A/N: It's been a while but I'm back!
Ok, I'm gonna explain a few things about where I'm going with this story and I'll answer a few questions too. So yes, this authors note will have spoilers so skip if you don't want to know.
I know I said in an earlier authors note that Itachi would be sent to the real world and that's true but that's WAY later in the story. So Kushina and her group are from a different reality, I'll explain in a minute. And they also don't know Black Rock Shooter personally, they know of her. If that makes sense.
And I know some of you are wondering how Itachi got into Black Rock Shooters' world and honestly I haven't really put any thought into it at first. I'll probably explain it later when I think of something.
Now on to what I plan to go with this story. I'm gonna explain backwards bare with me.
First, I actually plan to write a sequel when this story is done. It's gonna take place in the Naruto-verse. That's right, I'm going to send Itachi and his group (harem? Still up for debate) back to Itachi's world. Eventually Itachi's going to form a group with the girls which is basically an anti-akatsuki group. They'll protect the Leaf Village and Tailed Beasts from the shadows. Eventually everyone will find out that Itachi's the leader of the group which will bring conflict between his group, Akatsuki, and the Leaf Village.
A fight I really want to write is Black Gold Saw vs Kisame.
Can anyone say giant sword fight?
Moving on, Itachi will, after the truth comes out, be accepted back to the village which is why I'm still wondering if I should do the harem.
He'll need to restore the clan and what better way then having a harem.
Again still up for debate, and sometime in the future I'll make a poll for harem or no harem.
But before Itachi and his group are sent back to the Naruto-verse, they'll be sent to the real world. Ours, you know with cars and stuff. I want to throw in a lot of family like moments in that part of the story. I want to have everyone (Itachi, Black Rock Shooter, Dead Master, Black Gold Saw, and Strength) living in the same house, it just seems it'll be a lot of fun to write. Of course they'll still be action and I'll do my best to keep them in character.
Now one of the biggest things I want to do when they're in the real world is have Itachi accidentally get Black Rock Shooter pregnant. Black Rock Shooter and mood swings, that'll be fun to write.
With the kids I'm thinking twin girls. One will basically be Rock-chan from the manga Black Rock-Chan, deadpanned face and all, and the other will be a regular, happy and cheerful girl.
Now the part before that will be the one that happens next. I'm talking about the world Kushina and her group are in. It'll be a world back in the day with royals, nobles, and swords and stuff. They live in an empire that's corrupt. That's why they formed their group, to rebel, but they need Itachi's help.
Why?
To answer that question I need to clear something up about the drones. There will be two type's of drones. One will be the ones Itachi and Black Rock Shooter fought, they'll be modeled after animals because it's just easier, and the other type's will be Black Rock Shooter and the other girls. They'll be more advanced like a second generation drones.
Maybe that's what I'll call them. I was having trouble coming up with a classification for them. If anyone could come up with a better name for them please tell me. The 2nd gen drones will have two reason for being made, one will be in the military; which is why Kushina and her group need Itachi because they can fight the empire's regular soldiers but the 2nd gen drones would destroy them. The other functions for the 2nd gen drones will be less meaningful.
To put it bluntly, their other reason will be for entertainment. The royals and nobles send them into the other world to bet on them and watch them fight. A petty reason I know, but their corrupt and selfish. Of course once Itachi and his group find that out they won't be happy.
I still haven't come up with how they make the drones but I will eventually.
"So when there's no fighting this is all there is?" a hooded Itachi asked as he and Black Rock Shooter, who was also hooded, walked through a desert. It had been two weeks since Itachi joined Black Rock Shooter and all they did was roam. He would pick roaming over fighting but still, two weeks of roaming with no goal in mind was annoying.
"Yes." Black Rock Shooter answered without taking her eyes off the book (one of many Itachi had stored in a scroll) she was reading. Itachi had to give a slight chuckle at the sight, seeing as she didn't even know how to read not too long ago.
Hell, she never even seen a single letter before in her life.
So Itachi decided to teach her.
Of course, he wasn't under the delusion that she was unintelligent. He could tell she had a high intellect just like him, she just needed to be given the opportunity to learn. And true to his confidence Black Rock Shooter picked up reading in a day in a half. Even though her face was still impassive, Itachi could tell she enjoyed reading.
Finishing the book, Black Rock Shooter closed it, and handed it back to Itachi. Itachi in turn raised an eyebrow and waited for her to speak.
