Chapter 36

The sun was shining brightly, Sunagakura had always been different from all the other countries with its desolation, and now there were two silhouettes in black cloaks with red clouds in them, One of them was huge with the sword Samehadoi on his back and the other was a little shorter than him but wielding the eternal mangekyo-sharingan, they started walking towards the sand village to finish their mission, Shisui looking ahead started thinking about his mission and about Payne's words.

Flashback

Akatsuki Cave, in each finger of the summoned statue of Paine, now there were nine holograms standing there, and Paine assigned each one a special type of mission, so that they would have a lot of money in the organizations, and they need it more than ever, because currency is important, but for their daily life it is also important, so Paine assigned each one a special mission of their type, when all the holograms and including Zetsu disappeared, only two holograms were left, it was Shisui and Fuguki, they stood and waited for the Leader's orders:

-Shisui, Fuguki, your mission is to protect the suna from three particularly dangerous rank-S Konoha nukenin," Paine ordered.

-I don't understand why we have to protect them, we're mercenaries, not guardian angels," Fuguki said.

-The Fourth Kazekage doesn't know about it yet, for him Akatsuki is just a peaceful organization, and considering the fact that he offered to help, and promised a large sum for this Rank-S mission, I found it very tempting," he answered Fuguki's question and added, "And since when do you discuss my orders?" after Paine's words, Fuguki was silent and just nodded.

-It wouldn't be easier to send Sasori and Deidara on this mission, since they've been to these places before, and they'd know better than us," Shisui added his opinion.

-I doubt it... - Shisui and Fuguki noticed it, because unlike everyone else Paine wasn't a hologram, he opened his eyes and continued, "Those three nukenin from Konoha, they are very dangerous and their leader has a technique that he created, it's called a jibakugan, he can control people and their minds to do whatever he wants, this technique can only be countered by the power of the sharingan, just like yours Shisui.

-Are you sure this will work? If his technique is so powerful that even the Kazekage himself is afraid of him, then maybe more information about him is needed- Shisui suggested.

-I'm sure of it, because I found out that six years ago he kidnapped many Shinobi from Konoha, but only a 12 year old Shinobi from the ANBU-Konoha, Itachi Uchiha, was able to resist him," Shisui turned his attention to Paine and continued to listen with Fuguki, The third Hokage sent Itachi on a mission to catch this dangerous criminal, when Itachi found him near the cliff tops, he used his jibakugan on him, but Itachi easily broke the technique with his regular sharingan, he fell into a stupor for a while, because it had never happened to him before, So he made a switch and was in a far away place from Itachi, and after a quick seal he disappeared and never appeared on Konoha again, and now he's heading to Suna, probably to subdue everyone else with his jibakugan technique so they can be his puppets and attack Konoha, It will be even easier for you to defeat him, with your eternal mangekyo-sharingan, I doubt there will be anyone who will be your equal in this, and if I had sent Deidara and Sasora, it is likely that they would have fallen into this jibakugan and become his servants, but now this mission lies with you, and your main enemy who uses this technique is called Shinga.

-I see Leader-sama, but you said three nukenins, what about them?" asked Fuguki.

-I don't know much about them, but I know that one of them is called Hakui, he specializes in taijutsu or something like that, and the other one is called Doshin, he has earth element and also kinjutsu ability like Deidara, but unlike him he can create fire rats, -Payne finished his speech, and added at the end, -Tomorrow, move towards the Wind Country, the village of sand, your mission is to help the fourth Kazekage, he will pay us well for it, Good luck....

-Shisui said confidently, Fuguki hummed confidently, and then both holograms disappeared, Shisui and Fuguki woke up in the woods and set up camp and fell asleep as they planned to reach the sand village in the morning.

End Flashback

Shisui continued towards the sand village, the distance was not long, they were closer to their goal and knew that they would meet Shingu and his two men on the way, Payne had given them the exact coordinates when they first started to move out, now they were walking along the sand, the sun was protecting them from the strong sun with their special hat that is given to all members of Akatsuki organizations.

