Chapter 10: Another twist
Itachi had gone back to the land of spring, and found Hidden Moon village within a day. He went to where he had usually gone, and saw Hiroshi and Akina there, training. He threw a kunai right at Akina, and she was pinned to a tree. Hiroshi was knocked out when he looked right at Itachi's sharingan, and Itachi grabbed her throat.
'You little,' Itachi growled, choking her. When she was at the brink of death, a strange type of black and red chakra surrounded Itachi's wrist and almost broke it, causing Itachi to let go of her throat. He moved back, and when he was about to punch her, the same chakra deflected his hand, so his hand moved to the side, missing her by 7 inches. She then summoned the moon and tried to put Itachi into a genjutsu, but he did a genjutsu counter. When he was about to kill her, a kunai deflected the one that Itachi threw right at Akina's heart.
'How are you doing that? Is this moon chakra?' he asked, glaring at her, then closing his eyes.
'I am not doing anything,' she admitted, scared of what was going on.
"Saikoro!" Itachi growled, as he used 'Mangekyou Sharingan,' but then darkness surrounded the two, and then Itachi faced glowing fiery red eyes, and Itachi closed his eyes, stopping the Mangekyou Sharingan, as his eyes felt like burning when he tried to use it.
'How did you,' he panted a little, blinking. His vision was getting bad, and now it was even worse. He mostly used his sense of hearing to identify who is where, etc. When the darkness cleared, a girl, just around Itachi's age, was in front of Akina, with a headband tied to her hair that had the kanji sign for 'power'.
'Nante,' Itachi growled, trying to look at the girl. 'Who the hell are you?' he asked, panting. Her eyes turned to plain old fiery red, and she helped Akina out of her genjutsu. She then glared right at Itachi, and her eyes were turning very demon like.
'You rang?' she asked Itachi. Itachi didn't get what she meant at first, but then he looked at her, and was surprised.
'So you are the female that can defeat all the biju?' Itachi asked. She raised an eyebrow and nodded.
'Um, I can do much more than that, but if you refer to me because of that, I guess I'm the right person you called for,' she muttered, a little confused. She healed Akina's wounds from Itachi, and then snapped, waking up Hiroshi.
'Y-you… protected me?' Akina asked, nervous. The girl smiled, and signaled Akina to leave with Hiroshi, and that she promised to meet up with Akina and Hiroshi.
'Yea, I did; was I supposed to let you die?' she joked, and Akina shivered in terror. The girl sighed, and slightly pushed her away, meaning that she should leave, and Hiroshi and Akina left. The girl then glared at Itachi.
'Who are you?' Itachi asked her. She went closer to him, and tilted her head, looking at him.
'Dojutsu, eh?' she asked. 'Is it a kekkei genkaiblood inheritance limit?' he raised an eyebrow, and nodded.
'Sharingan,' he told her. She nodded.
'Oh yes, I've heard of a clan that had Sharingan; I thought they were all dead, but, I guess there were 2 survivors,' she muttered, looking down, stretching her arms.
'You know my brother?' Itachi asked, raising an eyebrow. She looked up and shook her head.
'Not personally,' she told him, confused. Itachi sighed, and couldn't believe that she was the one that Akina and Hiroshi were talking about. It was quiet for about a minute, until the girl broke the silence.
'So, what do you need? A weapon, money, training, fame, what?' she asked. 'You better give me a reason or I'm going back to sleep. I only live for reasons, and it better be valid,' she added in, narrowing her eyes at him. He raised an eyebrow, and then shook his head.
'None of that stuff,' he told her, going closer to her. She thought, and didn't know what else there could be.
'You want to be my research partner? You need help in education? No, you're out of school,' she muttered, and then exclaimed, 'oh! You want knowledge of my research!' Itachi raised an eyebrow.
'I thought you were a shinobi,' he told her, confused a little. She looked at him strangely.
'What? I'm a scientist as well,' she told him, glaring. 'Now really, what is it you want?' Itachi sighed, and touched her shoulder. She raised an eyebrow in confusion.
'It isn't what, um, what's your name, anyways?' Itachi asked. She sighed.
'Why do you need to know? It isn't like I'm staying for a week,' she told him, and he sighed.
'Would you just tell me?' he asked. 'I'll tell you exactly what I want if you do.' She shrugged.
'Ranpu Phire,' she told him, raising an eyebrow. Itachi had never heard of such a last name.
'Uchiha Itachi,' she told him. She thought, and then 'Oh!'ed. He wondered why she did that.
'So you are the one that killed the Uchiha clan,' she said. He sweat dropped a little, and nodded.
'Is that necessary to know?' he asked. She shrugged.
'I just wondered who would have done something so… sensible,' she told him. 'I mean, if they hated you, I could understand that.' He shook his head, and she raised an eyebrow.
'Kenpei, then?' (Kenpei means power) she asked. He thought for a moment, and moved his hand in a way that meant half and half. She then understood.
'Okay then, um, what did you want, anyways?' she asked. He put his other hand on her shoulder, and it somehow wrapped around her, somewhat like a hug. She looked down, still confused.
'It isn't what,' he told her, 'it's who.' She sighed.
'If you like someone, I can't make you fall in love, but'-
'No, it isn't like that at all,' he told her. She looked up at him and glared.
'Then who the hell do you… want!' She asked, confused, looking at him with a glare. He sighed.
'You,' he muttered. She closed her eyes and was about to tell him what she just said, but stopped and looked at him, a little red.
'Me? You mean training?' she asked, confused. 'I can train you, but'-
'No,' he interrupted, 'I just… need you.' She thought, and was confused. She then looked to him.
'You mean… a tomodachi?' she asked, wondering if he was alone before. That actually wasn't it, but compared to other reasons, that was the closest it would get. He nodded.
'I, uh, got sick of having just one other, uh, not a guy, but'-
'Do you mean Hoshigaki Kisame? Isn't he a guy? Or do you just mean because he's a shark?' she asked. He raised both of his eyebrows slightly.
'How did you know?' he asked, somewhat confused. She shrugged.
'From your eyes, I can tell everything about you,' she told him. He sighed, and then turned around, removing his arms from her. He thought for a moment, and grabbed her wrist, but she made him let go.
'C'mon, Phire,' he told her. She raised an eyebrow.
'And we are going to?' she asked. He thought for a moment, and had an idea.
'You are going to be an ally with a hidden village,' he told her. She wondered, and then guessed correctly.
'Konoha?' she asked.
'Precisely,' he told her, as he led her to the forest, which separated Konoha and Sound village.