". . . .Thank you." Black Rock Shooter reluctantly said. Itachi was also teaching her manners, something she wasn't to keen on. She didn't see the point in being polite. What would that get her? But then Itachi threatened to not let her read anymore of his books, so she decided it was worth it.
"You're welcome." Itachi replied as he handed her another book.
Black Rock Shooter really liked reading, even though Itachi had to explain and describe a number of things she's never heard of, let alone seen. It was like looking into another world she never knew existed.
Just before she dove into another book, Itachi broke into a coughing fit. That was a question she really wanted to ask him. So she waited until he was done coughing and spoke in her standard stoic tone.
"What's wrong with you?" she bluntly asked.
"Nothing." Itachi responded before he continued walking. Black Rock Shooter's eyes narrowed as she watched him walk ahead. He was lying and she knew it.
But why?
She had asked a few question in the past two weeks and he always answered her questions fully.
Well, all except one question.
Which was: What was he?
It took Itachi a few seconds to get what she was asking, but it eventually dawned on him.
She was confused about his gender.
Which meant he was the only male in this new world, unless Black Rock Shooter just so happened to not run into one yet. But he doubted that was true. So that brought about a number of questions in his mind that he decided to examine later and answer Black Rock Shooter's question.
It was a lot easier than he thought it would be to explain that he was a male and she was a female. That is until Black Rock Shooter wanted him to go into greater detail on why did males and females have different anatomy's and what the use of the differences were.
That was when Itachi noticed that the conversation was heading a little too close to "The Talk" so he decided to cut it short, much to Black Rock Shooters' dismay.
Besides that, Itachi answered her other questions until she was satisfied. So why was he avoiding a question now?
Watching Itachi continuing forward, Black Rock Shooter let out an uncharacteristic sigh before she followed behind him.
Itachi was puzzle to her.
Puzzle, she learned what that was from a book.
"You want me to find what?!" Jiraiya yelled as he looked incredulous at Kushina.
"You heard me." Kushina replied with a tic mark on her head. "I want you to find a way into the other world, or specifically to get someone out."
". . . You're talking about The Bringer of Change aren't you?" Jiraiya asked in one of his more serious tones.
"Yup." Kushina smiled.
"So he's real?" he received a nod. "Are you a hundred percent sure?" another nod. "Well, damn. . . .Do you really think he could make difference?"
"He was able to fight toe to toe with Black Rock Shooter, so yeah."
"Black Rock Shooter? That's the one with uneven pigtails right?"
"The one and only." Kushina answered causing Jiraiya to whistle.
"She's a tough one. To be able to go toe to toe with her is something. If he does join the resistance we may have a chance."
"It could possibly get better." Kushina stated.
"How so?" Jiraiya asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I think maybe, just maybe, we might be able to get Black Rock Shooter to join us with him. I've been watching the two for the past two weeks, and she seems to be acting more human."
"Impossible." Jiraiya denied. "Drone's, no matter what level or how advanced they are, don't feel anything. They're not human."
"But maybe they can change." Kushina argued back. "Itachi Uchiha, I believe, is The Bringer of Change. Maybe this is because of him." Jiraiya stared at a hopeful Kushina before he let out a sigh.
"Well, I doubt it, but if you're right then I'm not complaining." Jiraiya shrugged. "Anyone who could fight those monsters and is willing to join us is ok in my book."
"Let's keep our fingers crossed." Kushina said as she crossed her fingers. "Now get to work."
"You know, you work me too hard." Jiraiya whined before a lecherous grin crossed his face. "As an award you should let me-"
"No way in hell." Kushina cut him off.
"But I didn't even get to finish." Jiraiya pouted.
"Don't need to." Kushina shrugged. "Now get to work."
". . . .What is it like?" Black Rock Shooter questioned from beside Itachi. "Where you're from that is."
"It's. . . . an amazing place." Itachi responded as a warm smile crawled onto his face. "The people are always struggling and striving to move forward into the future. To better themselves. . . . at least most of them do."
"Is there fighting?"
"(sigh) Unfortunately wherever there are people there will always be fighting." Itachi answered as he gazed at the sky. "To answer your question, yes there is fighting. It's usually done by shinobis like myself."
"Are they strong?" Itachi really wasn't really surprised by that question.
"Most of them a weaker than me, but there are a few who are stronger than me. Although, in my defense, they are older, so they have an advantage of experience and their bodies fully maturing." Itachi replied with a smile on his face.
