A/N: Hello there, I'm back with another chapter! I hope you enjoy it ;).
As Fugaku had predicted, once the words left his mouth, a tumult broke out.
"Enough!", the Hokage surprisingly yelled. "I knew about this since Minato's late parents told me. Almost the same way Minato told Fugaku. They wanted someone to protect and raise Minato..."
Danzo scoffed, "You hid such valuable information, Hiruzen? If Konoha had known about this..."-"Minato gave everything for Konoha, even his own sou, wife and sonl, elder-san", Fugaku interrupted coldly.
"I agree with Uchiha-san, the Yondaime Hokage was perfection in every shinobi sense. We should honor his last wish", Shikaku piped up.
"The Namikaze clan truth will be an SS-Rank secret. Naruto's status as jinchuuriki and heritage will be an S-Rank secret. He will however live under the Uchihas. There is a high chance he activates his sharingan."
He turned to Fugaku. "Uchiha-san, can you arrange that Naruto's father, an Uchiha, died in a mission a few months ago and his mother died in the Kyuubi attack? The Uchiha had something for a blonde outside of the clan. This is everything you'll say about him. If anyone digs too deep, shut them up."
"Yes, Hokage-sama." The Hokage's words were final. So they moved on to their next subject.
Fugaku walked out of the Hokage tower. The Uchihas got even more isolated, which would stir the whole clan up. However the Hokage surprisingly followed almost literally what Minato had written about Naruto's future.
He hurried to the hospital, where young Naruto was at the moment. His wife and children, Itachi and Suki, surely were already there.
He nodded to a few UMP's, the Uchiha Military Police, who passed past him on the streets. However he noted how a few civilians shot him and his fellow people dirty looks. Odd.
And indeed, his family was already waiting. "Hello Fugaku", his wife greeted him. "How was the meeting?"
"We got the right of custody for Naruto. Anything else can wait", he said as a greeting. He nodded to Itachi. "Itachi, I saw how you brought both your baby sister and a fellow clanswoman to safety. I'm proud of you."
Itachi gave a small nod in reply. "Thanks, tou-san."
He looked at his daughter Suki. She was sleeping and looked as peaceful as one could get. Inwardly, he smiled.
Without further ado, he marched into the hospital room where a dozen babies or so slept. "Sir, you can't walk into here."
A flash of his sharingan silenced the nurse inside. "I'm Fugaku Uchiha, head of the Uchiha Clan and I'm coming for a fellow clansman. Naruto Uchiha." He showed her the papers.
"Here is he, Uchiha-sama." She led him to the bed where Naruto rested. She gingerly picked him up and held the small bundle to the Uchiha. "Thanks."
He turned around and left. "So this is Naruto-chan. He already has the hair of his..."-"Don't, this should be a secret. Let's talk about this later." His wife looked at him puzzled but nevertheless she nodded.
Fugaku knelt eye level with Itachi. "Say hello to Naruto Uchiha. He will be living with us in our household. I want you to watch out for him just like you do with Suki. Can you do this?"
Itachi looked at the newborn with wonder. He only had seen another baby, namely his sister. Must be fascinating to compare grown humans to their baby variants, Fugaku mused.
The young boy looked a last time over Naruto before looking his father into the eyes. "I will, I promise."
Fugaku smirked and ruffled his son's head. Itachi truly was the perfect child a parent could wish for.
"Suki-chan come on, let us play", Naruto insisted. "But I want to watch Itachi-nii-san train", Suki argued back.
The blond pouted childishly before an idea popped into his mind. "Then let's ask if Itachi-nii wants to play with us."-"He's too old to play ninja with us, dummie", said Suki.
"Argh! You're no fun, then let's go find Itachi-nii!"
Suki smirked. Things always had to go her way with Naruto. "Oi! That's the wrong direction, dummie!"
Said dummie stopped mid sprint and turned around. He smiled sheepishly. "Who gets to Itachi-nii-san's as last is the old Tsuchikage!" Naruto's eyes widened. "Not fair!"
Suki laughed as the four year old Naruto desperately chased after her.
"Come on! It's already darkening, we should go home. Or else Fugaku-oji-san is gonna give us one of his scary looks", a seven year old Naruto insisted to an equally old Suki.