Shisui's POV

If Itachi was once able to resist his jibakugan, even when he didn't have a mangekyo sharingan, then I'm sure against my mangekyo, he won't be able to resist because there is no sharingan stronger than mine in the world, I never like to praise myself, it's a trait I have similar to Itachi, but it's nice to recognize my strength like that, because I'm much more useful and I motivate myself well, boosting my confidence.... We started walking and I was wondering how much further we had to go, if Fuguki had been to this place and this village in general, I decided to ask him:

-How long is it? -And have you been to these places before?" I began, looking to the right, in his direction.

-We're close, I haven't been here in a long time, the last time I was here I was only here with my team and on joint missions with the ANBU of the hidden sand village," he said, shifting his gaze to my side, though I understand him, because I've been in the ANBU myself.

-Are you not sorry that you left the ANBU?, because then missions were easier, -I answered, deciding to start a topic to kill time.

-Nothing like that in the ANBU, I was only there to report information about them to those who paid well, but now I don't need it, because when Toby came to me with a tempting offer, I accepted it-" he said the speech looking at the front and thinking about those moments.

-So it's all about money?, you even reminded me of Kakuzu in some ways-" I said with a smile, for it was true.

-Maybe his methods are true, people like him who have lived a lot longer understand that money rules the world, you can create a clan, build a village, even buy a Country, like Orochimaru did when he bought Country-Risa and converted it to Country-Sound, he also managed to transfer all his shinobi there and gave them protectors for his village, even though I never liked him, but I have to admit, it's respectable," he finished with a chuckle.

-If Orochimaru had tried to attack me, I would have used the remaining koto-amatsukami on him and made him my puppet, who knows, I could have created my own Country to my liking," he added with a smile after my answer, because that would have been possible, and even if it was imagined, it was true.

-Maybe you're right, money and control really can do almost anything, but I always thought there was something more behind it, there's more meaning beyond love or friendship, I wish I was a philosopher and found the answer, but I'm fine with the life I live, even if it's short or long it doesn't matter what's fun - when he finished speaking it sounded a little philosophical, some people find answers when they think they've lost it, though if it was Itachi instead he would have understood more than he did.

-Life is full of surprises and you're forever young if you believe it, everything depends on the mind and compulsion, because that's reality, Heh.... - I added some advice to him, and even cheered him up.

Then after my words I reminded him of Maito Dai, because before he was able to kill four of the seven swordsmen of the mist, he said the same thing about the power of youth and youth, and he also added the story that Juzo Biwo, who was my first partner, was not the only one who survived Maito Dai's attack, he too was in place of Juzo when they fought against Daya, and in the end only three survived, among them were, Raiga Kurosuki, Juzo Biwo, and of course, they were then replaced, with Zabuza Momochi, Kisame Hoshigake, and Mangetsu Hozuku joining the ranks of the seven swordsmen, followed by several other replacements, Fuguki left the Seven Swordsmen and returned to his village of hidden fog because he knew it paid better, Kisame also decided to leave and joined the ANBU like Fuguki, Mangestu died, and Zabuza went his own way and trained Mangetsu's younger brother Suigetsu, and then went his own way and after a couple of months met a boy named Haku and continues on his way with his next partner, thinking about the life of the seven swordsmen, I realized the fact that we were almost there, it was already noon, if we turn to the left there would be the village of sand itself, but we are going across from it to the meeting point with the enemies.

***

An hour passed and we got there, there was nothing but emptiness and sands around and I activated my sharingan and 200 meters ahead of us, I noticed a couple of silhouettes, there were exactly three of them, I knew it was them when Fuguki asked me if I noticed someone, I nodded and he prepared his Samehado to fight, taking the hilt in his hand, later they came close to us and noticed us, two of them took off their brown hoodies and threw them underneath them, right into the sand, they were about 20 meters away from us and when they got closer I could see them, the leader was named Shinga, he was wearing a purple hoodie and took off his hood when he noticed us, he had spiky gray hair and a spot on his forehead that looked a lot like Tsunade Senju's Byakugo, but it wasn't that instead there was a red dot in the center of his forehead, and the other one must be named Hakui, he had blond hair exactly like Deidara's, also a white kimono and half of a brown mask on his face that looked like an ANBU, which covered the entire upper part of his face, only his mouth was open, and the third one was all dressed in bright green clothes and he also had a bright green cape on his back, the same mask as Hakui with half of his face, he also had a very large plush hat on his head, stopping 10 meters away from us Shinga started:

-I've heard a lot about your organization," he began politely, then changed his tone to one of indifference and added, "so what do you want?

