A/N: yo people, it's been a while but here's another chapter for you all! it's action packed and I hope you all like it :)

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kakashiclone1120: This chapter is...normal length I guess, short chapters are only needed sometimes to create suspense :)

Arsenel: LOL! And you are prolly going to be disapointed though XP...

one last thing before you all can go read my story, my dear friend Kayo-chan has made pretty lil drawing of Kayoko for AN upcoming mission so I'm gonna give you all the link so you can see what Kayoko looks like according to her ideas(heck it's her char. so basically...yeah you get it) Don't look if you have a certain fantasy about how Kayoko looks and want to keep to that fantasy XD

Here's the link: (I dunno if it's allowed or not from kinda forgot but heck, who cares right?) http/img223.imageshack.us/my.php?imagekayochan6sz.jpg

There it is, ow and if you do look at it, review so I can tell her what you guys think off her drawing :)! Now on with the story!


Chapter 29:

"It's almost noon, let's stop for now and eat something." Itachi stated.

"Come to think of it Itachi...We don't have any food with us and there aren't any rivers or creeks nearby..." Kisame stated.

"The forest should have some rabbits or something...We could eat just fine here." Itachi replied.

"Hm, I guess you're right." Kisame replied.

A short while later they were sitting in an opening in the forest, a couple of dead rabbits being roasted in a campfire.

"So Itachi...How about telling us what our mission is?" Kisame asked.

"Yeah...Our mission isn't really that hard I believe, We must...Dorimaru what's wrong?" Itachi asked as he didn't avert his eyes. Dorimaru was looking over his shoulder and looked back in front of him again.

"I feel that we are being watched by someone..." Dorimaru stated.

"Trouble already, huh? Nothing is better then a good fight after a good meal." Kisame said grinning.

"Kisame, we're not going to foolishly attack...If they are out for our lives then we'll defend ourselves...but untill then let's just act like we don't know they are there." Itachi stated.
"How can we do such a thing?" Kuchinabi asked.

"Baka, Isn't it obvious just don't think about someone being there." Kayoko replied.

"They might be some nins from Hidden Cloud...curious about a group of travellers who have two people carrying swords on their back." Itachi stated.

"Do they suspect that we're nuke-nins?" Kayoko asked.

"Hmmm seeing as the nuke-nin village is close to Hidden Cloud...Probably." Itachi replied.

"Then what are we going to do?" Kuchinabi asked.

"We'll travel onl like on normal travellers do...If they come out for us asking for where we are going, I'll do the talking...If they attack us, we'll kill them." Itachi stated.

"Hm...Then let's finish our meal and see if we can kick some ass." Kisame said.

So said, so done and they were soon casually walking again on the road towards the Country of Fire.

"Ne, neechan...Did they find us out back then?" The purple haired girl asked.

"I think they somehow did...even though we were about 70 meters away from them...I guess they want to know if we're enemies." The redhead replied.

"Then..let's show a false sign of allegiance..." The purple haired girl said smiling.

"I wonder if that will work..." The redhead mused.

"We aren't wearing any of the standard outfits so it should work, shouldn't it?" The purple haired girl asked.

"Does it look like those guys are trusting of anyone confronting them? They are after all Nuke-nin as far as I could tell..." The redhead said.

"So what are we going to do neechan?" The purple haired girl asked.

"See if we can gain their trust...If we can't we'll attack the full force." The readhead replied.

"Then it's settled." The purplehead said smirking. (A/N: I'm getting tired of calling her purple haired girl XD)

Itachi had activated his sharingan ever since they had finished their meals, wanting to track every movement of his surroundings. He saw a blurr of a person to his right, quickly heading ahead of them. Dorimaru had focussed his eyes to the left and noticed the same there.

"They're about to show themselves..." Dorimaru whispered.

"Yes..." Itachi replied.

Just then the two woman casually walked away from the trees, showing themselves to Itachi and the others. They halted and the two woman stared at the comapany, who were mostly hiding their faces and eyes under their hats.

"My, my...What are two fine young woman doing in a forest like this?" Kisame asked. Itachi shifted his eyes to Kisame, glaring at him for even making a statement before he did.

"As my friend tried to say...You seem to want something from us if you stand in the way like that..." Itachi stated.

"We're here to take the sword back..." The purplehead said.

"Oh...you two are from Kirigakure no sato? Sorry, but you should already know then that Samehada is mine and I won't go back either." Kisame said as he pointed with Samehada at the two woman. The woman stared at him and then both started giggling like crazy.

