Konata Kiwasaki Meets the Team of Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki

"They're not after me for nothing..." She touched Mayaki's sheath. "They find it unsafe for me to be using this sword because of the force i weild it with..." As soon as her finger came into contact with the sheath, a small spiral of wind circled around her finger, as if her and the sword were one.

"You would make a wonderful addition to the Seven Shinobi Swordsmen" Kisame said with a wide grin.

"Hmph...Working with more than 2 other people is a challenge for me...I try to keep to myself, thats the way it's always been..." She looked at Itachi. "I'm sure some people would understand..."

Itachi nodded his head to agree. "Aww Itachi, you don't like me?" whined Kisame as he sulked in an imaginary emo corner.

She looked back at the tornados path then slowly nodded. "Must've got them...Or they fled...Either way, thats fine with me..." She let her lips curve into a slight smirk before turning her back on the wreckage.

"I was hoping they wouldn't flee. I would have loved to shave their arms and legs off" Kisame said with a grin that made him look like a predator.

"Hands off...The only person that'll have the pleasure of killing them is me..." She muttered as she sent him an icy glare. "They wanna fight me and i'll give them what they came for..."

Kisame opened his mouth to reply but an icy glare from Itachi made him shut his mouth. "Of course. They are your prey so you decide their fate" said Itachi with a nod of his head.

She looked at Itachi, the faintest hint of suprise in her eyes. She nodded again, quickly turning her attention to the clouds. "Yes...However, i might let them live...Depends..."

"Sometimes, it's best to kill them for they will never stop coming after you" he said with narrowed eyes.

"And other times...You must think of others, not yourself...Yes, i despise them...But i do not despise their children...Without a mother or a father would scar them.I do not wish for them to become like me.."

"Sympathy is the emotion of weaklings. If you wish to be strong, you must kill all your emotions. That's how I killed them with no regret" said Itachi. Kisame blinked in surprise. Itachi usually never talked about the Uchiha Clan Massacre.

"Strength is not my ambition..." She countered, a slightly defensive tone in her voice. "It is something i have...not something i want,"

"As long as you have your emotions, you will never have true strength" he countered back.

"Whether it is true or not, i couldnt care less...Nothing in this world can be determined true...We are surrounded by lies and illusions, how can we determine what is true and what is not..?"

"I agree. People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define "reality". But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts ... their "reality" may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?" he asked her with a very slight twitch of his lips.

"Exactly.." She nodded, noticing his lips move slightly. "We cannot see what is real, but we can see what we believe to be real."

"That is why in Konoha's world, I am a traitor. However, that could be nothing more then a delusion" he said as closed his eyes. Kisame looked at Itachi with a raised eyebrow.

"If my memory serves me correctly, you killed the Uchiha clan for a fitting reason...And most elder brothers are there for their siblings..Even if theyre only there for the younger brother or sister to hate..." She raised an eyebrow.

Itachi thought something over in his mind for a moment then decided to reply. "The Uchiha planned to overthrow Konoha so I was assigned a mission by the Hokage to massacre the Uchiha Clan and I told my brother to hate me and detest me so he could be strong" he said calmly, telling her something he wouldn't dare tell to anyone else. Kisame blinked in surprise at what Itachi said.

She nodded and, for the briefest of moments, her gaze softened. "I see...Your brother will be strong, he shares your familys blood. It wouldve been hard to kill your family, of course...But maybe it was too hard to kill your brother..?"

"I wanted Sasuke to grow strong so he could one day kill me, thus causing the village to see Sasuke as a hero and redeem the Uchiha name" he said honestly. Kisame stayed silent and thought over this information.

She nodded again, approaching him for the first time. She unsheathed Mayaki and held it out to Itachi. "Take it...Mayaki is meant to be a heros blade...It's unfitting for me..."

Itachi held the blade in his hands. "No. I can not deprive you of your weapon" he said as he handed it back to her.

As soon as he tried to hand it back, Konata slyly touched the bottom of it, making a swirl of wind wrap itself around Itachis wrist, as if the blade had done it.
"I believe my blade says otherwise,"