Chapter 60 - Itachi?

Chapter 60 - Itachi?

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Arriving at the red light district in Hima, Naruto saw nothing that interested him so he had a bored look, he was not interested in anything other than Haku and more power.

Checking into a hotel, a woman tried to seduce Jiraiya and he immediately took the bait.

"Woah! What a babe!"

Naruto pulled him to reach his ear and whispered "You know that girl is in genjutsu right?"

Jiraiya of course noticed it and smiled and continued his act "Naruto, you go first in the room! I'll spend some time with this babe. It's been a while since I've had some fun!"

Naruto sighed and participated in the act "Alright, alright. Have fun."

"As expected of Naruto, you understand me so well. Gahahaha!" Jiraiya laughed with a perverted grin on his face and approached the lady.

Naruto went to their room, carrying Jiraiya's luggage as well, but he then noticed with his sage senses. "Hm? What the hell is that chakra? That's comparable to a tailed beast! And that chakra beside him, it's similar to Sasuke, but only two Uchiha's have survived… don't tell me… it's Itachi? This is troublesome… According to the reports in Danzo's base, he has awakened mangekyou sharingan and I don't know its abilities… Well… what happens, happens, I guess…" 

As he was saying that he detected another chakra, it wasn't especially strong but he was familiar with it, "Sasuke huh? In this reunion, Itachi would be happy to see his brother all grown up but Sasuke would be filled with hatred."

Knock! Knock!

Naruto couldn't help but chuckle hearing the knock so he opened the door slowly as he said "How polite."

Itachi was surprised, it seemed like Naruto was expecting them, he didn't expect a kid to be so alert.

"So? Are you here to meet your brother or something?" Naruto asked nonchalantly as he saw the guy beside him, he had shark-like features. 

He thought as he saw the tailed beast in human form. 'Hm? I don't think I know this guy.'

Then he spoke and said "Could this be the nine-tailed fox?"

Naruto didn't even wait and punched him in the face with chakra and said with a smirk "Correct!"

Bam! Boom!

And sent him flying to the wall. And mouthed for Itachi to read his mouth and the shark man to not notice 'I know the truth about the clan, Danzo and your current affiliation. Sasuke doesn't know but… he is on the way here.'

Itachi's eyes widened but immediately corrected it. 

Naruto smiled seeing this, Itachi was a great actor as Itachi kicked him in the stomach in retaliation Naruto received the strike with a grab and tried to twist his legs when he knew he couldn't do it without sustaining damage. He teleported to the shark man.

Siu!

"Rasengan!" he shouted with a smile on his face.

Boom!!!!!!!!

He used chakra in his feet to take a distance away from the shark man. The reason why there was a [Flying Thunder God] seal on the wall, Naruto did it while he was on the way to the room. He had an inkling that Jiraiya was using him as bait so he prepared for it in case something happens.

"Ahhhhhh! This brat!" The shark man was surprised, he didn't expect a brat to be so strong as a young kid.

"Woah! You're so tough!" Naruto was really amazed, he took a Rasengan head on and he was only slightly injured.

As he was admiring, the shark man's ability to survive. He suddenly heard a shout from behind "ITACHI!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sasuke yelling with bloodshot eyes filled with hatred. If looks could kill he would have killed Itachi a thousand times.

Naruto sighed and said "Sasuke, calm down."

"Shut up! Don't get in my…"

Naruto didn't even let him finish and slapped him in the face. Boom!

Sending him to the wall as well but wasn't as strong as he did with the shark man "Have you calmed down?"

Sasuke was a bit annoyed but replied "Yeah, thanks."

Itachi's eyes widened, surprised that his brother had created a bond with a friend.

Naruto smiled and replied "No problem. I'll take the other guy away and leave you brothers be."

Sasuke looked at Naruto in gratitude and nodded before looking at Itachi again in hatred but this time more calmly.

"Kekeke! How arrogant saying he'll take me?" the shark man mocked before hearing Naruto talk at close proximity saying "Really? I don't think so?"

"When did he?!" The shark man looked at Naruto in shock. He didn't know how he did it.

 A seal Naruto put on the shark man when he hit him with [Rasengan]. Naruto disappeared along with the shark man.

Sasuke, who had calmed down thanks to the slap from Naruto, asked "Why did you do it?! What's the real reason?! I know you! You wouldn't do that even as a measuring stick for your power!"

Itachi felt slightly emotional seeing his brother has matured enough to think of such possibilities but he couldn't stop the act even for a moment, he will carry the mission details to his grave so he replied "Looking at you now… You lack hatred as I've told you…"

Sasuke gritted his teeth in anger and replied "I definitely hate you for killing our parents and annihilating our clan! I'll show you how much!"

Sasuke activated the stage 1 of the sage seal. surrounding himself with lightning and moving at extreme speed before appearing beside Itachi in a kicking motion.

Itachi noticed it by the corner of his eye and dodged downwards for his palm to reach the floor before kicking Sasuke in the chin sending him flying to the ceiling.

Boom! Crack!

