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Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 22

Naruto, Sasuke: 17

Shisui: 26

Kakashi: 31

So...I was far from Shisui now. Taki shinobi were fighting off the Edo Tenseis reincarnations, taking civilians to shelters as quickly as possible but so far, there were already lots of bodies on the ground. It seemed apart from Izuna, most reincarnated people were regular shinobi. Still, I'd run through them to seal them, using the Hiraishin when I deemed it necessary but…

Shit, they were using the Edo Tensei to reduce our number and then...and then what? Iwa launched its attack and finished us off? It didn't sound pleasant at all.

I could only hope Jiraya-san had made moves to help us out.

I blinked at the chakra I was feeling out of sudden, dread filling my body. Mist was slowly filling the area, my senses now on alert. I slid on the ground, a whistling sound flying just above my head. I barely had the time to be back on my feet that I was stopping a fist.

I gritted my teeth hard, my hand clenching the fist and blowing it up. I sent him away from the mist and followed him, watching him recompose.

Everything was the same except for the eyes. They no longer were purple, but white, like Izuna's had become when he lost control of himself.

Whoever was behind the Edo Tensei was manipulating Mangetsu, and a whole generation of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. I could hear the screams of pain behind me. I made a few shadow clones while I remained in front of Mangetsu.

He was the most dangerous one after all.

"Can you even hear me?" He just made finger guns at me and I readied myself to dodge.

My best friend wasn't there.

I dodged his water bullets as they pierced the scenery around us like butter. I ran at him at the first chance I got, ignoring the smell of smoke invading my nose and the heat of fire on my skin. People were dying around me and I had to get rid of Mangetsu quickly.

I could seal him just fine. Put him in ice first for safety.

I managed to get the field ready when all of the hairs on my body rose. The temperature dropped severely and snow started to fall. I shot a snowflake a look and frowned.

It wasn't…

I widened my eyes when it shone, barely having the time to raise my arms in front of me to protect myself that the snowflake blew up, like the ones around me. As everything around me blew up, I made a pitiful dome of ice around me. It fell to pieces once the explosions stopped, smoke everywhere. I used a wind jutsu to get rid of it and blinked at the new person, before widening my eyes.

My mind was blank, not a word coming in mind.

"Onii-chan?" I ended up whispering, my eyes not leaving the red-haired child in front of me. His eyes were white, so I knew, I knew he wouldn't hear me, maybe not even recognize me but…

I clenched my teeth together. My dead brother and dead best friend in front of me...it was to slow me down.

I moved my foot to the right and Mangetsu almost shot it. I clicked my tongue.

It lasted for ten minutes maybe, me trying to stop them because I couldn't leave and them escaping each time. I found myself shot in my right thigh.

Then, coffins rose from the ground and they were pulled inside before they disappeared. They were gone just like they appeared.

I just stared at the spot for a few seconds, the whole village now silent. I frowned and jumped on the roof of a still standing house. Edo tensei zombies were the main opposing forces, they all just vanished at the same time?

I had a bad feel…

I put my arm in front of my face when what seemed to be a sand storm came onto the village. Then the battles started again, but this time with living, breathing shinobi.

I see, they used Edo Tensei reanimations to weaken us, giving way to Iwa to get in. I jumped back down and put my finger on the ground, biting the inside of my cheek when I felt the number of chakra signatures in Taki and the amount of sheer chakra in the soil. Not only that, but the number of allies...I could feel it decreasing quickly.

I summoned my nodachi and opened it. I took a deep breath when a wave of cold filled me. I mean, I did not use the Hiraishin that much so far, so the element of surprise would be here, right?

I had to show it at some point anyway.

I took a deep breath and ran, going straight for the heart of the battle. I couldn't figure out where Shisui was, but hopefully he made it out alive from his fight with Izuna. As I reached my destination, I used the Hidden in the Mist Jutsu. However, due to my body temperature right now, the mist turned into frost.

