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"Wake up…wake up!" Itachi was starting to regain consciousness from hearing a voice near him. He started to groan as he felt an object poking and prodding his ribs, from how it felt he knew that it was someone's hand doing it.

"Hey! Would you just wake up for Christ sake?" The poking got harder and less gentle, repeating jabbing into his side. Whoever was doing it was either really determined to get him to wake up or really stupid for annoying him like how they were.

"For the last time wake up no-" Before the person could finish the sentence and jab him again, Itachi suddenly reached out and grabbed onto their wrist without even bothering to open his eyes. The person was so shocked at what he had done they had let out a loud shriek in response.

"Hey, it would be for the best if you woke up stranger or it's a pretty good chance that you'll get mugged for your troubles." The voice started to sound a little clearer than before to him. Itachi could surmise that from the high pitch of the voice he was he was probably dealing with a female. He slowly opened his eyes revealing to her their deep onyx color. Itachi then sat up while still keeping a vice grip on the girl's wrist just in case she tried anything.

Itachi then groaned and lifted his free hand to the side of his head to help alleviate the headache he currently had. "Where am I?"

"We're in Gotham City," the girl answered. "Oh and by the way, could you let go of my wrist? I mean really you're cutting my blood circulation." After hearing her request he hesitantly let go but was still cautious of this stranger. He turned to see the face behind the voice and sure enough it was a female that he was talking to. She didn't look like any female he had ever seen in his life time. Both her features and her appearance were foreign to him. He needed to find out where exactly the Sage had sent him. He may have traveled all over the world thanks to working with the Akatsuki, but for some reason this girl and place was like nothing he'd ever seen before.

"What land or region does this Gotham City belong to?"

"…Dude, are you actually for real right now?" His silence was more than enough of an answer for her. "You're serious. Oh my gosh, this can't be happening to me right now," the girl started to mutter under her breath. Out of all the strange things she could run into, it had to be a crazy guy who didn't even know where Gotham City was.

"Okay pay attention," she then got Itachi's attention, "Gotham is a city, obviously, and it is located in the state of New Jersey. Please tell me you know what a state is." She again got nothing but silence. "Have you been living under a tree or something for your entire life?"

Itachi was still wary of this girl and her explanation did not put him at ease at all. The Sage must have sent him into the darkest corner of the world because he honestly had no idea where he was. So deciding that he should play it safe for now, he answered her skeptically. "No, I have not been living under a tree. I have no clue how or why I am here. The only thing I know of for sure is that I do not belong on this plane of existence."

"…Right…dang this guy is even crazier than I thought," she had thought. She then shook her head and sighed, "Listen here dude, I don't know about this whole plane of existence thing, but what I do know is that you're a homeless guy with nowhere to go."

"I'm not-" He was going to respond but the girl held her hand out to stop him before he got far.

"No, no, no, let me finish. Now being the nice girl that I am, I'm going to offer you a place to stay since you clearly have nowhere else to go. And seeing as how you know next to nothing about Gotham or life in general as it seems, well, you're going to be educated if you wanna survive here. Does that sound cool to you?"

Itachi didn't say anything immediately. He was seriously contemplating whether or not he should say no to the girl and find his own way, but he wouldn't know where to start and his body felt weird ever since the Sage sent him on this mission of his, which he still didn't even know the details of. His only option as of now is to take the girl up on her offer and learn as much as he can about this place before he did anything too drastic.

"I will…accept your offer, but first I must ask something of you."

"Shoot."

"…"

The girl groaned and sighed again, "It means go ahead and ask the question you dolt."

Itachi nodded. "Why are you helping me? I am but a mere stranger to you."

"I am helping you cause I want to. There really isn't any other reason I have or need besides that, but if you really want to know it's because not too long ago I was out here on my own too. It's hard to live in Gotham, especially for people like us who have no home to go back to, I mean I have a home now but that isn't the point I'm trying to make here." Itachi remained stoic on the outside, but inwardly he was smiling at the girl as she was rambling on and on about things he halfway comprehended. To him, she was a pleasant sight after all of the death and darkness he had to see all of his life.

"I understand."

"Good, now let's get moving-"

"You ain't going nowhere sweetheart." The girl turned stiff at the sound of the gruff voice. Itachi looked at her suspiciously, now wondering why she looked so fearful all of a sudden. He looked up and saw a six foot tall, middle sized man standing before them. The man looked like he has been unkempt for weeks thanks to his ruff looking beard. Itachi then saw that the man was holding some weird looking object in his hand. He has seen various types of weapons in his lifetime, but the black metal object that the man was pointing at them was something he had never seen before.

The brunette turned her body slowly whilst trying to avoid the man's gaze as best as she could. "H-Hey it's been a long time Lou. How's it been?" If the fear being emanating wasn't obvious before, it was now. Itachi could feel the fear oozing off of the girl in waves. He didn't need his sharingan to tell him that she was afraid of the man standing before her. Perhaps they had a falling out of sorts, but in the end it was irrelevant because all he knew was that the man held killer intent towards her, and Itachi was not going to let any harm come her way.

