Alright, Naruto's Brother kinda sucks, so I'm rewriting the entire thing. If you want to read that piece of trash, go on ahead, but I'm embarrassed with the first 5 chapters. Also I'm taking votes for heterosexual pairings. I'm not so good at writing yaoi or yuri because I have no experience with it. Also, I will flat out deny pairings between two people who are not even close in age.
Chapter 1- A legend falls.
Itachi Uchiha was sitting, head in hands, silently weeping over his most recent loss. On a routine mission near the border of the fire country, he and his partner were ambushed by a squad of Kumo ninja and in the resulting confusion, he lost his partner.
Normally, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, a ninja lost in the line of duty was unfortunately common. But the man that he lost could prove disastrous for the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
Itachi Uchiha, captain of the ANBU special task force, bearer of a mask with the face of a cat was running, top speed, towards the borders of the Fire and the Lightning country. This was his first mission as the captain of the squad, so it was to be a rather simple mission, investigate the rumors of an Orochimaru sighting and report back to the third Hokage. As a test of his leadership, he was instructed to bring along a fellow ANBU member, who was around his age. That man was wearing a bear mask and despite being just a year his senior, he stood over a head taller than his captain.
"So what exactly are we doing weasel?" The bear masked ANBU asked Itachi.
"Dammit, you know when I'm in uniform you have to call me either captain of cat." Itachi chastised the young man.
"Fine, what is the exact mission, captain weasel?" The bear masked man asked again.
"You really don't respect my authority, do you?" Itachi asked, stopping in the middle of a clearing and moving his mask to the side, revealing one eye and his raven hair.
"It's not that," The bear ANBU said, "It's just we've been friends since the academy, ya bastard." The man said as he revealed his face. He had blond hair with long bangs, reaching below his ears, with a dark blue eye and small lines trailing down from his eye to below his cheeks.
"Whatever asshole," Itachi smiled at his friend. "Konoha has heard rumors of Orochimaru in the vicinity, so we're being sent out to investigate. Didn't you listen in the briefing?"
"What briefing, I never get briefed on anything; they just tell me to go out and try to get myself killed. I guess I'm kind of a failure," the man said as he smiled and scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah you…" Itachi stopped himself midsentence.
"I sense them too." The blond teenager said as he withdrew two kunai and held them in a reverse grip. "Come out, come out wherever you are." He said in a sing-song tone.
As he finished his sentence, thirty Kumo ANBU appeared out of the trees. "To think that the legendary Bear-Cat duo actually fell for this simple ruse," A random Shinobi yelled. Of course, he wouldn't insult them anymore as a kunai pierced through his skull.
"Anybody else wants to say 'Bear-Cat instead of 'Cat-Bear'?" Itachi yelled to the enemy ninja.
"To think you were so petty." Bear said to his partner.
"Shut up! I think this might be a record, even for us." Itachi laughed.
"Yeah well, our luck is worse than Tsunade's, so it was just bound to happen." Bear told his partner. "So, I think I should take the fifteen on the left, you take the fifteen on the right, sound fair?"
"You're on, Ichiro." Itachi said as he charged towards the ANBU, viciously attacking with his standard issue ANBU sword.
Ichiro, lashing out with his kunai whenever an enemy came near him, suddenly lunged head first, arms out wide, into a large group of ninja. "That was five, what's your count Cat?" He shouted to his partner.
"Five? I'm at seven; you're slowing down, feeling old Bear?" Itachi taunted his partner. Of course this teasing had a more strategic quality to it other than making Ichiro step his game up; it was to know if the other person was alive.
"No, but I might have messed up a little," Ichiro said as he gave a wet laugh.
Itachi released his fireball and turned toward his friend. He recoiled in horror as he saw his friend impaled from several swords, on his knees still fighting.
"Oh god Ichiro!" Itachi shouted as he ran towards his friend, killing as many ninja in his way as he could.
"It's okay weasel," Ichiro said as he gave another wet laugh, "this is nowhere near enough to kill me."
"We'll get out of this, we'll get you back to Konoha and you can get better…" Ichiro raised his hand to stop the teenager.
"No," he said as he reached down and gripped the sword piercing his chest, "you go back to the village, they need to know what happened." He said as he gripped the sword so hard that it shattered to pieces in his grasp. "I'll stay and cover you," he smiled weakly, blood starting to drip out of his wound. "It was great to serve with you, bastard."
Itachi got up and looked behind him, "You too, asshole. On three, one," Itachi started as he got ready to run.
"Two," Ichiro said as he weakly got up onto one knee.
"Three!" they shouted in unison, taking off in opposite directions.
Itachi lifted his head out of his hands to see the kind, old face of the third Hokage.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, tearing up again, "I'm so sorry," Itachi repeated as he put his head once more in his hands.
The Hokage knelt down and embraced the young captain, both mourning the loss of Ichiro. "Did you retrieve the body?" the Hokage asked solemnly.
"No, he covered my escape, he charged at the enemy to save me." Itachi said muffled by his hands.
'Just like Minato would have done,' The Third thought to himself, pride flowing through him 'Minato, you'd be proud of your boy, a true shinobi to the last.' "Then there is still hope, Ichiro is Konoha's most unpredictable ninja, he could still be alive for all we know."
"I hope so, Hokage-sama, I hope so." Itachi said as he composed himself.
Two years later…
A man stood outside the gates of Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves. At first glance, he looked like another traveler loaded down with their belongings, but one could see that this man was a Shinobi, the way he carried himself, his sandals and long hooded cloak, but what gave it away the most was his head band, a blue clothed head band whose metal plate was caked with so much dirt and grime that nobody could make out where he was from. He stood towards the side of the road, seemingly taking in the sheer awesome power of the gates.
He sighed and thought to himself, 'Never thought I see these gates again in my lifetime… Better head on in because it isn't gonna get any easier.'
And with that thought, he headed into the village, hood falling down to reveal a dirty mop of long blond hair, with long bangs going past his chin.
And with that I will end it, note that now Ichiro is 16, with the Naruto being 10 and Itachi being 15. I'm gonna leave "Naruto's Brother" up for posterity, but I really won't be updating it. So review because I would like to know people's thoughts. Also so far in the pair voting, Temari is in the lead with one.
-Dipstick1214
