AN: Hey, another chapter. I did another alternate of the Uchiha Massacre but in a dream form, I think it's kind of cool, so I'm proud of it. I hope you guys like it.

This is a two parter so it is cut in half to keep it shorter, you'll know why (I'll explain at the end AN so I won't ruin anything).

Thanks for the lovely reviews, I appreciate all of them, thanks.

Enjoy


Chapter 11

What's Your Next Move: Part 1

He ran through the gates that he knew so well. It was dark and the clouds covered the night sky completely. He was running late in getting home again and he knew his father didn't like that. He was never late, so why this time.

"Father is going to kill me," eight year old Sasuke reprimanded himself.

He made it just in time before the rain started to pour. He took off his sandals and hurried upstairs to his room. But he heard a noise coming from his brother's room. It sounded weird in a way, because his brother never made noises; he was always quiet, always.

Skipping his own bedroom door to head for his brother's, he made a quick dash across the hall and put his hand on the door handle.

The noise came again, this time louder. It sounded like it was something being sliced or being ripped open. He doesn't know where he had heard the noise before, but he knew he heard it from some where.

Lightening lit the hallway, temporary shining light to his surroundings. For a second, he thought he saw blood stains on the door and on his hands, but when another flash brightened up the hallway, there was nothing there.

"Brother, it's me Sasuke. I'm coming in," his small voice called out.

When no answer came, he slide open the door. Upon entering it, he got a big whiff of a metallic smell in the air. But when he looked into the room there was nothing there, not even his brother.

"Aniki, are you in here," he asked the empty room. There was no answer.

He was predetermined on closing the door when he heard a shriek from across the hall in his parent's room. It scared him so much that he slammed his back up against the wall and shut his eyes tight. The scream came again and it was louder. He had to cover his ears, it hurt them that bad. It wouldn't stop, the screaming, whoever it was screamed continuously. Sasuke covered his ears harder, trying to block it out, but to no avail, the scream made it through.

"Stop, please, stop," Sasuke cried to whoever it was. "Please"

The scream, the lightening, and then the slicing noise, they all rambled through the house to his ears. They were screaming in his head.

"STOP, PLEASE," his small voice yelled to whomever, whatever was there. In his head, in the house, he didn't know, but the noises did stopped.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in his bed, blankets over his head. It was getting stuffy and his breathing became quick and shallow.

He counted to three and threw the covers from over his head and sat up. It was still dark, but it wasn't raining.

The slicing noises started up again and he covered his ears to prepare for the screams, but that never came.

"Otouto, follow me," his brother's voice called out to him from outside his bedroom door. "Follow me, little brother."

"I…I'm scared, what's happening, what's making all those noises," Sasuke called out

"Sasuke come."

With shaky legs, he got off his bed and headed for his door. He didn't want to leave his room, but it was like his body made him do it. He wasn't controlling it anymore.

"Open the door, Sasuke."

He opened the door.

"Go to mother and father's room. I'm there little brother."

"No, I don't want to," he forced out his small trembling lips, but his legs and arms didn't listen. He struggled with himself on not moving but IT was stronger. He had no more control.

"Don't you trust me, Sasuke, don't you trust your older brother."
"Please…"

"Open their door, Sasuke," his brother's voice commanded behind the door.

"Please, I don't want to. I don't want to go in there. I don't want to see them."

His hands went around the door handle of his parent's room, anyway, and pulled.

The door slide opened a little but he just stood there.

"Come in Sasuke."

His legs moved to walk further into the room, the door sliding wider as he got close. When the door was fully opened, he saw his parent's bodies lying flat on the floor. Blood oozed from their bodies.

Tears ran down his face which was the only thing that was done on his own free will. He looked up from their limp forms to see his brother come from among the shadows. His eyes red from the Sharingan twisted with craze and something evil, but his face was something that he could not see. It stayed hidden in the shadows.

"Lie down, little brother. Lie next to mother and father. It is where you belong," his brother ordered him. And his legs started moving again.

"I don't want to die, please brother ……Why are you doing this? …Make it stop, please."

