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Taking Over

By Hinata

Ch. 1: Cursemark Itachi

A young 20 year old boy screamed in pain as Orochimaru bit hard into his neck. He quickly grasped his neck as Orochimaru let go. He never felt this way. It felt like too much to bear. He couldn't pass out and leave the pain no matter how hard he tried.

"I finally got you Itachi." Orochimaru said happily as the boy kneeled down in pain. He expected him to pass out but it didn't seem to be working. Itachi just stood back up, still cluching his neck.

"Not quite." He shot back, still grunting in pain. The dreaded cursemark started to come out and flow through his whole body. He went to punch Orochimaru. Just as his hard punch was about to hit Orochimaru square in the face, he froze. He couldn't move. His body didn't seem to want to obey his commands.

Orochimaru closed his eyes, waiting for the worst, which never happened. After a while, he opened his eyes to see what was going on. Itachi had his fist frozen right in front of his face. Orochimaru moved aside, just in case the punch went any farther. "Seems like your fate is now Itachi." he stated. "Join me and I will help you train the cursemark."

Itachi just fell to the ground, cluching the mark again. "No!" he grunted. How could he be over powered by Orochimaru? He had to find out why he just froze. Now, when he tried to stand up, it felt like his whole body was frozen.

"Then," Orochimaru replied, pulling a sword out of his mouth. "Die!" He brought his sword down to where it was about to stab Itachi, when another sword went and blocked it. It was a fatter sword, wrapped in bandages.

"Leave Itachi-san alone." Kisame said as he blocked the sword from stabbing into his friend, Itachi finally passing out. Orochimaru brought his sword back by his side and turned to find that he was facing the rest of Akatsuki.

"What are all you doing here?" he asked staring at them all, but was surprised that the leader wasn't with them. "Wheres the leader?"

"We're here to retreive Itachi." Deidara replied, not wanting to be rude to ignore Orochimaru's questions. "And the leader couldn't make it, he's kind of busy right now."

While Deidara answered his questions, Kisame, picked Itachi up and disappeared. Deidara, Tobi, and Zetsu followed. (Note: This is after Sasori, Kakuzu, and Hidan died.)

Orochimaru just stood in his hide out, and was angered by his stupidity to let his guard down. Just then Sasuke walked in.

"What was all that noise Orochimaru-sama?" he asked, looking at all the damage of the room.

"Nothing." Orochimaru lied. "You should get your rest. You have to train first thing in the morning." Without another word, Sasuke left towords his room. Orochimaru couldn't tell him that Itachi was there, Sasuke would just go crazy and try to find him. He wanted Itachi's body because he knew Sasuke would never master Mangekyo Sharingan. He was too soft to kill his closest friend.

Itachi woke up to find that he was in Akatsuki again. He tried to stand but something shocked his whole body, which made him fall down. The pain in his neck was still there.

"You have to rest Itachi." the leader said standing in the shadowed corner. "The reason why you froze is because your already too strong to even need the curse mark. When you try that power gets crowded inside you and you get parallyzed. Its best not to fight until we get it sealed."

"Who knows how to seal here?" Itachi asked, trying to stand up again but failed and fell again.

"Well," the leader replied. "I do, but i can't until you either sleep or get knocked out because you mustn't see my true form."

"Well, do it tonight." Itachi said. "I have to fight." Then, with out saying another word, Itachi crawled back up to his bed and fell asleep.

When he woke, his neck felt much better. He stood right up and snuck out for early training. As he walked out, little did he know, he was being watched by Kabuto.

He desided to train on his sharingan today. As the sharingan started to show in his eyes, he felt the pain and it stopped, while he fell down, clenching his neck. He stood up and tried the sharingan two more times, just to find that he got the same result.

"If you keep on doing that, you'll break the seal." Kabuto said from up in a tree. He jumped down from the tree and landed right by Itachi.

"What are you doing here?" Itachi asked, rather rudely.

"Me?" he questioned back. "Well, why can't I be here. Our hideout is right over there." He pointed to a tunnel, right by Akatsuki Headquarters.

Itachi just ignored what Kabuto said and tried his sharingan again, but this time he felt worse pain. The curse started to fill his face. Kabuto, seeing this, just ran off towards his hideout, fearing for what might come next. Itachi just fell over, unconcious.

He woke up again in Akatsuki but this time Tobi was there. "Don't worry, leader sealed it again." Tobi said as Itachi opened his eyes. Itachi sat up, feeling his neck.

"Its time I have a little talk with Orochimaru." Itachi said as he stood up. With that being said, he left off towards Orochimaru's layer.

As he walked down the cold, hard steps of Orochimaru's tunnel, he heard voices. He stopped where he was, and hid in the shadows, straining his ears to hear what they were saying.

"How did you do on the spying Kabuto?" Orochimaru asked. "Was the cursemark any worse?"

"No." Kabuto replied. "The leader must have sealed it. Itachi broke the seal by trying to do the sharingan too much."

"You had the chance to capture him!" Orochimaru yelled. Then, he calmed down and a smile formed on his lips. "It seems like we have a visiter Kabuto. Go get him."

Kabuto grabbed the nearest sword and walked out of the room. A few moments later Orochimaru heard a scream and the sound of someone stabbing the other. He walked out to find Kabuto, dead on the ground and Itachi standing there, holding the blood covered sword.

"Your next Orochimaru-sama." Itachi said looking at the old and confused man. He came after Orochimaru, intending to stab him in the stomach. Before he did, Orochimaru did a bunch of hand signs and held onto the sword as it killed him. A green chakra went from him, across the blade, and into Itachi's hand that weilded the blade.

As Orochimaru fell to the ground, dead, Itachi's curse mark jolted in pain, causing him to go unconcious. He woke in his room, no one there that time. He got up and walked up to his mirror, to find the same face but with snake eyes and was as pale as Orochimaru. He rubbed his eyes, then looked back into the mirror to find that it was the face that looked like Orochimaru. "I must be running a fever." he thought.

"Not quite Itachi." said a familiar voice inside his head. It was the voice of Orochimaru.