Uo-chou- Have a little faith in me lol. It's not that hard to believe that a village can be blown up by one person, I mean look at Konoha atm in the manga. Deidara also tried to pull this stunt when he captured Gaara. You also have to take into consideration that this is one of the lesser villages, it's a lot smaller than one of the five main ones.
Paimon- lol sorry if I seemed sarcastic when I said that. It was more or less to prove a point in general not really directing it at you.
The Last Rising Of The Phoenix- If the environmentalists complain I'll pause the plot and sick all the shinobi nations AND Akatsuki on them.
Disclaimer- I don't own anything having to do with Naruto and anything else is complete coincidence.
Chapter 10
After a few minutes, Naruto started to stir. As his eyes opened he noticed wherever he was it was very dark, he then began to sit up.
"Naruto!" shouted who he realized was Yugito as she quickly gave him a firm embrace being glad that he was ok.
"It's alright I'm ok see?" he said wrapping an arm around Yugito to comfort her. "Where are we? What happened to that Akatsuki?" he questioned looking around hoping to recognize something in the dark room.
She slowly pulled away, "H-He… He… I think…" she tried to stutter out but failed miserably.
Naruto looked at her questioningly since she's never stuttered like this, "What is it? He what?"
"I-I think he destroyed the village Naruto" she said finally getting it out.
"W-What!?" shouted Naruto shocked. How could that guy destroy the entire village? What about their shinobi?
"A-After you tried to hit him with your Rasenshuriken you passed out, then he said something about having to leave and then created another bomb but one big enough that it destroyed the village I think…" she informed.
"But what about the other shinobi? What about Shibuki and Fu? Where are we?" he continued questioning.
"We are in the cave we went through to reach the village, that's how far that guy's blast went… it destroyed the exit above us" she replied pointing up as Naruto's eyes widened realizing what size of a blast it would have taken to do that…
"As for Shibuki and Fu, I-I don't know…" said Yugito sadly. From what they knew, Akatsuki moved in pairs of two, they only saw one guy so his partner had to of been close by or… "Y-You don't think…?"
Naruto slammed his fists into the ground, "DAMMIT! Of course! Remember Fu said Shibuki left and never came back for a long time? I make you a bet that it was that Akatsuki's partner's doing to lure Fu into a trap!"
Yugito looked down sadly, "If that's true and they got her then we have no way of tracking her down, neither of us are tracking types and we have no clue what direction they could be heading in…"
"Why does this always have to happen!? I hate them! Even if we could track them I don't think we could do anything to them either…" said Naruto frustrated, truly hating something for the first time in his life.
Yugito looked up at the exit, 'With that blocked off we have no way of getting back into the village, it would only be a fools hope that the village isn't raised to the ground right now…' she thought as she then turned to Naruto. "We need to get out of here Naruto, they most likely know where we are and will send more after us if we linger here much longer…"
"I know… I just wish there was something that we could do…" he said slowly getting up onto his feet.
"Our only option now is to run… We can then train more and that way we can avenge Fu" replied Yugito also getting up.
Naruto shook his head, "No, I refuse to act on vengeance, I've seen it firsthand how it can destroy someone"
Yugito looked at him confused, "Then what? We keep running from them for the rest of our lives?"
"I'm not going to lie Yugito, I hate them so much right now… I want to get stronger and kill them… But not out of revenge… Revenge won't bring her back, I'll do it to stop it from happening again, to protect those most precious to me… I'll do it to protect you Yugito" he said managing to give her a heartwarming smile.
Yugito instantly blushed at his declaration and was thankful that the cave was too dark for him to tell. However somehow in light of the situation he once again seemed to get a rise out of her spirit. "I-I'll get stronger for the same reason, and then that way we can protect each other"
He continued holding his smile as he listened to her and then nodded, "I like the sound of that, now let's get out of here shall we?" he said as they both dived into the pond and swam through the passage to the other side.
