AN: Everyone who reviewed, a Huge thank you! It really motivated me, also I can't believe how fast the last chapter gained readers, it now has the same amount of visitors (in barely a day) that the chapter before that one took twice as long for, awesome right?
Mixed reviews about the previous chapter, mostly good but still a few people who were confused or dissappointed I had to keep the Uchiha Massacre pretty much the same as in the Manga. However I believe that this chapter will explain a bit more about what really went on without giving too much away.
A few things that should be noted:
1- About Harry's MS and how he gained access to it(for a picture check my profile): I hinted about this in chapter 9; remember how Harry hugged Itachi, feeling a huge sense of loss?
The way I see it the mangekyou can (tradionally) be obtained through two methods, both having to do with a loss of some kind.
We have Itachi's, the loss of a friend at your own hands.
We have Kakashi's the loss of a friend due to your own (involuntary) inaction.
Now imagine Harry's situation, by not doing anything to stop Itachi he had to experience both senses of loss, and thus he awakened the kaleidoscope.
I hope this explains it a bit more indepth than it will be explained in the story for a while.
2- Harry's access to his magic: Simply explained, he does not have any access to it, whatsoever. Which has a multiple of reason, the one i will mention is that Harry cannot become a god that easily, haha. Harry is and will be able to do the following things : Apparition, Legillimency (lovingly refered to as passing judgment in this fic), Occlumency and his extreme healing abilities hinted about in chapter 2 Family bonding time. However I must tell you that he does not use his magic for that but his chakra.
Now on to the next chapter that has been Beta'd by the lovely, awesome and brilliant Xhexia, did I mention she works incredibly fast as well?
Chapter 9: Passing Judgment
Harry had taken Sasuke away from Itachi through apparition to the only safe place he knew in Konoha that was not located in the Uchiha District. So after entering the hospital through the front door where Harry had dropped Sasuke off he went to the Hokage, knowing that the man would probably like to be informed of the two sole survivors of the massacre he never gave permission for. So walking back outside he could not help but notice his eyes, they looked nothing like the sharingan he used to have, they looked different, and very much so. "So this is my Mangekyou" Harry wondered out loud, seeing the red- black eyes that stared back at him, almost willing him to keep on watching, so mesmerizing that Harry had to forcefully think about moving his eyes away from his own gaze using his occlumency to keep that compulsion to keep on watching away.
"The cursed eyes of the kaleidoscope to think that after the deathly hallows I have yet to bear another burden of this magnitude." Harry whispered to his reflection, stopping the flow of chakra to his eyes and thus putting the kaleidoscope to sleep. His mangekyou frightened him, the likeliness to the deathly hallows was too big for Harry to just ignore, was he still master of death, and if he was, what did that mean? Hoping to find an answer to those questions later Harry moved on, he had a Hokage to speak
"We need help!" shrieked a woman as a small boy walked in while carrying a much older boy on his back.
"He needs help." The boy said, turned around and walked away "I'll be back as soon as possible take care of him." He said to the nurse before he exited the building, staring at his reflection before he vanished from the spot.
Sarutobi Hiruzen had just been debriefed of the plan the three council members had enacted. And where most Kage would feel relieved that such a problem had been taken care of without much bloodshed, he could only feel like he had failed. Despite everything, the Uchiha were still his to protect and he had failed monumentally. Every woman, every child and every man that belonged to that clan had been killed, and that all by a mere boy and a neuron-toxin that Danzo had refused to give him more information about other than that it was airborne and contained with a barrier jutsu.
Sarutobi knew that there must have been more going on than just that, but he could not quite put his finger on it. He simply had not gotten the time to really process it all, and he would not get it anytime soon, because after informing his ninja's of the fact that Uchiha Itachi was now a missing nin he heard someone knock on his office door.
"Come in." the tired voice of the third hokage said, while looking at the mountains of paperwork this massacre had already caused.
The door slowly opened and Hiruzen saw that a young boy walked into his office, the boy could not have been older than 4 years. Hiruzen had seen the boy; his extremely fast advancement through the ninja academy had brought the boys file to his attention.
