Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 19 Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks Finale ( Chapter 19 )
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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: 3.9K | Visits: 175 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.9K | Visits: 175 | Status: Completed
Chapter 19: Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks Finale
Itachi and Konohamaru emerged from the underground base, in the middle of a frantic scramble by men to get everything ready. They heard Reedamaru’s voice over the speakers again.
“Listen up, Nothing changes. Take the bomb to the designated area, dump the body 2 miles away and get the hell out of there.”
Itachi lifted Konohamaru on to his back and dashed through the flurry of men with his newly reclaimed sword in his hand. A hunter jumped at with a blur of speed and three Kunai’s in his hand, Itachi crouched down some so the man flew over him and thrust his sword upward in to the man’s stomach.
Itachi pulled the sword down and swiped it to his side so that the man approaching from that direction ran into it, pulling it out Itachi kicked the hunter in front of him, knocking him to the ground and plunging his sword into his chest. It was quickly obvious that there was way to many of them to keep track of when Konohamaru was struck with a Kunai in his side and knocked off of Itachi’s back.
Konohamaru let out a small cry of pain when he hit the ground, his hand automatically going to the object embedded into his body. It hurt like hell, but Konohamaru refused to acknowledge that in front of Itachi. So he pulled it out, unable to stifle a loud grunt of pain that resulted. He just kept his gaze upward so he wouldn’t see the blood.
Konohamaru jumped to his feet, using the balance technique Kisame taught him because he couldn’t afford to fall here. Itachi quickly tuned around and tried to grab him but even he wasn’t fast enough to reach him before an explosive tag erupted in-between the two.
By the time the smoke cleared Konohamaru had disappeared, his small body launched to some unknown part of the facility. “Damnit!” Itachi looked around, finding the odds had just gotten worse due to reinforcements arriving. About a hundred or so more ninjas.
“Itachi!” Kisame yelled as quietly as he could manage from a few hundred feet away near the woods surrounding the faculty. He was in the process of taking out anyone else who’d manage to hear him.
With his usual speed Itachi appeared next to Kisame, taking out a few people on the way. They moved behind a few trees so not to draw more attention to themselves. “I saw where Konohamaru thrown too, he landed near where they’re loading the bomb. He fell in to one of boxes with the explosive tags inside”
The bomb was composed of 6 smaller boxes with the explosive tags inside, all loaded in to a much larger box with the heating mechanism. The smaller boxes acted as stabilizers so that tags would explode only when the heating mechanism allowed them too. Konohamaru was safe, as safe as he could be in the core of a bomb. And the larger box was a thick steel case about 6 inches thick, There was no way Konohamaru could get himself out.
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Konohamaru looked around in the darkness, surrounded by explosive tags. “Why me?” He yelled “What are the odds?!”
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“I’m going to get him.” Kisame said, the thought never crossed his mind that they had a free chance to escape and leave Konohamaru to die.
“You’ll be killed.” Itachi said, no room for doubt on this issue.
“Then cover me! What are you good for.” Kisame held two Kunais in his hand that’d he taken from other ninjas, he’d have to find his sword which was still near the hole they fell into when they got captured the first time. It was in his path so he could easily pick it up on his way to Konohamaru.
With out another word he leapt out of the trees, landing on the edge of the facility. He ran towards the bomb on the other side, thrusting a Kunai into one Ninja’s stomach while he moved forward. Itachi’s cover started to come when a Shrunken launched from his current position, striking one hunter in the head in front of Kisame.
More and more started to come after him, luckily Kisame was able to retrieve his sword. Slamming the dull side into 6 men in font of him and knocking them away. Itachi took out as many as he could to prevent back attacks. Finally he decided to take a more direct approach and use Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.
Copies of Itachi sprang up around Kisame, exploding as soon as anyone made contact with them. Though only taking out 3 or 4 at a time it was a great help. But still the odds were over whelming and walls of Kunais and Shrunkens were flying at Kisame.
Kisame blocked as many and he could, but one slipped past and struck his stomach. Kisame involuntarily flinched, letting a few more get past his defense and hit him in the stomach and arm. He dropped the sword and fell back, a few more Kunais striking his leg and stomach until the hunter-nins deemed him dead ’Damnit…this is it! I screwed up.’
Feeling consciousness fading, Kisame looked up to see what he fell on to. It was another box, the side was open so he could see the man from the Leaf that used to be in the freezer. They’d be dump him before the bomb exploded… speaking of freezer, Kisame could feel his body getting cold…
“Damnit!” Itachi growled, Kisame was dead and Konohamaru was about to die a very painful death. The men had already started moving the bomb and had gotten a good distance away. At lest Itachi could still save Konohamaru…after he did that he felt another Uchiha clan incident starting.
