Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes or any OCCness.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 20

Naruto, Sasuke: 15

Shisui: 24

Kakashi: 29

I wasn't okay. Like, I was stressing a lot. In my old life, I had seen A, the Fourth Raikage, but there was peace between all of the villages and I wasn't really affiliated to Kiri anymore. These were two things I couldn't count on right now. I just...had to be extremely careful of what I would say to him. I...we were on his territory and yes, the Fourth Raikage was intimidating. He literally could crush me with his bare fist if he wanted to.

"You're more stressed than usual."

"You clearly don't know Kumo." Sasuke raised a brow, still staring at the rocky road in front of him as we were walking between mountains.

"They gave you your first spot in the Bingo Book six months after you became a kunoichi."

"Well, seven months, the Exams lasted a month, but yeah. And the Raikage tried to abduct me when we were leaving, Yagura was there by the way, but they failed and...Dai made me take a bad decision."

"Which means?"

"Well, we left by boat, he made me write a not so polite refusal for the Raikage in ice on the water." He deadpanned.

"Why did I even ask?"

"It's not just that. Kumo is the most powerful village on the continent. The Raikage...is impressive, just physically speaking he is impressive and he's the fastest shinobi alive. He's not someone you want on your bad side." Hopefully Sasuke wouldn't attack a Kage Summit in the following years.

"That much?" I nodded.

"Yeah."

"What else is on your mind?" I looked down and he stopped in his tracks. "I'm talking to you."

"I heard, I've chosen to ignore you." He grabbed my wrist harshly and turned me around, almost making me lose balance. The frown on his face reminded me of his mother's.

"I thought I told you you could count on me."

"I know and I do," I replied, removing his hand carefully, "and I'll tell you but later. It's family related, I need to come to terms with it before talking about it." He was disgruntled.

"You've been quiet for the entire week, you better give me a good explanation later." He walked briskly past me and I smirked a little. He still had some childish reactions, like any fif...no, almost sixteen year-old boy, so it was good.

Gosh, sixteen already? Has it already been eight years since I died for the first time?

The trip was almost over anyway. Once we were done with Kumo, we would be off to Konoha.

"By Fall we'll be back in Konoha," I told Sasuke who was now walking in front of me. He peeked at me over his shoulder. "You're ready for it?"

"It's barely Spring, I have time."

"You think you can give me an answer to my question of two years and a half ago?" He turned his head away.

"We'll see."

Everything was calm.

Actually, everything was too calm. There was no way Kumo wasn't aware we were in the Land of Lightning by now.

We were just two-hour walk away from Kumo when I stopped moving.

"What now?"

"We should have been stopped a long time ago to be asked the reason of our presence. They're watching us." He frowned.

"Do you sense anyone." I groaned.

"No, it's the annoying thing. HEY THERE!"

I closed my eyes when a blinding light came out of nowhere. I went into fighting mode and used my club to stop someone from hitting me. Humph, if they wanted to play the 'I'll blind you to get you' game, I would play it.

I spat mist from my mouth. I coupled this with something I mastered recently, which was lowering my body temperature enough to not be found. I pushed my opponent back and jumped back, my back founding Sasuke's. I grabbed one of my kunai and threw it hard in the mountain surrounding us. Without further ado, I teleported Sasuke and I over there. Sasuke took five marked kunai and threw them around the mist before I made my barrier.

"So," I started in a clear voice, the mist disappearing. "What's that welcoming committee?" There were two blond shinobi with black eyes, but the kunoichi...She was Nii Yugito, Matatabi's jinch…

"Sorry, but you can't blame us. This weapon you have promise more pain than conversation." I forgot to breath for a second at the tip of the blade grazing my lower back.

"Sasuke don't move," I told the Uchiha as he had his sharingan spinning at the newcomer. "Darui-san, we came here without forehead protectors, were are not here as shinobi."

"Oh really?" We were using chakra in our feet to stand on the mountain, but Darui pushed his sword in my back to made me go down. It was flat, hopefully, and he didn't seem like he wanted to actually hurt us, just show us they had the upper-hand.

Once Sasuke and I were back on the ground, I smirked a little at the guy's glare and how he was healing his burned hand. Yeah, you shouldn't touch a barrier made of chakra.

"C, seriously?"

"I thought I could break through," he replied with a snarl. "Uzumaki, remove the barrier."

