The ice dragon
Chapter 1
"K-kakashi s-sensei, w-why!" shouted the blonde in a weird combination of anger, fear, hate, and sadness. This Blonde is none other than Uzumaki Naruto, also known as the kyubi jinchuuriki or otherwise just "The kyubi" or "Demon Brat". He is a 12 year old boy with sunkissed, spiky blonde hair with deep blue eyes and three wisker like markings on each cheek. He seems to be wearing a hideous orange and blue jumpsuit, but mostly orange with a weapons pouch attached to his right thigh. His normally innocent and sparkling blue eyes are now as dark and cloudy as a thunderstorm, raging in a battle between a collection of negative and painful emotions.
"What a demon, to think that he can actually speak even with my Raikiri pearcing his lungs, if not because of the damage, than the raw electrical currents I'm streaming throughout his body should have hindered his ability to even speak, much less scream so loud." Thought the above average height Jonin now identified as Hatake Kakashi with white gravity defying spiky hair and one dark eye, with his left eye being red with three tamoe. The man is dressed in the standard jonin outfit with a green flack jacket and black gloves with metal plates attached for protection.
"One of the first lessons I taught you was to always look underneath the underneath, Naruto, you should have seen this coming a mile, no, a million miles away. I expected you to at least have anticipated this, I find it hard to believe that someone who has lived the kind of life you have led could be so naive and ignorant, to think that a blind fool like you wanted to be hokage is an insult to the title itself.."
"Shut Up! T-teme...Those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon and betray their comrades are worse than trash, wasn't that also one of the first lessons you taught us, ne Kakashi SENSEI!" screamed the blonde in anguish and hate, having started off in barely decipherable whispers.
"Very true, I'm actually glad that you could remember this lesson, Naruto, that is exactly why I am doing this, I am taking out the trash that is holding our team back, so that we may reach our full potential." Said the copy nin without so much as a flinch from the jab from his student, soon to be former student.
"Cough Cough, what..~cough~ are you talking about?" asked the blonde in between coughing fits.
"Naruto, let us travel back down memory lane, do you remember when I was defeated by Zabuza, when he captured me in his water prison, tell me, did you honestly believe that me, The Legendary Copy Ninja, could have lost a battle so easily, without even at least injuring my opponent, especially after i had promised Sasuke that I would not fail to protect my comrades?" asked the copy cat, resisting the urge to smirk at the horrified look of recognition on the blonde's eyes.
"You..You...what do you mean?" asked the blonde, adopting an incredulous facial expression.
"And here I was thinking you had put 2 and 2 together, maybe I overestimated your limited IQ. Naruto, the person that was captured in the water prison was my shadow clone, which I had substituded myself with when Zabuza kicked me into the water, you get it right...I had counted on your promise to never run away that you made to yourself and your chronic need to show off, especially against Sasuke, your rival, and for Sakura, your crush. That desire for attention together with your stupidity would have driven you to attack first and head on and get yourself killed, imagine my surprise when I found myself having to switch back with my clone because you actually turned out to have a brain and rescued my shadow clone from Zabuza's water prison." Said the White haired Jonin, giving the blonde one his unnerving, intense stares.
"You...You were trying to get me killed and than save Sakura chan and Sasuke!" asked/stated the blonde in disbelief, his mask slowly but surely crumbling from the revelation.
'How is he still alive, how is he still even conscious, and asking me all these questions?' Thought Kakashi absent mindedly.
"Correct, why else did you think I only taught you the tree climbing excercise in wave country when I could have taught you all much earlier? Why do you think I entered you into the chuunin exams when you clearly were not ready for it? Why do you think I pawned you off to that useless Jonin Ebisu to train for the finals, Why do you think I taught Sasuke the chidori?" Asked the copy nin rhetorically.
"I thought..."
"Never mind, let me answer for you, it was a rhetorical question anyway.." stated Kakashi mockingly.
"I tried to get you killed by zabuza, but you came up with a plan and outwitted me. I didn't teach the team anything prior to that because i had been hoping to get rid of you first, I would than use your death as an excuse for the sudden change of attitude towards my team and train the remaining two to the best of my abilities. But I failed and you survived despite my efforts." Said Kakashi, pausing momentarily to give the blonde a chance to digest the information.
"I than entered the three of you into the chuunin exams, but not before teaching Sasuke numerous fire techniques from my arsenal and how to cast a genjutsu and copy techniques with his sharingan, and not before teaching Sakura trap making and setting and some low level genjutsu and how to heal moderate injuries without the use of chakra, once again I had hoped you would die in the exams because you were unprepared, and once again you defied the odds and came out on top against my best wishes." Said the copy nin venomously.
"But there was still hope when you were paired with Neji, the genious of the Hyuga clan who had raw skill, intelligence, and jonin level taijutsu and speed, and most importantly, who had displayed homicidal behaviour against his cousin and anyone who challenged his beliefs. I knew he would try to kill you if you were to be paired together in battle as you would obviously challenge his beliefs against what he did to his cousin, who also happens to be your classmate and friend, imagine my luck when it turned out you would be the first to fight, and against him of all people. So I pawned you off to a weak Jonin who hated your guts. But once again you saw through my efforts like the demon fox trickster you are and sought yourself a better teacher who taught you how to access your powers, and you used them to defeat Neji." Said Kakashi, glaring daggers at the demon for making a fool out of him like that.
"By this point I was confident in my suspicions, I had always known that that happy go lucky Hokage wana be attitude was fake, and looking underneath the underneath, I realised exactly why you wanted to be Hokage, you wanted to infiltrate the village hierarchy and destroy us from within to get your revenge, playing the innocent child all the way until you had the power that you required, you were trying to hide your true self, but your ability to not only see through my plans but to counter them so efficiently without looking too suspicious confirmed my thoughts. Even your win against Kiba was a well thought out strategy, using his nose against him to create an opening, under normal circumstances, people would write it off as the idiot naruto getting a stroke of luck, but I, being your sensei, and knowing how you countered my plans knew better, this was all part of your genious plan wasn't it, why else would you pretend to be something you're not?" asked Kakashi out loud, though the question was not directed at anyone in particular.
All the while Kakashi had been talking, Naruto had been silently listening, too shocked to react or say anything in retaliation, who wouldn't be in his place, how could one have expected someone they considered family to have thought so ill of them all this time, to have been deceived like this?
"But I had already anticipated everything you would do, demon fox!" snapped Kakashi hatefully, breaking the blonde from his stupor.
"On the off chance that you survived your battle against Neji, I had decided to teach Sasuke my prized technique, the Chidori, I knew that Sasuke would try to kill you at some point in order to activate his mangyeko sharingan so that he could gain the strength to defeat his brother, but I knew he would need a trump card to defeat a demon trickster like you, so i taught him the chidori, using the excuse that he would need it to defeat the unstable and homicidal Sabaku no Gaara, this way, he would stand a chance against you, it would also be poetic in a sense, if my technique would be used to end your existence."
"But once again you saw through my plan again, after witnessing the power of the chidori when Sasuke used it against Gaara, you convinced Jiraiya sama to teach you an equally powerful technique, the rasengan. When I found out about this when you fought Sasuke at the hospital, I was angry at Jiraiya sama and confronted him about teaching you the rasengan and almost gave my cover away, that's when I realised what you were doing, trying to expose me to get rid of me, but indirectly, frustrating me until I started acting out of character without even realising it, which could have had the result of people starting to become suspicious of my behavior. You would than use your current influence over the Hokage, Jiraiya sama, and the clan heirs to make me look like the guilty one, painting yourself as the innocent boy with a burden, who only wants to protect his precious people. When I realised how much control you already had over the village, the village that Minato sensei sacrificed his life to protect, I knew what I had to do, which is why we are where we are at this moment." Said Kakashi, ending his long explanation.
"You bastard, you won't get away with this! Baa chan will know, she'll know that you're lying, and Ero sannin will investigate, me and Baa chan have a bond, she is like the mother I never had, and ero sannin treats me like his own son, they'll know what happened, you're going to rot in jail you bastard!" shouted the blonde, steeling his resolve with that trade mark defiant look in his eyes, a look that silently infuriated the copy nin.
"Mother you never had? Father you never had you say, you don't know anything about them do you? About your so called God Father and God mother who abandoned you and wanted nothing to do with you? Or your twin sister and mother who deserted you on the day that you were born, do you...Naruto...?" asked Kakashi, silently revelling in the horror and grief stricken look on the blonde's face.
"I'm an orphan. My mother and father died as heroes in the kyubi attack, they loved me...t-they...they wanted to be with me, to raise me b-but..but they died ..unfortunately, that is what jiji said, so I know, I know you're lying, jiji wouldn't lie to me teme!" said the blonde softly, hyperventilating, whether because of emotional or physical distress, Kakashi honestly did not know, maybe a combination of the two.
"When you asked him what their names were, what did Sandaime sama tell you? When you asked him why everyone hated you, what did Sandaime sama tell you, huh...Naruto...?" asked Kakashi.
"Jiji didn't know their names, the records were lost during the destruction. W-what does that have to do with anything, who cares about that! You know about my parents? I want to know about my parents, tell me about my parents, teme sensei!" screamed the blonde in frustration and anticipation, maybe even a little bit of trepidation as well, fearing what horrible truths might be uncovered.
"You fool, how do you know if someone is a hero or not if you do not even know who they are? Did you honestly think it is possible for a Kage to not know the names of his own shinobi, his own employees? Naruto, I used to be one of the A.N.B.U that were occassionally assigned to watch over you, so i know better than anyone how many times you asked the sandaime why everyone hated you, he blatently lied to you every time you asked that question,. If he could lie to you about something that important, what made you think he wouldn't lie to you about your lineage? If it was up to him, if Mizuki had not told you, you still wouldn't know why everyone hated you, he never intended for you to ever find out anything?" said Kakashi venomously, causing the blonde to almost flinch at the hate filled eyes directed at him.
