Chapter 1
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Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki, the boy that was supposed to be a hero with the nine tails sealed inside him, At least, that was was how it was supposed to go but, oh boy did it go the other way, the villagers hated him for the nine tails that was sealed inside him. The day started out like every other day, he woke up in his broken apartment all alone, he knew that he had to get dressed so that he could go to school, Konoha High but, before that, he needed to have his breakfast, same as always he went to his favorite place, Ichiraku Ramen, gave his money and ordered a hot, spicy ramen for his breakfast. After that, it was the usual routine, walk down the street, get disgusted looks from all the villagers and the kids.
He then reached Konoha High and went to his class with Iruka Sensei. As he was late, the only seat available was a seat next to the Hyūgas, Neji and Hinata. He saw all of the kids chatting about the Chūnin exams, of course, no one included Naruto, the only one to ever willingly talk to Naruto was the Princess Hinata, for some reason she had taken an unusual liking to the blonde but again, Naruto couldn't care less about who wanted to talk to him and who didn't. Soon after, homeroom was over and they had to go into their teams. Naruto was part of Team 7 or Team Kakashi, apart from having a perverted teacher being Kakashi himself, he was also with the people that he hated the most and the people who hated him the most, the spoilt brat Sasuke Uchiha and the Ugly girl, Sakura Haruno who had a HUGE crush on Sasuke.
As usual, the "Sharingan Warrior" didn't show up on time, probably reading that book of his. A good 2 hours passed and after that, the white haired teacher finally came on the rooftop "sorry I'm late, a black cat crossed my path, so I had to take the longer route" Naruto immediately snapped "LIAR". "Anyways, today we will be doing Shinobi Kumite, use any class of jutsu you want, actually, no scrap that. This Shinobi Kumite will specifically focus on Taijutsu" Kakashi said. Naruto thought to himself "Why in the name of god do we have to focus on taijutsu?", then Kakashi said "First match, Sasuke and Naruto". Sakura thought "That dumbass kid Naruto is no match for my Sasuke, I'm sure that he is going to get humiliated". Sasuke and Naruto walked up to the battlegrounds and did the reconciliation seal and then the battle started. Naruto made the mistake of going for a straight up attack. Big Mistake.. With one swift move, Sasuke grabbed Naruto's foot and pinned him to the ground and held a Kunai up to Naruto's throat. Completely immobilizing him. Kakashi said "Well done Sasuke, you are the winner", Sakura was thinking "*Giggle Giggle* look at that Naruto, got completely destroyed by Sasuke". Before they knew it, the end of the day had come and everyone headed back to the academy to be picked up by their parents and close ones. However, It was not the same for Naruto, the lonley blonde walked home, with a gloomy expression.
Little did he know, an Akatsuki member was watching him. As Naruto went into his little apartment, he dropped straight to the bed and started crying. A few moments later, a few villagers came into Naruto's apartment with knifes and other tools for torture. Naruto cried out "Please, don't. I wasn't my fault!" the villagers laughed and one of them said "That's exactly what we said to the monster fox, but did he stop? NO, He didn't. He continued killing villagers, my mom and dad included." as one of the villagers walked up to him with a knife and sliced his arm. Naruto cried out in pain. Another one took of his jacket and put at least a foot long cut on his back, That one Akatsuki member was shocked! A 12 year old boy being tortured by his own people? He could not accept this. He jumped into Naruto's apartment, Sharingan flared into life. Yep, It was the one and only Itachi Uchiha. The three villagers were scared to death, one of the most powerful ninjas standing in front of them, if they didn't run, then they would definitely die, as expected, they all did run. That left the ex-ANBU and, now Akatsuki member and the blonde alone. Naruto knew that this could go one of 2 ways. He would either kill Naruto or Leave.
Naruto was sure where this was going. Itachi was most definitely going to kill him. Naruto's heart was pounding, was this the end? Is this how he is going to die, at
The hands of an Akatsuki? Itachi came closer to Naruto, a bland expression on his face, but much to Naruto's surprise, Itachi didn't try to kill him, instead, he started to talk to him.
