and drifted into sleep.

"Itachi has clouded your mind boy." A voice said from within Kyoshi's conscious

Kyoshi didn't wake up, he tried to but he couldn't its like this force was keeping him inside his mind. He felt himself being lifted, and he stood in eternal darkness that was his self conscious when it was sleeping.

"What do you mean, he's my sensei he would never…" Kyoshi said

The figure walked out of the league of shadows, it was Tobi, why was he here? How did he get here? "He's using you boy! Cant you tell he never cared for you at all." Tobi shouted, his seriousness frightened Kyoshi.

"You lie! And why would you even say such a thing, for one your friends with him and two you're an akatsuki your one of us!" Kyoshi shouted.

"Power consumes us all…it makes us do things we wouldn't have done, this is what happened to Itachi, and what is happening, he is a powerful being and he has gone slightly mad with power, I don't like how he's putting the Uchiha name down, and I don't like it that your helping him do it." Tobi said crossing his arms

"What…no, no you lie! And how would you know, its not like you're an Uchiha you know nothing!" Kyoshi shouted he saw Tobi fade away, he looked closer to see a sharingan come from the eye whole, he denied the fact that he was an Uchiha, he didn't want to believe him but some part of his body agreed with him, Kyoshi ignored it, after all he had work to do.

The Next Day

Kyoshi woke up, having the thoughts from last night be jumbled in his mind, was it just a dream, or was it all true. Kyoshi didn't know, he couldn't let it get to him, he had to stick with the mission. He got up and put his robe on then walked to the gate and jumped over to the ledge. Two lightning village jounin were looking out from there and rushed towards him. Kyoshi grinned and sliced one's stomach opened and kicked one guy down from the gate to his death. Kyoshi crouched and started walking on the edge of the gate, killing anyone who saw him.

"Where is he." Kyoshi thought looking as close as he could at the village, he needed to get closer, yet he couldn't, he would get attacked at the spot. Kyoshi then looked at the ground, and grinned he leaped over from the gate and landed beside the dead jounin, he took the mans clothes and hid his robes and other clothes at a secret spot. He then jumped over the gate to the village, he couldn't put his head-band on since like all akatsuki members it had a scratch across it, which symbolizes he was a rouge ninja and wasn't welcomed. Kyoshi scouted around the whole village, he then turned to the lightning village's ninja academy. He walked over to it and saw little kids practicing the same way he did when he was that age, he then saw the teacher, it wasn't his old teacher it was Kidiri. Kyoshi grinned as he stepped in, not caring about the class then stood in front of his old friend. Kidiri looked at him with a menacing look, it was quiet, his expression lightened as he remembered who he was.

"Kyoshi! You came back!" Kidiri cheered as he grinned, but he quickly went back to his regular expression, seeing that Kyoshi wasn't grinning back. He heard a sword unsheathing and it was then pointed to Kidiri's neck.

"W-what are you doing Kyoshi…" Kidiri said cautiously as he stepped back he slowly grabbed one of his katana's

"I have orders to kill you, you and your eight tailed beast are needed." Kyoshi said in a hinted monotone voice

"Kyoshi…why, why would you even think about killing your best friend!? Kyoshi!" Kidiri shouted, this wasn't the Kyoshi he had remembered, it seemed the new Kyoshi wouldn't think twice of killing his own mother!

"I have to follow my orders…"Kyoshi stated he then sliced at Kidiri's neck, it was blocked by Kidiri's katana.

"You're making a mistake, Kyoshi. Kids! Class is over get out of here!" Kidiri shouted as the students tried running, but was stopped by a invisible wall at the door way.

"No…how about we let your students watch as there teacher gets destroyed." Kyoshi said chuckling manically.

Kidiri pulled out his other katana, so did Kyoshi, they locked both blades with each others, trying to overwhelm each other with there strength. They both then stepped back, Kidiri had one katana above his head, and one close to his waist as he was also in a side-ways front stance. Kyoshi had one blade in front of him and one to his back, he was low to the ground, also in a side ways front stance. They stood there for awhile they both then dashed at each other parrying each others attacks, and continuously clashing blades, making sparks fly. Kyoshi jumped up spiraling a bit and slashed at Kidiri's headband, making it fall off, Kidiri stepped back putting his katana's hilt in his mouth and taking out a third katana, slicing Kyoshi's arm.

