Disclaimer- I do NOT own either Naruto and RWBY series, NOR their characters.

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Ch. 22

You've been found out.

Cinder glared the message she had just received.

"Something wrong?" Mercury asked

"We have to move our plans ahead."

"What?" Emerald questioned

"It seems someone knows about us being here." Cinder swiped her scroll as a picture of Itachi appeared "He's suspicious, we need to make him see it our way...and if he doesn't..."

Mercury smirked. "I'll take him on." Emerald rose a brow "What? I'm faster, I can outmaneuver him, he'll play right into our hands."

Cinder looked at him then turned to Emerald. "Get in his head, I'll make sure to take care of the rest." She smirked putting her scroll away. "For now rest, they haven't found us out completely yet."

With Itachi

Itachi was sitting in bed reading a book as there was a knock on the door. "Come in." He said as the door opened, both Weiss and Blake walking into the room, closing the door behind them as they made their way towards his bed. "Is so-"

Blake slammed her hands on the bed. "You didn't tell me about this!" Weiss handed him the book Blake was reading "They made him kill off his whole clan?! All the suffering he was put through!"

"He had a choice and he made it, it was his own undoing." Itachi replied putting his own book down "Though I wish there had been another choice found or at the very least more time."

Weiss shook her head. "There's always an other choice, he should've fought harder, rather than let that snake Danzo manipulate him into being the downfall of his own clan."

"I agree, but there isn't anything that can be done about it, no matter how much he regrets doing what he did, no matter how much he wishes he could rewind time and save everyone, he can't." Itachi moved, as Blake and Weiss sat down on each of his sides "As much as he'd like to take it all back and find a way for everyone to live peacefully, he can't and in the end, he got what he deserved."

"No, he didn't." Blake said grabbing his hand "He didn't deserve all that, to suffer with a deadly illness, and ultimately manipulate his brother to believe he had taken the life of the person who had caused him so much pain."

Weiss took hold of his other hand. "He saved all those lives, yet he died playing the villain when he deserved much better then the fate that was dealt to him."

"Can I ask you something?" Itachi turned his head to face her "Do you know who wrote this book?"

"And do you know, if this actually happened?" Weiss questioned him squeezing his hand "The way you talked about him right now, made it seem as if you knew exactly what was happening."

Itachi closed his eyes and nodded. "I know who wrote the book, as for it actually happening, that is something left unsaid and left behind in the past." The girls nodded as they leaned into him, laying their heads on his shoulders as they closed their eyes.

Next Day

Itachi sat with Blake and Ruby as they watched Weiss and Yang battle against the duo team from Atlas Academy. He glanced behind him, looking at Pyrrha who seemed uneasy, she caught him looking and gave him a nervous smile. He knew Ozpin had called her to his office yesterday afternoon along with Qrow, Glynda and General Ironwood.

He gave her a single nod as he turned back to the match. 'She's the one he's chosen to take on the power of the Fall Maiden.' He kept his head straight as he focused his sensory abilities to find the "Team" from Haven, but did not find their aura signatures 'Must have stayed at the Academy.'

"They did it!" Ruby shouted as she jumped from her seat.

"We should go congratulate them." Blake said grabbing Itachi's hand and jumping down into the arena, dragging him along which he didn't mind "Congrats you two."

"Are you okay, Weiss?" Itachi asked her offering her his hand "Let me help you."

She took his hand as he pulled her gently up onto her feet. "Thank you."

"Your voice!" Ruby said as she clung onto her sister

Weiss nodded. "I won't be singing anytime soon."

"If the students in the arena would please exit as for there has been a change in the schedule." Professor Port said making the announcement "The first singles round has been moved to begin in 30 minutes."

"What?" Blake questioned "Why have they moved it to today?"

"Something isn't right." Itachi said as they looked at him "Take Weiss back to the academy, get cleaned up, meet up with Sun and Nanami, and make sure to be ready for anything." He told the girls.

"What's going on?" Yang questioned him as the others looked at him waiting for an answer.

"There's been a large movement of grimm coming towards Vale, they're calling in any available huntsmen in the surrounding areas to come and secure the city." He told them, it wasn't the whole truth, but it wasn't a complete lie either. "They're already evacuating the citizens to a safe place, they moved the matches to today so that most would stay and come here, where there is plenty of security." The girls nodded as Itachi gave Weiss and Blake the code to his locker. "Keep these safe for me."

"Aren't you going to use them for your match?" Ruby questioned him

Itachi shook his head. "If I'm correct, I'm going to need a lighter weapon to use against my next opponent." He motioned to the katana on his waist "This will suffice."

