Summary: Sasuke and Naruto: both changed in ways neither can imagine, changed physically, mentally, and spiritually. Both worshiped and hated by different people, villagers, shinobi, and clients. However the difference is that Naruto must chose a path and Sasuke must follow a single one. When both boys make their choices, will they decide to become red or black among the setting sun? Naruto x harem Sasuke x harem. Main focus on OC's. Rated M for freedom. NO YAOI.

Legend:

Narrative

"Speech"

Thought

"Summons/Demonic/Higher being speech"

Summons/Demonic/Higher being thought

Jutsu

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other characters. Any relation in this story between anyone living, dead, fictional or non-fictional is completely coincidental and has no meaning at all in life. I do however own the plot and any OC's created by me. Any use of these characters without my permission is a big no-no. Please PM me before using any so i can give you my permission to do so.

A/N: good now all that boring legal stuff is out of the way (can't get me now Asian lawyers! MUHAHAHAHAHA! *cough cough hack wheeze*) we can continue with the story. Please note that this is my first fanatic and I'm not a very good writer. Any who *clap clap* on with the show! Also if you have read this fic prior to 2011-07-04 (all 17 of you) then you may have noticed that the rating has changed from T to M. This is not suggesting anything. I just want freedom to write what I want without being banned.

Edited as of 2011-07-04

Ayshun Dragon

Red and Black Among the Setting Sun

Chapter 1- Prologue part 1

Prologue

"Aniki where are you?" whispered an eight year old Sasuke, tears tracing lines in the soot on his face. Around him there were fires burning, the smell of wood smoke and burning flesh scorched the inside of his nostrils, while dark smoke billowed from one side of the Uchiha compound out into the starry night, fire causing flickering shadows to dance across the pavement. He could hear the screaming of women and children and battle cries of men. All were silenced with a short scream or a gurgle of blood, maniacal laughter echoing throughout the compound.

"Aniki!" he called slightly louder this time "Help me!"

"I'm here otōto!" Sasuke turned to find Itachi covered in soot and many small cuts running towards him with his sharingan activated. "I'm coming!" he called again the sounds of battle emanating from behind him. As soon as Itachi reached his little brother he bent down to one knee looking him over with a practised eye. "Are you hurt badly anywhere?" he asked quietly checking his arms and quickly applying a small amount of healing chakra to the numerous cuts on Sasuke's forearms.

"I'm fine Aniki nothing to bad."

"Good. We need to get out of here and quickly. Are you OK to walk?" Sasuke replied with a weak nod as he stood up. Itachi immediately grabbed his elbow and lead him away from the fires, towards the Forrest.

"Aniki, where are we going? What about otou-san and okaa-san? Why are we leaving them?" Sasuke asked despondently, still shocked that someone was attacking the Uchiha's and winning. How could this happen? Sasuke thought to himself. Why is this happening? Who is so powerful not even Aniki can stop him?

Quickly Itachi grabbed him and jumped them both over the compound wall before continuing to run towards the forest. Before he entered the trees shadowed confines Sasuke turned to look back at his home only to see a figure standing on the wall closest to them, starring at the fires raging all over the complex. Just before the first tree obscured his view the figure turned to them and Sasuke clearly saw a single sharingan eye on the left side of the man's face.

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As Kakashi ran through the Uchiha compound slaughtering everyone he saw, he began to see him in all of the Uchiha's he killed and couldn't help but feel guilty. You have his eyes, he thought to himself, you all have his eyes. You have his blood. Kakashi licked some blood of a kunai he had used to cut another Uchiha's throat. And now I do too. I have his blood in me. I have something else of his also. I have his eye, don't I? Yes I am sure i have his eye. Kakashi turned on his mangekyou sharingan and looked a woman in the eye. "Tsukuyomi " he said in a voice filled with malice and hatred and quickly caused the woman to experience 72 hours of continuous rape in a matter of seconds. Soon after she collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Yes I'm sure i have his eyes. Yes and they all have his eyes as well don't they? He thought as he knelt to cut the woman's throat. Quickly he turned and block a small volley of shrunken with his kunai, before rushing into the small group, cutting tendons and arteries, necks, wrists or simply disembowelling them.

The man quickly shunshined towards a wall on the far side of the Uchiha complex, Before turning slightly to look at the forest. His one sharingan eye soon locked on to two figures running into the shadows of the forest. The smaller one, who he could now see as Sasuke, had turned around to see him. Ah, to the prodigy and his otōto have ran is see. Well the younger one does not seem to have activated his eyes yet so i will let them go.

Kakashi turnedback to the compound and glared with hatred at anything in sight. But not the rest of them, no they deserve this. Kakashi made a ram seal and pushed a small amount of chakra into his hands, before jumping away in the direction of hokage tower. Behind him, all of the explosive tags that he had placed around the compound exploded destroying everything and everyone left inside the walls.

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Naruto awoke to the sound of explosive tags being set off. Quickly he rushed towards his bedroom window to look in the direction he heard the explosion coming from. In the distance he could see dark smoke and large flames rising into the pre-dawn sky.

He quickly dressed and pulled out his emergency backpack from out of his closet. He had had something like this happen before. When a small fire had broken out in the hokages office, his apartment was mobbed by a large crowd of both civilian and shinobi claiming that he had started the fire and was trying to murder the hokage. He was holed up in his closet for almost four hours before help arrived and the mob dispersed.

