#Itachi Pursuit Mission

[everykabuto]

How do I get to the beginning? You have so many posts. Are there no links?

I'm not sure how to link to tags right now but I think I'll try to make a pinned masterpost some time in the next few days, because you're right, I do have a lot of posts now

In the meantime, I'll tag this post with every arc I can remember so you can at least search by arc instead

[hellbubu]

IDK what I was on when I wrote that, but I was right

"You say you're gonna take down Itachi? In this state you can't even move" "You're in no condition to boss anyone around." I love Karin.

Also, Juugo is so gentle with Sasuke.

I can't say shit because I'd probably do the same.

I hate that the manga doesn't have the scene of Juugo tucking Sasuke. Or the scene of Karin and Suigetsu talking. Or Suigetsu saying that they can all [except Juugo] leave whenever they want and then says but and looks at Sasuke.

The anime makes this scene look quite bad. From the first question I can kinda guess what she wants to do.

You start the whole "he's like a brother" bs when all Itachi wanted to say was that you should use protection when you fuck Sasuke

I wonder who Naruto's parent could be?

They finally mention the queen. They've been hinting at Minato being Naruto's father for a while but never mentioned Kushina.

[hyugahell]

Going back to the databooks-

WHAT WAS THE A RANK MISSION HINATA????

Also woww more c ranks then d ranks, Kurenai Sensei must have a high opinion of you guys :00

Hinata: Oh, I-I think the amount of C-rank missions we've done has been of Kiba and his persistence, hehe. Kiba was very insistent on not being stuck doing "boring" missions, and Shino was silently in agreement with him. Although, yes, I also think Kurenai-sensei had a lot of confidence in our abilities and was willing to push us if it meant we would grow stronger together!

Hinata: N-now, the A- rank mission? Uhhh, well I think that was...

[suikung]

Hiiii darling!! If you dont mind can I ask for yandere itachi hcs? nsfw and sfw

Yan Itachi HCs

Itachi cared for those closet to him, the ones he considered to be his best of friends. And just like Shishi, you happened to be one of them. However unlike him, you weren’t an Uchiha, making a friendship between the both of you challenging. No matter what, you both made it work. Itachi would send a crow to circle your home and you knew this a meant you both could meet in the near by forest to be together. Your family owned a sweets shop, so you would bring a few to share, Itachi surely loved his dango. This time between the both of you allowed Itachi to truly be himself, not an Uchiha, nor an Anbu, just Itachi. He savored these moments, your presence, being able to talk freely without acting as one side. However, it would all come crashing down with the Uchiha massacre. He fled the village, leaving you spiraling with millions of questions.

It had been years at this point since the massacre, Itachi’s younger brother had left the village in pursuit of revenge. But you? You had taken over your parents sweet shop, doing nothing with your life. At times you remember Itachi, remembering your shared rendezvouses, a small pain in your heart.

Until one night, as you were closing up, the bell above the shop door rang. Back turned towards the door you couldn’t see who had entered. “I’m sorry but we we’re closed for the day. We open at 12pm tomorrow so please come back soon.” Silence followed, perhaps they had left, but no, the bell didn’t indicate the door was opened again. Slowly you turned, perhaps they hadn’t heard you. But what greeted you were those onyx eyes, the ones you had longed to see once more. You dropped the box you held, frozen in place. It couldn’t be him, it had been years why would he come back. Finally you blinked, not realizing your eyed were wide open. “Itachi… is that really you.” It all happened so quickly, one second he was infront of you again and the next his mangekyo sharingan shone bright in the night light.

By the time you woke up, you were laying in a bed, surrounded by white sheets. Silence was the only thing around you. Slowly you lifted from your position to an upright one, feet touching the hard wood floor. A creak came from the door. Head snapping in that direction, heart pounding, you didn’t know what to do. However all fear disappeared when Itachi entered the room.

SFW

He is a constantly seeking your touch and especially your validation, old habits die hard. After so many years away from you he is dedicated to recovering lost time. Of course being part of the Akatsuki doesn’t allow him to spend every waking moment with you, but he will find a way. After abducting recovering you from the village he settles you both into a cozy cabin in the middle of no where. Itachi is not someone who will confine you to only the inside of your home but he will grant you some freedom to stroll the forest around your cabin. His favorite past time is cooking for you, he enjoys seeing the smile his food brings you. You could call this his love language since he is not a very vocal person.

Itachi knows his feelings aren’t normal so he keeps a crow on you to ensure you’re always safe and never try to escape from him. Particularly after a long mission he enjoys sitting between your legs , having you brush his long hair. You’ve always been someone to calm him and this act just completely relaxes him. He loves when you braid his hair and allow him to do the rest to yours. Even if it’s not long enough to braid, he will just brush it. Of course, how could you forget about his love for sweets. He loves when you make him something sweet, it all feels like real love and as if he didn’t bring you here against your will.

However just because he is sweet with you, doesn’t mean he will be sweet to those around him. One of the first and only times he brought you to the Akatsuki hideout he felt immediately Hidan’s eyes upon you. That whole day, Hidan spent his time trying to get closer to you, throwing suggestive remarks your way. Of course at first Itachi could ignore him, his hand throughout the day grabbing tighter and tighter at your waist. Until finally, he snapped. His eyes piercing right through Hidan’s soul. Let’s just say Hidan had to get a couple body parts reattached that day.

NSFW

A man who prioritizes your pleasure above his own. He can spend hours lapping at your clit, just feeling you squirm under him. He truly looks like a starved man the way he eats you out. Even so, he loves to tease you, he loves to see you begging for him. The woman he took by force wanting his cock so bad. It gets him so hard. However that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like you taking control at times. He loves to leave himself at your mercy, allowing you to do with him as you please. In these moments he’s nothing more than a toy for you, the woman he would kill for. No matter what, he’s an Uchiha by blood and this causes him to have a breeding kink. Multiple rounds, one after another, all of them ending inside of you. Even after pumping into you multiple times he will use his fingers to push his seed back into you to ensure you take him all.

He can go multiple times a day, as said before he wants to recuperate lost time and this means bending you any where and everywhere in your shared cabin. However, he prefers missionary in the privacy of your rooms. He adores looking at your face while you take his cock. His sharingan activating throughout it all, engraving your face of pleasure to his memory. He’s not much for making noise but he will let out terms of endearment once in a while. Sex with Itachi is truly a wonderful experience, putting you above himself he almost makes you forget your captivity.

