Together or Alone?

by cyber viper42

Naruto and Kyuubi work togeather to help Naruto survive his harsh life in Konoha. Will he live alone in misery or will he find friends and grow strong to protect them. M for safty. Fem Kyuubi, unknown pairings.

11. Chapter 11: The Uchiha Slaughter Part 2

Well here's a new chapter of Together or Alone!!! I know that Sasuke is a little OC-ish, but that is because we have not seen him right before or after the Uchiha massacre in the cannon. We only see him in flashbacks as a little child who is obsessed with his nii-san Itachi, and then afterwards as an avenger. In my story Sasuke has been getting training from Itachi which is something that he almost never received in the cannon. In my opinon that alone is enough to change him slightly.

Please do not flame for the contents of the chapter. If you recall, I wanted Naruto to experience living on his own with friends to support him, and this is simply a means to that end. Also, I have something kinda cool planned for Naruto and his friends that revolve around the happenings in this chapter.

I won't update the vote tally right now, so please wait for a future chapter for the final results. I'm going to close the poll in a few chapters.

ANY WAY, LET'S GET TO CHAPTER 11!!!

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Chapter 11: The Uchiha Massacre: Part II: The End?

Last time on Together or Alone

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"Now's my chance to peg that brat and kill him once and for all." Fugaku muttered under his breath as he drew a handful of kunai and shuriken and threw them. Without even bothering to look if he had connected with his attack, the Uchiha clan head ran through a string of handseals before pausing to activate his bloodline limit, the Sharingan.

But pain flooded the Uchiha's brain as his eyes turned red. It felt like someone had taken a super long senbon needle and shoved it though his temple and into his brain without killing him. His arm moved against his will. Fighting, Fugaku forced his Sharnigan to deactivate and slumped to the ground in relief as both the pain and the attepted re-possession of his body terminated with its deactivation. With a deep breath, Fugaku weerily made it to his feet in time to see Naruto's chakra laden fist smash through the barrier, the window and into his face. And then he knew not. The Kyuubi's chakra burning his face into a bloody pulp.

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Pain. All Fugaku could feel was burning, unrelenting pain. It was enough to drive any man crazy, but then again Uchiha Fugaku is not simply any man. Stumbling back, he felt his face with a hand, wincing as his dirty fingers passed over patches of raw skin and meat usually hidden by skin. Taking his hand away from his face, he lookd at it with his onyx eyes. Blood dripped freely from his hand and fell to the floor, creating crimson stars on the dirt floor.

That bastard demon brat!!! Fugaku raged in his head, looking at the window where Naruto's arm was sticking through the barrier, still coated with demonic chakra. A split second later, the barrier fizzled away from the demonic chakra as they battled for dominance. Try as the barrier and its creater might, the demonic chakra eminating from Naruto pushed the barier away. Suddenly, the barrier collapsed and Naruto stumbled forward through the window into the bunker. The barrier had a resisting force and its collapse was unexpected.

Fugaku acted at the same time as the Konoha nin who were still thrity meters away, reached Naruto first and two senbon needles, punctured Naruto's bright red eyes. Time seemed to stop short for Naruto as his world turned black. His hearing remained long enough to here Fugaku's body hit the ground with dozens of kunai puncturing his chest and legs.

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As soon as the leaf nin saw the barier collapse under Naruto's demonic assault, they jumped into action. Naruto's fall and subsequent moment of weakness was capitalized on before their eyes by the Uchiha Clan head. It was too late, but that didn't stop them from launching a wave of Kunai at the enraged Uchiha, killing him.

The Hokage was practically at Naruto's side the second after Fugaku fell. Checking for a pulse he found one, and winced at the pitiful sight of Naruto's face. Two senbon needles protruded from his eyes straight through the iris. It would be impossible to heal. Suddenly a small red fox was standing on Naruto's chest looking at her host's eyes.

"I will not be able to heal this…" Her ears flopped down, a sign any Inuzuka would be able to decern as sadness.

"But you have been able to heal all of Naruto's past inzuries, including organ damage." The Hokage stated, slightly confused. "How is this any different."