"God, Why aren't there any kunoichi like Kayoko around anymore that can be serious when facing a possible opponent?" Itachi said as he rubbed his head.

"Sorry, you must have misunderstood." The redhead said with tears in her eyes.

"Yeah, that's right." The purplehead added with tears in the corner of her eyes as well. Both of them turned serious after that and looked fierce at the group.

"It's his katana that we are after." The woman said in unity as they pointed at Dorimaru.

Everyone's first reaction was that of shock, aside from Dorimaru who just looked fierce at the two girls. Then again his eyesjust always looked fierce but this time there were atleast serious. Dorimaru withdrew his katana partly and let the light shine on it's blade. Kisame then snapped and hit the ground fiercely with his Samehada.

"What the! You two chicks want birdbrain's normal old katana and not even my supreme, extremely cool Samehada!" Kisame yelled.

"Kisame...Calm down..." Itachi commanded.

"So you don't know after all..." The purple haired girl said.

"I think you don't know either...That katana, is Dorimaru's and doesn't belong to anyone aside from him." Itachi stated.

"Then let us tell you our tale before we continue..." The red head replied. Itachi looked at Dorimaru, who still held his katana ready to kill and was staring at the girls like they were his prey.

"Then...tell us so we can judge for ourselves..." Itachi stated. The girls smiled at Itachi, who obviously rather not have any conflicts at first hand.

"A bit more then half a year ago...A person came to our temple, seeking the teachings of our masters. The Grandmaster wanted to know if he had any ability at all before agreeing so we let him have a try-out against one of the freshmen in our temple...The masters saw that he was quite skilled and one master took him in as his pupil, for he saw great potential in the new comer. However, little did we know back then that the master, who took him in, had a passion for forbidden ways and teachings. He used those teachings to teach his pupil, within almost no time, the secrets of the Tenshin style." The redhead stated.

"However it weren't that master's intentions to create a strong pupil trough forbidden teachings...It was to gain hold of our most precious relic, the spirit katana...He handed the sacred katana to his pupil, saying it was his for use and told him his teachings were done, that he could leave the temple now in search of the friends he wished to gain strength for...This all was in fact a part of his plan to hunt him down and take the sword for his own. But he failed as the Grandmaster found out his plot and stopped him. However, the person holding the katana was still missing and the katana had to be returned...We were send out to find it. Now, after half a year of following the katana's vague trail of energy, we have found it." The purple haired girl said. Dorimaru smirked at the girls as Itachi and the others stared at him.

"I see, No wonder it was so easy to learn the style...But I have to let you down...This katana can not be returned to you." Dorimaru said.

"Why not?" The girls asked in unity.

"You see, this katana...Is bound to me by a bloodpact." Dorimaru said smirking. The eyes of the two girls widened at hearing this.

"After all, this is the only way for me to carry it around in my normal form." Dorimaru said and returned to his falcon form.

The woman gritted their teeth as they knew what he said had to be true from what they had learned about the katana. Dorimaru changed back into his human form and stared with his falcon-like eyes into those of the girls.

"Well...What are you going to do?" Dorimaru asked.

"You are going back to the temple with us to return the katana then..." The redhead said.

"If I may say something..." Itachi said. The two girls looked at Itachi with surprise that he wanted to say something.

"You'd best not underestimate us..." Itachi said as he took off his hat, showing his Sharingan eyes.

The girls were quite shocked to find out it was Itachi, as their templeDID keep track of 'special' nuke-nins.

"Itachi...Those girls are already scared by seeing you...Should I even try to kill them or will you do it for me?" Kayoko asked smiling.

"No, Neither Itachi-san or Kayoko-san will get to kill them." Dorimaru said as he stepped forward and drew his katana.

"Wait, Dorimaru...A fight is quite meaningless if we can still settle some things...I doubt they want to risk being killed...They know they're outnumbered and that we aren't half assed nuke-nins...I think they'd atleast want to come to an agreement." Itachi said. They all looked in confusion at Itachi.

"What is it with the looks, everyone?...I just don't want to kill woman, is that so bad?" Itachi thought and let out a sigh.

"It's true we didn't expect a S-ranked nuke-nin to join up with him..." The red head said and bit her lip.

"...They don't even recognise me...Isn't it cruel, Itachi?" Kisame asked and took off his hat as well.

"My name is Hoshigaki Kisame, Nice to meet you ladies." Kisame said grinning.

"Now you intimidated them even more...Way to go people..." Kayoko said as the girls looked shocked again.