"You're fighting a loosing battle, we both know who the better swordsman is." Kidiri muffly stated as he got back in his stance,.

"Your right, you are the better swordsman." Kyoshi agreed as he threw his swords to the ground, in front of the students as they kept banging on the wall.

Kidiri looked different, Kyoshi could hardly pick him out, he had long dreadlocks, dark skin as always, a lightning village jounin jacket, and no shirt, you could see his muscles, and he apparently had been training hard. He had the same black sunglasses on, the kind that doesn't rest on your ears. He also had a lot more swords, three on his back and two around his waist. He wore a white lightning village headband and black ninja sandals.

Kyoshi activated his sharingan, a stinging pain entered his body as he did so. It seemed his eye's had not recovered from the Sasuke fight. Kyoshi made five large fire bullets charge at Kidiri, who dodged them by doing a combination of flips and cartwheels in the air. Kidiri dashed towards Kyoshi slicing him unexpectedly. Kyoshi winced and elbowed Kidiri down then kneed him into the wall. Kidiri spun around throwing three of his blades at Kyoshi, they then combusted in three elements: fire, wind, and earth. Kyoshi dodged then but oddly got sliced, it seemed they went faster then his eye could catch, yet that was impossible. Kyoshi dashed at Kidiri while he was un-protected by his blades, and punched him hard in the gut. Kidiri quickly took out his sword to block even that, making Kyoshi's knuckles bleed. Kyoshi back flipped back and looked at Kidiri.

"Looks like I wasn't the only one training." Kyoshi stated, grinning

"I guess you weren't" Kidiri said using chakra strings to get his swords back, putting one in his mouth, one under his arm and two in his hands. Kyoshi was impressed.

Kyoshi concentrated chakra on his palms to make them glow with the blue energy. Kidiri charged at Kyoshi slicing at him, Kyoshi punched the blade, making it shatter, he quickly did the same to the other two, then looked at Kidiri with his intimidating sharingan. He did quick hand-seals and formed a chidori, it was a minor one but it was effective. Kyoshi stabbed at Kidiri's ribs, Kidiri couldn't get his sword out in time. Kidiri winced, green chakra started bubbling out of him, and it burned Kyoshi's hands as he stepped back. The chakra swarmed Kidiri as he let out a roar that scared the shit out of the little ones.

Kyoshi grinned "So you are the eight tailed jinchuriki, seems like you didn't lie, perfect." Kyoshi said, grinning.

A person ran in the hallways going closer to the door. The person was a girl, she had long blonde hair, and icy blue eyes. She had a womanly figure, she was seventeen, she wore a jounin vest as well, a Lightning village jounin vest, with a black V-neck shirt with a mesh shirt under it, she also wore black leggings. Her name is one you all should know, her name was Saila.

Saila ran up to the door way where Kidiri's class was in, she quickly removed the seal from the door letting the children run away screaming. Saila saw Kidiri going into his demon form, then saw a unexpected visitor.

"Kyoshi! No!" Saila yelled as she ran towards them.

"Saila?" Kyoshi said looking at her, but got distracted and was smashed into the wall by a chakra hand.

Kyoshi jumped up grabbing a kunai and diving inside the chakra and deeply stabbing Kidiri then jumping back, he couldn't jump far as he was grabbed and continuously smashed into the wall. Eventually he was smashed so much the whole dojo crumbled. Kyoshi was on top of the rubble. Saila halted Kidiri then looked at them both.

"Kyoshi…what the hell are you doing!? You're trying to kill your best friend…why!" Saila cried out, she didn't like this.

Kyoshi got up, he was badly bruised, and scratched. "I was ordered to…"Kyoshi said weakly, apparently he was still no match for a jinchuriki, not the eight tailed one at least.

"Let me guess, Itachi gave it to you!" Saila yelled, like a nagging wife.

"No…" Kyoshi said, smoke covered him as he appeared in his regular attire.

