When morning struck around 7 a.m., Itachi heard the two kids again, and hid in a different area. He wondered what the heck they were doing.
'Do you think that we can find her today?' Akina asked Hiroshi. Hiroshi had a trekking kit, or else a lot of supplies.
'Since we are "camping out", I decided to bring a lot of stuff,' Hiroshi told her, 'and yea, I hope we can find her.' They seemed somewhat brave and yet were very scared. They were around 12-13 genin, and this girl they were talking about seemed to be an S-rank missing nin, much stronger than even someone from Akatsuki!
'So they are going to try to find her, eh?' Itachi thought, wondering how they were going to locate her. Since they were from Hidden Moon village, they seemed to use the moon, or some type of moon element, or at least that is what Itachi assumed.
It reached nightfall, and Itachi had fallen asleep in a hidden cave near the cliff. He went back to see the moon shining goldenrod and slight strips of blood were seen through it.
'What the hell? The blood in the moon seems to increase everyday,' Itachi analyzed, going into another different hiding spot. The kids had used the chakra to get the moon to help them find creatures that were beyond strong. When the moon would gleam, it would gleam onto the person that they find first, and nearest, so it could fail. Unfortunately, Itachi realized this a bit too late, when the moon gleamed down on him. Hiroshi and Akina then put their hands into an attacking position and screamed.
'Gekkou no jutsu!' Moonbeam jutsu They yelled, trying to catch Itachi in the moonlight, but Itachi used a genjutsu counter to get out, and he was forced to reveal himself.
'They are pretty well-trained genin,' he thought as he showed himself to the two kids. They raised both of their eyebrows, and Hiroshi sighed, while Akina hid behind Hiroshi.
'Damn, you aren't the right strong being,' Hiroshi sighed, gathering back his chakra, making the moonbeam disperse. Akina shivered in fear.
'H-Hi-Hiroshi,' she stuttered, trying to make Hiroshi realize that the stranger was from Akatsuki, 't-that man is f-from A-Akat-s-suki!' Hiroshi looked right at Itachi, and held Akina in his arms.
'D-d-don't h-h-hurt us!' he yelled, closing his eyes and hugging Akina. They both were crying, and Itachi raised an eyebrow.
'Fine, whatever,' Itachi muttered, turning around. He then turned back to them and continued, 'but only on one condition.'
'ANYTHING!' the two yelled immediately. 'THANK YOU FOR SPARING OUR LIVES, OR AT LEAST GIVING US A CHANCE!' Itachi raised an eyebrow.
'How much of this female do you know? Tell me everything you know and intend to do about her,' he asked. 'If you don't answer this, I'll kill you.' Hiroshi and Akina immediately started talking in unison, so Itachi had no idea what was going on. He threw shurikans at them to make them shut up, and they did.
'Shut up,' he growled. 'One at a time, I can't understand both of you at the same time. You, uh, what's your name, Akina, speak!' he added in after looking at the two of them. Akina was silent for a moment, and gulped, but then started talking.
'Well, not too much, but what we've read, she's not a ninja; not entirely, I think,' she told him, still shaking in fear, as Itachi went up to her.
'Continue,' he said, looking right at her, about to use sharingan if she tried to do something stupid. She stuttered for another moment, and then continued.
'She's said to be much stronger than all of the biju combined!' she yelled, and then fell on her knees and grabbed Itachi's leg, begging for him not to hurt her; she was too scared of him to continue. Itachi sighed, got her off, and moved back.
'Would you just continue? Thanks for telling me that at least; I won't kill either of you at this rate,' he told her. She sighed, calmed down a little, and then continued.
'Also, she is rivals with the Kyubi, because the Kyubi killed one of her cousins, so she purely hates him, or at least that is what I heard,' Akina continued. Hiroshi decided to add in something.
'They used to be friends, but after she was ranked #1 demon instead of Kyubi, he got angry and killed her cousin, and that is when they became rivals,' Hiroshi added in. Itachi looked to Hiroshi, and narrowed his eyes at him.
'Stronger than that Naruto kid… now that I want to see,' he thought, moving away.
'It is said that there is a "secret code" to summon her back to life, Mr.Akatsuki man,' Akina muttered, her head down. Itachi raised an eyebrow.
'Uchiha Itachi,' he told her. She looked up and gasped; she, like many others, had heard about the Uchiha clan, and only one survivor, which was the murderer's brother. She decided not to mention this, though. Hiroshi had gasped as well, but then the two went next to each other.
'I heard that it might have to do something with the moon, but I'm not sure,' Hiroshi added in. 'And that's pretty much all we know.' Itachi was pretty surprised at what they had heard of this very strong female. He wasn't starting to doubt his own power, but he started to doubt whether such a being would even like the type of people that Itachi was similar to. Itachi decided to spare them, but then asked them one last question.
'So do you know anything about the "secret code"?' he asked. The two of them blinked, and then sighed.
'All we know is that there are 3… well, 3 something(s),' Akina sighed. 'Sorry, Mr. Uchiha, but we don't know any more than that,' she apologized. He looked to the moon, and Hiroshi added in something.
'I thought that it meant 3 types of moon chakra; I have mastery in two types, while Akina has a very big mastery in the third type of moon chakra,' was what Hiroshi added in, 'but I could be wrong.'
'Fine, I'll spare your lives,' he muttered, as he disappeared. He really had no intention of killing them anyways; he just needed the information given to him somehow. This was very unlike him, though; he'd at least torture his enemies, which he barely did at the moment.
'Do you think we'll see him again?' Akina asked Hiroshi. Hiroshi shrugged.
'Who knows,' he said, and then the two tried to do the summoning thing by gathering three types of moon chakra; dark, light, and angry. Unfortunately, it didn't work, as nothing happened when they summoned the chakras. They sighed, and just watched the moon, hoping for an answer.
'Hmph, 3 some things, how original,' Itachi thought as he left Hidden Moon village. He decided to check out Kusagakure, and when he found nothing, he sighed, and slept.