Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 18 Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks part 7 ( Chapter 18 )

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Chapter 18: Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks part 7


Akatsuki Headquarters were literally the only thing standing in the Mist village, mainly because it was built about 5 stories underground. The subsidiary one story building that served as an entrance had been completely destroyed, now only a series of rams and stairwells that led to different parts of the building.

No… this wasn’t headquarters exactly, it was one of them. Akatsuki had another similar set up back in the cloud village, headquarters was regional to were you were. You just went to which ever of the two your were closer to. Headquarters was technically in the cloud village because that’ s where the heads of the organization resided.

Kisame scoped out the area from the safe distance of a few hundred feet, Akatsuki’s security was always tight. But being a member he knew every detail of it and being a ninja he was able to conceal himself and Konohamaru accordingly.

“Damn…” Kisame watched as the mysterious ninja along with Haijari and 5 others take Itachi down a stairwell into headquarters. The place was surrounded by ninjas that seemed to be working but on Kisame wasn’t concerned with, he was concerned about their numbers. “Haijari is working with that guy and his ninjas…Maybe separately we had a chance…”

“What’s the problem, didn’t we already know that?”

“I wasn’t sure if it was really true…They’re going to take my head off.” Kisame’s voice trailed off, watching the odds stack against him.

“So what are we going to do?” Konohamaru asked.

“We? We aren’t going to do anything, your going to stay here and I’m going after Itachi.” Kisame said, pulling his sword off his back and holding it at his side as he pressed his body on to the ground. Konohamaru wined a bit.

“Listen to me very closely, Do not. Go. Near. That. Place. Don’t move, don’t make a sound. As soon as you see I have Itachi run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. If I get captured do the same thing. Am I understood?” Kisame was deadly serous, more serous then Konohamaru imaged someone like him to be.

He had no choice but to agree, “Alright, just get Itachi back.”

Kisame nodded and disappeared in a flash of speed, leaving Konohamaru by himself ‘Good luck boss….’ He thought to himself, watching Kisame reappear behind ninja with a Kunai in his hand.

Konohamaru jumped when he felt something sharp pressing against his back.

“Don’t even think about moving.” Konohamaru looked back to see a hunter ninja The boy froze, flinching again when he felt a drop of rain start to fall from the night sky.

‘Here goes nothing!’ Konohamaru rolled to the side and sprang to his feet before the man could hit him with the Kunai and started running.

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Kisame shook the increasingly intense rain from his face as he made his way behind a box, looking over both sides cautiously before leaping to the right, rolling along the ground to avoid the view of a near by person, then diving behind another box.

He was only a few feet away from the staircase where they’d taken Itachi… Kisame cringed as the box started to lift, pulling out another Kunai he held himself curled up on the side of the package. Letting himself be carried a few feet until he was directly over the stairwell and fell in, landing in the shadows of the doorway and abruptly running inside.

Itachi was standing waiting behind the 6 inch thick steel door. “Kisame, you shouldn’t have come, there waiting for you.”

“I know already, but it’s better then doing nothing, come on!” Kisame said waving him toward the door. “Got any decent plains?”

“No.”

“Then we just run like hell.” Kisame clinched his sword tightly and jumped out of the stairway and to ground level. Moving as inconspicuously as possible and actually making it halfway.

Until flood lights that surrounded the base came on and a speaker that roared to life. “Get um’ boys, just make sure you save a piece of them for me.” It was the voice of that same Mystery ninja Reedamaru from before. Yeah it was defiantly a trap. Hunter-nins start to swarm towards them with imposable odds, tossing a barrage of Kunai’s and Shrunkens from all sides.

Kisame lifted his sword and blocked just about all of them, Itachi’s speed was quick enough to do the same, they were doing pretty well…Until Konohamaru came flying in front of them, landing painfully at their feet. “What the hell?!” Kisame growled, looking in the direction he came from then kicking Konohamaru’s body forward to avoid a Kunai.

Itachi drew the sword sheathed behind his back and thrust it in to the Hunter-nin that jumped down next to Konohamaru, seeing that Kisame had accidentally kicked the boy into another stairway that used to be a room when the building was standing. Itachi wasted no time going after him, jumping in to the dark hole with Kisame following.

By the time they landed they were surrounded outside by every Hunter on the premises as well as Reedamaru. “I noticed you went in there after the kid, take a look around you.”

