Kagome Meets Itachi

With Kagome

'It has only been two weeks and already the signs of battle are barely noticeable. Still the atmosphere is so dreary; it makes me wonder if things here will ever be the same.' Kagome was waiting at the bridge where team seven normally waited. She had made a point of avoiding her teammates ever since she failed to attend the funeral for the Hokage. She knew she was one of the very few if not the only one to not attend, but she still couldn't bring herself to attend. She didn't want to explain her reasons for not attending to anyone.

"Hello, Sasuke." Kagome said when she identified the person whose footsteps were approaching from behind. She smiled slightly as he paused in mid-stride, no matter how many times she did it; no one was able to understand how she could tell a person from their footsteps.

"I still do not understand how you are able to do that." Sasuke's voice said as he continued his approach. Kagome merely turned to him and smiled lightly, when he was closer he reached into his hip pocket and pulled out the worn out book she had lent to him.

"Did you enjoy it?" She asked as she took it from him and placed it in her hip pouch.

"It wasn't what I was expecting; you said that an old friend gave it to you. Why did your friend give it to you?" Kagome tensed as he spoke.

"What were you expecting? I seem to recall that I told you I found the idea of revenge pointless, and I also told you that a priestess friend gave it to me." She knew that he could hear the slight annoyance in her voice, but she didn't care.

"Yes you did, but I wasn't expecting for you to lend me a book based on forgiveness. Also you are avoiding me question." Sasuke's tone told Kagome that she wasn't going to get out of answering this time.

"When my family was killed I tracked down the monster that played executioner. I was in such a blind rage that I don't even remember what happened, all I remember is feeling hollow when I came to my senses. I was young so I almost died, I would have if it weren't for my friends. I hated the thought that anger could make me just like the one who killed my family, it almost destroyed me." She had turned her back to him and her voice was cold enough that it froze even Naruto and Sakura who had just arrived.

"Sakura, how well have you adapted to the weight of the Hirourkotes?" Kagome asked after taking a few moments to collect herself. Sakura didn't answer; she just removed it from her back and swung it around a few times with each hand.

"Well then it looks like it's time to start the final stage in your boomerang training." Kagome said with a smile, a smile that only grew wider at Sakura's look of horror.

"What do you mean by 'final stage'?" Sakura asked with a slight tremor in her voice.

"You remember how my Hiraikotsu is by far heavier than the Hiroukotes that you now carry, correct?" Kagome asked as she started looking through her various scrolls.

"Yes, but you said that I wasn't going to use the Hiraikotsu because it had belonged to your friend." Sakura said as Kagome pulled out a scroll.

"Yep, I did say that. This is the Zugaikotsu, I just finished making it. This one is for you to keep. Whatever you do, do not break it, the materials it is made of are extremely hard to find." Kagome said as she handed the new boomerang to Sakura, and sealed the Hiroukotes inside of a scroll.

"What is it made of?" Sakura asked as she struggled slightly under the new weight.

"The boomerangs are made from the bone of an ancient demon." Kagome stated as she ignored the looks of shock on all of their faces. She then pulled out her sword.

"This is Kanshisha; I trust that the two of you have discovered the names of the swords you now carry." Kagome stated as she unsheathed the sword and stood in a fighting stance.

"This is Bengosha, and I wander as to why you gave me a sword whose name as the meaning of, defender." Sasuke said as he slipped into the last stance Kagome had taught him.

"This is Hogosha, and I have the same question as Sasuke. Why give me the protector?" Naruto also stood in a stance, but it was one of the basic ones that Kagome and taught them. Sakura backed up and started reviewing a list of techniques that she was supposed to be learning.

"These swords are brothers, as I'm sure you can tell by their names. I hold the Kanshisha, or the guardian. Well to answer both of your questions, Naruto you want to become Hokage and the Hokage is the one who has to protect the village. Sasuke I gave you the defender, because I don't believe in revenge and I don't think that you'll ever be the type of person to not take action. Now lets begin shall we." Kagome charged at Sasuke as she created a clone for Naruto. She made sure that she was always the one attacking, believing that a great defense makes a good offense. She had them parrying her blows for just over an hour.