"Everyone just shut up for a minute or two..." Itachi said. Kayoko glared furious at Itachi for a second,but gave it a rest anyway.

"I understand you two want something like that katana back...but, Dorimaru has gained a lot of skill in it and I believe he has taken your fighting style to a next level...It would only be fair if he got a chance to proof that he is good enough to wield it and keep it..." Itachi stated.

"We can't decide that..." The purple haired girl replied.

"I see...Then, I assume you have to take Dorimaru back to your temple for that kind of permission?" Itachi asked. The girls nodded in reply, their eyes narrowing at Itachi.

"We have something to do right now...It should take us about a week to reach our destination and a week to get back here...How long is it from here to reach you temple?" Itachi asked.

"A couple of days at most." The red head said.

"Then how about we all go there and see if we can settle this..." Itachi said.

"But Itachi..." Kisame said.

"Well what do you say?" Itachi asked as he looked at Kisame. The girls exchanged looks and then nodded at eachother.

"We have no reason to trust you...But it is acceptable." The two of them said.

Many hours later, night fell and they had set up camp.

"You're really naive...you know that, right Itachi?" Kayoko asked.

"We have a month's time to finish this mission...I'd rather take a slight detour of a couple of days then face two people who might have Dorimaru's skill and speed..." Itachi stated.

"But still..." Kayoko mused.

"I know, we should kill them under normal conditions..." Itachi said.

"Don't tell me you want to let them live because you find them attractive..." Kayoko whispered as she looked at the two girls sitting on the other side of the camp.

"What are you talking about?" Itachi asked as his eyes averted to Kayoko.

"Ow come on Itachi...You can obviously tell that they are girls that normall guys would die for. They're about 17 years old or so, have what guys would consider a nice rack and they are looking good...Tsch..." Kayoko replied and glared at the girls.

"Then, I guess that makes me an abnormal guy, right...And is that jealousy I'm sensing?" Itachi asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"Tsch...Yeah, whatever..." Kayoko said. Itachi stared at Kayoko for a while before averting his eyes the other way.

Dorimaru was sitting up high in a tree, in his human form, where he most likely felt themost comfortable. He was staring at his katana and the two girls were staring at it as well.

"Damn it...First Itachi gets attention from Kayoko-chan and Kuchinabi-chan...then birdbrain even gets attention from two attractive woman...When the hell am I going to get some!" Kisame exclaimed.

"Aww...Don't worry Kisame-san, I know that someday you'll have hunting after you one way or the other as well." Kuchinabi said as she patted Kisame's back.

"Ah! Kuchinabi-chan! That's so nice of you!" Kisame said and tightly hugged Kuchinabi, pressing the air out of her.

"What the hell are you doing!" Kuchinabi yelled as she kicked her way out of Kisame's grasp.

Itachi sighed and shook his head, before jumping up to where Dorimaru was.

"What's wrong?" Itachi asked as he sat down in front of Dorimaru.

"Hm...I was just thinking, why they want it back so badly." Dorimaru said.

"It's a relic of theirs? It probably has special abilities." Itachi stated.

"That I know for sure, I can feel it's power flowing trough me when I swing it...I'm starting to wonder if it's really my own strength or the katana's that helped me out so far..." Dorimaru replied.

"It's obvious, isn't it? The man...I mean falcon makes the katana and not the katana makes the falcon." Itachi stated.

"Yeah, I guess I've progressed a lot." Dorimaru said smirking.

"In a few days we'll see how far you have..." Itachi stated.

"Yeah...I better practice with a normal katana to see the difference..." Dorimaru replied as he placed his katana back.

"I'll ask Kayoko to lend you one of her two katana's...But the capability comes from yourself." Itachi stated.

"Yeah, I know that...But I do feel guilt I guess..." Dorimaru said as he stood up.

"Guilt?" Itachi asked.

"After all this katana is reserved for the strongest shinobi that uses the Tenshin style." Dorimaru said smiling.

"I see today's events made you forget how you handled Kisame, one of the Seven Shinobi-gatana, yesterday." Itachi said smirking.

"Thanks for reminding me...I'll go do something now then bug the hell out of Sharkface for a match to show off my skills." Dorimaru said smirking back at Itachi before dropping down from the tree. Itachi's eyes followed Dorimaru untill he rached the two girls from the Tenshin Temple.

"Hmph...I wonder what he's going to do..." Itachi thought and closed his eyes for a couple of moments.