-We know who you are Shinga our mission is to kill you," I replied coldly and simply.

-Nothing personal it's just business-" Fuguki added with a smile.

-How dare you threaten Shinga-san, I'll kill you myself!" said Hakui angrily, clasping his hands together.

-Ei!, take the one with the disheveled black hair, and I'll take the one with the sharp teeth and face tattoo- Doshin suggested, looking at Hakui, and Hakui nodded.

-If they are from Akatsuki, then they are very strong be careful, while I prepare my strong technique - commanded Shinga, taking out a seal and calling one seed, this seed was not like a fruit or vegetable plant, it was something large, those two nodded to him and ran in our direction.

Hakui ran towards me, stopping 10 meters away from me he pulled out some strange pills, these pills are taken to add incredible chakra, and they also help to avoid the side effects of any forbidden techniques, few people from the Uchiha clan have also figured out to use these pills, to prevent damage to the cornea of the eyes, from mangekyo sharingan, I'm sure Itachi is taking one now, the only side effect, is a slight headache and pressure, he got it and took it, and I turned to my left and saw Doshin run up to Fuguki and stop 10 meters away from him and put the seals together, his whole body covered in chakra and a Golem started to come out of the ground, Doshin gave his chakra to him and Golem took the form of Fuguki and even the sword Samehada was copied and Doshin fell on his knee because his body was exhausted for giving all the chakra to Golem and Fuguki clenched his teeth and added:

-What?" he said as he looked in surprise at the Golem, who had taken his exact form, the same cloak and even the same sameshade.

-Surprised?, I spent all the chakra for you to fight with your reflection it will copy you exactly, your technique and his sword will have the same ability and when you are exhausted I will kill you in the end haha! - Doshin said angrily, lying on the sand and trying to accumulate chakra, but he couldn't, so the Fuguki clone ran towards him to attack him, and the original Fuguki in turn ran towards him too, and both hit their swords and started their fight.

I looked forward and noticed Hakui had changed in size, he was even taller than Fuguki, he had muscles all over his body like a beast that was looking at me with rage because I wanted to kill Shingu and he was loyal to him, so he ran at me and I activated my sharingan and ran at him too, pulling out my kunai, When he stabbed me in the heart he was happy because he didn't know it was a shadow clone that I had created during the conversation and made a substitution, when the clone vanished I analyzed his speed and reaction then I figured out how to fight against him, I climbed out of the underground and created the shadow flicker technique, all the clones that were like an illusion, and I with my speed was able to move through them, and strike him, all my clones ran to him surrounded him he angrily hit the sand under him to create a repulsive wind blow and at the same time cause a slight earthquake to make all the clones shake and scatter, but the attempt was counted, the clones even moved when he hit one of them, he was like a ghost missing the blows, four of my clones were running around him and I was the original one, I mingled among them, hitting him with my kunai, right on his legs and stomach I quickly left him with cuts and when he responded I quickly moved into the same wave as the other clones, and he hit that clone, but it missed him again, and I decided it was time to finish him off, because I had calculated his strength and weight and his chakra level, so I continued a series of attacks with my shimmering clones to wear him down, and when he started to move slowly, four of my clones surrounded him, and he couldn't hit anyone as before, so I hit his pain points to block his chakra control, I hit his pain points while dodging his attacks, when he made his next attacks, I was also cleverly able to replace the original me with my shimmering clones, and his attacks were the same as before, which passed through the bodies of my clones like ghosts, when I saw that he could no longer concentrate chakra I canceled my technique and also noticed how he started to transform back into himself, his body took on a normal appearance again, then he fell to his knee from a severe headache because he had taken about 10 pills, which gave him incredible chakra, by blocking their flow I ruptured his chakra channel thus causing side effects early, then I decided to ease his pain and activated mangekyo-sharingan and used my kamui on him, looking at his neck I ruptured separating his head from his body thus giving him an easy death.