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A/n i felt it necessary to add back story to this hc to have a back ground to build itachis actions on. I hope you like it and thank you for being my first request anon❤️

[venerawrites]

Hii! I was wondering if you could write some headcannons about how Itachi came to the realization that he fell in love with the S/O, who is also a member of the Akatsuki? Thank you!

author's note: oh, I've been waiting for someone to request something about an Akatsuki s/o! It was quite interesting to imagine Itachi with such partner! I really hope you enjoy and thank you so much for requesting! x

It is hard to imagine Itachi falling for someone from Akatsuki - mainly because he joined the organisation as a way to keep tabs of its members.

In order for this to happen, I imagine his s/o was already a part of the group when he joined.

For a very long time, probably a year or so, he didn't interact with his s/o at all, so he didn't had any opinion or thoughts on them. It was when they started to be paired for missions, he got to know them.

Just like him, his s/o probably has joined because it was the only way to protect someone close to them. In my head, I see them as an older sibling, who in pursuit to find/protect their younger one, had taken the role of a 'villain'.

With that being said, it would take a long time for both his s/o and Itachi to fully relax in their company. I feel they would both be suspicious of each other in the beginning, but deep inside they would know there is something making them different from the rest of the Akatsuki members.

It would take an accidental meeting with either Sasuke or his s/o's younger sibling, for one of them to crack and share more about their past. This is when they would really become closer and start seeing each other more as friends, rather than teammates.

A very slow friends-to-lovers romance.

Itachi would gradually become closer with his s/o and get more protective of them with time, but in his mind that was completely justifiable. He had lost so much, he just didn't want for another person close to him to get hurt.

Kisame would be the first noticing that the way Itachi behaved with his s/o was very different compared to how he treated everyone else in the organisation, including him. Every time when he tried to confront his teammate, however, he would receive either a quick denial or just silence.

The Uchiha man is very smart and deep down he already knew he started to harbour feelings for his s/o, but he would have hard time accepting it. He would try to run away from them and push them to the back of his mind, successfully lying to himself for a while that there was nothing unusual between him and them.

I imagine it would take something major such as his s/o being almost killed, for him to fully embrace his love for them. That doesn't mean he will tell them tho.

In order to protect them, he would keep it all within himself. The only way for something to happen between his s/o and him is if they are the one who admit their feelings first and if they keep pursuing him.

It is very hard for a relationship to blossom inside of an organisation like Akatsuki, so they probably would never really get "together" properly. That, however, doesn't stop them from finding themselves in a situationship on the border of being friends and being lovers.

cc artwork: "Arcane" concept art

[void-tiger]

An Idea that is also admittedly OOC but wdyd is…

Kakashi actually tracking down Itachi immediately after the Uchiha Genocide ‘cause let’s face it, he’s that good of a tracker/shinobi (even if Itachi can completely kick his ass) and single-minded when in mission-mode and was clearly not one of the ANBU/Root or S-Rank jonin enlisted for this. (If he’s going rogue instead of bending the rules for a half-hearted sanctioned pursuit? Call it his Obito&Rin Guilt Complex + remaining guilt over not keeping a better eye on his “junior” when Minato literally dragged Kakashi out of that life for a time so he could recover a bit mentally.)

Anyway. Kakashi catches up to Itachi.

But instead of finding the tween prodigy hypervigilent in bloodlust and ready to engage him in a battle, he accidentally finds the kid mid-breakdown absolutely losing it in grief and guilt once Itachi presumed he was a good distance away from any Konoha or Atasuki pursuers.

And well. This is awkward. And not at all what Kakashi expected.

Does this finally knock Kakashi a bit out of his avoidant apathy to take a more active interest in Sasuke’s and Naruto’s lives? Maybe? But well, it’s a start. Only trash abandon their comrades.

[7smiles]

SasuNaru rant bc its pridemonth

dudebros watched Naruto entirely with their eyes closed because how do you look at this series and not think Naruto and Sasuke are cosmically intertwined in both heart and soul.

But besides that im going to yap and break down some lyrics used in the show that literally back up how they feel for each other.

This is from the opening "Diver," in Naruto Shippuden. The lyrics are so obviously from Sasuke's perspective. Not only does the imagery show how Sasuke is continuously sinking and full of sorrow, it shows Naruto reaching out to him- chasing after him like he's done this entire series. He is the light shining on Naruto ITS LITERALLY WRITTEN HERE

Theres also Naruto Shippuden ending 6, "Broken Youth"

The lyrics talk about someone referring to ANOTHER MAN, in which the speaker refers to the subject as a simple person with a strong will to fight. After that, he questions what has changed with the subject as time has passed. I'll cut to the chase, the ending credits literally have a scene where Sasuke and Naruto are staring at each other when the lyrics "Please kiss me, Please Kiss me all night"

Another opening I'd like to mention is "Namikaze Satellite."

Like come on do i really have to spell out how this song talks about how despite their distance, the wind will always connect them??? It also talks about how theyre constantly separating, and personally i think this comes from Naruto's perspective because ITS SO positive despite their turmoil and distance. The part where it talks about being thrown to the side is so reminiscent of how Naruto lacked permanence before Team 7. That impermanence is reflected in Sasuke leaving 😔

"Seishun Kyousoukyoku" is another prime example of original Naruto openings painting a picture of how important Sasuke and Naruto are to one another. Naruto is the only person Sasuke can be emotionally vulnerable with and even as the days, weeks, years pass for them, they will always be able to pick up where they left off. Their bond has always been so wildly important to the other that its like nothing has changed.

We see Sasuke and Naruto change throughout the series, sure, but their relationship has stayed the same. It transcends the bounds of friendship or even brotherhood; Sasuke and Naruto are always in competition with each other, but more than anything they want a relationship unaffected by the binds of their fates. Sasuke's feelings about Naruto, romantic or not, are a driving force in his pursuit for power- its literally Itachi all over again.

Theres that scene during the Valley of Death arc where Sasuke tombstones Naruto, a surely fatal blow. Sasuke is convinced Naruto is dead because he's literally floating face down in the river and SASUKE IS DISTRAUGHT. The absolute look of sorrow on his face simply says it all

"My body just moved on it's own" is one of my favorite SasuNaru lines ever ITS SO PRECIOUS. This was their first major mission together, their friendship yet to be anything remotely friendly, and Sasuke was already protecting him, blaming muscle memory or something to avoid his apparent embarrassment. As much pride as he has, he has always felt positive towards Naruto, even if it manifested as jealousy sometimes.

