Rebellion

It was during a sparring session that Itachi brought up the subject.

"Kenshi. I need a favor from you." He said as he blocked a kick from Kenshi. Kenshi was one to watch out for, he was lean but had plenty of muscle and his blonde hair was a medium length. His eyes were what made him an anomaly. Normally the Hyuga's eyes were pale white so you could barely tell the difference between any portion of the eye, but Kenshi had kept his natural eyes and they shown a blood red that made him stand out even more.

"What?" he asked, his eyes closed as he was trying to feel Itachi move instead of seeing him move.

"I need you to come with me tonight to see the Hokage." He answered as he tried to punch Kenshi.

"Alright. Why do you need to see the old man?" Kenshi asked as he blocked the punch and threw his own.

"You'll find out when you get there." Was all he said as he focused entirely on the fight.

That night he entered the Hokage tower and entered the meeting room to see Itachi sitting in a chair with the Hokage and the three advisors to the Hokage. Taking a seat he waited until one of the 4 elderly people told him what was going on. Much to his surprise it was the elderly Danzo that spoke first.

"Let's cut right to the chase. Itachi we have tasked you with eliminating the Uchiha insurrectionists, you are to commence the operation tonight." Danzo said calmly.

"Which brings us to why you are here Kenshi. Itachi would like you to assist him in this." The Hokage said.

"Let me get this straight Sarutobi. You want me help Itachi kill off his clan members who 'might' be planning a rebellion?" Kenshi asked in disbelief.

"We don't think, we know." Elder Homura said with a sigh.

"A few days ago Itachi discovered the plot from one of the conspirators, Shusui Uchiha who offered him into the plot. Being carful he reported to us his findings and continued to investigate the conspiracy until we have the full list of names for who the masterminds are. Once finished we had Itachi dispose of Shusui by having his death look like suicide. Now we want you two to go and kill all of the people on the list and anyone that resists." Elder Koharu explained.

"We are sorry for asking the two of you to do such a thing but if we were to confront them openly then we would have many casualties. Therefore we want the two of you to do this in secret." The Hokage sighed. With a look at Itachi he realized that his friend would go through with this deed if he helped out or not.

"Very well. Approximately how many will die?" he asked.

"If we are fortunate only twenty of them. If we are not then the vast majority of the clan." Koharu said. With a nod they donned the clothing of anbu black ops and snuck out to the Uchiha family compound. Moving quickly they realized that most of the targets were gathering at a central point with a lot of the regular clan members being present.

"This isn't looking good." Kenshi whispered.

"It doesn't matter. They launch the plan tomorrow night. If we don't do anything tonight then we are going to have a civil war on our hands." He whispered back. They sat and waited a few minutes until finally Itachi nodded to him and they began the attack. Itachi threw a kunai into the air and Kenshi hit it with one of his own so that it would fall and hit the target directly beneath it, which was one of the twenty that they were supposed to kill, while Kenshi's kunai fell blade first into the crowd, killing one of the people that had gathered.

"Someone is here!" a man shouted. They all turned and looked in the opposite direction in which the two were hiding. Without looking they leapt off the roof top and began to attack. Kenshi began using the byakugan and was striking vital pressure points in the people that he had snuck up on. While Itachi moved like an assassin and slit throats while keeping them silent. After several people had died did they notice the two of them and attack. Itachi took to the roof tops using his sharingan to cause illusions on his opponents so they would be disoriented and less of a threat, while Kenshi struck with the byakugan or at times switching over to a kunai knife so that he would be able to block an incoming target. The slaughter continued until late in the evening when Sasuke Uchiha, Itachi's younger brother came running up the streets and saw the clansmen dead. Kenshi reacted quickly and vanished from sight while Itachi stood and let his brother see him.

"Why! Why did you kill them?!" he cried.

"To test my abilities." Itachi explained. Kenshi then realized what was going to happen. They would use Itachi as a scapegoat so that they could keep their hands clean. Realizing what was going to happen he weighed the options that he had left and decided that for appearances that he would move in and make it look like he was trying to stop Itachi and let him get away.

"Itachi!" he yelled as he ran out of the shadows and towards them. Itachi then used some powerful form of the sharingan to knock out Sasuke and faced Kenshi.

"Thank you." He said "I knew that this was going to happen. So did the elders. They want me to go out of the village and watch for threats to it from other countries."

"At the cost of your life here." He growled.

"True. I will lose what I had here, but for their happiness I will gladly do so." Itachi sighed "I leave the village in your care Kenshi. Watch out for the next generation, especially Sasuke." Itachi said as he walked over and shook his hand.

"You realize that I may be called to kill you one day." He said

"Go ahead and try. We can finally finish our match from the chunin exams." Itachi grinned as they shook hands. With that Itachi left the village of the leaf, marking himself a rouge shinobi. Kenshi then took Sasuke to the hospital and then returned to the Hokage tower to resign as a shinobi.

"Sarutobi." He growled as he barged into the hokage office.

"Kenshi. I assume that the deed is done."

"At the cost of my best friends reputation." he spat as he threw his headband on the table.

"I resign." He said as he walked out.

"Wait Kenshi." The third yelled "It was not my intention to have him discredited, the other elders decided that, and used the rebellion as an excuse so that they would have a spy in the outside world."

"I no longer care. I renounce my life as a Konaha shinobi. I will now live as I see fit until I finally decide what I will do." He then turned to look at the old man, his red eyes burning "And you better pray to the gods of shinobi that I don't come back with my mind made up to kill you and the elders." With that terrifying thought he left the village, and travelled the land searching for something to fill the emptiness that was left with his best friends self inflicted banishment.