Well I'm sorry for the late update, but things happened more importantly summer and with trying to type up my new story, girlfriend problems, and this story I've been overloaded sorry.

CHAPTER 22

"Hey Itachi-sensei" said Naruto as he started to walk beside him "yes Naruto" replied Itachi "how much longer till we get back home "oh I'd say another day or two why" asked Itachi. "Just wondering" after that was said things became very quit as if no one had anything to say then everyone froze as they heard some whistling.

After so came a giant red three bladed scythe heading straight toward Hinata who had no time to jump out of the way. Naruto acting on pure instinct ran in front of Hinata waiting for the blow but it never came instead there was a giant hand of sand in front of him holding onto the scythe "that's three times I had to protect you Naruto" said Garra as he made the sand hand drop the scythe. "Well you guys are better then I thought, now let me introduce myself I am Hidan the slowest attacking member of the Akutsuki." Said a man with silver hair and eyes but the thing that stood out the most had to be a giant think piece of rope rapped around his wrist which then leads to his giant scythe. "I am sorry but my partner is not here to help me he had a 'job' to do so it's just all of you verses me" said Hidan as he pulled back his scythe which he caught in his left hand. "But, before the fight if you don't mind I would like to pray to my god for a fun killing" he said as he brought up his right hand which had beads rapped around it and an upside down triangle at the bottom of the beads.

Naruto along with everyone else went into there fighting stances waiting for him to strike "do you know this guy Itachi-san" asked Kakashi as he put his book away "sadly yes he one of the more trust worthy person in the Akutsuki if he says something he will do it though he may be the slowest he is one of the stronger…though he is no match for me" said Itachi as he activated his Sharingan "Give up Hidan you know you can't beat me much less all of us" yelled Itachi. "That may be true but I am powerful enough to kill one of you and that is what I was ordered to do only kill one" and with that he threw his scythe again at Hinata only for it to be tossed aside be a wave of sand.

The scythe looked as though it was going to the ground but with a quick pull of his wrist he made it swing toward another person who happened to be Tenten "CRAP" yelled Tenten as she jumped back only to be scratched on her leg any closer and it would have taken her leg. "You ok Tenten-chan" asked Naruto as he ran to her "yes it's just a mere flesh wound" she said as she got back up. "Hm next time you will not be so lucky" said Hidan as he pulled back his scythe "There will not be a next time" said Itachi as he stabbed a kunai in Hidan's head only for the body to turn into mud "that isn't good" said Itachi as he felt about thirty sharp objects stab into his back "shit, I guess caring for someone did make me weaker" said Itachi as he fell down.

"ITACHI-SENSEI" yelled Naruto as he ran up to Itachi's body "Itachi-sensei please doesn't die" cried Naruto as he picked up Itachi. "Hm I guess they were all right care did make me weaker" repeated Itachi as he felt his life slipping "why…how you were the strongest" said Naruto "no I was the strongest but you see I underestimated Hidan and didn't activate my Mangekyo Sharingan, I thought he was at the same strength he was when we last fought…ha, I could have seen through it but I thought what would happen if you got killed I wasn't thinking…(coughing of blood) I thought that I would lose you and break my promise to the only one who cared…I'm sorry Naruto but I was blinded by love and caring" said Itachi as he pushed himself up "HIDAN COME HERE" yelled Itachi as he coughed up some more blood "you called" said Hidan as he jumped down from a tree "yea your dead" and with that Itachi diapered in a puff of smoke "WHAT" and then Itachi appeared right in front of Hidan "Tsukiyomi" whispered Itachi as everything in Hidan's world went red and black and he was hinging on a cross. "Hm I lose" laughed Hidan as Itachi appeared with a katana "yes you do" agreed Itachi as he stabbed him once "how though I killed you" said Hidan in pain "no you kill a shadow clone, the shadow clone will last as long as its chakra is there which will go down the more damage it takes. After you stabbed it a lot it had enough chakra to call you out and make it look real." Explained Itachi as he stabbed Hidan again and again and again for what seemed like three hours but was really only a few seconds.

"He won" said Kakashi as he pulled out his book "how do you know" asked Anko "easy even if Hidan survives he will not be in fighting condition for awhile and will be kill when Itachi is done…take it form someone who has experienced this before" and with that Kakashi went back to reading his book.

After a few seconds Hidan fell to the ground and Itachi pulled out a kunai and stabbed Hidan in the skull to guaranty he was dead. "Ok that was boring…well let's head home" said Itachi as he started to walk away. Before he felt a rock hit his head "ow what was that for" asked Itachi as he rubbed the back of his head "for making me think that you died" yelled Naruto "sorry but I had to fool him" said Itachi as he continued to walk away "fine but next time warn us first" mumbled Naruto as he walked next to Itachi "as soon as we get back we should start training." Said Itachi as he stared strait ahead "why" asked Naruto "because I have a feeling that the Akutsuki leader will show himself soon because the Oni-kage was the second to last demon holder all that's left is you and Garra" said Itachi in a dead serious "I know how he thinks and he has to many of the tailed beast and has lost to many of his men to stay hidden, Garra I suggest you stay in konnoha and for us to get reinforcements from the sand." Said Itachi as he continued to walk "why so many for one man" asked Garra "because if he sticks to his plan which he only shared with me because I didn't want a demon, he will come with the power of seven biju's and that is far to powerful for one mere village to take on" answered Itachi "if you're right, which I think not two villages can't take them" said Sakura. "You would be right but we have two powers that with our help can win albeit not easily but we can." After that they all just shut up and kept walking all worrying about different things but mainly how this would end.

Somewhere in a dark what looked like a cavern

"Great there goes our chance to kill one of the brats loved ones" yelled Orochimaru "where in bloody hell were you Kakuzu" yelled the leader "well you see I figured we could use some more money and" stuttered Kakuzu a man with a mask and hood making his hair and face completely impossible to see and his eyes seemed to have white irises and the outer part black. "You're greed caused us the chance we had to kill the brat" said the man with black and white face in the venues flytrap looking thing. "Look Zetsu I knew you were there and you could have done something" argued Kakuzu "yes I was there but it is not my job to finish your mission" said Zetsu as he glared at Kakuzu "ENOUGH you have both out lived your uses" said the leader as two shadow spikes came out of the rock below the two and cut them both in half. "What do we do with the new recruits" asked the swirl masked man "as soon as they capture the Biju's…kill them then we go to the final phase of our plan" said the leader as he disappeared into a swirling pool of darkness.

Ok this chapter might not be so good people like to rush me when I have writers block for this story believe me I've been trying I've went through probably eight different way of going through this and in the end I hated them all and would start over so yea I give this story probably five at the most more chapters and yea.