Itachi becomes a rogue ninja and joins the Akatsuki. He is welcomed and introduced by Pain and Orochimaru as the ex-Leaf ANBU and the man who massacred his entire clan. Itachi is paired up with a man named Juzo, and their first job together is to fulfill an assassination request in the Land of Water.
I was one of the Seven Ninja
Swordsmen of the Mist.
لقد كنتُ أحد سيّافي النّينجا السّبعة لقرية الضّباب
Ich war einer der sieben
Shinobi-Schwertkämpfer aus Kirigakure.
Yo era uno de los Siete Espadachines 
de la Aldea Oculta de la Niebla,
Yo era uno de los Siete Espadachines 
de la Aldea Oculta de la Niebla,
Ero uno dei Sette Spadaccini della Nebbia.
Eu era um dos Sete Ninjas
Espadachins da Névoa.