Sean scoped around the area for another, he had to ignore Miri's and Amari's screams of pain and focus on another. As good as the revealer was, Sean knew he wasn't that good to do that many attacks. His sight was covered by eyes that even his Tozoto saw as red. The red eyes with the black tails shrunk down and out of his vision. Everything he saw was transformed into pitch black and a blood red sky. Two double edge swords struck through his arms and pulled them out. He looked at his arm and saw the tip of the blade curve and stick itself above the original hole.

The thought of a easy pull out was impossible now without him losing chunks of his arms. The swords pulled on his flesh and brought him down to his knees. His mouth opened up to scream out the pain but nothing came out. He tried to force himself to release a sound but instead created more pain for himself. The branch below him extended out for two feet to walk closer to him. He created more pain in the process to look up at the owner of the feet. The man was in the black trench coat and red clouds. His hair was black and smoothed down his face. His eyes were in the shape of the three tailed Sharingan.

"It's no use to try to escape from this." He spoke in a calm voice. The branch Sean was on rose up to be eye level with him.

"Who the fuck are you?" Sean groaned.

"I am Itachi Uchiha."

"Another Uchiha huh? Now why the hell do you have me in an inescapable genjutsu?"

"My master wanted me to speak to you one on one without any interruption." Itachi waited for Sean to answer but got nothing. "We know of your kekki genkai and he simply wishes to help you out on your journey. We offer you a spot in the Akatsuki to further develop your eye."

"Last time someone went out of their way to help me they wanted me as a vessel, tried to call me and my friends, should I continue?"

"This time it is different, Orochimaru was once part of us but conflicts strayed him away. All we ask in return is you help us, leave the leaf soldiers behind and assist us in our goals."

"I got too much to just get rid of." The swords in his arms stabbed him again to make another hole.

"I guess I should be saying I'm not giving you an opposition." He grabbed Sean's throat and tightened. "You have one choice but two if you don't enjoy life. Accept the offer and join us, or your other option is death."

"You may have me in the most painful genjutsu I have ever been in but I won't let some scum end me." The swords escaped through a new forced hole and stabbed the tip through his chest. Sean went through a new level of pain he hasn't felt in years.

"You must be a fool to reject who I am. I only went out of my way here because that is what was told of me. If I came across you in any other day I would cut your air from your body without the need to move a muscle in my eyes."

"I think you should've gotten a hold of Orochimaru's notes before you tried to capture me." Sean pulled on the intertwined blades and bashed his skull on Itachi's. His eye was opened to the second stage and switched with Itachi.

He released himself out of the genjutsu and jumped back from the tree he was on. He could now see the man that haunted him. He jumped after him and head butted him to gain his eye back. Sean pulled on Itachi's feet and jumped down to the ground. He grabbed the back of the shark man's neck and threw him into the trunk of the tree behind him. He clenched down on the sword hilt. The same spikes ejected from the handle and stabbed through his hand. He fought through the pain and pulled the sword out of Amari.

"We got to get out of here." Sean breath was heavy.

Amari's eyes went wide and pulled Sean to her. The sword pulled in its scales and dropped to the ground. The first attacker grabbed the sword before it hit the ground and swung the sword completely around and slashed down at Sean. Amari pulled harder and yanked him off his feet. Sean pulled his sword from his shoulder and blocked the next strike down.

"Whatever you do, don't look at the human's eyes." Sean warned.

Amari jumped over Sean and threw a punch at the attacker. "What are you talking about?" The man shuffled back to avoid a hit.

"Itachi Uchiha, his eyes forces you into a painful genjutsu. It's impossible to escape out of. Did I mention it is very painful?"

"Hidden mist." The man spoke. The area was surrounded by a thick mist that covered their entire vision.

Amari and Sean opened their eyes to the Tozoto. They looked all over the area for any of the two. Amari carefully moved her feet along the ground and grabbed Miri off the ground. She moved over to Sean and poked his shoulder. Sean looked to her and nodded and flicked his head to the side. Amari jumped up from the smoke and jumped from tree to tree to run from the area. Sean took an extra moment to survey the area before he followed Amari.

He caught up with the girls, Miri was still unconscious in Amari's arms. "What the hell was that?" Amari asked.

