Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 13 Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks part 2 ( Chapter 13 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 184 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 184 | Status: Completed
Chapter 13: Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks part 2
“That lightning, I think it did something to me…” Kisame said, walking down the stairway sleepily, rubbing his head.
“What do you mean?” Itachi pulled his shirt on to him, slipping his vest over it.
“I’m not sure, I’m seeing things…and I feel like I’m forgetting something, something important.” Kisame shrugged. “So, what’s the next step?” Kisame walked in the living room and looking over towards Konohamaru sleep peacefully couch. He seemed calm the whole time, as if he wasn’t worried about what would happen to him.
Itachi sat down on the chair opposite Kisame, looking up at the clock. It was 6:30 in the morning, and the city outside showed it. “I’m not sure, I haven’t heard from anyone lately and it’s starting to get suspicious.”
“We should find Lewis then, he should still be somewhere around here…But why can’t we just contact Headquarters directly?” Kisame asked.
“I’ve tried.” Itachi sat back and folded his arms, “Well if we must, I’ll call him.” He stood up, walking up stairs while Kisame went to the kitchen to start on breakfast.
‘Damn storm! I knew Itachi should have carried the money, we better get the other half of it when this is all over.’ Kisame mumbled to himself, looking in the refrigerator on the left.
!- ! -!
Itachi returned 20 minutes later, fully dressed except for his robe and a phone under his arm.
Konohamaru opened one eye, awakened by the sent of Kisame’s cooking, watching an oblivious Itachi sit the phone down on the table and plug it in. “Kisame.”
Kisame emerged from the kitchen, obviously annoyed from the cooking. “Did you get him?”
Itachi pressed the speakerphone button, making the sound of ringing roam through the air. He glanced over at Konohamaru, still appearing to be sleep. “You don’t have to fake it anymore.”
Konohamaru opened his eyes, looking immediately toward Itachi who was focused on the phone. “How…did you know?” Konohamaru sat up, looking at Itachi questingly. He didn’t get an answer though.
“Yes? Who is this?”
Some one finally answered the phone, it was Lewis, the one they were looking for. He was a higher authority in Akatsuki, though he wasn’t stronger then Itachi and Kisame, he was the one that gave them most of their training and initiated them.
“Lewis? This is---” Kisame was cut off by a surprised gasp on the other end of the line.
“Hoshigaki Kisame?! Your alive?” Lewis said with a shocked voice.
“What the hell? Why wouldn’t I be?” Kisame asked.
“I heard you and Uchida Itachi were killed in the storm around the Fire Country.”
“Ho--” Kisame stopped when he saw Itachi signal him to wait.
“When did you hear this?” Itachi asked
“10 days ago.”
Itachi and Kisame looked at each other, they hadn’t even received their mission 10 days ago. How could he had heard they were dead?
“Who told you this?” Itachi asked.
“Headquarters, a message was sent out to all members about it or they heard it one way or another.” Lewis told them, making this whole situation extremely suspicious now. “Listen carefully, if your alive then you might be in danger. We can’t talk over the phone, we need to meet in person. Where are you now?”
“My house, you know where that is don’t you?” Itachi asked
“Right now I’m in the Ice Village, You have to get here now.” Lewis said urgently.
“Ice village? Why would you be there?” Kisame asked.
“There‘s no time for that. Meet me at City hall around tomorrow noon, I‘ll--”
The phone line went dead in the middle of his sentence.
“What the hell?” Kisame walked over to the phone and hung up, trying to get a dial tone. “It was cut from our side….?”
The door was blasted open, sending it flying towards the couch, striking Konohamaru in the back of his head and knocked him to the ground. “Aww…” Konohamaru held his head, stifling a moan of pain from the blow.
Kisame reached down and pick him up by his shirt collar, pulling him out of the way of a stray shrunken then tilling his head to avoid another one.
A man jumped through the door way, a hunter-nin with a forehead protector from the lighting village that had a line through the insignia. More importantly he had and Akatsuki ring.
Kisame reached over and tried to get his sword laying against the wall, but two Shrunkens flew outward from the smoke filled doorway in to his sleeve, pinning his arm to the wall. Before he could reach over and pull them out, two more Shrunken pinned his other arm down.
A Kunai from the quick ninja came flying at his head, Kisame held his head to the side and avoided it, breaking free from his holds on the wall.
