A/N: Hello people. You wanna know something? I can't stand it anymore! I read the last updated chapter of Naruto and I can't stand it anymore! I can't keep holding this story back! This or 'Uchiha's Last Survivors: Itachi's Daughter' so you wanna know something? I am gonna unleash these stories and there! Ha! It's going to be my problem that I unleash this story and probably get behind on my other ones and then get bored of this and start a new one because of my feelings but I'm anxious here and I really want to know what you guys think about it. I swear that these two stories are not as bad as you think they may be because of some…unpleasant things but they do get better and I'm also trying to be a Naruto realist.

I do NOT OWN ANY of the Naruto characters or the story itself! If I did, maybe this story or Itachi's Daughter might replace them or lead the story into more of this direction. Now this is where I'm going to be a Naruto realist and it's going to leave a bad taste in my mouth, on some parts but those parts I will try to keep them a minimum. Just try it and who knows, you might like it. But this story is a brotherly fic and it's one of the many stories I feel greatly inspired about after I read an updated chapter of Naruto. I tried to hold my urges back, but I could not. Please try to understand.

Enjoy!

Prologue

It was raining that day.

The clouds gathered together and took on the color of deep grey from the aftermath of one of the greatest Shinobi battles of all time. Thunder roared and lightning light up the sky. It was as if the sky was crying. Their tears fell down to earth, unable to cease the burning Amaterasu flames that burned the forest around the Uchiha hideout. Or at least, what's left of it. Out of the three buildings that stood, one of them has completely collapsed. Or rather, it was completely destroyed by Uchiha Sasuke's powerful Kirin attack. It's all rubble now. Like leftover crumbs from a cornbread meal. At one particular crumb, the family crest of the Uchiha family still stands and one man.

Uchiha Sasuke stands there, his back against the family crest stunned and soaking to the bone. At his feet is a corpse; the corpse of his dead brother, Uchiha Itachi. He lays there, all beaten up with dirt on his clothes and skin and scratches and bruises all over his body. On his right arm, he has several serious burns. Not that it would matter anyway. He's dead, no longer part of the living. He does not need to worry about healing them. Also on his body is blood. Blood stained his burned hand and his mouth. During the battle, he was coughing out blood and it seemed to have worsened the longer the battle raged on. There was also dried blood on his face, under his eyes. Now looking like dark brown tearstains.

Sasuke was in no better condition. He was completely exhausted from battle. He used up all of his chakra and Orochimaru was ripped away from him when he was sucked into another dimension from Itachi's last attack. Still, he stood there. Stunned of what just happened before his brother collapsed on the ground, dead. His brother poked him like how he always did when he was a child. His index finger and middle finger, covered in blood, poked Sasuke's forehead and left a trail of blood from his nose to his cheek to his chin. There was something else too. Itachi did something else before he poked him. But at the moment, Sasuke's mind doesn't even think about that. It only had the thought that Itachi poked him.

Sasuke looks to the side of where his dead brother is and he stares at his corpse. The lightning lighting up his view to have a better look. The rain was starting to rinse them clean and it was starting to clean the blood off of Itachi's fingers. That was the only thing that Sasuke was looking at. The fingers that poked him. Lightning struck one more time and blood rolled down his face from his left eye like a bloody tear. He didn't notice. Everything was numb to him. Lightning struck again and this time, it revealed a gentle grin on Sasuke's face. Then he closed his eyes and he allowed himself to fall to the ground, entering the world of unconsciousness. His task is done. He had completed his life goal and now deserved a long, needed rest.

Shortly after he collapsed next to his brother, something emerges from the burning forest. A toad. A dark red toad with several blue spots on its body hops out of the burning forest. It was hopping for its life from one piece of ruble to the next, moving its way closer and closer to the two Uchihas. When it arrives by their bodies, it stops. It stops hidden from the rain and hidden from sight as it gazes upon the two beaten up bodies.

Then it opens its mouth. A croak would have been expected but instead a hand comes out of its mouth. Not an itsy teeny tiny hand. A full grown man's hand comes out and soon, a whole body does. A man climbs out of the toad's mouth and comes out into the rain to see the Uchiha brothers. When the man's sky blue eyes look upon the spiky hair Uchiha, an excited, relieved, and pleased grin appears on his sun tan face.

"I've finally found you, Sasuke."

"Who..in the world is he?"

As the Venus Fly trap looking Akatsuki member closes its head and slowly begins to sink its way into the branch of the tree, Tobi raises his arm over his head and says, "Later," before lowering his arm and disappearing as it passes his body. It wasn't long till he had completely vanished, leaving the team into a panic.

Well, all except Naruto.

"We've got to find Sasuke before they do!" Kakashi yells as he kneels down for momentum for when he jumps up to climb a tree. But before he does, he notices that Naruto looks different than from everyone else. "Naruto! What is it?"

Naruto doesn't look at him. He stares at the spot where Tobi once stood before smirking in victory. Seeing this made Sakura lose her temper a bit. "Naruto! What's with you?"

"It's just that guy is not going to reach Sasuke in time."

Hearing this, the team looks at him in confusion. "What do you mean?" Kakashi asks.

Instead of an answer, he gets, "We don't have time to talk. I'll explain later!" Then he turns to Hinata. "Hinata, can you take a look at 4 o'clock for me?"

