AN: Uh so here we go, I forgot to mention a few things. I was wondering if any of you wanted English Jutsu or something like that. Chapters are going to come out at a slower rate but I assure you unless I state that it's getting abandoned, it isn't, I just have a heavy schedule and lots of things going on in my 16-year-old life… Anyway back on track, this chapter is the aftermath of everything and might include a time skip… Oh and I forgot to mention that when I said "Itachi's old squad" I meant Kakashi and Tenzo, Kakashi knows the truth this time around as well… I'm taking this AN too far, Enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
"Normal Talking"
'Normal Thinking'
"Biju/Summon/Jutsu Talking"
'Biju/Summon/Jutsu Thinking'
-1 Day After the Massacre-
After Itachi had left, an Anbu squad, as well as the Sandaime Hokage, arrived at the scene, finding a bloody passed-out Naruto and a fully awake grieving mother.
Naruto had been sleeping in the hospital for around a day and a half due to his wounds and just general exhaustion.
Inside his hospital room sat two figures, one fully grown adult and the second a child, the latter asleep with her head on the shoulder of the adult.
Mikoto was sad, angry, and confused all at the same time.
It felt like a dream, 'This isn't real, this isn't happening.' she thought half hysterically.
-Flashback-
She was just so lost, from hearing the screams of her fellow clansmen and coming across a man with a mask, mutilating her husband's body.
That same masked man then looked at her with a glare that couldn't help but make her shiver, she then realized that in the man's singular eye hole was a blazing Sharingan, no this one was different, 'Mangekyou.' She had known about that version, via Uchiha Tablet, but to actually see it, terrified her.
Just as he was about to swing his blade, her son charged in and slashed at him; only for it to pass straight through him. She saw her son's eyes widen as he looked through the hole and saw the Sharingan.
She heard them engage in a conversation, but when her son whispered a name, it sent shivers down her spine, 'Madara Uchiha' was this supposed character's name, she didn't have any time to dwell on it further when the door flew open, and in came…Naruto!
'Just what the hell are you doing here!' Mikoto thought.
She observed for a bit longer until she saw an unbridled rage appear in Naruto's eyes, and with that, his chakra flared. Due to him unconsciously sending chakra to his eye, he activated his Sharingan.
'Sharingan! But wait how did he get… Shisui.' It all made sense now, why he was so sad and avoided everyone like they were the plague.
Her train of thought vanished when she saw 'Madara' hold the boy in a chokehold with a tanto positioned at his heart.
"You care for this boy, yes?" 'Madara' openly mocked.
She heard her son mutter something only to see a pool of black flames pool from seemingly nowhere, Mikoto heard a small squelch after a scream of agony from Madara.
It was then she noticed a tanto sticking clean through Naruto's stomach; oozing out blood. She saw Itachi run over to him and use low-level Medical Ninjutsu to stop the bleeding, Itachi then simply vanished.
Everything happened so fast to her so she had yet to render the true feeling of anything around her and promptly passed out from sheer exhaustion.
-12 Hours Later-
Mikoto had awoken in the hospital and had been informed of the situation of what happened, to say she was sad or angry was an understatement.
Her eldest son had slaughtered the clan!
At first, she had outright denied that claim; though keeping it to herself. Saying that the masked man had done it, yet there was little blood on his hands compared to Itachi.
Mikoto was furious. Furious at the clan for putting Itachi in such an awful position, angry at herself for not helping him as much.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a knock at her door.
"Come in," Mikoto said meekly
In walked Satsuki, she looked extremely confused at her mother and slightly nervous.
"Kaa-san, why are you in the hospital?" she asked nervously.
Mikoto's heart clenched at the thought of telling her the events that had occurred the last night. She didn't get a chance to respond as another question came up.
"Do you know where Naruto is as well, I fell asleep on his bed, and when I woke up he wasn't in the apartment …." she said.
"I...Well...He, I don't actually know." she lied through her teeth, the truth was he was right down the hall in the ICU recovering from his wounds.
Satsuki just gave her a knowing look; which was quite surprising for an eight-year-old.
Mikoto just sighed and pointed out the door towards the other side of the hospital with a sad and regretful look.
"He is in the I… He's recovering from something…" Mikoto stated meekly.
Satsuki just grew even more confused. "What could he need to go to the hospital for, for something like that?" she questioned.
Mikoto didn't want to say anything at all regarding what happened the previous night, especially to an eight-year-old; not to mention her daughter.