"Remove the sword," I replied.

"Firstly state what you want with the Raikage. You and the Uchiha have been traveling for a while and we were expecting you. He won't receive you unless we report to him beforehand." I looked up at the sky, where a single bird flew above us.

"Unfortunately, it is a matter for which I have to see the Raikage in person."

"You think he would receive you as if nothing happened after the Chuunin Exams?" C asked me with disdain. I snorted.

"I was a twelve year-old brat, gimme some credit." I winked at him and he stepped back with an alarmed expression on his face. "I'm almost twenty-one now." Sasuke sighed next to me.

"You're not going to be disturbed by this, are you?" Yugito asked him with a raised brow. C cleared his throat with an embarrassed flush on his cheeks.

"More seriously, the Raikage has been very strict about your presence here Uzumaki," Darui said, putting his sword away. I turned around to face him. "He doesn't want to waste his time with you after you refused his proposition. We can't let you enter the village without reporting in details what you want." I stared straight in his eyes.

"The Hokage, Mizukage and Kazekage wants us to go to the Raikage directly." He sighed.

"The Raikage has been clear, so sorry but it looks like your mission is a failure." I averted my eyes to the ground for a second before gesturing the barrier to Sasuke. He made it disappear by knocking one of my kunai down with one of his.

"It can't be helped. For what it's worth, please apologize to A-sama for me." Darui ran a hand through his hair as he walked over to his teammates.

"Will do Uzumaki."

"Don't linger around in our country," C added before following Darui. Yugito stared at me for a while longer before joining the two males. Just like that, they were gone.

"I thought jinchurikis knew about you."

"The bijuus do. Well, so does she. I forgot some jinchurikis are more than loyal to their village."

"Seriously?" Sasuke asked me in disbelief. "I mean, apart from Naruto."

"To be honest Sasuke, I respect Kumo more than Konoha." He was taken back by that. "I mean, Konoha's cool I guess, but the main reason I like the place is because I have family and friends there. The village in itself? Ever since Minato died and because of some...events, I don't have the best opinion about it."

Yeah, weak leadership will lead to catastrophes. Always.

"Anyway, what do we do now?" I put my hands on my hips, stretching my back by leaning back.

"Well...we find a way to get the Raikage to accept us."

"Beg for his forgiveness." I deadpanned at him and he shrugged. "Maybe it would work. Get on your knees, bow and beg for his forgiveness."

"We're going to find a solution that doesn't require the sacrifice of my dignity or getting engaged."

"C'mon how long are you going to use that argument?"

"As long as I might become Mrs. Sasuke Uchiha one day!"

"Well you know, it's a start," I commented whereas a regular size hawk was hitting Sasuke's head with its beak. "It's just a rocky start." Sasuke grabbed the bird perched on his head and held his arms out, the bird facing him. It cried at him almost as if it was telling him to handling it with better care.

"I don't understand hawk." I swear the hawk seemed offended and struggled harder in Sasuke's hands, who ended up dropping it. Hopefully, he flew up and did not fall on the ground.

"I'm surprised the summoning scroll for hawks was at Nekobaa's though." He glared at me and I averted my eyes, a nervous smile on my lips. "I told you already, Mom has the scroll for wolves, I'll talk to her once we're in Konoha!"

"Hn."

"Don't 'hn' me!"

"Think of a plan."

"I have a plan, I just haven't told you yet." It was not totally a lie. I was sure if I were to manage to corner the Raikage into owing me a favor, I would be able to give him the letter.

The question was: how could I get the Raikage to owe me a favor?

Sasuke and I basically walked aimlessly for two other days, being careful not to be spotted by Kumo. I was just writing my story, Sasuke scribbling things about a 'brilliant idea he had for fuinjutsu', next to a fire as the sky was shining with stars when I felt a powerful chakra coming our way. I put down my notebook and pencil. Sasuke saw me delicately reaching for my club and he put what he was doing away.

My club firmly in my hands, I moved my left foot an inch back and slightly bent my knees, ready to strike. The chakra was getting closer and closer, Sasuke now had his sword in his hands. Even if no lightning was dancing around the blade, I felt it could be any seconds now.

