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"WATCH OUT…"
"Get out of the way…"
"Move that injured Anbu…."
"What should we do Hokage-sama?" asked 13 years old Kakashi Hatake.
"I'm gonna seal the beast." Answered the 4th Hokage, Namikaze Minato.
"How are you going to go about it? Are you going to make a jinchuriki?" asked the 3th.
"No, its power is too immense to be handle by just one person, the body will wither under that great power."
"So what are you going to do Hokage-sama?" asked a cat masked anbu.
"I'm gonna make a triangle seal with a center focus power, I seal the majority of the beast's power inside the center of triangle and the three remaining angles would be the supporting holder of the beast's power." Said Yondaime while concentrating hard on a long, bloody scroll.
"But it still will be junchuriki." Said Haishi Hyuuga.
"No it won't. The body of the beast will be sealed in a sacred ground. I just seal his power and life force inside that center."
"What do you mean life force?" asked the head of Uchiha clan, Uchiha fugaku.
"Well, we still don't know of a way to kill the beast and we can't seal it completely, the only thing I can do is halting it until we can find the solution, until then it's life force will be put into the center, the only thing that remain is that if the center dies, the life will go back to the beast. It doesn't mean that it'll be free because we still have the triangle, but if just one of the angles wavers it will be released again."
"What if one of the angles dies before the center?"
"As long as the center is alive, I can just replace the angles with another angle with his or her help."
"Wait a minute, what do you mean his or her, the center is going to be a human?" asked Fugaku.
"Yes. Not only the center, but all the angles will be also human, or to be more accurate children. But the center, which is the most important one, should be a child between 2 and 3 years old."
"What? Why?"
"Because the beast's power should become synchronize with the center. A child under 2 is surely to die from this much power and a child older than 3 has already pass the stage of synchronizing."
"So who is this child going to be?" asked the Hyuuga.
The 4th Hokage was silent.
"How many children in this age are even still alive in the village?" Raido asked.
Yondaime still didn't answer.
"Say something Yondaime, we are running out of time." Fugaku said urgently.
Minoto look at Fugaku and said "The best choice with the highest chance of survival is your son, Uchila Itachi."
"What? No way. He is the heir of the clan, everyone knows that he is a prodigy. I'm against it." Fugaku fumed.
"That's exactly the reason for this decision." Minoto answered calmly.
"I don't care about the decision, find another child to make into a beast." Fugaku said angrily.
The 4th suddenly lost his temper."We have no other choice. The remaining children are all weak, they don't have the potential. It's either a seal on your son or the destruction of the whole fire country."
Fugaku was quiet, the 4th knew how he felt but there really was no other option. His son was just a few months old, if he could, he would surely try it on his son first.
"I want it to remain a secret, and I want to have my full authority over the boy, I treat him the way I see fit and you will stay out of it." Fugaku send a pointed look to the 4th.
"It's a deal." Yondaime promised.
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-11 years later. 1:00 a.m._
A 13 years old Uchiha Itachi was sitting on the edge of his bed, fully clothed, his hair which reach to the middle of his shoulder, tied in a tidy pony tail.
He looked absolutely calm and collected, but if you knew the boy, you would know by the darkening of the two lines under his eyes, that he wasn't as calm as he appeared to be.
There was a pop and the 24 years old Kakashi Hatake was standing in the middle of Itachi's room with his trademark orange, Icha Icha book in his face.
"Yo."
Itachi slowly stand up, he was way too short for his age. "You are late, Hatake-san."
"For dango's sake Itachi, Hatake-san was my father, just call me Kakashi, or Kakash for short." Kakashi said with a fake irritation.
"Your name is Hatake-san and that's what I'll always call you. Now, Hatake-san, you are late, again." Itachi calmly said.
A look of surprise came over Kakashi's only visible eye, he said "But I was supposed to be here at 12. Wasn't I?"
There was the slightest twitch on Itachi's left eyebrow. "You were supposed to be here at 11, and it is 1:15 now, Hatake-san."
"Oh, I must have lost the track of time, cause you know," he pointed at his book, "It was just getting to the most exciting part of the story, when the young lady expose her milky thigh…"
"Hatake-san, if you recall, I'm underage, so please refrain from mentioning anything, which in any form or shape resemble that book, in front of me."
"My, you're moodier that usual, what's the matter? Something happened?"
Itachi raised his voice slightly and not really noticeably, "No, nothing important, just that I have only about 5 hours in every three week to actually meet someone other than my vain family, and you just waste 2 hours of it for that… that unmentionable book."
Kakashi who knew Itachi too well, clearly heard the raised voice and saw the darkened line under his eyes. He smiled a little and said "Well sorry about that …"
"You don't look sorry."
