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A few years after Madara Uchiha left Konohagakure/ Hidden Leaf swearing revenge on the same, he came back secretly and married a certain Subarashi Uchiha who was not unlike him. They soon had a son who had inherited both the wood style and the Sharingan from his father Madara. Madara named his son Tajima Uchiha after his own father. He then left the village again claiming that he needed to make peace in the world and hoped that Subarashi and Tajima would one day understand why he did so.
Soon after he left the village, the villagers found out that Tajima was Madara's son. The village- including the Uchiha-out casted Subarashi and Tajima because of who they were. Many of the villagers had tried to assault him as well. During the First Great Ninja War, Tajima started out in the academy. Though the only one who even considered him a good friend might have been Kagami. The two of them weren't extremely close friends in the beginning like Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura but Kagami and Tajima were still friends. Anyone who said that Tajima wasn't a prodigy would be seriously wrong. He had huge amounts of Chakra and was already good in Katon and Raiton before starting at the academy. When he started at the academy he was a mere 5 years old and he already had a three tomoe Sharingan in each of his eyes though he rarely ever used it. He could also do basic wood style. Tajima became a genin at the young age of the five and chunin at six and was promoted to jonin by the age of twelve. He was a war hero in the First Great Ninja War.
Tajima soon after gained respect among all villagers. He was also given the choice of becoming clan head as well as Hokage though he had refused both as he was happier being a normal shinobi though an extreme senior. But a lot of the common populace suspected that he would follow in father's footsteps and want to destroy Konaha. A part of Tajima wanted to do so before he came to be known as a hero due to all the hatred he received from the villagers. Even after being known as a hero, there was still a part of him, though extremely small which wanted to exact revenge for what the village did to him in his youth.
Tajima had manifested both the mangekyou sharingan during the First Great Ninja War. Then a few years later during the second great ninja war once again was considered a hero and he had manifested the Rinnegan due to him having both Senju and Uchiha powers when his wife was killed during the end of the second Great War. He was again offered the post of Hokage which he declined.
Tajima fathered a son whom he had named Izuna Uchiha after his uncle. Izuna ended up growing much like his father and he was considered to be as strong as Madara Uchiha himself. Though the number of people who considered this was less, most people believed he could only rival Madara Uchiha and not beat him. Izuna was even more of a prodigy than Tajima. Izuna was genin at 5, chunin at 6 and jonin at a mere age of 10. He was a war hero of third great ninja war along with Minato Namikaze who were later considered equals. He and Minato were extremely good friends, both having learnt from the toad sage, Jiraiya. One of the greatest victories of Minato was him having thwarted the chances of Iwa in the War, and Izuna's greatest victory was having thwarted the chances of Kumo in the war. Kumo, Iwa and Kiri had formed an alliance to destroy Konoha after Minato had taken down over a thousand Iwa shinobi, from which Kumo would get 50%, Kiri would get 40% and Iwa a mere 10%. At least this way they would be on the winning side.
Kumo had chosen to attack Konoha head-on and in case they were stopped, Kiri would continue the assault after which Konoha would not stand. Though Konoha might have been strong, it would be unable to take on two villages together.
The third Rakage was leading over ten thousand worthy Kumo shinobi into battle against Konoha, though his son Ay, the candidate for the fourth Raikage and Killer Bee, two of the strongest Kumo shinobi were left guarding the village in case someone attacked.
The news of Kumo marching towards Konoha had reached the Konoha shinobi hearing which Izuna marched head-on into the Kumo troops lead by the third Raikage.
The Raikage was in battle armour. He had a scar on his shoulder. His scar made him look menacing and threatening. The ten thousand shinobi he led were no joke either. Each one was a Level II Jonin. Many of them could be called suicide on the battlefield to shinobi of their own rank. A few of them together could take down thousands of shinobi. They were all wearing Kumo jonin uniforms. Their march shook the ground itself. They left nothing alive in their wake. This march could have been called the strongest march of all time.
During midday, when the Kumo shinobi were marching ahead, a young Konoha shinobi landed in front of them. He was wearing the konoha hitai-ate but nothing about him was like Konoha. He was wearing a black vest, which no village wore in the entire five nations. He had a grin on him which said, 'You don't want to fight me.' He was none other than Uchiha Izuna. His hair was as long as Madara's. It was unkempt. His eyes were normal and he was very cool for a person who was about to take on a thousand Kumo shinobi. Looking at him, the Raikage taunted him saying, "Boy, move and I shall spare you. If you don't, you have sealed your fate."
Izuna grinned and asked, "The fate of me becoming the person who destroyed over a thousand Kumo shinobi?"
The Raikage was perplexed. He was clearly not expecting such an arrogant answer from this Konoha shinobi. Then he examined him. He clearly looked like someone. Then it hit him. The Konoha shinobi standing in front of him looked just like the statue of Madara Uchiha which he had just seen a few seconds ago. This was clearly Madara Uchiha's grandson. He was exactly like Madara. Madara's son Tajima had retired after the Second War. Thus, this Shinobi in front of him was Madara's grandson Izuna Uchiha. Though Izuna was an SS ranked shinobi, but even an SS ranked shinobi couldn't take on over 1000 Kumo shinobi.
The Raikage thought that he ought to be courteous and returned a grin to Izuna, though he was boiling on the inside. He said with all the pride and arrogance, "You might be Madara Uchiha's grandson, but even you cannot take over a thousand of us." The Raikage had seriously underestimated Izuna. Izuna clearly hated being undersetimated. he wanted to be known for his own strengths, not because his grandfather was Madara Uchiha. People outside the village came to fight him only because he was Madara Uchiha's grandson, they did not even care to know that he was in fact way stronger. He was never known for his own strength but only because of is grandfather's. He was jealous of the fact that people respected his friend Minato explicitly for his own strengths. He hoped that this battle would change all of that. He wanted to prove to this Raikage who was looking down on him that he was way too powerful for these Kumo shinobi.
The Raikage manifested his lightning armour covering his whole body. He said, "Let's see you take on me and my people and stay alive for the first ten minutes." The Raikage and the remaining Kumo shinobi laughed a little. Izuna was infuriated. He didn't let any of that come and surface on his face. He knew that he was a true shinobi.
The Raikage was right now the fastest shinobi alive, or so he was thinking until Izuna used his own lightning armour. His was much brighter than the Raikage's and seemingly much stronger. Izuna smirked and smiled in way tha creeped thatt the Raikage out and there was nothing that could creep him out. He said, "Let's see you survive for the first minute. Then we can talk about my survival."