"No...he wouldn't...Sandaime jiji said he loved me like his grandson..he was the only one there for me.."
"Of course he was, demon fox...!" cut in Kakashi.
"He had to determine whether you had regained your memories or if you had any hold over your powers, but he couldn't behave too suspiciously, he couldn't directly interrogate you either, that would render the law he made about your existence irrelevant. So he did the next best thing, he earned your trust by pretending to be your grand father figure, at the time, the only interactions you had experienced with other people were negative memories. He would then be your light in the darkness, the person who treated you kindly and cared about you, the person you admired and wanted to emulate, the person you could confide in. This way, it would make it easy for him to monitor you, or rather, to monitor the seal and determine whether you were a threat or not, you get it right...no one has ever truly cared about you..." said Kakashi with absolute sincerity that not even the blonde, who was bordering on complete denial could ignore.
By now endless tears were freely flowing from the blonde's eyes, staining his cheeks and even his torn jump suit. He couldn't believe it, this man, this man had to be lying, this sounded too much like a movie, or a play or something, things like this didn't happen in real life did they? But how could he prove it to be lie? It made too much sense to be anything but the truth. But than...if this was true, what did that say about him? Was he really so stupid, so desperate that he couldn't even see what was always in front of him? He should have known better shouldn't he have? What had made him so special, that out of all the orphans in the orphanage, that the Hokage of all people would pay special attention to him, to go to such great lengths to befriend him? He should have suspected something, but he was arrogant, he had simply thought that the hokage had recognised his awesomeness, and that if the hokage could see it, than he could make everyone else see it too. What a gullable fool he was...but wait a minute...didn't Kakashi say something about his family, he wanted to at least know about that before he died, no..he didn't want to know about it, he needed to know about it, damn that Kakashi, he would force it out of him, if only he could tap in to some youki. But he couldn't for some reason, ever since he looked into that teme's sharingan ...
"I-I'm tired, please...just tell me...tell me about my mother, and sister, why did they abandon me, a-and who is my God mother,and God father? Why did they abandon me...cough cough...?" asked the blonde, not even looking at the Cyclops anymore, his eyes looking at the ground with his spiky, blonde bangs covering his eyes darkly, his forehead protector having slipped off of his head during his battle with his best...former best friend.
He could feel it, he was dying, his body was so...numb, yes, he was numb, he couldn't even feel his limbs anymore. His heart rate had slowed down and he was sure that the internal damage he had suffered would hard press even kyubi's healing ability to keep him alive.
"Your mother left you on the day you were born, demon. She took your sister away with her so that she can train her to be a strong kunoichi, come to think about it, they are supposed to come back two years from now." Said Kakashi.
"Why..w-why didn't they take me with them?" asked the blonde.
"To protect Naruko, if people knew that Kushina sama was raising the demon, than they would hate her too, and by extension, they would hate Naruko for being the sister of the demon, to protect her daughter, she decided that she would leave the village and come back when Naruko was strong enough to protect herself from anyone, and strong enough to protect her home village, just like her father did." Explained Kakashi patiently.
"F-father?" asked the blonde curiously.
"Yes, Namikaze Minato, my sensei, The Yondaime Hokage, otherwise known as the koroi no senko."
"W-what! Impossible, the Yondaime is my hero, the man i look up to the most, he would never seal a demon in his own son!" denied the blonde with renewed vigour.
"It was a no doubt a difficult decision, but sensei had trusted that your god father, Jiraya sama would take care of you, and as a fellow seal master, he would be able to ensure that the kyubi stayed locked away. Your mother, Uzamaki Kushina left you in her cousin's care, Senju Tsunade, but she also abandoned you, no one wanted to raise a demon it seems." Said Copy Ninja.
"Y-you keep speaking as if I'm the demon itself, and yet you were patient and generous enough to tell me about my lineage, why, if you truly believe I'm the demon, than why did you find it necessary to explain all of this to me?" asked the blonde softly. He couldn't find the strength to shout, scream, or curse anymore, his desire to hear the truth, to receive some form of closure was the only thing keeping him alive at the moment.
"Contrary to what you might believe, I'm not killing you out of revenge, at least it is not just revenge against you, demon.."
"Then why?" asked Naruto, not understanding at all.
"I cannot bare to see you use the body of my sensei's son like this, to watch Naruto suffer at your hands, by killing you, Naruto will be able to find peace in the afterlife, he will be reunited with his father and be freed from your evil, that is why I have taken the liberty to explain things to you, Naruto's spirit is still locked somewhere inside you, this way, he can at least know the truth about his family before he passes on, now die demon fox...Lightning Style: Lightning Blade Current!" said Kakashi, fully activating the modified version of his signature technique.
"GWAAH!" screamed Naruto in pain and anguish. He couldn't believe how much pain he was in, if he thought being pierced by the lightning blade was painful, than this was ten time worse. He could feel the electrical currents not just in the area surrounding his wound, but all throughout his body, it felt like every organ in his body...no, never mind that, it felt like every cell in his body was being electrocuted.
"Rest in peace...Naruto." whispered Kakashi before he kicked the blonde into the river, right between the statues of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
'I've done it, finally. I've killed the kyubi, freed your son, and protected the village, just like you did all your life, Minato sensei...' Thought Kakashi, feeling a mixture of relief, sadness and nostalgia.
"Argh!" grunted Kakashi in pain originating from his sharingan eye, it was the most burning sensation he had ever felt in his life, but just as it came, it was almost immediately gone in nothing but 5 seconds, making him question if it was ever there in the first place.
'No...something is different, my eye is draining a lot more chakra than it usually does.' Thought Kakashi, who had to suppress a gasp from leaving his throat when he looked at his reflection in the water. Something was different about his reflection, more specifically, something was different with his sharingan. Whereas before it was red with three tamoe , it now looked like the tamoe had been connected to form a black, three pronged shuriken.
'M-mangyeko Sharingan, but how, I'm not an Uchiha...' Thought Kakashi in bewilderment.
'I cannot let anyone find out about this, at least not yet.' Thought the cycloptic ninja as he deactivated his ultimate sharingan, covering up his eye with his forehead protector.
"Sasuke, we'll meet again, I'm sure of it. I'll save you from Orochimaru, I won't fail Obito, we'll definately meet again." Thought Kakashi out loud before he disappeared with a leaf shunshuin.
Mindscape...
"That fool will bring the end of of both of us, damn it not even I can heal something like this!" Thought the Kyubi behind its cage in Naruto's mindscape, which looked like a giant room in what appears to be a sewer system with giant golden bars held closed by a small paper with the kanji for seal on it.
'Curse that one eyed fool! Being inside so much water is only making things worse, to think that a mere mortal could generate so much electricity with chakra alone, I won't be able to repair this level of damage, I would have to destroy and rebuild every single cell in his body to do it, a process that would surely kill him...ooooh...kukuku...that's it of course, how could I have been so stupid, hehehe...ehehehehe!" laughed the giant fox mentally.
"Destroy and rebuild? Hah! Why should I risk doing that when I could just modify this pitiful body of his, all I have to do is use my youki to mutate his cells, I could use the electricity coursing through his body as a catalyst for the experiment and modify his cells so that his body can act as a freezer, kukuku...not only will my host survive, but he'll gain a pseudo bloodline limit too. Hehehe...it is only fitting, shukaku gave his container supremacy in sand manipulation, also, from what I've seen with my previous hosts, nibi gave her host the manipulation of the blue flames, water manipulation and genjutsu for the sanbi, lava for the yonbi, boil release for the gobi, acid and bubble jutsu for the rokubi, dust release for the nanabi, and ink for the hachibi, and soon,complete dominion over all forms of water and wind for my host, hehehe...ehehehehehe!" laughed the kyubi , a laugh full of unrestrained joy and malice.
"Still, I have to let the fool die for at least 120 seconds and then revive him before the shinigami collects our souls..."
"What! Are you fucking stupid, you know if you kill the fool, I'll die too right?"asked a voice kyubi found both amusing and annoying at the same time.
"How nice of you to join me, true Naruto, or should I say, Dark Naruto." Said the giant fox indifferently, looking at the boy standing in front of it now identified as Dark Naruto, a boy with bright blonde, spiky hair, three whisker like lines on each cheek, manacing eyes with black sclera and yellow irises. The boy is dressed in an orange jump suit with blue ninja sandals, and a kunai pouch on his right leg.
"I asked you a question?" said the boy calmly, having regained his composure. He figured that there must have been something more to what the kyubi said, if he and that fool died, than the shinigami would come and collect Kyu, and there was no way Kyu would allow that, no matter what, he knew that well enough.
"Fool, you signed a contract with the toads, that stupid pervert will just reverse summon you at any time he pleases, I will not allow that, I hate that pitiful village more than even Uchiha Madara, we will certainly not be going back there, if you die, than your connection to the toads will be severed, that way, we can go somewhere to get stronger, to prepare for our vengeance." Explained Kyubi.
"Vengeance, you think that happy go lucky fool will listen to anything you say? I bet he'll just go crawling back to that hell hole, thinking that they will all of a sudden bow down to him and lick his ass because of the bloodline limit you plan to create for him, for us." Said Dark Naruto with undisguised disgust and sarcasm.
"That is why I have decided to give you back to him, I initially took you away to weaken my host, using you, all I would have had to do was wait for his darkest and most vulnerable moment, I would than latch on to you and use you to manipulate and control his feelings, to overwhelm him with my hate and take over his body, but now I see what a mistake that was, my ambitions almost got us killed."
"What! I thought you said you would help me get control.!" Asked Dark Naruto.
"I lied, get over it, I'm the kyubi, what did you expect?"
"Tche...I already suspected as much, but I didn't care, anything is better than letting that fool stay in control."
