Chương 170: Mr. Friend.

Itachi reached towards Anko, his hand about to touch her neck when he heard a soft voice right beside him.

"Huh? I guess kids can be spies nowadays…" Itachi instantly threw three kunai, one towards the head, one towards the neck and another towards the heart. Only the person the voice belonged to didn't move at all, and even more shockingly the kunai passed straight through the person's body.

"Easy there you man…" a strangely dressed man said in a bold voice. But Itachi was shocked. His kunai had never travelled through the target and still let them speak. Had he fallen in a genjutsu? Itachi immediately flared his chakra up to break out of the genjutsu, but he still could see the strangely dressed man he had just attacked.

"What-!?!?!?!?" Itachi was heavily surprised, but he kept his cool and immediately activated his mangekyou sharingan! He had activated them when he had decided to leave his brother and his family and go away with Orochimaru. That got a reaction out of the man, as he quickly dove at Itachi. Itachi activated his mangekyou sharigan almost immediately- -only, nothing happened to the man! Itachi realised he had miscalculated.

He couldn't see the eyes of the man from the strange mask he was wearing, which meant he couldn't make eye contact with him for his sharingan to work. While that was a decent conclusion, it wasn't really true. In truth, Ultra Fighter had long closed his eyes as soon as he saw the three tomoe sharingan activate and form a pinwheel in Itachi's eyes. That meant that the identity of his attacker became clear to him and he immediately took precautions.

Now, with Ultra Fighter already so close to him, Itachi had no way to react in time, and before he knew it, he heard a soft click from his body before he found himself floating outside his body.

"WHAT!?" Itachi felt a sudden new shock at being dislodged from his body. Meanwhile inside the new body, Ultra Fighter felt a new shock. As long as he focused his eyes, he could even see microbes in the air! Ultra Fighter couldn't even begin to believe that eyes could have such high definition, it felt like all his life he'd been staring at a 480p picture and now suddenly he'd been given glasses and was seeing at UHD. Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.

But Ultra Fighter had to control himself, he couldn't keep enjoying himself and forget about his image. So he cleared his throat a little before turning to look at Itachi.

"So… you've come here to resurrect Orochimaru Itachi?" Itachi, still shocked, felt an even greater shock when the plan Orochimaru had told him in confidence was revealed in front of him just like that. At that moment there was only one thought in Itachi's mind.

'This person must know Orochimaru!' And Ultra Fighter complied. After all, reading Itachi's open mind was a piece of cake.

"Yes, yes, I'm Orochimaru's friend. I know a thing or two about his closest guarded secrets." Itachi gulped down his shock and quickly posed a question, "Then why are you stopping me? Shouldn't you let me take away this lady?" Ultra Fighter shook his head, "She is currently important to my plan. You may resurrect Orochimaru right here."

"What- but-""Don't worry about anyone spotting you. This will be a quick job and Orochimaru can see you from in there. He'll understand and keep himself hidden appropriately from the sensors." Itachi opened his mouth… looked at his own body and then sighed after just a few seconds of contemplation before nodding.

"Alright."

"Fine then, catch your body, I'm coming out of it." Itachi immediately floated towards his body and took over it again before looking at the now floating Ultra Fighter. But Itachi didn't say anything more, time was of the essence and he needed to work on this fast. Itachi pulled out a sealing scroll and unsealed the contents inside it. What appeared from a cloud of smoke was a strange gooey white substance that looked like snake skin.

Itachi quickly moved to Anko and placed the skin on her neck where Orochimaru's curse seal was. The skin stuck to Anko's skin like a secondary skin tissue before it turned translucent and caused the Cursed Seal to glow like lava. And then Itachi began to form a few quick handseals.

"Curse Unsealing." Itachi whispered, causing Ultra Fighter to almost laugh.

'Who speaks out their jutsu name!?' But given Ultra Fighter's mask was hiding his face, Itachi escaped the embarrassment. The Cursed Seal suddenly glowed brightly with a strange ephemeral red light before a large thick snake grew out of the skin tissue that was placed on Anko's skin. Itachi quickly stepped away from the snake, wary, but Ultra Fighter stayed there, watching. The snake opened its mouth and collapsed on the ground, dead, but as its mouth opened wide, Orochimaru stepped out of it.

"Orochimaru-sama!" Itachi bowed deeply. Orochimaru nodded, "You don't have to explain anything to me, Itachi-kun… I've been seeing everything from inside Anko." Then in a turn of surprise for both Itachi and Ultra Fighter, Orochimaru extended his hand, "Greetings Mister Friend." Keeping up the act, Ultra Fighter automatically extended his arm and held Orochimaru's hand. Two things happened at once at that moment.

Itachi's eyes widened as seals suddenly spread across Ultra Fighter's body, spreading from his hand and all the way towards his head. They glowed for a second and Orochimaru's grin widened as he grabbed onto Ultra Fighter's hand tight to prevent him from letting go before suddenly something even stranger happened. Seals spread across Orochimaru's hand and it began to disintegrate! First the Orochimaru's pale skin vanished, leaving a fleshy arm.

Before the muscle started to peel back strand by strand as if it were being peeled by someone. That was when Orochimaru pulled back his hand sharply in recoil but the damage was already done. Soon his bones too vanished, leaving behind nothing in place of his newly formed arm. At the same time, the seals that had been placed on Ultra Fighter's costume, all fizzled out before disintegrating into smoke.

Itachi quickly pulled out his kunai, not that it would do much in such a situation but he figured that someone was harming Orochimaru, so he had to take revenge in some way. But Orochimaru quickly spoke up, "Stand down Itachi-kun."

"But- Orochimaru-sama!"

"Don't worry, this was just a small greeting, a price to pay for friendship. Isn't that right Mr. Friend?" Orochimaru said looking at Ultra Fighter with a smile. Ultra Fighter nodded.

"Indeed." Orochimaru looked sharply in a different direction for a second before he turned to Itachi, "Let's go." As they left Ultra Fighter whispered so only Orochimaru could hear, "Ever need to meet me, come to Tsunade." Orochimaru gave Ultra Fighter a sideways glance before smiling and using the body flicker jutsu to vanish along with Itachi. At the same time, Ultra Fighter turned invisible to the world before quietly sinking into Haruto and mixing with his soul and becoming whole once again.

Haruto quietly woke up before waking up Anko.

"Huh? Haruto-kun? What happened? Why did I just fall asleep on the ground?"

"Huh? You were sleeping? Weren't you just standing by the door and waiting to open it and become lost in thought and slipped when a raccoon ran by?"

"Was I? I mean… yeah… that's what it was…" Anko nodded, not realising that her memories had been manipulated. She placed her hand on the door and quickly opened it.

"Let's go in Haruto-kun, everyone's probably waiting for us!"