Chapter 1: The Massacre

The Sandaime Hokage is almost like a grandfather to the villagers of the Leaf , the "Professor " sighed as he watched the peaceful village. For all his 64 years he could not help but feel like this was the most beautiful moment in his life .

50 years had gone by since he became a ninja, 50 years filled with loss, hardship, war and many deaths. Sarutobi was not a warrior, he preferred a book or a scroll then a kunai or a sword thus he was different from normal ninja who preferred war against a time of peace.

The situation the 3rd Hokage was currently facing was a very complicated one …in front of him stood a tall young man of 13 years, the prodigy of prodigies the villagers called him, a true genius much like himself.

The Hokage could not help but feel proud of the young Uchiha that was in his office , and what an incredible record the boy-genius had : graduated from the Ninja academy at age 7 with top grades, mastered the Sharingan at age 8, became a Chuunin at age 10, Anbu leader at age 12 . Yes … Uchiha Itachi was a very intelligent young man.

"Are you certain of this Itachi-kun? "

Itachi moved his vision from the window to look in the old man eyes. Of course he was certain, he heard the story himself, and he saw the way they acted, the way they moved. If it was one thing Itachi was excellent at, it was reading people .Basically he could tell everything about a person just by looking at them. He could tell if the person was lying by their eyes movement, if the eyes drift to the left while speaking that person is lying.

"Yes Hokage-sama" was the formal replay

"This is a serious matter, what do you propose we do Danzo? " Itachi knew the man was in the room, he was not one of the ANBU`s best for nothing, he sensed him coming from the moment the Hokage secretly called him 5 minutes ago.

"There is only one thing we can do Sarutobi, I will not sit by and let them bring this village into a civil war! The casualties will be enormous! The other countries will see this as a sign of weakness! We can't let this happen; we must eliminate all of them, all of those freak-eyed so called combat geniuses!"

In the exact same moment as the words left his mouth a sword was hanging at his neck, the sharp metal blade was inches from his vocal cord.

"Stand down Itachi, you must see logic yourself that this is the only way "the old man rubbed his temples .He felt a headache coming. He had two choices a civil war or a massacre.

"I will do it Hokage-sama"

"I beg you pardon? What do you mean Itachi-kun?"

"I mean I will do it, I will eliminate my clan for their foolish plan, I, Uchiha Itachi, shall be their demise."

The Hokage felt a "but" coming …

"But, I have a small favor "Itachi didn't disappoint.

"You wish to spare your family ".This was only normal, the Hokage mused.

"I wish to spare my little brother and Naruto-san "

Now the Hokage was not expecting this, he expected the boy to plea for his parents, for his best friend Shisui but not for Uchiha Naruto. The boy was smart, true, for a 7 year old, very observant and always emotionless that resembled Itachi to much. The boy was a carbon-copy of Itachi only different in looks and an orphan who lived with his brother Shisui in the Uchiha Compound he is top of his class at the moment even managed to beat the Uchiha`s Clan Heir : Uchiha Sasuke , Itachi`s little brother

"Very well Itachi, do as you wish"

They were not many thing people knew about Shisui brother, but Itachi knew all that was needed to know. The Boy was a genius, not even a gennin and he managed to master the Sharingan! A 7 year old boy with a matured Sharingan! It was simply incredible! And his eyes were better than his, the boy saw everything. If Itachi suspected someone who knew all the Uchiha`s secrets than that someone was Naruto .The boy was reading all day and when he did not have his nose buried in a book somewhere, he was watching the Uchiha`s, observing them.

Itachi found out about the clan`s plan two weeks ago, and from the start he knew he could not let them go threw with it. So the first thing he did was to find a way to stop them that led him to believe that he was not strong enough he needed to become stronger …and to be stronger he needed to research a myth Naruto told him, a myth about a more powerful Sharingan, a Sharingan you can only achieve by feeling extreme guilt .This myth led Itachi to the murder of his best friend Shisui, Naruto`s brother.

Two days after the incident took place, when he was coming home from ANBU HQ

"You killed Shisui "a cold emotionless voice greeted him in his room.