Theres another scene in the manga where Sasuke recounts feeling "warm and fuzzy" at watching Naruto try to make friends, but he says it made him feel like he had a form of weakness. ARE YOU HEARING THIS!!! They are literally each other's greatest weakness and they have lived and died for each other over and over.

SasuNaru is real. Happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[aifanfictions]

Write a story about (y/n), who is a ninja on the run and she runs into Itachi Uchiha, who sees potential in her skills so he takes her to the Akatsuki meeting to introduce her and suggest recruiting her. After she is aproved and recruited, she becomes Itachi's and Kisame's teammate and Itachi slowly starts falling in love with her.

Shadows of Fate

In the clandestine world of shinobi, where chaos and deception ruled, (Y/N) was a ninja on the run—a phantom whose name sent shivers down the spines of those who dared cross her path. Her past was veiled in secrecy, and her skills were unmatched, making her a formidable force on her own. Little did she know that her journey would take an unpredictable turn when she crossed paths with none other than Itachi Uchiha, a member of the notorious Akatsuki.

The fateful meeting occurred in the heart of a forest shrouded in eerie mist. As (Y/N) sprinted through the dense underbrush, the whispers of her mysterious pursuers haunted her every step. The forest seemed to close in on her, leaving her with a creeping sensation that she was being watched. Her instincts were on high alert.

Just when the pursuit seemed endless, a figure emerged from the shadows—an enigmatic figure known as Itachi Uchiha. His Sharingan eyes bore into (Y/N), and an unspoken understanding passed between them. In this silent exchange, Itachi saw not just a talented ninja on the run but an opportunity—an unpredictable and exciting twist in the web of destiny.

Itachi was known for his legendary prowess, and as an Akatsuki member, he was no stranger to the unconventional. Without revealing his true intentions, he offered (Y/N) an alliance, a chance to prove her worth. His words were cryptic, and the air was thick with tension, but (Y/N) sensed that this was a path she couldn't ignore.

Transported to the hidden Akatsuki lair, (Y/N) was thrust into the midst of chaos and unpredictability. The Akatsuki members, each shrouded in their unique mysteries and ambitions, welcomed her with varying degrees of skepticism and curiosity. Her skills were put to the test, and after a series of trials, the members unanimously approved her induction.

Her role in the Akatsuki was unlike anything she could have imagined. Itachi, known for his stoic demeanor, and Kisame Hoshigaki, a towering figure with shark-like features, became her teammates. The dynamic between them was nothing short of madcap and unpredictable. Kisame's boisterous nature clashed with Itachi's enigmatic aura, and (Y/N) found herself caught in the middle.

In the midst of daring missions, epic battles, and unforeseeable betrayals, (Y/N) spent more time alongside Itachi. They trained together, shared secrets, and, amidst the chaos, discovered an unlikely bond that neither had expected. Itachi's layers slowly peeled away, revealing an emotional depth and a past fraught with secrets.

Itachi, a man of contradictions, found himself drawn to (Y/N) in ways he couldn't explain. Her resilience, her unwavering spirit, and her ability to adapt to the unpredictable world of the Akatsuki fascinated him. Their shared moments grew precious, and as they navigated the tumultuous life of rogue shinobi, their connection deepened.

The Akatsuki was not just a group of criminals; it was a tapestry of complex individuals, each bearing their own scars and secrets. And amidst this chaotic tapestry, the love story of Itachi and (Y/N) blossomed in the most unexpected of places.

Their love defied the unpredictability of their world—a world of treachery and unforeseen challenges. Itachi, burdened by his past and loyalty to the Akatsuki, found solace in (Y/N)'s presence. Their love was a force of nature, wild and unpredictable, and together, they rewrote the rules of their world.

As they continued their journey through the unpredictable realm of the Akatsuki, Itachi and (Y/N) showed that love could flourish even in the midst of chaos, secrecy, and danger. Theirs was a love story destined to be written in the annals of the shinobi world, an epic tale of unpredictability, passion, and enduring affection.

In the heart of chaos and danger, where shadows played tricks and the future was uncertain, Itachi and (Y/N) found love, their love—an unpredictable force that defied all odds, a love that rewrote their destinies. As they embarked on new adventures, their love story was a testament to the power of the human heart to find solace and affection even in the darkest of circumstances.

NOTE! This story was generated by OpenAI

[kyuusou]

Izumi

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

OC Asks: Not-So-Nice-Edition

Bound: Yes, when Izumi left the village in pursuit of Itachi and Sasuke, a special unit was formed within the ANBU to capture her and bring her back. They succeeded in capturing her, but their mission eventually failed when their leader, Zanka Haruno, decided to help Izumi in her pursuit instead. 

Secret: Izumi doesn’t have any big secrets that she doesn’t want to share with anyone. Sure. She has some secrets that only a select few know, but doesn’t anyone? 

Desire: While she isn’t opposed to adoption at all, Izumi wants to experience being pregnant and giving birth to her child. She wants to be a mother; that’s her strongest personal desire.

[hellcifrogs]

Just Want to ask a more interesting question of what’s your favorite arc in Part 1 and in Part 2? Asking this question to get some discussion going around.

([For reference mines are the Search for Tsunade arc for part 1, and Either the The Itachi Pursuit Mission/Fated Battle Between Brothers Arc for part 2.]

Though I do always say that The Sasuke Retrieval Arc is better and it still it’s some peak stuff. [Where boys become men.] The previous arc is my favorite in part 1 mostly cause of the Three Way Deadlock which below my mind as a kid as I thought how strong are these people.

And for part 2 Sasuke on the hunt for Itachi or there Fight. I know it’s kind of cheating but it felt wrong to not put the two arcs together.)

My autopilot answer for these are: Chunin exams for part 1 and precisely volume 48 for shippuden!

But these are just my comfort parts of the story haha I could probably find other moments I like the plot more.