A few hours later somewhere outside Takigakure
"Let's begin the extraction" said a figure atop the right thumb of Gedo Mazo.
"The Kyuubi and Nibi are moving away from the ruins of Takigakure" informed Zetsu.
"Ruins eh?" questioned Kisame.
"Deidara blew up the village" replied Zetsu.
"That village was rather artistic, my art only enhanced its beauty yeah" said Deidara proudly.
"But you took too long and ended up failing in capturing your jinchuuriki and nearly killed them" said Sasori reprimanding his partner.
"The Kyuubi can wait, after this I'll look into reconfiguring the statue so that we can focus on the other jinchuuriki first, no matter what, the Kyuubi has to be sealed last" said Pain.
"That Kyuubi kid is starting to become a troublesome target ne?" said Kisame as more of a statement than a question.
"We will need the Nibi before him, with seven of us it'll take almost five days to finish extracting the Nanabi. Itachi, Kisame, I want you both to hunt them down. Itachi's genjutsu will be ideal against those two" said Pain.
"Which way are they heading now?" asked Kisame.
"They are moving towards the boarder of Earth Country" replied Zetsu.
"While Itachi and Kisame are hunting the Nibi, Deidara and Sasori go hunt the Rokubi" ordered Pain. 'Within the year, we'll have peace'
Two days later
"What the?" said Jiraiya as he looked up at the blocked off entrance to Takigakure. 'They would only block it off in case of an emergency, they've never been invaded in any of the wars because this was the only way in and out of the village and it was easy to block off like so. But why is it now?' he thought.
"I guess I have no choice but to go ask around in a nearby town" he said to himself as he exited the cave.
Next day in a nearby village…
"W-What!?" yelled Jiraiya after a traveler just said that there's a rumor going around that Takigakure was destroyed and that some people heard and felt a large explosion from its direction.
Jiraiya at the moment did not know what to think. 'How could the entire village be destroyed, it's never been breached by an enemy let alone an army capable of taking out the entire village…' though he's learned one word that can explain literally anything this absurd and that is Akatsuki…
He quickly summoned a frog to carry a message to Tsunade about what he's found out. The trip back to Konoha as well as the guaranteed beating he would get upon arrival was something he wanted to avoid. Most importantly he needed to gather more information on anything related to what happened in order to try to find his long lost apprentice.
Three more days later…
Tsunade's hands were currently trembling as she held onto the scroll she just received from Jiraiya's frog.
"What's wrong Shishou?" asked Sakura as she watched the uncharacteristic fear present in Tsunade's eyes which worried her greatly.
"I-It's nothing Sakura, don't worry about it" responded Tsunade. 'The entire village destroyed? That must be why the messenger bird we sent returned with the same message… I know grandfather gave the Nanabi to Takigakure as a peace offering… That would be three Jinchuuriki in one spot… I'm positive it's Akatsuki, but please, please don't tell me they got you Naruto…'
Two Months later…
The last two month's had been a nerve-racking hell for both Tsunade and Jiraiya. Two months without any news or anything about Naruto. It was almost as if he completely vanished. Not even the frogs in Myobokuzan knew of where he could be.
However, somewhere in the woods of Earth country, both Naruto and Yugito could be found walking in the direction of Iwagakure which was still a day away from their current position.
"You know, I really don't feel too safe about going to Iwa. Your old village may have been allied with them but they hate mine…" said Naruto as they continued walking.
"Don't be such a chicken, you were enemies with Kumo but you and Jiraiya were able to waltz around the village" replied Yugito rolling her eyes.
"But that's just it, I was with Ero-sennin. He has a reputation you know, nobody wanted to mess with him. We are just two random ninja from an unfriendly village now"
"Oh is the big bad fox afraid of a little village without his perverted guardian?" teased Yugito playfully.
"Yugito…" whined Naruto as they continued playfully bickering with each other.