"Trust me, Sasuke, I won't hurt you."

The screams started up again, so did the slicing noises.

He found himself lying on his back, next to his parent's bodies.

His tears were endless.

This was all wrong, he should be moving, but his body wouldn't let him.

"Worthless," his brother was on him, seating on his legs and a sword pressed slightly over his neck. He still couldn't see his face though, just his eyes, his red eyes.

"I don't want to die, please brother," he cried out loud, over the screams, over the slicing noises. They were in his head again. "PLEASE"

"Pathetic, little brother." The sword was pressed further into his neck.

Sasuke closed his teary eyes.

"NO."

Silence.

When he opened his eyes again, he was in front of the gates.

Panic ripped through his body. He couldn't breath. His legs started moving again, but he didn't want them to. His small hands reached for the gates, but it was too late, his brother was already in front of him.

"Die, little brother."

The sword was raised and it came down to slice….

He felt himself jerk awake before he opened his eyes. That dream wasn't like the others and it was strange because those eyes never were a factor in his nightmares before, but it felt like it was suppose to be there, like they were always suppose to be there, just…making themselves known, like memorizing something that has always been there.

He didn't like it.

When he did open his eyes, he found that his world was nothing but a blur…a green blur. Wind rushed through his hair and over his face, making his eyes watery and his ears seemed stuffy. He was in the trees, but how, he wondered.

He noticed that he was leaning up against something, someone. He noticed his arms were around the person's neck and his legs were cradled in the person's arms, carrying him on their back. Shin turned his head, on the person's shoulder, to look at the person face, it was covered with some kind of mask and his hair was the color of white or silver. It then hit him that he was being carried through the top vicinity of the trees by the man he just now remembered had those same color of eyes that were in his nightmares, they were the same shade of red that spun with black tiny orbs that he feared so much.

He began to panic.

Kakashi felt the body in his arms tighten around him and figured that the boy was awake. He glanced over and was met with black, wide eyes…scared eyes.

"Put me down," Shin shakily yelled as he tried pushing away from the man, his mind replaying the event from last night.

"Put me down."

Kakashi sighed, he figured as much that this would happen, but he thought the boy would have continued to sleep at least until they have gotten into Fire Country borders. He turned and signaled that his students follow his lead and head for ground to the bare opening in the middle of the trees. They could rest for a little while.

Upon landing, he let go of Shin and turned, watching as the boy backed away from him, trembling.

He seemed to be looking at his surroundings, wondering where and why he was here, with him.

"Shin…" he tried moving towards the boy but…

"No, you stay away," Shin panicked and back further away. His back hitting a tree and that ceased all his movements for now, until Kakashi made another attempt towards him and he scurried side ways to get away. He took quick glances at Kakashi's face but mostly towards his left patched covered eye and Kakashi figured that the boy was remembering last night… he sighed.

"Shin," Ayame rushed passed Kakashi to get to her son and embraced him. "What's the matter? Are you okay?"

Shin's eyes never left Kakashi's as he shook his head, no, to answer his mother.

"What is it, son," Kiyoshi asked afterwards, coming up to his family and supporting a hand on his son's head. Shin only shook his head and looked down, he didn't know how to explain it, but he knew he couldn't tell them what was wrong, he could never tell them anything related to his dreams.

Seeing that the boy was calming down and some panic had left him, Kakashi turned away from the family and looked towards his team.

"We'll take a ten minute rest before we will need to take off again," he told them, turning back to the Unomis to make sure that they had heard him, the adults nodded their heads and then went back to taking care of their son.

"I think that would be great," Sakura stated, walking over to her sensei. "I need to heal your wounds anyway."

Kakashi nodded and he and his team settled at a nearby tree some feet away from the family so they wouldn't hear their conversation.

"What if we run into the enemy again," Sakura asked some time later as she healed his left arm.

Kakashi shrugged his shoulders, flinching as his wounded chest protested the action.

"Well from what I heard from you about the group you handled last night, they were hard to touch. That could be a problem in many ways than most, considering we can't break through whatever shield they have around their bodies, so continuing to head for Konoha and trying not to run into them seems like our best bet." He looked at his team and they seemed to agree.