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Itachi moved along the open road through the open fields in pursuit of the 10 men carrying the bomb. It wasn’t more then a few minutes before he had them in his sites, with Kunai in hand he moved in a blur of speed behind the man in the back, cutting his throat and tossing his body away.
The other 9 were instantly alerted that something was wrong when the felt the back left side of the steel case started to lag. But Itachi was no where insight leaving no trace of the other carrier.
The man on the front left side was knocked way by a Kunai to the side of his head, “What the hell!” One of the men shouted looking around uneasily, making his steps more careful as they approached a steep hill. Every man on the right side suddenly fell dead with different injuries leaving only 3 ninjas behinds.
They couldn’t come close to carrying that type of weight and immediately dropped it. One of the men abruptly turned back to get reinforcements while the other two were mowed down by the bomb gaining speed on it’s steep downhill decent.
Itachi landed on top of the seal case, easily having enough balance to stand on it. Unfortunately the side that opened was the one on the ground creating sparks, since there was no way in hell Itachi would be able to stop this thing he would have to ride it out to the bottom.
Which wasn’t easy because with no way to steer, the bomb was heading off the road in to the woods. The path got a lot rougher, Itachi clinched both sides in an effort to stay on even as he was being ran through thick tree branches and just about everything else the small patch of wooded land could throw at him.
The trees became less and less frequent, disappearing all together to reveal a large bolder sitting at the edge of a cliff. “Hold on Konohamaru!” Itachi yelled, just as the bomb smashed into the bolder was sent flying over the cliff. Itachi was knocked off, dropping about 500 feet and landing on his head on a bridge below where the path continued.
The bomb landed next to him, sliding to a stop on the concrete a few feet later.
With a grunt of pain, Itachi climbed to his feet and ran over to the steel case. Luckily the side that opened was right side up so Itachi easily opened it. “Konohamaru?”
“Itachi?” a weak, muffled voice came from the box on the top, all of the boxes were more then large enough to fit Konohamaru inside giving some idea of how large the bomb really was. Thankful that it hadn’t exploded, Itachi opened it and pulled the boy out.
As soon as Itachi set him on his feet, Konohamaru fell to the ground with heavy breaths and a disoriented look. “I’m ok…” He said, lifted his hand to the wounded part of the back of his head. He hadn’t passed out yet. “Where’s Kisame.”
Itachi ignored the question intentionally, grabbing Konohamaru by the hand and pulling him forward “We need to move. Now.” He said firmly. Knowing that Reedamaru and his Ninjas were on his trail and would be here any second…..It looked like it was that second because Reedamaru was the first person to arrive, landing right in front of Itachi.
Reedamaru was fast, faster then Itachi and more or less equal in strength.
“Your getting really annoying.” He said, pulling out a Kunai. “And your suppose to be the genius of the Uchiha clan. You know with in-minutes this place will be swarming with my people and your still here…Not to say you’ll be a live that long.” Reedamaru rushed at him in a blur of speed, thrusting the Knife at Itachi. Itachi took a step back and grabbed his arm, Reedamaru threw a punch with his free hand only to have it taken hold of by Itachi.
“The heating mechanism process on your bomb’s been started. You only have 5 minutes, you’ll never make it out of here alive.” Itachi said, squeezing down on Reedamaru’s arm and drawing a hiss of pain from him. Reedamaru jumped up as far as he could, sending both feet into Itachi’s face and knocking him away.
“Yeah whatever.” It seemed as soon as Reedamaru lifted his hands to do the seal, his fire jutsu was unleashed on Itachi. A burst of flames flew from his mouth, engulfing Itachi completely, his jutsu rate was as fast or even faster then Itachi‘s. Speaking of which Itachi’s body melted into a pool of water.
Reedamaru felt a knife plunge into his back from Itachi and what a was apparently a clone exploded on his contact, knocking Itachi a few feet away into the steel casing of the bomb.
2 Kunai’s flew down from above at the Uchiha, watching the direction they came from, Itachi was able to get a momentary glimpse of the real Reedamaru sitting on top of the cliff they’d just fallen from right before he moved.
Itachi grabbed the two Kunais before they could strike him, quickly tossing them in the air behind him. Reedamaru was attempting to sneak up on him from the back but he was struck in the arm before he could even touch the ground.
