Woo hoo! here is chapter 22! I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 22

~Alasia's POV~

Here I am, hiding in a tree, watching Kakashi and Itachi staring each other down. Right now, Itachi was standing on a river with Kakashi blocking him, saving Kurenai. Asuma is on land with Kakashi's clone in between him and Kisame.

Asuma and Kurenai had fallowed the Akatsuki members to a river nearby in the village. I went after them, knowing what was about to happen. After a little fighting between the pairs, Kakashi stepped in and helped which leads to where we are now.

"This is surprising. These were the two suspicious people down at the tea shop. I didn't think it was Itachi Uchiha and the mysterious hidden mist ninja, Kisame Hoshigaki. Am I right?"Kakashi continued to glare at the two criminals.

"Well, well. I'm honored. You know my name." Kisame smirked.

"But, you weren't surprised at all, were you Alasia?" His clone looked up in the general direction I was in. I rolled my eyes and jumped down from my perch beside the masked nin.

"No, I wasn't." I sighed. I looked from Kisame to Itachi, noticing the glare the Uchiha was giving me. "Long time no see, Itachi."

~Joe's POV~

"So where is Alasia? You guys are never apart." Jiraiya and I were walking to the ramen shop, looking for our blond haired knuckle-head.

"She's welcoming an old friend of ours back." I laugh a little at my lame joke I knew only I would get. Jiraiya cocked a brow but didn't push for more info because we had reached our destination.

"Hey Naruto!" I quickly grabbed the kid and gave him a noogie. He laughed while pushing me off. I could hear the sage chuckling behind us at our antics.

"Joe! Ero-Sannin!"

~Alasia'sPOV~

Well, this is awkward. All I want to do is give the poor guy a hug since I know the truth but that would blow his cover and pretty much ruin everything. Damn it Itachi!

"I haven't seen you in 15 years. . . and you haven't aged one bit." His glare intensified. First, he doesn't know I know the real reason he killed the clan. Second, me not aging probably does look sketchy.

Thankfully, before more questions were brought up about me, Kakashi intervened.

"Keep your guard up. He was the head of AMBU at the age of 13." Kakashi released his clone, focusing on the Uchiha. Before anyone could react, Kakashi had raised a water barrier around himself as shuriken flew from all sides. They were all effectively blocked. Afterwords, Kakashi slowly put the wall of water down, glaring at Itachi.

"Your penetrating eye is remarkable as expected, Kakashi . . ." My eyes widened as an Itachi clone appeared behind Kakashi, stabbing him in the back. "Isn't that right?" The clone finished.

~Meanwhile in the village~

"Hey Joe, where is Alasia?" Naruto looked around for said person.

"She had to do something really quick. Don't worry about it." I took a big bite of ramen and letting out a satisfied sigh. God I love this stuff!

"So what are you and Ero-Sannin doing? You guys usually aren't with each other." He stopped eating his 4th bowl of ramen to look at us. I look over at Jiraiya giving him the 'this is your job so you answer' look.

~Back with Alasia~

Oh boy. I just pissed off Itachi big time. Who knew that my eye, gekegenkai (a/n spelling?), glowing eyes thing would be immune to the sharigan! Of course Itachi was already annoyed since he didn't stab Kakashi, but kakashi's clone earlier.

What happened was Itachi was about to use the Mengekyo sharigan so Kakashi told everyone to close their eyes. ( he didn't have to tell me twice). Then I remembered what itachi was going to do to Kakashi, pull him into the genjutsu called tsukiyomi. It's the one where you are tortured for 72 hours. If I had just gotten to this world I wouldn't have done anything but since I have had the time to become close friends with Kakashi, I didn't want him to go through it.

I quickly activated my glowing eyes and jumped in front of Kakashi, shielding his one sharigan eye. To both Itachi's and my surprise nothing happened to me. Of course Itachi then gives me the Uchiha glare of death, so to hide any fear I had, I gave him a smug smirk.

Kisame walks over to Itachi's side with a questioning look but he just ignores the taller man.

