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Chapter 20: Blonde vs. Blonde…
"You traitor! Then again an opportunity to kill you and show that my art is the best…" – Deidara
Full moon, yes there was a full moon out today and the sky was clear. No clouds whatsoever. Itachi didn't know why but it felt relaxing but at the same time he felt like something was amiss.
But right now he didn't care all that much, right now he was on his first date; he let a smirk creep on his face. He imagined a chibi Itachi doing a victory dance in front of his little brother.
"And people said I won't be able to get a date ever…" thought Itachi "Oh well, if foolish little bother won't rebuild the clan I can…" he mentally smirked at the thought.
The older Uchiha raised his head and glanced in front of him, there stood his date, Hyuuga Hoshi, or at least former Hyuuga since she betrayed them and joined Naruto's happy little group… as she named it.
Hoshi was wearing a beautiful white kimono with sakura petal design on it. The kimono reached down to her knees, she decided to go with some high heel shoes. She didn't use too much makeup, from what Itachi figured she didn't like to use makeup that much. She let her hair normally; she didn't tie it in a ponytail.
Now for Itachi, well the older Uchiha hated to admit it but it was Naruto and strangely Kisame that bought him the outfit. He didn't know why but they forced him to wear a tuxedo, indeed it showed his well toned body but he hated to wear it because on the way to the restaurant he caught unwanted attention, not from ninja's…well some were ninja. He caught the attention of every female in Suna and again not because they recognized his face but because of his body.
Why no one recognized Itachi? That was a simple question with an even more simple answer. You see, Hoshi demanded that Itachi will go on her date with him if he will come without the robe. That brought a small problem because he didn't want enemy ninja on him. But luckily or not Jiraiya and Naruto came with a solution, and he hated it. The solution was to make a powerful genjutsu on his face, change his hair color and his eye color.
Itachi scowled, now with the little change, as Naruto put it, he looked like an older version of Naruto but without the scars. Itachi's eyes were now blue like Naruto's, but his hair was not blonde and spiky. He hated it deeply, and he swore that he would payback Naruto… and Jiraiya because the pervert liked Naruto's idea and didn't like his. Why wouldn't anyone like his idea? He planned to have brown eyes and keep his hair black and change his facial appearance a little more, but no. They had to go with Naruto's option. Itachi would 'reward' Naruto.
Itachi focused his attention on Hoshi again, he studied her dress again, somehow his eyes landed on her chest and he deducted happily that she had medium sized breasts. He looked up at her face, her rosy lips and then at her white eyes, she looked at him and smiled.
"So tell me Itachi, how come you are in a tuxedo?" she asked sweetly
Itachi stood unfazed. "Naruto…" he paused "And Kisame." he let out an annoyed sigh at Kisame's name. He hated him because he helped Naruto put him in the tuxedo.
"Well I think you look good." she commented
Itachi looked at her and blinked. "Thanks…" he said unsure "You look good too." he told her making the woman blush slightly.
"Yeah it was hard to find the perfect dress." she told him.
Itachi nodded moving his hand to his kunai pouch which was still strapped to his leg; he took out a kunai and looked at the woman. "Hmm…" he said
"What's wrong?" she asked concerned
"What's that?" asked Itachi pointing behind her.
When she turned around Itachi threw the kunai fast out the window hitting a tree, he heard an 'eep' and then a 'thud' and smirked.
Outside near the tree stood none other than Jiraiya, the white haired man looked up at the tree branch he sat on and where the kunai hit and saw a piece of paper. Curiosity got to him, he pulled the kunai out and unrolled the piece of paper, and it had Itachi's hand writing on it.
"I already want to 'thank you' for the genjutsu, don't make me upgrade my 'thank you' because you are spying on us. Your giggles are annoying, get lost…or else." the last two written very powerful and accentuated and even underlined. Jiraiya gulped and turned around to leave. When he turned around he saw Itachi in front of him, he gulped.
The older Uchiha extended his arm. "Give it to me." he said with venom in his voice
"Give what?" asked the pervert
"Your notebook." said Itachi
Jiraiya's eyes went wide. "B-but…I spent all day writing in it…"
"Too bad" Itachi sad grabbing the notebook and ripping it to shreds "There we go." he said with a smirk and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Jiraiya fell on his knees and started grieving the loss of his notebook; he took the little pieces from the ground and left weeping all the way but at the same time wondering when Itachi made a kage bushin if he was on a date with Hoshi.
---A few minutes ago---
Hoshi turned facing Itachi again. "What did you see?" she asked "I didn't see anything."
Itachi shrugged. "I think it was my imagination."
Hoshi giggled at Itachi's response. "You must have a wild imagination then."
Itachi turned his face around to hide his blush. "What makes you say that?"
Now it was Hoshi's turn to shrug. "The way you said it maybe."
Itachi nodded and then remembered something. "Umm…do you see the waiter?" he asked
Hoshi turned around once again, Itachi did hand seals fast and a kage bushin appeared outside the window, Itachi turned his head to the bushin. "You know what to do." he told the bushin
The clone smirked evilly and jumped away, and it was just in time also, Hoshi turned around facing Itachi again, she had an annoyed look on her face. "Where is that waiter?" she asked pouting like a little girl.
Itachi grinned. "Impatient?" he asked
"Yes…why do you ask?"
"Just that you are pouting like a little girl." said Itachi. The woman looked at him and then smiled brightly at Itachi.
"And you don't like it?" she asked innocently
Itachi shrugged. Hoshi pouted again "What does it take to get this man out of his emotionless shell?" she thought.
Itachi, in the mean time, regained the clones' memories and smirked in success. That will show the pervert that he is not allowed to mess with him when he's on dates.
After that the date went like any other date, well in a way at least. Whatever Hoshi would have done she didn't manage to make Itachi smile or look happy. But she did succeed in making him blush, even if it was a little. She just started talking with him more seductively and in the end she managed to make the stoic Uchiha blush.
