The night that Itachi chose to destroy the Uchiha clan, his own clan, each and every single Uchiha was in the clan compound due to the hostility between the village and the Uchiha. Every Uchiha, except Sasuke, Itachi's own little brother. As Itachi and the man revealing himself to be Madara destroyed the clan, they never noticed that Sasuke was not the only Uchiha to be outside of the compound at the time.
Uchiha Takeo was twelve years old, and in his final year at the academy. Takeo, like all of the other Uchiha children, was oblivious to the animosity between Konoha and the Uchiha, and on that particular night, had defied his father's orders to go straight home after class at the academy, and had instead taken Inuzuka Hana's offer to go out on a date.
As fate would have it, his date with Hana went horribly, and he spent the better part of that night simply walking around the village, dreading his father's fury at him for disobeying his orders. As the rest of his family was slaughtered, Takeo was simply out walking around the village, the simple decision to accept a date with Hana saved his life.
Hana went home that night, discouraged that her date with Takeo had ended badly, her sadness clearly evident when she walked through the front door of her home, and her three ninken could instantly tell something was wrong, silently giving her their comfort.
Her mother Tsume was much more vocal with her concern however, "What's wrong, Hana? I swear if it has to do with that Takeo boy, he is going to regret it, Uchiha or not."
Her mother's angry, yet comforting tone brought a smile to Hana's face, as she blushed slightly, "Was it that obvious, Kaa-san?"
Tsume smirked knowingly, "I can smell that boy's musk all over you, Hana. Now tell me, what went wrong?" Tsume gestured to the couch, and they both sat down.
Hana's blush got deeper, as she grew embarrassed as her mother just blatantly pointed that out, "Well I asked him out on a date, I don't know, I thought it would be fun, because even though he's a little too, I don't know, Uchiha-ish sometimes, he is really cute. So we went out for tsukune, and it was nice, and everything seemed fine, he was a little reserved, but he is actually really kind and funny, for an Uchiha."
Impatient, Tsume urged Hana along, "Alright, so what went wrong then?"
At that, Hana again blushed, "Well after we were done eating, we had to part ways out front of the little restaurant because apparently he was late or something, but then he leaned in and kissed me, and I was really surprised because it didn't seem like he really liked me, but then I kind of relaxed, I guess, but when I did, I actually sneezed, right in his face."
As Hana retold the story, her voice got quieter and quieter, until Tsume had to strain to hear the last part, but when she did, she bellowed with laughter, "You sneezed in the boy's face?" Tsume had to hold her sides as she laughed, Hana sitting there meekly as she waited for her mother to calm down.
After Tsume had calmed down, Hana continued, "And after that, I tried apologizing to him, but he ran off before I could, and we were both just so embarrassed, and he ran off in the completely wrong direction of the Uchiha compound too-"
Hana was cut off from continuing any further as a single bark rang out, meaning that there was a shinobi visitor there for Tsume. Hana looked at Tsume in confusion, but Tsume just shrugged, "Hold on, I will be back in a moment."
Tsume went outside, and was surprised to see an ANBU standing at attention, clearly meaning business. Noting the grim air around the ANBU, Tsume was on guard, as she addressed him, "What is it?"
A quiet voice responded to her question, "Sandaime-sama has called an emergency council meeting, your presence is required at once."
Nodding curiously, Tsume took off at once, making her way quickly to the Hokage Tower. Tsume's mind raced as she ran through a number of scenarios that could lead to Hiruzen calling an emergency meeting of the council, before she realized that the possibilities, and simply focused on getting to the Hokage Tower as soon as possible.
It only took a few moments before she arrived at the meeting chamber, noticing that she was the last person to arrive. The room was deadly silent when Tsume arrived, but there were a few nods of acknowledgment from her fellow clan heads, and taking a glance around the room, Tsume realized that no one else knew why the meeting had been called.
Tsume took her seat at the table, and only had to wait for a few moments more before the Sandaime finally arrived, striding across the room, he held his usual wise and caring demeanor, but at looking closer, Tsume could see that Hiruzen was looking incredibly old in that moment, his eyes slightly down cast and his shoulders slumped like there was a great weight upon them.
