Summary
Kagome finally meets the infamous Leader-sama and convinces Itachi to play with fire again... Also, the running.
A/N: I really am excited about this chapter. Couldn't resist one last scene with Deidara and Sasori. Umm, the thing where he has that speech bit with the 'Un' or 'Yeah'? I fixed that. He says it now, but not after every friggin' sentence. Also fixed that in Chapter 33. On to a more entertaining note, every time I saw the chapter title for this one, I immediately thought of Dory from 'Finding Nemo'. Go on. Admit it. You did too. "Es-ca-pe. Funny it looks just like escape." Enjoy!
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Kagome hummed quietly to herself as she looked around her home. It was a nice place quiet, quaint, it held a sense of peace and serenity that she'd missed when she'd originally lived at the shrine.
'And now you're throwing it all away to run off with a guy that you may or may not be in love with. Kagome, you just never learn, do you?' She shook her head and readjusted the picture she was staring at. It was a pencil sketch she'd done of the shrine, and it was honestly one of her favorites. Reaching up, she traced the faded outline of the Goshinboku.
"I miss you all... Mama, Grandpa, Souta," the priestess murmured, her breath hitching for a second before she got herself back under control. Shaking her head, she turned away and started towards the kitchen.
Loud pounding and the jiggling of the doorknob, that she'd locked for once, alerted her to a harried nighttime visitor. Cautiously, she approached the hall and peeked out the window-
-Only to step back and throw the door open to let the person inside.
"Konan-san? What are you-!"
"There's little time to explain. Is Itachi here?" the older woman asked, stepping in and glancing around the hallway before brushing by the surprised priestess to begin searching for the younger member. It was the person that entered behind her that had Kagome immediately backpedaling in fear. By the description Itachi had given her, this man had to be the leader of the Akatsuki.
Pein had come with his partner to see her. It wasn't just the bright orange hair and the many piercings that gave him away. Those ringed eyes of his were incredibly intimidating.
'Itachi said they're called Rinnengan,' the former time traveler thought, swallowing a whimper when those strange eyes fixed on her.
"N-No. I haven't seen him today." It was best to tell the truth; she hadn't seen the Sharingan user... yet. With this new development, though, she felt sure she was bound to. "Did... something happen, Konan-san?" The blue-haired woman glanced back at her leader briefly before sighing and taking Kagome by the arm.
"He won't hurt you. I made him promise not to," the blue-haired woman murmured, pulling the younger girl gently into the house. Pein followed rather sedately, a slight curiosity in his intimidating eyes.
"R-Right. Umm, why don't you guys come take a seat in the den," the former time traveler replied, stuttering out of sheer nervousness before getting herself under control and taking a deep breath. She was just going to have to trust the female missing nin on this one.
Directing them into the room, she huffed and shuffled over to set aside the painting she'd been working on. This one was a full color one of the Goshinboku in spring, the hazy cherry blossoms it always bloomed out once a year blazing across the picturesque scene.
"That one will turn out nicely," Konan commented, nodding in approval before taking a seat on the couch.
"Thanks. I have a few more, if you want to look at some of them. I think I'm going to start selling them," Kagome replied, almost forgetting the silent orange-haired man was there. He didn't seem evil, just... different. 'His aura certainly doesn't scream evil. It's dark, I'll give him that, but definitely not evil like Madara's.' She almost shuddered as she remembered the older Uchiha's energy.
"I might just-!"
"Konan, we are here for business, not leisure," Pein suddenly spoke, quietly interrupting the women's conversation. And that put the priestess's attention back onto him in an instant.
"So... What happened?"
"Itachi has been working on some things... I believe he plans to leave the organization," Konan sighed, unconsciously folding a piece of paper into the shape of an intricate butterfly, "We have not spoken to him, as of yet, but if he does, we'd have to track him down."
"I... haven't heard anything. Itachi may be a friend, but he doesn't really tell me that much about what he does," Kagome lied as convincingly as possible. She knew exactly what was going on, she just had to make them believe that she was in the dark about it all. Pein's eyes narrowed just slightly; the dark-haired girl restrained every urge in her to keep from twitching or sweating out of anxiety. "He thinks that I'm supposed to be this innocent little girl that doesn't know what he's up to. I know he's a ninja, and in some kind of organization. I know that you and several others are working towards some unknown goal that he won't tell me about. And I know that the two of you can probably kill me at any time you wish."