Unfortunately their little Q and A was cut short when a sink hole appeared behind them. They immediately broke into a run as the sink hole continued to grow and swallow the sand.
"This world is survival of the fittest personified." Itachi mumbled as he looked over his shoulder only to see the sink hole grow larger. 'No wonder why she is the way she is.'
The two ran as fast as they could but eventually the sink hole caught up to them and swallowed them up. As they fell, the light above them became smaller and smaller before there was nothing but darkness.
"Wake up." groaning slightly, Itachi opened his eyes only to see Black Rock Shooter kneeling beside him.
"What happened? Where are we?" Itachi questioned as he sat up and looked around.
"Don't know." she responded in her standard stoic tone.
They were in a strange place where the floor below them had checkered designs and was cracked at multiple places causing pieces of the floor to stick out above the rest of the floor. The strangest part was the ceiling above them. (A/N: I'm trying to describe the scene before Black Rock Shooter fought Chariot in the anime.)
"That's reassuring." Itachi said as he stood up.
They were about to discuss where exactly they should go from there before they both caught something at the corner of their eye. Turning their heads, they both saw a stream of green light floating away from them and then turn a corner. Giving each other a brief look, they both followed the light and began to turn the same corner before they a gust of wind and light hit them causing them to cover their faces and look away.
When the wind and light died down they looked upon what can only be called a child's nightmare.
"This should be impossible. We fell in a sinkhole, we should be underground." Itachi said as he surveyed their surroundings. 'On top of that, this place is beyond creepy. The only way to make this scenario any worse would be if Orochimaru popped out from around the corner.' even though Itachi thought that it didn't mean he was scared of said creepy man. He knew he could defeat Orochimaru, it wouldn't even be hard if he was completely healthy, but that didn't change the fact that Orochimaru made his skin crawl.
The sound of metallic clattering caused their heads to snap to the side just in time to see something blur past a corner. They repeated the act a few seconds later when the same clattering noise came from their right.
As Black Rock Shooter summoned her cannon, Itachi pulled out a kunai with an exploding tag attached to it. Both readied their weapons as they kept their ears peeled. The instant they heard more clattering noise behind a row of giant, toy blocks, Itachi threw his kunai while Black Rock Shooter fired a charged shot effectively destroying the row of blocks. Once the smoke cleared, Itachi vowed that once they left that area he would never go back.
Just too creepy
Before them stood a spider-like machine. Its legs were long and metallic with a sharp point at the tips of them. But that wasn't what was so creepy about them. It was the bald, baby, doll head that was on top of its body. The eye hanging out of its socket didn't help much. (A/N: If you watched the first Toy Story then you know what I'm talking about.)
Still wasn't scared though, just. . . creeped out.
The creepy spider drone tilted its baby head to the side before its mouth opened and shot out a stream of green liquid. They both jumped put of the way and landed on a giant toy block not too far away.
"Acid." they both simultaneously muttered as thy watched the green liquid eat through a toy. Their eyes widened in surprise when they heard the same clattering noise behind them causing them to jump away again. The two just barely dodged the stream of acid from another spider drone that snuck up behind them in an attempt to take them out quickly. As they landed on the floor, the two could see a dozen other spider drones start crawling from behind different objects.
Itachi was about to make a comment only to be cut off by a giant, spider-like, vehicle that busted through a wall and slammed into Black Rock Shooter. The machine continued on its path, dragging Black Rock Shooter and destroying whatever was in its way.
Itachi began to run after her, but had to jump to the side when the dozen of the spider drones shot acid at him. Once Itachi landed he threw a kunai at one of the drones doll head only for a leg to quickly and precisely smack the kunai out of the way.
'Let's see how capable those legs are for protecting.' Itachi mused as he watched his clone, who was twenty feet above a drone, throw a windmill shuriken straight down at it, in an attempt to cut it in half.
Unfortunately, at the last second two legs, both on opposite sides of the drone, snapped up and caught the shuriken with the tip of its legs.
'So they can cover all angles of attack. But those legs should break with enough brute force. Too bad I don't have Kisame's strength.' he had to jump out of the way again when all the spider drones shot acid at him.
Once he landed, Itachi activated his Sharingan just as a drone jumped straight at him. As it flew in the air, it straightened out its legs and began to spin causing it to become a deadly spinning wheel.
