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"It must eat you up inside, ne?" The Yondaime Hokage questioned slyly as he smirked at the older man kneeling in front of his desk. "Keeps you awake at night, doesn't it?"
"I'm afraid I don't understand Hokage-sama," Uchiha Fugaku grit out as he kept his eyes lowered to the floor, not daring to let the blonde man see the anger in his eyes.
"Did you think I wouldn't find out Fugaku? I'm the Hokage now. There's very little that a Kage isn't made aware of when they take office…," Minato said conversationally as he rose to stand in front of an open window.
"I always thought it odd, you see," he continued as he brought his hands up to rest on the window frame. "That such a prestigious clan would want nothing to do with a child that showed so much promise. I mean in the few weeks it took for me to bring him back to Konoha…he had already learned how to channel his chakra as well as the majority of the basic Academy jutsu's."
"Most of the other clans were appalled you know. That you would allow such a prodigy, for anyone that can learn so much in under two months is most definitely a prodigy, to remain nameless. That you would not claim him even when it was proven he was your son…"
Minato looked over his shoulder at the man who remained unmoving, seemingly unfeeling. "He knows you know."
"Hokage-sama?" Fugaku questioned, allowing his confusion to leak into his voice although he kept his eyes down.
"Arashi. He is my student. I find myself as fond of him as though he were my younger brother. So of course he was one of the first to find out," Minato continued slyly, goading the man in a way that only he knew affected him.
"Knows about what Hokage-sama?" Fugaku asked as he tried to calm himself.
"I wonder what everyone would say, hmmm?" The Hokage said as if he hadn't heard the question. "If they knew that…Arashi wasn't the first Bastard Uchiha…"
"But then again," Arashi said as he saw Sasuke's confused expression. "Perhaps you are too young to have heard of me. Considering how much your Otou-san disliked talking about me it seems unlikely that you would."
"What…what does it mean?" Sasuke frowned. "The Bastard Uchiha?"
Arashi quirked an eyebrow. "Do you know what bastard means?"
"…" Sasuke simply stared.
Arashi smiled wryly at the child. "Ah, finally a youth without a gutter mouth. Well the polite definition is an illegitimate child. One born out of wedlock or to an adulterous affair. The less clean cut way of saying it is-"
"Arashi!" The Sandaime attempted to interrupt.
"That your father was sent on a long term mission four months before I was born and couldn't keep mini-me in his pants," the ANBU Commander stated in such a matter of fact tone that the Hokage and several hidden ANBU nearly choked.
"Ano…I don't understand," Sasuke said hesitantly, causing the Hokage to sweat-drop and the ANBU to grin at what they knew was coming.
Arashi let a sly grin cross his face. "Well it's like this Sasuke, when a man and a women-Mmmpfhgh."
Sarutobi let out a uncomfortable laugh as he covered Arashi's mouth with his hand while slapping the young man's head with his other. "Sasuke…I don't know how to say this so I'm going to come right out and say it the simplest way possible. Many years before you or Itachi were born, your father married your mother. But shortly after their marriage Fugaku was sent on a long term mission, one that brought him into contact with Arashi-kun's mother. Your father had a child with Potter-san, one that he did not know about. Once he did find out about Arashi, he refused to acknowledge him. Because of that his Shishou adopted him as a younger brother of sorts, it's why he bares the name Namikaze instead of Uchiha."
"You've gotta be kidding me," Uchiha Obito deadpanned as his Sensei introduced the young green eyed brunette to his team. "Then they weren't joking. You really took on the bastard as your student."
Rin frowned and smacked the boy on his arm. "Obito-kun don't be so rude! You can't go around calling strangers bastard!"
Obito turned furious eyes on his female team-mate. "You don't understand! For him to bare the Sharingan is a disgrace! He's an outsider! It should've been sealed the moment it was discovered!" The legitimate Uchiha frowned at his teacher. "You're a seal master, Sensei! Why didn't you do it yourself?"
Minato raised an eyebrow. "Why would I? It would have taken away his protection, he would have been next to defenceless without it."