His teachers said he was a prodigy, a genius; the boy could read, write and seemed to soak information like a sponge. But while the boy was smart he was also socially skilled. It was that last comment that had surprised the hokage; normally children that were advancing at even half the pace of the boy in front him were closed off, socially inept terrifyingly good ninja.
"Uchiha Haru, you are still alive!" the hokage said, feeling shocked, relieved, sad and happy at the same time. "I... I…" the hokage did not know what to say to the boy, the guilt he felt preventing him from speaking any further.
"Sarutobi Hiruzen, sir, we need to have a long talk about certain events that had just transpired in the Uchiha District without your consent." The boy said evenly, emotionless and with a look that told Hiruzen that this boy, was anything but ordinary.
The boy walked towards the chair in front of his desk and sat down. "Please, Hokage-sama don't look at me as if I am a ghost of some sort, I can guarantee you, I am very much alive unlike some of my... clan." The hokage responded to this by nodding. In the presence of this child he felt almost like a toddler himself despite the fact that he was almost fifteen times as old.
"I see." Said the hokage, thinking it better to wait for the boy to lead this conversation, despite the fact that he was so young, he seemed to demand respect and a listening ear with his posture and tone of voice alone, in truth it freaked him out a little bit.
"My family, and by that I mean the Uchiha clan, had been trying to organize a coup de tat. I know you were aware of this, I believe it was my oldest brother Uchiha Itachi that brought this to your attention, am I correct in my assumption?" Harry asked of the man looking directly in the grey eyes of the man.
"I had no real information about it, no; Itachi was very helpful in that regard." Sarutobi said to the boy that seemed to judge his very soul with that look in his eyes, a look that he could not break away from.
"But you had your suspicions, you were warned by your teachers, the first and second Hokage's themselves to be wary of the Uchiha, were you not?" the boy stated more than asked.
"Yet, you wanted to really give the Uchiha a chance to redeem themselves your actions speak volumes of you character Sarutobi Hiruzen. Yet you think you are weak because of your compassion?" the boy continued on, as if explaining Hiruzen who he himself was.
"Every Ninja, every villager, everyone in the village of Konoha falls under my protection Uchiha Haru. And sometimes protection means that tough choices must be made. I wanted to give the Uchiha a fair chance and it was by far the toughest choice I've made in a long time." Hiruzen explained the boy.
"I see. You could have done what was easy and kill them all directly after hearing about their insubordination or you could do what was right and try to find out what was wrong and heal those pestering wounds." The boy sitting in front of him said dissecting his very thoughts it seemed. "Hiruzen Sarutobi you are a wise man do not doubt yourself. Your will of fire burns with intensity that is indeed worthy of the position you have gained so long ago. As Uchiha representative I ask you to personally forgive the remaining Uchiha's of their family's mistakes because even though you understood so well, the reasons for their betrayal you have yet to come at peace with it, forgiveness might help you and us." The boy said while his emerald green eyes seemed to sparkle slightly.
"You mean there are more Uchiha left than you Haru?" Hiruzen asked of the boy. He had not heard that Itachi had left any Uchiha alive.
"Sadly only one more a tortured boy that goes by the name of Uchiha Sasuke. Itachi tortured him with what I believe was a genjutsu named Tsukuyomi, from what I gathered he showed my brother the death of our parents for a consecutive seventy-two hours while claiming that he was helpless and could only watch that he was too weak to stop him." Harry said with sadness apparent on his face and for the first time since he walked into the Hokage's office the boy looked just like the child he was a three year old child that had just lost everything he ever had.
"I, Hiruzen Sarutobi, forgive the Uchiha clan of their sins." Sarutobi said, and it was as if a huge weight was lifted of his shoulders.
"I, Uchiha Haru, forgive the village of Konoha of the acts that were committed earlier this day, forgive but not forget. It was a lesson in humility far too valuable. Many a man don't learn such a lesson in their lifetime." Haru said.
"I will be completely honest with you, Hiruzen Sarutobi, I was not aware that not only the political active villagers or ninja would be killed but also the children, the innocent, the peaceful. Neither did my oldest brother, Itachi." The boy confessed to him.
