'Thinking'

"Biju/Summon talk"

'Biju/Summon think'

"Jutsu"

Magical time skip: 3 years (Inbound flashbacks)

3 years have passed since Naruto started training with Genjutsu and what a 3 years they have been, he lived up to his name of a prodigy multiple times but after explaining how he didn't want to be named a prodigy because things get handed to them Kurenai came to respect him a little bit more.

He picked up Genjutsu like a fish to water, with his massive reserves he could break almost any Genjutsu and was currently looking for a way to use Genjutsu without his eyes. Why rely on something if you're a ninja? His brother and mother always told him that good Ninja always have a backup plan and always have more than one way to get something done.

Naruto quickly took to this philosophy even though he wasn't a ninja yet and made several rules that dictated his ninja way of life. These rules would help complete the mission whilst saving his comrades lives in the field.

It only took half a year to become proficient enough to break out of almost all of Kurenai's Genjutsu and although he could break them with his Sharingan he understood that it was a tool to be used as a last resort; he couldn't let the village know about it yet.

After the first half of a year together it came time for Naruto's birthday again, he stayed inside his house of course and a few people came round, Kurenai, Mikoto, Itachi, Kakashi, Yugao, Genma and the third Hokage. All of these people he knew he could trust with his life and has done on several occasions, especially the Anbu that were with him; he knew they were assigned as his personal guards for the first 5 years of his life.

***Flash back***

Naruto just finished some warm down exercises from his daily training, "half a year" he mused.

"Half a year since Kurenai came into my life, it might of been rough at the start but it got better and my respect of her has only gone up since I've seen how proficient she is with Genjutsu."

He grabbed a towel that was on the ground and wiped the sweat off his face whilst walking into the house, instantly he was on guard. Something was wrong here but he couldn't tell what.

He slowly moved his hand down to his Kunai pouch and got a Kunai ready whilst continuing to walk towards his living room, as soon as he entered he threw the kunai at break neck speed and indented it within the walls hearing a yelp.

He was about to go and see who it was but the lights turned on all of a sudden, he was blinded and heard them shouting "Surprise!" Then it dawned on him; Today was his birthday, October 10th, he was 6 today. He smiled at them but turned his head to the side and saw where his Kunai had landed.

In the wall was a Kunai but on the Kunai was an orange book and below it was an Adult Kakashi crying about his precious dying. Naruto sweat dropped and said sorry. He knew how Kakashi loved that book.

His mother and brother walked over and hugged him first then Kurenai and Yugao both gave him a kiss on each cheek which caused him to blush like a tomato and everyone else laugh.

"Happy birthday Naruto!"

"Thank you."

They all went to open his presents and for the first time in a long time he felt like a normal boy who had a family, maybe slightly weird family but family none the less.

He first opened Itachi's present and found it to be a scroll which was captioned "Magical Ninja teleportation Jutsu." Itachi smirked at his little brothers wide eyes, it was no secret how much he wanted to learn that Jutsu; it was just so useful.

He thanked his brother profusely.

Kurenai gave him a scroll of her personal Genjutsu that she had created when she was younger, "Magen: Jubaku Satsu". He smiled at his friend/teacher, he hadn't expected her to teach him her own Genjutsu.

Kakashi was next and gave him a little package that looked like a book, Kakashi didn't feel all the KI coming off of every woman in the room as Naruto unwrapped the book.

"A tale of an utterly Gutsy Ninja?"

"It was the book that you were named after, your god father Jiraiya wrote it."

"Remind me to kick him in the balls for not being here." Every male winced slightly as Kurenai patted him on the head, it seemed like she was having a slightly bad affect on him.

Mikoto gave him a basic fire jutsu that shot several small fireballs out of a person's mouth at a target. Genma gave him one of his dads 3 pronged Kunai and explained that it was given to him by his father and he was sure that he would want him to have it.

Yugao gave him a book on how to keep his Chakra sabres clean and maintained and promised him a spar when he started learning, the third Hokage went last and gave him 2 books, 1 on Jutsu creation and 1 on the more advanced basics of Fuinjutsu.