"So what! Better him defenceless and dead, then here and alive!" Obito snarled.
"I see," Minato said as he bestowed his student with a frown. "I had hoped with everything they had put you through that you would be more understanding of Arashi-kun's plight. I'm very disappointed in you Obito," he said as he turned to leave, his arm holding his newest student tight to his body.
Rin turned a livid glare on her team-mate as soon as the two had left the training ground while Kakashi watched on curiously. It wasn't often that the young Uchiha acted so poisonously towards another person.
"What the hell was that about?" Rin fumed.
For the first time since they had met, Obito turned enraged eyes on his female team-mate. "Don't speak of things you know nothing about!" Obito seethed. "This concerns the Uchiha clan, someone like you could never understand!"
"Don't you think you're being a bit harsh?" Kakashi spoke up, wondering why the usually even tempered Obito would go to such lengths to express his dislike.
"No. That boy will bring nothing but trouble," Obito promised darkly. "He'll bring down everyone that comes near him. He's nothing more than a pretty poison(1)!"
Kakashi cocked an eyebrow in question to Rin as Obito stormed out of the clearing. "Pretty poison? What's crawled up his ass and died?"
"I don't know," Rin whispered frowning at the Uchiha's retreating back. "But such hatred…what could someone who the Uchiha didn't even know existed, have possibly done to inspire such loathing in someone like Obito?"
"My father cheated on my mother?" Sasuke asked unbelievingly.
"Hai."
Sasuke frowned as he watched his Aniki push the Hokage off of him. "But what…does it have to do with why Itachi killed the clan?"
Arashi chuckled darkly sending shivers down the boy's spine. "Because he killed them….for me."
"I see," Kakashi said tonelessly as he stared at the Sandaime with dead eyes.
"Kakashi…he requested that you watch over Naruto-"
"No."
"No?" The reinstated Hokage said incredulously. "It was your Sensei's wish that-"
"Give the jinchuuriki to The Bastard," Kakashi continued his tone deadened by grief.
"Kakashi! How dare you refer to him in such a way!" Sarutobi scolded.
"It's the truth though isn't it?" Kakashi said, bitterness creeping into his voice. "Obito was right, he's a pretty poison. Not even here for three years and three people I cared about died. Obito, Rin and Sensei. Maybe if he takes the demon, it'll die too."
Sasuke froze, rage and terror overtaking him. "Y-y-you! Naze! Naze!" Sasuke yelled, leaping at the man only to be tackled to the floor by a blue and yellow blur.
Sasuke looked up into worried bright blue eyes staring down at him. "Naze?"
The elderly Hokage sighed as he motioned for Naruto to get up. Kneeling down before the fallen Uchiha he frowned and shook his head.
"That's not quite how it happened Sasuke-kun," the Sandaime soothed. "Arashi-kun has a bad habit of taking all the blame. He did not ask for Itachi to kill them. Nor did he know about it in advance. None of us did. I wished to tell you this when you were older, but it seems if you and your Aniki are to have any type of relationship I must give you some details."
Pulling the boy up he led him back to the couch while Naruto moved to stand next to his Sensei, his small hand fisting in the brunettes baggy black pants, as though he were scared the man would disappear.
"Itachi-kun discovered a plot. One that would have allowed for your clan to kill not only me, but all of my loyal ANBU. Most notably Arashi-kun. Normally any assassination attempts against a Kage exclude any ANBU targets because of how difficult it is, as well as the fact that it would weaken the village. It was because of the Uchiha's animosity towards Arashi-kun and myself that they decided to include the ANBU, knowing that with Arashi leading them they would have died within minutes of myself."
The Hokage paused to let the shell shocked child absorb all of this.
"No," Sasuke said quietly shaking his head. "No, it can't be! They wouldn't! Otou-san wouldn't!"
"Normally I would agree," Arashi said quietly as he came to stand before the child. "Your father was ambitious, not stupid. Kami knows I despised the man for not growing a pair and following his heart rather than his head. But he knew his limits. He knew how far he could push before he'd be slammed back. However…in his final days, he was little more than a puppet."