"Shut it you brat," Lou spat out, "You've got some nerve showing your face around here after what you did!"

"And what is it exactly that she had done to make you feel so wronged?" Itachi asked causing the brunette to gawk at him in disbelief.

"Why couldn't he keep his trap shut!?" She thought.

At the sound of his voice Lou finally noticed that another person was in the alleyway with them. "Who the heck are you punk?" He then aimed his gun so that both of them were in his sights.

Itachi stood up from the ground and narrowed his eyes at Lou as he stared him down. "It doesn't matter who I am. My identity isn't what is important at the moment."

"If you know what is good for you, you'd mind your own business. Now beat it punk before I put you down!" To make his point more clear Lou shot a bullet off near Itachi's feet. The girl screamed in shock and went to cover her ears and shut her eyes. Her new companion did not move an inch or show any signs of fear.

"What is wrong with you," she hissed while grabbing his arm roughly. "He'll kill you if try to play hero!" Itachi ignored her though and lightly pulled his arm away from her grasp and walked forward.

Low quirked a brow and started to chuckle, "This guy must either be insane or just plain stupid for thinking he can face me with a gun." He thought. "You must have some sort of death wish. I thought I told you to beat it kid, this is between me and little Carson over there."

"Carson, that's you name right?" Itachi asked while looking back at her. She responded by scrunching up her face in annoyance.

"What's it matter to you? It's nothing special and besides I never really liked my name anyways not that it matters."

"Where I come from, you name is what makes you special. Never forget that and not for nothing but I've never heard of the name Carson so in my eyes; you are special."

Carson's face started to turn red from embarrassment. "W-What?! Dude you obviously have hearing problems."

Itachi remained stoic underneath the hood of his cloak showing that he was serious. Carson was becoming more and more interesting to Itachi the more she spoke. "Why do you persist on making your name sound so insignificant?"

"Because it isn't special okay! Christ, can you just stop doing that," Carson said now peeved and irritated.

"Doing what exactly?" He asked.

"That! Doing that! You keep turning to conversation back on me you jerk!"

"I can't say that I know what you're talking about. According to you, I'm the crazy one. So what does it say about you for listening to me?" He retorted causing the girl to start to become even more agitated.

Lou stared at the two with a look of disbelief, not believing that the two were actually having a argument right in front of him even though he had a gun on them. He growled in anger and shouted out, "Hey! Don't disrespect me like that by having a whole discussion right in front of me. I have a gun and I will end the both of you, understand?"

"Crap, I forgot thanks to that jerk over there." Carson lamented. "Look, Lou I am so sorry. I'll pay you back for everything with what I earned in the past week. It's five hundred eve-"

"The boss don't want your filthy money anymore." Itachi frowned. "What did he mean by filthy," He thought.

Carson's eyes started to widen. "What? But I thought that was what he wanted from me."

Lou smirked. "Nope, he thought since you bailed out on us that you weren't worth the cash anymore. You are just a loose end and you know what we do to loose ends." He then laughed at her deflated expression at hearing his words. "Oh don't look so sad and pathetic. I know you'll look back at this moment and laugh…in the next life." Before he could pull the trigger though, Itachi appeared in front of him in a flash.

"What the-" But then a swift hand came forth and knocked his gun to the ground. Then Itachi got a vice grip on his wrist and before the man knew what happened, he cried out in pain as his wrist was broken causing a loud crack to be heard.

"Aaaah!" Lou kept screaming out in agony. The bones inside of his wrist were shattered which left his hand virtually useless and hanging limp from his arm.

"I will only say this once because I hate to repeat myself." Lou looked up with shock and fear to see that the guy standing right in front of him had no longer sported the soft look on his face. Now his face looked menacing, but that wasn't what filled Lou with fear; it was his eyes which were red with three tomoe in them that scared him. "If you want to be able to use your other wrist then I suggest you leave now. You had better now bother this girl again, do I make myself clear?"

"S-Screw you-" Itachi grabbed the man's other wrist and tightened his grip on it. "O-Okay! Christ I understand!"

Itachi then glared down at him since the man was having obvious troubles with getting that he was in a losing situation. "Really, because you don't sound like you understand where I am coming from." The grip around Lou's other wrist got so tight he started to cry. He could slowly feel the bones in his wrist start to crack and break.

"Y-Yes I understand! Please, let go of my wrist I'm begging you!"

"Fine, since you begged like the pathetic weakling that you are." Itachi then let go of his wrist, but decided to still knock him out by delivering a powerful spinning right kick to his jaw. Lou was unconscious before he even hit the ground with a loud thud.

"Oh my gosh! Dude you are awesome!" Carson gaped at him in awe. She saw him move but he was so fast he might as well been a blur. As she got over her shoch she made her way over to where he was standing while giving the unconscious man a wary look.

"Don't worry. He's out cold and won't be waking up for quite some time." He said while giving her an assuring look.

Carson gave out a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness! That guy has been giving me a hard time for so long that I was looking forward to the day that someone gave him a dose of his own medicine. So…aren't you going to ask me about this?"

