I am doing this chapter right after I posted the new chapter… :D
I don't own Naruto, but I own Carlie. :)
WARING! This chapter has slight spoilers about the show. If you can recognize it.
Kaitlyn's POV
The flash of maroon was actually Carlie, one of our friends from the Hidden Leaf Village. I knew about her; I usually hung out with her whenever Vrin or Carol went on a mission. She's like, my third best friend. But I didn't usually hang out with her when Vrin and Carol were around. I guess I was some-what neglecting her. I immediately felt guilty. It's like, if I hang out with her, I kinda don't hang out with Carol/Vrin. But when I don't? Then I'm neglecting her. Vrin is ok with her, but Carol… not so. But enough of this. I was wondering why she's here.
"I'm here to help you. I heard from Lady Tsunade that you guys were on a mission. Lady Tsunade decided this was an S-rank mission, which usually genin don't participate in. And can I join the party?" she said, and she seemed to know that we were gonna fight Itachi.
"Sure, the more, the merrier," I replied. Maybe if Carol saw what Carlie was capable of, she wouldn't mind so much.
Two points for me. Plus I've gotten the advantage in the friendship war.
"Hn." You could guess who said that.
Tobi, as oblivious as ever, said "It seems that we have a new participant! Do you accept, Kaitlyn?" he seemed to suspect me of something. She is easily the most powerful of the three. I wonder how this match would go on… There was something wrong about his voice. It sounded more deep, more mature. I had to worry about that later.
And what happened to poor Deidara? My friends weren't that cruel to let him get in the middle of a cross-fire. They lifted him up into the trees, then kept their distance from him.
"Begin!" Tobi said, with his usual hyper voice, then jumped back into the trees.
Itachi didn't do anything. Instead, he stood there, motionless. "Shikyaku! (A/N: Beast Mimicry. To me it sounded better than the English version. :P)" Kiba said, then his fingernails turned into claws, his canines turning into fangs. Kiba proceeded to attack. "WAIT!" I said. He halted, and turned back to face me.
"Whaddya mean, wait?" he asked.
"I can't, can't… read his mind!"
Itachi appeared behind Carol, who managed to jump out of the way as he tried to slash her with a kunai. "True, because that is a clone. An explosive-" BOOM! "-one."
"How'd he get there so fast?" Carol asked.
"It's called teleportation," Itachi answered.
"Cool," I said, making a mental note to learn it.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Carol shot the fireball to Itachi. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Itachi countered it with a bigger fireball. Carol shielded her eyes, but that's all she did. When the smoke cleared, Carol was fine, and everyone widened their eyes. "I'm immune to fire, Itachi." she said. "I knew that. Just making sure," Itachi replied.
"Hm. Seeing that you're a fire user, I think this will be it. get ready!" water suddenly appeared in the air around Carlie. Itachi seemed surprised at first, then was emotionless as usual. "Your kekkei genkai, right?" he asked. "Yup, I can make tiny water particles in the air turn into huge bodies of water. So that means, the water I create is unlimited."
That's when I realised something (again). "You can stop global warming! [A/N: yup, you guessed it. I'm trying to raise awareness. :) ]
Anyway, back to the fight.
Carlie made a few hand signs. "Water Style: Water Shark Bomb Jutsu!" a shark was formed from the water she made. It was heading straight to Itachi, then he disappeared and appeared behind Carlie. The shark was following him the whole time, like a homing missile… or rather a homing shark. Itachi had to stop whatever he wanted to do and dodge the shark. Again, it came to him. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" the shark evaporated.
And what was I doing? I was reading his mind, observing his every move, trying to figure out a pattern. It seemed that he was going easy on us, as he didn't expect us to be very hard to defeat. But now he was reconsidering it.
"Kiba," I said.
"Yeah?"
I nodded. "Let's do it."
He knew exactly what I was talking about, as we had worked on this jutsu for a long time now. Now it's time to put it into practical use.
"Beast Man Clone!" Kiba transformed Akamaru into a perfect copy of himself. At the same time, Itachi had used his Clone: Super Explosion Jutsu (that's what it's called in the game I'm playing) and had created two clones capable of acting like a bomb. I could see how he did it. Hmmm… maybe if I tried, I could do it too..?
"Gimme a sec, I'll dispel the clones. They capable of exploding like Deidara's bombs, so keep your distance!" the last part was for the others, not just Kiba.