"Hello, My name is Itachi Uchiha, and you are…?" Said Itachi to which Naruto responded "H..H.H..Hi my name is Naruto Uzumaki." "Naruto, how long have been tortured for?" Itachi said, Naruto replied "ever since I was 5 years old". Itachi, again was shocked that a boy that small would be tortured, then it struck him! Naruto was the vessel of the Kyuubi or the Nine Tailed demon fox! That's why. This was also the boy that Pain had sent Itachi to bring into the Akatsuki, and now, Itachi had the perfect plan to bring him into the Akatsuki!
"Naruto, do you want to ridicule everyone that has ever hated on you, tortured you or made fun of you?" Said Itachi "Yes, can you help me do that?" Replied Naruto to which Itachi replied "of course I can, see this cloak I am wearing, It is a cloak that only members of Akatsuki get to wear." Naruto was fascinated "Akatsuki? Are they powerful people?" Itachi replied "yes, very powerful people." to which Naruto replied "Can I join this Akatsuki too?" Itachi's plan had gone well, Naruto had asked the question to Itachi. Itachi then replied "Of course you can, let's go to the hideout"
Naruto was wondering why an organization that housed powerful people was letting him, a poor orphan who couldn't even hold his own against that idiotic Sasuke, join, but, he wasn't complaining and he didn't intend to inform Itachi of the situation.
-Akatsuki Hideout-
At the Akatsuki hideout at the tower in the Amegakure, Pain, Konan, Sasori, Deidara and Tobi were playing cards, just as Tobi was about to win, Itachi came inside the room with the blonde. To Pain's surprise, Itachi had recovered the target the Akatsuki were after for 5 years. "Well, well, Naruto Uzumaki, the jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails. It is a pleasure to have you in the Akatsuki, we promised you power and you shall get it" said Pain "Are you ready Naruto?" "Yes, I am" Replied Naruto. A loud thunder strike lit up the sky as soon as Naruto said those words. "Good. You will have fun with us" Replied Pain.
"Hey! How is that fair, the moment I am about to win Itachi walks in and ends the game, that's not fair!" grumbled Tobi. "Shut up Tobi, I can see the cards you are hiding up your sleeves. Don't try to cheat your way out of this, you owe me ten plates of dango next time we visit the street market." retorted Deidara, the partner of our beloved cheater.
The was silence in the room apart from the constant sound of the rain and the thunder, until Tobi yelled out "Well now that we have the boy, what are we going to do now? Are we just going to sit here and judge people?". He looked at Deidara but the explosion style user just shrugged. "Patience Tobi!" said Itachi, in a tone that did nothing to betray his own inner excitement. "Well, what are we going to do?" asked Sasori. Itachi replied "We will go to Konoha, inform the people that we have their prized possession with us. That'll make them vulnerable and make them…", Itachi was cut off mid-sentence by Naruto "Yeah, like they give two shits about me, Prized possession my ass!"
Itachi felt sad to say this but he had to tell Naruto about the truth, "Naruto, we weren't talking about you as the prized possession, we meant the Nine-Tails sealed inside you.". Naruto was thunderstruck, " .. What do you mean? I thought the Fourth Hokage got rid of it!" "The Fourth Hokage wasn't an almighty being to just warp it out of existence, he sealed it in a new born baby that was you." He said in a sad tone, "Little do you know Naruto, but kage from other villages would go to great length to get you, even though the villagers shun you, you are an object of great political power. It is people like you that nations go to war for, and that is what we as the Akatsuki try to change. It is our goal to obtain all of the nine-tailed beasts and change this cycle of hatred over power.".
Naruto was shocked, this changed everything! He was just told how the he was nothing more than a trophy, a boasting right for all of the villages to claim. "Why.. The, the.. those BASTARDS!" Roared Naruto "All I am to them a goddamn bragging right?" Everyone was surprised by Naruto's sudden outburst, after the outburst finished he started quietly sobbing and Konan immediately got up to comfort him, but Itachi told her to sit down with a signal of his hand. Itachi was the one to say something to him "see, Naruto. This is what we want to change. This is why we are going to Konoha to show them that you are more than a bragging right, that you are a human being, not a human doing." "Thank you Itachi, thank you" Replied Naruto, there was a look in his eye that showed pent up fury of his entire hide threatening to let loose. The pupils slightly elongated and his normally blue eyes turned slightly red. That look scared most of the Akatsuki members shitless, even Pain was unnerved. "Now, let's go to Konoha and show them" he hissed.
