Chapter 36- When will this end!?

"You're finally awake," whispered a deep voice into your ear as you woke up. Thinking it was Itachi you mumbled, "Shhh, don't make me get that rabbit and throw it at you again."

The deep voice chuckled and then said, "How did you get the blood seal off?" Snapping back into reality you realized it was not Itachi. Crap, Madara found you. Within a second you stood up and jumped back a few steps from Madara.

His long unruly hair hung loosely on his shoulders and his Sharingan was activated. Looking around you saw Itachi just woke up and he also jumped up when he realized Madara was here.

"So answer my question." Madara demanded. You stared at him blankly for a minute until remembering the question and then saying in a childish voice, "That's for me to know and for you to never find out." Clearly, Madara was in a bad mood because he frowned, and tried to grab your throat.

Since you had expected this you jumped to the side and then said, "That's old, do you have any new moves?" Madara's frown deepened and then he said, "You have gone too far, it's about time someone taught you a lesson. How about we begin from where we left off on the island."

Now it was you who frowned and you bit out, "Don't you dare." Madara sneered and then said, "You brought it upon yourself." Suddenly your little camp was turned into a battle field when Madara lunged at you, but Itachi threw a fireball at him while he was in mid lunge. At the same time you also threw several kunai at him that had explosive tags on them. In short then entire area was obliterated. Jumping away from the scene you looked intently to see from where Madara would jump out. After all, he was still inside the smoke.

For the longest time nothing moved, there wasn't even any wind. Itachi had activated his Sharingan and after a minute of looking around he said, "He's gone." Sighing you walked over to Itachi and then said, "Why can't he just leave us alone once and for all?"

Itachi made no reply but instead looked ahead intently, is if expecting Madara to pop up any second. After about ten more minutes of silence you said, "Lets get out of here I don't think Madara is going to show up for a while." Itachi nodded and the both of you began walking back toward the Akatsuki base, it was your home after all.

By nightfall you were just walking inside the Akatsuki base, where you were met by Pein. He motioned for you to follow him, and you did. Then he led you to the main meeting room and then he said, "You have a new mission, you must go to the far east edge of Fire Country by the Higashima mountain bridge where you will meet with some informants of ours."

Nodding you and Itachi went to go eat some food and then went to bed; you would leave for Higashima tomorrow.

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It was such a lovely morning at the Akatsuki base, there was no fighting or arguing. Just sweet silence and peace until..... "AAAAAHHHH GET IT OFF!!!!" You had woken up feeling great that morning, but when you opened your eyes there was something black and fuzzy on your face.

It also happened to have eight long legs and eight bright eyes. Since you had just woken up you had no chance to really think what to do through, so you did what your instinct told you. Unfortunately, your instinct must really be screwed up because what you did was take out a kunai from your bed stand and attempt to stab the spider, which was on your face.

So, you just tried to stab yourself in the face. Luckily, Itachi had heard you yell and came into the room. When he saw the freakishly large spider he walked up to you and flicked it off your face. Phew, disaster averted. The second the spider fell to the ground you threw a kunai with an explosive tag on it. I just can't get over how smart you are. Booooooooom.

So now you and Itachi stood in a half destroyed room surrounded by a ton of smoke. When the smoke settled Itachi glared at you and you said, "Hehe, umm, good morning?" He just shook his head at you and walked out of the room.

After you were finally ready to leave for your mission you and Itachi left as quickly as you could. You wanted to get this mission over with as fast as you could because Sasuke was now spending waaaaay too much time with Deidera and Sasori, who were trying to get him to choose between puppetry and clay bombing.

Also, all the colourful language that was coming from Hidan's mouth was not helping. You didn't want little Sasuke swearing like a retard in every sentence. Now that you thought about it all the Akatsuki members were a horrible influence on Sasuke. Except to Zetsu, he just kept trying to eat Sasuke.

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Higashima was not very far away so you and Itachi didn't have to walk that much, but the problem was the fact that the forest was so dense you had to cut your way through. Your original idea was to fireball your way out of here, but then you realized you would set the entire forest on fire.

Your second idea was to jump from tree to tree to make your progress faster, but the vines were so dense that was no way to even stand on a branch. So, you and Itachi had to go through the long and painful process of cutting through every single little vine in your way. It had been two hours so far and your arms were getting pretty tired. The only good thing about this type of terrain was that if Madara decided to attack you here, he would be limited with his attacks.

