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People talking: 'Hi"
People thinking: Hi
Summon or Kyuubi talking: "Hi"
Jutsu: Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu
"Naruto, would you like to live with me at the Uchiha compound?"
The blond was speechless. Hell, the Hokage was speechless. Neither one of them was expecting this. It was practically impossible to imagine that this kind of proposition was coming from Uchiha Sasuke.
The Uchiha seeing their shocked faces, decided to explain the reason for this surprising offer.
"Now that my clan is … gone, you are the only one that I have left from my family. You are the only one I can trust now. And I know that with you to help me I am one step closer to achieve my objectives."
Both the Sandaime and the young jinchuuriki still were a bit shocked, but they were starting to understand now. He considered the blonde part of his family. And now, after the Uchiha Massacre and Itachi going rogue, only Naruto was in Konoha of his "original" family.
Naruto felt something strange inside him. He never felt that before. Maybe that is what you feel when you have a family.
He knew his parents were dead, he asked many times the Sandaime about this issue. He had told him that his father died confronting the Kyuubi and his mother died at childbirth because of the stress caused by the same Kyuubi attack.
But now he was not alone, he had a brother! Sure, it was not by blood, but it was by something more important. It was by heart! But the last part of what Sasuke told came in his mind again:
"I know that with you helping me I am one step closer to achieve my objectives"
The blond jinchuuriki was a curious child. For that reason, he wanted to know what these objectives were. Maybe he was going to rebuild the clan? Or he was going to reconstruct the Uchiha Military Police?
Trying to satisfy his curiosity, Naruto did not wait to ask his now 'brother': "Sasuke, what are your objectives now?"
Sasuke smirked. He was expecting this question from Naruto. The Sandaime probably knew what he was going to talk, but the blonde would never think of something like this.
"I have two different objectives. One is to reconstruct the clan."
Naruto, hearing the first of Sasuke's goal, thought it was comprehensible. He kind of predicted that. Now that the clan was gone, he was the one responsible for "repopulating" the clan. Sarutobi could not help but to let out a perverted giggle when having the same thought.
Sasuke proceeded: "And the other one is to kill Itachi and avenge the Uchiha clan"
Sasuke wants to kill sensei? How is going to do that?
Itachi-sensei was an ANBU Captain at 15 freakin years old! At our age, he was already a gennin!
He will need to train a lot to even think in achieving that level. The level of a S-Rank Shinobi.
Knowing Sasuke like I do, he will probably never take the idea of vengeance out of his mind. I will try to change this objective but I think I will not be successful in this.
Well, I heard brothers need to always support each other. But I have a strong feeling that this entire situation is going to bite me in the ass later.
"So Naruto, what is your answer?" the black haired child said.
The Yondaime's legacy temporally came out of his thinking when he heard that. Sasuke was waiting for an answer. He needed some time to think about the offer.
If he accepted, he would not need to live alone anymore. But what if the villagers started to hate Sasuke too, if just for him living with him? He would never forgive himself if that happened.
But then he remembered something from yesterday:
"What I want you to promise is that after all things that are going to happen after today, you must do all you can to not let Sasuke-kun betray the village"
"Again, I promise, Itachi-sensei"
He would respect the promise he made with his sensei. After all, promises were made to be kept, wasn't it?
If by living with the Uchiha youngest brother, Naruto would be in part fulfilling his promise to his sensei; then his answer was already decided in his mind.
He closed his eyes, trying to think how he was going to answer. After a long sigh, he made a serious face and said:
"Sasuke, my answer is …"
It had been four entire years since that night after what came to be known to the population of Konoha as the Uchiha Massacre. The memories of that surprising night still were very clear in Sarutobi's mind:
"Sasuke, my answer is …" Naruto made a little pause to breath and then continued talking. "Yes, I will live with you in your house. I will need some time to pack all my things at my house and for that reason I will probably moving nest week, is it ok with you?"
Sasuke nodded. He was certain that if he lived alone in that house he would become crazy with the time."