"Hope you don't mind if I sit here?" Dorimaru asked the two girls, who looked up at him in slight confusion. The two of them gave a quick nod and Dorimaru sat down on the ground.

"I know this katana is a relic of the temple, but it's the only katana I can use. I believe also that I'm worthy enough to wield it. My training wasn't absolute at the temple and I've progressed quite a lot since then. That's why I wanted to let you two know...Your mission of retrieving my katana will definetely fail." Dorimaru stated. The purple haired girl gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes at Dorimaru.

"If the wrong person has his hands on the spirit katana and is able to unleash the Tenshin hijutsu's...We'll not let that happen." She said in a fierce tone.

"Oi Ayane! You shouldn't tell that!" The redhead replied.

"So what, It's not like he knows how to, Umikasu." Ayane replied.

"Unleash...? What are you talking about?" Dorimaru asked. The two girls looked at him and wondered what to do next.

"We could force the information out of you if we wanted to, you know." Kayoko said smirking as she happened to pick up what was just said. The two girls looked at the smirking Kayoko in shock and cursed their misfortune of basically still being at mercy of the group.

"We could...But I don't want to force it out of them. They'll tell me, after I've shown them what I'm capable off." Dorimaru replied.

"Are you suggesting we fight you?" Umikasu asked.

"Huh, so you were planning to get rid off us after all." Ayane replied as she still looked at Dorimaru with narrowed eyes.

"Are you two retarded?" Itachi and Dorimaru asked at the same time as Itachi dropped down next to Dorimaru.

"My friend wants to become stronger by learning those secrets you most likely hold..." Itachi stated.

"Killing you won't help me the least...So do we have a deal?" Dorimaru asked.

"We don't even know against who you are going to proof yourself for us..." Ayane stated.

"Kisame..." Dorimaru said. Kisame looked up and his grin widened.

"About god damned time..." Kisame said as he rose up from his place and took Samehada off his back.

"Yeah..." Dorimaru said as he stood up. He slowly withdrew his katana from his back as he kept looking straight into the eyes of Ayane and Umikasu.

"Kisame, Dorimaru...We need to keep our campsite in one piece...Show of your skills a bit further away from the camp. We'll watch from a distance..." Itachi stated. The two of them nodded and started running to the left.

"Let's go birdbrain!" Kisame cheered as he used Samehada to swing trough a thick tree.

Dorimaru jumped away, dispersed himself into 7 crows, who instantly aimed at Kisame and flew like bullets fired to pierce at him. Kisame smirked as he raised one hand in the air and brought his other hand to his mouth.

"Ninpou: Kirigakure no Jutsu." Kisame said as a mist bank quickly rose up out of nowhere.

Dorimaru reformed himself and landed on the ground, sliding a bit trough. Out of the mist, Kisame's daikatana Samehada swung trough the air almost shaving half of Dorimaru's face off.

Dorimaru raced himself to where the attack came from and sliced trough Kisame, only to find out it was a Misu Bunshin. He instantly jumped up, realising it was a trap, as a moment later Kisame swung down his Samehada, shattering the piece of earth where Dorimaru just stood.

As Dorimaru fell back down Kisame swung his Samehada up in hopes of hitting Dorimaru with it. However, Dorimaru nimbly landed on the tip of Samehada and flipped off it as Kisame pulled his sword back, ready to launch another attack at him.

Kisame launched at him, Dorimaru in return blocking the large blade with his own katana. Shifting his weight and with a small twist of his wrist, Kisame pushed Dorimaru back.

Dorimaru pushed his katana into the ground, far enough to flip over it like a short pole. He quickly pulled his katana out of the ground again and launched it at Kisame, who also launched an attack on him.

Dorimaru slightly sidestepped, avoiding a hit from Kisame's Samehada and cut Kisame across his face. He smirked but that smirk quickly faded as Kisame again collapsed into a pool of water. He now stood alone in the silence of the mist, trying to focus on where Kisame was.

"Movement on the right..." Dorimaru thought as he evaded Kisame's attack that came from his right side.

"Back...front...below...left...above..." Dorimaru reminded himself as he evaded Kisame's attacks according to where they came from. He then stopped in his tracks as his eyes widened.

"Four sets of movement!" Dorimaru thought has he heard Kisame approach from the front, back, left and right side of him. Dorimaru jumped up and was slightly nicked by Kisame's blade as he did so.

"Ninpou: Tri Inferno no jutsu." Dorimaru said and shot three fire darts towards tree of the Kisame clones below him.