He smiled and hugged his surrogate grandfather figure. The night went on and everyone had a great time, all were invited to stay the night but everyone declined saying they had work in the morning. Naruto nodded and allowed them to leave but not before thanking each of them again.

***Flash back end***

It would be another two months until the academy started, although he continued his Genjutsu training he made an extra 20 clones everyday to practise his new ninja magic teleportation jutsu which he soon found out was called a Shunshin or body flicker Jutsu. He once again showed them his Genius and had it down within the first day but kept practising it, he felt that he could go fast and further the more he practised.

After 2 weeks nonstop practise with his clones he found out something weird, when he would flicker away there would be a bolt of lightning strike off his body, he soon found out that he was using an elemental body flicker on instinct which to him was amazing considering he hadn't learned to properly transform his chakra into elemental chakra yet, he was too young still; he summarised that it was because he had such a high affinity to lightning that he could almost do it naturally and that learning his first Raiton Jutsu was enough to learn the basics of Nature transformation.

He also practised the Genjutsu Kurenai gave him and for the life of him he couldn't do it without his eyes, it really hurt his pride knowing that although he would be great at Genjutsu he would never be able to use Genjutsu without his eyes properly.

He knew that Genjutsu took control simply because the chakra had to invade a person's chakra system and mould it a certain way to get the effects that he/she wanted. Deciding he would put it away until he had better chakra control which would most likely be when he was a Genin with his shadow clones working every day.

He would read his Jutsu creation book every day, he enjoyed reading about it and one day hoped to be able to create his own Jutsu, there was even a bit about Genjutsu creation in there.

He read and re-read that chapter of the book several times before an idea hit him, he may not be able to use Genjutsu without eyesight but what would happen if he used Genjutsu without control. What would happen if he flooded someone else's body with his chakra, so much chakra that they couldn't move because of it and if they couldn't move then they couldn't break it? Even if they could move he doubted they could release it because the Genjutsu release method needs a high chakra level that the Chakra that was introduced to his/her system and even if they could move it would still slow down their movements.

He smiled at this thought, he could create a Nin-Genjutsu hybrid such as this for people who had such a high level of chakra that they would never be able to use Genjutsu effectively; this could be a start of a revolutionary break through with Genjutsu.

He immediately sent out 500 clones to work on it and 6 weeks later he had it down so he could use it to an efficient level, he was so proud of himself and kept it secret from everyone until he asked Kurenai, Itachi and Mikoto to come with him to the Hokage's office. They obviously agreed because when he dragged them there they knew it was important.

Naruto was happy as he could be at the moment and the others didn't understand why, maybe it was the academy starting tomorrow. Hikari was sitting inside the seal by the lake watching through her containers eyes and was quite happy with what he had done, she saw potential for this Jutsu against any Uchiha he ever had to fight and was glad he made this early on, if his Chakra levels increased then this would help him against Madara when the time came for them to eventually fight.

Barging through the door Naruto had a smile on his face and the Anbu guards did nothing since they all had outstanding orders to let him through at all times.

"Hello Naruto-Kun, why are you so happy?"

"I created a new Jutsu!"

Everyone in the room raised an eyebrow at this and wondered what the little Genius had made, especially Kakashi, Yugao and Genma who were hiding on the walls as his Anbu guards.

"Well I have some free time why don't you show me? Maybe I can bring my Anbu guards with me since you know them anyway."

"Ye old man let's go!" He grabbed the old man's hand and Shunshin'd them to his personal training field and the others soon followed knowing exactly where to go. The Hokage groaned, he wasn't used to being the one to be Shunshin'd it was usually the other way around.

Everyone arrived seconds after them and Naruto asked for a volunteer, the Hokage said he would do it since if it was anything deadly he had best chance to get out of it without any pain; Naruto waved their concern off explaining it was a Genjutsu.