Itachi rushed toward the hunter, throwing a punch at him. The ninja took a step back and grabbed his arm, tossing him over his shoulder in to the wall. Itachi flipped, kicking off the wall and diving toward the hunter. The nin fell back, letting Itachi fly over him.
The hunter pulled another kunai from under his sleeve, tossing it through couch at Konohamaru. Kisame grabbed him again, tossing him up in to the second floor balcony and out of range. Then he knocked the Kunai away with his Samehada.
“Alright, now that the kid is out of the way, let’s get down to business.” Kisame said, drawing his sword back and tossing at the hunter. It hooked him by the back of his shirt and burred itself in the wall, trapping him there.
Konohamaru watched from above, seeing how the two had quickly gained the upper hand and the Ninja was still barely managing to stay alive by running and evading. Konohamaru heard a sound behind him and felt a breeze blow past him.
He turned around in time to see another hunter-nin coming through the window, and apparently hadn’t noticed Konohamaru yet. ‘I don’t have any weapons, I’ll never beat him…’ Konohamaru quickly jumped behind a wall, hearing his quick footsteps coming closer. The man ran right past him, jumping over the railing and towards the living room.
Konohamaru jumped after, hearing a third hunter coming through the same window. He may have gotten lucky and evaded one, but he’d hide from two of them. Konohamaru landed on his back, wrapping his arms around his neck. ‘I hope all that practice was worth it, here goes nothing..’
Konohamaru pulled back abruptly, taking the man back with him so that he was in a laying position. He let go of his neck and pushed down on the Ninja’s shoulders so that he could push himself upwards, driving the hunter into the ground and leaving a small imprint where he landed.
Finally Konohamaru sent both feet in to the man’s face in a surprisingly effective blow, using it to kick off of him and jumping in to the air. Konohamaru curled in to a ball and began flipping, just barely missing a Kunai targeted at him, and landing ungracefully on his feet.
“I actually did it?!” Konohamaru said with surprise in his voice, he almost forgot he was in the middle of a fight and ended up getting kicked in the chest by the same Ninja he’d just attacked. Konohamaru groaned in pain, hunching involuntarily from the blow. The Ninja lifted a kunai, about to drive it down in to Konohamaru when Kisame grabbed his hand.
Kisame sent a kick over Konohamaru and in to the in hunter’s stomach, then used his grip on them arm to throw him head into the wall. Picking a Kunai off the ground, he turned around and threw it, watching it landing to the hunter-nin’s back.
“Is that all of them?” Kisame asked, looking around at the 3 dead bodies.
Itachi nodded, “Did headquarters really send them to assassinate us?”
“I have a question.“ Konohamaru stumbled to his feet, holding his chest were he was sure there was a bruise. “Why would they tell everyone in Akatsuki you were dead? Aren’t you suppose to be working with them?”
Konohamaru was much smarter then he looked, he listened to every detail of what was said when it was important, and this was important. “The kid’s right, there was no point of us going to get him. They just wanted us in the path of the storm.” Kisame said angrily.
“If the organization want’s us dead, then we have to get away from here now.” Itachi picked his robe off the chair and wrapped it around himself. “We go see Lewis. He obviously knows more about this then we do.”
Kisame looked at Konohamaru, “What about the kid?”
“Take him with us, we may need him later.” Itachi said.
Kisame silently cursed to himself, “He’s just going to slow us down.”
Itachi raised and eyebrow, “If you can’t handle it--”
“I didn’t say that.”
Itachi gave him a small nod and walked toward the door, checking over what he had, which was nothing more then a few kunai and a sword on his back under his robe. It would be enough, just encase anyone tried to attack him on his way.
“Well, it looks like your coming with us.” Kisame grabbed his Samehada and strapped it on to his back
“What’s…going to happen to me?” Konohamaru asked, looking up at him worriedly. He wasn’t scared before for some reason, but now that all this has happened...
“I don’t know, come on we don’t have time to waste unless you want to end up dead.” Kisame said, watching Konohamaru stiffen.
Kisame lead him out of he house and jumped on to the next roof top right behind Itachi. Kisame’s steps were much stronger, carrying him much farther then Konohamaru who was struggling to stay close to him.
Kisame growled turning back and grabbing him by the arm. “Come on!”
“What’s the big rush?” Konohamaru asked, trying to keep up with the pace Kisame was pulling.
