Stabbed

Itachi met the boy head-on. A sharp pain raced through his stomach. The
boy’s kunai had stabbed him. The slender shoulders shook fiercely as they touched Itachi’s belly. The boy’s terror had surpassed his limits, and tears began to fill his eyes.

“Itachi!” Kakashi shouted.
“I’m all right,” he replied calmly, and Kakashi and the others watched,
surrounding him from a distance.
Shaking like a leaf, the boy slowly lifted his face. Tears spilled out of the
eyes that looked up at Itachi. “Ah. Aaaunh.” His fear became sound, and
slipped out of him.

“You’re a proper ninja now. Be strong,” Itachi told his enemy kindly.
In his confusion and fear, the boy had no idea what was going on. He
shook his head from side to side, and desperately tried to turn his eyes away
from reality.

“You didn’t run away; you came right at me. So, I want to treat you with
the courtesy a full-fledged ninja deserves.” Itachi grabbed his kunai from
behind, so that the boy couldn’t see. He ran his blade up from below into the
slender nape of his crying enemy’s neck. He gently pulled the kunai from his
own stomach, and stepped back.

A spray of blood shot out from the boy’s neck. None of it splattered Itachi.
This, too, was etiquette for a ninja. The young body fell onto the pile of
corpses, neither enemy nor ally.

Book of Dark Night Chapter 5 Part 1