Chapter: 3 (Throw-down! Prodigy versus Prodigy!)
Disclaimer: Once again I do not own the Naruto franchise. I hope you find this chapter to be suitable.
A few days had passed since Naruto had returned to Konoha. In that time Sarutobi had managed to find him a place to live in a small apartment building that was recently abandoned due to the previous owners arrest for producing narcotics. Naruto had managed to do several repairs and renovations in the course of a day and a half, thanks in part to the Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. He had also been apart of a meeting with the council, a meeting went went about as well as fingernails on a chalkboard. He could tolerate dealing with the clan heads, as at least they seemed to be reasonable people (Except for that prick Fugaku.), but the civilian council led by Haruno Ikuku was unbearable to be around. They constantly spouted hateful words towards him, and were trying to take every step to have him either killed or exiled. The absolute worst was a disfigured old man named Danzo who seemed to take Naruto's side only because it seemed he wanted to use the boy.
Luckily for Naruto he had the Hokage, and the other clan heads on his side. So thus Naruto was pretty much given freedom to do whatever he wanted, while he waited to start at the academy. He could still remember the conversation with Sarutobi.
(Flashback)
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO GO TO THE ACADEMY HOKAGE-JI?!" Naruto yelled. "I've already learned more then what they have to teach!"
"I'm sorry Naruto." Sarutobi said in a voice that was sympathetic, yet annoyed. "It was part of a compromise with the Council. You have to go to the academy and stay until you graduate with the other students your age."
"DAMNIT!" Naruto yelled as he stormed out of the office. Leaving Sarutobi to sigh.
(End flashback)
Naruto was leaping through the trees when he saw something suspicious. He saw a young kunoichi arguing with a young shinobi. He recognized the girl as being from the Inuzuka clan, along with the boy as being an Uchiha.
"Itachi please talk to me." The girl pleaded. "Why are you acting so cold to everyone?" Itachi simply remained silent. "Is it true? Did you kill Shisui? Please just tell me you didn't do it."
Itachi stood there silently before walking away. "DAMMIT ITACHI WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME?!" The girl yelled. Itachi then suddenly Shunshin'd behind her. "You've always been in my way Hana." He said as he knocked her out with a chop to the neck, then quickly Shunshin'd away.
Naruto leaped down from the tree. He quickly created a Kage Bunshin and ordered it to tend to Hana. He then took off after Itachi.
(A few seconds later.)
Naruto came upon a small clearing in the forest. He saw Itachi standing along with Danzo, and a man in an orange mask that covered all but his right eye.
"Your late." Danzo said to Itachi. Itachi responded with. "My apologies I got held up elsewhere."
Danzo merely grunted before responding. "You know what to do." He began. "Kill as many as you can. I assume you still have no problem killing your own family?"
"No I don't." Itachi responded. "The clan has become a pathetic shell of what it once was. Only by it's demise can a stronger greater breed of Uchiha rise to power."
"Well spoken my student." The man in the mask said. "We shall make this village pay for their lack of vision, by taking away their precious coveted Sharingan. I shall finish the task I started eight years ago."
"Eight years?" Naruto thought."Is he talking about the Kyuubi?"
"Now go Itachi." The man said. "Go and prove your power by wiping out the Uchiha." The masked man said. Itachi simply nodded before he shunshin'd away.
"Kami! He's going to kill the Uchiha. Well I suppose I wouldn't mind if that Fugaku-teme was killed, but what about... OH KAMI MIKOTO-HIME'S IN DANGER! I have to save her!"Naruto thought as he quickly shunshin'd after the traitorous Uchiha.
(Meanwhile at the Uchiha compound. Fugaku, and Mikoto's house.)
Mikoto Uchiha was thinking she was thinking about the poor child of her dear friends Minato Namikaze, and Kushina Uzumaki. She remembered how she first saw the child after the Kyuubi attack, and the horror she felt as her husband joined the other villagers in calling for the child's death. She tried to protest, but she was drowned out in the uproar, and when she tried to reason with Fugaku, he actually had the nerve to strike her! It was the first and only time he had ever layed a blow upon her person, but that was enough to put the fear in her. As a result she did nothing to help the boy while for four years he had suffered. Then he disappears, and less than four years later he had suddenly reappeared. She had wanted to help him, to be there for him, but she could not do much while under Fugaku's eye, and divorce was not an option available to women in their clan. She just did not know what to do.
Suddenly her thoughts were interrupted by several screams. She then heard three words from a random Uchiha that made her blood run cold.
"Itachi's gone mad!"
(Outside the house.)
In the span of mere seconds the bodies of several Uchiha littered the streets. Every Uchiha ninja was trying their best to fend off the former pride of the clan, and one by one they fell before him.
"Damnit Itachi why are you doing this!" Fugaku Uchiha yelled.
"To build a better world, the old one must be torn down. I shall start with this clan." Itachi coldly remarked as he took out the last four ninja Uchiha. "Now time to meet your end father."
"No Itachi don't do it!" Mikoto pleaded as she ran out of the house, and in between her husband, and her oldest son.
Itachi didn't respond, instead he raised his sword and made a move to stab his sword through them both. Realizing her death was coming at her, Mikoto closed her eyes and braced herself for it.
However the feeling of cold steel penetrating her insides and slicing through her organs never came. After a second she opened her eyes, and in her horror saw Naruto standing before her with his own body penetrated by Itachi's sword.
Naruto then turned his head towards Mikoto, and giving her a small smile. "Don't worry Mikoto-hime. I won't let him hurt you."
