"Sasuke-nii, it's getting dark, can we go home now."

Every single uchiha knew that Naruto was deathly afraid of the dark. Even since he was a baby he had been scared of it, even now as a four year old academy student in training he was still hated to be in the dark.

11 year old sasuke sighed and walked away from the edge of the dock. Sasuke had been showing Naruto how to perform Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Grand fireball) but the older boy had forgotten how late it was getting and now the young blonde refused to practice anymore.

"Come on Otouto, the dark isn't going to hurt you." sasuke scoffed at the now shaking, close to tears boy.

"I-I wanna go home." The said blond glaring at the smirking sasuke with anger filled eyes.

It would had been almost scary if Naruto weren't the size of a petite three year old and his hair wasn't so bright straight and long.

Many times the boy had been attacked by fan-girls, that right even at four years old the blonde had fan girls that would squeeze and cuddle and even kiss! The poor boy. Naruto hated it the most when they pulled at his cheeks and squeezed them it made his whiskers hurt!

Sasuke grinned at his slightly shaking little brother. This was the prefect time to taunt the little guy.

"Your such a Scary cat!"

"No am not!"

"Oh yes you are, you're a little baby!"

"Kaa-san says am a Big boy!"

Sasuke scoffed. "Well she lied! Cause your still just a little baby!" he teased.

Naruto glared at him even harder, the thing Naruto hated more than anything! Was being called a baby, especially by his brothers. It made him feel weak and just a little deadweight. And Naruto knew that he was more than that.

"Why you, take that back you Teme!" Naruto yelled out, using a word that he heard some of the older members of the clan use to insult each other.

Sasuke looked like a fish out of water. "Wh-What did you call me?" he asked, blinking rapidly.

"I called you a Teme!, Teme." Naruto aid again. "Now take this!" he exclaimed, yelling out a battle cry while running towards to shell-shocked sasuke. Naruto crashed into his brother at full force, tumbling him over in the process, with him on top and sasuke on the bottom. Naruto grabbed sasuke's black hair and begin tugging and pulling at very hard.

"Take it back, Take it back!" the blonde chanted over and over.

Sasuke growled in pain and pushed himself up so his was sitting up and he pushed Naruto with his hand off of him, causing the boy to fall on his back on the hard wooden dock.

Sasuke grinned with victory, and placed his foot on the small boys chest, applying just enough pressure to keep him held down.

Naruto struggled and grabbed sasuke's foot and tried to pull it off of him.

"Get off me you big Bully!" he cried, looking up at sasuke with teary eyes.

Sasuke gave him a pensive look, his black eyebrow raised slightly. " You call me a Teme and Attack me, so am the bully." he said.

Naruto nodded. "Yep! You called me names and now you're picking on a little kid!" he said pitifully. "now let me up!"

"Nope.."

"Why the heck not!"

"Say I'm going to be the hokage one day."

"what! No way in heck I'm sayin that!" Naruto glared at sasuke who was standing over him what a calm expression. Sasuke knew that Naruto's dream was to one day become the hokage of KonohaGakure, and that he was really serious about it also.

"I'm going to be the Hokage! Not you!"

Sasuke shrugged. A smirk made it's way onto his face. " Fine then, until you say that am going to be the hokage, your staying on the ground. Even if it takes all night"

The last word caused Naruto to shiver and glance up at the sky fearfully, where it was losing the last tracing of the beautiful sunset and turning into the cold dark night. Naruto whimpered lowly and looked back at sasuke pleadingly.

"Let me up!" he whined. Sasuke just shock his head.

"You haven't said it yet" he said in a singsong voice.

Then Naruto did his ultimate technique. "Crying no Jutsu!" he called out before the tears that had been brimming in his eyes spilt over and he started crying loudly.

Sasuke twitched when he saw his brother sobbing but held him down on the ground still.

"You know that won't work on me.." he said, trying to get him to stop crying, but Naruto either didn't hear him or didn't believe, because he just continued crying, his face now red.

After 3 minutes Sasuke broke, it was a new record for outlasting Naruto's terrifying Jutsu.

Sasuke lifted his foot of the blonde and pulled him into a hug.

"Okay. Okay Naruto you win, now stop crying, Calm down" sasuke said rubbing soothing circles on Naruto's back. Listening as his cries eventually begin a few sniffles.

A few minutes later Naruto pulled away from his older brothers warm embrace. And wiped his eyes. He grinned up at sasuke and gave him his good guy pose. "The future Hokage Prevails!" he cheered, looking at sasuke victoriously.

The older boy just snorted and, started walking away.

" Lets get home Otouto, Kaa-san must be worried sick." he called over his shoulder.

Naruto agreed and ran after his brother as fast as he could, as the two uchiha made they're way home.


Naruto stood with his back pressed to the wall, trembling in pure terror, his breathing harsh and labored as he looked upon the since in front of him. His heart felt frozen with fear and heavy as a log in his chest.

His Kaa-san and Tou-san were torn, bloodied body fallen on top of each other. There faces frozen in identical masks of pain and terror, and there mixed blood pooled around them staining the floor and a dark thick, red

Naruto nearly gagged up the bile clogging his throat and tears fall like torrents from his eyes. An agony filled scream tore his gaze away from the gruesome picture.