"True, that is why I have decided that you two should be one again, this way, the two of you will fuse to become the real Naruto, that part that is you will ensure that you don't go back to Konoha...damnit, two minutes is up, I'm going to revive this body before the shingami comes for us, I will than bring that idiot that almost got us killed back here and you're going to fuse with him, are you ready...?"
"Of course I am, just hurry up." Said the blonde nonchalantly.
"Hmm..."
Timeskip 2 minutes
"So, it is finally done huh, hurry up and bring the idiot down here, we need to talk some serious business..." said Dark Naruto.
"I'm already on it, and stop ordering me around!" replied Kyubi in its regular booming voice.
"Tche...whatever..." replied the black eyed blonde, causing a tick mark to appear on the foxes head.
"He's here, I'll let you take care of things from here..." said the kyubi dismissively.
"Great, what does that stupid fox want now, can't he just let me die in peace!" said the blonde irritably.
"Yo...loser! You and I are gonna have a little talk!" said Dark Naruto angrily, cutting out the blue eyed blonde from his thoughts.
Naruto stopped shortly at that, why did he stop? Well... for one, that was definitely not the voice of the Kyubi, they had only spoken once, but he remembered a loud booming voice, not this sarcastic, arrogant and well...not demonic or booming voice. Looking up in order to identify this mind infiltrator, naruto's figurative heart almost stopped in surprise.
"What the hell! Where's the bastard fox! Oh no Oh no, you're the fox aren't you! How did you get out of the cage...why do you look like...Oh no Oh no...Kakashi teme was right wasn't he, I'm possessed, I'm...the kyubi!" screamed the blonde, pointing an accusing finger the black eyed blonde.
Before the blue eyed blonde could continue with his idiotic rant, a dark red light illuminated the other side of the cage, displaying the nine tailed demon fox in all its glory.
"Relax fool, I haven't escaped...yet." said the fox with an evil glint in its eyes, complemented by its razor sharp teethed grin, causing the blonde shudder, and not in a good way either.
"Y-you bastard fox, if you're still behind the cage, than...who is this?" asked the blonde, squinting his eyes in scrutiny.
"And why does he look like me...?" asked the blue eyed blonde.
"We haven't been introduced yet have we? Allow me to rectify that, my name is Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, pleasure ...no...displeasure to meet your aquintance." said the black eyed blonde sarcastically.
"What! That's not true, I am Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage Dattebayo!" exclaimed the blue eyed blonde.
"Not true, you're not Uzumaki Naruto, nor are you the future hokage, you're Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, the future destroyer of konoha, I know this because I am you..." said Dark Naruto with conviction.
"No way, if you are me, than who am I? And if I am you, than who are you? And if we are one and the same, than who are we?" asked the blue eyed blonde, squinting his eyes, a small confused frownon his face.
"Y-you idiot! That doesn't even make sense!" said Dark Naruto, snarling in anger at his doppelganger's stupidity.
"Hey who you're calling an idiot y-you..whoever you are!"
"Argh! I just told you who I am two minutes ago you imbecile!" shouted Dark Naruto , mentally blocking the urge to pull on his hair in frustration.
"Yeah, well you're a..."
"Shut up both of you morons!" said kyubi furiously, blasting the twins with its killing intent.
"Now listen up Naruto for we don't have much time. When the Yondaime sealed me inside of you, I was angry and frustrated that i would once again spend a life time of imprisonment, so I sought to enact my revenge on the man who sealed me, by overpowering and taking over his son, devouring his soul in the process."
"Baka Fox! I don't have time for your..."
"Shut up and listen you mongrel!" said the fox, focussing all of his malicious force on the blue eyed blonde, effectively shutting him up in the process.
"In order to do that, I couldn't afford to have a strong host, I needed you to be weak. So I took away a part of yourself, I took away your darkness, your hatred, I took away that part of your soul during the sealing, before the seal had fully settled in. I would than use this part of your soul to store all the negative emotions you had and build it up to form a powerful hatred that would rival even my own. This would be my leverage over you, all I would have to do is wait for the darkest and most painful moment in your life, where you would have no choice but to rely on power. This would also be the day that I escaped, I would than use the hatred and anger stored inside Dark Naruto to manipulate you into removing the seal, effectively turning you against yourself. Once the seal was removed, I would than devour you and be reborn. This was my ultimate escape plan, but after today, I realised that it was too much of a risk, weakening you will not benefit either of us if you die before I escape, so I have decided to give back what is rightfully yours, your other half. I've decided that if I can't escape, than I will make you the strongest container there ever was, you will be feared and respected amongst all the elemental nations, this way, my name and legacy will live on through you." Explained the kyubi with with surprising sincerity, as sincere as a demon can be anyway.
To say that the blue eyed blonde was shocked would be an understatement. Wasn't it bad enough that everyone tried to deny him the strength and recognition he had tried to gain, wasn't it bad enough that everyone he ever loved and respected had betrayed him and played him for a fool, wasn't it bad enough that the teachers at the academy tried to subortage his education, wasn't it bad enough that his own sensei had plotted to kill him and almost succeeded? Only to find out that even the kyubi had tried to delay his progress by taking away part of himself...what...?
"Hey wait a minute, how does taking away my darkness and hatred make me weak? Doesn't that make me better off?' asked the blonde uncertainly.
"Let me take it from here Kyu..." said Dark Naruto
"Whatever..." said kyubi indifferently.
"Listen here fool, you are the light and I am the darkness. There are both bad and good qualities about your light. The good qualities are that you are kind, loving and caring, you always want to help those who have suffered, those who are in pain, even at your own expense, especially your loved ones. These are no doubt good and admirable traits and can be used as a reason and source of strength...but..." paused Dark Naruto, his neutral expression transforming into that of disgust.
"But what...?" asked the blue eyed blonde in anticipation.
"Too much of anything is a bad thing. Because you have so much light, you blindly and willingly trust anyone who gives you a smile, you are so desperate for love and affection that you will except it from anyone. You trust people so much that it makes it so easy for people to deceive, use and manipulate you. Because of this, you attract the wrong people, you're like a dead corpse that has been left to rot in the wild, vultures flock towards you from all direction at the smell of your flesh. A scavenging hyena will tell you that he is a bunny and you will buy that obvious lie because you believe everyone is like you, you believe that people would never lie to you simply because you yourself wouldn't do it to them, that is so stupid it makes me want to puke my guts out..."
"So what! Are you saying that I should just hate and destroy everything, that I should be like Kakashi teme, or worse, Hebi Teme!" screamed the blue eyed blonde angrily.
"Don't be stupid! I never said I was perfect either, darkness is born within a person's heart when a person has suffered and has come to know true pain. Darkness breeds maturity, perception and paranoia. This is because darkness is associated with pain and suffering. In order to overcome their pain, people face many trials and tribulations, and these trials and tribulations are the things that force a person to mature at a faster pace. But, most people in these situations have been betrayed by people at some point, perhaps even those betrayals might be related to their suffering,and to avoid being caught in similar situations, these people learn to observe every situation with strict scrutiny , hence the perception and paranoia. Maturity, perception, and paranoia, these are the characteristics associated with a quality shinobi, these are the good characteristics that I have acquired from my darkness."
"You make it sound like darkness is a good thing?"
"Everything on this earth exists for a reason, so yes, darkness is a good thing, but it is not enough on its own. Too much darkness can lead to hatred, cruelty, evil, and ultimately..destruction. If you have seen the world for what it truly is, and you only have darkness in your heart than you will hate it even more instead of loving it, instead of redeeming or saving the world, you might choose to rather destroy it and end its sorry existence. Brother..." said Dark Naruto, now standing right in front of the blue eyed blonde with his right hand gripping his shoulder in a comforting gesture.
"You have felt it have you not? The emptiness inside of you, but because you did not know the source of that emptiness, you threw yourself at everyone you could get your hands on, anyone who would show you the slightest bit of affection, anything to fill that emptiness, that missing piece of yourself, but no matter how many 'precious people' you attained for yourself, you still felt empty inside, like a part of you was missing. Is it not so...brother?" asked Dark Naruto.
"H-how do you know? How do I get rid of that emptiness?" asked the blue eyed blonde desperately.
"I know because I have felt it too, I even sided with Kyu against you because of it, but nothing ever worked, my darkness, my hatred, and all my negative emotions are consuming me. To fill that gap in our hearts, we need to work together, we need to become one again, as we were meant to be, I need your light, and you need my darkness, so what do you say, let us help each other...brother?" asked Dark Naruto with a smile on his face, a small full of unexpected but sincere affection.
"You, that..you're way cooler than I thought..sniff...sniff...I..I want to be whole again, I wnt us to work together, to be one with each other, let us do it..sniff...brother..." answered the blue eyed blonde in between sobs, also gripping his brother's shoulder as a display of understanding and comfort, with what is probably the first true smile of his life.
In that instant, when mutual understanding had been reached by the two alter egos, a bright light surrounded the duo as their chest were pushed together by an invisible force. Forcing the duo to fuse with each other.
Kyubi watched the scene in front of it with interest, waiting patiently for the light to disappear so that he could meet the True Namikaze Uzamaki Naruto.
"How do you feel, Naruto?"asked Kyubi, the light having died down, the single blonde instead of two standing before its might proof of the success of the fusion.
"I have never felt better..." said the blonde thoughtfully.
"You seem distracted, what is it boy?"asked the Kyubi with interest and..was it concern...no it couldn't be, that is what the blonde convinced himself of in any case.
"You gave me some your memories, I know about the Uzumaki clan, Uzumaki Mito, and more about my m...Uzumaki Kushina, and Uchiha Madara...?" explained/asked the blonde.
"Yes you do, I gave some of my memories of the time I was sealed inside those two women with Dark Naruto, so that you may have them when the fusion was complete, you should now also know everything about the modifications I did to your body."