Weiss narrowed her eyes. "You better win and meet with us later."

Itachi chuckled. "Of course, I have to do something for you two for advancing onto the final round." Itachi gave her hand a light squeeze and gave Yang a playful punch to the shoulder "I'll cook something good for you two."

"What?! Only them?!" Ruby whined

Itachi chuckled and motioned her to come closer as she did and was met with a light jab to the forehead. "Cookies?" Her eyes widened like saucers and nodded as he then looked at Blake "Dango or Sushi?"

"Both." She responded.

The girls except Yang left as they were told as the random selection was being spun. The first one had stopped at the image of Itachi who stayed in the arena, and just as he suspected his opponent was none other than Mercury.

"Our first match will be Itachi Uchiha of Beacon Academy, and his opponent Mercury Black of Haven Academy!" Dr. Oobleck announced as he adjusted his glasses "This match will surely be a must watch, with Mercury's speed he just might be able to evade the young Itachi until he uses up his semblance."

"That being said, I wouldn't count Mr. Uchiha out, he has shown tremendous speed in past battles and during class as well, in the end it will come out to be who can catch who first." Professor Port stated as the crowd cheered for the upcoming battle. "A game of cat and mouse."

"And now we shall see who exactly is the cat and mouse."

The two combatants readied themselves, each getting into their own stance as the counter counted down. At the sound of the buzzer the two lunged at eachother, Itachi's katana meeting with Mercury's boot.

"I'm not going to make this easy for you." Mercury smirked as his eyes widened when Itachi reached out to grab him, but he kicked himself away before he could get caught "Almost got me there."

Itachi stood calmly as Mercury began running circles around him before running straight towards him throwing kicks and punches simply for Itachi to slap them away with ease. Mercury attempted to kick him from below on the chin but Itachi caught his foot, to which Mercury smirked as he shot out him at point blank range, but to his surprise a reddish orange mask covered his face taking the brunt of the attack.

"Oh crap, you really are him."

He jumped away behind Itachi as everyone could see the black pinwheel pattern over the red eyes as everyone gasped and began to whisper more than the day before. Mercury was about attack but was shocked when he felt a lot of pain on different points of his torso and he spotted the holes in Itachi's jacket. Itachi removed the jacket holding two pistols before he placed one back in its holster, he slowly turned swinging his sword, destroying part of the arena as he disappeared from Mercury's sight only for him to feel the air knocked out of him as Itachi hit Mercury in the gut with the hilt of his Katana.

"You're quite the arrogant one."

Itachi stabbed the katana into the ground as he grabbed Mercury's hair pulling him up as he kneed him in the face before proceeding with a left and right hook. He kicked him in the gut sending him flying across the arena, but before he could fall out Itachi appeared above him, leg high in the air before bringing it down on his head.

"That fighting style!" Yang gripped the railing as she watched 'It's way too similar for it to be a coincidence.'

Itachi looked at Mercury's aura bar as it was close to the red. He pulled out the pistol and pointed it at Mercury.

"Forfeit the match, you can't win."

Mercury smirked and put his hands up. "You win, I forfeit." The buzzer went off announcing Itachi as the winner as he turned and walked away as his head began feeling woozy "Or so you thought." Itachi's Mangekyo started spinning rapidly as he turned around, there he saw Mercury still standing in place as then a scream was heard from the crowd. Mercury's eyes widened as he turned towards his teammate "Shit, Emerald!"

A second later Professor Ozpin could be heard on the speakers. "Will security please take Mercury Black and Emerald into cust-"

"Attacking a bystander, this is what Reaper does." Itachi narrowed his eyes as he knew that voice belonged to Cinder as the screens turned red and a black queen chess piece appeared on the screens. "This is what happens when you place your trust, your safety, your children to men to men who claim top be our guardians, yet they hide a wanted criminal in their school. Our academies headmasters wield more power than most armies and one was audacious enough to control both. They cling to this power in the name of peace, and yet what do we have here?" Images of Itachi appeared on the screens "They hide the fact they keep some half of the most wanted duos in remnant..." Then pictures of Penny appeared on the screens and her schematics "And one nations attempt at a synthetic army, tell me, what need would Atlas and Beacon have for a criminal/soldier disguised as innocent children?"