Naruto ran through 27 hand seals and said "Ninpou: Kemono no shin'nyū"

Everyone looked expectantly at the Hokage but nothing happened, the Hokage went to ask what was meant to happen but he found he couldn't move his body except his eyes.

Everyone stood for about a minute before Kurenai asked what happened, Naruto replied "I was looking for a way to be able to use Genjutsu with my huge chakra reserves and found one."

"How?"

"When looking through the Jutsu creation book I got for my birthday I found a Genjutsu section and happily read it. I remembered the explanation from Kurenai and Itachi about how Genjutsu took control to invade someone else's chakra system and manipulate it to make them see what they want them to see.

I took this a step further, I figured that if anyone has such chakra as me without the control needed then we should still be able to invade someone else's chakra system but not control it, this is the finished product. I invade someone's chakra system with so much chakra that they are paralysed and even if by some miracle that they can move they won't be able to break it due to the amount of Chakra in their system."

He stopped the flow of chakra to the Hokage's system as he fell to the ground panting, "Damn that is deadly, how much chakra did you put in my system?"

"About 50 Kage Bunshin's worth"

"I'm labelling that an A-ranked Kinjutsu due to the Chakra useage. I'm guessing you can put more chakra into it as well?"

He nodded, "That was the minimum amount of chakra for it to work."

They were all shocked, "Also it wasn't purely Genjutsu, it's a Nin-Genjutsu hybrid."

"Why?"

"Urm ok, Kaa-san, Nii-san, don't take this the wrong way but it kind of has a secondary affect of making a Dojutsu useless whilst a person is under the jutsu."

They both looked at each other before asking in unison "How?"

Naruto sighed, "It invades the chakra network, even if you have a Sharingan you can't dispel it because of the amount of Chakra it uses. It's the same aspect of the Nidiame's Bringer of darkness Genjutsu except mine can use more Chakra."

Everyone was amazed by this and Naruto just smiled at his creation, he accidently created a Sharingan proof Genjutsu that can be used against them. Everyone left the training ground but Naruto gave a copy of his new Genjutsu to the Sandiame to add to the Forbidden scroll even if someone somehow managed to copy the hand seals they couldn't use it due to the amount of chakra needed so he was fine.

The next morning Naruto woke up a couple hours early like always and done his morning regime, today the academy started and he was going to meet his brother and his cousin walking towards the academy under the guise of being his brother charge and walk to the academy together.

All was going well until they actually met, Naruto had never met Sasuke before and his mother and brother asked him to look after him in the academy and maybe try to stop him being so arrogant. He asked why he was arrogant and they responded saying that her husband wanted a weapon that acted like an Uchiha, he thought Itachi failed as a weapon so he was trying to mould his cousin into one.

Itachi openly snorted at that, his cousin had skills sure but he was nowhere near Naruto's level and Sasuke was training at the age of 4 before Naruto. It was safe to say that he would have his step fathers "holier-than-thou" attitude and was probably already falling for the Uchiha curse and doesn't realise it.

According to Itachi he hadn't activate his Sharingan either which was slightly disappointing. By the time Naruto entered the academy his weights were around 20 kilograms a piece except his wrists were set to 25 for hand seal training.

Walking up to Itachi and Sasuke who seemed to be waiting for him he waved hello and saw his brother smile whilst his cousin scowled, "What kept you Dobe?" Naruto inwardly growled not wanting to start something and just ignored it, "Itachi, thank you for waiting for me. I'm sorry I took so long but on the way here I met Kakashi and he took me for a tour on the road to life, unfortunately we got lost together and had to find our way back."

Itachi fell mid step mumbling something about Kakashi being a bad influence and how he was going to hide his Icha Icha books. Across town Kakashi felt a shiver go down his spine, "I feel a disturbance in the force, must be Naruto getting me in trouble again."

"Let's go we don't want to be late right?" They both nodded and walked towards the Academy in a comfortable silence ignoring the glares towards Naruto, it seemed that after almost a year the civilians realised that he wasn't dead but changed his clothes. Idiots.

