Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto only the plot.
Pairing/s: SasuNaru, others will be revealed as the story progresses.
Rating: M for mature just to be safe...
Summary: Konoha's Bank were hacked by an unknown person without leaving a trace. The public were ignorant of what was happening for the government does not want an uproar. The mission was then assigned to Madara, Itachi and Shikamaru and they have dubbed the person behind the hacked cases as 'Binary Coder'. The case was difficult enough without Itachi also having to handle a hormonal teenage Sasuke hell bent in joining AREA 51's ANBU program in order to avenge the murder of the Uchiha Clan and Madara's not helping at all. What will help Itachi in changing Sasuke's perspective in life?
Author's Note: Hello, everyone! I'm back and have a new story! I still can't find the will to finish 'Even Purebloods Have Dilemmas'. Suggestions and comments are well accepted! It might help me update faster, by the way I already have work...so my updates might be a slow. I haven't considered a beta reader but if someone's gonna offer, I will accept it. But i don't know the mechanics of a beta reader.
The Binary Coder
Chapter 1: Mission, Retrieve the Binary Coder alive, a 100%
Everything started on the night of December 12, 2012.
Two, cloaked figures were silently trailing a boy in an orange jacket. The cloaked figures knew that they had the right suspect, for the tracker had pointed at the right cafe and the right computer. For seven weeks they were trying to apprehend the 'Binary Coder' that stole billions of dollars in multiple banks around the globe. They had dubbed the person as a 'Binary Coder' for it seems that when s/he hacks a bank, no traces were left behind.
The first to handle this case were the police but since everything did not make sense to them as to how the money had disappeared without a trace, they passed it to the higher ups which is the FBI. The FBI thinking that the case was only a simple hacking case gave it from one rookie to another. Due, to this case many rookies were disqualified in the FBI program. So, when the days turned to weeks then to months, the FBI turned the case to 'AREA 51' and the case was assigned to the three most brilliant agents namely Itachi, Madara and Shikamaru. It took time before they had figured out how the 'Binary Coder' was able to hack banks without leaving a single trail behind, the answer was the most simple and complicated thing, hacking through binary language, the only language a computer could understand.
Sad to say, they have to start from scratch for there's not much information on binary language on the technical side not even on the internet. It took the team two weeks to figure out how the hacking was done and it took them four weeks to create a tracker and a week of agonizing wait to test out their program in tracing the person responsible for the bank hacking.
So, when the alarms started they looked as to where the hacker was there was silence before frustrating voices were heard. "We are on the furthest northeast of the f*cking city and s/he is on the furthest southwest part?" Madara cursed out loudly while Itachi silently took the materials needed to apprehend said hacker. Then, off they went, leaving Shikamaru to handle the monitoring of the hacker's movement and to keep them updated.
Luckily enough, the hacker was still in the cafe doing his business. Madara had bristled when he found out that the person that had been slipping their clutches was just a mere child but did not voice out his anger. He was an Uchiha for god sakes and Uchihas never loses their composure. He looked at Itachi out of the corner of his eyes and found out that Itachi was amused. Well, he had an inkling feeling that that would be Itachi's first expression. Well, Itachi was the only Uchiha that could balance being an Uchiha and still experience the luxury of a being human, though he does not express it, he's proud of his nephew.
To avoid an uproar both Itachi and Madara waited outside of the cafe for the 'Binary Coder' to leave the place. Now, we come back as to why they are trailing person, waiting for the time to strike a.k.a. when said person arrives home.
Suddenly, said person halted, sniffed the air, peeked behind him and a glint of red eyes where directed at the two hidden figures, then he morphed into a half-demon and high tailed through the dark alley. They were shocked at what they saw but quickly recovered, an Uchiha trait they are proud of.
So, without further ado they ran after the half-demon. Madara was smirking as he opened his which had his sharingan activated. "One thing a prey must not do when faced with an Uchiha, never give chase", stated Madara with controlled excitement in his voice and Itachi answered with a 'hn' and just like Madara his sharingan was activated. Both of them were controlling their excitement with the chase for it was a bad thing for an Uchiha to be excited, who knows the next time they come around, Konoha would be in flames.