Both Atlas soldiers and robotic soldiers surrounded Itachi and Mercury as they pointed their weapons at Mercury. "Where is she?!" Itachi grabbed Mercury by the collar as he smirked

"Hunters and Huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy. Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the tournament using Reaper would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded the streets, or perhaps this is his message to the tyrannical dictator that has occupied an unsuspecting Kingdom with Armed Forces. Honestly? I haven't the slightest clue to who is right and who is wrong. But I know the existence of peace is fragile. And the leaders of our Kingdoms conduct their business with Iron gloves. As someone who hails from Mistral, I can assure you, the situation there is...equally undesirable. Our Kingdoms are at the brink of war, yet we the citizens, are left in the dark. So I ask you, when the first shots are fired...Who do you think you can trust?"

The sirens began to wail as the emergency alarm went off. "Alert. Incoming Grimm attack. Threat level: Nine. Please seek shelter in a calm and orderly manner."

The crowd began to panic and ran away as Ironwood spoke. "Everyone, please remain calm, there is nothing to be pani-"

The next second two giant nevermore began hitting the barrier above the Colosseum, as Itachi aura gauge began still on display began to seem abnormal as sirens kept going off. Itachi's eyes widened as he clutched his chest and fell to his knees and began to cough violently. He looked at the guards as the machine ones began to emit a red light and they pointed their weapons as they began shooting as Mercury made his escape.

"Itachi!" Yang and many others shouted

Their eyes all widened when a large red skeletal figure began to rise and a large hand swung around, causing the robotic guards to shatter into pieces. The next moment the two Nevermore broke through the barrier and dived down towards Itachi as a second arm grabbed one of the nevermores as the first was punched into the stands. The Susanoo gripped at the nevermores wings and began to tear the large grimm in half. The second nevermore shrieked as the Susanoo roared as it began to form limbs and flesh before its armor. As the nevermore flew at Itachi, he fell to his knees, the pain beginning to get to him again as his Susanoo disappeared. Itachi glared at the nevermore as lockers began to shoot down from the sky piercing the nevermore as it stopped a few feet away from Itachi. The rest of the students jumped onto the nevermore and opened their lockers, grabbing their weapons as Yang ran up to him and slowly helped him up.

"What the hell is going on?!" Yang asked

"I thought it was pretty obvious with the grimm attacking." Itachi replied

Yang glared at him. "Not what I meant, smart ass." Yangs scroll began to ring as an image of Blake appeared and she answered.

"Are you okay? Are you with Itachi?"

"Yeah, but your boyfriend here has seen better days."

"Itachi! You better explain to us what's happening to you or I swear to..." Weiss growled and screamed into the scroll "...you better make it out, you promised us!"

Itachi chuckled but then coughed out blood. "Hey take it easy." Yang said

Itachi shook his head. "There's no time." Itachi looked turned slowly with the help of Yang "This is our school, our city, and our Kingdom, we won't let the grimm take it, you can either fight or run, nobody will judge you." Itachi slowly moved away from Yang. "I will choose to fight, the rest of you, do what you wish." Itachi began walking away slowly, trying to not let the agonizing pain he is in show as the nevermore began to move, but a Susanoo fist slammed into its head killing it.

Yang smirked as she looked at the other who nodded. Yang ran up to Itachi and placed his arm over her shoulder as she helped him move faster. "Don't do everything alone, you have us to lean on." Itachi looked at her before giving off his own little smirk.

"The White Fang are releasing Grimm into the school!" A student shouted

Itachi's eyes widened. "Yang get down there quickly and help Blake." Itachi narrowed his eyes. "If the White Fang is here, then so is he..."

"Adam Taurus." Yang spat his name as Itachi nodded.

"Be careful, if you two do run into him, fall back and do not engage."

"Bu-"

"No buts Yang, I hate to say this, but you can't defeat him at your current level." The group had boarded the ship that would take them down to the city as Itachi turned to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha, it's time, you need to get to Ozpin." Her eyes widened as she balled her fist before nodding "I'm sorry."

"What's he talking about, Pyrrha?" Jaune asked

Yang looked around. "Wait, where's Ruby?"

Itachi saw the ship Ironwood had taken begin to fall as he looked back seeing the small girl still on the platform of the Colosseum, he moved away from Yang and ran to the back of the ship before jumping out of it and towards the red hooded girl.

"Itachi!" Yang shouted as their figures began to shrink as they flew further away from the Colosseum.

Itachi landed next to Ruby. "I have something for you to do." Itachi dropped to a knee and gripped his shirt.

"It can't be happening now, right when we need you the most!" Ruby shouted

Itachi struggled to stand as he stayed on his knee. "That ship in the sky, you think you can bring it down?"

Ruby looked at the lone ship Ironwood had been heading towards. "If I can get there."

"Leave that to me." The Susanoo arm grew as it opened its palm "Get on."