Other than that when their waiter arrived they placed their order like any other people, but Itachi didn't like the waiter not one bit, he was staring at his date, he wanted to jump up, grab the man's throat and slit it. But he didn't, he needed to stay calm and focused, but even when he returned with the order he still took a good glance at Itachi's date. The Uchiha was beyond pissed, the waiter was more annoying then the times Sasuke had bothered him to teach him something.
After they ate they talked some more, Hoshi wanted to find out more about the older Uchiha's life. Itachi somewhat explained what he did after he left Konoha. He told her what he thought was important, which in Itachi's opinion that wasn't very much. To say the discussion lasted only about ten minutes.
After they paid for what they ate they left the restaurant but not after Itachi threatened the waiter.
Once they where out of the restaurant Hoshi grabbed Itachi's arm and leaned her head on his shoulder. Itachi his part tried to make sure he won't blush or react in a un-Itachi way. But it was getting harder and harder and he had to admit that if things would go in the way they are going now he would soon find himself smiling again and laughing. Itachi shrugged at the thought and put his hand around the woman's waist. Her response was a cute giggle, well cute in Itachi's opinion.
After walking for about twenty minutes like that they both felt a powerful chakra signature and then they heard an explosion, a powerful one that lighted the sky above them. When they looked around Itachi's eyes rested on a place where smoke was coming up.
"Deidara." said Itachi deadly. He let go of Hoshi and jumped on a roof and dashed towards the location where the smoke was coming from.
---Half an hour ago---
Naruto was staring at Deidara grinning like a maniac. Deidara was looking at the boy with his jaw slightly open.
"How in hell is he flying, un?" the Akatsuki thought annoyed.
"Well?" asked Naruto taking a kunai out. "Are you coming or should I start?"
Deidara smirked "I underestimated you brat, un." he said with his eyes closed. He then opened his eyes, or at least the one that wasn't covered by a strange machine. "But that won't happen again!" he yelled as he opened his palm and clay birds started flying towards Naruto.
The blonde boy's eyes narrowed, he started running away from the birds. Strangely he could run in the air and then he remembered the vortex that was down below, he could hear it constantly chanting. Naruto grinned, if he could run in the air that means that the vortex was making a sort of air platform for him to move. Naruto stopped running and turned towards the incoming attack, he put his kunai back in the pouch and took out three shuriken, he threw them towards the birds, but it only hit one bird; and that exploded. The explosion wasn't too intense; Naruto figured that the Akatsuki was still trying to hide his presence from everyone.
Suddenly two spiders appeared behind Naruto, the blonde jinchuuriki turned his head facing them, shock written on his face. He didn't see when the blonde Akatsuki created those two spiders. Everything then happened in slow motion, the spiders bent their legs slightly and pushed themselves in the air and moved towards Naruto who was still too shocked to move. When the spiders where near the boy he blinked and threw himself to the side, the Akatsuki member saw what he was doing and moved his hand in the ram seal. The two spiders exploded, but luckily the explosion wasn't powerful enough to reach Naruto.
The blonde boy rolled in air like he was rolling in the ground. When he stopped rolling the turned his attention to the birds that where now near him and flying in circles like vultures, Naruto looked at his opponent and saw a smirk, the opponents eyes were showing happiness for his success. He once again brought his hand in the ram sign. The birds exploded. Deidara relaxed and smirked, then his eyes narrowed when from the smoked Naruto dropped, the blonde boy was dropping from the air towards the ground, for a second Deidara relaxed again thinking that the boy fainted and his summon disappeared, but then he saw the jinchuuriki stopping in mid air hitting the air with a small 'thud' like someone would hit the ground if that someone was to fall from a tree. Deidara looked down at the ground and saw the vortex there with its eyes still concentrated on Naruto.
The blonde man scowled, he opened his plan again and there stood three spiders and birds. He threw them towards the vortex this time thinking that if he would destroy the vortex then the jinchuuriki will begin his free fall and die when hitting the ground. The clay bombs moved with speed towards the vortex that was still looking and concentrating on Naruto. When the clay bombs where close Deidara grinned, his grin soon faded when he saw the vortexes eyes shift towards the incoming attack. The vortex chanted something and a powerful gust of wind blew the three spider bombs in the wall near it, destroying them. When the birds were in front of the vortex they exploded. Deidara looked at the blonde boy who was now on his feet but still in the air, his eyes widened, he looked down on the ground again and saw the wind concentrating on the roof of a building, the wind spiraled for a few seconds before it formed the vortex again.
"Surprised?" asked Naruto grinning. "My friend is made out of air, he can disappear and reappear easily, and don't think that only because he is concentrating on me means that he can't attack someone or defend himself."
Naruto grinned and charged Deidara, the blonde man blinked and he saw Naruto just a few steps away from the birds head, the bird moved its head to the side and flapped its wings and started ascending some more. Naruto looked up at Deidara and scowled, the blonde man looked down at the boy and to his surprise the boy was also ascending, but not by standing still. Naruto seemed to be running up some stairs in a spiraling way. Deidara cursed, he opened his palm and the mouth in it spat out five small birds. He looked at the boy and tried to find an opening.
Naruto stopped ascending, he looked at the Akatsuki on the bird that was hovering above him, he looked at the man's eyes and saw that he was studying him; Naruto realized that Deidara was going to try something. He started making hand seals and when he was done he raised his head towards Deidara and took a deep breathe. "Katon: Ryuuka no Jutsu" Naruto yelled just before he spit out fire that took the shape of a dragon. The fire moved with great speed towards Deidara, and the blonde man turned his bird fast and dodged the attack, he cursed at Naruto and threw his clay birds.
