Saito VS Itachi

Saito woke up early at around 4 AM in preparation for his spar with Itachi. He was unusually calm.

"I'll try to last a few minutes against him. This fight will be strictly taijutsu, so I'll have a chance to learn even more moves. Sasuke's [Uchiha style taijutsu] is not mastered. Even though I've tried, I still haven't made it reach the level I need. Fighting Itachi will help me out a lot. When all this is over with, I'll have to try accessing chakra. Sasuke will have his awakened soon, and l don't want to be left behind. Chakra might even help me make sense of my slow perception"

He didn't have much of an idea about how to do it. All he remembered was that a Shinobi can forcibly awaken it by passing chakra into a person, but he had no idea how to do it himself.

"guess I'll have to try my best through trial and error"

With that being said, Saito started stretching his body. He needed to be flexible in the future so he could dodge attacks in awkward positions. His perception would be useless if he couldn't avoid or counter an attack. He did pushups, situps, and squats. After that, Saito took a bath. When he got out, he looked at himself in the mirror.

He still sometimes felt like all of this was a dream or some sort of fragment of his imagination created by his brain. What if he really was in some sort of coma, or maybe it was his mind making stuff up before his eventual death?

Worry appeared on his face even his deep grey eyes couldn't hide the feeling of fear he was experiencing. Sweat ran down his face, mixing in with the water from his bath.Saito started breathing hard, but it was as if oxygen couldn't enter his lungs.

He fell down on the floor, hugging his knees, still trying to breathe.

'NO!!!' He screamed internally 'stop thinking like this. Everything is real, and why would I be experiencing this as a Naruto character? I had no deep connection to the Naruto anime l only watched it to pass the time so this would make no sense'

Saito started calming a bit as his breathing went down a little. "damnit" he whispered to himself. "I'll have to stop being so weak if I hope to survive in this place. I need to just focus on where I am now and not on the insignificant details of how I got here."

He stood up and began getting ready to meet up with Itachi. His outfit for the day was a loose fitting grey t-shirt and black sweatpants. Saito practiced his attacks before it was time to leave. He left his parents a note on the table saying he was going to play with his friends.

Saito arrived at Itachi's house in a few minutes. He stood in front of the door for a little. As he was about to knock, he heard a voice come from behind him.

"good morning Saito, are you ready?"

Saito jumped in surprise. He hadn't noticed him at all. Itachi was wearing his casual clothes and had a small smile on his face.

"oh..uh good morning, yes I'm ready," Saito said, trying his best to regain his composure. Itachi noticing this apologized "sorry for surprising you like that."

"it's ok anyway, where do we go?"

"I'll take you to where I train. Follow me"

Saito followed Itachi for a few minutes until they reached the Uchiha training grounds. Itachi went deeper into the forest where they reached an area that had a lot of targets all located on trees. Saito recognized this place from the anime. This is where Itachi would do his target practice.

"alright Saito, I have an hour left before I have to do something. You can spar as many times as you want and I'll help you fix mistakes in your attacks."

"ok let's start now!!"

Saito immediately threw a punch that Itachi effortlessly evaded by stepping back, Saito kicked at Itachi's stomach, he grabbed Saito's leg, but as he was about to throw him back Saito whose leg was still captured jumped and kicked with his other leg Itachi seeing this released his clutch to dodge a kick to his face but Saito spun twice in the air, he eventually rolled over on the ground and used his legs to try to trip him.

Itachi countered by lightly kicking away his feet. Saito got up and moved away to give himself space.

'I'm already sweating. My perception isn't helping in this situation at all. If I pause, I'll be attacked. I have no choice but to keep moving. I'm in a pickle.'

Saito no longer had an advantage in this fight

He and Itachi were still standing still. Saito was racking his brain for a solution, yet he couldn't find one at all.

'lets get this over with. I have no chance against him.'

Saito kept attacking, but he wasn't doing anything to Itachi, who at this point was only using one hand.

An hour eventually passed. Saito was beyond tired and couldn't fight anymore. He never managed to even tap him. This must've been how Sasuke felt during every fight.

Itachi didn't look any different from the prior hour. "You're very talented. I couldn't comment on your tactics since they were used in the correct situation. just get a little older and I bet you'll be beating me in no time." Itachi said with a smile.

Saito, out of breath, responded, "thank you for your words I-" he was interrupted as Itachi disappeared in a poof.

"what no waYYY!!!"

He couldn't believe it. He was struggling this hard against a clone. Saito was really this weak.

"Just wait. I'll defeat you myself Itachi" Saito vowed to become strong enough to fight him by the time he becomes 12 ' I need a way to use slow perception in a proper fight, the only thing I can do now is awaken my chakra'...

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Yeah, Saito sadly stands no chance against Itachi. The chapter was rushed, so please leave any criticism. Thanks for reading.