Chapter 2
A/N: Gomen, gomen, gomen or not updating sooner. I've had a lot to do so plz forgive me!
Kinari and Itachi jumped from rooftop to rooftop until Kinari came to a stop in front of a large apartment.
"Well, this is the apartment where Sasuke's staying since he can't live in his old house," Kinari said, looking up at the building.
"Why doesn't he live in his old house?" Itachi asked even though he knew the answer.
"Well, if I remember correctly, Sasuke's aniki killed his entire clan, well except for Sasuke of course, and Sasuke came home and saw his brother standing over the bodies of his dead mother and father," Kinari explained, eyes on the ground. "The thing that I don't understand is no one, not even someone like Sasuke's brother kills without a reason."
"What do you think his reason was?" Itachi asked, raising an eyebrow in question.
"Well, from what information I could gather from random shinobi, Sasuke's brother was the prodigy of the Uchiha clan so maybe he just got tired of people always pushing him to be better than everyone else," Kinari explained. "As for why he didn't kill Sasuke, well, I've killed plenty of people in my time as a shinobi and I've always found it hard when I'm forced to kill a very young boy or girl. Maybe that's what happened with his brother and maybe he just didn't want Sasuke to go through the same things that he did."
"Kinari, what's your ninja rank?" Itachi asked curiously.
"Oh I'm sorry, I'm a jounin and I've been for about five years now," Kinari said, finally taking her eyes off the ground to look at Itachi.
"Really! Then how old are you?" Itachi asked, smirking lightly at Kinari.
"I'm 19 going on 20 in about a week," Kinari said, smiling proudly to herself.
"Hmm," was Itachi's only reply as he thought silently to himself. I guess Akatsuki is getting bad at gathering information. They said Kinari was 14 and supposedly a chunin. Those baka's!
The sound of Kinari's concerned voice snapped Itachi out of his mental cursing of his teammates.
"Itachi is something wrong?" Kinari asked worriedly.
Itachi turned to Kinari and smiled at her in amusement. It wasn't a sneer or a smirk but an actual smile.
Amazing, we just met and she's already started to worry about me. Itachi thought in amuzement.
"I'm fine Kinari. No need to be worried about me," Itachi said, still smiling.
" Good, so let's go," Kinari said, tugging at Itachi's cloak like a little kid who wanted some attention.
"Sure," Itachi said as he followed Kinari into the apartment and the multiple stair cases.
After climbing about 30 or 40 stairs, Kinari halted in front of a door with AVENGER written in black on the door.
"Wow, isn't that just typical," Itachi thought, staring at the word.
Kinari raised her hand and knocked forcefully on the door. Itachi raised his hood over his head as to hide his identity from those within the room.
The doorknob turned and the door opened to reveal none other than Sasuke Uchiha.
"Hey Kinari, your late you know," Sasuke said, leading Kinari and Itachi into the living room and closing the door behind them.
"Oh well thanks for pointing out the obvious, otouto," Kinari said, smiling happily.
"Will you stop calling me that? You're not my older sibling… Kin-kin," Sasuke said, smirking that annoying smirk of his.
Kinari's eyes widened but then turned to slits as she glared at Sasuke angrily.
"You know better than to call me that, you stinking Uchiha!" Kinari growled, barring he teeth at Sasuke.
"And what are you gonna do about it, Kin-kin," Sasuke said, smiling to annoy Kinari even further.
Just then Kinari disappeared and then reappeared behind Sasuke, locking his arms behind his back.
"Call me that again and I'll break your arms," Kinari growled angrily.
"Come on Kinari-chan, don't take it so seriously,' Sasuke said, turning his head to look at Kinari.
Sasuke's eyes widened when he saw Kinari's eyes. Usually a sapphire blue, they were now a blood-red like Sasuke's sharingan.
"K-Kinari what's wrong with you?" Sasuke stuttered in confusion.
Just then Sakura, Naruto, Lee, Gaara, Ino, Shika-lika (Shikamaru), Neji, and Kakashi entered the room to find Sasuke, Kinari, and Itachi.
"Sasuke-kun, what's going on?" Sakura asked with a confused look on her face.
"Well, um, I'm not completely sure about that Sakura," Sasuke said.
"You should have listened to her, otouto," Itachi said, finally removing his hood.
"Itachi!" Sasuke growled, trying to pry away from Kinari's fierce grip.
"Nice to see you too, foolish little brother," Itachi said sarcastically.
Itachi's gaze traveled to Kakashi as he raised his headband to reveal the lone sharingan eye.
"Well, long time no see Kakashi," Itachi said, sneering.
"What are you doing here Itachi?"
"The usual, checking in on my little brother and working for the Akatsuki," Itachi said, shrugging his shoulders in boredom.
At this Kakashi stepped in front of Naruto. Itachi saw this and chuckled in amusement.
"No need to get worked up Kakashi, I'm not after your fox student… at least not today," Itachi said, smirking.
"Then why are you here?" Kakashi growled in frustration.
"Actually it's a very rare Akatsuki mission," Itachi explained, amused by the immense amount of tension in the room. "I was assigned to capture Kinari and take her back to become a member of Akatsuki."