Itachi tried to go after him while he was stunned, but he found that his body was frozen to the ground by a layer of invisible ice. Reedamaru had did a Jutsu while he was ’stunned’ in the air. “Should have ran while had the chance…Maybe I should just get rid of the kid trying to creep up behind me.” Reedamaru said with a smirk. Looking over his shoulder at Konohamaru now petrified that he‘d been found out so quickly..
Reedamaru turned around and Konohamaru started walking backwards nervously. But Reedamaru was much faster, grabbing Konohamaru by the head and lifting him into the air. “Should have ran kid.” He said, pulling a Kunai from his wrist and thrusting it towards Konohamaru’s stomach.
Konohamaru grinned sheepishly, his body going up in a cloud of smoke revealing Itachi. Who easily grabbed a this time truly stunned Reedamaru’s hand, then pulling him in and sending a sharp knee to his stomach and sending him flying with a punch to the face.
Just before he went over the bridge, Reedamaru saw ’Itachi’ who’d he frozen go up in smoke revealing none other then his own son Konohamaru. The Jutsu wore off as soon as the man was out of view and Konohamaru, now able to move, looked back at Itachi….”What’s wrong?”
“Stay back!” Itachi shouted, lifting his hands to his stomach and involuntarily hunching over. The sound of Ninjas approaching could be heard in the direction they fell from before, Konohamaru looked towards them, seeing about 30 or so, 2 of them carrying a large box that had the body of the man from Konoha they were supposed to dump around here
Itachi’s body erupted in a powerful explosion and his body went up in flames, Reedamaru had hit him with a Jutsu before he knocked him over the bridge. It looked painful… The fire surrounding Itachi’s body faded, leaving him barely standing on his feet. “Konohamaru! Run!” He said.
Konohamaru ran over to him, “What about you?!” He asked frantically.
“I’ll be right behind you! Go!” Itachi gave him a nudge toward the opposite direction and Konohamaru started running, no doubt in his mind that Itachi was coming. As soon as the boy was a safe distance away Itachi fell face first to the ground “live…”
Konohamaru got a good distance away, wondering why there were none of Reedamaru’s men coming from this direction. “What’s going on?“ Konohamaru looked back towards Itachi, seeing that he was down he automatically turned around and ran back to him knelling beside him.
“Itachi! Itachi!” He shook him hard, rolling him over on to his back then abruptly pulling his hands back from the heat still on his body. Itachi laid there with his eyes half-lidded and his mouth slightly open slightly. Completely dazed and out of it…Itachi, dazed and out of it?…this didn’t seem real.
Konohamaru shook him harder, ignoring the fact that more and more Ninjas were arriving. They kept their distance though, they didn‘t know when the bomb would blow.
Finally the boy jumped on top his chest and grabbed him by the collar and shaking him. “Get up!” He yelled, tears starting to burn into his eyes from the silence he got as a reply. “Don’t you die! Get up! Don’t you die on me!!” Konohamaru shouted.
Konohamaru drew his arm back and sent a punch across Itachi’s face with no response. “Stop being a baby! Get up!” More and more tears fell from his eyes as he threw another punch, and another. “Life is pain, you just get use to it!” Konohamaru shouted, letting a sob escape.
“Get up!” Konohamaru shook Itachi by his collar with one hand before throwing one last punch. “get up…” Konohamaru’s grip grew weaker and he finally gave up, burying his face in Itachi’s neck and cried…
Itachi lifted his arm and wrapped it around Konohamaru’s back before sitting up. He looked down and watched The boy’s face light up, he immediately hugged Itachi as hard as he could. “You know when this is over I might have to give you some training of my own.” To anyone else this would have been a threat knowing he meant he would just vent his anger.
Konohamaru just laughed relivedly and hugged him tighter before climbing off…and realizing that his hands and shirt were covered with Itachi’s blood. His eyes widened and his body shuttered. ‘No…This is not the time for this….ahhhh….’
Konohamaru tried to wipe his hands off on his shirt but the wound he’d gotten from a kunai earlier had the side of his shirt soaked with his own blood and only added to the effect. He started trying to wipe it off with his hands but that only spread it. Until finally he completely lost all self control, he frantically tried to get the blood off but it stayed there, hunting him.
Finally Itachi knelt down by him and wrapped his arms around Konohamaru, holding his hands down to his side so he couldn’t move. “Calm down…” Itachi said.
Finally realizing what he was doing, Konohamaru stopped, just hoping the rain would wash it away. “Alright.” Konohamaru said, Itachi let go of him, looking around uneasily and seeing that they were surrounded by Ninjas a good distance away from the bomb.
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With a small cough and deep breaths Reedamaru emerged from the water. Climbing up the cliff until he reached the bridge’s level, then jumping on to it, landing behind the barricaded of men that were posted at the beginning of the structure.
