The Beginning of the End
It was nighttime in the Konoha Village, the trees rustling with the gusts of wind, the streets are silent and it seems all is well. All but the fleet of traveling shadows, so stealthily that even the animal-masked ANBU guards couldn't even notice. They were jumping from tree to tree, like fire flickering in a campsite, the shadows were traveling wards an apartment building, strange for a group of men wearing their own different forehead protector with long scratches across the villages symbol. They were the Akatsuki Organization, wearing their red clouds on black robes; they were here for a boy called Naruto Uzumaki.
The members stepped through the window, and into the apartment; it was messy enough, and trying not to awaken the blonde boy seemed more difficult than it looked, especially with 2 missing-nins and 1 thought dead.
The strange figure with the always-activated sharingan eye spoke:
"Here he is Tishame I'm sorry for not telling you this earlier, but it will bring unnecessary setbacks to our plan." He spoke in his cold, calculating voice.
Tishame, the leader of the group scowled "You knew all along Itachi, if it wasn't for your sharingan eyes, I would have you dead in a heartbeat. And you too Kisame, if you weren't part of the Seven Sinobi-gatana, you will be dead too."
The shark-like faced man smiled "Just because you didn't know about this earlier doesn't make it our fault, we were just following your orders……." He laid his huge sword, covered with bandages, on the side of the wall "And besides, just because he is your flesh and blood doesn't make him any special, we haven't spared anyone else, so why does it……"
Tishame growled "I know, well, at least don't take him yet, I want to get him comfortable with me, and then unveil who I am at the last minute, he'll be glad to know who I am when he dies for our purpose."
Kisame smiled, he and Itachi have gotten off the hook, for now. They know how Tishame gets when he's angry, and someone usually ends up dead.
Tishame looked down at the boy, he pulled back the night gown he wore and sensed where the seal was, where he anticipated where he would extract the beastly Kyuubi. He smiled; they would be reunited soon enough, at the Cuunin exams in two weeks.
Naruto opened his eyes, he sniffed in the morning air, and it felt good across against his sleepy face. Then he thought "I didn't leave the window open…." He quickly panicked, looking all over his apartment for anything that has been stolen or disturbed. He shrugged, and thought that it was just a big gust hurled his windows, "Calm down, it's probably nothing Naruto." He thought, the village was filled with the best ninja from around the world, nothing could've happened.
He walked over to the door, and just before he got there, he jumped back when he saw a familiar face.
"AHHHHHHHHH Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled, he tripped over a chord, and tumbled cartoon-style into the kitchen. He stood up and Kakashi had an uncharacteristic look of seriousness on his face, and he was accompanied with two ANBU ninjas.
"Naruto" he said, with a tone of intense seriousness to match the look on his face "the Hokage requests your presence at her office, now."
Naruto was didn't know what was going on, the intense concentration on his face gave away the fact that he didn't have a clue of what just happened. He reluctantly agreed, being too quiet for his own good, and they jumped off into the busy streets of Konoha.
They got to the big red building with the symbol of "Hokage" on its roof, reflecting the stone-carved faces of the past Hokage's etched in the mountain behind it, the hustle and bustle coming in and out of it will only show how bad it will be on the inside. They hopped from balcony to balcony; up to the one that is what Naruto hopes of one day soon residing in, the Hokage's.
He walked in to the office, hands behind his head and waiting to be scorned for something, he just didn't know what was going on to make Kakashi-sensei this serious. The big leather chair in the room swung around, and in it sat the fifth, a blonde looking 20-year-old with her eyes burning with both anger and tears.
"Naruto..." Tsunade whispered, "On behalf of the Konoha police, I herby declare your arrest for murder of two villagers." Naruto froze, then laughed it off, "ne… old woman, what are you trying to pull on me, murder? I didn't kill anyone." The tearing Hokage, struggling to keep herself under control, said "Sorry Naruto, but all evidence points to you. You will be tried in 11 days from now, until then, you will be placed in a high security cell for the most serious wrong-doers."
Kakashi held his head in one hand, and lead Naruto through the streets with the other, with the silent ANBU guards following nearby.
"Why, Naruto, why did you kill those innocent people?" He said in a trembling voice, wondering of how this annoying ninja killed two innocents.
"I didn't kill anyone," Naruto said indignantly, "I didn't know about how they think I killed a person, I don't even know the evidence she was talking about, all I know is, I'm innocent, and that's what matters, right sensei?" he looked at Kakashi hopefully, but after the straight face, Naruto continued looking at the ground, as if waiting for judgment day to pass.
Sakura was the first person, other than the Hokage, the ANBU guards, and Kakashi, to know about the mishap, she covered her mouth in disbelief of how Naruto, the same Naruto who can't dodge the dog-crap on the sidewalk, actually killed two people. "Kakashi sensei, do you really think he did it?" she looked at him hopefully, but got turned down by his ignoring gaze.
Pretty soon, the word got out that Naruto Uzumaki is in jail for murder, it was unbelievable that Naruto would do such a thing to two normal people.
That afternoon, Sakura went to talk to Tsunade about Naruto, because she was speechless by the terrible news. She went into the Konoha Hospital where she was to have her weekly lessons with the Hokage; she walked into the O.R. room, and stopped to bow to her sensei. "Tsunade-sensei, please, before we begin, tell me about what happened with Naruto, is it true?" Tsunade couldn't lie to her student, her only student who has been more like her than anyone she has ever met.
"You will know the specifics as we work on our next lesson, which is identifying dead bodies and how they died, during the lesson I will fill you in, but be warned, the bodies are not pleasant."
Sakura shuddered, she felt it disturbing to examine the bodies that Naruto killed, and she found it sickening to even think about it.
Tsunade finally spoke, leaning over a table covered with a blue cloth, and strange bumps were showing themselves in its outline. Tsunade's hand glowed, an eerily green glow as if it breathed life "You should already know all of the human body parts, you just put the same chakra in your hand as if your healing someone, then you mold it to where it can connect the flesh." Her hand pulsed as she connected two lumps from under the blanket; it was a courtesy call for those who really don't want to see the dead bodies.
They got to work, molding the pieces one by one until they completed two legs apiece, not bad for a four hours worth of work. They went on a lunch break to regain some of their chakra, by that time Hinata Hyuuga, one of the main branch Hyuuga clan's people. She came over, with her big pupil-less eyes gazing at the table, knowing far to well what were under those ominous blue blankets.
Sakura, tired and impatient, asked the Hokage about Naruto, something that Hinata wanted to hear, but at the same time she didn't.
Tsunade sighed, closed her eyes, and plunged into the story, "Around 5:00 this morning, the ANBU guards found two bodies dead, they are unknown, which is weird since nobody has been claimed anyone missing or dead yet. And we found on the ground and in blood, claw marks, and signs of teeth on the buildings and big gashes in the sides of concrete walls. Also, we sensed an ugly chakra, it was gross the way it felt, and we knew that it was probably the work of Kyuubi, the nine-tailed fox."
Hinata fainted at the last syllable, it struck her like a ton of bricks, she landed on the floor and started weeping uncontrollably, her whole body shuddering from the heavy gasps she took. Sakura could only put her arm around her and comfort poor Hinata, it was like finding out her own brother died, it is horrible to go through.
"well, think of it this way, Hinata," Hinata perked up a bit, "We can ask him a little later, I'm going over to the jail tomorrow, and you and a few other people can come with me too."
Hinata perked up a bit, she felt that she could talk to Naruto and see if he did it or not, she had to figure it out by herself, it was driving her crazy.