Chapter 63 - Negotiations with Itachi

As Itachi was still surprised by how Ren called him, what followed next was the sound of a click and a flash of light, and following the source, Itachi saw a platypus-like animal standing on his legs, with a fedora hat and a camera in his hands.

Then Itachi threw some shuriken at it, but Ren appeared in front of Peri and with his Zanpakuto deflected all of them, then he says "Nice Peri! This is going straight to the wall of shame, right next to the photo of Naruto and Sasuke kiss"

Then Ren turn to Itachi and says "Brother-in-Law do not worry this is just blackm.....I mean a photo to commemorate our first meeting"

Meanwhile Kisame was still fighting with an illusory tentacle terror while screaming "What the hell is that thing at the tip of the tentacles!?!?"

Itachi choose to buy more time and ask "Who are you? And what do you want?" and Ren answer with "I'm your future brother-in-law, so we can be considered family, and what I want is to change your plan of being killed by Sasuke, so that you can help him grow stronger, and at the same time relieve your guilt about killing your clan"

This time Itachi didn't wait anymore and his Sharigan transformed in its Mangekyo Form and the next instant he used Amaterasu, enveloping Ren in black flames.

But Ren didn't show any reactions to it, and just smiled at Itachi attempt, the his figure shattered in many cherry blossom petals, and then he reformed himself next to the still burning black flames.

"Did you think that only your partner was caught in my illusion, sorry to disappoint you, but I like begin careful" said an amused Ren.

Itachi then thought 'How can he do this? I have the Mangekyo Sharingan and I still can't find any faults in this illusion, and I can't even escape it how is this possible? And how can he know about that?'

Then Ren says "If you want to stop escaping your guilt for begin fooled by Danzo, and you really want to help Sasuke, I have a plan for making it work" but hearing what Ren said he showed a confused expression and asked "What do you mean begin fooled by Danzo, the Uchiha really were about to revolt and that in the end would have caused another war, so I had to choose between my clan and the village and peace, and there was no way that the clan could have won against all the village power, so I struck a deal with Danzo, I'll take the full blame for the Uchiha Massacre, and Sasuke would be safe, that's what happened!"

But Ren counter "That is in part true, the Uchiha wanted to revolt that is absolutely true, but you have to know that is Danzo who pushed them to that point, after all the Uchiha was one of the founding clan of Konoha, they should have an important role in the village, but all they had was the thankless role of Konoha Police Force that estranged them even more from the village..."

But Itachi interrupt him as he remember a little detail "Wait it was the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, who didn't trust the Uchiha and gave them that role to make sure that the clan stays as far away from power as possible"

And Ren continue his speech "That is true, but the Second Hokage didn't hate the Uchiha clan he was just worried of Madara influence over them, and in fact one of his most trusted people is a Uchiha, Uchiha Kagami, a comrade of Sarutobi and Danzo, and tell me do you really believe that of all people, Hiruzen Sarutobi, didn't feel love for a clan of his village and even more so for the family of his comrade? Do you really think that he couldn't make a compromise with the Uchiha, a clan that until that moment was always loyal to the village even if it wasn't treated very well? Then why you, before Hiruzen Sarutobi the Hokage, the one with most power in the village, was able to reach the Uchiha to discuss about it, were called by Danzo to orchestrate the massacre under the promise that your loved little brother would be safe?".

Hearing this series of question caused Itachi to stood rooted on the spot in silence, re-thinking once again at all the series of events, how the clan didn't even want to start negotiation, how his friend Shisui was ambushed and his eye stolen, how he made the choice to turn his back to the clan all to save its pride and his brother, and then says to Ren.

"I already know that Danzo manipulated some events, but he did everything for the good of Konoha...." then Ren "HAHAHAH! really for the good of Konoha? Do you want the list of all the thing he did for the greater good, HIS greater good?"

Then out of nowhere he take out a scroll and says "This is what I found out, while searching for proof of his wrong doing, 1 Danzo leaked the truth about Naruto being the jinchuriki for the Nine-tailed fox, thereby making him partly responsible for Naruto's horrible childhood, 2 He attempted to have Hiruzen, the Third Hokage and his friend, assassinated because he viewed him as too weak for the role, 3 Danzo worked with Orochimaru to conduct experiments by injecting Senju and Uchiha DNA into him and also implanting the Sharingan of deceased Uchiha, even abducting innocent citizens for their experiments, 4 He stole the Sharingan eye from Shisui Uchiha despite his loyalty to the village in order to use it for himself, preventing the Uchiha uprising from potentially being settled peacefully and forcing Shisui to commit suicide out of fear of having his other eye stolen, 5 all Uchiha massacre shit, that started with the Kyubi incident where he told the Uchiha to not interfere, 6 In the end helped Orochimaru attack the village and he didn't even help, and the event ended with Hiruzen death and the village once again weakened, and these are only the thing I found out, until now"

Then Ren didn't gave Itachi time to respond and continued "I still do not understand why, you let him get away with all of this? You are smart, but all your action until now are borderline stupid, Sasuke already left the village and his training with that body snatching snake, and only thanks to Naruto that he wasn't made a missing nin, but but even if he can save himself from Orochimaru, then like you want he will come once again after you, and I think that at that moment you will let yourself be killed by him so that he can awaken his Magenkyo Sharingan, but did you think about what he will do when he found out the truth about you and Danzo? How will he react? Or do you think that your plan is foolproof?"

Then Itachi says "It seem that you know really a lot of things , but you still didn't tell me who are you and what you really want" the Ren's mask shatter in cherry blossom petals and says "As a sign of trust I show myself to you, my name is Haruno Ren, a classmate of Sasuke and brother of the only girl hardheaded enough to keep liking that piece of wood of your brother even after all this, she is training hard to save him from Pedomaru, and what I want is to you join my group, the Baransa, and help make this world a better place, now what I can offer you, is to help you with making Sasuke stronger, without you dying, and heal you of your illness"

Then he looked at Kisame and saw that he noticed that the illusion he was showing was, trying to keep him away from the water, so he threw a scroll to Itachi and said "Now we do not have much time left, think about my proposal, and when you are alone, open the scroll and I'll come..." then Kisame thew himself in the water and Ren in front of Itachi shattered in petals and disappered.

Once out of the water Kisame said "What the hell was that genjutsu? I wasn't able to free myself until I was in the water, and it all felt too real....I'll find out who did that and make him pay, those tentacle were relentlessly trying to grab me and stuff that thing everywhere" said in the Kisame with a shiver.

Meanwhile Itachi was in deep thought about what Ren said but he did keep the scroll that Ren gave him.