[sasukesun]

How would you rank the naruto manga arcs based on your personal opinion?

land of waves/vote2 (i don’t consider vote2 part of the war arc cause… you know… unlike the war arc, it seemed like kishimoto still cared about writing)

vote1/sasuke’s rescue mission

kage summit, it’s a great arc for naruto’s character tbh and sasuke is being cunty

chunin exams… it’s fun

sasuke vs itachi

pein

search for tsunade… i like it very much tbh

konoha crush

kazekage rescue, also a good arc for naruto

tenchi bridge mission, i love reunion and sai and naruto’s interactions, but the rest is a bit winded to me

akatsuki suppression, i love hidan, but that’s it, i don’t particularly care about shikamaru or asuma, points for naruto shooting star gay scene, though

fourth shinobi war, i honestly only like naruto and sasuke being gay lol and madara (also being gay) obviously, but as an arc… god

tale of jiraiya the gallant, i love that jiraiya dies

itachi pursuit mission

kakashi gaiden

[electrasev5nwrites]

Ninja Daily: Vapors 100

Kakuzu gave a stretch through his shoulders, luxuriating in the uncommon silence.

He wasn't an idiot. He knew perfectly well that the quiet meant that the simpleton had left. That was why he had hidden in the basement bathroom so that Konan couldn't find him. Someone else could retrieve the moron while he enjoyed his respite. Hidan was a plague, and he didn't know what he'd done that had caused Leader-sama to inflict the idiot on him.

'Except that I killed all my previous partners,' he noted fairly.

That seemed a little petty of Pein, but Kakuzu was too busy to care. There were much more important issues at stake.

"I don't see how we can possibly make up for this lapse in productivity," he noted darkly, using his knees as a desk for the notebook on his lap. Writing out the problems and possible solutions made him feel better, even as he reaffirmed that Akatsuki's finances were taking an enormous hit.

They had only been taking domestic missions for over a month now. He didn't see why Pein had chosen to send Tobi and Zetsu out on another jinchuuriki mission now, when they desperately needed to replenish their finances.

'It is possibly an attempt to lower our living costs,' he mused. 'If Tobi were to perish in pursuit of a jinchuuriki, we could eliminate the budget allocation for ice cream altogether.'

Tobi wasn't the only one who ate it, of course, but Itachi and Konan never went out of their way to bring it home either.

That made him feel a bit better about his participation in this organization. Pein's priorities were strange, but he at least had some semblance of business sense and the wisdom to step back and allow more competent individuals free reign when appropriate. Of course, he also extended too much freedom to touchy-feely, sentimental lunatics like Hidan, so the trait was still problematic.

Kakuzu glowered at the bathroom mirror, and then wondered why it was positioned to face the toilet. He looked down at his lap instead, suddenly disquieted. Why was he still in here? Surely Konan had noticed Hidan's unsubtle escape and taken care of the matter herself. He stuck his pencil behind his ears, washed his hands out of habit and conscientiousness despite not having used the facilities, and kept an ear out for the incoherent babbling that would undoubtedly accompany Hidan's return.

But he didn't hear anything like that.

'He's still not here?' Kakuzu grunted, both satisfied and unimpressed with Konan's lack of efficiency. She was a terrible manager.

The stairs up to the first floor were rickety and old, in no small part due to the fact that Kakuzu had shot down the proposal to replace them himself. He considered it a good trade. They were placed on the opposite end of the long hallway that his room was. Kakuzu covered ground towards his private space quickly, hoping to avoid seeing anyone else.

And then the back door opened. His mood instantly plummeted. So the idiot was back already? He turned, ready to cut off Hidan's head just for the principle of the thing- and stopped.

The gaggle of offensively bright Konoha and Suna nin piling in the door like puppies fleeing the rain paused as well, with the notable exception of a blond with a stupid facial expression who pointed at him and shrieked something incoherent at a pitch that humans were not meant to communicate in.

Kakuzu made a quick count. 'One, two… Four teams?' He catalogued any who he recognized: Sharingan no Kakashi, a very valuable prize—ooh, the Senju woman's Uchiha pet, the beast of Konoha, the Kazekage's siblings, and…

Itachi.

'Not worth it,' he decided instantly. His life was worth more than any one of those bounties. That didn't mean he would turn any one of them down, of course, but a 14 on 1 fight when he recognized several of his prospective opponents as S-class shinobi was a poor investment choice.

Of course, they were blocking the most convenient exit point…

He dropped into a low crouch, putting both his palms on the ground, and called on the earth underneath the base. It answered in a nearly instant roar, swelling up and bursting the floor open like a dead man's belly splitting in the sun.

Kakuzu dropped below, creating a tunnel outside the base and filling it as he went. He broke out of the dirt onto the surface within heartbeats and set off a dead sprint.

On one hand, he would have thought that Itachi at least would have had the reflexes to chase after him. On the other, perhaps he had overestimated their competency.

Earth was his primary affinity, after all, and he had been perfecting it for a very long time.

He would find Zetsu, he decided. Zetsu was Madara's servant. He would know what should be done. And it would be important to note that Itachi had turned traitor. Perhaps Itachi would kill Konan while he was at it, and no one would be able to hold him accountable for fleeing?

"Er," Kakashi said faintly, rubbing his eye and then opening it experimentally. "Did that old man in his pajamas really just tunnel out of here, or am I having a short stroke?"

He was having a harder time getting over the pajamas than that he'd run. Kakashi might have run if he'd seen such a large group of intruders waltz into a temporary base. (If it was Konoha, he would fight to the death, of course). But the pajamas? It was half past noon.

"That was Kakuzu," Itachi explained factually, gingerly stepping over the crack in the floor. "He prefers to be comfortable while he tabulates expenses."

"Of course he does," Kakashi muttered. "What was I thinking?"

' Well, Itachi was already right about one Akatsuki. He fled. That means there's only two of them to fight. Would it be worth it to chase after Kakuzu, or should I take that as luck? One S class shinobi on his own can be hunted and cornered at our leisure. Most of this group is powerful, but inexperienced. I don't like the idea of splitting to chase after him when we know that there are two difficult fights coming up here.'

Kakashi warily examined the premises as he could see so far. The building was remarkably narrow. Hardly ideal conditions for an altercation, especially if he intended to use the advantage of numbers…

"Well, nice tour, thank you Itachi." Kakashi shooed the ninja who had crowded in behind him out. "Come on, get."

"What the hell are you doing?" Sabaku no Temari asked flatly, looking spectacularly unimpressed. He aimed an eye smile at her.

"I think we should have our friends come to us. It's rude to enter without knocking, after all. Don't crowd the doorstep." Once he had pushed the small mob far enough back, he nodded at Sasuke. "Why don't you knock?" he suggested generously.