His older brother warned him of things in the academy being extremely slow and one of the worst fates that young men can befall, Fan girls. Naruto had already talked to his mother about this and she explained that fan girls were the worst of the worst and if he ever considered dating one she would knock some sense into him. He had already decided to be the dead last of the class before it even started to provide the villagers some more time when they think that he is stupid to provide some sort of comfort.

When he told the Hokage about this he agreed with his decision and praised the fact that he was thinking ahead which was a skill quite a few Shinobi still lack.

Arriving at the academy Itachi gave them both a pat on the back whilst waving good bye, it was one of the ways Itachi showed affection to anyone. They both walked into class to only hear a loud squeal like a pig, Naruto turned around and saw some blonde and pink haired girls glomped their "Sasuke-Kun" whilst Naruto tried his best not to laugh at the scowl that was forming on his face.

Taking their seats Naruto sat at the back of the class behind everyone hoping not to get noticed whilst Sasuke sat by the window with both of his new fan girls sitting beside him staring dreamely.

'Hikari-Chan you awake?'

"Hmm you say something Naruto?"

"I'm bored and I'm sure this is going to be boring as hell, any ideas?"

"Learn the time table and every day except Taijutsu practise send a clone and you do whatever you want?"

"Works for me."

"By the way congratulations on the Jutsu you made yesterday, I was quite enjoying the faces of everyone looking through your eyes."

"I forgot you look through my eyes, wait a minute..."

"Does that mean you watch me in the shower Hi-Ka-ri-Chan?"

She blushed, her of all people. Demons do not blush so she decided to get her own back on him,

"Only if you want me to Naru-Kun, I'm sure Kurenai-Chan will join us." She whispered in a husky voice whilst he turned beat red and she stuck two fingers up in a victory sign.

"Note to self, never try to flirt with a thousand year old demon."

Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts when a man walked in and sat at the front of the class, "Hello class, my name is Iruka."

Naruto tuned out here and at break time after finding out about his time table he created a shadow clone with enough juice to last the day, it whined about why he had to be the one to go to class but eventually did it on the condition that he can act like a moron playing pranks.

And this is how the next two years past, Naruto would train whilst his clone would go to the academy. He would only go on taijutsu days but as soon as that was over he would sneak away again. The hidden Anbu found this rather amusing to watch because he was a kid and knew the Shadow clone Jutsu.

From his clones memories Naruto noticed that Sasuke was getting rather agitated lately and asked what was wrong but all he got was "None of your business Dobe!"

Of course he already knew what was happening because of his mother and brother and he was inclined to agree with them on the matter. It turned out that the Uchiha clan was split down the middle, some were not happy with things since Hikari attacked and others just didn't care. They were planning a coup against the Hokage and the council, to take control of everything and in the end use Naruto as a weapon; like hell was Itachi and Mikoto let them do that.

It was getting rather close to the date now and talks had all but failed with the Uchiha clan, Naruto was worried that the elders would force the Hokage to do something drastic and his fears were confirmed when Itachi came to see him two days before the extermination of the clan commenced.

"Otouto, you know about the Coup right?"

"Hai."

"I've been tasked as the exterminator."

"Meaning?"

"I will kill them all, except Sasuke; I want him to rebuild the clan in honour."

"What will happen to you?"

"I will take the blame, make it look like a young Anbu captain couldn't handle the stress and snapped, I will become an S-Ranked Nuke-Nin and protect Konoha from the outside."

His eyes widened. "OH HELL NO! Not another one of my family is going to be used as a goddamn scapegoat again, come with me now!"

Itachi looked worried he had never seen his brother this angry so he decided to follow him, barging into the Hokage's office he saw the two elders and the Hokage there.

"Elders get the hell out, this is a private conversation"

"Watch what you say boy, learn some manners."

"If you don't get the hell out within 5 seconds, I will do one of two things; A) I will put you under a Genjutsu and make you watch yourselves slaughter your family whether they are already dead or not continuously for a couple of hours or B) I will go to the Fire Daimyo and explain to him how you treated the heir to the Namikaze clan. Which will it be?"