"There are only four of us protecting three civilians," he continued. "We can't take the chance of losing anyone," he paused. "How many were there when you fought last night?"

"Well," Naruto began. "There were three I fought on my own, both Sai and Sakura had three of their own and two stood by and watched. There was a man in a suit and three other men who look like they were just guides for the men, so that totals up to fifteen."

Kakashi nodded his head, considering all the possibilities on how fighting an enemy that's steel protected and trying to protect three defenseless people could turn out. It would be a hard job to accomplish, but he's sure him and his team could get it done, but keeping as far away from those men was for the best, though, just to be on the safe side, he can't lose anyone, especially his students and the family.

"But what if, by some pure chance, we do run into them again. What do we do than," Sakura asked, healing his chest.

"We do what we can and we'll see what happens," he answered, checking over Sakura's healing work on his left arm, not a scar to show, the girl was good.

"Yeah, but what I can't get is how did they know where to look," Naruto pondered. "I mean, how can they be sure that this kid is really the Uchiha…I mean we don't even know yet."

"I'm not sure, either," Kakashi sighed. "But he has a scar."

He figured a change of subject would do nicely here. The other things would only make them worry, and well, he was starting to doubt the mission and that wasn't good for his psyche. It wasn't good for the team.

A pause.

"What," both Sakura and Naruto blurted out together, just realizing what their sensei had said.

"So that's two down and one left to go," Sai stated. "This kid just might be who we think he is."

"We should try contacting the Fifth again, let her know of our situation," he told his students. "…just in case something happens."

"Wait, but how did you find out about the scar," Sakura asked. "When," she asked a moment later.

Kakashi only shrugged his shoulders and sighed. "Last night before we left," was his answer and he got up and stretched.

"Now, we need to…"

"I think we need to talk," Kiyoshi interrupted walking over to the group, his wife and son closed behind. "What happened back there? Who were those people and why were they after our son?" He sounded hysterical, angry even, as he stared Kakashi square in the eyes. "And you…w-what you did…You're not just ninja travelers are you?"

For a moment, there was just complete silence as everyone stared among themselves. But there was no sense in hiding the truth now, their cover was blown and to make this trip easier on the group and to everyone, the truth had to be told.

"No," Kakashi answered. "We're not just ninja travelers. We're shinobis from Fire Country sent on a mission to find out if…" he took a glance over at Shin who quickly looked away. "…if your son is the long lost Uchiha whose been missing for four years."

"Uchiha," Kiyoshi questioned. "What-Who is this Uchiha?"

"The Uchihas was a powerful clan in our village, they were wiped out by one of their own clan member, Itachi Uchiha," Kakashi explained, looking at Shin as the rogue Uchiha name was mentioned.

No reaction, nothing, but there was a flicker in his eyes, could mean something or it could mean nothing at all as well.

He continued. "There was a survivor, a young boy, at the age of eight when he was found, but two days later he disappeared," and he left it at that, letting the Unomis fill in the blank.

"S-So what you're saying is that …you think that Shin…could be this missing Uchiha," Kiyoshi asked.

Kakashi didn't answer at first, leaving that for the Unomis to answer themselves as well. "It's imperative that we get him to our village as soon as possible."

Ayame grabbed onto her son tightly and Kiyoshi backed his family closely behind him after hearing that.

"No, how can we be sure we can trust you? You could be just like those guys wanting to take our son and kill us. How can we be sure you're not going to do that?"

Kakashi sighed, "I can assure you, Mr. Unomi, our intentions are not in anyway to harm you or your family. Our mission was to only see if your son is who we think he is and if so, we were to take him, but now our mission is to take him and you…," he pointed at the husband and wife. "…to our village to be safe."

Kiyoshi looked cautiously, eyeing Kakashi and his team with so much uncertainty but…trusting them would take some time; at least, until he was sure he could trust them.

"And if my son was, the Uchiha, you would have taken him, no questions asked, nothing," Kiyoshi asked, calming down just a little.