'Clever girl. She knows the risks,' the leader of Akatsuki thought, nodding once while his partner refrained from wincing.
"But I also know this," the priestess continued, sitting up straighter and leveling surprisingly cold looks at the two former Ame nins sitting across from her, "Itachi is my friend, and I care very much about him. I know I'm not a huge force to be reckoned with, but if you try to hurt him, I will do everything in my power to take down your damn organization and everything it happens to be working for! I promise that!"
'Let them think that I'm weak. If they hurt my Itachi, I will cut them all down!' The steely determination surprised Pein and Konan. Never had the blue-haired woman considered the younger lady sitting so daintily across from them to be a threat of any kind. But, no one made that kind of a promise to someone like Pein without the power to back it up. And by the sudden static feeling pressing in the air around them, Kagome certainly could, and would.
'She's very protective,' Konan thought, a light of approval entering her amber eyes.
"... I see. You're that kind of person," Pein finally murmured, nodding slowly to the geared up priestess in deference, "I understand. You realize that this will put you as an enemy of the Akatsuki should you attempt something like that."
"Don't hurt Itachi and you won't ever have to worry about me being an enemy of any kind," Kagome replied just as quietly, tamping back down on her emotions and shoving the power leaking out of her back into the recess of her soul. There wouldn't be a need to fight now, so there was no reason for the intimidation tactic anymore.
Pein nodded and rose to his feet. Turning and motioning for Konan to do as well, he glanced back at Kagome with all seriousness. "Should something happen, I will not be able to completely stop the others from mobilizing. I act as leader, but the true iron fist of the Akatsuki is someone even I can not completely defeat. He lives a life in shadows and he is strong."
The priestess had a pretty good idea of who it was that was leading the criminal organization. "If you don't like it, why do you let him continue to rule?"
"Because having someone like Madara Uchiha as your enemy is as good as signing your death will." Without saying goodbye, the orange-haired man left the room. Kagome blinked, then swallowed silently as she looked to Konan. Amber eyes sparked at her sharply in vague amusement.
"He was impressed by you. That means he likes you," the older woman quirked a tiny grin at the flabbergasted girl and bowed slightly. "If Itachi comes by, be ready to leave as quickly as possible."
With that, the two Akatsuki members silently slipped out and headed back to base. Their mission was complete, and now all they had to do was wait.
They did not expect to run frantically back to a base that had been decimated with a C-2 explosive.
"... You have got to be shitting me," Pein growled out, Rinnengan eyes flashing in fury, "He blew up the base!"
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The next time she saw Itachi, he looked a little shell-shocked and his aura screamed nervousness. Ushering him in quietly, she pushed him onto the couch and stated to head into the kitchen to make tea. His hand clasped her wrist and he jerked her to him. The priestess overbalanced and ended up in his lap instead, a sour look on her face.
"Itachi! What's gotten into you! Let me-!"
"There's no time for frivolties and tea. You need to pack your things. We have to go," the former Clan heir hissed, eyes flashing red as he scanned the area again. Kagome watched him carefully, the color starting to drain from her face.
"You... You did something, didn't you? That's why Konan-san and Pein came here. They knew you were going to do something," she whispered, eyes widening when that cold gaze suddenly swung back to her, the tomoe in his eyes swirling dangerously.
"Leader-sama was here?" Horror filled the Uchiha at the thought that he wouldn't have been able to stop the Rinnengan user had he tried to kill the priestess
"Konan-san said that because I threatened him, he likes me," Kagome continued, stopping when the dark-haired male choked.
"You threatened Leader-sama?"
"Well, yeah. He was insinuating that he was going to hurt you. I told you before, Itachi, no one gets to hurt the people I care about," the former time traveler countered, a dark glare marring her pretty face before it was cleared again and she was bouncing over to a pack that had been behind the couch. "I'm ready to go, by the way."
He couldn't believe how reckless she was. It made his heart swell to know that she was so protective of him. "... Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Itachi!" Kagome ground out in exasperation, reaching out and pulling the front of his shirt until he was nose-to-nose with her. "I thought we already went through this! I'm. Not. Leaving. You. Get it through that thick Uchiha skull of yours!"