"Not that I don't appreciate your efforts, but why? The bloodline limit, I can even understand why you gave me info about my clan, sealing arts and barrier arts are a very powerful tool, now that I know I have a talent for them, I'll be sure to learn as much as I can about the subject. I also understand that you want me to kill Madara. My question though, is why did you give me the info about those two women, you rarely do anything that is of no benefit to you."
"Hmm...you're still naive, can't you see that anything that benefits you, will ultimately benefit me as well. If we wish to be the strongest, then we must let nothing hold us back, you needed the closure, so that you may be able to move forward. If I didn't give you this information, then you would have wasted time that could have been spent getting stronger in your efforts to clear the mistery that is your past." Explained the strongest of the bijuu as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I see, thank you."
Real world
Naruto woke up and left the water, as he saw the Rain he smirked and started going through some handsigns for the kuchiyose no jutsu, he was ready to use the kyubi's newest gifted to him, a summoning contract for the fox clan. In a puff of smoke he disappeared.
In Konoha...
"What do you want me to do with this, Sarutob i Sensei?" asked Tsunade monotously. She appears to be a beautiful woman in her late twenties or early thirties with long blonde hair tied into two long pigtails, brown eyes and more than a handful of breasts that seem too hard to ignore, anti perverts included. She is dressed in dark blue pants and a grey, tight fitting and sleeveless top, giving rise to the illusion that her breasts might pop out at any given moment.
Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at his student silently, contemplating how to start the almost inevitable argument that might ensure courtesy of his stubborn student whilst blowing a few puffs of smoke from his pipe. No doubt he would have to choose his words carefully here, and maybe a great degree of manipulation might be needed to get things to go his way. The village had suffered a big blow, losing the last loyal Uchiha to Orochimaru was not something to be taken lightly, Orochimaru couldn't be allowed to gain such a powerful tool like the sharingan, he didn't know anyone that could stop him if that happened. What made matters even worse was losing Naruto kun and the Kyubi, how could Tsunade have been foolish enough as to send a wet behind the ear genin squad on such a high level mission was beyond his comprehension. He understood that she had had faith in Minato's son, so did he, the boy had always and consistently thrived against odds that would have crushed the spirit of even some of the war veterans in this ninja world, but he just couldn't justify the gamble that Tsunade had made, or maybe he was just angry that Konoha had lost its most important weapon, he himself was not sure what the true source of his discontent was.
These were the thoughts of Sarutobi Hiruzen, a 68 year old man with grey/white, spiky hair with a small, white goatee, he has numerous wrinkles and a few liver spots on his face, and is dressed in a long, white robe with black ninja sandals. Many had been completely shocked when they had seen him walking the streets in broad daylight, thinking him to be a ghost. He had been later forced to give a speech to the konoha populace, vaguely describing the details pertaining to his false death, of course a much more detailed explanation was given to the shinobi council. He had explained how he used the Fourth's dead demon consuming seal to seal away Orochimaru's arms, and the price that was required for the use of the jutsu, the price being that the shinigami would devour the user's soul.
He then went on to explain how he had used the Uzamaki clan's blood clone, which the Shodaime had listed in the forbidden scroll of jutsu, during the time that the resurrected Nidaime Hokage had used his Bringer Of Darkness Technique. The blood clone, similar to a shadow clone, split the user's chakra in half and had a complete personality of its own. Hiruzen had theorised that since the clone had the same chakra as him, and an independent personality, than it should also mean that the clone actually contained a part of his soul, as further proven by the fact that, should he dispel the clone, not only would the chakra used to create the clone be returned to the user, but the memories of the clone as well. He had than delved into the medical field, from which had been stated the requirements for something to be considered a living being, and to be more specific, human . It had to have actual organs, had to respire, excrete, consume, digest, have a soul amongst other things. This is where he had found a loop hole in the shingami's contract terms, because a great amount of blood had been used, the blood clone was an actual clone, having real organs and having real dna, it could eat, excete, respire etc, and it had half of his soul in it and an independent personality, it was a true living being in its own right, although it still had to take commands from him, nonetheless the shingami had no choice but to acknowledge his theory and had in fact complemented him, praising him for being only the second man to ever outwit him, though refusing to divulge the name of the other person to have escaped his clutches. Still, the demi god had warned that he would take his whole soul regardless if he tried pulling a stunt like that again.
"Those are the pictures and stats of Haruno Sakura and Kurama Yakumo." Stated Hiruzen in a matter of fact tone.
"I know who they are! I don't have time to play your stupid mind games you old fool! What do you want me to do with this, with these little girls!" asked/screamed the senju princess, trying and almost failing to hold back her violent tendencies against the old goat.
She didn't understand, couldn't he see she was hurting, couldn't he see her suffering? Her whole reason for returning here was dead, no, he wasn't just her reason, he had been her last hope, she had put her faith in him, faith that he would succeed her and be the best Hokage ever, faith that he would be able to defy and break the curse of that necklace. Couldn't he see that in naruto, she had not only lost her reason for returning, but she had lost her son in everything but blood, did he really think now was the time for him to be playing these mindless games with her! After all that had happened, she didn't even know if she wanted this job anymore, not after kakashi returned with naruto's forehead protector and that necklace, not after the partying and celebrations that had ensured in the village right after she had announced his death.
That had made her furious, prompting her to reveal his heritage just to spite them, announcing that their demon whose death they were celebrating was the one and only son of their beloved Yondaime Hokage, even providing the evidence for them to see for themselves. She had even asked them how it is that they couldn't see the resemblance between the two.
She had however soon regretted her decision to reveal such information, because Ichiraku Ayame had been murderous when she heard that. The girl had accused her and the village hierarchy as the guilty parties for naruto's suffering for hiding such vital information, saying that she, as Naruto's surrogate sister knew better than anyone that naruto, more than anything else had suffered because of his lack of identity, that the boy had wanted to know more than anything else who his family was, whether they loved or hated him, whether they died or abandoned him? Ayame had claimed that they had no right to hide such information from him, and she had even insisted that had they not hidden that information to the konoha populace, that his life would have turned out a lot better.
Tsunade had chasticed her for her stupidity and argued that if the girl really cared about Naruto as much as she claimed she did, than she would have understood that Iwagakure and possibly Kumogakure would have sent assassins after naruto, as they would have feared his potential, and who knows what other enemies Minato might have had. Of course Ayame would not stand for it, shrugging off the kage level killing intent Tsunade had been directing towards her in the process, arguing that if that was the case, than why did they announce that he had the kyubi, because having the kyubi inside of him made him even more dangerous to konoha's enemies than being the son of the fourth, since the fox must have been stronger than the fourth if the fourth died in his battle against it, while the kyubi still lived. She had also argued that if the law about the fox had kept Naruto's jinchuuriki status from being leaked outside the village, than a similar law about him being the fourth's son would have been enough to contain that information while giving naruto the sense of identity he had craved and obliterating the hate that had been directed towards him in the process.
This had served to turn the tables against Tsunade and the villagers had felt heavily offended and had started to riot not only against her but the whole konoha hierarchy, but especially her and the Sandaime Hokage. Though, Ayame had been quick to rebuke the citizens too, claiming that they had no right to riot since they shouldn't have needed to know that he was the son of the Fourth in order to treat her little brother like he deserved to be. She had than told everyone how disgusted she was in this whole village and she, along with her father had stated their intentions to leave the village and find another place to live as soon as they could. Tsunade had gone home and cried herself to sleep for hours in grief, shame, and regret afterwards, Ayame's words had cut through her like a knife through butter.
As if matters were not bad enough, princess Koyuki, Tazuna the Mayor, bridge builder, and now current CEO of Wave Trade Corporations, and Daimyo Toki of Bird Country had somehow found out about the boy's treatment, probably from the foreign merchants that had been trading in the village at the time his death had been announced. They had immediately refused to have any association with the place that cursed their Hero to such a terrible childhood, cutting all ties with the village hidden in the leaves. It is needless to say that things were not looking good for Tsunade and her village, if things carried on spiralling downwards like this, than she would surely be destined to be known as the worst Kage in all of Konoha's history.
"Tsunade…Tsunade…..TSUNADE!" shouted Hiruzen, effectively breaking the Senju Princess from her depressing thoughts.
"What!" shouted the buxom blonde irritably.
"Ahem, as I was saying, I want you to authorise a medical scan on the Kurama clan heiress and see if there isn't anything you can do about her physical condition, I also want you to enlist her under team Kakashi as Sasuke kun's replacement should you be able to heal her. It would also be nice if you could have her also train with Might Guy kun's team and with Yuhi Kurenai on a part time basis. I'm sure I do not need to explain my reasons for this request do I?" asked Hiruzen in his usual grandfatherly tone.
Of course Tsunade had already picked up on Sarutobi's intentions, otherwise she wouldn't have been worthy of the title of Kage if she couldn't figure it out. With the possible extinction of the Uchiha clan, Konoha would lose the overwhelming Genjutsu advantage they had enjoyed against the other great ninja villages in the past wars. If it should happen that they failed to retrieve the sharingan, and by extension, rebuild the Uchiha clan, than it was mandatory that they found a replacement for that role, and the Kurama clan would be the perfect replacement. She also understood the team placement, if the girl trained and practised against someone with the sharingan, like Kakashi, than she might be a key figure later on against Orochimaru, if he was successful in attaining the sharingan for himself, or otherwise she could also help defeat and subdue Uchiha Sasuke if she was involved in any future retrieval missions, missions that would most likely be conducted by team 7. Training with team 8 would give her a fellow genjutsu specialist from which she could bounce off jutsu ideas and training with Guy would allow her to gain the fitness and strength that is required of a shinobi, it would also be to her benefit if she didn't completely rely on her genjutsu, perhaps becoming a taijutsu specialist as a secondary objective would help her become a strong ally for konoha,that is, if she was successful in healing the girl, though she didn't think it would be too hard for her to do it.
