Chapter 29

As soon as Itachi opened his eyes, he realized that today he had to get to the Lightning Land, and coming out of the room he saw Jiraiya waking up drinking coffee, also there was Hiashi who was packing his things, Itachi in turn just put on a dark cloak and waited for them to come out, he also went outside collecting all his things from the hotel, and then he waited for them, and they came out, and together they moved towards the Lightning Land, and coming out of the border Jiraiya started:

-Orochimaru's approximate location in the northwest-" Jiraiya pointed his finger, for he had studied his action well and even understood Orochimaru's thought process.

-Thank you for your help, Jiraiya, I think we'll take it from here," Itachi replied, not wanting to disturb the passage of time, but if he went with them, things might not go according to plan.

-If Orochimaru knows I'm coming he might start preparing some more bodies, although he underestimates you and thinks he's got it all figured out, but I like this move," Jiraiya finished his speech, pulling out a red haori with yellow ovals on both sides, and then he looked exactly like himself, like meeting Naruto, Itachi was even glad to have the wave of lines under control.

-When I first met you, I thought you were a typical pervert, but as I got to know you better, I realized that your wisdom and good qualities are superior to Orochimaru's in every way, even if he was kind, he couldn't compare to you," Hiashi replied with a smile, and Jiraiya nodded in response.

-Well, I can't go any further with you, and thank you for letting me sleep over, and also good luck against Orochimaru's techniques," Jiraiya finished, adding a smile.

-I'm sure our paths will cross again, it's not for nothing that people say it's a small world. - Itachi smiled lightly, and Jiraiya nodded and went on his way.

Itachi and his partner set off towards the hidden cloud village, the lightning country didn't have many trees and forests, although the economy was excellent, the human population was also at a good level, as well as its military power, but still even the Raigake wouldn't be able to resist Orochimaru's onslaught, and now they were walking along a path where there was plenty of land to harvest, but not much grass, and they knew where to go to intercept Orochimaru, and Jiraiya's coordinates were very useful, even Hiashi could save chakra without spending it on a Byakugan, Itachi is also well honed over the years, ready for anything, and also confident that he can defeat the first or second hokage, because he knows that Orochimaru can't resurrect them to their full potential, because if he fully revives Hashirama or Tobirama, they will regain their personalities and will, and can even break the edo-tensei, In World War 4, when Orochimaru revived the first Hokage, he tried to keep his guard up, because he could have broken the edo-tensei and attacked Orochimaru, but instead he just smiled and sat on the floor with his legs folded and looked at Sasuke and told him his story about his friendship with Madara, Itachi has studied the edo-tensei technique well and knows a few weaknesses, previously he thought that he was the only weakness of this technique, because he was able to defeat Kabuto, and canceled edo-tensei, but after being in paradise in the white star, he realized many things, also knew that the black ball of wisdom, could break the soul's contact with earth and paradise, because when Obito's hand was hit by the fourth man's wisdom ball, it didn't recover, and eventually Naruto had a similar ball, Itachi thought that maybe if he mastered all five elements, he could mix all of nature's chakra, and with the art of amaterasu create the exact form of gudo-damo, and it would be able to defeat any resurrected, his own technique and become their weakness, thinking about it he even smiled, he also knew the second sweetness of edo-tensei, it was a sword-totsuka, a weapon capable of sealing the shell, Itachi didn't lose his head though, he took a moment to adjust his cloak, giving him more confidence that the two of them could defeat Orochimaru with his most powerful edo-tensei technique...

They were almost to the possible meeting place with Orochimaru, to the northwest, Hiashi had even taken out his kunai and shuriken pouch from his white kimono beforehand, and Itachi looked cool, because he knew who he was going to fight, he had a plan on the way, and it was going to work, as they walked towards the northwest, it was more cozy and interesting, almost like the battlefields of World War IV, before Obito and Naruto clashed, and now the forest was just as thick and pleasant, and suddenly Hiashi turned on his shakugan and noticed two shinobi and said looking towards Itachi.

-Itachi has contact, both shinobi from the cloud village- -Hiashi began, stopping to hop from tree to tree.

-If they're shinobi from the Lightning Land, they're probably allies,‖ Itachi replied confidently, stopping as well.

Two shinobi from the lightning country also noticed them, one of them was a sensor, Itachi had such thoughts, and maybe he would recognize them if he saw them in person, and then two shinobi appeared in their field of vision, they were jonin in rank, and as soon as they approached Itachi immediately recognized these faces that he had seen in the fourth war, through the sage ball, one of them was a shinobi with white hair and dark skin, his name was Darui, and he would soon become the right hand of the raikage, he was wearing a light-dark vest, and the second shinobi was a jonin, with white hair and dark skin, his name was Darui, he would soon become the right hand of the Raikage, he was wearing a light and dark vest, and the second shinobi was white, with blond hair, a hairstyle similar to Sasori's, but hair color like Ino's, he was dressed the same as Darui and his name was Shi, Itachi realized who he was and what he was capable of, they looked at Itachi and Hiashi and began.

