Chapter Four: The Uchiha Scatter: Obito

It happened four days after Valentines Day. The event rocked Konoha on its axis leaving it unsettled for nearly a decade afterwards. The Uchiha Scatter.

No one guessed that it would occur. No one thought it was possible. Well, except for maybe Sasuke.

When Sasuke had returned to Konoha, he was a changed man. Changed in the fact his hatred and bloodlust after his brother was gone. It shocked the entire village. He had returned without his revenge. He didn't even desire it anymore. Who was this imposter and what had he done with Sasuke?
What shocked the village more was when Sasuke seemed to have feelings for a certain pink-haired kunoichi, true non-selfish feelings. Feelings some of the few brave (or stupid coughNarutocough) would call love, genuine love.

You would think the village would be used to surprise after Sasuke had started to woo Sakura looking at her with a soft tender looks, giving her roses, spending hours with her to talk, or to simply enjoy her presence. They should have seen it in the gentle protection he gave her letting her be strong, yet treating her as if she was glass, fragile easy to break. They should have seen it in how he let her close to his heart.

Nope, the villagers of Konoha are dense idiots worse then Naruto at recognizing Hinata's affections toward him, er from the time before he finally put two and two together to get 42, and eventually just the two.

You would think the village would be use to surprises, but no, when Sasuke proposed to Sakura, and when she accepted the village was speechless for the next week. (Well, all except for the fan girls who wept rivers of tears prompting some of the elders to push the motion to rename Konohagakure hidden in the leaves to Konohagakure flooded in the tears.)

There was another massive flood on April 27th in the following spring when Sasuke and Sakura were wed. (Excuse me: Virgins, both them. HA!)

They say the first year of marriage is the toughest since you are learning to live with your mate, your spouse, your partner for life. Things get even more complicated when eight months after the first wedding anniversary you find yourselves parents.

(For those of you scratching your heads and going wait a minute because you didn't thoroughly read my last sentence backtrack to the last set of parenthesis, re-read it, digest that information, and now carefully reread my last sentence of the non parenthesis paragraph. Oh, right. Now you see it.)

Seishin Uchiha came screaming a determined yell into the world on December 31st at 11:59 pm (a good thing with that mop of pink hair on his head). Four years passed before the dreaded event happened. Three fathers and mothers days, three Christmases, three new years, and four Valentines Day's.

Sasuke's precious family of three flourished in those four years numerous memories forming and becoming engraved in his mind, but always in the back of his mind during the peace he wondered secretly to himself when the next storm would be.

He wondered when this heaven would end. He secretly wondered to himself when it would follow previous patterns and all be taken away, but even during this minor wondering that he would think in the dark of night when Sakura lay asleep beside him or when he watched his son sleep, Sasuke would resolve every time to not block his own shot at enjoying the bliss he had now with his family.

So when the day finally came that they would part and his family would break Sasuke was able to look back and peacefully say he had no regrets over how he spent his time during the years of sweet peace when he had them.

Everything changed on February 18th on the day of the Uchiha scatter. That day had started like any other normal day seemingly innocent without the possibility of how wrong this day would turn out occurring to anyone from Sakura to Sasuke. The day which had started so normally ended in ruin. It ended in a broken family, and it ended with death and the promise of life. It started the running.

The Uchiha Scatter was an attack on the potential re-growth of the Uchiha clan. The goal of the enemy shinobi was to wipe the Uchiha blood off the face of the earth starting with the three member family group in Konoha.

It was perfectly planned so that no outside help would be able to come aid the three Uchihas. A genius could not have masterminded the plan better. But what the enemy shinobi and mastermind of the whole scheme had forgotten were two tiny but extremely pertinent pieces of information.

Never underestimate an Uchiha

The second is quite similar.

Never underestimate an Uchiha's will to live.

But it can all be summed up in the first piece of information. No Uchiha would underestimate another Uchiha. That is a fact.

During the attack Sasuke protected his family with a fierceness that unnerved the attacking shinobi. The whirling commas, flashing katana, and bleeding red eyes haunted and tore their mind as he defended his home, his keep, his family, and his happiness long sought and found. A line had been drawn in the sand, and no one was allowed to cross it.

Sakura was right beside him, punching the bejeebers out of the scoundrels attacking, breaking genjutsus, floors, and bones as side by side the two fought the invaders of their oasis of happiness.

The flow and insanity of battle was broken with one wail. Sakura's green eyes widened as she heard the scream, the frightened scream of a child. Her son. Seishin. In an instant she was gone dashing off to protect her child who had woken into the chaos and had seen his first dead human being.

The battle fragmented from there. Sakura leaving. Sasuke unable to find her as he finished off the last shinobi knocking either into deep unconsciousness or into death. The brief glimpse of two heads of pink in the battle torn house. One last ninja rising up and attacking. Sakura pushing Seishin across the room and into Sasuke as she whirled around to attack the last perpetrator. The wobbling of the oldest parts of the house mildewed and damaged by time and neglect finally collapsing after much abuse, onto her.

Sasuke running toward the wall in a panic, stopping when he heard the rumbling of this section of the compound rumbled and groan, and grabbing Seishin to leave the house just as the roof collapsed. The hopelessness as he felt Sakura slipping out of his reach and into the irreversible path into death.

Sasuke for a second time left Konoha with his three year old son mourning his deceased wife. The Hokage gave him her blessing while leaving the open invitation of a home in Konoha if Sasuke ever changed his mind and decided to return. Sasuke overwhelmed left, only looking back once to say good bye to the home of his youth, happiness, and family.

The attack on the Uchiha was a massive failure, but in a strange way a success. The Uchiha blood still coursed strongly in all who possessed it along with vibrant life left un-extinguished, but the Uchiha had departed Konoha.

Konoha mourning the loss of its beloved medic and clan eventually settled down from the massive unfolding of events. Normality persisted, that is until 15 months later when an eight month old baby turned up on the steps of Hatake Kakashi's home.

That wasn't the surprising part; it was what came with the baby boy that had left Kakashi speechless and resulted in summoning his former student and fellow comrade Naruto.

The baby was your regular baby, chubby, sleepy, slightly chloric, but this child was more attentive and alert then your average baby gazing up at Kakashi with alert jade green eyes a wisp of black hair splayed across his forehead part of his aristocratic face. The baby in a passing glance was a regular baby to the ignorant person. Ignorant to the supposed baby's pedigree and the clue to the pedigree was a simple necklace found around the baby's neck.

The necklace had a pendant hanging on the silver chain. The pendant dangling from it was a fan. A red and white fan. On the back of the pendant a name was inscribed.

Obito

Call this a prologue and an explanation for why two of my stories have Running in their title. A prologue, hopefully for A Running Tale Home once I finish Return my Past: Lyoko the Second Generation.