I threw three shurikens in the air. "Shuriken Shadow Clone! (another jutsu from the game)" I learnt this from Tsunade who said that the Third Hokage created this jutsu. The shurikens became from three to 30. One third of them went for one of the clones, the other one third went for the second clone and the remaining shurikens went for Itachi. Simple; he just used the clones as a shield. But made the clones disappear in a puff of smoke. "NOW!" I said to Kiba.
"FANG OVER FANG!" I was worried Itachi won't just dodge/block the attack, but counterattack Kiba. I did some hand signs. "Horizontal Wind Scythe Jutsu!" it was similar to a normal Wind Scythe Jutsu, but it was horizontal instead of vertical, as the name suggests. You see, Kiba does his Fang over Fang to cover up for the Wind Scythe Jutsu. The concept is similar to the Shadow Shuriken technique. The objective was to either injure the opponent using Fang over Fang, or the Wind Scythe Jutsu.
Anyways, Itachi dodged the Fang over Fang easily, but didn't have enough time to dodge the Wind Scythe. It hit him, turned into a vertical tornado and proceeded to shred him to ribbons. But nooo, he just had to have enough time to do the Substitution Jutsu. When he reappeared, his cloak seemed to be torn in a few places, suggesting that he didn't entirely avoid the Wind Scythe Jutsu. It meant that he did the Substitution Jutsu only after it had hit him.
"It seems that I have underestimated you," he said to Kiba and me. Or is it supposed to be me and Kiba? Hmmmm… "And I'm not going to take any more chances."
He disappeared, reappeared behind Kiba and then decided to put Kiba out of the game. Of course Kiba tried to defend himself; but Itachi was the stronger opponent, so he easily overpowered Kiba. Poor Kiba. I couldn't do anything about it since I really suck at taijutsu, and if I used any more wind techniques, Kiba would just get caught in it. Kiba practically flew after Itachi kicked him in the stomach.
"Wind Style: Tornado!" Kiba got sucked into my tornado and I put him onto the ground. He was clutching his stomach. "Ow. That hurt," he said.
"Kiba, I suggest you stay out of this," Carol said. "Unless you have good long range ninjutsu lying about. And by long range, I meant no going close to Itachi to attack."
Kiba scowled. "Great; I'm outta the game. Although I could… nevermind."
Carol turned to face Itachi. "You want to fight, don't you? Well, let's see who wins this. Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" she didn't make a fireball; she made a… whatchamacallit… flamethrower? I guess… a constant flamethrower. Itachi countered it with his own flamethrower (A/N: yup, my grammar/limited vocabulary sucks). It went on for a while, when I decided to make my move. Did I mention, I can also do lightning based techniques? I didn't? Well, now you know.
I did a few hand signs. "Chidori: 1000 birds!" I charged towards Itachi. I said my taijutsu sucks, right? I meant it looks bad beside Vrin, but overall it's OK, but I still give credit to Vrin as she makes my taijutsu look weak. Why am I talking about taijutsu? Oh yeah, because if I charge Itachi…
He'll just block it. He's good. I could see every plan, every move he's gonna make in his mind. "Any jutsu you use will have no effect before these eyes."
"Oh yeah? I haven't used my Shikyaku mode yet, too. You want to take a chance? Fine." I jumped back, did a hand sign, and said, "Shikyaku!" my fingernail turned into claws. My canines became fangs. There was only one difference between me and Kiba when I did this: my eyes would turn a golden colour, like a domestic cat's eye. This granted me very good eyesight, just like a cat's. "You asked for it. Well, not literally."
No one except Tobi was surprised. Deidara wasn't because he was out cold and didn't know what was happening. But Shino knew about it (A/N: Yup, I forgot all about poor Shino. OMG! I just realised that… I don't know why… but still, OMG… and no, he's not fighting cause of this, and cause I'm too lazy to research him, as I don't know a thing about him, compared to the others) as he is my teammate.
"Guys, get back behind me!" Carlie suddenly said. After we all got back behind her, she did some hand signs and said "Water Style: Tsunami!" a HUGE tidal wave appeared out of no-where. Yup, she was using her kekkei genkai. She made sure that everywhere (in a radius of a kilometre) was flooded so Itachi couldn't escape without getting pulled down. I had already made a tornado which we were safely inside in, as the water couldn't get in.
The water receded after a while. Itachi was there, unharmed (if you don't count the Wind jutsu that I used). "I can't believe it! He's the only person who had managed to avoid this jutsu!" Carlie exclaimed.