"Finally! We're free of the wretched vines!!!" you practically yelled when you and Itachi entered a clearing. The bridge was only a small distance away and you were very excited to see who this informant was.

Soon you were standing beside the bridge, you dared not risk stepping on the bridge because if you did then if it was destroyed you would fall into the very violent looking river below. At first you and Itachi waited silently for the informant to show up, but then you suggested that you play a game instead. Itachi obviously refused; seriously did you think Itachi would want to play a game? Pfft.

Around midnight you were falling sleep standing up when you saw a dark figure walk onto the bridge. Both you and Itachi stiffened when the figure walked up to you and began taking its dark hood off.

"What!? Are you serious? If this is a joke this isn't funny because getting here was huge pain in the ass, just like you Pein." You yelled when you saw that the hooded figure was actually Pein.

He glared at your outburst and then said, "I do not joke, but we had to meet in private." Both you and Itachi looked at your leader expectedly. This was very interesting and you wondered why the leader of your organization needed to meet privately. "I am not the leader of the Akatsuki," began Pein, which made you stare at him in shock while Itachi gave no reaction.

Then he continued with, "Uchiha Madara is and I know that he is your enemy right now." Both you and Itachi nodded and then Pein concluded with, "I wish to help you get rid of Madara once and for all."

*Sigh* I wanted to leave it as a cliffy so badly, but it would be too short so.....

To say that you were shocked would be an understatement. Pein had just said that he wanted to help you get rid of Madara, Pein of all people! Of course you and Itachi accepted, but tried not to sound too eager.

So, now the three of you were going over your plan to get rid of Madara. Since Pein had served under Madara's power for so long he knew that Madara's power was weaker during the white moon. It was the opposite of the blood moon, which made Madara ten times more powerful. Luckily, the white moon was a few days from now and that was the day when you had chosen to strike.

Pein also knew that Madara was burned by the touch of Moonglow, an extremely rare mineral that could only be made by elementals. It was the cost for being immortal, even the most powerful beings have a weakness and it just turns out that Madara's is a rock. When Pein finished explaining you exclaimed excitedly, "I know where we can get a ton of Moonglow!!!! The crystal caves back in earth country by our old house!"

So then it was settled, you and Itachi were going to have to go to earth country, get some Moonglow and then come back in time for the white moon. It was Pein's job to lure Madara to the great Dandonji River, and that was where you hoped to finish him off.

After going your separate ways you and Itachi began running toward earth country. You had to make it there and back in two days, and that was no where enough time. It would usually take you at least five days to complete the journey. So, you and Itachi were thinking of anything that would increase your speed and decrease your time.

For one, you agreed not to sleep, eat, or get water for as long as you possible could. You also agreed to not talk because talking took some energy and you needed as much as you could get.

However, in the morning of your second day of tireless running a figure all dressed in black interrupted you. You and Itachi got ready to fight, and end the fight as quickly as you could, but then realized you didn't have to because the figure said it had a message and package for you. The figure gave you a letter and scroll and then left. Making sure there were no traps on the scroll you and Itachi read the message, "Mizuke, my sources tell me you have found a way of defeating Madara, but it is far away so I have a scroll for you that will teleport you to the Dandonji River from wherever you are. As backup, my people will be in the area if things get out of hand. Sighed, Hokage."

You looked at the letter in surprise, how had the Hokage found out about your plan? Shrugging it off you and Itachi resumed running, but now there was less tension because now you only had to make half of the distance in two days.

"Home sweet home." You whispered when you saw your white house on your lot. However, you and Itachi did not liger there but instead went to the cave and to the Moonglow.

Once again you were happily surprised by the beauty of the caves, they never stopped amazing you. But the feeling around then was different now because you knew that the crystal statue in the middle was of your queen, who had been murdered by a dark elemental. Bowing to her statue as a sign of respect you walked over to a wall and got some Moonglow.

When you tried to earth bend it you saw that you easily could and so you earth bended as many weapons as you could out of it. You made kunai, shuriken, and your favourite was a smoke bomb filled with Moonglow dust. Itachi took some dust for himself and a couple of kunai.

When you were finished you cast the statue one last glance and took out the scroll the Hokage had given you. "Ready?" you asked Itachi, who just nodded. Opening the scroll you began to chant the teleportation words and everything went black.