"Huh... how..."
"Chief!!!"
Sora stared in anguish as Chiriku was struck down by the man in black and red cloud cloak who'd suddenly appeared to take him away.
Such a powerful chief, yet just before the other party attacked, he beca as weak as if his soul had been instantly sucked out, sitting feebly on the ground, and then was severely wounded without any resistance.
Chiriku was the chief of the Fire Temple and also the guardian of the young boy, Sora.
Like Asuma, he'd served among the Twelve Guardian Ninja, possessing at least Jonin-level strength.
But in front of that man, he couldn't even mount a decent attack.
Seeing the chief he lived with day and night severely wounded and fallen, the despair and hatred in Sora's heart could no longer be controlled and surged out.
Imdiately after, that red, ominous chakra covered the young monk's entire body, and along with it, the arm wrapped in bandages swelled and distorted, turning into a monstrous giant claw.
"Go to hell!"
At this mont, the guy who ca with the black-haired man made his move.
"Haha!"
Kisa smashed Sora, who was pouncing towards Itachi, down from mid-air.
Not only that, the Sahada in his hand opened its large mouth and tore off the Nine-Tails' Chakra covering Sora's body, chewing it up greedily.
"Not bad! It's the Nine-Tails' Chakra! This way we can report success too, Itachi-san!"
Pulling the kunai out of Chiriku's chest, Itachi didn't even spare another glance for this forr Guardian Ninja, turning directly to walk out of the temple.
None of the other monks surrounding them dared to step forward and stop him.
"Aya… Itachi-san seems to be in a bad mood, so I shouldn't delay too long either."
A ferocious smile appeared on the fish-like face of Kisa.
Roughly five or six minutes later, Kisa walked out carrying the unconscious Sora and looked towards Itachi, who was sitting in contemplation on a large tree.
"Itachi-san, let's go."
"Yeah."
Itachi didn't pay much attention to Kisa, silently walking ahead.
And Kisa didn't say much either, carrying the substitute Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki, his small bean-like eyes fixed intently on the back of the person in front.
Itachi was sowhat anxious.
Of course, it wasn't because Kisa, the mole, was watching him.
In fact, he had known for a long ti that Kisa served soone higher up in the Akatsuki organization… now clearly that Uchiha Madara.
And Kisa?
He was also aware of Itachi's mole status. In fact, his assignnt to the sa team as Itachi was essentially because Obito wanted to monitor Itachi's movents.
The two of them tacitly cooperated with each other's performances.
But not long ago, this tacit agreent was broken.
Because the organization's current leader, Obito, who had just returned from Orochimaru's base and reunited with Zetsu, sent them a new order.
After collecting the Nine-Tails' Chakra's host hidden in the Fire Temple, they were to imdiately return to another base of the organization.
Sasori and Deidara were even ordered to cancel all missions and return directly.
This sudden change made Itachi feel sowhat uneasy.
His years of experience as a mole told him that the masked man was planning a major move.
But he knew nothing about it.
He also didn't know if it would affect his own arrangents.
With this in mind, a thought appeared in Itachi's mind and grew increasingly stronger.
Silently, the direction of his travel began to deviate slightly.
But this deviation was perfectly concealed under the influence of his Genjutsu.
Until they ran into another group of people, Kisa's ever-smiling face finally began to stiffen.
...
Itachi had considered that there might be quite a few people around Sasuke now.
At least from known information, the Eight-Tails, Five-Tails, and Seven-Tails' Jinchuriki were all in their team.
But he truly never expected so many people to be gathered in one team like this.
So of these people were building cooking fires, so were creating, and of course, so were still being educated, appearing quite harmonious.
"Uchiha Itachi!"
Jiraiya was the first to react, almost imdiately assuming a combat stance.
Imdiately after, Karin, B, Yugito, Roshi, Fu, and Gaara quickly put down what they were doing and prepared for battle.
Having been assembled for so many days, everyone in the team was already quite familiar with the information on the Akatsuki's mbers.
And Sasuke's ears, upon hearing the na Uchiha Itachi, instantly transmitted the signal to his brain.
Almost without any pause, his body beca wrapped in blazing flas, and his legs transford into a digitigrade form.
[Fla Step: Soru]
A line of fire quickly extended from the forest, charging straight towards Itachi, who stood in place.
'His speed has increased.'
Itachi's face showed surprise as he looked at his younger brother, whom he hadn't seen for so ti.
"Itachi!!"
Sasuke let out a roar filled with killing intent, the claws covered in Armant Haki also sheathed in the lightning unique to Chidori.
The speed of this strike was extrely fast, even Kisa behind Itachi was sowhat caught off guard.
'This kid... last ti we t he was pathetically weak, how is he now...'
Coming to his senses, Kisa imdiately realized why they had directly run into Sasuke's current team.
The pairs of eyes looking over from the opposite side were full of pressure.
Apart from Sasuke charging towards Itachi, among the seven pairs of eyes watching, five belonged to Tailed Beast's Jinchuriki.
'-If only we could capture them all, Madara-san would be very happy, right?'
At this mont, Kisa actually had ti for random thoughts.
The reason was simple.
Because he knew he had already fallen into Itachi's trap.
By voluntarily delivering themselves here this ti, his life would most likely end here.
"So decisive, Itachi-san."
Kisa, trembling with excitent, said this while casually throwing the person on his shoulder to the ground, then stared fixedly at the man who walked out last from the forest, holding a little girl.
Uzumaki Naruto!
He had completely not forgotten the feeling of being utterly crushed by Naruto head-on, with absolute power, last ti.
The feeling of having his neck casually twisted and thrown down still appeared in his mind from ti to ti.
"Nobody move. This is Sasuke's fight."
Naruto, who walked out of the forest, slowly said this, making everyone else in the team give up their intention of attacking Itachi.
Seriously-
Itachi almost got to enjoy the treatnt of a combined Tailed Beast Bomb Barrage.
"Sasuke, is it okay?"
After saying this, he directly ignored Kisa, who had already drawn Sahada in front of him, and instead shouted towards Sasuke.
On the other side, Sasuke's lightning claw had already made contact with Itachi.
Zzzzt!!!
The lightning flashed, Itachi's pierced body slowly dissipated around Sasuke's arm, but Sasuke didn't seem surprised at all.
"Leave Uchiha Itachi to ."
He replied to Naruto, then fully transford into his hybrid form, his pair of Mangekyo Sharingan spinning as he looked towards another, empty direction.
"It's ti to repent, Itachi."
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