In His Own Right:
Chapter Eight:
"I'll take this one actually Deidara, your attacks seem to be much more... Obvious."
The blond looked at him defiantly, before just simply muttering. "Fine..."
Shisui held his katana steady, analyzing the tall shark man, his Akatsuki cloak blowing in the wind, he grabbed his sword.
"I suppose that's the blade, Sharkskin?"
"Oh, so you've done your research, I'm flattered.", he unleashed his sword, the wrapped legendary weapon crashing into the ground with it's heavyweight, crushing the grassy floor below.
"You'd be surprised." he said, then a giant shot of water in the shape of a shark came from the Rouge shinobi. Shisui responded quickly, performing the specific hand signals in an instant, releasing his fireball Jutsu with his lips. The two collided extinguishing each other when doing so. Sharkskin suddenly came forward, Shisui jumped backward dodging the blade that would not only shred his skin but also depleted him of Chakra. He slashed his flaming blade, aiming high for Kisame's head, the large shinobi avoided the attack despite his huge figure. He was a powerhouse, his attacks were slow but one hit would be devastating. Shisui teleported with his signature body flicker technique, finding himself behind Kisame. The Akatsuki member turned around surprise in his dark eyes, possibly at the speed of his jutsu.
His blade came down with a swift thrust, however, it never connected, the Anbu operative had almost forgotten that he wasn't only fighting Kisame. regardless of what they've stated, otherwise, their words were not creditable. Out of the corner of his eye, he'd caught the glimpse of a small white bird flying in his direction. He had seconds to escape as he jumped away, as the explosion rippled through the village outskirts with a Bang, He almost cursed when he felt the burning sensation throughout his chest and abdominal area.
"Shit!" he grunted as the force pushing the shinobi onto his back. His clothing burning away as a portion of the explosion reached him.
"That almost hit me, Deidara what were you thinking?" he heard their voices argue.
"Shit, I saved you didn't I?"
He'd been a bit too hasty, maybe even arrogant. Maybe he had undermined their abilities, the battle had turned in their favor pretty quickly. Although, he was sure it was already in their, shit. He recovered to his feet, well more like he attempted to, he found himself falling back to the grassy floor, as pain shot through his leg. He searched his leg for the answer to his dilemma; a small fragment of metal lodged in his right calf. His chest felt as if acid had been spilled all over it.
"He wasn't all that dangerous, look at him he can barely stand, yeah?"
"But now the village knows we're here. There's probably a squad of those bastards already heading in our direction!"
He gazed up towards the approaching ninja, Kisame on the ground, and the supposed Deidara flying on a rather large bird looking figure.
"My art can take on a hundred shinobi."
"I guess it can't be helped. Let's just kill the bastard, anyhow."
No, he wouldn't be defeated that easy, he wasn't Shisui of the body flicker for no reason, he was an elite Shinobi one of the most elite the village had to offer.
He grabbed his katana that had landed a short distance away, gripping the sword with his burnt right hand. He had nothing to lose really, he smiled as he performed his signature Jutsu, as the familiar tug of his body teleporting towards the position of the blond. In an instant, with the speed that would make the Fourth Hokage himself proud, Shisui was on the blond ninja's bird, behind him pointing his now fireless sword at the shinobi.
"Shit, you're behind me, you sure are fast. But it's nothing compared to my art.", their eyes met blue and crimson both respectively, the Anbu member smiled. He watched Deidara slam his hands into his pouch before throwing it at Shisui. A large white centipede wrapped around the Genjutsu master. Deidara abandoned his bird as he jumped down back towards the forest floor.
"True art is spontaneous..it only lasts for an instant, art is explosive!"
"Wait Deidara!", the blonds worse and most fatal mistake of his life had just been made. The moment he looked into Shisui's eyes, his fate was sealed, casting a Genjutsu that reflected his own explosive clay creature on Deidara.
BANG!
The explosion rang out below the clay bird, which detonated somewhere towards the ground. The shinobi had ultimately, albeit mistakenly, killed himself.
He fell as the solid bird disappeared, he fell but not before throwing his Katana directly at the other Akatsuki member. Shisui hit the floor with a thud, slamming onto his back and grunting in pain as he bit his tongue in an attempt to muffle his yells.
He watched Kisame block the attack with his sword Sharkskin, the Katana lodging into the grass floor. He stared at the sword, with a fixed and steady gaze.
"Come on man... Fuck.", he muttered.
"You know, Sasori always said he was the type to die young." the remaining Akatsuki members, didn't really seem all that sympathetic for his partner.