"The eye is possibly the most complex part of the human body. If slightly damaged, then it's possible that I would be able to heal it, but this damn needle has completely destroyed the most sensitive and important parts of the eye, lenses, and nerves."

"Could you fix the nerves?" Sarutobi asked. "You've been able to do that in the past correct?"

"Hai, but it wouldn't do anything to save Naruto-kun's vision." The vixen replied.

"But it would allow us to transplant an eye." A medic nin, stated as he approached the Hokage, blonde boy and fox…summon? "Like Kakashi-san's sharingan eye."

"Where would these eyes come from?" The Kyuubi asked, and then paused as everyone turned to look at Uchiha Fugaku's still warm body.

"It appears we may have another Kakashi on our hands." The Sandaime said aloud in a quiet voice.

"Do both eyes."The Kyuubi commanded, earning him a look from the medic nin.

"But the chances of success diminish with two new eyes to adapt to." The medic nin stated. "Quite fnakly Kakashi-san's transplant was a one in a hundred shot of success."

"Do as the fox wishes." The Hokage ordered the nin. "She can deal with any problems afterwards."

"As you wish Hokage-sama." The medic nin bowed slightly as the fox disappeared in a small cloud of chakra smoke. He opened a radio channel on his wireless communication radio and called for back up. This would be his riskiest operation ever. It was so unusual that it was purely an experiment.

Producing a scroll from his pocket, he unrolled it and unsealed a variety of field medical supplies. His first step was to remove Naruto's damaged eyes as neatly as possible. He flipped through a few handseals and activated a chakra scalup which he used to carevully remove Naruto's eyes. Through out the process, he couldn't help but marvel at the fact that the empty eye sockets didn't bleed profusely with the absence of their eyes. It made his job much easier. Turning to Uchiha Fugaku's corpse, he used chakra to surround and sever the eye muscles and nerves. Then he gently plucked the eye from Fugaku's right eye socket and placed it into Naruto's. He did the same with the left eye.

Activating his most powerful healin ninjutsu, the medic nin placed his glowing green palms over the blonde's eyes and held them there until he ran out of chakra. By this time, his back up arrived and the Hokage moved a few meters away to observe their work unnoticed. While the first medic nin didn't really care that Naruto was the village pariah for unknown reasons, the back up team was old enough to remember the Kyuubi's attack. One of them was old enough to even be a part of the medical squads sent out to find the wounded after the dark night.

"Why on earth would you heal this demon brat?" the leader demanded of the chakra depleated medic nin. Glancing around at the bunker, Uchiha Fugaku's lack of eyes caught his attention. "You son of a bitch, you gave that brat the sharingan?"

"Is something wrong with that?" The Hokage asked from the shadows, finally stepping in. "After all he was simply obeying my orders."

"N-Nothing's w-wrong with that at all Hokage-sama." The leader stuttered out in surprise. Turning to the rest of his squad he ordered one to look after Naruto while he took the rest out into the compound to releave any other medic teams.

It didn't take long at all for the medic who was left behind to finish connecting all the nerves and muscles to the transplanted eyes. Standing to leave, he was stopped by his kage.

"Thank you for your work here."

"N-No problem Hokage-sama." The petrified med-nin stuttered before exiting the bunker as fast as he could. He didn't want to be involved with anything that the Hokage deemed important. All he wanted to do was live out the rest of his career and retire to have a small family. The lower profile he kept, the better chance of actually achieving this goal.

Turning to several ANBU shinobi standing alert for danger around the bunker, Sarutobi gave them an order. "Move Naruto to the Hospital and guard the door. Allow medical staff enterance to perform checkups, but no one else."

"Hai! Hokage-sama." The captain saluted before signaling for his men to pick up Naruto. They disappeared in a flury of leaves and clouds of smoke.

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"Wakey, wakey kit!"

What?

"It's time to wake up and smell the roses."

Why?

"Everyone is worried about you, kit."

Who?

"Who do you think?"

Jiji? Sasuke? Itachi-sensei, Yugito-sensei?

"They are all waiting for you."

But I won't be able to see them. Sasuke's dad threw something into them and now I can't see anything.