The Raikage thought Izuna had used his Mangekyou Sharingan to copy his move and had then improvised, but he was proved wrong when the lightning armour of Izuna got mixed with a fire armour. Izuna then used Susano'o. It slowly emerged. A pitch black Susanoó. First the ribs, then slowly it turned into an entire skeleton. The Raikage gulped in fear. Then it grew up to become a full proper body. Then it developed an armour covering the body and it had reached level five. His Susano'o was darker than the darkest night. It was as big as a mountain. The killing intent radiating from it was unbearable. It was absorbing all the chakra around. The sun was not even visible. Soon, everything around became so cold that few of the shinobi started freexing to death. That was how unbelievable Izuna's Susanoó was. The kumo shinobi started taking a step back and they started retreating. Even the Raikage wanted to retreat but he would not destroy the pride of Kumogakur no Sato by retreating when faced with just one shinobi. He knew that boosted morale was stronger than any killing intent. He went to the farthest of Kumo shinobi ranks. He was going to do what was necessary for boosting their morale. He screamed with pride so that his voice could be heard by everyone, "Shinobi of Kumogakure no Sato, are we going to retreat at the face of just one shinobi? Are we going to deface and destroy the pride of our village at the face of just one shinobi? Are we going to shame our village by retreting against one person?" He added more strength to his voice and asked again, "Are we?" The kumo shinobi bent their heads down in shame. A few of them even said in fear of death, "You are a Raikage. You might be able to face him fearlessly. But us? We aren't as strong as you are. We aren't as fearless as you are." The Raikage said angrily, "You are talking about fearlessness. You are feeling fear now?" The Raikage wanted to kick those who had just said that. Why did they even come along if they wanted to retreat at the last moment. But now he couldn't possibly loose even one shinobi. He needed the support of all of them. He said, "Fearless you say. Let me tell you one thing comrades, I am not fearless. Even I am afraid of war and fights, but look at me, do I retreat in the face of fear. Let me tell you all, my comrades, the more you face your fear the weaker it becomes. Fearlessness is not what is important. It is the courage to overcome your fear. Tell me, can we not beat this tyrant in front of us if we do it together? Together we can conquer the whole world. What is one shinobi compared to the whole world? Will you fight with me to the bitter end?" All the kumo shinobi now said in harmony, "We shall." The Raikage then said, "Let us show this tyrant what we kumo shinobi are madde up of. To victory my comrades, to victory!" The Kumo shinobi resounded together, "TO VICTORY!" The Raikage felt that he had done a good job raising the morale of the sihnobi. Iuna yawned and said, "That was inspirational and all but are you guys planning to attack any time soon. If you won't I shall come to hand death to you in a silver platter." Thihs did the job of angering the Raikage and all the Kumo shinobi. Now their actions would be led by their anger and not by their rationality.
The Raikage angrily said, "Comrades, what is the strongest jutsu you are capable of? Whatever it is use it to your fullest advantage and strike down this tyrant here and now and let it be known that it was us who took down this tyrant. Let us make a mark here and now."and the Raikage himself used his famed technique, black lightning, and hit the Susano'o head-on. But Izuna just hit him as though he was rubbing a fly of his clothes and clearly overpowered the third Raikage who was smashed into the ground by the Raikage. The Raikage then said in disbelief, "Let my life go to hell. Kill this goddamned bastard of a tyrant." When he did so, the other remaining shinobi used the strongest lightning jutsu they could use against Izuna's Susano'o but it was only strong enough to push him back slightly and the Raikage went back again with his one finger strike against Izuna and this time it didn't even make him move back. This pissed off Izuna. He was originally going to make this slow and go easy on them but clearly he wouldn't.
He uttered, "Wood Style: Wood Dragon" Just as he said that, his Susanoó developed a massive wood dragon on the inside and the Susano'o covered it. The Raikage watched it in disbelief. The amount of chakra in the Susanoó had just doubled. The kumo shinobi thought that hey would eventually beat it together. Now all their hopes were shattered. They just stood there watching in disbelief as they knew death was coming for them and it was coming very soon.
The dragon wasn't the usual wood dragon. It was way larger. It had a complete human-like body. There were wooden scales all over the dragon. The dragon itself was brown in colour with many different shades of brown to show the texture. It then unfurled its magnificent wings which suited his Susanoó. The raikage knew that he had to do something or his men would just forget about the village and start to flee. He manifested his own lightning armour. It was in the most glorius form possible. He said, "My comrades, this is nothing. We shall conquer this tyrant and any one else Konoha sends at us. Trust me, I shall not let you down." This gave the shinobi some very needed morale boost again.
The dragon now flew as high as it could. Then in the front of it's mouth an orb was seen. Soon it became bigger. It was very dark. It was almost as black as Izuna'sSusanoó. Then they were able to know that it was an orb of the most concentrated chakra ever. Then all of a sudden, a lot of lightning nature just got added into it. Then there was even fire nature in the mix. The Kumo shinobi were now starting to panic. What they felt earlier was nothing. They were starting to doubt themselves and if they should have even come here to wage war and if they should have retreated long ago when they had the chance. The Raikage was astounded that Izuna could do this but he knew that he would survive this. He was worried for his men. There was no morale, but only the want to flee and save their lives. The Raikage couldn't do anything but face him head-on. Then his men would at least helm him and ten thousand shinobi, he believed, could take down this concentrated orb of chakra if they all worked together unleashing their best. He said, "I am going to take that bomb head-on. You can help and support me if you wish. You can leave if you want. I know i am asking you to go straight into death's hand but will you follow me into battle this one last time?" The shinobi knew that their Raikage was telling the truth. They WERE walking straight into death's hands, but that wouldn't change that they were Kumo shinobi and even if they did die then and there they would die for their home and their family woud be proud of them. They would not leave their Raikage alone. It would be their honour to fight their last batlle alongside the strongest Raikage. They would beat the heck out of this Konoha shinobi.
Or so they thought. Izuna fired the huge beast bomb and simultaneously the Raikage flew at it and concentrated chakra he had into this outstretched finger. This might not be enough to save everybody but it would save most of them and give time to flee if they did not want to support him. Many manifested their strongest jutsu and fired it at the concentrated chakra.
The Rakage had made a mistake by fighting Izuna Uchiha. He along with all the jutsu of the ten tousand of his shinobi and the chakra bomb collided. The Raikage was killed off but he managed to reduce the momentum of the chakra bomb. When the chakra bomb hit the ground, the impact sent a shockwave which was strong enough to cause a minor earthquake almost instantaneously in Konoha which was over five hundred miles away from the place where the battle had taken place. A few seconds later the blast reached Konoha. If not for the shields Izuna had placed on Konoha, it would have been obliterated by the huge amount of chakra that came at it. Everything else had been destroyed in the region and for hundreds of miles ahead and almost until the borders of the fire nation. Fortunately for Izuna, he had also put a shield on most water bodies, monuments and villages in the Fire nation and not many people were hurt by the beast bomb. The terrain had completely changed. Most of the kumo shinobi in the one thousand shinobi were killed and only the best had managed to survive. They were angry at their Raikage having been killed off. Izuna landed on the ground and undid the Susano'o and his wood dragon. One of the remaining Kumo shinobi said, "You will not survive after killing our Raikage, teme." At the moment he landed several lightning jutsu had hit him. Though he was not badly injured, he had used a good amount of chakra when he sent such a huge beast bomb. He could not use any more extreme jutsu like the Susano'o now. He had to battle them without wasting his chakra. He had entire forests to rebuild. He just used amateresu on most of them. Then charged at the remaining shinobi and used the chidori on them. No one survived him that day. After this Kiri and Iwa completely forgot the idea of conquering Konoha and just opted for peace. Izuna rebuilt entire forests using his wood style and fire nation became what it used to be and almost everyone forgot that the landscape had been changed completely.
