Chapter 22: Akatsuki meeting
Orochimaru just left Konoha, but was stopped by a rage of kunais.
'Well well, Mrs. Uchiha,' Orochimaru chuckled, 'I thought you left with your fiancé.' Phire growled at him, and her eyes were bloody red.
'Let Sasuke go or face the consequences,' she told him, angry. Orochimaru laughed.
'He is the container I'm using; what do you want with him? Why do you even care?' he asked. While he asked the question, waves of darkness zoomed through Orochimaru, making him drop Sasuke, and Phire caught him, and disappeared.
'That demon,' Orochimaru growled. 'We better find her; I'll use Manda to do that.' After summoning his snake, it looked for Sasuke.
'Phire, what is the meaning of this?' Itachi asked as he caught a kunai that was aimed for his head. 'Why did you bring him?'
'He's not safe in Konoha, Itachi-kun,' Phire told him, 'not right now, anyways. Probably later in a few days.'
'Fine,' he muttered, unwillingly. As they just arrived, they were welcomed by the amazing amount of clay explosives surrounding them. Phire put a dark barrier around Itachi, herself, and the two Hidden Moon kids, as she threw her sword into Deidara's leg.
'No change one bit, Phire,' Deidara chuckled. 'I thought Itachi would have done something to you, if ya know what I mean.' Itachi and Phire both glared at Deidara after the smoke went away, and after Phire stopped the dark barrier she put up. The two kids hid behind Phire.
'What the hell do you want, Deidara?' Phire asked. 'I came, just like all you Akatsuki bakas wanted me to.' Just then, Kisame had a body in his hands, and it was Naruto.
'At least I'll get credit, unlike you, Itachi-san,' Kisame snorted, but then saw Phire, and glared.
'You may have gotten Kyubi, but I found us a new member,' Itachi told him. Phire glanced at Itachi in a slight glare from the side, and then glared at Kisame.
'Hey, you better let Naruto go,' Phire growled, but then before she could continue, someone interrupted her.
'What's going on?' Hidan asked as he arrived with Kakuzu. Nearly everybody had arrived to greet the new member.
'Itachi has a girlfriend,' Kisame joked, but he was dumb enough not to realize that that was true, to an extent. Kakuzu widened his eyes, and Hidan saw Phire, and then noticed the two kids.
'Hey, who are those kids? Wait a minute,' Hidan widened his eyes, looking at Itachi and Phire, and then the kids. Phire knew what he was thinking, and shook her head and hands.
'No, these are random genin from Hidden Moon; I have no relation to them whatsoever,' Phire told him. Itachi wondered what she was talking about.
'Yea, the kids are too old; besides, if they did do it, they'd have infants, not mini teenage idiots,' Kisame smirked, dodging the kunais from Itachi, but getting hit by that and Phire's shurikans. Everybody laughed, but then stopped when they heard the yell of the leader.
'Shut up! Be nice to the new member, you don't want to see her bad side,' Aka-sama growled. 'Anyways, all of you go back into the hideout. I have to talk to the newbie.' Phire looked at him, and the two kids hid behind Phire, but then Akina pushed Hiroshi to the ground, and then Hiroshi hid behind Itachi, who was about to literally stab Hiroshi in the heart. As they other members left, Aka-sama looked at the kids.
'Phire, who are the two kids you have brought? They are too old for them to be yours,' Aka-sama asked Phire, who glared at him.
'They are just Hidden Moon genin who have been with us… well… because… they helped Itachi with something, so they were granted the "wish" to tag along,' Phire partially lied; the only truth was that they did help Itachi. Aka-sama raised an eyebrow, and looked to Itachi.
'Uchiha, is this true?' he asked. Itachi nodded.
'Pretty much,' he told him. Aka-sama then remembered that Itachi was the one who "saved" their village from Aka-sama.
'I never thought that you'd go so low as to ask for help,' Aka-sama pitied. Itachi glared at him.
'They accidentally helped me; I never asked for help,' Itachi growled. That wasn't really true, but to an extent it was. The two kids were really nervous, and they felt like running away.
'That makes more sense,' Aka-sama muttered. He then looked to Phire.
'What?' she growled. 'I'm here now, and I'm in, only on that condition, you know.' Aka-sama growled, but nodded.
'I know, I know, but that doesn't mean that we can't take Kyubi, you know,' Aka-sama smirked. Phire gasped slightly, but then glared at him.
'It's not going to be that easy for you; you need at least 10 members,' Phire told him. He eyed Phire.
'You are the strength of most of Akatsuki put together,' he told her. She giggled.
'Baka, Naruto is from Konoha, which means that I'm protecting him from you, not keeping him in place for you,' Phire told him, emphasizing on the main points. He glared at her, and then Itachi grabbed Hiroshi, and put a kunai to his throat. Phire turned around and growled.
'Itachi! Let him go now,' Phire growled. Hiroshi was screaming his head off and crying, and Phire looked back to Aka-sama.
'Brute force isn't helping either,' the clone exploded after saying, and Phire grabbed Itachi's arms and threw him into the ground, saving Hiroshi, but Itachi almost stuck a kunai through Akina's throat, when Phire used her sword and telekinesis to push Itachi away and save Akina, but then he grabbed Sasuke, and Phire was getting sick of this.
'He's your brother, Itachi; you should have done that a long time ago,' she told him, panting. Itachi raised an eyebrow, but then Itachi let go of Sasuke when he felt a sharp weapon hurting his arm. It was Phire's sword! It had bounced off of a tree and gone right for Itachi. Phire then grabbed Sasuke, and had all 3 genin safe.
'Told you, Aka-sama,' she muttered.
'Arigato, Phire-sama,' the 2 kids told her. She raised her eyebrows, but then shook her head.
'Yea,' she muttered, keeping Sasuke down on the ground gently.
'Phire, you are going to help, you know,' Aka-sama chuckled, and Phire raised an eyebrow to that. Itachi sighed.
'Itachi, come on; she's only allowed when she will save- hey, where did she go! And where are the 3 kids!' Aka-sama growled. Phire disappeared!