But as they continued walking they were spotted by a pair of wide eyes belonging to a Rock ninja, 'That blonde kid! C-Could he be related to…?' thought the man. He was a well seasoned veteran of the previous wars, one of the few to survive a confrontation with the Yellow Flash. After the war, the Rock kept some close tabs on the man and had come across some rumors that he had a girlfriend who was pregnant… Anything further seemed to become a well guarded secret after the Yellow Flash's death. But this boy in front of him, bright blonde hair, blue eyes, the right age, from Konoha… it was too much of a coincidence for the Rock ninja to accept.
"Kit, there's another host near you" informed Kyuubi interrupting the two Jinchuuriki's arguing. During the two months of training Naruto and Yugito went through, she taught him how to better work in sync with Kyuubi since she was pretty good herself with Nibi.
"Yugito?" Naruto asked questioningly looking at her to confirm whether or not she got the same message as he did. She nodded in return as they both stopped walking.
Naruto turned around and shouted, "Come out! We know your there!"
Slowly an older man came out from behind a tree, he had fiery red hair held in a high pony tail and a oddly shaped brown Iwa forehead protector. "You kids are pretty good to have noticed me, or… was it because of the beasts inside I wonder…" said the man. 'So the boy has the Kyuubi, The Yellow Flash was the one to defeat that thing, without a doubt he had truly sealed it inside his own son'
"Other than being another host, what do you want?" questioned Yugito, she was all for making friends especially with others who possess the same burden but this man had a very unpleasant aura around him.
He slowly raised his hand and pointed his finger towards Naruto. "I want his head" he said confusing the two in front of him.
"Why me? I don't even know who you are" replied Naruto trying to think of why this man would want him dead.
"Revenge" he said angrily, "Revenge for my two brothers and my father who were slain by your father during the last great war" he finished.
"My father? I don't even know who my father is!" responded Naruto. This man had to be crazy, how could he of all people know who his father was.
The man studied the boys face and realized he truly didn't know who his father was, he smirked. He would get to drop the bomb on the kid and kill him as well, he couldn't get more lucky than this.
"I find it amusing you don't know. However, I'll humor you with that information before I kill you" he said mockingly causing Naruto to frown. "Your father was Konoha's Yellow Flash, your Fourth Hokage"
Naruto's glare instantly disappeared at that, how could that be true? "You lie, I would have been told if it were true" claimed Naruto.
The Iwa ninja's smirked grew, "Oh? You never found it strange how you have the same hair color, same eye color, you're the splitting image of the man aside from those whisker marks. Not only that, as Hokage who else would he have chosen to seal the Kyuubi into? Certainly not another family's child, no…"
Naruto's world was starting to turn upside down. 'H-How can that be possible? If he was my father wouldn't anybody have told me? If he was wouldn't I have been taken care of better when I was younger?' It just couldn't be true. But Naruto knew that it answered everything. Why he did look so much like the Fourth and why he would have been chosen as the container like this man said. Also it would explain why he never knew his father if he indeed died sealing Kyuubi into him. Also the reason why Ero-sennin trained him and taught him the Fourth's jutsu, surely there were others who would have been better candidates than he was.
Naruto then dropped to his knees, he was just too confused right now. His father had to be the fourth, but that meant his own father had cursed him but he also knew that it was his duty as Hokage as well so he couldn't hate him for that…
Yugito kneeled next to Naruto holding him, 'Poor Naruto, to find something like that out, especially from this man no less…'
"You have no idea how much I'm enjoying this, watching the child of the man who killed my family breaking" said the man chuckling. "Now time for the best part, I, Roshi, shall avenge my family and kill you, Namikaze…" he left the question hanging.
Naruto's eyes refocused and glared at Roshi. "Naruto… Namikaze Naruto…"
"Darn and here I was hoping you would deny it!" he shouted as he flew through some hand seals. "Time to die!"
However before he could finish his jutsu a large tidal wave broke through the area out of nowhere surprising the three Jinchuuriki.
"Can't let that happen now can we!" shouted a voice as a man appeared on the crest of the wave right as it reached the trio as the newcomer slammed his enormous sword into the stomach of Roshi sending him flying deeper into the woods.