“Don’t be stupid! There’s a reason Akatsuki wants us dead, they must not be too happy to see we’re not. If we don’t get out of here now they’ll kill us.”
“But your strong, can’t you guys stop them?”
“You are such an idiot Brat, there are people in Akatsuki that are stronger then us.”
Konohamaru was really worried now, what was he in the middle of?
Kisame grew annoyed of pulling him, so he lifted him on to his back. It was much faster, and what they needed right now was speed.
! - !- !
After 2 hours or so they were a good distance away for the village of the Wind, stopping at an inn a few miles away.
“I guess, Konoha really is gone.” Konohamaru said with a sigh depression, he’d thought that the Leaf wouldn’t survive considering that the Cloud, Mist and Water villages were destroyed …but actually hearing it had happened…
The boy sat with his knees drawn up into his arms, burying his face into his lap. He felt a few tears fall despite is best effort to hold them back, he couldn’t let Itachi and Kisame see him cry.
“Quit whining about it.” Kisame said, taking off his robe and discarding it on a chair nearby.
Konohamaru felt himself getting angry at his words, “How can you say that! That was my home!” He shouted, lifting his head before he realized it. Luckily neither Itachi and Kisame were looking at him so he had time to wipe away any stray tears an put on a strait face. Seeing that wouldn’t be enough, Konohamaru pulled down his goggles over his eyes making the bandages visible once again.
“Home? Whatever.” Kisame snorted, lifting his black shirt off his body and tossing near the robe. He didn’t sound as sure of himself as he usually did when he said this, almost as if he was distracted. Something was nagging at him in the back of his mind…like he was forgetting something again.
Konohamaru buried his face into his lap again, fighting desperately to hold back the sobs that tore at his throat trying to get free. It was hard…everything was just happening so fast. First his grandfather died, then all of this! He couldn’t take it--
“It is a shame though.” Itachi said, lifting himself off the bed and walking past Konohamaru. “That this is finally how the Leaf meets it’s end.”
“What? Are you sad about it?” Konohamaru said in a angry tone.
“Not sad, disheartened somewhat.” Itachi said, placing what equipment he had on the dresser. Kisame didn’t seem to have a comment for this, he just watched Itachi wondering where he was going with this.
“I guess this is really it, I have nowhere to go… The only thing I had left was Sasuke.”
Both of them turned towards Konohamaru questioningly. But he didn’t notice, the thought of losing Sasuke was more then he could handle. A small sob escaped along with a stream of tears that ran under his goggles as the boy still tried futilely to contain himself.
Kisame looked at Itachi with a shrug, Sasuke…and Konohamaru? This was unexpected but it could work to Itachi’s advantage, it in fact already was and he didn’t even realize it.
Another sob broke out of the boy, until they came freely and Konohamaru finally let himself cry quietly. He sub-consciously curled deeper into a ball, pushing himself deeper into the corner he was already in.
This was just depressing to watch, so Kisame didn’t. He ignored Konohamaru for the moment, but finding it nearly impossibly not to turn towards the boy. This was either extremely annoying, or making him feel sorry for Konohamaru, Kisame hadn’t decided yet.
“Hey stop crying, it won’t change anything.”
“Your…right. I know it wont…But I can’t seem to stop…” Konohamaru curled deeper, feeling his body shaking slightly. It hurt to much, this sadness was consuming. He wanted to yell and scream…but he couldn’t let himself.
Itachi placed a hand on his back, making Konohamaru lift his had and look back. He was extremely thankful that his goggles were down at the moment. Itachi reached down and lifted them of his eyes, looking into the brown orbs clouded by tears and effectively making Konohamaru feel even worse.
“Your not completely alone. Sasuke is alive, can’t you feel it?” Itachi said. “
Konohamaru looked up at him, scrambling to wipe his eyes. “What do you mean?”
Itachi smirked, looking down in to Konohamaru’s eyes using Mange Sharingan. Just as everything went black and he could feel that unique feeling of Itachi’s Charka, Konohamaru started to feel Sasuke’s rising up with in him. Surrounding his body and blocking Itachi.
‘Sas--Sasuke?’ Konohamaru called out.
‘Konohamaru!?’ He heard Sasuke’s surprised voice through the connection…he was alive.
Before he could get more in with Sasuke, Itachi stopped using Sharingan making Sasuke’s Charka fade. “You haven’t lost everything yet.” Itachi removed his hand from Konohamaru’s back.
