So, this is only my third fanfic, and my first Naruto fic, so feel free to be honest, but please be gentle. Some general things to keep in mind for this piece:

I am not familiar with the rules and specific meanings of the honoraries, so for your sake and mine, they will not be in this story. No –kun, -chun, -sensei, etc. I would only misuse them and make you very angry, so if your awesome enough to know which goes where, please feel free to see it that way in your mind, I'm not even going to attempt to get it right.

This would probably be considered an AU fiction I guess. It is mostly about Itachi, and the first few chapters will focus mainly on him, but don't worry. I'll be throwing in Naruto et al. later.

Please remember that this is a fan fiction, and don't get angry if it strays from the storyline (which it will) and inevitably causes characters to be out of character. I promise it will make sense, just give it a try.

Standard Disclaimer: Obviously I don't own it…if I did…well…the show wouldn't be suitable for children viewing)

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Chapter One: A Different View

Everyone will hate me now. They'll think I'm a monster. Hell, they're probably right. Maybe I was destined to be one. I mean seriously, what kind of kid becomes the captain of an assassination squad when he's thirteen. Even if I am a monster, I didn't want to do it. Despite what they'll think, what my brother now thinks, I didn't want to.

They'd never believe me though. If I tried to tell them I was forced to do it, they'd just laugh. And so I lied. I lied to the only person in this world I had left and told him that I hated him, and he was only living because he was weak. I know that's a lie though. In fact, I think the knowledge that it's a lie is the only thing that may hold me through the years. Knowing the lie and hoping one day he realizes his strength, and kills me with it.

I know that he would believe me. If anyone, my baby brother would believe every word out of my mouth, but then he would probably die from the guilt. He would hate me even more if I told him that I destroyed the legendary Uchiha Clan so that he wouldn't die. That I was confronted by a group of very angry men that wanted our people gone, and that if I didn't kill them, they would kill him…I refuse to allow him to live with the guilt.

I wish I could kill every one of those mother-fucking bastards. I want to kill them in such a way that they would wish their great great grandparents had never been born because that's how much they want to avoid the suffering.

Unfortunately, for the first and hopefully last time in my life, I am not the one with the upper hand. Now, there's no doubt in my mind, or in theirs, that I couldn't hunt down and kill them all, but I don't know all of them, and I won't risk losing Sasuke. I won't take the chance that they'll get to him, before I finish them off. But I swear, if he dies before me…they will live to regret ever having my breathed.

Until then, I guess I'll leave. The rest of the village will be waking up soon, and they'll have seen what I have done. They'll call me a monster and label me missing-nin. They'll send ANBU team after ANBU team to find me. But they won't. I want to die, but the blood that flows through my veins won't let me. I won't dishonor my family even more by taking my own life, or letting myself be easily defeated.

Only Sharingan can defeat me now…which means only Sasuke. So I'll wait. I'll go and continue on as an assassin…I don't care about people anyways. I don't crave for blood as most would think of me, but I want Sasuke to hate me. I want him to believe I did those things so that he will destroy me, so I must convince him, and everyone else that I am a monster.

"You're a monster. You destroy and will continue destroying until someone more powerful destroys you. That is your purpose," I chant quietly to myself, trying to force my mind to believe it.

I want them to hate me. I want them to hunt me. I want HIM to destroy me.

I want him to still see me as his big brother and love me as I have always loved him.

With these thoughts still coursing through his mind, 13 year old Uchiha Itachi took off from Konoha into the woods to start a life as one of the worlds most deadly missing nins.