"No you don't, but why do you have so much faith in her, she hates Konoha's guts and has been nothing more than a prisoner in her own home, does she even have her powers anymore, according to these records, the Idou demon, which was a manifestation of her powers was destroyed with N-Naruto's help?" asked the Godaime, her voice almost breaking at the mention of that name.
"Wrong, the Idou demon was not a manifestation of her powers, but a manifestation of the darkness in her heart, it was only able to utilise her powers better than her because it knew how to on an instinctual level, not because it was the owner of the power, with the demon now out of the way, Yakumo chan can now, with proper guidance, learn how to properly utilise her abilities." Explained Hiruzen.
"So we should give a person who hates our guts the opportunity to gain access to the power she needs to destroy us?" asked Tsunade with bitter sarcasm.
"Don't be childish Tsunade, do you not understand the other reason for putting this girl in this particular team?" asked Sarutobi.
At the Godaime's blank expression, Hiruzen found himself having to hide his exasperation in order to keep the farcade of a kind, grandfatherly, and honest old man whilst explaining what, in his deceptively manipulative eyes should have been obvious.
"Naruto kun's last wish when he died was to retrieve and save his best friend from Orochimaru's clutches, he gave his all to accomplish this one goal, and was even willing to die trying if need be. Naruto kun was someone…the only person that Yakumo chan held dear to her heart and Naruto kun had promised to save her from her loneliness and help her become a ninja again when he became Hokage. All we have to do is convince her that you are trying to fulfil Naruto kun's promise for her to be a ninja again, and when she finds out about Naruto kun's resolve to rescue Sasuke kun, she will most likely make it her goal to do the same to honour his memory. Furthermore, you already know about Kakashi's strict believes about protecting comrades, by training with Kakashi, she will learn to love and protect her comrades, making it easier for her to form bonds with her team, Kurenai, and Guy's team. When these bonds have formed…"
"Yeh yeh I get it, when those bonds are formed, her hatred for konoha will dissolve, or at the very least, she will not be willing to destroy the village for as long as those people are living here." Cut in Tsunade.
"Yes, you took the words right out of my mouth." Said Hiruzen casually, taking a few puffs out of his pipe.
"And what about this Haruno girl, what should I do with her?" asked the Godaime with a confused expression on her face.
"You are going to take her on as an apprentice, she will excel under your guidance, she fits the requirements to make an excellent future medic, high IQ, good memory and study habits, and excellent chakra control, it would also help her get out of her depression and regain some confidence. You should also consider what Naruto kun…"
"What does Naruto have to do with this, I don't care what you say, I am not taking an apprentice!" snapped Tsunade.
"Remember that this is the girl whom Naruto loved the most, actually, his resolve to return Sasuke kun stemmed from his determination to fulfil his promise to her, in a way, it is not too farfetched to conclude that naruto kun in actual fact sacrificed his life for her sake. How do you think Naruto kun would feel if the love of his life died on a mission because the woman he thought of as a mother was not willing to help her?" asked Hiruzen, making Tsunade look down in shame, which in turn caused him to smirk behind his pipe, she was so gullable and easy to manipulate, especially in the emotional and fragile state she was in, this was child's play, it seemed like he shouldn't have been too worried about the outcome of this conversation.
"This…this is all your fault.." said Tsunade.
"What do mean Tsunad…"
"This is all your fault! If you had not forced me to leave him when he was still a baby, if you hadn't made me abandon him and betray Kushina's trust, than he would have been raised properly, I would have trained him and he would have been able to defeat that stupid Uchiha brat, this is all your fault you old goat! How dare you try to make me out to look like the bad guy here!" screamed Tsunade with endless tears of grief falling freely from her eyes.
"Tsunade…have you forgotten the real reason why I took Naruto kun away from you, did you forget how you almost burned the house down, almost killing both you and the boy in your drunken stupor. Or how you occasionally ditched a baby alone in the house to go drinking and gambling, have you forgotten how many times I warned you to get help for your drinking and gambling problem so that you could take better care of him? How is this not your fault, but my fault instead?" asked Sarutobi, giving the Godaime an ice cold stare, completely ditching his loving grandfather act, this was now the kami no shinobi, the professor and master manipulator, no longer the kind old man.
"Y-you promised, you promised you would take care of him, Kushina chan wrote many letters to me, asking how her naru chan was growing, I did as you said I should, I told her that he was doing just fine, that he was growing well, because that is what you told me in your letters, I was a fool to have believed you, you pathological lyer! Me and Shizune reviewed the medical records in the hospital recently, beatings, poisoning, malnutrition, broken limbs? How can you call that growing up normally you corniving bastard! If I had known then…"
"Then what? You would have taken him, and took him to all the casino's and the pubs you visited! You would have lit another fire and burned both yourselves to death? Tsunade, you were grieving and bitter about your past, Naruto kun reminded you too much of the brother you lost, and the son you could have had with Dan. The fact that Kushina would one day come back and take him away from you was also preventing you from bonding with the child, it was best that you let me take care of him instead."
"Except you didn't you spineless bastard, you left him to the wolves, Naruto was not only physically underdeveloped, but mentally and emotionally as well, how dare you claim to have taken care of him! If I had known I would have at least told Kushina to come back and take care of him!" screamed Tsunade furiously, how dare this old fool act like a saint in spite of his glaring faults and short comings.
"Call back Kushina? As if I would have allowed that, allowing a woman who dreamed of rebuilding Uzushiogakure no saito with her children raise Konoha's jinchuuriki, all she would have done was to extinguish his will of fire with those ambitions. Your will of fire had also been extinguished after your losses, I had to be the one to raise him in order to keep his will burning, why can't you see that, my foolish student, your grandfather and granduncle would have been ashamed of you." Thought Hiruzen.
"Look, we both made our fare share of mistakes, but regrets are not going to change the past, nor is this infighting between us, the best course of action is to honour Naruto kun's memory as best we can, and please remember that you are not the only one that is grieving Naruto kun's death, there are many others, your future student included, and for what it is worth, I'm sorry." Said Hiruzen diplomatically.
"Fine! I will speak to Haruno Sakura tomorrow morning and see what I can do, and what of the third member of the team, and what will happen to the traitor? I propose we collect a sufficient amount of sperm samples from him, and then I shall personally and publicly execute him. We can then allow healthy, and willing woman to carry his seeds and rebuild a new, non traitorous Uchiha clan." Stated Tsunade darkly.
'If that happened, not only would we lose Itachi kun's loyalty but we would also have Itachi kun out to destroy us, and he has a whole organisation of Kage level shinobi to support him, no, killing Sasuke kun is not an option.' Thought Sarutobi Hiruzen.
"I have a better idea Tsunade..." said the old monkey neutrally.
"A better idea, what could be better than that?" asked the Senju princess suspiciously.
"If we kill Sasuke kun, we would be without a battle ready Uchiha for at least twelve years, and who knows if there aren't any spies in the village that could give away information about the little Uchiha infants..."
"What do you suggest than! That he should get away with a slap on the wrist, so that he can just betray us again the first chance he gets! Have you gone senile in your old age!" asked Tsunade furiously.
"Once again I would like to beg you not to be childish, Tsunade. Who do you think I am, a genin?" asked Sarutobi, blasting Tsunade with his kage level KI.
"Alright whatever, you better not say something stupid though, I won't tolerate it, it would serve you well to accept that I don't take orders from you, I am now the Hokage!" said Tsunade, releasing her own KI.
"Fare enough, now as was saying, I would like to suggest that Sasuke kun be inducted into the root program, me and D..."
"What! I knew it, you've gone senile haven't you, you rotten old bag of shit, how long do you think I've been trying to get rid of that illegal organisation!" screamed Tsunade, smashing her fist on the table.
"I have no idea how long you have been trying, but let me say, if you have not succeeded yet, than you are even more pathetic than I thought." Stated Sarutobi darkly, giving the Godaime a chilling stare.
"W-what do you mean, haven't you always despised that program, didn't you spend your entire reign trying to destroy that organisation?" sputtered the busty Kage.
"Oh my foolish little student, have you forgotten who you're talking too? I am The Kami no Shinobi, and I am The Professor , and this is Konohagakure no Saito, did you honestly believe that a whole ninja army could hide itself from me right in the middle of my ninja village? Than Iwa and Kumo might as well bring their own armies here, and hide right under our roof before they destroy us." Stated Hiruzen bitterly, an insulted facial expression etched on his face.
"W-what do you mean...what are you talking about, are you trying to say that you could have ended this all this time but chose to do nothing about it?" asked Tsunade, eyes wide in disbelief.
"The R.O.O.T program is you granduncle's legacy, long before he announced me as the Sandaime Hokage, he had already given me instructions about how to handle things when I took over his seat..."
"What are you talking about!" cut in Tsunade , her knuckles turning white from gripping the edges of the table so hard.
"I would appreciate it if you stopped interrupting me..." scolded the old man.
"Thank you, now Tobirama sama instructed me to allow Danzo to be head of the organisation when I took leadership. After a couple of decades, I was to officially discontinue the organisation, but unofficially allow Danzo to continue with his work. But, in order to keep up the farcade that I was truly against the program, it was required that me and Danzo sacrifice our friendship and that I pretend to stand against everything that Danzo and his R.O.O.T stand for. The Hokage has to inspire greatness in his people,the people must believe that their Hokage loves each and every one of them, that he his kind, just, and caring, it is important that the people have this image of their leader, it is important that the leader inspires courage and love from his people, and it is important that the Hokage ignites and nurtures their will of fire..."