Another sigh, "I'm not going to lie to you, Mr. Unomi, but if your son happened to be who we were looking for, then yes, we would have taken him…no questions asked."

"Unbelievable," Kiyoshi rubbed the bridge of his nose, cynicism reading all over his body as he placed his hands on his hips shortly afterwards. "How are we to believe you, huh? You could easily be putting us in a trap, waiting for the right moment and then kill my wife and I and take our son," he passed, concern replacing doubt as things were making themselves clear as just how screwed their situation was becoming. "I have no proof that what you are telling me now is honorable."

"You can trust me or not, but you're coming with us either way. We're not the bad guys, here, we're trying to help you," Kakashi said this calmly, it did neither of them any good if he lost his temper, they would just be getting nowhere with that type of solution. "Besides, we're all you got right now."

This time, it was Kiyoshi who had sighed, letting his shoulders relax as he accepted that answer. He nodded his head moments later, agreeing with Kakashi on whatever term that was made between them. That they had no other choice but to go with the shinobis, and that they could only trust in their words and not their actions on why they were here in the first place…that they would be protected by them and only them so far.

"Okay," Kiyoshi began, "How do we…"

Kakashi was led away from the conversation and frowned; he heard a noise in the distance. It was footsteps, slow and steady…being sneaky, one person, maybe a male. He looked over at his team, they heard it too. Lifting his hands, he silenced Kiyoshi from speaking any further and brought a finger to his masked lips to instruct him and his family to be quiet. He then, silently told them to hide and not to come out until he gave them the clear to do so.

The family nodded and hid behind a tall bush, Shin taking his longest as he continue to watch the ninjas before him, scurried up into the trees and disappeared. His family may have believed them, but he didn't, there was just something about them or him…the man had a red eye, just like in his dreams…it can't be true, could it…

He hid with his family and stayed down; he would have to worry about it later. Now, he had to hope that whoever was out there didn't find him and take him away from his family.

A man, with a hood over his head, kept hidden among the trees, watched as the ninjas disappeared. He backed away from the scene and watched his surroundings, listening for any noise that would give out their hideaway, but…

Suddenly, a trap wire found itself coiling around him. Looping at his legs and up towards his shoulders, pulling him backwards, slamming him into a tree, where the rest of the wire surrounded him, tying him there and tightening. He tried pulling free, but it only tightened around him more.

Four pairs of feet landed in front of him and he heard a thump as a shuriken was embedded inches away from his left ear.

"Whoa, hey, watch where you throw that thing," the man yelled out. He looked up at the four standing up in front of him and smiled. "It's me, Taro, remember the informant."

Naruto walked over to the man and pulled the hood off from over his head.

"It's him," he said as he back away to head back to his teammates.

Kakashi flicked his fingers uncoiling the wire from around the man and recoiling them back around his finger and placing them back into his pouch behind him.

"What are you doing here," he asked.

Taro picked his self up from the ground and dusted his self off.

"Well, after our little meeting at the restaurant, I was suppose to head back to Konoha after my mission, but I got a message stating that I should stay and watch what goes on in town," he explained. "I did and then I hear a couple of people outside a restaurant, saying that there was a guy looking for an Uchiha, imagine my surprise when I heard that," he smiled, rubbing behind his head at their questioning looked. "Anyway, I headed off to warn you guys, but found the cabin in shambles and you were gone, so I followed a hunch on where you guys might have been heading and then, well you know the rest," he smiled. "So what happened?"

Team 7 sighed. "We were attack," they all said, dryly, in unison.

"Oh," was all Taro said.

"We were going to send a message to the Fifth," Sakura started, "To let her know that we might be arriving sooner than intended, but…"

"Oh, she already knows," Taro said out of the blue.

They all frowned, "How," Naruto asked.

"Well, remember how it was when the first time the news got out about the Uchiha being missing and practically everyone brought a kid in claiming to be the Uchiha," Taro asked Kakashi. Kakashi only nodded his head. "Well, it started up again and the Fifth assumed that word got out and figured that you guys would be getting some unwanted guest some time or another."