“…He…is still there?……Thank you.” Konohamaru sat with his eyes wide and his mind a little clearer. He knew he had to get back to Sasuke… But he had to find out where he was first.
Kisame sat on one edge of the bed watching Konohamaru stare at the wall. “Sure that was a good idea? You just gave him a reason to run, that’s going to make things harder of you think we can use him.”
“Don’t worry, he wont run.”
“How do you know?”
“Trust me, he wont.”
! - !- !
Sasuke kicked the door open to Itachi’s house, looking around alertly as he walking in to the living room. “What the hell happen here?”
“It looks like some hunter-nins attacked…” Neji said, knelling down by one of the bodies. He’d definitely been hit by a large sharp object, and the wound looked like it had been shaved instead of directly cut. This was defiantly the work of Kisame’s Samehada.
“Wait….” Neji noticed the ring, a clear symbol of Akatsuki.
“We’re to late, they already left while ago.” Kiba said, sitting against the wall with a sleeping Akamaru in his lap.
They had too large of a lead ahead of them and Sasuke was realizing that, no matter how fast they went they‘d already lost to much time from the storm and tracking this place dow. He punched the wall in anger “Damnit!”
“This is strange, these were men from Akatsuki… They clearly perused Itachi and Kisame and initiated the fight, but why would hunters from there own organization try to kill them?” Neji said, holding up the ring and examining it closely.
“What ever the reason it’s probably why the left in such a hurry…I may still be able to track them though, there’s a blood trail and they’re probably still wounded from the fight.” Kiba lifted himself off the ground, looking at the small almost non-existent trail that lead out the door. He could tell Itachi, Konohamaru and Kisame were the only ones that left here alive so it would have to be one of them that left it behind.
It was most likely from Kisame because of his chest wound from the previous lighting strike was re-opened in the fight. If Kiba got lucky he could follow the scent, there was sure to be more blood enough for him to pursue
“Alright, we’ll follow it as long as we can then rest. I know both of you are tired and you’ve been working hard.” Sasuke said, noticing once again that it felt strangely talking this way. But he was right, they had followed him this far and didn’t complain. If he didn’t have them, he never would have made it this far.
Kiba stretched his arms “Sounds good to me, let‘s go.”
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“That lightning, I think it did something to me…” Kisame said, walking down the stairway sleepily, rubbing his head.
“What do you mean?” Itachi pulled his shirt on to him, slipping his vest over it.
“I’m not sure, I’m seeing things…and I feel like I’m forgetting something, something important.” Kisame shrugged. “So, what’s the next step?” Kisame walked in the living room and looking over towards Konohamaru sleep peacefully couch. He seemed calm the whole time, as if he wasn’t worried about what would happen to him.
Itachi sat down on the chair opposite Kisame, looking up at the clock. It was 6:30 in the morning, and the city outside showed it. “I’m not sure, I haven’t heard from anyone lately and it’s starting to get suspicious.”
“We should find Lewis then, he should still be somewhere around here…But why can’t we just contact Headquarters directly?” Kisame asked.
“I’ve tried.” Itachi sat back and folded his arms, “Well if we must, I’ll call him.” He stood up, walking up stairs while Kisame went to the kitchen to start on breakfast.
‘Damn storm! I knew Itachi should have carried the money, we better get the other half of it when this is all over.’ Kisame mumbled to himself, looking in the refrigerator on the left.
!- ! -!
Itachi returned 20 minutes later, fully dressed except for his robe and a phone under his arm.
Konohamaru opened one eye, awakened by the sent of Kisame’s cooking, watching an oblivious Itachi sit the phone down on the table and plug it in. “Kisame.”
Kisame emerged from the kitchen, obviously annoyed from the cooking. “Did you get him?”
Itachi pressed the speakerphone button, making the sound of ringing roam through the air. He glanced over at Konohamaru, still appearing to be sleep. “You don’t have to fake it anymore.”
Konohamaru opened his eyes, looking immediately toward Itachi who was focused on the phone. “How…did you know?” Konohamaru sat up, looking at Itachi questingly. He didn’t get an answer though.
“Yes? Who is this?”
Some one finally answered the phone, it was Lewis, the one they were looking for. He was a higher authority in Akatsuki, though he wasn’t stronger then Itachi and Kisame, he was the one that gave them most of their training and initiated them.