"What! Are you trying to tell me that to be Hokage is to live a fake life, to pretend be something you're not? Are you telling me that you and Danzo are literally one and the same, grains from the same bag of salt?" asked Tsunade hysterically. She couldn't help it, who was this man? This couldn't be her sensei, how could he be so cruel as to support that man and his methods, was this really her granduncle's doing, was his love for Konoha, for the people of the village just an act too?
"Tsunade, I know what you might be thinking, but you're a war veteran, you of all people should understand how much sacrifice is required for a village like ours to continue to prosper, do you know how many enemies Konoha has, do you know how much the R.O.O.T program has done and sacrificed to ensure the continued existence and peace for our people. The R.O.O.T 's way is not only for the protection of the civilians, but our official ninja as well, our own shinobi would never be able to handle the mental trauma that a member of the foundation is forced to endure, it also helps that their activities cannot be traced back to us, as the program is officially nonexistent. Tsunade, the ninja way is a life of sacrifice, we did not become shinobi so that we can feel good about ourselves, nor did we become shinobi for our own sakes, we became ninja for the sake of the people, the citizens of Konoha, our own happiness does not matter, it was forfeit the day we made our vows to the village, we live, die, kill, and do all kinds of cruel things for our people, that is shinobi, do not judge me, Danzo, or you granduncle or grandfather for that matter, we do what we need to do in order to keep the flame burning, for our beloved people, if you truly care about your people, about your father's legacy, than you will consider what I have said, now, let me be on my way, we will talk tomorrow." Said Hiruzen, now standing on his feet, getting ready to leave.
"Wait, what about the fourth member for team seven?" asked Tsunade hastily.
"Oh that,that will be Naruko chan of course, she is to arrive in two and half years with her mother, she's the perfect replacement for Naruto kun don't you think?" asked Hiruzen.
"I-I see..."
"Good, you will have two and a half years to prepare Haruno Sakura, tell Kakashi, Gai, and Kurenai to prepare the Kurama heiress, tell them to train her to the best of their abilities, without neglecting their own students of course, we don't want Naruko chan to be too much ahead of the rest, she will have incredible strength, if I know Kushina chan well enough." Said Sarutobi.
"She is not a registered ninja of Konoha, do you think she would still want to serve Konoha when she hears about her brother?" asked Tsunade nervously, her voiced laced with sadness and regret.
'Tsunade, you're so naive, there is still a lot that I have to teach you, but you will come around in time.' Thought the professor.
"Tsunade, her situation is not too different from Yakumo chan's, it should not be too difficult for you to convince her to follow in Naruto kun's footsteps and to complete his last wishes, you're the Hokage, it shouldn't be difficult for you to get a child to see things your way, good day, my dear student." said the old man, aiming to depart as quickly before she could decipher the underlying message in his words.
"Wait sensei!"
'Damn it, never thought it would be this hard to get her to see things my way, I was hoping she would be alone by the time she got it.'
"Yes, Tsunade chan?" asked Sarutobi calming, having quickly composed himself.
"I, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry, for blaming everything on you, and for doubting your love for the village, I think I understand things a little better, I'll think about what you said, about the R.O.O.T program, and Sasuke's fate, and everything else, good day." Said Tsunade sincerely, waiting for the old man to leave so that she can get something to drink from her secrete stash, before Shizune sniffs it out.
"It is okay, we all make mistakes, what is important is that we can move on and forgive each other, we'll talk again sometime, goodbye for now" said Sarutobi, exitting the room with haste, leaving the Senju princess with only her own thoughts for company.
Akatsuki Hideout in the west...
"Zetsu, why have you called an emergency meeting? I do hope that you have a valid reason for calling upon us on such short notice?" asked/threatened a holographic figure. The figure seems to be dressed in long ninja pants, a long cloak with cloud designs on it. He has spiky, messy hair and his eyes have a darkish pupil with concentric circles around the irises.
"Oh, we have very disturbing news, the kyubi jinchuuriki has perished and there are no signs of the kyubi reforming itself." Answered Zetsu, a plant like being with messy green hair and gold coloured eyes, with the right eye being pupil less, he also appears to have two different halves, a black left side and a white coloured right side of his body, and speaks as if he is two different people, the right side seems to represent the more mature personality of the two. The man appears to have a venus fly trap growing from his torso, extending beyond his head. The man is wearing the standard Akatsuki outfit with a black, high collard cloak with black clouds on it.
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To say everyone was shocked was an understatement, even the normally stone faced Uchiha Itachi failed to hide is shock at the devastating news, his eyes wide in disbelief and surprise. Hoshigaki Kisame however smirked in amusement, being one to always take satisfaction whenever his partner tried and failed to hide his emotions, a rare but entertaining sight indeed.
"How did this happen?" asked the leader in a calm manner, being the first to recover from his shock, though everyone could feel the edge in his tone regardless of his calm demeaner.
"He has been murdered by Uchiha Sasuke during a retrieval mission. Sasuke has joined that vile vermin Orochimaru." Said Zetsu.
"Uchiha Sasuke has ruined our plans hn, for that, I will end his ugly existence and turn it into my beautiful art, hn, what do you think, Sasori no dana?" exclaimed Deidara enthusiastically.
"Why don't you ask Itachi, I don't give a damn about Uchiha Sasuke." Replied the man now identified as Sasori.
"Shut up you art freak! We don't need your stupid pop art, I will deliver his unrighteous soul to Jashin sama, ne Kakuzu?" exclaimed Hidan in anticipation.
"No, I refuse to participate in your religious nonsense." Replied Kakuzu in irritation.
"Why you...!"
"ENOUGH!" cut in Pein, leaking large doses of KI not directed at anyone in particular but felt by everyone nonetheless.
"Zetsu, where is the boy's body?" asked Pein, the leader of the organisation.
"His body has not been recovered yet, Konoha hunter nin have been searching the valley of the end for days now." Explained Zetsu.
"I see, Itachi, Kisame, I want the two of you to eliminate those hunter nin and find his body before they do, understood?" instructed the leader.
"Hai, leader sama!" answered the duo.
"Good, you are all dismissed.."
"If I may ask, what do you intend to do with the boy's body, leader sama?" asked the stoic Uchiha
"I will resurrect him and see if the kyubi will return with him, if it doesn't, than I will interrogate him for the information of its whereabouts." Stated Pein, giving the Uchiha an unnerving stare.
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"Um...leader, I was not aware you knew the impure world resurrection technique, I doubt a traitor like Orochimaru would have been forthcoming with that kind of information?" asked Itachi, everyone else wondering the same thing.
"I do not know that jutsu, I have a better one, one that is an actual resurrection, unlike the inferior Nidaime's Jutsu. Do not be surprised though, it is only natural that a God should wield this kind of power, now get going, I will say no more on this matter!" ordered Pein.
"Hai!" said Itachi respectfully as he, along with all the other holograms disappeared from the cave, leaving only Pein, his right hand, Konan, and Zetsu.
Not even a quarter of a minute later, a man dressed in the standard Akatsuki outfit with short spiky hair and an orange mask with one eye hole appears from a swirling vacuum of what appears to be a high level space time jutsu.
"Pein,Zetsu, Konan chan..." said the man in a raspy, mocking voice, greeting his subordinates/partners.
"Madara/Tobi." Said Zetsu and Pein simultaneously, Konan choosing to remain silent, refusing to acknowledge the unappreciated and in her eyes, disrespectful manner to which she was addressed.
"What are we going to do about this, if Itachi and Kisame are unable to find the boy's body?" asked Pein.
"Do not trouble yourself, I have a plan B, for now, we will continue with business as scheduled." Answered the masked figure.
"What are we going to do about Uchiha Sasuke, perhaps he knows the location of the jinchuuriki's body? Or maybe Orochimaru took it to use as one of his experiments?" asked Zetsu.
"You will leave Sasuke alone, I have big plans for that boy, our goals have not changed, we will conduct our business as usual, if there's nothing else, I would like be on my way." Said Madara as he disappeared into a swirling portal, not even giving his subordinates a chance to object to his ubrupt departure.
"I'm out of here, see around Konan san, Leader sama." Said Zetsu before disappearing into the ground.
"Pein, I don't trust that Uchiha." Stated Konan. Pein just stared at his confidant inquisitively, if there was anyone who had his absolute trust and confidence, it was definitely her, and he didn't ever question her judgement, she was almost always accurate in her observations. If she didn't think someone was trustworthy, than that person was already a traitor in his eyes.
"Which Uchiha?" asked Pein neutrally.
"Both of them." Stated Konan with conviction.
"I understand your doubts about Madara, but Itachi?" asked Pein, raising one eyebrow at Konan.
"When we approached Itachi, his actions beforehand had indicated that he was severely unstable, violent, and homicidal, after all, who massacres his own entire clan just for the sake of testing his abilities? But..."
"But what?" asked Pein curiously.
"This Itachi is completely different from what we have been led to believe, he was too much emotional and self control, I don't believe for a second that this is the person that supposedly snapped and eliminated his loved ones, nor do I believe that he is as cruel or violent as he pretends to be, according to Kisame, and from what I have observed myself, Itachi is a pacifist who will try by all means to complete his goals without conflict, using violence as a last resort, once again a complete contradiction to what we have been led to believe. I also do not like the way he looks at you..." stated Konan with an uncharacteristic frown on her otherwise neutral facial expression.
"The way he looks at me?" asked Pein with a confused and uncertain undertone.
"I ahh...that's not what I meant!" shouted Konan, an uncharacteristic tinge of red forming on her cheeks.
"Oh...what did you mean then?" asked Pein, almost sighing in relief.
"I meant that he always seems to be sizing you up, like he wants to know all the secretes of your powers, as if he is preparing himself to fight you one day, he is very subtle about it, but have you noticed how much interest he seems to show whenever there is mention of your abilities. He also seems to always try to get involved whenever you personally handle missions, have you not noticed that?" asked Konan.