The birds flew towards Naruto. The blonde jinchuuriki frowned. "Is he only going to send this crap after me?" he thought annoyed, he studied the attack pattern and wasn't impressed; he jumped up dodging a bird, when he looked down his eyes narrowed. The clay bird stopped abruptly and then turned towards Naruto and flapped its wings once and ascended with great speed towards Naruto. The blonde boy cursed and ran towards Deidara. The Akatsuki member grinned and opened both his palms. Naruto's eyes widened – in both of Deidara's palms were more than twenty small birds. The said birds flapped their wings and slowly gained altitude above their creator's hands. Then they flapped their wings harder and moved with blinding speed towards Naruto.
As Naruto was running towards Deidara two small birds appeared in front of him, Naruto quickly covered his face, and just in time. The two birds exploded sending Naruto back. Then the bird that was chasing Naruto appeared from behind and exploded throwing Naruto towards Deidara. Naruto used his chakra to stop and succeeded. He looked around trying to find the rest of the birds, and then all of them appeared around him. The blonde boy thought fast and jumped up, several birds exploded but the rest flew towards him. Naruto started running in zigzags, throwing shuriken behind him, but all were missing their targets.
"How do you like them? un." heard Naruto a mocking voice, he turned his head to Deidara; who was laughing "Those are my fast bombs, they are so fast that a normal eye can't keep track of their movement, un." he taunted
Naruto spat. "Just you wait, I'll beat the crap out of you." yelled Naruto angrily
"Oh I am so afraid, un." said Deidara pretending to be afraid
Naruto gritted his teeth, he looked behind with the corner of his eyes and saw the birds still chasing. He looked down at the vortex and into its golden eyes. He then grinned and looked back at the birds, he extended his palm and shouted "Uindo Soshi: Hyouten (Wind Elemental: Freezing Point)." The vortex started doing a second chant that sounded all around the area. Deidara looked between the vortex and Naruto trying to figure out what was happening, he then saw the vortex forming an arm. Of course the arm was made out of wind, the vortex looked towards the birds and extended the newly formed arm, Deidara looked at his creations and saw that they where slowing down and then all of a sudden they completely froze. The birds started dropping from the air and went they reached the ground they shattered in small pieces of ice.
Deidara looked at Naruto and gritted his teeth, he saw the boy grinning in success. He opened his palm and the mouth partially spit out some clay that didn't look to be modeled. Deidara used his other hand and graded the clay and pulled it out of his hands mouth. Naruto looked with interest. When Deidara was down he did some hand seals and the clay exploded in a puff of smoke and when the smoke cleared Naruto's eyes narrowed. Around Deidara was a clay snake, it was long like an anaconda and huge like one of them.
Deidara grinned. "I like to call it Bakuretsu Daija (Exploding Serpent), un." Deidara moved his hand and the snake moved its head facing Naruto. Then Deidara bent a little and moved the hand that was holding the snake's tail behind, with a fast move he threw his arm in front of him and the snake started moving towards Naruto with amazing speed (think Renji from Bleach when he first used his Bankai). Naruto jumped just in time to avoid the snake's mouth, Deidara moved the tail towards the direction Naruto jumped and the snake turned its head and dashed towards Naruto. The blonde boy moved his hand fast to his kunai pouch and grabbed and kunai and threw it towards the snake; the clay snake swallowed the kunai like it was nothing and continued to move towards Naruto.
The snake was near Naruto; he created a Kage Bushin and used it to throw him out of the snakes' way. The bushin was swallowed by the snake, Deidara once again turned the snake's tail towards Naruto and the clay bomb moved towards the blonde jinchuuriki that started jumping left and right like he was jumping from roof top to roof top.
All of a sudden Naruto heard another puff of smoke and turned his head to the Akatsuki and to his horror he saw another snake held in Deidara's free hand. Deidara moved his other arm back and then moved it fast in front of him towards Naruto. The second snake started moving after Naruto. The blonde boy narrowed his eyes and jumped to the left dodging the first snake. He did the hand signs for a Katon attack but he didn't finish as the second snake was about to swallow him. Naruto was forced to jump up; he landed on the snakes head and started running down the snake towards Deidara.
Deidara twitched his hand; the second snake turned its head up and looked in the direction Naruto was running, the first snake passed above the seconds head towards Naruto. Then the second snake started twitching its body to make Naruto fall or force him to jump off its body and it seemed to work. Naruto slipped and fell off. The first snake was following the free falling Naruto and the second joined the first. Naruto created a kage bushin that grabbed his arms and twisted in the air, when it let go it threw Naruto towards Deidara.
The first snake swallowed the bushin and turned its attention towards the flying Naruto, the second one stopped and turned towards Naruto as well. Deidara moved his hands in different directions; he was trying to stop the boy from reaching him. He saw it was no use and tapped his foot on the bird he was on, the bird started moving, it tried to dodge Naruto but the blonde boy grabbed one of its wings. He twisted and jumped on the of the bird right behind Deidara. The blonde Akatsuki turned his head towards Naruto his face showing surprise. Naruto grinned and threw a punch at Deidara before he could react.
Naruto's fist connected with Deidara's face and the blonde man was sent flying off his bird. Deidara was now in free fall but one punch won't stop him. Deidara moved his hands, the first snake appeared under Deidara and the blonde man landed on top of his snake, the bad thing was that they where still falling so he needed to act fast. He pumped chakra in his feet and jumped in the air, the second snake appeared under Deidara. He jumped again and the first snake appeared, slowly he was ascending towards his bird.
Naruto saw what the Akatsuki was doing and grinned, he started doing hand seals for a Katon attack, but once again before he could finish the bird he was on flipped upside down and Naruto fell of it. The bird then flipped to its former position and flew towards its master. Naruto hit the air with a low 'thud'. He got back on his feet and saw Deidara in the air. He charged the man; he wasn't far away from his target.