"As I was saying, I am sorry, but these are the real reason for my lateness." He flipped some paper in front of Itachi.
Itachi just 'hmm'ed and didn't respond. Kakashi cleared his throat and continued, "Well I take that 'hmm' as 'what are these?' the answer is they are the cards which shows the nature of your chakra."
"I would prefer it if you could provide me with a mean of leaving this house on regular basis, than bring me some cards."
Kakashi's face fell a little but he hurriedly collect himself and said, "Even these few hours of meeting is forbidden, what would Fugaku-san said if I were to take you away."
There was a sparkle in the boy's eyes, "If I leave this place, will you take me away?"
Kakashi's visible eye widened, well, leaving this place was one thing, but taking away was completely out of question. If only I could tell him everything, Kakashi thought sadly.
"Hmm, well, the thing is… there is this situation…."
"I understand," the sparkle wasn't there anymore. "So, why should you bring me those cards?"
Happy from the change of topic, Kakashi sighed, "Well, if you know the nature of your chakra, you can learn variety of techniques and become stronger."
"Why would I want to become stronger?"
"So you can protect yourself."
"Protect myself from what? I'm confined to this house compound."
"Well," Kakashi cleared his throat, "there may come a time when you leave this place and need to protect yourself."
Itachi turned his face away and said nothing.
Kakashi looked at his back and tried to cheer him with his last card of that night.
"There is also something else that I should tell you."
There was no response.
"Someone is going to come and see you tonight."
Itachi's shoulder tensed.
Kakashi didn't say anything else and the silence fell on the room. Finally after about 10 minute Itachi sharply turned, and to his immense annoying saw that Kakshi have his face buried in that stupid book again.
"Well?" Itachi said.
"Huh?" Kakashi raised his face and idiotically looked at Itachi. "Did you say something?"
"What about a someone who is going to come?"
Kakashi scratch his chin for a minute then perk up and said, "Ah, you're talking about before, yeah, you didn't answer so I thought maybe you're not interested."
There was that silence again.
"Hatake-san, will you continue your speech, or you prefer that I leave you alone with your fantasy?"
"It is Kakashi, and I take the first option, well, as I was speeching, someone is going to meet you tonight. We were going to meet about…" Kakashi looked at the clock "1 hour ago."
"WHAT?" to Kakashi's astonishment, Itachi actually lost his temper and shouted. "There was a person who was going to meet me after all this time, and you just made him wait one hour. Where is he… or she, right now?"
"He should be in the back yard. Of course, IF he is still waiting for me to show up." Kakashi chuckled as Itachi move to the window and jumped out.
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When Itachi reached the back yard, he could make out the shadow of a person standing in the middle of the clearing. He was tall, his hair was the color of gold, and his long robe was dancing around him in the midnight breeze.
Itachi never had seen him before but from what he heard in his family's talk and some of Kakashi's descriptions he could guess.
"Hokage-sama."
Yodaime turned and smiled upon seeing Itachi.
"Hello there, you must be the Uchiha's prodigy. It's a pleasure to see you again after all these years. I'm Namikaze Minato." Minato's eyes were dancing in the moonlight while staring intently at Itachi and Itachi felt himself blush for the first time in his life.
"The pleasure is all mine. I should apologize for making you wait here." And Itachi bowed.
Yodaime waved his hand dismissingly and laughed "When I made an appointment with Kakashi, I already know that I will be root to the spot waiting for him so it's not a big deal." Hokage made a face and added, "And you're not the one who should be apologizing."
At this moment Kakashi emerged from the shadows and stepped into the clearing, his face in the book.
"Well what is your plan Kakashi? You must have something in mind to invite me here, and make yourself the newest target of Fukagu's hatred." Yodaime said.
'target of my father's hatred. Kakashi asked him to come knowing he would be despised?' Itachi thought.
"Well seeing that today is Itachi-kun's birthday, and you, sensei, owe me for the last drinking contest, I thought you could pay me back by having a little sparring session with him." Kakashi said without raising his head from the book.
"My…you remembered…wait… what….sparring session with Hokage-sama? I would never ask Hokage-sama to disgrace himself by fighting with a mere Uchiha…." Itachi was saying when Minato laughed and interrupt his rant.
"Just as I expected. You invite me here to show me that you become a real sensei, huh, Kakashi?" Minato turned to Itachi and continued, "It is not a disgrace at all, you are the Uchiha prodigy after all. And I really like to see how much my white haired pupil taught you in all these years."
Itachi just bowed again, too speechless to say anything. When he straighten again he saw that Hokage was beckoning him to come and stand in front of him. Itachi take a quick glance toward Kakashi, and frowned a little when he saw that his face was so deep in the book that even his only visible eye was out of sight.