The look on Fugaku's face was a combination of flustered, dumbfounded, worried, and somewhat pissed. "What the hell are you doing here boy?!" Fugaku yelled with about as much gratitude as the panther has for the rabbit that became his meal.
"What does it look like I'm doing!" Naruto yelled. "I'm saving your pompous ass!"
Itachi then took the opportunity to whip out a kunai, and stab Naruto in the head, but to his suprise the Naruto he stabbed turned into water. "Mizu Bunshin."Itachi thought, but before he could think anymore about ten more Naruto's came down around him. They all charged at him throwing punches. With the aid of his three-tomoed Sharingan eyes, Itachi managed to dodge every blow, and began dishing out blows that dispeled each Kage Bunshin. When the final clone was taken out, Fencer came charging at Itachi with all four rapiers slicing through the air in a rapid, seemingly random fashion. Itachi veered and dodged easily avoiding the lazy assault. Just as he was about to counter attack the puppet, Naruo leaped out of hiding above him with a dozen kunai with exploding tags attached floating around him.
"Suishouha!" Naruto shouted as the Kunai fell around Itachi while Naruto had Fencer move away. Itachi had just enough time to leap away from the blunt of the attack before the tags could go off, however the force of the explosion still caught him in mid-air sending him flying. In a display of amazing acrobatic prowess, Itachi came to a graceful landing on top of a nearby building. Seeing that Fugaku, and Mikoto were still standing there, he tried throwing kunai at each of them, but before they could connect a pair of Kage Bunshins intercepted them.
Itachi jumped down from the building and slowly walked up to Naruto. "Why do you interfere in matters that are hardly your concern?" He asked.
"Because it's the right thing to do." Naruto shot back. "I don't know why you've decided to do the things you've done today, and to be honest I don't care! I won't let you hurt my precious person!"
"Precious person?"Itachi thought. "Is he talking about Mother?"
Mikoto was stunned. "He's risking his life to defend me? How could he, after all the harm I allowed to befall him?" She wanted to run to him, and yell "Get out while you still can, and do not bother to save me," but her legs, and mouth felt like the were made of lead.
"Now I'll show you what a puppeteer can do!" Naruto shouted as he whipped out a scroll, and wiped blood across two separate kanji. In a massive puff of smoke two more puppets appeared. One resembled a six-foot-tall, morbidly obese clown, while the other looked like a nine-foot-tall version of the infamous Kyuubi no Kitsune, except for the fact that it had three heads instead of one, and a lions mane.
"Meet Kyuubi Cerberus, and Killer Clown." Naruto said as he had the two new puppets, and fencer surround Itachi. Itachi noticed that Naruto was controlling was Kyuubi Cerberus with his right hand, and was manipulating both Fencer, and Killer Clown with his left. Itachi knew the best way to end this fight, would be to not attack the puppets, and instead to focus his attacks on taking out the boy. He threw a kunai at his head, but Fencer moved in front of him, and blocked the projectile with it's rapiers. Killer Clown then fired a kunai from it's mouth at Itachi, but he dodged it. Kyuubi Cerberus then leaped into the air, and fired a blast of fire from the mouth of the center head down on Itachi. Itachi leapt out of the way narrowly avoiding being burned by the flames. Killer clown then raised it's arms, and fired several senbon out of it's fingers at Itachi. Itachi couldn't fully avoid the attack and several senbon were stuck in non-vital parts of his body.
"It's too bad I did'nt have time to poison their weapons, but right now I have to make the best of it.Naruto thought. When he landed Itachi ran towards Naruto, and looked at him, his Sharingan eyes then seemed to take shape with the tomoes merging with the pupil. Just then Naruto heard a voice in his head.
"Don't Look in his eyes!" Went the voice.
"What the..." Naruto thought "Who's this?"
"We can discuss that later gaki, but right now do not look in that Uchiha's eyes, or we will both be fucked understand!" The voice in his head boomed.
At the last split second Naruto turned his head away, just as Itachi let loose the Tsukuyomi, avoiding the deadly Genjutsu. Naruto then had Fencer rush him from behind, and attempt to skewer him. However before he could connect the attack Itachi seemingly exploded sending Fencer flying.
"What the! Bunshin Bakuha? But where's the real one?" Just as Naruto said that, he heard heard a chilling voice say. "Amaterasu." Naruto turned to see a wave of Black fire coming at him.
Sorry for the cliffhanger. I just wanted to get the third chapter up as soon as possible, and I just felt this would be a good place to end it. I hope you enjoyed what you saw. In the meantime here are two more Puppet profiles
Name: Killer Clown
Description: A puppet designed to resemble a six-foot-tall, morbidly obese clown. This puppet is built for mostly defense due in part to it's thick layers of armor underneath the clown garb.
Weapons: Kunai launcher, mounted in mouth, can be poisoned; 10x rapid fire senbon launcher, mounted as fingers in hands, can be poisoned; Acid shooter, mounted in "flower" on left side of chest; Detachable self-destructing head.
Name:Kyuubi Cerberus
Description: A wood, and metal replica of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, except for the fact that it has three heads instead of one, and a lion's mane.
Weapons: High powered flame thrower, mounted in mouth of center head; 84x razor sharp teeth, 28 mounted in mouth of each head, can be poisoned; 8x retractable foldable side cutting blades, mounted on "ribs", can be poisoned; 6400 single-shot senbon launchers, 600 on each tail, and 1000 in the mane, can be poisoned; 9x steel spike, mounted on tips of tails, can be poisoned; Detachable side heads.