Everyone in the room paled, the elders because they didn't think the boy knew how to do either or the fact that he knew about his parents, without a doubt he just made his life harder but they nodded and left.

The Anbu were secretly praising the ball on this boy, he would make a fine ninja one day.

Activating his Sharingan that was now finally fully matured due to the amount of rage that he was feeling at the moment and then shifting into his Mangekyo Sharingan, Sarutobi gulped. It was obvious that Naruto didn't care about the Anbu in the room so the Hokage quickly put a silencing seal up so only the Anbu could hear this conversation.

"Anbu whatever you see or hear you will never repeat or you will die."

"Which one of the elders bright idea was it to use MY BROTHER as a scapegoat for this fucking village!"

Hiruzen gulped even with the boys Mangekyo sharingan blazing he could tell that this was all like his father when he was angry. "Danzo."

"That fool who still runs Root?"

"How did you know about that?"

"Don't take me for a fool, I see them following me trying to find a way to make me into a weapon for him."

Sarutobi was seething now.

"You have some of his goons in lockup right?"

"Yes, we've been trying to get the seal off of them that prevents them from talking about Danzo. why?"

"Let me explain this to you first, if you ever and I mean ever use one of my family for any type of scapegoat for this village like I was so god help me the council and this village will not be safe from my wrath! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!"

He nodded quickly, truth be told he was hoping he wouldn't find out about this but he should have known better.

"Good, Itachi will still exterminate our clan, I will help my stealth is so high that your Anbu can't find me and with my Sharingan it will be easier to hide and get the job done. We will leave my cousin alive like the original plan and we will put my mother in a false death state to be confirmed dead by a medic of your choosing where she will be taken to my compound and live. She will change her name and wear a modified henge when out and about.

Then after we are done, Sasuke will arrive just in time to see me and Itachi in Anbu uniforms "Tying" up the Root operatives at which point we will blame Danzo. Sasuke lives and has Itachi and my mother stays alive and we get rid of the Traitors who are planning the Coup and Danzo."

Everyone in the room blinked, they were all just out-planned by an 8 year old boy. Why the hell didn't they think of that!

They all nodded and the Hokage took this moment to speak, "The most promising Uchiha besides you and your brother was found dead last week, his eyes removed."

They both looked shocked. "Who?"

"Shisui Uchiha."

"Oh damn. He had a Mangekyo as well, the only one apart from Naruto here." Itachi informed them.

"What did his do? I've still to learn the techniques for mine because I didn't want my eye sight getting worse."

"He had a special ability to place such an intricate Genjutsu that even you would be hard pressed to break it because the person is normal not aware they are in a Genjutsu, it bends the person to the casters will."

Narutos eyes reverted to his 3 tomoe'd Sharingan, "Sounds like a useful tool for politics..."

"Hmm you have a point anyway if you are going to be helping Itachi tonight even though I don't want you to but I doubt you will listen to me and since you are a Civilian I don't have control over you and if I don't catch you in the act then I can simply ignore it. You will need Anbu gear.

You will be promoted to temporary Junior Anbu meaning you don't get an Anbu tattoo but you get uniform and tools etc."

"Sweet."

"What code name do you want."

"Ghost."

Everyone raised an eyebrow at that, "Why?"

"Well when I don't want to be found you won't find me it's simple. Also I will take the standard Anbu Tanto because my Chakra sabres are too recognisable even if I haven't started learning yet."

The Hokage activate a seal on his desk and a secret door opened, inside were masks of previous and yet to be used Anbu masks. "Pick on."

Walking through the hall he was finding some nice masks but none felt right until he found a dusty one right at the end, it looked like no one touched it in years. He understood as soon as he saw it.

A Pure black mask with read markings on each cheek and above the eyes proving to be a fox mask. He smiled, no one picked this mask and the mask picked him. Picking it up he walked over to the Hokage who looked at it and nodded in his choice, after all it was understandable.

The Hokage gave him his uniform and it was way to big but he put it on anyway and it seemed to suck some of his chakra and resize, he looked at Itachi and the Hokage and they both answered the unasked question, "1 size fits all."