He snatched one of the holder of the nearest person. “I’m not leaving until I know those bastards are dead.” Reedamaru shouted angrily, leaping towards Itachi and Konohamaru with the rest of his forces following.
Itachi looked around at the charging ninjas… well they were charging from one side, the men on the other side were heading in the opposite direction seemingly pre-occupied with a threat of there own. “Damn, we don’t have time for this! That bomb is going to go off in 2 minutes.”
There was no way they could stand against those odds, but they got help from and unexpected source. The surrounded box containing the dead shinobi of Konoha exploded, from the flames and smoke Kisame charged through with Samehada in hand. “You can’t kill me! I wont die off of weaklings like you!”
Kisame rushed through the unsuspecting force of Ninjas, plowing most of them down with his sword and stealing their Charka. “Kisame!” Itachi said with a bit of surprise and what sounded like happiness.
The man slid to a stop in front of him and Konohamaru. “Come on! We have to go!” he said abruptly. Only to have to lift his sword to block a Kunai, Itachi pulled him and Konohamaru behind the bomb, using it as cover from projectiles or any jutsu too explosive, no one was that stupid.
“I have to get Reedamaru off of us, I’ll take him down you cover me.” Itachi said, jumping out from behind the bomb and leaping in to the air, tossing a few Shrunkens at Reedamaru. Reedamaru took a deep breath and blew out a wave of fire similar to the one before only the flames were black. A pillar of water of water shot upward from under Reedamaru, extinguishing the flames just as Itachi got close. The Uchiha threw a strong kick at Reedamaru, who grabbed his leg and slammed him to the ground.
Reedamaru drew another Kunai from the holder “Burn in hell dumbass!” He shouted, thrusting the knife at Itachi’s head. Itachi lifted his hand and grabbed Reedamaru’s letting the knife slide safely in-between his fingers.
Itachi pulling Reedamaru’s hand behind his back and brought him face to face with him. “Since you suggested it.” He said, opening his eyes wider and using Tsujiyomi on Reedamaru. “For 3 minutes you will be burning in a lake of fire...don’t worry, more then enough time to occupy you until the bomb detonates.”
His body fell limp under the Sharingan jutsu and Itachi easily tossed him away, landing on top of the bomb might as well being unconscious.
Kisame was still fighting off the last of Reedamaru’s ninjas, noticing that the last of them were retreating, indicating that the bomb was near detonation. “I could have sworn there were more of these guys.” He said, watching Konohamaru walk to his side solemn after taking down two men in the confusion.
Suddenly Kiba’s body came flying into Kisame, knocking both of them to the ground. “What the hell…You!” Kisame yelled noticing who it was.
“Kiba!” Konohamaru shouted with a shocked voice.
“Konohamaru?” Kiba said in disbelief, jumping off of Kisame abruptly and holding both hands to his left side “Gatsuuga!” He thrust his hands forward, sending a nearly invisible blast at an approaching hunter and knocking him off the bridge.
“Konohamaru!” Sasuke’s voice rang from the opposite direction, charging towards him full speed with Neji just behind.
“Sasuke!” Konohamaru sprang at him, hugging tightly “Your alright!”
Sasuke hugged him back…until he realized that Itachi was a few feet away from him. Konohamaru immediately noticed what was about to happen when he saw Sasuke’s anger flare before his eyes. “You Bastard!” Sasuke yelled, running towards him.
“Sasuke! No Stop!” Konohamaru shouted, running after him. “We have to get out of here, that things a bomb! A really big one!”
Neji knelt down next to the steel case, ignoring the incapacitated Reedamaru as he opened it. Just looking inside it took him two seconds to realize how it worked. He reached out and held his hand over the heating mechanism, which was extremely hot. “We don’t have anytime! This bomb is about to explode right now!” He called out waving everyone in the other direction.
“You better run kid!” Kisame said, taking off once he saw that Konohamaru was following. Itachi wordlessly leapt after them followed closely by Sasuke. Kiba and Neji were just ahead in the lead.
They only got a few feet before the bomb exploded, and for a split second the sound of Reedamaru screaming could be heard.
The flames were amazingly quick, tearing through the bridge and chasing after the group. “Where not going to make it!” Konohamaru shouted, already able to feel the heat at his back. He was right, only Itachi was fast enough to make it away, and he wasn’t planning on leaving Kisame and Konohamaru.
He and Sasuke seemed to have the same idea, both of them diving toward the boy “Konohamaru!” There voices called at the same time, both of them grabbing on to the boy, Sasuke from the front and Itachi from the back. Covering him as the flames engulfed their bodies….
