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Chapter 1: My promise to you
"Sasuke..." Danzo spoke slowly, even he had pity for this clan. "I want you to slaughter every single one of the Uchiha clan, children and all." He explained without the subtlest of any feeling.
"..." Sasuke didn't even give a second thought. The air shifted and it was colder than ever before, such a beautiful night would be wasted.
He clenched his fist in frustration. "Why in hell would you think I would slaughter my clan because of Konoha's mindless assumptions?!" Sasuke yelled. "DO YOU THINK WE'RE JUST TRASH TO YOU?!"
"Let me say this again, thousands and thousands more lives will be lost if you don't do this, the Uchiha clan plans to do horrible things. By killing them all you can stop a war!" Danzo argued, slamming his cane on the ground.
"Do you think...I give a damn about any war of Konoha's?!"
"You are an ANBU Black Op and you will listen to me!"
"I'm done taking orders from you-"
Sasuke felt a tug on his cape. He looked down to see Itachi, his little brother. "Big brother?"
"Wh-what're you doing?" Itachi asked, out of curiosity, he followed his big bro to see where he was going.
'Amazing, how could I not of detected his presence?' "Itachi go back to bed." Sasuke ordered, not wanting to look back at him.
Itachi's eyes narrowed, something was up. "Why?"
"This is adult conversation and not of your concern."
"Leave Itachi." Sasuke demanded.
'He's distraught about something, I can tell from the tone of his voice.' "I will if you promise me to not ever let there be another war brother, please I don't want people to die!" Itachi exclaimed tears rolled down his cheeks and fell onto the cold stone floor.
"For you little brother?" Sasuke turned around and bent to Itachi's level, he smiled as he ruffled Itachi's hair. "Heh, I'll promise you anything!" Tears fell down and landed on his little brother's head.
Itachi went home and the decision in the end was clear, Sasuke Uchiha was going to slaughter everyone in the Uchiha clan. In return, of course, Lord Third would keep Itachi safe in the village, Itachi his sweet little brother.
The next day...
As the sun rose from the horizon, the first few rays pierced through his window and glowed directly over Itachi's eyes. Slowly he began waking up and got out of bed. First things first, he did his regular routine: bath, study of the economic class of the ninja village, breakfast, and the most important, try to play a game with Sasuke.
After getting prepared, Itachi tiptoed down the stairs looked his head in the kitchen, Sasuke wasn't there in the kitchen trying but always failing breakfast as usual. Although their mom was gone as well, so perhaps she was out shopping.
"...I guess I have to skip breakfast." Itachi sighed after he rummaged through the cupboards seeing nothing but cobwebs.
Itachi left the house and walked to school, which wasn't too far away from Uchiha town. After about eight minutes, Itachi stepped inside the classroom and sat in his usual seat.
*Ring*
After the bell rang, Iruka Umino stepped in the classroom, cheery as always. "Ok class! Today we're having a lesson outside!" Iruka was another average chūnin ninja, although he was next to the only one nice to Naruto.
As usual, Naruto stumbled I the classroom, late as always. His hair was spiked in every direction possible, in fact, he still had drool seeping out of his mouth. Naruto wasn't only the worst student, but worst dressed on most occasions. Wearing bright colors just to get noticed.
The class followed Iruka outside and he began his lesson.
"Alright, we're going to practice shuriken throwing and aiming." Iruka explained.
"Itachi go first for us to set an example for your classmates."
"ITACHI! ITACHI! ITACHI!" A group of fan girls cheered, much to Naruto's annoyance he was the most popular and talented person in the class. Not to mention he was a notorious ladies' boy.
Itachi threw the shurikens and they perfectly stacked upon each other the post. Nothing short of a great example.
"That was a great Itachi, everyone try to follow, next we have-"
"Me! I'm going! I'm gotta beat that little weasel!" Naruto cut off while he ran towards the front of the line.
"Are you kidding me?! Naruto is a loser!" A random kid yelled.
"Yeah!" Another kid joined in.
"Fine, Naruto. You're up." Iruka finally agreed, handing the hyper spiky blonde a couple of shurikens.
As soon as the shuriken escaped Naruto's grasp they went all over the place. One landed above Iruka's head and the other stuck in the ground right beside the post. This set the class howling with laughter, except for Itachi.
