Akatsuki vs. the New Organization

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Itachi sat outside of the hokage mansion. He was being watched by the anbu black ops. He was pretending not to notice and just like hey planned they took the bait. He was put under a genjutsu, which he quickly dispelled before faking falling asleep. They captured him and took him in custody. When he pretended to awaken he was in a small room tied to a cha. "So Itachi Uchiha, huh" said a voice. "You were pretty sloppy but we're not complaining. So we need information and we can get it the easy way or the hard way."

"I will give you one piece on information willingly and you'll get nothing else. Madara Uchiha has returned stronger than ever" Itachi said. Ibiki stepped out of the shadows "Well that certainly is good info but its not enough, if you won't give us anymore willingly we have means of making you talk" he said. "You'll never hurt me enough to make me talk, pain is an illusion and illusion can never phase me" he replied cooly."You're right, pain doesn't work on you, I'll have to go into your head and get the information straight from the source" Ibiki said.

"How does that work" his assistant asked. "The human mind has a wall, that if bypassed, allows you to see all their thoughts" he replied, "A typical person has one, and a master of genjutsu has up to five. People of the sharingan can have up to ten. Of course one can train their mind to have many more. It all depends on their will power." "You could only hope to win against me if you had an infinite supply of chakra, my mind is a steal trap" Itachi said with a smile. "We'll see" Ibiki replied as he did a hand sign.

Tobi sat on a ledge. Kisame had slipped into the Hokage mansion and taken some chakra from the nine tails boy an hour ago. Now he was trailing Kakashi, trying to wait till he was alone. He had gone out for his birthday with his students and friends, and was now getting a 'birthday present' from a few of his female friends. A perfect way to spend the final few hours of life, in Tobi's opinion.

Kakashi stepped outside for a walk. He didn't like to brag to himself but a room with 3 beautiful sleeping satisfied women was a bragging right like no other. Sakura and Ino had certainly outdone themselves for his gift, and he wasn't sure how they talked shizune into it, but this had been the best birthday ever. He walked down the road as he finally sobered up. It was 7 in the morning so he thought he'd start his day off with some fresh air before going home and proposing a second round with the 3 gorgeous women in his bed. As he walked further though he could sense someone powerful watching him.

It didn't take long to realize it was someone in akatsuki by the overwhelming power of the chakra, so he decided to let them follow him to the training ground. When he got there he stretched and quickly turned around pulling up his mask and yelling "mangekyo sharingan." A spiral of distortion appeared on the tree Tobi was standing on. As he landed on the ground his mangekyo roared to life. "What do you want" Kakashi asked as he looked at tobi. "Your eye" Tobi replied as he rushed Kakashi. They met each other blow for blow for a moment before Tobi swept his caught himself in time to jump out of the way of black flames that appeared on the ground.

He jumped out of the way as the flames erupted they quickly shot out at him. He created a vortex that swallowed the flames. He fired up a lightning blade and charged Tobi. Tobi dodged and blocked as Kakashi lunged at him several times. He pulled out to the side and a ball of flames appeared in his hand. He slammed it onto Kakashi's back and jumped out of the crater it caused. Kakashi quickly shook it off. "Impressive" Tobi said with a smile "one sharingan won't cut it will it?" As he said this he threw off his mask and activated his bangekyo. Kakashi did the same as they rushed each other again. Tobi smiled and vanished as they were about to clash only to reappear behind him. Another vortex opened up behind Kakashi and Tobi had to vanish again to keep from being pulled in.

He started to do a hand sign as he reappeared and then vanished again. Several holes opened around Kakashi and fire shot out of them. As Kakashi dodged the fireballs half of Tobi's body appeared across the battlefield. He started to punch and each time he did, the fists would disappear and come out of more holes right in front of Kakashi. He blocked as many as he could but Tobi was more fluent with his sharingan. He took a hit to the face and was hit dead on by several fireballs. He caught himself and created a vortex above them. All the fireballs were sucked into. "Amatarasu" Tobi yelled as more black flames shot at Kakashi. They were easily pulled into his vortex. "I'm a Jonin of the HIdden Leaf and I won't let you win that easily, I'm known as the copy ninja for a reason" Kakashi said.

"Amatarasu" he yelled as his own black flames shot at Tobi. Another vortex appeared right above his left shoulder and the fire and black flames that went into his first were shot out of it. Tobi vanished and started to reappear in different places around the field. As he finally dodged the last fireball he turned into a blur and it shot out at Kakashi. More black flames appeared on the ground until there were six lines of it swirling all around stopping Tobi's progress. There was fire everywhere as smoke filled the sky. Black flames were burning all nearby trees. Finally Tobi rushed through the flames and appeared in front of Kakashi. He made a chakra sword as Kakashi did and they clashed several times before Tobi had to dodge the black flames again. Finally he yelled "enough" and his black flames quickly overtook Kakashi's.

They stood across the battlefield from each other. Tobi smiled and said "It's time to make this a battle for the ages, Trangekyo Sharingan." Kakashi looked at him. 'I can't match him' Kakashi thought 'if I try to I'll die. But if I don't he'll kill me. At least I might take him with me.' Kakashi looked around at the destruction. He sighed. This was his last battle. He smiled remembering better times, like before the akatsuki showed their heads. He shook his head, he had to get back into the fight. He closed his eyes and muttered "Trangekyo sharingan." His eye opened and a it was similar to a regular Trangekyo. His was blue. The distinctive difference was that his had three black rings going out almost like a rinnegan. "Wow" Tobi said "I don't know who you got that eye from but they obviously had the strongest Trangekyo of us all."

