Sasuke is going to be interrupting a lot during this chapter. Madara, too.
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October 23
Dear Mr. Journal,
Mommy, Sasuke, and I are inside the Hokage Mountain with the rest of the village. Daddy isn't here. Mommy says he's outside fighting. Minato's girlfriend is here. Fish Cake and Minato aren't. I hope everybody's ok. Fish Cake is younger than Sasuke. I hope he's not hurt. He was just born today.
Goodbye for now,
Itachi.
October 23
Dear Mr. Journal,
Minato's girlfriend is gone. Nobody can find her. I think she went to go help fight. There's a lot of noise outside.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
October 23
Dear Mr. Journal,
The noise stopped. Everybody's leaving.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
October 24
Dear Mr. Journal,
Minato died. That's what everyone keeps saying. They say they can't find his body. Mommy hasn't heard anything from Minato's girlfriend. She keeps asking people if they've seen her. Her name is Uzumaki Kushina. Mommy thinks she might be dead. A lot of people are dead. It's sad. I wonder where Fish Cake is.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
October 27
Dear Mr. Journal,
Fish Cake is in our living room. The Third Hokage is here too. Fish Cake needs people to take care of him for a while. Mommy knew Fish Cake's mommy so she said she'd watch him for the first year. After that, the Hokage will take care of him. They can't find Fish Cake's godfather. They want to find him so he can take care of Fish Cake. The Hokage says that it's hard to find people to take care of Minato's son. I don't know why. Minato was our leader; his son should be loved.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
October 31
Dear Mr. Journal,
People have stopped visiting our house ever since Naruto moved in. Not that people really came by before, but it's just too empty now. At least Sasuke gets along with Naruto. He doesn't cry as much anymore.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
November 2
Dear Mr. Journal,
Shisui and I are in the same class now. He doesn't seem very happy about it. I think it's because I'm three years younger than him. It makes me sad that he might feel that way. I don't want to tell him that I'm moving to year five after winter break. He might not want to be my friend anymore.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
November 10
Dear Mr. Journal,
One of Minato's old students came by today. He wanted to see Naruto. I asked him why he didn't come by before and he said that he didn't know Naruto was born. I guess it was a secret. When he saw Naruto, he looked sad. I asked him what was wrong and he told me that they looked exactly the same. I think he must have meant Naruto and Minato. They do look the same.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
November 14
Dear Mr. Journal,
People have started to throw things at our house. They put holes in our screen doors and write things on our walls. They write "demon home" and "village destroyer housed here". I don't know why. Mommy and Daddy won't tell me.
Bye for now,
Itachi.
November 25
Dear Mr. Journal,
Minato's old student comes by here a lot, now. His name is Kakashi. He's a jonin even though he's only 14. I want to be like that. I want to be strong enough to rank high while I'm still young. I want to be able to protect my family forever.
Bye for now,
Itachi.
December 3
Dear Mr. Journal,
We're out of school for winter break. That means no school until January.
Kakashi went on a mission to the land of Snow for the holidays. He says he'll be back soon.
Shisui has been spending a lot of time training in the woods. I watch him sometimes. He's really good.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
December 4
Dear Mr. Journal,
Mommy taught me how to change a diaper today. I didn't want to know, but she showed me anyways. Sasuke poops a lot.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
December 12
Dear Mr. Journal,
I've been training really hard, lately. Daddy saw me out in the woods today. He says that he wants to teach me the Fire Ball jutsu. I don't want to tell him that I already know it. It might hurt his feelings.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
December 16
Dear Mr. Journal,
Daddy says that my fire ball was the biggest one he'd ever seen on the first try. He seemed happy and he said he was proud. He told me that I'm now officially a member of the Uchiha Clan.
I don't like lying to Daddy.
Bye for now,
Itachi.
December 23
Dear Mr. Journal,
I think Naruto's allergic to milk. He gets stomach aches every time he drinks it. Mommy calls it "lactose intolerance". Sasuke and I are lactose tolerant. Even though Naruto can't drink milk, he always wants it when I'm drinking it. He's so cute, I always give him what he wants. He always gets sick.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
December 31
Dear Mr. Journal,
Tomorrow is New Years. Mommy says that New Years used to be on February 7th, but they changed it.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
January 10
Dear Mr. Journal,
I joined the fifth year class today. Shisui was in it too. He said that all of the hard training he had done was starting to pay off.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
January 17
Dear Mr. Journal,
Kakashi came back today. Mommy and Daddy had to go out somewhere so he agreed to baby-sit Naruto and Sasuke (not me because I'm not a baby).
