Warning: I do not own RWBY, that belongs to Oum & Rooster Teeth. Nor Naruto that is shonen and his creator.


Itachi and Kisame jumped away as a blade of green fire swung at them. Kisame quickly fired his own water jutsu as it collided with the flame blade. Steam formed as Itachi narrowed his eyes.

"He's running" both of them went after him, as they did they saw the steam suddenly coming at them trying to block them. The uchiha countered with his own wind jutsu.

"Tch, what an annoying brat. You should've let me cut off his legs before hand" the shark nin grumbled.

"We already have alerted the village of our activities. Disabling him would only bring the full wrath of Konoha onto the akatsuki" said Itachi "Besides, Pain told us to keep him in one piece."

"Still would've been in one piece" he grumbled. Itachi ignored his partner and pushed chakra into his legs, in an instant was propelled right next to naruto and readied to chop his neck. Right before a sharp pain from his chin and him flying back.

"Interesting, he was able to react to my speed" Itachi was intrigued the boy was able to handle him at jonin speeds. Then again the reports did say he held off Orochimaru and his pet undead kages.

"What in the world was that? That can't be speed, one minute you were at him and the next he was kicking you back. No way a kid that young can do that and wasn't even using the gates" Kisame warned. The uchiha agreed with his teammate one that, it was rather odd, no matter how fit a twelve year was he was still a child and had limits.

"I do not know but if I must guess either a bloodline or some sort of jutsu. Either way, we cannot waste anymore time" Itachi flipped through hand signs and expelled a jet of fire that enveloped the blonde. As the flames reached towards the blonde it suddenly stopped before varying away and back to them, Kisame easily dealt with it.

"Alright, that's enough playing around for one day" the man growled. The roof cracked before appearing before naruto, he slammed the boy into the pavement before charging at him with Samahade. Naruto barely put up his guard before the sword came down on him, his arms buckled before suddenly glowing.

He kneed the man before kicking him off. Calling upon the kyuubi's chakra he was enveloped in red chakra as two tails sprouted out. Instead of looking worried the shark man looked excited. He dashed towards him as he raised his chakra arm to block it.

Right before it was sucked into the blade. He barely pulled his arm away before it came crashing down, so that blade of his can absorb chakra ... joy.

The man suddenly appeared before him and swung his blade towards him. The blade ripped the skin of his shoulder as he felt pain shoot through, that and his chakra cloak being ripped from his body. Wasting no time the world around his suddenly turned grey as his aura began dropping fast, he summoned hundreds of shadow clones before running away, only turning off his semblance once he was far enough away.

xxx

Itachi narrowed his eyes, his mangekyou taking shape as he surveyed the area. The clones around his partner put up a futile fight as he tore through them in annoyance. Ignoring his rage he surveyed the area, so the boy did indeed have some kind of space-time ninjutsu. There was no other way a genin at his age, regardless of chakra, was able to vanish from an S-rank nin.

The only jutsu he could think of was the boy's father's jutsu, the legendary harishin, was the only space-time ninjutsu he could think of. However, the boy showed no traditional sign of using that jutsu, no flash or a blur of yellow as his father ... unless he improved it somehow. Both options were not good for the akatsuki, if he was already this powerful ...

He dodged the kunai at his way, sighing he felt the KI coming at him knowing who it was. Turning around he saw his little brother glaring at him, with his teammate too.

"Sasuke, leave. I have no time to deal with you" a small burst of chakra pushed him away from the incoming fireball.

"Itachi! How dare you come back you traitor!" Sasuke shouted. Pulling out his dust blade it caught on fire as he charged at his brother. The only thing on his mind was killing that man.

The traitor grunted as he moved away, dodging out of the way of the incoming fireball from Sakura. Suddenly the girls hands were covered in lighting before shooting out, Kisame appeared before the blast and stopped it, his blade groaned in pain as he looked confused.