Deidara saw the boy coming and smirked, he moved his arm violently towards Naruto and the first snake appeared underneath Naruto grabbing his legs in its mouth. The snake continued to ascend with Naruto sticking out of its mouth. Deidara landed on his bird and looked at the boy grinning sadistically. He was bringing his hands to the ram seal and Naruto's eyes narrowed. He took out one of his special kunai and threw it somewhere randomly, then when Deidara was about to make the snake explode the blonde jinchuuriki disappeared in a yellow flash.
Deidara's eyes widened, he started looking around and saw the boy above him in free fall with a Rasengan in his hand. He tapped the bird with his foot; the bird let its body move towards the side and dodged Naruto's attack. The blonde boy flew down pass the bird just by a few centimeters. Naruto turned around with his back towards the ground and dismissed his Rasengan. He took his special kunai in hand again and threw it up. He disappeared again in a yellow flash and appeared right in front of Deidara's bird. He put his kunai in a different pouch and charged Deidara.
Deidara smirked, he moved one hand and the first snake appeared in front of him, he moved his second hand and the second snake appeared behind Naruto. He moved both hands and the two snakes attacked at the same time. Naruto stopped in the middle, he jumped up with full force, the snakes where about to hit each other in the heads but instead of doing that their heads moved up and they started ascending towards Naruto, their bodies just inches away.
The two snakes where closing in fast on Naruto, the blonde boy wanted to use his special kunai to use Hiraishin but if he would do that again he would be left out of chakra and would have to resort on using Kyuubi's again. The blonde boy looked in terror as the two snakes where just a few centimeters away, he saw Deidara smirking and letting go of their tails. He brought his hands in the ram seal and Naruto closed his eyes. Light shot out of the two snakes and in a matter of seconds they both exploded just inches away from Naruto. The explosion was incredibly powerful, it startled everyone in Sunagakure.
Deidara sighed. "I alerted everyone now, un…" he looked at the smoke "No matter, un, I will take the brat and deliver him to leader-sama, un." he waited to see the boy drop from the smoke, but he didn't. He looked down hoping the vortex was gone but to his surprise it was still standing up. He looked back at the cloud of smoke that was clearing; when the smoke cleared he saw a wall made out of very damaged sand shielding the blonde boy.
Deidara cursed, he looked around and saw on a patch of sand a red haired boy with Kazekage robes on him. Deidara gritted his teeth; nothing was going how he wanted to go. The red haired boy looked at Naruto with annoyance.
"I thought I told you never to engage a strong enemy alone." he scowled
Naruto spat some blood; the explosion hit him a little. "I can take care of him."
"Is that so?" mocked Gaara "If my sand didn't block the attack you could have been blown to pieces." said Gaara as the sand shielding Naruto started to return to him. Gaara then turned his attention to the Akatsuki.
"So you are the sand jinchuuriki, un" said Deidara but no answer came from Gaara, the boy just glared at the blonde man. "You don't talk too much, un …anyway since there's two of you I guess I shouldn't hold back anymore, un." said Deidara smirking
Gaara's eyes widened when he heard that. "He was holding back? If he has then I'm afraid to see what the real explosion would do, the explosion from those two snakes would have completely destroyed the Kazekage tower, if he was holding back then the real one would wipe a quarter or so of the village."
In the meantime Naruto didn't give a shit about what Deidara said, he stood back on his feet and charged the Akatsuki. Gaara saw Naruto running towards their enemy and stayed silent wanting to see what the full force of the explosions where. Deidara smirked and opened his palm, two clay birds popped out, they looked small. "Luckily I brought enough clay." he thought as he sent the birds to attack Naruto.
Naruto saw the puny things coming towards him and laughed, his laugher was cut short when the birds disappeared and repapered in front of him. The two birds exploded but unlike last time this explosion was much more powerful, two times to be exact. Naruto was sent flying in the air and Gaara was forced to catch him, it was lucky that Naruto at least covered his face but the sleeves from his clothing was all burned now, actually his entire clothing was ripped.
Gaara turned his attention back to Deidara after he caught Naruto. He moved his hand towards Deidara and sand shot towards the man on the bird (the Shippuuden battle). Deidara tapped his foot on the bird and the bird started moving away from the incoming attack, the sand was now behind him. The blonde man turned his head slightly behind him and saw the sand there coming after him. "A long range attacker and a hand to hand fighter." thought Deidara "Interesting, un."
Naruto rubbed his head and opened his head, he saw Deidara chased by Gaara's sand, and he jumped up landing on his feet. He took two shuriken out and charged Deidara jumping up like he was jumping from branch to branch. Deidara saw the blonde boy coming towards him and looked in his hands; his creations were ready. He grinned, turning towards the boy he slapped his hands and the departed them. One of his hands was closed in a fist; he threw the contents towards Naruto.
The blonde jinchuuriki saw Deidara throwing something towards him, when he looked carefully he saw some strange clay things that looked like leeches. Naruto jumped to the side dodging the attack. "Pathetic." he told his enemy that only grinned in response. This made Naruto curious, he turned his head and saw the leeches had grown clay wings and were flying towards him. Naruto's eyes widened.
Gaara was looking at the attack performed by Deidara and was amazed; he realized that Naruto would have a hard time with them so he extended his other arm towards the clay leeches and sand shot towards them. This of course attracted the attention of Deidara, when the sand reached the leeches Gaara performed the Desert Coffin on them and then he used the Sand Burial technique. The leeches exploded inside the trap and sand shot everywhere, some of the sand hit Naruto.
Deidara smirked, his plan worked, he started laughing. "What's so funny?" he heard someone ask, he looked to see it was Naruto that asked.
"You fell right into my trap, un." he said grinning
"What trap?" asked Gaara this time "I destroyed those clay things."