"How do I look?" He asked with his uniform and mask on, Itachi was the first to reply "Like a soldier."

"Good."

"When is the coup taking place?"

"Tomorrow night at 2 in the morning."

"How are we going to get Sasuke out of there for this to happen?"

The Hokage raised his hand like he was back at the academy, "I will assign him a trainer for the night and tell him even the best Ninja train at night and that it is what you do Itachi and he will do it, I will make sure he ends the session at 5 to 2 in the morning so make sure to have it all done by then."

"Hai Hokage-Sama." both replied in Unison and Shunshin'd to Naruto's compound. As soon as they got there Naruto found himself embraced in a hug by his older brother. He noticed his mask was off and he was crying.

"I'm so proud of you Otouto, I would of happily taken the blame if it meant keeping you and your cousin safe."

"Itachi-Nii, sometimes taking the blame isn't enough, sometimes you must have someone to look out for you or you fall into despair. I almost did 3 years ago but you and Kaa-san came into my life, then Kurenai and Yugao not to mention Genma and Kakashi. All of you saved me.

If you did this then who would save Sasuke? Who would be his light?"

His eyes widened, he hadn't thought about that; he was trained as a weapon to think in the now and not the future, how could he not think about Sasuke and Naruto. He thanked the gods that he decided to tell Naruto today.

"Go get Kaa-San and bring her here, we need to explain things." he nodded and disappeared to bring his mother here, Naruto sighed tomorrow was going to be a long day and probably was going to be the start of a long Ninja career. He was only 8 but he would take this burden on his shoulders to lighten the load of his brothers, Hikari was no longer a burden but a friend.

"Hikari are you awake, did you hear all of that?"

"Yes and I must admit I'm quite proud of you."

"Thank you, what do you think about all of this?"

"The Uchiha clan was doomed to fail as soon as I gave them their eyes, it's just luck that it happens to be when you were here so your brother and mother don't suffer."

"Thank you Hikari-Chan, you always make me feel better when it comes to things like this."

"What are friends for?"

"Please be on standby tomorrow night in case I need rapid healing, something might go wrong with this plan of mine."

"You got it"

Just as she said that Itachi arrived with their mother who was looking rather flustered at being pulled aside rather quickly.

"Alright you two what's going on and why the hell in my baby boy in Anbu uniform!"

Naruto sighed and started his tale, "You know of the coup that's happening tomorrow night? Well it's not happening now."

Mikoto brightened up at this and asked "Why?"

Itachi and Naruto looked at each other before sighing, they do that way too much at the moment.

"The "Honourable" Elders coaxed Sarutobi into exterminating the clan, you would have died even though you had nothing to do with the coup and were against it and the only one that would be left is Itachi and Sasuke but Itachi would be held responsible and turn Nuke-Nin protecting Konoha from the outside, he would be registered as an Active ninja with wonder rights like the sannin except he would be classified at triple S ranking in secrecy."

She looked shocked at looked at Itachi to see him still crying from earlier, "I'm sensing a 'But' here?"

"But he told me before hand and I might have threatened the elders and Hokage into submission with a new and better plan."

"YOU WHAT?"

"I threatened the elders that if they didn't do what I wanted I would place them under a Genjutsu that would make them watch themselves slaughter their family for hours on end and mentally break them or I would go to the fire Daimyo and explain what happened to the Namikaze heir, obviously they both agreed quickly and my life will get allot harder but it was all worth it and I would do it again."

"What did you threaten the Hokage with?"

"I told him that if he ever tries to use any of my family as a scapegoat again then he or this village would not escape my wrath."

She scowled at him and he just laughed nervously, "You idiot!" She went to smack his head but instead hugged him "But you're my idiot and thank you for whatever you did at the moment."

"You never have to thank me."

"So why isn't the coup happening now?"

"I came up with a better plan."

"How?"

