Chapter 95 : Set Up 2

Itachi and Kisame stood outside the rented room, their eyes cold and focused. They had followed the trail of Naruto and knew he was in this room. Kisame, with his shark-like grin, knocked on the door.

The door opened, revealing Naruto standing there, looking a bit startled. "Who are you guys?" Naruto asked, blinking in confusion. Shika was standing beside him, equally surprised.

Kisame chuckled darkly. "Looks like we've found our target."

Itachi's Sharingan spun, locking onto Naruto. "You're coming with us, Uzumaki Naruto." he said calmly, his voice cold and emotionless.

Before Naruto or Shika could react, Kisame stepped forward, ready to grab Naruto. But the moment his hand was about to reach Naruto, the boy vanished in a puff of smoke.

"A clone?" Kisame growled in irritation. "This brat tricked us."

Itachi's eyes narrowed slightly. "It seems we're not alone, I trap" he muttered, scanning the room.

Suddenly, the figure standing behind Naruto, who they had assumed was another clone, transformed as well—into Jiraiya.

Jiraiya grinned. "Gotta say, kids a Nara alright," he said, his tone lighthearted but dangerous.

Itachi's expression didn't change, but Kisame's smile faltered for a moment. "How did you know what we were planning.?" Kisame asked with a little irritation on his tone.

"It was that other boy, he's a Nara…" Though Kisame didn't understand what Jiraiya meant, Itachi did. The plan was of that Nara boy, but what he didn't understand was how they even found they were trailing them.

"Where is the Nine Tail." Kisame asked, with a not so good looking face now.

Jiraiya shook his head. "Forget about him, I've already sent him far away from this spot. Thought you two would show up sooner or later, so we made some plans of our own."

"WE ?" Itachi catch the words almost immediately. And that was when suddenly a shout came.

"Charge."

It was Shika who suddenly appeared at the far corner of the corridor.

A dark, swirling shadow formed in front of him, and from it emerged an enormous ox with sharp horns—its entire body radiating raw power. Though others didn't see this, they only saw when Ox was ready to charge at them because Shika gave command Ox to attack them.

Kisame, with his trademark grin, glanced at the incoming beast and scoffed. "An ox? You think that's going to stop me?" He swung Samehada, ready to slice through the creature. But as the ox charged forward, Kisame's smirk quickly disappeared.

The ox was moving far faster than he anticipated. Shika especially appeared a little away from them to give Ox a little space to charge up, Its strength was overwhelming. Kisame swung his sword with all his might, but instead of stopping the ox, the sheer force of its charge plowed through him.

"What ?" Kisame cried out seeing the seer force behind that attack.

The ground beneath them cracked as the ox rammed Kisame, sending him crashing through the building's wall. Kisame was launched outside, skidding across the ground, leaving deep trenches in his wake.

Jiraiya's eyes widened in surprise. "What the...?" He hadn't expected Shika to be able to summon a creature of such size and power. "Since when can you do that, kid?"

Itachi, though typically expressionless, raised an eyebrow. His Sharingan studied the ox intently. "A summoning technique... but there was no chakra flare ?"

Kisame, now picking himself up from the rubble outside, wiped the blood from his lip. "What the hell was that?" he shouted, clearly annoyed. But it wasn't done, because the ox also came down after Kisame, this time the Ox was even further away from him, ready to charge at him.

Jiraiya let out a low whistle. "Looks like you've got a few tricks kid …"

"Yeah, a few…" Shika replied with a little smile on his face.

Itachi was the only person left right now, he glanced at both Shika and Jiraiya with a little complicated look on his face.

"I wasn't expecting something like that from a Genin. What's your name ?" Itachi look over to Shika.

'Well, I am not a Genin anymore, I just haven't gotten my Chunin jacket yet as I was taking that zero paying S rank mission from that old man, sigh.' Shika thought with a little disappointment.

Shika was just about to answer when he saw those red eyes staring at him and the next second he was in a totally different place. He saw he was standing in a very dark place with horrible sounds coming from his surroundings. It was a Genjutsu. Shika had learned this enough to know that. He immediately mobilized his chakra and got out, but it was he wasn't fast enough.

Itachi already has thrown few Shuriken towards him, if not for Jiraiya standing near him to push him out of the way, they would have hit him.

But Itachi was expecting that. He was in fact targeting Shika just to lure Jiraiya. He knew that with Jiraiya there, getting out would be hard. Jiraiya might go after him, so he attacks Shika. The next second his Sharingan turns into the form of Mangekyo.

Shika who just come out of his daze saw the Mangekyo and hurriedly clapped his hand to send a jet of water at Itachi who was clearly targeting Jiraiya also saw this, he himself wasn't worried about some Genjutsu but Shika knew.

Itachi only uses Mangeky for three reasons. Susanoo, Amaterasu and Tsukyomi.

Itachi who was about to target Jiraiya had to dodge the powerful water jutsu. He narrows his eyes, can't believe but think that Nara boy somehow knew that he was about to use a powerful attack.

'Fine then…' Itachi internally thought. He wanted to target Jiraiya but that would be hard… so targeting the boy was better. At least his passing out will hold Jiraiya back.

"Tsukyomi," Itachi muttered and then a trail of blood tears drop from his eye. The and next second Shika found himself in a completely different place again.

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