Chapter 3
The morning of the mission, four Genin and a Chuunin set and ready, I followed them as they set off into the woods. The Chuunin, named Nara Shikamaru, was appointed leader. I was a little older than these Genin were at the moment, but I remembered having seen their faces once or twice when I was at the Academy. Having been trained as an assassin, I had the superior ability to mask myself from the enemy. There was no way they would know I was following them until I wanted them to. And when I did, I intended to take that strange little package as well.
I kept my distance while they received the package from the Hidden Sand Nin and it was on the way back, under the cover of night while they were resting, that I decided to make my move. I had to be careful of the Hyuuga though. I heard that they had an incredible almost 360 degrees on vision. So even with his eyes closed he could be watching me. Hopefully he hadn't been able to see me following them. Actually, there was no way he could have seen me. I was far better than these kids. I put on my Akatsuki mask to conceal my identity.
While they apparently slept, I performed Henge no Jutsu, turning into the Chuunin, Shikamaru. Once I retrieved the package, I performed Kage Bunshin and set off back to where I was hiding from a distance. But suddenly I sensed a kunai coming towards me from behind me. I ducked to the right and it hit the tree in front of me. Standing in the tree behind me was Uchiha Sasuke.
"Reveal yourself." He said, readying another kunai. I could see the reflection of his Sharingan eyes in the moonlight.
I grinned. So he was able to see past my perfect Henge no Jutsu. He was truly a prodigy, just like his brother. I turned into my normal form. But there was no way for him to know it was a Bunshin.
Another Bunshin of mine threw 3 shuriken from behind him but Sasuke jumped and the shuriken hit the Bunshin in front. As Sasuke landed he hit the other Bunshin with a kunai and they both disappeared in smoke.
"Show yourself!" Sasuke shouted.
But I didn't feel like revealing myself right now. I felt like having a little fun, and at the same time might be able to see some of Sasuke's techniques.
"I'm over here." Another Bunshin said on the tree Sasuke was standing on. He narrowed his eyes. He hadn't been able to sense her presence.
"Who are you." Sasuke said, readying another kunai.
"My name is not your concern. I'm an avenger."
Sasuke's eyes widened. I hit a button. I wasn't really an avenger. I was an assassin. But I wanted to play with him some more. My Bunshin had something behind her.
Sasuke sniffed the air. "What's that smell?"
"Oh you mean this?" My Bunshin held out a kunai with an exploding tag attached to it. It had almost reached the end.
"Shimatta." Sasuke cursed and jumped at about the same time the tag exploded. He landed on his feet on the forest floor where six more of my Bunshins surrounded him.
"So what do you want the package for?" Sasuke said, looking at each Bunshin in turn.
"It just sounded interesting. So I decided to take it." They all said at once.
"So you've been following us then. Who do you want to kill. Since you're an avenger."
"That's none of your business." All Bunshins then simultaneously threw shurikens at Sasuke, but he jumped, ducked, spun, blocked and dodged them all.
As my Bunshins dispersed themselves, Sasuke jumped, took out I don't know how many kunai and flung them in different directions, then used other kunais to hit the ones still flying in the air so that they changed direction and somehow managed to hit all my Bunshins. It looked like some shuriken trick. I had seen Itachi do that.
"Hn. Your pretty good." I said.
Sasuke had appeared in front of me, the real me, with a kunai at my throat.
"If you don't want to get seriously hurt, give back the package!" I heard another voice said. It sounded loud and annoying. It was Uzumaki Naruto's voice.
I performed the Ram hand seal, which activated a personal technique I created. It was a genjutsu technique that allowed the user to move around invisible to the target. It acted a bit like Kirigakure no Jutsu Hidden Mist technique.
Sasuke and Naruto seemed blind to me and I quickly hid myself before Sasuke activated his Sharingan.
But then I heard a voice behind me.
"Look who I found." It sounded like the Hyuuga.
He got into a stance that I recognized and realized he was going to use his 64 Points of Divination on me.
I started walking backwards, keeping eye contact with him.
I tucked the package into the holder around my waist. As he came toward me, from watching his movements, I predicted what he was going to do and blocked his attacks. He got me in the shoulder once and, though he missed my tenketsu point, the pain that shot through my arm was almost unbearable. He tried to get me in the arm on the 46th strike but I used my hand to change the direction his arm was traveling in and as he spun, I used this chance to back flip into the trees behind me.
"Hn. Your pretty fast." Neji said, looking up at me. Suddenly a flash of orange caught my attention. Naruto came hurtling from above and I sidestepped while he landed in front of me. Without warning, someone's arms held my arms back while Naruto felt about my waist.
