So, Itachi shows up in this chapter! Hope I did an okay job keepin him in-character. Please review!

Gaara nods and heads off to your camp, while you head over to the lake just a mile away. Mmm… a bath…I haven't had one of those in a while…heh. I'm all stinky and nasty, too. You look at yourself and notice that there is a lot of grime on you. You start to strip off your clothes, dropping your guard, not noticing that someone was watching you…

3rd Person POV

The people who were watching Taijuu were in a few trees about twenty feet away. They wore long black cloaks with red clouds on them. There were two of them, and they both wore straw hats with bells on them. One had crimson eyes, while the other one was blue, and resembled a shark, with an overly-large sword on his back, which was wrapped in bandages.

"Hey, Itachi-san, is this the girl Leader-sama asked us to get? Doesn't look like much… Except for…" he chuckles, "that body of hers…"

His partner, Itachi, just stood there, watching the black-haired girl who was bathing in the water. "Hn." was all he said. "Kisame, shut up. We need to learn as much about her as possible, even if it means that we have to watch her as she bathes," he continued, as if it was obvious.

"Right, Itachi-san…" said Kisame, turning back toward the girl.

After five minutes of watching the girl known as Taijuu, a noise was heard coming from the lake. The girl was singing! As Itachi and Kisame watched her, she got up on the water and started to train.

The voice sounded as if the girl was actually indeed a man, but there were traces that the voice was actually a female.

Your POV

You got up on the water and started to sing:

"Kikarabita kotoba o tsunaide…

Soredemo boku no shinmru na…

Omoi o tsutaetai dake na no fukimkaru…

Kusunda ano ki no kaze wa.

Kinou no kaikyo ni ushisutete

Kimi no warou ima o kiru noda Yeah!

Soredemo kono dekigoto wa…

Kimi no kurushimeru darou.

Dakara koso sayonara nanda.

Kono mama nani mo nokorazu ni

Anata to wakachi au dake.

Yagate bokura wa…

Sare ga sabate da to kigasuite kanakimi mo…

Koko tsutatte namida o kana ni naru dake

Yureru pomai wa tsugai uzu ni natte

Take au no yo."

As you sing to your song, you train atop the water. Kicking, punching, whatever to improve your Taijutsu. Though it was your favorite type of fighting, it was not your strongest, but your father named you after it in hopes that you would become exactly like him.

You stop training above the water because you thought you heard a noise. You dropped into the water within a split second, causing water to surround you on all sides, but none touching you. "Whose there? I can sense you; you aren't doing a very good job hiding your chakra, either!" you say into the direction of the trees (the very trees that Itachi and Kisame are hiding in). You glare at it for a second before turning into your wolf form, without Genjutsu. Your Genjutsu and regular forms do not have much difference, but your regular form does not have red-white chakra flames, and is the size of a large female wolf. You swim to the shore and grab your clothes in your teeth.

"Heh, now you can't see me, loser!" you say in a husky voice you put your clothes on the ground. "What are you going to do about it now?"

Movements from the trees caused you to look at it, but while you did so, you were hit in the left shoulder with a kunai. "Itai! Did not see that coming!" you say to yourself. You look at your shoulder, and then back at your clothes. You then concentrate on your clothes, and youyou're your Genjutsu to make them disappear as soon as two figures in long black cloaks with red cloaks on them appear in front of you.

"Who you calling loser, wolf?" says the blue one.

"Why, you didn't know? That would be you," you retort, glaring at him with your gold eyes.

"Why you little bitch!" says the blue one lunging at you. He grabs the big sword on his back and starts to unwrap it.

You dodge him and say, "Genjutsu: Two Tails!" You jump onto the water and look at your reflection below. You were even more massive that your one tailed form, and you had two tails. On your paws were red-white flames to match your red eyes.

Your white fur glistened in the moonlight, and you looked at the moon to howl. It would send shivers up anyone's spine within a three-mile radius of you. You glare at the blue one, who looks like a shark and start to insult him: "Come over here, you tiny, bucked tooth fish! Or are you too chicken to fight me like the guard dog… man… fish… thing you are?"

"Oh, you are asking for a death wish! I don't care if Leader-sama is going to kill me; I'm going to kill this bitch!" he lunges for you and begins to bring his sword down on you hurt shoulder. It,

of course, doesn't hurt, but you feel a sudden weakness surging into your veins.

"What… the… fuck? What the hell are you thinking? Using a sword that doesn't cut; that's lower than pathetic!" you say, panting, lifting up one paw as to not hurt your shoulder more.

"It wasn't meant to cut; it shaves, and it drains the chakra out of the body." The shark man says smugly.

"Well listen to me, Mr. Fishy, if it drains so well, why am I still in this form?" you say in your husky voice. You turn towards his crimson eyed partner. "Listen, can you call off your guard dog… man… fish… thing? I'd rather talk with you like civilized, sane people."

He looked at you with no emotion before he said to his comrade, "Kisame, cease your disgraceful behavior."

Kisame immediately stops, and says "Why, Itachi-san? Leader-sama wouldn't like it if you talked with the one we -…" The look on Itachi's face made him stop mid-sentence.

"So, your name is Itachi? What does he mean by 'Leader-sama'?" you ask curiously, tilting your head, and walking over to them, your paws leaving flame prints in the ground. You easily top them by at least… six feet.

"Hn." was all the response you got.

"Okay, if you will not attack me, I will go back to human." You say, as you slowly turn human, all by a quick flash of silver light. You turn human in front of them, and to their complete shock, you are fully clothed. "What? I'm not that dumb as to not learn a jutsu or Genjutsu that would make me naked when I change!"

"Shut up girl, or we will make you. We don't want to take you with us yet, but at the rate you're going, you are going to be dead sooner than later." Kisame says, glaring at you.

"To hell that I'm going to shut up!" you say in his face. "What makes you think that you can boss me around? In fact, I think that I should be bossing you around!"

"Itachi-san," Kisame says to his black-haired partner, "why can't we take her with us now?"

"Rei-dono doesn't need her now." said the crimson-eyed boy. "And," he says, looking at you, "you won't remember this little meeting…" Itachi forcefully grabs your chin so that you could look at him straight in the eyes.

As you stare at those rich, crimson eyes, you feel lightheaded and everything starts to turn black. You pass out right there, landing not so gracefully on the ground.

"Itach-sani…" Kisame says. He is met with a look that was so icy that he didn't finish his question. "Nevermind," he mumbled. They take one last look at you before moving on. Itachi

stays to look at your sleeping form on the ground a little longer than normal, but he too leaves.

You woke to the sound of a voice screaming, "OH MY GOD! TAIJUU!"

Okay, hope you enjoyed. Please review!