12 years later...
A man walked the long hallway, only to stop at the large doors, pushing them open he walked in and stopped in front of a busty woman. The Blonde looked up from her writing, when she saw the brunette in the room.
"Uchiha-san what brings you here?" The honey eyed woman said, the man took a seat on a chair that was in front of her.
"Have you sent the order out for Itachi?" He asked
"Hai, a squad from Kemuri is on their way here for vacation, their heading in the same way he is, besides my apprentice and your niece and nephew should be enough to detain him, I say they'll be here before tomorrows sun."
"What about Sasuke?" The man asked
"A team should be arriving soon for the mission." The woman replied
"Tsunade...do you think it's my fault?" The man asked
The woman sighed she leaned back in her chair too look out at the quiet village, watching as the shops opened, and men and woman began to put their carts out.
"No it's Sasuke's pride that made him take the path he chose, he just wanted to gain your attention and at the time all your attention was on Itachi so in order to get your attention he needed to surpass his brother, he believed that he couldn't become powerful in Konoha so he went to Orochimaru. Fugaku you can't blame your self everyone has their favorites when it comes to children, but the children don't know that you do love them even if their not your favorite, perhaps you should use your second chance with him more wisely." Tsunade explained.
"What will their punishments be?" Fugaku asked
"Since Itachi took stayed longer on his mission than he was supposed to, he'll be going to help out with the war in Kemuri, he will be a captain so don't worry, he'll be their for five months, and he'll leave when the rest leave." Tsunade exclaimed
"And what of Sasuke?"
"Sasuke, I'm still deciding, running away for power, and becoming the apprentice of an enemy, killing fellow shinobi from Konoha and Suna, the acts of crime he's committed are deep, he should be executed. But because many people have pleaded with me not to. I'm wondering if I should allow the council to decide his punishment since they may be able to come up with something suitable."
"Arigato Tsunade-sama." Fugaku said
"Don't thank me besides, your boys are much to handsome to rot away in a tiny cell." Tsunade stated before a knock came at the door.
"Come in."
The door opened and five men walked into the room, for of them wearing ANBU outfits. except the eldest for was a white haired man that wore a sheepish grin.
"And here is the team that will be going after Sasuke." Tsunade said
"You know you can take of your mask, we all know who you are just by your hair colors." Fugaku said as he looked at the men that stood before them.
"I tried to tell them that they didn't have to wear the mask, but they wanted it to feel serious." The white haired man replied
"This is serious Ero-sennin, we're going to get Sasuke-teme back!" The blonde one said
"I would like it if you didn't refere to my son a a teme in front of me Naruto!" Fugaku said through gritted teeth
"Gomen nasai Uchiha-sama!" Naruto said as he straightened up
"Take off your mask." Tsunade said, the men did as told and removed their mask for the Hokage.
"Your mission is to detain Uchiha Sasuke today and bring him back here to Konoha, before he finds Uchiha Itachi, if you find them in battle do not interfere until they are both tired out do you understand." Tsuande stated
"Hai."
Fugaku cleared his throat before he stood and began to speak. "As most of you know we used a very strong genjutsu on Itachi making him think he had killed Uchiha Shisui, for him to gain the Mangekyou Sharingan, and because of this he may have mastered it, therefore if you come into contact with Itachi I command you to look anywhere else but his eyes for the consequences will be near fatal if you do. Is this understood."
"Hai."
"Very well then on your way I'm sure Jiraiya already gave you the basics good luck." Tsuande said as she waved them off, and in a flash the four ANBU were gone.
"Do you think they'll be enough for him?" Jiraiya asked
"I'm sure they will, but the question is will he have that team with him?" Fugaku asked
"Yes that is the question." Tsuande said
In a small clearing three cloaked figures sat and rested from their long journey.
"Oi, what do you think they'll do with Itachi for a punishment?" the one that sat against a rock asked obviously a female by the voice.
"Don't know, but I wanna know what they'll do with Sasuke-chan." another said, this one sat on top of the rock, it was obviously a male.
"Urasai." The third one said, that one was all but sitting on top of the dried up pond, it was obviously a female as well.
"Ah Pinky lighten up a bit you should be happy your gonna see Sasuke-chan back." the guy said, he was about to say more but decided against it when he had to dodge a kunai, having it hit the tree where is head once leaning against.