His eyes centered on his brother sasuke, who was on his knees, writhing in the oblivious pain and screaming.

A low whine escaped Naruto's thought as he begin shaking. Help, yes he needed to find help. The hokage! He would help him, the hokage was suppose to be the strongest person in the village. He would heal his Momma and dad, and help sasuke.

Naruto took of running as fast as he could. Unaware to the bright red eyes watching his every move.

His eyes, as much as he tried to keep them focused on what's in front of him looked all around and saw the moonlight shinning on the countless dead bodies of his clansmen, his family. Blood coated the walls of the homes and shops in the compound and made the ground a dark mixture of dirt and blood.

His eyes were so teary he could barely see through the burry vision. And he stumbled as he ran at least 5 times, he was crying outwardly, he was sure someone would show up soon enough from his loud he was.

Though his tears he saw a dark figure, standing unmoving in the middle of the path in front if him, clothed in all dark and light of the moon shinned in the konoha forehead protector on his head.

As Naruto ran closer he noticed the blood red eyes, with two tomoes. The sharingan. This man was apart of his clan! Naruto grabbed onto his cloak the second his was close enough to. Resisting the nearly unbearable urge to bury his head in the person's cloak and cry. The second he looked up though, his felt a huge wave of relief nearly knock him of his feet.

"Tachi-Nii! someone hurt mom a-and da-dad and blood! So much blood! Sasuke! He, he, screaming! Help, we need help!" Naruto sputtered out, hoping that Itachi could somehow understand his blabbering, he was calmed out of his hysteria when Itachi placed a firm but gentle hand on his head.

Tears stilled streamed down his face, and his breath hitched every few second but he was listening, as his brother spoke quietly and in his normal monotone voice. "little Otouto, The uchiha clan is no more, me, you, and sasuke are the only ones left." he said looking at Naruto with steel cold eyes.

"No! we can save Kaa-san and Tou-san and Sume-Chan and all of them! We just need to get the hokage! He'll help." Naruto protested shrilly, he clutched onto Itachi's leg and huddled close to the older uchiha. Something that always seemed to comfort him.

To his horror Itachi shook his head. "The hokage cannot bring people back from the dead Naruto, it is to late."

Naruto shook his head against Itachi's pants. "Who-Who would do something like this! Who could do something like this! Why! Why!"

"…I did."

The whole world stopped and so did Naruto's breath, the young blonde scrambled away from his brother tripping and falling on his behind in the process. He trembled from his place on the ground as he looked up at the stoic teen.

"W-what…" he asked, his voice a shocked whisper of confusion. As he looked up at his brother, his Idol, in a mix of fear and denial.

Itachi looked away from him and at one of the dead bodies that lay bloodied against one of the homes. " I said I killed them all, It was me who slaughtered our family, our parents."

He said, his voice was loud and strong like he felt no remorse in what he had just did.

Naruto silently shook his head in disbelief, he wasn't shaking anymore he was in pure terror induced shock. 'No…" he whispered out, through barley moving lips.

He struggled to his feet but immediately was hit with a large sense of nausea and doubled over, vomiting until his was throwing up the disgusting yellow stomach acid. He wrapped his hands around himself and gasped in pain. Before looked up at his Aniki.

"Why… Why! Why Why!" he gasped out stumbling over to him and latching on to his cloak in a desperate way. His eyes searched Itachi's for any sense of emotion but found none.

Itachi opened his moth to speak but then closed it, instead he grabbed Naruto to him in a hug, Naruto instead of lashing out at him just pushed his face into his chest and sobbed. He was exhausted, confused, and grief stricken. He welcomed the hug.

"I cannot tell you way Otouto…" Itachi said gently, losing the cold tone he used earlier. His hand stroked through the bongs shoulder length hair in a comforting fashion.

Naruto looked up at him with a tear stained face. And Itachi continued.

"Naruto, you and Itachi must grow strong… strong enough to defeat me. And revenge our clan. You must do that for me Naruto."

Naruto swore he saw grief and pain floating in his brothers eyes.

"I must take me leave now Otouto."

Naruto grabbed onto Itachi with all the strength he had. "No! don't leave us! Don't leave me! Your all we have left! It's not fair! It's not fair Aniki!" Naruto cried.

"You, You kilt Kaa-san and Tou-san, and now you wanna run away all be yourself… No!

It's not Fair. Don't just leave us all alone, your all we have. I can be useful… I can be tons more useful than anyone you could find. I can gather food and I can plan attacks and I can fight too. I'm much more helpful then anyone."

Naruto cried out, tears pouring as he begged Itachi not to leave him and sasuke all alone.

"Naruto… I want you to hate me.. Hate me for taking away your family. You must hate me." Itachi insisted quietly pushing the small child away, but Naruto held on.

"No! I don't wanna hate Aniki His my Aniki! No! no! no!' finally Naruto just let it all out and he cried out all his sorrow to the darks skies above,

He felt Itachi embrace him tightly before a blunt force smacked into the back of his neck and he was swallowed up by darkness.


Itachi looked down at the knocked out boy in his arms. And he set him gently on the ground. A second later his was gone. Leaving behind his two younger brothers.


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