A/N: Thanks again to my reviewers for commenting. I guess I should do something about Sasuke accepting his 'counterpart' so quickly and without suspicsion. That won't be too hard since I didn't put any definite statement thoughts on Sasuke about actually trusting Itachi. Besides, you don't have to trust people to ally with them. Anyways, sorry for taking so long to update so little. I had a very bad fever/headache.
Unexpected
Chapter 6: Dark Mist
"Seeing as the Akatsuki had just attaked the main gates, I think the rest are outside," Sasuke said observingly.
Itachi merely nodded in reply as they both ran off past the main gates and outside Konoha.
It was pretty easy to kill those two Akatsuki members, Sasuke commented to himself. However, the more I use this technique, the more people become aware of what it does. And eventually, it would be impossible to surprise any opponent with it.
He quickly regained caution as very soft whoosh of wind and then humming was heard. Sasuke closely listened for any further sounds. A slightly louder humming came. It slowly grew even louder and then, without warning dozens of shurikens darted from a single direction.
Itachi immedietly reacted and performed several hand seals, tossing one of his own shurikens into the air. "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Shurikens met shurikens, and for a single moment, a loud clash was heard as puffs of smoke erupted from everywhere. The two original shurikens from which the Kage Bunshins came from was all thats left and they too fell down to the forest floor below.
The tinkling from the two metal shurikens falling on the floor blocked out the sound of the enemy taking a leap closer to the Uchiha brothers.
Once again, many shurikens came but from a different direction and Sasuke did the Shuriken Kage Bunshin no jutsu to match the incoming projectiles.
The enemy, also repeated the process.
Itachi and Sasuke didn't really realize what was going on until it was too late.
Three people in the Akatsuki cloak appeared and surrounded the Uchiha brothers in a triangle formation.
"That storm of fire was yours... yeah?" the bat like Akatsuki member asked.
Sasuke didn't reply nor did Itachi.
"If it weren't for the fact that you've killed two of our members, we would have considered you a candidate to join," another member said. "Afterall, we have a common goal."
"I'll humor you. What would that common goal be?" Sasuke asked.
"To kil..." the second Akatsuki member began.
Too much information is leaking out, Itachi thought. This conversation has to end.
Immedietly, Itachi flung a kunai towards the speaking Akatsuki who stopped his sentence and dodged the projectile.
"You must really want an early funeral... yeah?" the bat person commented as the other two Akatsuki members leaped high up into the tree tops.
"You will die here," Itachi whispered coldly. He then realized he made a tiny mistake. Only the 'traitor Akatsuki Itachi' side was supposed to so strongly dislike the other Akatsuki members.
Sasuke noticed his 'counterpart' was getting kind of side-tracked towards the goal and seemed to be wanting to kill the Akatsuki as much as Itachi.
Itachi immedietly realized that Sasuke might think exactly that and decided to say something. "I guess I should let you know. The Akatsuki were a part of the Uchiha Massacre."
Sasuke was shocked to hear this. "What?"
"I'll explain to you later," Itachi replied quitely.
Though Sasuke believed the words of his 'counterpart', he couldn't seem to feel the same anger towards the Akatsuki as Itachi. Afterall, he had only seen Itachi commit the genocide of the Uchiha. But it didn't really matter. He had to fight the Akatsuki regardless for the sake of living.
Suddenly without warning, the bat like Akatsuki member made many seals and flung his hand in a shooing motion as a giant wave of black chakra emmited from his hand.
Sasuke saw the immense chakra used within the attack. It was enough to heavily harm if not kill him. Instinctively, he started leaping towards the right when he was caught by a shadow. The Kage Mane no Jutsu? thought Sasuke.
Itachi saw Sasuke's problem and performed several hand seals, firing the Goukakyuu at the bat like Akatsuki member.
The bat-person seeing this performed several seals of his own and fired another black wave of chakra towards Itachi. Sasuke who was still under the control of the Kage Mane no Jutsu also fired a black wave but was in the direction of nothing but trees.
In total, three black chakra waves were fired. One towards Sasuke, one towards Itachi and one towards random trees. Though the waves were slow moving, they were tremendous in size and that made it hard to dodge.
Damn, I need Sasuke alive, Itachi thought. But this is a very bad situation. On the spot, he quickly came up with a plan and used a Kage Mane no Jutsu on Sasuke. He then made several seals and activated the Chidori. After that, he thrust forward and ripped the energy wave apart. Sasuke followed and also used the Chidori to destroy the energy wave that headed towards him.
Since it was a three way connection of the Kage Mane no Jutsu, the bat Akatsuki member also had to follow and ended up generating a Chidori and thrusting towards nothing.
Not long afterwards, the shadows bindings were dropped as both of the casters knew that it wouldn't be wise to keep them.
The two are helping each other so much... yeah, the bat-person thought. One of them should only be a Kage Bunshin though... yeah?
The Uchiha brothers noticed something. Where were the other two Akatsuki members?
However they had no time to think as the bat-person made dozens of Kage Bunshins and then all of them performed the Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Thousands of shurikens sailed everywhere and the Uchiha brothers manuevered quickly with their Sharingan eyes to dodge them.
Sasuke, however was not as quick as Itachi and recieved a few cuts.
The bat like Akatsuki member immedietly noticed that Sasuke didn't disappear in a puff of smoke after he was injured and realized that Itachi must be the Kage Bunshin. But how can a Kage Bunshin be even faster and stronger than the original...yeah? He thought.Soon something came on to him. The Uchiha were bascially masters of illusion...yeah. So it wouldn't be surprising if one of the Sasukes is an illuision. Itachi's little brother must be pretty good to be able to hide that... yeah.
Little did the bat like Akatsuki member know that he was making Sasuke a lot more than the Uchiha actually was.
Itachi was not waiting for the opponent to make a move and decided to attack with the same Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. The shurikens flew everywhere and ripped the bat-person's Kage Bunshins apart. To his surprise, when the smoke cleared, nobody was left.
So he let me destroy the Kage Bunshins, Itachi thought. But since when did he get so careless with using chakra? He has already used two of his bloodline limit jutsu and the chidori yet he isn't backing down on the jutsus.
A voice was heard. "Yamiyume no Jutsu!"
This jutsu so early?! Itachi turned to face the bat like Akatsuki, only to be greeted by a mist of blackness. Pretty soon, everything was black.