Itachi quickly ducked down as the drone flew past his head, just missing it by inches. He then had to do a small jump and flipped over another drone that tried cutting him in half. As he completed the flip, Itachi brought a perfectly timed foot down and performed a heel drop kick on another spinning drone's head. Itachi then bursted into crows when he was showered by streams of acid by the other drones.
"This will pose a problem." Itachi stated after the crows reformed, allowing him to see even more drones appear.
Black Rock Shooter ran as fast as she could in an attempt to put some distance between her and the giant spider vehicle, otherwise known as Mary, that she knew Chariot was driving. Black Rock Shooter had yet to mount an offensive attack of any kind since she was attacked by the machine; instead, she's been getting smacked around by the thing.
In the confines of Mary, Chariot pressed a button causing the mouth to open and shoot a number of macaroons at Black Rock Shooter. As the macaroons drew closer, Black Rock Shooter summoned her rock cannon, charged it, and slid causing the macaroons to fly over her head. She then fired her cannon forward and was sent sliding backwards towards Chariot and her machine.
As she slid under the machine, Black Rock Shooter fired at the underbelly and continued to fire as she continued to slid behind it. Sparks flew along with pieces of metal as Black Rock Shooter rained shots upon the machine.
"Damn." Black Rock Shooter cursed as Mary turned the corner and away from her attack. She transformed her arm back to normal and chased after Mary. There was no way she would give up the momentum of the fight.
"Damn, this is getting good." Kushina commented as she watched the battles going on.
"Shouldn't we be worried?" Kakashi questioned as they all watched Itachi flip and twist in the air barely dodging three streams of acid. "THAT was impressive." Kakashi whistled while others nodded their head in agreement.
"THAT is the reason I'm not worried." Kushina answered. "There's no way a few dozen drones could take him out." the confidence in her words could easily be felt by everyone in the room.
"Yo bitches!" Hinata, the most roughest and vulgar member of their group, shouted as she entered the room. "We got a message from boss ladies girlfriend."
"She's not my girlfriend! She's my childhood friend!" Kushina shouted. She was really getting sick and tired of Hinata saying that. She had a mind to teach her a lesson but the message was more important.
"Whatever." Hinata rolled her eyes.
"What's the message?" Kushina answered through gritted teeth.
"She's coming for your 'meeting'." Hinata answered with a wink.
'Damn. I forgot we were meeting today.' Kushina mentally scolded herself. "Alright, everyone stay here and keep an eye on what's happening." Kushina ordered as she motioned her hand towards the orb that showed Itachi's fight with the drones.
"Alright!" Hinata shouted. "I love watching a good fight!"
"Too bad." Kushina smirked. "Because you're coming with me."
"What?! Why?!"
"Because I'm the leader and I said so." Kushina smirked causing Hinata to let out a string of curses. Kushina then proceeded out the door, her mind going to her childhood friend Mei Terumi.
They both grew up in Yakama Village, a village on the outskirts of the Senju Empire. They both had many things in common, one of those things was their hatred for the Senju Empire. An empire that started out as a peaceful and loving one, but over the generations corruption and wickedness slithered its way into the once loving empire. From the Emperor to the Viceroy's, any position of power was filled with evil men and woman, and the people suffered for it.
It didn't take long for Kushina and Mei's hatred to turn into determination. So, one day they made a decision to fight back, and the only way they knew how to fight back was to start a their own rebel group. Rebel groups were abundant in the Senju Empire, people could only take so much before they began to fight back, but due to their personalities they couldn't do it together. Kushina and Mei were leaders not followers, so they created their own groups. But that didn't mean that they didn't keep in touch or work together when the opportunity presented itself.
They would meet with each other once a month to check on the progress they were making. Which was why Kushina, with Hinata, were sitting at a small cafe waiting for Mei to arrive.
"Will you shut up." Kushina said, no longer being able to ignore Hinata's complaining; which caused said girl to scowl. "It's just a fight."
"You know how much I love fights!" Hinata retorted.
"Well, there's still a chance you'll get to see it." Kushina sighed.
"Really?! Wait. Does that mean you're going to show her?" Hinata questioned.
"She didn't really believe me when I told her about the old ladies dreams but I can't really blame her for that." Kushina explained. "Anyways, if we're going to get Itachi, and hopefully Black Rock Shooter, out of the other world and on our side, we're going to need as much help as possible."
"I guess." Hinata shrugged. "But seriously she needs to hurry the hell up."
"As patience as ever Hinata." the two turned their heads to see Mei, who was accompanied by Ao as always, lift the hanging piece of cloth that acted as the cafe's door.