"What about you?" Ruby asked

"I'm going to lead as many grimm away from the city as I can." Itachi pointed to the opposite side of the city and into the forest. He then turned to face the forest next to the school. "It's still out there, it'll give me a slight boost..."

"How are you going to do that? And what's still out there?"

"I have an idea." He answered as he then coughed "And something a friend, left behind."

Ruby looked worried as she hugged him. "Don't do anything dumb, we'll be waiting for you, so don't die on us, please."

Itachi smiled and hugged the young girl back. "I have too much to lose. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon." Ruby let go and smiled at him before getting in the palm of the Susanoo "Here we go!" The Susanoo arm reeled back before launching Ruby up into the sky heading towards the ship.

The Susanoo arm immediately disappeared as he began to breath heavily. He made a single hand sign making six shadow clones, but to his dismay all but one disappeared as he cursed. "You know what to do." His Shadow clone nodded before jumping off the Colosseum a large puff of smoke appearing beneath them. 'And I need to get over there.' Itachi looked over to the tower where Ozpin kept the Fall Maiden 'She will be looking for her, no doubt.'

On the ground Weiss and the group had beaten two paladin machines as a third ran around the corner and faced them.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Sun groaned but then they heard the caw of a nevermore that swooped down and grabbed the paladin with its claws before flying up into the sky as their eyes widened to whom was riding on its back "Itachi!"

Itachi looked back at the group, his eyes locking on with Weiss before patting the nevermore on the back "Let's go to the edge." The nevermore cawed once more breaking the paladin in its claws as it flew away towards the edge of the city. "No." The clone said as it looked at Mount Glenn that began to crumble as three large dragon grimm flew out and roared "Hurry, we need to try and lead them away."

With Blake

"You've got to be kidding me, how strong is this creep?!" Nanami growled holding Samehada tightly in her grasp

"Don't let your guard down little sis, he's not just some ordinary creep." Isane glared at him

"Don't I know you from somewhere?" Adam rose a brow as he looked at the fallen White Fang members around them "It doesn't matter this will be your end." He lunged at the girls who readied themselves as Adams sword was met with Blakes own weapon "You've come to witness their death, my love?"

"I won't let you hurt my friends!" Blake pushed back

"And she isn't your love anymore!" Nanami shouted

Nanami appeared to his side as she swung her large blade as he jumped back evading the hit, but then spun to the side as he blocked a hit from Isane's spear. Isane jumped back and blocked his sword as it seemed to have broken her spear in half but she smirked as blades appeared from both sides of the spears as she began her assault. Nanami and Blake jumped in when they had seen an opening but when they were close to landing a good hit, Adam let out a large amount of power from his sword as Nanami stood in front of Blake and Isane holding Samehada like a shield.

Adam narrowed his eyes. "That's a pesky sword."

"I could say the same about yours." Isane retorted

"The best metal Atlas can buy." Nanami chuckled as she lunged forward her sword clashing with his as they were at stalemate "Now!"

Isane was behind Nanami as she thrust her spears through her and successfully pierced Adam in stomach, causing him to spit out blood. "Blake now!"

Blake appeared above them, her sword behind her as she swung but it never met with Adam as they were all blasted away into different corners of the room.

"The fuck was that?!" Nanami shouted

They heard giggling as the hooded girl from before sat on top of a pillar. "Are you almost done? It's getting quite troublesome out there." The girl jumped down next to Blake and dragged her by the hair and tossed her next to Adam "Kill her already."

"What are you doing here?" Adam glanced at the bandaged girl

"I've already taken care of the android."

"Let her go!" Isane ran towards them as the girl tossed a rock at her and her eyes widened as the rock exploded, barely managing to shield herself with her arms that made a shield of water "Agh!"

"Isane!" Nanami shouted as she watched her older sister being sent flying through the wall. She looked back at the bandaged girl and glared at her. "Now you've pissed me the fuck off!" Nanami ran towards her, dragging the large sword as she swung causing rubble to surround them, she swung the large sword once more connecting with the girl who attempted to jump away "Samehada doesn't slice, it cuts to ribbons!" She sent the bandaged girl flying into a wall as she smirked seeing the blood on the scales of the blade but then heard laughing as Nanami's eyes widened when Samehada began to glow before it exploded and sent her crashing through some rubble, the wall and finally crash landing into a water fountain.

"Nanami!" Blake shouted and reached for her but knew she could not reach her as she screamed in pain as Adam stomped on her arm.