"I don't see why I would. It isn't of any concern to me and I believe in minding your own business." He stated from under his hood.

Carson blinked. "You mean you don't want to ask anything at all? Like anything, because after what you just did I'd say it is more than fair of you to ask." Itachi shook his head. "Wow, I've never met anyone who was as pushy as you are." She said sarcastically.

"Is your offer still on the table Carson?" He asked wanted to get straight to the point. "U-Uh yeah it is. My apartment isn't too far from here, but let's take the back way. Lord knows if Lou had backup with him while he was looking for me." Carson then turned her head at the sounds of sirens. "Oh man, someone must have heard Lou screaming and called the police. We need to disappear like now!"

"Fine." Itachi then quickly closed the gap between the two and with his usually swiftness he picked her up and prepared to carry her to her place. He heard he squeal when he lifted her and held her close against his chest.

Carson could feel her face heat up again from him holding her so close to his chest. She looked up at him and suddenly felt kind of annoyed that his face was still covered by his hood. "Dude if I'm going to let you stay with me for the time being, then imma need to know who you are first or at least what you even look like. The hood thing is creeping me out."

He didn't say anything at first to her which annoyed her some more. "Can I get an answer?"

"If that is what I need to do, then I will show my face." Itachi then flicked his head back causing his hood to fall back. His long hair was in a ponytail so he could see, but it also let Carson see all of the features of his face. She thought he was very handsome and borderline gorgeous, but it was his eyes that captivated her the most. He was used to being stared at by women on his travels, but Carson was past the staring and was going for the touching part.

"Wow, you are one gorgeous dude," She blurted out. When she realized what she had just said she covered her mouth in shame. Her face started to get redder and redder from what she had just spoken out loud.

"This is so embarrassing!" She thought.

Itachi gave a small smile but still needed to know where he was heading. "I believe now would be a good time to direct me to where your home is."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that…um are going to put me down or w-WHAT!" Itachi had just leaped high into the air to land on top of the building as he sped forward and started to jump from rooftop to rooftop. The scared girl clung to his cloak for dear life while praying that he wouldn't drop her in midair.

After she got the courage to speak, she told him how to get to her apartment. It didn't take long for the both of them to get there thanks to his speed and the lack of traffic thanks to travel by rooftops. "Thank God, we're finally here," Carson huffed out with her facial expression giving out the epitome of exhaustion. She slumped up against the front door of her apartment and went to get her keys from her pockets.

Itachi didn't show too much emotion as he waited for her to fish through her pockets. It was about three minutes later that she finally found the keys and unlocked the door.

"Finally," Carson sighted out as she opened the door. Itachi took a quick peak inside before he entered. He hated going in blind into any situation. It was pretty dark and messy in there. "She must not like to keep up with tidiness I guess," He thought.

"You have a…nice home." He said while trying to sound as nonjudgmental as possible. Carson looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "You're just saying that, right? You don't have you sugarcoat it; I know my place looks like crap." She winked back at him and walked away.

Itachi said nothing as he watched her turn away from him and continue further into the apartment. Having seen the city while on the way here, he didn't feel any more at ease with him being here. "This place might be worse than the Leaf Village in terms of darkness," he thought.

"Make yourself at home…um, dang I guess I never got you name." Carson stuck her head out from the kitchen to see where he was. He was still standing in front of the front door, glancing back and forth between the pictures on the walls and all of the items that were lying on the floor. His face, like always, was unreadable and he always looked like he was in deep thought. The mystery of him made Carson want to get to know him more for some reason, but first she'd start by learning of his name.

"My name is Itachi Uchiha, but in this world names don't matter as much according to you." He said while remembering their conversation about names earlier.

Carson gave him a mocking glare but smiled, "So your name is Itachi Uchiha. Are you like Japanese or something?"

Itachi nodded, "Or something."

Carson hummed, "I see, well it is nice to meet you Itachi." She stepped out in front of him and stuck out her hand. "I hope we get along from here on out."

But after he just stood still for a few seconds she got worried, "Um, aren't you gonna shake my hand?" Then his pale hand reached out slowly and grasped hers lightly. To Carson his hand was warm and felt welcoming to her.

"Now that we have been properly introduced," she then used his hand and went to drag him towards the kitchen which took a lot of effort.

He sat down at the table and he began to think about what being here in this place means. Not just in this apartment, but in this city and world in general because he was starting to think that this is not the same place where he originates from.

"But why would the Sage tell me I had to save the world, but then turn around and send me into a different one altogether? None of this makes sense except for the fact that the sage says that this mission is of the upmost importance. When it comes to the mission I'll do whatever it takes to see it through and get it done. Maybe perhaps the Sage meant for me to meet this girl but how is she going to help me?" He thought and just on cue a loud crash was heard and he looked and saw that she had just dropped some dishes.

"Crap! Those are my good dishes."

Yeah this would take an adjustment and a huge learning curve for Itachi to start to understand how any of this is supposed to fit together.

That's it for this chapter. I promised I'd keep all of the OC's of the original story so this marks the introduction of the first one. I'll try not to deviate too much from the story and can't wait to continue. Till next time guys!