I knew there was a jutsu like this...but I never really cared? I mean, there was still more visibility than with the Hiding in the Mist jutsu. Anyway, I could feel...everything, like in Rikkubetsu. I had not gone into negative mode since then but...my nodachi was making it easier. I just pulled it from its sheath and the cold from the blade did the rest.

I briefly blinked when I found myself in the heart of the village, now turned into a real battlefield, broken bodies and weapons lying on the ground, blood making it slippery.

My hands clenched my nodachi tighter as I felt myself connecting to...basically mostly everything around.

Finally, I moved. My blade cut through flesh smoothly, the smell of iron strong in the air before I went to other, and again, again and again. When I stopped, there was not a sound in the air, not even a breath could be heard.

Then, a scream. I didn't even turn my eyes to them that I made an ice spike they impaled themselves on.

"Shibuki-sama is at the tree," an older shinobi from Taki told me. I nodded, indicating I heard and left without a word.

When I found him, he was wounded and with Shisui. Shisui rose his head to me, relieved for a second at my sight.

"Can you do something for the bleeding?" he asked me quickly. I nodded and took his place. Shibuki was unconscious, most probably because of the several Iwa-nin a few feet from us. I placed a stasis seal on him.

"He needs medical assistance."

"I sent a summon to get it already." He frowned at me. "You're...pale."

"It's a side effect." He opened his mouth but closed it immediately.

"I'll ask later."

I raised two fingers in front of me and expanded my sensing range as much as possible. There were...still more coming?

Fools.

"Where are you going?" Shisui asked me as I was about to leave.

"There are more coming." I didn't wait for an answer that I jumped away. Once back in the village I jumped from roof to roof.

Right, the entrance was a waterfall. They were still getting in. Once I could, I threw my nodachi in the ground in the middle of the battlefield. It sent a wave of cold around enough for me to remain in negative mode. I teleported to the handle of my nodachi, it had markers there and on the tip of the blade, and froze the waterfall, the poor soul crossing it at that moment freezing as well.

I slaughtered them right after, honoring my moniker as Frozen Shinigami. It was over in a matter of seconds as they couldn't react in time to stop my Hiraishin. They wouldn't with regular markers, they wouldn't now I could turn the area into a giant marker at will.

I recognized Kurotsuchi and her jutsu destroying my frozen waterfall. Her and a group of twenty shinobi appeared. I went back to my nodachi when I saw her eyes widening in horror before turning into pure fury.

One of them used an Earth jutsu to send boulders at me. I stretched out my hands, a seal spreading out in front of me for the Hiraishin: Guiding Thunder Jutsu. I released them above the insects behind Kurotsuchi.

I blinked when a dirty-blond man sealed them in a paper tag.

"Kurotsuchi-taicho, it's the Yellow Flash's move!" he told her immediately.

"There's no way a kunoichi from Kiri would know it!"

"He's right, it's the Hiraishin. I didn't use it until today," I droned at them flatly. I looked at the blond one. "You were the one touching my seals then." He looked at me with pale, bright green eyes. "You're good."

"That's stupid, why would you keep that trick and not use it immediately?"

"Because until today I thought you had some kind of honor, that even if we're enemies you'd leave the dead where they were." She frowned, listening closely. "You've decided to use our dead against us today, so I'm done playing nice waiting for you to come to your senses. You want a bloody war, I'm gonna give you one. If you want a taste of what a real Bloody Mist shinobi is made of and is capable of, then congratulations, that's what you're gonna get from now on."

"It's all for today." I looked at Shisui, in front of me, who was still perched on my blade. Even if his back was to me, I knew his Sharingan was burning. "Apart from you there are no living shinobi from Iwa in Taki, there's no need to keep being humiliated by the Hiraishin again and again."

There was a long silence. It seemed knowing I was a Hiraishin user was making them rethink their tactics, Shisui being there making them rethink them even more.

"Enough people died today as it is, we will retreat," she ended up saying, glaring at the ground.

"But tai…" She raised her arm and hand, silencing the older man behind her.

"I said it was enough." She shot me a firm look. I cocked a brow at her and she left, like the rest of them.

"How long have you been watching?"

