Chapter 30

Itachi's POV

Orochimaru was close, and he had two men, I think that if one of them was Kabuto, I would recognize him immediately, because I knew what he looked like even before he got the snake-like appearance of Orochimaru, but I won't kill Kabuto, because he has an important role to play in the fourth world war, and I'm sure that this time I'll stop him myself, in the second timeline things may not go the same way as they did then, because Sasuke appeared unexpectedly in my field of vision, but this time it's likely that I'll be alone against Kabuto, even then I didn't fight him at full strength, because I didn't want to kill him, My goal was to lock him in the izanagi loop so he would be completely paralyzed and vulnerable to my tsukuyomi, but if I had wanted to kill him back then I would have used everything possible, attacking him relentlessly with my susanoo, and throwing shurikens in his direction to distract him and get closer, I could use them without interruption, because I was resurrected by the Edo-Tensei technique like the others, so I could forget about the damage to my body, because I had endless chakra, but not as much as my honor...

While I was thinking about it I was distracted by the fact that we had already reached them, Darui was ready with his blade in his hand, Shi had taken both kunai out of his pouch, and Hiashi had not lowered his Byakugan, I saw Orochimaru, he was in my field of vision, he was dressed as usual in his everyday clothes with a purple belt, there were two more people next to him, and when he noticed us he was surprised, he probably didn't expect us, and now they were jumping through the trees and stopped 10 meters in front of us, Orochimaru looked in my direction and seemed to recognize me, because he knew me well in both the first and second timelines, after the third world war, he saw me during the funeral of the heroes, and was surprised that I was able to kill a couple of shinobi and survived, he also said that there was no point in bowing to the dead, although he had studied the techniques of the second hokage, and knew that there was a heaven, and reincarnation... There was another case when I crossed paths with Orochimaru, I was training at the academy, and I pointed all the kunai in my direction, and when I cut the ropes, they all went in my direction, and Orochimaru, who was watching me from behind the door, wanted to intervene to save me, I dodged and fought off all the kunai, and turned around and saw him smiling for a moment, like he wanted something from me, and then when he found out that everything was okay he went back the way he came, but now I realized that he just wanted my body, and now he's standing in front of me looking at me and let's get started:

-Itachi-kun, it's been a long time, in our last exam you were at the chunin exam, and you were able to pass it alone without a team, becoming a full-fledged chunin - I smiled in my own way and licked my tongue and said it all, at the expense of the chunin exam, he was present as a spectator, and watched the trial exams, I took all three exams without my team, but I was able to pass them all, rarely using the sharingan, and when I reached the finals, I beat them all, I was even given the status of jounin, although I was happy not because people were praising me, but because I was useful to my village.

-Orochimaru... after you left Konoha, I was disappointed when I found out what you were doing, and the fact that you no longer had any soul, much less honor, didn't surprise me.... - I answered him coldly.

-So you've figured out how my technique works," he smiled, licked his tongue, and continued, "You have an interesting cloak, it reminds me a lot of the Akatsuki cloak, although it's a shame you didn't join that organization, maybe instead of Paine I would have tried to take over your body," he finished his speech.

Now I realized that since I wasn't in the Akatsuki organizations, he wanted to take Paine's body instead of me, but it was stupid of him, because it wasn't Paine's real body, and he stayed away from Shisui, maybe because he didn't know about his mangekyo, every time I change an event, there are always replacements, the time line is hard to maintain, but now I realized that I had been maintaining the time line well all these years, only because it's also hard not only to maintain but also to change.... Shisui has now stepped into my shoes, he will finish all my Akatsuki assignments for me, in a way maintaining the timeline.