"It's good to see you're still alive and kicking." Kushina greeted as the two sat on the other side of the table.
"Of course I am." Mei scoffed. "Can't die yet can I? After all that would be breaking a promise."
"Damn right!" Kushina agreed.
"Probably about you two getting married." Hinata mumbled under her breath.
"What was that?" Kushina glared causing Hinata to flinch, albeit slightly.
"Can we go now?" Hinata asked hoping to divert Kushina's attention away from her earlier words.
". . . .You're not going to shut up if we don't go, are you?" Kushina deadpanned which earned vigorous nods from Hinata. "Fine." Kushina sighed as she gave in. "I guess you're right. This does take precedence over us catching up." Kushina stated as she stood up.
"What's going on?" Mei questioned as she stood up and followed Kushina out of the café.
"Remember when I told you about that?" Kushina answered with her own question as the group began walk down the dirt street.
"Hmmm?" Mei tilted her head in contemplation until Ao, who understood what Kushina was talking about, whispered into her ear. "Oh! That!" Mei exclaimed as she hit her fist into her open palm. "What about it? Don't tell me you actually believe tha-"
"We found him." Kushina cut her friend off with a smirk on her face.
"You're kidding."
"Nope." Kushina's smirk widened.
"Show me." Mei demanded and Kushina was more than happy to comply.
"I intend to."
The sound of metal clashing rang through the air as Itachi brought up his ninjato to block the descending drone's leg mere inches from his face. He then grabbed the leg with his other hand and used his now free arm to smash an elbow on the leg effectively breaking it. Itachi quickly followed up by blurring through a series of hand signs and unleashing a stream of wind from his mouth blowing the drone away.
Using the very little spare time he had until the next attack, Itachi threw another kunai at a far away drone, which was dodged and then embedded in a wall. He then turned around to see a drone jumping towards him with its front two legs raised up. As it came close, it swung its legs down but Itachi caught them and rolled backwards before he used his legs to throw the drone away from him.
He then followed up by throwing more kunai which also missed and were lodged into different objects.
"He's missing. . . a lot." Mei pointed out as she, along with Ao and the rest of Kushina's, group watched the fight. "I think you're grasping at straws Kushina." Mei sighed.
"Mei. Just shut up and watch." Kushina replied with a knowing smirk on her face. She could see what Itachi was planning. 'Come into my parlor-'
'-said the spider to the fly.' Itachi hummed as he stabbed a kunai into the ground. He couldn't help but smirk at the irony of the fate that was going to befall the spider-like drones that were all raining down towards him in an effort to trap him with their overwhelming numbers.
Unfortunately for them, they fell into Itachi's web. That was clear when they all completely stopped in midair as if caught by an invisible force. One came so close that the tip of its leg was able to touch the bridge of Itachi's nose causing a small drop of blood to leak out the small cut. Itachi didn't blink or bat an eye at the drone, he knew he was in complete control of the situation.
Itachi stepped back and eyed all of the stuck drones as they attempted to free themselves from his trap. Shaking his head, Itachi flashed through a series of hand signs to finish the drones off.
The irony that the hand signs he was going through was the only original technique a certain shinobi created wasn't lost on him.
"Chidori!"
Everyone watched in awe as lightning sparked in Itachi's hand and chirped through the air. He then grabbed the base of the kunai he stabbed into the ground, sending electricity through the kunai and up the metal wire that was tied around the hilt of the kunai. They then watched as electricity began flowing through the air all around the drones effectively frying them.
It was then when they realized that Itachi was missing with his earlier kunai on purpose. Each kunai had metal wires tied to them and were used to create a web all around him.
"Ok. So he's better than I thought." Mei admitted. "But if he's going to be able to go against those damn monsters then he's going to need to be much stronger than that."
"You're right." Kushina agreed. "So just sit back and watch." Kushina stated as she continued to watch Itachi. Whose head snapped to the right just in time to see Black Rock Shooter, off in the distance, getting swung in the air by a pair of chains before getting slammed into a wall.
"That had to hurt." Hinata commented as they watched Itachi break into an amazingly fast sprint towards his comrade.
Damn.
She had Chariot.
Had her.
But Dead Master had to make an appearance. (A/N: Dead Master has the appearance of the OVA version. So no glasses and black wings and horns.)
Now she was chained to a wall and about to get skewered by Chariot's spider-like machine which was now converting into a drill. She could feel a pair of emotions bubble up in her.
