Konoha's Sharingan Brothers

Arc I

Chapter 3

~~ A month ago ~~

Susanoo's fist collided with Itachi's. The Uchiha family prepared for a fight for their lives. "Stay behind me!" Itachi warned them. Mikoto and her youngest soon stood behind. To his curiosity, Sasuke stuck his hand out and gentle brush the crimson chakra armor of Susanoo feeling of being zapped. Sasuke shook his temporarily numbed hand trying to get a feeling. Such power, he thought.

"Itachi-kun, please don't hurt your brother."

She bragged on her knees. Itachi keenly crocked his head in her direction and gave her the slightest nod of approval. His Susanoo's hand gently embraced her. She couldn't believe something so immensely extraordinary could be so gentled than she normally thought. She was gently hoisted to her feet.

"I won't, just need him to deactivate Susanoo before he starts a brush fire." He reassured her.

Naruto's Susanoo made some subtle changes in it strategy and shot an arrow of bolted chakra. Sasuke never expected Itachi's Susanoo parry the arrow with its hand. The chakra arrow was then absorbed into Itachi's Susanoo. Naruto's Susanoo then began to unleashed flurries of rapid punches. Itachi's either blocked or weave around the punches while Sasuke and his mother did stayed behind Susanoo and anticipated rather if it were going to step forward or backwards. When he had the chance to go on the offensive. Naruto and his Susanoo was pinned up against the destroyed cabin.

That was when Naruto's Susanoo submitted its defeat as its crimson demonic aura on Naruto decimated. Naruto gagged. His Sharingan was degrading. It went from MS to Level 2 Sharingan then two the very first stages with only two comma irises. Naruto dropped on all fours gasping. Till today, Itachi had never experienced an Uchiha's Sharingan downgraded from a MS to the first stage. He wondered if there were side effects. Well, it's for the best he doesn't wield the MS at such a young age.

"Nii-sama, will nii-chan be alright?"

Itachi remained silent as he also deactivated his Susanoo from play.

Naruto chuckled. His now cerulean switch to Sharingan on and off in a pestering fashion, which annoyed Sasuke.

"Teheheheh... just kidding." His family sweat-dropped. "What's sah matter you scary cats."

Sasuke's blood was boiling with rage. Curse the dobe to pull a prank in such adverse times. "Naruto, remind me to kill you afterward."

"That's if you can scary cat."

"Don't tempt me dobe," Sasuke snorted.

Itachi sighed as he shook his head, "Enough you two!" he onyx eyes absorbed the sight of Naruto. "Naruto, before we get started. On behalf of the family... welcome to the Uchiha family.

Naruto nodded.

Mikoto clutched her hands together. A soft, warm smile formed on her tendered lips, "Yes dear. During your hibernation, I have adopted you into my family. I'm legally your foster mother till you're eighteen years old, but remember this... I will treat you as if you are my own flesh and blood for life... come give mommy a hug."

Naruto hugged the ravenette with tears cascading down his Sunkist skin. He knew this was not a dream.

This is reality. He has one mother and siblings worth his wild. Naruto's cerulean orbs trailed towards Sasuke has he reached out for something. Naruto gently broke embrace with his mother and observed Sasuke's hand. It took him ten seconds the recite the hand gesture. Naruto mentally cursed himself. Out all the people in the world, he would never thought in his wildest dreams Sasuke would be the first person to shake his hand. Naruto was still obscured. Should he shake hands?

"Sasuke... I um—"

"Welcome to our family nii-chan."

Tears were threatening to run down his eyes once again, but Naruto knew he shed enough tears for the night. It was then Naruto's nose had sensed the smell of burning oak tree. Hie deadpanned. Naruto then putted on a fake innocent smile. He knew that he was responsible for burning down the Uchiha cabin. Naruto sweat-dropped and scratch the back of his head nervously. How was he going to play the innocent game?

"Thanks everyone, um may I ask. What happen to the house?"

Boy he didn't miss the glares he was receiving from his bothers, but Mikoto chuckled and told Naruto that it was not his fault.

~~ Nami no Kuni ~~

(Present)

The daimyo typically locked himself in his office as his thugs were stationed outside granting no entry without permission. That was till he heard a groans coming from beyond his office as the sound of bodies clattering on the wooden floor. He then slowly picked up his Katana that was standing idly by a sculpture of himself. He unsheathed the Katana, but it was knocked out of his hands as he watched the Katana fell helplessly. He then felt a cold blade flushed against his throat.

"Tirus, what is the meaning of this? I thought we had an agreement!"

"Oh – change of plans. Gato I've decided this land will be my base of operations."

The Kiri nunkin had a long brown ponytail. He had such a handsome face enough to make most women squeal before him, but half his face was covered with a navy blue ninja masked. He was wearing a dark leather drench coat the covered his black tank top and most of his lower body, which Gato could not see. He the smiled with mirth underneath that mask. He could feel the fear radiating off the Daimyo's kneeling body.

"N-no no no... please I'm bagging you. I'll do anything." Bragging from his knees, Gato cried out childishly.