"Some med-nins and I were able to heal your sight."

So my eyes are back to normal now?

"Not quite, but you'll see when you wake up."

Suddenly, Naruto felt himself falling. His stomach fell through his legs as the feeling of weightlessness took ahold of his body. He thrashed his arms, trying to steady himself, but they were quickly stopped.

"Don't let him move, he'll only hurt himself!"

Who's that? Naruto's eyes shot open as he tried to lunge up from his prone position on a hospital bed. White hospital light blared into his eyes as he looked at the ceiling. Squinting, he managed to reduce the glare to a barable level

"Where am I?" Naruto asked no one in particular. His voice oddly and chillingly lacking emotion as he felt a small amount of pain in his eyes. Guess they aren't fully healed. Naruto thought to himself as he lifted a now unrestrained hand to feel his face. It was normal. He still felt his wisker birthmarks, his hair, alibitly a little longer, fell in the same fashion as he remembered.

As Naruto felt his features, the nurse replied; "You're in the hospital Naruto-kun. You've been through a traumatic experience, so take it easy."

"What about Sasuke and Itachi-sensei?" Naruto asked. "Are they alright?"

Not even awake for a minute and he's thinking about others…The Nurse thought to herself. Hokage-sama was right. He's just a child with an unfair upbringing. "I do not know about Uchiha Itachi, several rumors have flown around, so the details about him are not known precisely, however, Uchiha sasuke was not harmed in the slaughter, and his mother Uchiha Mikoto looks like she might recover from her wounds."

"That's good." Naruto murmured sorftly closing his eyes. "Do you think that they will come visit me?"

"Maybe soon, once you have recovered more." The nurse replied with a smile. She stroked his spikey blonde hair helping him drift off into slumber. As soon as the blonde blue-eyed boy was asleep, the nurse removed her hand from Naruto's hair and made several notes on her clipboard before continueing on to other patients. She had a lot of them.

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The Sandaime Hokage sat in his office puffing on his pipe trying to work through mountains of paperwork that the Uchiha Massacre had created. Reports from the hospital's morgue indicated that the cause of death for roughly sixty-five precent of the casualties, mostly civilian, was poison. More specifically; moderately quick snake venom that could be easily slipped into food and drink of almost any kind in its powdered state. The only problem with this was that the venom was a rare find in the best of circumstances.

Either Uchiha Fugaku had used the clan funds the purchase massive quantities over a long period of time, or someone who had access to the snakes that produced the venom had been involved with the slaughter. Sarutobi glared at the summation of the report. If looks could kill, then the document, its curriers, and the author would have keeled over dead in their places. The evidence pointed to Orochimaru's possible involvement, and that did not sit well with the old Hokage.

If Orochimaru was involved, then Sarutobi knew some fault of the massacre lay on his shoulders. If he hadn't let the Snake Sannin slip through his fingers at the time of his defection, then maybe, just maybe, this tragedy wouldn't have happened. No. He couldn't dwell on what ifs right now. The village hidden in the leaves was hurting and he had to do everything in his power as Hokage to fix and heal it.

Standing up, Sarutobi paused to place his wide-brimmed hat on his head before sweeping out through the door of his office. Passing the reception area, one of the secretaries flagged him down and passed along a message

"Hokage-sama, the hospital says that boy has awoken, and is resting now." She said in an even tone of voice, that even a trained shinobi couldn't see through…or rather listen through. She kept her emotions well masked.

"Thank you my dear." The Sandaime Hokage replied with a smile before walking out and down the stairs.

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Hyuuga Hiashi hated snotty old council members, especially those who claimed to be members of the proud Hyuuga clan, wielders of the all-seeing Byakugan. It didn't help the fact that they roused him at an ungodly hour simply to drag him to a meeting which they assured him was of the highest urgency, but was simply about what to do with a person named Uzumaki Naruto, who had been residing in the halls of the Hyuuga clan for severel months after protecting the heir, Hyuuga Hinata.

"I still do not see the problem with his continued stay in our compound." Hiashi stated in reply to the council's demands to remove the blonde Jinchuuriki from their home. "Even with they eyes of Uchiha Fugaku, there is no reason to suspect that he will be able to activate the Sharingan."