She was genuinely at a loss for words, she had no answer. Inside, her head was going at a million miles per hour simply trying to dodge a question from a mere child.
"Why don't we go ask him when he wakes up?" She finally answered.
'I don't truly know how much Naruto heard… From what I know the clan forced the village's hand and they ordered Itachi to do the bidding,' Mikoto thought bitterly 'But that masked man does not help the situation at all…'
Satsuki seemed satisfied with that answer and settled for a nod, leaving Mikoto to simply wander off into her thoughts….
-End Flashback-
They had been waiting in the room for several hours, just waiting for him to wake up.
For what seemed like forever Mikoto finally heard a slight groan coming from the boy before his eyes shot wide open, Sharingan activated as he started hyperventilating and frantically looking at his surroundings. He grabbed his head in what seemed like agony, squinting her eyes before he let out a loud shout of terror and promptly passed out again.
During all this, Satsuki had awoken due to her mother flinching and had seen Naruto grabbing his head before shouting with wide eyes and passing out again.
'Just what happened, what did he do to you?' Mikoto thought with wide eyes.
"Kaa-san, why was he shouting and why did he have the Sharingan in his eye?" She sputtered while pointing at Naruto.
"..." Satsuki was met with just silence as her mother continued to watch Naruto sleep.
They continued to watch him in silence before another 30 minutes had passed, he had awoken again this time panting heavily with sweat dripping down his forehead.
"Just what the hell was that…'' Naruto said, his voice just barely above a whisper.
Before either one of them could respond, he spoke again.
"Why, why would he show me that," he whispered with wide eyes, his hands trembling.
"Naruto?" He heard a voice call his name and turned to see Mikoto and Satsuki looking at him weirdly and very worried.
"What happened?" Asked Satsuki.
He just gained another haunted look and refused to meet their gaze.
"He did it, all of it…" Naruto said bleakly.
Satsuki and Mikoto simply got more confused and didn't know what he was talking about.
"What did…he do, who is he?" Mikoto asked, confused at who he is.
Naruto looked at both of them still haunted by what he saw, "The man who killed both of my parents, Uchiha… Madara.." Naruto snarled slightly, his chakra flaring and Sharingan blazing with the tomoes spinning ominously.
Mikoto went wide-eyed and trembled slightly, 'But Minato sealed the fox into him using a forbidden Jutsu that took his life and Kushina-chan's body was never found… Could it be…'
"Uchiha Madara? Who were your parents?" Satsuki asked.
Naruto just looked at her and said, "S-rank secret."
"W-what did he show you?" asked Mikoto.
"It was everything at the same time, everything that happened eight years ago and yesterday."
-Flashback-
Naruto had just gotten the tanto pierced through his stomach and heard the man shout curses and yelled in agony before it stopped, he then felt a warm sensation spread through his stomach. As soon as it came it left, leaving a cold spot in the center of his body.
He was still completely conscious at the time, for what felt like hours to him was only minutes in actuality.
He then heard footsteps and tensed slightly.
"That damn brat," The voice said, Naruto froze and remembered this voice from earlier, Madara was his name…
"He actually thought he had even a remote chance at killing me." He said laughing humorlessly.
Naruto was tense, so tense that Madara noticed and smirked under his mask.
"So the Jinchuriki lives, not surprising considering you're their son." he spat.
Madara then reached down and picked the boy up by his neck, Naruto had no time to run seeing as he was injured and the man was too fast.
"Allow me to instill some fear, Nine-Tails," He said as his Sharingan shifted into its final form.
"Tsukuyomi," He said, and Naruto's world shifted into a black plain.
Naruto looked around only to find nothing but black emptiness, it was then the empty plain changed into a room with several people, he heard groans of discomfort then crying, the waves of happiness flowing throughout the room.
He saw a child, golden blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and distinct whisker-like marks that stood out like a bright light in the dark.
"T-that's me," Naruto said astonished," Just where the hell am I?" He asked.
Naruto kept watching,' Tou-san, Kaa-san.' It was then that he felt a twitch in the air and watched as the head doctor and an older woman he didn't recognize fall to the ground; their throats slit.
"W-what, is this real.."
Naruto saw the same masked man take his past self and hold a kunai in front of him. He saw his father panicking, but just as things were about to calm down he was thrown into the air; the kunai poised at his descending body.
Naruto kept staring in anticipation and fear, it was like watching his death in slow motion, his younger self that is. He then saw a small yellow flash before his baby counterpart was caught by his father, as the latter was attached to the ceiling via chakra.
