Avenger
Danzo examined the two young shinobi before him over steepled fingers. Kakashi stood behind them, grey brows furrowed beneath his headband.
"This behavior will not be tolerated." Danzo growled out.
Naruto's lips curled back in distaste.
"How did you place Haruno Sakura under a genjutsu?"
Sasuke said nothing. His face was twisted into a mask of hate as he glared down at the resident Hokage.
Naruto whipped around to face Kakashi.
"What is he talking about?"
Kakashi cleared his throat, addressing the room.
"Several of your peers spoke with me last night." He met eyes with Danzo, subduing a shudder as the older man hunched inward to hear him. The greedy glee in his face pushed out through the wrinkles. He'd never seen the stoic man so excited.
"They confessed to have kept a secret from their superiors over the last several weeks. While Naruto and I were away on our last mission, Sasuke placed Sakura under a prolonged genjutsu. For the purpose of which she does not know."
Naruto turned to Sasuke, clenching the boy's arms on either side.
"What are they talking about?" He was only speaking to Sasuke now. A kind of wild desperation tore at his face as he pleaded with the other boy to explain. The Uchiha looked away.
"Sasuke is hereby removed from your custody. He will remain under ANBU guard, but confined in an interrogation cell until we can establish exactly what has happened." Sasuke shot a glare at Kakashi with Naruto's eye, the blue shades shifting with ire. Kakashi repressed a shudder at the unfamiliar sight.
"Naruto, you will accompany me to the Kage summit."
Naruto exploded, slamming a hand onto the Hokage's wooden desk. The Anbu guards behind them shifted, tensed at full alert.
"You are not taking Sasuke, and I am not going anywhere!" He shouted. Kakashi pinched the bridge of his nose between two fingers. This was going over about as well as he had expected.
"I will, and you are. Tsunade was clearly too lenient with you, her soft ways dampened her judgement. You are speaking to your Hokage and you will obey." Danzo's fingers tightened on the desk.
"You're not the Hokage, Tsunade baa-chan is. You will never be the Hokage." Naruto leaned forward as he spoke, spittle flying towards Danzo's darkened face.
"Naruto calm down!" Kakashi warned, stepping toward him. His words went unheeded.
"Suppress the jinchuriki, take the Uchiha to his cell." Danzo barked at the ANBU. Kakashi tensed. The way Naruto was now, he would not go without a fight.
"Like hell!" The blond shouted, feet widening into an aggressive stance. Sasuke mirrored him, their backs against each other. The ANBU circled, raising their kunai before their chests. Kakashi watched with horror as Naruto's aura shimmered with red. The kyuubi was making its presence known. He turned to the guard at the door.
"Find Tenzou! We need him here now." The man hesitated, glancing at Danzo before dashing out.
"Naruto! Calm down, you need to stay in control of yourself." He said. Danzo's eyes narrowed as he observed the red chakra seeping from Naruto's form.
The ANBU closest to the boys lunged. Sasuke dropped to his knees, catching the approaching man by the shin and holding him as Naruto's foot swung over to collide with the white mask. As always, Kakashi observed, their unspoken coordination was flawless.
"Both of you stop this." He began to weave the signs for a water style ninjutsu.
"Naruto." Sasuke said sharply. "Focus your chakra on the mangekyou sharingan. Remember what I taught you?"
Kakashi braced himself. No way would Naruto be able to master an advanced kekkei genkai mid-battle. The others in the room had frozen, watching. The tomoes in Naruto's sharingan began to spin ominously.
"Sasuke.." Naruto reached behind him and grabbed the taller boy's forearm. His fingers wrapped around the chakra seals on the Uchiha's wrist.
"How about you," Naruto screwed his eyes shut in concentration. Red chakra encircled them and the seals on Sasuke's arms glowed white. "-show me yourself!"
The chakra seals shattered. Kakashi caught sight of Sasuke's smirk before being thrust backwards by the press of released energy coming from the center of the room.