Izuna was offered the post of Hokage which even he like his father had declined, due to which Minato became Hokage.
A few years later
Izuna had married Kyukyoyu Uchiha and had a son who was born with a fully matured three tomoe sharingan. Because of his fully matured sharingan at birth, Izuna named his son Naruto Uchiha-Naruto meaning maelstorm. Naruto Uchiha was born a few days before Minato's son. On the day on which Minato's son whom he had named Menma was born, the Kyuubi had escaped from Menma's mother and went on a rampage.
The day of the attack of Kyuubi
Menma had just been born, but the Kyuubi had been extracted from his mother, Kushina Uzumaki by a mysterious masked man right after Menma's birth when the seal was at it's weakest. She was very happy to see that her son was alive. Minato and Kushina kissed their son. He had blond hair and three whiskers. He looked very cute. Minato said, "I shall protect you and Menma. I am after all the Yondaime Hokage." Saying so, he put on his Hokage cape and flashed away. There he saw a masked man controlling the Kyuubi. He went to fight him but he phased into another dimension everytime he got attacked. Sonn, Minato outsmarted him, beat him and also placed a hiraishin seal on him. He then went along to the village to take care of the Kyuubi. There he met Izuna. Izuna was more or less sweaty. He said, "I get the most peaceful night's sleep in over two years, and you spoil it with this. What happened?" Minato explained what happened to Izuna. Izuna sighed in depression. He said, "You call yourself Hokage and let a mysterious masked man near your wife right after your baby's birth. What kind of Hokage lets that happen?! Anyway, lets take care of this damned fox." Miato saw the coming bijuudamma/Tailed beast bomb and said, "Never mind that. We have incoming." Izuna grinned and instantly used up kamui to send that bijuudamma into his Kamui time/space whereas Minato instantly used a teleportation seal to send it to the ocean. A part of it went in to the kamui whereas a part of it hit the ocean. Izuna frowned and said, "It was almost as big as he one I had used against Kumo. How in the hell dd my grandfather control this beast?" Minao was srprised and said, "You mean to say, Madara Uchiha could control the Kyuubi?" Izuna said, "Yes. He had Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu as his mangekyou sharingan abilities. I don't have tsukiyomi, instead I have Kamui." Saying so, he sighed. Those of his generation with Tsukiyomi weren't strong enough to control the Kyuubi. Minato said, "How I wish you had Tsukiyomi instead of Amaterasu. Kamui is good enough for that isn't it? Now we need to draw the Kyuubi out of Konoha." Izuna grinned and said, "Agreed. SUSANOÓ." Right as he said that, he manifested a huge Susanoó. Kyuubi got angrier seeing the Susanoó. It reminded him of Madara. Things just got worse for Konoha. Izuna used his own juudamma with extra lightning nature. The Kyuubi was hit with it and it got shot out of the village with ease. Then Izuna came down from the Susano'o which disappeared.
Izuna and Minato had driven the Kyuubi out of the village. Minato hiraishined his son and Kushina to the place. Kushina didn't have enough chakra remaining to become the jinchuriki of the kyuubi again, so it would ave to be Menma who had enough chakra to become the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. Izuna couldn't beleive it. He asked in rage, "Oi are you gonna seal the Kyuubi in a child? Have you lost your mind? He is not even a child. He is still a baby. Born a few minutes ago no less." Minato said, "Well I have no other choice. I can't carry that much chakra sealed inside of me. Neither can you. And thanks to your grandfather, Kyuubi goes nuts at your chakra. If he is sealed inside of you, you won't be able to control him. Besides, the kid has as much as if not more chakra than you." Izuna's face just sulked and he asked in a worried tone, "You do know that upon extrction of the bijuu, the jinchuriki shall die. You know Kushina wont survive unless you seal him back into her." Minato said, " She is unable to do that. Why do you think I am sealing it inside Menma instead?" Izuna was still worried. He said, "He is still a baby, Minato. I am here. You are here. Why your son?" Just as he said that, the Kyuubi had recovered from the hit and had com back for a rematch with Izuna and Minato. Minato used the Death Reaper seal and sealed off half of the Kyuubi inside himself. Just then it saw the preparations for the sealing of him inside the baby right over there. Minato used the Death Reaper seal and sealed off half of the Kyuubi inside himself. He said in rage, "Inside of a baby? I shall not be sealed inside a baby!" Saying so, the Kyuubi launched its paw at Menma. Just then Minato and Kushina had rushed to Menma's safety and had been stabbed by it's claw. Izuna screamed, "NOOOOOO." His eyeschanged from the Mangekyou Sharingan to Rinnegan. He said in the most emotionless creepy voice, "Kyuubi, you shall pay for what you have done." Then he manifested a lightning and fire armour and on both sides were the Rikudo symbol. He gave off a killing intent far stronger than the Kyuubi. The Kyuubi on the other hand wass more than surprised at the Rinnegan. He had never seen anyone with the Rinnegan other than Rikudo Sennin himself. Besides Rikudo Sennin never got angry. This guy, was about to kill him in anger right now. The Kyubi was afraid, but he would show this descendant of Madara that even the Rinnegan could not defeat him. Just then, Izuna was right above Kyuubi and hit the Kyuubi with a Juudamma far stronger than the first one. The Kyuubi was shot down by this. Its claw got out of Minato and Kushina. Izuna brought both of them to Menma who was crying. Minato and Kushina consoled him and they said their last words to him.
Then Minato spoke, "Izuna, take care of the village in my absence. Save as many people as you can. I and Kushina are beyond being saved. Become the Hokage Izuna, and try to see to it that your son and mine become good friends. I don't have much time left. I will seal the Kyubi/Nine Tails inside Menma along with my essence in case the Kyubi is completely out of control and Kushina's Chakra for when he fights the Kyubi. I have given the toads the key to the seal and I know that you won't let anything happen to Menma. Take Care Izuna. Farewell."
Izuna was overwhelmed at what his friend had asked of him and promised that he would not let anything happen to Menma. Soon the nine tails was sealed inside of Menma and Minato and Kushina breathed their last breaths.
Izuna went to the village and used his wood style to undo all the damage done by the Kyubi/Nine Tails. Though many people had already lost their lives, he used a lot of Chakra of his own to save as many people as he could.
Then the shinobi council met to decide the next Hokage and Izuna was once more offered the post of Hokage to which Izuna stood up and said," I will be the Gondaime/Fifth Hokage. Also, I will adopt Minato's son Menma as I have promised Minato that I would take care of Menma." The shinobi council agreed to his conditions and Menma was adopted by Izuna and Kyukyoyu and raised along with Naruto Uchiha. Izuna also drove out most of the civilians out of the administration and only those who were very influential civilians held their positions inside the administration.
