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Some Fireworks and a Battle
"Hurry up Sasuke, you're such a slow-poke!" Sora teased with a smile, taking a long stride across a puddle of sake. He smirked and stepped through the sake as if it were no bother to him, "... You're the one who insisted we stayed an hour to catch a ... dumb fish.."
"It was not dumb!"
"... was too... I'm not even going to start arguing... okay.. you win.."
"That's what I thought you'd say," She stated triumphantly, stretching her arms into the air and letting out a yawn.
The whole day was uneventful, and now they were headed to meet up with the other Jounin to see what they had found; which was probably nothing. The sun was melting behind the horizon and setting the stage for a beautiful show of fireworks.
"Well, hurry up, we're almost there," Sora gestured ahead, where some of the Jounin were already joined together and laughing, "ah, we beat Kakashi, wonderful," she smiled and waved hello to the others.
Sasuke's body position shifted, and Sora could tell he was tense for some reason, so she asked, "What's wrong Sasuke?"
His mouth formed a thin frown, but he shook his head, ".. nothing.."
Sora shrugged and disregarded it, "Hey everyone, did you guys see anything today?"
"Nope."
"Nothing."
"And I think we're all almost here yet," one of the Jounin flipped through a list and then stated, "we're missing Kakashi-san and Katsuya-san..."
"Keh, they'll show up soon," She waved her hand, dismissing the matter already.
As if on cue, Kakashi's eerily calm voice popped out from behind her, "Boo."
"And here he is, the great Kakashi himself.." Sora introduced with little enthusiasm, but an irrepressible smile on her face.
Kakashi gave her his usual lopsided grin, and then glanced over the group of Jounin, muttering softly under his breath, until a frown appeared on his face, "... Where's Katsuya-kun..?"
"We don't know," replied one of the Jounin, a look of confusion already on her face, "Katsuya is always on time.."
"Don't worry!" Sora tried to assure, "I'm sure he just got caught up with someone, or some game, or--"
"But Katsuya is my boy friend!" she cried out, tears already forming around the edges of her unusually large brown eyes, "and the last time I saw him, he was headed for his duty on watching the--"
The girl stopped in her sentence as Tsunade's voice rang over the cheering occurring around your, "Welcome everyone! I'm sure you've all had a wonderful day today..."
All of the Jounin stopped listening to her and began to discuss amongst themselves what could be going wrong.
... This can't be happening..
"Don't worry, nothing happened, he's probably just lost track of time.."
"But Katsuya, never loses track of time!"
"...Everyone calm down.."
While the mass chaos occurred amongst the Jounin, and the loud cheers drowning out any thoughts Sora could have had on the matter, mixed with Tsunade's powerful speech, something rustled behind her.
What made her turn and try to see what it was, she didn't know, but everything seemed to move in slow motion.
"... And now we'll count down for the fireworks! Five!"
You took one step...
"Four! Three!"
Ever closer, a warning tingling sensation flew up her body.
"... Two!.."
As if someone hit pause on the screen, Sora's eyes were stuck in wide realization, as she struggled to shout out a warning, just as Tsunade announced the final count.. "WAIT!"
"One!"
BOOM
The fireworks went off across the sky, illuminating the darkness that had fallen; yet Sora's body still wasn't quite functioning.
Was it a dream?
No... In the flesh.. In front of her.. were two members of the Akatsuki... two that she never got the chance to kill...
It was Itachi and Kisame..
Kisame waited impatiently, eyeing the crowd in front of him; there was a group of Jounin beginning to gather in front of his very eyes, causing a smirk to grow across his lips. ... They're making this way too damn easy.. that nameless shinobi better be something to write home about otherwise the others are going to blame us for dragging them out to a wild goose-chase..
"...Itachi.. where is the nameless shinobi.." Kisame grunted lowly, while eyeing what he deemed a 'hot' girl (unbeknownst to him, it was Sora, a.k.a the nameless shinobi).
Itachi didn't answer, but it wasn't the normal kind of ignoring that Kisame was used to; no, this was different. He glanced quickly to the side, to follow what Itachi was staring intently at, but alas, Itachi averted his eyes and glared straight into his own eyes, "... here.."
Kisame practically had to restrain himself from shivering, because that was the coldest look he had ever received from Itachi. It was an odd feeling, waiting to attack a prey that he had never seen, let alone fought before.
The new Hokage started some theatrical speech about how great it was that they could all come together in some time of strain, blah, blah, blah, BLAH. Kisame's eyes began to wander to the young woman again; she really did look great in that yellow yukata, and if he weren't some mass murderer part of a secret evil organization, he would have gone up and talked to her.
... Yeah... maybe I could just steal her for a while... they're all going to die anyway... it won't make a difference...
But alas, the sound of Tsunade's voice interrupted his thoughts, those idiots were counting down to their death. Kisame's fingers lightly touched the hilt of his sword, but still remained completely still, not making one more move.. waiting... waiting for the signal that Itachi would give off...
