Pilot Chapter 1
Sealing and Family
'The entire village torn asunder'
'Every Man woman and Child flattened under their own homes as the beast ravages across the countryside'
'No one capable of stopping it'
'You can't kill it, can't knock it out, can't just make it go away'
'It will destroy everything including my home if I don't stop it. And I know that it doesn't even want to'
Those words were blitzing their way through Minato's mind as he raced back towards the village. Having been lead off and distracted before the Kyuubi escaped from his wife seal. A heavy stress and blinding anger that he couldn't let show on his face wrapped him up as he found his wife on the ground. Holding their crying child in her hands as she lain with a kunai through her heart. If Minato survived this night he would spend every waking moment hunting down the masked bastard who did this.
His old teammate and friend meet him at the sight and immediately grabbed up his son and agreed to meet him at the sealing sight once he had corralled the Kyuubi to it. Fugaku the stern faced asshat had shown actual human emotion when held his son to his chest as if was his own, with a fired determination in his eyes that guaranteed either Naruto was getting to the sealing sight with him, or a dying Uchiha clan head.
Minato hated the thought of having to seal the Kyuubi within his only son, but the counsel had his hands tied. The civilian council refused the prospect of sealing it within one of the, and the clan heads denied that their children be tainted with it. Fugaku offered his child Sasuke, but was reacted immediately by everyone. The mistrust of the Uchiha still running deep since Maadara's leave, and Tobirama's rain.
An Uchiha Jinchuriki, what an Unholy and surprisingly effective combo huh?
Minato focused himself back on the problem at hand as he sealed a Bijuudama away into his Flying Raijin jutsu and transported it far away into a nearby ocean.
"It's time for your hinderances to my plans to be stopped Minato'
A low, yet still young voice whispered behind him in his ear before Minato felt as if his body was being sucked away. Immediately he teleported away to a nearby marker he kept on top of the Hokage mountain right on his own head.
"So, you must be the bastard that killed Kushina?"
Minato asked with an edge in his voice as he readied a kunai in his hand. Watching as the masked man appeared in front of him in a swirl before laughing at him, causing the Blonde Hokage's blood to boil even more.
"Oh, was she the mother of that Blonde soon-to-be bastard you had Minato? I guess I should apologize, but she just wouldn't get out the way so I decided to kill them both. Guess I was a bit ineffective, wasn't I?"
He asked before having to make himself intangible. Barely able to keep up with the enraged Hokage's blistering speed as he made a swipe for his head. 'He hadn't even used his Raijin and I could barely keep up' he thought to himself. Glad Minato couldn't see the surprised face adorned behind the mask. But as he deactivated his Sharingan skill and prepared to retaliate with a blade into Minato's side, he was interrupted by a sudden flash passing his chest. Almost not giving him enough time to activate his sharingan again as he now had a large wound on his side.
Minato leaped away before looking intently at the dark cloaked man wearing a metal face mask that covered his nose and mouth with a dark bandana over his eyes and distinct purple hood that covered his hair. An armband with the Kanji for White displayed upon it.
"Minato, I have no time to explain. Get the Kyuubi out of the village now. I'll handle our little intruder here for you. Just get moving."
The man said as he leveled a long white tented Tanto towards the swirl masked man. With the blade being held at his side while he crouched into a low stance. "But who are you? And what are you doing here with *That* sword?" Minato said almost attacking the new intruder on impulse as he focused on both the men, but he couldn't respond as he was cut off. "JUST GO! I'll explain once you're done sealing the Kyuubi." He said as he lunged to attack the Orange masked man, who seemed to be just as confused as he was.
Minato nodded before charging off towards the Kyuubi and stopping for a second to focus. Activating Sage mode, he leaped high off the mountain as he soared through the air and began forming a large ball of bright chakra.