"You here for Sasuke, right?" Kakashi askes. Before Itachi can answer, I cut in.

"No. He is after the 4th's legacy, Naruto." Well really he is here to threaten Danzou so he doesn't hurt Sasuke but can't say that out loud no can I?

I continue to keep eye contact with Itachi, noticing his glare intensify slightly."What, surprised that I know what your motive is . . . little 'Tachi?" Okay so pushing his buttons with the old nickname Joe used probably wasn't the best idea but . . . oh who am I kidding it's just fun messing with Uchihas.

"You're after Kyuubi aren't you?" Kakashi accused. "Don't think we don't know. Your organization is Akatsuki isn't it?" Kakashi opened his eyes but kept his eye down on the water we were standing on.

"Kisame. . . take Kakashi and Alasia out. It's time for these people to disappear." Ah damn!

Kisame whipped out his giant sword and ran toward us. I moved in front of him, getting ready to summon Shovel and Pail when all of a sudden a green blur came out of nowhere and kick Kisame in the head, sending him flying.

"What the hell!" Kisame yelled out, landing a few feet away. "Who the hell is this?"

"Konoha's prideful green beast, Maito Gai!" Gai stood in front of me. He stood tall and proud with one hand behind his back and the other held up in front with his palm facing him. Boy am I glad to see him.

Just then, a wave of exhaustion hit me like a ton of brick and the next thing I know I was falling and everything went black.

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~Normal POV~

Joe was sitting in the hospital next to a sleeping Alasia. Jiraiya and Naruto were both with her. They had spent the last 20 minutes calming her down, reassuring that her friend would be okay. They had gotten news from Kakashi about what had happened as they were leaving the Ramen shop. Joe went into a panic and ran as fast as she could to the hospital. They followed after her and had found her by Alasia's bed sobbing her eyes out.

Joe was sitting with her head down, looking at the floor in deep thought. Naruto watch her as her facial expressions changed from guilt to worry to anger and then back to guilt.

I have never seen her so down before. The boy thought.

"Joe, get that look off your face. It's not your fault. Besides we knew no one was going to get seriously hurt. I just passed out. Now stop. I don't like it when you're like that." All heads snap in the direction of the girl lying down. Relief washed over everyone in the room.

Joe pounced on her friend, squeezing her in a huge hug. "Damn it! Don't scar me like that! I swear if I ever see that damn weasel, I will beat the crap out of him! Just you wait! He will be begging for mercy once I'm done with him!" Jiraiya chuckled, happy to see that everything was okay and Naruto's biggest smile was plastered on his face. He too was glad that his new friends were okay.

"Common Joe, don't be like that. He doesn't know that we know. Besides it would looked suspicious if he didn't attack." Alasia said as she pushed her friend off her so she could breathe. As Alasia was pushing her off, she notice Jiraiya giving her a questioning look. What does she mean by that? He thought.

"Yeah well, he better feel guilty about it and I'm still going to kick his butt when I see him again." Joe 'hmphed' and crossed her arms. Then a thought crossed her mind.

"Hey Alasia. . . what made you pass out? I heard that you didn't do any serious fighting."

"I'm not sure. I have a theory but I'm not 100% sure about it. You see, when Itachi activated his sharingan, I used the glowing eyes thing. I should have been caught in his genjutsu when I shielded Kakashi but I wasn't. I think, but I'm not sure, that it was because of my eyes. I think they can block the effects of the sharingan but it takes a lot of chakra and energy for some reason."

"Wait. . . that sounds really confusing." Naruto stood next to Joe. He had crossed his arms and was pouting from the lack of understanding.

"Don't worry about it Naruto." Joe ruffled his hair.

"I want you two to be careful when it comes to that guy." The sage gave them a warning look. It was the kind of look a parent would give their kid.

Joe, trying to liven the atmosphere asked "So, who's up for a trip?"

Yay! now they are off to get Tsunade! I actually can't wait to bring her into the story! hahaha. XD I would love to here what you thought about the chapter! Love you guys!