Sasuke smirked unpleasantly. "Of course, Kakashi." He curled his hand into a fist and pulled it back, approaching the building at a jog. The momentum was probably unnecessary. Sasuke used it to leap, land feet-first on the side of the building, and crouch in a lightning-quick motion that brought his fist down by his right sandal. He kicked off at what seemed to be the exact moment that half the building folded inwards.

Rubble and dust flew out, instantly coating everyone who hadn't had the sense to stand behind someone taller in a layer of filth.

In other words, Itachi, Kakashi, Baki, and Genma exchanged various levels of amused glances while the less experienced ninja coughed and fanned frantically at their faces.

"Do you think they heard you?" Karin asked sarcastically, pulling her glasses off to wipe them on the underside of her shirt.

Abruptly, the rain stopped altogether.

' It definitely wasn't natural, then,'

One minor mystery solved. Also, Akatsuki knew they were here.

"I could knock again," Sasuke half-threatened, half-grinned with the thrill of showing off in front of his brother.

"I think it served its purpose," Genma muttered, giving a loopy little grin to Yamato, who was sneezing pathetically and rubbing at his nose. The poor boy looked to be on the verge of a break down. He'd had a bad day.

"Karin, contact the teams in the direction that Kakuzu fled," Kakashi ordered. "Tell them who is coming and when he will arrive. Give them a rundown of his abilities and the option to engage or move out of his way, depending on whether they think they can defeat him without sustaining losses."

He hadn't judged that chasing Kakuzu would be a pointless waste of life for his team only to assume that it would be negligible for their nominal allies to lose people in the same pursuit. Even if Kakuzu had left in the direction of the Kumo teams.

The snake Karin summoned this time was much less conspicuous than his brightly scaled peers—tan and gold. Kakashi edged away subtly. That one he recognized. Karin lifted it closely to her lips as if she was about to kiss the top of its flat head and began to murmur to it.

The Suna nin looked similarly disquieted by the show of affection, but then, they probably recognized the species as fatally poisonous just as he did. It was native to the desert, after all.

He didn't actually notice Konan arrive. What he noticed was Baki shouting some bland code word that was apparently an order for Temari to pull the fan over her back and swing it from a low left position to a high right, buffeting what appeared to be a murderous flock of white butterflies off course.

That protocol had probably been for projectiles in general.

He still preferred to think they had a code that meant it was time to attack butterflies.

The woman herself flashed into sight, balancing lightly on top of the collapsed bunker wall. Her amber-orange eyes were directed at one man only.

"Itachi, I am disappointed," Konan said quietly. "Have you betrayed us so easily?"

"She's surprised? That's rather short sighted, considering she knows why he left Konoha," Hyuuga Neji muttered.

Kakashi had never before realized a Hyuuga could be funny. Judging by the disappointed look Gai leveled on his student, the green beast disagreed. Pity.

"We do not have to fight," Itachi said seriously.

Oh, to be so naïve.

Konan's eyes narrowed as if she agreed.

"Speak for yourself, Uchiha," Sabaku no Temari sneered, squinting up at Konan. "I owe grandmother here an ass-kicking. I lost my hotel deposit thanks to her!" Kankuro snorted, but moved into a ready stance as well. "Also she kidnapped Aiko from my room," Temari amended as an afterthought.

Naruto perked up. "What, this old lady?" he asked skeptically. "I expected you to look different. All Aiko said was that your makeup was horrible." He gave Konan a thin smile. "Temari's right. You do need an ass-kicking."

'That's not the plan,' Kakashi thought, frustrated. Naruto wasn't suited to fight Konan at all. If he really wanted, he could pummel her on the way back to T and I. This fight had already been planned.

"Stick to the plan. Everyone else, back!" Kakashi barked out. He steadied Karin by her arm, as artificial winds picked up to a downright dangerous level while Temari and Baki started throwing out A and B class wind jutsu. The hurricane threatened to actually pick up Karin, by far the smallest member of their party. She made an aborted squeak, and latched onto Naruto's arm like a limpet while her clothes flapped in the wind, leaving her stomach bare. "Is Kisame approaching?"

Tenten actually speared a good twenty of Konan's projectiles mid air. Her glittering knives impacted the ground with a multitude of little 'shuk-shuk-shuk' sounds. Paper struggled futilely, trapped. Genma gave a low whistle- and then jerked forward to push her out of the path of a paper dragon the size of Mitsuo, catching its fangs with his short sword and ducking under the reach of its claws. Chakra threads wrapped around it—and then Kankuro cursed as the entire paper construction dissolved into individual sheets of paper. A good chunk of them sliced through Crow like the puppet was made of lukewarm butter.

"Karin," Kakashi reminded sharply. They couldn't afford to get distracted.

"Er-" Karin squeezed her eyes shut to concentrate, biting her lower lip. Something about the motion seemed odd, until he realized that she had used four teeth to do so. He was used to seeing Aiko pin her lip more delicately with just one tooth. "Yes," she concluded, opening her eyes and then blinking rapidly. She jerked her head to the right. "He's trying to sneak up to assess the situation," Karin assessed. "He masks his chakra really well, actually, but it's enormous."

"Wind blade!" Temari actually aimed her attack directly at Konan, who had apparently manifested wings in the time that Kakashi had looked away. The blue-haired woman appeared flustered. She didn't quite dodge in time, and the wind that caught her wing sent her spinning slightly. She shot straight upwards, and then came down like an avenging goddess, gathering what looking like starbursts of blades at the tip of each extended hand.

Kakashi suppressed the urge to merely nod at Karin for her report and tore his gaze away from the large-scale fight. "Good work," he grudgingly allowed. It wouldn't do to allow his irritation with the teens to prevent him from accurately assessing and rewarding their contributions.

And Karin really was proving her worth as a field shinobi.

'If I'm to be honest, she's more essential to this mission than I am,' he noted with no small amount of irony. She had the most direct access to information, after all. 'If she were less inexperienced, maybe she should have been the one calling the shots.'

"You are creepy, girl," a gravelly voice observed. Kisame pulled his bandage-wrapped sword off of his back and pointed it directly at Karin.

She gaped. "Me?" The indignant shriek hurt Kakashi's ears. He winced and leapt away, moving to a slightly safer distance. Not coincidentally, his new positioning also gave him a better view of the entire area, including the battle that was steadily pushing its way westward. "I'm creepy?" Karin slapped a hand to her chest.