"No, I hadn't, I appreciate your bringing this to my knowledge, I'll have zetsu keep an eye on him. If he should betray us, than he will have to face my rath, Kami's rath!" said Pein with conviction.
"Good, but don't underestimate him." Warned Konan.
"I do not underestimate anyone, now let us go, we have work to do." Ordered Pein as his solute disappeared from the cave, not giving Konan a chance to reply.
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Two individuals, sitting cross legged on two boulders opened their eyes simultaneously. One is a very tall and muscled man with a distinctive shark-like appearance complete with blue skin, small, round white eyes, gill like markings under his eyes and the trademark sharp, triangular teeth of The Seven Swordsman of the Mist. His dark blue hair is styled in the shape of a shark fin with a personalised forehead protector that also covers his ears, and is dressed in the standard Akatsuki outfit with a giant sword on his back. This man goes by the name Hoshigaki Kisame, otherwise known as The Monster of the Mist.
The other man is a significantly shorter 17 year old individual of average height with intense, dark eyes and black hair that hangs near his cheeks to frame his face with the rest kept in a pony tail which is obscured by the high collar of his cloak. The man is also dressed in the standard outfit of the organisation and is known by the name Uchiha Itachi, The Clan Slayer.
"Hehehe, I can't believe the kyubi jinchuuriki died, he didn't strike me as one who would die so easily, despite his lack of skill, he had quite a strong fire. Though, I guess even with the power of the Kyubi, he wasn't enough to take out a talented Uchiha, your brother is something else, ne Itachi? " asked Kisame with his trademark toothy grin in place, not even attemting to hide his amusement.
"Naruto kun had many admirable character traits, but intelligence was not one of them, with overwhelming power without the brains to use it effectively, Naruto kun never stood a chance, in the end, if Sasuke had not been able to win, than he would have not been worthy as a rival to test my abilities." Stated Itachi with ice cold indifference, now walking side by side with his companion.
"Tche...you're as cold as ever Itachi san, demo...I wonder, what are you going to do now?" asked Kisame.
"We are going to fire country to retrieve Naruto kun's body, that is what Leader ordered is it not?" asked Itachi rhetorically.
"Hehe...of course, but that isn't what I was talking about, you know Deidara and Hidan are out for your brother's blood, what are you going to do about it?" asked Kisame, his eyes dancing in amusement and anticipation.
"Nothing..." stated Itachi dispassionately.
"Nothing...?" asked Kisame, digging up for a more detailed explanation.
"Don't make me repeat myself Kisame, as I said before, If Sasuke is unable to defeat opponents that are weaker than me, than he is unworthy of our rivalry, I would then have to find someone else to test my abilities against." Stated Itachi indifferently.
"Heh, I guess that makes sense." Agreed Kisame, choosing to remain silent from then on.
Despite his outward stone cold and uncaring mannerisms, the same could not be said about his state of mind, this was far too troublesome a situation for Itachi to take lightly.
"My foolish little brother, what have you gotten yourself into? How am I to protect you like this? I wonder how Kaa chan, Kushina sama, and Sensei will handle these disturbing news? Will Naruko chan and her family want revenge? And should that happen, can I really blame them? But most importantly, who will I protect if it came to that?" Thought the Uchiha Clan Slayer.
FLASHBACK NO JUTSU
"No no no! This can't be happening, this isn't happening, no no no!" screamed Mikoto hysterically with the bloody head of her dead husband, Uchiha Fugaku cradled on her lap. She is a unique beauty who has long black hair with black eyes. She is wearing a dark purple blouse with a red-plum skirt and a light yellow apron over it, though now dyed red with her husband's blood.
"Sochi kun, why...why are you doing this to your own family! Was I really that horrible of a mother to you, why!" wailed the ravern haired beauty in anguish and heartache, staring through her blood red sharingan eyes in disbelief.
"Why? That should be the least of your worries, when I am done with you, I am going to dispose of your little Sasuke chan, and then, the Uchiha Clan will be no more." Stated Itachi in a voice colder than the mountains of snow country.
"No please! Please anything but my sochi kun! I don't know why you're doing this, what has happened to you, but please, if you ever loved me as your kaa chan, if you ever loved sasuke chan as your brother, please spare him! Please...all I ever wanted was to raise the two of you to the best of my abilities, please, you may do as you want with me, but please take care of your brother, take care of each other, this is all a mother can wish for, Itachi kun, please..." asked Mikoto in resignation, swallowing her pride to beg for her beloved son's life, to protect her child...from her child.
"You disgust me!" said Itachi, it was said with such an even tone but the undertone was loaded with sincere loathe and disgust.
"W-what!" asked Mikoto wide eyed.
"I used to respect you, I used to look up to you when I starting my education as a shinobi, I wanted to be just like you, but now...look at you, look how far you have fallen." Stated Itachi emotionlessly.
"W-what do you mean sochi? I-I don't understand?" asked Mikoto with a confused and tearful expression.
"It is just as I said, you disgust me, your clansmen have been slaughtered, your husband, tou san would have died anyway, but he might have had a chance had you not gotten in his way, had you instead supported him as any wife should, instead all you were was a burden to him, what happened to you, you used to be one of the most promising kunoichi in this village, yet here you are snivelling on the ground and begging for your son to be spared instead of fighting for his safety, instead of fighting to protect him, you are taking the easy way out, practically begging me to kill you and leaving him alone in this world. You've lost your edge, you've let yourself go over the peaceful years, when you get to the afterlife, remember this, your family died because they had a weak wife, and a weak mother." Said Itachi, unsheathing his tanto from his back.
Meanwhile everything started to happen in slow motion for Mikoto, she couldn't believe it, her son was right, she was weak and pathetic, her husband took the blow that was meant for her, everyone died because of her. She was the matriah of the Uchiha Clan for kami's sake, she had been supposed to lead by example, everyone looked up to her for guidance, direction, and inspiration, she was the measuring yardstick for the clan and because she was weak, so was the rest of the clan, this was all her fault, her clan, her husband, and now her sasuke chan would die because of her, the guilt, shame, and regret was too much, it was consuming her.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh!" screamed Mikoto, holding her right eye in pain, feeling a strong acid like burning sensation in her right eye, which ended just as she thought it would never end.
'So it is happening, finally.' Thought Itachi with a small, almost invisible smile on his face, his sharingan spinning wildly in anticipation.
"You're right, thank you sochi, for showing me the errors of my ways, but now I will have to kill my heart and eliminate you, to preserve the honour of my clan, to protect myself, but most importantly, to protect Sasuke chan." said Mikoto while rising onto her feet, adopting a serious and emotionless demeanor as opposed to her previously hysterical one, staring intently with her left, three tamoe sharingan spinning wildly while her right sharingan eye adopted the design of a three pronged shuriken.
"Finally, someone to test my abilities, Kaa chan, I shall defeat you here and take your eye for myself, so that I my become complete, you know right, those eyes, will become my knew eyes once I have defeated you, hehehe ahahahahaha!" laughed Itachi hysterically.
'Sochi, I always thought that I would cherish the day that you showed people a bit more of your emotions, how wrong I was, this is not quite what I imagined it would be like.' Though Mikoto, a lone tear falling from her right eye.
"Now Kaa chan, there is no better time than now, let us fight to the death, become the ultimate test for my abilities." Said Itachi charging his kaa chan with his tanto in hand.
Mikoto, with lightning fast reflexes unsheathed her husband's katana and charged at her son with equal vigour, aiming for his vital organs.
SQUELCH!
Was the sound as Itachi pierced his mother's heart, having ducked below her amateurish horizontal slash.
"Gwah...urgh!" screamed Mikoto in pain, gurgling blood up her throat.
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"That...was very anticlimactic." Stated Itachi apethetically, trying to conceal his disappointment.
"Gwah!" grunted Itachi, spitting out globes of blood from his mouth. Wondering what happened, Itachi looked down only to see a long katana protruding from his chest.
"Shatter: Kyoka Suigetsu!" whispered Mikoto in Itachi's ear.
Cr...Cr...Crack!
Was the sound as the Mikoto he had stabbed shattered into minuscule pieces, along with the rest of the world surrounding Itachi, showing that he had in actual fact stabbed on thin air, with his mother piercing him with a Katana from behind.
"Kyoka...cough... Suigetsu?" asked Itachi between coughing fits, turning his head sideways to look at his mother.
"Hai, this is the ultimate genjutsu of my mangyeko sharingan, with this power, I can manipulate all of your senses to make you see, hear, smell, taste and even feel whatever I want you to, you were destined to lose the second you made eye contact with me, this is my Absolute Hypnosis. Its over sochi kun, rest in peace." Said Mikoto before ripping her katana across her son's torso, only for him to scatter into a numerous number of crows.
'What is this! A genjutsu, but when...?" thought Mikoto.
"Behind you, Kaa chan." Said Itachi, aiming a decapitating slash on his mother with his tanto, only for his mother to once again shatter into a million pieces.
"That was my line." Said Mikoto from Itachi's right side, decapitating her son in the process, her son who had instead tried to block an identical attack from a mirage she had created to appear on his left, at least that is what would have happened had he not managed to dodge in the last second, earning a deep gash on his torso for his trouble but escaping certain death nonetheless.
"How!" asked Mikoto, enraged that Itachi had dodged her attack despite her absolute hypnosis, also taking note that he now also had a shuriken shaped sharingan, staring at it with her own identical eye, blood flowing down her right cheek from her eye, a sign of the over excursion of her abilities.
"Amateresu!" said Itachi, ignoring her question completely, choosing rather to send his black, unquenchable flames after her.
'Oh no! No no no, I didn't get the chance to activate kyoka suigetsu, I won't be able to dodge in time!' thought Mikoto frantically.
