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Part Thirty-Six: Arrangements

Itachi looked out to the trees.

"What is it?" his partner asked.

"Nothing."

"Tetsu again?"

"She killed ten ANBU last night," he replied. "That's what everyone's said."

"They must have found her."

"That Tara girl is missing, too."

"Do you think she—?"

"No."

"Then who?"

"I don't know, and honestly, I don't care. We're here distinctly to capture and kill the Kyuubi," Itachi replied. "Let's go."

They jumped into the air, Itachi's partner watching him intensely. He, like most people, knew about Itachi's past, but unlike others, he knew that Itachi had been arranged to marry just a year before he had killed his family.

The woman he had been arranged to was Takura Tetsu.

After her village had been destroyed and her family killed, she had disappeared. Once it was determined who had instigated the attack on the village and Takura family, Itachi's family had been so ashamed that they had forced him, almost blindly, into another arrangement.

This, of course, was not the reason he had killed his family. He would have done so whether or not he and Tetsu had married; it was just who he was. However, he had been hoping to gain some power over the Hidden Shadow Village through the marriage. After Tetsu had disappeared, he had lost that chance at power.

When she had appeared a few years later in the Akatsuki, Itachi had been surprised. He had admitted to thinking that she was dead, but she honestly hadn't cared.

"I could care less if you you're shocked at my living or not."

"Why did you disappear? You could have come to Konoha."

"Hmm…no. To be honest, I hate you. I didn't want to marry you, so I did what I could to stay away from you, and that ended in me getting my family killed. I figured you'd think I was dead with them and then I wouldn't have to live with you."

"You killed your family so that you wouldn't have to marry me?"

"Yes."

"I see."

"Now I'm going to have to disappear again, because you're here and I hate you. Well, later."

After she had killed Samuru, she had disappeared again. Itachi and the other members of the Akatsuki had figured that Orochimaru had killed her and had named her dead.

Now, she was alive.

Kisame, Itachi's partner, thought this over. If he was right, Itachi would try to stay as far away from Tetsu as possible, even if it meant sacrificing their mission. Itachi was still very unsure of the other Takura, but Kisame was sure that he would kill her.

It was only a matter of time.