Anger and frustration.
Frustration at the fact that she missed her chance at finishing Chariot off, and angry at Dead Master (who was one of the toughest opponents, it was tie between her and Black Gold Saw, she had ever faced) for getting in her way.
Of course, she didn't think that the two were working together. Dead Master just saw an opportunity to take her out and took it. It just so happened that it helped Chariot.
Black Rock Shooter couldn't help but think of a pair of words that she read in one of Itachi's books to perfectly describe Dead Master.
Conniving bitch.
She knew that after Dead Master tied her up to the wall and backed off to let Chariot go for the killing blow so that she could kill off Chariot right after the blow was dealt.
Conniving bitch.
But all of that was irrelevant as Mary, in its drill form, began barreling towards her. Despite her predicament, Black Rock Shooter couldn't help the smirk (that's what is was called right?) that crossed her face.
With all the time she's spent with Itachi, Black Rock Shooter was learning to sense his chakra, or at least that's what he called it. And she could sense him closing in.
Trust.
Firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.
The word and meaning was foreign to her, yet Itachi was earning hers rather quickly, and he continued to earn it by sending a massive fireball at Mary that blindsided it and knocked it away from Black Rock Shooter.
The sound of metal cutting through metal echoed through the air as the chains holding Black Rock Shooter in place broke into pieces; setting her free.
"Now who's cutting it close?" she commented as she stood up and dusted herself off.
"That's gratitude for you." Itachi replied as he rolled his eyes with a small smile on his face before it took his usual stoic look. "Which one do you want?"
"I can handle bot-"
"I'm sure you could." Itachi cut her off mid-sentence. "But I reiterate, which one do you want?" looking at his face, Black Rock Shooter could tell he wasn't going to let her fight them both on her own.
She didn't hate the idea.
"They're actually working together?" an astonished Mei blurted out. Those girls didn't work with anyone.
Ever.
They killed.
It was as simple as that.
'Does this mean. . . . . Could what that old lady said be true?' Mei wondered before shaking her head. 'Regardless, it means nothing if he can't fight one of those and win.'
"I'll take her." Black Rock Shooter pointed towards Chariot. Even though Dead Master was the biggest annoyance, she was fighting Chariot first, and once she started a fight with someone she didn't stop as long as you were within her sights.
Itachi was the only exception.
"Very well." Itachi replied as he rolled his neck to get the kinks out of it. "Then that leaves me with her." as Itachi finished he started walking off to the side to give each other some space. As he was walking away he couldn't help but look back over his shoulder and speak a few more words.
"Feel free to call me if you need any help. Saving you is becoming a habit I'm starting to enjoy." with a smirk Itachi turned his attention to Dead Master said a few words and jumped over the edge of the platform they were standing on.
Black Rock Shooter's face remained completely stoic, as long as one ignored the slight eye twitch in her right eye. She also read that in a book.
It was called teasing.
She didn't like it.
But. . . she didn't hate it.
She didn't get much time to dwell on her dislike (yet not hatred) of Itachi's teasing as Chariot came racing towards her.
With her sword in one hand and shield in the other, Chariot went straight at Black Rock Shooter, hoping to take her out while she was distracted. Fortunately for Black Rock Shooter, she wasn't one to be caught by surprise.
Blade met blade as Black Rock Shooter blocked Chariot's attack resulting in their swords locking together. They pushed against each other trying to gain the upper hand, said upper hand was won by Chariot, who accelerated her wheels giving her enough power to push Black Rock Shooter back.
Black Rock Shooter's feet slid across the floor until her back slammed into a wall causing her to grunt. Her muscles strained as she pushed against Chariot's blade but to no avail.
Just as Black Rock Shooter's arms were about to give out she jumped to the side causing Chariot's sword to impale itself into the wall. Landing in a roll, Black Rock Shooter spun around and dashed towards Chariot, hoping to take advantage of her situation.
Once she was within range, Black Rock Shooter stabbed her sword forward only for it to be blocked by Chariot's shield. The shield then shot out spikes from the center that hit Black Rock Shooter and sent her flying and impaled her into the side of a giant toy doll.
Black Rock Shooter's face remained impassive as she looked at the spikes that were holding her in place. Right shoulder, stomach, left hand, and right thigh; those were the places that were impaled by the spikes. Using her one free hand, Black Rock Shooter began pulling the spikes out one by one until she was free.
