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Warning: Violence, Hidan
School ate my Beta
"Toki-chan! Toki-chan! We've got the scroll thingy!" Kasai bounded up, followed closely by Mizu. The white cat had a scroll in her mouth.
I took it, checked it for traps, and then checked the scroll itself. Sure enough, this was the mission scroll I'd sent them after. "Good work you two" I patted them both on their heads.
"Our pleasure, Toki-sama" Mizu dipped her head.
"Call us again sometime Toki-chan!" Kasai added before they poofed away.
"Here Tachi, a present for joining this insanity" I tossed him the mission scroll.
The Uchiha, like myself, checked its authenticity. Then he put it away where it would be safe. "...Thank you".
Huh, those were not two words I'd expect from Itachi, but he'd been raised a gentleman.
"With that, you're basically free to return to Konoha at any time after we get rid of Danzō. Though, I hope you'll be sticking around to help us muck us the plot-line" I grinned.
"I will consider it" probably the best I was getting out of him right now.
"Fair enough" I nodded.
"Well, that's half accomplished" Kisame grinned "Now it's just the waiting game for our target to come out to play".
"I fucking hate all this damn waiting" Hidan whined.
"You need to stop being so hasty" Kakuzu glared at him. "If you cost me my bounty, I will end you".
"Like you haven't fucking killed me how many Jashin damned times already?" the immortal countered.
And so we waited.
It took a few weeks for Konoha to settle down after the Massacre. And even then, we still had to wait on our target to give us an opportunity to draw him out.
"We'll have to be careful. Targeting Danzō risks running into Lollipops. And we're nowhere near able to take him down" I sighed as Kisame and I watched the Leaf..
"Easy, Koneko. That's why we're luring Danzō into the open. Lollipop bastard can't interfere with people possibly able to see. It'd spring his trap too early. After all, right now, 'Tobi is a good boy', yes?" the Shark snickered as he recited Lollipop's signature phrase from when he was playing an idiot.
"That's true" I admitted. "Plus, the Lollipop should be busy having to find other S-rank nuke-nins to fill the Akatsuki. Of the original members, he's only got Sasori right now. Deidara should become available soon. We'll have to attempt snagging the terrorist before he does. No genjutsu involved this time".
"Breaking up the Artist duo, hm? Can't wait to see how that goes" my companion grinned at me before giving me a light kiss.
"We've got to try" I responded as Kisame's attention returned to Konoha. "Deidara is a deadly opponent with his explosives"
"Well, we've got someone else to worry about now, Koneko" Kisame nodded toward the Leaf. "Because I think I see our chance". His hands flew through rapid seals, creating a water shark that raced back to the others. It would burst harmlessly, but it was the signal that we needed to move in. Then the Shark was off, racing for Konoha
"I still can't believe we're doing this" I murmured, chasing after him.
Kisame laughed. "Well get used to the insanity Koneko. Cause we're about to rip that plot of yours into shreds".
Konoha, Danzō POV
He'd just recently got done dealing with Madara.
The formidable Uchiha was angry, very angry. Demanding to know what had happened to Itachi.
He'd been honest in saying he hadn't known what Itachi had done after leaving Konoha.
Madara had mildly relaxed. "Probably off to try to gain some notoriety to ensure his acceptance into the Akatsuki" the Uchiha had mused, then nodded at this explanation.
Danzō's life had been spared.
"Keep an eye on Konoha for me" veiled threat in the words for the Uchiha was gone, off to who knows where.
He didn't like dealing with the old shinobi, but Danzō knew that this was in the Leaf's best interest.
Madara's plans would benefit them all in the long run.
Now all he had to focus on was finding out what had happened to the Massacre's mission scroll. That could not get to Itachi to allow the Uchiha to uproot his plans by revealing his involvement with the tragedy.
A flicker of moment.
Danzō blinked, almost swearing he'd just seen Itachi, the Uchiha who was causing him so much trouble.
Caution warred with the need to see if his mind was playing tricks on him.
The Sharingan he had both as his right eye and in his arms should've alerted him to any deception.
But that hadn't.
So the War Hawk moved, keeping the appearance of a feeble old man as he followed the flickering movement.