I asked him about his mission. He said that the royal family that he was spying on was over-thrown by the king's brother. The king was killed but Kakashi saved the princess. But what kind of person kills their own family just for the sake of power? It doesn't seem right. He even killed his only brother.
(-.-)
Sasuke had just about fallen on the floor in a completely un-Uchiha-like laughing fit after reading that.
'What kind of person kills their own family just for the sake of power?' That's golden! I could hardly believe my brother (MY BROTHER!), the on that told me the reason for the Uchiha massacre was to test his strength, would have ever thought that was an evil idea.'
When he finally calmed himself down, he picked the book back up.
(-.-)
…He even killed his only brother. That's just sick.
When Kakashi finished telling me about his trip, I asked him about Minato's old team. He told me about the medical ninja on his team. He said she used to have a crush on him and his best friend hated him for it. Te medical kunoichi was named Haruno Rin and his best friend was Uchiha Obito.
(O.O)
"Uchiha…Obito…?" Sasuke unconsciously said the name out loud.
And wasn't Sakura's family name Haruno? So if Minato was both Kakashi's sensei and Naruto's father, Obito was an Uchiha, and Rin was related to Sakura, then that must have been the reason our team was made up of who it was made up of.
I remember someone saying that the Hokage put certain people from our year on certain teams because of the teams that their parents or relatives were in. Ino, Shikamaru, Choji and Inoichi, Shikaku, Chomaru are an example. Aburame Shino and Hyuuga Hinata's fathers were teamed up with Inuzaka Kiba's mother.
I continued to read.
(O.O)
…Uchiha Obito. I asked him what happened to them and he told me. I told him that I was going to write it in my journal and he said that it was too long of a story. He wrote it down for me.
'It was the day that I went from chuunin to jonin. We had a mission as a team to watch the borders in Rock Country. Sensei had asked the rest of the group to bring me presents. I thought it was a nice idea. It was normal to celebrate thing like getting promoted.
'Sensei gave me a kunai knife with one of his teleportation tags on it. He was famous for his inventions. The tags, especially, because they aloud him to move faster than any non-sharinghan eye could pick up. That's how he got the name "The Yellow Flash".
'Rin gave me a personalized, pocket medical kit. She always did things like that: trying to make sure that I was in good health.
'Obito gave me his tardiness. He showed late, as usual, for our mission and then tried to give me some lame excuse about an old woman with a big sack needing help with directions. As many times as he used that same excuse, you'd think there was an old hag waiting around every corner. What kind of an idiot did he think I was? But for some reason, Sensei seemed to believe him.
'We were attacked not long after we began to move. I wanted to show off my newest technique to let Obito see just how much stronger I was than him, but Sensei got to the real enemy first. I destroyed the majority of the shadow clones but when I got too close to the real man, he pulled a knife on me and Sensei had to save me. Sensei told me that my Chidori, which was the name that I gave my new move, was flawed and I would need to be able to predict the movements of my enemy in order to actually hit them with it. He said that I shouldn't use it in battle again.
'We stopped to rest for the night. Sensei told me Obito couldn't sleep that time and since he was keeping watch, they had a talk with each other. They talked about why I was so strict when it came to rules and why I always criticized those who didn't follow them religiously. That's when Sensei mentioned my father.
'The White Fang was my dad. He was considered the greatest ninja of our village. He could do anything and everything and was even being recommended our future leader. But when I was nine, he was sent on a mission during which he chose the life of his comrades over the completion of their goal and abandoned the mission.
'The rest of the village looked down upon him for that. Even the people he had saved turned their backs to him. My dad (the word "committed" is scratched out) died not long afterwards. I made a promise to myself that I would never make the same mistake my father did.
'We divided ourselves into two teams the next day. I lead a three-cell team while Sensei went by himself. After hours of traveling, we were attacked and Rin was captured. Since she was a medical ninja and useful to anybody with common sense, I did not fear for her life and decided to continue on without her. Sadly, Obito did not like that idea. Like I mentioned to you before, Obito had a crush on Rin.