"Nani?" Sasuke whispered looking up into his Aniki's eye's with a desperate hope.
"He was being controlled. By an S-class criminal named Orochimaru. He coveted the Sharingan and was using the clan to achieve his goals. Except he got greedy and was discovered," Arashi continued as he picked his student up from the floor where he had followed him.
"Instead of taking the issue directly to me," Sarutobi continued for him, "Itachi chose to investigate himself. It wasn't until he learned that they intended to kill Arashi as well that he snapped. However he did the entire village a great service. If the plan had been followed out then Konoha would have been under Orochimaru's control."
"Don't sugar coat it Sandaime-sama!" Arashi snarled. "You know as well as I do that although he saved Konoha with his actions that he holds little love for the village itself!"
"He needs to understand-"
"Yes he needs to understand that his brother is not a harmless teddy bear! That he will kill mercilessly because he can! I saw the scene Hokage-sama! The bodies may have been gone but the blood was still there! That was not the action of a Shinobi defending his village, it was the action of a man out for blood!" Arashi raged. "Stop giving the boy hope that the next time he meets his brother he'll be swept into a hug!"
Sasuke looked between the downcast Hokage and his eldest brother tiredly. Now he knew why Hokage-sama had warned him about how exhausting this would be. "So Itachi had a reason to kill the clan? But he's still considered unstable?"
"Yes," Arashi said nodding. "That's about right."
"I don't understand…"
Arashi groaned as he readjusted a curious Naruto on his hip. "Think of it this way Sasuke. Your brother may have done us a favour by killing the traitors, but he didn't stop there. He killed every last Uchiha, except you. Women, children, the elderly, there was no distinction in his eyes. Those that were too young to know of the plot, too young to have chosen a side were all slaughtered. It was bloody and it was violent. Not a single one died quickly, or peacefully," he said in a dull tone as he watched the horror return to the boy's eyes. Good. He needed to realize what had happened.
Sasuke took a shuddering breath as he relieved the scenes his brother had shown him. He was right. Itachi's actions that night were not of a sane man. He swallowed heavily. "What now?"
"Hmm?" The Hokage hummed questioningly.
Sasuke looked up to stare into his Aniki's green eyes. "What will happen now? Can I stay with you?"
Sarutobi and Arashi looked at him with astonishment as Naruto simply cocked his head to the side.
Arashi blinked before opening his mouth to roar a refusal. "I-"
"Sensei?" Naruto perked up in the green eyed man's arms.
The brunette snapped his mouth closed as he caught sight of the boy's hopeful expression. "Nani?" He asked sullenly, already knowing what he would be asking for.
"Since Sasuke-san is staying…do I have to share my room?"
Extra scene! (future scene)
"Are you sure you don't mind him staying?" Arashi asked his hyperactive student a few days after the Sandaime had left Sasuke with them.
"Why wouldn't I? We already turned the storage room into a bedroom for him. It's not like I'll have to share with him anymore," Naruto reasoned as he hopped onto the stool to dry the dishes his Sensei had just washed.
"Demo! I mean don't you think that this'll cut into your training time?" Arashi said desperately as he clung to the counter. "It's not too late to send him to Hatake!"
Naruto blinked before shaking his head at the man. "It shouldn't interfere with either my training or yours. We already know you can teach two children of different levels. We'll just be adding a third to the mix. It'll work out fine Sensei!"
"Demo…," Arashi trailed off weakly, knowing that his student wouldn't allow him to send the other orphan away.
Naruto grinned at the defeated man cheekily. "Don't tell me that Konoha no Kuro Kaze(2) is afraid of a little kid?"
The only answer he received for the taunt was a face full of bubbles.
1. Don't read too far into it. Obito isn't attracted to him or anything like that. It'll be repeated throughout the story but what Obito's trying to say is that while the idea of a prodigious Uchiha like Harry/Arashi is appealing, in reality the family thinks that he'll be their downfall.