"When it comes from the bipedal shark, it really means something," Naruto snickered, not hiding his laughter at his cousin's expense.

"What an UnYouthful thing to say to a lovely young lady in the springtime of her youth!" Gai chuckled, giving Karin a thumbs-up and a smile that sparkled in the sun. "This opening move is devoted to you, Karin-san!"

Her "Er, thanks?" was drowned out by the yell, "Konoha Double Lotus!" Lee made an excited yelp and dashed forward from the other side, spinning into a kick at Kisame's left. The nuke-nin grunted and moved his sword to catch his foot—which left his right open to the bone-breaking force Gai was wielding.

Except the blow didn't connect. Kisame managed to dodge by a thin margin, leaping backwards. The green-clad menaces stayed on him, leaping and weaving in a blur of movement that Kakashi couldn't fully register without his Sharingan. He resisted the temptation to uncover it.

That would be a waste of chakra. Right now, the situation seemed to be overwhelmingly in their favor, to the point where they had more than enough people to control the field. There were too many people for them all to fight together, actually. The Suna team was working well together, and Genma was keeping Tenten out of the crossfire, but any more participants in that fight would be more of a problem than a benefit. If anyone were to be injured, they could easily be rotated out of either fight and both patched up and kept safe.

'We don't know where their leader is,' Kakashi reminded himself darkly, not letting his attention waver. 'Our numbers advantage could easily become irrelevant. Karin couldn't even tell when he left. We may have no warning. For all we know, he could be here.'

The thought was bleak, but still less unpleasant than anything else he might be doing. By all accounts, that man was a monster. The idea of someone like that going directly after jinchuuriki or taking the body count to another village was unpalatable.

Karin shifted uncomfortably, scuttling backwards a little bit. Sasuke reached out to steady her, red eyes whirling and cataloguing everything that was happening.

"Are you sure we can't join in?" Naruto half-whispered, bright blue eyes practically dancing with visible excitement. His head was following the back and forth action of the blue-on-green fight rather like a pinball game.

"No," Kakashi said shortly.

"Actually," Karin muttered, looking over her shoulder. "There might be a fight for us after all. There's a team coming in from Ame."

' Does that mean that Ame really is affiliated with Akatsuki, or are they just taking advantage of the confusion?'

Kakashi frowned under his mask. There was no way to tell until this team arrived. If they joined with Akatsuki, that might be a problem.

"Yamato, take Naruto and Sasuke to investigate our visitors," Kakashi decided blandly. It would be better to keep the fights separate. "Itachi, keep Karin safe. If the situation changes, further orders are at your discretion."

The Uchiha looked downright amused about being downgraded to a bodyguard, but he nodded in agreement nonetheless.

"What about you, sensei?" Naruto blinked guilelessly up at him. Kakashi resisted the urge to pat his head.

"Neji and I are going to investigate that base, of course," he explained breezily, indicating the partially collapsed building. They were fighting in its shadow—it would be intelligent to know what potential dangers were nearby.

He still didn't wholly trust Itachi, after all. If there was anyone else around that Karin couldn't sense in the way that she hadn't sensed Akatsuki's leader, he wanted to know about them.

"Naruto, don't move ahead," Yamato commanded, keeping the tiredness out of his voice. The blond deferred, falling slightly behind to run at Yamato's left. Sasuke was in the parallel position by Yamato's right hip.

"Sorry, captain," Naruto apologized honestly. His voice was much lower than usual. Surprised, Yamato glanced over to see that the mask of happy idiocy had been wiped from the blond's face.

'Of course,' he realized, feeling like an ass. 'It's almost a little cruel to keep him out of the fight with Konan, now that he knows she's the one who hurt his twin.' Yamato had never had a twin, of course, but he imagined that Kakashi was something like an older sibling. Always cooler and more capable than he could ever be- the idea of someone hurting him just sounded wrong. He would be off-kilter as well in that situation.

Yamato gave an uneasy glance to the other teen—Sasuke's jaw was set firmly as well. Would he be thinking along similar lines? He half-doubted it. Sasuke was preoccupied with his own older sibling.

'And isn't that a messy situation.' Kakashi obviously didn't trust Itachi. Yamato didn't either. If Tsunade-sama confirmed the information and personality assessment, he would welcome Itachi into Konoha with open arms. Until that moment, he thought he had the better deal in putting some distance between the two of them.

' A fight might make a good distraction for both of them.'

If that was true, they were spectacularly lucky. They met the Ame ninja a mile and a half out from their comrades. It was immediately obvious that this was going to be a hostile altercation. Yamato gritted his teeth and didn't waste time trying to talk them down.

He met with their leader with a clang of metal, locking his ANBU shortsword against a green-haired woman's thicker sword. She grimaced in his face, huffing- and then spat into his right eye. Yamato shut it in reflex and instantly cursed himself. He forced his left open again just in time to see the movement of her hand as she tossed some sort of white powder directly upwards into his face.

It burned like an acid. Yamato yelped—but took advantage of his superior strength and the fact that his opponent had taken a hand off her blade in order to force her blade out wide and freed up one of his hands to deliver a punch directly into her solar plexus.

The altercation had taken less than a second. Sasuke was just bringing his fist to bear on a man twice his size and Naruto was a foot away from smashing what looked like a Rasengan into a thin brunet's jaw.

'They seem to be doing fine still,' he noted distractedly.

The kunoichi's raised foot hit the ground at the same time that his did, and they split in a blur of movement. The slower shinobi had probably just seen the sparks from their swords colliding, and possibly the powder-fine glitter that had been tossed into the air.

They whipped around on the next step. Yamato cut sideways to buy time to pry his eyes open even as the woman darted forwards to press her advantage. He ducked away from her first blow and lifted his blade to block her second.

'No wonder this woman managed to bat Aiko around like a cat toy,' Temari noted depreciatingly. Her muscles were trembling with the effort to keep pushing at the prohibitively brutal speed that was necessary. 'We have her outnumbered five to one, and she's still keeping us on the run. What kind of monster is she?'

The little konoha kunoichi gave a little grunt and covered her face with her forearms to block the worst of a mis-aimed wind jutsu from Baki. His wind blades tended to go wide and veer unpredictably once they hit another breeze. In other words, they were short-distance weapons, which was why they normally complimented her long-distance attacks.