"Well alright then," Naruto chirped up. "The old granny can send over some extra ninjas to help us out," he then paused to frown a little. "But, not like we needed the extra men because we could handle it, it's just we…" he stopped and smiled sheepishly.

"Yeah, that would be great," Taro agreeing. "…If she could do that."

"What, what do you mean," Sakura asked this time, a little louder than usual.

"Well, with the many people coming in and out of Konoha, the Fifth had to put more shinobis on guard and that included ANBU. And with so many people coming and going, she wasn't sure if an attack might occur from hidden enemy ninjas disguising as civilians in the village. Plus, she was doing it out of your safety as well."

"How is not sending extra men is for our safety," Sakura asked.

"Well," Taro began. "Considering that she has never dealt with this situation before, she presumed that if she sent any shinobis to look for you, enemy ninjas might want to follow or interfere with the mission. She doesn't want it to be too troublesome, as she had put it, for you. And she said if the boy is the Uchiha, she doesn't want to risk it with others finding out."

"Well it's already too late for that," Sai wryly piped in.

"True, how many were you up against," Taro asked.

"A few groups, here and there," Kakashi answered.

"Did you defeat them?"

"To answer your question, we're on the run," was Kakashi's answer before he shrugged his shoulders.

Taro nodded his head in understanding. "That bad, huh?"

"Pretty much," Sai answered.

"Well, I guess that's okay. I mean, you got the kid and that's all that matters, right," he asked looking around.

"Actually, we brought the whole family," Sai added, he was very talkative today.

"Oh, I see," Taro looked serious for a moment. "Well, I guess it can't be helped," he smiled at the group.

Kakashi nodded, "Let's head back, we need to leave before any problems shows up." They all agreed and headed back to where the family hid.

Kakashi explained to them about Taro and that he would be accompanying them throughout their travels, that they needed the extra help anyway.

They didn't take the trees this time; they walked on the main route by foot. It was only a couple of miles until they got to the borders of Fire Country and they were making good leeway.

It wasn't until they got into a dry U-shape valley that trouble found them. It was plain, no vegetation or any sign of water ever running through it. Steep mountains shouldered the flat floor, giving it a rocky terrain to it. The sun shined right over them as the valley continued straight, but the high elevations provided much needed shades that cooled them nicely.

Team 7 and Taro surrounded their civilians. Kakashi in the front, leading the way, Sakura and Sai brought up the sides, one on the right the other one on the left, and Taro and Naruto brought up the rear. Shin stayed between his parents, who were in the middle with him.

"How much longer," Ayame asked. She never walked a long distance in her life, to walk more than a mile was a burden on her feet and she was becoming tired fast. "Is there anyway we could stop and rest for a moment," she asked.

"It's best if we reach the border first," Taro offered. "If we take a rest now, it's a better chance that ninjas can find us."

"But we've been on the go for hours," Ayame argued. "I doubt anyone has caught up with us since then."

"True," Kakashi stepped in. "But we can't be too careful."

Suddenly, there was a gigantic BOOM in the distance up ahead. It sounded like an explosion but there was no fire, not even smoke.

Kakashi and his group tensed and prepared themselves.

Another Boom sound, but this time it came from some distance behind them.

"What was that," Kiyoshi asked.

"Keep your eyes open," Kakashi warned everyone.

Silence followed afterwards, before small tremors began. It vibrated through the ground and shook the steep mountains around them. Small rocks and pebbles fell off of them, crumbling when hitting the ground. Another thunderous boom and the ground shook twice as hard. Its tremors grew to medium shakes, enough to cause Team 7 and the others to wobble on their feet.

"What's causing this," Kiyoshi yelled over the rumbling. It sounded like a deep muffled roar, grumbling throughout the valley's walls.

Another enormous boom sound and the place was going in shambles. Large rocks were falling off the mountains, colliding with the ground, landing right next to the group.

"We need to move," Kakashi yelled. They all agreed and they moved ahead. Awkward as it was and as difficult as it made running in a straight line seem, the group pulled through and moved forward.

After a yard of unsteady steps, the quakes stopped, it happened so quickly that it seemed as if nothing had happened at all.