2. Kind of bland name but it wasn't my first choice. I couldn't get a confirmation on the translation for the one I wanted so I went with something safe. Means the Black Wind of Konoha. If anyone has a better idea…
A/N: Well here's another one. I've been dragging my laptop to the Hospital with me a lot, and since most of my relatives live out of town I had a quiet thanksgiving for once. Back to school tomorrow so no updates for a while. But I am giving you guys an incentive to review. Every now and then I'll be throwing in extra scenes and I can't quite decide which one to post with the next chapter(It's already written) Would you prefer the story of how Arashi's Sharingan developed; Or How Minato found Arashi? Reader's choice, but please be polite!
yaoi kitsune: They're both yummy aren't they?
Falling Right Side-Up: Well I've got the Yondaime being all fluffy and funny in ANN, I figured that I'd write him more in character in here. After all I'm pretty sure that it's mentioned that Naruto takes more after his mom, personality wise. While I can see the Yondaime helping out a kid in need, I can't see him taking one in unless it benefited him in some way. What would be more beneficial than an Uchiha who was utterly devoted to you?
The Red Dragons Order: Well…I could make them longer. But the reason they're so short is because for every 2000 words I manage for this, I'm then switching to ANN and writing about 500 words. Retyping what I lost is a pain, but this story keeps me motivated. About Fugaku, well that will come out. I figure that a family as large as the Uchiha's is bound to have a few skeletons in the closet. But don't think he's a good guy yet. He's still a total creep regardless of what I've revealed in this chapter. You'll have to wait a bit more for the Itachi and Arashi interaction, but I will reveal that Arashi wanted nothing to do with him at the beginning.
Tenshi Youkai no Yugure: …Himitsu! Well theirs is going to be a rocky relationship from start to finish. I haven't read enough of Deidara to keep him in character…then again the only parts with Genma that I've read are from the Chunin exams…but I'll figure something out.
Yoru Hana1: …this chapter might have answered your first question. Hmmm…the academy eh? Interesting and I may incorporate that. But no at the moment he doesn't work at the academy. Haha, emo chibi Sasuke! Sorry I just had a flashback to my bell test side fic…I can see him all gothed up running from my various Ninja!Harry's! …I'm done now.
Honebar: I was the same at his age. I believed everything adults told me…watch out for those ferrets they're evil!
Kitai Shinsei: You're most definitely the closest on the Sensei issue. .:Chuckles:. I'm glad you liked it. I thought the last sentence was a bit overdone. Like those soap operas that end dramatically and make you laugh. Glad you liked Minato, he was fun to write as a serious character for once instead of one who goofs off and acts all fluffy. Iruka? Well there's a reason Naruto calls Arashi Sensei…but I haven't gotten that far yet so I could always change it. Do you know if Iruka taught Naruto throughout the entire Academy years? Iruka with Arashi sounds good actually. But I'd have to make it Arashi/Iruka because I can't see Ruka-chan dominating my ANBU Commander Arashi that way…unless he was secretly an ANBU…but then again I've butchered cannon enough for one day don't you think? Thanks for the Hugs!
PsychoWing: I alluded to his rank in this chapter. And I can say that while no one is stupid enough to outright abuse Naruto or even ridicule him, his life still isn't all sunshine and daisies.
purplekitsune-chan: How I came up with it? I have a very overactive imagination as I'm sure I've mentioned. I was chatting with someone and they mentioned that they stopped reading Naruto/HP xovers because of how repetitive they all were. Mostly they were saddened by the excess of stories that had Harry being Sasuke's cousin or the Shinobi going to Hogwarts. While I can't do much about the Hogwarts story,(I'm not motivated enough to take on that one!) I could do something about the Uchiha Harry theme. So like I mentioned before I went through several variations before settling on this one. If you're asking how this specifically came to be, it's because the first scene I wrote involved Harry gaining the Sharingan. From there I had to think of how he came to Konoha and such. Don't know any younger Harry stories off the top of my head however you could check the community managed by the author meemei on this site. You may or may not know about it but it's one of the best communities for Naruto/HP fics.
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