Chapter 75

Three months later

It was spring outside. Birds were singing, squirrels chasing after one another and a deer herd was grazing in the distance, enjoying the nice day outside. Everything was peaceful outside of the temple that the animals were mysteriously attracted too. None of them would have thought to venture off this far to this place. They always received bad vibes that made their hair or fur stand up. But over the past three months, they found this place peaceful.

A rock was thrown at the deer herd. Normally they would flinch or scatter, one fern looked up and eyes who thrown it then bent her head back down to continue eating.

"Hey get out of here!" Deidara yell to scare them away, getting frustrated with all these animals lingering around their base. "Those things use to be scared of coming here and us too, yea."

"Those things are called deers." Zetsu, the two faced colored white and black plant man told him in a mild manner. He was sitting on a stone, really not caring if the deers are there or not.

"Maybe if I threw a clay bomb at them that will get them moving, hum yea" Deidara smiles devilishly, always thought hurting animals were fun except for birds, he respected them. His hungry palm mouth with razor teeth opened up.

Zetsu look at him suspiciously wondering why he is talking to him in the first place. "How come you're not with Tobi-san?"

Deidara looked to his side with a scowling look, getting the impression he was annoying him. But nobody annoys him more then Tobi. Deidara shrug his shoulder. "Somewhere. None of us actually has been doing anything for the past three months. I thought he would act by now capturing the remaining three Bijuus but he's just taking his time, yea."

"That wasn't the question I asked you. Why are you here and not with Tobi-san?" Zetsu asked him again with the same tone of voice before.

Deidara gives him an irritated look and give up in telling him. "He with the one that's been here for three months, only interested in her. Unlike him, I'm not falling for any type of spell she got them under, yea."

Zetsu rears his eyes behind him knowing the reason why the habitat has changed around here lately was because of her. Even he felt on alarm when she was around him. Quite frequently, he didn't like it one bit. Being on alarm all the time was not his cup on tea, he would have to kill whatever was bothering him. Luckily she can not die, immortal they all say. Besides the leader will probably kill him just for attempting the idea, which bothered him as well of this weakness he has shown lately.

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Voices, voices were all he heard ringing in his head. It sounded like somebody with a deep bass voice, but distorted to figure out the person behind it. He could make out a little but not a lot, only hearing about the remaining Jinchuuriki still left uncounted for that they still need.

He opens his eyes slowly, feeling extremely drowse. He looked up at the ceiling then wondered his eyes around his surrounds. He knew exactly where he was and pulls himself up quickly. Feeling a draft go up his spin, he found out he had no shirt covering his body, only pants.

H-How did I…He eyed his right arm seeing two black scares on his arm. His hands started to shake in fear of this wasn't happening. He didn't want it to happen. He closed his eyes maybe it was a dream that his mind believed he was still alive…He opened his eyes again but everything was the same.

"Hm," A voice says near the door in front of him holding scrolls in his hands. "So you're finally awake. I wasn't surprised you being this slow to recover. We are still not sure if it's that curse mark on your arm that caused it."

He reared his eyes at the person in front of him. "How did I get here?"

"You sound not surprised to be alive? We found you Itachi. All three of you." He told him.

"What do mean by three?" Itachi kept his composure but inside he was screaming for answers why he was still alive.

"Yes three," The man tells him. "You're extremely lucky that you are alive. Nothing survived that blast except for you three. The place still looked like gigantic crater. Luckily I was in the area that found you guys before Jishin shinobis could search it. No doubt they would have used you guys against us," A grin come on his face showing his piercing on his nose, signaling he was the leader of the Akatsuki. "I wonder who the worst monsters are, them or us."

"Anyway get dress, I have something to show you." He tells him and exits the room, giving Itachi his privacy.

Itachi looked to his right to find his clothing on a table. On the top of them was his Akatsuki member ring of the symbol shu on it. A normal person would be grateful that they were alive, but he didn't feel this reality was real to him, so maybe he thought in a twisted why he was dead. But he was still curious what the leader meant by three alive.