"That's enough for now." She said as she sheathed her blade, "Sakura, how would you like to learn some genjutsu?" Kagome asked as she gave Sakura her full attention. "That is if you think that you can handle it." She was purposely trying to get a rise out of Sakura, and everyone could tell

"I know that I can handle learning your illusionary techniques." Sakura said as she glared at Kagome.

"Are you sure?" Kagome asked as she gave Sakura a disbelieving look.

"Of course I am." Sakura stated as she stood a little straighter.

"Then take this, it contains my personal favorite." Kagome said as she started to sit down while pulling out a new book. Everyone went about distracting themselves, waiting for their beloved sensei to arrive.

"Yo." Kakashi said as he appeared in a cloud of smoke to the left of the group.

"You're late!" Sakura and Naruto yelled.

"Well you see I ran into this old lady and she needed help carrying her groceries so…"

"LAIR!" They yelled as they took one threatening step towards him.

"He may be late, but I hail to see why you have to punish Sasuke and myself with your highly annoying screeches." Kagome said as she gazes at them over the top of her book. Both Naruto and Sakura froze for a moment before they turned to Kagome and smiled innocently.

"Well the good news is that none of you have any missions today, so you are free do whatever you wish. I just need to talk to Kagome for a while." He said and motioned for everyone to leave.

"I can't talk right now, but I think that we should met in an hour in front of the restaurant where you and the other jonin go for your so called meetings." Kagome said, "There are some people who you will enjoy meeting there." With that said she turned on her heel and left.

"And here I am thinking that she should be following my instructions." Kakashi thought with a sigh as he started walking towards the restaurant. 'If I get there early I can get some reading in.' Kakashi thought as he held back a perverted giggle.

/////////An hour later. //////////////////////////

"Kakashi what are you doing here?" Asuma asked as he walked up with Kurenai by his side.

"I'm meeting Kagome here. Are you to on a date?" Kakashi looked up from his book.

"No, Anko asked me to pick her up some Dango." Kurenai answered with a faint blush on her cheeks.

"It's not like you to be waiting for someone; normally you're more than a little late." Asuma said as stopped walking.

"Well I do it time to time, besides Kagome seemed to think that there was someone I should meet here." Kakashi said as he looked out the corner of his eye at two cloaked figures. He saw one tense and he had a feeling that his strange student had done something remarkable once again.

"It's not like you to be one time, Kakashi." Kagome said as she started walking over.

"And it's not like you to late, even if only by five minutes." Kakashi told her as he put his book away.

"Well what can I say other than; I have my teacher to thank, that is." Kagome said as she gazed past him to look at the seats that had only a moment before been occupied by the two people in cloaks. She looked to the side as Asuma and Kurenai vanished to follow the two unknowns.

"I'm going to have to explain all this later, aren't I?" Kagome said as she met Kakashi's gaze, he only nodded as he to took off.

With Asuma and Kurenai

"Hold it right there." Asuma ordered as they appeared in front of the two strangers. "Who are you and what is your business in Konoha?" Asuma demanded as soon as the two had stopped moving.

"It's been awhile Asuma, Kurenai." The shorter of the two figures said.

"If you know us, you must be a former member of this village." Asuma said in a stern voice. The figures only answer was to raise his hat enough that his sharingan eyes could be seen. He paused for a moment before he completely removed his hate, and then he unbuttoned some of his cloak giving him room to move.

"There's no doubt about it, you're Itachi Uchiha." Asuma said as he and Kurenai moved just enough so that they could easily shift into a fighting stance.

"I take it you know these people, Itachi." Said the tall man standing next to Itachi. "Then I should introduce myself, too." The man reached up with his blue hand, and removed his hat. "Kisame Hoshigaki. Nice to make your acquaintance." The man said showing his equally blue face and the three gill like mark on his cheeks.