There was also a huge part of the population which held the Uchiha responsible for the attack of the Kyubi. Thus, while the populous respected Izuna Uchiha as the Hokage, underneath they suspected him of being the mastermind of the attack of the Kyubi and quite frankly hated all Uchiha and the Uchiha were completely out casted from the common populous and Izuna was the only connection between the common populous and the Uchiha. This hatred gave rise to their suspicion that this was Izuna's way of completing his grandfather's job. While he was truly respected by the higher shinobi and his age old comrades, the others and the civilians still hated him and held him responsible for the attack of the Kyubi.
This hatred of the Uchiha grew and a few of them created a secret organisation inside the Uchiha who resented Izuna and the rest of the village which was practically all the Uchiha except for Izuna's family.
Seven year time lapse
Menma Uzumaki and Naruto Uchiha got along just fine but the two of them were out casted by the society, Menma because of him containing the Kyubi and Naruto because his extreme visual prowess which made everyone stay away from him.
What Izuna never understood is why Menma always wore orange clothes. He had blond hair not unlike his father's and his hair was a little spiky. He had a few whiskers on his cheeks. He had extremely blue eyes. He was extremely boisterous and sometimes didn't think properly. He really loved ramen. His love for ramen had developed when he had walked alone on the streets once to go to a place from where an extremely strong aroma of spices and delicious food were coming. The place was Ichiraku Ramen. When he entered Ichiraku's, Teuchi had welcomed him. When Menma entered most places people were usually scared of Menma but it was not the case at Ichiraku's. They even treated him nicely. And boy was the ramen at Ichiraku's delicious. They didn't even ask him to much money for it unlike most other. From that day on whenever Kyukyoyu allowed him to go outside he went to Ichiraku's to grab some ramen. Menma also shared his parents' dream of becoming the Hokage.
Menma had grown to be a strong young child trained from the beginning by the likes of Izuna Uchiha and Menma had almost perfect Chakra control, thanks to Izuna's training and that summed up with his huge Chakra reserves and the Kage Bunshin no Justsu/Shadow Clone Justsu taught by Izuna to him, Menma was on par with chunin at a young age of seven. But even with all the training Izuna gave him, he still managed to find time to play pranks on people. Izuna sometimes regretted helping Menma with his Chakra control thanks to which he many a times completely humiliated the great stone faces of the five Hokage without being caught by any jonin or Anbu. Man, that boy was the best prankster Izuna had ever seen. Menma had once dyed all he dresses of the Hyuuga orange in broad daylight without anybody taking notice and unfortunately for Izuna, Menma had used a Fuuton jutsu to dry all the clothes due to which it took the Hyuuga over five weeks to get over it and they were made the laughing stock of the village. And even worse for Izuna, he had to pay for all the damage done to the Hyuuga and also had to pay for new clothes for the Hyuuga. Boy did Izuna hate Menma's pranks and yet in a manner Izuna was proud of his adoptive son Menma who was able to pull off the above mentioned feat like a true shinobi.
But compared to Izuna's son, Menma was weak. Naruto Uchiha was on a completely different level compared to Menma. Izuna had trained Naruto himself and Naruto Uchiha had manifested the mangekyou Sharingan, the Choku Tomoe. Naruto Uchiha could do the Amateresu, Kamui, place genjutsu on people who were extremely resistant to genjutsu and finally he could even do a Level 1 Susano'o. He could do wood style almost half as well as the First Hokage andhad almost perfected Raiton and Katon. Naruto Uchiha was on par with most high jonin. Naruto Uchiha looked a lot like Madara Uchiha. He had spiky black raven hair. He usually wore dark blue robes. He too had a liking for ramen but not as much as Menma. He was clearly not a prankster like Menma was and was quite decent. His ideals were similar to those of his father and of Minato. His personality was kind of a mix between Madara Uchiha and Hadhirama Senju.
Shisui Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha would also sometimes train Naruto and Menma sometimes. Though Naruto and Menma didn't get along too well with Itachi's younger brother Sasuke, they got along just well with Sasuke's twin sister Mito Uchiha. Naruto would never understand why Sasuke was always so serious so unlike his elder brother and younger sister. He had black spiky hair, though not half as spiky as Naruto's and usually wore light blue clothes. He was a prodigy but not as much as Itachi. He was probably a few levels lesser than Menma and had a hundred years to go before reaching Naruto's level.
Mito Uchiha was much better than Sasuke. She had a good sense of humour. She was mostly cheerful rarely ever lost her temper. When she did lose her temper, she was one of the very few persons who ended up scaring Naruto and Naruto was usually only scared by his parents and enire hordes of ninja which his father had shown him in a genjutsu to retell one of the battles he had fought. Mito usually wore dark red clothes and had short spiky hair. She was a prodigy better than Itachi and was much stronger than Sasuke as well as Menma. But she was not even a fifth as strong as Naruto. Though people firmly believed that she would one day be at his level.
Mito and Sasuke's mother Mikoto also used to visit them a lot since Izuna and Mikoto were childhood friends and Menma's mother Kushina and Naruto's mother Kyokyuyu and Mikoto were best friends in their youth. Menma and Naruto treated her just like the way they treated their mother and she also had a motherly love for Menma and Naruto.
Outside the Hyuuga Compound
One certain Uzumaki walked right past the Hyuuga compound when one of the greatest pranks upon the Hyuuga clan dawned upon him. His eyes were like that of Master Jiraiya when doing his research. Those moving past him instantly moved back for they knew that if they tried helping the Hyuuga, they would become the laughing stock of the village along with the Hyuuga. Once, a shopman had tried to help the Hyuuga. He had ridiculously failed with the Hyuuga's condition having gotten worse thanks to him. Nevertheless, the next day Menma pranked him hard. His entire shop had been rolled with toilet paper. Upon that, a good portion of his shop had been painted oragnge. All his materials had Menma's signature prank. "Ramen- the food of the Gods" written in orange with all the walls having grafitti saying that Menma was the one and only prank god. The shopman was so shocked at the sight and practically, he had been made tha laughing stock of the village for the next few months. Everyone shuddered remembering this. They went as far back as they could.
Menma walked right into the Hyuuga compound. All the Hyuuga were perplexed at the sight of him walking right past. They feared what prank he might play on them today. All of them activated their Byakugan. They sent all the children inside to be kept safe from his Hyuuga leader Hyuuga Hiashi came in front of him. He said, "What have you come here for you insolent brat?" Menma answered, "Well, to do my most accomplished prank as of yet."
The Hyuuga clan just got more scared. One part of their mind told them to catch Menma but the other told them that if they did, the prank would just get worse. Many of them were shuddering in fear. No one knew what to do. All of a sudden, Menma popped and there was nothing. They couldn't believe that they were fooled by his shadow clone. All of a sudden, many Menma's with cans of every colour just came down. Menma shadow clones outnumbered the Hyuuga clan 3:1. They couldn't believe this. All of a sudden, even more Menma shadow clones appeared. Everyone was scared to the core. Then they said, "For our honour and self respect, let us take care of this insolent brat."