"But he might be able to activate it like Kakashi-san." An old woman spoke up. "We cannot let our Gentle fist leave the clan."

"You know as well as I do that you cannot bring out the true effectiveness of the Gentle Fist without the Byakugan, which Uzumaki Naruto defiantly does not possess." Hiashi calmly replied. "Also, I believe that reports show that Kakashi's implanted eye was activated at the time or implantation, which wasn't the case with Naruto-kun. While I'll be the first to admit that it doesn't rule out the chance of a later activation of the sharingan, it should produce a different result this time that in the Copy-nin's case."

"That may be well and good, but what about Uchiha Itachi and his younger brother Uchiha Sasuke?" A man asked. "Are they not constantly in contact and training with Uzumaki-san? They might be able to take our Gentle Fist elsewhere and—"

"You know well enough that Uchiha Itachi is a loyal leaf shinobi." Hiashi interrupted coldly. "Don't you dare insinuate that the entirety of the Uchiha clan are worthless traitors who would gladly give away something that we hold so close."

"But the Uchiha are spiteful—"

"Not Itachi and his younger brother." Hizashi spoke up from his place near the wall behind Hiashi.

"Do not speak unless spoken to Branch Member." A pissed off member of the council ordered.

"I will speak my peace and then let you form incomplete and incorrect assumptions that prove your stupidity." Hizashi replied earning indignant glares, gasps, and killing intent. "While they are Uchiha through and through, they are different from their kin and father. Itachi's experiences as a young child in a shinobi world most likely shaped him into his own person outsie of the control of his clan. Thus he became a spy for the Hokage, when it seemed something was afoot in the Uchiha clan. No one would betray their own family unless they saw a different light that the rest of those Sharingan wielders around him."

"I doesn't strike me as odd in any way that he would also try to keep Sasuke away from the clan's goals in order to ensure that his brother may grow up seeing how the Uchiha were wrong." Hizashi continued. "Thus I think that it seems natural for them to act most suspicious and un-Uchiha"

Hiashi nodded his head in agreement.

"While we cannot harm the boy or face the wrath of the Hyuuga clan, we can expel hims from the grounds." The council spokesman stated. "Naruto has become a risk to our secret clan techniques and taijutsu and should be removed from a position where he can harm the clan. You cannot go against that ruling Hiashi, it is a key piece of Hyuuga Clan law."

"I will not go against your ruling…" The council smiled. "…However I cannot deny my family's favorite guest from entering the grounds to visit and help my daughter and nefew grow stronger. After all, I must ensure that the clan's heir is strong enough to take up the mantle of clan head when I pass on the title and responsibilities."

Hizashi grinned as he heard his brother's words. "I shall take Hinata and Neji to visit Naruto in the hospital this morning." He whispered into his brother's ear before seeing Hiashi nod. With that affermative, he left and activated his bloodline limit to find his son and neice. It wasn't that hard to find them. They practically never left eachother's company while in the compound, constantly training and developing their Byakugan.

Right now they were sparing in the courtyard outside the head family's training hall. It was the perfect place for Gentle Fist practice and spars due to its level terrain and soft surface to protect people when they fell paralyzed from chakra-ladened blows. It took all of five minutes for Hizashi to cross the distance from the council meeting room and the training area. There, Hizashi found Neji land a palm strike on Hinata's arm. Initially he was confused when Hinata didn't fall down, or indicate any damage was taken. Neji had clearly landed a chakra ladened blow. Peering at the two with his Byakugan active, he saw that Hinata was creating a thin chakra shield under the impacted areas, and thus able to avoid taking damage.

That was unexpected. It was practical in theory, but required an enourmous amount of chakra to sustain over large areas of ones body. With the Byakugan, Hinata was able to only create the minumum shield to protect her from Neji's strikes. Truly it saved chakra, but you still needed to pump increasingly large amounts of chakra into your shield, as the attacks grew more powerful. Suddenly, Hinata's shield shattered and Neji's palm connected with his cousin's chest, right above the heart. Before any one could blink, Hizashi was at Hinata's side as she lay on the gound.