“Lewis? This is---” Kisame was cut off by a surprised gasp on the other end of the line.
“Hoshigaki Kisame?! Your alive?” Lewis said with a shocked voice.
“What the hell? Why wouldn’t I be?” Kisame asked.
“I heard you and Uchida Itachi were killed in the storm around the Fire Country.”
“Ho--” Kisame stopped when he saw Itachi signal him to wait.
“When did you hear this?” Itachi asked
“10 days ago.”
Itachi and Kisame looked at each other, they hadn’t even received their mission 10 days ago. How could he had heard they were dead?
“Who told you this?” Itachi asked.
“Headquarters, a message was sent out to all members about it or they heard it one way or another.” Lewis told them, making this whole situation extremely suspicious now. “Listen carefully, if your alive then you might be in danger. We can’t talk over the phone, we need to meet in person. Where are you now?”
“My house, you know where that is don’t you?” Itachi asked
“Right now I’m in the Ice Village, You have to get here now.” Lewis said urgently.
“Ice village? Why would you be there?” Kisame asked.
“There‘s no time for that. Meet me at City hall around tomorrow noon, I‘ll--”
The phone line went dead in the middle of his sentence.
“What the hell?” Kisame walked over to the phone and hung up, trying to get a dial tone. “It was cut from our side….?”
The door was blasted open, sending it flying towards the couch, striking Konohamaru in the back of his head and knocked him to the ground. “Aww…” Konohamaru held his head, stifling a moan of pain from the blow.
Kisame reached down and pick him up by his shirt collar, pulling him out of the way of a stray shrunken then tilling his head to avoid another one.
A man jumped through the door way, a hunter-nin with a forehead protector from the lighting village that had a line through the insignia. More importantly he had and Akatsuki ring.
Kisame reached over and tried to get his sword laying against the wall, but two Shrunkens flew outward from the smoke filled doorway in to his sleeve, pinning his arm to the wall. Before he could reach over and pull them out, two more Shrunken pinned his other arm down.
A Kunai from the quick ninja came flying at his head, Kisame held his head to the side and avoided it, breaking free from his holds on the wall.
Itachi rushed toward the hunter, throwing a punch at him. The ninja took a step back and grabbed his arm, tossing him over his shoulder in to the wall. Itachi flipped, kicking off the wall and diving toward the hunter. The nin fell back, letting Itachi fly over him.
The hunter pulled another kunai from under his sleeve, tossing it through couch at Konohamaru. Kisame grabbed him again, tossing him up in to the second floor balcony and out of range. Then he knocked the Kunai away with his Samehada.
“Alright, now that the kid is out of the way, let’s get down to business.” Kisame said, drawing his sword back and tossing at the hunter. It hooked him by the back of his shirt and burred itself in the wall, trapping him there.
Konohamaru watched from above, seeing how the two had quickly gained the upper hand and the Ninja was still barely managing to stay alive by running and evading. Konohamaru heard a sound behind him and felt a breeze blow past him.
He turned around in time to see another hunter-nin coming through the window, and apparently hadn’t noticed Konohamaru yet. ‘I don’t have any weapons, I’ll never beat him…’ Konohamaru quickly jumped behind a wall, hearing his quick footsteps coming closer. The man ran right past him, jumping over the railing and towards the living room.
Konohamaru jumped after, hearing a third hunter coming through the same window. He may have gotten lucky and evaded one, but he’d hide from two of them. Konohamaru landed on his back, wrapping his arms around his neck. ‘I hope all that practice was worth it, here goes nothing..’
Konohamaru pulled back abruptly, taking the man back with him so that he was in a laying position. He let go of his neck and pushed down on the Ninja’s shoulders so that he could push himself upwards, driving the hunter into the ground and leaving a small imprint where he landed.
Finally Konohamaru sent both feet in to the man’s face in a surprisingly effective blow, using it to kick off of him and jumping in to the air. Konohamaru curled in to a ball and began flipping, just barely missing a Kunai targeted at him, and landing ungracefully on his feet.
“I actually did it?!” Konohamaru said with surprise in his voice, he almost forgot he was in the middle of a fight and ended up getting kicked in the chest by the same Ninja he’d just attacked. Konohamaru groaned in pain, hunching involuntarily from the blow. The Ninja lifted a kunai, about to drive it down in to Konohamaru when Kisame grabbed his hand.