"Uchiha I'm trying to concentrate so be quite for once, you can chatter away all you want when this is over." The girl said
"Obviously somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed." The guy said, a chuckled when he heard a growl emit from the figure in the pond.
"So what do you got at least?" The guy asked
"Eight hours away from us in the north are four signatures heading east where there are four more signatures that are five hours away from us, they are heading south where they're are two signatures only an hour away from us." The girl replied
"The four coming from the north should be the ones who were dispatched for Sasuke-chan do you think you can figure who they are?" the guy asked
"Hm...Uzumaki Naruto, Hatake Kakashi, Sai, and Yamato." The girl replied as she concentrated harder on the chakra signatures
"Ah your old teammates, doesn't surprise me." The other girl said
"So if they're heading towards the east that means that one of the four signatures you felt should be Sasuke right?" The guy asked
"let see...well what do you know your right, but the others are still unknown, I can tell you that two of the other figures are men and one is a girl though."
"Who's Itachi with then?" the other girl asked
"...Hoshigake Kisame...his Akatsuki partner." the girl said
"Well itoko do you have a plan yet?" the other girl asked."
"But which one of you wants to take on the walking fish?" The guy asked
"Kisame there are three people an hour away from us, we need to get moving " Itachi stated as he stood up from his sitting position on the tree trunk.
"Hm...allies or emenimes?" The blue man asked
"Don't know but we need to get moving fast if we want this to work out." Itachi said before he leapt into the trees
"Damn we need to get into position, the two in the south have just moved, and their heading towards us fast." The girl in the water said before she turned around too face the Uchiha Shisui in all his glory. His long dark brown hair was put back in a messy ponytail chunks of hair covered his left eye and his bangs were at the sides, he had put his vest on and had the Uchiha insignia on the right side of his long black sleeves, for a guy that was annoying as hell his good looks sure did make up for alot.
"Why is it that all the Uchiha men have to look so good?" The girl known as pinky asked
"So Pinky you finally admit that I'm good looking?" Shisui asked with a cocky smirk adorning his face
"Yeah you and the rest of your clan." Pinky said
"Do you really have to check out my cousin in front of me?" The other cloaked girl asked
"Let's just get ready they're already only about twenty five minutes away." The girl said
"Hai." And with that they disappeared into the trees.
"Naruto we need to quicken our pace, I feel that Itachi has already realized that they sent a team out for him." Kakashi said as he added more chakra to his feet.
"Hey Kakashi who do you think they sent to get Itachi?" Naruto asked as he caught up with his former sensei
"All I know is that it's a team on they're way back from Kemuri." Kakashi replied
"Do you think one of them is Sakura?" Sai asked
"Don't know it's possibly, but at the same time it's not since her grandfather wouldn't allow her on such a life threatening mission." Kakashi answered
"But who says he knows about any of her missions?" Yamato said
"Ah so true." Kakashi said.
"Sasuke-kun we've got company." A red-headed girl said as she stopped on a tree branch
"How many?" Sasuke asked as he stopped as well
"Hm...we have four heading towards us, and three maybe four where we're headed."
"Kuso, we have to quicken our pace then." Sasuke said as he ran off to where his brothers chakra was in the south.
The two men dressed in black cloaks stepped into a secluded clearing it was shaded by the many trees that surrounded it. The larger of the two unstrapped his giant sword and sat down on the hard earth, setting his sword next to him. His partner looked around the area realizing quickly that something wasn't right. dark indigo eyes faded into glowing scarlet.
"Itachi I'm being summoned." Kisame said as he clasped his hands together in concentration
"Ah."
"Shall we begin?" A figure hiding in the trees heard over hear ear piece, by the voice it was a woman that was speaking to her.
"Hai." The figure replied said as she made a few kage bushins, looking at them, before they all ran off in different directions while on the
Another figure sat on a large tree branch concentrating on her hand signs and when she finished them she whispered quietly
"Guraundo shin."
Itachi watched as the wind began to pick up and the leaves swayed in the breeze. Then he heard it the shuffle beyond the dark foliage. The were running all around him,giggling, a child's laugh could be heard through out the clearing. Dark indigo eyes bleed into glowing scarlet, his vermilion eyes confirmed it.
"Kai" he whispered, the laughing stopped the wind ceased, the shuffling was no more it was quiete.
Opening his eyes he came face to face with something he didn't expect.