"Danzo isn't as smart as he thinks, he thinks I don't notice those fools with blank white Anbu masks with the symbol 'NE' on them following me to make sure I don't turn on this village? The fool. It took me a day to find out who and what they were just by looking in the achieves. His little Anbu unit are now the scapegoats.

Itachi will still exterminate the clan and I will help hence the Anbu gear, my stealth is higher than most Anbu and with my Sharingan I can hide even better, I will be able to watch his back from attackers whilst we do what is needed to be done.

Sasuke will be kept alive and so will you unofficially, officially you will be listed upon the deceased but you will be in a false death state and will be check first by the medics at which point you will be pronounced dead. You will move in here, change your name and where a modified henge outside, only a few will know of your existence you will be for all terms and purposes, dead and another women will arrive to adopt me which will be you.

Itachi will look after Sasuke and I will keep an eye on him as well, Sasuke will be training with a personal trainer from the Hokage at night with the excuse that it is what Itachi did to get stronger since we all know he wants to beat Itachi.

He will finish at 5 to 2 in the morning when me and Itachi finish with the clan, he will arrive just as we finish "Tying" up the ones responsible which are the 5 Root agents we have in holding. Danzo will be forced to flee or die and the Uchiha clan lives on."

Mikoto stood there with wide eyes at the plan, "How long did it take you to come up with this?"

"5 Minutes once I heard who it was that coaxed the extermination, it was Danzo so he much have something to gain and I'm thinking that it is all the Sharingan eyes so me and Itachi will be sealing up their bodies as we go to prevent any of them getting into the wrong hands. It will be played off as Danzo trying to gain more power and the secret will be held with us, Danzo won't talk because although he wants to be Hokage he still loves this village even if he doesn't show it."

She hugged her two sons at the same time and cried, "I'm sorry you two have to do this, no one should have to do something like this."

"It is for the good of the village and we will still have each other." She nodded and they parted ways getting ready for tomorrow night. They sighed yet again, this was going to be a long 2 nights and he hoped that he could live with what he had to do.

"Crow are you ready?"

"Hai Ghost, you are my back up watch my back; killing is allowed but only do it if you need to protect me or if one is about to blow our cover.

These are not our family, remember that. Family doesn't betray family."

"Hai Nii-san."

"The old man has cleared the route for entry for us and all Anbu know to stay away from this sector tonight. It is currently 10PM we have just under 3 hours to do this. Let's get it done."

Seconds turned to minutes, minutes turned to hours as the night went on, blood was everywhere but no bodies, they couldn't take the chance that they were being followed by Danzo and his men.

2 and a half hour later they finished all but Itachi's immediate family, they both looked at each other and gave a tired nod before jumping to the roof; they still had half an hour before the coup took place and Sasuke was nowhere in sight which they were thankful for.

Dropping from the roof and hanging from the ceiling via Chakra they watched as their mother and father were sitting down talking, she was stalling. Nodding to each other they dropped to the floor silently and stood behind Fugaku Uchiha.

They stopped talking, "So Itachi, you have chosen your path?"

"Hai tou-san."

"How many are left?"

"Sasuke, you, mum and my brother."

Fugaku's eyes widened, "Brother?"

"Hai."

"Where is he?"

"With us here, he helped me tonight so that the burden didn't fall to me alone and for that I will be forever thankful."

"Allow me to see this child then."

Itachi nodded to his brother who took off his mask as Fugaku turned and gasped. "You!"

"Hello Fugaku."

"Who is your father."

"Minito Namikaze."

He growled, "That fool. He helped doom this clan even in death."

Naruto put his mask back on and through the eye holes you could see his fully matured Sharingan, Itachi chose this point to continue; "Sasuke will live."

"You chose your path, don't waver now son but know two things. 1) I am proud of you even though I never acted it, 2) Sasuke will fall to his hatred for revenge and eventually kill you both."

"Then so be it, we will be waiting."

With that he stabbed his father through the heart and cried before a burning pain at the back of his eyes appeared. He wanted to scream but couldn't because his brother had his hand over his mouth. Their mother looked on in shock.