-At Konoha-
The Akatsuki arrived at a timely fashion, just as the Hokage and a bunch of Jōnin and Chunin and accompanied by their Genin students. Team seven was present, or at least what was left of them. As soon as the Hokage and the Jōnin spotted the Akatsuki, they immediately got their weapons out, the Genin followed, but the current Hokage, Tsunade Senju remained as calm as ever. The Akatsuki dropped down from the tree. Only Pain, Kisame and Itachi were there, at least that's what it seemed like. Standing between the three of them, Naruto was shrouded in an Akatsuki cloak. The cloak blended in so well with the others that nobody saw him.
At the sight of Itachi, Sasuke created a chidori and ran at Itachi. As he was running he activated his sharingan and that was when he saw Naruto, he stumbled. Itachi breached this opening and grabbed sasuke by the collar, throwing him into the nearest clump of trees. The sounds of wood snapping and thrashing was heard and two seconds later a battered Sasuke reappeared on the other side of the clump.
"N.N..Naruto?" Sasuke said in disbelief. Naruto stepped out from the cover of the other Akatsuki members. Everyone gasped in shock as they recognized the blonde haired prankster. Kakashi immediately got into battle stance as he noticed the slitted pupils. "Naruto, what are you doing?" said Tsunade said "I'm joining the Akatsuki, this village has tortured me and to it, I'm just an object of power. No one cares for me." "Are you crazy! We all do" Tsunade felt hurt that about what Naruto was saying but, deep down she knew it was true. " I still love this village and because I am the only jinchuuriki here, the Akatsuki will leave Konoha alone, but only because I requested them to"
"N.N.. Naruto, what has happened to you? Why are you going with people that want to destroy the whole world?" Sakura said taken aback by her teammates sudden decision. "SHUT UP Sakura! You don't know what it's like having the Nine Tails sealed inside you, you don't know what it feels like to only relevant for your political power, not for what you are. The nine tails' hatred gnaws on you, and besides there is nothing that I can learn here. I will leave Konoha so I can gain power and stop people from mistreating the jinchuriki's and bring peace to the world."
Everyone was shocked, but Sasuke was positively scared. The one thing he could rely upon his whole life was that he was more powerful than Naruto and now Naruto was among the ranks of the Akatsuki with his elder brother, and that terrifying chakra that was oozing into the air. It was filled with power and hatred that seemed to come in impossible amounts. Then it hit him, that must be how Naruto had coped with his hatred and stayed positive all that time, he at fed all his negative emotions to the nine tails and now it was coming out at once.
Sasuke had been thinking about Orochimaru's promise for power, but now it was finalized. He had to go there, he had to be more powerful than Naruto so he could kill Itachi. "I intend to leave this village too, and go to Orochimaru to gain power!" He declared. Everyone stared at him too and Sakura looked heartbroken, but he didn't care for something as unimportant as her feelings.
He grabbed his bag that was sitting by his feet and took off into the woods.
"Just you guys wait, The Akatsuki will rule the world one day, and make it a better place" said Naruto
Naruto was on the way back to the Akatsuki hideout, he was returning from Konoha. It was a long journey from the Village hidden in the Rain to The village hidden in the Leaves and back to Hidden Rain. However, Naruto was not tired at all, in fact he was ready to begin his training with Itachi.
"Itachi, when will we start training? I really want to get all that power!" said Naruto, "Patience my dear, that is what you (and Tobi) lack. You must wait until tomorrow morning" replied Itachi. Naruto pouted, as if he was a little girl and then, he was hit by a stroke of genius, " Hey Itachi, is it OK if I train on the road?". "What do you mean?" queried Itachi. " I mean," the boy broke off as he summoned a shadow clone and both of him started creating the Rasengans. " I mean like this". He turned to his clone and both of them collided their Rasengans and both of them flew back, Naruto got up and repeated the process. "Is that OK?" "Only if you make sure to still be able to train tomorrow, I'm fine with it."