"Tell me what did she mean by that?" Adam glared at Blake

"I love someone else, Adam!" Blake spat at him as she attempted to shoot him but he blocked her shots with his sword

"Then I shall kill him, but first I'll destroy everything you hold dear and love, starting off with those friends of yours." He looked at Nanami and Isane as he then heard someone scream out Blake's name as Yang appeared outside as she kneeled down next to Isane then looked over at Nanami who were both unconscious, he looked at Blake who was shaking her head "Actually, I'll start off with her." Adam stabbed Blake as she shouted in pain, causing Yang to look their way.

"Get away from her!"

"No, please..." Blake begged her to stay away but Yang in an explosive rage lunged at Adam, ready to knock him senseless, but Adam was quicker and ended up cutting half of her arm off "Nooo!"

Adam walked towards where Yang had landed in attempt to finish her, but Blake got in his way. "Why must you hurt me, Blake?" He swung his blade cutting her head off, but it was a clone of her semblance as Blake ran away with Yang in her arms as she attempted to awaken the other two.

"We have to... get out of here..." The bandaged girl walked up to him limping as she held her side "Something and someone is heading towards the school." Adam glared at her "Don't look at me like that, I saved your pathetic ass, if it weren't for me, those three would've taken you out." She spat at him.

"Fine. Let's go." Adam swung his sword, removing the blood from it as he kept a hand over his wound.

Moments Later

Ruby had completed her objective as she ran up to the other students at the landing dock as Zwei barked and Weiss turned around. "Ruby!"

"Weiss, oh I found you!"

"Ruby, where ha-"

"Don't worry, I'm fine! What's going on?" Weiss looked down as she moved to the side letting Ruby see the casualties "Yang, everyone..."

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..." Blake lay on the floor reaching out to the other three unconscious girls.

"Hey, they'll be okay." Sun walked up to them "The soldiers have a ship ready to take you guys to Vale."

"But Jaune and Pyrrha are still missing!" Nora groaned

"And so is Itachi." Ren attempted to stand.

"Look guys, those giant grimm keep circling the school." Sun pointed at the three dragon grimm "Even the White Fang are pulling out! We all have to go now!"

As Sun finished they felt the ground tremble once more. "What now?!" Weiss questioned as it was then answered with a loud roar and a pillar of red energy could be seen from the corner of the forest surrounding vale. "What is that?"

"It's him..." Isane coughed as Sun kneeled next to her and helped her sit up "It's...Itachi..."

"What do you mean?" Ruby questioned

"Thank you." She nodded towards Sun. "He's unleashing... the power of the red warrior he forms...power of anger, wrath, and negative emotion..." Isane groaned as she looked beside her and took hold of Nanami's hand "...he-" She coughed and held her stomach

"He's going to attempt to draw all the grimm in the city towards him..." Rens eyes widened

Blake was already crying and hearing this made her shed more tears, as Weiss began to shed tears as well.

"That idiot...you promised!" Weiss shouted

Isane chuckled. "Don't worry...he's..." Isane pointed up into the sky as they saw a large nevermore flying low towards the tower. "There's a lot...you don't know about...him..."

"That idiot...of a brother of...ours..." Nanami slowly opened her eyes "Asshole, making girls cry..."

"Nanami." Sun move to kneel beside her as he took her hand in his and gave it a light squeeze. "You had us worried."

"I'm going." Ruby said

"No, we are going." Weiss stated as they ran towards the tower

They looked back and stared in awe as the rest of the group did as well, as they saw a large armored warrior taller then the mountains take form as the grimm began running towards it and one of the dragons took notice and flew towards the Perfect Susanoo.

The group watched as the large warrior slammed his foot in the ground causing the earth beneath them to shake as they heard the screeching noise of the grimm dying and saw a lot of black mist dissolving into the sky. As the Dragon grimm approached the warrior unsheathed its sword and swung the blade, the dragon had been sliced in half by a single fluid motion as the top of a few surrounding mountains were cut off. The force of the swing made a large gust as most of the people left in the city and at the school had to grab hold of something or be blown away into the ground. They watched as the warrior vanished as quickly as it had appeared.

The original Itachi was flying through the sky on the nevermore summon who had returned to him as it had dropped off its clone at the edge of the forest. "To the top of the tower hurry!" He shouted as he was kneeling and was barely able to get a grip on the nevermore feeling the gust from the Perfect Susanoo's attack. 'That took too much chakra from me, it being the first time using the Perfect Susanoo, and the damage it'll inflict to my eyesight as my eyes are not complete.' Itachi groaned as he began to feel a large stinging pain in both his eyes, but still manged to keep hold on the nevermore who had managed to arrive at their destination. "Thank you, now go and rest." The nevermore cawed as it dispersed

Itachi began free falling onto the tower where he spotted Pyrrha cornered by Cinder, but his own body began to glow as his eyes widened 'What's going on?!' He looked to his left seeing the one of the dragon grimm take notice of him as it flew up towards him. Itachi moved his arm out towards the forest as black flames surrounded him "Answer my will...!" The dragon made its approach swiftly as something had passed it at blinding speed. "Sacred Axe, Rhitta!" Escanors divine axe had found its place in Itachis grip as he waited for the dragon to close in "Sacred Treasure, Release."