She watched as her wounds began to heal before her head snapped up when something caught her attention. Apparently Chariot freed her sword and was not speeding towards her once again. Summoning her Rock Cannon, Black Rock Shooter aimed at Chariot and began firing.
Chariot zigged and zagged left and right doing her best to dodge her opponent's attack as she closed the distance between them. Deciding on a different approach, Black Rock Shooter stopped firing, crouched slightly, began charging her cannon, and waited.
Just as Chariot came upon her, Black Rock Shooter raised her cannon causing Chariot to lift up her shield, but unfortunately for her Black Rock Shooter was just feinting. Instead of firing her cannon, Black Rock Shooter jumped above Chariot and fired at her exposed back.
Black Rock Shooter watched as Chariot was blasted through the toy block and off the platform they were on. She didn't waste time jumping off the platform and chasing after her opponent. As she fell to the next platform, Black Rock Shooter's curiosity surfaced, forcing her to look for Itachi as she continued to fall.
A ball of fire caught her attention and she proceeded to follow the path it flew from. From what she could see Itachi was holding his own, and it seemed Dead Master was having a hard time dealing with his techniques.
She could relate.
His techniques were something she couldn't have ever imagined, so dealing with them was a tough task.
Of course, that didn't mean she gave a damn about what happened to her. She did wonder if Itachi would go for the kill or try to just subdue Dead Master.
She doubted he'd kill her. Itachi made it perfectly clear he hated killing. Too bad for Chariot, she didn't such aversions.
"Feel free to call me if you need any help. Saving you is becoming a habit I'm starting to enjoy." with that said Itachi walked to the edge of the platform they were on and turned to Dead Master. "Come. If we must fight I'd like it so their fight won't interfere with ours." Itachi said as he leaned back and fell over the edge.
He fell making sure his back was facing the ground and his front was towards the sky making sure he didn't give any type of opening. His caution proved to be well placed, when he saw Dead Master come diving off the platform with her Dead Scythe ready to strike.
'Always with the violence.' Itachi sighed as he pulled out his ninjato to parry Dead Master's first strike. Their weapons clashed as Dead Master continued swinging her scythe with deadly accuracy but none hit as Itachi blocked all strikes.
Dead Master twisted in the air and used the momentum to swing her scythe hoping to separate Itachi's head from his body. She missed due to Itachi flipping backwards and kicking her in the jaw. Using the momentum from the kick Dead Master flipped backwards twisting the scythe in her hands so the tip pointed upwards and swung up trying to pierce Itachi in the back.
It hit, but then Itachi bursted into a flock of crows.
'What?' Dead Master thought as she cut a fire ball in half before landing from her free fall. She stood straight up and surveyed her surroundings. The area was littered with random, giant-sized, toys.
They were still in Chariot's territory.
Itachi watched Dead Master from behind a block, all the while thinking about how he should deal with her.
He didn't want to fight her, let alone kill her, but he doubted he could do the same thing he did to Black Rock Shooter. That was a shot in the dark and he didn't want to take such a chance again.
Talking never hurt.
"Why did you attack Black Rock Shooter?" especially when you didn't do it face to face. It's not that he was scared, Itachi just thought that the moment Dead Master saw him she would attack; which made talking awfully hard. "Why are you fighting?"
What was this person talking about?
Reason for fighting?
How preposterous.
She didn't answer; instead, she opted to call upon her chains and had them lash out at every object that Itachi could be hiding behind.
"For what reason do you live?" Itachi continued to question Dead Master as he flickered from hiding place to hiding place. "What do you see yourself as?" he knew his approach.
He wanted to plant seeds.
Seeds of doubt.
Itachi wanted her to doubt what she was doing and why she was doing it. He wanted her to ask the questions she never asked herself, and the best way to do that was to ask the questions himself.
Whether it was during the fight, a week after, or a month after; it didn't matter when as long as she reflected on her reason of living. In Itachi's opinion, no one should live their life without a reason, and no one's reason for living should ever be to mindlessly fight without a goal in mind.
Of course, in his ideal world there would be no fighting whatsoever.
But that was impossible.
He would still try though.
"Is he talking to her?" Mei questioned as they watched Itachi duck under a chain that almost wrapped around his neck.
"Seems so." Kushina answered with an amused tone.
"Is he out of his fucking mind?!" Mei bellowed in utter disbelieved.
"Of course not. Why would you ask such a thing?" Kushina put her hand on her cheek and spoke in a sweet tone.