His father then disappeared in that same bright flash, leaving his mother and the masked man alone.
He saw the masked man take his mother in a small vortex before the area changed.
It was a random location in Hi no Kuni, the area filled with water and rocks. He saw his mother being bound by several seals, she was extremely pale and looked like she was ready to pass out.
Naruto saw the masked man speak to Kushina and his words seemed to make her even paler than she was already.
The masked man proceeded to use the seal bindings to rip the fox out of his mother's seal and binding its will to his Sharingan.
Naruto was gritting his teeth trying to run over there but was stuck in place, only able to watch as his mother died.
Yet it didn't come, the fox had smashed his paw and when it removed its paw nothing was there, no blood, no nothing.
He turned his head to see his father holding his mother bridal-style on the tip of a tree, Minato turned around and gave a death glare that made Naruto flinch even though it wasn't directed at him. And Minato promptly disappeared.
The perspective changed again as he was now standing in the middle of a forest.
He started to turn around in several different directions and saw what looked like an altar, with himself on it. And of course that lazy ass fox.
He saw several golden chains wrap around the massive fox; seemingly trapping him.
Naruto kept looking around until he saw his father weaving hand seals, a massive chill went through his body making him shiver as the ethereal being protruded from his father's back.
'The Shinigami.' Thought Naruto.
The Shinigami grabbed half of the foxes chakra and sealed it within his father, the other half, sealed within him.
But just as Minato was about to seal the other half, the fox threw his claw in an attempt to kill the child, it instead pierced straight through both his parents, in an attempt to save him.
Naruto was crying silent tears at the end of it, he tried desperately to get rid of the image of his parents getting impaled by the giant claw, yet it wouldn't.
"You now know of what happened that night, but I'm afraid that's not all I've done…" Madara said with a mocking laugh.
The view changed again and he found himself around the Uchiha compound.
It was late at night and people were running around enjoying themselves somewhat, then the power went out.
People started panicking, just as everything was calming down, he saw Madara rushing through the crowds, phasing through them yet each time he did it a body would drop and the person would cough up blood.
"W-why are you showing me this?!" Naruto asked, horrified at what he was seeing.
"Hmm, truly I don't even know myself. Maybe I just wanted to see the child of the man I hate the most suffer." He answered
Naruto just froze and continued to watch people of the Uchiha get slaughtered like farm animals. He had tried to close his eyes several times with no avail, so each and every single kill was etched into his mind.
Every time Madara killed someone, Naruto was dragged along with him to watch the next person die and all he could do was watch. Naruto noticed that each kill after the next was getting more and more brutal, almost like the man was out for revenge, but he didn't dwell on it much longer.
Fugaku Uchiha, the clan head of the Uchiha. Naruto watched as Madara viciously ripped his eyes out before slashing his right arm off then kicking his knee in, bending it in the opposite direction, and after what seemed like pity, Madara slashed his leg off and cut his throat.
If Naruto could throw up he would have. Watching Madara seemingly toy with a man of his caliber while torturing him was horrifying.
"Now, relive it all…" Madara said with a dark chuckle.
"W-what. What d-do you mean?" Naruto asked, fearing the answer.
"Exactly what I said."
Naruto was forced to watch everyone die over and over again, including his parents, and each time, the death would be even more brutal than the last.
After watching it for what seemed like hours he heard an evil laugh.
"71 hours and 59 minutes left to go~," Madara said laughing.
Naruto couldn't handle it anymore, "AHHHHHHHHHHH." He screamed his lungs out in frustration, sadness, and horror.
-End Flashback-
"...And thats what happened," Naruto said with an empty gaze.
What happened next surprised him, Satsuki barreled into him with a hug and tears flowing out of her eyes.
"H-he killed the clan?! And made you watch and n-nearly-killed you! I will end him!" She declared fiercely, with tears brimming her eyes.
Naruto smiled sadly and poked her in the forehead with his index and middle finger.
"Revenge isn't worth it, Itachi told me the same thing not too long ago. His time will come and he will die. But don't dedicate to something that will leave you empty." He spoke softly.
"B-but why he killed your parents! How can you be so forgiving!" Satsuki shouted angrily.
"If I take the path of revenge, I would forsake all the bonds I made throughout my short life, heh I sound like that cryptic old man," Naruto said with a small laugh.
She looked up and saw the genuine conviction in his eyes and just settled for a nod.
