i finished this early because the next chapter might take a while, It seems like it's going to be freaking long , plus I've been busy, having to deal with cousin. She won't leave me alone! ._. see ya'll next Wed or Monday or sometime! I don't know anymore.
0 0 0 1570 words - yeah really short T_T
Madara pushed through the crowd of villagers all on their way to work, Deidara had gone off to find ingredients he needed for his clay -he figured it would be easier to just make it rather than buy it and run out and buy it and run out and so on so forth again and again.
The uchiha agreed, he liked that idea, less trips to town the better for him, his head was finally clearing up. He could think now and earlier that day he had thought up ways to keep Deidara alive while following through with his plans.
And it involved Genjutsu.
Brilliant right?
There was a nagging that said the plan was nothing but a betrayal but really, what was more the betrayal? Letting Deidara sacrifice himself for his plans or fight with him and keep him alive possibly at the loss of Deidara's very personality and will.
On second thought, neither of those sounded good.
Back to the drawing board.
Yay.
Why was he even thinking about this?~! More importantly why hadn't he noticed that he had stopped in front of a crafts stand and people were starting to give him strange looks.
He looked down, pretending to browse to negate the villagers attention, when he noticed something. A small wooden carving of a creature, he picked it up to examine the fine carefully crafted detail.
It was a humanoid creature painted purplish/green with the tiny protruding bones poking out from beneath a yellow and red makeshift poncho, on top of its head was a lightning symbol and its lips were pulled apart showing off its pointed teeth in a sinister smirk.
Madara eyes widened, it was him, that strange man from the forest.
"That is Shiro," The woman behind the counter said, "He is the evil spirit that lives in the forest, in his story it says that he was once a celestial being but did something wrong and was cast down to earth where he went around burning villages to the ground with his lightning jutsu, one day he came here to Kusa right at the same time a priestess form the local shrine had come to get supplies, she drove the him into the forest, where he remains sealed to this day. Pretty cool, huh?,"
Madara nodded absent mindedly, "That was quite the story," he said setting the carving back down.
"It's my favorite!," The girl chimed, taking her eyes away from when she noticed the two toned man walking up behind him. The action of her eyes doing a double take made the Uchiha raise an eyebrow.
There was somebody behind him, wasn't there?
He barely had time to register Zetsu's presence before said man made his presence known.
"Madara! Fuck, finally!," The two halves were rejoicing, thanking every God they could think of.
They didn't have to go out into that creepy fucking forest! Not that Zetsu had a problem with the forest, it was a lovely place, full of poisonous snakes, insects, spiders, plants. Basically a living cocktail of things that were set out to hurt him or scare his lighter side.
"Zetsu,"Madara said with some surprise,"What are you doing here?,"
"What do you meanWhat are we doinghere?," The two halves chorused,"Pain sent us to find you! Yeah he's kind of pissed off that you haven't reported in, in a while,"
"I'm his superior, he doesn't have the rank to be cross with me,"
"That's not what he thinks," They chorused again flatly,"Honestly Tobi, would it really have been such a hassle to just contact him?,"
"How would I have done that, I don't have my ring," Madara deadpanned.
White Zetsu grinned sheepishly,"Right, we have it now," Kuroi would have rolled his eyes if it didn't mean fighting with his other half about it later on,"You could have teleported to the base,"
"Actually..." the Uchiha trailed off, scratching at the part of his mask that covered his cheek.
Both sides gave him a strange look, making Madara sigh, it was such a weird story. Kind of long too, he had time but eventually it would time to go meet up with Dei, he wouldn't be able to stand here for however long it would take to fill Zetsu in on everything that's happened.
As much as Madara wanted to tell it, he decided to hold on off on the story, at least until they got back to...
Madara put a hand on the stand to steady himself as the world started to swirl around like water going down the drain.
To the base...
The sides of his vision went dark, narrowing his world until all that he could still make out was Zetsu, who's face was contorted in a kind of dumbfounded surprise.
