Chapter 4-Journey on

"Hey get up." You hear Kisame as he nudges you. "We have breakfast." He tells you as you open your eyes and look up at him. He greets you with a large toothy grin.

Sitting up you swing your legs over the side of the bed. Standing you stretch and yawn, hearing various cracks in your back you walk over to the table and take a seat. No one says a word as you three eat your breakfast.

"Do I have time for a shower?" you ask taking the last bite of your breakfast.

"Quickly." Itachi says

Smiling you stand and walk to your bag, grabbing you pack you walk out of the room and down the hall.

"You don't think she'll run?"

"No." he answers getting up from the seat and walking to the window

10 min pass and you're done with your shower, dressed and heading back to the room. As you reach for the door knob, it slowly opens and Itachi stands there with your cloak. He hands it to you and walks past you Kisame follows close behind. Leaving the inn you smile and wave thanks to the desk clerk, he waves back and tells you to come back soon.

Leaving the town you enter the forest once again, the three of you jump up to the trees and begin to make your way threw the forest.

Hours past and Itachi is the first to draw you three down to the forest floor. Eyeing a log that lies on the ground you take a seat. Opening your pack, you take out a water flask, turning to Kisame you offer him the water, he takes it from you. Looking around you don't see Itachi.

"Where did he go?" you question

Kisame shrugs and hands the water flask back to you, and takes a seat next to you.

"How long have you two been partners?" you ask looking at the trees across from you.

"For a while now." He answers you.

"Doesn't talk much, does he." You ask

"Nope, never has." He tells you.

You look to your right quickly, and squint at the trees.

"What's wrong?" Kisame asks

Soon Kunai come flying at you two, Kisame is hit in the arm and you grab the one that was aimed at your chest. Standing quickly, Kisame grabs the Kunai from his arm and rips it out throwing it to the ground. Instantly four ninja appear before you.

"What do we have here?" the taller one asks "An Akatsuki member and his girlfriend?" he questions

"What do you want? Kisame question them

"Nothing much, we already took care of your partner so we figured we come and see what you have to offer." He chuckles

Itachi…

"Kisame….Wanna play a game?" you say

"What?" he asks, looking oddly at you.

"The first one to take down 3,… Wins." You tell him

"What are the rules?" he questions

Removing your hood from your head, and unbuttoning your cloak you throw it to the ground.

"Anything goes." You say with a smirk on your face, getting into a fighting stance.

"Well now look at you….Don't mess up her body to badly men, I want to play with her later." He says loudly to his team mates looking you up and down.

Closing your eyes you say…"There won't be a later…." opening your eyes. Kisame notices your eyes now have a white horizontal slit in the middle of them, he hears the leader of the group of four starting to cough uncontrollably.

"w-what, cough, cough, is…going cough, cough…on." He struggles to breathe grabbing his chest he falls to his knees.

"That would be your lungs filling up with fluid, your slowly drowning" you say with a smirk,"…that's one for me, zero for you Kisame." You say as you lunge towards another man. Kisame in shock, spreads a smile over his face and draws back his sword striking a man knocking him down to the ground.

"One for me." He yells out

Pulling your kunai from the man's chest you say to him. "Two for me!"

The one lone man left standing starts to shake; you on one side of him Kisame on the other slowly start to walk towards the man. The man reaches into his pouch and pulls out a smoke bomb, throwing it to the ground, grey smoke fills the area. When the cloud clears the man is gone.

"Damn it!." Kisame yells, "I lost." He frowns

Laughing you walk up to him, he looks into your eyes they are back to their normal reflective silver surface, your hands begin to glow and you place them up to his arm where the kunai hit. Healing the wound you say… "Come on we have to find Itachi."

Running threw the trees you stop abruptly.

"What?" he asks you

"I smell…blood…" you say in a low voice. Turning to your left you begin to run again.

"I can sense him now." You say to Kisame running in a new direction

Pushing aside some downed trees you notice a figure standing beside a tree, looking down at the ground.

"Itachi….are you ok?" you ask him

Looking up at you with his red eyes he charges at you. Jumping from his path you notice a Kunai in the middle of his back. Itachi begins to chase after Kisame, lunging at him with a Kunai. Kisame tries his best to dodge him.

"What are you doing? Itachi what's wrong with you?" he yells.

"Kisame, his back!" you yell to him

Hearing your voice Itachi turns towards you charging at you. Kisame then notices the Kunai lodged in his back.

"We got to get it out, it's probably poisoned!" you yell to him blocking Itachi's kicks and punches. Kisame runs up behind him as Itachi goes to hit you. Ripping out the imbedded kunai, Itachi falls to his knees.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" he yells in pain.

Still standing in a battle ready stance not letting your guard down, Itachi looks up at you and lunges for you again.