"Yo, Ayo, Killer B, it's time. It's time Killer B. Straight out the trapped dungeons of rap." I sweat dropped but stayed in a defensive position. I was mixed between despair and apprehension as a hand came out from behind a rock, the index and pinky stretched out as the others were in a fist. "What more could you ask for? The failed fan? You complain about being turned down. Fool! Ya Fool!" Now, as the rap went on and Sasuke shot me a stunned look, Killer B came out entirely. "I'm rappin' to the mission, And I'm gonna move your commission." I sighed, and put my club back on the ground. "Crazy, mighty, full, like a fox, Boy, I tell you, I thought you were a clocks. Fool! Ya Fool!" He stopped himself and pulled a notebook from his pocket to scribble something inside.

"You know that guy?" Sasuke whispered to me, his eyes not leaving the nutcase in front of us.

"He's Killer B, the Raikage's younger brother."

"Bijuu Tamer, all the way from the Mist, traveling to talk to us jinchurikis!"

"And he's the Hachibi jinchuriki as well." I took a step forward as he walked to us. He stopped in front of me and I knew his eyes were scanning me, even if his sunglasses were hiding them.

"You're not the same at all since the Chuunin Exams Uzumaki. Being a Yurei changed your chakra from what Hachibi told me." I nodded hesitantly and stared at the fist in front of me in utter silence. "A fist bump will tell me if you're honest or not."

"Oh...okay then." Clumsily because I wasn't sure of whether or not it was a trap, I bumped my fist with his.

I...was kind of thrown to the back of my own mind whereas a scene of me accompanying old Kakashi to a Kage Summit in Suna was on display. It was not that interesting, just talks about the Shinobi Union and how the Fourth Raikage was going to retire soon. I was there, next to old Naruto and he was attracting all the attention. Then I was showed with old Naruto and old Killer B who were talking after the meeting about being the last jinchurikis alive.

"It certainly is interesting to see." I jumped at the Hachibi's voice. Gyūki was now in front of me, behind Killer B. "I had heard rumors about Yureis and never really believed it but...you do feel different than a regular shinobi." A drop of sweat rolled down B's face.

"Creepy ghost."

"It's not a ghost, it's a..." I cleared my throat and shot a look above my shoulder. The Shinigami actually looked back at me. Could he, it, even talk? "It's a Deity. I think. I'm pretty sure. Unless it's a demon. No, nope it's a Deity. God of Death."

"You didn't plan to be sent back, did you?" Gyūki asked me while sweat dropping.

"No idea until I was in front of a dead man!"

"Must be troubling to see dead people again," B noted more seriously. I took a deep breath.

"Yeah...you have to get used to it. I mean...all Yureis have mental breakdown apparently, I'm not any different. If anything, I'm more ignorant than any other Yureis before me." I crossed my hands in my back. "Anyway, I can talk to you, so that's good!"

"Yes, you have been looking for jinchurikis, why?" Gyūki asked me.

"To warn you. This organization, the Akatsuki, you can recognize them by the slashed forehead protector and the black cloak with red clouds on it. Anyway, in just a few months now they will start looking for the bijuus. Actually, they tried to get Chōmei and Fū not long ago. They don't care about the jinchurikis because they want to resurrect the Juubi. I...to be fair I'm not sure how they could do it but they can. They will, eventually." I was panting because of how fast I had been talking. "They...are sealed in order."

"So, following your story, Yugito would only have a few months left." I nodded grimly.

"It's...shitty times ahead of us."

"Why are you even telling us this? I get it's bad for jinchurikis to be hunted down, but why go through all the troubles to tell us when we're not allied?" I smiled softly.

"I'm trying to get a better outcome than the first one." I whispered loudly enough for them to hear. "You saw it too, the Shinobi Union? It was created because of the Akatsuki. If it is created earlier, if there is an alliance earlier then maybe there would be less deaths. Less...jinchurikis sacrificed."

I didn't want Haku to die.

I didn't want Utakata to die.

I didn't want Fū to die.

I didn't want Gaara to die.

I didn't want Naruto to die, because now, I couldn't even tell if he wouldn't be caught this time around.

"I've met and befriended five jinchurikis, two of them are related to me. I don't want them to die." I raised my eyes to B. "I know I'm coming out of nowhere, but I can't let this discussion between us be enough. I'd like your silence concerning my condition, but I have to give the letter to your brother and see Yugito. I need to at least give him, if he doesn't want to read it that's fine, the Tsuchikage torn it apart before my eyes after all but..."