"Yes you did, un." said Deidara "but that was your mistake, un!" he yelled as he pointed to Naruto and brought his hands to the ram seal.
Gaara looked at Naruto and his eyes widened in horror; on Naruto's back there where white tips, which formed into three leeches. Naruto turned his head and his eyes narrowed when he saw the leeches. He unzipped his jacket fast and threw it, but it wasn't fast enough, just before he was going to throw it the leeches exploded, Naruto was sent in a free fall. His fall was stopped when he hit the air this time with a loud and powerful 'thud'. Naruto groaned in pain, he didn't expect stopping in mid air to hurt that much.
Gaara was a little relieved to see that Naruto was alright, but then he focused on Deidara his eyes filled with anger and bloodlust. "You will pay for hurting my precious person!" he yelled as a large amount of sand shot towards Deidara. The blonde man tapped his foot on the bird again; the bird moved faster and faster dodging each attack. There was sand appearing to his left and right and even in front.
Deidara opened his palm again and saw his creation; he let the birds fly out of his palm towards Gaara. The red haired boy saw the attack coming and sent his sand to destroy them; one by one the birds were destroyed. Deidara frowned, his attack didn't succeed, and he put his hands in his pouches to take more clay.
In the meantime Gaara made the sand encase his arm thus creating a Shukaku arm. He looked at Deidara and growled, he threw his arm towards the blonde man. The arm started to grow in length at fast speed flying towards Deidara. The blonde man saw what was coming to him, before the arm could hit him hi bird moved to the left dodging the attack, the arm turned and moved towards Deidara again, the bird was dodging left and right.
Deidara opened his palm, there was clay sticking out of the mouth in his palm, he smirked. He grabbed the clay and pulled it out, when it was completely out there was a puff of smoke. This startled Gaara, he looked trying to see what was happening. When the smoke cleared he saw a giant snake, similar to an anaconda around Deidara, its tail was being held by the blonde man. His eyes widened, this was the same snake that was used against Naruto.
Deidara spun around facing the incoming Shukaku arm, he bent down a little and twitched his hand towards the incoming arm. The snake moved towards the arm circulating it. Gaara saw that it was trying to capture his arm and squeeze it to destroy it, he opened his palm and the Shukaku arm opened his palm, he grabbed the snake's tail and started crushing it.
Deidara smirked again; this was too easy in his opinion, first the blonde boy fell for the trap now the red haired boy. He let go of the snake's tail and brought his hands in the ram seal. Light shot out of the snake and then it exploded, this time the explosion was much more powerful, it was like the two snakes from before had been combined. The explosion destroyed the sand arm and sand was falling from the sky on streets and buildings of Sunagakure.
Gaara cursed when he saw that he was tricked, he closed his eyes and concentrated on the sand on the ground, he moved his arms down slowly and then his eyes snapped open, his arms raised in the air fast. The ground down below started shaking and sand shot out from every street towards the air. Gaara extended both his arms towards Deidara and the sand coming from the ground shot towards the Akatsuki man.
Naruto looked at the sand moving towards Deidara and formulated a plan, he jumped on the sand that just passed him, he pumped chakra in his feet and jumped on another line of sand, then he jumped to the right on another and then another when he finally reached a streak of sand that was behind Deidara.
Deidara saw all the sand moving towards him, his bird was moving left and right and was trying to dodge every attack; he then turned his head to his back and saw the blonde jinchuuriki on a streak of sand that was heading towards him. The sand tried to hit the bird but the bird dodged to the left, Naruto jumped and landed on the bird's tail, he ran towards Deidara and threw a punch, Deidara ducked, he moved his leg under Naruto's and made him fall. Then Deidara jumped on his arm and with his left leg he tried to hit Naruto in the head.
Naruto saw what Deidara was doing and he grabbed the man's leg and tired to break it but instead he forced Deidara to spin and land in front of him. Naruto got back up on his feet and took a kunai out, his last one. He charged Deidara with the kunai in his hand. Deidara took a kunai out also and intercepted the attack. Naruto spun and tried to deliver a roundhouse kick, Deidara moved his body out of the way and grabbed Naruto's collar and threw him away. Naruto landed on the bird's tail again.
Deidara moved towards Naruto and when he was about to stab him his bird flipped to the right making Deidara and Naruto fall. While they where in free fall Naruto was trying to deliver punches and kicks or to stab the man in front of him. Deidara just dodged every attack that was delivered, then both of them hit something, they looked down and saw they landed on the bird again.
From Gaara's point of view everything was chaos, he didn't know how to send his sand anymore, he didn't want to hit Naruto by accident, when he saw the two dropping from the bird he sent his sand to catch Naruto and to try and hit Deidara but they landed on the bird before his sand could reach them.
Naruto ran towards Deidara and his kunai connected with his, he spun around and managed to cut Deidara's back, blood started to flow from the wound, Deidara gritted his teeth in pain, he extended his foot and hit Naruto in the face sending him flying and landing on the birds head. He tapped his foot on the birds back, the bird shook its head and Naruto fell but before he could fall down he threw his kunai implanting it in Deidara's arm who screamed out in pain.
Red flashed in front of Deidara's eyes went he looked at the blonde boy, he opened his right palm and a strange clay creature that looked like an owl of some sort appeared. "You will go in a big blast with the entire village, un!" yelled Deidara as he let the creature drop. He brought his hands to a seal and the creature disappeared in a puff of smoke, the smoke cleared fast and the creature grew in size, it was as big as the Kazekage tower, maybe even bigger.
Gaara's eyes widened when he saw the creature, he sent all the sand that was attacking Deidara to intercept the clay bomb. He called out more sand and created a wall under the creature as fast as he could. The creature exploded; the explosion was very powerful, and it would have destroyed a great portion of the village if Gaara hadn't created the wall of sand, creating the wall also took a lot out of him. He was having a hard time keeping his eyes open; he moved his hands in front of him and ordered the wall of sand to move. The sand moved beyond the village's wall and Gaara let the sand fall on the ground. He then saw Deidara moving towards him grinning evilly.
