A Crow and a Shark

Ishizu POV

Some hours passed after Naruto fell asleep. I had to hide my chakra as I knew they would come. Naruto woke up when someone knocked on the door. As he reached for the doorknob, I held Naruto's hand.

"Wait for a second Naruto."

I positioned myself so I could hit the door with full force. My foot made the door fly away and I heard a painful scream coming from the other side.

I smiled as I saw the stoic face of Itachi Uchiha: "Hello gentleman. I am sorry, but we have closed. Please leave and never come back."

Itachi didn't speak, but I had to dodge a mad shark, swinging his big sword at me. "I don't care if we have to take the kid alive, but I will kill this guy," screamed Kisame. Itachi put his hand on Kisame's shoulders. "We have a mission. Get the Jinchūriki, I will stall him." I looked at Naruto.

"I hope you are ready to defend yourself against two S-rank Shinobi, Naruto."

General POV

Although Ishizu had a calm expression, he was very nervous. He couldn't use his full power as showing his Rinnegan to both of them could lead to a confrontation with Pain, Obito or Zetsu. He needed time to accustom to his strength so now he had to fight Itachi without looking at the Uchiha in the eyes as he didn't want to end up like Kakashi.

Naruto made his Rasengan and charged at Kisame but his OP sword just absorbed the chakra and flung Naruto back. Turning to Naruto was a mistake as I had to block a kunai aiming for my neck. "Ishizu Sasaki, you should give up. Even if you are an S-rank Shinobi, you have no chance against the Akatsuki. Surrender and hand over the Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails," said Itachi.

Ishizu couldn't respond as he saw Sasuke seeing Itachi. 'Dammit. Not only can't I fight Itachi, but now I have to put the young Uchiha out or Itachi will torture him.'

"I have finally found you. Itachi, I will show you what I got stronger." Sasuke activates his Sharingan. Anger filled his eyes but less hatred. With this Chidori, he charged at Itachi. Unfortunately, Itachi got hold of his arm, broke it, and slammed his brother against the wall.

Ishizu grew angry: "You are going to pay for this, Itachi."

"Futon: Rasengan."

Sasuke was his student and nobody would hurt him, not even his own brother. Itachi had to dodge the dangerous wind attack and left Sasuke on the ground coughing. Ishizu glared back at the other Uchiha.

The area was not good to go all out. Ishizu was glad that the older brother couldn't put Sasuke in the Tsukuyomi.

'Sorry, Itachi, but I don't want you to destroy my work so stay away from him,' thought Ishizu as he knocked Sasuke out so he would not interrupt.

Seeing that Jiraiya was not here and Naruto couldn no longer dodge Kisame, Ishizu decided. Teamwork was something that Konoha taught him. And if there were no allies around, then he would get them.

Ishizu POV.

"Summoning Jutsu."

I looked where Naruto was and shouted to the summon. "Go and help Naruto. This one is mine."

Out of the smoke, the Panda flashed towards Kisame and hit him in the side, making the shark fly away.

"Bastards, I will kill you! No one hits me like that and lives," screamed Kisame as he swung his sword against the Panda, but to the sharks' surprise, the Panda dislocated Kisame's hand very quickly as if he was a child and took his sword with incredible speed.

"What a good sword you are. Your name is Samehada? Unfortunately, I am not a sword wielder," the panda smiled at the sword in his paw which purred like a cat.

I looked at the Panda. "Master Tau? Can we please end this?"

Tau nodded before looking at the sword. "You want to go back to your master? Sure here you go," Tau threw Samehada to Kisame with such force that Kisame flew a few meters.

Itachi saw that they were outnumbered and his Genjutsu was dispelled so Jiraiya was coming.

"Kisame we are leaving. They outnumber us."

Kisame agreed reluctantly feeling that the strength of the panda was no joke.

Jiraiya came and tried to stop them, but Itachi used his Amaterasu to escape. Gai came in and drop-kicked Jiraiya in the face.

Sometimes I really enjoy the small things in this world.

After that, Gai took Sasuke back to Konoha and we continued the travel. I searched for a moment where nobody was looking and summoned a Shadow Clone to follow the two S-ranks.

Clone's POV

After 20 minutes of traveling, Itachi and Kisame saw me. "So you finally found me, Itachi, Kisame." Itachi's face showed no emotion, but Kisame was ready to fight. "I am a Shadow Clone so you will get nothing from killing me, Kisame," I explained to the shark, feeling his blood lust oozing out of his blue skin.

"What do you want?" asked Kisame.

I smirked: "I am here so you can listen to me what I have to say. Your both work for Akatsuki, but do you even know the goal of it?"

I looked at Kisame. "You believe that Madara told you the truth? That he can achieve true peace with no lies? Did you ever question the idea of how he would make a world so different from the one right now? Pain wants to use the Tailed Beast as weapons so everyone can fear only him. Through fear the nations would unite together to opposer him. A noble cause but Madara's idea is different."

Kisame interrupted: "Listen, buddy, I don't care how you know things but come to the point."

My face got serious: "Madara Uchiha is dead. The one you know is only his puppet, a fake, that he uses after his death to fulfill his mission. Now I come to the whole plan of fake Madara.

Both of you imagine a world covered in a massive Genjutsu. Would you like to live in it?" Kisame laughed: "No, too boring. There would be no meaning in living altogether... Wait you mean..."

I nod: "And that is what Madara wants to achieve."

Itachi's eyes widened, realizing what I talked about: "The Infinite Tsukuyomi."

Kisame looked at his partner. "The what?"

"It is believed that the Infinite Tsukuyomi is a powerful Genjutsu where the user projects his very eye on the moon to bring peace to the world. I could only see part of what was on the stone stable in the Uchiha shrine with my Mangekyō Sharingan. You mean the fake Madara wants to use it?" Itachi looked at me.

I smiled: "If only it was so easy. The Jutsu itself brings no peace but a false peace. It will trap you in a Genjutsu for the rest of your life. You will live peacefully but your whole life will be a big lie."

'I don't think I should tell them the whole truth about Kaguya.'

"This is bullshit. Who would want that?" raged Kisame.

I shrugged: "Madara, probably. He wants to rule the world. Using the Infinite Tsukuyomi he would put everyone under the Genjutsu where you could live your life as best as you think," I explained.

"Now I think that is enough for a chat. I should warn you to not tell your leaders about the information I gave. It would cost you your life. The fake is not weak and is a strong Uchiha as well. I just wanted to tell you that, when you are going to start collecting the Tailed Beast, a friend of mine will come. You should watch out because he will show you that he can mess with the Akatsuki. Don't interrupt him in his mission. I can guarantee your lives if you let him be."

I turned to Kisame: "If you want to see a world filled with no lies then I can guarantee you that that is impossible without killing everyone, but it is possible to lessen the corruption of the nations. Think about it and the next time we meet, tell me your answer."

I turned to Itachi. "I dislike it very much how you use your young brother like that for revenge. I will not tolerate it even if he is your brother. Sasuke is not a puppet, so I will cut the strings you have on him. You can have your little reunion after he gets stronger. I won't tell him the truth, but if I see you meddle with me further, I won't hesitate."

Seeing my expression Itachi sighed: "You are truly a dangerous person. You have my word that I won't tell anyone about you but if you harm Sasuke..."

The last sentence was filled with killing intent. Ishizu nodded accepting the deal and both departed. The clone popped and the real Ishizu smiled. 'Good, now those two will not be a problem. Let's continue with the gambling addict and the paralyzed Snake.'

"Ishizu-sensei you have that creepy face again," said Naruto. Ishizu looked at Naruto: "Says the kid that smiles like a fox."