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~INVINCIBLE~

"In My First Life"

Kakashi x OC

Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto

Invincible © Sokuryokudo Kyoutendouchi

~Opening Theme~

"Invincible- Hedley"

Chapter Twenty Four

"The Way of The Uchiha"

I couldn't believe what I was staring at, but at the same time I could.

You never know what somebody is capable of until they're pushed to their limits, well I knew full well now that my limits were much further than I thought them to be.

The last time I saw this man's face, was when I lost two very important people. Perhaps he was an omen, a sign that something bad was happening. He stood in the threshold to the Uchiha Compound, casually swinging a kunai around as he leaned against the frame. The scent of blood was thick in the air, it was so suffocating to find it in my haven.

There was, at some point, a moment where I thought I was fast asleep, this was all just a dream, right?

Yet when I saw the bloody hand on the ground beside him, I knew it wasn't true.

I glared at him, and lowered my stance. Today was not a good day to wear a kimono.

"So you just couldn't stay away huh? You just had to try and ruin Konoha again." I growled, making him stop twirling his blade. He looked at me like I had just casually strolled up to say hello, making me even angrier.

"The Kunoichi who became the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. I never would've thought you had the guts." He stood up straight and watched me with those eyes. Those Sharingan eyes that made me activate my Kanshugan naturally. "But then again, you and that brat both have extraordinary chakra reserves, no wonder you're able to suppress it."

He raced forward, so I matched his movements. Using my bracelets as a shield, I blocked any attack he swung at me. He tried to swing in a large sweeping motion and punch me at the same time, but I simply rolled around his fist and to his open side. Only problem was he came back to me just in time to block my attack. We swung and kicked and rolled through each others swings.

He backed off before I could land a decent hit, so I crouched lowly and watched as he reached into his pouch.

"You've gotten stronger I see. One of those kicks to my stomach and I may be finished." He pulled out those chains that he had been wearing all those nights ago, and instantly a new plan formed in my head. He wanted me to use my warping jutsu, he knew I could dodge it, so why use those chains?

I ran right for him, and he did as I predicted. He thought I was going to warp somewhere, and as soon as I passed through him, he materialized and turned to defend himself. I however, had other plans. I grabbed the chains that held him and loaded chakra into my leg. I tried to think about what Kakashi taught me about Chakra Nature, but it all faded as I swung my leg and kicked him hard in the back.

With me holding the chains he had nowhere to go, and thus he was hit with a double force. So instead of leaping forward, he too swung a leg out to kick me. It must've been loaded with chakra, because I went flying through the air despite my ability to block it.

"You little brat, you haven't changed a bit with your risky moves. You truly are a pupil of the Yellow Flash."

My eyes widened as I watched him from where I knelt. He was melting! Honestly melting! Yet as soon as he did, he reformed again and I couldn't understand what was going on anymore. I'd have to kill him, and soon, because if I didn't I would be the one turning to goo. Only difference is I can't come back from it.

There was one other option I had...

Standing back up, I refocused myself on the masked man. My wrist was bloody from where his kunai had struck me between my bracelets.

Hmmm, I wonder...

"Y'know, I don't think we ever established the lengths you can go with your jutsu." I curled my hands in and glared at him. "Care to begin?"

With that said I launched at him as he undid the chains from his arms and drew a sword I hadn't seen him wearing the last time we met. He swung at me or dodged, but what he didn't realize was I wasn't attacking him. No, I was simply following his movements with my Kanshugan. Every once in a while, when I got an opening, I would swing at him, just to have my arm go through. Finally, I got him right where I wanted him.

With my wrist embedded into his shoulder, I dodged any attack he threw and stayed with him perfectly. He swung, I dodged, he spun, I followed. Then he tried to do what I did better, he pulled his body through a warping zone that made me fly back and away.

The ground went silent as I knelt there, but I smirked. After looking with my Kanshugan, I realized his jutsu. The reason why I could go through it is because he was switching parts or all of his body, not just to different areas (because if he did that it wouldn't end nicely) but to different dimensions. If there really was a different dimension, then that means his justu isn't the same as mine. I can't warp to a new dimension, but I can bring him back to me. Despite being in some alternate dimension, I could still feel him and sense what he was doing.

Currently he was resting.

I waited for a moment, because I knew the man wouldn't be gone for very long. Taking that time, I thought very hard on a new strategy.

Instead of bringing him to me, or vice versa, I awaited for him to come back. It would add the to element of surprise I had for him, so instead I gathered chakra around my body, and prepared for a counter measure.

"You just don't know when to quit, do you?"

Looking over to the voice, I fixated on him as he fully materialized. His blade was drawn, but he seemed to have cleaned it off. Clearly he remembered the abilities my blood offered me, but I wonder if he realized...