"Fine, fine! I know! I'm stuck with you!" Standing, he looked around the house that had become a home to him. With a pang in his heart, he realized he was going to miss this place. "I think I'm going to miss this house."
"Yeah... me too," Kagome sighed, looking around before her eyes widened comically, "Oh! I forgot something! Wait here!" She disappeared up the stairs, only to reappear a second later, grab his arm, and drag him up with her. "On second thought, come with me!"
"What? Where?"
"This way! Start pulling all the sheets off!" Opening the room that contained all her paintings, she practically threw him in before pounding down the hall to her room. Itachi glanced around, not really sure where to start, before shrugging and stepping over to the nearest covered canvas. Giving the white sheet a jerk, he unveiled the first of many paintings that would leave him dumbstruck in awe. This one was of a boy with long silver hair and triangular-shaped puppy ears perched on the top of his head, pinned to an ancient looking tree with an old arrow. He appeared to be asleep.
'This... must be Inuyasha.' Funny, but he'd always imagined something... less human-looking. The next one he pulled was another picture of Inuyasha, brandishing an enormous sword and a fierce triumphant grin on his face. Most of the next ones involved the hanyou in some way or another. One with a ginger-haired child and him arguing, another as he lounged in a tree. Itachi moved on, pulling another sheet, and was met with a new face. This one was a woman, no, a teenager, dressed in ancient bone armor with a boomerange larger than herself slung across her back. 'And this must be Sango.'
Portrait after portrait of her old friends were revealed, the monk Miroku next, the kitsune-child he'd seen earlier, Shippo, playing with a little brown-haired girl in a checkered kimono. An intimidating man in full warlord regalia with white-silver hair and bright golden eyes.
"You okay?" The Uchiha whipped around in surprise. He'd been so caught up looking at her canvases that he'd stopped unveiling them three-quarters of the way through.
"Yes... I never knew you had so many," he replied, glancing back at all the faces that now seemed ingrained in his mind. These people were friends and family to her. He would never forget them now either.
"I was... so homesick. I missed all of them so terribly that I couldn't stop drawing and painting them. I ended up broke a lot of times just trying to get the supplies because my mind would not let them go."
"Do you still miss them?"
"I always do, but the pain is bearable now." Itachi watched her pull cloth aside to reveal even more paintings, these of a more modern setting and revolving around a shrine and three people. "This is my family. That's Mama." She pointed to a painting of an older woman that had Kagome's smile. "This is Grandpa." The elderly man was sweeping the grounds happily. "And... that's... Souta. My little brother." A boy, probably no older than 9, was bouncing a black and white ball off his foot and grinning amiably. There was another of Souta, this time standing under an enormous tree, smiling cheerfully. If he wasn't mistaken, it was the same tree that Inuyasha had been pinned to.
"Is that tree..."
"The same one, yes. That's the God Tree, or the Goshinboku. Inuyasha was pinned there for fifty years before I went back in time and released him. It's the same one on my family's shrine grounds." He turned to the priestess to find her staring almost longingly at the tree.
"Kagome... Why did you ask me to unveil these?" Surely, they wouldn't be able to take all of these with them!
"I... I want you to burn them, Itachi." The former heir's jaw dropped. Was she serious?
"No! These are your-!"
"They're my memories, Itachi!" Kagome burst out, quieting after a second, "Besides, I know I can't take them with me. There are too many."
"You don't have to give them all up, Kagome. Take two or three with you," Itachi offered, gesturing to the pieces. Deidara would cry if he knew what they were discussing, "One of your family, one of your friends, and another one you can't part with." Seeing the hope shimmering in her blue eyes made him realize hed made an excellent choice in telling her that. "You will have something to remember them by."
A few moments, and a little probing to hurry, later, she presented him with three portraits. One was a painting of her family standing in front of the shrine, another was of her group of friends from the past, and the third was an old sketch of the shrine and it's surrounding grounds. That one surprised him.
"Isn't this the one that was hanging downstairs when you first come in?"
"Yes." He merely nodded, carefully taking the sketch and laying it on the table in the room with the others. A few seconds later they were stored in a scroll that he marked and gave to her to put in her pack. She did so, brushing some dust from her black hakama.