Kisame sent a kick over Konohamaru and in to the in hunter’s stomach, then used his grip on them arm to throw him head into the wall. Picking a Kunai off the ground, he turned around and threw it, watching it landing to the hunter-nin’s back.
“Is that all of them?” Kisame asked, looking around at the 3 dead bodies.
Itachi nodded, “Did headquarters really send them to assassinate us?”
“I have a question.“ Konohamaru stumbled to his feet, holding his chest were he was sure there was a bruise. “Why would they tell everyone in Akatsuki you were dead? Aren’t you suppose to be working with them?”
Konohamaru was much smarter then he looked, he listened to every detail of what was said when it was important, and this was important. “The kid’s right, there was no point of us going to get him. They just wanted us in the path of the storm.” Kisame said angrily.
“If the organization want’s us dead, then we have to get away from here now.” Itachi picked his robe off the chair and wrapped it around himself. “We go see Lewis. He obviously knows more about this then we do.”
Kisame looked at Konohamaru, “What about the kid?”
“Take him with us, we may need him later.” Itachi said.
Kisame silently cursed to himself, “He’s just going to slow us down.”
Itachi raised and eyebrow, “If you can’t handle it--”
“I didn’t say that.”
Itachi gave him a small nod and walked toward the door, checking over what he had, which was nothing more then a few kunai and a sword on his back under his robe. It would be enough, just encase anyone tried to attack him on his way.
“Well, it looks like your coming with us.” Kisame grabbed his Samehada and strapped it on to his back
“What’s…going to happen to me?” Konohamaru asked, looking up at him worriedly. He wasn’t scared before for some reason, but now that all this has happened...
“I don’t know, come on we don’t have time to waste unless you want to end up dead.” Kisame said, watching Konohamaru stiffen.
Kisame lead him out of he house and jumped on to the next roof top right behind Itachi. Kisame’s steps were much stronger, carrying him much farther then Konohamaru who was struggling to stay close to him.
Kisame growled turning back and grabbing him by the arm. “Come on!”
“What’s the big rush?” Konohamaru asked, trying to keep up with the pace Kisame was pulling.
“Don’t be stupid! There’s a reason Akatsuki wants us dead, they must not be too happy to see we’re not. If we don’t get out of here now they’ll kill us.”
“But your strong, can’t you guys stop them?”
“You are such an idiot Brat, there are people in Akatsuki that are stronger then us.”
Konohamaru was really worried now, what was he in the middle of?
Kisame grew annoyed of pulling him, so he lifted him on to his back. It was much faster, and what they needed right now was speed.
! - !- !
After 2 hours or so they were a good distance away for the village of the Wind, stopping at an inn a few miles away.
“I guess, Konoha really is gone.” Konohamaru said with a sigh depression, he’d thought that the Leaf wouldn’t survive considering that the Cloud, Mist and Water villages were destroyed …but actually hearing it had happened…
The boy sat with his knees drawn up into his arms, burying his face into his lap. He felt a few tears fall despite is best effort to hold them back, he couldn’t let Itachi and Kisame see him cry.
“Quit whining about it.” Kisame said, taking off his robe and discarding it on a chair nearby.
Konohamaru felt himself getting angry at his words, “How can you say that! That was my home!” He shouted, lifting his head before he realized it. Luckily neither Itachi and Kisame were looking at him so he had time to wipe away any stray tears an put on a strait face. Seeing that wouldn’t be enough, Konohamaru pulled down his goggles over his eyes making the bandages visible once again.
“Home? Whatever.” Kisame snorted, lifting his black shirt off his body and tossing near the robe. He didn’t sound as sure of himself as he usually did when he said this, almost as if he was distracted. Something was nagging at him in the back of his mind…like he was forgetting something again.
Konohamaru buried his face into his lap again, fighting desperately to hold back the sobs that tore at his throat trying to get free. It was hard…everything was just happening so fast. First his grandfather died, then all of this! He couldn’t take it--
“It is a shame though.” Itachi said, lifting himself off the bed and walking past Konohamaru. “That this is finally how the Leaf meets it’s end.”
“What? Are you sad about it?” Konohamaru said in a angry tone.
“Not sad, disheartened somewhat.” Itachi said, placing what equipment he had on the dresser. Kisame didn’t seem to have a comment for this, he just watched Itachi wondering where he was going with this.
“I guess this is really it, I have nowhere to go… The only thing I had left was Sasuke.”