However Suki didn't react, instead she continued throwing kunai with an almost perfect aim. Almost perfect wasn't enough for Suki though.
"I know you really want to perfect your aim, but tomorrow's another day. Besides, Itachi-nii wouldn't want us to stay too long out of the house at night." That final sentence made Suki falter.
"Alright let's go." Naruto breathed a sigh of relief and quickly helped Suki pack their training equipment. Once finished, they broke into a sprint straight for the Uchiha Compound. Naruto couldn't help but feel an unease build in his stomach.
Was that the sixth sense of shinobi Shisui-nii had always spoken about? If yes, something bad, really bad, had happened.
He grabbed Suki's hand and started to run faster. She didn't seem to protest. Soon, the entrance to the compound could be seen. Naruto slightly hesitated as he ran through the entrance.
There was almost a deadly silence. Later on their lives, they would come to realize that in this type of silence, death was always around the corner. The kind of silence not even disturbed by the thundering of your heart.
They took a turn on the street and the following sight made them freeze up. Kunai, shuriken, blood and the worst of all, corpses, laid strewn around in the streets. All bodies had the Uchiha crest on their backs.
"This is not good! Not good at all! Come on, let's find Itachi-nii, Fugaku-oji-san and Mikoto-oba-san!"
They started running once more. Fear ran through them as they passed even more bodies. Looking at the faces of them made a pricking sensation build up behind Naruto's eyes.
They had not necessarily been friendly to him, but whereas whole Konoha seemed to treat him as non-existent, the Uchihas saw him at least as one of their own.
They arrived at the compound of the Head Family. The same silence greeted both youths from earlier. It took every ounce of Naruto's will to open the shoji doors.
No... This could not be happening... There, in the center of the entrance hall, were the bodies of the very dead Mikoto and Fugaku. Tears started to build in Naruto's eyes. He glanced to Suki. She wasn't doing any better.
Another figure appeared. Itachi. In his ninja gear. Hope built in Naruto, only to be crushed when he looked at Itachi's eyes. Shisui-nii and Itachi-nii had once taught him, how to notice someone who was in the middle of a killing spree.
Suki didn't seem to catch his hard look. "Nii-san, who did this? Kaa-san and tou-san, they are both... dead", the final words were choked out as Suki finally let a few tears slip.
His response was a kunai grazing her shoulder. "It was me. I killed our whole pathetic clan."
"Why?"
"To prove my own strenght."
"To prove your own strenght", Naruto echoed with a tremble in his voice.
"Don't give me that bullshit!", Suki screamed and charged at her once beloved nii-san. "Suki don't!" Naruto went to stop her, but she was faster.
Her efforts were rewarded by a hard punch into the gut, leaving her sprawled out on the cold floor. "Damn it", Naruto hissed and attacked as well. If they were going to get killed, might as well die trying to kill this bastard.
How dare he. How dare he take the only people in Naruto's life who gave a damn about him, how dare he take Suki's family away from her. How dare he be such a monster.
Naruto initiated a flying dropkick. Due to the height difference it went for Itachi's waist. He effortlessly caught Naruto's legs and used them to slam the blond's whole body into the floor.
All air left Naruto's lungs, but luckily nothing was broken. But his back still hurt as hell.
"I decide to spare the both of you. Killing you as it stands, would bring me nothing. You both are pathetic. Run, run and cling to your miserable lives for as long as you can", were Itachi's final cruel words before he body flickered away.
Naruto slowly got up with a groan. He immediately helped Suki up. He was at a loss what to do. It wasn't like every day your older brother decided to slay your whole clan real quick.
"Itachi", the last female Uchiha mumbled. She had a blank face, which worried Naruto. "Suki wait, we...", he stopped as she simply took off.
He ran after her. Any attempts to communicate with her were futile.
And in fact, they found the older Uchiha. Suki immediately pelted the escaping preteen with a barrage of kunai and shuriken. Her aim was on point, unfortunately Itachi Uchiha would not be taken down by such a basic attack.