Recovering from his shock Naruto instantly recognized who just arrived from a past encounter. 'Kisame!'
Just then another person jumped out of a tree onto the now flooded surface of the forest. "It's been a long time, Naruto-kun" greeted Itachi.
"Uchiha Itachi…" growled out Naruto.
Yugito recognized the name from when Naruto had explained to her about the few Akatsuki members that he was familiar with.
"Itachi-san, I'll let you handle these two while I go after the Yonbi" said Kisame as he took off in the direction he had launched Roshi in.
"It appears your taking the news of your heritage quite well" said Itachi emotionlessly. He had already casted his genjutsu on the two.
"Your illusions won't work this time Itachi!" shouted Naruto from Itachi's side as he prepared to hit him with a Rasengan. But as soon as it made contact Itachi burst into water. 'Mizu Bunshin' thought Naruto as he looked around for the real one.
Itachi was a bit taken back by that little skirmish. 'How did he get out of the illusion? Surely his genjutsu skills haven't improved much or at all since last time…' his thoughts were cut short when three Yugito's leapt towards him with kunai. He quickly jumped off the branch he was hiding on and in a flash used Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu destroying the Kage Bunshin's with the flame. He then landed back on the water down below. 'They seem to have good teamwork too…' he thought as the two appeared in front of him.
"No matter how much either of you improve, only someone with the same eyes as mine can defeat me" stated Itachi still looking at them without any emotion. He then closed his eyes and reopened them instantly catching Naruto in Tsukuyomi.
Naruto looked around and realized he was chained to a cross. He then noticed Itachi was right below him.
"I don't know how you got out of my last illusion but this one nobody can escape from" said Itachi.
Naruto's eyes widened, 'Kyuubi quick! Stop my chakra flow!'
Instantly Naruto found himself back in the real world with a very shocked Itachi in front of him.
"How…" he muttered glaring at the two Jinchuuriki.
Naruto smirked, "Like I said before, your illusions won't work this time Itachi"
Yugito did a few hand seals and shouted "Raiton: Ikazuchi Hakai!" as she slammed her hands onto the ground causing a large triangular shaped lightning bolt to rip through the ground heading towards Itachi.
Itachi quickly jumped into the air to avoid the Raiton jutsu and focused his eyes on Naruto.
Naruto seeing this immediately slammed his hands together, "Fuuton: Kaze Heki!" fierce winds started to spin around Naruto like a tornado as the wind transformed into the black flames of Amaterasu. The winds died down as the area around Naruto burned with the black flames.
'He blocked Amaterasu with a Fuuton jutsu!?' thought Itachi shocked once again by the Jinchuuriki. 'I see, by creating a tornado around him he didn't block Amaterasu but instead used the winds to pull Amaterasu safely around him without getting touched…' he realized as he landed.
"Raiton: Shichu Shibari!" shouted Yugito as four pillars surrounded Itachi as soon as he landed. Before Itachi could react the four pillars shot bolts of lightning at him binding him in place.
Itachi then realized that in this situation this jutsu prevented him from moving at all, he was trapped…
"You understand what'll happen if you kill me right Naruto?" said Itachi as he stared at the boy.
"I do" replied Naruto quietly. He fully understood the consequences of killing Itachi.
"Then are you really going to do it?" asked Itachi, hoping that he could get a rise out of Naruto for him to slip.
"If we let you live, nothing changes, if I were to kill you now, we'll still have to watch our backs" he replied as he created a Fuuton: Kaze no Yaiba, a sword made of wind on his right hand.
"His eyes will surpass mine, between him and the rest of Akatsuki. Are you sure you want this?" asked Itachi again.
Naruto stepped up to the lightning prison. "Like I said…" he thrusted the Kaze no Yaiba into itachi's chest. "It changes nothing…" he muttered as the life in Itachi faded away.
The prison retracting back into the ground as Itachi's lifeless body fell.