'Oh Kami ,someone make the spinning stop'
"Madara," Zetsu's voice echoed before the whole world went black.
Every time Deidara leaves his sight, something bad happens.
(A/N:Man I make him pass out a lot XD)
Flashback
Itachi stood in the northern training field, his posture fixed strait backed and his bored gaze set on his sensei, who was etching lines in the dirt with a stick.
Madara pulled the stick away once he was finished and stood from his crouch,"Today we're going to do something different," he told the young Uchiha, "I am going to show you how to reverse time,"
Itachi crossed his arms,"You can't do that," he said somewhat smugly, knowing he was right.
The elder chuckled, "You are right, I can't do it, but my younger brother could. It is a technique he created. it allows the user to go back in time up to five minutes," he raised the hand not gripping the stick to show off all five fingers spread wide.
He saw the boys eyes glow questioningly while his smug air drifted off with the breeze, that was the same look he gave when he wanted to say something but didn't know if he could or not.
Or rather, if he should or not.
"Yes?," he motioned for the boy to go on.
Itachi pulled his arms closer to himself before speaking,"If you can go back in time five minutes, then why not go back in time immediately after you cast the technique the first time to make it ten minutes? or fifteen or twenty?,"
"Maa," Madara pointed at the design he drew with a stick, which was beside his foot, "Tell me what this is and you'll have figured it out on your own,"
Itachi scoffed, he didn't even need to look at it, he had watched him draw the damn thing after all,"It is the seal that appears around the blood during a summoning,"
Madara nodded, motioning for him to take the concept further.
"So...This technique lets you summon yourself?,"
"Precisely,"
Itachi couldn't hold back the childish blink of confusion. Both from not understanding how one could summon oneself and why Madara hadn't just come out and said what the technique did instead of sitting on the ground for an hour drawing out the design.
the small raven didn't expect his sensei to spoon feed him the answers to everything, but pussy-footing around the bush every time he tried to actually teach Itachi something new was unnecessary.
And in Itachi's opinion crappy teaching.
No wonder Madara's past students never made it off the field of their first major battle.
"You see" Itachi was pulled out of his thoughts by the beginning of what he knew would be a long explanation, " Every time someone summons something, say an animal, from the world they live in you are dragging them through time as well as space. Yet nothing ages on their way, do you know why Itachi?," the child shook his head,"Because time makes up for itself, it is never ending and every second is a new beginning, that is how time goes on forever,"
Itachi squinted, "I think I get it...Sort of," he said warily, "Basically, time rejuvenates itself every second and when you go through a mass of time at the speed of a summoning without going to another dimension you can actually go back in time because-"
Madara interrupted him,"Yes, yes, yes enough showing off your intelligence," Itachi frowned, while his sensei smirked and shifted into his horse stance,"show me your skills instead. Now that you understand it, are you ready to give it a try?,"
Itachi nodded.
"Do you remember those hand seals I taught you?,"
Another nod.
"Good, when you're ready,"
The tiny ninja, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and stood there. A passing breeze being the only thing to move any part of him, before his eyes snapped open, his hands flashed together so fast that if it wasn't for the sharingan Madara wouldn't have even noticed and clapped his hands together disappearing then, reappearing behind Madara with a kunai in his hand, thrusting it upwards towards his sensei's back.
The elder flashed behind Itachi, narrowly avoiding the deadly accurate blow.
"Well done," Madara said with a dip of his head.
(A/N:Crappy jutsu is crappy, hope everybody understood it XD)
end flashback
Itachi stared, eyes unblinking towards the boarders beyond the Ame village entrance. His hand gripping the conical hat that swung by his side.
His lips pulled back into an empty smirk.
TBC
At the beginning of this chapter I was reminded that I didn't explain Itachi's 'reverse time' jutsu. So I put it in here 8D I thought it was an interesting idea, but man it hurt my brain trying to find a way to explain it XD