"What can I say? I'm a stubborn bitch. But you are too, how many times have you come back here? Who are you anyways?" I asked as navy chakra formed around my body. This was a form of Nin-Taijutsu that was commonly used by Taijutsu experts in the Cloud Village. I was too inexperienced to handle it before, but now I could do it perfectly.

The man opened his arms and shrugged.

"Who am I? Doesn't matter, but if you really want a name, I am Tobi. I am Nobody." He said boldly, before doing hand signs.

"Well Mister Nobody," I said casually as I loaded extra chakra into my hand. Using my technique, I warped Tobi towards me. "It's about time you met a Somebody." With that I slammed my fist into his shoulder, and it actually made contact. He flew back and dug through the ground, making a miniature crater.

Coughing, wheezing, he sat up and stared at me as I stood there with a triumphant smirk.

"What- how did you-"

"I told you already, my blood is special to me. During that whole game of cat and mouse, I was never trying to hit you, I was trying to get my blood inside of your body. Because so long as even a single drop is in your veins," I warped him to me again. "I can find you and drag you to me if I have to." Then I kicked his jaw, and then with the other leg drop-kicked him.

He sat on the ground, sputtering and coughing.

"Don't try that whole different dimension crap with me either, because I'm dragging your real body back, not whatever is left here."

"You little brat. You figured out my jutsu, and used it against me."

He began to do hand signs again, but when I warped him to me, he had finished his jutsu.

"Earth Style: Swallowing Jutsu!"

I gasped as the ground beneath me trembled, and before I knew it caved in around me. Looking up I saw Tobi was standing beside the hole, and with a frown I debated warping towards him. That would only make a loop though, we'd be back to square one.

Instead, I dug a hand into the sharp, jagged walls, and warped Tobi to me.

"You stupid girl!" He shouted, but I ignored him as we both plummeted to the jagged ground below. Thinking quickly, I threw Tobi towards the ground, using his back as a surface to push off of and slow my pace. However, I had forgotten all about that migration technique, and soon he had disappeared all together. I tried to think of a way out, but everything was coming up blank. Then, I thought about my training.

"So Kakashi, I think I've got it down pat." I said, but then frowned. "But how do I release it all?" Kakashi smiled at me, before holding up that stupid slip of paper.

"You tell me Kyou, you're the one that's a master of chakra molding and transformation, now just add that nature transformed chakra of yours so it and you'll do fine. You've got your Nature down pat, how about we try Minato's natural nature: the Wind Style next?"

"Sounds like fun!"

Okay Shima, focus. Feel the chakra like its scrapping against itself...build it up...I loaded chakra into my hand, and tried to transform it's nature as I did so. It was a challenge, but soon I had to bubbling ball that looked like a hundred daggers were crawling through it. I pushed it to the jagged floor and released it.

The pressure from the attack completely stopped my motion just before I hit the ground, and I managed to collect enough chakra to my feet to hold on to a stalagmite. Looking up, I realized Tobi wasn't back yet, and it looked like the top of the hole was really far away.

Then things got worse, the whole pit started to close in on itself.

Fucking awesome.

I'd need a lot of chakra to blast myself out of this, but how the Hell could I get that much? I'd already used over half my chakra on the warping, how much more could I handle? There was only one other option then...

"Kyuubi," I whispered, no more like growled. "If you want to make it out of this alive, I'm going to have to borrow some of your strength."

The whole pit groaned as rocks began to fall.

"Kyuubi." I said warningly.

A deep chuckle surrounded me.

"Whatever you need, Little Girl. You are in quite a situation. Although I love to watch you squirm, if you die, I do too." A sudden surge of strength went through me.

"Don't waste it."

"I won't." I muttered, before concentrating it all into my two hands. The ball was a lot bigger than the last, and it came out as a very dark purple as it swirled and scraped against itself. It was so strong that when I released it, my hands got all cut up and bruised. However, it did the trick and I flew out of the hole right before it collapsed on itself.

"You are so stubborn."

"Or maybe you just don't challenge me enough." I said as I turned to watch the returning Tobi. He stood there, with his one Sharingan eye glaring at me, and for a second I debated whether or not he was actually there. Something felt off now, but I ignored it as I continued to have a stare down.

It was quite obvious I didn't have much strength left, the last surge was used with the Kyuubi's chakra to balance it out. If only I had made that into an attack on him, maybe I might've won. My eyes widened as he disappeared and reappeared infront of me.

Dammit, too fast! My body can't keep up!

I dodged by warping to behind him, but then I realized my mistake. He had those chains again, and I tried to warp out of it, but he followed me and wrapped my ankle in the chains.

The cold metal grappled onto me, and now I knew I couldn't warp away, so instead I kicked out with my other leg and stood up when he gave me room. He tried to pull my leg from under me, but I leaped at him at the same time and tried to kick him, but I went right through, so I pulled him back to this dimension and swung out to kick the real him.