Saying this, they all rushed at the Menma clones and started using Eight Trigrams. Yet they failed. Menma succeeded in painting all the Hyuuga red, orange, blue and black. The Hyuuga could not believe this. Menma had just outsmarted them and beaten their Byakugan. Plus, thanks to the Eight Trigrams they just used, all the paint had spread throughout the compound. They were utterly shocked and saw Menma who was laughing away to glory. Hiashi asked, "Are you done now, insolent brat?" Menma said, "I am not yet done, jii-san. This is but the First Act. The Second Act and the climax are yet to come by. He-he"
Menma had not only damaged the Hyuuga clan property but also he had effectively damaged the pride of the Hyuuga by now having beaten their famed Byakugan and Eight Trigrams for the fiftieth time. They were all beyond despair. Only one certain young Hyuuga wasn't angry at this but merely impressed. If Menma hadn't been pranking them every time, he beat their Eight Trigrams, he would be commended as a fine warrior and respected, but due to him always pranking the Hyuuga, he was hated by all of them except Hinata who basicaly started liking him more every time he beat their eight trigrams.
Then many shadow clones of his came over with many tubs of plain water and some with cement. The Hyuuga now just wanted to flee but Hiashi was not going to disgrace his clan by fleeing against a child being A ranked ninjas. He said, "My fellow Hyuuga clan members, we have nothing to lose now. Let us not disgrace ourselves further by fleeing against this young boy." The Hyuuga clan was rallied once again as they faced the Menma clones. They once again used Eight Trigrams this time with Rotatio. Unfortunately for them, it had the exact opposite effect they had hoped for. Many of them were now cemented and fixed to a place. Now they truly had nothing to lose. Menma had effectively ridden them of all their pride and self respect. Now some of them fell down to their knees unable to move. They said, "Please stop, you insolent brat. You have pranked us enough."
Menma said, "I am not yet done, dattebayo!" Frankly, many screams could be heard in the Hyuuga copound and those outside were so scared they ran away as far as they could.
Then instantly, Menma jumped up and many of his clones popped up and a rain of orange paint fell in the pattern which read, ramen is the food of the gods.
Menma then walked out of the Hyuuga compound with the smile of a triumphant general who just won a war most gloriously. No Hyuuga walked out of the compound until the day of the burial of the Uchiha clan after their massacre.
The Hokage Tower
Izuna was in the Hokage's robes. He had recently gotten his hair cut. They were short yet unkempt as usual. He was wearing a plain white dress today unlike his normal black clothes. He was sitting behind the desk and thinking about the Uchiha coup de' tat. The rebellious Uchiha group had planned a coup which was giving Izuna a headache because the demands of the rest of the Uchiha were extremely high reason being the fact that their clan head was the Hokage and they were one the founding clans of the village and yet they were not treated well and if he agreed to these terms of the Uchiha, the comman populace would think that he had the Uhiha plan the coup and he himself 'ordered' them to make high demands and agreed to them so that there wouldn't be a civil war and then the common populace would rebel against him themselves and Izuna wouldn't have been able to keep his promise to Minato that he would take care of the village. Izuna might have been the greatest prodigy ever from Konoha but right now he felt he could use the advice of his late parents or his late friend Minato.
Just as he was thinking this, a silver haired Konoha Jonin entered the room with a heck load of paperwork in his hands. He was getting ready to go for a mission. He clearly had five of Jiraiya's latest entries to read on the way. His Jonin vest was cleaner than usual.
(Writer)-Kakshi is very lazy even in this story, but unlike in the canon, Kakashi is a Kage level ninja who can beat the Sandaime Hokage without breaking a sweat in this storyline. He is under Izuna because Izuna way way more powerful. Izuna is stronger than Kaguya or the Juubi. Naruto eventually becomes way stronger.
Izuna had just one question in mind right now, 'Is god trying to kill me?' and as though by God's will Kakashi made an eye-smile and said "Yes."
Izuna lifted his head up said, "Why did you say 'Yes', Kakashi?"
Kakashi answered, "Well, I was thinking whether to include Itacihi and Shisui or Might Guy on my next mission and I decided on Guy."
Izuna sighed and bent his head again. He said, "Kakashi, any info on the Uchiha coup?"
Kakshi kept the paperwork on Izuna's desk and said, "Well, they are still on the same standpoint as they were a week ago."
Izuna looked at the paperwork in front of his face. He frowned at the huge pile of paperwork. He shifted it and put it below his desk and said, "You put that much paperwork on the desk like that, it will break. Anyways, have we tried any more negotiations?"
Kakashi said, "Not since they declined you by insulting you in the Uchiha district of the village."
Izuna flinched at that remark. He said, "What do you think I should do Kakashi?"
Kakashi sighed and said, "Well in your current position, nothing you do can save the village. Basically, you are neutral but everyone thinks that you are on the side of their enemy."
Izuna once again sighed and bent his head and said, "You have any ideas on how to save everyone?"
Kakashi said, "I don't. Have you talked to Shikaku Nara? He can probably help you out here."
Izuna said, "That is something that I can do but Shikaku is not in the village right now. He won't be back until a few more days and if we are unfortunate two weeks before Shikaku is back in the village and this is not something that can be resolved easily. The Uchiha are demanding an entire 25% of the village's revenue and for a bigger part of the village to themselves and they want their image to be elevated in the common people and shinobi alike. I can't possibly agree to these terms and my own clan won't listen to me. I am in a fix right now. I really wish there were others who could do this job for me."
Though Kakashi knew all the details he was still surprised at hearing the 25% of Konoha revenue part, he said, "Well, all we can do is wait. Until we get better options other than letting civil war, or exterminating an entire clan."
Izuna said, "I suppose you are right."
Kakashi looked at the paperwork and said, "Anyways, you have all this paperwork to take care of till then and by the way a bigger shipment of paperwork is coming around in a few hours and good luck at it sensei. I have a mission to complete. Bye."
After Kakashi left Izuna said, "Yup, somebody above wants to exact revenge upon me by giving me a death by headache." He sighed upon this and used shadow clones and started digging through the paperwork hoping that he could at least cause a dent in it by the next hour. Somehow or the other more of it apperared and it seems the paperwork wanted to kill him. Boy was the pile was huge.
Just as he was thinking about this, he saw a huge rain of orange over the Hyuuga compound. His jaw dropped t the floor when he saw that. He was sure that he would be pennyless by the end of the day.
Meanwhile, At the Foundation base in Konoha Forest
Danzo had asked Shisui to come to the base. Danzo was in his usual white kimono and had covered is right arm with bandages so that no one would see the hand made by Hashirama Senju's cells embedded with mangekyou Sharingan which he could evolve into Rinnegan if he wanted. He was as solemn as ever. No one dared to talk to him. He was cool and patient. He did not even blink as he waited for Shisui.
He was going to take Shisui's eyes so that he would be able to keep both Izuna and Hiruzen from killing him by using over three rinnegan and one Mangekyou Sharingan, he would be able to survive. He had a few other Foundation members standing guard so that they could help him get Shisui's eyes.