But not about that, I see that there are two shinobi near Orochimaru, they are dressed like Kabuto, in purple shirts and pants, I think I know them, in the first timeline, when I just returned to the village after Orochimaru attacked Konoha, along with his sound shinobi and the sand village, I in turn, after returning, began to study the list of shinobi who were on the chunin exam, those who hung on the walls of the Konoha, and even those who were on the select exams, and when I saw Kabuto I recognized him immediately, The first time I saw Kabuto was when Orochimaru wanted my body and I chopped off his arm as punishment, Kabuto came to his aid, I realized he was his right hand, he knew he couldn't beat me, so he threw me explosive kunai and ran away with Orochimaru, When I saw his face on the selection list for the chunin exams, I recognized him immediately and studied him well, also next to him were his two teammates Yoroi Akado, and Misumi Tsurugi, and now I see them in front of me, they are next to Orochimaru.

-The rumor that you want to attack our village is true, and you think we're just going to let you?" said Darui looking at Orochimaru.

-Yes it's true, I want to get the body of the fourth raikage, he's not like the third but he's a great option too, and then I'll be as fast as him, once we capture him, I'll keep him captive for 2 years, and when my body starts to rot, I'll use his body right away- replied Orochimaru looking at my squad.

-You shouldn't have said that, you won't get away alive now! - Shi answered him with an angry look.

Orochimaru just smiled, and signaled his two men to attack them, they took forbidden pills like mine to avoid side effects from the amaterasu art, now their chakra has increased many times, but it won't help them anyway, because I know they are not that high level shinobi, and these pills will only make them faster and stronger for a while....

Orochimaru's first shinobi named, Yoroi Akado, he heads to the right side to take on Hiashi, he activated a Byakugan, and meets him, Hiashi realized that by his chakra he is able to absorb it so he is on guard and periodically keeps his distance, now they clash and fight in hand to hand combat, although Hiashi's skill and speed is superior to his, but Yoroi taking these pills, almost matched his speed, they start fighting.

The second shinobi Orochimaru named, Misumi tsurugi, he went to the left side of Shi to fight him, and Shi was ready, because he was not only good in sensor skills, but also in genjutsu, and also in taijutsu, he prepared to meet him even took out kunai, Misumi in turn stood 5 meters away from him, and struck with his fist, his arm became long, Shi turned away, and realized how to fight him, he created some clones.

I went to Orochimaru personally, he came down to the ground and started to run away, and I realized that he wanted to lure me into a large field in order to use edo-tensei and defeat me, Darui ran after me.

-Where did he run off to?" Darui asked, running beside me.

-I assume he wants to lure us into a large field to use his most powerful technique, Edo-tensei," I answered my partner's question, and looking at him I continued, "It's a technique that can summon the dead, But Orochimaru won't use it to its full potential because he'll lose control, and if he does, you'll take care of Orochimaru and I'll take care of the resurrected ones," Darui nodded and I looked forward.

We were running after Orochimaru for about 2 minutes, and we saw him come out of the forest, into a large field of grass, and the gray-rainy sky was clearly visible, as he continued to run he stopped and turned towards me, the distance between us was more than 15 meters, I decided to stop in response and Darui too, and then looking in my direction Orochimaru folds the seals and starts:

-You know... I've heard about the heroic deeds of the main hero of Konoha, and I know how much stronger you are than me, but that doesn't mean you're stronger than them," Orochimaru smiled bloodthirstily and summoned two coffins.

When I was in the third man's office a year ago, I went to see him to inquire about the production of these pills, he said it was a temporary problem with the supply of the ingredients, and I spent that time purely training in taijutsu, and doing sports like push-ups and jogging to sharpen my chakra volume, and even my lungs, and over the years, it's become almost like Kisame's, and the side effects of the medication I've gotten used to, but I still don't feel like I've gotten strong enough for the final fight, I need to become as strong as Madara, then I can try to surpass him and become stronger in all aspects of him... I had such thoughts when I was training on lung capacity and chakra, and after two weeks I went to the third he said the pills were ready, he was happy to give them to me because he knew he was saving the world by doing so, helping me in any way he could, he also kept me in his office giving me some interesting advice about the edo-tensei technique, the second hokage for some unknown reason created this technique, and knew all its weaknesses, he said that if I were to cancel the kunai symbol, he would give me the pills, to cancel the chakra suppression symbol in the kunai, it can break the edo-tensei channel, the connection between the soul of the summoned person and the one who summoned him, so the edo-tensei will not work, usually this technique is used to control biju to break their channels for a while, which will confuse their chakra for a while and they can be captured, but people have improved this technique over time, and made it possible to break their chakra connections, because the summoned edo-tensei, The third hokage also used this technique in the first timeline, when Orochimaru summoned the first and second hokage, he wanted to add a fourth hokage to go up against the third, but the third had time to throw the kunai, Orochimaru couldn't summon him, though he wouldn't have been able to, because the fourth sealed himself, in his technique, when he split the nine-tailed man in half, he sealed half of his chakra to Naruto, and sealed the other half to himself, Orochimaru would only deal with this technique at the end, during the Fourth World Shinobi War, when he resurrected the four hokage...

