A/N-So yeah…thanks to those who reviewed the last chapter…Kyiri Makrono, Seyann, Supershark1, Loki Zentra, and ShadowPrincess-Shekailaia. Ok people…this story only has two chapters plus epilogue left…and I'd like to have 300 reviews by the end…so…please review?

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Chapter 48

It took the entire gang- all 10 parents- about 5 minutes to get completely organized and in order. They had decided that they would go in the order of people who had been hurt least by Itachi to people who had been hurt most by Itachi.

As such, Naruto went first. Partially releasing the nine-tailed chakra, he started off the parental attack by bombarding Itachi with Kyuubi's claws and the chakra itself. Gaara had taken the desert coffin off of Itachi and now, the Uchiha was pinned down by the sand tendrils wrapped around his legs and arms…

Leaving plenty of body for the parents to vengefully maul.

Hinata went next. The normally calm, passive girl was once again the cold vengeful clan leader and as such punished Itachi appropriately. Using a trick that Sakura had taught her upon becoming clan leader, she put some chakra into her fists and mauled Itachi's face until he was black and blue and asking for mercy.

It was Seyann who put it so bluntly. "Yeah right." Was what she said to the black and blue missing nin.

When Sakura's turn came up it was over before it started.

A single chakra powered punch to his…area.

Neji went after her. With his violet eyes narroed, it was obvious that he was furious at the fact that not only had his cousin's son been threatened...which was technically him just sticking up for the Hyuuga Heir (as was his duty as the Branch Clan) but his wife and his unborn child had been threatened and almost taken away from him-he was righteously pissed. Raising his right hand out in front of himself he powered up his hand…

And sealed off all of Itachi's chakra outlets except two. Itachi tried to struggle but found that now, with the chakra outlets sealed off, he could barely move.

Next to go were Seyann and Kakashi- simultaneously. While Seyann did what Naruto had done except with Celina's claws, teeth and chakra, Kakashi attacked with a lightened form of his lightning blade-not enough to kill him but enough to cause him severe pain.

By now he was screaming for mercy, for death, for anything that would take him out of the world of pain he was in right now…

But they weren't even half finished with what they wanted to do to him and therefore ignored the black haired man's cries.

Gaara went after Seyann and Kakashi. Since he had already partially done his attack when he had inserted the hand seals into the jutsu, he merely formed two spikes of sand and forced them through Itachi's legs, effectively breaking them. "Who's next?" he asked stoically, ignoring the curses from the former Akatsuki leader.

"Before we decide that, we have to decide who has the claim- the biggest claim- to take his life. Because really, that's something we all could stake a claim for."

"Well" said Michelle slowly. "Really it's between Sasuke and Mika. I don't pretend to have a claim on his life…he didn't kill my parents, they died in a car crash. Just as long as I can get a crack at him, I'll be fine….but I've heard Mika say before that she wanted his life…"

This caused Sasuke to glance sideways at his friend. He had waited for so long for an opportunity to kill his brother. He clenched his fist unconsciously. He would not let her take it away from him.

Mika was cradling her son while all this was happening. Startled by the turn of events, she looked up and saw all the eyes on her. Her hazel eyes widened. "But…I… other than what he did to Kenji…and taking Keiko I have absolutely no claim on his life. Sometimes… I have a tenancy to say things in the heat of the moment, but I don't really mean it… Sasuke deserves to kill Itachi." Mika turned to him. "He killed you're entire clan. Just let me give him a going away present…I'm no killer, even if you guys had given me his life I wouldn't have been able to follow through."

Having said this she handed Kenji over to his father and held her hands stretched out in front of herself. Closing her eyes and focusing her chakra, she breathed in, concentrating.. Gaara inhaled sharply. "You're not using…that jutsu…are you?" Without opening her eyes she answered him. "He deserves it."

Opening her hazel eyes so that she could see what she was doing she began to form the handseals that had been specified in the book about the Yourusashi jutsu's. Ox, dog, pig, bird, horse, dragon. After finishing the last traditional hand seal, she put her hands together in the seal that was specific to Yourusashi. She took her hands, which now glowed with chakra and placed her fingertips together, feeling the spark as her fingertips touched.

As soon as she felt this spark, she reached out and touched Itachi's hand, only for a millisecond. There was a brilliant flash…

And when it faded, Itachi's arm was gone.

The true power of the Yourusashi was fearsome indeed. Itachi was barely conscious now, barely aware from blood loss and his extreme pain. Now, he lolled his limp head over and stared at his stump of an arm. The only good thing was Mika's power had cauterized the wound right away and it wasn't bleeding.

Mika stepped away from Itachi's body and took Kenji back from Gaara. The kanji on the back of her hand hadn't quite faded-similarly, the kanji on Kenji was still very prominent.

She really hoped these weren't permanent. But it was a small price to pay after getting her child back.

She was brought down to earth when she heard Itachi scream…again. Michelle had taken a kunai and had cut his other arm up. "You'd think by this point, pain like that would be nothing." Michelle said to everyone, almost bored. By this point, Mika had faced Kenji into herself so that the young, impressionable child wouldn't see the violent images.

"Sasuke. As Hokage of Konoha, I must now tell you that the task of killing missing ninja, Uchiha Itachi is in your hands. Carry it out as you will." Said Kakashi, just to keep it formal.

Sasuke pulled out a kunai from his holster. He stared at it for a few minitues, at the intricately carved handle bearing the letters U and I. It was one of a set of four that his father had given Itachi after Itachi had been inducted into ANBU. "Do you know what this is Onii-san?" asked Sasuke quietly. "It…" gasped out Itachi. "Looks like a kunai."

"I've carried this kunai around ever since that day… the day you killed our family. This." He gestured to the kunai. "Is the kunai that you used to kill our parents with. If I recall correctly…you had infused it with a poison…a poison that makes a person suffer but stops just short of killing them." Sasuke pricked Itachi's cheek with the kunai. "And you made father suffer for hours…in front of me."

Immediately the older brother flinched in pain. "You…kept it?" he managed. "Yes…because I swore I'd kill you with this kunai… the one you used to kill them. Good bye Onii-San."

A swing of the hand and it was done…

Itachi was dead.

There was a moment of melancholy. That all they had fought for, for the past few months…was done. There was no threat.

It was Seyann who started it. "Ding dong…" she sang quietly. "The witch is dead…the wicked witch, the wicked witch…" immediately Mika picked it up along with Michelle and soon the three were completely belting out The Wizard of Oz at the top of their lungs.

Hinata went inside and brought the children back out as Gaara made his absorb the blood and remove the body back to Hokage tower. The rest of the adults were celebrating Itachi's demise by laughing and joking, trying to relieve the tension that the attack s had brought.

Sienna broke away from the group of children and went over to her mother and father, a book clutched tightly in her hand. Kakashi sort of went white when he saw the book but in case Seyann hadn't seen anything, decided not to say anything. However when his daughter came right up to Sey and held out the book, he knew he was in deep, deep trouble.

"Mommy…there's a weird picture book in the toy bag…" she opened the orange book and turned to a specific page. "What are they doing here?"

Seyann's face tinged. Her eyebrow twitched…a bird flew by…and an explosion occurred.

"HATAKE KAKASHI I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"Everything's back to normal, eh Mika?" said Michelle, laughing. Mika gave her friend an odd look. "Chelle we've never been normal."

"Ok, that's true."

A/N-Anyways…yeah…was he tortured enough? He was beaten black and blue, clawed and bit, Jyuken'ed, Lightning bladed, stabbed, he got his arm taken off…and stabbed. Is that enough?

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