The Prodigy Namikaze by SoulReaperCrewe

Chapter 16: Bring Down The Curtain

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Naruto and Itachi ran along the rooftops as quick as they could as they darted towards the area where Naruto had sensed Shisui.

Itachi already had his Sharingan fully activated and had a focused and intense look on his face. "How much further?" He asked back to Naruto who was running slightly behind him.

Naruto sensed Shisui's location with his sensor abilities before answering. "Just over that ridge. He's tiring and I think he's hurt." Naruto said as they both picked up the pace.

After a few moments, they both jumped over the ridge and landed at one of the empty training grounds. Naruto sensed there was no one around the training ground which made him understand why there was no one around to help and see what was happening.

In front of them, they both saw Shisui who was down on both of his knee's looking exhausted and had a two holes in his chest. He was breathing unevenly and blood dripped from his mouth.

Around him where eight Anbu's though looking at their masks Naruto and Itachi could tell something was off about them. Though they were wearing normal masks like the regular Anbu wore along with a darker version of the uniform, on their masks they had Ne symbol in black. Neither Naruto nor Itachi recognized the symbol since neither had seen these kind of Anbu before.

Scattered all around the field were dead Ne Anbu, roughly around twenty-one if by Naruto's count showing Shisui had not gone down without a fight.

They saw one of the Anbu go in for the killing blow on Shisui but before the tanto strike could land, Itachi shunshined in front of the strike and blocked it. He then grabbed the Anbu's wrist, twisted it and threw the Ne Anbu into a nearby tree.

"Itachi." Shisui coughed out as he spat blood onto the ground while Itachi got in front of him.

"Stay behind me." He said as Shisui nodded and slumped to the ground.

"State your business. Why are you attacking my Clan member?" Itachi asked but got no response as the masked figures just looked at him in silence. After a few moments of silence the Anbu shot forward and went to strike Itachi.

Before Itachi could defend himself though a giant wooden wall erupted in front of him and blocked the strikes as the two Uchiha looked in surprise. They looked up to see Naruto standing on top of the wooden wall with his blade drawn out of its sheath.

He looked down at them. "I was going to tell you eventually." He said as Itachi had questions bubble up in his head but would save them for later.

"This one possesses Mokuton." One of the Anbu said in an emotionless tone. "Take him alive. Leader-sama will want him."

The other Anbu nodded before the seven of them went forward.

Four went towards Naruto while three went towards Itachi whose Sharingan was now spinning.

As they Anbu went to fight him, he followed their movements and countered them as he ducked a swing from a tanto and drew a kunai from his pouch. As he ducked another swing, he drove one kunai into the back of the head of one of the Anbu, watching as they dropped to the ground lifeless.

With one down, he turned to the other two who stood beside each other. Both went through some hand signs before saying "Futon: Daitoppa!"

The blast hit Itachi but instead of falling to the ground or getting knocked away, he erupted into a murder of crows.

The two Anbu looked around before a pair of hands grabbed one Anbu and dragged him into the ground where after a few seconds a severed head got thrown out of the earth and rolled along the grass.