Now I pull out these kunai and throw them into the coffin of the first hokage, but it doesn't work, and Orochimaru laughs, thinking I'm using regular kunai, then I pull out two more kunai and throw them into the coffin of the first hokage, and it works, and the connection breaks, and the coffin of the first hokage disappears, Orochimaru clenched his teeth, I guess he didn't expect that, but he pulled himself together and paid attention to the second hokage, because his coffin was intact, and I had already run out of all three kunai, Orochimaru added seals to the first one, and I recognized his movement, is he going to resurrect them in full force?, No, he didn't add the additional seals, so he's going to resurrect him 75%, the coffin opens and Tobirama-senju comes out, but I'm sure I'll take the second hokage, because I'm the only one who can seal his body with my totsuka sword.

-Darui hold Orochimaru, I'll take care of the second one," I said, looking toward Darui, and taking a pill out of my pouch, I drank five of them, because I'll be using the highest level of susanoo.

-Are you sure you can handle it? -It's not for nothing that he was called a genius of his time, you might need my help," Darui offered.

-If we focus on the resurrected second, Orochimaru will be able to resurrect the first hokage again, he has his blood from his coffin, but even he needs time, but you have to hold him off, I'm sure you can handle him, while I seal Tobirama-senju- -Darui understood and nodded, while I made a cold and serious look as I prepared for a battle against a kage level opponent.

After Tobirama came out of the coffin, Orochimaru put a kunai with a seal in the back of his head to completely subdue him and then his coffin vaporized in smoke, and Tobirama opened his eyes and looked at me and began:

-My edo-tensei technique was used for evil purposes after all, and my opponent is oddly enough an uchiha again, but this time you're on the good team and I'm in the bad hands, what irony... - said Tobirama with a sad tone looking in my direction.

He knew Orochimaru wasn't a good guy, and he knew I was for Konoha, because he had recently come from paradise, and I'm sure he'd seen Orochimaru, though not everyone has that process, some people don't remember being in paradise after being resurrected, For example, when I watched Orochimaru resurrect the four hokage, Hashirama looked at Minato in surprise and didn't even recognize the fourth hokage, not everyone remembers all the events they watched from heaven, but some do.

-I'm not like the other uchiha, because my soul never belonged to them, I already died once for Konoha, so I promise to save it from what's coming.... - I said with a serious look, and the other one just smiled in response.

-Orochimaru said in a slightly dejected tone, and folding the seals of the second hokage ran toward me, pulling out a kunai from the pouch Orochimaru had left him.

Meanwhile, Orochimaru had already started to pull out a jar of Hashirama's dried blood to try and resurrect him again, but before he could get it out, Darui hit him with his broad blade, and Orochimaru fended off the attack by taking the wind sword out of his mouth, "Your opponent will be me, and don't think you can handle me so easily" said Darui looking at one of the sannin, and Orochimaru licked his lips in response, and prepared to fight him.

The second hokage ran towards me with a serious face like mine and I pulled out my kunai from my pouch and fought off his attack, he tried to counterattack with a second kunai on his left hand and I took a step back before he could strike, I realized how serious an opponent he was, so I took off my cloak and quickly sealed it back into the scroll, leaving me with only black pants and a dark t-shirt, with the uchiha crest, and a blue fan, a gift from Hana.