Silence…Nothing moved, nothing trembled, and it was stable.

Kakashi and the team stopped, looking for signs of anything. They knew that this was no ordinary earthquake; someone had caused this and their only possible explanation would be that the person or persons were Earth ninjas.

"Well, if it isn't the famous Copy Ninja," a voice echoed through the basin. "It would be a shame if he was to die so easily."

The group looked around for the culprit, but they saw no one.

"Hmm, how would I go about destroying you, Copy Ninja?"

"Old friend of your Kakashi," Taro dryly joked.

Kakashi ignored him; he kept his eyes looking around the area. He could feel their presence, could feel their chakras churning with power. He boosted up his own, readying himself for a fight.

"Up here, Copy Ninja," a voice called out to him.

They all looked up and met not one, but many ninjas surrounding them at the mountains edge.

"I've been waiting to meet you," Donsu called out.

Kakashi gazed up at him with his exposed eye, loathingly, watching for any signs of the first movement to a battle. His team was doing the same, and in doing so, they moved closer to the family in the middle, who would most likely be caught in the middle of one ruthless battle.

"Give us the Uchiha," Donsu ordered, already watching the family that the group was closely surrounding…protecting.

Kakashi sighed, "It's a shame that it won't be that easy." He lifted up his eye patched on his left eye, the Sharingan activating automatically. It's already locking down on its first two targets, spinning and waiting for the movements for it to read and copy.

Donsu smirked at the comment. He figured as much that they wouldn't just hand the boy over, he wasn't foolish. "Have it your way, Copy Ninja, don't think we will make it easy on you either." He nodded to one of his men at the top far end of the mountain.

The shinobi nodded back, comprehending the signal. He did some hand signs in the shadows before Kakashi had time to pick them up, and brought his fist down to strike the large rock under him.

Nothing happened at first; just the shinobi's fist still plunged into the ground, his eyes closed as if concentrating. But then, a few moments later, the ground started to shake again, slow and vibrate at first, but then fast and tremendous soon after. A crack was heard far in the distance, echoing in the large valley as it quake, rupturing the ground and sending a distorted fissure heading towards Kakashi and his group. It traveled with speed and it grew larger and wider as it inched closer to the group it was after.

Before the end of the tear reached them, it branched out in two and opened the ground wider. In the crack, a large, gigantic stone slab grew out of the crack and began to tower over the group. It rumbled and roar out of the ground, building to new heights and another one built up behind the group and then another one and another one grew on either side of them. They were being surrounded by the large hunk of rocks.

Ayame screamed and held her son near; she was embracing him tightly in her arms as she thought of the inevitable that they might just die today. Her husband was doing the same to the both of them. "I love you," he yelled to them.

Kakashi watched the stones carefully, watching each stone as they built over them and around them, closing them in, in a tense square, bring their group to a tight huddle. He caught one last glance up at the man over the whole thing before the flat rocks blocked his view, ending the staring contest. "Damn," he cursed, being shadowed with darkness.

Donsu smiled and nodded at his active shinobi to proceed. The shinobi, once again, nodded his head. He brought his other fist down, next to the first one, and twisted them inward and quickly slid them over the ground to touch knuckle to knuckle.

The Earth ninjas watched as the four flat square shaped rocks slammed pressed together. First, the two opposite of each other slammed together, squashing anything in the middle, then the last two stone rotated until they aligned with the first ones and they slammed into those with a much powerful force.

Donsu smiled once again, now it begins, he thinks to himself, watching as the dust and debris from the commotion at the bottom of the valley settled into a fading cloud.

"Now, what's your move, Kakashi?"

TBC


AN: So how was that? Not much, I know, but I wanted a full chapter of action scenes for the next chapter so this was pretty much dialogue and the beginning of the battle between Kakashi with his team and the Earth ninjas. Something to get it started but there were some action type moments in this chapter, just not much.

But anyway, next chapter is going to have a full out action pack fight, I can't wait to write it, I have it all planned out. I just hope it turns out as how I picture it, in my head. I can't wait.

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