Note from the Authoress: So, I've decided to write this story about Naruto being an Uchiha. I dunno where it came from, but I just drew this kick-ass sketch of an Akatsuki!Naruto using Mangekyou. XD

Warnings: Language, violence, blood/gore

Flaccid Will

Prologue

Tortured Soul

Gotta escape, gotta escape, gotta escape! the six-year-old blond boy thought frantically, blindly searching for anything sharp in the inky darkness. He hissed in pain quietly when he slashed his finger on a slightly sharp kunai knive that was outside his cell. Found you, he thought in grim triumphant as he quietly walked towards the cell door. He stuck the sharp end of the kunai into the key hole and slowly turned it to the left. The door let out a small click as it unlocked. "Yes!" he hissed quietly in satisifaction, stumbling out of the dirty cell. Naruto Uzumaki fumbled around, looking for a wall to rest his hand upon. He soon felt the all-too-familiar feel of the cold, hard, stone walls of the underground tunnel. He lightened his steps when he heard voices coming from ahead, and he slid his small, petite body into the shadows all-too-well.

The person soon rounded the corner ahead, in the small lighting showing that he had greasy black hair and tan skin with sinister green eyes. Naruto stopped breathing when the man passed him. The young blond made sure he couldn't hear or feel (by sending out his chakra in small waves) the man anymore before he continued his walk forwards. Okay, so I've already passed Calypso. Now I just have to pass Marii and Sai before I am completely safe. The boy's eyebrows furrowed as he thought of the two. I'll have no choice but to fight them if they find me. I am not going back to that hellhole again... even if I have to fight Sai, too.

Naruto had befriended Sai when he was in captivity here in one of the ROOT bases. Naruto pitied the black-haired artist for what happened to him; being raised to have no emotions and be a tool... He wouldn't been able to stand it if it had been himself. Then again, that very nearly happened, he thought. Luckily that jiji had stopped those two old hags just in time. The 'two old hags' were Homura and Koharu. They had been wanting to put Naruto in the ROOT system when he was two-years-old. So, as to not be suspicious, three years later, they (and Danzou) had kidnapped the blond. Even though Sarutobi knew it was them that did it, it wasn't like he could do anything about it without any righteous evidence.

"Ah, Naruto-kun... this is the second time this month, isn't it?" Marii's sweet, deadly voice floated down from above him. The blond spun around just in time to block an attack from Sai with the kunai he had used to open the door. The artist put more pressure into his attack and Naruto struggled slightly to keep his feet in the same spot.

Sai smiled fakely. "I see your training has paid off, hasn't it, Naruto-kun?" he asked rhetorically, still smiling. He flew backwards, as did Naruto, and Marii landed inbetween them. She grinned in a psychotic way.

"Well, it looks like our little foxy is going to put up a fight this time, isn't he?" she cooed in a borderline-insane tone.

She's one of the only ones that kept her emotions, Naruto recalled. But that's not necessarily a good thing... "I'm leaving this time, Marii-san, Sai-san," he said aloud, in a clear, certain voice. He slid into a taijutsu stance, unfamiliar to him but yet he felt as if he was born to know it. Marii's eyes narrowed.

That's-! "Ungh!" she grunted when the blond disappeared, reappeared in front of her, and punched her in the stomach with a chakra-enhanced fist. Sai disappeared from sight, leaving Marii to fight the blond while he reported to Danzou.

Naruto blocked his way. "Oh no, you don't." His cerulean eyes darkened to a nearly-black color, his eye-color know a dark-blue. Sai's eyes narrowed and he dropped his fake smile.

"Move out of my way, Naruto," he said in a dangerous, cold tone. "Naruto...!" he warned when he saw the blond still standing in the same spot, glaring at him with now-black eyes.

"I'm sorry, Sai..." Naruto whispered as he closed his eyes. He heard Sai and Marii both running towards him and he opened his eyes abruptly. The two froze as they noticed his red eyes with three tomoe. "Goodbye..." He sped through hand-seals and landed on tiger. "Fuuton: Kaze Yaiba Tsume! (Wind Release: Wind Blade Fang!)"

Slice. Thud.

The blond ran out of the building, cry silent tears of blood as he walked away from his closest friend's corpse. He didn't stop running until he was sure he was far enough away from Konoha. He turned to the trees and let out a yell of pain, his eyes opening even further as they bleed more and began to change shape. They morphed into the shape of three curved lines on both the left and right sides of his pupil. Inbetween the lines, on the top and bottom, were two tomoe each.

He looked in the water, froze, and then unfroze, sighing. "Well... I guess my more appropriate name now is Naruto Uchiha." He smirked. "It has a nice catch to it..."

Note #2 from the Authoress [READ!]: Yes, I realize Naruto got the Mangekyou waaaay too fast. But I needed him to obtain that then. And he had already had the Sharingan, but never knew it. Danzou never let him know, and plus, whenever Naruto figured it out, Danzou used his Sharingan to make Naruto forget. So, when Naruto killed Sai (his closest and only friend), he gained the Mangekyou.

Oh, and Naruto had had the Sharingan for one-and-a-half years before hand. I figured I should've mentioned this. So please, don't flame it, 'kay? And if you want to see a picture of his Mangekyou, just follow the link on my profile. :) That is, when I'm able to get up it. DeviantART's being an ass right now. Tch...