Naruto gazed up at the raven haired man, with a mixture of confusion and fear, looking at the anger in his eyes. It was enough to make any sane man fear for his life. He was like an older, angrier version than Sasuke. They even shared the same Sharingan.

"Let's take a walk." He told Naruto. Naruto being hypnotized by the mans red eyes walked out the room not knowing what danger he was in.

"Naruto!" Scarlet cried, panting. She had arrived, just in the nick of time. Itachi and Kisame were just about to try and get Naruto to come with them. Itachi looked at Scarlet. He saw the staff clutched in her gloved hands

"You're Scarlet Kotare, correct?" Scarlet nodded slowly as Itachi stepped forward a bit

"The Leader of our small organization wants you to join us. We aren't going to force you, but you should know that if you don't join, your life could become very uncomfortable within the next few years." he said with no emotion. Scarlet glared at Itachi "Not gonna happen Uchiha and besides, I know all about the Akatsuki organization... even stuff I shouldn't know" Itachi didn't look particularly impressed. Kisame grinned evilly

"well, Itachi. What do we do now. I can cut this kid's legs off, while you talk her into joining?" Kisame said, just itching to draw his sword.

Itachi looked like he was considering all of the options, when his facial expression froze. He looked down the corridor on Scarlet's opposite. He turned and made sure Kisame was behind him.
"It's been a long time, Sasuke." Itachi called down the corridor, where another raven haired, blood red eyed boy stood. He looked strangely calm, despite all the bloodlust that was radiating from his body.

"Sasuke!" Both Naruto and Scarlet screamed.

He ignored them both. "Itachi. You came here to take away those closest to me once again." It wasn't a question. Sasuke was now sure of Itachi's intentions by now.

The Akatsuki member's facial expression didn't change, but when Itachi turned to look at Naruto and Scarlet again, Scarlet was sure she had seen him mouth a curse word.
"This time. I'll be sure to kill you!" He took out his Clow Card from one of his pockets. "Thunder card! Give me strength!" Electrical chakra covered the now transfused Sasuke.

Itachi allowed himself a look of surprise. "You've bonded with a Clow Card?" He asked, despite the evidence clearly being in front of him.

"That's right." Sasuke answered. "Now prepare to die! Thunder style: Lightning Cutter!" Sasuke was going past his usual chidori attack, realising that since Itachi was an S-rank ninja, it was going to take an S-rank technique to defeat him.

At 1/10000th of a second, Sasuke charged Itachi. Any normal man would have been dead instantly, but Itachi was able to catch his younger brother's attack, his hand being burned instantly. The flickers of electricity being given off, also creating cuts and scratches all over his body.

'It went a lot different this time.' Scarlet thought to herself, watching as Itachi then threw his younger brother away, but who gained his balance.

"Foolish brother. You need to learn the true power of the Uchiha clan, before you can defeat me. Your hatred is still so weak. You need to learn to hate me completely." He told his younger brother, before his Sharingan changed to a different type. Maneyko. "Tsukuyomi." Itachi whispered, causing his brother to scream and fall into unconsciousness. Caught in an extremely powerful genjutsu.

"Sasuke no!" Naruto cried, before trying to channel his own chakra. Scarlet brought out her Sword card and transformed it into the silver blade

"Not so fast!" Kisame said, finally getting to bring out his blade. Samehada. Even just being in its presence, Naruto was having his chakra being sucked out of him, making him completely useless. Scarlet could feel a bit of her own energy being drained from her.

"Right. Let's just get this over with." Kisame said, about to finish Naruto off. "NARUTO!" Scarlet screamed

A puff of smoke revealed to the other three spectators. The toad sage, carrying a womans body in his arms and standing on a toad. "You cross the line when you put innocent young ladies under your control. That's one of the things that a Ninja cannot do with his powers!" He said, acting as if he followed rules at all when it came to women.

"You won't get Naruto and I doubt Scarlet would be very thrilled to join you after what you've done to her friends. Between me and her, I think we can take the two of you out." Jiraiya said, confidently. Scarlet smirked at his statement and twirled her sword and getting into a fighting stance.

Itachi and Kisame, especially, didn't look confident. "Itachi. You've used your Maneyko too much for just one day. You're in danger of passing out at a moment's notice and you know it." The shark man warned his partner, who nodded. "You're right."

