A Tale Retold – The Story of Uchiha Kengura, the lost Sharingan Master

Told in an ancient dialect, the story of Uchiha Kengura begins years before the Uchiha Clan had risen to power in Konohagakure. The Uchiha clan was still a very powerful house and controlled much territory but was not yet recognized as a member of Konoha. With the Nation young still, living under the rule of its Second Hokage, the Uchiha clan was large compared to other houses. One member, who possessed superb powers of the Sharingan, so skilled, only with two tomoes, that he was a match for the Elite Byakugan Force, An early task force of the house of Hyuuga used by Konoha in the great war as scouts.

His powers rivaled, possibly surpassing, the powers of the ancient Uchiha Madera. Though not as evil as he, he certainly had a talent using the Sharingan and by the age of 12, was the first ever person elected by the Uchiha clan to enter into the Black Ops force. This age was not rivaled again until the maturation of Uchiha Itatchi, possibly a close relative of Kengura but certainly not a distant one at that.

Also, none of this is officially a true background in the Naruto Universe, but could be considered an extension of it. I officially own no part or stake in the Naruto production process and am doing this of my own talent.

But please, if any descrepancies occur between places or times, please feel free to correct because I want to keep it as close to the normal storyline as possible.

This, is his story

Chapter one – A scenery grows

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"Alright! That's enough Kerone!" said the Sensei. Walking down from the platform, he expertly dodged the last shuriken that was falling from the sky. Looking down at the young boy, he smiled.

"I remembered!" said the small boy across the way, not thirteen yet. "Never let down your guard until the last weapon falls and all is clear!" He quickly yelled over to the master, who was standing next to his 'target.'

"Yes Kerone, but the target is young Kengura, not I," the sensei quickly replied, smiling. Kerone was one of the better weapons students currently out of the academy. A member of a ragtag band, he was not the leader, but he still was teaching his squad new ideas with weapons.

"Yes sensei," he replied, still confidant that he was still able to get that close to Kengura. Kengura was the best in the class… period. There was no-one sharper, or stronger, than he was. He even had is second tomoe when he was only 8! The only person who was stronger so far, that could be found, was an Elite member of the Byakugan Task Force. His name was Hyuuga Hiachi, a young warrior. He was 24 years old and so far, the only person known to be able to beat Kengura in anything.

"Sensei, when will we be able to go on a mission," Kengura posed. He curiously looked up at Naka, waiting for a reply. The black-headed boy's Sharingans, slowly disappearing again from the bright red Sharingan eye, to the more relaxed deep blue that everyone was used to. Kengura, not yet 13, was in the big leagues, ready to take the Chunin exams that came up in just over a month.

"Well that depends… where is your other member of your team?" Naka asked, specifically directing his gaze at Kerone.

"What!!! It's NOT, my fault he wasn't able to dodge that kunai before it him. He had plenty of time to get out of the way." Kerone said sheepishly. Kerone, the youngest member of the team, was also the last to get his second tomoe. All three team members were Uchiha and had the Sharingan eye. Kerone was referring to a problem where during a training exercise; he accidentally struck Tidashi with a kunai. Tidashi was going to be out of training, and out of work, for a good week. The medic-nin said that he would be able to return to active duty within 2 more days.

"It may not seem that way to you Kerone, but as I recall, he never even had weapons during that exercise, which leaves to question how else he was hit. Accident or not, it is in the past, and let us leave it there." He said, turning back to Kengura. "As for a mission, I have talked with the Hokage, and secured a simple D rank mission for you to do. Not the liveliest mission, but it will give some experience for you…"

"A D-rank!!! Not again!!!" Kerone broke in, upset that he had to participate in lowly missions. Only 10, he was very impulsive to participate in the great missions like the First Hokage did before he created Konoha.

"Well if I could finish!" Naka said clearing his throat, "this mission will give you some experience while allowing Tidashi some time to recover as well. It is a simple retrieval and delivery mission. You are to retrieve a package tomorrow from the Hokage and deliver it to the neighboring town of Tesutatchi. There, you will bring back the payment for the package. If you do it quickly, it shouldn't take you more than 3 hours. But if you open the box, or spend any of the yen, there will be serious consequences."

"Well you don't have to be so grumpy about it" Kerone said. "We will get that mission done in 3 hours!" He boasted, quickly dropping his hands knowing that he was the slowest and youngest in the group yet again, he realized that this claim was not very valid. Listening to the forest, he heard someone approaching.

"Naka, who is that?" Kengura asked, looking over at the person, still yards away.