"You're not making any acquaintances here I'm going to eliminate you two right here, right now." Asuma said as he finally moved himself into a fighting stance.

"Itachi, it seems your hated in this village." The man now known as Kisame said, as Itachi turned his head slightly to look at him.

"I also know you. Kisame Hoshigaki, former Hidden Village of Mist ninja. You're a renegade ninja wanted by numerous countries, including the Country of Water, for assassinating a feudal lord and sabotage as well as various other crimes. You're S-rank ninjas in the bingo book." Kurenai said in a calculative voice as she stared without blinking at the two traitorous ninja.

"Itachi, you came back to this village after what you did. You've got a lot of guts coming here." Asuma said as he clenched his hands in anger.

"Asuma, Kurenai, please do not get involved in my work. I have no intention of killing you." Itachi said as he started calmly ahead, not focusing on either Hidden Leaf ninja.

"That's not something that a guy who killed his own clan member can say. I know that you wouldn't come here without a reason. What is your purpose?" Asuma forced himself to relax as he spoke; knowing that a battle was coming and his anger would only get in the way.

"This person is quite annoying. Shall I kill him?" As Kisame spoke he pulled his huge sword like weapon of his finger and brought it down upon the ground, when it landed there was a huge cloud of dust and dirt.

"It looks like we cannot leave this village without a fight, but don't over do it. Your moves stand out too much." Itachi told his partner without truly acknowledging him.

"Then it's settled." Kisame said, without notice he picked up his huge weapon and thrust it down. Asuma stood I front of Kurenai, blocking the blow with is trench knives (basically brass knuckles with a blade on one end.). Kurenai pulled back and quickly began doing hand signs.

'This is an illusionary technique.' Itachi thought as Kurenai began to disappear with an unknown wind. Meanwhile Kisame was pushing down his weapon trying to overpower Asuma.

'I can't believe I'm being over powered by just a tip of a sword. This guy is strong.' Asuma thought as his trench knives where pushed down so that the sword was barely touching his arm.

"My big blade, Samehada does not slice." Kisame said as he pulled his sword towards him, Asuma almost fell back as the blade cut into his arm. "It shaves!" Kisame finished, Asuma just held his arm.

"Kurenai, you're late." Asuma said, as sand grabbed Kisame by the legs and a misshaped tree sprouted up behind Itachi. Branches on the tree wrapped around Itachi, and as he looked up Kurenai appeared from the tree holding a kunai.

"This is it." She said as she started to move the blade towards his neck. Itachi merely smiled as the next thing Kurenai knew she was the one being held by the tree.

"An illusionary technique of this level won't work on me." Itachi said facing Kurenai.

'This is an illusionary technique counter.' Kurenai thought as Itachi pulled a kunai from his cloak. Having no choice she bit her lip and just managed to duck as Itachi used the kunai, sadly he did manage to give her hair a trim. He side kicked with his left foot and was able to push over the rail and into the river.

"Kurenai!" Asuma called out as she landed on the waters surface.

"You have no time to look away from me." Kisame said to Asuma affectively gaining back the attention of his opponent.

"That was pretty nice, Kurenai. But…" Itachi started to say.

"But this is it, for you." Kakashi said from behind Itachi.

Back on solid ground Asuma was doing all he could to dodge, before he found his opening. He swung his hand up and was able to make a small cut on Kisame's cheek.

"What?!" Exclaimed Kisame not happy in the least that is opponent was able to make a mark upon him. It was then that he realized that Asuma was using his chakra to expand the reach of his trench knives. He started doing hand signs the moment after he rooted Samehada into the ground.

"Water Element, Water Shark Missile!" The voices of Kakashi and Kisame rang out as Kakashi copied Kisame in order to counter the attack that would have killed Asuma.

"The same technique as mine?" Kisame said to himself as he quickly observed this new combatant.

"And why did you come here?" Asuma asked in a bored voice as he stood up straight.