"What did you forget earlier?" Kagome sweatdropped and pulled the chain from under her sleeveless black haori. The Shikon no Tama dangled from it innocently, though its' call still tried to haunt him.
"I almost forgot to get the Jewel."
"... It's a miracle that you've managed to hold on to it for so long," Itachi deadpanned, giving her a blank look when she merely huffed and crossed her arms in annoyance.
"If I could, I'd get rid of the damned thing." The silence became slightly strained, and the Uchiha decided to move on to another subject. Clearing his throat, he gestured to the paintings in the room.
"So... More arson."
She grinned, the tension in the room melting away. "Make it so I never existed, Itachi."
"Right. Disappear." He could work with that.
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They traveled through the night and for most of the morning. Near noon, Kagome begged for a short break. Nodding in silence, Itachi leaned back against the nearest tree as he watched the exhausted priestess flop to the ground and concentrate on trying to breathe properly. He would allow a half hour break, but that was all they could push for now.
"It's been... a long time... since I've traveled... like this..." the former time traveler puffed out between deep breaths, pulling out her water bottle and taking slow sips. It helped a little that Itachi had been training her on endurance, but with staying in the village for two years with little to no major activity, she'd lost some of her edge in speed. And now she was paying for it.
"You're doing much better than I anticipated. I was worried you would have passed out on me a lot sooner," the Uchiha replied, stretching his arms and striding over to her. Digging in his pouch, he produced a pill and handed it to her. She took it, confusion marring her brow.
"What is this?"
"Soldier pill. If we start to slow, we can take them. It will give you a temporary boost in energy, as well as chakra, but overusing them has vast consequences on your body later. I recommend you wait until you think you need it."
Kagome nodded and smiled up at him in a way that sent a tingle down his spine. If they weren't on the run, he'd have done something about it, but his mind was spinning rapidly along strategy scenarios and possible traps. "Okay." She then popped the pill in her mouth and crunched down on it. Itachi visibly twitched and lunged for her.
"Kagome! I said wait!"
"I think I need it now, though!" He slapped a palm to his forehead, grumbled under his breath about "genins", and pulled her to her feet. Their allotted time was up.
"Time to go. "
"Wait, already? But why?" Kagome asked, confusion running through her as he quickly flipped through the hand signs to put their equipment into storage scrolls. Rolling them up, he handed her two and stuck the other four in his pouch. "We haven't even eaten yet!" Her stomach was inclined to agree with her at the moment.
"Those go in the pouch. Put them there and only take them out when I tell you to," Itachi demanded, ignoring her questions as he started rapidly applying several genjutsu to their makeshift campsite.
"Itachi! Why are we so rushed?"
"I tried to blow up the base, okay!" he bit out, whirling around and pinning her with agitated Sharingan eyes, "I failed, unfortunately, and Madara knows. He'll come after us, and if he catches us before we reach the border to Fire country, he will kill us both."
The priestess froze in fear, remembering those murderous red eyes that had trapped her in their hypnotic stare. And the older Uchiha's terrible aura!
"How... You blew up your base?"
"... Yes." At her horrified look, he added quickly, "No one died. I may have... left Kisame an intricately coded note to evacuate the building as unobtrusively as possible. Everyone was out on missions. I borrowed Deidara's clay, stuck some delayed reaction exploding tags on it, lit it on fire, and the whole thing... went up in flames a few moments later."
"... Closet arsonist." It hit her a second later. "That's what you meant by 'more arson' the other day!"
Itachi snorted and held out his hand, "Yes yes, now please, let's go." A moment later, she laid her hand in his and he pulled her to her feet. "Do you remember how to stick your feet to the tree limbs?"
"Uh huh. But I'm not all that great-!" Kagome started, letting herself be pulled away from the 'camp'.
"It's fine. I'll catch you if you fall," the former heir interrupted, stopping at a tree and nodding at the thick trunk, "Up you go."
The priestess looked up into the branches and swallowed. They were going to be pretty high up. "... Just so you know, I don't like this idea." When she only received a muted pleading look, she sighed and concentrated her energy into her soles. Then, taking a deep breath, she charged the tree and started running up it. Her feet stuck, thankfully, and she kept going until she reached the nearest branch, reaching out and clinging to it almost comically. "Okay! I'm up!"