"Senpo: Cho Oodama Rasengan!"(Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan) You could hear him from clear across the village as a giant ball of chakra the size of the Kyuubi's head formed and slammed into the side of its head as it was pushed further and further out of the village, before being rocketed clear into the woods. Minato landed and let out a deep breath as he felt a bit of exhaustion sweep over him having to form such a large attack.
This gave enough time for Hiruzen and Fugaku to show up with Naruto held tightly in his hands. Put under a small genjutsu to put him to sleep. Minato nodding slowly knowing now what he had to do and prepared his last instructions in his head.
"Kuchiyose No Jutsu!"(Summoning Technique) Minato said, blazing through the signs before slamming his hand down on the ground. An enormous Red toad the size of the Kyuubi, wearing a blue jacket appeared. Minato, Sarutobi and a startled Fugaku clenching tightly to Naruto appeared on its massive head.
"You could at least tell us which one your summoning when you do that you know?" The many almost heart attacks him and their late third team member always had when he'd yell the summoning technique and ignore to mention if it was just Bunta or Gamatora. "Where's the fun in that Fugaku?" Minato asked smiling softly before looking down at his supersized friend. "Gamabunta I need you to Help Hiruzen hold off the Kyuubi while I prepare everything for the sealing. Can you do that for me?" The giant toad nodded, a near hesitation as he knew what the sealing would mean, but looked forward willing to help save the man who had done a lot in helping his land prosper as much as it had recently.
The gigantic toad charged forward with Sarutobi summoning Emma and squatting down into his fighting stance as the Monkey king formed into a gigantic staff. As Fugaku and Minato had leapt off and reached a clearing befitting for the ritual. The same cloaked man appeared looking as if he had taken no damage in fighting the intruder who had come to the village. A little smoke rising from him and a singe mark on his sleeves wasn't too much right? Though the blonde haired Hokage almost didn't have the foresight to keep his Uchiha friend from immediately trying to descend the man into a mind breaking Genjutsu the instant he saw him.
"Fugaku stand down, he's a friendly"
Minato was forced to say as he could see the man activate his Sharingan immediately. The Uchiha nodded softly, keeping his body tense and ready to attack as best as he could if the man became a threat at any time. For all intents and purposes this man held the son to his greatest friend within his arms. He'd expect the same hostility from Minato if the roles were reversed. Even if they weren't friends to the extent they had been. Besides, Minato had made many friends and enemies across the world and in Konoha. It was reasonable to hope that this was the former. "The masked man managed to escape me. I was able to wound him a few times but he kept slipping in and out of reality it seemed" He said in a low growling voice that showed his annoyance on the fact that his Quarry had managed to escape.
Minato shrugged and deactivated his sage mode as he began to focus his chakra.
"There's really no time here for me to worry about that, it's time for the Kyuubi to be put in its knew home."
"But how are you going to seal the entire beast within your son? There's no technique that can hold the full Kyuubis power. You said yourself that the yin and yang portions of its power could override any basic sealing attempts short of an Uzumaki with more talent than Mito." Fugaku said setting Naruto down in the middle of the clearing.
"I don't even think the Shiki Fuin can hold it in that child" The masked man mentioned as he watched the battle between the Sandaime Hokage and the Kyuubi draw closer to them little by little.
Minato nodded listening to them both as he prepared a sealing formula that he had only thought up last minute. Though it really put the Sacrifice portion in Jinchuriki. The two men looked on confused but stood still either silencing themselves or just waiting patiently on Minato's plan. Until the Masked man spoke up.
"Fugaku, how long do you think you can wrestle the will away from the Kyuubi when the Sandaime gets the Kyuubi here?"
"For a few seconds, maybe a minute or two. The strain it puts on an Uchiha's eyes to do that to even lower Bijuu makes the process like a Kenjutsu." He said as the masked man nodded.
"There'll Be no need, as soon as the Kyuubi walks within my barrier the process will start." Minato as he stared directly at Naruto before activating a trigger hidden within his Chakra.