Tirus turned and met his fellow kunoichi companion. "Yuna, did you hear that?" He mocked.

Yuna snickered, "Poor Daiymo wants to do our bidding."

The blond kunoichi also wore the same leather drench coat, but were well exposed cleavage was shown, and she was wearing a pink bikini. Gato guessed that it was just to have her way with mend. Seducing them to the palm of her hands, she has a pink scabbard sheathed her Katana. She watch as Tirus held his favorite gold coin flickering in between each finger. Then he final revealed it before the Daimyo.

"Is that so – I say 'heads' you live and 'tails' you die'." Gato watch as Tirus flung the coin in mid-air. His life was on the line. When catching the coin, Tirus then held out the coin, and the expression on Gato's face was a grim one. "Tails it is!"

"Nooo..." one swing was all it took to get the job done, but today was not his day as someone came crashing down from the ceiling, "Huh!"

A different swordsman, but this guy was much younger than they expected. It was a boy who was dressed in a ridiculous orange jumpsuit. He saw another boy kicked Yura through the flimsy drapes and the door and vanished from his sight, but his eyes were deadlock on the whiskers. Their blades still clung together. Naruto was smiling.

"Where did you come from you rant?" To his annoyance, his Katana slid upright creating sparks. Naruto saw what he was doing and he used the momentum to pushed further in, but the brute strength of an adult proved to be overwhelming. Naruto was thrown on his butt, but recovered incredibly with a back flip and parried the incoming Katana in time.

"Beats me," he played dumbly. "I'm here for the bounty on your head."

"Such young for a bounty hunter, a twerp like you will take twenty years of training to be on the same level as me. "

"Do not underestimate me dattebayo!"

Naruto threw four Shurikens. Tirus batted them down. He then hurdled in the boy's blind side and slashed slantwise. Naruto quickly anticipated Tirus's movements by ducking while the Katana beheaded the statue. Gato nearly pissed his pants when the head of his statue fell silently onto his lap as a reminder that it could have been his own. Gato cried as his office was being under demolition. He crawled under his desk, but prove to be a futile when the desk was split apart from Tirus's Katana.

Tirus blew out hundreds of water shaped senbons. Naruto pushed the Daimyo out of the way as he received most of the damage. Naruto's body disappeared in a puff of white smoke. Well look at that – the boy can do Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, Tirus scorned.

"Is that all you've got! How about this!" a flash-bang to be written in a paper tag detonated below Naruto's feet. Naruto was nearly blinded. His eyes felt as it was lit on fire. Only did he saw the shadowy silhouettes of a person's Katana descending for his neck. Rolling hard to his right, Naruto felt his body afloat. He was underwater, but why? That's why. He was trapped in a sphere of what.

"Hey! No one can't escape my Water Prison no Jutsu. Just submit your or else you will die!

What is this jutsu? Can't move or even mold chakra. I'm hopeless, but that never stop me from trying, "I'll never go back on my nindo way dattebayo!"

"Have it your way."

The Kiri nunkin with the Katana in his left hand while his right was occupied with the Water Prison Jutsu jab through the sphere of water making its way through the blond toddler's chest. Naruto's body puff into another cloud of white smoke.

"Danm you with your Shadow Clones!" He spat.

Sharingan!

Tirus dropped the jutsu and parried the boy's Katana from behind. When he turned, he looked briefly into the boy crimson eyes.

"Sharingan? Didn't the Uchiha Clan got wiped out?" He adverted his eye from Naruto's glimpse knowing the illusion effects a Sharingan user could cast on a person through the eyes.

Naruto mused, "The clan is dead, but few lived plus one just joined the family nine months ago are alive."

Tirus did not comprehend the second half of the boy's sentence. "I see, you're the first blond Uchiha I've ever seen. Too bad you will be the last."

Naruto chuckled, "Unfortunately for you. This will be the last time you'll get to lay eyes upon an Uchiha."

Tirus was then ensnared in a twine of vines t hat sprouted beneath him. Suddenly, they were not in Gato's office. "Wha... since when?" He knew he was trapped in a Gen-jutsu. "I've glimpsed only at your eyes for few seconds." He struggled against the binding of the vines, but it proved to be futile.

"Few seconds all that I needed. Your fate has been sealed and don't bother breaking the Gen-jutsu, because as we speak. My brother is restraining you... have a nice life."

"Wait! Damn you! I swear I w-will I wil..." His world went blank.

Sasuke snorted looking at Naruto's Sharingan. He'd seen it upgraded when Naruto then began to stir from his sitting position. "Took you long enough, but don't keep me waiting next time." He said it with no emotions.

Naruto scoffed at Sasuke sudden outrage. "What do you expect dattebayo? I'm the one who's been fighting the leaders while you deal with the small flies!"

"Stop your rambling dobe, and just for the record. This was your first. Next time I'll take the lead."

This is what he hates about Sasuke. In a moment, he can be your best friend, but he has these mood-swings that will drive Naruto crazy.