Neither was optimal against another long distance fighter who moved so damn quickly. They had to predict and force her movements in order for anything to connect while working around the limitations and general havoc of their own techniques. It was a wonder that the Konoha nin hadn't gotten hurt yet, inexperienced as they were with the unpredictable nature of those attacks. The man seemed to have been in plenty of fights before, but the girl couldn't possibly have been. She looked like she had fruit stuck to the top of her head for kami's sake. Fearsome killers just didn't do that.

'Still, she's pretty good,' Temari noted grudgingly. She was doing well to keep the paper ninja's attacks away from herself and was steadily immobilizing the older woman's supply of ammunition.

Temari hadn't managed any such damage so far, but she was proving to be the best at harrying the Ame kunoichi. Kankuro was covering her back, working to keep any rogue paper from doing anything sneaky when she wasn't looking.

'When I got that lucky hit in earlier, it disrupted her movements for almost a full second,' Temari noted, narrowing her eyes at the winged shadow overhead. 'If I can do that again and coordinate well enough with Peaches here to hit her at the right moment, we might be able to take her down. Or we could play it safe and fight her by attrition. The Uchiha traitor said that she was nearly undefeatable as long as she had weaponry, didn't he?'

Then again, she didn't know what observations he was basing that analysis off of. In her experience, anything and anyone could be killed, often by someone much smaller than them.

Temari gave a vicious grin, already picturing cutting off her enemy's head to take home. She really didn't like that woman.

Konan dove yet again, flashing across the sky and raining down explosives shaped like doves. "Nugh!" Temari grunted, heaving with the effort to bat them aside. The constructions that collided with each other went up in little localized blasts, but not all of them were detonated. Three were intact and headed for-

"Genma!" Peaches called out, sliding in from the right and pinning the first one with a spinning shuriken. It took a moment for Temari to catch on that the idly grinning Konoha nin had speared the other two with senbon. That was just fucking scary.

"Don't worry about me, Ten-chan. I'm a big boy. I'll be just fine." He winked at her.

All the respect she'd had for him based on the impressiveness of that senbon accuracy stunt fled instantly. Peaches gave a dismissive grunt and turned away as well, pulling the enormous scroll off her back.

"Temari-san! Do you think you can hit her again?"

'A girl after my own heart,' Temari realized, licking the inside of her lips. She just nodded. 'I have to be smart about this. She only comes down into my range when I'm preoccupied if she can help it. But she must be getting desperate to finish this fight. She's got to know that it can't end in her favor if it goes much longer. Maybe we should just be playing it safe, but what if she's playing for time because she expects reinforcements?'

"Kankuro, give me some space," she said lowly, widening her stance and adjusting her weight instead of keeping low so that she could dart in any direction.

Konan would want to take her out. If she made herself a target, the older woman might come in close enough to do the job herself.

' There's more than one way to force her to hold still. If I can't count on getting an attack in, I could go directly to her.'

Konan wasn't the only aerial fighter, after all. Temari snapped her fan open the rest of the way and called up a fierce gale. She ran with it for a moment—and then spread her weapon perpendicular to the ground and deftly leapt on top. The sun-warmed metal all but burned against her bent legs, but she didn't care. The fast moving air picked at her tightly bound hair and threatened to rip her clothing. It would have if the cotton wasn't reinforced with fine threads of metal.

She gripped the edge of her fan tightly, never minding that a line of blood appeared on her fingers where she was clutching, and used every bit of brute strength she had to moderate the movement of her weapon (and primary mode of transportation). With the wide edge directed down, the wind from underneath pushed her upward. Temari slowly sucked in a deep breathing, acclimating to the change in pressure—and then darted after the blue-haired bitch, leaning with the wind. A humourless smile exposed her teeth to the air. So high up, it was both thin and dry, unlike the moist crap hanging below.

' Much better. Water in the air was slowing me down.'

Up here, Temari was fast as thought, slipping like quicksilver. Konan couldn't ride the wind—she flapped unwieldy paper wings to move, thousands of expertly turned feathers that were so susceptible to a little thing like conflicting air pockets…

She barreled directly at Konan, taking vicious pleasure in how wide her orange eyes were in the bright light above the clouds. Temari pulled four senbon out from her thigh length stockings and wore them in her hand like claws between her knuckles, ready to do her best to skewer those ugly eyes.

' Damnit!'

Konan moved at the last moment. Instead of her perfect shot, Temari had to close her eyes as she burst through the thousand tiny feathers that made up Konan's left wing. She gasped with pain—hundreds of papercuts were still hundreds of cuts.

But she had the last laugh anyways. Konan's wing was tattered and struggling to reform while the older woman plummeted like a rock. Peaches leapt directly into the air, spiraling and spinning in a fascinating way with that enormous scroll.

'It looks like she's dancing,' Temari realized, privately enchanted in the moment before she realized that Peaches was running her fingers along the scroll as she moved upwards.

And suddenly knew it was a bad idea to maintain her current position in a straight line with the other two kunoichi. Temari leaned forward to speed her travel and called a brutally efficient gust that rocketed her out of the way, never mind that the force caused some of the bits of paper hanging off her flesh to dig deeper in.

Hundreds and hundreds of pinpricks of light- senbon and kunai and shuriken and a dozen kinds of little knives that Temari couldn't name- cut through Konan again and again in the three seconds it took her to fall. There was no blood, but Temari knew that if she were closer she would have able to see the sunlight through the holes in the older woman's body.

'It's over.' She couldn't even be sorry that she didn't get to land the final blow. That had been beautiful. Konan smacked face first into the ground with enough force to blow up a cloud of dust, spread eagle with limbs clearly broken from the impact.

Temari landed and smoothly pulled her fan up, closing it in the same motion that she slipped it over her back. Kankuro glanced over at her with a pout, clearly put out that he hadn't gotten to do more than play defense. She grinned cheerfully back at him.

And Konan's left leg twitched, straightening at the break that had set her calf at two angles. The smile froze on Temari's face.

' What is this woman made of? I mean, she can't actually be made of paper, can she?'

[hlysins]

❝ Your orders were clear. Leader-sama picked you for this task, so why have you yet to leave? ❞ Each member had turned their back on their respective villages for one reason or another. While Itachi had always been a dutiful member, there was always something she couldn't quite figure out in regard to him and his motivations. The Akatsuki was something sacred to her, even though most of them became vilified in the end. The red clouds represented the blood that rained down on her village while the organization itself stood to bring about world peace. She would dutifully follow their leader to the end, and any perceived threat would be eliminated. Though Yahiko's Akatuski had shifted into Nagato's with differing goals and motivations. None of its members truly knew the meaning behind these cloaks, a symbol of wanting the war to end.