"Interesting, never thought I would see samehada in pain from eating a jutsu?" Kisame wondered. Itachi also looked intrigued the man knew his partners blade was the perfect counter to ninjutsu, unless this was something different. Regardless his partner did not look amused, in a burst of speed he backhanded the girl as she cried out in pain, crashing into nearly fence.

His brother looked shocked and tried to attack his partner, he gave him no such pass. A swift kick to the back reminded him as he begun going through hand signs. A large dragon of fire came at him as he countered with an earth jutsu. Sasuke threw a two smoke bombs as his brother waited.

Right before widening his eyes, getting out he was forced to close his eyes as they began to sting in pain.

"Didn't think that far didn't you Itachi!" Sasuke looked pleased seeing his brother unable to use his sharingan. Wasting no time he pumped aura into his legs and into his balde. One swing, one single slash and the greatest bane of his clan would finally be—

Sasuke gasped as he felt as his aura flared brightly as it tried to block the strike. The force threw him away and causing him to tumble, any strength in him vanished as almost all his chakra disappeared ... no, more like forcibly taken. Only thanks to his aura as he able to get back up and see his brother and the blue swordsman vanish.

"NO, dammit I almost had him!" the uchiha cursed aloud. Using his sword to get back up he heard the sound of sandals and boots as he turned up to see the his sensei and the hokage. As well as a contingent of ANBU with them. Anything else he wanted to say stopped as he saw his vision blacken before going unconscious.

xxx Hospital xxx

Sasuke's eyes snapped open as he took in gasp of air. Looking around all he saw was sterile white walls and sheets.

Then he saw Naruto standing in a stool next to him. "Sasuke, I wondered when you would finally wake up."

"Naruto, why am I in the hospital?"

"Because you fought Itachi, remember" the last uchiha widened his eyes as he remembered the battle "Don't try to get up, you suffered from chakra exhaustion and Itachi is miles away from here. The hokage has already sent ANBU teams after him but we'll see if they can reach him. Right now you need to rest."

"... Did ... Did anything happen while I was asleep?" he asked

"Outside of Sakura needing to see a medic nin after she was thrown into a fence?" The immortal took note of his students guilty look "However, she is lucky that her wound were not bad. She already has been released. As for the Hokage, well many of the clans are up in arms after the whole fisco. Having two S-rank ninja walk freely in the village has got the whole village in high alert.

People are starting to question Sarutobi's strength and leadership and more of the minor clans are starting to listen to our ideas. One good thing in this entire fisco. I later learned that Itachi and his partner were in fact part of organization called the Akatsuki, their a mercenary group made up of S-rank missing ninja with the goal to capture the Bijuu for whatever reason." Naruto explained

"Well then what's our plan than?"

"Nothing" seeing Sasuke's shocked looked he explained "The reason we're not do anything is simple. They are after the Bijuu, this was more of a test run then anything else. We still have no idea of their bases or where they operate and the organzation has been extremely quiet on what missions it takes, the hokage has increased their bounties and have made sure our hunters and third party groups know. That and he has been calling in allies and even enemies, warning them of the threat."

The immortal's explanation calmed the boy down. It still infuriated the uchiha with their inaction but he could not find any reason to fault them. A group of ninja on par with Itachi's cailbere, even he shivered at the thought of people on that level of strength. Seems there were heights of power he still have yet to reach. However, if he could defeat one of these akatsuki ... perhaps killing Itachi would be feasible.

"Besides, if Itachi's job is to get the Bijuu then we don't need to hunt him down. He'll come to us" Naruto smiled when the realization dawn on sasuke. The uchiha smiled at the thought, realizing he no longer needed to worry about finding that man anymore and only needed to focus on his training.

"But I don't want to focus on that at the moment. Tell me how did your battle go with Itachi?"

"Better than I could've hoped" now that his anger has finally cooled down and his brother far away he could think carefully "I was able to do what you asked. You were right that Itachi was more powerful than I thought ... every ninjutsu and taijutsu I used he countered perfectly. But he didn't expect me to use some eye irritating powder. I think I'm starting to understand what you mean by focusing on things he won't expect."