"I asked you two to deal with them back there, but you know I got worried." The on the side said at the same time as the one on the water. Kurenai's eyes widened as she looked behind her to see that Kakashi had a kunai to Itachi's upper back, near the shoulder.

"A shadow clone." Kurenai said as she looked at Kakashi.

"What does a renegade ninja like you want in this village?" Kakashi asked Itachi as he moved the Kunai to the side of Itachi's neck.

"Kakashi Hatake." Itachi said with slight annoyance as he turned to lock eyes with Kakashi.

With Naruto

"Well it looks like you do eat ramen all the time." Jiraiya said as he entered Ichiraku Ramen shop and start to take the seat next to Naruto.

"Perverted Hermit!" Naruto said with a mouth full of ramen as he looked over his back at the new arrival.

"Hey Naruto, just the person I was looking for." Jiraiya said as when he sat down.

/////A few minutes later. //////////////

"Why do I have to go on a research trip with you, perverted hermit?" Naruto asked in a loud voice as he walked down the road with Jiraiya.

"No it isn't just a normal research trip. There's a woman I want to ask some questions, so I have to find her." Jiraiya said as he raised his right index finger as if he were about to address a class of academy students.

"I have no time to waste on your perverted stuff. I have to train!" Naruto remarked in an even louder voice.

"Train?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at Naruto with a thoughtful look on his face.

"I'm going to have Kakashi-sensei teach me a lot." Naruto said as he put his hands behind his head.

"Then I have no other choice, what a shame I know a technique that's more powerful than the chidori. I guess I'll take Sasuke with me." Jiraiya said cleverly trying to convince Naruto to join him.

"I've changed my mind. I'll go!" Naruto said with a happy look on his face. "I'll just go pack my stuff. Perverted hermit stay right there." He yelled as he started running down the street towards his apartment.

///////Around an hour later. ///////////

"Hey, perverted hermit what technique are you going to teach me this time. Last time you taught me water walking, and summoning. Oh, and Kagome said that you did something really wise in teaching me how to use the fox's chakra." Naruto said as he traveled after Jiraiya.

"Kagome, who is that?" Jiraiya asked as he stood straighter and stuck out his chest in pride.

"Kagome is on genin team and she is really strong. Actually I bet that when we find the next Hokage she'll be made chunin. When I told her how you got me to use the fox's chakra she said that your method leaves much room for improvement, that you must just have idiot's luck seeing as it worked." Naruto said not noticing when his traveling companion fell over anime style.

"Come on; teach me the next on Perverted Hermit." Naruto exclaimed after a few moments of walking in silence.

"Perverted Hermit, Perverted Hermit, you don't even know what I great person I am, do you?" Jiraiya said in an annoyed tone as he stopped and turned towards Naruto.

"What? A great perverted hermit." Naruto said as he turned towards Jiraiya, looking at him with confusion written clearly on his face.

"Listen carefully, the title 'Frog Hermit' is merely a disguise. I shall tell you my true identity. I am the man who has no enemies in the North, South, East and West. Not even in the heavens! I am one of the Sannin, white-haired frog tamer. Even a crying baby would stare in awe…. The Great Jiraiya. That is me!" Jiraiya had been spinning his head so that his hair flew around during his speech, and now he stood still a top a bride in some weird pose of pride as Naruto just started at him. Sighing Naruto just started walking and ignored Jiraiya as he paced him.

"A…Atafuku City. It's 10 km from here." Naruto said a few minutes later when they passed a road marking sign.

"It's Otafuku City." Jiraiya corrected as he continued working.

"Hey, hey since a great perverted hermit like you chose me to be your companion, that means I have great talent within me, right?" Naruto asked as he was now standing in front of Jiraiya with a big cheesy grin upon his face. When Jiraiya didn't answer Naruto just ran in a circle.

"Hey, hey, hey! Why did you chose me?" Naruto asked as he stopped running in front of Jiraiya, who merely blinked.