A few minutes later Shisui arrived. He was in his normal uniform. He kneeled and paid his respects to Danzo almost fully knowing what might happen to him. Danzo opened his the bandages covering his right hand and went straight for the eyes of Shisui. Shisui was surprised and barely managed to dodge Danzo but Danzo struck a huge blow to Shisui using his Hashirama arm and Shisui for a second was temporarily knocked off balance. At this moment Danzo managed to acquire one of Shisui's eyes Shisui had to stop his second eye from being taken by Danzo. He stabbed Danzo in the gut and managed to find himself some time and tried to get out of there where he would use Amaterasu and obliterate his lost eye and this base but was attacked by over ten Foundation shinobi. He had to something. He used Amateresu and Inferno Control to kill two of the shinobi. He wanted to get out of here quickly so that he could come back later with was reinforcements such as the likes of Itachi, Izuna-sama and Sandaime-sama. He was limited to the usage of only Amaterasu and genjutsu. If he kept on using them, he would be as good as dead.
Danzo kept his footing and said, "Shisui, your eyes and life are mine. No matter what you do your eyes will eventually end up in my sockets. I will protect the village no matter what the cost and no matter how dirty the means, I will protect the village. The Uchiha will rebel unless Izuna chooses to pay them what they are demanding and if Izuna fulfils their demands, the village will rebel against Izuna. Izuna is in a position where he can neither accept nor decline the demands of the Uchiha and cannot protect the village and a lot of lives will be lost. What do you want Shisui? Do you want to watch your village burn in the hands of the Uchiha, then the remaining villages, or do you want the village to be wrecked by Civil War then by another Great Shinobi War?"
Shisui was unable to answer Danzo's question. He wanted neither. He wanted the Uchiha to back down on their demands and stop their coup but he couldn't. Danzo did have a point. The Gondaime Hokage was not in a position as of now. Just when Shisui was thinking of this, Danzo charged at Shisui with such blinding speed and once again hit Shisui and went directly for his eye. Shisui barely stopped Danzo from taking his remaining eye. He jumped as far back as he could.
Danzo screamed at him, "Tell me your answer Shisui, tell me!"
Shisui was already occupied and had another demon wind Shuriken at him which he barely dodged but this time it managed to injure his hand badly.,
Shisui had to buy himself some more time so he figured taking this talk further would both allow him to gain more chakra, think of some strategy and get to know what Danzo wanted to do. So he said, "What is your answer to this question, Danzo?"
Danzo was not expecting this but was prepared for it anyway. He started moving towards Shisui. He had thought that Shisui wouldn't be able to escape alive and said, "Shisui, which is more important to you, your village or your clan?"
Shisui needed a little more time and this conversation would give him a little more than just time and he said, "The village, of course". He then backed a little to escape Danzo.
Danzo had expected the answer and said, "Then you know that I cannot let the village be struck by civil war by any means. The village is more important to me than the Uchiha. Had Minato still been alive, this situation would be much different, but no, Izuna is the current Hokage and though he might be much better and have more guts than Minato himself, since the attack of the Kyubi,, his image among the villagers has drastically worsened. Thus, we either change the Hokage which is not possible so, my answer is to exterminate the Uchiha."
Shisui could not say that he hadn't been expecting this answer for a part of him also knew that it was the only choice acceptable between the current choices of the Hokage. But still he didn't like to see his clan destroyed. There had to be another solution. He spoke, "Is that all you can do. There is always a way to save everybody."
Danzo was not surprised by his answer. He sighed and the other shinobi in the area used wood style against him to bind him. Though Shisui was surprised at the usage of wood style, he had trained enough with Izuna to know that wood style was extremely weak against fire style and Shisui used Amaterasu against the wood style user who was pushed back by this and taking advantage of Shisui being occupied, Danzo struck him with a lot of force and Shisui was pushed back completely.
Danzo said, "There would have been a way to save everybody if the Hokage were anybody except Izuna right now. The civilians completely despise him because he pushed them out of the administration and took huge taxes from them and upon that the civilians hold him responsible for the attack of the nine tails on the village. Right now, with Izuna as Hokage, there is no other way but to exterminate the Uchiha and your eyes are extremely important to me if I am to succeed."
Shisui had used this time to gain some chakra and said, "Danzo, you shall never succeed."
Saying so, he jumped and used a Fire style: Great Fireball Jutsu on Danzo and the wood style user and got out. Since he didn't have a lot of chakra remaining and had lost an eye he couldn't use the Susano'o to carry out his original plan of killing Danzo using Susano'o and decided to rather give his other eye to itachi to take care of it and end his life since he was already injured and exhausted by fighting Danzo. He sent a message to Itachi to come meet him in the Final Valley and left for the place himself.
A few hours later at the Final Valley
Shisui was waiting for Itachi. He had sent a message to Itachi to come there as he had something to give to Itachi. He was in a lot of pain. He was bleeding all over. Though he ha only one injury made him bleed originally, Danzo's attacks had made him bleed internally and he was coughing blood already. He was contemplating whether what Danzo was doing right or wrong. Danzo was doing what was right to save the village and all of shinobi from another Great War. But there had to be another way to go about it other than exterminating all Uchiha. At least Shisui thought so. Even Izuna was not sure if there was any other viable option other than that yet he was searching for another answer. While thoughts about his previous conversation with Danzo were going on in Shisui's mind Itachi arrived. He was in ANBU uniform. He had propbably just arrived from one. He was fresh. But upon seeing Shisui, he was more surprised than ever and instantly went to help Shiui. Upon reaching Shisui he noticed that Shisui had an eye missing. Itachi asked in anguish, "What happened to you? I don't know many people who can do this to you. Who did it?"
Shisui said, "Itachi, Danzo took one of my eyes and I am going to give the other one to you. There is a genjutsu embedded in it, when the mangekyou Sharingan is activated, it will put a genjutsu on the observer which will make him want to do good for Konohagakure. Though if used once, it will take about a decade to recharge so use it wisely old friend."
Itachi had tears in his eyes. He said, "But why? Why are you giving this eye to me?"
"Danzo said that the only way of stopping the Uchiha coup is by exterminating them. So I want you to keep this in case Sasuke, Mito, or Naruto turn against Konoha."
"What?"
Shisui showed everything he had just been through a few hours ago to Itachi and then said, "Danzo will most likely trust you with the job of exterminating the Uchiha since you are the second strongest Uchiha in the village and the strongest is the Hokage. Don't consider me. I won't live for long after now. Only a few minutes at best. Keep this eye safe and away from Danzo. He will come for it. Good bye old friend." Saying so Shisui collapsed and fell down from the head of the statue of the first Hokage.
Itachi knew that in the current circumstances, Danzo's method was the most viable answer. Itachi fell on his knees and and screamed his heart out. He mourned the death of his friend Shisui. Though a question remained in his mind. The only explanation Itachi could make out of what had happened just now was that Shisui agreed with Danzo. The only way out the current situation was to exterminate the Uchiha. Itachi also understood the situation perfectly. So he said to himself, "I will not let you down, Shisui." Itachi just manifested his mangekyou sharingan. He was not going to let his friend down at any cost.
7 days later at a Foundation Base, deep in Konoha forest
Danzo was angry at his failure to get both of Shisui's eyes. He was wearing a white kimono as usual and had bandaged his arm again. He had also bandaged the right eye where he had placed Shisui's eye. He had a gleam of pride and solemness in his face. He knew that he couldn't get the eye now. He had to do with just one. He could work fine. He had ordered Itachi to come. He would order Itachi to massacre all the Uchiha except the Hokage when everyone was asleep. The Hokage rarely went home so it wouldn't be a problem to massacre his family as well. There shouldn't be anyone of the Uchiha except the Hokage alive.
