Long Live The King: The Chronicles Of Uchiha Itachi and The Uchiha Clan

Chapter Ten: Long Live The King, Part: Itachi

9 months ago

Itachi leaped at the snake demon known as Orochimaru, blood sweat beading his brow. He showed no fear or any sign of the pain that was coursing through him, he would remain strong in the face of what he knew would be his death. Sword aimed for the mask his wings, 15 inches in span sprung from his back, they unfurled in haste, giving him space from the rocketing tongue enough for him to slice through it with his sword. Orochimaru hissed in pure unbridled rage, his constant sidekick Kabuto running to his aide and throwing several projectiles at the Uchiha. Itachi dodged a few of them, but his vision was vastly growing blurry, he would not fall however, he couldn't, not until he knew Madara was safe from these bastards. He was hit and as he fell from the air he turned his head letting out a shriek loud enough to burst eardrums. The two of them and their men held their ears at the shrill sound.

Using this to buy himself time he flash stepped behind them to slaughter all of the foot soldiers, sword like a deadly glint in the moonlight. Orochimaru growled, attacking him in his injured wing as he spun around to slice open the snake's gut with his sword. He fought like a man possessed, eyes spinning wildly even as they began to bleed from the strain, he'd managed to knock Orochimaru's eyegear away, his demonic power viciously attacking the wounded snake's mind. They were transported to the space within the demon plain known as Tsukuyomi space, or Moon Reader space.

It was a powerful technique which granted the demon using it the blessing of entering the world of the dead moon god Sephiroth. It was within this space that he destroyed Orochimaru's mind slowly, though their physical bodies remained in the regular demon world. It was interrupted however when a shockwave of power was sent hurtling through his mind and body. He schreeched and the spell was broken, looking down at the arrow pierced through his chest, purifying him he hissed at Kikyo, who had entered from the air ship he had not thought to destroy. Itachi knew when to retreat to fight another day, he could not protect Madara if he were purified, for not even his soul would remain.

He backed off, her glare unfazing his bloodied form, Kabuto moving to stand beside her. Itachi chuckled even as blood poured from his mouth, "my wife is far more intimidating than thou o priestess, may you burn in the depths of Jenova's hell, all of humanity and witch kind with you alike.", he bowed politely to his enemy, throwing Orochimaru's now unconscious body at her and Kabuto both, knocking them back into the crumbling wall. She stood up after some struggle, "You foul demon!", he looked at her strangely, "you call me a foul demon yet you have lain with the most foul of them all...Orochimaru is a thing to be stepped on and crushed, thou art truly a fool to spread thyn whore legs for the likes of him, priestess Kikyo."

Her eyes narrowed at him as she notched another more powerful sacred arrow. He shook his head in disgust, waving to her as he backed up to the ledge of the hole in the wall, wings folded behind him. "Don't move!" she ordered this as he continued to back away, "Go ahead woman.", he taunted her with his eyes. The arrow was fired just as he stepped off the ledge and dove down under it, it hit the airship, exploding on impact due to the demonic energy that created it. Kikyo rushed to grab onto to Kabuto, gathering Orochimaru and vanishing from the now exploding temple. The future emperor of all demons paused in his flight, his wing still heavily wounded. He grunted in annoyance as he fell from the skies, the arrow in his chest working faster than he had first thought. "Damn that priestess...", he whispered to himself, hitting the canopy and landing hard past the trees to the ground below.

He stared blankly up at the sky through the leaves, the crater in the ground large enough to be filled into a lake. He cringed as he felt his wing snap in the wrong direction. Eyes closing without a sound uttered from his heaving chest the tengu-wolf demon internally wept, he would not make it to the birth of his pups, but he felt he could die in peace at least knowing they and their mother, his beloved Madara were safe, protected by Itachi's strongest jutsu, what the demons called their overall demonic power. The purification was quickly destroying every cell in his body, he coughed up blood as he felt hands gripping his shoulders.