There was another big reason why they were assigned with this mission, it was not only about their intelligence but also the instincts they were born with. Every Uchiha was born a predator and when they set their eyes on a target, it is a 100% catch. So, when they were given a mission, it was like saying 'consider it done' even before the mission started.
The excitement was already building within Madara and Itachi and they were holding it off with utmost concentration while being hot on the tract of said 'Binary Coder' now turned to 'Prey' in the eyes of the Uchihas. Yes, that was a bad sign for them but they were both known to be at the brink of their sanity when it comes to chasing out 'Preys'. Even thought they were at the brink of their sanity, their performance wasn't anything less.
The prey jumped out of a gate, so did the Uchihas. He rounded a corner, so did the Uchihas. Then they suddenly stopped when the 'Prey' stopped at and edge of a flyover. Warning bells were alarming in the Uchihas' brains and they were brought back to their normal selves, well as normal as they can be.
The prey faced them with an angry snarl, his hair was blond while the fur of his ears were red and black at the tips. Red demonic eyes were watching the two Uchihas' movements, readying himself to bolt when the need arises. " ", said the half-demon with spite in his voice as he continued " "
"Shikamaru, we need translation here..." spoke Itachi in his mic.
The prey hissed at them and jumped out of the flyover. Madara and Itachi again gave chase but when they came to the edge of the flyover they stopped the chase. They could not go any further for the half-demon was already too far and there were a lot of spectators and AREA 51's motto is to be as discrete in apprehending their suspects, so that the community's balance would not be destabilized.
"Itachi, the translation is 'Uchihas, I did not do wrong to your kind.'" said Shikamaru through the mic.
"..."
"Hello? Itachi? Madara?"
"..."
"What happened?" questions Shikamaru through the mic.
"We failed..." answered Madara with disbelief in his voice. He had no expected this outcome. He had worked in AREA 51 for centuries and Itachi a few centuries after him and they had never failed a single mission before. Not on a solo mission and mostly not on a team mission and because of the brat of a half-demon they had failed. No one in the Uchiha family had ever failed a mission before. Not even is great grandfather's father and so on and so forth.
"Uncle, he escaped and that concludes the first failure in the Uchiha's Legacy." was Itachi's bland statement that had Madara's world crumbling.
"Uh...it wasn't really a total failure, right? You did get to see the 'Binary Coder's' face, right?" was the statement through their their headset.
"Shikamaru, the mission was to retrieve Binary Coder alive." countered Itachi. He was truly amused with what happened today. Everything that happened was truly unexpected, though the first failure in the Uchiha's Legacy was truly a sting in their god almighty pride it was overshadowed by how the events turned out. He had hoped that the mission would not be transferred to another team for he had learned to love this mission. Well, he was an Uchiha and no one can say 'no' to an Uchiha. If ever they plan to transfer this mission to another team, he would crush everyone that stood in his path. He was about to walk away when he noticed that his eccentric uncle had not budge an inch. 'The impact might be stronger for him, his life was the Uchiha's Legacy.' thought Itachi darkly, he gave his uncle a few minutes to recover his pride before saying "Uncle, we are late for dinner, very late. I had not prepared dinner, yet and I'm sure Sasuke will make this reason enough to push his ideals in signing up in the ANBU program for AREA 51."
"Hn" was the reply that Madara gave to Itachi as they started to walk away.. Their auras were gloomy to say as evidence with the way people were distancing themselves from the aura sphere that the Uchihas created. Well, Madara's aura was much more gloomier compared to Itachi. "Why not just let Sasuke join the ANBU program? We do need more able personnel, Itachi."
"He's not yet suited for the ANBU program, Uncle and we both know why he's no suited for it, yet."
Madara let out a sigh before he replied solemnly while facing the starless sky "In our line of work those things are bound to happen, it just means that we should get to them first before they off us. That's why we should get stronger than we are now...to protect the person we cherish the most."
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