Chapter 20: The truth is revealed.
'Did the dogs find her yet?' Tsunade asked. Kakashi shook his head. 'No, but they found Sasuke unconscious; I had gotten Kurenai to get him to the hospital in Shizune's care.' Tsunade sighed.
'Where do you think they have gone?' Kakashi asked. Tsunade sighed.
'Far from this area is all I know; maybe to Hidden Sound, maybe to Hidden Moon,' Tsunade answered. 'All I know is that she is going to take a very severe punishment, along with Itachi.'
'Phire! Mr.Itachi!' Akina exclaimed. 'The shadowy guy is back!' Itachi sighed, and Phire raised an eyebrow.
'Aka-sama,' Itachi muttered. Phire nodded.
'Has he been attacking your village?' Phire asked. Akina nodded, and then Hiroshi hid behind Itachi.
'He's coming!' Hiroshi yelled. Phire growled, and said that she would take care of it.
'Fine,' Itachi muttered.
'Take care of the two kids; in other words, get the hell out of here,' Phire told them as she left. Itachi looked at the two kids.
'Phire, we aren't married yet, you know; we don't have to take care of kids, especially these two type of kids,' Itachi thought, sighing, and taking the 2 to the Land of Spring.
'Aka-sama,' Phire growled. 'What do you want now?' Aka-sama had an Akatsuki "uniform" in his hand. Phire raised both of her eyebrows.
'Take it, Phire; you're in,' he told her. She blinked, and sighed, taking the "uniform," and then knocked out the Akatsuki leader. Zetsu, Kisame, and Deidara came out, and Phire fought them all with a little bit of difficulty after defeating Deidara and Zetsu.
'Kisame, what do you want?' Phire asked, panting. She was more on defensive than offensive. Her uniform was ripped up, so she didn't have one anymore. Too bad..
'Don't worry Phire, we're just going to put a mark through your forehead protector!' Kisame told her, laughing. She knew what to do, and she ran straight for Samehada, took the enormous blow of losing most of her remaining chakra, and knocked out Kisame. She then took her forehead protector out, and put it away into her knapsack, and as she went into her demon form, she ran as fast as possible to the Land of Spring.
'Mr.Itachi, what's going on?' Akina asked, tugging on his Akatsuki sleeve. Itachi glared at her, and she stopped immediately.
'I think we'll have to fight the Konoha ninjas,' Hiroshi said, taking out a moon rock-like "bo" wooden stick and his eyes were gleaming with silver, and the bo had silver chakra around it.
'I will fight as well!' Akina exclaimed, taking out a lightsaber-like weapon out, moon chakra replaced with the laser part. Itachi raised an eyebrow, but then had secretly taken out shurikans and kept them in his hand.
'BROTHER!' Sasuke growled from a distance. Itachi raised an eyebrow.
'Oh jeez, and I thought it was Hatake Kakashi,' Itachi thought as he put away the shurikans. 'You two should be able to handle our enemy,' he told the two kids. 'You two stay here; I will take care of the hokage and the Konoha bakas,' Itachi told them, disappearing. Just then, Sasuke appeared, but he was charging at them with chidori.
'What the heck is that, Hiroshi! We better dodge!' Akina yelled. Hiroshi shook his head, and then when Sasuke was about to hit him with chidori, he spun the bo around, making the chidori go everywhere.
'Akina, now!' Hiroshi yelled. She slashed Sasuke in the back, and then they stopped.
'Wait a minute, you look like Mr.Itachi!' Akina yelled. 'Are you related to him!' Sasuke glared at her; they knew Itachi as well?
'Where did he go?' he growled. They shrugged.
'Well that doesn't matter anyways, because you have to deal with us now!' Hiroshi yelled, charging up moon chakra for his attack with the bo. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, and dodged the attack. They kept fighting, with no winner, until Phire came.
'What's going on?' she growled, stopping the 3 with her mere solo sword.
'Phire!' they all gasped at the same time.
'Akina, Hiroshi, this is not the enemy, and Sasuke, they aren't your enemies either,' Phire told them, and then threw them all to the ground harshly.
'But Mr.Itachi said'-
'Well listen to me, not him,' Phire interrupted. 'Did he go back to Konoha?' Akina and Hiroshi nodded, and Sasuke raised both of his eyebrows.
'Crap,' she muttered under her breath. 'You all stay here; I'll find that idiot,' Phire said, but Sasuke grabbed her wrist.
'Phire,' Sasuke whined. She sighed.
'Forgive me, Sasuke,' she said, using two fingers to push Sasuke away, hurting his forehead. Sasuke panted, and the pain just increased in his head, and the images still didn't go away.
'Phire, don't say that,' Sasuke told her. She wondered why.
'Itachi… used to tell me that when we were kids,' Sasuke added in. Phire gasped.
'That's why you told me to shut up that day,' Phire said. 'It brought up those memories of your brother.' Sasuke glared at her, and then gathered chakra into his hands a very immense amount, and charged right at her. Akina and Hiroshi were going to help, but Phire shook her head.
'Chidori? Sasuke, c'mon, is that all you've got?' Phire asked, deflecting it exactly how Itachi deflected Sasuke's chidori a while ago. Sasuke saw his brother in Phire, and then Phire broke his wrist, just like what Itachi did after deflecting Sasuke's chidori. Sasuke screamed, and tried to hurt her, but she fought exactly like her brother, but the amount of chakra used was greater in amount. When she choked him, instead of using a dojutsu, she just let him go. He looked up at her, and when he tried to get up, he fell, and his head fell against the tree, facing the sky.
'Phire, tell me, how is your family?' Sasuke asked Phire. Phire raised an eyebrow.
'There deceased, Sasuke,' Phire told him. Sasuke looked at her.
'So an older sibling of yours killed them?' Sasuke asked. 'You would be like me, then.' Phire sighed.
'If that's your case,' Phire told him, turning around, her sword in her hand, 'I am just like your brother.' Sasuke widened his eyes.
'You killed your family! Why!' He asked. 'You've gone mad like my brother!' Phire shook her head.
'I am yet different, because it was my family that started the fight; I ended it,' Phire told him. Sasuke looked up at her; what did she mean?
'They hated me, as I was brought up in a place where only radiance was known as beauty, and nothing else… they tried to kill me when I was 5, but I defended myself from them, and when I couldn't take it, I killed them in one shot. Only one sibling that was younger than me tried to help me, but he died of Cancer. I never though too much of him until I was truly alone and no one tried to talk to me,' Phire explained to him. Sasuke looked at her; they tried to kill her at the age of 5!
'Did you do anything to make them hate you?' Sasuke asked. Phire nodded, and clenched her claw so hard, blood poured from her hands.
'Breathing… Living… being there when I'm not needed… those were my crimes,' Phire told him, turning around, and leaving. Sasuke looked to her; did they shun her that badly? She seemed to be worse than Gaara and Naruto.
'Phire ni-san,' Sasuke called out to her, but then he fainted from the loss of blood. Phire looked up, and turned around. She sighed, and then turned, feeling bad about hurting her brother.