"Good," came the Uchiha's voice somewhere below her. She felt a whoosh pass by her and looked up to see him balanced perfectly on the next branch up. "No time for a break, Kagome. We need to keep moving."
"Right. I'm just... getting my bearings. I think I'm ready," she murmured, glaring at her tree branch in annoyance. Sure, Itachi had been climbing trees and jumping in them a lot longer than her, but did have to show off? Manuvering carefully, she situated herself until she was standing on her branch. Looking up, she smiled enormously at the ninja and gingerly hopped to the next branch. Itachi twitched in horror when she windmilled before steadying herself and jumping to the next one. Inwardly, he was surprised that she was adjusting so quickly, then remembered a conversation they had not too long ago.
"I learn better wth experience. For some reason, I'm a more hands-on kind of person. I guess it's because I had to fight to stay alive for so long," she'd said, grinning happily as she flung another shuriken at one of her targets. She'd missed that throw, but managed to nick the side of the tree in passing.
'This... has bad idea written all over it.' Gritting his teeth, he vaulted over several branches and caught up with her in one leap. The priestess was quickly getting the hang of it, but they needed to move faster. Wrapping an arm around her waist, he jumped with her and propelled her much farther than she originally intended. She squeaked and grabbed onto him.
"We need to go faster, so we'll travel like this until you get the hang of it," the former heir explained, getting a nod as she went back to concentrating. Eventually, she was propelling them along as much as he was.
"Itachi?"
"Yes?"
"What's a genin?"
"The lowest rank a ninja starts out with once they graduate from the academy."
"Oh." A few silent moments later. "Does that make me a genin?"
"... I'm not really sure, to be honest."
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The two renegades continued to the Fire Country border at a quick pace, night falling and surrounding them. Just as Kagome was about to open her mouth to request a break, and maybe a nap, Itachi skidded to a halt on his tree branch. The priestess, in an attempt to stop just as quickly, windmilled past him on sheer momentum. He reached out, snagged her dark blue obi, and yanked her back to him, steadying himself when she came crashing into his chest.
"Oof! Itachi! Why did you-!"
"Quiet! I'm sensing something." He hadn't meant to bark out the order like he had, but the tense situation had put him on edge. Just in his range of the Chakra Sensor he'd been keeping an absent eye on was a dark feeling trickling in. He couldn't quite suppress the shiver that skated down his spine when Madara's face came to mind. The older Uchiha was on the hunt, and he was closing in on them.
"What do you sense?" Kagome whispered quietly, looking him dead in the eye and mirroring the serious expression on his face. So, she could sense it too.
"Madara. He's far enough behind us that we can take a break for a few hours, but we have to be ready to move the moment I say so," the former heir murmured, his breath unconsciously ghosting across the girl's cheek and making her realize exactly how closely they were pressed. She bit her lip and inwardly slapped herself for being so silly. Now was not the time for her hormones to suddenly surface. A thought hit her suddenly.
"... How long have you been able to sense auras, Itachi?"
"Since the time I went looking for you and you were drowning."
"I see... How did you manage that?"
"I... In a fit of anger, I tried to set the well on fire." She goggled up at him in shock and he shrugged, "It bounced off a barrier, flared up, and something from the well attached itself to me. That thing seems like it's almost... sentient."
"Yeah. It's kinda creepy, huh?"
"Very." They hopped down to the ground, and he motioned for her to not speak until he told her to. She nodded and licked her suddenly dry lips in anxiousness.
Itachi gripped her hand tightly and pulled her into the shadows. Without making a sound, he turned her attention to him and put a finger over her lips to keep her quiet. Then, he motioned ahead of them and for her to stay put. Kagome nodded and allowed him to slip away from her. Fear gripped her heart and made her stay perfectly still for the next ten minutes; otherwise, she was sure she would have been a bawling mess right about now.
A rustle of bushes near her had her twitching and quelling the urge to immediately run, but a flash of black made her relax. Itachi wore black. He was back safely.
"You scared me," she whispered, placing a hand over her racing heart and grinning at the shadow.
"... You don't know how to read chakra, do you?" a harsh voice hissed out, making Kagome's eyes widen in terror. The aura that suddenly flared to life was not the Uchiha. She opened her mouth to scream at the top of her lungs, but a pair of hands clamped over her mouth. They, suspiciously enough, had a pair of mouths on them, and the tongues licked her cheeks aggresively.