"Just...SHUT UP!" Naruto clenched his fist in frustration. 'Why are they always-' He noticed one student wasn't laughing, instead he kept a straight face. 'How come...he isn't laughing at me?'
XxxxxXxxx
At the end of class, while everyone was leaving Itachi being his perfectionist self tried to advance his already perfect shuriken move by adding a string to it. He caught sight of Naruto walking alone.
"Why are you walking alone?" Itachi asked.
"Why do you even care, huh?! You're too perfect to even notice me!"
"Hm. That's strange because I always thought we were equals."
"Wha-? E-Equals?" Naruto was taken back by this, not one had anyone ever called him an equal.
Itachi continued. "But I guess it's because you lack-"
"I lack what?"
"Everything."
*vein pops* "EVERYTHING?!"
"Like I said."
"What do you have that I don't, huh?!"
"Common sense."
After school, Itachi hurried back home, he was almost at Uchiha town when he saw a shadow flicker in the moonlight. He shrugged it off and kept walking until he entered Uchiha town.
Itachi looked around and saw blood splatters all over town. Right beside his foot, he saw his aunt lying in a pool of her own blood. At that instant, something inside him shattered.
"Is this what you were talking about Sasuke?!" Itachi ran towards his house, everywhere he looked, he saw only death. The once joyous walls filled with laughter were now etched with screams of terror.
Itachi slowly approached his house and slid open the shōji. He cringed seeing the floors and walls painted with bloodstains.
In a panic, he stumbled upstairs and opened the door to his parent's room.
"I was too late, I'm sorry." His knees grew weak and wobbly as they moved to the corpses of his parents. "Mother, father, I-"
He stopped, Sasuke appeared on top of their blood covered bodies, his blood red eyes were luminous.
"Why?! You did this..." Warm tears streamed down his face. "Didn't you?!"
A devilish smirk her on Sasuke's face. "I killed them all, Itachi. And I loved every bit of it."
"...but why I-"
Sasuke snatched Itachi's shirt collar. "You want me to kill you too?! Do you still want to live?! DO YOU HAVE THE WILL TO FIGHT?!"
"..."
"Tell me Itachi, tell me right now how much you hate me!"
"I don't hate you, Sasuke."
Sasuke slammed Itachi's face in their parent's pool of blood. "TELL ME YOU HATE ME!"
"I don't...I still don't hate you."
"That's it," Sasuke crouched down and turned Itachi over, his face held no emotion, that happy smile from long ago was destroyed.
A hard punch landed on Itachi's face, blood spilled out of his mouth and sprawled across the floor. "TELL ME...TELL ME HOW MUCH YOU HATE ME!"
"I...I don't...hate you."
Sasuke punched Itachi in the face a second time. "TELL ME! JUST TELL ME..." Tears quickly swelled up in his eyes the more he stared at Itachi's utterly defeated face. "...tell me you hate me."
"I'm just a fool, that is why...I cannot...hate you."
"Then, I no longer want you to be my brother."
Sasuke picked Itachi up and threw him across the floor like a worthless piece of trash. "Listen to me well, one day, when you have enough hate, then and only then can you become my brother, but for now, you will always be...trash to me!" Sasuke got up and left in a flash, leaving Itachi...alone.
Our story begins four years after the Uchiha incident, Itachi Uchiha would finally become a full fledge ninja tomorrow just like his older brother, Sasuke.
*Bleep-Bleep*
Itachi turn his alarm clock off and got ready for his daily morning routine: bath, study of the evolution and the foundation of kunai knives, and breakfast.
After the water was fully heated up, Itachi stepped inside the bathtub. "...It's settled. Today will be the day I surpass you, Sasuke."
Itachi got out of the bathtub, studied, then picked up some leftover insta-ramen from last night and finally left his apartment. Ever since that day, long ago, he's always been pitied and it sickened him to no ends.
"Itachi! How have you been? It's been so long since I've seen you! Are you ok?!" Some old lady gushed as she squeezed Itachi like a doll.
"Thanks and all, but if you don't stop squeezing me, I'll be late for-"
"Hush child you look famished! You have lines by your nose, oh poor boy!"
"These lines were always here and-"
"Here have this dumpling and run off to school you'll be late!"
Itachi took the dumpling and ran off to school, he finally entered the classroom and sat where he always sat; front row, left seat but this time there was a crowd of girls swooning over him. Naruto walked in starting even more silent chatter.