They vaporised almost instantly adding some more strength to the mist, but that strength was quickly faded away by the heat of the flames. Dorimaru landed and immediately needed to match Kisame's katana attacks blow for blow.

"Well what do you think?" Itachi asked the two girls. Umikasu just bit her lower lip as Ayane clenched her fists and gritted her teeth.

"I must admit... those two really are putting their spirit in it." Kayoko stated.

"Where do you see them? I can't see a thing trough this thick mist!" Kuchinabi yelled as she was looking the other way. Kayoko's eyes twitched as she tapped on Kuchinabi's shoulder.

"What is it?" She asked and Kayoko plainly pointed at where the battle was going on.

"Oh..." Kuchinabi replied slightly blushing from embarresment. Itachi looked at the two of them and slightly smirked.

"What are you smirking for, Itachi?" Kayoko asked as she crossed her arms.

"No...Nothing at all...Nothing at all, Kayoko..." Itachi replied.

Meanwhile Dorimaru was standing in the mitst of the mist, trying his best to focus on his surroundings to detect Kisame.

"This mist is a bother...Let's do something about it and hopefully trap Kisame at the same time..." Dorimaru thought as his eyes scanned trough the mist.

Dorimaru then heard fast switching sounds, the sound of handseals being made. He smirked to himself then stretched out his arm into the mist in front of him.

"Ninpou..." Dorimaru said.

"Suiton..." Kisame's voice echoed trough the mist half a second later.

"Suikodan no jutsu!" Kisame yelled as his Suiton move raced trough the mist towards Dorimaru.

"Hisutomu no Jutsu!" Dorimaru yelled in reply as the water shark came into range.

"That is..." Umikasu and Ayane said.

Ice shards flew around Dorimaru like a raging storm, stopping Kisame's shark attack in it's tracks. The mist was effected by Dorimaru's ice storm as well as it began to clear and fall like snow to the ground. Kisame's shark froze up entirely as well, being shattered on the floor the second it was entirely frozen, leaving a shocked Kisame behind in it's tracks.

In his state of shock, Kisame failed to realise that the ice storm had already subdued and that Dorimaru was charging at him. The last second before Dorimaru's attack impacted, Kisame managed to side step and grab a hold of Samehada, who he had to put away in order to form the jutsu.

Dorimaru send a crushing blow from his feet to Kisame's face, spinning the sharkman away. However Dorimaru instantly needed to duck as well, seeing how his kick also send Samehada towards his head.

Kisame quickly regained his composure and charged at Dorimaru again, as he did the same. There katana's met eachother halfway and clashed at eachother multiple times.

Then all of a sudden, Umikasu and Ayane stood between them, blocking their katana's with their own. Everyone of the Akatsuki group looked surprised, as the girls weren't carrying any katana's before.

"We've see enough...Thank you." Umikasu said.

"Yeah...There's no need for more then that...Even though I'd love to see some bloodshed, it will only delay us." Ayane said smirking.

"That katana...It's made out of chakra? Hmm...A nice weakness to know about them." Kisamethought smirking to himself.

"It seems that we are finished then..." Itachi stated.

"Geez...Just when they were getting warmed up...It's not like they would have killed each other..." Kayoko complained.

"No, Kayoko-chan...Even though I agree to you, if I get too excited I'll waste too much precious chakra for the journey." Kisame replied as he put Samehada back on his back.

"And if they say that they've seen enough, then there is no reason to get even more serious." Dorimaru added as he put his katana back as well.

Kisame walked passed the two girls and when he passed Dorimaru, Dorimaru turned around as well and followed Kisame as the girls lowered their katana's.

"So...What have you decided?" Dorimaru asked the girls as he kept on walking with Kisame.

"Dorimaru, I'm sure they can't decide such a thing in just an instant...For now let's head back to camp..." Itachi said as he jumped back to camp.

"Yeah, let's rest a bit and then spar again, birdbrain." Kisame said grinning, obviously having enjoyed a serious bout with Dorimaru.

"You'd better atleast not stop then when someone gets in the way." Kayoko said before jumping after Itachi.

"You two should teach me some of those cool things some time!" Kuchinabi said cheerful before jumping after Kayoko.

"Heh...If you're going to fight we should see your skills as well." Kisame replied and followed her.

"I know that this katana is more then you say it is...It's not just some Tenshin hijutsu...I can feel it... "Dorimaru thought as he looked over his shoulder towards Ayane and Umikasu with his sharp falcon-like eyes before following his comrades.