"Don't play with me! Why is he doing that?! Who talks to someone who's trying to kill them?!"
"Apparently he does." Kakashi interjected.
"It's because he's an idiot." Kiba huffed in annoyance.
"He's not an idiot!" Hana defended with puffed cheeks. "He's just being nice!"
"Whatever." her brother rolled his eyes.
"Will you all shut up! I'm trying to watch this fight!" Hinata yelled causing them all to turn back to the fight just in time to see Itachi jump to the side, just barely dodging the scythe that cut straight through the toy block he was hiding behind. They continued to watch as Itachi pulled out his ninjato, once again, and engaged Dead Master.
It was incredible.
He was actually matching her in a fight.
No one ever matched one of them in a fight besides another one of them.
"Kushina." Mei called as she reached out for her friend's shoulder, all the while not taking her eyes off of the fight.
"Yeah?" she too didn't take her eyes away from the fight.
"I think you can have something here."
"Told you."
"We need to get him out of there."
"Already have Jiraiya on it."
"If you need help of any kind just tell me." Mei offered. "This is an opportunity that we can't let get away from us."
"Don't I know it." Kushina replied.
"Wow." Mei uttered when Itachi's hood came off. "He's hot." she couldn't help the blush that grew on her cheeks; while the rest of the girls, even Hana, nodded their heads in agreement.
'She's as good if not better with a scythe then, Hidan.' Itachi mused as he ducked under a horizontal swing from Dead Master and tried to leg sweep her. She jumped over the leg sweep and flipped in the air gaining momentum before swinging her scythe down on Itachi, who rolled out of the way.
Coming out of his roll, Itachi spun around and threw a number of shuriken at Dead Master only to have them swatted away with a spin of her scythe. Unfortunately for her, Itachi had closed the distance between them and stabbed his ninjato forward. Dead Master managed to side step most of the attack and only received a mild cut to her shoulder, but that was enough for Itachi.
He needed to see something before he got more serious and used some of his stronger techniques. He made the mistake earlier of launching a fireball at her, due to being caught up in the moment. Itachi saw what he was looking for when the cut Dead Master received began to heal right in front of his eyes.
'So she has the same accelerated healing ability as Black Rock Shooter.' Itachi mused as he blocked a downward swing from Dead Master's scythe. A pair of chains came flying in from behind him and snaked their way around his body. He couldn't help but smirk when Dead Master rushed forward and swung her scythe down on him, only for 'him' to explode right in front of her.
Dead Master was in the dark on his abilities and he was going to take advantage.
Sparks flew as Black Rock Shooter's blade scraped and scratched against Chariot's as their fight continued. The scenery around them easily showed how intense their battle was. Neither one of them would stop at nothing short of the death of the other.
Oddly colored blood flew through the air as Black Rock Shooter stabbed Chariot through the stomach; unfortunately, she was stabbed through her stomach was well. A squishing like sound traveled through the air as the two pulled their blades from out of the other, before they separated from each other.
Black Rock Shooter's irritation level was reaching an all time high, never mind the fact that emotions were still a new concept to her and her face remained complete impassive. She didn't know it, but she had a competitive nature to her and it didn't want to lose to Itachi. She wanted to finish Chariot off first.
Which meant she had to deal with Chariot as quickly as possible.
Transforming her arm into her Black Rock Cannon, Black Rock Shooter, set out to do that.
A:N/ And done. I would've continued but I wanted to get your opinions about something. I find myself at times skipping parts of a story when fights scenes go on too long, and I feel this one was going on too long. I also felt this story was becoming nothing but fighting. That's why I put more of Kushina and her group in this chapter then I originally intended to help add something more then just fighting. I also plan to focus on their side of the story for that exact same reason in future chapters.
That's also why I put Dead Master in this chapter (didn't intend to originally again) I wanted to speed up a little bit to where Itachi's group forms and they go into Kushina's world. But I can't speed it up too much because I don't want to ruin the quality of the story by having all the girls meet Itachi and instantly join him. It would be too rushed. So I threw in Dead Master, she met Itachi, but won't join at first. She get away but the seeds will already be implanted in her.
So what I wanted to ask is: In the next chapter should I continue from where I left off, or have a time skip towards the ending of the fights?
And just to be clear Chariot will die.
I hope you liked the interaction between Itachi and Black Rock Shooter. I did my best to keep them in character without making it boring.
Well I think that's it.
Peace.