Naruto hit the air again with a loud and powerful 'thud', he felt like he was sent towards the ground easily and looked at his summon. The vortex was slowly fading away, which could only mean in Naruto's opinion that he was falling unconscious. He felt something under him and saw he was put on the roof of the same building where the vortex was. He looked up and saw Gaara moving the sand to the outskirts of the village, he then saw Deidara moving fast towards Gaara. He tried to open his mouth to yell but he couldn't. The last thing he saw before he fell unconscious was Itachi delivering a powerful kick in Deidara's face and Hoshi grabbing Gaara.
Itachi now knew for sure, after that big clay bomb appeared in the sky he knew it was Deidara, when he saw the blonde man heading at great speed towards Gaara he jumped in front of him and delivered a powerful kick. Hoshi that had followed him grabbed Gaara and jumped on a nearby building setting him down. Now it was only Deidara and Itachi, Itachi on the clay bird with Deidara.
When Deidara saw Itachi he was puzzled. "Itachi?" asked Deidara "What are you doing here, un?"
Itachi then realized his genjutsu dropped, he looked and saw Naruto unconscious. "I'm here to fight you." said Itachi unemotionally
Deidara raised an eyebrow. "Why would you …" he stopped and then narrowed his eyes, then he gritted his teeth angrily. "You traitor!" he yelled.
Itachi smirked "What's the matter? Afraid that I might beat you?" he taunted
"You traitor! Then again an opportunity to kill you and show that my art is the best!" shouted Deidara as he opened his palm and three small spiders jumped out of his palm towards Itachi.
The older Uchiha activated his Sharingan and dodged the incoming attack; he grabbed three shuriken and threw them at the spiders behind them hitting them. The spiders exploded, Itachi disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared behind Deidara. He grabbed the blonde man by the collar and threw him on top of a building. Deidara fell inside, thus breaking the roof. He planted a kunai with an explosive tag on the birds head and then jumped down, he activated the tag and it exploded, light shot from the bird before it also exploded.
Itachi landed on the roof of the building and then jumped inside, he looked around and saw Deidara jumping out the window, he followed Deidara jumping out the window as well and reaching an alley. He saw Deidara walking up the wall of the building in front of him; he started running up the wall after him. They both jumped on the roof of the building and Deidara turned to face Itachi, he opened his palm and threw some clay spiders at him and started running, Itachi dodged the spiders and started running after Deidara jumping from roof top to roof top.
Itachi turned his head behind a little and saw the spiders jumping after him, he took some shuriken and threw then at the spiders, and the ones that he hit exploded while the others dodged the shuriken and continued jumping after Itachi. Deidara turned his head and smirked at the Uchiha that was chasing him. Itachi turned back to Deidara and did hand seals, he took a deep breath and before spitting out a huge fireball. Deidara's eyes widened as he jumped of the roof in the middle of a street between crowds of people.
The villagers screamed when they saw Deidara, or at least the women, the men grabbed what they had near then and where about to attack Deidara when Itachi jumped in front of Deidara and without wasting time he threw a punch. Deidara caught the fist and moved his leg to hit Itachi from the side. Itachi spun to the left and hit Deidara in the back. Now the villagers where confused, why would Itachi who was an Akatsuki and a criminal working with Deidara attack him.
Suddenly Suna ninja's surrounded Deidara and Itachi. Both stopped fighting and looked at the ninjas' around them. Without wasting any time the ninjas' attacked Deidara and Itachi, Itachi not wanting to hurt the ninjas' went in defense while Deidara was punching and kicking any ninja that was around him. When a ninja was about to hit Itachi, Hoshi jumped down and caught the ninja's punch.
"What are you doing?" asked the ninja
"Uchiha Itachi is on our side." she said looking at the ninja angrily
"He is an S-ranked missing-nin." said the ninja
"He is a Suna ally." said a voice. They all turned around and saw Gaara carried by none other than Kisame. Gaara looked at Kisame "You can let go of me, go and take care of Deidara." Kisame nodded and set Gaara on the ground. He then turned to Deidara
"Well Deidy-chan." mocked Kisame "Let's have some fun." he grabbed his sword and charged Deidara trying to slash him, the blonde man back flipped to dodge the attack. He saw that there were too many to handle. He jumped on a roof and opened his palm, a bird dropped from his palm, he brought his hands to a seal and the bird was replaced in a puff of smoke with a much larger one like the one from before. Deidara jumped in the birds back and the bird flapped its wings and started flying away.
"We will meet again traitors, un!" shouted Deidara as he and the bird were dodging huge arrows shot by Suna's ballistae.
The ninjas' and villagers' turned to look at Gaara for explanation regarding Itachi and Kisame. Gaara closed his eyes and sighed, he opened them again and got on his feet and started walking towards the Kazekage tower. "Itachi, Kisame I want you to come with me." he said as he was moving towards the tower "Hoshi go and take Naruto home." he said
The three ninja's nodded, Kisame looked at the retreating figure of Deidara and frowned "Why the hell does everyone leave when I want to fight them!" he shouted annoyed and stormed away following Gaara.
Itachi was about to follow Gaara when a hand grabbed him, he turned his head and saw it was Hoshi holding his hand. "Whatever will happen from this point try not to kill anyone." she joked
Itachi grinned. "I will try." he turned around trying to leave again only to be pulled back, he rolled his eyes wondering what the woman wanted this time, that is until he felt something warm touching his lips. His eyes widened when he saw Hoshi kissing him, they parted and Hoshi winked at him before jumping away. "One – zero for me Itachi, you blushed." she thought and giggled to herself.