"Ahh, he is here. That is Foshita Gyo. He recently obtained the rank of Tokubetsu Jonin, and will be taking over for me for a while. I have been assigned to another mission for a while so he will be filling in for me. I thought he would be here about an hour ago but I guess he was held up." Naka explained. Naka himself was an Elite Jonin, the mission was an S rank, which was going to penetrate deep into Sand territory to retrieve a lost comrade after an insurgence strike. There would be some heavy opposition, and he was the best man that they could use with demolitions skills and also advanced Sharingan techniques.

"Gyo!" Naka called out. Then he was gone, disappeared into thin air and reappeared next to Gyo. That was the other reason that they needed him to be on the force. He had developed a technique that would allow the user to vibrate their body so quickly, and so minimally, that you were virtually invisible and could move at high speeds.

(For those who know, this is not like the Body Flicker Jutsu, this makes you invisible, not defy time)

"That always creeps me out!" Kerone said, looking over at the two Jonin talking together. Probably saying just look out for them and he would be back in notime, and then he was gone again, zipping back off into the void. He always did that so that no-one could follow him and people who wanted him could only know he would show up. Even with the Sharingan, only one other person was able to copy this technique, though not perfect at it, Kengura could emulate it to a point of usefulness. The Sharingan does have limits to what it can copy on that level of difficulty. Remembering the handsigns and the calls of other Jutsu is easy, but performing something as complex as that has its difficulties. Tadashi had also tried but could not perform it yet.

"Well, where do you want to go to eat? Otoki's ramen or Hidatash for fried noodles?" Kengura quickly asked. He heard his stomach rumbling and then remembered that they had been out training for the past 3 hours and still had not eaten for another 8 past that.

"I don't know if you will be going to either!" Gyo said jokingly, coming up to them. They had done this before, except they had always had Otomo come and "babysit" them while Naka went on high rank missions.

"Ha ha ha, very funny, but if you didn't know, we haven't eaten in close to 10 hours! We are starving." Kerone said, agitated by his quip.

"Well what if I am not kidding" He started, but then conceded defeat.

"Well, I want to go to Otoki. I love his ramen and he has a new recipe for making pork ramen." Kengura said, looking over at Kerone who nodded in agreement. Gyo just shrugged his shoulders not caring which, for he had just eaten.

Beginning the trek back home, they started a competition on who could beat who by throwing shuriken infront of them and aiming at seemingly random targets. Kerone was very artistic using the shuriken and kunai, always adding in extra twists, throwing extra moves, rolling with his throws, and essentially making it a very intricate ballet. Kengura on the otherhand stayed to straightforward shots, and was not a match for Kerone with his Sharingan activated. Kengura usually did this so that he could better himself without a Sharingan, because what is the use of an arm if the fingers were gone? He had always questioned this and made sure that he was proficient in other things as he was when he had his Sharingan activated. Unfortunately, weapons were his weakness in his Sharinganless state. At least his weakness was still a match for a fully armed Kerone, Sharingan and all.

Sitting down later at Otoki's Ramen shop, Gyo quickly scanned a paper for interesting headlines, and then found a section on current mission status and the MIA list. Gyo had a brother, that was 2 years older than he was, who was lost about 3 years ago. A mission that almost cost Konoha some of its best soldiers, including Naka and the Hokage. Gyo always scanned the MIA sections of the paper for any sign that they had found at least the remains.

He let a slow sigh out of his lungs. Again, no change, as it had been for 3 years. In a full fighting retreat, Naka and the Hokage had both lost track of Gyo's brother, south of the sand village. They had gone back with survey teams but they found no evidence that he had even been there.

"Your right! He does make good ramen!"
"I told you he did!"
"but his recipes arn't legendary!"

The banter continued for some time while Gyo sat in full astonishment at how strong the bond between Kengura and Kerone was. It was almost as if they were brothers, but they were not. One could almost mistake them for one another from afar but up close you could tell the differences, mainly their heights.

"Well here, lets go now. I feel that the restaurant has had its free entertainment for the night." Gyo stated. The two boys, completely oblivious, were stopped, both holding chopsticks in the air over empty bowls as they debated the best style of noodles. Kengura supported ramen while Kerone supported Fried noodles and sweet noodles. Looking around, they could see the entire restaurant looking at them, some laughing, others smiling at the heated debate.

"Ugh… I forgot how public this place was." Kerone said. Standing to leave he threw a tip on the table and turned to Gyo. "So will you be supervising our mission tomorrow?" He quickly asked that so they could know who to find when they went to the Hokage's tower.

"What mission?" Gyo responded. He know what he was talking about but to see the confusion well up in side the boy was hilarious. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding, yes I will be the supervisor tomorrow." He said, wiping a tear from his eye. Getting up to leave, he was stopped by the owner of the shop.

"Here, if you have to deal with them, here is some ramen on the house" Said Otoki. He chuckled to himself as he watched them both walk off toward their homes. Gyo took the bag, and left, knowing that somehow, someway, tomorrow is not going to be just a simple mission.