"Gah!" Sasuke groaned in pain but calmed down, he couldn't fight against him with pure ability seeing him react to that. He had to think of a plan. He gritted his teeth to bear the pain and sent lightning from his arms. To Itachi.

Chichichichicchicihcihcih!

Itachi calculated each lightning strike and dodged while slowly approaching Sasuke.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Itachi dodged each and every strike and grabbed Sasuke in the neck, not letting him do anything more. Slamming him to the wall. 

Coughing out blood, he felt helpless 'It still isn't enough?! I should have trained more! I need more chakra! So I can control the natural energy of lightning just like how Naruto controls the natural energy of wind!'

Even with all the training he did, he still wasn't a match for Itachi yet. Itachi said with a look that would anger Sasuke more "Hate me more… Sasuke…"

"How rough… Even towards your own blood brother." Jiraiya teased with a smile on his face as he saw the interaction between brothers.

Itachi looked at Jiraiya and knew it was the perfect time to escape. Also he had to look for Kisame too to whatever place Naruto sent him. His partner "Jiraiya, a legendary sannin."

(A/N: Hm… I should have introduced Kisame and Itachi by doing an extra scene where they walked inside the hotel with Itachi saying 'It's this way, Kisame.' and Kisame replying, 'I know, Itachi. You're treating me like a lost child.' So it would have been more natural to use their names. In any case, I'm too lazy to edit, but I'll do it that way next time. I learned something new.)

Itachi looked at Sasuke with a look that he wanted to kill him and said "Next time, show me more hatred… Sasuke."

Sasuke had a look of disbelief on his face as Itachi let him down from the strangle hold on his neck. That's what his brother always used to say! He knew there was a reason! He had to find out what drove him to kill the entire clan into extinction! "Wait! Itachi!"

Itachi held back the tears in his eyes, it was too late, he couldn't turn back now.

"No you don't!" Jiraiya said as he weaved hand seals and said [Toad Style: Toad Mouth Bind.]

And the surrounding slowly turned into the innards of a huge toad.

Itachi in the neck of time, made it outside before it was completely secluded.

"Tsk! He escaped!" Jiraiya clicked his tongue in disappointment. And approached Sasuke "You okay? Little guy?"

"Arghhhhhhhhhhh! I need more strength!!!!" He yelled with bloodshot eyes, if only he had more strength, Itachi would tell him the reason!

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Naruto, who teleported Kisame outside, was smashed by the huge sword that was bandaged only for him to dodge by jumping backwards.

Naruto commented "You're really tough. I'm gonna use you as my training dummy."

"Kekeke! You're really arrogant, little boy." Kisame laughed in a mocking tone before changing his face into a serious one as Naruto generated from his arms… [Rasenshuriken!]

Whirrrrrrrrrrrr!

"Receive this, shark guy! Hahahaha!" Naruto laughed like a maniac, he wasn't one to pull his punches against enemies.

The Rasenshuriken exploded in front of Kisame as he defended with Samehada, Samehada was absorbing most of it but couldn't completely absorb it all as its area of effect was quite huge and attacked him from all directions..

Krikrikrirkrirkirkrikrikrirkri!

It was as if thousands of needles were being thrown into his body at the same time from all directions.

30 seconds later, the attack stopped and he saw Kisame waving his Samehada with a smile, and his injuries healing at top speed that made Naruto whistle in astonishment. But the weapon moved slightly causing naruto to think 'Is that weapon alive? I saw it absorb chakra but that movement… Was it uncomfortable with sage chakra?

"I guess, I better do this the old fashioned way."

He threw kunais all over the place.

"What's this? Are you giving up?" Kisame taunted not knowing the usage of Naruto throwing kunais all over the place.

"Hardly." Naruto replied before teleporting and using [Body Flicker] to fight. He coated his fist with his chakra mixed with natural energy. His physical attack was also boosted due to sage mode so it had quite large damage.

Kisame wasn't prepared and thought Naruto was just messing around so he took a punch to his right ribs and sent him flying "Gah!" but immediately recovered his position by rotating mid air.

Naruto was there again below him waiting to hit him with a wind chakra blade. He tried to cut off, Kisame's arm who was holding Samehada.

Clang!

"The hell?! So hard! Hahaha!" Naruto had fun dealing with such a durable enemy. But teleported again to a distance to not have disadvantage in the fight.

Kisame commented as he saw Naruto's movements "How bizarre... Is that the 4th Hokage's jutsu, [Flying Thunder God Jutsu] that I've heard about?"

"Correct." Hearing Naruto again in close proximity, and seeing him suddenly appear in front of him about to punch his stomach.

Boom!!

"Gah!" Kisame groaned in pain bearing the pain he felt, he smashed Samehada in Naruto's direction where Naruto took a direct hit on the side of his stomach and it absorbed quite a bit of his chakra causing it to shriek as it directly absorbed Naruto's chakra.

"Ku!" Naruto coughed out a little bit of saliva from the impact but he touched Samehada before being flown away and teleporting to a Kunai.

Siu!

"What's wrong? Samehada?" Kisame asked in confusion.

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(A/N: Hm… Comments about how it was and power stones please. Thanks~)