"Are you alright Hinata-chan?" He asked, consern evident in his voice.

"H-hai…" Hinata replied shakily. "My shield managed to damper most of Neji-nii-san's attack."

"That's good to here." Hizashi replied as he stood up.

"I assume that you didn't come here to observe our spar father, why are you here?" Neji asked.

"Something terrible has happened, and Naruto was hurt in the middle of it." Hizashi replied. "I was wondering if the two of you would like to go visit him in the hospital."

"Hai, we should go see Naruto-kun, but we should change first." Hinata answered for the two of them.

"How badly was he hurt?" Neji asked as they began to walk to their rooms to change.

"He lost his vision, but he was able to regain it with a medical procedure only performed once before." Hizashi answered. "To be quite honest, he only had a one in a million chance of the operation working, but tests seem to confirm that he has his vision back."

"That's great news!" Hinata chirped as she skipped into her room. Neji continued to walk down the hall and thenentered his room in a much more dignified manner.

Ten minutes later, Hizashi was leading Hinata and Neji out of the Hyuuga compound to the Hospital. Traveling at a pace that was easy for the children, it took fifteen minutes to walk there. They walked through the main enterence and stopped at the main desk. The receptionist looked up at the proud Hyuuga.

"How may I help you Hyuuga-san?" She asked politely.

"Yes, which room is Uzumaki Naruto in?" Hizashi asked.

"I'm sorry who?" The receptionist asked.

"Uzumaki Naruto." Hizashi replied impatiently.

Without even glancing at her lists, the receptionist replied; "You wouldn't want to see the likes him."

"I beg your pardon?" Hizashi asked, narrowing his eyes, his voice dropping to a spine-chilling tone that threatened pain.

"R-room 203." The poor woman squeaked as she wilted under the glare of three Hyuuga. Without another word, Hizashi sweapt Hinata and Neji away from the main lobby.

Once they were out of hearing range of those in the lobby, Hinata looked up at her Uncle and asked; "Why did that lady not like Naruto-kun?"

"Most people in Konoha don't like Naruto because he has Kyuubi sealed inside him." Hizashi replied.

"But that is illogical." Neji stated without emotion in his voice.

"Yes it is, however they do not know the truth about her." Hizashi answered. "They still think that she is a monster demon, and thus Naruto is as well." He paused before continuing uninterrupted by Hinata or Neji. "You see, some people think that Naruto is Kyuubi reincarnated as a human. They want to avenge their lost loved ones who died in the Kyuubi attack."

"That's aweful!" Hinata exclaimed. "So no one in Konoha likes him?"

"No." Neji answered her. "There's most of our clan who see him as a normal boy. Those two at the ramen stand seem to like him as well as Hokage-sama."

Hizashi nodded. "There's also Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke." He added to the growing list. "They spend a lot of time training together."

By now the group of three had reached the room Naruto was in, only to find two ANBU stationed outside the door. Hizashi approached the guards and asked; "May we enter to visit Uzumaki-san?"

The ANBU on the right looked at his partner for confirmation before answering with a single nod. Hizashi slid open to door and ushered Hinata and Neji into the room before closing it behind them. Naruto lay on the white hospital bed, which was situated on the far side of the room under a wide window that revealed a great view of the Hokage Monument. Naruto's golden-yellow hair splaid over his pillow, practically glowing in the sunlight that streamed in through the window, his eyes were closed indicating his was asleep and all in all made a very cute picture. Quietly the three Hyuuga sat down and looked at the young Jinchuuriki.

"He doesn't look like he's in pain." Hinata observed as she looked at Naruto. She giggled slightly; "He looks..." Blushing she didn't finish her sentence.

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"You know that sitting in here won't do you any good, kit." The kyuubi sighed as she began a fresh assault on Naruto's resolve to stay in his mindscape for much longer than necessary. For some unknown reason, the blonde absolutely refused to return to the land of the living and wake up!

"So will being out there." Naruto retorted. "I've killed a clan head and now I'll become a criminal."