"My brother thinks of the village first Uzumaki," he interrupted me curtly. "After the Chuunin Exams, he did try to abduct you, to make you a kunoichi in Kumo. It was obvious that Yagura wasn't treating your potential right." I smirked wryly.

"Kekkai genkai users are loved in Kumo after all," I muttered quietly.

"A won't let you inside the village just because B asks him to anyway." I looked up at Gyūki. "B is not even supposed to be outside of the village but he sneaked out to hear you out after Yugito told him you were different and here for them." I blinked several times in surprise.

"Oh." I set my eyes on the rapper. "Thanks B-san." He was curious too after all. In the blink of an eye, I was back in the cool night only illuminated by the fire.

"You're okay?" Sasuke asked me with well hidden worry in his onyx eyes.

"Yeah. B-san...if the Raikage were to owe us something, would he listen?" He raised an eyebrow.

"It's hard to achieve this, Fool, Ya Fool!"

"Well, there must be some..." Sasuke raised his brows too and I stopped talking, staring at him. My mouth was still opened. He shot a look behind him, but there was just a rock.

"Nee...-san?"

"How could I not think about it earlier!? B-san, would you be kind enough to meet with us here at the same hour in a week precisely?"

"I...guess..." he agreed slowly.

"Great, then it's settled! Tomorrow, we're getting a boat Sasuke!" His eyes were almost bulging.

"What do you mean 'we're getting a boat'!?" I just grinned at him.

It was something old Sasuke had done before. However, it was a place I knew because of Yagura and his contacts in the underworld. How many times did he threaten me to put me in that place if I was disappointing? I had been there twice, and swore I would never go back.

Old Sasuke told me the Raikage never knew it was a thing so close to his village.

Well, time to head back to the Coliseum.

"Basically, it's an isolated island present on no maps. Only underworld people go there to be entertained and bet on the people they have bought when they fight in the Coliseum."

"Let me guess, you know about it because you almost ended up there?" I nodded and he looked at the calm waves of the sea. "Only kekkei genkai users then."

"Well yes and no, we're just more lucrative. Turn at three o'clock." The boat slowly moved toward the right. I shivered at the sight of the island. From afar it looked like an amusement park but it was really just a lot of lights and bling bling covering the illegal stuff happening behind close door.

Apart from the Coliseum, there was prostitution, human traffic, even slavery, drug traffic, weapon traffic...it was just a place where there was absolutely no law.

Once we were out of the boat, we blended in the mass. I had my old Bloody Mist mask of indifference on my face whereas Sasuke was putting up his best Uchiha look, even if he was clearly uncomfortable in this environment. As any intel collecting requires, we went to a place we would hear a lot.

A bar. But not just any type of bar, the kind where if I stopped keeping an eye on Sasuke for a second his look would get him swooped away by a girl, or a boy. We sat on stools at the bar, my club sealed in a tag

"How do you deal with it?" Sasuke muttered as I ordered drinks without alcohol.

"Frankly, three quarter of the time I don't." Akihito-sama was very creepy to me with how he would look at me.

We listened quietly to the talks around us. Money talks, some about sex, other about money once again, and sex, and drugs, basically none of them were very interesting. I perked up when I heard the name 'En Oyashiro'. Hum...he was the responsible of the Coliseum, I must have met him at least once years ago. Dropping some bills on the counter, I finished my drink and left the bar, Sasuke behind me.

"Tonight, there should be fights." I turned in a dark alley, Sasuke still behind me. "We'll infiltrate En Oyashiro's office."

"Proofs?"

"That, and I want to know the number of participants." Who knew, maybe I could kill two birds with one stone. Get inside of Kumo but also give Kiri a good name, especially if there were a lot of participants with kekkei genkai. Once known as the Bloody Mist with its genocide, Kiri would now be a defender of people with kekkei genkai.

We did. With concealing seals and all of the knowledge I could use without Dai and Mangetsu with me, we infiltrated his office. We could hear cheering from arena, mixed with the sound of fighting.

"It seems like the biggest event will be in a week and a half, on April 15th." I pursed my lips at Sasuke's voice. It would give us time to contact Kiri and get B-san to help us with getting his brother on the island. "There are approximately fifty-four participants with kekkei genkai and thirty-seven regular people with average fighting skills."

