The story is set in a similar universe as the "Main Naruto" universe. Some events in the main Naruto history my be altered to suit the story
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Chapter 1"Kitahachi Uchiha"
In a small village, around the out skirts of the hidden leaf, lived a 17 year old boy. He was an orphan sense birth, and was raised by and elderly couple. A man named Sumio Genda and his wife Hikaru Genda. Sumio was a former shinobi of the hidden leaf village. Hikaru was a former medical ninja of the sand. They lived in a small house out side the hidden leaf village. The boy was strong and brave but always wondered who his mother and father where. All he knew was that his clan name was "Uchiha". Sumio trained the boy in the art of the shinobi. The boys name was Kitahachi Uchiha.
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One evening Hikaru sent Kitahachi to get some herbs for the medicine she was brewing. The plant grew at the top of the hill where there was plenty of light for it to grow. Kitahachi loved going to the top of the hill because from there he could see the hokage stone faces in the hidden leaf village. He climbed the hill almost falling a few times, he scaled rocks until he reached the top. When he reached the top he took a deep breath and gazed at the hokage stone faces. He remembered when he was young and Sumio told him the names of the hokage. Starting from the left was the 1st Hashirama Senju, then the 2nd Tobirama Senju, the 3rd Hiruzen Sarutobi, the 4th Minato Namikaze, the 5th Tsunade one of the legendary Sannin, the 6th Kakashi Hatake, the 7th Naruto Uzumaki and finally the current hokage the 8th Kaneko Hatake, the son of the 6th. Even no the hidden leaf village was a few miles away, Kitahachi could see them towering over the village, watching it, protecting it. When he was done admiring the view he picked the plants and headed back home.
His home was small. The outside was white, the roof was made from green tiles which suited the scenery of large forest trees around the house. Inside there was 4 rooms. Kitahachi`s room, Sumio and Hikaru`s room, the main living area where the food was made and ate and the bathroom. When Kitahachi reached the house it was pitch black out. He was met by Sumio coming back from a bounty collection. Even though he was a retired shinobi, he still did some bounty's for the leaf to bring in some extra money to the home.
"Hello Kitahachi, how are you?" said Sumio.
"Fine" replied Kitahachi.
"How was your bounty mission? Me and Hikaru haven't seen you in 3 days."
"I was suspicious the target was aware I was following him, so I stayed in the sand for a while. I visited Hikaru`s family when I was there."
After their brief conversation outside, they entered the house.
When they entered they where met by the sight of Hikaru reaching for some ingredients to put into the medicine she was brewing. In the hidden leaf village Hikaru was looked on as an expert medical ninja and a master of brewing medicine. She made medicine for the leaf, free of charge, because she believed that what she was doing would help a someone to fight another day.
"Sumio my dear" she said with relief of him being OK.
"Welcome home. I take it your mission went well?"
"Yes it did, easy enough for what was being paid" said Sumio.
"And Kitahachi, I see you have returned with my herbs I sent you for"
Kitahachi handed the herbs to Hikaru.
The next day Kitahachi woke up a bit earlier than usual. The day before he was very busy running errands, that he didn't get as much training in that he would have liked. He got out of bed and stood in front of the mirror. He was average height for his age, but his his body was in peak shape. He had what was considered to be a strange hairstyle. At either side of his face hung to long strands of hair. The back of his hair was tied back into a pony tail and between the top of his forehead and his pony tail was spiky, un-groomed hair. His hair was jet black and he had dark brown eyes. He got changed into his everyday cloths. He wore a black, baggy kimono, tied in at the waste with a wide red cloth belt. On his feet he wore, sandals that ninja wore. The bottom third of his legs was covered in bandages to tighten his cloths to his legs. The kimono was cut of at the shoulders showing his arms. Around his hands, to half way up his arms he wore more bandages to protect his skin when preforming tie jutsu.
He left the house without eating or even saying where he was going. He headed into the forest that surrounded his home. At the very middle of the forest stood a tall tree. It was the tallest tree in all the forest. Kitahachi climbed the tree without using his hands. He did this by applying chakra to the soles of his feet. This allowed him to connect to the tree and walk up it. Walking up a tree was was taught to shinobi to teach basic chakra control. He did other forms of training like push ups, walking on his hands, and even walking on water. Around mid day, he realized he had not eaten and was starting to fell hungry. He headed home exhausted, but he had planned to go back and train when he had something to eat. He was still around 20 minutes away from his house when heard heard a massive boom! He looked up to see smoke emerging from the trees a little bit further. Kitahachi worried that it was coming from his home, so he hurried back. He ran through the forest hastily, his mind was fuzzy and he couldn't concentrate on any one thing. Thoughts stated flooding into his mind, thinking what might of happen to Sumio and Hikaru.
When he arrived at his home he was met by a sight of Sumio, standing in a large crater, making the serpent hand sign. At the corner of his eyes he seen two shadows disappearing into the trees behind them. Kitahachi had no idea what was going on.
"OK Kitahachi calm down. Obviously a battle took place hear. But who won?" he thought into himself.
He looked around to see the house half destroyed. Where there used to be the seating area was gone. Now only rubble. His bedroom was also gone. He looked straight into the back of the living area where the cooking was done. He saw Hikaru laying down, beaten up looking, with blood at the side of her mouth. Sumio had no intentions going after the enemy. Instead he ran to Hikaru. Kitahachi soon went over to her as well.
"Sumio, my dear. You won" she said with a weak quiet voice.
"No Hikaru, they got away. Try not to talk, we will get you to the hidden as fast as we can." said Sumio.
"No Sumio" she said with a pause.
"I am going to die hear, and there is nothing you can do about it... I lived a happy life, with no regrets."
Sumio was knelled down beside her, saying nothing.
"My dying wish is that you keep him safe"
Hikaru looked at Kitahachi while Sumio looked straight at Hikaru with a blank expression.
Slowly her eyes started to close. Finally Sumio stood, and turned to Kitahachi. Streams of tears came from his eyes. This was the first time Kitahachi ever seen him cry. As much as he wanted to, Kitahachi couldn't cry.
"Kitahachi" Sumio said with an un-wavering voice.
"Where heading to the leaf village"
Thank you for reading, and I hoped you enjoyed it!
The next chapter will be online soon. Keep reading to see what happens to Kitahachi.