"Like I said, any jutsu you use will have no effect before these eyes. Unfortunately, that was a jutsu." [Of course you know who said this. :)]
That's when it hit me.
The Sharingan had its weakness: if several jutsus were done in succession, the sharingan won't be able to process it so if we use enough jutsu, it might get around Itachi… I needed to make up a plan.
I transferred the thought to Kiba and Carol. Not Carlie though; she didn't know about this yet. They both nodded. "Huddle up!" I said, and we put our heads together like how people do before they play (American) football, where they have a briefing on their strategy.
"If we combine our jutsus, it might get past the Sharingan. So whaddya say?" I told them. They all nodded. "Alrighty, here's what we do. First, Carlie! You know the Water Shotgun Jutsu?" I asked her. She nodded. "Ok, do that, then Carol, you do your Fireball, Kiba, you think you can do another Fang over Fang?" he nodded. "Ok, good, so do it, and then I'll do… what do you suggest?"
"Wind Scythe!" Carol said.
"Tornado!" Carlie exclaimed.
"I know! How about the jutsu that you combine both wind and lightning?" Kiba suggested.
"I'll go with Kiba's idea," I decided.
We turned to face Itachi. "We're ready."
"What are you waiting for? I won't attack, as you are all just genin. I prefer to just watch you from here, while waiting for your attack."
"You said it," Carlie said. She did some hand signs. "Water Style: Water Shotgun Jutsu!" three sharks, smaller compared to the Shark Bomb Jutsu, closed in on Itachi. "Not the same trick again?" he asked. He dodged the first, jumped the second and then used the Fireball Jutsu on the third. He didn't realise that Carol's fireball was closing in on him. He barely got out of that and then got hit by Kiba's Fang over Fang. Now it's my turn, right? Righty. "Storm: Tornado Scythe! (A/N: yeah, sorry about the lame name, couldn't really figure out anything else). Let me explain the jutsu: it combines both the elements wind and lightning into three, GIANT tornados which can shred a person to ribbons, similar to the Wind Scythe Jutsu. From the outside, it looks like a normal tornado, but in the inside, lightning flashed. So don't get sucked in, unless you want to be roasted by lightning.
Since Itachi was still in the air, he got sucked in. like I said, you'll get roasted alive, but I wasn't that mean to let him die in there. After I decided he reached his limit, I cancelled it out. He was still conscious; but he couldn't get up. I still couldn't believe it. We won. And after a tense moment, I like to be hyper for a while.
For this case, I suddenly shouted "I BEAT THE SHARINGAN! I'M SO HAPPY! NOW I CAN BEAT SASUKE IN A SPAR!" yup, I'm hyper.
"WE can go home, and see everyone else! I miss it! the Hidden Leaf Village! I miss being annoyed at Naruto, I miss Guy-sensei, although he puts us through hell, I miss EVERYTHING!" Carol was sobbing.
"YAY WE CAN GO BACK!" Vrin started running away.
"So the winners are Kaitlyn, Kiba, Carol and Carlie! Congratulations! You may now go back, and then, if we meet next time, you may not be so lucky." Tobi's voice was getting distant cause I was being kidnapped by a certain someone.
The certain someone put me down and uncovered my mouth. "You lost! What are you doing?" I glared at Itachi, who was panting heavily.
"How's Sasuke?" what? He went to the trouble just to ask me this?
Please, I know you're reading my mind, I knew a long time ago. Don't worry, I transformed my clone. They won't notice. Itachi replayed the times he and Sasuke were together; before he killed the clan, the day he killed the clan and why.
I was kinda speechless after that, I managed to talk. "Sasuke… is fine. He's training to beat you, that's what I know." I paused, thinking of what to say next. "You know, Sasuke once told me, he wanted to be your equal, if not stronger, to beat you and get his revenge. When he meant equal, I could sense a lot negative energy. You worked so hard to prevent Sasuke from joining the Akatsuki… but with the example you're setting… he might just do it one day. To be your equal. My suggestion? Go back, tell him the reason you killed the whole clan, etc, etc. for the etc part, just tell him anything you might have wanted to tell him, but couldn't."
Itachi nodded. "You should go back to your friends. Oh, and the teleportation? Just focus on where yo want to be and you will be there. Usually, you gotta do a hand sign, but I get the feeling you don't. Until we meet again." He disappeared in a puff of smoke. "That was weird…"
I was still thinking about it as I headed back to my friends.
This is the longest chapter of 2,585 words! Why? because itachi is just TOO GOOD in combat. oh, now it's 2,606.