Of Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones Chapter 1, a naruto fanfic

Title: Of Sticks and Stones, and Broken Bones

Author: Senney

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto; the characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto. The stuff you don't recognize is probably mine.

Note: Iwa means 'rock;' so Iwa is the hidden ninja village of Rock.

Summary: Hatake Kakashi ran from Konoha at the tender age of six. He had no family and no friends to tie him to the village. He came to Iwa, and was accepted as a ninja... At 12 his life changed, Iwa put Konoha to war, and he was brought back to where he was born…

AU fic, alt. Timeline

Chapter One

The Return

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A brief flash of white in the night, the silence thick, a cold blade sliced the air.

The man didn't even have a chance to scream.

Hatake Kakashi, Iwa-nin, strikes again. He sheathed his sword and obliterated his target's body. His job was complete, and he could return to his village to receive another mission.

That was all that he was. A tool; he couldn't say for sure if he liked it or not, but he didn't have much experience with feeling.

Other than the pain he felt so long ago, when he left Konoha.

And the pain he felt when Kotoro died so he could live…

And again when Ariake had died when he couldn't protect her…

Damn… it was too fresh to think about. He missed her so much…

He turned and began running the ten miles back to Iwa. The Tsuchikage would want him back as soon as possible. People were talking about the start second ninja war, and Iwa would need everyone she could get. All of the ANBU would need to be there, including him.

No one was in the forest to see him that night, though he was easy to recognize. He had a shock of white hair that shot up at an odd angle. He wore a black mask underneath his white and green wolf mask. His Hitae-ate was slanted over his left eye. He looked like a black and white photo. Crisp and clear, a brief flash of white in the night.

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"Yondaime Tsuchikage-sama," Kakashi bowed.

"Wolf, I trust that you were successful?" the Tsuchikage motioned for him to stand.

"Of course," Kakashi said, now looking directly at the other man. Yondaime sighed.

"Kakashi, you and 12 other Iwa-nin are being sent to the border of the fire country. The war has started."

"Hai. Our objective?"

"You're the reinforcements." Kakashi winced; things must be looking grim…

"Hai…"

With that, Kakashi left to the front gates.

At the intricate stone doors 10 other ninja were waiting for him. Three of the others were wearing similar white and blue ANBU masks. 'Hawk, Cat, and Mouse' Kakashi noted. About two minutes after he arrived, a Jounin called Oraki poof-ed into the area. Hawk stood;

"Fellows, we are here and we know our purpose, yes?" affirmative nods. "Good, remember, you must be silent, wait for the signals from me, and keep your damn mouth shut if you're captured."

With that, the Hawk took flight, running into the forest. The rest of the Nin followed behind, nimbly jumping from tree to tree. The trek would take about a day and a half, if they stopped to sleep. They ran in complete silence, but the looks some of them shared spoke volumes.

They were going to war.

And they'd be damn lucky to live.

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"We're approaching the front lines" Hawk hissed. "Fan out and attack on three!" They followed his instructions. Poised and ready to jump into the fray; all they needed was the command.

"One… Two… Three!"

Twelve fresh shinobi ran into the battle. It was still 2 Konoha Nin to one Iwa Nin, but they were less tired. Kakashi had already killed two ninja, chuunin, and disabled a Jounin. He was then confronted by two Jounin; he didn't bother to register their appearance before he began to fight them. Start with taijutsu, move to weaponry, then to ninjutsu. If all else failed he did have a secret weapon…

But for now ninjutsu would do. 'Shun shin no jutsu!' he flashed behind one of his attackers and beheaded him cleanly. The other one stared at him for a split second too long.

Another head thudded to the ground.

With no assailants near him, Kakashi chanced a look around. Only two other Iwa-nin were still alive. Konoha had a large number of ANBU present. They were just too much.

Kakashi relocated himself to the main fight; the odds were a staggering 5-1. No, now it was him and Hawk on 14 Konoha Nin. He heard a dying scream behind him…

Now it was just Kakashi on 12 Konoha Nin.

Oohh Crap…

Kakashi cried out when a katana sliced his side. He dodged a flurry of projectiles, jumping away from the attackers. He flashed back in and beheaded two more with one swing. There was an inhuman growl of rage from behind him. What looked like an Inuzuka ripped towards him, missing his neck by a fraction, knocking his ANBU mask off instead.