It drew him to a relatively open area. There was no one here.
Danzō frowned.
Then suddenly there was movement, catching him off his guard as he was surrounded by not one, not two, but five S-class nuke-nins.
One of them being Itachi himself, Mangekyo spinning dangerously.
A genjutsu then. Created by the Sharingan and thus avoiding detection by his Sharingan.
He'd been tricked.
Normal POV
Kisame gave a low chuckle as he held Samehada on his shoulder. "You know Danzō, it's usually not a good idea to piss off an Uchiha".
"Seeing as how we're deliberately also attempting to piss off an Uchiha that statement is slightly hypocritical" I pointed out. After all, we were deliberately screwing over the Lollipop's plans.
"Fair point" the Shark mused.
"You would fight with a crippled old man? My, how far you have fallen. Especially you, Itachi Uchiha" Danzō's grip tightened on his cane somewhat. The only sign he was prepared to defend himself.
"Shut it, fucker" Hidan scoffed, leaning on his scythe "We know damned well you aren't nearly as fucking crippled as you look, bastard".
"We are all aware of the eyes you possess" Itachi continued as he eased into a fighting stance.
"I will enjoy collecting your bounty" Kakuzu's threads appeared, whipping about in a dangerous way.
Danzō's visible non-Sharingan eye narrowed. I felt surprise and anger coming off of him. "Very well" he reached for his sealed arm.
"Rai Ken" I threw electrified senbon forcing him to doge. "Don't let him unseal that arm! Otherwise we're going to have even more trouble" I informed the others, more electrified senbon in my hands. "Do your best to rip or cut it off!"
"Knew I fucking liked you, bitch" Hidan smirked and lunged, forcing Danzō into further dodging.
"On it, Koneko" Kisame smirked at me before he joined the fray, Samehada ready to both devour Danzō's chakra and slice his arm off.
Clunk. Danzō had unsealed the first part of his arm.
Kakuzu joined in next, threads attempting to ensnare Danzō at the man's slightest misstep. Itachi hadn't moved, though from the way Danzō was having issues dodging everything, I suspected he was working a complex genjutsu.
Clunk. There went another section of the seal.
I switched over to the kusarigama, joining Kakuzu's efforts in attempting to catch the fast shinobi.
Danzō formed hand seals. "Fūton: Shinkūgyoku". The non-immortals were forced to dodge, Kisame and I jumping, Itachi dispersing into a flock of crows, the Vacuum Sphere blasts as deadly as bullets.
Clunk. The last part of the arms seal was gone.
We were up against Danzō at his full strength.
FML.
"Ow! Fucker! That hurts damn it!" Hidan of course hadn't bothered dodging but was now bleeding from several wounds.
"Learn to dodge" Kakuzu growled at him. The miser had simply hardened his skin, making the blasts useless against him.
Danzō bit his hand for a summoning jutsu.
Poof!
And now we were up against him and his summon Baku.
Things just kept getting better and better.
"Koneko, you and Itachi-san handle the summon. The rest of us will keep focused on Danzō" Kisame ordered, hands forming a seal "Suiton: Bakusui Shōha". The shark then rode the colliding wave, rushing Danzō with a swing of Samehada.
A lump formed under Kakuzu's skin as he released one of his hearts. It formed into the black-thread-mask-beast I recognized as the fire heart. Which instantly launched its signature fire ninjutsu at Danzō.
Hidan, of course, launched his scythe at Danzō, using the chord to guide it and hopefully draw blood.
Danzō was unable to dodge all of these. But the damn man had Sharingan hax. He activated his Izanagi as the attacks collided with him. Though even as he reappeared elsewhere, he was panting. Seems Samehada had successfully taken a bite of out his chakra.
I refocused on the summon problem Itachi and I had been tasked with. "Tachi, you think you can catch in your Sharingan and hold it for a moment? I'm going to try to match a summon for a summon" I asked using the kusarigama to keep Baku away.
"Yes" the merest flicker of movement and Itachi flicked in front of the rampaging summon. Catching its eyes. Baku went still, staring blankly at the Uchiha.
So much hax.
It was completely unfair.