-Black cloak, and pure dark hair, tell me you're an uchiha, right?" said Darui looking at Itachi, and he nodded and activated his sharingan.

-They're the Akatsuki! They're our enemies, scatter Darui," Shi commanded, and Hiashi and Itachi realized that there was no time to explain, they had to defeat them first and then tell us who they were.

Itachi took on Darui when he wanted to attack him with a kunai, Itachi easily fought off his attack, and even counterattacked with his foot, and Darui caught it, and Itachi smiled as he wanted to, and then did a backflip, and his foot came up and hit Darui's jaw, Itachi looked over to his partner and saw him dealing with the second one, they were fighting on the ground, Hiashi was using his soft palm technique and Shi was successfully dodging, it was obvious that he was an experienced shinobi, although Itachi was thinking about his opponent at the moment, and he decided to go down to the ground to make the fight more comfortable, and Darui followed him, and finding an open field they stood about 5 meters away from each other, and Darui was the first to run towards him, pulling out his blade that he had on his back, and Itachi decided to get his kunai by charging it with his chakra, he was able to fend off his attack by setting up his kunai, and charged it with chakra just like Asuma, so they wouldn't break, Itachi was excellent at taijutsu in the first timeline, and here he had perfected it... So he easily dodged Darui's attacks and countered with his own onslaught, Darui couldn't keep up with his speed, and Itachi had a sharingan activated, so Darui was confused for a few seconds and put up a straight and normal block, and Itachi chose the right moment to strike his left arm, and his sword flew off, and then he hit him in the chest with his left fist and in the face with his right fist, and Darui also managed to respond with a kick to his stomach, but Itachi's kick was stronger, so he flew back 10 meters, Darui decided that it was time to end the fight, so he quickly folded the seals and said "Lightning Style: black panther", Itachi realized what technique he was going to activate so he took out one pill from his pouch and drank it and said "The Art of Amaterasu: Dark Knight", he activated the mangekyo sharingan, and created from amaterasu, a huge shield, and also a sword, it had the same shape as the totsuka sword, but the size was smaller so he could hold it on his hand, but it was quite long, with the shield he easily fought off the black panther, after taking cover with the shield, he started to continue controlling its shape, and it even started shooting black flames from the shield, which made the black panther disappear before it even touched his shield, Darui was surprised at his skill and that he had perfected this technique from the uchiha clan, so Darui used his black panther again, and it was faster, and Itachi focused his left hand this time, in which he was holding his amaterasu sword, and chuned it at the panther, it started flying at him, and when it was inside the black panther, it was like it exploded, enveloping him in lightning blue flames, and it would burn until it disappeared, also it stopped flying towards Itachi as soon as it was inside his amaterasu sword, and the explosion of black-fire was so high that the panther was vaporized instantly, and even Daruya was caught by this black flame all his clothes started to burn and he himself fell on his knee preparing for severe pain and Itachi noticed this and immediately canceled the amaterasu art and his shiit disappeared, he immediately ran up to Daruya, canceling the black flame that was on him and he managed in time, his clothes didn't even have time to burn and then gave him his hand and he was surprised and yet he responded by reaching out and getting up from his knees.

-Why did you cancel your black flame?" began Darui questioningly, looking at Itachi.

-Because I'm not Akatsuki, you probably might have thought I was Shisui Uchiha, but my name is actually Itachi- Itachi replied looking at his side.

-The one?, the main hero from Konoha?" he said in surprise, and receiving a nod from Itachi, he shifted his gaze to a smile and continued, "I think there's been a misunderstanding I apologize.

-No need to, I understand, but we need to get back with Shi and Hiashi before they kill each other- -Itachi suggested and Darui nodded and they ran up to them, they were a hundred meters away.

Hiashi and Shi continued to fight, Shi tried to use genjutsu on him, but Hiashi's biakugan was very strong, so he preferred to fight against him using taijutsu, because Shi was more good at it than ninjutsu, he often created substitutes and clones, but Hiashi recognized the real one from a mile away, he used a soft palm when the original stood in front of him, But he was able to dodge Hiashi's attack by jumping, and all his clones were vaporized by Hiashi's wind style, suddenly in an instant Hiashi had a plan, it was to let himself be outsmarted, because he knew how cloud shinobi thought, he had studied them for a long time in case of a sudden war, when his daughter Hinata was kidnapped, he killed the kidnapper, it turned out to be an ambassador from the lightning country, His brother Hiashi sacrificed himself to be free and die with honor, it was his choice, Hiashi put aside his thoughts and began to execute the plan, he stood in the center, and when one of Shi's clones stood in front of him, he pretended to find the original, and used the hard palm technique, unlike the soft palm, it created a strong wind blow, like a tornado, with all his strength he hit Shi, who was a clone, and the original was two meters away from him from the back, and Hiashi smiled as he wanted, and applied the rotation, and Shi was hit by a strong wind wave of this technique, he fell into a stupor for a while coming to his senses, and Hiashi took a couple of seconds to apply the soft palm, and he fell to the ground, from the light wind, and Hiashi came closer to him and started:

-We're not Akatsuki," Shi continued to listen to him, he was different in understanding the truth of the words, almost as much as Itachi, as both of them were interested in anatomy, Hiashi continued, "We are shinobi of Konoha, we were sent to do a rank-S assignment, we also wanted to tell you about it initially, but you didn't give us a chance and attacked right away.