The Sandaime was happy, he was right when he thought that the two of them would support each other. And that was very clear when the funeral for the Uchiha clan was realized in the week after the unfaithful night.
Start of the Flashback
The Uchiha funeral, like all funerals, was a very sad one. It was taking place inside of the Uchiha Compound, in a big field near a shrine that the Uchiha usually used for this kind of thing. It was crowded; people from all classes of Konoha came to pay their last respects.
Most of the shinobi came to it, not for liking the Uchiha, save for a few that had friends in the Clan, but to pay respect for the loss of a strong clan that helped in the foundation of Konoha.
The majority of the villagers were there. The Uchiha Military Police were the responsible for the order within the civilian population of the village. Because of that, they were loved by the non-shinobi population. For them, to lose the Great Uchiha Clan was unimaginable.
The weather was bad. The rain was heavy and uninterrupted. It looked like the sky was crying for the pain that the two special little boys were suffering. They were currently in front of the newly made Uchiha Memorial.
The Uchiha Memorial was a monument that was made especially to honor those who had died in the Massacre. There had all the names of the dead Uchiha, but two were very important for the little boys. Those were Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku.
One of the boys had black hair and black eyes. Tears were flowing through his eyes without a stop, and he was cursing his older brother for doing that to him.
The other boy was at the side of the black haired boy, helping him in that tragic moment. He had blond hair and blue eyes. While he was not crying, if someone paid enough attention to him, they could see his eyes were watering.
Many of the villagers, when looking at the two little boys were wondering what the demon boy was doing together with the last Uchiha. But those who were close to the Uchiha knew about the blond child and his relationship with the dead clan and were sad and feeling pity for him too.
Overall, the Sandaime Hokage was very sad about this whole situation. He was sad and angry with himself for not being capable of saving one of the founding clan from the darkness. And mainly, he was sad because the two boys in front of him would never have a decent and normal childhood. Their innocence was taken from them together with the Uchiha Massacre.
Hiruzen made a brief speech about how the Uchiha were important to Konoha and that losing them was terrible, but the village needed to move on and honor them doing their best in their daily activities, because that was the Will of Fire, the spirit responsible for Konoha being the strongest of the Hidden Village.
But what he really hoped was that the two young boys, that were now leaving the funeral together, had a chance to have a successful life. He hoped that the Will of Fire guided them through the long and winding road they would have to cross.
End of the Flashback
He knew since that day that they were going to be okay. Looking them using his crystal ball, he could reflect how much they changed.
Naruto was the one who changed most. With Sasuke's approval, he was wearing his sensei's old clothes. But there was one set that had a main difference. He had added the Uzumaki crest in both sleeves, leaving the Uchiha crest in the back to show his special relationship with the dead clan.
But for mission and serious training, the young jinchuuriki made something special. While all of Itachi clothes were black, Naruto had dyed some of the clothes to a light blue tone very close to the ice color.
When the Sandaime asked the reason for the unusual color, Naruto explained that with it was easier to hide in the mist. Sometimes he even put a white hood covering his hair (like the one Kakuzu uses, but it is white), because he said that the color of his hair sticks too much in the mist.
Talking about mist, the blonde had taken a liking in using the Kirigakure no Jutsu. Because of that, he looked for the Konoha's library book and the Uchiha's notes about Kiri in search for the perfect style that uses the mist jutsu.
He had found about the Muon Satsujin technique that the famous Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shū used. He tried his best to recreate the style from all the information he had but, while was not the same as the original from Kirigakure no Sato, it was damn pretty effective.
The jinchuuriki confessed to the Sandaime that he was aiming to become a ninjutsu specialist. So Naruto mainly worked with wind and some water ninjutsu because he remembered that his sensei Itachi said something about him having a wind and a minor water affinity.
However there was not a shinobi in Konoha with proficiency in wind manipulation that Naruto knew about. That leaded to Naruto asking Sarutobi if there was a shinobi who could teach about the wind element.