I bit my hand for my own summoning jutsu and Yama appeared. He took one look at Baku and sighed. "Seems the assassin cat finally gets real work" he gruffed, drawing his katana.
"Yep. Have fun" I grinned.
Yama launched at the Sharinganed Baku, Itachi turning into a flock of crows to evade the panther's attack easily. Baku came to his senses... right as Yama dug his blade into Baku's eyes.
"Ouch" I winced.
"Your summon is vicious" Itachi commented.
"Don't let him hear you say that, he'll take that as a compliment".
We could leave Yama to handle Baku, so Itachi and I went to help the others against Danzō.
"Fūton: Shinkūha" Danzō went into a spin creating razor winds waves around him, forcing dodging again.
"That all you can do fucking bastard? Keep us away? Fucking shitty coward" Hidan mocked as he attacked again.
Kisame lunged from the opposite side, making it look like the sword-scythe version of a Double Lariat.
Danzō got stuck.
And used Izanagi again. I knew he could only do this a limited number of times before he ran out of eyes on his arms.
"Tachi" I spoke lowly. "Genjutsu. Make him thing he has more eyes on that arm than he really does".That was part of how Sasuke had taken him down in canon. Itachi should be able to do the same thing.
Itachi nodded, drawing a kunai and flickering forward to lash out at Danzō. He knew perfectly well the old man wouldn't be caught by the strike.
Danzō dodged and countered, drawing a kunai himself "Fūton: Shinkūjin" he breathed onto the kunai making it into a longer sharper razor wind sword. Then he lashed out at Itachi who promptly turned into crows.
"Eye contact" Itachi stated softly, reforming next to me as he once again began working more genjutsu, making Danzō's dodging and attacks far less accurate than they should be.
Note to self: Do not anger Itachi. Ever.
I nodded, forming hand seals of my own. I'd dropped the Rai Ken, needing to preserve what senbon I still had on me. "Raijū Hashiri no Jutsu" the electric cat sprang to life, chasing Danzō towards Kakuzu's strings. The miser caught him and his fire heart attacked right as my lightning cat made impact.
Another Izanagi.
I groaned.
How many times did we have to kill this guy?
Wait... there was one thing he wouldn't be able to avoid even with Izanagi. "Hidan!" I smirked "Time to sacrifice the heathen!"
"Sounds fucking good to me, bitch" he smirked back. "You or me?" He was still under the impression I was a full Jashinist. As my threats usually consisted of sacrificing someone to Jashin, this hadn't corrected the assumption.
"You're better at it" I replied simply.
"Taking that as a fucking compliment" his smirk grew wider. There was enough blood already on the ground he didn't need any more as he started to draw the Jashinist symbol.
There was a resounding thud from behind us. Yama had brought down Baku, retrieving his blade from where it's been buried into the tapir summon's skull.
I made a face. Vicious assassin panther. He nodded at me, and job done, poofed away.
"Make it fast this time" Kakuzu growled at Hidan as the zealot completed the symbol "This one is annoying". His threads chased Danzō into one of Kisame's water-shark-bombs I'd electrified.
Yet another Jashin damned Izanagi.
That man really needed some more variety.
"Fūton: Shinkūha" Danzō used the same jutsu again, creating the razor winds around him that launched at us.
This time winds were too fast, only Itachi and his hax powers were able to escape unscathed.
I did not have that much luck.
Jashin damn it! That hurt!
I had nasty cuts what seemed like everywhere.
"Koneko! Get out of there!" I heard Kisame call.
Too late. Danzō came launching at me with his wind blade.
I couldn't dodge.
Kisame POV
She went down.
"Toki!"
The heartbreak in his voice was clear.
A feral rage took him.
Samehada bristled, wicked scales sticking straight up in the sword's own expression of fury.
Danzō would pay.
And pay dearly.
He found Samehada agreeing with him, the sword mixing their chakras without his orders.
It wished to merge with him.
Very well.
First things first. "Suiton: Dai Bakusui Shōha". The larger version of the colliding wave.
The sheer mass of water was inescapable even with the bastard's Izanagi.