Everyone below and away from the tower stared up in awe as a bright sun appeared in the dark night. Itachi looked behind him and grunted, it would be a bright sun as it was Escanors Grace that had been stored in Rhitta.

"The sun in the middle of the night?! How is this possible?!" Cinder growled

Itachi swung the divine axe creating a wave of blinding light as many shielded their eyes as the wave made contact with the dragon, when the light had dimmed down, the there was nothing left of the dragon as he also managed to tear off a piece of the wings of the other dragon which fell crashing into the tower as it used its good wing and its talons to keep hold on the tower as it breathed fire at Itachi, who did not attempt in evading and took the flames head on.

Out of their daze, Cinder had shot an arrow at Pyrrha, but Itachi manged to surround her with his Susanoo's hand as he landed in between the two, but fell to his knee as the black flames vanished from his glowing body and coughed up some blood.

Cinder smirked. "So we finally meet." Cinder launched several arrows as they all bounced off his Susanoo, except one which made it through when his body gave off a brighter glow and his Mangekyo Sharingan deactivated on their own.

"Itachi? What's going on?!" Pyrrha banged on the Susanoo's hand as she fell through it. She ran up to his body which she could hold in her arms, but his spirit was leaving its physical form "What did you do?!" She questioned Cinder but then gasped as a second arrow had pierced her going through Itachi's chest as Ruby had finally shown up and was in shock as she witnessed it all.

Cinder shook her head."Whatever is happening to him, it wasn't my doing." Cinder said as the Susanoo gave away. Cinder placed a hand on the struggling Pyrrha as her body began to glow as she was disintegrated as her ashes were scattered in the wind. Cinder smirked up at the floating spirit of the wide eyed Itachi. "Now die and become a memory."

Itachi narrowed his eyes. "I will never be a memory." Then he spirit disappeared as his body lay motionless and when Cinder was about to burn his body Ruby began to scream, a powerful white light engulfing the area above the tower.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!"

"WHAT?!"

Qrow along with Glynda had made their way to the base of the tower where they met with Weiss as they shielded their eyes once more.

"We have to get up there." Glynda said

"Then get us up there." Qrow told the woman who nodded "And you, get back to the others, we'll handle the rest." He ordered Weiss who gripped her weapon and nodded.

Glynda flew herself and Qrow to the top of the tower, but what they had come to see was not what they had expected. The remaining dragon grimm had been frozen as if it were encased in ice or stone, but their eyes widened when they found Ruby laying unconscious and a few feet away from her was Itachi's body, gripping the golden tiara the Pyrrha wore.

"Ruby!" Qrow ran up to his niece but she would not wake up as he looked over at Glynda who was checking on Itachi "How is he?"

Glynda was on a knee as she checked for a pulse, but she couldn't feel anything. "Damn it!" She cursed as she slammed a fist on the ground and shook her head. "He's gone."

"You can't be serious." Qrow stood with Ruby in his arms "Check again!"

"I don't feel a pulse, Qrow!" She exclaimed but then gasped as she felt a warmth and saw a tiny black flame appear above his heart. She checked for a pulse once again as her eyes widened. "I feel it, it's faint, barely there, but there." Glynda levitated his body and faced Qrow. "We need to get him medical attention quickly, or he really will die on us."

"Then let's get going, we have to get Ruby and the others some help too." Qrow stated as they made their way back.

When they had arrived they swiftly met with up with the Ironwood.

"Jimmy!" Qrow shouted as everyone turned to see them running towards them. "We need help!"

The students that were awake waited anxiously as they got closer.

"Ruby!" The girls said

"Is she going to be okay?" Weiss asked

"Miss Rose will be fine, she's just exhausted most of her aura and will need some rest, but..." Glynda said as Itachi's body came to their view "We need to get Mr. Uchiha some emergency medical treatment."

Weiss and Blake stood there in shock. They ran up to his levitating body and took hold of him as Glynda gently set him in their arms.

"What's going on? Why does he need to be treated?" Blake questioned

"He's at the brink of Life and Death, if we don't get him stabilized, he'll die." Qrow said as he looked at General Ironwood "Now get us some help, Jimmy!"