Still confused, Hinata shakily nods at Naruto's request. She activates her Byakugan and looks. "About ten kilometers ahead, I see a powerful chakra spread out across a wide swath…and…for some reason…The forest is on fire…with black flames."

'The Amaterasu?' Kakashi asks, recognizing the description.

Getting his answer, the confident smile on Naruto's face widens. "Good work, Hinata. Now let's go!" Then he starts going off into a sprint, running as fast as he can while leaping from one giant tree branch to another. As confused and stunned as they are, the rest of the team follows after him.

"Hey," Kiba calls, being the first one to speak. "What's up with him? I know that we have to hurry but what's with the absolute confidence he has? It's weird and confusing." It is weird, and that's why Kakashi decides to take a closer look at the Naruto they're following.

"Yeah, I know," Sakura agrees. "What the heck is going on?"

"It's alright, Sakura."

Hearing her sensei, she looks at him and he tells her, "That Naruto up ahead is a shadow clone."

"You're late."

Sprouting from the rocks, Zetsu appears behind Tobi who is already sitting on top of the piece of the wall that has the Uchiha crest. "I'm not you." White side Zetsu tells the masked shinobi. "I can't shift as fast as you."

Staring down at the two brothers, who are still laying in the same position that Zetsu last saw them in, Tobi gets down to business. "You better have recorded the battle."

"Relax. I captured the whole thing," Zetsu's black side answers.

"Later on, I like to closely review it. We're taking Itachi's corpse, too. We should go now." But then, he notices something. "Hm?"

White Zetsu asks, "What's wrong, Madara?"

The air around Tobi, or Madara, shifts. It went from calm and collected to anger and irritation. His Sharingan eye, the only facial features that can be revealed from the eye hole of his orange swirly mask, narrows and a split second later, two kunai knives shoot out and stab both Itachi and Sasuke in the head. Both sides of Zetsu jerk when they saw Madara do that. Before they could say anything, they hear Madara exclaim in rage.

"Who else was here?" he asks, demanding for an explanation.

"Uh?" white Zetsu breathes out.

Black Zetsu answers, "No one. We didn't see anyone else enter the battle field."

"How could they?" the other half asks. "The battle field is completely covered by the flames of the Amaterasu. They would be burned to ash before they could even come here. Why?"

"Because…" Taking the Zetsu's by surprise, both bodies of Itachi and Sasuke turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. "They were not their bodies. They were shadow clones!"

"I've confirmed by scent! They've already reached Sasuke's location!" Kiba yells, starting to panic. But like before, Naruto appears to be the only one perfectly calm with a mischievous smile still on his face.

"By now, they would be too late," he says. The two combined teams and captains look at Naruto in confusion once again, but then he says, "But it doesn't mean we can slow our pace down. Let's go!" Then he begins to pick up the speed and the others try to catch up before they could fall behind.

Seriously, what the heck is making Naruto all cocky all of a sudden?

As they kept pushing forward, it didn't take long till they reached the black burning forest.

'So this is the Amaterasu, huh…' Kakashi thinks, narrowing his eyes at the forest. 'My first look.'

Seeing the jutsu the first time herself, Sakura asks since she doesn't know, "What is that?"

"It's one of Itachi's jutsu!" Naruto answers.

Thinking fast, Kakashi calls, "Yamato!"

"Yes, sir!" he answers.

Then Naruto yells, "Don't!" Now the team is really surprised and super confused.

"Naruto!" Sakura calls, getting pretty a bit annoyed with him keeping all of them in the dark. "Either tell us what the hell is going on or let Captain Yamato get us through the forest! Do you want that masked guy to take Sasuke from us?"

"It's not that, Sakura-chan!" he yells back. "We already got him."

Yamato asks, "What do you mean, Naruto?"

Croak

Hearing the call of the frog, the group looks further up to see the toad once again hooping for his life away from the forest. That's twice that he was able to leave without a scratch. Upon seeing it, the shadow clone Naruto quickly runs up to it and picks it up. "We got him! Let's go!"

What he got for that was an irritated punch in the head from Sakura. "Have you lost your mind? That's not Sasuke! That's some random toad that came out the forest! There's a difference!"

Kakashi's one eye however looks at the toad in suspicion as Naruto's shadow clone is trying not to turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. "Naruto! Tell me, is that Jiraiya-sama's jutsu?"

Now the team looks at him in confusion. "Master Jiraiya-sama's jutsu?" Sakura repeats. Naruto's face lights up from Kakashi's assumption.

"Good eye, Kakashi-sensei. I would love to explain to the rest of you but we got to get out of here now! I have a feeling that the weird mask guy has already figured out that I replaced the real bodies with shadow clones."

And there we go for the first chapter. I know it's short but this is only the prologue and reading the manga and watching the anime is just banging at my head with ideas. That and I got inspiration from a picture I saw a long time ago. One of Sasuke comforting Naruto when he found out that Jiraiya died. I didn't save the picture and I can't find it anymore, damn. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the prologue and tell me how it went. Also, the next chapter will be updated next week. So long as Naruto gets updated, then so will this story and Itachi's Daughter.

Just to let you all know in case you don't, Itachi's Daughter is an ItaSasu fic. Just mostly a future-based fic with Naruto kids running around. Till next time!