Sitting at the head of the table, Hiruzen took a deep, audible breath before beginning, "Tonight, a tragedy has befallen Konoha, the likes of which have not been seen before. Just a few hours ago, the ANBU captain Uchiha Itachi's mind snapped, and in the matter of minutes, killed each and every Uchiha in their clan compound. With the tension between the Uchiha and the rest of Konoha, every Uchiha was within the walls of that compound, and Itachi killed all of them single-handedly, sparing only his kid brother Sasuke, for reasons unknown."
There was a pause as Hiruzen took another long, loud breath, before continuing, "As the tensions between the Uchiha were high, we agreed to leave their compound unguarded by ANBU, leaving their district soley guarded by the Uchiha Police Force. Because of this, there was no way for anyone to realize what had happened before Itachi snuck out of the village."
The silence in the room grew somehow deeper, aside from gasps being heard around the room. Tsume was shocked, 'The ENTIRE clan? But the Uchiha were a cornerstone of the village, and almost a third of our military strength.'
Tsume's unvoiced thoughts were echoed in the minds of all the councilmen and women present, before the voice of Nara Shikaku broke the silence, "What is Sasuke's current condition? I know the boy is the same age as many of the children of clan heads in the room, this must be completely traumatizing."
Hiruzen needed a moment before answering, "Sasuke is currently in the hospital, although he was spared his life, Itachi subjected Sasuke to a genjutsu granted by the Mangekyou Sharingan, a further evolved form of the Sharingan, and Sasuke is undergoing psychological evaluation."
The room fell into silence once more, leaving Tsume with her thoughts again, 'The international backlash aside, Hana is going to take the death of Takeo hard, seeing as how their date had ended with him... running... away.'
Tsume jumped to her feet, shocking everyone in the room, she turned quickly to Hiruzen, "My daughter went on a date with an Uchiha boy named Takeo earlier this evening, and she told me that after their date ended badly, he ran off in the OPPOSITE direction of the clan compound! Uchiha Takeo could likely still be alive somewhere in the village if he did not make it back to the compound before Itachi's breakdown!"
The reaction around the room was immediate, at a signal from Hiruzen, ANBU emerged from their hidden places around the room, and disappeared in shunshins to begin searching the village. Meanwhile, the clan heads and the advisors looked shocked at the additional information, but in the meantime while ANBU searched the village, Hiruzen pressed Tsume for more information, "How certain are you that Takeo would have gone away from his clan compound?"
Tsume took a moment to carefully remember exactly what Hana had told her, "Hana told me that after their date ended badly, Takeo ran away from her in the opposite direction of the compound, and had said earlier to me that Takeo was late for a curfew imposed by the Uchiha, so it is plausible."
Takeo had finally gathered his nerve, and was finally in sight distance of his clan compound, after several hours of wandering the village, but immediately, he could sense that something was wrong. There was no sound coming from the compound, nothing at all, it was dead silent.
As Takeo finally walked inside the compound walls, he was greeted by a sight that horrified him to his core. Strewn in the streets were his clansmen, all slain in horrific ways. Takeo began to dry heave, before steeling himself slightly, only to begin dry heaving again when he noticed something else.
The eyes of all of his dead clansmen were gone.
Tears welled up in Takeo's eyes finally, and he broke down and cried, only a few feet from a dead body. But after only a few seconds, Takeo jumped back up to his feet, and began desperately running to his own home, hoping beyond hope that inside, he would find his mother, sister and father alive and well.
Throwing open the screen to his home, Takeo gagged, before once again breaking down to tears, because his family was dead on the floor. His father's body was closest to the door, most likely trying to protect his wife and daughter. Next his mother had died, desperately trying to save their little three year old daughter Akio, but even his little sister was dead, a deep gash cutting her tiny body nearly in half.
Unable to bear it, staring at his family's dead bodies, and the empty sockets of his mother and father, Takeo ran back outside, and threw himself to the ground, crying, "Please let it be a dream! Please wake up, please wake UP!"
Takeo was weak from the grief, the trauma and his crying, and did little to resist when he felt arms scoop him up, before the world went black.
AN: Sorry that this is so short, but it is just supposed to be a little excerpt to see what anyone thinks of the concept, I have not found an OC Uchiha story before, (though I am sure that they do exist,) and I wanted to try writing one. To any of my previous readers wondering what happened to what I had previously published, I was unhappy with it all and deleted it. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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