Damn it, he's still not right, I have to get the poison out of him, I have to immobilize him…

Bringing your hands together into a complicated set of hand signs you say…

"Chakra Scalpel" your hands begin to glow blue and you run at him. Jumping over him you tap the back of his right bicep, sending him forward, his arm lies limp to his side, he tries to move it but is unsuccessful. Running at him again he stands in a battle stance awaiting your attack. When you get close you drop to the ground and slide threw his legs tapping his calves, which instantly sends him to his knees. Standing up you yell to Kisame

"Grab his arms!" as you tackle Itachi down to his back. While you sit on top of him,

Kisame holds down the struggling Itachi's arms. Noticing his eyes starting to twirl you quickly lower his forehead protector over his eyes.

"Sorry, don't hate me later." You say to him

"Ohhhhh he's going to be so pissed!" Kisame says to you.

"I'm sure." You say.

Your hands begin to glow again and you wrap them around the sides of his neck, closing your eyes you lower your head. After a few seconds you say in a low voice…

"It wasn't the kunai."

"Huh? Then why is he crazy?" Kisame asks you

Unbuttoning his cloak you slide back to his lap. Hearing a low moan escape from Itachi's lips you look up at Kisame. He just looks at you...

"He is a man." He says laughing

Smiling you lift up his shirt and there attached to his skin is a beetle, around it are numerous red circles.

"A giant bull's eye…" you say as you pick the bug off of Itachi's muscular stomach. It squirms around in your fingers; placing it on the ground and stepping on it.

"He'll be ok now." You say to Kisame

Closing your eyes you draw your hands together and place them on his stomach. The glowing soon fades and the circles are gone.

"Kisame,…let go." Itachi's low voice is heard.

Kisame looks up at you and you nod to him. Feeling his arms are free, Itachi brings his hands to his face and pushes up his forehead protector, his eyes back to black. He brings his head up and looks at you sitting on his lap. Standing to your feet Itachi sits up.

"Don't get up." You say to him "I need to heal your back, take your shirt off."

"I'll uh, go get your back pack." Kisame embarrassingly says

"Thanks." You say smiling back at him

Kneeling down to Itachi " Well?" you ask. He squints at you and begins to take his cloak off, then his shirt. Coming up behind him you kneel down. Closing your eyes, you focus your chakra. Itachi senses the large build up and watches as it swirls around him. Opening your eyes you begin to sing (Enya, only time)…Itachi closes his eyes and relaxes at the sound of your angelic voice. Feeling the warmth from your hands he begins to nod off.

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"Hey Kisame!" a voice yells

"Deidara? Tobi? What are you two doing here?" Kisame asks

"Pain sent us to see what was taking you guys so long….where's Itachi?..Hey..Do you hear that?" he asks

"He's being healed, let him be!." He yells to Deidara who is already heading towards Itachi location. Deidara peers threw the trees and see's the shirt less Itachi sitting with you at his back, Chakra flows all around the two of you. He listens to your voice and begins to smile. Kisame and Tobi soon join in on the peeping.

"Who is she?" Deidara whispers, not taking his eyes off of you.

"That's Kasai." Kisame whispers back.

"She hot!" he whispers slightly louder. "Her voice,…does she sing all the time?" he asks

"No only when she heals." Kisame whispers.

"I might just have to blow myself up." Deidara jokes

Kisame chuckles at the remark. Itachi lifts his head his eyes red, staring at the direction of the peepers.

"Kisame, Deidara, Tobi, get out here." He yells to them putting on his shirt.

"Shit!" Deidara whispers

Kisame slowly stands and walks threw the trees, Deidara and Tobi following close behind.

"What are you three doing?" you ask helping Itachi put his cloak back on.

"Nothing much." Deidara says with a smile.

"Are we ready to go?" Kisame asks handing you your cloak and back pack.

Itachi says nothing and walks past them.

"Guess that's a yes?" Deidara questions falling behind you and Kisame

Walking down the path Deidara comes up to you.

"Will you sing again?" he asks you

Looking over to him you smile, "Only when I heal."

Taking a Kunai out of his cloak he throws it at Tobi.

"OUCH! What did you do that for? Tobi is a good boy." Tobi says to him pulling the Kunai from his shoulder

Sighing you walk over to Tobi. "I'm sorry he did that." You say to Tobi looking up at him. Your hands begin to glow and you bring them to his shoulder, a few seconds past and his wound is closed. Walking back up to Deidara you smack him over the head,

"Don't do that again." You state in an angry tone

"Owwww, you didn't sing!" he says rubbing his head.

"The wound was too small." You say walking past him

"Deidara! Enough." Itachi yells over his shoulder.

The rest of the walk back to the Akatsuki hideout was calm and quiet; no one said a word to each other, until you reached an odd rock structure. Itachi turns to you. Noticing his eyes are red.

"Let's get this over with." You sigh

Looking up into his eyes, you begin to feel weak and tired. Your eyes begin to close and you feel your self begin to fall. Itachi grabs you before you hit the ground.

"Kisame." He says

Kisame walks over to you, taking you from Itachi's arms he picks you up bridal style, and they all head inside.