The immortal smiled at the Uchiha's review "Well done sasuke, as I said doing the most unexpected things can give you a powerful edge. However, do not think that your brother will fall for the same trick. Pepper spray will not be enough, you need to be able to disable Itachi at every possible angle ... but you have started off well."

...

"So what now?" Sasuke asked.

"Now we wait to see what our Hokage will do"

xxx Hokage Office xxx

"THIS IS AN OUTRAGE" a fist slammed onto the hokage's desk. Sarutobi watched as the middle aged dark haired chunin snarl at him, not that he could blame the man. Knowing that your own son and daughter died to Itachi Uchiha.

"Please Sato, the lost of your son and daughter is indeed a tragic lost but to go to the Senju—"

"I do not care!" the man spat at Homaru "The heirs of my clan are dead and the killer is still on the loose. We're here bickering over the hat when innocent lives have been lost! My children were supporters of Senju's ideas and the last thing I can do is honor their last wishes."

"Siding Senju will not help you Lord Sato, you said it yourself that this bickering over the hat has costed you your children. By joining with Senju you are doing the very thing you objected" Homaru.

"Perhaps you are right, but that does not change the fact that our hokage allowed Itachi Uchiha to get allow scot free. Now I respect Sarutobi, I have served under him for most of my life and at any other time I would have gladly followed him to death. However, that is before not now, now I watch the man I once believed in let terrible criminals to get away and do little to nothing regarding action.

Naruto Senju on the other hand does listen to the pleas of this village, at least he is willing to send out men and allow us to gain our justice against our killers. I am sorry Sarutobi, but the sato-clan and our allies will not side with you. Good day"

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"And another ally leaves our alliance" Sarutobi muttered. The man pinched his bridge, Itachi Uchiha had thrown everything into chaos since the village was forced into lockdown once again and the people's faith in his administration put in question. Even the nobles have begun writing letters of concern and demanding assurances, who knew how long till even the Daimyo might step in.

"Damn the Uchiha, ever since he arrived everything has gone to ruin. Our stance with the minor clans are their lowest I've ever seen, not since the founding of the village have I seen this" Sarutobi had to note it was the first time he saw Koharu fret over minor clans "Surely there must be something we can do."

"I fear not Koharu, this event has only revealed the deep rot within our village, the neglect and disenchanted people we had ignored countless times over." Sarutobi explained. "Our focus on the major clans have left us blindsided and now Naruto is reaping our actions. I fear there is not much we can do."

The mood turned somber as neither of his teammates could refute. During the shinobi wars they were forced to make many difficult decision and one of which was making sure the major clans continued to support the war effort, they were a major contribution to Konoha's forces; And so they allowed the neglect and abuse to ran rampant within the minor clans.

Even then their efforts were more to curtail the clans they knew were strongly loyal to them. The inuzuka reminded them as such.

The door clicked as two familiar figures entered.

"Lord Hokage, it is pleasure to see you. You know I was just in the middle of enjoying a nice conversation with my teammate before your student pulled me away" Naruto greeted.

"You can talk to him later" Jiraiya replied.

"Ah Jiraiya, Naruto, I have been expecting both of you" said Sarutobi. "Please come sit, we have much to discuss"

"Indeed" Naruto took one of the seats "Why not begin with Itachi Uchiha, that man had an associate and both of them were wearing matching clothes. Some kind of organzation I presume?"

"Correct, judging by their uniform they seem to be from the akatsuki. Their an mercenary group that has been known to take various missions regardless of the task, however, this is the first time I have heard of them having not one but two S-rank ninja in their group" Sarutobi explained. The man turned to Jiraiya.

"Sorry sensei, Orochimaru was taking up most of my time. If it makes you feel better I don't think anyone else knows much about them to, the only things I've heard were rumors and second hand comments from their previous employers. There were rumors of them being filled with S-rank missing nin but you know how mercenary groups are with their boasting. But there's one thing I do know about them and that they are very interested in the Bijuu" the sannin answered.