True to her thoughts Itachi was left there looking at her retreating form blushing, everyone that was near him had they're jaws on the floor.
---Konoha, Inuzuka compound---
Kiba was in the living room with his sister and his mother. His mother was reading a book while his sister just seemed to space out. The first to speak was Hana, Kiba's sister.
"Mother?" she asked
"Yes dear…" said Tsume
"What do you think of the Ekitaikinzoku (Liquid Metal) clan? The ones that arrived in Konoha a few days ago." she asked
Tsume looked at her daughter. "They are strong and their leader Kanakuzu (Scrap Metal) is also strong."
"Yeah but they are a bunch of stuck up's like the Hyuuga, maybe even worse." complained Hana
"Now Hana don't talk like that." said Tsume
"Why not?" she asked offended
"Because you are engaged to one of them"
Hana and Kiba's jaw dropped on the floor. "What?" yelled Kiba
Tsume looked at Kiba. "What is the matter?"
"I will not allow my sister to marry a stuck up jerk from that stupid clan!" he yelled
Silently Hana thanked her brother, she was on his side and was on Naruto's side also, and ever since the chunin exams she saw the difference between Naruto and the demon.
"This marriage will only strengthen our relationship with them." said Tsume glaring at her son.
"I don't care, who knows how they treat their wives, I will not stand for this crap."
"Watch your tongue Kiba!" yelled his mother
"You watch it mom" he said with venom startling both his mother and sister. "First you lied about Naruto, then you send people to kill him and now this." he paused "You should be careful or you will lose your son and heir." he warned as he stormed out of the room
"Kiba!" yelled his mother
Hana stood up. "Let me talk to him mother." Tsume looked at her daughter before nodding
Hana walked towards Kiba's room and opened the door, she found him on the bed with Akamaru on his chest waving his tail.
"Can I come in?" she asked even thought she had already opened the door
Kiba looked at Hana before nodding. The woman entered the room and closed the door behind her. She walked over to the boy's bed and sat on a chair near him.
"Thank you for what you said." she told him closing her eyes "I agree that they are a bunch of stuck up's and I don't want to marry anyone from there."
Kiba nodded. "When do you think the marriage will be?" he asked
Hana shrugged. "Maybe in three years." she said casually
"Why aren't you afraid?" he asked
Hana giggled. "I will let you in a secret as to why I am not afraid."
"Secret?" asked Kiba intrigued
Hana nodded. "If the marriage will be in two or three years I have nothing to be afraid of." she whispered
"Why is that?" asked Kiba in a low vice as well
"Because in two years I will leave Konoha…forever." she confessed
Kiba's eyes went wide. "Why?"
"It's not only me Kiba, it's almost half the ninja populace, and we are going to join Uzumaki Naruto's village." she told her brother
"His village?" he asked
Hana nodded again. "He will form a new hidden village in two years, in two years we will all leave, and I know you are also coming." she said grinning
Kiba blinked before grinning and nodding.
---Suna, Kazekage office---
Nine people where in the Kazekage office at the moment, one of them looked like he would fall any second, another looked like he just came from something formal, another looked like he was just found peeking on someone and the fourth looked like he just woke up or something. And it was something like that.
Gaara just came from a battle and was completely exhausted from everything he had done, Itachi that was at a date before was still wearing his tuxedo, Jiraiya after he was caught by Itachi tried to spy on some houses on the ladies that where bathing in their own houses, this only got him caught by a female ninja that beat the crap out of him. And well, lastly we have Kisame that was in pajamas, that wouldn't be a problem but his pajamas had bunny rabbits on it.
The elders in the room snickered when they saw Kisame, the fish man just looked like he didn't understand what was happening while Itachi and Gaara where rolling their eyes and Jiraiya was trying to figure out if he would dress like that would he get more women or not.
An elder coughed to get everyone attention. "Kazekage-sama would you please tell us why there are two S-ranked missing-nin in Sunagakure and no one knew except yourself?"
"Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigake Kisame are indeed S-ranked missing-nin but with a purpose." said Gaara
"And what would that purpose be?" asked another elder
"I'm afraid I cannot tell you." said Gaara calmly
"What?" asked the elders "We need to know, we have criminals in our village, we need to know why they are here." they demanded
"I assure you that Kisame and I don't mean any harm." said Itachi no emotion at all
"We cannot trust you, after all you are the one that massacred the entire Uchiha clan." said an elder pointing to Itachi
"That is true, I did massacre the clan…" said Itachi "But with a purpose."
The elders all looked interested wanting to know what the purpose was, for many years people had tried to figure out why Itachi had massacred his clan, why he did it, if it was indeed for power of because of something else.
"What is your purpose?" asked an elder
"I cannot tell." said Itachi bluntly
"You are going to tell us." roared an elder. Itachi glared at the man that started sweating bullets and look in other direction.
"I will not tell you because no one is ready to know, the ones that know are the Sannin, the Kazekage and the blonde boy Uzumaki Naruto." said Itachi
There was a silence after that, the elders somehow didn't know what else to ask since he wouldn't tell them why he had killed his clan, and they didn't want to ask Kisame because they suspected they might get the same answer. Then after a long silence an elder spoke.
"Tell me what was one of Akatsuki doing here, and weren't you two in Akatsuki?"
Itachi nodded. "Yes we were in Akatsuki."
"But we betrayed them because we didn't like their plans." said Kisame
"And what would those plans be?" asked an elder
"They want to extract the bijuu from the jinchuuriki and use their power to rule the world and all the hidden villages." said Gaara
Itachi nodded again. "As for why Deidara was here, he wanted to steal information about Sunagakure's defenses and their Kazekage so he could plan an attack to capture him."
The elders tensed when they heard that.
"Do not worry, Naruto, the Kazekage and Itachi managed to drive him out empty handed." said Kisame
"And I doubt that they will come back again any time soon." said Jiraiya "They need to wait two or three more years before they can start extracting the bijuu's."