By luck or not, Sarutobi said that his son Asuma had a wind affinity and was currently in Konoha. Then the blonde went to the smoking jounin for some tips.
While he was a bit disappointed because Asuma said that he was still too young to know how to manipulate the wind element, the ex-integrant of the Twelve Guardian Ninja taught him him how to add the wind element to weapons which Naruto was very happy to know because would certainly improve his Muon Satsujin technique and some low and medium ranked wind jutsu.
For the water jutsu, he knew that the Nidaime Hokage was master at water manipulation. So Naruto again asked the Hokage if he had some jutsus from the Nidaime that he could learn.
The Sandaime surprised him saying that his mother was very proficient in water jutsus when she was a shinobi and that he had some scrolls about water jutsu that she left with him so that he could give it to her son.
The Ape summoner said that he could not give all scrolls because there were ones too dangerous for him to learn now but he was happy to give to him the low ranked ones.
Although Naruto was a bit unnerved for the fact that he still could not learn some powerful jutsus, he was excited in learning some technique that his mother used.
In the taijutsu field, he improved his style that he developed together with Itachi. However, he still did not have the needed field experience, besides his spars with Sasuke and occasional spars with Chouji and Shikamaru, to see how it worked against a real opponent.
Genjutsu was an interesting topic. The blonde was a total failure in creating genjutsu and only basic at dispelling them. But his sensei knew about this and before he committed the Massacre, developed one single special genjutsu that the blonde could cast.
He further mastered that because it was not a matter of controlling the chakra but simply having the necessary chakra to perform the technique. They named it the Magen - Seigan Eisha no Jutsu.
The sun kissed jinchuuriki's personality had too a drastic change. Each day he became more and more like his sensei when fighting. From the happy knucklehead child, he became emotionless in battle always trying to observe his opponent and thinking plans.
But when he wasn't fighting, he was always seen with a constant grin when not. He became very adept at sarcastic comments too. He only smiled when he was with Sasuke, the Hokage, Shikamaru and Chouji.
To Sarutobi, that style remembered too much him of the Yondaime too. Well it is what people always say 'a chip off the old block'. Damn you, Minato! If you just did not have made so many enemies, I would not have to hide his parentage. Now, every time that I look at him I keep remembering you!
Sasuke had grown up a lot. He was wearing a dark blue t-shirt with the Uchiha crest in the back of the cloth, a plain white shorts and blue sandals. The Uchiha was also wearing a white arm wrapping and white gloves. Both of them had a metallic protection.
Sasuke went to a ninja store and especially bought them because he was always sparing against Naruto, who constantly used weapons due to his silent kill style, and they provided a good way to defend against an opponent skilled in kenjutsu.
In these four years, with the help of Naruto, he learned many of the Uchiha traditional fire jutsus like the Katon: Housenka no Jutsu. He was always studying them at the Uchiha's library. He also trained the use of wires and shuriken in conjunction with his fires jutsus.
He taught Naruto some fire jutsus too, but he was not near the level of Sasuke's proficiency in that art, which was a constant issue that the Uchiha liked to mock his brother about.
Some techniques he was just learning the theory, because they depended on the Sharingan so he could not learn them yet. He learned some lightning techniques too because he felt that it was easier to learn them. Naruto said that he probably had a lightning affinity.
He also got a lot better at the Uchiha Taijutsu style, the Intercepting Fist, which come together with his constant spars with Naruto. But because he still did not unlocked his Sharingan he could not fully utilize its potential.
For that reason, he preferred to train his speed so that when he obtained his doujutsu his body could keep up with his eyes.
But what surprised the Hokage was that the last Uchiha had taken a liking in the genjutsu area. When Sarutobi asked him about that, Sasuke smiled to him and said that he was going to surpass his brother in every area he exceed, including genjutsu.
And while he could not cast ocular genjutsu again because he did not have the Sharigan, he learned all low ranked and some medium ranked genjutsu that the Uchiha Clan had.