He reached his destination and stood in a fighting pose. Hokage smiled and stand in fight pose too, his eyes sparkling.
There was complete silence in the clearing and neither of them seem to be going for the first attack, when the wind suddenly blow and rustle the leaves of the nearby trees, Hokage take this time to attack, he was fast and was right in Itachi's face in a blink an eye, he smirked a little and send a punch to Itachi's head, Itachi take the full force of the punch and went flying into the air.
But Minato didn't seem upset and instead of looking into the air he was concentrating on the shadows around him, and he was right in time to turn around and deflect three flying shuriken. And before the shurikens even hit the ground he was on the move again and this time he knew it is the real Itachi he was facing.
But Itachi was quick and before Hokage reached him he made a hand seal and shout "fire element: grand fireball jutsu." He put his two fingers near his mouth and breathed out. There was a huge fire ball in the clearing and the whole yard and every hidden corner brightened by the fire.
Itachi knew that Hokage won't go down this easy so he activate his sharingan and tried to find him before he find him.
But before he could even check the surrounding Minato was in front of him again and they engaged in a fierce hand to hand combat, while for a moment it seemed that they are equal, Itachi wasn't fast enough for Minato and the only thing he could do before the Hokage's fist connect with his chest, was to explode his bunshin daibakuha.
Itachi went flying into one of the trees and fell to the ground with a soft thud.
Minato dusted his more than a little burnt robe and looked at Itachi amused, it was a fact that he was the fastest ninja in the whole Konoha, so how and when exactly Itachi managed to make a explosive shadow clone?
Hokage came over to where Itachi laid and extend his hand, Itachi looked at the hand, and for a second Minato thought that he is going to refuse his hand, but then Itachi took his hand and stood up, a little unsteady on his feet and slightly whizzing, Minato noticed that his other hand which was clutching his chest a while back now was held firmly to his side. No sign of discomfort shown on his face.
Minato admired the boy's endurance and composure. "It was the best fight I ever had with a 13 years old." He said.
Itachi's face light up for a moment, but he hurriedly collect himself and bowed politely, "it was the best fight I ever had in my life, Hokage-sama." The slight wince the posture caused the boy didn't go unnoticed by the Hokage and he couldn't help himself but ruffle the boy's now untidy hair. The thing he always did with his little Naruto's golden hair after a good training session.
Itachi suddenly jumped back at the foreign touch, a look of surprise was plastered on his face.
But Minato merely put his hand in the pocket of his robe and smiled, waiting for the boy to collect himself.
When Itachi come out of his shocked and found out how his action was rude to Hokage, he bowed for God know how many times that night again and was about to apologize when Hokage suddenly hushed him and listened to some sound that Itachi couldn't hear at first, but then the sounds became clearer, the sounds of hurried footsteps, which were coming closer to their location.
"I think it's better if you go back to your room my boy, we wouldn't want to face your father's anger now, would we?" Hokage smiled brightly at Itachi and push him toward the house.
"I will never forget this night and your generosity to give me some of your time and even waiting for me. Thank you Namikaze-sama." Itachi didn't waste any more time and disappeared into the shadows of the big compound.
There was a pop and Kakashi appeared beside the Hokage. "What do you think of my trainee Minato-sensei?"
"He is indeed a prodigy." Minato said, then he sent a lopsided grin toward Kakashi and added, "But he was gravely distracted. I have a feeling that this fight could have gone much longer, if your young trainee wasn't constantly glancing your way to see if you're looking or not."
Kakashi sighed. "Yeah. And I put so much effort to seem like I'm lost in my book. Next time I will be hiding somewhere. How about that Minato-sensei?"
"It'll be good, IF there is another time." Minato said looking to the slowly increasing sounds direction.
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Itachi was trying to be fast and silent, but it was a difficult task because he couldn't stop from thinking about the fight, and couldn't stop smiling when he thought about Kakashi's next meeting, and he was stumbling slightly, still a little daze from Hokage's punch.
And those were exactly the reasons why he couldn't catch himself when his father bumped into him.
'Damn, Fukagu is gonna be furious…' , was Itachi's last thought before he fell the flight of stairs.
TBC…
There is something I need to mention here:
1. This is my first story. (This is not a good excuse if you don't like the story or if the story isn't really worth reading, but I don't have any other excuse.)
2. I know the age difference between Naruto and Itachi is more than two, but I like it better this way.
3. Next chapii will be out soon.
Review of next chapter: "what the hell are you doing here?" Fugaku shouted. Kakashi held the limp body of Itachi closer and didn't say anything.
Chii out.
