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Brotherhood

Chapter1 – Stranger on the Road

The gate patrol sat bored as they looked out at the expanse of trees beyond the village, it had been a quiet day with nothing but the usual traffic and for the past few hours no one had approached. It had been so silent that a fox had appeared sniffing at the path a few meters from where the guard sat. As the guard watched the fox tuned to look up the road though the open gate then sat looking at the gate its self then at the guard

"You want in?" The guard asked with a laugh expecting the small skittish creature to run

But he was shocked when the fox looked him square in the eye and tilted its head like a dog. He then fell of his chair in shock as a young man appeared next to the fox as if from nowhere without sound or sign of his arrival

"We would both like entry" the young man said with a smile as the Chunin picked himself up and re seated himself on his chair "I carry a summons form the Hokage"

The guard looked the young man over, he was a bout 5'7" with green eyes, his hair was covered completely by a ninja Hitai-ate with a strange symbol on it, it was a circular swirl, the same as most leaf ninja wore ether on their backs or on an armband. But it hadn't been seen on a ninja forehead protector in over 30 years. He also wore a long necked navy blue top with the neck puled up to cover most of his face similar in style as the 6th Hokage, Kakashi Hatike, over the top he wore a khaki flack jacket similar in style to the older chunin vests that Konoha ninja used to wear. He also wore matching pants with a green kuni pouch on his left hip and a smaller black pouch strapped to his right thigh. Black ninja sandals and bandages binding the lower legs of his pants finished his outfit. The only weapon he had visible was a sword strapped diagonally across his back the hilt viable over his left shoulder

"Do you have the summons with you...?"

there was a sudden movement from the stranger and a clang of blades. Again the gate guard started in surprise as the stranger, sword drawn, faced a new arrival a darkly dressed man his long raven hair covering his left eye stood with his own sword drawn and crossed with the strangers, his one visible black eye was glaring into the green eyes of the stranger

"Uchiha" the masked man said with an edge of malice in his voice, stepping back and re-sheathing his blade

"Daichi" the cloaked arrival glared at the masked man "what are you doing here" the Uchiha's blade was still out and was angled closer to the masked man's neck where the fox was now growling at the cloaked man

"i got a summons" he pulled a scroll from his waist pouch with his right hand and tossed it between them catching it with his left, holding it out with the seal visible

the clocked Uchiha grunted and re-sheathed his own blade and nodded at the gate guard "he is safe"

the uchiha walked past the shocked chunin and the masked stranger and into the village

"Hay Uchiha" the masked man now had mirth in his voice as he jogged to catch up "race you to the Hokage's office" he reached into his pouch and removed 3 unusual shaped Shuriken

the Shuriken were slightly larger and had 3 points that were slightly longer and curled back to form 3 sweeping blades the centre of each held a strange seal

the Uchiha shook his head with mild disgust as the masked ninja threw one of the Shuriken and disappeared and then disappeared himself moments later, sharingan active

the gate guard collapsed back in to his chair vowing to drink himself to oblivion that night, was that the Hiraishin the masked man had used ?

Note- Thankyou for reading and please leave a review, I know this is a bit of a timeskip from the prologue but the story will be told in flashbacks and so on