"I'm not sure." Sean turned to where he came from. "These people attacked us for our eyes from what I could tell. Well that's what Itachi came here for."

"Itachi?"

"He's Sasuke's brother, apparently the group he's with it recruiting gifted people like us. But he also doesn't mind killing us to get it. Grab Miri, let's get this mission done and return to the Hokage."

"Right." Amari grabbed Miri and continued on.

Miri woke up hours later, she was still in the arms of Amari. Amari quickly noticed the movement in the once unconscious girl and stopped in her tracks. She placed her back on her feet and went back on the run.

"What happened?" Miri asked

"We escaped." Sean answered. "The attackers were Akatsuki. They were after the Tozoto and use us against the leaf."

"But we're going on with the mission." Amari continued.

"Even after this? Shouldn't we return to the village first and get this done after?" Miri asked.

"No, we get the scroll over to the temple and return back afterwards."

The team reached the small temple in the middle of the forest. The area changed from the green, and healthy landscape to a area of charred trees and dirt. Four people in black robes with the character for fire on their sashes walked out of the temple doors. They were exact clones of one another, bald and pale skinned. The two groups didn't speak to each other for a moment. Both gave empty stares. Three of the clones disappeared without a cloud of smoke. The one in the front left remained and bowed to the group.

"I understand you read the note, thank you for arriving." He ended with a smile.

"I don't remember the notes saying you knew jutsus outside of experimental fire." Sean noticed.

"We are masters of many kinds of jutsus. We aren't all just masters of the fire nature, many of us carries multiple natures."

"Hand him the scroll Miri." Miri walked forward to the man and placed the scroll into the man's open hand. "So what is in that scroll that we risked to give you?"

"It contains a summon of a salamander. We know a lot about many forms of fire jutsu but know little of lava art. And this salamander is able to form the fire into lava with a little training. With it we hope to be able to protect the nation even more with new art nobody knows about." The man chuckled and turned it into a large laugh.

"I knew this wasn't a real thing." Sean sighed.

The man in the robes shoved the scroll in his robe and slammed his hands on the ground. He surrounded himself in smoke that revealed four foxes with a long tail. The foxes ran around the three to watch every end. Each of them opened their mouths and released a long flame that connected on all four sides. Clones pulled from the fire and lined the fire circle. The clones synchronized a hand sign and blew fire at the three.

The three group jumped out of the fire and out of the ring. The fire clones raised their attack and sprayed in the air. The fire caught Miri's foot and dropped her back into the ring. Amari and Sean turned back for their friend and ran to the circle. Amari grabbed one of the foxes and crushed in their skull. The ring had lost a fourth of the power and allowed Amari to run in to grab her sister.

"What the hell happened?" Amari directed attention to the man that held onto the scroll.

He pressed his hand on the ground once more and looked up to Amari's eyes. The ground below Amari opened up and exploded fire into her. The fire hardened around her and pulled her into the ground. Sean jumped into the ring of fire and pulled out two of his swords. He thrusted his swords into his heart and pulled on his head to slam her on the ground. He grabbed another one of his swords and jammed his sword down the man's skull. He connected all three of the swords with his swords and pulled the swords out.

The man fizzled away. Sean looked back up with the same man after him, his entire hand glowed red and slapped Sean in the face. Sean's cheek boiled from the intense burn and couldn't react fast enough as another fist connected with his nose. Sean rolled back and crawled away after he regained balance. The man was on Sean again and grabbed the collar to his sweatshirt.

"Spirit style; soul extension." The man's chest puffed out and dropped him to his knees. Miri stood over the man and jumped in the air. "Scythe strike!" A scythe grew in her and swung the sword down in the man's head.

Miri pushed the man to the ground and walked over to Sean. She grabbed his hand and brought him up to his feet. "I thought you died." Sean laughed.

Their moment of calmness ended as a strong pain went through her side and into Sean's side. Miri's head was slashed off by a thick white cloth that opened up to the blue scales right after. Sean's face was slashed with the attack and dropped him to the ground. The sword followed with him and pinned him to the ground. Half his face was covered and penetrated by the sword. The shark man pressed his foot on Sean's foot and leaned down to him.

"You think you could've escape that easy?"