Itachi's eyes changed from a 3 tomoe'd Sharingan to a 3 stared pinwheel Mangekyo Sharingan design.

Itachi calmed down after a moment and his brother hugged him, "Welcome to the club." He nodded understanding what happened.

They turned to their mother, "I'm going to hit you in your neck, when you wake up you will be in my house and I will probably be asleep ok?"

She nodded, "Kaa-san, I'm sorry what has happened to night and I love you."

"I love you two as well."

She felt a sharp pain in her neck and noticed a small Senbon piercing it before she blacked out. "Leave her here but remove the Senbon and place some blood on her chest so it looks like we stabbed her through her heart as well so the doctors wont check the wound."

Naruto nodded and did as told, "I'm sorry I let you activate your Mangekyo, I knew it would happen but I honestly felt that it was you who had to be the one to do what was needed for your father. I will always be here for you my brother."

He nodded satisfied with the answer, "Shall we meet our cousin outside in about 2 minutes?"

"Yes we need to setup the stage still right?"

"Don't forget to turn off your Sharingan so he doesn't know another Uchiha lives." Naruto nodded and started to leave before turning to look one last time at his mother, a tear fell down his face; It suddenly hit him how much he killed tonight, how many family members lost someone before they met their demise and why it had to be done.

Itachi noticed and hugged him, "Don't crack yet Otouto, we have one more then we can cry all we need."

Naruto nodded.

Walking outside and unsealing several Root-Nin from prisoner transport scrolls already tied, gagged and knocked out they bother stretched and sighed, tonight was beginning to go on and they were both starting to feel the fatigue of events both physically and mentally. Naruto nodded to Itachi and Itachi clicked once on the radio to give the signal to the Hokage and his Anbu guards. Just as he had done that Sasuke came running round the corner panting.

Itachi looked to Naruto and Naruto nodded towards his brother, he removed his mask. Sasuke gasped at seeing his brother behind the mask who was still crying. "What have you done Itachi!"

"Saved your life."

"What?"

"Our clan has been Massacred, me and this Anbu beside me were patrolling when they were finishing and we subdued them. They would have come for you if we hadn't stopped them."

"What about Kaa-San? Tou-san?"

"Dead. Everyone is dead."

This was killing both Itachi and Sasuke, Itachi had to do his best not to act guilty and keep his emotions in check and Sasuke just learnt that his family has been torn apart that he is one of the last Uchiha.

Before either could comment Itachi put his mask back on and stood at attention the same as Naruto; the Hokage had arrived with his 3 guards, Kakashi, Genma and Yugao. They all knew who were behind the masks and were shocked at the scene they fell into.

Kakashi had trouble believing his best friends clan had been exterminated even though he knew it was true and Genma and Yugao both had trouble believing that Naruto had done this with Itachi. None would voice the concerns. Naruto sped behind Sasuke and hit the back of his neck knocking him out, there was no need to here this.

"Crow, Ghost, Report!"

Both Anbu took off their masks and looked up to show the group their tear filled eyes and the group instantly understood, for Itachi it was killing his kinsmen but for Naruto it was his first kill but not just one several. They would both need time after this.

"Mission accomplished Hokage-Sama."

He nodded solemnly and asked Yugao to check the body of Mikoto since she was a trained medic. She nodded and walked into the house, she was a battle hardened Shinobi but even she was feeling slightly ill at the scene in front of her. Both Mikoto and Fugaku Uchiha were covered in blood. She checked the pulse on Mikoto and found none.

Walking back outside she looked at them and said "Sir, no pulse."

"Good."

"Continue with the plan, come to my office in an hour."

"Hai Hokage-Sama, please take Sasuke to the hospital whilst we handle our mother."

He nodded and left with Sasuke to break the news to the council, Itachi hugged his brother again. "I'm so proud of you right now Otouto, I would be feeling so much worse if you hadn't helped or come up with this plan. Forgive me for involving you."

"All is forgiven."

He nodded and left to seal his father's body whilst carrying his mother's body towards her new home.