"It has been a long time, Itachi."

Itachi simply smirks at me.

"Horns? Rabbit?"

"Ah you know Itachi. They just started appearing out of nowhere~"

"Oh, you both know each other?"

"Be quiet snake. We are having a moment over here."

"You are still the same girl from years back."

Oho~ Orochimaru is looking mighty furious over there.

"Itachi, take a look at our legendary sannin pouting like a little child."

"Hn. Disgusting."

"Indeed. Think you can give me the honor of facing our garden snake, Itachi?"

"Hn."

"Didn't I tell you to stop doing that?"

"Hn." And he smirks at me.

"Humph! Once I have that pesky snake remov-"

"Girl. You can count yourself lucky to have angered me, Orochimaru. I will make sure to keep you alive and have you used in one of my experiments. I am quite eager to analyze a bloodline that uses horns. Are they amplifying your powers as a sensor? Are you possible already the result of an expirement? I can't wait to start dissecting you, kukukuku."

"Oh shut up. We both know that the only human taking part in your 'expirements' are little boys. You do realize that being a pedophile is considered illegal, don't you?"

Good. He is infuriated. That will help with applying genjutsu on him as he will probably not pay attention to them and instead try to find the most painful way to torture me.

I add Qi to my voice and have it travel through the air to Orochimaru and successfully apply a genjutsu on him.

"You are no enemy to me, pedo-snake."

Itachi seems to have noticed the genjutsu already thanks to his Sharingan, which is giving him the ability to see my Qi filled voice, but Orochimaru didn't.

I sligthly affected his sense of balance, but seeing as Orochimaru is currently standing still, he didn't notice any problems.

At this point I try to layer a genjutsu on top of the first one, by having him look at my hand.

"I only need one of my five katana to beat you down, Snake." I take one of my katana out of its sheath and then I have a burst of Qi travel to Orochimarus eyes.

I prepare another genjutsu on my katana and ready it to be transfered as I rush to Orochimaru.

He blocks my katana with a kunai and at that moment he realizes that his movement is affected by one of my genjutsus.

What he doesn't know yet is that the genjutsu on my blade is travelling from my katana to the kunai and then enters his body.

"I can't move? A genjutsu!"

My latest genjutsu traps Orochimaru in an illusion, where his body is pierced by multiple katana, which make movement almost impossible.

Even before he can try to dispel any genjutsu on him, I pierce his left shoulder with my blade and use on of my newest creations: Explosion Fist.

Qi travels from my body to his shoulder through my blade, similar to the Gentle Fist, and I cut the connection right after I have it forcefully expand. The Qi rips apart Orochimarus left shoulder and his left arm promptly falls to the ground.

Orochimaru shortly starts backing up from where, due to the pain that deactivated all my genjutsus on him.

I use my Tenseigan and 'pull' his fallen arm to me and remove his Akatsuki ring from it.

"What a shameful display for one of the 'Legendary Three Sannin'. I am sure that is the same thing Hanzo thought, when he gave you three that title."

"You slut. I will remember this." And then he slithers away. 

It is a good thing that people underestimate me, but that makes my fights so boring.

Beside that it is obvious why Orochimaru decided to leave instead of fighting both Itachi and me.

No matter what Orochimaru had prepared for Itachi, he would have still struggled to take him down, but with me by Itachi's side he won't even get close to him.

At least I now know that I am either close to Orochimarus speed or even surpass him with my genjutsu. The second genjutsu should have reduced his speed by around 15% to 25%, but knowing as Orochimaru's body is a result of multiple expiremnts, I would make it closer to 10%. It is ver likely that he tried to create a genjutsu resistant body for his fight against Itachi.

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"Interesting. You first affected his sense of balance to make it harder for him to move and counterattack. Then you used another genjutsu to slow down Orochimaru and the final genjutsu had stopped his movement. You turned into a fine genjutsu mistress, Hinata."

"Oh don't start flattering me now, Itachi. I still won't let you of for your grunting. Do you want to keep his left arm?"

"Keep it."

"And the ring?"

"Give that to me."

I remove the ring and then throw Orochimarus arm away.

"Soo~ How have you been?" "Why are you here?"

Did we really just now try to start a conversation at the same time.

"I have been looking for you. Don't you remember? I told you, that I would find you in a few years."

"You did."

"Hm~ Have you been wearing your moon earing?"

Itachi combs his hair to the side and a crescent moon earing, with a rabbit on it, can be seen on his left ear.

"I had it with me the whole time."

"That's cute." No reaction huh~

"Anyway. You joined an interesting mercenary group there, Itachi."

"H- *cough* yes."

"Do you think I can join them too? Travelling alone got boring over time and now that I finally found you I don't plan to leave that easily."

"Follow me. I will require a new partner with Orochimaru's disappearance."

"Then lead the way."

With the direction we are walking in, we should be going to Rain Country and with the civilian speed it will take a day until our destination.

