Where am I?
"I am sorry, leader" Itachi said as he slid open the door to face one of the very few men – perhaps the only man – someone like Itachi Uchiha would ever apologise to.
"What happened?" A dark voice came from the shadows; all that you could see was an outline of large, powerfully built man. The thing that scared…no, not so much scared; it was more… creepy sensation, the cold sweat on your back, the prickling on the back of your legs, the images which flood your bedroom as soon as you shut your eyes. His eyes were the worst. They were green. As green as an emerald, snakelike, like a predator, hostile and very easily angered.
"Sir. He tried to kill me," Itachi said, avoiding that gaze above all else.
"Oh did he?" Itachi could hint a slight tinge of humour in the leader's voice. "So you bring him to me… let me guess. Unconscious and most probably mentally damaged." Itachi couldn't meet his eye; another smirk. "Well, Itachi, predictable as always."
Itachi looked down, shifting under his leader's abuse. No one insulted Itachi Uchiha – at least not more than once.. "With all respect, I do not see what use he will be to us sir." Itachi said.
The leader looked down at Nakashima. "I forget, Itachi, what part of this means I have to tell you anything." Again, Itachi shifted uncomfortably. The leader sneered slightly. "He is, if I am correct, a powerful man that we would not want against us."
Itachi smirked. "Sir, you know that cannot be true. He has not even gone through his full ninja training. He is twenty-one and yet to kill a foe!"
The leader bent over and looked more closely at Nakashima's body. "Perhaps you should have examined his body closer. Maybe you would have realised this is a shadow clone." The leader stood back and looked at Itachi.
His mouth was still wide open when Kisame walked in. He looked at Itachi. "I have never seen you surprised," he grinned. He turned to the leader. "Sir! He has already left the city. Guards told me that a man left through the Eastern Gate about fifteen minutes go."
The leader looked down at the clone, slowly walking up to it. He placed his foot on its neck, and pushed down until it cracked. There was a puff of smoke and nothing was left.
"He must have attacked me as a diversion!" Itachi exclaimed, still frustrated he had been tricked by such a simple spell. Then something occurred to him – it wasn't the simplicity of the trick… far from it. He scanned his memory back… there had even been a heart rate, independent thought…
This was more than an average shadow clone.
"We must go now!" said the leader. "He may have alerted the authorities to our whereabouts."
"Oh!" wailed Kisame "I wanted a good, straight out fight. Especially against these Konoha scum-bags!"
"Kisame!" The leader said quietly, but his tone was absolute. "Now is not the time. We must get going right now!"
"Fine," said Kisame rather glumly with an over accentuated roll of the eyes.
How did he use such an amazing shadow clone technique? Itachi thought. Even I could not use such an advanced technique! The leader is indeed correct about this man… he is very interesting. I will make it my own task to see him dead!