"The fourth Hokage was once my apprentice." Naruto looked at Jiraiya for a moment before he blinked as well, "And you're very similar to the Fourth Hokage." Jiraiya answered.

"I'm…. similar to the Fourth." Naruto whispered after Jiraiya passed him.

I know that its not exactly in chronological order, but hey this just worked better.

With Kakashi

'His eyes are the same as before. But then again, he's a true heir of Sharingan. I have to assume the worst case scenario.' Kakashi thought as he matched Itachi's glare.

"This is a surprise. No wonder you could do that with my technique. I wouldn't have believed that someone had the same eyes as Itachi, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Your name was… The Copy Ninja Kakashi." Kisame said as he finished observing Kakashi.

"I'm the one whose surprised. I saw some weird guys at the Teahouse, and I wondered who they could be, and they turned out to be Itachi Uchiha and the monster from the Hidden Village of Mist, Kisame Hoshigaki." Kakashi said as he recognized who Itachi's partner was.

"My, my, you know my name, too. I'm honored." Kisame said with a smirk upon his face.

"I see… You're one of the Seven Sword Ninja of the Mist and that large blade of yours must me Samehada." Kakashi said with a voice of cold indifference. Kisame just laughed as he held Samehada a little tighter.

"I heard that that kid Zabuza fought you." Kisame said with a light chuckle.

"Yeah." Kakashi said as he moved his hand behind his back.

"I'll enjoy shaving you to death." Kisame said in a voice cold enough to give a minor demon the chills.

"Stop, Kisame." Itachi said as he turned towards his partner. "If you fight him head on, you will suffer unnecessary injuries. Also, if we take too much time, more ninjas will arrive." Itachi's voice was calm, by his voice alone you could not tell that he was about to engage in a fight.

"But…" Kisame began, not liking the thought of not having a good fight.

"Do not forget our purpose. You did not come here to get hurt." Itachi properly cut out all argument from his partner.

"Then tell us that purpose of yours." Came Kakashi's voice as the clone standing in front of Kisame disappeared.

"We just came to find something we're looking for." Itachi said as he once again turned his gaze to Kakashi. His voice was friendly and slightly surprised the Konoha ninja, even if they didn't show it.

"Something you're looking for?" Kakashi questioned. "And what exactly are you looking for?" At his second question he pulled back his kunai and had it in a position that would make it easy to strike.

"I won't take as long as Kisame if I do this." Itachi stated as he ignored Kakashi's statement. He then had his right hand out of his sleeve with some shuriken. Kakashi jumped back and started doing hand seals.

"Water Element, Water Wall." He said as he landed, a wall of water went up just in time to protect him from a water attack that Itachi had used.

'He used that technique fast. I can't follow the seal formations with my eyes. He used those shuriken in his right hand as a decoy, and tried to hit my legs with a water element technique.' Kakashi was trying to analyze everything and come up with a plan, but it wasn't going so well.

"Very nice, Kakashi. Your eye of insight is impressive." Itachi finished the last sentence as he used a shadow clone to end up stabbing Kakashi in the back, Kakashi only turned into water. Kurenai was about to attack the Itachi that was in front of her, but Kakashi rushed from the water and pulled her back.

"Careful Kurenai, that one is the clone." He said as the sailed backwards through the air. There was a huge burst of water; Itachi's shadow clone had exploded. Asuma seeing his friends in trouble jumped into the blast to check on them. After a moment the three Leaf ninja stood atop the water together and the water came down like rain.

"Don't let your guard down. He's the man who became an ANBU squad leader at the age of thirteen." As he finished so did the so called rain.

"I didn't expect him to be this strong." Asuma said as he and Kurenai both took their stances.

"No, he hasn't shown his true strength yet." Kakashi said as he tried to stay standing, the sharingan costing him almost all of his strength.

"I am impressed that you can use your sharingan so well even though you are not of the Uchiha clan. But your body is not an Uchiha body which the Sharingan needs to work best." Itachi said as he narrowed his eyes slightly at Kakashi.

