Chapter 9: CH 9
Naruto narrowed his eyes, 'Two powerful guys like this want me alive... They won't fight to kill, they can't. But I don't have that kind of restriction here. And all I have to do is wait for ero-sennin to show up. Even if the toad I sent is slow or can't find him, once the fight starts it shouldn't take him too long to get here."
Naruto drew his ninjato and in the blink of an eye was at Kisame's throat, who had brought Samehada down to parry his blade, "You're pretty fast gaki."
Naruto pushed with his sword, "I used to be faster..." He felt Kisame pushing him back and grunted, "...Used to be stronger too..." Kisame brought down his massive weapon on Naruto's shoulder and pulled back, slicing deeply into his shoulder, before kicking the boy off. Naruto picked himself up off the ground, "Ugh... I seriously need to whip my ass back into shape... Fucking seal... This ain't gonna cut it."
Kisame grinned maniacally as he rushed Naruto and swung at him with his sword. Naruto ducked low and swiped at Kisame's feet. In response Kisame uncorked a kick at the ducking Naruto's head. Naruto saw it coming and rolled out of the way, 'Man, I'm glad ero-sennin had the common sense to at least take the stupid gravity seal off of me. I'd be dead meat otherwise.'
Naruto sheathed his sword back into the scabbard on his back, 'Going blade-to-blade with one on the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist? Label me the idiot of the day...'
Itachi walked a few steps up, "You're better than our intel anticipated Naruto-kun. It was said that you were a dead-last genin-level shinobi. You've shown much surprising skill."
Naruto huffed as he ignored the dripping wound spanning his shoulder, "Yeah? Well there's no such thing as perfect intel."
"Indeed," Itachi removed his own hat to look at Naruto, "This battle is unnecessary Naruto-kun. Just come with us, you cannot defeat us both at your current level."
Naruto glared at the rogue Uchiha and the shark-like Kisame, 'They're right... I couldn't beat these two like this... If they were here to kill me. And I don't even have to win, all I have to do is last long enough for some help.'