I did go flying with him, but when we landed, I don't know who was breathing heavier. My body felt like a stack of bricks, no part of me wanted to move anymore. Finally, he spoke, and although I was sure he was just biding time, I soon fell for it anyways.

"Did you get to have a peak into the Uchiha Compound while you were there?"

My body tensed, I had actually made myself forget the reason we were fighting. The Uchiha Clan couldn't all be dead. Akari, Ryuga, Sasuke, Itachi- oh God no. Not Itachi, anybody but Itachi. I almost threw up at the thought, my world getting a little bit blurrier.

"Shut up." I choked.

"What if I told you someone from the clan killed them all?" I dry heaved a few times at that. Who the Hell would betray their own clan? I mean I know most of the Uchiha are quite snooty about their pride and pedigree, but quite a few were sweet and innocent. A few of the older generations used to give me candy because they thought I looked way too adorable when I wandered around the compound.

"You're lying, it was you, you bastard." I coughed, shaking my head.

"I'm not a liar, Kyouten. I'm actually quite honest." He said as he stood up. I tried to stand, but the chain had made me lose circulation in my right foot so I remained on the ground as I glared at him.

"You've got no proof." I spat, in the back of my mind though, I could sense someone halt within the eye of my Kanshugan, at first I was happy and wanted to jump for joy, but then I realized somethign wasn't right. Before I could turn around, Tobi said smoothly.

"Ask him."

Slowly, I turned around, and came face to face with Itachi Uchiha. He watched me from where he was, his blade drawn and bloody, flecks of blood dotted his perfect stone cold face, and for the first time, I saw him stare at me with such a lethal expression.

"Itachi, what are you-" He threw a kunai at me so fast if I wasn't using my Kanshugan still I would've been hit in the chest. I caught it, my eyes going wide as he stared at me, but then he looked to Tobi and turned around.

"Let's go." He said, and I sat there in shock. Tobi didn't move at first, but then he undid the chain on my ankle and stood up.

"Aren't you going to finish her too?"

My breath caught in my throat when Itachi stopped walking. If he wanted to, he could probably kill me right now. I barely had enough energy to fight now, everything was gone. He looked over his shoulder at me, a cold look I'd never seen faced to me in his eyes. This wasn't my Itachi, the one that was like a little brother to me.

"Forget about her." He said as he continued to walk away. Something pressed inside of me, those words ringing a loud siren in my head.

"I'll never forget you."

For some reason, I couldn't see Kakashi saying that anymore, it just didn't seem logical. Itachi stuck out in my mind though, could he have used a Transformation Jutsu? Why would he say that? Was he preparing to part? I don't understand, dammit!

Forget about me? Forget I existed? Oh no Itachi, I'll leave an impression you could never even dare try to forget.

"You said you couldn't." I said lowly as I looked at the ground with my hair blocking my view of the two men now standing beside each other. "You said you'd never forget."

I could hear their footsteps continue on, but Itachi still spoke. My skin began to burn, it felt like knives were cutting into me.

"Even within a maelstrom, a Warrior needs protecting, you should go back Kyouten, before I kill you too." Itachi said flatly. What was he saying? That I needed to hide when the going got rough?

"So that's it huh? You think I'm just going to let you leave?" It felt like my lungs were on fire as I spoke, my body burning. They stopped and looked at me, and I glared angrily.

"The Kyuubi's cloak, I haven't seen that in a while." Tobi commented, but I was so full of anger right then, I literally snapped.

I went in for the kill.

There was no rhyme or reason to my attacks, I simply struck whoever was closer. They seemed oddly slow, or maybe that's because my bracelets had fallen off, or the Kyuubi's chakra that was burning me yet making me faster. I clawed and snapped whenever I could, both of them dodging, before I single out Itachi and screamed.

"How could you?!" I screamed, the feeling of that burning escalating to the point Itachi stayed twenty feet from me at all times.

"I trusted you! You out of everybody! I trusted you so much Itachi! Why?! Why did you do it?!"

He didn't answer as I tried follow him. He'd gotten stronger as an ANBU leader, he'd become such a man since that little kid that used to cling to my back. I felt tears leak from my eyes as I stood still, staring at the one person who hadn't betrayed me yet. Kakashi, fuck I couldn't handle him anymore, I couldn't handle any of this anymore.

"You were just a wall Yuushima. Something for me to climb over, to test my abilities."

I went to lunge at him again, but Tobi appeared behind me, grabbing my arm. Looking behind me, I made the mistake of looking into his eyes.

Just like that, the Kyuubi's cloak disappeared from around me, and I fell to my knees at Tobi's feet What the Hell? How did he... I choked a few times, coughing and sputtering.

"Well, if you don't finish her off..." I could hear Tobi's sword raising from it's sheath. Is this how I was going to die? At the hands of a man who had taken so much from me? You bastard! I'll kill you! Is what I wanted to say, but my throat wouldn't open and my mind went blank.