-I understand, I apologize," Shi said frustrated, he was the one who hadn't let them talk and had attacked Hiashi first, and standing up he continued, "I see these two have understood too, I can feel their chakra coming towards us, they're coming together.

-I am too," Hiashi replied as he activated his Byakugan, he wasn't a better sensor than Shi, after all he had a Byakugan.

Itachi and Darui had already approached them, and realized that they had everything under control too, they figured it out, and as soon as they got close enough to them the conversation began:

-You have everything under control too?" asked Darui, Shi and Hiashi, who were standing equally and nodded.

-We had a rank-S mission, to track down two criminals, there were rumored to be two people who had been seen here for two weeks, one of them wielded a mangekyo-sharingan and the other had a Samehada sword on his back, we don't know exactly what they looked like, but we knew that their criminal organization was called Akatsuki, wearing black cloaks with red clouds- said Shi's speech.

-And when we saw one of you and saw the sharingan, we thought you were one of them," Darui added, and continued speaking, "but now we realized that the mission was a failure and there was no trace of them.

-I see... - Itachi replied, looking down and realizing that he wouldn't be seeing Shisui anytime soon, but he continued, "Our mission is to stop Orochimaru, and his edo-tensei technique, from heading for your village.

-What!?, so those rumors are true?", Shi inquired at Itachi's words, and Itachi nodded to him in response.

-That's right... The staff-anbu had studied Orochimaru well, and had even temporarily hired spies in search of him, and in one of his former bases, there were rumors too, it was accurate information that he was going to attack the cloud village.

-If that's true, then I think we should hurry up! Every second counts," Darui said quickly, and everyone nodded, Itachi leading the way, with everyone behind him.

***

Two hours had passed, and they were jumping through the trees, walking towards the northwest, in which Itachi had introduced them, and then Shi approached towards Itachi, levelly, and he decided to inquire when Itachi took his right hand, and put it to his forehead.

-Are you alright?" asked Shi, Itachi shifted his gaze to him and continued to listen to him -You have similar pressure if you want we can stop.

-I'm fine, it's just a side effect of the medication, a mild headache, and it's really mild because I only took one pill," Itachi replied, removing his hand from his forehead as the pain went away.

-Genius, with these pills your eyes won't be damaged by your mangekyo, and Darui told me how you used Amaterasu in the flames, I knew there was such an ability, but I didn't know there was someone who could use black-fire with one eye and control its form with the other-" Shi finished his speech with a smile.

-Huh, I wouldn't say it's perfect, because I don't have the eternal-mangekyo sharingan yet, but I've been trying to perfect this technique to the max to become stronger than I was in my previous life.... - Itachi finished the last sentence, remembering his previous life, in the first timeline....

-Have you considered mastering the art of the sage and using the mangekyo-sharingan at the same time? Taking these pills?" said Shi.

-I haven't been to gore-myeboku yet, though even if I did, I'd rather not risk using them together, because according to legend Sarada-Uchiha was half blinded by this technique, and it caused the worst side effect, it was stronger than repeated use of mangekyo-" Itachi said the story about her.

-When I studied the full history of Madara-Uchihi, it was rumored that he had three brothers and a younger sister, is that her by any chance?"-Itachi nodded, and Shi understood and continued-"I'm sure she went blind and died of illness, just because she had a regular sharingan.

-So if she had mangekyo, she wouldn't make the disease worse, but instead would strengthen the blindness rods more, because the powerful flows of chakra-nature and the power of mangekyo would be in sync?" Itachi had just realized that he hadn't tried to think about it before, but now that he thought about it, he guessed it, so he said it.

-You're studying anatomy too?" replied Shi with a smile, Itachi nodded, smiling slightly as he knew that now he had a chance to master the art of the sage.

Hiashi and Darui were behind them, they were jumping from tree to another tree trying to catch up to Itachi and Shi, and then Darui decided to start.

-Is everything alright, has the enemy not been detected?" asked Darui transferring his gaze to Hiashi.

-All clear," Hiashi replied as he activated his Byakugan, and then sharply replied, "Enemy detected! there is contact, it's Orochimaru, there can be no mistake, and he has two of his companions, - said Hiashi, and Darui drew his blade and prepared for it, Itachi and Shi heard it too, Shi quickened his pace, and Itachi was not surprised and kept walking with a calm look, and even adjusted the collar of his dark blue cloak, and they were 100 meters away from him....