'Oh gross, gross, gross!'
"No no no! Don't scream, yeah," another voice whispered in her ear, one that she instantly recognized. Turning her head, she locked wide gazes with the visible blue eye of Deidara. He smiled genially before a black look descended over his features, "If I had known that bastard Uchiha was gonna use my exploding clay, I would have left a lot less, yeah. Tell him he's a shit arsonist." She nodded in agreement and he let go of her mouth. Taking a deep breath, the priestess made a great show of wiping the drool off her cheeks as she glared at the sheepish blonde. "Sorry. They like you." Holding up his hands, he winced inwardly when the tongues on them wagged lasciviously.
"That. Is. Disgusting."
"Deidara! If you don't hurry the hell up, Itachi will come back, and he will actually try to kill us this time," that gravelly voice spoke from the shadows again and sent shivers of fear down her spine.
"Right right. I gotcha, yeah," the bomb's expert grumbled, waving the hunched-over shadow off and turning his attention back to Kagome.
"Deidara-san! Who is that?" she whispered, leaning close to the blonde as she tried to not freak out and jump from any sudden movements. He gave her a flabbergasted look.
"That's danna, yeah!"
"... Who?"
"Sasori!" Kagome peered much more closely at the figure and shook her head.
"I... don't see it. Is this some kind of stupid joke?"
"No! That's an armored puppet that he wears when he fights! Danna's inside it, yeah!" He started to pet her hair, but she shoved him away unceremoniously and approached the shadowed figure. Once she got close enough, her curiosity started to get the better of her.
"Oh... wow! You made this, Sasori-san?"
"In a sense, yes."
"That's amazing! Is this-!" She reached out to the tail to try and feel the metal, but Deidara was next to her between one heartbeat and the next, pulling her hand away sharply and reprimanding her like a child.
"Don't touch that, yeah! It's poisoned!"
"R-right! Sorry!"
"It's a wonder Itachi's kept you alive this long, yeah!"
"Hey!" Kagome countered angrily, putting her hands on her hips and glaring at the blonde.
"Deidara!"
"Right! Danna and I can probably hold off Kakuzu and Hidan for a little while, yeah. You don't know Kakuzu, and Hidan is an ass. He said he wants you as his next sacrifice." That made Kagome twitch and want to 'sit' the insane Jashinist all over again. "All I have to do is insult that idiot's religious views and 'Bam!', instant fight, yeah," the former Iwa nin explained, steering the time traveler away from the pointy end of Sasori's puppet's tail, "Kisame, on the other hand, is someone that Itachi will have to deal with, yeah. In a way, the jackass betrayed him. The others... well, Konan didn't come and Leader-sama is with her, yeah. Zetsu is tricky, and can phase through the ground cause he's this plant-human hybrid thing, yeah. Don't end up alone with him, otherwise, he'll probably eat you, yeah."
"Why... Why are you doing this?" He blinked, and if Sasori hadn't been covered in another puppet, she would have seen the same reaction from him, "Why are you helping us?" Deidara sighed loudly and avoided eye contact with her. There was an unmistakable flush across his cheeks though.
"Because... As much as I hate that asshole... I like you. And you balance him out, yeah. So, really, I'm helping you." Kagome swallowed the lump in her throat and nodded. "Now, the plan is to make sure the two of you get to the border before we do, yeah. Cause if the Akatsuki beat you there, you're dead."
"Time's up, Deidara. We need to go." Sasori turned away and began to slink back into the shadows, "Kagome-san, perhaps we will meet again, someday."
"Right then!" And with that, the nefarious blonde swooped in and settled his mouth on the startled girl's. Kagome blinked, first in shock, then in annoyance; but before she could muster up the energy to decide to slap the crap out of the sneaky blonde, he was being dragged away by his partner with an enormous grin on his face.
"You tell that asshole that if he doesn't take care of you, I'm coming to steal you away from him, yeah!" And then they were gone, leaving an irate Kagome to contain the urge to scream as she waited for Itachi to get back.
'That... THAT SNEAKY JERK!'
Itachi was going to be so pissed.
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A/N: And let's stop there. Next chapter, what you all have been waiting for. -takes deep breath- FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! And let's just pray that I can do it justice. And we are creeping closer and closer to the end.
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