❁𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐌𝐈'𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘- 𝘈 𝘕𝘌𝘞 𝘉𝘓𝘖𝘚𝘚𝘖𝘔 𝘖𝘍 𝘏𝘖𝘗𝘌 ✔︎

Chapter 4

Itachi managed to avoid all of Kazuki's kicks and Naomi's punches.

He was usually the quiet one during battles, but not these guys. They were just as quiet as him.

It felt unusual for him.

Itachi maintained his distance. With his sharigan activated, he carefully observed all of their movements.

Naomi always stands behind Kazuki, while Kazuki always comes in first.

"Observing us like prey, aren't you? Are you so eager to discover what our jutsu is?" Kazuki asked with narrowed eyes.

Naomi stood behind him. Silently. She followed him around like a lap dog, paying close attention to everything he said.

"What are you two?" Itachi asked. When dealing with his enemies, he was always direct and to the point. Big conversations never piqued his interest, and he despised it when people tried to provoke him.

Simply put, no one should underestimate their adversary, as all of his opponents have done in the past. Underestimate Itachi.

Naomi smiled shyly: "He is handsome, brother! Please do not be too harsh on him... I want him for later..." Naomi whispered to her brother.

Kazuki rolled his eyes, annoyed by her statement.

"I have always wanted to fight somebody from the Uchiha clan! Wanting to know what's so curious, and awesome about that damned sharigan your clan possesses!" Kazuki charged at Itachi.

"He's quick..." Itachi thought ad he dodged all his movements.

He was lucky that his Sharigan could still keep up with him. If not, he would have been injured by now with most of his kicks.

Itachi's attention shifted to Naomi, who was making a hand sign. His eyes widened as he noticed a group of shadows forming.

"Your attention is on me!" Kazuki yelled angrily as he observed Itachi fixated on the shadows before him.

He returned his attention to Kazuki and dodged his kick. Then he grabbed him and kicked him hard against a wall.

Naomi watched with widened eyes as she heard her brother groan in pain. She took a step back and began working on controlling her shadows.

They came charging at her. What distinguished her from the Nara clan was that her jutsu was not like theirs.

There was nothing attached to her shadow jutsu that allowed her to control it. They were all shadows, except for her. And her shadow is still there!

Naomi pointed her finger at Itachi and ordered them to fight. "Fight, puppets!" Naomi shouted.

Itachi dodged all of the shadows' attacks, but was kicked to the ground by another. Fortunately, Itachi was a master of genjutsu.

Crows vanished before Naomi, confusing her. She took a step back, looking for him. Her eyes grew wide as she felt something stab her in the back. She shook as she coughed up blood. "W-What... h-how...?" she said.

Then her realization struck. She let out a chuckle. "G-Genjutsu...," she muttered.

Itachi pulled the kunai from her and watched as she collapsed to the ground, coughing up more blood. "One down..." Itachi murmured.

Naomi laughed, which caused Itachi to look at her with wide eyes. "You sure about that?" Naomi spoke softly.

She vanished in front of him, and the next thing he knew, he was kicked across the room, breaking the wall.

Itachi groaned from the pain the kick had caused him. "Now you understand how my brother felt after you kicked him!" Naomi exclaimed. Kazuki appeared next to her, seemingly unharmed.

This made Itachi uneasy. "How the hell? He should have sustained some sort of injury. "I saw how he hit the wall; he should be limping or in pain," he thought to himself.

He tried to get up, but the impact of the kick limited his movement. "And the kick that girl gave. "That powerful kick feels similar to Sakura's..." Itachi reflected as he closely observed her.

Itachi eventually rose from his position and wiped the blood from his mouth. "Izumi, please stay safe," Itachi thought as he pulled some shuriken from his pouch.

He threw them at Naomi and Kazuki before weaving handsigns to demonstrate his fire style. The shuriken quickly became covered in fire and were precisely aimed at the twins.

They both dodged them flawlessly. "A piece of cake, ah! What, how!" Naomi exclaimed as she felt one strike her arm.

She was so preoccupied with the shuriken that had hit her arm that she did not notice the massive fireball before her and Kazuki.

Kazuki pushed her out of the way, but he was burned in the process. "B-Brother! Are you okay?" Naomi asked worried.

He glared at her: "Focus, will you!" Kazuki told her as he groaned from the pain.

She trembled from worry. She gave him the burn because he was not paying attention.

Naomi glared angrily at Itachi.

"Look what you have done now, Itachi Uchiha!" Naomi exclaimed as more shadows appeared from below.

She pointed her finger at him, and they all charged towards him.

"There are too many..." Itachi thought about a plan.

Only one jutsu could eliminate all of these. Itachi closed his eyes, concentrating chakra within them.

The shadows charged at him at full speed, and by the time they got close, they had already fallen.

"Amaterasu!"