He was sure they would try and do that same thing today so he carefully locked the door, boarded up the windows and left the apartment through a trap door that the sandaime had installed after the first incident. After carefully hiding the exit, he ran towards the woods as fast as his legs would carry him. Sure enough as soon as he had entered the shadows of the forest he could hear shouts of "It's the demon brat!" or "Filthy kitsune!".

Naruto sighed and continued running away from the apartment heading towards a small lake that he had found on one of his birthdays when he had to hide.

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Itachi continued to run even after almost an hour of fighting and a half hour of sprinting. Long ago Sasuke had collapsed due to fatigue and quickly fell asleep. Itachi was now carrying him on his back heading towards a small lake he had found on one of his ANBU patrols. Seeing the reflection of moonlight off the water Itachi sped up wanting to get the next part of his mission over-with as soon as possible. Reaching the shore in a short amount of time he gently laid Sasuke on the grass. "Otōto, wake up, you must help me with this mission." gently shaking him on the shoulder Itachi then stood up and looked back towards the forest scanning for any hint of pursuing shinobi.

"What is it Aniki?" Sasuke asked groggily

"Sasuke i need your help with an SS-class mission. Can you help me?"

"A SS-class? You want me to help you? What could i do?" Itachi just looked sadly at his little brother for a moment before continuing.

"My mission is to tell you everything you need to live. Otou-san ordered me to complete this mission so it is not official but that doesn't mean it's any less important OK? Before you say anything i must warn you that everything i say is considered an SS-class top secret, the same class as him.

"Same class as who Aniki?"

Itachi smiled sadly at his brother. "That's the secret otōto. Now are you sure you can help me?" Sasuke nodded quickly and looked up to his Aniki expectantly. Little did either of them know that there was another person on the shore of the lake.

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Naruto quickly jumped from tree to tree heading towards his secret spot. As he thought about the attack he effortlessly dodged trees and branches. He saw the lake up ahead and he sighed in contentment. He had escaped the villagers for another day at least and now as he entered the moonlight, was just happy to be alone. However as a cloud passed across the moon, he saw two figures, one shorter than the other. As he carefully crawled towards the branches of the forest, trying not to make any sound, one of them spoke.

"I must start from the beginning" he heard the taller one say. "It started eight years before now, not far from this day, when the kyuubi attacked. Do you know the story otōto?"

"Ya I do Aniki" replied the smaller one. Naruto had frozen just under the shadow of a tree. As the moon appeared from behind the cloud, he heard the smaller one continue. "The yondaime killed it with a jutsu that took his own life right?" he heard the taller one chuckle lightly.

"Yes that is what otou-san told you weren't it? But it's not the truth." he heard the smaller one gasp and Naruto shifted slightly so that he rested comfortably in the roots of a large tree. "Yes otōto. The truth was hidden from everyone who didn't already know. The sandaime created a law that stated if anyone spoke of this secret to anyone who didn't already know they would be put to death." Naruto wasn't shocked by this as he had heard ANBU talk to mobs about 'the law', but the smaller figure gasped loudly and began to question the taller figure who, as Naruto had figured out earlier when they had called each other 'Aniki' and Otōto', was his older brother.

"But Aniki aren't you gonna tell the secret to me? What about the law! You'll be killed!" Naruto heard the taller one chuckle but heard no happiness in it. Before continuing he saw the older brother reach into his kunai holster before pausing and bringing his hand back out with nothing in it.

"Don't worry about it otōto. By morning we won't have to worry about it anymore. No to continue with my story, the yondaime never killed the kyuubi." he held up his hand to stop his little brother who was obviously going to ask a question. "No he never killed it. Instead he used a fuinjutsu to seal the demon into a container. However it wasn't a normal sealing scroll or even an object. Instead he used a newborn child." Naruto was frozen starring at the two figures on the edge of the lake. "The boy had just been born and taken away from his mother to be used as the container for the demon. People like him are called jinchuuriki. This boy, this jinchuuriki, is still alive today, still holding the kyuubi back from destroying the village. He is a hero. He is also your age. I want you to make friends with this boy OK?"

"Of course Aniki I'll try my best, anything to help your mission but, who is this boy? What's his name?" Naruto looked towards the taller figure, eyes never leaving his head, both fearing and expecting an answer.

"That boys name..." the taller figure looked directly at Naruto eyes glowing red with the mangekyou sharingan, and he stared back, knowing only one person with those eyes. "That boys name was Naruto" he felt tears beginning to stream down his face, both happy that he knew the source of all his pain, and horrified at being the container for a demon. The man's mangekyou turned slowly as he said something that would change both boys forever. "Tsukuyomi" and Naruto fell down into a world of red skies and black ravens.

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A/N: ahhhhhhh feels good to have the first chapter done. Please R&R. I will only keep posting chapters as long as i get reviews. Expect the next chapter before or on 2011-07-15. Well If I get at least 1 review. So far I have a total of 0 reviews 0 fav's and 1 follow. Yay! I will answer all questions in the next chapter. Ja ne!

Translations: (note I will not translate thinks that are not translated in the English anime – sharingan, shunshin ect. Also I will only translate jutsus if you want me to.)

Aniki - big brother

Otōto - little brother

Otou-san - father

Okaa-san – mother

Kitsune – fox

Sandaime – third

Yondaime – fourth