"So that's what you're so worried about?" Kyuubi asked incredulously. "You know that the Old man approved of you breaking through the barrier like that. He knew the risks. As soon as you were passed out, he was at yourside getting someone to restore your sight."

"But, I killed." Naruto blubbered as only a seven-year-old can only do. "I saw my hand and your chakra burn his face away…It was aweful."

"Come here Kit." The red vixen told Naruto, who complied, wiping tears from his eyes. Aproaching the cage he stopped short of actually entering behind the bars.

"What?"

Thwap!

Naruto stared dumbly at the red fox sitting before him. Unconsciously he lifted a hand to his cheak to feel the raw section of his cheek. That had hurt!

"You don't understand anything do you?" The red fox stated with a sigh. "If you were going to be executed or imprisoned, you would already be dead or in jail, instead of in a warm hospital bed with Hinata-chan, Neji-kun, and Hizashi-san visiting you."

"You mean that they're here right now?" Naruto demanded.

"Hai" The Kyuubi replied with a bob of her head.

"Then wake me up so I can say high to them!" Naruto exclaimed.

"No."

"But they're probably worried sick about me!" Naruto shouted at the red vixen. "I've got to let them know that I'm alright!"

"But I thought that you didn't want to wake up, kit." The Nine-tailed fox spirit replied coily, secretly smirking behind one of her tails.

"Damn it, Kyu-chan!" Naruto swore. "I can't let my friends down. I cannot let my precious people suffer. I got to help them!"

"I'm so glad to see that you're back to normal now, kit" The demon fox smiled as any fox would, flashing her sharp teeth at him. "Now wake up and smell the ramen!!"

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"Ramen!?" Naruto shot upright, looking around his room for Kami's gift to mortals. Then it hit him. This wasn't his room at all! Looking out the window he gazed at the Hokage's monument before noticing something funney in the refelction of the window. Three people were sitting behind him. Hinata was anime grying because Naruto hadn't seen her when he woke up, while the father and son duo were sweatdropping at Naruto's word.

"Is ramen the only thing that you think of Naruto?" Neji asked the blonde. "Even when you're in a coma, unconscious, or asleep?"

"No!" Protested Naruto. "It's—It's just that I though that I smelled ramen."

The Trio of Hyuuga didn't even need to use their Byakugans to tell that Naruto was lying through his teeth, but unanimously and silently decided not to mention it. It seemed that Naruto simply could not tell a lie without giving it away.

"Anyway, it's nice to see that you're awake now." Hizashi said. "We were worried that you wouldn't fully recover from your injuries."

"Gomen." Naruto apologized. "I didn't mean to worry anyone." Naruto scratched the back of his head and smiled. "But I guess that I do that no matter what happens."

"N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked timidly garnering the attention of the blonde boy.

"Hai?"

"Why do you have the Sharingan? You aren't an Uchiha." Naruto froze at Hinata's comment. Bringing his face closer to the window, he would see the red and black refelction of a three tome Sharingan in both of his eye sockets.

Lowering his head slightly he recounted his story to his friends. His bangs hid his eyes as he began. "I don't know how many day's I've been in the hospital, but the day that I was admitted, virtually all of the Uchiha clan was killed by their head, Uchiha Fugaku."

Hinata and Neji stared at the blonde's back, to shocked to even make a sound. Naruto continued; "He had set up some sort of barrier around a bunker that a lot of nin were trying to break through, but nothing was working. Yugito-sensei, sasuke, and Kyu-chan were with me and sensei thought up a plan to use Kyu-chan's chakra to deteriorate the barrier and break through."

"It worked too well though. I punched through the barrier in seconds, and burned Fugaku's face with Kyu-chan's chakra. Before he died, he stabbed two senbon needles into my eyes, ruining them. I can only guess that I got a transplant from on of the dead Uchiha."

Silence.

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Uchiha Itachi sat quietly in an ANBU holding cell. Despite the fact that he was buried in a dense honeycomb of tunnels beneth Konoha, locked in a cage, and under 24/7 guard, he was bound. The bindings in particular made all the differce in the world to Itachi, as the constantly sucked chakra away from him at alarming rates, leaving just enough chakra in him to stay conscious. It chilled him to think about the knife-edge precip he was sitting upon. Suck any more chakra out of him, and he was sure to passout or even die. Slack off the amount of chakra being removed, and it might be possible for the ANBU captain to escape. The bindings vaguely reminded him of the Snake Sannin Orochimaru's ruthless experimentation and developments.