Itachi took a breath of air. "Look at Itachi! He's sooo hot!" Ino Yamanaka, who was equally as infatuated with Itachi as Sakura exclaimed.
"Ao who do you think will get the first kiss?" Sakura Haruno, Ino's rival asked.
"Me! Itachi would never kiss a girl with a giant forehead!" Ino boasted.
"Well Itachi would never kiss a pig!" Sakura shot back.
"No way! Me" A girl argued
"Me!" Another girl chimed in.
Hinata sat back in her seat hopelessly staring at Naruto, she was the only girl not in 'love' with Itachi but rather had a huge crush on Naruto Uzumaki.
Itachi looked back only to see Natuto himself right in his face. "Argh! Why are you so smug Itachi?!" Naruto yelled, tired of him getting all the attention.
"I wasn't smug to begin with." Itachi answered.
He continued. "Listen Naruto could you possibly get out of my-"
Unexpectedly, someone accidentally bumped into Naruto causing him to tip forward and smooch Itachi on the lips.
Right then and there, all the fangirls died.
"Bleck!" Naruto quickly spat out in disgust.
Itachi wiped off his mouth. And sighed Ben longer this time.
*ring*
Right in time, Iruka walked in and began class. "Alright class, this is your last day of school, tomorrow you will all be ninja so your final test will be to create a clone oh and on top of that, everyone the Third Hokage is paying a visit to see you all perform so act exceptional, Naruto." Iruka explained.
The class started laughing.
"What come on! I'm always exceptional!"
The students all got up and went to the testing room.
Itachi was the first to get called. "First will be, Itachi Uchiha."
Itachi walked in and effortlessly weaved the hand signs: ram, snake, and tiger. "Clone technique!" A carbon copy of Itachi appeared beside him, the clone crossed his arms. "This okay for you?"
"Amazing Itachi as usual!" Iruka exclaimed. "Itachi, you're gonna be a great ninja!"
After a couple more students Naruto finally got called. Before walking inside the room, he glared at Kiba Inuzuka. "Alright guys! Watch me own this test!"
"Clone technique!"
A rather crappy copy of Naruto proofed up beside Naruto, all it looked like was a blob of orange and nothingness
"So Itachi do you think Naruto's gonna fail?" Kiba asked with a obnoxious grin.
"Naruto has as much as a chance as any of us, Kiba."
"Yeah right! Naruto is the worst ninja in the academy, he'll never become a ninja. I don't know why you pity him so much! You're like God to a piece of shit when compared to him."
"I never knew...how much of a fool you were, Kiba, because the second you underestimate him, the second you lose."
*ring*
The bell rang again signifying the end of school. Itachi along with his classmates got their stuff and ran out.
Suddenky, Naruto jumped onto Itachi and tied him up with some rope. "Yo! How do you like them apples you prissy bastardized!"
"What're you doing, Naruto?" Itachi flatly asked, obviously annoyed that he thought a rope could tie him down.
"You took everything else away from me, but you can't take away, Sakura!"
"Hm?"
"Sakura loves you right? Let's change that!"
"..."
Naruto transformed into a decent copy of Itachi and found Sakura sitting on a bench under a pink cherry blossom tree, looking out into the distance.
Naruto flipped his long black, silky hair. "Oi, Sakura." Naruto said in his best smug voice.
"Hey Itachi!" Sakura squealed, super surprised Itachi came to see her, he choose her out of everyone else.
"Sakura your forehead is so-" Naruto's stomach started to grumble and roar...possibly from that expired milk that he drank this morning.
'Wow! Itachi is gonna be the first person to compliment my forehead!' Sakura thought to herself practically bursting with joy.
"Your forehead is so...ugh...I have to-" Naruto started to say as he let out a giant, smelly fart.
*sweat drops down* "Itachi...are you ok?" Sakura asked, his face was a little green and he looked sick.
"Oh man!" Naruto yelled as he put his hands behind his butt and ran as fast as he could to the nearest toilet.
"Naruto? Why are you...me?" Itachi asked as Naruto bolted past him.
"I gotta pooooooop!" Naruto yelled. "No time to answer questionsssss!"
Itachi went in the opposite direction of Naruto and saw Sakura was sitting on the bench waiting for Itachi to come back. He walked up to Sakura.