'He's right I tire easily.' Kakashi thought as he breathing finally started evening out.

"I will show you why the clan of Uchiha was feared and reputed to be unmatched." Itachi said as he slowly closed his eyes. "The Sharingan… The Bloodline Limit's true power." With that said he slowly began opening his eyes.

"You two, don't look into his eyes!" Kakashi yelled as he realized what Itachi was about to use. Asuma and Kurenai instantly closed their eyes, while Kakashi closed his right eye. "Only a person with the Sharingan can deal with his technique, right now." Kakashi said as he took a single step forward.

"It is true that if you have sharingan, you can resist this Mangekyou Sharingan a little. However, you cannot counter this special sharingan eye technique. The illusionary technique, Tsukuyomi." Itachi said as his Sharingan eyes completely altered shape, "Only a person who has the same Bloodline Limit as me, a sharingan user, can defeat me."

With that said Kakashi's eye widened before the sky and area around him changed into deep depressing colors. He realized that he had been crucified and that Itachi was standing in front of him holding a sword.

"How long can a person like you, who does not possess the Bloodline Limit, deal with this?" The vision of Itachi in front of him asked, before he stabbed Kakashi in the gut.

Kakashi felt an extreme agony tear through his body, only to stop when he saw a pink glow before his eyes. He was aware of everything seeming to change before the glow disappeared and a hand was before his eye.

"Are you alright, Kakashi-sensei?" Kagome asked as she moved her hand from his face and turned towards Itachi.

"Kagome, what are you doing here?" Kakashi asked as he looked at his young student.

"I was worried. When I saw the water from the blast, I decided that it was time to intervene. I am surprised that seeing as we live in a village full of ninja, no one else seemed to notice." Her voice seemed soothing and when Kakashi looked at her closely he saw that her fists were clenched and her eyes were narrowed in anger.

"You must be Sasuke's older brother, Itachi." Kagome said as she looked Itachi in the eye.

"And you are? How are you able to remain unaffected by the Mangekyou sharingan?" He asked as he narrowed his eyes slightly, he couldn't believe that a young non-Uchiha girl was unaffected by his Mangekyou sharingan.

"Kagome Higurashi. And it's not like it's hard." Kagome said as she took a step forward and to the side putting herself between him and Kakashi.

"Is Sasuke what you're looking for?" Kakashi asked as he slightly smiled at Kagome.

"No. We're after the Fourth Hokage's legacy." Came the cold voice of Itachi.

"Are you after the Nine-Tails inside Naruto? I know that you two aren't the only ones moving around. The name of your organization was Akatsuki, was it?" Kakashi asked much to the surprise of Itachi and Kisame.

"Akatsuki?" Asuma and Kurenai asked.

"An organization is an organization that should be made of ten members, currently there are only eight. Each member in an S-rank criminal, feared for their tremendous power and ruthless nature. I don't know the exact criteria for becoming a member, but great an extraordinary fighting ability and ruthlessness seem to be the prerequisites. I don't know for sure but I'm betting that their true goal is world domination, and that they will use the power of the tailed beasts in order to hold power over all the ninja nations." Kagome said as she gazed into the eyes of Kisame, who had appeared behind Itachi as soon as the Mangekyou sharingan was summoned.

"How do you know that, little girl?" Kisame asked as he took a threatening step forward.

"What, were you trying to keep it secret?" At his hard gaze she nearly smirked. "I didn't, I just used what I knew from you to create a profile for all other members. I used the number ten, because of the rings on your fingers, ten rings, ten fingers, ten members, it just made sense. I didn't think an organization of highly powerful members would start of with a full staff I picked a nice even eight. World domination isn't exactly original, so that was an easy guess. And please feel free to tell my, why else you would need the power of the tailed beasts?" She had placed her chin in her hand as she went over the facts, her smirk was gone being replaced by a contemplative look.

"You're lying." Kisame said as he glared even more at Kagome.