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Itachi and Konohamaru emerged from the underground base, in the middle of a frantic scramble by men to get everything ready. They heard Reedamaru’s voice over the speakers again.
“Listen up, Nothing changes. Take the bomb to the designated area, dump the body 2 miles away and get the hell out of there.”
Itachi lifted Konohamaru on to his back and dashed through the flurry of men with his newly reclaimed sword in his hand. A hunter jumped at with a blur of speed and three Kunai’s in his hand, Itachi crouched down some so the man flew over him and thrust his sword upward in to the man’s stomach.
Itachi pulled the sword down and swiped it to his side so that the man approaching from that direction ran into it, pulling it out Itachi kicked the hunter in front of him, knocking him to the ground and plunging his sword into his chest. It was quickly obvious that there was way to many of them to keep track of when Konohamaru was struck with a Kunai in his side and knocked off of Itachi’s back.
Konohamaru let out a small cry of pain when he hit the ground, his hand automatically going to the object embedded into his body. It hurt like hell, but Konohamaru refused to acknowledge that in front of Itachi. So he pulled it out, unable to stifle a loud grunt of pain that resulted. He just kept his gaze upward so he wouldn’t see the blood.
Konohamaru jumped to his feet, using the balance technique Kisame taught him because he couldn’t afford to fall here. Itachi quickly tuned around and tried to grab him but even he wasn’t fast enough to reach him before an explosive tag erupted in-between the two.
By the time the smoke cleared Konohamaru had disappeared, his small body launched to some unknown part of the facility. “Damnit!” Itachi looked around, finding the odds had just gotten worse due to reinforcements arriving. About a hundred or so more ninjas.
“Itachi!” Kisame yelled as quietly as he could manage from a few hundred feet away near the woods surrounding the faculty. He was in the process of taking out anyone else who’d manage to hear him.
With his usual speed Itachi appeared next to Kisame, taking out a few people on the way. They moved behind a few trees so not to draw more attention to themselves. “I saw where Konohamaru thrown too, he landed near where they’re loading the bomb. He fell in to one of boxes with the explosive tags inside”
The bomb was composed of 6 smaller boxes with the explosive tags inside, all loaded in to a much larger box with the heating mechanism. The smaller boxes acted as stabilizers so that tags would explode only when the heating mechanism allowed them too. Konohamaru was safe, as safe as he could be in the core of a bomb. And the larger box was a thick steel case about 6 inches thick, There was no way Konohamaru could get himself out.
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Konohamaru looked around in the darkness, surrounded by explosive tags. “Why me?” He yelled “What are the odds?!”
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“I’m going to get him.” Kisame said, the thought never crossed his mind that they had a free chance to escape and leave Konohamaru to die.
“You’ll be killed.” Itachi said, no room for doubt on this issue.
“Then cover me! What are you good for.” Kisame held two Kunais in his hand that’d he taken from other ninjas, he’d have to find his sword which was still near the hole they fell into when they got captured the first time. It was in his path so he could easily pick it up on his way to Konohamaru.
With out another word he leapt out of the trees, landing on the edge of the facility. He ran towards the bomb on the other side, thrusting a Kunai into one Ninja’s stomach while he moved forward. Itachi’s cover started to come when a Shrunken launched from his current position, striking one hunter in the head in front of Kisame.
More and more started to come after him, luckily Kisame was able to retrieve his sword. Slamming the dull side into 6 men in font of him and knocking them away. Itachi took out as many as he could to prevent back attacks. Finally he decided to take a more direct approach and use Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.
Copies of Itachi sprang up around Kisame, exploding as soon as anyone made contact with them. Though only taking out 3 or 4 at a time it was a great help. But still the odds were over whelming and walls of Kunais and Shrunkens were flying at Kisame.
Kisame blocked as many and he could, but one slipped past and struck his stomach. Kisame involuntarily flinched, letting a few more get past his defense and hit him in the stomach and arm. He dropped the sword and fell back, a few more Kunais striking his leg and stomach until the hunter-nins deemed him dead ’Damnit…this is it! I screwed up.’
Feeling consciousness fading, Kisame looked up to see what he fell on to. It was another box, the side was open so he could see the man from the Leaf that used to be in the freezer. They’d be dump him before the bomb exploded… speaking of freezer, Kisame could feel his body getting cold…
“Damnit!” Itachi growled, Kisame was dead and Konohamaru was about to die a very painful death. The men had already started moving the bomb and had gotten a good distance away. At lest Itachi could still save Konohamaru…after he did that he felt another Uchiha clan incident starting.