'No! I will not die here, I need to save Sasuke chan!' though Mikoto with a great amount of resolve, feeling the familiar sensation on her left eye, a sensation she had felt when she activated her right mangyeko sharingan. That was also the last thought she had before getting sucked into a portal, allowing the ameteresu to pass by her previous location as she appeared 20 metres behind her son through another portal, the ultimate fire technique hitting the building that was previously situated behind her.
Itachi, sensing the excessive chakra usage, quickly turns around to face his mother, wary of any surprise attacks she might launch with her new powers.
"You were able to dodge my attack when I attempted to decapitate you, in fact, you were even able to fool me with your crow clone even earlier than that, despite being caught in my absolute hypnosis, how is that possible?" asked Mikoto in between ragged breaths.
'Damnit I don't know how much more of this I can take, I'm out of shape and I'm not used to this new sharingan, I'll die from chakra exhaustion if this fight drags on for too long, I cannot even use Kyoka Suigetsu until I figure out how he was able to counter it, how was it even possible for him to do it, my jutsu is flawless, there shouldn't be any blind spots.' Thought Mikoto in frustration and a little panic.
"What is that jutsu, how did you get there, I know it wasn't that genjutsu you used, you somehow transported yourself didn't you?" asked Itachi forcefully, completely ignoring her own question.
'Did she use Madara sama's space time migration? No...that's not it, her transportation was a lot faster than Madara's jutsu, it was something else?' thought Itachi.
"Tell you what, I'll propose a trade, you tell me how you escaped my attacks even though you were under my hypnosis, and I'll tell you the name of my jutsu." Offered Mikoto hopefully.
'Urg who am I kidding, this wouldn't work even against a genin, it is obvious that I stand more to gain from this trade than he does, and even if he were to agree, he knows that there is no guarantee that I would comply after he has told me what I want to know.' Thought Mikoto dejectedly.
"An information trade, interesting, I see, very clever of you..." said Itachi.
"W-what, what do you mean clever?" asked Mikoto
"Because you have just recently discovered your power, this means that you yourself do not understand its full capabilities and limitations as you have not had the opportunity to train and practise with it, so you're using it on mostly pure instinct as it is. This is why you are unable to figure out why I was able to defeat it, and this is why you're hesitant to use it again, because you're afraid that your own jutsu might be used against you. So what do you do, you propose a trade, sometimes, the name of a jutsu can tell you a great deal about what it actually does, and from that, you can come to certain conclusions about how it is executed and its capabilities and limitations, You're willing to give away information about an even more unfamiliar jutsu to you, that expends almost twice as much chakra as your other jutsu, so that you can regain your advantage with the more familiar jutsu to you, Kyoka suigetsu, which is also less chakra extensive and easier to use, is that right, Kaa chan?" asked Itachi in an emotionless, but almost cocky manner.
"So you figured it out, big deal, what is your decision?" asked Mikoto heatedly, embarrassed that the little runt had seen through her plan, despite having expected it to happen anyway.
"Hmm...this won't change the outcome of the battle, so I might as well tell you, I replaced myself with a crow clone the second I saw your new sharingan as a precaution, I didn't want to be caught by surprise by your new abilities, this is why you were fooled by my crow clone when you decided to attack, though if I am not mistaken, you had already captured me in your jutsu the second I laid eyes on you. Nevertheless, I figured out the secrete to your jutsu after you told my clone a little about it, thinking that you had killed me..." said Itachi, pausing to give Mikoto a chance to digest the information.
"Damnit, I only told him because I thought it was over, I should have known better!" thought Mikoto, chasticing herself for her amateurish mistake.
"You said that you were able to manipulate all of a person's senses, but that was a lie, your jutsu does not give you the abilities to manipulate a person's senses, but the ability to manipulate a person's sense organs instead." Said Itachi, ironically taking the persona of a father scolding his daughter.
"What! Is that not the same thing?" asked Mikoto with incredulity.
"Not quite, I know this because despite your absolute hypnosis, I was still able to sense your chakra normally, I used the shinobi's ability to sense chakra to determine your true location, you see, there is no specific sense organ found in the human anatomy that allows a person to sense chakra, people generally use different methods to do it. This is why I was able to conclude that you were not directly manipulating what I should sense, but you were manipulating the reactions of my sense organs, and this is how I was able to avoid a critical injury." Stated Itachi aphethitically.
"But I was still able to injure you...oh...I see, even if you can sense my true location, you can't completely ignore your other senses, if you feel like someone is standing behind you, or if you hear the swishing sound of a sword about to decapitate you, you cannot help but to react because that is what you have been trained to do your whole life, that is why you initially went after the false image and only later reacted to my true presence, despite already knowing where the real me was through your chakra sensing abilities." Said Mikoto in contemplation.
"What was that jutsu you used to transport yourself." Demanded Itachi.
"Space Gliding Goddess!" said Mikoto with a smirk on her face before disappearing into a portal once again, quickly appearing in front of her son and piercing her son through his back, her son who had turned around anticipating an attack from his blind spot, having sense a portal opening behind him.
"This is it, sochi kun." Said Mikoto with tears in her eyes.
"Gwuh...You got me, I see, you can somehow open more than one portal at a time, you used this ability, to open a portal in my blind spot, naturally, I would turn to face the other way, expecting you to come out of said portal, but instead you had planned to open another in front of me, attacking me from the side I had already been facing, very good Kaa chan, but what are you going to do now that you're out of chakra?" asked Itachi casually, as if there wasn't a sword stabbed through his lower back, something that sent all kinds of warning bells to mikoto's instincts, and rightly so because the next thing she knew was her son once again turning into crows.
"Impossible, I was watching you the whole time, when did you use a clone!" asked Mikoto helplessly, the strain of using so many high level jutsu too much for her to even sustain her normal sharingan anymore, never mind her ultimate sharingan.
"It is not a clone, but a genjutsu." Said Itachi as the world shimmered around her, revealing her healthy, traitorous son standing right in front of her, though she was now too weak to do anything about it, her eyes having turned back to their usual black colour.
"This is what I have been waiting for, let me show you my ultimate genjutsu, Tsukiyomi!" said Itachi.
The last thing Mikoto remembered was standing in front of her son in her weakened state only to find herself in a strange world, tied to a cross with her son staring at her with what she concluded were evil eyes.
"This is Tsukiyomi, in this world I control the time and space, I am god, you will now have the pleasure of watching me butcher your husband over and over again for 72 hours starting...now...71 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds, 72 hours 59 minutes and 58 seconds..."
"Gwaaaah! Please stop, please...please stop this, please just kill me, please just do it already, I don't want to see this.!" Screamed Mikoto in pain and sorrow.
'Damnit, why isn't it working, maybe I should try something different...' thought Itachi.
"Now, you will see what I am going to do to your son...34 hours 40 hours and 43 seconds..."
"Nooooooooo! Sasuke chan, I won't let you do this!" thought Mikoto, lifting her head up to stare at her son in fury and disgust, unconsciously activating both her mangyeko eyes.
"Let...me GO!" screamed Mikoto, sending tremors all around and shattering parts of the Tsukiyomi world.
'This is it.' Thought Itachi, trying valiantly to prevent her from breaking his jutsu.
"Gwah!" screamed Itachi as he was pushed a few metres away from his Kaa chan, his left eye bleeding profusely, finding himself back into the real world, looking through his right eye at his Kaa chan, who is now surrounded by a skeletal looking apparition.
'She's activating sasuno'o, that's good, time to end this.' Thought Itachi warily only for Mikoto to collapse on the floor, the apparition disappearing from around her.
2 minutes later...
"Kaa chan...Kaa chan wake up!" whispered Itachi harshly, slapping Mikoto acrass the face lightly.
"Mmmm...hmmmm..."
"Kaa chan I killed Sasuke!" said Itachi.
"What!" screamed Mikoto, opening her eyes wide only to find her head resting comfortably on her homicidal son's lap.
"Uh...Ahhhh!" screamed Mikoto, trying and failing to jump away from the source of her nightmares.
"Shhhh...Kaa chan, try to relax, there's something important I need to tell you, but I need you to remain calm and listen carefully, we do not have a lot of time." Explain Itachi in a polite manner in order not to sound like a homicidal maniac, though his politeness only freaked her out even more, only her shinobi training allowing her to suppress her instinct to scream for help.
"Kaa chan, I never intended nor will I kill Sasuke, so you do not have to worry about anything. I only killed off the clan because they were planning a coupe against the Hokage and the village, I was assigned the mission to eliminate the threat to the village, which unfortunately was our clan." Explained Itachi, watching the varying emotions displayed on her face, shock, disbelief, understanding, and then contemplation.
"Kaa chan look at me!" said Itachi forcefully.
"I can't bring myself to kill you, or Sasuke, I –I couldn't allow you to die, that is why I volunteered to fulfil this mission myself, in order to protect you. But to do that, I had to make you strong, I had to pretend that I wanted to kill you and Sasuke, and to make you feel guilty, like it was your fault that everything happened, so that you could activate your mangyeko sharingan, I didn't mean what I said, I-I'm sorry, Kaa chan." Said Itachi with tears freely flowing down his cheeks.
"Sochi kun, its ok...I'm a little confused, and I have many questions, but I think I understand a bit...I...I think I can forgive you with time, you're my son after all, so please...do not cry, be a strong boy for Kaa chan!" said Mikoto, lifting her hand up to brush the tears away from her son's face.
"A-arigatou Kaa chan, but...you need to go..." said Itachi, standing on his feet after placing his mother gently on the ground.
"I'm going to call for help, Sensei's going to take you to a safe place." Said Itachi, pulling out a three pronged kunai from his weapons pouch and throwing it hard towards the ground...
"Finally, my part is done, now it is time to play your part Minato sensei!" said Itachi, throwing the kunai hard towards the floor, only for the immediate vicinity of the kunai to be illuminated by a yellow flash...
