I don't know… This chapter is the best one I've written, but it's quite harsh… you'll see what I mean in a minute. Just promise me you won't hate me… Please!
Thanks for reviewing; Yumi loves the darkness, Sauru Tsukiyomi Sanbi's Faeble, Tsubaki Takara, RuTakasheryuu and Riku-sia.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters. I only own Vaskar, Shane and the story. Riku belongs to Riku-sia, Shiro belongs to Sauru Tsukiyomi Sanbi's Faeble, Koto belongs to RuTakasheryuu, Hibiki belongs to Tsubaki Takara and Mitsukai belongs to Yumi loves the darkness. Other OC's belong to their respective owners.
"Itachi…" Shiro whispered, his name rolling off her tongue over so softly as she stared at him. Shane jumped out of the tree as quietly as he could and edged his way over to Vaskar.
"I don't like him… He's dangerous." Shane muttered, glancing at Vaskar from the corner of his eye.
"Yeah. I kind of feel it too." Vaskar agreed, nodding his head slightly. Koto edged her way over to Shiro and stood besides her with an arm in front of her.
Itachi walked closer to the group and stopped a few metre's away. He seemed totally relaxed in his posture and the red of his Sharingan seemed to glow with a soft hue. "Shiro… It's been awhile… How is Sasuke?"
That hit Shiro like a blow to the gut. She gasped sharply and knelt over, beginning to cry. She started stuttering out stuff like, 'He was devastated.' and 'I can't tell him the truth!' Both Koto and Vaskar knelt next to her, trying to consult her, but she was no longer listening. Shane's defiant eyes glared at Itachi's cool ones.
"Blades art: 1000 daggers!"
Shane's specialized chakra daggers appeared and flew straight for the Uchiha, but the Uchiha made no move to counter this. When the blades made contact, Itachi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"What!" Shane cried, he looked to his left to see Itachi standing right besides him. The Sharingan-user moved to punch the boy in stomach, but just before the punch could connect, Shane rose his arms up to defend himself. The punch sent Shane flying a few yards away, however...
"Damn… I think that punch could have killed me…" He grumbled, spitting some blood from his mouth. He shakily stood up, once again coming face-to-face with Itachi. 'He's fast!'
The Uchiha delivered a sweep kick which knocked the boy off his feet, then knocked him into the ground with a heel kick.
"Shane!" Vaskar shouted. He immediately got up from Shiro's side and ran straight for his friend.
"This will finish it…" Itachi stated, slowly raising a hand up. The hand formed a single hand sign.
"No!!!" Vaskar pumped his legs as hard as he could then leapt, also forming a hand sign in midair.
"Clone Jutsu: Super Explosion!!!"
The moment Shiro had recovered enough to think properly, she looked behind her to see Koto staring into the distance. She ran over to Koto and as soon as she reached the younger girl, a huge explosion ripped across the land. Threatening to throw both Koto and Shiro onto their backs.
"What was that!" Shiro shrieked, staring at the pillar of fire slowly rising into the sky. Koto turned to look at Shiro, angry tears threatening to fall from her emerald eyes.
"That bastard killed them!" Koto screamed, hands balling into fists.
"What!?" Shiro replied, not quite understanding what Koto said.
"That Uchiha bastard killed Shane and Vaskar!" Koto said, desperately trying to control her voice but failing miserably. Shiro turned to look at the scene to see Riku charging a Chidori in the bushes, Itachi standing in the middle of a huge crater a few feet away, Mitsukai and Hibiki still trading jutsu with the blue-sword guy… but no Vaskar or Shane.
'Stepping out of one mess and into another.' Shiro thought sadly, wiping her eyes.
Riku dashed from her hiding place, straight at the Uchiha. Itachi seemed to turn around in slow motion as Riku drew closer.
"Chidori!"
Once Riku was upon him, she smashed her Chidori into his chest. The impact caused a huge sphere of lightning to cover the whole entire area which obscured everything.
When both Itachi and Riku became visible once more, there was a huge gaping hole in the Uchiha's chest but he didn't fall. Instead he stood perfectly still, watching her. Riku frowned after a second, wondering why he was still alive. Suddenly a murder of crows appeared around them and 'Itachi' recovered the hole in his chest until there was no evidence he'd ever been hit.
Riku gasped. She placed a foot back and leaned back slightly but was stopped by something behind her. She turned to see yet another Itachi standing behind her.
"You fool…" He said, sending a quick jab to Riku's stomach. Riku grunted and staggered back into the first Itachi who kneed then punched her back into the second Itachi. "Shadow clone: Haze!" He muttered, as he punched Riku in her face, sending her towards the first, who gave her an uppercut, knocking her off her feet. He then quickly spun around and kicked her away. The second clone disappeared after it's last attack.