Shivering Itachi attempted to draw his arms and legs towards his chest to conserve body heat, but the bindings prevented his movement, making his attempt in vain.

"Keep still in there, Taicho." A masked guard said firmly. "You don't want anything bad to happen, do you?"

"Hai…" Itachi replied without a single solitary drop of emotion in his voice.

Silence…

Drip…

Drip…

Drip…

Sighing mentally, Itachi settled down as best he could against the cold and slightly damp concrete floor, trying to get confortable. The hard floor crushed his elbow into the side of his rib cage painfully, but Itachi forced his mind to ignore the pain and allowed himself to drift off into dreamland.

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"So you have the Sharingan via transplanted eyes from a dead Uchiha after losing your own during the massacres finale." Neji stated, trying to get a confirmation on the story he and his cousin had just heard.

"Hai." Naruto replied.

"What will this mean for the future?" Hinata asked her uncle.

"Despite the wishes of myself and Hiashi, the council of old foggies has decreed that Naruto will have to leave the Hyuuga estate if he shows to have obtained the Sharingan. Therefore, Naruto will have to move out of the estate, and get a place of his own." Hizashi answered his nieces question. "However, that doesn't mean that Naruto cannot come and visit. Hiashi made sure that the council understood that."

"Why does the council of foggies hate the Sharingan?" Naruto asked the older Hyuuga. "It's not like I know how to use it or anything."

"That's not the issue that they argue over." Hizashi replied calmly. "The council is afraid that you, and the Uchiha you associate with will steal our gentle fist taijutsu and sell it to another hidden village like Kumo, so that they could dissect it and analise it, hoping to find a weakness or flaw that will enable them to capture one of us."

"Like they tried to do with Hinata-nee-chan?" Neji asked.

"Exactly like what they tried not to long ago." Hizashi nodded.

"But Naruto-kun wouldn't do anything like that!" Hinata exclaimed.

"Yeah, there's no way Kami could convince me to do something like that." Naruto chimed in with Hinata while Neji nodded his agreement.

"We all know that, but the council will not budge on that issue, and unfortunately they have a lot of power over even the clan head." Hizashi replied the three children. He would have liked to say more, but at that time, a nurse entered the room followed by an ANBU who was standing guard outside the room.

The nurse glanced at Naruto and seeing that he was sitting upright and chatting with the Hyuugas, turned to Hizashi and demanded to know why medical staff weren't summoned with Naruto awoke. "He's just received a new set of eyes, something that has never been done before, and you aren't the least bit worried about something going wrong?"

"Gomen, Nurse-san, but I was under the impression that if it was alright to visit a patient, then they were already in the clear and on the road to recovery." Hizashi replied calmly as all Hyuuga should. "However, since that is obviously not the case in this situation, why don't you proceed to check on Naruto-kun? We shall wait outside to stay out of your way."

"Very well, Hizashi-san." The nurse replied as Hizashi sheparded Neji and Hinata out of the room into the hallway where they saw the remaining ANBU agent in the same position that he had been in when they entered.

Just as they were closing the door, they heard the sound of someone fainting and being caught. The three of them turned around too look through the half-closed door and saw the nurse splayed out, unconscious in the arms of the ANBU agent who was supervising her. Naruto just looked at her with wide, unblinking eyes.

"What?" The blonde boy asked the unconscious nurse, tiliting his head slightly to one side.

Hinata giggled at the 'cute' sight.

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Alright! I've broken 60,000 words and I'm excited!!!

I know that Naruto gaining the shringan is nothing new to fanfiction, nor is the way he received it however I must ask you not to flame me for unoriginality. I have a plan. Yes, a plan. I can guarentee that you all will like my idea.

PLEASE REVIEW!

I cannot fix mistakes without your input! Much appreciation for those who take to time to comment.

~Cyberviper42~