If Itachi was expecting a nice, dreamless sleep he was sorely mistaken, but what the boy did totally surprised him, the boy did not make a fuss, or cry he just stared at Itachi with his Sharingan activated .But he wasn't prepared for battle or for a fight so Itachi indulged him with an answer

"Yes" came a similar cold voice, his voice Itachi noted

"Did you obtain it? The Mangekayo … the final step? Is it powerful? "The excitement in his voice was notable

This was the biggest reaction Itachi had ever gotten out of the little genius.

"It has 3 powers: a powerful genjutsu a, a powerful ninjutsu attack and the 3rd power I haven't yet figured it out "

"Good" and he left, disappeared using a D-rank JUTSU, how the boy knew it was beyond Itachi. The kid just new things, plain and simple.

A soft swish of noise, branches creaking and leaves rustling. A glint of raven hair in the moonlight. A lingering baleful aura filling the night as it came to rest on a telephone pole high over the Uchiha district. Closing his eyes, he concentrated and reopened them, Sharingan evolving into three elongated swirls before stalling. Everything was clearer, sharper, and brighter.

Itachi was no fool; any man that had completed one hundred and thirty-eight S-rank missions was not one to risk fighting before he evolved his eye completely. Still this had not meant Itachi was doing nothing, he had taken advantage of the clans distraction while planning to take over the village and removed all those Uchiha that lived outside the compound. Distant aunts, uncles and cousins who could never develop or pass along the Sharingan.

A cloud drifted over the moon, and, when it passed, Uchiha Itachi was nowhere to be found.

The first house was an old couple he barely knew. They had given him cookies once for Sasuke. Both wore the Uchiha fan on their backs. They fell to the floor in a pool of blood before they even knew the young Uchiha had entered their home.

The next house was a single old man. He had served in battles long ago as a shinobi for leaf. He was no longer a threat. Age had robbed him of skills to prevent his death, even if his Sharingan eyes allowed him to still see every perfectly executed stroke of the blade that ended his life.

The third house and Itachi was falling into a deadly pattern. Two more adults fell at the dinner table while a daughter slightly older than Itachi crumbled to the floor in the doorway to the dining room. Before Itachi realized his actions, he sliced through her little brother as the boy tried to attack him with a kunai. Itachi paused; the boy should not have been killed. He was too young.

Before Itachi's mind could fully realize what he had done, he was at the next house. A young recently married family and the wife was expecting a child soon. Both of them wore the Uchiha fan. They fell before realizing what had happened. Their bodies collapsed onto one another.

Another house and another pile of death. It was several houses more before Itachi met a true challenge for his skills. He had not realized how far he had come, how much he had gained from his drive to better himself. Uchiha fell as if they were nothing but civilians. When he encountered his first fellow ANBU, all it took was a flash of the Mangekyou and the few seconds of distraction was enough to slit the man's throat. To think an ANBU would fall like that seemed unconceivable. Yes, Itachi had the element of surprise and Uchiha did not fear the Sharingan like the other clans did. No, they had grown complacent about it, trusting their own eyes to counter the effects of the Uchiha clan's ability,

Itachi killed them all. Young, old, men, women … it did not matter. Anyone who was an Uchiha fell that day. The blood was everywhere. As he reached his house, he thought he could smell the sickly sweet scent in the air.

Blood dripped from the cold steel of his blade as he entered his family's house. Everyone else was dead. Every Uchiha in the village except for Naruto, his own father and mother … and of course his precious brother. They all lay dead in a pool of their own blood. All had been killed by this blade. The blade that was to determine the future of the Uchiha clan was also the means to a rebirth of the clan.

He walked forward towards his parents. They intended to take him down. He saw the fear in their eyes as their son walked towards them, dripping in the blood of their clan. Everyone was dead outside of that room. This would not be a quick kill thought. He knew how he was going to kill the two people that had taken his childhood away from him, the two that hurt hi, the most. They were going to pay for what they did to him. They were going to know what it felt like. They would know how Itachi felt being raised as a weapon by the two people who should have protected him at all costs.

