In Orochimaru's den…
'Sasuke you are improving greatly,' Kabuto smiled and walked off. Sasuke sat down, panting from the exercise. His life with Orochimaru was full of training and darkness. He knew that very soon was the time that Orochimaru would soon come to take over his body.
'But I don't care. At least I can kill that brother of mine,' he shook his head to clear his thoughts.
Then he heard a series of faint hops that gradually got louder.
'What's that?' he thought.
He sensed that it was extremely near him but couldn't see anything.
'Hello,' came a small voice from underneath him.
He looked down and there was a frog.
'Who are you?' He picked up the frog and held it level to his eyes.
'I'm Jiriya's information source,' the frog croaked. Sasuke began to dislike the frog as it was becoming annoying as it kept hopping along his hand.
'What do you want?' he questioned the tiny frog.
'I'm here to inform you that Itachi, your brother is planning to kill Hinata then Kiba and move onto Naruto,' it replied.
'What?' Sasuke abruptly stood up.
It was him that wanted to kill Itachi if anyone else did it what would be the point?
'I can't let that happen,' he thought 'besides; this is a perfect opportunity to kill Itachi.'
He didn't need to think twice. He picked up the frog and flew out the window.
Under the heat of the sky…
The frog told him where Itachi would be now and Sasuke followed the frog's orders. Sasuke also trusted the frog as the frog was able to find him.
'Finding Itachi would be easy too,' Sasuke thought.
When they arrived at the place Sasuke landed on a treetop. He stood there as instructed by the frog.
Sure enough, in front of the cabin they saw Itachi about to rap on the door.
'Uchiha Itachi, what are you doing,' Sasuke asked darkly, Itachi slowly turned around to face him. His facial expression didn't change.
'None of your business,' He turned on his Mangekyou Sharingan.
'I am still the wall you'll have to pass, Sasuke,' then he turned around to examine the chuunin.
After every second of looking at his brother Sasuke got angrier. Sasuke called upon his Sharingan and released a chidori at his brother but his brother, like the last time Sasuke tried, blocked him easily. Then Itachi began to twist his arm, painfully and then knee him in the stomach.
'Damn, I have to got to that stage already,' as he began to release his cursed seal. Itachi's eyes narrowed.
'You've been with Orochimaru I see,' Itachi released a genjutsu at him. Sasuke was able to stop it as he had released the seal.
Sasuke said 'I will kill you even if I have to kill myself. My whole life was one of an avenger!'
They began using Taijutsu and were edging further and further away from the cabin. Itachi wanted to end this quickly.
Itachi slipped off his ring
'This ring is not only a sign that I'm part of Akatsuki, it also releases a pseudo-ghost. Orochimaru gave us each one but I was the only that bothered to keep it.' (It was because members that wanted to leave had to leave a precious possession behind.)
Behind him a blue-like object with mouths began to appear. Sasuke knew about them as Orochimaru had also given Tayuya one before too. Sasuke knew that if he waited too long the ghost would sense him and eat up his charka. Sasuke then began to rise. Itachi called out
'Are you going to run away again, coward?'
'To defeat you, I will use this once-in-a lifetime technique,'
Sasuke performed a few handseals and chanted 'Kagerou Ninpou Uta-kata,' (Sasuke knew the technique from Orochimaru that had once taken over the fuuma clan). There was a bright light and Itachi fell down dead. Sasuke, from the technique, had a great pain in his chest developing and soon he knew he would be gone.
The next day…
A sand-ninja happened to be walking by and saw the two dead bodies. He picked the two up and quickly flew to the Kazekage. Gaara examined Itachi whom he didn't recognize but when he examined Sasuke's body, his eyes widened and so did his siblings. He gave orders that Hinata and Kiba come. When Hinata saw the dead body of Sasuke she became angry. There was an anger burning inside her.
Why did such a bad group exist?
Was it just to kill everyone?
She wanted to get rid of any bad force inside of the world. She turned to Kiba.
'I don't want Akatsuki to kill anyone, we have to stop them,' she said. Kiba nodded and told Gaara
'How about adding to our mission to get rid of Akatsuki?' Gaara turned towards him.
'You mean kill them?'
Kiba didn't really understand but he nodded anyway thinking that was an idea. Temari and Kankaru who were beside them also agreed as they knew how evil Akatsuki were as they were once under an ex-Akatsuki member's control.