"I'll do it."

Itachi... Did you really just say that?

I fell onto my back, and stared up at the two men. Tobi looked at Itachi as he walked over to me, and backed off afterwards.

"I'll leave you some time then." Was all the older man said before disappearing.

I stared up at Itachi as he stared down at me, the dark clouds above us began to give way, allowing rain to fall from the sky. It dropped onto my face, and rolled over his. We stayed like that for a moment, but I could only think of all those times he had comforted me, saved me from depression and anger.

"Shii, I don't care what happens, because when it does it is meant to. I know you would never do anything to Sasuke or Naruto, you would rather die than harm either. And I know that although you're strong, you sometimes need a little reminder. So Shii, never forget that I will always love you, unconditionally. No matter what happens, I will always be the one that loves you the most. So Shii, don't look so alone and sad, because I will always stand with you, even when others won't."

"Why couldn't you just walk away?" I said hoarsely. He looked down to me, but didn't say anything.

"You could've just let go, you could've told me how you really felt. Or maybe, you really do feel that way. So why Itachi? Just tell me why, and I swear I'll believe you. I swear I won't tell a soul, just please, tell me why." The rain mixed with my tears as I stared at him, standing there and looking so cold I couldn't believe it.

"I already told you. To test my capacity, to understand my limits."

My chest probably caved in then, but I shook my head.

"The Itachi I know is too smart for that. That Itachi I know is strong and kind, and he loves others even when they do wrong." I managed to give him a faint smile, no matter how sad it was.

"My Itachi wouldn't do this with such a reason."

His sword came down right next to my head, and I watched as his eyes distorted. What was he doing? I didn't quite understand. Then everything changed, my surroundings, my body.

I was hanging from a tree branch, but I couldn't move my body. The world was a mix of strange oranges and and the tree was black. Looking at myself, I could see I was purely white.

"I control everything here." A pure white Itachi said as he stood in front of me. "Time, mass, space. I control everything within the Tsukuyomi." He took a kunai and sliced across my stomach. It hurt so much that I cried out, and then I must've passed out. When I woke up, I was hanging from the tree again and this time there was another me on the branch, and the branch was so much longer. There were two Itachi's now, and both sliced across my chest. I cried, and despite there being two of us, it felt like a hundred knives were cutting into me.

"This is all you will feel, for the next seventy two hours."

And so it continued, and I tried my hardest to keep calm. I could handle pain, I could handle it, but what I couldn't handle, was when Itachi added a new element.

One hundred or more mes were hanging from the extremely long branch now, but now I was watching scenes fold out in front of me. A remake of Itachi killing the clan. This, this part broke me slowly as I watched Akari and Ryuga, and Fugaku and Mikoto fall. My brain stopped functioning because I couldn't process that and the pain at the same time. I refused to scream though, I refused to give in. SO I watched helplessly as they all fell, countless times.

Keep calm Shima, you can survive.

It felt like days had past, and I was sure we were almost done.

"Only seventy one hours, fifty nine minutes, and fifty nine seconds to go."

Oh God, not a single second has passed?!

When the world came back to me, Itachi was still standing there. He looked at me like I was pathetic. How long had passed? Clearly not much if it was still dark and raining, and Itachi was still there.

"How foolish of you. Though I'm impressed you survived my Tsukuyomi."

"Itachi, why are you trying to make me hate you?"

He went silent after that, and for a moment I thought he was going to run away, so I said the last thing on my mind.

"I'll never stop." I said, as the world began to get blurry. Stop what, I had no idea. Stop hating? Searching? Loving? Even I didn't know the answer, and I probably never would unless I saw him again.

Itachi...

I don't know what to think anymore.

Ending Theme Song

"So Soon"- Marianas Trench

Whew! Another chappy guys!

Okay, so this one I couldn't seem to get totally into it again, IDK why. Maybe it was because I didn't want to write Itachi leaving. If it wasn't emotional enough, sorry, been in a strange mood lately that I can't quite describe.

So one more chapter, I was planning on going back and re-reading everything to make sure everything fits properly, because I did have 40,000 words on the sequel before my computer busted. But I think I'm going to think about the sequel a bit, because I may have to change the story line a bit. Nothing drastic, just don't be all 'hey that didn't happen like that!' and all...

Next chapter is going to be mostly Yuushima sorting out her priorities and making a big finale on everything. There is going to be no more fight scenes, but a pretty god damn nerve wracking Yuushima kicks somebody's ass scene!

Oh and reviews? They went from SKY HIGH! To just a handful. I'd liek to thank those who do review, but there were quite a few that didn't. T.T

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask!

Theme song for this was Riot- TDG

Oh and BCG...I meant what you had said in one of your reviews haha

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