Naruto decided to add his own two cents. "Shuriken Shadow Clones Techniques!", he said after throwing four shuriken. Much to the grown-ups astonishment and Suki's annoyance, Naruto's reserves were already so developed, he could already use techniques meant for chuunin and definitely not for seven year olds.
Itachi simply deflected the now 48 shuriken by either dodging or deflecting via sword. "Do you really think you can challenge me? Didn't I show you back there, how pathetic and weak you are compared to myself? It seems, I have to teach you another lesson."
Whatever Itachi would do, Naruto knew it was bad, really bad. "Tsukuyomi", he breathed out as his left sharingan spun into a three pointed shuriken-looking shape.
Naruto felt nothing happen, but a scream to his left made him glance worriedly at Suki. With a thud, Suki's body hit the floor. That made Naruto look with pure fury into Itachi's eyes. A fatal mistake.
Naruto cursed, as through his rage he forgot the most basic rule when fighting an Uchiha: Never look into the eyes. The following genjutsu made him feel like his whole body was encased by concrete.
"You are lucky that that technique has a slight cool down to use. You would have gone through a much worse fate than my foolish little sister."
"What did you do to her, you bastard!"
"Tsukuyomi is a technique which comes along the Mangekyo Sharingan. The Mangekyo is the eternal curse of us Uchihas. Because the only way to gain its immense power is by killing the closest one to you. Many Uchihas killed their own kin just to gain that power. Just like I did."
That meant... "You killed Shisui-nii! I overheard your little fight with the three other Uchihas!"
"Well spotted", he said mockingly. "I never understood how Shisui could be so friendly to an outsider like you."
"Just because the village doesn't like me didn't stop the Uchihas from accepting me!"
Itachi gave something akin to a smile. A dead one though. "Even within the Uchihas, your blood is of an outsider's, an outcast's. Once your ancestors had left the Uchiha disgracing themselves. They were a blemish to the almighty Uchiha name and thus, the Uchiha removed them from history", he said shocking Naruto.
Suddenly, Itachi vanished and reappeared right in front of Naruto. His eyes widened in shock and a bit of fear. He instantly received a knee into the guts, making him double over and spit out bits of saliva and blood.
His tormentor wasn't finished though, as he punched right into his whiskered face and made him fly back. Naruto groaned as he laid flat on his back. He spit out a bit of blood. His gum was bleeding thanks to that last punch.
His vision was a bit blurry, regardless he looked up. He saw Itachi's back turned to him. He noticed that the headband was about to fall off and fall off it did.
Itachi knelt down to pick it up and as he bound it, a part of his face was turned into Naruto's direction. The sight made Naruto question everything that had just happened in the span of a few minutes. Namely the sight of a crying Itachi.
Naruto must have passed shortly out, because all of a sudden, Itachi was gone. He groggily stood up and almost stumbled over another body. A living body. Suki.
That name made all numbness go away as he quickly crouched down and turned Suki's body, so her face was facing the sky.
"Suki? Do you hear me? Suki! Answer me!", panic started to build into Naruto's chest. Another feeling came crashing down onto him. Namely the realization of everything that had happened. He made a choked sound before he began to weep right on top of Suki's chest. His eyes were stinging.
The Uchihas were gone, Mikoto was gone and Fugaku as well. It cut deeply into the seven year old's heart. The only people who had seen him as anything but nothing were gone. He was alone. No, that was not true.
He had Suki. The tears stopped when he thought of her. How could he cry there, while she was still unconscious and probably still suffering from whatever Tsukuyomi did? From what he had seen it was some kind of genjutsu probably. A horrible one.
As he stared into her pale face, something struck him as oddly. He seemed to perceive everything much sharper, with much more detail... just like the Sharingan!
Could it be? He quickly grabbed for a kunai in his pouch. He stared at the blade's reflection, and indeed, two sharingan stared right back at him. This meant he might be able to break the possible genjutsu that was still affecting Suki.
He was pretty sure his sharingan were too weak to do it and he never had done that anyways. Shisui had once explained to him, how to break genjutsu via sharingan, but he had said it took several tries to even break a low level genjutsu.
All he had to do, was to make eye contact and do roughly the same when applying genjutsu through eye contact. He gingerly opened her eyelids. An identical sharingan pair greeted him. So this meant whatever Tsukuyomi did, made her activate her sharingan.