Mitsukai's eyes once again flashed in anger. He had resisted yet another one of her and her partners combination jutsu, and he was still going on strong as if he had just started fighting. This had been going on for quite awhile too. Not only had most of her chakra up and vanished on her, but most of her partners techniques were having absolutely no effect, given the type disadvantage to water. This guy, (Kisame did he say his name was?) was definitely no pushover. She'd learnt that the hard way.
"Hibiki." She said, jumping back from the offender with her two katana in hand. Her partner glanced at her for a second, once again turning his attention back onto the sword-wielding maniac.
"I know Mitsukai. Just focus, okay?" He murmured, also brandishing his two katana at the enemy. She sighed in frustration but muttered an incoherent 'okay'. She glanced to the side. A couple of yards away, she could see her opponent's partner, kicking some kid into the ground. Another kid (she'd seen him yesterday!) ran straight for the two and jumped. Suddenly, the partner of their enemy exploded and the two kids disappeared…
Mitsukai's eyes widened to huge proportions. These ninja were reckless, heartless monsters with dangerous jutsu. And here she was facing one, both her and her partner, tired and the guy hadn't even broken a sweat.
The guy dashed at them, sword in hand, and made to swipe at the two, but Hibiki blocked the attack with both his katana and held him off. "Now Mitsukai!" Hibiki called.
"Got it!" Mitsukai replied, flipping over Kisame's head and landed behind him. "See if you can survive this!"
"Earth Style: Black Rose jutsu!"
Large quantities of black petals flew from the girls hands and swirled around the water-user. Eventually all of the petals froze in place around the missing nin and impaled him. Kisame turned into a puddle of water.
"What!?!" Hibiki said, completely surprised.
"Water Style: Explosive Water Shockwave!"
"No!!!" Mitsukai screamed, looking wildly around her. A huge tidal wave entered her line of vision and headed straight for them. The ground shook violently as the tidal wave surged forward and crashed down onto the two ninja, swallowing everything in it's path.
"Grrr, I can't take it! He off'ed both Vaskar and Shane in a couple of moves, and now Riku's unconscious. How the hell can one guy be so strong?!" Koto screamed, hands pulling at her hair slightly.
Shiro stayed silent, watching something in the distance. "Koto, when I say to, jump as high as you can."
Koto looked at Shiro strangely, "What, why?"
"Now!" Koto jumped a couple of metres into the air and looked down, seeing a tidal wave just barely miss her feet and swallow the land. A water jutsu?! How could she not notice that earlier? And where was Shiro?
When Koto landed on the water, she immediately noticed Itachi a little way away silently watching her. She gritted her teeth together and clenched her fists. She took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, silently glaring at the Uchiha genius.
"It seems you harbour some ill-centred feelings of aggression towards me… And it leads me to wonder why…" He said, raising his head slightly.
"It's because you abandoned your best friend and your little brother. I can't forgive someone… who would leave their friends and family behind like that!" Koto gave Itachi a glare that almost made him lose his composure. Almost…
Itachi cocked his head to the side slightly, the cold stare ever-present on his face. "Are you sure it isn't something else?" Koto flinched in surprise.
"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!" Koto screamed. She rushed straight at him, suddenly being surrounded by a cloud of her chakra-enhanced ribbons.
She kicked him in the side of his head, then in the stomach, in the chin, in the chest and once again in the chin which launched him a foot into the air. She jumped after him before he could descend and kicked him in the face, the stomach and then the chin. This launched him to much greater heights. Koto back-flipped back down and landed on the water, executing a couple of hand signs.
"Fire Style: Flying Dragon Jutsu!"
The ribbons around her burst into flames and spiralled around her until she couldn't be seen anymore. The flaming spiral shot straight into the air towards Itachi, seemingly taking the form of an arrow of fire. She crashed straight into Itachi, taking the both of them higher into the air. She then shot straight down at unimaginable speeds and crashed into the water.
Koto suddenly opened her eyes and gasped. She saw Itachi still standing on the water, in the exact same place before her attack, without a scratch, watching her closely. Did that happen at all or was it…Genjutsu…?
"You Uchiha bastard! If I ever get my hands on you, I'll-"
"Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes!"
Koto's body suddenly froze. She could no longer move. She looked at her arms and legs and was shocked to see solid yokes imbedded in her limbs. How had they gotten there? She looked back at Itachi. Her eyes widened in alarm and fear once she saw he was making hand signs for a fire jutsu.
"Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!"