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Itachi moved along the open road through the open fields in pursuit of the 10 men carrying the bomb. It wasn’t more then a few minutes before he had them in his sites, with Kunai in hand he moved in a blur of speed behind the man in the back, cutting his throat and tossing his body away.
The other 9 were instantly alerted that something was wrong when the felt the back left side of the steel case started to lag. But Itachi was no where insight leaving no trace of the other carrier.
The man on the front left side was knocked way by a Kunai to the side of his head, “What the hell!” One of the men shouted looking around uneasily, making his steps more careful as they approached a steep hill. Every man on the right side suddenly fell dead with different injuries leaving only 3 ninjas behinds.
They couldn’t come close to carrying that type of weight and immediately dropped it. One of the men abruptly turned back to get reinforcements while the other two were mowed down by the bomb gaining speed on it’s steep downhill decent.
Itachi landed on top of the seal case, easily having enough balance to stand on it. Unfortunately the side that opened was the one on the ground creating sparks, since there was no way in hell Itachi would be able to stop this thing he would have to ride it out to the bottom.
Which wasn’t easy because with no way to steer, the bomb was heading off the road in to the woods. The path got a lot rougher, Itachi clinched both sides in an effort to stay on even as he was being ran through thick tree branches and just about everything else the small patch of wooded land could throw at him.
The trees became less and less frequent, disappearing all together to reveal a large bolder sitting at the edge of a cliff. “Hold on Konohamaru!” Itachi yelled, just as the bomb smashed into the bolder was sent flying over the cliff. Itachi was knocked off, dropping about 500 feet and landing on his head on a bridge below where the path continued.
The bomb landed next to him, sliding to a stop on the concrete a few feet later.
With a grunt of pain, Itachi climbed to his feet and ran over to the steel case. Luckily the side that opened was right side up so Itachi easily opened it. “Konohamaru?”
“Itachi?” a weak, muffled voice came from the box on the top, all of the boxes were more then large enough to fit Konohamaru inside giving some idea of how large the bomb really was. Thankful that it hadn’t exploded, Itachi opened it and pulled the boy out.
As soon as Itachi set him on his feet, Konohamaru fell to the ground with heavy breaths and a disoriented look. “I’m ok…” He said, lifted his hand to the wounded part of the back of his head. He hadn’t passed out yet. “Where’s Kisame.”
Itachi ignored the question intentionally, grabbing Konohamaru by the hand and pulling him forward “We need to move. Now.” He said firmly. Knowing that Reedamaru and his Ninjas were on his trail and would be here any second…..It looked like it was that second because Reedamaru was the first person to arrive, landing right in front of Itachi.
Reedamaru was fast, faster then Itachi and more or less equal in strength.
“Your getting really annoying.” He said, pulling out a Kunai. “And your suppose to be the genius of the Uchiha clan. You know with in-minutes this place will be swarming with my people and your still here…Not to say you’ll be a live that long.” Reedamaru rushed at him in a blur of speed, thrusting the Knife at Itachi. Itachi took a step back and grabbed his arm, Reedamaru threw a punch with his free hand only to have it taken hold of by Itachi.
“The heating mechanism process on your bomb’s been started. You only have 5 minutes, you’ll never make it out of here alive.” Itachi said, squeezing down on Reedamaru’s arm and drawing a hiss of pain from him. Reedamaru jumped up as far as he could, sending both feet into Itachi’s face and knocking him away.
“Yeah whatever.” It seemed as soon as Reedamaru lifted his hands to do the seal, his fire jutsu was unleashed on Itachi. A burst of flames flew from his mouth, engulfing Itachi completely, his jutsu rate was as fast or even faster then Itachi‘s. Speaking of which Itachi’s body melted into a pool of water.
Reedamaru felt a knife plunge into his back from Itachi and what a was apparently a clone exploded on his contact, knocking Itachi a few feet away into the steel casing of the bomb.
2 Kunai’s flew down from above at the Uchiha, watching the direction they came from, Itachi was able to get a momentary glimpse of the real Reedamaru sitting on top of the cliff they’d just fallen from right before he moved.
Itachi grabbed the two Kunais before they could strike him, quickly tossing them in the air behind him. Reedamaru was attempting to sneak up on him from the back but he was struck in the arm before he could even touch the ground.
Itachi tried to go after him while he was stunned, but he found that his body was frozen to the ground by a layer of invisible ice. Reedamaru had did a Jutsu while he was ’stunned’ in the air. “Should have ran while had the chance…Maybe I should just get rid of the kid trying to creep up behind me.” Reedamaru said with a smirk. Looking over his shoulder at Konohamaru now petrified that he‘d been found out so quickly..