Suddenly the two on lookers felt an Ungodly amount of Irregular chakra poor out of Minato's body. He could tell he activated Sage mode again but this chakra wasn't Senjutsu chakra. It was Unnatural. Corrupting yet not vile or evil in some way.
Minato opened his eyes to reveal them completely white with 5 Black triangles surrounding a small red Iris as they began spinning extremely fast making them seem almost nonexistent. Minato began an extremely long series of hand seals that speed up the longer he kept doing them. He finally began blazing through hand seals so fast Fugaku doubted even his Son Itachi could read them.
"Senpo: Subarashii Shinsei Kaosu Shirru!" (Sage Art: Great Divinity Chaos Seal)
Minato Managed to utter these words as an explosion of dark black and fiery purple chakra spread out from his body as they began to make up the sealing array around the entire field. Some of them branching off to begin forming the sealing array on Naruto himself as he was risen upon a platform of stone.
Hiruzen began steering Bunta to push the Kyuubi back towards the forest. Holding the Powerful seal on one of his hands. Minato quickly went through another set of seals summoning a cradle for his child to lay in comfortably. Minato began going through another massive amount of seals. Though these took much longer than the others and he did them a bit slower to not make any mistakes.
The Kyuubi having been released of his Genjutsu sometime during his fight with the Sandaime could feel the strange chakra emitting form the man and the sealing array focused around that child.
Knowing what was to happen if they succeeded the Kyuubi tried to attack the child but before it could an almost endless amount of Ethereal black and Purple chains wrapped around the Kyuubi's body tightly immobilizing it and slowly dragging its full form before the Altar that the child rested upon.
Minato held the chains against the Kyuubi before readying the last portion of the seal needed. Focusing intently, he sent a pulse of the Dark chakra surrounding him and fished the hand signs. A figure began to rise from the earth to grow to the size of the Kyuubi right beside Minato.
Holding a blade within its mouth and looking horrid in appearance, everyone there knew who this was, as The Shinigami focused on the Kyuubi and raised its blade to its forehead before applying the seal to the fox's head and then touching the stomach of baby within the Altar, to Reinforce and apply the separate seal over the one on Naruto already.
"Hiruzen, Fugaku, umm." Minato said as he had never gotten the man's name"
"Just call me Sage" he said before motioning for him to continue.
"Sage, when this seal is finished applying I will have to sacrifice myself. That's the cost of this Jutsu. My soul will be forfeit to oblivion. I won't reach the Afterlife, and I don't think I'll ever see any of you again…" He was sure the three men knew the consequences of such a decision. But right now, was really an important time for quick actions. Hopefully they all went along smoothly
"Fugaku…Hiruzen. Upon my death I would like to have my estate and all my assets given by blood right to Naruto. He will take on his mother's name of course but I would like a caretaker to be given to him. He should be recognized as a hero to the village. And Heralded as such." Hiruzen nodded in understanding as he de-summoned Enma and walked up to the man he felt proud knowing and gave him a parting hug before separating.
"Sage… For you I have the Key to his seal. I know after the beast is sealed you will leave. But if there is ever a time you feel Naruto will be ready to take on the Kyuubi and truly obtain the Kyuubi's full power, I give this key to you. The seal will naturally grow weaker as Naruto gets better at controlling the Biju chakra. But to truly unlock the power. He needs the Key."
After saying this, the Shinigami immediately extended a blade to Sakumo's hand transferring the seal immediately. A large cross web of Black scythes growing over his arm before disappearing. Sage nodded resolutely behind his mask before he disappeared immediately. Believing in the Success of the fourth Hokage and determined to fill out his last request when the time came.
"Fugaku, I know you can't make sure of this. Especially after tonight your clans name may be besmirched. But… I hope my Son has a friend in Sasuke like I had in you." Minato said to the man who tried to hide the tears he had behind the stone face that the decades of being a Clan Head drilled into him. Walking forward and Hugging the Blonde-haired bastard that he spent most of his time as a Ninja with he gave him a resolute nod before turning to look at the crying Naruto who by now had woken up.