They attacked him one at a time. Each one presenting a different technique to counter. Kakashi sustained a few more injuries, some rather serious. Someone came up and feinted stabbing him. Kakashi dodged, but was slammed in the chest with a chakra loaded palm. 'C-crap… Byakugan'

He fell backwards. He only had enough energy for one more attack. He lay prone for a few seconds, his breathing ragged. The other ninja surrounded him. There were seven of them left. They seemed to be decided whether or not to kill him. He sat up sharply, ignoring the agony it caused him. He ripped up his Hitae ate.

The group looked at him and prepared to attack, he opened the eye to reveal what looked like a sharingan eye, save for the fact that it was blue. He focused chakra to his eye, and then released it. 'Aoime no sendo'

The resulting flash immobilized the other shinobi. The three who were nearest to him when it happened were unable to breathe. They expired. Kakashi killed two more before collapsing, hacking up blood. His consciousness wavered. The last thing he saw before the blackness was three faces looking at him in a very perplexed way.

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"What the fuck was that?" Asuma asked, stretching paralysis from his limbs. "Should we kill him?"

"No," Hiashi said. "He's the last one alive, and he looks like he has a lot of information."

"But he killed Hachi! Scum…" Inuzuka Hana yelled.

"I'm sorry for your loss, Hana, but he needs to be interrogated, alive."

"Jeez, Tsunade is going to have our heads… Twelve Iwa nin wiped out almost all of us…" Asuma rubbed the back of his neck. He bent down and picked up the White haired boy. "He's just a kid…he's my team's age and he already has ANBU status."

"We may be obliged to question him, but I will show him no mercy… I hope Ibiki gets him good." Hana sneered. "Let's go tell Tsunade… I don't want that shrimp near me any longer…"

So they began the four hour run to Konoha, mildly wondering whether or not the kid would actually make it for that long.

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As the sun began to set the three survivors entered the Hokage's tower. None of them actually knew what to do with the boy, so they went straight to the Godaime. Shizune told them to go in, not even noting the boy in Asuma's arms. Hana closed the door behind them.

"Godaime Hokage-Sama" They said in unison, Hana and Hiashi bowing.

"Oh skip the formal crap. What the hell happened?" Tsunade snapped. She looked expectantly at Hiashi. He said;

"We fought on even ground for the first two days; we ambushed them on the second night and cut their numbers to one score. We were near victory, 3 of them on thirty of us when twelve reinforcements arrived. They were considerably more skilled and rested than us, but we fared well. Then, it was a twelve on one fight. Some people let their guards down, and were dispatched by the fighter, we injured him badly, but he used some sort of bloodline limit to kill off the other five of us. He wasn't dead so we decided to bring him for questioning."

"Where is he?" Tsunade asked

"Here," Asuma gestured with his beard to the bloody mass in his arms.

"So this, kid, killed 9 Konoha Jounin?" her eyebrow was twitching menacingly. The three Jounin in front of her took a step back. "Fine," she said, "Take him to Ibiki."

"Hai Hokage-Sama," they all said. They exited the office together then went separate ways. Asuma went down to the interrogation department with the boy. He was stuck waiting for Ibiki to come back from his lunch break.

Asuma decided to actually look at the little murderer in his arms.

He looked peaceful… Like any leaf Genin, save for the Iwagakure Hitae ate. He was covered in dried blood. He was wearing a black ANBU uniform and sandals. His hair was blonde, or red… there was too much dried blood to tell, really.

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Ibiki had seen a lot of people come and go through his 'interrogation' in the past weeks; most of them didn't even wake up after. Here he had a kid with massive injuries who was shaking, in obvious pain, yet still glaring at him, and hadn't said a word.

"What's your name, brat"

Silence.

"Talk or I'll make you"

Still silence.

"Why won't you talk?"

"Orders"

"Will you say anything else?"

Silence. Ibiki put pressure on his broken ribs, he earned a grimace. Ibiki's foot remained firmly in place.

"What is your name?!" Ibiki pushed even harder with his foot. The boy started coughing violently. Flecks of blood dotted the floor. The boy rasped, "S-Since you don't know m-me, I g-guess I can s-say… Kakashi, H-Hatake Kakashi" the boy passed out again.

Ibiki was dumbfounded.

He knew Sakumo.

He knew what had happened to his boy after he had committed suicide…

This kid should be dead.

A missing Nin twice-over.

Tsunade must be informed.

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To be Continued

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A/N: so, is it good? Is it bad? Want more? (I'd like to clarify, Kakashi is the same age as the rookie nine, and went missing a week after his father killed himself. Now he's back, YAY)

IMPORTANT: I want to hold a mini-vote. Kaka x ?, the choices are

Ino Hinata or my OC Ariake (who he thinks is dead)