"Hurry up!" the person, Sasuke, said as I struggled against his grip.
"I can't find it! Which pocket?!" Naruto said.
"Let go-!" I shouted, kneeing Naruto in the face. He fell back, his nose dripping blood, and then I twisted out of Sasuke's grasp. But Sasuke was fast and pushed me back onto the trunk of the tree while Naruto came out of nowhere and eventually found the package.
"Ha! I got it!" Naruto said holding it up. But his smile faded as it and I disappeared in a puff of smoke. I had switched with a Bunshin.
"Kusou!!"
Though they didn't know it at the time, I was locked in battle with Sakura nearby. She was pretty weak though, in my opinion, and didn't seem to have any special techniques. She ran at me with a kunai but I spun around and threw a kick at her gut. She fell backwards to the floor. I decided to use my own close-range technique called Chakura Daibakuha Chakra Explosion. It concentrated a large amount of chakra into a small area and is released in one go, creating an explosion. If in close contact with someone it was deadly.
I went over her and laid my hand on her chest, concentrating my chakra. When it exploded, the ground under her shattered. It was only when the smoke cleared that I realized she had switched.
"Kawarimi." I said, looking at the log under my hand, "Hm."
"You can't win…that easily." I heard Sakura say behind me. She was out of breath.
"Sakura!!" Naruto shouted as he, Sasuke and Shikamaru approached.
"You guys put up a good fight but…its gonna end now." I said, "And I'm disappointed Sasuke. I expected more."
Sasuke glared at me.
Then suddenly my body went rigid.
"You're right. This is gonna end now." Shikamaru said walking toward me. I involuntarily started walking toward him too.
"Kage Mane huh. Aren't you guys full of surprises?" I said sarcastically.
Itachi taught me many things, and one of them was how to increase your strength. It was a forbidden technique that allowed you to have as monstrous strength as the great Tsunade-sama, for a while. However, it had a side effect. Within ten minutes I would be severely weakened, so I had to end this quickly.
I already had built up my strength in training so I used that to fight against the Kage Mane technique to perform the hand seals. Once it was done I said, 'Chikara Idai na no Jutsu.'
At once my strength was multiplied a hundred-fold and I broke out of Shikamaru's Kage Mane no Jutsu and ran at him, delivering a swift right hook to his jaw. I simultaneously swung my leg around behind me, kicking Sasuke back. Naruto came at me with Rasengan but I ran at him with a flying kick and deflected Rasengan with brute force alone. I threw four kunai at the weakened Sakura, which left her arms and legs bleeding.
Convinced Sasuke had nothing better to offer, I turned and was about to run when I heard Sasuke's voice, "Oi! I'm not done yet!"
I turned around to the sound of what sounded like a thousand birds chirping. A buzz of bright chakra surrounded Sasuke's left arm that seemed a lot like lightning. I had seen that move before. It was Kakashi's only original move. The Chidori.
I was caught off guard in my surprise as Sasuke ran at me and it was only as he came close did I realize and dodge it, his Chidori passing dangerously close to my side. But he rebounded quickly, quicker than I thought, and twisted my arm behind my back. I heard a painful crack from my right wrist and he Sasuke drove his buzzing left hand into my shoulder. The Chidori went right through my body so when I looked down I could see the electric flash protruding through my left shoulder. There was no pain at first. My wrist was numb. Then I felt a dull throb where Sasuke's hand was still in my shoulder. It was when he dragged his hand out that the pain spread rapidly all around my body and I had to drop to my knees in agony, blood seeping into my clothes from the wound. Sasuke hadn't been fighting to his full potential. I realized now he had been saving his chakra for that attack. Now as Sasuke's Chidori receded, I saw this as my chance to make a break for it. He wouldn't expect that. But the pain in my shoulder was intense and would worsen if I moved. Plus I the side effect of my strength multiplying technique was starting and I was losing chakra fast. I took the first option that came to my head and bit my thumb, performing the hand seals of the boar, dog, bird, monkey and ram, and then placed my palm of the floor.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
As my summoned beast, the legendary Dragon, appeared, it took off as I saw Neji arrive. This gave Sasuke, Neji and the others almost no time to react. "We'll fight again Uchiha!!" I shouted back, though I'm not sure if he heard it with the wind whipping past me with the force of my dragon's powerful wings.
A/N- Yes this is a long chapter. Hope this makes you happy.And Sasuke is in it! The Sasuke factor is lacking alot in episodes recently so i decided to put him in! Dont forget to review!