Just as he was thinking this Itachi had arrived. Itachi looked as solemn as Danzo and he had just the slightest glint of anger in his eyes which Danzo failed to notice as he was bowing down. Danzo spoke, "Itachi, I have a very important task at hand for you. You might find it bad and hard but it is for the well-being of the village. I hope you shall at least understand.
Itachi knew very well what the mission was going to be. He rose. His face was more emotionless than ever. He said, "I am ready to do anything for the village."
Danzo was happy. He had probably hoping for this to be harder to convince Itachi. He smiled and said, "I am sure that you are aware of the current situation of the Uchiha coup and of all the details since you are the informant for both sides. I want you to exterminate the Uchiha. You already know of the coup your clan is planning better me. The Hokage is in a situation where he cannot do anything without causing a civil war right now. I think you understand."
"Yes, sir. I understand. I shall be taking my leave. The Uchiha will be exterminated this night."
Danzo was more surprised than ever. He hadn't been expecting it to be so quick but Itachi was a shinobi completely devoted to Konoha.
An hour later, in a cave in Konoha Forest
Itachi came here to meet a person who claimed he was Madara Uchiha whom he had been tracking for a few months now. That person was standing right in front of him. He had mask over his face with a single hole revealing his eye which was a mangekyou sharingan. Itachi wasn't surprised. He just stood there. He was in the ANBU uniform. He gave of a creepy vibe. He spoke, "You are not Madara Uchiha. Madara Uchiha had the Choku tomoe mangekyou unlike yours. Besides, I know that Madara's chakra is similar to the Hokage's. It is nothing like yours."
The person claiming to be Madara spoke, "Madara Uchiha is not a person, rather an idea. I am the successor of that idea and thus, I am Madara Uchiha. His descendents are a disgrace to his name and his ideas have been passed on to me." It was a proclamation. He was confident in his voice.
Itachi was still emotionless and more stern than before. He said, "Whatever, I need your help to exterminate the Uchiha Clan, Madara II"
Madara II slightly laughed and said, "I will be extremely happy to help you out."
Itachi then said with sureness in is voice, "We exterminate the clan tonight. Be there. I need your help. I might be a strong ninja but even I can't exterminate the entire Uchiha clan by myself."
Madara II said in congident voice, "I already told you, I will be glad to help."
Meanwhile in Konoha, 3 days ago
Naruto had received the news that Shisui had disappeared. Many people presumed he was dead. Naruto had really hoped that Shisui was still alive. But the blow came to him when his father Izuna had told him, 'Shisui is dead'. Naruto had been extremely close to Shisui. He had been an elder brother to him. Naruto had thought that Shisui would always be with him as an elder brother.
This was a huge blow to Naruto. Even more so to Mito, who had been even closer to Shisui.
They were all mourning for him.
Shisui's body was never found and they could never have a proper funeral for Shisui.
The day of the Uchiha Massacre
Naruto had gotten over the death of Shisui and so had Mito. Sasuke, Naruto, Menma and Mito were training near the Uchiha shrine. Naruto was wearing a dark blue robe. It had a fan on the back which was divided into two halves, the top half in red colour and the bottom half in white. This was the Uchiha clan symbol. He was training to improve his lighning style. His father along with Kakashi had thought him the chidori/lightning blade and had told him that a lightning armour of similar kind could be created making one completely impenetrable. This kind of armour was stronger than the armours which kumo shinobi used. This armour was much brighter and much louder. Naruto was trying to do this and it wasn't easy. It required huge amounts of chakra. Kakashi couldn't even do it because he didn't have enough chakra for it.
Mito was training her Great Fireball Jutsu. It was almost a tenth of Itachi's. That was big. Itachi's Great Fireball at its best could level the entire Uchiha district. She was wearing a red dress with the Uchiha clan symbol on the back.
Menma was training this new jutsu Izuna had taught him. He called it the Rasengan. It was jutsu invented by the fourth. Menma had seen it being done for the first time a few hours ago and he almost had it down. He really thanked Izuna for helping him with Chakra control, if he didn't have it, then he would have taken much more time to complete it. He was again clad-orange with a spiralling circle on the back. He was wearing the goggles of Obito, Minato's late student and Kakashi's friend.
Sasuke was in a completely different part of the forest. He was closer to the Uchiha compound than the others. He was also training his Great Fireball though it was barely half the size of Mito's. He was wearing a light blue shirt with the Uchiha clan symbol on the back and was wearing white shorts. He had to get to his sister's level soon else his father would keep on ignoring him.
Soon the others came to him. He greeted them. He said, "Let's grab some dango and go home."
Menma was frustrated at this and said, "Nope, we go to Ichiraku Ramen before going home instead. Ramen is so much better than dango."
Mito said, "Only a few agree with you Menma. Though Naruto might like ramen more than dango, I prefer dango to ramen."
Naruto said, "You know what? As the eldest of us, I say let's go grab some ramen."
Mito said, "I seriously disagree with you. You are just a few days older than us. Why should we obey you?
Just as she finished her question they heard screams from the Uchiha Clan compound. Hearing it, Naruto said, Let's just go home and see what is happening instead."
Everyone agreed and they all went directly to the clan compound.
Inside Uchiha Compound, Konohagakure
What they saw when they reached the Uchiha clan compound was horrific. There were dead people all around. Naruto went directly to his home just to see it burnt to the ground without anybody in it. He was extremely angry. Who would do this? Where was his mother? What was his father doing?
Just as he thought about his father, Izuna came in front of the house. He was shivering. He screamed, "No…." and fell to his knees crying. Naruto asked his father why he was crying and where his mother was.
Izuna didn't answer his question. Naruto didn't need to know. Izuna would tell him when the time came. Menma just came. He didn't know what had happened either. He didn't need to know what had happened. Izuna asked Naruto and Menma to go help Sasuke and Mito. Izuna had sensed that Kyukyoyu's chakra had stopped. He wanted to make sure that he was wrong and even if he was right he would use rinne rebirth to bring her back to life, but her body wasn't to be found, even her ashes. She was burnt using amateresu. He wanted to kill the person who had done this to his wife.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Menma reached Sasuke and Mito who were crying over the bodies of their parents. Naruto understood why and he also sort of understood why his father was crying. Menma also understood everything now. He might have been an idiot at times but he understood this kind of stuff, most of the times. Itachi just showed up right over there and said to the four of them, "I see you have seen the bodies of my parents, Sasuke, Mito, Naruto, Menma. In case you don't know I was the one who killed Shisui. Let me show you how,"
Saying so, Itachi used a genjustsu to show how he had killed off Shisui in a horrific and inhumane manner after taking out Shisui's eyes, in hopes that they would evolve their eyes. Then said, "Hate me all you want and when you are of my level and have the same eyes as me, come try to kill me."
Naruto was infuriated at this. He asked, "Were you the one to kill my mother?" in a way that made a part of Itachi creep out.