Kisame felt along the wall for a light switch, flicking it on to reveal the room was filled with barrels and other types of containers. All of them filled with gasoline and other fuels that were highly flammable. “That’d be a bad way for the kid to die. I’ll give you 30 seconds, think it over.”

Kisame and Itachi looked at each other, then down at Konohamaru. “Sorry, this guy came out of nowhere tried to kill me.” Konohamaru said with a lowered head.

“Looks like it’s all over, there’s no way out.” Kisame sighed, putting his sword back on his back.

Itachi wasn’t paying attention, he looked around all of the fuel, more specifically at the open containers. Then he looked down at Konohamaru’s scarf, “Konohamaru, come here.”

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Kisame sat on his knees with his hands chained behind his back, stripped of his sword and any other weapons. Konohamaru and Itachi were beside him in a similar position in the same state. They were inside, in a small room with 4 or 5 barrels of fuel against the wall, leading to a steel door that opened to a freezer.

Reedamaru and their C.O Haijari stood before them along with a few other hunters. The organization Akatsuki was headed by unknown six people, he was one of them, and big orders are carried out by the nine hand-picked ninjas. That included Orochimaru, Kabuto, Kisame, and Itachi. “Damnit you two should have stayed dead, you’ll only get in the way, that’s why we don’t need you to alive.” Haijari said.

“What the hell are you talking about? What are we getting in the way of?” Kisame asked.

“A few years back Akatsuki was discovered by the Mist and an incident occurred. Akatsuki lost a lot in the fight as well as the Mist and to them we dropped off the face of the earth…” Haijari started. “Ironic isn’t it that we have one of our main bases right under their noses. When asked how the incident got started, an interesting fact came up during the investigation.”

Haijari looked over the three of them. “They say that Akatsuki may have had advanced knowledge of the attack but did nothing to prevent it. Anti-surveillance and defense department’s budget doubled. It‘s gone down a lot since then, my department barely has anything to work with.”

“Dose this story have a point?” Kisame said.

“Sure it did, but you’ll never hear it now.” Haijari said, walking away and going upstairs.

“Let’s get down to business.” The ninja said, point towards the freezer. The hunter-nins behind the 3 lifted them on there feet and began leading them to it. “No, just him.” The man said, pointing to Itachi. “Take him up stairs.” He pointed to Kisame.

“It’s your turn to rescue me.” Kisame said to Itachi.
“I’ll be there in a minute.” Itachi replied.

Itachi was thrown roughly into the freezer, the ninja watching aptly from the door. “So what exactly are you planning to do?” Itachi asked.

“Like I’m telling you.”

“I’m going to die anyway, I want know.”

Reedamaru shrugged. “Alright. 5,000 explosive tags attached to a heating mechanism that uses a lot of fuel. Move the bomb to an Akatsuki base in the next city and let it go. We’ll blame it on the Leaf of course.” He pointed to a frozen and hanging from a meat hook behind Itachi, he had a leaf forehead protector.

That’s when Itachi began to put it together as two hunters took the man off the hook and carried him out. Haijari was trying to use this attack to scare some funding for is department out of Akatsuki. Itachi and Kisame would cause to much of a problem so they wanted them out of the way. And Haijari recruited a Mist ninja of all thing to help him do it.

“Reedamaru is it…” Itachi said, standing to his feet. “I’ve noticed something interesting about you and Konohamaru.”

Reedamaru raised an eyebrow, “I gotta hear this one.”

“I thought something was about you seemed familiar, I’ve seen you before. In Konohamaru.” Itachi smirked.

“Uh…Wha? Where are you going with this, I don’t have all day. Terrorist Bombing in all, a lot of money is riding on this. ”

“You’re the Hokage’s son, and Konohamaru’s father. I remember you now because you disappeared from Konoha.”

“What the hell are you talking about.”

“Need proof, look in to his eyes, their yours. “ Itachi said, “The time when you disappeared matches up with his age, all of it leads back to you.”

Reedamaru laughed. “Son huh?” He looked back “Could you bring my little bastard in here?” Both watched as one of the men pushed Konohamaru in to the freezer, he hadn’t heard a word they said so he didn’t know anything. Reedamaru grabbed the boy by his shoulders and move a few inches from his face “Let me look at you fucking eyes.”

Reedamaru stared into the brown orbs, his expression dropping a bit as his eyes started to roll over the boy‘s body. Reedamaru was easily an exact copy of Konohamaru only much older…Itachi was right….’No he couldn’t be.’ Konohamaru smirked impishly at the man‘s confusion….Reedamaru started laughing again, only this time more nervously and Konohamaru pushed him away toward Itachi.