His personality changed too. While as a child he did not have the embarrassment to smile; now he was a bit darker. When alone, he was always glaring and sulking, ignoring everyone near him when not needing to talk. For him, that was how a true avenger should act.
But with the people he were close too he could be seem smirking and smiling. Those included Naruto and surprisingly the Hokage too. Because the Sannin's sensei had a close relationship with Naruto, he always visited him at the Uchiha Compound and with time he developed a grandfather-grandson bond with the Uchiha too.
The two of them had chosen some weapon too. While Naruto picked his sensei's ANBU ninjato that he had received as a present from Itachi and Sasuke had picked his father's katana.
But neither of them had advance skills of them because simply they had no one to learn from.
While the blond jinchuuriki used the ninja-to with his self recreated Muon Satsujin technique, Sasuke used some basic style that the Uchiha Clan had in the scrolls. That is because the Uchiha Clan motivated its member to use the moves they copied from their opponents with the Sharingan.
And now the Sandaime was observing them go to the last week of the academy before the graduation. He sighed. His blond grandson still did not have the control necessary to perform the Bunshin no Jutsu.
Naruto was currently wearing his dark clothes, leaving the special one to mission abroad of Konohagakure no Sato. He was walking with Sasuke to the academy. Thank God it is my last week of classes! I do not think I can take it anymore!
Sasuke was wearing his normal Uchiha clothes. Seeing the happy face that his blond brother was making, the Uchiha guessed that the idiot was probably thinking about how this is the last week at the academy.
They arrived at the academy and did not saw any students inside the class just the teacher Iruka and Mizuki. They had left their homes early because of Sasuke's insistence in not getting late.
Naruto quickly greeted both of his sensei: "Good morning, Iruka-sensei, Mizuki-sensei" Mizuki nodded and Iruka answered. "Good morning, Naruto. Good morning, Sasuke."
The Uchiha answered with something that sound 'Hn' and proceeded to sit in his favorite desk.
After seeing that the teachers had left so that they could pick their class materials, the Yondaime's legacy seated in the chair beside Sasuke and started to take a nap. He still could not believe how the last Uchiha could wake up so early.
Twenty minutes after the brothers arrived, the other students started to arrive. Shikamaru arrived together with Chouji and they went to talk with Sasuke and Naruto.
Sasuke nodded to them as they greeted him saying good morning. The Nara heir seeing the blond apparently sleeping asked Sasuke for confirmation. "Is he sleeping again?"
The Uchiha heir smirked. "He still cannot wake up early. I had to throw a bucket filled with cold water at hos face so that he could wake up in time to come here."
Chouji smiled at this and Shikamaru smirked and said "How troublesome"
The class was already crowded when everybody hear a very familiar sound. It was the sound of shrill and screech voice battle. All the students present knew who were coming: the Uchiha fan girls!
Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino were disputing who entered the house first. Everybody was silent because no one could talk because of the voices would be muffled by the fan girls' shout.
Sakura and Ino's yelling were so loud that they woke up Naruto. And because he was sleeping he thought that it was a dream and shouted:
"PLEASE SHUT UP YOU UGLY MONSTER AND LET ME SLEEP IN PEACE!"
Everyone in the room laughed with the exception of Shino, who just smirked, and Sakura and Ino that were seeing red.
The blond jinchuuriki slowly opened his eyes and saw that all students were laughing and made a confused face and asked to the Uchiha that was at his side:
"Sasuke, why is everybody laughing?" Then the students started to laugh more and more making Sakura and Ino practically fuming. Sakura, enraged, yelled to the blonde shaking her fist:
"Naruto baka, you pay for telling me to shut up!"
The blond let his famous smirk appear in his face and replied:
"Sakura-chan, if you were not so loud that you would never happened."
At this point, all class could not take it anymore. There were even some students who fell from their chair because they were laughing so much!