In the afternoon…
Hinata walked over to Kiba where he sat feeding Akamaru, she had been standing behind the tree waiting for Kankaru to pass.
'Ah, Hinata you've finally come out.'
She blushed and nodded.
'C...could you help me train, please? I want to get stronger so I can defeat Akatsuki.'
Kiba looked down as he contemplated
'Alright but I've taught you everything I know but I'll give it a try. Tomorrow we start' Hinata smiled and thanked him quietly whilst walking off.
Three figures came rushing towards Hinata and abruptly, they stopped. Hinata's eyes widened, then she fainted to the floor.
'Hey, Hinata why do you always faint when Naruto's around?' Kiba walked over and asked. Naruto and Sakura, who usually had bright smiles on their faces, instead had wet and sad faces.
'We heard that Sasuke had died,' Jiriya's face was very unemotional, but inside he was feeling pity for the young shinobi that had one goal which he completed, only to kill himself.
In the hospital…
Hinata woke to see Kiba standing beside her.
'Well, if Hinata is awake, let's start training now,' Kiba carried Hinata outside, making her feel quite strange. They then trained for the rest of the afternoon. Kiba and Hinata's were now exhausted.
Kiba and Hinata both laid down on the cool grass as they enjoyed the light breeze. Then Kiba rolled over to face Hinata.
'Hinata you really are improving, I'm proud.' It seemed that Hinata was now as good as Kiba.
'I can't train you anymore but if you ever need someone, I'll be there.'
They heard a sound of sand.
'Hinata I'm willing to help you train,' it was Gaara. Gaara had been hiding for quite a while using his sand to protect him scent. Gaara had been told by Temari that Hinata needed help so he decided to come to her aid. Hinata nodded softly.
In the Akatsuki cave…
'The weaker Jinchuuriki has arrived,' Zetsu said to himself.
'We want them, since you bought up the idea, go and get them,' ordered an unknown figure that was surrounded by darkness.
'Understood,' Zetsu took the order and left.
In the training grounds…
'You need to improve your speed; I only hit you lightly that time.' Gaara shouted to her from above. He let another thin string of sand coil around her. Hinata unleashed some charka in the form of a river into it and then the string broke.
'That's better,' Gaara thought 'she's getting better,'
He was interrupted by a servant.
'Kazekage, you must attend the funeral now,' a female shinobi called from below. Gaara nodded.
Gaara nodded and the trio finished the training for the day. First they went back to their rooms to change into something black and then they made their way to the funeral.
In the funeral…
Naruto, Sakura and Jiriya arrived for the funeral service immediately after they had heard the news from Gaara.
Naruto was holding the paper that was now soaking wet with tears. There was a sad tune playing the background. Sakura's face was also dripping with moisture.
'We will all remember what Sasuke taught us,' Naruto choked out the words.
Sakura then saw a strange tree and then dispelled the genjutsu and immediately stood up.
'Watch out!' Sakura jumped out and grabbed Naruto.
'You monster, why are you here?' Sakura was pointing at a tree.
'Very smart girl, how did you figure it out?' Zetsu turned into his normal self
'I am one of the smartest shinobi around, you were taking a step too fast, a normal tree normally has branches that face in the range of approximately 30 degrees from the sun, your branches face 13 degrees too high,' Sakura pointed out. Then he lunged forward with amazing speed and grabbed Sakura's leg with his Venus fly trap head.
'You're not getting away from me now,' Zetsu laughed evilly. He swallowed her legs then her whole body very quickly. A shuriken then hit Zetsu's arm
'Give Sakura back,' Naruto said. Jiriya pulled him back
'There's no use, she's gone.'
Sakura hated Akatsuki for killing Sasuke, she knew she would be blown to pieces but she couldn't waste this good opportunity. She took an exploding note and performed a few hand seals.
'Explode,' she whispered.
There was a faint gurgling sound coming from Zetsu's stomach. Zetsu looked down and whispered
'Damn.' Within moments there were pieces of cloth and skin blown around the place.
In the darkness…
In the coffin, something stirred. Then out came Sasuke with eyes that were blank and green and a fly trap around his face. He bounded off into the night.
In Naruto's and Jiriya's bedroom…
Naruto's sadness was overwhelming him and he could only think of Sakura.
'Ero-sennin, I can't do anything without Sakura,' Naruto cried hard. Jiriya looked at him and placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder
'You've got to be strong, do anything, help train Hinata,' Jiriya said to him.
'There are 3 more members to kill,'