The leader of the Akatsuki walks down the hall of the darken temple accompanied by Itachi, being the lair of the Akatsuki for a while, not even Orochimaru knew about it. If he did it means they have a mole in the organization. Its only nine members, process of elimination would be pretty high for him.

"How long have I been out?" Itachi asked keeping his eyes forward.

"Three months," He told him. "Itachi, you remember our conversation of why I task you with that important mission and took you off in capturing Kyuubi."

"Yes." Itachi says in a mellow tone wishing he would get to the point.

"We have three remaining Bijuus to capture still."

"Three?" Itachi curiously eyes him. He thought it was still four before his supposedly coma he has been in.

"Yes three. The boy who possesses Kyuubi hasn't left Konoha from what our sources say. He's either quarantine because he is becoming a danger to the village or he's afraid himself to leave Konoha. From what I have seen in him, I'm thinking the first opinion from what happened. The Hokage is playing her cards wisely of the boy's actions. We have location of the second Jinchuuriki holder but his village is being cautious, fully aware of our actions now. Secrecy is what we do not have anymore. Villages will be keeping an eye out for us know, especially Jishin. They apparently want our heads badly."

The red head leader stop, coming to an outside nice landscape garden in the middle of the temple as the sun poured in. Itachi stop next to the leader and looked to his right. His heart stops, eyes widen of it wasn't true what he was seeing. Though with the same clothing as an Akatsuki, with shorter hair coming midway to her back, but it was defiantly her.

"Itachi, I bought you in this organization because you were the only one qualified for the job. And now your efforts have paid off," He tells him watching his surprised expression. "I told the others a simple excuse why she was here, but only you know the truth. She has no memories, having retrograde amnesia, nor does she wish to remember. Though she is weak right now in lacking chakra, she needs time to regain her strength. We believe her current state is because she revived both of you, somehow, someway, we don't know."

The leader rears his attention to the young girl in the forest and then looked at Tobi talking to her which she had a smile on her face enjoying their conversation.

"Though we know were the two Jinchuuriki are and which country they are in, we are still missing one, one as if it completely vanished in this world." He looked at Itachi carefully of maybe he knew something about it.

Itachi knew who they were talking about, but since he was not ordered still, he will not tell a soul about it. "Then we should start looking."

"Exactly." He tells Itachi as he holds onto his right arm mysteriously for some reason.

"But until she is ready," The leader continues to explain. "You will protect her, along with Kisame. She has chosen you two, signaling from the same identical black curse marks on both your right arms. Knowing that she is alive and the effects what the curse mark does to people, this is my only order for you. I will not allow anybody else to control her anymore. My mistakes in the past, I will make it up to her. We will kill anybody who apposes us as they will come for her. The time to attack is when the Ueda clan makes their move towards the Kyuubi boy."

The leader started to walk away knowing Itachi mind was so clued on what he was looking at, he wondered if he listen to what he told him. Honestly, he didn't care. He would ignore him too if he was in his position. The leader stops and look toward the young girl in the court yard and form a smirk on his face. Not a nasty one but a happy one.

"Itachi, take care of my daughter." He tells him and walked away.

Itachi heard everything he said. He was brought here for a reason and that was to bring her to her father. But he didn't care about that, he only wanted to know why and how he was alive.

"You should see me in battle. I took care of a Bijuu all by myself. Haha!" Tobi tells his new friend, showing off his achievements since being in the Akatsuki in high spirit. If he was a wooden boy his nose would have grown to a different country by now, acting like he had no help taking down Sanbi the three tail turtle demon.

"You are brave…Tobi-san." She says with a smile on her face. "But you must be careful, Bijuu can become dangerous if provoked the wrong way."

"Yeah I guess your right." Tobi chuckles a little but thinks for a second of her last comment. "Wait how you know about that?"