"I have heard about the Uchiha massacre. Every Uchiha was killed except for children younger than 10 years."

"Yes."

Silence.

"Are you not going to tell me how everything I did will backfire on me?"

"I could go on a rant about how everything you decided will backfire and in the end kill you, but I decided to support your decision."

Itachi is now really staring at me.

"Oh don't give me that surprised look. We both can make theories about how your actions will turn out, but why should we? I told you to make decision for yourself and did you not decide to kill them? Yes, there were some annoying circumstances, but in the end you did what you did because you wanted to, don't you? That is all I wanted from you."

"..Thanks."

"Well... I also wanted my friend to be safe, but I somehow get the feeling that whatever you decided for yourself will try to kill you."

"*cough*"

"Anyway. Just remember that you are not alone and got a friend by your side."

That ended our conversation and we both enjoy a pleasant silence.

We stop for walking and make camp, when it got too dark to continue. Itachi and I could have actually gone on, but I just wanted to enjoy this moment and actually wanted to talk with him some more.

"How did you even find us, Hinata?"

Seems like Itachi is also looking for a pleasant talk.

"Hm~ I found this weird guy on one of my bandit exterminations. One half black, the other white and looks like a venus flytrap. He seemed to be impressed about my skill and started talking about your group. When he started talking about, I just asked where I would find you and then join your group."

"So you met Zetsu then. I kind of expected you to meet someone else of our group."

"Who are you talking about?"

"Madara Uchiha."

"Shouldn't he be close to a hundred years old by now? Are you sure he is still alive?"

"I don't expect 'him' to be that Madara and instead by a secret student or even a fanboy. The only reason I am even considering a connection to Madara is his apparent hate for Uchihas."

"Hate for Uchihas? I remember reading something about him leaving the village, but was that really connected to your clan?"

"It is said that Madara tried convincing the clan to leave Konoha and later on left the village without the Uchiha's support. 'That' guy who is possibly Madara also helped with the massacre. He is the reason why I was even able to kill all adults."

"Hm. Is he part of Akatsuki?" It is so weird to talk about these things, when you already know all about our mystery person.

"Yes."

"Will he be a danger?"

"Possibly. I only know that he has the Mangekyo Sharingan and is dangerous, especially if he is either the real Madara or his student."

"Mangekyo Sharingan? Is that a more powerful version of the Sharingan?"

"Yes."

Hm. I should probably tell Itachi, why I am covering half of my face and in particular my forehead.

"Itachi, there is something I should show you, before we enter the Akatsuki base."

He slowly turns his body into my direction and I start undoing the cloth covering my face.

"Over the years my body underwent many odd changes. The obvious one being my black horns. Another one are my blue Byakugan eyes. I have travelled around and couldn't find any information about them, but what I do know is that they are an improved version of the normal Byakugan and give me access to very strong abilities."

I open my eyes and look at Itachi. He activates his own eyes and starts inspecting my Tenseigan, when he suddenly freezes up. He likely found out about my chakra network having a connection to my forehead.

"You probably already found the last change."

I move the hair covering my forehead aside and open my third eye.

"Apparently the Hyuga are closer connected to the Uchihas than you would know. Months ago this eye just appeared out of nowhere. It increased in power very quickly and if the speed with which my body is growing up, then I can only assume that my Sharingan will also increase in power very quickly. I could be the first non-Uchiha to have awakened the Sharingan naturally."

Itachi is just looking at my Sharingan and probably thinking about his next words. It is kind of unpleasant to just wait for him to say anything.

"I see. Hiding your eyes should be your highest priority. Orochimaru would be even more interested to kill you if he knew what you were dangling in front of his eyes."

"I know. The cloth I am using to hide my eyes is chakra conductive and filled with my chakra. That makes it harder for Sharingan and Byakugan to look through it, which means that my vision is also impeded, but with my improved Byakugan I can still make out chakra networks of people."

"Can you fight blind?"

"I had to train myself to do so. Got a little bonus by learning to sense people's chakra."

"Good."

"Did you do the same? I know for a fact that the Sharingan is very susceptible to sudden chakra flares."

"It got necessary lately."

Necessary? Ah, right. Itachi only has the Mangekyo Sharingan and not the Eternal version, which means that he will slowly turn blind.

"Are your Sharingan eyes damaged?"

"The Mangekyo Sharingan is putting a high strain on itself, which slowly turns the user blind."

"Do you know of a way to prevent that?"

"Not using them and then there is another way, but that won't be an option for a while." He is obviously talking about transplanting a Mangekyo Sharingan set from another body to his, which generates the Eternal version.

"I see."

"By the way do you want to help me with coming up with a name for me? I obviously won't be introducing myself as Hinata."

"What about Baka-hime? That should be suitable."

"Come on, Itachi~"

"Hn."

"How about Kuro? Because your horns are black."

"Why shouldn't I call myself Shiro, because my skin is white? Seriously, Itachi, you are really bad with naming people."

"Hn."