Turning to my left I saw Fuguki finishing his fight, he kicked his clone Golem with his foot, but he put his sword up and slid 5 meters backwards anyway, Fuguki smiled as his plan worked, a hand appears from the ground beneath his Golem's feet, it creates a water prison that you can't get out of and Fuguki takes advantage of that, he takes the Samehada and stabs it into the water prison and absorbs the Golem's chakra, Since this Golem is made up of chakra that Doshin uses, the Samehada has no problem absorbing it completely, and then this Golem turns into sand and falls, Fuguki cancels the water prison technique, and approaches Doshin who was still lying on the sand on his knees, because he gave all his chakra to this Golem, and he was trying to accumulate chakra again, Fuguki comes closer and starts:

-I'm not interrupting you?" asks Fuguki sharply looking at Doshin who is trying to accumulate chakra again, Doshin opens his eyes surprised and asks.

-How did you defeat my Golem so quickly?" he asks looking at Fuguki with surprise.

-He might be as strong as me, he had the same chakra as me and he even had a Samehada, but you forgot one thing unlike us they are not human and can't think or plan anything, they fight with instincts even if they have experience they can't copy the skills and tactics, that's why I easily trapped him and killed him," Fuguki said as he continued to look at Doshin.

-Ahhh, stupid soil!, if there was earth instead of sand I would have strengthened it!, and you can kill me if you want but you can't stop Lord Shingu, I'm sure right now his powerful technique is ready and his seed has dawned haha!", Doshin began angrily and ended with a mad laugh.

-I see you still don't get it... Shisui and I will take care of your Shingu, and for you, I'm sure you'll be smarter in your next life," Fuguki finished his speech, pulling out his Samehada and decapitating Doshin.

I walked over to Fuguki, when I saw that he was done too, he nodded to me to show that he had taken care of his, I nodded back to him that I had taken care of mine, then we ran over to Shinga, and saw him folding the seals near the seed, I realized that he had been saving his chakra for five minutes to transfer it to his seed, and a tall tree began to grow out of the sand, it was very large, like the fifth floor of a tall Konoha building, turning back towards us he began:

-I see you've already dealt with them, good job," he began with a laugh, we looked at him seriously to see what he meant and continued to listen to him, "I knew they couldn't handle Shinobi of your level, whoever you are, you weren't hired by Akatsuki for nothing, but I also knew they were strong enough to hold you back.

Finishing his speech he folded the seals and translating the view, from his hands to our side uttered loudly, a word of his technique.

-Jibakugan! - I easily broke that control technique with my sharingan, and I see Shinga surprised by my sharingan, and Fuguki in turn got into his technique, and his forehead also began to have a seal like Shinga's, a symbol that resembled Tsunade's Byakugo, but in the center of his forehead was a red dot, I wanted to dispel the influence of the jibakugan from Fuguki, but the Samehada that was on his back did everything for me, transferring to him his chakra, still absorbed from the Golem and Fuguki then broke the jibakugan, also the seals on his forehead immediately disappeared.

-Shinga said angrily, knowing that his basic techniques wouldn't penetrate my sharingan, he continued, "Once upon a time, I had another Uchiha with those eyes, but I thought their clan was finished, so you're the main hero of Konoha, but why are you wearing Akatsuki clothes?" he finished questioningly, also mistaking me for Itachi, but I decided to tell him the truth.

-You're confused... I'm not Itachi Uchiha, and he's the main hero of Konoha, and my name is Shisui Uchiha," I said my name and activated my eternal mangekyo-sharingan, and he was surprised, not only by the fact that I had a mangekyo, but also by the fact that it was an unusual shape, like a four-pointed shuriken.

-He's a dangerous opponent, so don't underestimate him, and I think we should attack together," Fuguki said, and I nodded, adjusting the collar of my black cloak with red clouds.

We see Shinga calling on the roots of the tree behind him, they envelop him and when they let go, his appearance changes, he takes off his purple hoodie and throws it to his right, leaving him with only his bare torso, Shingi's body was covered in the same seals as his forehead, he was very similar to Tsunade when she uses the last level of biakugo, Shingi's entire body was covered in the same, though it was inferior to the biakugo in every aspect...

Now looking at us he began to fold the seals and the roots of the same tree appeared from the ground, they began to attack us, spitting purple plasma, but we managed to move back and dodge, this style reminded me of the tree techniques of the first Hokage, although unlike him he didn't have this style, but he could control the tree with his chakra, Fuguki fought them and used his water techniques against them to hold them off, and I ran to Shinge to stop him, because once he was defeated, the tree technique would be nothing but dust, just like the tree itself.