"I've already taken care of it. I have some evac ships coming with some medics, that'll be here very soon." Ironwood informed the man.

"H-He's dying?" Weiss began to shake as she shook her head. "Wait, where's Pyrrha?"

As she asked the question the rest of team JNPR arrived on scene as they saw Ruby and Itachi unconscious. Jaune kept looking around before he too asked the same question.

"Where's Pyrrha?" Glynda and Qrow closed their eyes before looking down and shaking their heads. Their eyes widened as Jaune fell to his knees and slammed his fists on the ground. "NO! You're lying, it can't be! She can't be gone!"

"Mr. Ar-"

"You're wrong, she has to be out there! We have to go look for her! She could be hurt or in trouble!"

Glynda walked up to Jaune, placing a hand on his shoulder and proceeded to hand him Pyrrhas tiara. "I'm sorry that we were not able to make it in time, to save her and the other two." Jaune took hold of what was left of Pyrrha "If we had acted sooner than this could have all been avoided, but due to our incapability, you have all lost a comrade, a leader, a friend, but most importantly a loved one." She finished as Ren and Nora fell to their knees next to Jaune as they huddled together and cried.

Blake took out her scroll as she input the code to Itachi's locker as it came crashing down a few feet away from them a second later. Isane and Nanami took the place of Blake and Weiss as the two girls opened the locker revealing his large blade, a katana in an elegant sheath and two small rectangular boxes.

They each took a box corresponding to their color scheme and opened them. They were a part of his three ringed necklace he always wore. They had each gotten a ring with the red gem inside it as they took a note from inside the boxes a read it.

"These may not seem like much, and may not have any real value to others, but this necklace was given to me by my mother when I was a young boy. She told me that when I get older and find the girl I love, that I shall give them the necklace. Well, I found the girl...well girls. My mother would've been proud and loved you both, just as much as I love the two of you."

The two girls shut their eyes, sobbed and held the other until the ships and medical group had arrived. Blake put the necklace on as she took hold of the Katana and strapped it to her hip. Weiss did the same as she attempted to lift his blade but was a bit heavy.

"Twist the handle 180 degrees to the right, then press it forward." Isane told the girl.

Weiss nodded doing as she was told as the blade began to change form until it was a rectangular box that she would be able to carry on her lower back like Ruby did. And to her surprise it felt lighter than before. "It's lighter."

Isane nodded. "Yeah, don't know how they did it." Isane placed a hand on their shoulders "Don't worry, he'll be fine. He's not going to let something like this take him out."

"She's right, and he's said it before, he has too much to lose now." Nanami smiled as the girls nodded.

They all traveled in the same transport, Ruby was laying on a bed as Itachi had been placed in a pod, a mask over his mouth, wires and computers monitoring his vitals and pulse.

"I'll take Ruby and Yang home to their dad once we land in the city." Qrow said as he looked at the others "You're all welcome to come if you'd like."

"As for Itachi." Ironwood walked into the back with the others "We will be taking him to Atlas."

"What?" Blake questioned "Why?"

Ironwood sighed. "He isn't unconscious due to aura exhaustion, but is currently in a Comatose state, if we do not take him to a facility to get proper treatment and monitoring, he will die." He told them as Blake began to tremble but then felt Weiss squeeze her hand "With Atlas technology and doctors we can keep him alive and stable until he wakes."

The group had arrived in the city. The transport carrying Itachi had already left to Atlas. Blake had ran away shortly after they left with Itachi, but stopped when she heard a small meow from below. She looked down into the alley and saw the familiar white cat. She jumped down and scooped up the kitten.

"Snow, I'm sorry." She sobbed and held the kitten close to her "I'm so sorry."

With Weiss, her father had arrived shortly after the departure of Itachi, wanting to go with him, but had been informed that her father was arriving soon to take her home. Before she boarded her fathers plane she heard a small meow from behind her as she saw the familiar black cat running towards her as she jumped up into her arms.

"Yami." Weiss sniffled and held the kitten close "I'm sorry."

She boarded the plane with the kitten in her arms as her father rose a brow.

"And what is that thing?"

Weiss glared at him. "She isn't some 'thing', she's my cat and she's coming home with me, Father." Her father huffed and looked away.

Unknown

It was dark. He couldn't speak. He couldn't move. Had he died? Of all times to have gone, it had to be when he was trying to save his friend, when he was finally feeling happy in life. Then it happened, it seemed as if a door was opening and was able to move. The first thing he saw was a forest he looked to his right and left as his eyes widened, two coffins had disappeared and there stood Kakuzu and Nagato. He looked down at himself and noticed he was wearing a similar robe to the other two as he looked at his arms and he balled his hands into fist.