"No, but you're not going to believe me are you?" Kagome said as she put her hand down and just shrugged.

"Kisame, we will be taking the girl with us. Lets have the other three disappear." Itachi said as he released his Mangekyou sharingan, Kisame only smiled as he started running at Kagome. Kisame began running at Kagome, who didn't move she just smiled. Right when Kisame was within a good striking distance a man clad in green appeared.

"Konoha Strong Whirlwind." The person said as he kicked Kisame back. When he landed it was seen that the person was none other than Might Gai.

"Who are you?" Kisame asked as he stood up and readied himself for a fight. Itachi nearly narrowed his eyes at the late comer.

"Konoha's Noble Blue Beast Might Gai." Gai answered as he smiled, his teeth gleamed in the light.

"Look at yourself before you speak, perhaps you meant to say a dodo." Kisame said as he stood up straight.

"Do not underestimate him." Itachi said as he started not at Gai, but at Kagome standing behind him.

"That's not nice to say, he doesn't look like a dodo, he looks like a lima bean." Kagome said as she stepped up next to Gai. She brought her hands together in front of her chest and focused her energy, for a moment she looked like she was praying.

"Fox Fire." She called out as she kneeled and pushed her hands, turned out towards the two Akatsuki members. A wave of teal colored fire shot forth and they were forced to remove the chakra in their feet, they fell into the water. As soon as the fox fire and moved past them hiding the wall then stood up from the water, with very angry looks on their faces.

"They don't look to happy, do they?" Kagome said as she sweat dropped at the killer intent being sent her way by Kisame. "You two can open your eyes just don't look into his eyes." Kagome said.

"She's right, when trying to learn to beat Kakashi's sharingan I discovered that the best way to beat a sharingan user is to watch their fight during a fight. Predict their movement and counter accordingly by watching the feet of sharingan users, it isn't necessary to look into the eyes of a sharingan user while fighting." Gai said as he smiled and did the thumbs up sign to Kagome, who mirrored the movement minus the smile.

"Now that you mention it, it does seem logical." Kurenai said as she opened her eyes.

"But your about the only guy who can do that." Asuma said as he to opened his eyes.

"Right. There's a trick you have to learn to grasp an enemy's moves from his foot movements alone, but we have no other choice in this emergency." Gai said as they all readied themselves to attack.

"Interesting. You're pretty daring." Kisame said as he started to ready his Samehada.

"Kisame, we're going to stop. We didn't come here to start a war. Unfortunately fighting any more is nonsense. We're leaving." Itachi said as he started to turn.

"I was just starting to get excited, but very well." Kisame said as both he and Itachi seemingly disappeared.

"Are you okay Kakashi-sensei?" Kagome asked as Kakashi started to sag to one side.

"I'm fine, Kagome. I just exhausted myself by having the sharingan out for so long." He said right before he fell face first into the water. Gai went forward and picked him up.

"We should head to Kakashi's apartment to discuss things." Gai said as he started walking with Kakashi over his shoulder. Kagome was about to start following.

"Kagome you go train or whatever it is you normally do. This meeting will be for jonin, okay." Kurenai said when she and Asuma turned toward the genin.

"Understood." Kagome said as she started walking towards the main gate in Konoha. 'When Sasuke finds out that his brother is after is best friend, which he find out soon, he will probably follow Naruto. I can feel Naruto's aura outside of Konoha with the writer of those stupid books, so Sasuke will have to pass me.' Kagome thought as she increased her pace.

I wasn't going to write some much with the jonin and Akatsuki fighting, but I didn't realize how much I could remember from the anime. I just kept writing without really realizing it. Review and tell me how you like it, I mean in I will not update until I have 65 reviews. Tell me what you think, how I can improve my story, what should the pairing be, what should I do with Orochimaru, how will the second confrontation between Itachi and Kagome go, and well anything else that may come to mind. Some of my ideas will stay the same, but if you have a good idea then I may change part of my story.

Thanks,

AliKat89