"I hope so too, Minato" Fugaku said
Minato finally turned and walked up to his child and kissed his forehead considering the crying baby's eyes for maybe the last time he ever would, whispering a quick I love you as he finally began to feel the strain of keeping all these Jutsu active. Quickly breaking off a small portion of his chakra and storing it within the seal he then looked up at the Kyuubi and smiled at the large beast that stared at the man with an Unbridled amount of hate. "I know you didn't do this, and one day you will be free to tell my son that as well." muttered his last words to the beast that widened it's at hearing what the man had to say before Minato finally flew through a last set of hand seals. The Kyuubi began to roar in pain as it was dragged into the alter and then absorbed by the gigantic seal. The seal then ran up Naruto's body, marking his stomach with a circular fiery patter and another circle patter surrounding that one. A purple smooth circle that was surrounded in 2 dragons, their long bodies wrapping around the purple bar until they reached the other.
After completing the seal, the Blonde Hokage let his hands fall to his side as the last bit of chakra was burned from his body and he was consumed by a black fire whilst the Shinigami itself visibly shook its head before disappearing. The Fire didn't spread, and no one else felt the heat. But it burned Minato away, even his soul as he disappeared in a small wind. Fugaku himself staring in sadness as he solemnly walked to the child who had been crying the entire time and silencing him with a small Genjutsu. Hiruzen himself had sadness in his eyes. He turned and began a slow march back to the village with Fugaku to bring a semblance of order back to the village after the devastating attack.
5 Years Later:
A young Naruto stared down at the village below him. A deep frown on his face as he looked down at the people who hated him. The village of hate an overwhelming amount it seemed. The village had caused him so much pain. Why did everyone treat him so much differently than the others. Even the caretakers at the orphanage neglected to even believe he existed. Giving him very small portions of food. Sometimes forgetting to bring him any. And it had been like this for as long as he could remember. He had to be taught how to read and write by the Hokage because no one else would even try.
Sure, he acted out, but at least when he did they showed him emotion. Some form of attention. It didn't really matter if they were a ninja or not. Though today was especially as bad for him. Almost the entire village was fired up and looking for him. Apparently, it was the anniversary of the day the Yondaime Hokage died to the Kyuubi saving the village. They call Naruto the manifestation of the Kyuubi, the last remnants of a beast that brutalized the people of Konoha and took their Hokage from them.
The child never understood it really, but he learned to never touch the streets or stay at the Orphanage during this day. Or he'd be left in a lot of pain.
Naruto leapt from roof to roof as he tried to avoid the mob that had been chasing him since he got out of bed this morning. He managed to avoid them so far, not many ninjas being among them. But as he ran he reached the Uchiha district and tripped falling into a large courtyard next to a raven-haired kid and his much taller older brother.
He reflexively flinched back from them as he began to be noticed by the entire populous of the courtyard who stared at the little mystery that dropped in front of them. That was until Fugaku walked out of the main building of the Clan compound and noticed the small blonde boy. Seeing him made his chest contract in a deep feeling of regret and pity as he noticed the rags he wore.
And the clear fear he regarded everyone around him with. He had in the end, failed his friend Minato on his promise. But now as he watched his son Sasuke walk up to the kid slowly and bend down to ask what was wrong he saw a chance to right the wrongs he felt he had committed.
"Hey kid, is there something wrong?" Sasuke asked as Naruto's eyes softened a bit when looking at the guy who was as young as him. He began to slowly relax as he stood up but still backed Away further from them.
"I was getting chased by the rest of the town again, it happens every year…"
He said, Sasuke nodding slowly as he looked at him.
He was confused why the village would try and chase him, I mean what was wrong with him? Looking to his brother Itachi he saw the older guy narrow his eyes almost glaring but it wasn't directed at the blonde child. Itachi knew what this was for. He was at home helping his mother with Sasuke when the night had come and he'd seen the Kyuubi in the sky that night.