Mikoto watched the scene with a warm smile, happy that they bond so well despite the awful situation.
Satsuki then took it upon herself to notice where she was sitting and went a deep shade of red and flew off the hospital bed sputtering incoherent words.
Naruto was confused as ever and looked over to Mikoto who simply giggled a bit.
'Just as dense as Minato was.' Mikoto thought, laughing at the old times.
After a few minutes or so Satsuki wanted to ask something that was itching at the back of her mind.
"Naruto," She started softly," You've been avoiding this question, how did you get your Sharingan?" She questioned wearily.
Naruto flinched slightly, and Mikoto gave her a piercing stare, but to her credit, Satsuki didn't flinch.
"I suppose… I could just show the both of you." Naruto replied and his Sharingan glowed and pulsed, both Mikoto and Satsuki found themselves in the middle of a forest.
"Naruto what is this?" asked Satsuki.
"This is a genjutsu of my memories," He started as his gaze darkened," The day it happened."
The memory started to play as they saw Naruto jumping through the trees with an injured Shisui on his back. Naruto landed and put Shisui with his back against the tree while the latter was panting.
Shisui started rapidly coughing, and a lone kunai with an explosive note tied to it flew right in front of them.
Naruto grabbed Shisui and used shunshin to get to safety.
The trio watched as a lone Anbu slashed up at Naruto in an attempt to end him. The Anbu missed a vital spot and instead slashed his eye upwards.
They saw Itachi show up and converse for a minute, Shisui had then out of the blue plucked out his eye and handed it to Naruto with a smile.
Naruto took it, and further grossing out the duo watching, got rid of the remaining parts of his eye, and put in the Sharingan.
Naruto then stopped the Genjutsu and they were back in the hospital.
He took a few deep breaths; due to his injuries, he was low on chakra and tired.
"...And that's how I got this," Naruto said, staring at the ceiling.
Mikoto looked at the boy with sadness," Why didn't you come to us? We could have helped you!" She scolded.
Naruto looked outside the hospital window, not wanting to look in her direction.
"I couldn't, not then. The Uchiha were tense, too tense for my liking. Itachi told me to stay away from the compound simply for my own safety, I still don't know why…" He trailed off, staring at the ceiling.
'Itachi you truly loved this boy like your own brother.' Thought Mikoto with a small smile and teary eyes.
"Well whatever his reasons may be, I still would like to know just what the hell Madara was doing here…" Naruto spat venomously.
A new voice decided to make their presence known.
"We don't know, perhaps he simply wanted revenge on his clan, yet wasn't the fox enough…" A now known Hiruzen Sarutobi said,
Naruto smiled a little at the old man's presence, "I take it you've heard everything then.." Naruto said
Hiruzen just nodded, "This does trouble me to no end. This man claiming to be Madara has snuck into the village not once but twice and each time has left catastrophic results." Hiruzen said with narrowed eyes and a tired sigh.
"But that is not what I originally came here for," revealed Hiruzen.
Naruto gained a questioning look, "What did you need?" he asked.
Hiruzen just smirked and pulled out a black headband with a silver plating on the front; the engraving of the leaf's insignia.
"I've watched your progress ever since you've joined the academy, you obviously are leaps and bounds above everyone. At this point, if you were more experienced Id have the notion to simply promote you to jounin here, and now…" Hiruzen started off with a smile.
Naruto for his part could not believe it! He had obviously worked hard to get to where he was; even if he was still in the academy. He was technically supposed to graduate in four years, yet here the Hokage was offering him the rank of genin at 8.
With wide-eyed looks from everyone in the room; minus the Hokage. Naruto got out of the hospital bed, still in his black clothes from the night before, and took the headband from Hiruzen's hands and tied it around his forehead.
"No matter what happens I will protect those close to me, I will not let any of my friends die again!" He whispered fiercely, but his voice was heard by the Hokage.
Hiruzen after hearing his declaration, looked at the boy in shock as he saw two silhouettes hovering behind the blonde-haired boy, a female with red hair and a male with sunkissed blonde hair, both smiling with pride.
'Minato, Kushina you two would be beyond proud at what he's become today.' Hiruzen thought with a melancholy smile on his face.
Naruto sighed a little after a second and positioned his headband over his Sharingan eye, gaining two incredulous looks from the two adults in the room; reminding them of a certain scarecrow.