She just smiles at him but her focus was interrupted by the person standing in front of her mesmerized, which made her feel awkward.

"Are you feeling ok?" She asked him thinking he was sick.

Itachi snaps himself out of his daze but was captivated by her smile that he hasn't seen her do in so long.

"Sorry my apologies," Itachi walks over to her and bends down on one knee, in respect to his new master that he wouldn't second guess not taking the job. "I'm Uchiha, Uchiha Itachi."

Kisame gets up from his large rock he was using as a seat, still not forgetting he burnt him alive and brings his Samehada over his shoulder, still wanting to pay the favor back. With no order to kill him by his master he will let it slide, for now.

Itachi stands back up and looked the girl directly in the eyes.

"Your eyes are like mine," She tells him fascinated with his onyx eyes but the expression behind them reminded her of her own eyes. "I'm sorry I can't remember my last name…but my father calls me Tori."

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Ok what you guys think of the story ending. Yes this is the end of the story. Just playing. There are so many questions that need to be answered it's not even funny. Questions like:

Is the leader of the Akatsuki Tori's real father or is he just saying that to control her? But if he is how? Didn't Okami say he was dead?

What is the Akatsuki true goal in keeping Tori alive and the Bijuu within her?

How did Itachi, Kisame and Tori survive the blast?

Did Tori love Itachi?

What is the real story behind Nezumi?

Will Tori recover her memories of her past life?

What's the true story behind the goals of the Ueda clan? Will they come after Naruto to kill Kyuubi once in for all?

What is the true story behind why Kyuubi tried to kill Okami if he loved her so much?

What happen to Sasuke curse mark which is the same like Itachi and Kisame?

What is Fuchiho story being strongly connected to Okami? Is she a Ueda as well as her two brothers Yoshi and Toroi?

What happened to Tsuki and Sado?

I don't know the answers to these questions because I didn't write it yet. But they are in the back of my mind how the second chapter of the arc will play out. I just need to write it out and get it going. So it might be out by December, probably the second week because I have finals.

In that gap of time I will be doing some drawings of this chapter arc and next one on the characters. Also have a picture of what that famous Okami curse mark looks like.

One question I can answer off the top of my head is Tori did love Itachi first before she met Naruto. Itachi was her first love. She couldn't understand what love was and hated the word when she was younger. Tori did try to comment suicide when she was nine because Itachi was going to leave her and she would be alone again. She wasn't aware Okami lived in her body back then until after the slaying of the Uchiha family. If Nezumi didn't appear in Tori life, she probably would had killed her entire family and village much sooner of the way they treated her, or should I say mainly her father.

After Tori got that premonition of her going to kill her family, she decided to find somebody that could take care of Nezumi and that was Naruto himself, not Sasuke. She would have chosen Sasuke but his cold heart to kill his brother would have exposed Nezumi true self.

Though Tori did fall in love with Naruto when she was with him for three months, the vision of killing her family became much clearer to her what she had to do. It was going to happen regardless what she did if she lived. She was either going to be hunted, put in a cage for the rest of her life or live her life with a man she didn't love. So killing herself was her only logical way out. But as we can see that didn't work.

Also I purposely left out the Akatsuki leader name because maybe they will say his name in the manga by that time when I start the next arc. If not, I will have to make a name up in which I hate to do, just like there is one more Akatsuki we don't know of yet.

What is your opinion on what Tori felt between Itachi and Naruto? It could be different from what you guys got out of the story. Also the questions up top, any predictions anybody? I might put them in the second arc if I like the predictions you give me.

Well I hope you like enjoy reading this long, long, long story and how the first half turned out. So what to expect next arc? Well everything. Mostly more appearances from the Akatsuki members will be in it that's for sure. Expect Sasuke being angry his brother is still alive and Naruto thinking they brainwashed Tori for their own purposes. Wow just writing all this out about the next arc I'm getting excited.

Thanks again for reading. Until next time.