Since then he'd become an Anbu and gotten more intel on what happened. The Hokage had sealed the Kyuubi in this blonde child. And since then everyone placed all the hate an anger they felt upon him. Just like the Nidaime Hokage had done with the death of his brother and his time fighting against the Uchiha clan. How the village could hate one of their own so easily saddened the Prodigy but recently the village had begun doing so to his entire clan. To the point where his father and his cohorts wanted to solve it with violence. So much strife during what was supposed to be a time of peace
"Well my Name is Sasuke and this is my big Brother Itachi. We won't chase you away, in fact you look like you could use something to eat."
Sasuke said offering his hand while a few of the on looking moms awed at the scene of the two cute kids. Naruto's face lightened up a small bit as he reached up and shook Sasuke's hand and walked with him towards the main house. Itachi following close behind as the rest of the courtyard went back to what they were doing. Naruto sat uncomfortably silent against the wall as Sasuke brought back a cup of instant ramen and smiled at him.
"We don't usually eat this stuff, but I don't know if we can cook for you. I haven't seen mom yet today so I could get in trouble." He said as Naruto smiled at him warmly and began eating the cup of noodles slowly
"My Names Naruto Uzumaki." He said a lot more cheerful then he had been all that day for a while. Sasuke walked him over to the table where Itachi finally looked up from where he had been thinking in his seat. "Naruto do you want to be a Ninja when you grow up?" The prodigy asked making Sasuke himself perk up wondering where his older brother would be going with this. "I myself am an Anbu ninja and along with my little brother Sasuke, I'm willing to assist you improve yourself before you actually go to the academy." This made the boys eyes light up considerably as he considered the Uchiha's dull eyes searching for any deceit before shaking his head yes. "Yes, I would love to Itachi! I'm going to be Hokage someday. That's my dream. To be the strongest Ninja in the village!"
Sasuke got a little peeved at what he had said though. Implying that he'd be better than him was kind of a joke really. "You mean second best Ninja. You can be Hokage if you want. But I'm going to be the best Ninja in the village! Like my older brother." He said as Itachi shook his head in a negative. But before he could admonish his younger brother for hyping him up like that their father and mother stepped in, the latter being told of the blonde child's presence by the former.
"Did here Itachi wanting to actually pass on some of his techniques to Sasuke? Finally. It took little Naruto here coming to do it though, didn't it?" His mother asked, walking over to hug her two sons before turning to look down at the blonde child and having a wave of memories hit her that almost made her cry before she held onto her smiling face.
"So, Naruto how long have you been in our little home" She said as she watched the child finish the noodles while everyone had been talking and let out a small burp. 'Guess Sarutobi forgot to teach you proper minutes'
"A few minutes, I'm ready to start training now if you're Itachi!" Naruto said getting out of his seat and rubbing his side a bit as he felt a cut he had gotten earlier from the fall begin closing. "How about we get you cleaned up and in proper gear before you do anything Naruto" Fugaku interjected. Though his presence in the conversation made Itachi a bit suspicious and almost regret trying to act on the villages behalf and help their Jinchuriki develop properly. Especially considering what they'd think when it's an Uchiha doing so.
"Yeah you should get cleaned up fast. The first lesson that all Ninja must know is to not come to meetings or trainings already dirty and smelling as if you need a shower." Naruto's face lit up in a blush before he nodded furiously and was then directed towards the shower rooms by Sasuke who left with him. It was as soon as the kids were out of Ear shot Itachi finally decided to speak up. "Father, I don't truly know what your reasons are for an interest in young Naruto's training. But I hope it isn't for any political reasons." The teenage said as he walked away towards the training ground that him and Sasuke always used when he had the time. "I wish it was Itachi, then I wouldn't feel the hole in my heart that I do seeing that young boy now." Fugaku muttered to himself as he walked over to his wife to help prepare the meal for the three boys that they'd undoubtedly need once the training Itachi put them through was done with.