"So a group of potential S-rank ninja are after me because of the fox stuck inside of my gut ... great, just great" the ancient wizard groaned as he pinched the bridge of his nose. For some reason everyone in the room seemed surprised by his reaction, what did they think this was his first rodeo of being hunted down?

This wasn't even the thsoundth time it has happened either.

"I'm surprised you aren't more scared naruto. These people are easily on the level of Orochimaru, myself, and jiraiya" the hokage said "You were lucky that you were able to escaped from them to begin with. At your current strength I fear you may fall to them and you understand that we cannot allow the akatsuki get you or the kyuubi."

"You do not need to remind about my current strength Hokage" the wizard stood up as he being to leave "And now I have to push my plans even faster than before."

"Oh? And what would that be then?"

"Get that hat and starting training like my life depends on it ... again" the wizard answered.

xxx Naruto Apartment xxx

An entire group of S-rank missing ninja all of which want to hunt him down thanks to Kurama. The wizard sighed, the last thing he needed was more people after him, he needed to get back to remnant not fight a bunch young fools after things they didn't fully understand. It was the maidens all over again. A small group of people hosting incredible powers and everyone who knows wants said power.

A small fireball formed in his hand as he examined it, his magic was returning more and more everyday and since the merging he felt it could return fully in a whole year now or even less if he was being hopeful. If he wanted to stand any ground with the akatsuki he need time, time to get his magic, fully mature his body, and strengthened his aura.

Getting the hokage office will give him the necessary space he needed to grow and get strong.

And access to the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.

However, moving his plans any further could have conqunces for the village. Itachi's arrive has caused the village to become even more shaken then before. While not on the level of Orochimaru the idea of another S-rank nin running around made no one safe and that wasn't taking in his previous acts. All and all Konoha's faith in their hokage has reached a new low and many have started to turn to him for hope.

On the other hand it has only deepen his and Hiruzen's current followers, already he has seen of shinobi glaring at their own comrades and some even questioning their own loyalties. Konoha was slowly tearing itself apart, people were looking each other and wondering which side was the right one and which deserved their scorn.

One way or another this could not go on, but it will. If he won then he would need to do everything he could to mend to tears, right what was wrong. And if Hiruzen won he would be forced to do the same. Too long has konoha been ignoring the issues blubbing underneath it's past, one way or another the issues presented needed to be fix or there may not be a konoha in future.

His musing ended when he heard someone knocking on his door. A quick burst of aura showed it was three people, opening the door he was pleasantly surprised by who it was. It was the the chunin clan head form before.

"Ah, Lord Sato I did not expect to see you here. And what do I have the pleasure of having you here today?" he greeted to man.

"Senju, I wish to speak to you on clan matters. May I enter your home?" Naruto opened to door and gave them seat to his kitchen. The clan head looked at the hokage candidate's home, it was a small apartment that barely could fit three people in here and even then it would be a crowded mess. He was lucky that he choose to go by himself.

"Now, what is it that you want to talk about?"

"My clan will officially support your cause" he started off "I will be blunt that I originally did not want to support you, but after Itachi's arrive and my children's death ... I have reconsidered my choice. But that is not what I wanted to say, not only my clan but four of our closest allies have pledged ourselves to you and I wish to give you a letter."

The wizard raised his brow as the man pulled out a simple letter, taking it he opened the contents and looked through the contents. The Abureme have invited him and his group to their clan for a feast.

"Interesting, why would one of the major clans have a minor clan head act as a delivery boy" the head of the sato clan twitched his brow, taking a deep breath before speaking.

"Because I am not only speaking for my clan but an alliance of minor clans, including the Admurme clan as well. We wish to make sure that sarutobi's followers do not find out, but if they should ..." The wizard understood the implication.

"I see, well how I can turn down such a generous offer. Tell Shibi that I graciously accept his invitation."