Itachi's promise: Chapter Thirteen
Waking up early the next morning Itachi pulled himself out of bed, changed and went down to have breakfast and train with his father. After eating barely anything, Itachi and Fugaku made their way into the training grounds, Itachi spent the next few hours being thrown around the training grounds by his father and having to put up with comments of how much he needed to improve. Itachi kept his temper in check and continued to fight against his father, when his whole body arched and hurt to move a muscle. From the side lines Kisame watched as Itachi flew into yet another tree, bruisers had started to appear on the top of his arms and beneath his clothes.
"Ah," Itachi groaned, as he pulled himself off the ground again.
"Dad, can we stop?" Itachi asked, holding his side as he looked up at his father.
"Itachi, you have to train harder and harder each day. Another hour and you can go," Fugaku replied, Itachi nodded and once again attacked.
Swinging a kick at his father, Itachi was blocked so he swung another punch and was blocked again flying back into a tree and landing on the ground with a thump. Itachi's eyes blurred as he watched his father run towards him ready to attack, Itachi pulled himself from the ground and pulled a kunai from his pouch. Then he dropped to the ground and his eyes closed, he lay on the ground silently as he heard his father's voice yelling his name in anger. From the edge of the training grounds hidden in the bushes sat Kisame, he dug his names into the ground and beared his teeth as his anger grew.
"Itachi, get up," Fugaku yelled, Itachi could barely hear his father's voice as his mind was slipping further into the darkness.
Itachi made no movements to stand up, so Fugaku began marching towards his oldest son. Kisame watched closely as Fugaku nudged Itachi with his shoe and rolled his eyes, pulling Itachi on to his stomach Fugaku nudged Itachi again with his shoe.
"Get up, Itachi," Fugaku ordered, Itachi groaned in pain as he tried to move one of limbs and couldn't even do that.
"Leave him alone," Kisame yelled from the shadows, hiding his appearance with a high level genjutsu and walking towards Fugaku.
Fugaku looked back towards Kisame and hissed in anger.
"What are you doing on Uchiha grounds?" Fugaku asked.
"You're hurting him, why?" Kisame asked, ignoring Fugaku's question.
"We are training, he needs to be a lot stronger," Fugaku answered.
"You are hurting him, more than is necessary," Kisame replied, trying to hide his anger in his voice.
"I don't believe that is any of your business," Fugaku replied, Kisame raised an eye brow and walked closer to Fugaku and Itachi.
"And I believe it is the hokage's business who and what enter this village, especially a ninja named Orochimaru," Kisame replied, Fugaku looked towards Kisame in shock and then turned his sharingan on brought himself into a fighting position.
"How do you know that?" Fugaku asked, smoke surrounded Kisame as he released the jutsu changing his appearance and showed who he really was to Fugaku.
"Nice to see you again, Fugaku," Kisame greeted.
"Kisame," Fugaku hissed in hatred.
"Fugaku, I told you not to interfere with my mission and I will tell you once again before I remove my mission from his village," Kisame replied.
"I didn't know I was interfering with your 'mission'" Fugaku replied.
"Fugaku, I have no problems with killing you, don't forget that," Kisame said.
"No, Kisame," Itachi whispered weakly, from behind Fugaku.
"Why are you watching my son?" Fugaku asked; Kisame smiled at how Fugaku had just worked out he was watching Itachi.
"He is going to be a great use to the Akatsuki, one day," Kisame replied, Fugaku raised an eye brow and looked back towards his son.
"He is not going with you," Fugaku said, Kisame smirked and shook his head.
"Not yet, but it's not as if you will remember any of this," Kisame answered.
"What?" Fugaku asked confused.
"I knew you would be anger after our little chat last night, so I slipped a drug in your tea this morning. As soon as I use my chakra, you will forget everything I need you to," Kisame answered, Fugaku watched Kisame as he created a hand.
Then the next moment Fugaku was standing at the edge of the training field alone, Itachi and Kisame both gone.
"Itachi, can you sit?" Kisame asked, propping Itachi up against a tree as he sat down in front of him.
"He won't remember anything about me and you from this morning and last night," Kisame told Itachi.
"Thanks, I should really be more careful," Itachi replied.
"That's why you have got me, watching over you," Kisame said.
"Yeah," Itachi replied.
Itachi sat still, wishing he could crawl into bed and go to sleep, wake up the next morning and then all his injuries would be healed.
"Training with your team starts in ten minutes, but I don't think you will be training," Kisame said, Itachi smiled and Kisame helped him to his feet.
Arriving at the training grounds both Takao and Raiden were already leaning against trees waiting for Itachi and their Sensei. Seeing Itachi, Raiden and Takao stopped talking and glared at Itachi.
"Are you Sensei Tsuneo's Team?" A chuunin asked, coming running up the hill and on to the training ground.
"Yeah," Raiden replied unsure.
"The hokage needs to see you," The chuunin said, Raiden and Takao looked at each other in confusing but Itachi knew exactly what was going on.
To Be Continued
