"Who else can you call upon? The whole Akatsuki clan is wiped out!"
"There's still the sound village...Orochimaru's henchmen."
"You don't get it do you? They're all DEAD! What will it do to get that into your big stupid head of yours?" Itachi, being as cunning and confident as he is, looked at Yagami into his eyes. " You have the ability to summon the dead back to live isn't it brother? The skill by the name of Kyuchiyose Edo Tensei...Bring them back from the dead to fight alongside us!" Yagami felt he was suddenly caught in between two choices; he could either help out Itachi in order to prevent the extinction of the Akatsuki clan or find Sasuke and somehow set his brother and partner up. Itachi showed four caskets in front of him, with the names Jiroubu, Kidoumaru, Sakon, Tayuya and the last box, being the biggest, belong to Kimimaro. Yagami recalled that they were part of Orochimaru's 'Sound 5' team, along with his right-hand man Kabuto. Yagami, knowing that by reviving them would spread destruction and death in the hidden leaf village, he agreed to revive all of them. As he performed the summoning technique, the bodies began to rise from their respective caskets. He inserted kunais into them and they began living, breathing humans again.
"Huh, I thought we were all dead..." Itachi than spoke, "Warriors of Orochimaru's Sound 5, you've all been revived again by the leader of the Akatsuki clan, Uchiha Yagami. Though Orochimaru is no longer in the mortal world, I, Uchiha Itachi, second in command of the Akatsuki, will lead you to the destruction of Konoha and the capture of Konoha's legacy, Uzumaki Naruto!" All bowed down to the Akatsuki members. "We're grateful for you giving us a second chance in life, we're your faithful warriors!"
"I did what I did, they are under yours to command..." As Yagami walked away from the group, Itachi stopped him for a second. "You sure you don't want to join us, brother?" Yagami took a glance at what he had done. Hesistating to answer, he finally spoke. "Yes, I'm going deeper into the forest to train. Don't bother finding me, you already have an elite team with you." Itachi, hearing those words from his leader, was disappointed but yet determined to get rid of Konoha and capture Naruto.
"Oh and one more thing, if you lay your hands on Sasuke..."
"That depends whether he's smart enough to think before he acts. Let's go guys!" Itachi left along the team of Sound 5. Back at the academy, Sasuke and Naruto were rounding up all the genins to fight alongside Konoha. Many of them turned down their offers knowing that there will be deaths until only a few stayed in the room. Surprisingly they were the genins who have worked alongside Narut o& Sasuke before. The team of Ino-Shika-Cho agreed to join in the fight as they wanted another shot at Yagami. Neji, Rock Lee and Tenten followed up, Kiba, Shino and Hinata, and finally an unexpected arrival from Kankuro, Temari and the chief of the sand village, Gaara. Sakura, not so sure of herself, finally agreed to work with her previous team again as all raised their arms in agreement and proceeded to the Hokage's front entrance where Tsunade, along with Kakashi and Iruka with other fit jounins were waiting.
"Good job Sasuke & Naruto, I knew you could gather a large number of genins, We'll take on the Akatsuki boss and than Itachi. Shinobis, to your positions!" All ran like the wind to their assigned coordinates. Sasuke went to look for Yagami but he was nowhere in sight. As Naruto & Sakura waited at the academy courtyard for Sasuke to return, Sakura was already shaking.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" Sasuke asked as he came back.
"Sasuke-kun, I'm not sure if I can handle the Akatsuki boss, I mean he is your elder brother and also posing a threat to our village..."
"Enough! I want to hear nothing negative about my brother! Sure he is part of Akatsuki, but he didn't came back to attack Konoha, he came back for me!" Sasuke shouted at the already terrified Sakura but Naruto defended her.
"Will you give it a break? She doesn't know what has been going on those pass few hours. Considering she's a medical ninja, she would probably come to aid not as supportive attack!" Just than they heard the clashing of kunais and explosions. The three of them rushed to the scene where there was smoke blurring their visions, the rest of the genins came to inspect and as the smoke cleared, there was the person on their wanted list; Uchiha Itachi. But Uchiha Yagami was nowhere to be seen, could this be a diversive form of attack by Akatsuki? Tsunade commanded the genins to stay back as support while she and the jounins went to fight against him. When they met up with their opponent, Itachi gave a signal and out from the trees came out the team of Sound-4. Tsunade, Kakashi & Iruka were shocked. How did they all come back to life again? Knowing only Orochimaru had that ability to summon the dead back but he was already murdered, that could only mean...
"Well well, Kakashi-san, I see you brought a large army with you, well so do I, Yagami will not be participating in this fight. So you can take on the 6 of us!" Lifting up his headband,Kakashi awaited for Tsunade's commands. Than she ordered, "The rest of you, in teams of three take out the Sound 4, Kakashi, you and I will deal with Itachi." All spread out to duel against the sound five. Back in the forest, Yagami sat down next to his campfire, trying to erase his thoughts on what's happening at Konoha's village. It was not a wise choice, neither was it a foolish decision. All he wanted was that Sasuke would be safe...