Itachi was really surprised by how quickly Naruto's mood had changed after leaving the village. He was also confused at why the Nine-tails hadn't broken out by now, he had the perfect opening when Naruto was angry at the village. Itachi wondered if the nine-tails had taken a liking to Naruto. Either way he intended to teach Naruto how to harness its power.
Naruto was starting to enjoy Itachi's company, he seemed like a cold person on the outside but once you got to know him he was quite kind. Naruto couldn't believe that this was the same person that had murdered his entire clan, and if it was then he must have had a good reason.
As Naruto continued training, he pondered upon Sasuke's sudden decision while Naruto announced his joining of the Akatsuki. Then he thought, if Itachi was Sasuke's brother, then he would know Sasuke's motives. "Hey Itachi, do you know why Sasuke wanted to leave the village and go to that creepy snake dude that even Kakashi-sensei is afraid of?". Itachi remained in quiet thought for a minute and he wore a pained expression. Just when naruto that that he had ignored the question, he replied. "Sasuke has gone to Orochimaru to gain power." "Why?" said Naruto "So he can kill me." There was an intimidating silence in the air and, it seemed to glare at Naruto. Even when he breathed.
-Time Skip (1 day)-
It had been almost a day of walking to Amegakure, Itachi was tired out of his wits. It didn't help that he had to keep his Sharingan activated to watch for people to come and get Naruto back but, Itachi seemed to be the only one tired at all. Kisame wasn't tired in the least, but that wasn't really a fair comparison since his energy came from Samehada leaching of everyone else's chakra. Pain was levitating the whole way, but what surprised him the most was Naruto, after a whole day of throwing Rasengans at himself and his clones the boy wasn't tired at all.
He eventually got bored of walking and he got two clones to carry him the rest of the way. While he was lying down he was working on trying to maintain a Rasengan with one hand for extended periods of time.
It just kept blowing up after 36 seconds! He couldn't maintain it for longer than that with one hand. He had tried to slow down the rotation but that just ended the jutsu. When he tried to speed it up and blasted him of the clones that were carrying him.
"Why don't you try to focus on the containment field and make them tighter over time, this way when the rotation slows down the the containment fields will make it denser so the destructive power stays the same." Itachi suggested. "Cool idea, let me try it."
Naruto created the Rasengan, this time when he dispelled the clone that was helping him form it, he completely ignored maintaining the rotation and instead held together the containment field. 34, 35, 36 seconds! It had broken the record. It kept spinning but the size was getting so small that Naruto had serious doubts that it would do any damage. It kept spinning until it was so small it was nonexistent at 68 seconds. Naruto liked how it stayed active longer but he wanted to maintain its size while he was fighting.
Naruto was about to repeat the process when he heard Tobi yell, "Finally you guys are here, tell me all about how the meeting at Kono- AH!" He cut of and yelped in pain as Deidara elbowed him hard in the ribs. "Shut up you idiot, we don't want everyone to know that where the new arrival is from!" Sighed Deidara.
Finally they were here, Naruto couldn't wait to start training. But first he was looking forward to making some of that instant ramen he had bought before leaving. He hoped they had ramen here.
"Naruto… Naruto… NARUTO!" Were the first things he heard when he woke up from his night's sleep, his vision was blurry after all he did have a yesterday of chakra manipulation and colliding Rasengans, he was tired, but he jolted up nevertheless only to see Itachi shouting at him "Jeez Ita, you don't need to shout and what is it? 6:30 in the morning?" said Naruto in a sloppy voice "No, it's not 6:30, it's 7:30 and you are not to call me Ita, Never unless I tell you to" said Itachi in an angry voice "plus, today you have to start training, did you forget?" "Of course not!, I'm not dumb" retorted Naruto "Ha" Itachi mentally thought, on the outside, he smirked "WHAT? I'M NOT!" Naruto said with a high voice, Itachi chuckled at that "I didn't say you were, Naruto"
"Why don't you two get a room?" said Tobi as he came into the room, Itachi had that classic look of "really dude..?" "Okay…. I'll just go" Tobi said nervously. Naruto got up and put on his classic black and orange jumpsuit and put on his specially designed Akatsuki cloak on after that. Naruto came to the small wooden table and sat down next to Pain and Itachi for breakfast, he was expecting Miso Pork Ramen, but what he got was a little water-ry soup and very, very badly made sandwich, "honestly if this is what powerful people ate then I don't really like it, but hey.. Something's better than nothing" Naruto thought to himself. After he had finished eating, Itachi told him to come and begin his training, today he was going to do ninjutsu classes with Itachi, but before they could do that, he needed to find out what chakra type Naruto was, he hoped that Naruto was a fire type or a water type.