'He told me that friends are needed and that if we got Rin back, it would benefit our mission. I tried to explain to him that it would make more since to continue on without her and that she was useless when it came to anything but medical ninjutsu; that's when he punched me. I told him "emotion is just a useless burden". He told me that he was going to find Rin without me and that my father was a true hero that would have made the same choice. As he walked away, he said that "in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders are lower than garbage. However, those who do not care for and support their fellows are even lower than that. If I'm scum, the rules are no good to me. And if breaking them makes me the wrong kind of shinobi, I'll crush all the so-called shinobi".
'We went our separate ways. As I walked, I replayed what Obito said over and over again in my mind. Eventually, I turned around and went after him.
'I got to him in time to expose a camouflaged ninja that was about to strike. I cut the rock ninja in the arm and he then used his camouflage technique to try and sneak up on Obito again. I heard him coming so I jumped in front of him. He cut my left eye blind and I fell. Obito started crying but that was actually kind of normal for him.
'The rock ninja tried one more sneak attack, but this time Obito caught him. His sharinghan had some how activated for the first time at that moment and he could then see the once invisible man. He defeated the enemy while I bandaged my eye.
'We found Rin and fought her captor. When we thought he was immobilized, we release Rin from a genjutsu that had been placed on her. But the captor wasn't giving up that easily. He started a cave-in. One of the rocks hit me and I was knocked unconscious. When I woke up, I almost screamed. Obito's right side was completely smashed under a boulder. I tried to move it, but it wouldn't budge. I wanted to cry, but Obito wouldn't let me. He told me that his life was going to end and that there was no point in letting it become a distraction in our mission. He reminded me that he never gave me a real present the day before and that he had something for me now that would last as long as I did. His left eye, he gave me his sharinghan.
'He died minutes after the transplantation that Rin performed. We were attacked as we left him. I blacked out during the fight and woke up next to Sensei. He told me that he defeated all of the enemies and that we could go home.
'Not even a year later, the nine-tailed fox attacked. Rin was one of the many lost and Sensei was the last to die.
'They all sacrificed their lives to save the village. Their names are all carved into the K.I.A. memorial and my heart. They will always be with me until I, one day, can join them again.'
Kakashi looked sad when he wrote this. He told me that maybe he should start his own journal. He said that writing things like this down makes him feel better. After he said that, he had to leave the room for a minute. I think he cried.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi,
January 26
Dear Mr. Journal,
I asked Kakashi when he graduated school. He said he was five. I asked him how he did it and he sa—
(T.T)
"I wanted to know how he did it too."
Sasuke jumped out of his seat when Tobi, who appeared out of nowhere from behind him, started talking.
"I mean, he graduated before he was even old enough to start school."
"When did you…?"
"Tsk, tsk, Sasuke. You didn't know I came in? Is that book really so interesting that it would distract you so much?"
I looked down at the book in my hands.
"Is that what Itachi-san left you? A journal? Let me see it."
My grip on the book tightened and I pulled it closer to me.
"Oh, come on." Tobi whined. "Please let me see it?"
"Hn." I sat down on my bed and opened the book back up. "You can read it with me."
"Yays!" Tobi plopped down next to me and reached for the book. "But let's skip over all of the baby stuff. His life at twelve was much more interesting."
I pulled the book away from him. "No. We're at least going to read up to when Naruto leaves."
"Why?"
"Because I don't remember him living with me and because I said so."
"Fine" he pouted.
(T.T)
…he said that he had always wanted to be a ninja. When he was three, he would throw his dad's knives when his dad wasn't around. When his father found out, he decided that it would probably be safer to just teach Kakashi how to use them instead of letting him teach himself how to get hurt.
Bye, bye for now,
Itachi.
A/N: I actually got the idea of Itachi's journal entries, going from bad spell/grammar to slowly improved, from a book called Flowers for Algernon. It's a story about a mentally handicapped man (I think his name was Charlie or something) that gets surgery to improve his learning ability. The doctors who perform said procedure ask him to keep a journal. As the days go on, his vocabulary increases and his grammar mistakes become smaller. And as good as that sounds, it's a terribly sad story. You should read it if you're into that kind of stuff.