Yugito stepped up next to Naruto. "What were you both talking about?" questioned Yugito not wanting to be out of the loop.
"Itachi's younger brother Sasuke" he muttered, "Sasuke's goal in life was to get revenge and kill Itachi. Now that Itachi's dead, he'll most likely target myself now for taking that away from him"
"I see…" said Yugito now understanding more of why Naruto is always so against revenge. "So what you meant by it doesn't change anything was that if you let Itachi live, he would only come after you again for Kyuubi, but if he died then instead of him, Sasuke would come after you" she said.
"Exactly, no matter what I did, one of them would constantly be around to torment us" he replied. He didn't want to make an enemy out of Sasuke but he would have been risking too much by letting Itachi live.
Yugito looked down at the fallen Uchiha, "This is a dangerous corpse… What should we do?"
"I'll seal the corpse up and send it back to Konoha" he said as he got a small jar out of his pack of supplies and kneeled down to Itachi.
"What are you doing?" asked Yugito puzzled.
"I'm going to remove his eyes… As you said this is a dangerous corpse mainly because of his eyes. If the corpse was somehow intercepted or stolen, these eyes could be very dangerous in the wrong hands" he replied, he knew briefly from Jiraiya about Danzo and the Root division. He knew there would be a good chance that the man would try to get his hands on them.
He plucked out Itachi's eyes and placed them in the jar. He went through Itachi's equipment and found a note of what seemed to be some type of contacts. He placed it in his pocket as he then proceeded to seal the corpse in a scroll.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" he shouted as a small messenger frog appeared. He quickly wrote a quick note to Tsunade and strapped both the note and scroll to the frog as it leaped away.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" he shouted again as this time appeared Gamakichi.
"Yo bro! Everyone's been looking for ya!" greeted the large frog.
"Hey Gamakichi, I had some stuff I needed to do. I need you to contact Ero-sennin and tell him to meet me at the village Jobori in Tea Country a week from now. Also tell them that Itachi is dead and that I sent the corpse to Tsunade" explained Naruto.
"Gotcha!" replied Gamakichi with his thumb up as he poofed away.
"Tea Country? Why their?" asked Yugito.
"The note I found on Itachi had a list of contacts, I don't know why he would keep them written down like that but it may give us information on Akatsuki. Ero-sennin is pretty skilled at this type of stuff so I just needed to pick a spot I'm familiar with" replied Naruto. "We better get moving, Kisame seems to still be fighting that Iwa Jinchuuriki and I don't really want to run into either of them again right now…" he said as they took off away from the area.
"Umm Naruto, this isn't exactly the direction of the Tea Country" said Yugito noticing that their path was a bit off.
"After finding out that my father is a bigger enemy to the Rock than Konoha itself, I'd rather get out of this entire country as soon as I can hehe…" he replied scratching the back of his head.
"Well I guess I can't call you a chicken for it anymore since you actually have a valid excuse now huh?" joked Yugito.
"I had a valid excuse before too!"
She rolled her eyes at him, she actually enjoyed their lame arguments. "So uh what do you plan to do now with Itachi's eyes?"
"I'm not sure…"
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Sooooo what do you guys think should be done with those eyes? I couldn't decide. If I did give them to Naruto I would try to not make him all freaking powerful however Madara is kind of all powerful so there would definitely be a antagonist that would most definitely give him enough trouble even if he did have them. There's also Sasuke and other things I plan to do that won't let Naruto have the easy way out. Again I'm not for making super Naruto like other fic's do that have him end up getting the sharingan, I would limit it because I like the idea of it. But again, remember my Idea of giving him the sharingan is not the same as these kids on the site that give him a bloodline and then he turns super saiyan. So I would like honest, unbiased opinions on the future of Itachi's eyes. Reviews like; NOO I HATE STORIES THAT DO THAT. Those will go in one ear and out the other with me because I want unbiased comments, meaning treat this idea as if nobody else has done it and if you trust in my ability to not make Naruto godlike.