Both of them turned towards Konohamaru questioningly. But he didn’t notice, the thought of losing Sasuke was more then he could handle. A small sob escaped along with a stream of tears that ran under his goggles as the boy still tried futilely to contain himself.
Kisame looked at Itachi with a shrug, Sasuke…and Konohamaru? This was unexpected but it could work to Itachi’s advantage, it in fact already was and he didn’t even realize it.
Another sob broke out of the boy, until they came freely and Konohamaru finally let himself cry quietly. He sub-consciously curled deeper into a ball, pushing himself deeper into the corner he was already in.
This was just depressing to watch, so Kisame didn’t. He ignored Konohamaru for the moment, but finding it nearly impossibly not to turn towards the boy. This was either extremely annoying, or making him feel sorry for Konohamaru, Kisame hadn’t decided yet.
“Hey stop crying, it won’t change anything.”
“Your…right. I know it wont…But I can’t seem to stop…” Konohamaru curled deeper, feeling his body shaking slightly. It hurt to much, this sadness was consuming. He wanted to yell and scream…but he couldn’t let himself.
Itachi placed a hand on his back, making Konohamaru lift his had and look back. He was extremely thankful that his goggles were down at the moment. Itachi reached down and lifted them of his eyes, looking into the brown orbs clouded by tears and effectively making Konohamaru feel even worse.
“Your not completely alone. Sasuke is alive, can’t you feel it?” Itachi said. “
Konohamaru looked up at him, scrambling to wipe his eyes. “What do you mean?”
Itachi smirked, looking down in to Konohamaru’s eyes using Mange Sharingan. Just as everything went black and he could feel that unique feeling of Itachi’s Charka, Konohamaru started to feel Sasuke’s rising up with in him. Surrounding his body and blocking Itachi.
‘Sas--Sasuke?’ Konohamaru called out.
‘Konohamaru!?’ He heard Sasuke’s surprised voice through the connection…he was alive.
Before he could get more in with Sasuke, Itachi stopped using Sharingan making Sasuke’s Charka fade. “You haven’t lost everything yet.” Itachi removed his hand from Konohamaru’s back.
“…He…is still there?……Thank you.” Konohamaru sat with his eyes wide and his mind a little clearer. He knew he had to get back to Sasuke… But he had to find out where he was first.
Kisame sat on one edge of the bed watching Konohamaru stare at the wall. “Sure that was a good idea? You just gave him a reason to run, that’s going to make things harder of you think we can use him.”
“Don’t worry, he wont run.”
“How do you know?”
“Trust me, he wont.”
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Sasuke kicked the door open to Itachi’s house, looking around alertly as he walking in to the living room. “What the hell happen here?”
“It looks like some hunter-nins attacked…” Neji said, knelling down by one of the bodies. He’d definitely been hit by a large sharp object, and the wound looked like it had been shaved instead of directly cut. This was defiantly the work of Kisame’s Samehada.
“Wait….” Neji noticed the ring, a clear symbol of Akatsuki.
“We’re to late, they already left while ago.” Kiba said, sitting against the wall with a sleeping Akamaru in his lap.
They had too large of a lead ahead of them and Sasuke was realizing that, no matter how fast they went they‘d already lost to much time from the storm and tracking this place dow. He punched the wall in anger “Damnit!”
“This is strange, these were men from Akatsuki… They clearly perused Itachi and Kisame and initiated the fight, but why would hunters from there own organization try to kill them?” Neji said, holding up the ring and examining it closely.
“What ever the reason it’s probably why the left in such a hurry…I may still be able to track them though, there’s a blood trail and they’re probably still wounded from the fight.” Kiba lifted himself off the ground, looking at the small almost non-existent trail that lead out the door. He could tell Itachi, Konohamaru and Kisame were the only ones that left here alive so it would have to be one of them that left it behind.
It was most likely from Kisame because of his chest wound from the previous lighting strike was re-opened in the fight. If Kiba got lucky he could follow the scent, there was sure to be more blood enough for him to pursue
“Alright, we’ll follow it as long as we can then rest. I know both of you are tired and you’ve been working hard.” Sasuke said, noticing once again that it felt strangely talking this way. But he was right, they had followed him this far and didn’t complain. If he didn’t have them, he never would have made it this far.
Kiba stretched his arms “Sounds good to me, let‘s go.”
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