Naruto stood next to Sasuke, wearing a long pair of Black pants and a Black shirt. A small white jacket on top of that and the Goggles Hokage-JiJi had given to him. Sasuke wore his usual attire of cargo shorts and a black shirt with the Uchiha Clan Symbol embroiled on the back. Itachi stared at them indifferently as he thought slowly on which way he would begin teaching the kids together.
"Ok, I want you both try your best to fight me. And I mean your absolute best. If one of you hits once then I'll teach you both really good Anbu Jutsu that I learned." Itachi said to the kids that made their eyes widen up and smile as they bumped fists and dropped into their respective stances. The Uchiha Clan Disturbance style Sasuke had been taught since he was born, though was still a rookie at using. And what amounted to a civilian brawler stance from Naruto. 'Well at least I technically didn't lie to them. It just so happens they won't be able to touch me.' The teen thought to himself as he nodded at them both getting into a lazy stance himself. Putting his hand on his hip as he looked at the fire in both their eyes. "Hajime!"
Itachi didn't even try moving while the two kids rushed at him and tried to hit him. The sloppy uncoordinated swings they attempted to time with each other, missed the Uchiha prodigy by miles each time he swayed side to side before he finally swept Naruto off his feet and gave Sasuke a light back kick that made the kid back up as Itachi flipped forward and faced them both. "Try Harder" And they did, a lot harder. As they tried their damned best to even touch him. At some point even giving up throwing punches as they began just trying to touch him with the palms or tips of their hands and fingers. But even still Itachi avoided all their swings and jabs lithely, like water flowing through an open damn really. Over time Naruto and Sasuke's attempts at touching him grew slower and slower as they got tired.
Itachi smiled as he swept them both off their feet at once before separating them as he tried to hit them both with a feinted axe kick. As they separated and were on either side of the prodigy, they both charged in.
But before they could feel the weight of their fists against his sides, Itachi backed up a few inches and guided both boy's foreheads into each other. Knocking them both onto their backsides and sending their worlds spinning.
"OOoow! Itachi that hurt!" Sasuke yelled holding his head, while Naruto shook his head in agreement as their faces formed into matching frowns while Itachi just smile at them both before turning to walk back towards the house. "Being a ninja hurts. Get used to it." He said as they both got up and followed them. It was after reaching the Uchiha compound and noticing as the sky got more and more purple that Naruto decided. That sadly he would have to return to the orphanage. But As he was about to bring it up Fugaku opened the door and waved at all three of them. "Naruto, can you join us for dinner? You must be starving from all the work you've done today" He said and listened with a smile as the boy's stomach growled. Though Naruto just looked out towards the gate of the compound and almost let his smile drop. "I can't, it's getting dark outside and I have to make it back to the Orphanage." He said, surprising both Itachi and Sasuke that Naruto was living at one. Though for different reasons. "Well you did say every year on this festival the village chases you. This year's one is going to be for another week or two. Are you sure you want to go out there?" He asked as he could see Naruto truly trying to make up his mind on whether or not to leave so decided to seal the deal. "If you choose to stay here at with us. That will be fine, and we will make sure you're not treated as you are outside of these walls." He said to the kid as that almost seemed to make up his mind immediately when his head nodded.
"Sure, I guess that would be a good idea. A week or two wouldn't matter too much. Hokage-JiJi doesn't really visit that often anymore so I don't think he'll notice." Naruto said more so to assure himself then anything as he turned and walked into the newly familiar building as he went to eat dinner with the new friends he had gained.
And as the week he was convinced to stay over turned into a month and that turned into a year. Young Naruto began to look at those around him as a family. Though he didn't have a connection much at all with any other Uchiha clan members. He wasn't one in the end. They didn't treat him the way the rest of the Village had. He and Sasuke spent the most time together. Because they would practice against each other, and they'd play games with each other in their free time. Itachi couldn't teach Naruto any sort of clan techniques or fighting styles. The Clan elders had already been mad enough that an Non- clan member was being taught by one of their greatest since Maadara. So, Naruto only had the promise of learning a cool fighting style when he was put into the Academy.