The elders looked at the two criminals. One of them let out a sigh before talking. "Well we are grateful…"
"But we cannot let you stay in Suna." said another elder
The temperature in the room suddenly dropped and everyone looked at Gaara that was completely red because of anger. "And why is that they can't stay?" he demanded
"We are afraid that the inhabitants of Sunagakure would want explanations and since Itachi and Kisame won't tell us why they are criminals we cannot let them stay as they would attract unwanted fights between them and Suna's ninja." responded an elder
Gaara calmed down for a second. "But they will be allowed to come back later if needed?" he asked
"What do you mean?" an elder asked
Jiraiya offered to respond. "You see when Naruto will form his village Itachi and Kisame will become ninja of said village."
The elder's eyes went wide. "He trusts them that much?"
Jiraiya nodded. "After all he knows why they are criminals and he agrees to why they became."
"He agrees?" asked an elder not believing
"Yes he does." growled Gaara "And so do I." there was silence after that "Also do you know that this two helped us in the war with Sound?" he asked
The elders looked at Itachi and Kisame not believing what they just heard.
"I was the one stopping the trebuchets attacks." said Kisame
"I was the one fighting along side Naruto and your ninja." said Itachi
"We where wearing white robes with the design of a fox with nine tails that formed the letters 'F.G'." both ninja's said at the same time
The elders where about to faint when they heard that, he cheered and thanked those ninja and now they find out that said ninja where Itachi and Kisame, criminals. They just couldn't believe it.
"In the future." said Itachi "You will find out why we are criminals."
"When will that happen?" asked an elder
"In two years, after Naruto builds his village." said Kisame
"Until then you won't know…" said Itachi closing his eyes "And don't worry." said opening his eyes again "We will leave tomorrow at noon."
---Outside---
Itachi and Kisame just left the Kazekage tower. They where currently jumping from roof top to roof top to avoid unwanted battles. Kisame looked at Itachi and many thoughts started entering his mind. He opened his mouth to speak.
"Tell me Itachi-san."
Said man glanced at Itachi. "Yes?" he asked unemotionally
"When will I start?" he asked
Itachi sighed. "I already told you Kisame, the plan is like this…" he paused to look around and lowered his voice. "We train with the boy for two years, we arrive in Wave after two years and build the village, after that we put the plan in motion."
Kisame nodded. "What did the Gaki say?"
"Naruto-kun said that when the village is done and he raises the dome we will invade Mist." said Itachi grinning
Kisame smirked. "How will we go? I doubt the gaki wants to wait…"
Itachi nodded. "Me, you, the toad Sannin, Naruto-kun and anyone he thinks is appropriate for the task."
"Oh I can't wait." said Kisame happily "And what are we going to do with the village?"
"Which one?" asked Itachi
"Mist," came the simple response
Itachi smirked "You shall see my companion, you shall see."
Kisame frowned, he wanted to know what they will do to the village, plunder it? Take it for them? He wanted to know.
Kisame then turned to Itachi again and chuckled. "So how was your date?" he asked
Itachi blushed again when he remembered the kiss but made sure to not let Kisame see. "Good."
Kisame frowned. "Only that?" he asked annoyed "Some details if you may…"
"No I may not." responded the Uchiha glaring at the fish man
Kisame rolled his eyes. "Fine…lets just get home and sleep, I'm tired."
---Omake---
Itachi stood there watching the retreating form of Hoshi and blushing. Everyone that was present was watching the Uchiha with their jaws on the floor, some even fainted. Then Kisame appeared and shook Itachi
"Yo Itachi you alright?" he asked
It was then that everyone saw that he was wearing his pajama's which had bunny rabbits on it, white bunny rabbits. Then they heard Itachi talking, just when things couldn't get any worse.
"I think I'm in love." he said, and then all of a sudden he yelled, "I want to have babies with her."
The people around the two criminals started yelling and fainting, and then a ninja took out a cell phone and dialed a number.
"Hell?" came from the other side
"IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD, THE APOCOLIPSE, UCHIHA ITACHI BLUSHED AND SAID HE WANT'S BABIES!!!" he yelled
Everyone started running and screaming 'Kami-sama protect us.' or 'Kami-sama have mercy on us.'
Up in heavens kami sneezed.
"Something wrong?" asked Minato, the fourth Hokage
Kami shook his head. "I think people saw Itachi blushing and Kisame in his pajama's."
"And why is that bad?" asked Sarutobi, the third Hokage
"They think it's the apocalypse…" he told them
"And is it?" asked the Shondaime putting a card on the table thus continuing the poker game
Kami shook his head. "The apocalypse will come only if Orochimaru will start taking ballet lessons."
"Thanks good." said the Nindaime and everyone else nodded.
"Blackjack!" yelled Minato "I win! Again!" and everyone groaned
"Uindo Soshi: Hyouten (Wind Elemental: Freezing Point)." – The air vortex needs to exist before doing the jutsu. Naruto communicates with the air elemental by looking into it's eyes, he then does the required hand seals while the vortex does them mentally, after he calls the name of the jutsu (it is a must to call it) he does another set of hand signs but mentally creating a arm and a hand for the vortex. When the arm and hand are complete the vortex aims his arm towards the target Naruto is looking at and makes the air and water around the target decrees freezing the target.
"Bakuretsu Daija (Exploding serpent)" – Deidara creates a clay anaconda or two. He introduces a lot of explosive material in the serpent and it one snake alone can erase the Hokage tower, two snakes can level the Hokage Mountain. Deidara controls these serpents by holding their tails; before he makes them explode he sends them in the direction he wishes and let's go of their tail and waits a few second to be out of range of the explosion and then makes the serpents explode. The explosion is more powerful at the head of the serpent and weaker at its tail.