Naruto hated Sasuke's brooding and emo attitude, especially when there was no reason for him to be all moody. They haven't come across any fan-girls lately, and Naruto sure got a share of some of Sasuke's fan-girls. He first thought it was blissfulness to have feminine attention, but the more they kept on nagging him to be his "girlfriend". Naruto could mentally agree with his brother that fan-girls are annoying and troublesome. They only care for looks and popularity, not the person's heart.

One girl... just one girl he would allow and yet she's miles away in Konoha. The worse of that she only held an affection towards his brother, and top of it. She hates Naruto. Such a turn of events would be a miracle. Who knows... maybe he won't be infamous with the Konoha female population when they discover that he's an Uchiha. That was the reason why he had his share fan-girls on their trip.

Sasuke nudged him on the shoulders.

"Hey! Were you even listening?"

He shrugged, "Whatever teme... lets summon oni-san."

A scroll fell out of the hands of Sasuke. The scroll in magical open as it unleashed a smoke screen. Within the smoke cloud was Itachi, but not fully equipped with ninja wear, his eyes seemed heavy as if wakened unexpectedly.

"So how did it go?" His said it after yawning.

"Believe it! Every went smooth as planned."

Itachi snickered as he saw the changes in Naruto's Sharingan. No doubt Itachi knew Sasuke was fuming in the inside. "Good, you two take the rogue chuunins to the rendezvous point, and Naruto." He offered his hand. "Congratulations upgrading your Sharingan. Now I can either teach you or give you scrolls to access more advance Gen-jutsu."

Naruto reached out and shook Itachi's hand, "Wow!" he exclaim, "I never noticed."

Sasuke scoffed, "Dobe, seriously you can be very dense went comes to the obvious." Sasuke spat while turning his back.

"Teme! How the heck I so post to know when I absolutely feel the same? I haven't looked in the mirror yet. Can you enlighten me for someone who hasn't yet to reach Level Two Sharingan?" Suddenly a pestering smirk found its way across the blond Uchiha's lips.

Now you know how I feel when you have the 'heart of the one I love'.

"Hmph... dobe."

"You two put a lid on it!" Itachi jabbed their foreheads making them winced.

"Nii-chan needs to learn how not to envy me." Naruto playfully put his brother in a choke-hold. "You going to have Level two sooner than you think." They wrestled around.

"Whatever, and would you mind getting off of me!""

Naruto found himself to be straddling Sasuke's lap. Both of them squirmed away from each other as if one of them had the plaque. Both of them nearly puked. Itachi watched on humorously. He then faked a cough as to get his brothers attention.

"Now leave and I will see you two at the cabin."

The checkpoint was normally filled with Ninja Hunters, depending which region they were traveling. Nami no Kuni doesn't have a hidden village, so they mostly rely on Konoha or Kiri for assistance. As usual, the adults expression were priceless knowing the Uchiha brothers were only kids. Some would get moody and throw a fit, but once their Sharingan eyes lit up. Kids or not, no one was brave enough to challenge anyone from the Uchiha Clan. No one dared to cheat and steal from an Uchiha.

As usual with or without Itachi, the boys had no trouble getting home. From time to time, thugs or bandits would keep watch for signs of vulnerability. With their intimidating Sharingan flashing red, there was non who was stupid enough to attack an Uchiha.

"Plenty yen tehehehe – for one bounty."

Sasuke snickered, "Very good, now you can get rid of that ridiculous orange jumpsuit and buy you some decent clothing."

"Hey!" he scoffed, "Stop calling my 'master piece' trash. Besides, you have money to get rid of that 'duck butt hair ' with a decent hair cut."

Sasuke scowled has his teeth clenched, "Why you..." as they enter the cabin. The inside seemed to be ransacked. Furniture, appliances were destroyed. There seemed to be a strugled from the living room to the kitchen where the door was located.

"Kaa-sama! Okaa-san!" he frantically yelled. He search every room, and he could also hear Naruto shouting for their mother. "Where are you? He muttered.

Naruto tapped on Sasuke's shoulders. Sasuke saw that his blond nii-chan was frightened. "Here's a note." Naruto hesitated in giving Sasuke the note as it said...

Greetings Uchiha Brothers,iIf you wish to see this beautiful woman ever again. You'll need to do me three favors. First, you are to retrieve three swords: Masamune: The sword of Raiden, Retribution: The Buster Sword, and lastly The Sakegari Longsword: The Sword of Tosuka. The map to each sword is hidden is own by a thriving Ken-jutsu master that goes by the name of Toru. He can be found at the tavern called Heavens Fall. Be warned, he is a leader of a notorious Yakuza. Fighting him won't be a walk in the park. If you're successfully to retrieve the swords. Travel to Kirikagure no Sato and assassinate the Yondaime Mizukage. Once your task is completed, and you successfully survived. Make your way to the Valley of the End exactly two months for now under the glimpse of the full moon. You will then grant me with the three swords for an exchange. Any later than midnight, I will see to it that she will cease to exist.

From the Whisper of Wonders.