part ll of lll of the "nine-tailed fox arc". in this, Itachi meets madara! i've fallen to a liking to the man, when he had his hair long, i love men with ling hair, have i said that? anyway, hope you like it!

oh, and the part with itachi and the tree, i was like that,too when i was a kid, there was a tree in my yard, that i totally pespised! i kicked it, dried to push it over, even tried cutting it with a kitchen knife. but i never succeded. But niw, that tree is gone. my father severed it down, so now it's only a stump (or a log, whatever you call it), but it's starting to grow back! well, when it does, i'll be ready for it!

sorry, on to the story! oh, and i don't own anything, except for the tree!


uchiha family 8: home alone

Itachi was in the garden, while Sasuke was inside, taking a nap. He was supposed to watch him, until night. Itachi really wished he didn't. it was boring, since all the baby did was sleep, cry, eat and poop.

"why couldn't I have gotten a babysitter, too?" Itachi thought, when he finally went tired or running laps around the garden. he had already tried standing on water with chakra, and mastered that one, and now, he was aiming for running up trees.

when he fell the thirteeth time, he grunted, but watched the mark he had done everytime he had started to slip. he wasn't even close to halfway up the tree. he sighed in annoyance, and went over to start kicking the tree instead.

Unlucky for him, the tree was old, and thick, so the only thing that happened was that his foot hurt when he kicked with all his might. he grunted, and massaged his aching foot. he glared at the tree, like it would burn to ashes if he glared like his father glared.

but the tree was stubborn. it wouldn't let him climb up it with chakr,a it wouldn't let it be kicked, and not be burnt from a childs' glare. Itachi decided that one day, he would defeat the dumb tree, even if he had to wait until he was an old mad with a crutch, or wheelchair.

" why can't trees speak? if it could, i would swear to itn that i would kill it one day" Itachi grunted. now he felt stupid for fighting with a tree. he decided to train water-walking again. but he easily gor bored with that one, too. after tarining to walk under the water, so he walked upside-down under the sureface, he decided he didn't want to learn water-walking anymore. plus, he had water in his nose, so it ached.

"and only one hour has passed!" he exclaimed to himself, and the small yard. Shisui was apparently still in the academy, so he couldn't run to him, and play. he decided to stair with his kunai and shuriken, instead. he got easily tired of it after ten muntes, the board scratched with small holes, where the Kunai's and shuriken's had landed. Itachi put them back in, but ay down in the grass, and wondered what he would do now.

"maybe i should run to auntie?" he thought, but decided, that if he left the house, his mother would get mad, and punish himm for leaving Sasuke alone.

"it's not like Sasuke had screamed for me every second, he has only needed me once right now, and that was when he was put in bed!" Itachi sighed. he didn't know ol long it was until night, but he guessed; a lot more hours.

"maybe i should have said no to watch sasuke, or asked for someone to spend the time with me" Itachi said to himself, and walked in. he looked in the fridge, and took out a dango his mother had said that he wasn't allowed to eat until after he had eaten dinner. but he couldn't wait that long. it was only half past three, and dinner wasn't until five-six. he decided that if he tried to have fun, the time would pass quicker.

that's as far as his fantasies got. Sasuke started screaming that exact moment. Itachi sighed. well, a least it was something to do, right? he walked to Sasuke's room, and felt an awful smell. It looks like Sasuke needed a change.

"and mother didn't tel me how you do it!" Itachi sighed in defeat. Sasuke contnued to cry his eyes out. Itachi decided to rey his best, and if it went wrong, well, his mom just had to make it right.

after five tries, the diaper sat where it should, though,a little messy, but it was on, at least. Itachi took the baby, and laid him in the crib again. When Sasuke fell asleep, Itachi creeped out of the room, and into the kitchen again. he searched for something to do. but there was nothing.

"if i go into the woods, i'll get scolded for leaving sasuke, but there are so much trees there, so i should be able to train there" Itachi said to the empty room. Then, he decided, he didn't want to be bored to death, so he looked at Sasuke, seeing if he was sound asleep. and he was, so Itachi took his shoes, and shuriken bag, and walked into the forest, a little outside of Konoha.

By the time we was there, it started raining. 'great, now i'm done for, if i get a cold!' he thought, but ignored it, and started throwing shirken and kunai on every tree possible seeing.

"should you really be out here, boy?" a dark voice suddenly sounded, and itachi reacte by throwing a shuriken at the voice. the person caught it with two fingers. he had dark, long hair, and black clothes, and a red armour, like a samurai, over it. his eyes were black, and he looked like he was in his twenties.

"who are you?" Itachi asked, sharply. The man chuckled inside. 'such a strong boy' he thought, and looked at the short five-year-old. his hair only reached a little over his shoulders, and his eyes were dark, like his own, and he wore a light blue turtleneck shirt, and khaki pants. his blue ninja sandals were a bid dirty of the mud on the ground, but other than that, he looked clean, no dirt, even if he had been jumping aroung, throwing shuriken, fetching them, and climbing to get them.

"I am Madara uchiha. I'm sure your father had told you about me, right?" Madara asked Itachi. Itachi lookd confused. He had never heard of a Madara Uchiha. was this guy joking? There wasn't anyone in the clan with the name Madara.

"funny joke, now, who are you?" Itachi asked again, and glared. Madara Sighed. he really didn't have the time to talk to the boy. But he was a bit mad of why Itachi was out, not watching his brother. he would need Sasuke in the future, and if Itachi was so irresponsible to forget him at home, he should at least think twice before assuming he would get away with it.

"Itachi, you have a younger brother, have you not?" Madara asked. Itachi dropped the Kunai he had raised in surprise. How did he know about Sasuke? he held a new Kunai, not bothering to take the other one up from the ground.

"how do you know i have a brother? and how do you know who i am!" Itachi asked, angry, and worried. If this guy knew him, and Sasuke, then maybe he was planning to kidnap one, or both of them.

"you wil learn in the future, but you should Hurry home, or else someone might come and take him away" Madara said, and dissapeared in the shadows. Itachi picked up all the weapons he had dropped, and rushed back home.

When he got home, he didn't sense anyone else in the house, except for Sasuke. he sighed in relief. he took off his shirt, and changed it, not wanting to get a cold, or worrying his mother.

Itachi heard Sasuke cry, and ecided to take him outside for a while. hew looked after the cloth his mother alwasy held him in, and found it, hanging over the drawer in the hall. he took it, and walked to Sasuke's room. He put the baby in the cloth, and put it on himself, and walked to the pound in the yeard, and sat on the porch.

then, after sitting there for a ehile, he felt a horrible feeling. UIt was, strong, like a huge amount of chakra just raised itself.

"what's this awful feeling?" he thought.


lol, cliffhanger! i bet you expected i'd end it here! but the next chptaer will hopfully come up soon! i'll start working on it right away! please review! or else, i won't have the feeling people reads this, and i migh take it down! even anonymous are allowed, just, please, read it!