"If you two think you're going to get away, you've got another thing coming. Toad Mouth Bind!" He cried and suddenly, the whole corridor was moving. It was all red and squishy. "So this is what a Toad's oesophagus looks like, from the inside." Scarlet said, looking around and moving closer to Jiraiya and Naruto. The oesophagus began to cling to the Akatsuki members.

Itachi cursed. "Amaterasu!" He cried, causing Jiraiya's eyes to widen and for him to try to protect his charges with his own body. However the black flames were targeted at the back wall, causing it to disappear. Itachi sighed, heavily, but despite that he still moved fast.

For whatever reason, Scarlet had a thought right there and then. She was sick of seeing the Naruto universe trying to take its normal course. What if she could change it. For the better!
"Fight! Power! I call on you!" The Fight was released from the card and attacked Kisame, before he could get away.

"Keep him busy!" She told the the Fight. She spun her staff and tapped the fly card. She rode on her staff and chased after Itachi, nobody else following them. This was her chance!

She followed him into the forst without being seen by Itachi. She flew over him and stopped infron of him making him stop too. He whipped out a kunai ready to attack her.

"Hold on..." she panted, still exausted from the amount of power she was using "I know you won't hurt me, but I just wanna talk. Can you do that?"

Itachi hesitated for a moment considering if she was just saying that to attack him herself, but he saw the look in her eyes. She was serious so he put his kunai away and leaned against a nearby tree. Scarlet jumped off her staff and turned it back into a key. She sat across from him. He looked away from her.

"Trust me. I won't believe for a second that you would actually consider joining the Akatsuki." Itachi told Scarlet, when she said she just wanted to talk to him.

"Actually, Itachi. I was thinking we could talk about Sasuke. You see. I know the truth about the Uchiha massacre." she confessed

Itachi turned to face the eleven year old. "What do you mean the truth?" He asked, to which she answered.
"That you were ordered to kill your clan by the leaders of the Hidden Leaf village. That you were even ordered to kill Sasuke, but you couldn't bring yourself to do it. I even know that you plan on letting Sasuke kill you one day, but only when you're sure he won't try to take revenge for you."

Itachi and Scarlet decided to talk more privately and were now sitting in a nearby cave. Nobody was around for miles, so the two were sure that they could talk in private.

"Please tell me how you required this information." Itachi asked of her. She didn't know where to begin. Only a few people knew of her true story, but she thought she could trust Itachi. She was pretty sure, she would have to.

"I come from a different world." She began. "In this world, I have seen the lives of mostly everyone connected to Naruto Uzumaki. Past, present and future." she explained. Itachi's mouth dropped slightly, he could tell that she was speaking the truth. "how is this possible?" he asked. Scarlet showed him the key of clow "the magic of clow reed chose me to weild the cards so i was brought here by its magic" she explained. Itachi nodded and let her continue with her explanation.

"I can tell you that Sasuke, if you continue to go down the road you're going to, will still be tricked by Madra. He will be used as a weapon to destroy the Hidden Leaf. Everything you didn't want to happen, will happen. I'm trying to make sure that Sasuke doesn't get involved with Orochimaru and Madra as a result, but I've been thinking, I may need your help."

Itachi nodded, slowly. "I can't believe that Sasuke would be so consumed by revenge. I…I only want the best for him. I can try to do all in my power to help you, but I'm not sure how I'll be able to manage it." he said

Scarlet had thought this through by now and told Itachi her plan. "I want you to continue as an Akatsuki member, but also I want you to try your best to monitor Sasuke and Orochimaru's actions. Maybe even put a stop to him. Leak me information whenever you can. and i'll tell you Sasuke's training process and such. I might even talk him out of killing you if you want"

Itachi nodded. "I don't know how much I can do exactly. But I can try my best. Sasuke will be alright. If we can help it anyway."

Scarlet nodded and smiled, Itachi stood "we can meet here twice a week to swap information. Can you do that?" he asked. Scarlet scratched her head "if I caught the mirror card soon i might"

Itachi looked at her with a confused look. Scarlet giggled "i'll explain later, now get going before Kisame gets suspicious." she urged. Itachi gave a small smile and ruffled her hair "thank you. For helping my brother get stronger by the way" he said. Scarlet smiled and gave a thumbs up. Itachi smiled and jumped away into the trees.

Tears were starting to build up in Scarlet's eyes. She could feel them. 'Sasuke. I WILL save you. Even if I have to give up my own life to do it!'