"Oh, hello, Sakura." Itachi greeted.
"Ah! there you are Itachi! I'm guessing you're back from your emergency?" Sakura asked, pretending not to notice his clueless face. 'Jeez, that was quick, even for you, Itachi.'
"Emergency? Are you talking about Naruto?"
"Oh never mind! Itachi you're just so dark and stoic unlike Naruto, ugh Naruto is way too hyper and annoying, especially when he drools over me!"
"..."
"I bet he only acts like that since he doesn't have parents to keep him in check, right Itachi?"
"You're...just as annoying as Naruto." Itachi started to walk off. "You have no idea what he's been through."
"...I'm sorry..." Sakura looked up at the falling petals. "I guess I have been a little harsh on him, huh? Then...I'll be nice to him from now on!"
Itachi's apartment...sunset...
"Wow, this kid is a genius, I must say." Kakashi Hotake complemented, looking through his neatly piled stuff.
"He's like you isn't he?" Iruka asked.
"Except he isn't becoming an ANBU, although it would be interesting to have him on my team."
"Wouldn't it?"
XxxxxXxxx
Itachi came in late to his apartment, he opened the door and dropped down his bag. "Hey guys, I'm sorry late, agai-" He stopped himself and stared at the empty house.
The day after...
Itachi ran to school, it was the day they finally got assigned to his Jounin and teammates. As usual, the bell rang and Iruka walked in, he was clearly sad today.
"Ahem!" Iruka coughed, trying to clear up his voice as the Jounin walked in. "Today you will be assigned to a team."
"Let's begin. Konoha's Team seven: Itachi Uchiha..." The room was tense, everyone hoped to get paired with Itachi especially Ino and Sakura.
"Sakura Haruno-"
"YES!" Sakura exclaimed.
"And Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto raised his fist in the air. "Wooo! Wait..." He got up from his desk. "Excuse me! but why am I, the greatest ninja ever, paired up with that baka, Itachi?" Naruto asked.
"Because Naruto we pair our worst students with our best, Naruto you are our worst while Itachi is the best." Iruka explained, making the class crack up of laughter.
"You guys will be with Kakashi Hotake." He finished.
"Next Team eight: Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga, and Shino Aburame, you are all assigned to Kurenai Yūhi." Iruka continued reading aloud.
'Oh well I didn't get in Naruto's team, but...' Hinata looked to her new teammates. 'This will still be okay.'
"Finally Team ten: Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, and Ino Yamanaka are all assigned to Asuma Sarutobi." Iruka folded up his papers. "Well this it, guys. I wish you all best of luck on your upcoming missions!"
'Kakashi Hotake...huh?' Itachi thought to himself looking at the masked silver-haired ninja.
After pictures Kakashi told them to go inside a room and wait for him to file in the photo. All Naruto was how how boring and lame it all was. As punishment he stuck an eraser in the door frame.
"He-he! That's what Kakashi-sensei gets!" Naruto laughed as he tiptoed back to his seat.
"Naruto you shouldn't have done that!" Sakura scolded...on the outside 'CHA! What am I saying this is gonna be so funny!' the crazy inside of herself thought.
'Sensei wouldn't be so stupid enough to fall for that, right?' Itachi questioningly thought to himself.
Kakashi unknowingly opened the door and poked his head out, just his luck an eraser plopped onto his spiky silver hair. Naruto couldn't help but laugh out loud, Sakura as well was trying to hold it in and Itachi as always kept a straight face.
"Hm, first impression, I don't like you guys." He walked in. "Tomorrow for your first assignment, I don't want you to eat." Kakashi instructed.
"What why?" Naruto asked, slumping in his seat.
"No reason in particular." With that Kakashi disappeared without another word.
XxxxxXxxx
Itachi walked home in the bitter cold night, he walked inside his apartment and lay awake in his bed. He stared at the ceiling. "I still don't...hate you, Sasuke."
A/N: I apologize for not putting the events in order oh and not OOC.
Edit: Chapter one of my do-overs, ha-ha! I tried my best to put as much emotion as possible.
!What's Next! Yes! Everyone it's the famed survival test that's really only for Kakashi, but...but...no one cares. Naruto gets owned many times as well as the other members, they all lack teamwork and reliability and Itachi finds this the hardest to learn. Will they become ninjas?
And yes, I take suggestions, answer questions, etc...