Tobirama-senju folded the seals, I in turn activated my sharingan and I knew what seal he was going to fold, I took the example of Kakashi and decided to copy his movements, I copy his hand movements in detail and I know what technique he uses, it's a technique, that does physical damage to the enemy with a liquid mass raised under the water, when he's done folding the seals he summons a lot of water, and out of them come balls of water that take on a rotating compact shape, and if it hits it can severely cripple, in the first timeline, I used it on Kakashi once before, when I was in Konoha, I was attacked by Asuma and Kurenai while Kisame and I were defeating them, that's when Kakashi came in, so I used it on him, the water-fang projectile, even though I knew it was his water clone, so I didn't hesitate, but Kakashi dodged it anyway, even with Kurenai as he thought she was in danger and now Tobirama is using the same technique on me, but this water fang is much bigger, but I have an advantage, with my sharingan I copied every combination and even memorized them... and my water is the same size as his, as soon as the water rose to the top, the second hokage Tobirama said in unison with me "Water Element: Water Fang projectile" and two huge liquid masses of water hit each other causing a big wave, Orochimaru and Darui noticed it too and moved away from us.

When I turned my gaze to my opponent, I saw a kunai flying towards me, I recognized it as the seal of the hiraishin, the second hokage, and it was thrown to me personally by the second.... I pull out my wakizashi from my left belt and prepare to meet him, I dodge the kunai, when the second hokage appears behind me and swings his kunai, I successfully beat back his attack with my wakizashi and even managed to charge chakra to break his kunai after his kunai was destroyed, I tried to hurt him, but he wanted to throw another kunai behind me to try to move, so I destroyed his hiraishin seal kunai with my wakizashi, which was filled with cutting chakra, and at the same time I stabbed Tobirama, and he kicked with a sharp kick, that my wakizashi flew out of my hands, and I in turn swung my foot on the ground for him to slip, and he anticipated this movement and jumped, and I continued the sharp movement of my foot, making a circle of impact, with a second attempt to turn upwards, and hit the side of the second hokage, he flew off a little bit and I bought some time and activated mangekyo-sharingan and still applied amaterasu and it started to burn in the area of his armor and he quickly folded the seals created a shadow clone and switched places with it, the clone continued to burn and disappeared, Tobirama threw three kunai, they flew in different directions, and when he dodged a couple of centimeters from the one in the center, and then realized what he threw them for, he threw three kunai with hiraishin seals, one flying to the left in case I go to the left, and the second one flying to the right in case I go to the right, and the center one if I stay here, he wants to hit me like Izuna Uchiha once did, If I get between the second and his kunaiami, there's a risk that he'll cut my flesh with his light speed, as I'm human I'm vulnerable to even that kind of attack, so I had a plan, I got in the center, between him and his hiraishin seal kunaiami, and when he was about to move to do serious damage to me with his kunai, I used susanoo, and while he was moving, he hit my red shiit hard with susanoo, and when he got closer he couldn't dodge it, from my main strike, sword-totsuka, I hit him with sword susanoo, and he was already caught.

-I'll seal your body with a second one, and I'm sure you won't be resurrected anytime soon, do you have anything last to say?", I inquired, to hear his answers.

-You're a really strong uchiha after all, and I know who you are Itachi-Uchiha, the one who saved the village by slaughtering his entire clan," he said smiling slightly, and I realized that Tobirama-senju was still watching the clan, perhaps he was even present during the massacre of the uchiha clan.

-You once wrote in your diary that the shinobi who travels through time is true, I am him, I've already experienced those moments in the first timeline, and now I'm trying to improve the second timeline," he opened his eyes, and was proud of himself for not losing faith in it.

-I'm sure you will save the world, because you have great potential as a great shinobi, and save this world no matter what, although what am I talking about, you already made a difficult decision by killing your love.... - he said sadly.

-It was accidental, and I think she wanted it herself- - I answered with my head down.