In the end it didn't matter much to Naruto himself, he was still being trained by someone who was hailed as very powerful. So even if he had to make up his own style he'd still be the best ninja in the village. And it was his drive to do that, that made Naruto and Sasuke butt heads a lot. The both of them getting into an increasingly heated rivalry over who would become the best Ninja. Making then Spar often, either one winning out over and over. Because neither of them had any real training. Though Sasuke had his Clans Disturbance style. Naruto who had finally began to receive a proper diet, showed that he was becoming increasingly resistant to the amount of damage Sasuke could dish out. And even his stamina was starting to exceed Sasuke's. The Hokage had finally come to the clan compound to find Naruto, as he hadn't found him in the Orphanage. The village at large began to think that the boy had disappeared or even died. And though this was a great thing to the civilian populace at large and even some clan heads. The same couldn't be said for those like Danzo and Hiruzen.
So, when Hiruzen had found the boy within the clan compound, he decided it be best that he stay hidden with the Uchiha for now. Though this only feed into Danzo's suspicion of the clan's loyalties.
Another year going by and another Birthday for both Naruto and Sasuke, having known each other for two years gave Naruto a feeling of Security and stability in his life that he had never felt before. But it had also caused Danzo's Suspicion to grow further when he had received information it wasn't just Itachi training the young boy he had finally decided to bring the matter forth with Hiruzen and the other elders.
Itachi's years though hadn't been as great as his two protégé's. With the disappearance or more aptly put. Suicide of his best friend Shisui, at the hands of the Snake Danzo. And the rising of tensions between the village and the Uchiha clan. Itachi felt like it was only a matter of seconds before his clansmen poised their blades to attack the village igniting a civil war. And Itachi no longer could convince his father and their supporters. They were dead set in their ways and he knew extreme actions must be made. And leaving the Clan council room that ordered the Execution of his family made him know how dire the situation was.
Naruto was walking along with Itachi to the regular trainings grounds that they always went. Itachi had hurriedly made him leave the main Clan Area while he waited for Sasuke to get back from a small trip he had out in the village. But as he walked deeper and deeper into the Training ground a feeling of unease settled on him as Itachi's tall frame turned and his stone-cold gaze settled upon his.
"Naruto, I have a new training method for you. I'm going to put you into the strongest Genjutsu I can. And you see how long you can last within it ok?"
He said as his eyes morphed into the Sharingan, but with a foreign pattern within them. The strange pattern he had never seen startling Naruto, but before he could answer. The moment he looked directly into his eyes he was sent into a world of darkness. Itachi looked down at the child for a moment before starting to his left to see a black vortex appear. "It starts tonight, you handle the police force. I will handle the main clan property."
"Are you sure you can handle this Itachi-San? Even if these aren't the active combatants. They're still Uchiha." The man asked in a deep voice as he turned and began walking towards the Konoha Police Office. "Do you doubt my abilities 'Madara? Or can your perfect eyes not see the scope of my abilities?" He asked as he turned to see him stop for a moment. Before leaving in a vortex. 'Madara'. Itachi thought to himself for moment before dawning his Anbu Mask and Running back towards the Clan house. Staring down at the place he once called home made it all the sadder that he would be tearing this home apart for the village.
But if Danzo and Hiruzen kept up their end of the deal. It'd make the path the hell he's about to pave worth it. A bright Red eye shown above in the heads of the Idle shinobi as they watched a man cloaked in a swarm of Ravens descend upon them. And that's all they would see. That's more then what most saw, because it was more frightening then the quick flash of sword others had.
Naruto woke up from a dream filled with hell. He was forced to Itachi to watch the destruction of Konoha repeatedly. The death of Sasuke and even Fugaku-Sama at his own hands. He watched everything that he loved and care for die repeatedly. Why would he even show him that? Even if it was a Genjutsu training it was just… "Itachi-San!? Where are you, you Jerk!?" Naruto asked as he looked around. Expecting to see him drop from a tree to apologize quickly. But as Naruto stood there he began to really look around. To search around for what could be the closest thing to an Older brother he had.
