Chapter 1: Unwanted Conclusions
Disclaimer: Naruto is to awesome to belong to me.(cries)
Summary: Naruto has an idea that helps Sasuke defeat his brother.
After a day of D-rank missions team seven was exhausted. Sasuke and Naruto stayed at the training grounds to spar before heading home. After an hour of evasive maneuvers Sasuke finally cornered Naruto. "You are really good at running away, but you suck at fighting one on one Dobe." Sasuke said after pinning Naruto."Well I didn't evade the Anbu for hours just get bested by a genin now did I." Naruto replied with a big grin. "Why do you think no one else in the village does pranks on my scale. The Anbu have ways of knocking that out of you."
"Then why do you still do pranks, surely the Anbu caught you once or twice."
"That's the thing actually. After all the pranks and evasions, the Hokage thought this would be a good exercise for the Anbus since we are currently in a time of peace. If the Anbus could catch me after a prank before time ran out then they put me in interrogation with the rest of the pranksters. If not, well better luck next time."
Sasuke looked confused before voicing his thoughts. "Why do they have you do this, instead of other Anbu?"
"Well I'm a genius. Not like you of course, I don't get all that technical stuff. But I'm a genius in strategies and traps. If it can be sabotaged I can do it"
"But why did they have you doing pranks around the village."
"They didn't want my talent to be wasted. If I just sat around doing nothing then my skills would have took a dive."
"That doesn't explain why Iruka-sensei always yelled at you when you did a prank. Come to think of it was the one that caught you most of the time and he's a chunin."
"That was actually another part of the game. Iruka-sensei didn't know about it but if he caught me in the allotted time he got mission pay added in with his other pay. If sensei found out about the game he wouldn't play it and it was always fun seeing the gestures the recruits made when they were told that a chunin who didn't know about the game always won. And the game wasn't just for Anbu either, all chunin level nin and above were in on it. Why did you think they always joined in when they saw the chase? Now that I think about it the pay was for a B-rank mission."
Sasuke was speechless. "Why don't you prank anymore?"
"I decided that when I became a ninja I could instead use my expertise on missions, but I probably should have waited until I heard what genins did. These D-rank missions suck." The two sat in silence for a while before Naruto broke it. "Um, Sasuke, your brother killed your whole clan when he was thirteen right?" Naruto asked facing away from Sasuke.
"Not that it's any of your business, yes he did. Why are you asking?" Sasuke said his eyes taking on a murderous glow.
"Well I was just thinking that either your clan was a bunch of pansies or your brother is hella strong." Not paying attention to the grinding noise coming from Sasuke, Naruto continued. "But seeing as the Uchihas were Konoha's police force that handled both ninja and civilian problems, took the more dangerous missions and not only came back intact but with a completed mission, we can assume that at thirteen your brother rivaled the Hokage" Naruto paused to glance at Sasuke who once again wore a blank expression. "Then he won against the strongest of the Sanin, Orochimaru who had also abandoned the village, a few months later."
"Just where are you going with all of this Dobe." Sasuke said seething.
"I'm just saying that Itachi was one of the strongest people in the elemental countries at age thirteen. I don't think he's been sitting on his ass all this time. And what with him hanging around with other S-rank criminals you have no hope of beating him in this lifetime."
Sasuke then tried to attack Naruto, but he had been expecting this so he rolled out of the way. "Wait, wait one minute," he said holding his hands up in a placating manor.
"What I meant was, that you have no hopes of defeating him by yourself. What you should be doing, instead of going off on your own all the time, is build a team of skilled ninja to help you reach your goal. No matter how strong your brother is, he won't stand a chance against a diverse group of ninja that work well with each other."
Sasuke straightened out. "He defeated the entire Uchiha clan in one night. I doubt a group of half-trained ninja can stand up to his strength." At this Naruto smirked.
"I thought of that to. Itachi Uchiha was a trusted member of the clan who never gave anyone pause over his loyalties. So on that night the people going towards the screams immediately thought he was there to help, giving him the time he needed to dispose of them. He wasn't a genius for nothing Sasuke."
Sasuke stared at Naruto for ten minutes before asking a question that had been bothering him. "Where are you getting all this information?"
Naruto looked sheepish before replying. "I use henge to sneak into bars. While in a bar last week there was this old guy with long white hair and a scroll on his back. He was super drunk and started talking about how his team broke up and he was all alone. The name Uchiha was in one of his rants so I started questioning him. In the end I got most of that information."
Sasuke looked at Naruto like he was an idiot. "That guy could have been a random drunk making shit up."
"I know that. That's why I gave the Hokage his description and he told me that he was Jiraya of the Sanin, self-proclaimed pervert(in the distance you could hear someone shout "Super Pervert"),weakest of the Sanin, expert seal master, and he also taught the fourth Hokage."
Once again Sasuke was speechless. "I have to think about all of this. I'll see you tomorrow for missions." Sasuke said before walking home.
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