Anyways, when Naruto finally came out Itachi said to him "today we are doing Ninjutsu training" and as soon as Itachi said that Naruto's face gleamed with excitement, he always wanted to do Ninjutsu training as he wasn't very good in it and wanted to get better, and as soon as he was about say something about how good he wanted to become, Itachi interrupted him and said " before we begin, I need to find out what chakra type you are.", now Naruto was confused, Chakra type? He had never heard of such a thing, so naturally he questioned "Chakra type? What is that?" to which Itachi replied "You see Naruto, there are 5 types of chakra, like the 5 elemental nations. They are; Water, Fire, Lightning, Earth and Wind", Naruto then said "okay, I got that but how are we going to find which chakra type I am?" Itachi chuckled and said "we will do it with this paper, you see Naruto this paper is made out of a special wood that absorbs chakra. You hold this paper between your index and middle finger and then concentrate all of your chakra into that paper. If you are a fire type, the paper will burn, water ,the paper will become wet, lightning, the paper will wrinkle, wind, the paper will split in 2, earth, the paper will turn to dust. I personally am a fire type". Naruto did as he was told and put the paper in between his index and middle finger and concentrated his chakra into it, much to Itachi's favour the paper burned and turned to ash "Naruto, it seems that you have the fire property, which is great as I can teach you most of the ninjutsu that I have learnt" Itachi said.
Naruto was overjoyed, the person who had been the kindest to him as soon as he met him was going to train him and make him stronger. "Now, Naruto before we can begin, just tell me if you know these two things : Change In Chakra Nature and Change in Chakra Form" not being patient, Naruto immediately formed a Rasengan and started to wave it up "Okay, Stop!" Itachi said. "Your Rasengan has already done the Change in Chakra Form part! Spinning highly concentrated chakra at a lightning fast speed and compressing it, that is the change in Chakra Nature" Naruto was of course happy, that was one less thing he had to focus on, and he could move on to the more complicated thing, Change in Chakra Nature. Naruto already knew that he had the fire property within his chakra and so did Itachi.
Now Naruto was ready to use this, but he didn't know how. He needed Itachi to explain this to him. "Let's take for example, Fire Style : Fireball Jutsu" Itachi begins forming fire in his hand, Naruto says "this is the change in Chakra Nature" "That's right" Itachi replies "now I simply use this and I then determine the size of the fireball, that's the basic technique. After that what you do, is up to you. I then use it to discharge the fire in all directions. It's easier said than done" Itachi then demonstrates. Fireballs spewed out in all directions, many blazing right past Naruto. Before Naruto had the time to respond, Tobi came out and said "Hey you guys! Pain wants you all inside" "we'll be right in" Itachi replied.
Itachi and Naruto went into the hideout where they see all the Akatsuki members sitting down in the discussion room. It seemed it was serious and so Naruto decided not to say anything stupid. There were seats with names written on them, Itachi and Naruto sat down at their respective seats. Pain then announced the meeting was in session, "okay, welcome everybody. This Akatsuki meeting will focus on 'the plan'. Let's begin"
"Umm… Sorry, but I don't really know what this 'plan' is?" Naruto said in a questioning and slightly sarcastic voice. "Oh, right. Pain, should we tell him about 'the plan'?" Konan questioned, after a long pause, Pain said "well, he is an Akatsuki member now, I suppose we should"