The water then formed into a sphere as he made hand signs
Suirō Sameodori no Jutsu. The Water Prison Shark Dance Technique. Where he could control the prison from the inside.
Now, he willingly merged his chakra with Samehada's.
He felt his body morph, the rapid expanse of his already enormous chakra almost painful.
Now he was a true beast.
The Izanagi couldn't save Danzō now.
He lunged, forcing Danzō to use the Izanagi again and again in order to not be ripped to shreds.
Finally the bastard was caught. The expression of surprise on Danzō's face made him smirk, showing his lethal teeth.
Itachi's genjutsu about the eye number had done the trick.
Then he dug claws and fangs into the bastard for maximum pain and injury, and he felt Kakuzu's threads moving to further ensnare Danzō.
Itachi moved, locking eyes with Danzō. The Uchiha spoke a single word. "Tsukuyomi".
The bastard wasn't going anywhere.
He dropped the prison, forcing the water away from his other companions.
Only one way to be sure the bastard went down and stayed that way and preserve Shisui's eye.
"Now Hidan" he snarled.
The crimson scythe flew into view, gashing Danzō's face. Then the zealot yanked it back to him.
Hidan licked the scythe with pure menace in every movement.
The zealot took on his skeletal appearance and plunged the stake in his hand into his heart.
Danzō went stiff.
Hidan yanked the stake out.
The bastard trapped beneath him was dead.
He released his bond with Samehada becoming two separate entities once more.
"Get the eye, Itachi. After that, he's yours, Kakuzu" he heard himself say as he took Samehada and went over to where she still lay.
Toki...
Please no...
Not after all of this...
Not now...
He knelt, feeling her pulse.
And blinked.
Alive!
But barely.
And fading fast.
Panic struck, eyes darting for a solution.
Samehada.
His sword was capable of chakra transfer.
It healed wounds.
He'd never attempted to use it on someone besides himself.
Samehada didn't like others.
"Listen damn you"" he snarled at the sentient sword "Heal her or I swear I will break you into to so many pieces you will never be able to be repaired".
The sword didn't even bristle at him as he maneuvered it to touch his Koneko.
If Samehada attacked her, violence would follow.
There was the distinct glow of chakra as the great blade obeyed his will.
Slowly, Koneko's wounds started to mend.
He watched her with a clearly worried expression.
She stirred, eye opening to blink at him in bleary confusion.
"Toki" he gathered her in his free hand, holding her tightly to him as Samehada continued its healing work "Thank Kami".
"Kisame?" a weak, confused question.
"Shh. Just rest, Koneko".
"...M'kay" she was too tired to argue.
That Night, 3rd Person POV
The Shark-man refused to allow anyone near the kunoichi in his hold. If any one of the others came to close they got a vicious feral snarl.
Even the blade beside him would bristle in warning, scales clinking dangerously under the bandages.
The other three males decided it was best to keep their distance.
The Shark was dangerous on a normal day.
But right now...
If they touched her...
Strength, skill, and even immortality would not matter.
He would find a way to kill them.
And he would do so slowly and painfully.
Omake – Information, Itachi POV
It had been... difficult to come to terms with the information he'd gotten from the kunoichi.
Her memories...
They were impossible.
But they were the truth.
At first he had been angry. Considering killing her while she was trapped within his control.
But...
Reason had stopped him.
It was not her fault that his clan had decided to attempt a coupe.
It was not her fault he had decided to follow orders.
It was not her fault that he'd put Sasuke in that genjutsu.
He saw very clearly after looking more into her memories that only drastic change far beyond her capabilities could've prevented the Massacre of his family.
And this group of hers...
They were offering him a chance to save his otouto from a horrible fate.
A path Itachi himself had accidentally put Sasuke on.
He would correct this error.
He would fight by their sides until they'd brought down Obito, the one she called Lollipop.
Plus...
He found himself warming to the others more quickly than he normally would.
Seeing her memories had made it feel like he too had been part of this strange group for a very long time.
It would be curious to see if he and Kisame would make quite as deadly a combination as they had before.
After all...
The Shark had a much different partner right now.
And this is what happens when you invoke Murphy's law Toki. You almost get yourself killed.
Next time- "Let's see how good our miser is at gambling".