"I was very much aware that most of my family would die, I had accepted that, they were power hungry it was needed. I happen to know that Itachi had help from a third party, a party named Akatsuki and that one of their members is named Uchiha Madara." He told the old man in front of him.
Uchiha Madara! But that man had died years ago, the man would be too old to still be an active ninja.
Sarutobi felt baffled, the boy in front of him knew so much, it was as if he had been reading every sealed off recorded secret. And the only reason he did not arrest the boy in front of him was because for the oddest reason he trusted the boy completely. He had been so honest. He had to ask him why.
"Why are you telling me about all of this, Uchiha Haru, how do you know all this?" He asked of the boy that was calmly sitting in the chair that was obviously way too big for him.
Harry looked up at this question, his Dumbledore impression failing for a second. "Those with burdens and expectations placed upon them have two options; you walk the road paved for you grow stronger and realize it is not a burden to bear alone or you stand still collapsing with the weight you cannot lift any longer." The boy said his eyes now twinkling like as if the stars were hidden in them. "I have been walking for far longer than you expect hokage-sama. And I'm tired of having to keep walking alone, so I confide in you. I have judged you worthy of being trusted do not take that honor lightly." The boy said clearly hoping that he, Hiruzen, did not betray that trust. "As for your second question please don't ask me how I know this information again, let's just say you stumbled upon a file, this information might be useless to you now, it does not help you unravel the secrets that Danzo has held so close to his chest but I believe it can give you peace of mind to know that the boy that came to you two and a half years ago did not mindlessly slaughter children, did not mindlessly slaughter anyone, every life he took he cried for. Every life he took was so that the village he loves so dearly can remain."
It was those last words that made Hiruzen actually proud of the Uchiha boy that had massacred his own clan. "So the fire still burned brightly even after all that he had to endure, Uchiha Haru, thank you." He said trying hard not to show just how affected he actually was and the boy just nodded.
"Now, to discuss something else entirely, Sasuke and I will take our residence in…"
After leaving the Hokage's office feeling quite content about having his goals achieved Harry wanted to see how Sasuke was doing. He had felt a bit guilty about leaving his brother behind in the hospital.
He actually felt guilty about a lot of things but he could rationalize his decisions. He had allowed Itachi to kill most of the clan because if he had not a lot more of innocent people would have been wounded and dead by allowing the Uchiha clan to be decimated he was sure that Konoha would not be attacked right after the coup de tat by other villages.
Yet he had not thought that the Akatsuki would be hired as well to slaughter all the innocents that Itachi would keep alive. They had planned it so well. They were going to keep himself and Sasuke out of trouble by sending Sasuke after Harry when he did not show up on time for dinner taking his merry time Harry would slow down Sasuke enough for the massacre to happened so that Sasuke and he would not be forced to sit unable to move because of the neuron-toxin and watch their parents to be killed.
Harry could see why Itachi had panicked and had decided to put Sasuke through his version of hell so he could let Sasuke kill him but Harry could not agree with such nonsense.
Once Sasuke would wake up Harry was going to explain everything to the boy and hope that by easing him into it could make sure that Sasuke would forgive not only his parents and clan but also Itachi and the village. Harry knew it would not be easy, the boy could hold on to a grudge as good as a kneazle could.
Opening the doors of the hospital Harry asked in his cutest voice that was sure to charm the receptionist "Ma'am, hello uhmm my brother was brought in here a few hours ago. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and he has black hair, can you bring me to his room I really want to see how he is doing" Batting his eyes a few times Harry knew that he had succeeded.
"Sure sweetie, tell me what is your name?" The nurse asked trying to make the atmosphere as easy going as possible, his brother was in pretty bad shape after all.
"I'm Harry" Harry responded hoping that the woman would hurry up with her questions. "Okay, here is a pass with your name on it Harry, make sure to keep it on you while you are in the hospital or you are not allowed into your big brothers room okay sweetie?" the woman said giving him the pass and motioning for a nurse to come and guide him to Sasuke's room.
It took a while for Harry to reach Sasuke's room but the nurse had been funny, telling him a few jokes, so Harry had laughed and acted the part of a child that was just slightly older than he really was, Harry hoped that he could learn to use some really good genjutsu's to hide the fact he looked no older than four years, he had read after all that Tsunade, slug queen, Senju used a genjutsu that made her look like she was twenty-five.