Kakashi staggered for a second as his eye began to burn. He worked through it and rushed Tobi. Small vortexes opened up and started to shoot black flames. Tobi dodged them and went in for a punch. Kakashi blocked it and kicked him in the side of the head. As Tobi hit the ground he crashed his fist down on the side of his head. Tobi yelled and kicked him off. Tobi rushed back in and they traded blow for a few minutes. There were sparks flying as kunais met each other in the air. Finally they ran in and jumped off each other. Kakashi made a lightning blade and put all of his chakra in it. Tobi did the same as Kakashi took a moment to put the very last bit of his chakra in the jutsu.

Kakashi felt so drained. His eyes watered from the pain and he coughed up a small amount of blood. He smiled through this though. He remembered the first day he became the leader of team 7. That, he could be sure of, was his happiest memory. He got to watch his students grow to be very fine ninja. He'd done his best to keep them safe, and they'd did their best to realise their dreams. The one fact that made him feel the best is that he was dieing protecting his village and hokage. Naruto had came so far from the days when he was just a troublemaking little brat. He rushed Tobi and he did the same. As their jutsu clashed and Kakashi could feel Tobi overpowering him he smiled wider. He'd taught his student everything he could and he felt sure they'd forgive him for not being strong enough. It was Naruto's turn to take over and be the leader that Kakashi was sure he could be. He just wished he'd be there to see it. Tobi's jutsu cancelled out Kakashi's and pierced through his chest. As he felt his life slipping away he spoke his final words "good luck... Naruto."

As Kakashi went limp Tobi pulled his hand out of his chest. He leaned down and slowly opened Kakashi's eye. He gripped his fingers around it, and with one solid motion, yanked it out of Kakashi's head. He pulled out a small vial and dropped the eye in it. He turned and looked at the battle ground. It was obvious what happened here so there was no point in trying to cover up the battle. It was early morning and the smoke was sure to alert others when they awoke. He decided it was best if he went and waited to the maximum security prison they were keeping Itachi at.

It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The village was buzzing over a Jonin being found dead at the training ground but Ibiki had been with Itachi all morning so he didn't know who it was. He was gasping loudly. He was so low on chakra. Itachi had over 40 walls that he had gotten through and there was no end in sight. Finally giving up he pulled out of Itachis mind. "So you have fun in there" Itachi said. "What are you" Ibiki said before passing out. HIs assistant picked him up and sat him in a chair. A radio went off and the assistant went in the other room to answer it. Itachi could hear through the slightly open door. "Sasuke Uchiha heard about his brother being in the prison and he's on his way, you need to strengthen security" the voice said.

"Well" Itachi called into the other room "that's my cue to leave." With that he broke his chains and stood up. As the assistant came in he knocked him out. He stepped into the hall and and activated his trangekyo sharingan. "Death gaze" he yelled. He walked down the hall and anyone who tried to stop him died when they saw his eyes. When he got outside he looked around. He was on top of a mountain. The prison was a 40 story tower. From the front gate of the prison there was a long bridge to the edge of a cliff. Under the bridge was a chasm so deep it was just a giant black hole. Itachi was about to leave but of course, knowing his luck, Sasuke was standing on the other side of the bridge breathing heavily. The two brothers locked eyes, and they both knew what it was.

They charged at each other as Sasuke activated his trangekyo sharingan. Itachi couldn't afford a long battle so he fought with as much strength as he could muster without losing the chakra he took from Ibiki and quickly outmatched him. "Even with the same eyes as me you're no match" he said before turning to walk away. He stopped when he heard soft sobs. "Just finish me damn it" Sasuke said standing up "I can't take this anymore. I'll never beat you and I can't take having no one. Everyday is misery knowing I'm all alone. I've been living in darkness it's all I can see. If I can't kill you at least end my suffering. I don't even want to kill you anymore, I just want my brother back. If I can't have that there's no point in even trying anymore" As he finished he grabbed Itachi's cloak and started hitting him softly. He was crying too hard to hit him with any kind of force. By the end of it he stopped hitting him and just cried in his brother's shoulder.

"Interesting so you see darkness clearly" Itachi said "if that's the case, then theres always the path of darkness. I've long since stopped caring about our petty dispute. If you're willing to turn your back on your friends, you could come and join the akatsuki." Sasuke stared at him for a moment. Could he really do something like that. The akatsuki were after his best friend and they killed his teacher and the fifth hokage. He looked at Itachi who turned and started to walk away. "It's your choice Sasuke" he said "you could sever all those useless bonds and join akatsuki. You'd have me and your cousin Tobi. Or you could stay here and the next time we meet, I'll put you out of your misery."

Sasuke watched him walk away, and as he got to the edge of the bridge he looked one final time at Sasuke. He finally gave up and took off running after his brother. He said nothing but followed him down the mountain where they met up with Kisame and Tobi. Sasuke stood back nervously. Itachi spoke with them up ahead and then motioned for him to come over. "We'll get you set up with a cloak when we return to the base" Itachi said "I've cleared it up with the leader as well, but I swear if you give anyone a reason not to trust you, we won't hesitate to kill you." Sasuke simply nodded and followed them slowly out of the village.

"Do we have everything" Itachi asked. "I got Kakashi's eye" Tobi said pulling out the vial. "I have the demon boys chakra" Kisame said holding a small chakra scroll. "And I have Ibiki's chakra" Itachi said "everything's going perfectly. Soon I'll have the ultimate power." He smiled for a moment and looked back at Sasuke. It was the first time he saw Itachi genuinely happy. It was gone in a flash but it was there. Sasuke couldn't help but smile back.

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