-Outside the Akatsuki HQ/Yamato's forest-

Kisame, Deidara and Tobi have been fighting two fresh shinobi while they have been fighting over three battles. The Akatsuki members are exhausted and completely out of weapons, chakra, and ideas. They have no other choice, either continue to fight desperately and die in vain, or retreat and live to fight another day; the choice was obvious. "Tobi, fire the flare, yeah!" Tobi takes out a device from his pocket and shots it into the sky. The sky turns ablaze as if it was the 4th of July. "Maybe some other time Leaf shinobi, hmm" Deidara says as he and Tobi disappear in a cloud of smoke and dust. "Buh-Bye!" Tobi shouts as he waves before he leaves.

"The flare!?" Kisame says to himself, "He-he, you got lucky leaf ninjas" Kisame teases before leaving in a cloud of smoke and dust too.

-Yamato's forest-

"Quickly, tend to the wounded!" Kurenai and Guy order as they meet up with the rest of the Leaf and Sand group. Yamato uses his forest as a medicine source since plants have a lot of medical use. "Sensei!" Team Guy and team Eight both say as they go and greet their teachers. "Thank you for coming-" Kankuro begins but is stopped by Guy, "No need for a thanks! We back-up our pals no matter what". Yamato glances at Kurenai's stomach and remembers that she's pregnant thanks to Asuma, Team's Ten's previous' teacher. "It's a shame Sarutobi Asuma-sanpai couldn't be here" Yamato thinks.

-Akatsuki HQ-

"I see….." the Leader says as he is explained the situation by the Akatsuki members that have just come back. "In that case do not worry. It couldn't be helped if more back-up came. We need to leave now though. They have found our HQ and we are in no condition to fight of a bunch of ninja. It's time to leave".

-Yamato's forest-

Once everyone is more or less healed, Sakura gets up and says, "Right! Now let's go finish off those Akatsukis basters and get Naruto!" Everyone agrees and heads off into the Akatsuki HQ.

-Grassy field-

Itachi starts things off by doing a few hand seals and shooting out a massive amount of fire from his mouth. Sasuke counters by summoning a stone wall and hiding behind it. Itachi then jumps out of the way as Sasuke appears behind him and throws some shuriken at him but only to hit a fake Itachi which disperses into sand. Itachi then appears under Sasuke and brings him down up to his neck but then Sasuke uses his Sharingan creating a genjutsu confusing Itachi long enough until he was able to escape the Earth jutsu. It then starts to rain fireballs all over Itachi but he is then covered by a wall of water. The water then freezes and shoots out needles of ice. Sasuke then throws a few shuriken with threads attached to them around the ice dome and fires a blast of fire out of his mouth thus protecting himself from the ice needles and melting the ice Itachi was hiding behind.

Once the steam clears it is reviled that Itachi is not in the ice dome anymore. Sasuke jumps out of the way just in time as a hurl of kunai and shuriken come raining down. As Sasuke continues to jump out the way he does some hand seals and then blow a gust of wind out of his hands. Itachi appears behind Sasuke but Sasuke goes so fast it looks like he teleported away from Itachi, his speed was thanks to the Curse Seal and they are able to counter each other's jutsus so well thanks to their Sharingans. Sasuke takes another stance towards Itachi and get ready again. "That Seal" Itachi thought, "it gives him so much power, incredible". Sasuke continues to smile and says, "That was a good warm-up. Now get ready for the real thing Itachi".

-Inside the Akatsuki's HQ-

The ninjas looked around for any trace of Naruto, they found nothing. "Where are they?" Tenten says. "Neji, Hinata" Lee says, "Take a look with your Byakugan". They both nodded and took a look. "There's no sign of Naruto-kun" Hinata declared sadly. "Or anyone else for that matter" Neji added. "Are we too late?!" Sakura says in horror. "Like I said before," Gaara says, "Think positive". Akamaru sniffs the air but lowers his head in disappointment, he found nothing either. "Well let's keep looking!" Kakashi orders.

-Grassy Field-

Sasuke goes so fast thanks to his curse Seal that Itachi could barely see him coming with his Sharingan. He jumps out of the way just as Sasuke's sword slices through his Akatsuki cloak. But Sasuke doesn't stop though, he goes all offensive and slashes and lashes like crazy, Itachi barely dodging his strikes.

Itachi then does a few seals and blows out a giant blaze of fire in shape of a dragon. But Sasuke does not falter, he just puts away his sword and counters Itachi's attack with a few hand seals and then a giant water wave in shape of a dragon too clashes with the fire one; canceling both their attacks.

Sasuke then ducks as Itachi appears behind him and tries to smack his around but Sasuke withouts his sword once again and defends. Itachi quickly takes out a kunai to block Sasuke's blade.

"You still have much to learn" Itachi says. While still smiling the whole time, Sasuke replies, "Oh really?" and jumps back a bit and throws a kunai at Itachi but Itachi counters by throwing another kunai at it. When both knifes clash Sasuke's kunai explodes sending over a hundred more kunai at Itachi. Itachi defense himself summoning a rock-wall. Itachi hides behind the rock wall thinking, "He has gotten stronger. I better end this fast before he outwits me". But then the rock wall Itachi made is smashed to pieces by a blue glowing light. Sasuke comes through with his left hand sparking, "Chidori!!" Sasuke shouts.

-Old Akatsuki HQ-

Everyone split up and went off searching different areas in the Akatsuki hideout. Sakura goes off into the far away area and sees a hole in the roof. "Don't worry, we'll find him" Kakashi says as he comes up behind her. Sakura's attention is pulled away from the hole and she looks a Kakashi and begins to cry as she hugs him. "Kakashi-sensei!" she cries, "What if we never find him, what if it is already too late and the Akatsuki already got his demon and….." she continues to cry in his arms.

-Grassy Field-

Sasuke's Chidori attack just brushes Itachi. Itachi makes it out of the way just in time thanks to his Sharingan. Sasuke still having some juice left in his hand strikes once again but Itachi counters with taijutsu so Sasuke had to go back a hit.

"That was a close one" Itachi says. "Hmph, that's nothing," Sasuke replies, "I got two more bullets left and the third one's the worse of them all". Sasuke then takes out his sword again and takes a stance, "I'm going to kill you Itachi".