"...he wasn't lying. The idiot didn't heed my warning. I think I'll take my leave, but I do have one request of you...", Kisame bent down so that he was eye level with Shisui, he made sure to avoid any eye contact, so to keep himself safe from the devastating Kotoamatsukami, of which he'd spared the latter dead individual of such torture.
"You think I'll just let you leave?"
Apparently, Kisame didn't even acknowledge the threat.
"..you're lucky that the death of a certain partner of mine has made things a bit more complicated. So I'm counting on you to relay this message to that Captain of yours. Akatsuki has taken an interest in her, and we'd like to hear from her soon. What for, is irrelevant.", he chuckled. Captain? Izumi? What did Akatsuki want with his dear little cousin? He cupped his lip. "Fuck that, you can't have my cousin. Don't tell me you guys came all the way over here with a stank stand ass attitude just for my fucking cousin.",
The man known as the tailless tailed beast smiled.
"Ah, I'm going to be a tad bit lonely without the obnoxious bozo, always yapping off about his...art." he'd ignored him entirely.
With those words reinforcements arrived, a five-man squad of Anbu appeared suddenly standing in the space between Shisui and Kisame. It took them long enough. See this the Akatsuki member took to the skies, dashing to the treetops and making his leave.
"After him, I'll bring Shisui to the closest hospital!"
"Hai!", the rest of the team followed pursuit, leaving the two shinobi alone.
"Nice of you to finally come, Akatsuki they're back.", He gave his gratitude towards the obvious captain of the squad. His mask, a bunny mask with purple almost lightning-like curves rippling down the middle were of such he'd never seen before. Root? That wasn't good.
"Akatsuki. my men will handle that."
"Of course.", he pushed himself to his knees.
"Took you guys long enough." a cool wind blew cooling Shisui's face, the night air cool almost enough to make him shiver. Yes, almost, not enough. That's the thing, it wasn't enough, but you know Shisui did have a enough of?
Distrust.
Betrayal.
Danger.
His eyes widen when suddenly a squad of ten root shinobi appeared before him. He wouldn't have been surprised if this was Danzo's doing.
"What's the meaning of this?", He knew the bastard was crazy, sick even. But, this was a whole new level. This was treachery!
No one responded, well no one responded with words at least.
Each of the shinobi had massed in force and undoubtedly wished to terminate Shisui. All for one shinobi...There was little time to react when they blasted their own fireball jutsu at the ninja on his knees. He cursed Danzo internally as he quickly executed the proper hand signs, flames escaped his mouth responding to all of their attacks. He knew it wasn't strong enough to block them and there were too many for him to combat head to head, at least in his current state. So, when the attacks intercepted and each other, he disappeared with the body flicker jutsu, escaping the shinobi and landing in a tree branch far off in the distance.
"Damn bastard.", he muttered, as he fell on the branch, feeling the wound in her leg. Shisui should have gone ALL out from the beginning. Did he truly think he'd get away with something as sinister as that?
He jumped from the tree suddenly, as a Kunai hit the spot her had been moments ago. He jumped from the tree, landing on his legs, pain shot through them life acid devouring his leg, as he withdrew his own Kunai. A swarm of kunai and shuriken came his way, he blocked each with the familiar sound of metal clanging and sparks.
Just jumped back, again forcing himself to land on his right leg, barely dodge two shuriken, the metal ripping through his flesh as blood began to leak from his right arm. The three root ninja came forward at great speed, Shisui went on the defensive. Blocking a swift kick from one of the three before pushing him back with a kick of his own, another root member's sword slashed at Shisui, he caught the sword in between his hands just in time, the blade was inches from his face.
Shit! A rock hard fist connected with his face, sending him backward his back, hitting the grassy ground hard. The situation was dire. He found himself exhausted and depleted of chakra, and now he was on the ground and basically defenseless.
"Shisui Uchiha, consider yourself terminated. Shame, it's such a waste of talent and skill.", The root member he had inflicted a kick on spoke, now pointing a katana at the Uchiha's throat.
"Fuck you too, you're a disgrace to this village.", he shot with venom. "All of you, and Danzo!"
"Right, let us end this.", the root member said, his men side by side. They nodded in confirmation.
The spiky-haired man accepted his fate. He would meet death head-on with no fear. The man refused to look Shisui in his eyes. Either if it were from fear of his sharigan or from his own dismay with killing a shinobi from his own village, the man would look at the dirt beneath him.
The sword graced his neck, he closed his eyes not wanting to see the blade that would take his life.
A blood gargling yell was released from the man, as Shisui felt a smoldering heat pass by his side.