Entering the room he could see the boy he had for three years called his brother. "Thank you very much for bringing me here Miss Nurse.
"It was no problem, if there is anything you need to press the blue button okay?" the nurse responded with a sickly childish voice, but Harry nodded seriously and thanked her again after which she left the room.
"Sasuke, as soon as you wake up I'm going to tell you a long story about how a boy not much older than you was told that his family was going to betray the village that he had come to love so much." Harry said while softly wiping of the sweat on Sasuke's forehead with a towel. "Just wake up okay buddy I have so much to tell you..."
Harry sat at Sasuke's bed for hours until the clock struck three hours past midnight and Harry had to visit one more person for that day.
Danzo was trying to catch some sleep, his careful planning with the Akatsuki and the Hokage's advisors had finally been useful. He had collected ten fully awakened sharingans on top of the sharingan he had taken from Uchiha Shisui.
Yes it was a most fruitful plan that he had enacted that had served both him and the village well.
Because now he had access to Izanagi, the jutsu that would ensure his victory over the other countries. And if his deal with Orochimaru would work he might even be able to not only be able to use Izanagi more than once per eye but he might just get the position of Hokage and lead Konoha in times of prosper with his strong iron fist he would make sure that Konoha would train it's ninja's to believe not in that useless will of fire but in the power of Konoha, the supremacy of the great tree.
It was a shame that he could not gain access to the eyes of the Uchiha that had awakened his eyes at birth, he was sure there was more to those eyes than just the regular sharingan abilities, he had heard that those that were looked directly in the eyes by the boy would feel as if their very essence was being judged. It was something that intrigued him, if his suspicions were correct, which most of the time they were than that boy's eyes were far more valuable than the eye he had taken from Shisui.
He had to get the boy but he would think about that another time. He needed to sleep tomorrow he would meet with Orochimaru and he needed to be properly rested to make sure he took the most profit out of their deal.
Danzo was finally asleep when he was awoken by a soft pop sound. Pretending to still be sleeping he grabbed the kunai that he had hidden under his pillow. He wondered how anyone could have gotten past his seals, it was top- notch work, it was after all the old house of the Yondaime he had taken refuge in when that man sacrificed himself for Konoha whoever had entered must have been a very experienced seal master.
"Put away that kunai, Danzo Shimaru, at the moment I do not mean you any harm." Danzo heard a high pitched voice tell him. "At least not yet."
Harry had found out where Danzo lived from the Hokage's mind he could clearly see how it looked and where in the village it was. To think that all Harry had needed to do to get so much information about this man was to drop his name in a conversation was simply astounding these ninja's with all their secrets had no occlumency whatsoever.
Harry had tried to not use legilimency on his family, he really had but in the end he was content with the outcome of his invasion into their privacy, all he wanted to know was why his father was spending such excessive amounts of time in the meeting room. Harry could see there was something going on but he had not known what, one tiny glance into the man's mind later and Harry knew one of the best kept secrets in Konoha.
Yes legilimency surely was a gift that was extremely useful too bad he could not really gain experiences that way or he would be able to figure out how those seals really worked that Danzo had all over this house. All Harry knew right now was how to deactivate them but he did not understand it, truly it was the only flaw legilimency had and at the moment it annoyed him greatly. He needed time to dissect the information carefully but he had been in a hurry he needed to talk to this man he needed to know more about the massacre. Itachi after all only knew so much.
Harry could hear that Danzo's breathing turned irregular for a second and that the hand that was first under the man's blanket was now under his pillow. Surely the man did not think he could be stopped by a mere kunai.
"Put away that kunai, Danzo Shimaru, at the moment I do not mean you any harm." Harry said trying to think of how Voldemort and all those other creeps use to talk. "At least not yet."
"You see, Danzo Shimaru, we need to have a conversation, I know what you did all I want from you is a simple explanation as to why." Harry said turning on the lights in the room. "So please join me in the living room after you put on some clothes, which would surely be a much better sight than those undergarments... nice bunnies by the way." Harry said to the man while turning around and walking to the living room.