"This is the Edo-Tensei." He said

"Itachi?" A weak Nagato said "What's going on?"

"Uchiha?" Kakuzu looked at Nagato for a second before his eyes narrowed "Pein?" He looked back at Itachi "You better start explaining or I'll kill you."

Itachi narrowed his eyes. "It seems we've been brought back as someones weapons of war." As if on cue their bodies began to move on their own, Kakuzu grabbing hold on Nagato by the back of his robe as they ran deeper into the forest "We have become someones puppets and I know only one other person other than Orochimaru who could've done this."

"Who?" Kakuzu asked

"Kabuto Yakushi, the snakes right hand man." Itachi answered

Kakuzu growled. "I'll kill him." Kakuzu the tossed Nagato to Itachi "Looks like this is where we part ways." Kakuzu then disappeared into a different direction.

"Can you think of a way out of this?" Nagato questioned as Itachi stayed silent "A snake lays dormant in a cave far from here."

Itachi had his eyes closed as he focused. His eyes shot open as Black flames appeared over his body and he came to halt. "Every Jutsu has a weakness, the weakness and risk of this Jutsu is my existence." Itachi then placed a hand on Nagatos head as the black flames began to burn the inside of his head as his goal of getting rid of the tag inside the bodies worked.

"How did you...?" Nagato began to move around by himself

"You're weak, take some of my chakra to replenish your strength." Itachi commanded

"Wouldn't that leave you weaker?"

Itachi rose a brow. "You should be thankful that I'm even considering letting you take some, but it's quite impertinent of you to believe that it would weaken someone like me." Itachi said as the flames vanished "I apologize about that, my personality changes when in that form."

"I've never seen that power."

"There's a lot I've always kept hidden." Itachi responded as Nagato nodded slowly "We are currently Edo-Tensei, we do not die nor do we lose chakra, we have an unlimited amount currently and we regenerate from fatal blows, the only way to stop us is to deal with the caster himself and make him dispel the jutsu, or sealing us, but our souls will be bound here until the caster dispels it."

"You know a lot about this jutsu, Itachi." Nagato said as his form and complexion began to look younger, his skin had color to it and his hair had gone from white to red.

"Like I said, I know and have many secrets, jutsu included." Itachi stated as he looked forward "Now let's keep going, the caster had a reason for us to head this way, and something tells me destiny wants us to meet with someone.

"When did you become a man who believes in destiny?" Nagato chuckled

"..." Itachi did not answer.

And that's the first chapter of the year! I hope everyone spent the holidays well and hopefully 2020 is treating everyone well so far. The Itachi vs Mercury fight was pretty quick, due to well...Itachi didn't want to waste time lol. Itachi vs Cinder on the other hand didn't feel like it was time for those two to actually fight eachother. And look what happened! For those wondering, if we'll see a fight between Itachi and Kabuto or someone from the original world, it most likely will not happen, I don't plan on Itachi staying there for too long as I need him to get back to his Waifus. I will say this though, we will be seeing some other characters appear for a brief moment to speak with Itachi. Well, Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Seeya next time! Buh-Bye :D

keybladelight- Sharingan and Perfect Susanoo have now been revealed! Itachi vs Two Grimm Dragons! Cinder isn't interested in him in a sexual or romantic way, she just likes the competition. Neo will not kiss Itachi...well not in this story at least...Weiss and Itachi have not done anything past kissing/making out. I think it would be best for Itachi to just go as himself and have them see him as a human and not an impersonator. And what SANE woman wouldn't want a piece of Itachi lol. I have watched and also currently watching the new episodes. I'm not going to lie, they have a beautiful mother too. And the book was mentioned in this chapter! I'm part of the small percentage that has not watched a single episode of Black Clover yet, but I am planning on watching it.

Imperial Romance- The match happened, but Itachi still has the whole chakra thing under wraps, so it's still a secret.

VocaloidBrony- Here you go! And yes, she wants Itachi on her side, but looks like that'll never work out.

Kage-kitsune9001- He's going to need more than just the sharingan *wink wink*

andresskorskiruiz- Thank you!

razmire- Kali yes, Ghira... may attack him on the spot! lol

Blindfold Snake- Seen you have, yes. They start off as 17 at the beginning of the first year in Beacon(Ruby 14), right now they should be 18 going 19 (Ruby 15 going 16), but I believe Itachi may actually be a year younger than the girls on team RWBY(except Ruby, of course) since his age was changed originally, as it was stated in The Itachi Shinden light novels. They changed his from 12 to 13 so he could take rank as an Anbu Captain.