Seeing the looks, Naruto decided to elaborate. "I don't wish for people to know about my Sharingan, and now that I will be around the village more often, it would not look too good for me to be walking around with a Sharingan, not to mention it as well," he said reminding the two adults of his tenant.
Hiruzen was astonished at the boy's level of thinking ahead at his age. Mikoto was along the same lines as Hiruzen.
"Not to mention, I think his name was Kakashi Hatake, I always see him wandering the village with the same thing, it looked cool," Naruto added in, making them both sweatdrop.
'Despite his advanced thinking, he is still a child after all.' Hiruzen thought with a smile.
"Well now that you have accepted the role of genin, despite being in the ranks, you are not on a team. So by that extent for missions, you will either be joining a temporary team or going solo," Hiruzen informed.
Naruto just settled for a nod, although it appeared to him that Hiruzen had more to say.
"As I was saying, the missions you will partake in will not be particularly difficult; seeing as you are only a genin, but difficult nonetheless. But since I can personally vouch for your skill, you will most likely be going on C-B rank missions most of the time." Hiruzen finished, making Naruto sigh in relief.
Naruto had heard about the cursed D-ranks from other annoyed genins wandering around the village. Suffice to say he did not want to do them.
There was one more thing though, one more question that had to be answered.
"What happened to the Uchiha clan?" Naruto asked bluntly, making Hiruzen sigh in dismay as his lips thinned into a small white line.
"What's there to tell, Uchiha...Itachi killed almost all of them," Hiruzen stated,'Although having Madara in the mix really messes with things, considering what he showed to Naruto-kun' He thought.
Naruto went wide-eyed and bit his bottom lip; looking back outside the window.'Itachi, how could you…' He thought.
"W-what? W-why would Nii-san do such a thing." Satsuki mumbled with tears brimming her eyes.
"It just… I can't… IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!" shouted Satsuki, with tears freely falling out of her eyes.
It didn't make sense, why would he kill the clan? He was always kind to her, to the clan. Yet for him to just randomly kill everyone just didn't add up to her.
"Why, why would he do it…" she muttered with a clenched fist.
"I don't know, perhaps we will know soon…" Hiruzen said briefly.
Mikoto saw through the lie completely but didn't comment on it whatsoever, instead settling for silence.
After abode of silence, Naruto decided to speak once more.
"Hokage-sama," He said, adding the respectful title and suffix, due to his ninja status.
Getting a nod from Hiruzen, he continued.
"When is the earliest I can start missions?" He asked blankly.
The Hokage gained a thinking position; rubbing his chin and all.
"Well we do have to register you as an official shinobi of Konohagakure so… Probably a couple of days from now." He answered, making Naruto nod with a small smile.
"Understood, thank you," Naruto said gratefully.
And with that the Hokage left the room, the room slowly went back into silence.
During Naruto and Hiruzen's conversation, Satsuki had run into her mother's arms crying her eyes out; she had fallen asleep.
"Well, we're going to head out Naruto-kun. Get better soon." Mikoto whispered, breaking the silence.
Naruto just nodded and waved goodbye.
After they left Naruto simply laid back down and thought back to all the good events that played out through his eight years of living.
Meeting his father, meeting that stubborn lazy fox. Training extremely hard for three years straight, joining the academy, and meeting the Uchiha family.
He then thought of all the bad memories, making him sigh in annoyance.
From being hated and beaten simply from a pointless form of revenge that deluded the minds of the villagers and some shinobi alike. Watching half of the people he cared about die.
It was all starting to weigh on his small mind. To what seemed like a mountain of burdens truly made him want to give up and forget about everything he had ever done.
He couldn't, no he can't... Not now, not ever. He still had much to accomplish. The real question was what he would do afterward…
Sighing to himself he slowly dozed off into sleep, thinking about everything made him truly tired…
A/N: Boom! That's the chapter done. although short in my opinion, I didn't have much more to write and it was pretty decent IMO. So to sum it up, Naruto awakens only to remember what happened the previous night, he then goes on to explain what happened to him to Satsuki and Mikoto. Explains the reason behind his Sharingan, Hiruzen everything by accident but not really.
Naruto ends up a genin, I'm also too lazy to write out the rigorous D-Ranks so yeahh.
Also like I said in my bio, I update every 1-2 weeks so yeah…
Also like I mentioned up top, would any of you like English Jutsu or like Japanese Jutsu with English subtitles…
Well anyway feel free to leave a review, they always tell me how good or how bad my writing is and what areas I need to improve in, and whatnot.
Thanks for reading!