Harry took place in on the couch hoping unlike the chair in the Hokage's office wouldn't make him look like he was a three year old with delusions of grandeur.
As Danzo got into the living room Harry could feel that the man was reaching out with his chakra to Harry. Harry let the man do his thing he was most likely checking for genjutsu's.
"I assure you, I am not a nightmare or a genjutsu's Danzo Shimaru. I am but a child." Harry said to the man while chuckling slightly. Knowing that his voice still had that high pitch Harry knew that he would not be taken seriously if he did not freak the man out.
"You worked together with the Akatasuki." Harry stated while looking at Danzo's eye "Look me in the eye and tell me that you only had the best intentions for the village at heart and I won't tell the Hokage that I know you were the one that ordered the execution of mere children some not even older than I am." Harry said hoping to catch a glance of the man's thoughts. He could only catch feelings if he did not have eye contact but he needed more information.
"You take me for a fool Uchiha Haru?" Danzo asked of the boy, sulking for the first time since waking up. At Harry's raised eyebrow he continued. "I know you can somehow pass judgment on someone if they look you into the eyes. I have no intention of being judged by a mere child."
At this Harry looked at the man in surprise he had not know that that information was passed down this fast he was sure it would take years before anyone would see a connection between the feeling of judgment and actually being judged as these people called it.
"I see I am but a child in your eyes. I can still judge your sincerity though by your voice alone." Harry said looking shrewdly at the man. "Tell me why and I will tell you a secret you do not know yet, a secret so coveted that you will beg me to tell you more once you hear it." Harry said hoping to bribe the man for information.
However another idea suddenly came alive in Harry's mind if he could use that mangekyou again perhaps it would force this man just like it had forced himself, to look him in the eye, well he would use that as a last resort.
Danzo could feel that the child in front of him was anything but a child, it was not possible, nothing in his reports about this boy had told him that the kid would be able to play such mind games, trying to convince him with secrets he did not know yet how well did this child, this cursed child know him?
"How about this boy!"He wanted to test the boy, how good was he? What were his limits? He looked at the boy and could clearly see that he flinched at being called a boy. He probably thought himself to be better than just a boy. That was useful information. "I have not ordered anyone to slaughter the Uchiha of that I am innocent." He told the boy, it was not really a lie, it was after all he who merely suggested to Koharu that this plan could work but in the end it was Koharu that had ordered the attack.
Danzo kept looking at the boy and it was almost as if the boy was smiling. Hmm could he see that it was not the entire truth? He wondered, but not for long as the boy started to speak again.
"That is but an omission from the truth. How very sneaky of you Danzo Shimaru." The child said to him, and he looked and sounded somewhat impressed. Was he close to the limit of the boy's gift of finding out the truth?
The boy looked at him as if amused again "Now let me tell you what I learned of you just because you said that line." At this Danzo stiffened and tried to look at the boy a bit better almost wanting to reveal his stolen eye to see so much more. Could he really pass judgment based on words alone? Truly the gifts of the Uchiha were astounding. Danzo thought to himself.
"You feel burdened, tired even. Having to take care of all the nasty tasks in the shadow while Sarutobi Hiruzen stands in the light in a position of power that is almost absolute, while he is weak he gets so much appreciation for this village that you fight so hard for but you get nothing but weary looks for." At hearing this, Danzo was sure that he needed this boy to join root. Not only was he a prodigy but he was a walking lie-detector more thorough than Ibiki himself.
"How interesting I have an offer for you Uchiha Haru. An offer you cannot resist!" he said. Danzo knew better than to use his new sharingan on the boy, surely he was too gifted to be influenced like that. No, Danzo had a very smart plan indeed. He could offer this boy his parents back, surely Orochimaru wouldn't mind to summon them if he gave him their DNA and a sharingan eye.
The boy in front of him looked mildly interested in the idea of a counter offer.
"Join me and my forces, I could make you great grant you power like no other and in turn all I ask is that you join my forces. I will even grant you your deepest desire I will bring back your parents from the dead!" and as those last three words came out of his mouth, Danzo looked directly into the green eyes that were not green anymore and his entire world went black.
AN: Cliffhanger!
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