Meeting Itachi

We trained for 2 hours, overall, Tenten's strength, defense, reflex, and speed had been undergone a transformation, even without using chakra, her prowess could be said 2 grade below me, pure martial arts only, and because of her chakra's reservation also increased, she cast several fire techniques, I could see she was quite happy in the process.

The sky had turned bright at the moment as I took her back home, cooking for her while she's taking bath, then I sent her back to her house, we had to endure the glaring eyes from her father and the teasing eyes from her mother, which Tenten couldn't bear it and ran away to her room immediately.

In the morning, I promised to carry on the mission with Kakashi and the others, but before I go, I met up with Itachi first. Since I had given him a kunai with a spell 'Tracker' on it, I could tell his location, he hadn't left that rocky area either, and I believed Kisame's case should have not been yet reached Akatsuki's ears.

When I arrived at the rocky area, Itachi sat on the tallest rock, seemingly watched toward the horizon, but his direction was actually Konoha. I felt like this guy wasn't really as simple as he looked, the previous case where he slaughtered his clansmen, even his own father and mother, he definitely had a reason, I even suspected it might be under the order of someone.

"Who is your supervisor?" I asked, standing on the side of the rock where he sat. I thought if he was a spy, there must be someone who he must be reported.

"Originally, it's the third Hokage, but I report to no one now," Itachi said without as much as a change in his tone.

"The massacre of your clan, is it your personal act or someone's order?"

"... What difference does it make? Willing or forced, I killed them personally with my own hands, nothing will change that fact."

His tone might be bland, but I sensed the sorrow and guilt inside, in my many previous lifetimes, I never killed my own kin, although some of them were dead indirectly caused by me, the feeling definitely different than taking their lives on your own. Killing itself was already difficult, imagined you had to massacre your own people, the old, the young, the man, the woman, father, and mother, the only thing left to spare was his own little brother, and he vowed to kill you, perhaps this was Itachi's plan, looking at Sasuke as if some kind of his punishment for salvation.

"Have you heard about your brother?" I took a deep sigh, feeling sorry for the man beside me.

"Yes,"

"Don't you feel worried about him?" I heard from the others that Orochimaru was banished from Konoha because he was experimenting on people, and I assumed he's not going to stop that habit, who knew what he had done with Sasuke, not that I cared though.

"It's his own choice, I have no right to interfere," Itachi stood up from the rock and turned his face in my direction, said, "in our previous mission, there has never been the case where we failed to extract the Bijuu out of the Jinchuriki. This time with Kazekage however, something we did not expect and it's because of your participation, I didn't know you before, so it actually helped me a lot from saying anything to our boss, Pain."

"Well, at first, I didn't really care of this Akatsuki, and what plan they had, but Kazekage had told us you tried to resurrect the ten-tails, and for that, I can't ignore you anymore," I said with a grave tone, actually, the more chaos presented in this world, the more opportunities for me to soak women, there were so little options when the world just sort of peaceful.

When the world was in danger; when anyone's life was put in the front line and they could have died next moment, the thought to satisfy their desire to the fullest would become imminent, the craving for love in the time of crisis was high in the air.

Because love represented hope, giving people the will to survive so they could see their beloved on the next day, and the day afterward.

"At this moment, Pain told us to stay put for a while, until the next further of notice, the hunt for Bijuu is postponed, and there is something you also should know, a person behind this Akatsuki, although Pain is the one who coordinated us, the mastermind behind is a person called Madara Uchiha... my own ancestor," when Itachi mentioned this, his body shivered a little, trembling.

"Your own ancestor? How old is he now?" my heart slightly tighten, if you thought I was not afraid of 500 or 1,000 old years man, especially old fox, then you were wrong, let it be their strength or simply pure knowledge, I believed they could have been better than me, so I should not take them lightly.

"Madara Uchiha born in the Warring State Period, from then until now, it's been 93 years, but his appearance... although I couldn't see his face due to the mask he wore, his voice was somewhat a person in his 20s," Itachi frowned at the moment, perhaps he had a suspicion whether that person he called Ancestor was truly Madara or not.

Ah, only less than a 100, phew, I secretly wiped my sweat. If this was a person in my cultivation world, a person of 100 old years probably in the middle of Xiantian, even a genius could not arrive at the peak rank less than 100 years.

If that was the case, then I had big confidence to fight this Madara, at least I wouldn't suffer much when at the time we clashed.

"So, what's next?" I said.

"I will tell you the identities of all the Akatsuki's member, and due to the death of Sasori and Deidara, they might look for the replacement, I also feared Madara would come out from his hiding and pretended to join the rank by disguising himself."

"Do you know where Akatsuki's base?"

Itachi shook his head, "There are only four people who knew the base, Madara, Zetsu, Pain, and Konan, Pain's partner."

"Have you never met Pain?"

"I do, although the one who recruited me is Madara himself."

Itachi went silent for a while, then continued, "The future's meeting will probably going to be difficult, Zetsu this person, his ability is that he can travel anywhere through any surface and can completely be hidden, I am not sure our meeting would not have been exposed."

"I already made a plan for that..." I took out 10 paper from my sketch and cast the 'Life' spell on them, then I handed them over to Itachi, said, "if there is important news from the Akatsuki, you write it in this paper and folded them like a bird, it will automatically flying away toward my direction."

Itachi didn't probe further of my ability, he just took the paper and nodded, afterward, he told me the rest of Akatsuki's member, including their ability and history. Originally, there were 10 members; Pain, Konan, Zetsu, Sasori, Deidara, Itachi, Kisame, Kakuzu, Hidan, and Orochimaru. But Orochimaru betrayed the organization by trying to subdue Itachi for his Sharingan, a special eyes belonged to Uchiha Clan, it also probably the reason why he was interested in Sasuke, this guy was like a whole new level of pervert. Then I killed Deidara and Sasori, kidnapped Kisame, and put him back to the jail in Kirigakure. Now the member left only 6 people, 7 if I included Madara.

Out of the 7, only Konan was the female member, I supposed she should be at her what... the mid or late 20s? In short, the enticement of subduing the bad heroine pulled my interest, making me somewhat wanted to see this Konan.

I bid goodbye with Itachi and returned to Konoha, prepared to take my first mission with Kakashi and his team.