He let his eyes slip into the Mangekyou. His mother just looked confused at the changes her son's eyes made … his father knew though. From the fear in his eyes, Itachi knew that he knew the truth behind this new power.

Itachi cast the illusion jutsu over his parents. As the moon shining through the window turned black and the blood mist covered his vision he made them pay. He made them suffer 72 hours of intense torture.

He stood over them as they shakily emerged from the illusion. He glared down at his parents. "It ends here." He stabbed his mother through the chest. They were both too stunned from the after effects of the illusion to do anything to stop him.

Itachi stood up, his blade dripping with their parent's blood as he took a step towards his little brother. He saw the boy realize that Itachi was the one responsible for this slaughter. The boy turned to run, but Itachi had caught him with the Mangekyou. There would be no doubt in the young boy's head about what had happened that night.

He would give his brother the determination he needed to become strong enough.

"Foolish brother, if you wish to kill me, hate me, detest me, and survive in an unsightly way. Run, run and cling to your pathetic life "

"Why? Why did you do IT? WHY MOTHER … WHY FATHER? "

The answer Sasuke received totally shocked him … it was cruel … inhumane even.

"To measure my capacity "

Those were the last word Sasuke heard before he fell into a sleep filled with nightmares of his clan demise.

It was about damn time…

Those were his only thoughts as he survived the scene below him . Countless of bodies lay dead in the streets in a pool of their own blood .

A normal 7 year old will be terrified of seeing such a scene but he was anything but normal . He already accepted the fact that he will come face to face with death since he begged Shisui to allow him to join the Ninja Academy .

Shisui

Brother

His brother was dead now . Has been for almost two weeks. Died at the hands of his best friend and Naruto`s mentor Uchiha Itachi . The man responsible for the carnage that lay below him . A single tear fell from the seven year olds eyes

They deserved it …

Yes they did . Naruto himself found out about their plan to take over Konoha . How unhappy they were for being kept under 24/7 supervision. Being held responsible for the fox demon attack 7 years ago . Of course they were being held responsible , the demon could be controlled only by a person who possesses the Sharingan . No , Naruto was certain that the man responsible was an Uchiha . All the facts led to that conclusion .

His own brother had plotted against his village . His own stupid big brother . If Naruto had to use tree words to describe Shisui : stupid , idiot ,moron would be his first three choices .

Shisui of the Mirage

Naruto snorted despite the situation at hand . His brother a genius … now THAT was a funny thought . Shisui knew genjutsu he even introduced the basics to Naruto when he was 5 .

The ability to foul ones opponent with illusions was an incredible and useful ability and with the use of his Sharingan he will show those ignorant people who the master truly was .

In the last 2 years , Naruto fed Shisui ideas to try for his illusion , ideas that Naruto himself created but could not use because his lack of chakra or chakra control .

That will change soon… he thought to himself … With his incredible mind he will raise the ranks and become a powerful ninja .

Some people say that the most useful weapon a ninja can have is his Chakra capacity ,other say that the repertoire of jutsu techniques . But the majority of the ninja populace thinks that the strength of a ninja lies in his/hers inherited abilities .

All those people are stupid .

The true strength of a ninja is the mind …Ones brain has the power to calculate opponents move by their muscle tenses or their eye dilatation even before the Sharingan can .

The brain can create multiple scenarios where you could attack , defend or run away . The ability to invent new jutsus , new illusions , that was a power to be reckon with . His brother did not believe that

His brother was a foul …

Naruto learn from the beginning that emotions will cloud ones decision making ability .

He cared for Shisui , he really did …

But now he was gone .

Maybe it was his fault for telling Itachi of the Mangekayo , the eye evolution he found in one of Konoha History books .

Maybe it was … it was too late now anyway . He will always remember Shisui that he knew for certain, he will even honor him by taking his title as a genjutsu master .

I will make you proud … Brother

Taking one last look at the massacre that took place … Naruto fled from the scene heading to the one place he felt more at peace … Konoha`s Library .

Of course the library wouldn't be open at this hour …but the Uchiha had other ways to enter the library and if someone finds him he could always blame Itachi.