"Once the waterfall froze. You seemed to be handling it on your own." He turned around to face me, his arms crossed. "I think the Tsuchikage will hate what happened here."

"They had it coming." He pursed his lips.

"Who did you see?"

"Mangetsu." I looked down. "And my brother." Shisui cursed under his breath. I jumped down and put my nodachi away.

"You're oka…" I moved back when he was about to touch my shoulder.

"You'll get frost bite. I need to warm u…" He took his flak jacket off, used it to cover his hands and wrapped it around me, him now behind me, his arms around me. I opened my mouth when he started to vigorously rub my arms.

"Is it new?"

"Yeah...I figured some things out regarding my kekkai genkai." He hummed and slowed down. I turned around to face him, him and his grim face. "What?"

"Everything's destroyed, I don't know if they'll recover from it." I looked around.

Right, buildings destroyed, blood deep in the ground, dead people...dead civilians…

It...it would be hard.

It wasn't long before Kakashi's silver hair appeared in the distance. Sasuke, who was with him, shot Shisui and I a weird look and I sighed, walking to Kakashi.

"We both need medics." He nodded and gave orders.

The trip back to the outpost was very quiet.

I was away from the outpost, perched on a tree branch, the night settling in. The siege of Kiri was a week ago. Shibuki was alive, but still recovering.

We went back to count the dead. So far, Taki had lost more than half of its population, civilians and shinobi. Most buildings were not salvageable, the reincarnations having been used as kamikazes almost.

As of now, the village of Taki no longer existed, erased from the map. I didn't know where Fuu was, but I was sure by now she knew, that everyone knew about what happened. It was...big.

As for me, Shisui had taken Dai apart to tell him about me being drugged, thus leading to all this. If I had not been, then Taki would most probably…

I gritted my teeth, my nails digging in the wood of the branch. I understood there were conflicts, I knew I was a good target on many levels, but we were at war, there were other things to do than trying to sabotage people from you own side. The only...nice thing I guess, if I could put it that way, was that this bitch of Manami was...avoiding me like the plague, looking away the small amount of times we'd see each other. Shisui was no better, spending more time with us than anyone else.

It was nice, to be honest. It was...Shisui, good old Shisui, trying to make a barrier between Sasuke, me and the rest of the Uchihas at the outpost. Jiraya-san wasn't blind, he was giving him this liberty.

I shot the Bingo Book on my lap a look and grabbed it, opening it on my updated page.

'Uzumaki Akane, the Frozen Flash of the Mist, flee on sight'.

It was one thing I didn't really want to take from Minato.

I shut the book and looked on my right when Kakashi sat down next to me.

"That's a flattering picture," he commented idly.

"Humph, if looks could kill anyone who's seen this by now would be dead." There was a short silence.

"How's it going?"

"It's irrelevant for now," I replied more coldly than I intended. I bit my bottom lip.

"So not great." He looked at the sky. "How did Fubuki look?"

"...the same almost." I looked up as well. "I shouldn't have hold back to begin with."

"I don't agree, knowing the reputation of the Hiraishin, keeping it hidden in your sleeve was a good choice." He shot me a look from the corner of his eyes. "With our situation, you have to get any possible knowledge out of your head though or our common demise is guaranteed."

"That's a nice way to tell me to get my shit together and focus on now only Kakashi," I replied wryly. "But I know. It's just...not easy."

"Well, I wouldn't want to be in your place." He put his hand on my head. "I'll fill in if you need to step back."

"I know, thanks."

"Akane…"

"Hum?"

"This is not the war you've known before, is it?" I blinked and pursed my lips.

"Far from it." He sighed deeply, ruffling his hair.

"What a mess this is."

"You don't say. I just...don't understand Iwa's point of view...it doesn't make any sense."

"The jounin kunoichi we've seen quite a lot…"

"Kurotsuchi, the Tsuchikage's granddaughter."

"Yeah. She didn't...how can I put it without making...she looks stubborn."

"No shit, she's from the Hidden Stone and Oonoki's granddaughter, of course she's stupidly stubborn, and proud."