'I killed him'
"Kai" The cloaked figure stopped running and canceled out the bushins, they moved closer to see what was happening below them. Their target was right where they wanted him, and their partner was in position reenacting his faked death. The figure watched as the man stared at the other. After a while of staring Shisui finally spoke
"Hey Itachi come with me to the river so we can spar."
He turned and walked away from where the couldn't see him with Itachi following, and there was the hook.
The cloaked figure waited for the two to leave the clearing completely before she jumped out of the tree and behind the blue skinned man. Another cloaked figure landed beside her.
"What do I do now?" The figure asked
"You wait and watch until he gives you the signal." And with that the cloaked figure left her and the rogue alone in the clearing.
It was obvious he was in some kind of meditation state by the way he was stiff and still like the dead, but the fact that she could feel his strong chakra coursing through his body and working its way to his head indicated that he was up to something but she could not tell what.
Looking toward the sword she added chakra to her foot and kicked out of the clearing, the shinobi in front of her visibly flinched and she hid behind the large trees. It wasn't long before he came out of his meditation his hand felt around for the giant sword, he opened his beady fish like eyes, and they widened a fraction for a second or so before he stood. His chakra flared and before she knew it she was dodging out of the way of a moving sword, being summoned back to it's master.
"Come out come out where ever you are" The blue haried nin said.
Itachi's mind was on over drive as it tried to take in the image before him, it was utterly impossible that the man before him was truly his itoko. He had killed him, he had gained the mangekyou because he killed him, it wasn't possible but his eyes kept saying it was, he looked exactly like he did on the night he had killed him, he was doing & saying the same things he did that night.
He brought his hands up in the release seal quietly saying the the word he hadn't used in so many yeards
"Kai" Shisui was gone, but how was it that his sharingan didn't detect it?
But before he could figure anything out he was in hand to hand combat with a cloaked shinobi, and even through there ANBU mask he cold see their sharingan. He was fighting one of his own clansmen.
A cloaked figure jumped from her spot as she dodged out of the way of Samehada, Kisame was going crazy looking for her and now he got her out in the open.
"Ah an ANBU, oh so nice, are you a Kirigakure ANBU?, I'm I your target?" kisame asked in a rough & ragged but playful tone.
"No your were in the way of our main target so in oder for us to keep you out of the way one of us had to take care of you, and I just had to be the one who ended up with the short stick." the figure said
"Ah...a kunoichi, do you wanna play with me?" Kisame asked as he swung the giant sword toward the girl.
Dodging the kunoichi jumped into the trees and made more bushins until she found herself an opening, finding it she jumped out of the trees to land a hit on the shinobis back, making contact she watched as the blue fish man fell to the floor only to turn into water.
"Kuso!" She turned around only to be thrown back by the wrapped sword, hitting the tree her hood slipped from her head to reveal her blush colored locks, her mask fell with it as well exposing her pained features.
"Damn no matter how many times I get thrown into a tree it still hurts like hell." Sakura muttered under hear breath as she stood up and got into a defensive stance. Kisame stared at her for a while as if in deep concentration while he leaned on his sword.
"Shit Itachi's gonna kill me." Sakura heard the man say.
Lifting his sword up he strapped it onto his back, before he started to make his way towards her, Sakura stiffened up before she backed up and into the tree, her hand went to her pouch for her kunais, before she could pull one out Kisame spoke.
"Your the Kyubis teammate right, cause if you are that means you're from Konha which means that I won't hurt you."
"Why wouldn't you hurt me am I not in your way of capturing him?" Sakura asked, Kisame came closer and bent his head and back a little to whisper quietly to her.
"I can't hurt you because I'm loyal to Itachi who is loyal to Konoha, I can't hurt a Konoha shinobi because he'd kill me for it little kunoichi."
"How do I know your not lying?" Sakura asked
"...If you take me to Konoha I'll show you something that no one but Itachi knows about." Kisame said
"How do I know this isn't some trick to get Naruto?"
"I told you I'll prove you my innocence when we get to Konoha." Kisame said
"Fine but if you wanna get into Konoha you better put something on to disguise yourself with and that sword as well." Sakura said
Kisame backed away and from her and unstrapped Samehada again, setting it down onto the ground, doing a few hand seals that Sakura recognized, the jutsu was to be able to seal objects into scrolls for safer passage obviously Kisame used it once or twice in his life time. With a poof of smoke the giant bandaged sword was gone, only leaving Kisame to take care of himself.
"Little Hana do me favor and knock me out." Kisame said with a grin plastered on his face, his razor sharp teeth glistening in the little light that cracked through the thick foliage.