Reedamaru turned around and Konohamaru started walking backwards nervously. But Reedamaru was much faster, grabbing Konohamaru by the head and lifting him into the air. “Should have ran kid.” He said, pulling a Kunai from his wrist and thrusting it towards Konohamaru’s stomach.
Konohamaru grinned sheepishly, his body going up in a cloud of smoke revealing Itachi. Who easily grabbed a this time truly stunned Reedamaru’s hand, then pulling him in and sending a sharp knee to his stomach and sending him flying with a punch to the face.
Just before he went over the bridge, Reedamaru saw ’Itachi’ who’d he frozen go up in smoke revealing none other then his own son Konohamaru. The Jutsu wore off as soon as the man was out of view and Konohamaru, now able to move, looked back at Itachi….”What’s wrong?”
“Stay back!” Itachi shouted, lifting his hands to his stomach and involuntarily hunching over. The sound of Ninjas approaching could be heard in the direction they fell from before, Konohamaru looked towards them, seeing about 30 or so, 2 of them carrying a large box that had the body of the man from Konoha they were supposed to dump around here
Itachi’s body erupted in a powerful explosion and his body went up in flames, Reedamaru had hit him with a Jutsu before he knocked him over the bridge. It looked painful… The fire surrounding Itachi’s body faded, leaving him barely standing on his feet. “Konohamaru! Run!” He said.
Konohamaru ran over to him, “What about you?!” He asked frantically.
“I’ll be right behind you! Go!” Itachi gave him a nudge toward the opposite direction and Konohamaru started running, no doubt in his mind that Itachi was coming. As soon as the boy was a safe distance away Itachi fell face first to the ground “live…”
Konohamaru got a good distance away, wondering why there were none of Reedamaru’s men coming from this direction. “What’s going on?“ Konohamaru looked back towards Itachi, seeing that he was down he automatically turned around and ran back to him knelling beside him.
“Itachi! Itachi!” He shook him hard, rolling him over on to his back then abruptly pulling his hands back from the heat still on his body. Itachi laid there with his eyes half-lidded and his mouth slightly open slightly. Completely dazed and out of it…Itachi, dazed and out of it?…this didn’t seem real.
Konohamaru shook him harder, ignoring the fact that more and more Ninjas were arriving. They kept their distance though, they didn‘t know when the bomb would blow.
Finally the boy jumped on top his chest and grabbed him by the collar and shaking him. “Get up!” He yelled, tears starting to burn into his eyes from the silence he got as a reply. “Don’t you die! Get up! Don’t you die on me!!” Konohamaru shouted.
Konohamaru drew his arm back and sent a punch across Itachi’s face with no response. “Stop being a baby! Get up!” More and more tears fell from his eyes as he threw another punch, and another. “Life is pain, you just get use to it!” Konohamaru shouted, letting a sob escape.
“Get up!” Konohamaru shook Itachi by his collar with one hand before throwing one last punch. “get up…” Konohamaru’s grip grew weaker and he finally gave up, burying his face in Itachi’s neck and cried…
Itachi lifted his arm and wrapped it around Konohamaru’s back before sitting up. He looked down and watched The boy’s face light up, he immediately hugged Itachi as hard as he could. “You know when this is over I might have to give you some training of my own.” To anyone else this would have been a threat knowing he meant he would just vent his anger.
Konohamaru just laughed relivedly and hugged him tighter before climbing off…and realizing that his hands and shirt were covered with Itachi’s blood. His eyes widened and his body shuttered. ‘No…This is not the time for this….ahhhh….’
Konohamaru tried to wipe his hands off on his shirt but the wound he’d gotten from a kunai earlier had the side of his shirt soaked with his own blood and only added to the effect. He started trying to wipe it off with his hands but that only spread it. Until finally he completely lost all self control, he frantically tried to get the blood off but it stayed there, hunting him.
Finally Itachi knelt down by him and wrapped his arms around Konohamaru, holding his hands down to his side so he couldn’t move. “Calm down…” Itachi said.
Finally realizing what he was doing, Konohamaru stopped, just hoping the rain would wash it away. “Alright.” Konohamaru said, Itachi let go of him, looking around uneasily and seeing that they were surrounded by Ninjas a good distance away from the bomb.
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With a small cough and deep breaths Reedamaru emerged from the water. Climbing up the cliff until he reached the bridge’s level, then jumping on to it, landing behind the barricaded of men that were posted at the beginning of the structure.