Itachi said, "Don't even get me started on that. Yes, it was me who killed your mother. Try to kill me if you can" and laughed.
Naruto clearly lost his temper. Itachi saw his eyes. They weren't the choku tome mangekyou sharingan, they were the Rinnegan. He had succeeded in making at least one of his siblings/pseudo siblings better than what they were. Naruto straightaway had a bright blue lightning armour and bright orange fire armour enveloping him. He had the Rikudo/ Six paths symbol on both sides now. He was now a sage of six paths with his Rinnegan and current prowess. All of a sudden Itachi was being stabbed by Naruto. Naruto had teleported directly to Itachi. Itachi needed to save himself. He used his crows got away from there. Naruto could not control his anger and his chakra blasted all of a sudden but fortunately didn't cause any damage because of the shields that Izuna had put up. This blast injured all the four of them and the genjutsu which Itachi had used had its aftereffects as well.
Izuna came straightaway. He took Naruto, Menma, Mito and Sasuke to Konoha hospital.
A few hours later, a ROOT base, deep in Konoha forest
After taking the kids to the hospital, Izuna and the Sandaime were going to the ROOT base to kill Danzo. Despite the fact that his intentions were to protect thee village, this was not the way to go about it. Izuna had planned on beating the members of the coup to a pulp if they did not stop the coup, but Danzo had already killed the clan. There were other ways. There were always other ways to protect the village. Izuna wanted to kill Danzo right away. He and the sandaime reached the ROOT base soon.
Danzo had been waiting for them. If all went well and he got his way, he would still have a say in many important matters of the village.
Izuna said, "Danzo, if you surrender now, I wont kill you." Danzo had been closing his eyes. Izuna didn't know why but knowing Danzo, he was probably up to no good.
Danzo laughed and said, "And what if I don't surrender?"
Izuna was extremely angry. He said, "If you don't surrender, I will kill you."
Danzo said, "Let me see you try, grandson of Madara Uchiha."
Saying so, Danzo opened his eyes. Izuna was enraged upon seeing Danzo's eyes. They had the Rinnegan. He also had many Sharingan embedded in his right hand which was composed of the cells of Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage.
Izuna said, "I am so going to kill you, you bloody thief."
Danzo said, "Ohh, I am a bloody theif now." He laughed a little. His tone changed. He said in a stern manner, "Tell me how was it that your grandfather got the Rinnegan, Izuna, tell me."
Izuna got even more angry. Danzo laughed and said,"He got the rinnegan by thievery bloodier than what I have done."
Izuna just kept on getting angrier. He said in an extremely angry voice, "Ohhh...So now you know how my grandfather got the rinnegan huh? Well, let me tell you one thing, he was a hundred times the man you are right now and you have no right of telling that he was a thief. You will die the most painful death ever."
The sandaime as though he was pitying Danzo said, "No, Izuna. Danzo deserves a second chance. Though his methods were wrong his intentions were noble. All he did was protect the village. Instead of killing him, disband his foundation, the ROOT ANBU. That is a better choice. Trust me Izuna."
Danzo laughed loud. Izuna heard the laughter of success in Danzo's laugh. It was clear to Izuna that Danzo had placed the sandaime in a genjutsu. Izuna scowled in anger and said, "You have gone too far Danzo. I will give you the most painful death you can imagine." Saying so, Izuna manifested a bright blue lightning armor around himself, then a stronger bright yellow fire armor with it. The sandaime immediately came in front of Izuna, blocking him and said, "Stop. It is for the betterment of the village that Danzo should survive."
Izuna said, "Looks like I will have to deal with you first Sandaime sama. Forgive me for this."
Saying so Izuna used Limbo Jailer to restrict the Sandaime Hokage. Danzo was extremely scared at what he was seeing. Izuna was using Limbo, something Danzo could not do, to remove the genjutsu from the sandaime's mind. Danzo knew that he was no match for both of them put together. He teleported as far as he could. Thanks to all the cloaking seals he had placed on himself, even Izuna would be unable to track him. He would stay in the shadows until the time arrived for him to resurface. That was the right thing o do according to him.
Meanwhile, Izuna removed the genjutsu from the sandaime and noticed that Danzo was nowhere in sight. He infused chakra, but he could not sense Danzo anywhere. Izuna screamed in anger and frustration. He was extremely angry because he could not get Danzo. He swore to himself that he would kill Danzo the instant Danzo was in range. Saruto had come to his senses. He said, "I am truly sorry Izuna. Because I was unable to keep away Danzo's genjutsu, we missed the chance to kill him. I hope you will be able to forgive me."
Izuna said, "It was not your fault Hokage sama. I won't spare Danzo the next time."
Saying so, the two left and headed back for Konoha.
Konoha Hospital, the next day
Itachi had henged/transformed into one of the doctors in Konoha hospital and come visited Izuna. He said in a sorry tone, "I didn't kill Kyokyuyu-sama."
Izuna answered sadly, "I know. You took the help of another person. Calls himself Madara Uchiha I believe."
Itachi became emotionless again and said, "Yes Hokage sama"
Izuna asked in a very serious tone, "Did you see anything about him, did you recognise his chakra signature?"
Itachi answered, "No, but he did have the same mangekyou sharingan as Kakashi."
Izuna said, "Do you know how to contact him?"
Itachi answered, "No. I just happened to see his mangekyou. Asked him who he was and he told he was Madara Uchiha. I just followed him ever since. He is extremely hard to track. The day I asked him for help, I just happened to recognise his chakra. Went and asked his help. He offered it. I took it."
Izuna said, "His chakra signature reminded me of one of Minato's deceased students, Obito. He was the one who caused the attack of the Kyuubi on Konoha. Anyways, I have a job for you. As of now because of what you did, you will be considered a criminal by most of the people but for the higher ups you are a spy for Konoha. You shall join the mercenary group Akatsuki and give us all the information you have gained from them. I took care of Danzo, tried to use genjutsu on me. Had the Rinnegan and Shisui's eye. He managed to escape but as of now, he is an SS class criminal throughout every nation. I shall take care of Sasuke and Mito. You need not worry about them. As for Naruto and Menma, what kind of a father lets his children be in trouble?"
Itachi said, "Fine Hokage-sama. How are we to communicate?"
Hearing this, Izuna tapped his index and middle finger of his right hand on Itachi's forehead and said, "Now a telepathic link has been created between me and you. It can be opened whenever we want. I will know if you have opened your end and you will know if I have opened my end. This way we can communicate. Now take your leave."
Itachi said, "Thank you Hoakage-sama," and left.
Sometime later, Naruto, Menma, Sasuke, and Mito woke up. Mito had manifested her mangekyou sharingan. Sasuke had still not manifested any form of eye.
Naruto woke up and first thing he asked Izuna was, "Did you kill Itachi?"
Izuna answered, "Well, not yet. Itachi managed to escape. He is most probably in a completely different part of the nation now. I have lost enough of my people today. I can't afford to lose more. We can send a search party after him later. First we need to have a funeral for all the dead and pray for their peace."
Author's Notes: If you liked this story, leave a review. If I get encouragement from you audience I will be extremely happy to continue.
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