Anything, But Ordinary.
Chapter Three: What is love?
The Akatsuki members sat in silence. The only sound that could be heard through the abandoned house they had found in rain was the overpowering sobs coming from the blue haired kunoichi. Kisame looked down at the woman who had been crying in his arms all night and well into the morning.
"I'm sure when Leader-sama returns, he'll be able to-." Kisame began but was cut off when the orange haired leader walked into the room.
"Why did you leave base?" He demanded. None of the Akastuki member would meet his eyes contact. Even Hidan remained quiet. The one to step up was Orochimaru, a sadistic smile plastered on his face.
"We where ambushed, Leader-sama." he stated. Konan let out a loud sob. Pein looked around the room realizing they where one short. His daughter had run to him to greet him. Pein grabbed a hold of his chest. His heart breaking. Konan stood in front of him broken in pieces. Pein grabbed the nearest thing to him which happened to be a chair he threw it against the wall, the chair breaking into pieces. He wanted to cry. He wanted to die. He couldn't protect his family. His love. His daughter.
"Who..." his body shock with the amount of emotions going through his body. "Who did this? How did they find us?" he yelled the last part.
"Uchiha Itachi." Orochimaru smiled, as if he had planned this.
"I will rid him of his family." Pein whispered.
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Itachi glanced shock written all over his face. "Hokage-sama!" shock filled the Uchiha's body. He could not believe his ear. He knew that his clan was forming an attack on Konoha, but he did not expect that the outcome would to slay the Uchiha clan. The young man of thirteen stood.
"You seem shocked Itachi." the Hokage said.
"Well yes Hokage-sama. I had assumed that we would have had a different approach to the situation that would have less blood shed." Itachi stated.
"Itachi." the Hokage said, before blowing smoke out of his mouth. "We have weighed out all possibilities-"
"My brother! What is to happen to my little brother? He is just a child Hokage-sama. What of the other children?" Itachi felt like the child he was, the child he should be. It was then that he remembered that it was the very people that he was to kill where the reason he was never allowed a normal childhood.
"I'm sorry Itachi. But as a leaf ninja-"
"I must protect my village." Itachi stated simply. His eyes looked down at the floor. He didn't want to look at the Hokage in the eye.
"Now that you understand. The revolt will be happening any day, as you all ready know. So I will assume you will take care of what needs to be done before that day. There will be a team of ANBU to help with this." the Hokage stated. Itachi nodded before leaving the Hokage tower.
The Hokage turned around and looked over the village that he was sworn to protect. Danzo now stood behind him. "This is for the best." he stated simple. The Hokage continued to look at the setting sun. Sorrow was the only emotion that could be seen on the old man's face.
With Itachi he was making his way to the Uchiha compound. With the sun setting he really should have been hurrying to the compound. Knowing what needed to be done, he could only hope that he could finish what needed to be done before Sasuke returned home. Deciding to take a detour he found himself walking in circles in the forest surrounding the Uchiha compound.
Itachi grunted when he was pushed into the a tree with so much force it was unbelievable. His eyes widened when he came face to face with the orange haired man. Behind him stood the blue haired woman he had saw the day before. "I will kill you if you call for help." Pein said. Itachi didn't move nor was he fazed by what the man had said. What did intrigue him was how the two before him had slipped up on him without him even realizing it.
"What do you want?" Itachi asked.
"Our daughter." Pein hissed at the man.
"That I can not do." Itachi stated simple. Pein brought his hand up wrapping it around Itachi's neck.
"I want you to feel the same pain that you have given to us. I want you to kill you're parents." Itachi looked down not making eye contact with the man.
"Fine." Konan and Pein where taken aback by his answer.
"Do you not care of you're family?" Konan asked, almost desperate to think that a child could kill their family without a second thought.
Itachi wasn't quite sure why he was even answering to the missing nin. Maybe it was because he was sad that because of him their family was now destroyed, or maybe because he knew that destiny would destroy his family.
"My village..." his voice was so low it was hard for Pein and Konan to hear him. "Wishes for me to kill my clan." It was then that Konan wrapped her arms around Itachi pushing Pein out of the way. Itachi just stood there unsure of what to do. He was not used to the feeling of being touched by another."I do not understand what you're doing."
"Do you not know what love is?" Konan asked.
"Love is not something you need." Itachi stated. Pein grabbed Konan and Itachi throwing them into a near by bush as well as himself just before three ANBU landed right where they were.
"I'm kinda nervous about this mission." one of the men said.
"Oh hush, it's not that hard. We just make sure the kid kills his family than do the same to him. Three ANBU against him, that can't be that hard." a woman voice said. "Come on, we need to meet the brat." The three ANBU where gone as fast as they had arrived. Itachi was more than shocked. Not only had his village ordered him to kill his family but once he was done they would kill him.
"We can help you." Konan said, looking into the dark eyes of Itachi.
"I don't need help." Itachi said.
"You can't lie to me." Konan said. Itachi looked down. Today had made his feel as though he was a child being in trouble by his whole clan. He looked at the man and woman.
"I can help you get Sakura back." Itachi said. Konan smiled, tears falling from her eyes.
"Here." Pein said, handing a ring to Itachi, "It goes on you're right ring finger." Itachi put the ring on, the top turned red and the kanji for scarlet showed brightly."It's a way to get a hold of us. Just think about us and we can hear you." Pein said, holding up his own ring which was on his right thumb his kanji reading zero. Konan held her own up which was on her right middle finger, the kanij white was written on it.
Itachi nodded. "I need to go."
"Don't worry we'll be right behind you." Konan said. With that the three nin took off into the slowly setting sun.
Itachi quickly dropped down landing next to the Konoha nin. "Are you ready to get this over with?" the woman ANBU asked. Itachi nodded before everyone went off in different directions screams filled the air.
Itachi stood over his dead mother and father. He so wanted to let his mother live knowing that there was not an evil bone in her body, but she had told him she did not want to live with out her husband. So now Itachi stood over his mother and father his stomach in twists and turns. He was shocked when the door opened reveling his little brother Sasuke. It had all happened so fast, Itachi didn't know what happened just reacted and soon his little brother was running out of the house.
Chasing after the younger Uchiha, Itachi needed to get to the boy before another ANBU did and really kill the boy. Trapping the younger boy in his Mangeko Shaingan. Itachi watched as his little brother fell to the ground, seeming as though he was dead. It was at that point in time that the other three ANBU landed behind Itachi.
"You did good brat. But now it's time for you to die!" the woman yelled running at him. Metal clashed with metal. Pein stood in front of the woman a kunia was stopping her sword. The other two male ANBU where trapped by Konan's origami.
"Konan take Itachi, there are more ANBU heading this way. We will have to get Sakura another day. Hurry." Pein said, Konan nodded before the two where gone. Pein stood in front of the ANBU. The three ANBU screamed before falling to the ground dead. With than Pein followed the two out of the village, knowing that his work with Konoha would not be done yet.
A/N
Hey everyone! I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Sorry it seemed so long since I updated, I got married last week so I was pretty busy lol. ANYWAY! I know that Madara is the bad guy... well I don't like him and I don't really like writing him in my fics that's why I'm just making Danzo that bad guy. Deal with it lol. Well review I will update soon after I update all my other fics lol :)