However, her feelings and thoughts did not matter in the end, as she would help support Yahiko and Nagato's goals until the very end. Right now, her own emotions were of little consequence as she sought answers from the other. Itachi and his partner should have been on their way to Konohagakure in pursuit of the nine tails. ❝ You should have left an hour ago. ❞ She observed. She wanted answers as to what the delay was.

❝ The mission that Leader-sama gave you is very important. Why are you and Kisame still here? ❞ She inquired, the annoyance she had previously spoken with being replaced by a general curiosity.

@nindoes // ☠ ft. konan

[theheirofthesharingan]

Okay, so I never sneak into other people's posts to write disagreements but every damn thing written here is so factually incorrect that I have to break my own rules. I might delete this post later on, but I have to say some things that need to be said, because they've been around in the fandom for so long that I wonder if people really just like to use critical thinking to analyse Itachi or not or it's just the BS they view on reddit and Quora and think it's the actual truth.

but Itachi was (as always) irreconcilably selfish.

Far from it. There is some kind of inherent selfishness to him but it comes from his desire to watch Sasuke live because he thinks death is bad, not because death would be worse than what he put Sasuke through. And he'd been exposed to extreme, unnatural violence from a very young age. They lived in a world where saving missions for the military nation was much more important than saving lives of the comrades.

Itachi showed Sasuke no mercy, literally tortured the 6 year old psychologically emotionally and physically for what amounted to days for Sasuke

Completely incorrect. The first time torture did not last for days. The twelve year old Sasuke couldn't handle 24 hours Tsukuyomi, but people suggest 7 (not 6) y/o Sasuke was capable of enduring the torture that "amounted for days." How was it possible that this 7 year old Sasuke, after being tortured by Itachi "for days," ran out of the house, screaming, then chased after Itachi, also threw kunai at him to prevent him before collapsing, but at twelve years he couldn't handle it at all? This math doesn't work for me.

all in the pursuit of fufilling his own long term-suicide plan, and Sasuke was literally half-possessed and still only hurts Naruto out of hunted necessity.

Wrong. Again.

Itachi's reasoning to die at Sasuke's hands was much more than just his "suicide plan":

Itachi committed the genocide not because he thought it was the right thing to do, but because it was the only option he was given at the young age of 12. No, he wasn't wrong or selfish for wanting to be punished for his crimes. Yes, he's human too and, yes, he's very much allowed to react to his circumstances in his own way.

Danzo's confirmation to Obito's truth:

This man clearly threatened him that if Sasuke were to ever learn the truth, he would go against Konoha, and would get killed. Many people suggest Itachi should have "just left Sasuke" and "murdering his clan would have convinced Sasuke Itachi was so evil", when this is Sasuke after Itachi's put him in his Tsukuyomi.

Sasuke would contiue to search for answers if Itachi didn't convince him of him being an irredeemable evil in Sasuke's eyes. And we know what Sasuke wanted to do after he learned the truth. Why would Itachi want Sasuke to be dead?

Dying at Sasuke's hands and his "suicide mission" wasn't even necessary because Itachi must have contracted his illness after the massacre. He wanted Sasuke to stay out of the village and the clan politics because he'd rather not have Sasuke be tainted like the rest.

but Itachi did it to manipulate Sasuke into being physically incapable of ever thinking about anything else and Sasuke did it to silently beg Naruto to move on.

Itachi did it because, unlike Sasuke, he had seen the truth of the Shinobi world with all its ugliness. His wrong decisions don't come from the place of "irreconcilable" selfishness or malice or viewing Sasuke as a lesser human being. It comes from him wanting Sasuke to see only him as the bad guy in the picture, because no one else wronged Sasuke like he did, albeit unwillingly. Like I stated above, living in the Shinobi world with trauma and violence consuming all of your formative years, Itachi's reactions and actions are in sync with how he lived. And he is allowed to be human. His actions don't have to be right or justified. He doesn't think he's justified, so there's that.

Anyway.

The above analysis of Itachi and Sasuke — while I agree with you a lot on Sasuke's parts — consists of the regular logical fallacy I see in this fandom while analysing Itachi. You use in abundance the Reason and Consequence to assess Sasuke and his actions, but you completely omit the Reason to assess Itachi. Your entire argument is based on the disastrous outcomes Itachi's actions brought, when there's ample evidence to prove it isn't as black and white for Itachi as people make it out to be.

Sasuke reacts to his circumstances and people around him in a different way from Itachi's, because his life was different from his brother's. Itachi had to make impossible decisions, stand by them, protect his lies, because if he didn't, things would become even worse. Ultimately, whichever path he took, he had to be the responsible figure in this. It took his death for Akatsuki to attack Konoha and Sasuke learning his truth.

I'll never understand this fandom's obsession with comparing both the brothers and painting Itachi as some kind of selfish evil bastard, ignoring all the things already explained in canon that show a lot more is at work than just good/bad to him. And that anything he does is not independent of what he's believed and brought up with.

WAIT. something about the cycle of violence and Sasuke being atomically comprised of love love love and Itachi's and Sasuke's parallels on their way out of the village. Something about how they both had to leave Konoha for their own reasons and were their worst selves in those moments, but Itachi was (as always) irreconcilably selfish. He kills his parents, and then he waits for Sasuke to come home. Sasuke tries to sneak out without a word, and when he's caught he thanks Sakura knocks her out painlessly and lays her on a bench. Itachi showed Sasuke no mercy, literally tortured the 6 year old psychologically emotionally and physically for what amounted to days for Sasuke, all in the pursuit of fufilling his own long term-suicide plan, and Sasuke was literally half-possessed and still only hurts Naruto out of hunted necessity.

Something about 'you have hidden potential, that's why I allow you to live. for my sake' vs. 'I spared you on a whim.' and lying while also telling the truth to come off as more cold and calculated and irredeemable, but Itachi did it to manipulate Sasuke into being physically incapable of ever thinking about anything else and Sasuke did it to silently beg Naruto to move on.

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[theunrealinsomniac]

What is it you like about the Itachi Pursuit Mission arc?

Oh. That bit.

Yeah, not a fan. For multiple reasons. Most of them being ones that would cause arguments.

Take it as red that if it involves Uchiha much at all ... I was not fond.

That's all I will be saying at this point.