Her sharingan were unfocused though, which meant the owner was either unconscious or trapped in a genjutsu. He strained his eyes and tried to dispel that fog in her eyes.
It did not work. How could it. Only a fully matured sharingan could use the doujutsu that made the sharingan so feared. He took Suki into his arms and hugged her.
Why did everything have to end up like this? The world of the shinobi was truly an unforgiving place.
They stayed like that for quite some time, until Naruto sensed several people approaching. Immediately he jumped up with a kunai in hand, hell bent to defend Suki.
"Whoah, calm down there little guy. We mean no harm", one of them said. The young Uchiha realized at who he was pointing a knife and immediately put it away. Pointing at ANBU sharp things wasn't a good idea.
The ANBU slowly approached him, almost like he was a wounded animal. "Who are you? You can call me Mouse, and that's Cat and Badger." He gestured to his two ANBU colleagues.
"I'm Naruto Uchiha, Mouse. And that's Suki Uchiha", he said while kneeling again down and picking Suki up.
"Did something happen to her?"
Naruto looked up and his still active sharingan hardened. Unconsciously the ANBU made a step back, being reminded of a recently turned traitor. "Itachi Uchiha put her into some really bad genjutsu. After he... after he killed them all. Everyone except us..."
The ANBU's tensed at the mention of the traitor. They already had known all Uchiha had been killed. It seemed as though two survived. They survived the wrath of Itachi Uchiha.
"Come with us, we are going to lead you and your friend to the hospital and safety."
Naruto could do nothing but comply. He was completely under the mercy of Konoha shinobi. And for whatever reason the Uchihas really had seemed to avoid said ninjas.
The next morning Naruto shot up from his bed. Sweat covered his whole body. He had had a terrible nightmare. Itachi had come back and killed Suki as slowly and as painful as possible. Right in front of his eyes.
His sharingan were intensely blazing and tears had formed in the corner of his eyes. He looked to his right and saw Suki sleeping peacefully on another hospital bed.
That's right, the ANBU had lead him to the hospital. The nurses immediately took Suki into treatment and had made a quick check up on him.
He himself was fine, but Suki was still suffering the aftereffects of that accursed doujutsu.
He had been adamant to not leave Suki's side, so they had made an extra bed for him to sleep at her side.
He he scanned the room, still fascinated by the powerful Kekkei Genkai who was called the sharingan. The walls of a hospital room were perfect to the human eye, but with his eyes he could see faintly a few cracks and flaked off paint. These small things were all invisible to the naked eye.
He looked at Suki, and he couldn't help but notice just how serene she looked while sleeping. He felt at peace, and dare he say it, almost forgot what had happened the night before.
He still experimented with his sharingan abilities and would occasionally scan over the whole room. To his surprise or not so, he felt almost no drain on his chakra.
A movement to his right caught his attention. Suki was stirring. He immediately sprang up from his bed and went to her bedside.
Suki groaned and fluttered her eyes open. She looked right at the sharingan of Naruto. She blinked, once, twice. "You unlocked your sharingan", she stated.
"You too", he replied with a smile. She blinked again. "How do you know, I don't even remember unlocking it..."
"When Itachi did whatever he did to you", he said softly as she stiffened, remembering everything from last night, "you got knocked out. I tried to dispel the genjutsu, and while I was on it, I saw your eyes had shifted into the sharingan."
He looked hopefully at her. She didn't understand at first what he wanted. Then it clicked in her mind. She channeled a bit of chakra into her eyes and lo and behold, onyx morphed into blood red.
"Pretty neat right?", he asked grinning. Suki didn't respond. In fact she was brooding as she stared into nothing. He sighed, he knew why. He didn't blame her.
He had to stay strong for her and his sake. He really hoped they would be alright.
A/N: I'm really sorry for the slight delay. Originally I wanted to bring Chaper 1 already this weekend out. But life got in the way... I hope you still have mercy for me :). If you're asking about my update speed, I'm gonna try to stick with a chapter per week. I can't promise anything though because first, I got a life and second, I can be incredibly lazy...
Peace out!
~M