"Yeah, that's the thing. Did she seem very proud of what her village was doing?" I frowned. "Maybe it's just me and my sharingan which picks up body language better than a regular eye, but she's always tensed."

"It's war, it's normal."

"Yes, but tensed in a way she's ready to run away if needed, which I doubt is in her personality from how she leads." I opened my mouth a little. "She seems to be around your age, so even if she shares her grandfather's love for her village, it doesn't mean she agrees with his methods." I looked down in thoughts.

"I didn't...well I thought I saw her being...weird but…"

"We should bring it up to Jiraya-san tomorrow." I nodded firmly. "Get some rest, you were wounded not that long ago."

"Yes sir."

The next day, we were around a map of the area.

"Iwa retreated closer to their borders, but there's still no way we can go through," Jiraya-san stated seriously.

"I can go and kill them all in a flash," I said flatly. Jiraya-san pointed his finger at me.

"Great plan Akane, but let's keep it as plan Z." I rolled my eyes.

"I was joking." Shisui looked at me awkwardly. "Really."

"We think there's something to explore with the Tsuchikage's granddaughter," Kakashi told the Sannin, who frowned.

"How so?"

"It's almost as if she didn't want to be there each time we cross path," he continued firmly. "Maybe she doesn't agree with her grandfather's decisions."

"So what, you want a meeting? I doubt I can arrange that."

"We can." Shisui looked down at me when I grabbed his arm, then Jiraya-san. "We both were in Taki, I think Iwa might want to make us pay even if I have a 'flee on sight' order. And if we're wrong, he can just…" I pointed at my eyes.

"That's true." Jiraya-san took his chin between two fingers. "We'd need to find her and isolate her though." He looked at the both of us. "You think you can do it?" I shared a look with Shisui.

"It's worth a try, I guess?" he replied, unsure of where that would lead us.

Thus followed two intense weeks of tracking them, following teams that were going on reckons near Iwa outposts to see where Kurotsuchi was. Iwa was now on the defensive, it was impossible to get within a five-kilometer radius of any of their outpost without being detected.

Basically, Shisui and I were created false alarms to make them even more on edge. We were both fast, Shisui's genjutsu making it easy to create diversions.

The thing was, even if Kurotsuchi went back to Iwa, then we'd need to get behind their annoying outposts.

We returned empty-handed. Jiraya-san listened to us quietly just to sigh at the end.

"We'd need to get behind then," Jiraya-san.

"I'm afraid so, but it will be hard. They're close to the border, meaning mountainous ground, highlands...not really our kind of playground," Shisui told him.

"The air is dry too, I won't be able to easily use my Hyouton or negative mode. Cutting off their resupplying is out of the question for now because it most likely comes directly from the Land of Earth, so no Kannabi Bridge-like operation," I added, sitting down in front of Jiraya-san.

"Ideally, we'd need more reckon teams with better sensors and trackers," Kakashi summed up.

"That, or like Shisui did, use high level genjutsu to make diversions. A lot of Uchihas are here." I gulped.

Thing was, Dai didn't really...he was awkward when I was there. Shisui told him what happened and he was pissed, and incredibly guilty as well. It was not his fault, I told him that, Shisui told him that but still.

Sasuke noticed and asked me what was going on. Yeah, only Shisui, Dai and I knew I was drugged through him. I mean, it was war, Sasuke was already at odds with his clan...I just kept that detail to myself.

He knew I was hiding something though, he wasn't blind. And he knew it had something to do with his clan because he was on edge, more than usual. To be honest, now he was taller than me it was intimidating to see him around me, on edge.

One wrong move and Sasuke would sucker punch them in the face I'm sure.

Point is, the little sabotage that turned into a real disaster was a secret because it impacted so many...if it was known? Bye bye Kiri and Konoha alliance. This bitch Manami, and the Uchihas targeting me, they seemed to forget I was not Konoha. Seriously, I was a foreigner when they wanted to, but when I could be used for their cause? They forgot how disastrous it would be if they were to succeed for all parties involved.

"Still, this is a secret operation, we can't spare that many people."