Sasuke began to laugh. Kakashi felt his chest tighten at the sinister sound of it as his vision faded to black.
The air whipped past them. Naruto followed Sasuke as they flew over rooftop and road. His mind was whirring. It wouldn't be long before the whole village was after them, and he wasn't sure how he would talk his way out of this one.
Sasuke's path aimed toward the bordering forest. He had a good idea of where they were headed. Sure enough, the abandoned Uchiha compound came into view.
They landed lightly inside the front gate. Sasuke continued at a run towards a small shrine. They stopped before a tall wooden door.
"I need to show you something." He said. His voice sounded odd, as if he were suppressing some emotion. If it were grief or fear Naruto couldn't tell.
"You need to explain." He demanded as he followed him downstairs. "About Sakura."
The air was musty and rotted. He wondered if anyone had been here since the massacre.
At the bottom of the staircase stood a large stone tablet. The words on it seemed to dance in front of his eyes. The characters were familiar, but shifted in front of him.
"What is this?" He asked. Sasuke stood behind him quietly.
"An ancient tablet, only someone with the sharingan can decipher it."
Naruto squinted his blue eye shut, peering down at the tablet with his new sharingan. The characters stopped their swirling and settled into a decipherable form. It was a history of the clan.
"Why did you attack them?" Sasuke asked, walking up close behind him. "You can't become Hokage if you're locked up with me."
Naruto turned to face him. He tilted his head up to meet the dark gaze.
"I don't abandon my friends." He said, calling back on Kakashi's first lesson to them.
Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.
A smile flickered across the Uchiha's solemn features. He remembered the lesson.
"Kakashi is also your friend." He pointed out. Naruto looked away, guilt licked at his insides. They had left their former sensei slumped against the wall, knocked unconscious by the explosive energy released by the broken seal.
"You've betrayed your village." The taller boy continued, taking another step closer. "You attacked your Hokage."
He closed the distance between them and buried his long fingers in Naruto's ruffled hair, pulling his face closer. His touch sent him shivering.
"I'll destroy you." Sasuke whispered. He tugged Naruto's head back and softly pressed their lips together. His thumb traced lightly across Naruto's cheek. Every cell inside of him seemed to come to life at the touch. Heat flooded his body. He pressed back into the kiss before burying his face into the crook of Sasuke's neck.
"You're shaking." He whispered against the fair skin. Sasuke squeezed him closer. Naruto could feel his heart pounding. He pulled back to look into his face and found it blanked of emotion.
Naruto's vision blurred, his hands went numb.
"Sasuke.." He croaked out, before dropping to the floor. His legs were no longer responding.
His vision shifted in and out of darkness as the colors around him blurred. Hand signs flashed in the dark as Sasuke weaved chakra into a summoning jutsu.
"Saa-suu-" He croaked out. He couldn't feel his throat.
A masked figure appeared in the center of the room in a small cloud of smoke. The blood red clouds of the Akatsuki adorned his cloak. Distantly, as if through a tunnel, he heard Sasuke speaking.
"I've caught the nine tailed jinchuriki." Naruto opened his mouth in a silent scream, unable to make a sound. "Where are my brother's eyes?"
The masked figure in the room chuckled, bending down over Naruto's paralyzed form.
"To the point as always. Don't worry, I brought you your eyes. Though it seems you've already traded for a new one." He pulled at Naruto's frozen eyelid, inspecting the sharingan embedded within. Sasuke said nothing, not looking at Naruto's still form.
The masked man reached within his cloak, withdrawing a clear vial. Inside, Itachi's eyes floated in a gelatinous liquid grotesquely. Sasuke snatched it from his grasp, pocketing it.
"I will take the kyuubi back for extraction. What will you do now?" The masked figure asked as he kneeled beside Naruto. Sasuke smiled bitterly.
"Take my revenge."