He snatched one of the holder of the nearest person. “I’m not leaving until I know those bastards are dead.” Reedamaru shouted angrily, leaping towards Itachi and Konohamaru with the rest of his forces following.
Itachi looked around at the charging ninjas… well they were charging from one side, the men on the other side were heading in the opposite direction seemingly pre-occupied with a threat of there own. “Damn, we don’t have time for this! That bomb is going to go off in 2 minutes.”
There was no way they could stand against those odds, but they got help from and unexpected source. The surrounded box containing the dead shinobi of Konoha exploded, from the flames and smoke Kisame charged through with Samehada in hand. “You can’t kill me! I wont die off of weaklings like you!”
Kisame rushed through the unsuspecting force of Ninjas, plowing most of them down with his sword and stealing their Charka. “Kisame!” Itachi said with a bit of surprise and what sounded like happiness.
The man slid to a stop in front of him and Konohamaru. “Come on! We have to go!” he said abruptly. Only to have to lift his sword to block a Kunai, Itachi pulled him and Konohamaru behind the bomb, using it as cover from projectiles or any jutsu too explosive, no one was that stupid.
“I have to get Reedamaru off of us, I’ll take him down you cover me.” Itachi said, jumping out from behind the bomb and leaping in to the air, tossing a few Shrunkens at Reedamaru. Reedamaru took a deep breath and blew out a wave of fire similar to the one before only the flames were black. A pillar of water of water shot upward from under Reedamaru, extinguishing the flames just as Itachi got close. The Uchiha threw a strong kick at Reedamaru, who grabbed his leg and slammed him to the ground.
Reedamaru drew another Kunai from the holder “Burn in hell dumbass!” He shouted, thrusting the knife at Itachi’s head. Itachi lifted his hand and grabbed Reedamaru’s letting the knife slide safely in-between his fingers.
Itachi pulling Reedamaru’s hand behind his back and brought him face to face with him. “Since you suggested it.” He said, opening his eyes wider and using Tsujiyomi on Reedamaru. “For 3 minutes you will be burning in a lake of fire...don’t worry, more then enough time to occupy you until the bomb detonates.”
His body fell limp under the Sharingan jutsu and Itachi easily tossed him away, landing on top of the bomb might as well being unconscious.
Kisame was still fighting off the last of Reedamaru’s ninjas, noticing that the last of them were retreating, indicating that the bomb was near detonation. “I could have sworn there were more of these guys.” He said, watching Konohamaru walk to his side solemn after taking down two men in the confusion.
Suddenly Kiba’s body came flying into Kisame, knocking both of them to the ground. “What the hell…You!” Kisame yelled noticing who it was.
“Kiba!” Konohamaru shouted with a shocked voice.
“Konohamaru?” Kiba said in disbelief, jumping off of Kisame abruptly and holding both hands to his left side “Gatsuuga!” He thrust his hands forward, sending a nearly invisible blast at an approaching hunter and knocking him off the bridge.
“Konohamaru!” Sasuke’s voice rang from the opposite direction, charging towards him full speed with Neji just behind.
“Sasuke!” Konohamaru sprang at him, hugging tightly “Your alright!”
Sasuke hugged him back…until he realized that Itachi was a few feet away from him. Konohamaru immediately noticed what was about to happen when he saw Sasuke’s anger flare before his eyes. “You Bastard!” Sasuke yelled, running towards him.
“Sasuke! No Stop!” Konohamaru shouted, running after him. “We have to get out of here, that things a bomb! A really big one!”
Neji knelt down next to the steel case, ignoring the incapacitated Reedamaru as he opened it. Just looking inside it took him two seconds to realize how it worked. He reached out and held his hand over the heating mechanism, which was extremely hot. “We don’t have anytime! This bomb is about to explode right now!” He called out waving everyone in the other direction.
“You better run kid!” Kisame said, taking off once he saw that Konohamaru was following. Itachi wordlessly leapt after them followed closely by Sasuke. Kiba and Neji were just ahead in the lead.
They only got a few feet before the bomb exploded, and for a split second the sound of Reedamaru screaming could be heard.
The flames were amazingly quick, tearing through the bridge and chasing after the group. “Where not going to make it!” Konohamaru shouted, already able to feel the heat at his back. He was right, only Itachi was fast enough to make it away, and he wasn’t planning on leaving Kisame and Konohamaru.
He and Sasuke seemed to have the same idea, both of them diving toward the boy “Konohamaru!” There voices called at the same time, both of them grabbing on to the boy, Sasuke from the front and Itachi from the back. Covering him as the flames engulfed their bodies….
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