Itachi took a deep breath and a blew out fire, which converged in on itself to create a giant fireball. The fire ball flew towards Koto and all she could do was utter a scream as the fireball exploded on impact.
Hibiki slowly rose above the surface of the water and looked around. All he could see was water, water and more water in every general direction. Where was Mitsukai? And where was the loser in the weird cloak?
Suddenly, ripples started to appear in the water a few metres away, and Hibiki watched closely. Within seconds, a head of blue hair rose from the water, followed by beady little eyes, the red and black cloak and eventually, the large sword, Samehada appeared.
Hibiki climbed onto the water and faced Kisame with a level headed look. "I guess I spoke too soon…"
"Here I go." Kisame said, already forming hand signs. Hibiki braced himself.
"Water Style: Five Gluttonous Sharks!"
Kisame placed a hand onto the body of water. Blue wisps of chakra spouted from each fingertip and formed into five vicious water sharks. The sharks circled under Hibiki as if they were waiting for something. He watched them for a bit, but once he realised they had no intention of attacking he ignored them, instead turning his focus back onto Kisame.
Kisame charged straight for Hibiki with his sword at the ready, but Hibiki blocked, with one of his Katana. Whilst blocking, he tried a swipe with his other Katana but Kisame angled his sword so that he was blocking both of the swords. The shark-man forced Hibiki back a couple of paces.
Hibiki placed his Katana in their holsters on his back and formed a couple of hand signs.
"Fire Style: Dark Emulsifier!"
A black arrow was created in Hibiki's hand and he threw it straight at Kisame. The Akatsuki member drew his sword up to block the arrow but as soon as the arrow made contact with the sword, it exploded in a blaze of black fire. Hibiki smirked slightly, watching as the explosion gave of a slight smokescreen.
Suddenly, a water shark flew straight from the smokescreen towards Hibiki who only had enough time to block. The shark crashed into him and sent him flying into the lake. The five sharks from before, noticed this and converged on him. First, one battered him viciously by head-butting him. Then another joined the first and swam past at high speeds, hitting him with it's fin. Another joined the first two and helped the first in head butting him. Another appeared and swiped him a couple of times with his tail before knocking him away. The final shark bit him with it's powerful jaws.
All sharks swam a sizeable distance way from him, creating a circle around him. The sharks converged on him in unison and crashed into him. Kisame laughed loudly as he saw a column of water lift into the air before settling.
"Your weak!" He exclaimed.
Shiro and Itachi both faced each other with similar expressions, neither one blinking. They sized each other up for a second, before Shiro spoke.
"Itachi, I don't want to fight you." Shiro stated, her eyes still watching for any sudden movements.
Itachi tiled his head to the side as he regarded her, "Neither do I, Shiro… but… you know this cannot be ignored." Shiro nodded sadly. She sighed as she formed a single hand sign. Itachi closed his eyes and quickly opened them again…
Itachi suddenly found himself at the old Uchiha estate, surrounded by dead bodies. He blinked again, now seeing his little brother, Sasuke, standing before him with a hateful expression in his eyes. Sasuke…
Shiro suddenly found herself an a huge platform, in a paper form of herself. She gasped, feeling a searing hot heat around her ankles slowly rise. She looked at her feet and watched in horror as a flame slowly consumed her legs, her body and arms. Eventually her head was consumed and all she could thing about was the pain…
Both the ninja came to their senses at the same time, Shiro breathing hard and looking tired, Itachi looking distraught and upset. Itachi sighed and swiped a hand through his hair, once again forming a hand sign and closing his eyes.
"I shall show you… the strength of my Sharingan!" He muttered.
"Tsukuyomi!!!"
Shiro found herself in a bright field, filled with lovely flowers and not a cloud in sight. What was truly peculiar about this place, however, was the red moon sitting in the sky…
"Relive pain and despair for the remainder of seventy-two hours…" Itachi's voice echoed.
In the distance she could see a body, with what seemed a spear imbedded in it's stomach.
Shiro gasped, "Vaskar!" Her eyes grew impossibly wide with horror and fear and she backed away. "No… It's a Genjutsu, it's not real…" She bumped into something huge, warm, wet and furry behind her. She slowly turned around to see a gigantic wolf, the size of a huge house, lying in a pool of it's own blood, watching her with it's lifeless eyes.
"Jin!" Mouth wide, she turned around and ran, only stopping when she found another body, and another, and another. "Aisteshai! Koto! Riku!" She ran in another direction, up a hill and when she got to the top, she froze…
She traipsed over to the body to see a kid, very similar in looks to Sasuke with clouded blue eyes, lying in a pool of his own blood.
"Hideo!"
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
That was harsh… 'nuff said.
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