That was the scenario that the two teachers saw when arrived. The majority of students were laughing, some were smirking like Naruto and all the girls that were considered Uchiha fan girls were glaring at Naruto.
Iruka trying to put a stop to the mess that was his class quickly made his giant head jutsu and shouted:
"EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND GO TO YOUR PLACES!"
Sakura was going to yell at Naruto for staying in the seat besides Sasuke-kun but she saw the face that Iruka-sensei had and gave up, choosing to seat next to Ino.
"All right class, because the graduation exams is last week let's make a quick review of all the history of Konoha"
Everybody let out a displeased groan and started to pay attention to his class. Well, almost everybody, there were some that were sleeping…
"So class, let's take a lunch interval. You can leave now." The instant he said that, everybody ran to the outside. Iruka could not help but frown: Are my class that boring?
Naruto waited for Shikamaru and Chouji and left together for lunch. He knew that Sasuke was going to meet with them at the table.
It took them sometime to arrive at the park for lunch because Shikamaru was being really lazy. When they arrived they saw that Sasuke was already seated.
Shino also seated with them. It was a normal occurrence in the last years his presence. It started when Naruto one day saw that he was having lunch alone and invited him to have lunch with him and the group. From there they always lunched together.
Sometimes Kiba joined too but he always ended up arguing with Naruto, one throwing insults at the other, Kiba's aggressive swearing and sarcastic responses in Naruto's case.
They were now talking about the graduation exams that will be realized in the next week.
"Do you think you will have enough motivation to pass Shikamaru?" asked Sasuke.
"Man, this is troublesome, but it will be more troublesome if I do not pass." replied the Lazy Nara.
Chouji while munching a lot of potato chips asked: "Naruto, did you learn how to do the Bunshin no Jutsu?"
Sasuke snickered: "Hn, The idiot could not make a Bunshin even if his life depended on it!"
Naruto faked a crying sob and said: "Why do you think so low of me, Sasu-chan?"
Everybody at the table laughed and Sasuke glared at the blonde.
"To answer your question, Chouji, I still cannot do the Bunshin no Jutsu. I do not know what I will do? Any of you have a suggestion?"
Shino said in his usual voice. "I read in a book at the library that there are other kinds of bunshin. Don't you know anyone of them?"
Shikamaru snickered. "Eh, Naruto, can't you ask your mysterious sensei, the man who teach most of your jutsus, if he can teach you other bunshin?"
While Sasuke sulked because they talked about Itachi, even if they did not knew that it was him that was Naruto's sensei, something clicked in the sun kissed student's head:
The ANBU captain then picked a scroll from one of his pockets and gave it to Naruto. "Please keep this. I know that you have problems when trying to do the Bunshin no Jutsu and these will probably still be there till your graduation test. This scroll has a solution to your problem. But I want you to promise that you will only open this scroll if by the time of your exam you still cannot do the Bunshin no Jutsu, OK?
The blond child frowned a little but answered: "I promise, Itachi-sensei"
The blond remembered now, his sensei even after going rogue was still helping him.
Itachi-sensei probably knew that he was not going to be able to perform the Bunshin no Jutsu even after all years training at the academy and maid a failsafe plan for him, so that the blonde could graduate to Gennin.
The jinchuuriki needed to see that scroll; he needed to learn whatever skill his sensei gave to him so that he could graduate. He quickly called everybody seated in the table and said:
"I have a plan to graduate but I need to go home now. Please, if Iruka-sensei asks any of you about where I am please create some excuses. Bye!" And then he left in the direction of the Uchiha Compound.
"Troublesome Blonde" said Shikamaru but it was what many of them were thinking too. Just Sasuke was thinking something different. He seemed like that he remembered something when he heard about his sensei. Did he teach something to him that could help him in graduation?
Naruto was running to his bedroom. How could he forget something like that? If Shikamaru did not mocked him about his sensei he would never had remembered that. This would mean he would not graduate!