"Most likely, they will die a quick death," I replied, writing a copy seal on a scroll. I opened it in front of the documents and a beam of blue chakra left the seal to cover the documents. Quickly, the ink took the shape of the words. Once this was done and tucked in my pouch, we left.

We left the island with no troubles. Even if it was the middle of the night, the way to the mainland was not a long one. It should have been calm.

It was, until a typhoon came out of nowhere. It was very violent and was attracting the water to it.

"Jump!" Sasuke yelled in the now pouring rain. I did, like him, and the poor small wooden boat flew right in the typhoon. I raised my arm to protect my face, the sea agitated under my feet.

Huh…

Sasuke and I exchanged a look, my slightly different brown eyes meeting the red of the Sharingan.

It was not natural.

We ran on opposite sides. I stopped and summoned Oki and Umi. I was about to explain the situation to them but the sound of the typhoon coming my direction stopped.

"Find the culprit! One of you help Sasuke!" I went through hand seals quickly. "Suiton: Great Waterfall Technique!" The violent water met the typhoon, not beating it. Well, I would have preferred to test it before...I stretched out my left hand and focused to make the right storage seal in thin air. I released it and a violent wind strengthened my water jutsu, effectively dispersing the typhoon.

I watched the drops of water falling and squinted my eyes at the silhouette in front of me.

"Hey! Why are you attacking us!?" They didn't respond and I barely had the time to duck a blade thrown at me. I was barely up there was an explosion under my water and I lost my balance.

Okay...they knew what they were doing and I could only hope Sasuke was okay with the other one. There had to be another one otherwise he would already be here.

Still under water, I made a water dragon and launched it at them.

"Akane..." oji-chan started quietly. I grunted and it made him shut up.

I made another dragon and put Nuibari in it, the thread in my hand as I glued myself to the head of the dragon. I inhaled deeply once out, soaked to the bone and my hair now stuck to my forehead. I jumped away from the dragon that I directed toward my opponent. They dispersed it with a small typhoon but Nuibari went through.

Using my thread, I tried to tie them up but they escaped before. Yeah, I was good fighting on water but with Nuibari it was better if I were on solid ground.

"Kiri dog," I finally heard them, him, say. But...he sounded...young. Maybe Sasuke's age or barely older.

"You better off calling me a bitch, I happen to behave that way with people who attack me out of nowhere." Nuibari's handle was back in my hand. "Who are you?"

"I don't have anything to say to murderers like you." He charged, two typhoons coming at me. I dodged them and threw marked kunai at him. The three of them were lost in the typhoons he moved in front of him and I used this opportunity to stopped water walking. I turned to that I was facing the surface of the sea and made a thin layer of ice under my feet. I applied an explosive seal on it to propelled me under him.

I grabbed his ankles and sank him in the water. I wrapped a leg around his legs, my other leg around his waist and his arms, my right arm on his neck and I put my left hand on his chest.

Bubbles of air went to the surface when he gritted his teeth as he felt my Chakra Suppressing Seal on him. Then, I put my Immobility Seal on the side of his neck with my right hand. I swam back to the surface and let him float on his back as I got up.

"I hate repeating myself."

"I'm not...answering to someone like you...Bijuu Tamer." I sighed.

"Nowaki!" I turned around and froze at the red eyes looking at me. I moved away but all the hairs on my body stood up as I heard a roar behind me. I turned around to see a red water dragon diving toward me. Everything...was red.

"Snap out of it!" I blinked as the red faded away. My legs gave way under my weight and if it wasn't for Sasuke, I would have drown. He slipped an arm around my waist, my arm on his shoulders and his hand firmly holding mine to keep me steady. "She has a doujutsu I've never heard of. She put you in a genjutsu."

My mind was foggy. I was hearing him and the little girl talking to each other, but I only cared about Sasuke dropping me on Garuda, a hawk he managed to befriend.

"Damn, you can't even..." he grunted when Garuda took off, me almost falling from the bird. Sasuke went behind me, pushed me toward the front of Garuda and stayed behind me, his hands firmly on my shoulders to keep me from moving.

Genjutsu…

Genjutsu from a doujutsu were...too much…

I really sucked at genjutsu. I had an eye against it, but I wasn't expecting her to pull off something like that so she took me by surprise.

Damn I felt stupid.

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PS: The rap is not from me, I found a website which writes raps for you if you enter some words so...that's what I did.