Sakura's eye twitched at the new nickname "Hoshigake be warned if I see anything that looks or feels suspicious your gone." She said
"Yeah yeah just hurry up & come at me."
Pushing herself away from the tree she ran towards the larger man with a chakra enhanced fist, the sound of ribs breaking could be hear in the small clearing before the sound of a tree breaking.
She watched as the shark man slid down the tree from the hit now unconscious as he hit the floor with a quiet thud. Walking towards him carefully as to not injure him anymore she added chakra to her hands and arms, gracefully picking up the man that was five times her size. Looking around the clearing she closed her eyes as she looked for any chakra signatures, when she found the ones she was looking for she quickly headed it's way.
Itachi was not liking the situation at the moment, going against two of his own clansmen that knew how to use their sharingan was not helping this out at all. The smaller of the two cloaked figures had already made a pretty good gash on his side, while the larger one was getting good hits on him...He got jumped and he wasn't the one with the upper hand since he couldn't hurt them.
He stiffened when he saw that in the corner of his eye another cloaked figure appeared before him carrying his rather large partner, but after a while it was obvious they had no intentions of jumping in alongside of their partners.
Setting down the unconscious blue man Sakura looked back at the fight before it was obvious that Itachi was giving them the upper hand but was not allowing them to have all of it as he swung at them with full force. Adding more chakra to her fist she waited for an opening...and then hit the ground with all her power.
The ground beneath the three of them began to shake uncontrollably and soon there were cracks forming and the ground splitting...the ground before them disappeared and all was left was a giant crater, and an unconscious Itachi pinned between the ground and a piece that once belonged to the ground.
All three figures jumped next to the unconsious man and stared at him for a while before anyone spoke.
"You crushed him." Shisui stated
"Thanks for pointing that out...help me move this rock off his side." Sakura said
The cloaked figure waited till the boulder was removed, grabbing his hands she dragged him out and away from the boulder. Crouching down next to him the figures hands glowed green as they hovered above his body.
"So how bad is it?" Shisui asked
"Nothing we can't fix before we get back." The figure said
"Then we'll have to stop the fish got heavy damage as well, so I'll have to take care of that." Sakura said
"I thought we decided to get rid of him." Shisui said
"We did but as soon as he saw my face he retreated on his attack." Sakura explained
"So why are we bringing him with us?" The cloaked figure asked
"He says he wants to prove his innocence on something that only Itachi knows about."
"Ah...do you think they have Sasuke-chan yet?" Shisui asked, but the five of them were thrown farther into the tree by a heavy wind. getting thrown against the trees the three cloaked figures looked up to see a terrifying sight.
"Well I guess they haven't caught him yet." Shisui said as he got up and walked over to his itokos unconscious body, he picked Itachis body up and put him over his arm. Sakura followed suit with the other Akatsuki, and when they were all ready they headed off towards where they saw Sasukes flying form.
Kakashi watched as his two students battled it out in their most terrifying forms, Naruto had five tails unleashed, while Sasuke had his curse deal form on. Hearing footsteps approach from behind him he turned to find three cloaked figures with two of the most deadliest Akatsukis members.
"Oh Kami-sama what has happened?" He heard from one of the cloaked men, he knew who it was immediately just by the sound of their angel like tone, gentle, and almost a whisper like always, not bothering to turn around he answered them.
"They've taken forms Sakura."
As soon as he said that though they were all thrown back another couple feet as Naruto in his kyubi form tried to hit Sasuke again, missing and hitting the ground. Looking back at the scene that laid before them they found that on the other side of the large crater an unconsious Yamato was against a tree.
"Why was Yamato over there?" One of the figures asked
"He was trying to surpress the Kyubis chakra...and now he's unconscious one of you will have to take care of it." Kakashi said as he turned around only to found that, the largest of the cloaked figures was propped up against a tree as well.
"Please tell me that's not Shisui." Kakashi asked.
"Oh yes it is itoko, and now anyone who may be strong enough to control Uzumaki-san is unconcious," the cloaked figure said
"Kakashi-sempai what will we do?" Sakura asked
"That's it I'm waking Itachi up!" The cloaked figure said
"You will not!" Sakura yelled back, she woud've continued her yelling if it wasn't the for the fact that a crazy red head attacked her, wrestling her to the ground, not wanting to use up her chakra she fought without it, trying to keep an eyes out for her partner.