Itachi looked at him with that same evil smile he used so many years ago, pointing to his Sharingan eyes. “You know what, you two can die together. Enjoy yourselves.” Reedamaru said, starting to close the thick steel door.

“Your going to die screaming.“ Itachi said uncaringly, Reedamaru stopped and looked at him for a moment “Am I telling the truth?” Itachi’s smile increased while the ninja abruptly slammed the door shut and locking them in.

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Kisame had been chained to a chair one level above Itachi and Konohamaru. Reedamaru emerged from the stairway, twirling a Kunai on his finger. “Sorry for the wait.”

“Oh for you mystery guy, always a pleasure.” Kisame said with a grin. “You know--AAAhhh!” Kisame flinched and let out a yelp of surprise when Reedamaru tossed the knife at him that landed only an inch from his crotch.

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Itachi pulled his cloaked off and wrapped it around a grateful Konohamaru, then pulled the meat hook down from the ceiling and knelt by the door, scraping it against the ground to wear a grove into it. Konohamaru only watched in silence, knowing that some of this was his fault.

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“You know I called headquarters right, the other one I mean. By morning this place will be crawling with ninjas.” Kisame said.

Reedamaru shrugged. “Morning? We’ll be cleared out of here by morning.”

“Yeah well…Some of them said they couldn’t sleep so they might show up early.”

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Having warn a small path in the ground from where Itachi stood to just under the door. “Konohamaru.” On his call Konohamaru walked over to him, standing still while Itachi removed his completely wet scarf. But the scarf wasn’t wet from rain, most of it had been soaked in fuel.

Itachi carefully ringed out the strong liquid into the grove, watching a fairly large amount seep into the path and flow under the door into the next room.

He couldn’t use fire Jutsu on the fuel to ignite it, the freezer was way too cold to do it from a distance. If he did it from up close he’d end up setting himself on fire because he had Fuel on his hands, so instead he took the meat hook and slammed it into the ground, trying to create a spark.

‘Come on!’ Itachi struck the ground harder and harder until the edge of the hook broke off, it was clear he wasn’t going to get what he was looking for. ‘No….There’s no other way out….’

Itachi looked back at Konohamaru, more concerned for him then himself, now they both would die here. He didn’t want that for the boy, he didn’t care that much for himself. He saw the boy more as a little brother, like how he used to be with Sasuke…Itachi wasn’t completely evil.

Konohamaru walked up to him smirking. “Kisame gave me some training…will Chakra work?”

Itachi could hardly believe what he’d just heard, Kisame actually gave him training, real training, not just vented anger. “Yes.” Itachi couldn’t help but smile to himself, who’d ever think he’d be getting saved by Konohamaru of all people.

Konohamaru knelt by the fuel, clinching his eyes closed tightly.

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“Well since you did come all the way out here, I’ll give you an option.” Reedamaru said. “You can die by the knife or Jutsu.”

“What? Only 2 options? Not much of a choice is it.”

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Itachi watched as Konohamaru’s body rushed with a sudden flow of Chakra, it surprised him a bit that he’d already mastered most of it under Kisame‘s training. There was still some he hadn’t triggered though.

Konohamaru held his hand toward the liquid and watched the white energy drift down on to it. “Itachi? ….Are we going to die?”

Itachi shook his head, “No… they are.” The fuel ignited and a stream of flames started to flow over the liquid, under the door and along the stream toward the barrels outside the door

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Reedamaru started doing a set of Hand seals “Goodbye Hoshigaki Kisame.” Chakra started to flow in his body, it seemed like the end, time was up “Thanks for coming.”

Just as Reedamaru was about to do the Jutsu, the barrels filled with fuel on the floor under him exploded. Fire ripped through the ground between them and the force sent Reedamaru and Kisame flying back. Reedamaru landed against the wall and Kisame went flying through the ceiling and landed against a tree outside.

With the chair smashed, his chains fell off. Kisame looked up at the sudden sound of footsteps, seeing a Ninja running after him. With out a second thought he picked up the Kunai next to his crotch and tossed at the man, hitting him in the next. “Damn that hurt! You couldn‘t think of something less painful Itachi.”

Kisame let out a small sigh of relief and then one of pain because most of his body was hurting…a lot. An he was a lot more bloody then when he started.

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