"I am part of akatsuki, they gave me the orders, Itachi is not only my sensei now, and he is my colleague." Kyoshi said

"Kyoshi this is crazy! Look what Itachi has turned you into! Have you ever stopped and looked at what you have become, you were once this generous nice child who wanted to protect everyone, now you're a cold heartless member of some evil organization!" Saila said

Kyoshi paused, he didn't know what to say, it seems that they were all right, Jourin was right all along, and he was now dead…he had turned into something he wasn't at first.

"Itachi, he did this to me…he corrupted me, he made me think that bad was good and good was bad….he must pay for this….I didn't want to be like this, you guys must know…im sorry." Kyoshi said finally coming to his senses, in a fit of rage he threw the akatsuki robe to the ground and burned it. That convinced Kidiri and Saila that Kyoshi was his old self again.

"Well…if it's any help, we heard rumors that Itachi had passed by our scouting towers, he's heading for Konoha." Saila stated.

Kyoshi nodded "I got to stop him, I don't want him corrupting anyone else's mind, and it ends now." Kyoshi said growling as he disappeared.

"Come on, were following him." Kidiri said

"Right, but…lets not help he, I think this is something he has to do on his own." Saila said as they both disappeared.

Little did they know, a akatsuki was at the gates, he was posted there to see how Kyoshi's mission was going, it was Zetsu, and he saw everything. The akatsuki then disappeared reappearing in front of Pein.

"How goes his mission?" Pein asked

"It seems we have a traitor, he had abandoned his position, and now he is going to meet Itachi in Konoha, to attempt to kill him." The plant akatsuki said

"Heh, Itachi will have no trouble in finishing his student off, I can guarantee that." Pein said chuckling a bit

Pein stopped then added "But if by any chance Kyoshi is alive, make full efforts in hunting that traitor down, and killing him." Pein said harshly this is the first time he had to deal with a traitor.

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Kyoshi landed in front of the gates, the gates were opened, he looked at the two chunin operating the gates, and he ordered them to close the doors.

"You have no say in our orders boy!" one chunin said

"Trust me, an akatsuki is going to be here any minute, you need to shut these gates now!" Kyoshi shouted

The word "akatsuki" was all those chunin needed to close those gates, a few minutes later the gates were then closed, but little did they know Itachi was already inside.

Itachi appeared in the elders rooms. "Ah, here are the ones who first ordered me to kill my own clan single handedly, before you say I already did, I know that, but that was for my own benefit….and so is this." Itachi said, before the elders could say and word there throats were slit, and they both fell to the cold wooden floor with a hollow thud.

Word quickly spread of this, as Itachi started to kill any chunin and jounin who couldn't tell him where the nine tailed jinchuriki was, he then came to the hokage's office.

"Itachi." The fifty year old ex-sanin uttered as she stood up and glared at the akatsuki.

"I don't suppose you know where I could find Naruto…eh Tsunade?" Itachi asked, laughing to himself

"No…I don't know where he is." Tsunade lied

"You lie, I feel your pulse quickening, and I could tell by your face…. You know where he is now tell me." Itachi demanded

"No." Tsunade stated as she was charged by Itachi who was holding a kunai aiming for the fifth hokage's neck.

Blood splattered but it wasn't the hokage's, it was Kyoshi's chest. Kyoshi quickly punched Itachi out of the hokage's room.

"Who are-" Tsunade asked but was interrupted by the boy's voice

"No time for that now, I must finish this." Kyoshi said and charged to Itachi who as at the other side of the room.

"So…Tobi was right after all, you have come to kill me, well…assuring you can put up a good fight, this shall be interesting." Itachi said as he normally walked towards Kyoshi.

"Move!" Kyoshi instructed to Tsunade and her assistant Shizune they both disappeared, Kyoshi then walked to Itachi as they both clenched there fists.

They both knew this day would come, no matter how hard they tried to deny it, let's see how this destined match will unfold…

Heh, well I liked this chapter, yes it was a cliff hanger since I didn't wanna jam everything in this one chapter. This might or might not be the end of this story, you'll just have to wait and find out, and I'll have to decide near the end of chapter 13. Heh, I think I got a fever now, when I was joking about wanting one, lucky me right?