"Nami put those smelling salts down now that's an oder!" Sakura screamed at her partner as she tried to boack a hit from Karin. she fell back to the floor as she got hit by the red head in the stomach and watched as Itachi awoke Nami whispered something to him and with that Itachi was gone.
Growling as she got up from the ground she caught Karins fist and twisted the red head around pushing her to the floor. she ran at Nami roughly shoving her against the tree.
"That was an order, I don't care what clan you come, but since we're not in Konoha at the moment you need to remember something when you're out here you're under my jurisdiction, you follow my orders, and if I'm unable to give orders you take orders from Shisui do you understand me?" Sakura asked her voice dripped with anger and her eyes lit up with a fire that the other girl had never seen, she nodded fully understanding the situation, and Sakura let go of her. Their attention both went back to the Kyubi, appearing out of nowhere all watched as Itachi red eyes stared at the miniature Kyubi, Itachi appeared beside him with a sealing not pulled out and slammed it against Narutos forhead before both were once again thrown against the trees behind them.
They watched as Naruto transformed back into himself and fell. Hearing clapping everyone that was still consious turned to see Jiraiya and Asuma & Guy walk into the formaly made clearing.
"Need any help?" Jiraiya asked as he smirked
Sixteen figures were huddled around a campfire as they watched the sun set,some were falling asleep while some were waking up.
"Sakura what are you doing?" Nami asked as she moved to sit next to Sakura who was cradling Itachis body, her fingers massaging his head.
"He has nightmares." Sakura said as she kept massaging his scalp.
"So what does that mean?" Nami asked
"Look at his body...his shivering, and his skin is cold to the touch, and he's sweating, from what I remember Tsuande saying one time was that he's been on slipping pills since he was five, the same kind I was on when I was younger which means that his nightmares aren't just nightmares there memories, he's been off his meds for three years already, I'm sure that he hasn't gotten a goodnight of sleep since the last time he was in Konoha."
"So why are you massaging his scalp."
"If you add healing chakra into your fingertips while you massage someones heads it can soothe the pain of any headache, hangover, migraine, and if you know where to look it can help with dreams...but in order to do the dream part the patient has to be unconsious of course." Sakura explained
"Oh."
"Hey Pinky will two hours give you guys enough rest Hokage-sama expects us back before the sun rises." Shisui said as he relaxed against a tree
"That should be enough but you're carring Kisame, I'll carry Itachi will switch when were an hour away from Konoha." Sakura replied
"Ah."
"Hey Sakura-chan I'm glad you're finally back, now I can show you all my new techniques I learned." Naruto said from Sakura said his voice was very hoarse and scratch that it had Sakura giggle.
"Baka don't talk your gonna hurt your throat just rest for now." Sakura said as she watch Naruto nod and close his eyes.
Five hours later...
"See Fugaku just like I said they've made it before sunrise." Tsuande said as she looked at the figures in the room, the three from Sasukes team were all handcuffed. together, Kisame was on Sakuras shoulder still unconsious, Sasuke was on Guys, Shisui on Asumas, Itachi on Kakashi, Naruto was on Jiraiyas as well. Yamato was laying on the couch while Sai was the only person out of the sixteen people who wasn't carrying some over their shoulder.
"Tsunade I really hate to rush things but if you wouldn't mind having someone take these guys off us cause their pretty heavy." Sakura said as she switched Kisame onto her other shoulder.
"Just put them on the ground." Tsuande said, as she watched the everyone put someone down,
"Put the three from Sasukes team in lock up." Fugaku said, and with that two of Tsuandes private ANBU gaurds hauled them out of the room.When everyone turned they found Sakura unconcious on the floor, with the rest of the unconcious shinobi.
"Take those ones to the hospital, but give Kisame to me I have some question for him when he wakes up." Tsuande said, with a hai everyone was out of the building on there way to put somebody into the hospital. While Tsuande walked over to Kisame and lifted him up and over her shoulder.
"I'm taking him to a certain wing in the hospital until we find out what he's up to I'm sure you can watch over this village while I'm away." Tsunade said to Fugaku
"Isn't that what I'm paid for?" He asked in a mocking voice
"Damn Uchihas and thinking their all bad." Tsuande mutter as she walked out of the room, leaving behind a smirking Fugaku
Kemuri - Smoke
Itoko - cousin
Guraundo shin -- deaths playground
kunoichi - female ninja