One giant tree-root blocked my way, like a snake, and I decided not to deal with it, and just used kamui and tore the tree-root, and when I got to Shinga, I threw him a kunai charged with lightning, lightning was one of my elements, I quickly formed seals and cloned the kunai, and then there were more of them, They flew at Shinga but he just smiled, and called more roots that created a shield around him, thus protecting him from the strong onslaught of my attacks with multiple kunai, I then formed seals and used katon, the trees that protected him started to burn and he moved back to a safe distance, when he clenched his teeth and said "Xo", I smiled as I knew that this was the limit of his strength and he wouldn't surprise me, then I activated my susanoo, a green skeleton appeared around me, it completely protected me with its green chakra, this surprised Shingu, then my susanoo took on the next level of form taking, it began to take on armor, and a sword was added to it, it was my strongest weapon, naturally after koto-amatsukami, I approached him at a definitely close range and said "Shimura Blade" and it went straight to him, piercing his stomach, also all his tree roots that Fuguki was fighting with now disintegrated into dust.

-Aaarrgghhhh!, that's not all!, the fight is not over - he said gritting his teeth in pain, and tries to fold the seals and continues - the field you are both standing in now, it is surrounded by my chakra tree with the help of my created tree, it absorbs all the chakra that stands in this radius hah, - but he is not getting anything and no chakra is not coming to him, and he confused asked the question - curse what is going on?

-I stopped all your moves, I was good at biology since the ninja academies," I answered him standing in front of him, my susanoo still holding the blade on his stomach, I could use it without limitation, not just mangekyo, but eternal mangekyo without interruption tenketsu, I continued to look at him - I guessed that you had covered most of the terrain with your roots not to show off, there was a hidden reason for that, at the end remembering biology I guessed that you absorb chakra, that was the reason I activated my susanoo and my shimura blade, it can seal a body or even its ability and technique or seals... it can even wound the soul if you want it to, it's basically the same as a totsuku sword.

After saying the word, I chopped his body and all the trees that were around the desert disappeared, turning into dust, and again we were surrounded by only sands, I ran towards Fuguki to ask how he was, he nodded with a smile that he was fine, the battle with the tree roots really tired him out, we agreed to go back to the organization, namely to the rain village and continued our way there, mission accomplished successfully and Paine will be happy, and strangely enough we saved a whole village and that's worth a lot, and the money will not be superfluous in the organizations.

The end of Shisui's POV

They walked for about 3 hours, but suddenly from the sands began to climb out of the several thugs and nukenin sand village, they were dressed in different clothes, some were in hoods, and others in a spacious kimono, climbed out of the sand, because of the gang intelligence, reported that there are two of Akatsuki, so they were waiting for them and also hid, but suddenly one of the bandits begins:

-Haha, who do I see? It's the red cloaks with red obalaks, the criminal organization Akatsuki," said the thug who was wearing a yellow kimono with a smile.

-We will be paid well for you hehehehehe -say the nukenin, whose entire face was covered with a handkerchief.

There were about 20 renegade Shinobi, but for Shisui and Fuguki they weren't a threat, just a nuisance that needed to be dealt with quickly.

-Another fly... - Fuguki said indifferently, and looking at Shisui, he added, "Are you ready?

-As always- Shisui replied with a smile and activated his sharingan.

***

It was already night, everyone in Konoha was asleep, it was exactly midnight, but Itachi was lying pensively by his bed, mostly he was thinking about how he spent today, in the morning he woke up he took a little walk and went to the spacious field, where the bell practice was supposed to start tomorrow, where team seven would take two bells away from Kakashi, but today Itachi was alone there, he took the 5-pill and opened the seventh gate and figured out how to control it, but he didn't get a white tiger like Maito-Gai, but instead he had a pure white nebula that surrounded his entire body like a susanoo, and he could channel that power wherever and to whomever he wanted, but that technique had a lot of side effects, but Itachi's pills made up for it, and the only side effect he had was blood pressure, Then he put the weights back on and realized that there was no point in repeating the training, he had already reached his skill level limit, but before that he was able to follow the team-7's conversation, and learned their goals and dreams he liked Sakura's words better, thinking about it he fell asleep with a smile.