BOOM
Kisame leapt out from behind the bush, ready to ambush the young woman in front of him, but to his surprise, she ducked and round kicked him from underneath, taking him by surprise. A wave of shock ran through Kisame's body, and for the second time that day, he felt an ice cold shiver run up his spine; the look in her eyes...
...It was the look of a killer...
...It can't be them... what would they be doing here..?!...
Sora didn't have much time to evaluate the situation, for right after the first firework went off, Kisame leapt out of the brush and started to attack her, and out of mere instinct, she ducked and kicked.
Kisame backed up from Sora, and eyed her with a smirk, "...So... a Jounin that can actually fight..." he remarked snidely, while cracking his knuckles.
By this time, Sora had finally realized the situation she was in, and was in control once again, "Akatsuki, Kisame I presume?"
"Honored you know my name, maybe I can take you out sometime," a twisted smirk wound around his face, causing her to roll her eyes.
"In your dreams, idiot," Sora took one step backwards, carefully measuring how much space she had between yourself and her opponent, but before either one of them could move, there was a loud shriek, and a flame erupted between Sora and Kisame.
"BASTARD!" She heard someone yell, and then a body flew into the fire in front of her; whose body it was, was still a mystery to her.
"Sora! We're being ambushed!" one of the Jounin yelled to Sora from the side; at the risk of being sarcastic she shouted back in response, "Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to--"
Her sentence was interrupted by a throwing star narrowly missing her nose, then circling back to wedge itself into the ground beside her. Sora's eyes flared as she turned to see the owner of the star, and not to her surprise, it was Kisame, who was giving her a cocky expression.
"Funny how easy it is to throw those simple weapons..." he stated while stepping forward, preparing to attack.
"Oh yeah, I'm sure you'd know," Sora replied while rolling her eyes (A.N-I suppose she does that a lot, right?), as she pulled out a small kunai knife hidden beneath her sash, "shall we?"
"Oh yes," he responded, as Sora twirled her body around, bringing momentum forward with the kunai knife as she threw it with dead accuracy at his chest.
But for some reason, it never made contact; no, it was deflected by someone far more dangerous than Kisame, and yep, you guessed it; no one other than Itachi.
Itachi muttered something to Kisame, without removing his eyes from Sora, to which Kisame responded with a reproachful phrase, but reluctantly stepped aside, as Itachi took his place.
Sora made no sound, staring deathly silent at the boy she once knew; all the chaos beside her had no meaning to it, but then, all at once, came an unreasonable growth of fury in her heart.
"Itachi," Sora regarded him coldly, bringing her hands together, preparing to summon forth a jutsu.
He didn't respond, but as if a silent agreement had been reached, all at once, the both of them summoned a jutsu,
"Wind blade!"
"Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu," Itachi shouted with equal intensity; and although his face was full of concentration, he looked slightly thrown off by Sora's unorthodox jutsu.
In all truth, the wind blade wasn't a real jutsu, it was Sora's own unique ability to be able to bring forth a blade as swift as the wind, with the blazing power of the sun, and sometimes the healing ability of the moon.
Sora wielded her blade carelessly in her right hand, holding it poised right above her head, as Itachi's large fire ball launched itself at her, and in one swift movement, she sliced it in two and began charging the blade at Itachi.
Itachi instantly countered with a blade he had picked up unceremoniously from the ground, but the strength of Sora's blade was not to be reckoned with, "Give it up Itachi!"
Her blade cracked Itachi's in half, and instantly he jumped back, his eyes narrowing, and instantly, Sora saw the flaw in her plan: the Sharingan.
He was already trying to decipher Sora's ability to summon forth the blade, but she tried to move before he would be able to complete using his Sharingan. Sora instantly attacked him with an onslaught of swift cuts from the blade, slicing various parts of his robes off, and unceremoniously breaking his skin.
Then, suddenly, as if a veil of darkness had been placed over the city, everything faded into darkness.
"Wh-what the hell?" Sora muttered quietly, closing her eyes and trying to gain control of her situation.
... You lied to me...
"I don't know what you're talking about," she stated firmly, her eyes still calmly closed.
... betrayed me...
Sora had been in this situation before; Itachi was trying to enter her mind, so she calmly replied, "I did nothing to you."
... liar...
Sora started to scrounge her memory, trying to remember how to get out of a sharingan hold... she didn't know much about the sharingan, for it always held some kind of dark mystery to it.
She began to concentrate on where energy, any energy, was coming from; and as she expected, it was radiating from all around her. Sora was still in her own mind, and if she remained like this, it was sure that Itachi would kill her; so she did what she saw was the only way out.
Sora started to think about him, about the Itachi she used to know...
And like a sad movie, a mourning tune began to play in her mind, as memories with Itachi that she had hidden safely before, unraveled in her mind…
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