Angry at himself for not remembering something so important he quickly searched for the scroll his sensei gave him in that terrible day.
He found it under a pile of dirty clothes. Man, he really needed to clean up his room in the next days! The to-be gennin opened the scroll and read it intently:
Naruto-kun,
If you are reading this, you probably already know about the Uchiha Massacre.
I want to tell you that I had my reason for doing what I did.
And knowing my foolish little brother like I do, he will probably want to avenge the Clan by killing me. Naruto-kun, please, do not stop him from getting his revenge. Just help him to get stronger.
You must be wondering how can you graduate if you still do not know how to do the Bunshin no Jutsu. You see, I have the perfect jutsu for you.
This is considered a B-Rank ninjutsu. The reason for this jutsu being forbidden is that one needs a lot of chakra to perform this to a satisfactory level.
It is a chakra intensive technique that most jounin in Konoha know how to perform. I know that chakra is not a problem for you so that jutsu is perfect for you!
I wish you became a gennin, and even if you not I want you to know that I am proud of you
Take care,
Your sensei, Itachi
P.S.: Here goes the explanation:
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu
B-Rank Ninjutsu
The Kage Bunshin no Jutsu makes a true copy of their user. The clone is solid giving it the ability to perform physical attacks. The Kage Bunshin can utilize the techniques from the user too. The user's chakra is equally distributed through every clone. They generally disperse after one or two solid hits though. When a Kage Bunshin is dispersed, all of its previous memories are returned to the original creator.
Instruction: The seal for this technique is special. It uses a cross shaped seals with the middle and index fingers. The user have to summon the chakra necessary for the number of Kage Bunshins he wants to make and then shape it to the clone format.
As Naruto finished reading the scroll, his eyes were watering. He, he, Itachi- sensei can really predict mine and Sasuke's actions. I miss him.
He closed the scroll and put it inside his closet. Well, time to work! Let's master this Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!
He picked his usual training kit and wrote a note to Sasuke and put it on their dining table and then, he left.
Sasuke was very tired when he arrived at home. He and the others (Shikamaru, Chouji and Shino) had a very hard time to create some excuses for Naruto not being in the classroom. At first, Iruka-sensei did not believe in their claiming, but he gave them the benefit of doubt.
In the end, they said he was feeling kind sick was went home to rest.
He went to the kitchen to pick some water when he saw the note that was on the dining table.
The last Uchiha smiled when he finished reading and thought: What surprise are you going to show us, Naruto?
Sasuke,
I am going to train at our old training ground so that I can graduate in the next week
I will probably be training during all week and I am going to be eating at the Ichiraku's Stand so do not worry about me getting food.
I will be camping there too so I will not sleep at home.
See you at the graduation exams,
Take care!
Your brother, Naruto
One more chapter done!! There will be a fight in the next chapter and it will show a bit Naruto and Sasuke improvement. I will probably explain Naruto's Genjutsu in the next chapter too.
Thank you for the more than one thousand hits!
I have the next chapter done in my head but it will take some time to transfer it to the computer.
I made a draw with Naruto in his black outfit and I will post the link for it in the deviantart later.
Please review, I really want to know if I am doing good and in what I can get better!
Have a good week!
Dictionary:
Jinchuuriki – Literally Power of the Human Sacrifice, which is how the people who houses the tailed beasts are called
Kyuubi – Nine Tails
Konohagakure no Sato – Village Hidden in the Leaves
Kirigakure no Jutsu – Hidden Mist Technique
Muon Satsujin Jutsu – Silent Homicide Technique
Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shū – Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist
Kirigakure no Sato – Village Hidden in the Mist
Magen - Seigan Eisha no Jutsu – Demonic Illusion – Soul Eyes Projection
Katon: Housenka no Jutsu – Fire Release: Mythical Fire Phoenix Technique
Ninjato - It is a short sword, generally used by the ANBU
Bunshin no Jutsu - Clone Technique
Baka – Stupid, Idiot
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu – Shadow Clone Technique