Chapter 26: Dawn into the city part I/ Itachi no "gasshuku"

In the city

'First of all,' Phire announced, 'you guys need to get better clothes; everybody thinks that you guys came from an asylum nearby.'

'Okay, then?' Deidara asked. Kakuzu kept counting the money, and just said 'uh huh' to whatever Phire said.

'I'll show you where I am going to work later,' Phire continued, 'and then we look for a place to stay, which would then be the hotel we need, or house. I'll get my own place later.'

'Money is needed for all of that, no?' Kakuzu said, still counting the money.

'So you were paying attention?' Phire asked. He nodded.

'Yea whatever,' Kakuzu muttered. Phire sweat dropped.

'Okay, let's but some clothes, even though I still think that these Akatsuki uniforms are cool, yeah,' Deidara said. Phire had gone into a mall, and led Deidara and Kakuzu into a men's' clothes store.

'When you guys find something, tell me; I'll wait outside,' she said, but Deidara blocked her way.

'Help us find something, would ya?' he asked.

'Fine, but Kakuzu better stop counting money,' she muttered. He nodded, and then smacked Kakuzu upside the head with a rock sculpture that was made in an instant.

'Ouch! What the hell was that for!' Kakuzu growled. The two glared at him, and he nodded.

'Okay, okay, jeez, I'll stop,' he said, unwillingly putting the money away.

'Exactly what do guys wear, Phire?' Deidara asked. She thought for a moment, and then showed him some loose cargo shorts and some different type of tees, like aeropostle, and others.

'That Quicksilver shirt seems cool,' Deidara said. 'I'll get it.' Phire nodded, and Deidara had picked up some jeans instead of shorts.

'Hey Phire, I want this muscle top and those sporting shorts,' Kakuzu grabbed Phire's wrist and showed her. She nodded.

'Great; now I'll pay and you two wait,' Phire said. 'Deidara, don't make any rock sculptures explode in front of the humans, and Kakuzu, please don't ask people about money or count yours,' she warned the two. They nodded.

'Hello madam, may I help you?' the cashier asked Phire. She gave him the clothes to scan, and when the cashier looked at Deidara, he was confused.

'Isn't that blonde a girl? Why didn't you get her girl clothes?' he asked Phire. Deidara didn't hear this, but Phire giggled.

'That's a guy,' Phire muttered. The cashier blushed.

'Oh, I'm so sorry,' he said, chuckling a little. 'That'll be 5000 ryo.'

'Sure,' she told him, but then she dropped her wallet, and when she had bent down and picked it up, the cashier looked to see where it was and blushed; it was on the ground, but… yea…

'Oh, you can have a 50 discount, ma'am,' he muttered. She raised an eyebrow.

'Did you look down my shirt when I bent down?' she asked. He nodded. She sighed.

'Is that a problem?' he asked. She was lucky not having Itachi there, or else he'd kill the cashier. She rolled her eyes. It was hard enough for her to restrain killing, but Itachi wouldn't even restrain.

'No, not at all,' she muttered, paying him 2500 ryo. She took the bags of clothes, and then dragged the stupid Deidara and the money-obsessed Kakuzu out of there. Just then, the manager went to the cashier.

'So?' he asked.

'They're big,' the cashier told him, smirking. Phire twitched, but then left without much of a reaction. Deidara wondered what they were talking about, and when he asked Phire, she shook her head.

'Nothing you should know about,' she told him. Kakuzu continued counting the money he had.

'You two, go to a bathroom and change. I'll wait,' Phire told them; turning around, but Deidara grabbed her wrist.

'But you have to show us how to wear these clothes,' Deidara stated, smirking. Phire slapped him really hard.

'Pervert,' she muttered, storming off. Deidara chuckled to himself, and Kakuzu kept counting the money.

'Come on Kakuzu, let's change,' Deidara told Kakuzu. He nodded, and they went into the bathroom and changed. Phire waited somewhere nearby.

The training

Apparently, the training was going pretty badly, badly for Hiroshi, anyways. Itachi had hurt him badly without even trying, and Hiroshi couldn't withstand that well.

'Weakling, get up,' Itachi told him strictly, kicking him when he wouldn't get up. He coughed out blood.

'Are you going to k-kill me!' Hiroshi asked, coughing out more blood. Itachi didn't answer, and grabbed Hiroshi's throat, and then pushed him against a tree. Itachi then closed his eyes and when he opened them, the sharingan was activating. Hiroshi widened his eyes and was in the Tsukiyomi.

'Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Stop! Don't hurt Akina! Stop it!' he kept screaming in the Tsukiyomi. Itachi knew that he missed Akina, and he used it to his advantage. This went on for about a few seconds, or else 58 hours in the Tsukiyomi world; time there was much slower than time on Earth.

When Itachi let go of Hiroshi, he fell on the ground, but landed on some strange moon chakra he made with his hand. Hiroshi got up, and then looked indirectly at Itachi and hit him with the Bo he had, but that was an exploding clone and Hiroshi was even more hurt.

'Pathetic,' Itachi muttered, right behind Hiroshi. He then grabbed Hiroshi's arm and threw him into another tree.

'I give up! I give up!' he cried, trying to get up. Itachi didn't listen to him, and when he kicked him, Hiroshi flew into the air, smirking. Itachi raised an eyebrow.

'Fool!' he yelled to Itachi, doing some hand seals, and then summoned the moon to come out. When it did, it emitted a lot of chakra right at Itachi, and as Itachi kept dodging, it kept attacking.

'So the kid knows something,' Itachi thought, using a replacement jutsu, but then the moon was smart, and kept going after Itachi. He then hand sealed Katon, Goukakyuu no jutsu, and summoned a lot of fire to clash with the moon chakra. Since Hiroshi was controlling the moon instead of having the moon do whatever, he couldn't withstand the clash that long and fell back, getting hurt badly.

'I wouldn't expect you to defeat me, but you should know what extreme danger is like,' Itachi muttered, kicking Hiroshi, and walked away. Hiroshi coughed out blood, but then just lay there, tired.

'Phire-sama, I wish you were here right now,' Hiroshi thought as he fell asleep in the same place he had collapsed.