"You need to go through and not stop at the border." I blinked at Hiruzen.

The Third did not speak often. I had no idea how much he was watching, but here...well, if there was one thing he knew it was war.

"Fill me in when I open my eyes please," I asked Jiraya-san. He raised a brow. "The voices want to join." He blinked, understanding. "The third one in particular it seems." Shisui looked completely lost.

Right, I didn't tell him about this I think.

"Sure." I shut my eyes.

When I opened them, the four kages were sitting in a circle. I sat down between oji-chan and Hashirama, the Third staring harshly at the ground.

"Yuukoku is not the capital of the Land of Earth, but is one of the most animated town you'll find there. During the last war, shinobi would go there instead of going back to Iwa to rest, especially because of the red light district there is," the Third explained, looking at me now. "You'll most likely find Kurotsuchi there, at least it's a safer choice than blindly going to their outposts."

"And for that they need to go through," Minato finished. "I did hear this town mentioned before."

"It means if they reach it, infiltration for a certain amount of time," Tobirama added. "They could go through the Land of Grass, but crossing a foreign country with no particular alliance in the war is always a risky move, so it should not be the first choice."

"Cause a fight at one of the outposts?" Hashirama suggested. Tobirama shook his head.

"Too much potential losses just to have a few shinobi get in enemy territory."

"Infiltrating the Land of Earth seems like the only way to know what is going on in Oonoki's mind though", the Third said firmly.

"Transmissions." We looked at Minato. "They have to be in contact with each other. Intercept any transmission there is and they'll be after you. It should give you the time to make enough of a ruckus to get in the country or make a breach at least."

I opened my eyes and crossed my arms, my lips pursed.

"So?"

"Well," I told the sannin. "There might be a plan, I'm just...not sure how well it could go."

"Let's hear it." I nodded at Kakashi.

"Why aren't you sleeping yet?" Naruto looked up at Itachi.

December was over, the new year beginning in tears and blood. Naruto looked back down at the Bingo Book in his hands.

Since the team from Kiri left, they made progress on their front but...the last news that reached them from the north made Naruto's skin crawl.

"I was just thinking nee-chan's new moniker is...ironic I guess." Itachi pursed his lips. "And Iwa's not really original, they were the one to give dad his, right?"

"From what I know yes." Itachi leaned against the tree, his arms crossed. Naruto was sitting against it. "A flee on sight is not nothing."

"Yeah, but…" Naruto sighed. "You know, I was...half jealous when they came and Sasuke had his nickname. I mean...just mentioning it in front of him made him have this look on his face and…"

"Getting a moniker during a war or anytime has a heavy price."

"That's what Kakashi-sensei told me. I mean, nee-chan's super strong you know, Hero of Kiri and all that but...Taki doesn't exist anymore, and there were just her and Shisui-nii with Taki when they were attacked...and…" Naruto clenched his fists on the book. "They just brought people back from the dead, it's...Damn, I just want to know if they're okay."

"Unfortunately, we can't just go there, especially you." Naruto groaned, leaning his head back against the tree. "But I may have a way to send them a message." The Uzumaki looked up at him with hopeful eyes.

"Are you serious?" Itachi barely had the time to blink that Naruto was on his feet, almost his height, and in his face. Itachi stared at him blankly and put his hand on Naruto's face, pushing him away.

"Don't make me reconsider." Naruto froze and took a step back. "It stays between us and it has to be encrypted."

"Like something only nee-chan would understand?" Itachi nodded and Naruto took his chin between his fingers. "Huh...something only her and maybe the teme would get…"

Well, Itachi was curious too. The news of Taki being destroyed did something to everyone's mood. And the Frozen Flash of the Mist? What did Akane even do to get herself this moniker? Clearly it had something to do with the Hiraishin and probably with her Hyouton too but…

Itachi clenched his fists in his pockets. She was alive, it was what mattered. Shisui too, so…

It didn't quench his need to know what happened and how they were, but he didn't have a choice for now. He had a job to do and responsibilities he couldn't avoid.

He could only hope the war would end soon.

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