What?
He opened his eyes, as two mores shouts of dismay were released. The sword that was meant to kill him lay at the ground but the Root member was gone.
A figure appeared in front of him. Her familiar features sent waves of relief through him, finally, he could relax.
"Shisui!", Izumi yelled, holding him as he felt his body giving into unconsciousness. He'd lost a lot of blood.
"The Akatsuki, they're back...Danzo. Root...", with those words his eyes saw nothing but darkness.
She grabbed her cousin placing him over her shoulder and teleporting to the village. There was no time to lose and no time to waste. She had saw what had happened. The minimal amount of what had occurred but, nonetheless she'd seen Danzo's Root attack her cousin. It was treasonous and disgusting. How could someone dare call themselves a shinobi and attempt to kill one of their fellow ninja. They reached the top of the closest hospital, at this she dropped to the ground level of the building before entering.
"Izumi-san?", the pink-haired medic ninja and apprentice of the Godaime questioned as the Uchiha burst through the doors. She gazed at Izumi with skeptical eyes before she saw An unconscious Shisui. She had a cup of tea in her hand, of which she immediately dropped when she saw his condition.
"Help.", Izumi ordered simply.
"What happened to him?", the pinket questioned.
"He was attacked.", she wished to be blunt as possible, she needed to report to the Hokage before anyone else.
Izumi placed him flat on his back.
Sakura unleashed a Kunai cutting off Shisui's civilian Uchiha shirt, as she instantly began feeding his body with healing chakra, green aura surrounding her hands and his body.
It was a long moment of waiting as the pink-haired medic did her thing. "Well, it's nothing too serious. But his skin is severely burnt, he's covered from chest to toe in lacerations, and he's lost quite some blood.",
More medics arrived as Sakura stood to her feet. They took Shisui on a stretcher and in a quick pace took him into the inners of the hospital.
"He'll be alright, Uchiha-san.",
She nodded, before exiting the hospital. She knew it looked indifferent just leaving without informing where she was headed, but the Hokage needed to be informed immediately.
"We should have seen this coming, Danzo is the absolute definition of an opportunist!", Izumi listened to the Hokage's words, her fist had slammed down on her desk causing it to smash into two different pieces. "The fucking bastard, and the Akatsuki..before the Chunin exams.",
She didn't seem to care for the papers and the scrolls that were now everywhere.
"Izumi, your team is being removed from your current mission during the Chunin exams. I have an assignment for you.", Tsunade stood from her chair, and stepped over the rubble that was once her desk.
"We'll worry about Danzo later, I have him under 24-hour surveillance for now. But right now, we need to gain more information on the Akatsuki. I'm sending you to find Jiraiya, who of which has been collecting data on Akatsuki for quite some time. Inform him that he is to return to the village immediately, his information is extremely vital.", Tsunade explained, placing her hands behind her back as she gazed upon the night sky. She was in deep thought, probably pondering the possible downfall of the village through both the efforts of Akatsuki and Danzo. "This mission is effective immediately!",
"Hai.", she answered bowing. the heiress prepared to leave the Hokage's office when suddenly she realized an opportunity.
"Hokage-sama...",
"Yes?", the blond-haired Hokage turned to face Izumi.
"May I make a suggestion for a shinobi to accompany me on my assignment?"
"Who?",
"Naruto Uzumaki.", she stated naturally. Yes, was doing this for selfish reasons. One of those reasons were quite unusual considering that she was usually a loner. But, she wished to have his company. Yes, extremely selfish, but she enjoy his optimism and even though she had selfish reasons for bringing him, she also had other reasons.
"Naruto, why do you wish to bring Naruto?", The sannin inclined her head with one of her most powerful shinobi, a stare of pure curiosity embedded in her chestnut eyes.
"He's still under my jurisdiction, he's a very acceptable shinobi, his mastery of the toad sage would be very convenient in finding Jiraiya. And not only that, the two are indeed rather close. His presence would benefit the outcome and effectiveness of the mission", she explained, keeping her eyes on the Hokage's, she waited for the woman's response. She was quiet, a bit more quiet than Izumi had expected. She walked back to her chair, stepping over the broken desk and papers.
"Fine.", she answered. "Bring him to me, now!"
She almost smiled when she heard the Godaime's answer. "Hai!"
*So now we're blasting off with a much more direct plot, things heated up a tad bit in this chapter and I cannot wait to release the next one to you guys. I hope this chapter was up to standards, if not feel free to state every single flaw in a review, and If you enjoyed this story then do leave a review.