But as he began running through the woods back towards the clan grounds, he noticed the guys absence. It wasn't until Naruto reached the Outer regions of the Uchiha Clan district that he noticed something wasn't right. People always walked the streets. Even during the dead of night. And as he walked further and further into the grounds he noticed small puddles of blood. The puddles began to get larger and larger until he began to see bodies.
Tons of them, bodies and bodies of people littering the streets. And then he could hear screams off further in the Main district of the Clan property. He ran as fast as he possible could. His heart pounding in his chest as he kept seeing the further destruction of the only family he had left. And as he arrived at the Main house. The place he had been living for the past 2 years. His home, he could hear a blood curdling scream from his closest friend. "SASUKE!" He shouted as he rushed inside and found Itachi standing over the younger Uchiha as he writhed on the floor.
"Why! Did you do this?" Naruto asked, knowing the answer but not wanting to admit to himself until it was confirmed. He had never felt a pain like this. A complete emptiness. A rage that burned like a fire. A fire that wanted to destroy the Monster he saw before him. The monster he watched in his dreams. But just before he could use the power he felt in this great anger Itachi turned and stared him directly in the eyes. As they spun slowly. "Yes Naruto, I had to test myself. I had to test the "Great Uchiha clan" and they failed. You and Sasuke are too weak for me to care enough to kill you. Help Sasuke achieve Eyes like mine and maybe he'll reach my level. But you, you'll always stay weaker then both him and me."
The cold look in his eyes as he said this broke Naruto down inside. He had improved so much since he had come there as a beaten and scared child. Itachi acknowledged him regularly as an Equal to Sasuke. But here he stood. Naruto's Pseudo Adoptive parent's dead at his feet and Sasuke writhing on the ground nearly passed out. If Naruto hadn't been about to descend into a demonic chakra filled rage and attack Itachi, he would have noticed the massive strain it took on the young Uchiha to hold back the power of the Bijuu. But taking a step forward he jabbed Naruto in the side of the head.
The sudden attack knocking him out of focus enough for Itachi to catch him in another Tsukuyomi. A small tear fell from the child's face as he slowly walked out of the Main building. He looked to his right to see Madara appearing holding out his hand in an Invitation to the Young Uchiha as he waited on him.
"Are you ready to bring peace from this hell Itachi?" 'Madara' said to him as he opened a vortex behind him. Itachi looked the man up and down, time almost slowing down for them both. Before he nodded imperceptibly and shaking his head before stepping into the portal.
AU: This is the first of a string of forth coming updates. I had an Idea for a new story that I'm writing right now and wont release until I have 10-20 chapters for it finished (So 2045). I have Perseus the Gamer's new chapter coming up. The story and everything is in order. I've finally decided to stop being a lazy bastard and actually catalogue and keep track of all the bullshit I threw at the wall when I made the story. I don't know why I didn't do this from the start but I'm doing it now. I'm for warning you now, that everything during and after the rework and slight fixes I put in the new Chapter will be the last thing I update about the inherent system for a long while. Unless I've fucked something up. I'm again sorry for the long wait for Updates. During the time I spent off, I was Injured during a wrestling match and tore my ACL, MCL, and fractured my Knee in two different places. So my times either been spent In a drug induced sleep, Rehabbing my knee to prep it for surgery, or School. But I have finally coved through every good story on this website for the type that I liked. So I guess the only way I can enjoy it is adding in my own ideas and thoughts. All of those who have expressed love and admiration for my Perseus story, thank you. All those who just reviewed and gave constructive criticism. I thank you too. You guys have been wonderful, and I'm going to try to do better for you guys. Have a nice day. I hope you enjoyed the rework of this story. Good Bye
This is Koto Signing Out~!