Shadows of the Night
Prologue.
A 7 year old blonde boy, clad in a bright red long sleeve tope, which flared slightly at the wrist, and black jeans that glittered with red flecks, walked down a street in the Uchiha compound. It was kind of dark, but he didn't care, he was going to see his best friend Sasuke!
Turning onto his friend's street, he stopped suddenly. A man was there, standing in the middle of the pitch-black street, it didn't take much on the boys part to work out who he was. Itachi stood there, clad in full ANBU Armor. The boy, Naruto, smiled, before walking up to the figure.
"Hello Itachi-san." Naruto said, formerly but friendly, as he approached the man. "Watcha Doin'?"
Itachi looked down at him emotionlessly "I'm going to kill everyone in the compound." He said.
Naruto's smile disappeared as he took a step back, he didn't know if it was what the man had said, or just the blunt, dull, emotionless way he said it that surprised, and frightened, him. "What?" he asked his eyes wide.
"You heard me." The Uchiha simply stated, once again emotionlessly. This… Okay, Naruto was starting to get frightened by now, he'd never seen the already scary man like this before.
"…what?…bu… but why?" He'd always offered a smile to the boy, and he'd never seen this blank look he displayed.
"To see if I can." A simple answer.
Naruto startled, his defensive instincts kicking in. "I won't let you!" He yelled, taking a step forward.
Itachi looked down at him before smirking coldly, very much scaring the poor blonde boy. He lowered himself down to the boy's eye level, showing off his dangerous blood-line limit "I'll offer you a choice then. I could kill the whole Uchiha clan, sparing my little brother, so he can wallow in certain misery, or…" His smirk turned wicked "… I could kill your mother."
He… He hadn't just said that… had he? Bu…but… That's not fair! How could he do such a cold, heartless thing?! But something in the man's disposition… in his voice… in his manner… told the boy that he was far from joking, and that because Naruto had taken one step forward, because he cared, he was just put in a horrible position.
If… if Itachi did what he'd said, that is if he k…killed the Uchiha's… Why leave out Sasuke? No, focus!... I can't focus! This isn't fair! If Itachi killed them, what would Sasuke do? What would Sasuke do? … Naruto gave a choked off sob… He'd hate him... He'd loathe him… He'd despise him, even more then he would Itachi, the man who would kill them in the first place! NO! Not… not Sasuke, I can't lose Sasuke… Anything but Sasuke…
He looked up into crimson red eyes and was forced to look away again, to hide his shame as his eyes prickled and tears stemmed from his eyes. "…Mother…"
"Is that your final answer?" Itachi asked, for all the world sounding like a game show host. Naruto couldn't repeat the death sentence and sobbed once more, merely nodding.
Itachi disappeared, leaving Naruto to collapse in a heap, sobbing. It's not fair!… It… It just isn't fair…
When Sasuke turned onto the street a few minutes later, he gasped, seeing his sobbing friend collapsed on the street, and ran over as fast as his small legs could take him. Naruto stiffened at the sound of his friend, before relaxing, still sobbing.
"Naruto? Naruto, what's up?" Sasuke tried to ask, but Naruto just stood up, turned around and ran. "Naruto!" Sasuke called after him, he was worried, but he had to get home, maybe he'd see his whiskered friend at school tomorrow.
'Please be okay, Okaa-san, please be okay! I'm sorry! Please don't kill her… Itachi!'
Enna Rose XD