-She was the reincarnation of the love of my life, if you read my diary I think you know who I mean," I nodded when he meant Sarada, he noticed and continued, "I'm sure she will be reincarnated again, because she always wanted to feel like a person who feels love, feel vulnerable, look me in the eyes and you'll know....

I with mangekyo sharingan, discerned the best moments of his so called childhood, and was also able to find out what made him so confident, and later he nodded to me with a smile that he was able to show me the detail, I also nodded back to him for his trust in me, and sealed it....

Heh - I said with a smile, recognizing a part of his life.

When I looked over at Darui and Orochimaru, I noticed that their battle was heating up, Orochimaru was covered in oil and had summoned many elephant sized snakes, and Darui was chopping their heads off with gusto, the ones that were coming in his direction, and when Orochimaru returned with his snakes, there were eight of them, and they were all covered in oil along with Orochimaru himself, and Darui smiled as if he wanted them to be, he quickly folded his seals and said, "Lightning style: Black Panther" and sent his black lightning bolt straight into the oil and it struck all the snakes with an unimaginable blow that they disappeared and Orochimaru also received a strong electric shock and threw off his skin, he quickly ran towards his shinobi, hoping that they had won.

Darui noticed that I was fine, he was even happy that I was able to defeat the second hokage, and I nodded to him and ran after Orochimaru, we went back into the forest and ran after him again for over a minute, and when we got to the battle ground where Hiashi and Shi were fighting against the two shinobi of Orochimaru's sound, they saw that Hiashi had already dealt with Yora as he was sitting on his knees, Hiashi had probably given him 64 heavenly blows that paralyzed his chakra, and Shi had already dealt with Misumi with his genjutsu, and he was lying on the ground unconscious, his arms and legs like rubber bands, literally... They noticed Orochimaru and quickly got into formation and ran towards him, all three of them standing shoulder to shoulder, Orochimaru took out the blood jar of the first hokage again to try and resurrect the first hokage, I activated the mangekyo because I knew he couldn't do it while I was here, my speed was faster than his, but he wanted to take a chance and had already opened a jar of his dried blood from the coffin, and then suddenly when I was half a meter away from him and close, I didn't have to do anything, because right in front of him was the fourth reikage himself, and hit his hand with his fist, when the jar shattered Orochimaru shouted loudly "Noooo!Orochimaru shouted loudly "Noooo!" as he knew he would have to retrieve their DNA again, and the Raikage looked at Orochimaru and shouted "Lariat!" and used his lightning to blow Orochimaru's head off, literally.... And everything happened so fast that even Orochimaru's two companions couldn't do anything, and they still had little chakra, the raikage looked in my direction and came closer to me:

-The last time we saw each other was on your 14th birthday, but then I only agreed to your salute because the other kage talked me into it, but now I'll personally give you a salute in my village, heh-" he said with a smile and honestly.

-I was just doing what I had to do to make the world a better place in some way, that's what anyone would do," I said, shaking the dust off my shirt and smiling lightly.

-Don't be modest, you've already changed half the world, not everyone can do that," he said, folding his arms across his chest and looking at me proudly.

-Maybe... but it's a long way from the finals," he nodded in agreement, even though he didn't know what I meant, though it was for the best.

Looking behind him, behind the back of the fourth raikage, Orochimaru's original body comes out of Orochimaru's body, and he quickly pulls out the seals, and holds Yoroi and Misumi by his shoulders, Orochimaru folds the seals, transforms into fire, and quickly disappears, and the raikage turns around, clenches his teeth, and is there in lightning speed, he doesn't have time to catch up to them or hurt them, they are already gone.

-Kso!" the fourth-raikage said with anger.

-They're not going anywhere, their fates are already sealed," I said, because I know what their outcome will be, and the fact that they escaped is a good thing, the timeline is preserved.

-I agree!, I think today was a difficult day let's head back to the cloud village," the reikage commanded his two shinobi, Darui and Shi nodded.

The end of Itachi's POV

Raikage followed and invited Hiashi and Itachi, the two also nodded, to stay the night in a safe village and they all moved towards the cloud village, jumping through the trees.