SATOSHI POV
He had lived in the Uchiha clan compound now for five years, but this was the first time he was coming to the clan's head compound. After greeting the Stone-faced Patriarch and the Heavily pregnant matriarch, they were matched off to eat and play.
The birthday party was a short one, not even lasting an hour, despite all the pomp, finery's and preparations. The parents and elders in attendance quickly moved off for some kind of meeting. Making it obvious to him that, their goal was never the birthday.
He stayed long enough with his age group, before their antics started wearing heavily on him and he decided to take a walk.
Barely two minutes later he found himself at a pond with two koi swimming in circles lazily. It was a relaxing environment so he sat down, tucked his legs below him, hands flat on his laps and started to meditate just like old man Kenta thought him.
He was so engrossed and focused on the chakra that flowed through him that he didn't notice the presence in front of him, right until he opened his eyes.
Widening his eyes in shock, he tried to move, only to release a grunt as he noticed his body was numb from staying in one position for so long. The child, which he noticed was the celebrant was looking at him strangely.
"sorry for disturbing your sleep"
He said before giving a deep bow.
"I was not sleeping" Satoshi replied, Ignoring the look of disbelief on the face of the child as he finally stood and started trying to make blood flow into his limbs again.
"The Celebrations are over" he observed and said aloud as he noticed everywhere was darker without the party lanterns and the lack of loud obnoxious children.
"A few hours ago, everyone has left, I could not sleep so I looked out of my window and saw you sitting beside the pond" the child said as he lay down beside him and started staring at the stars.
That was enough to shock Satoshi as he looked up and noticed the moon dominated the sky. He must have meditated for over 5 hours.
He looked around confused as he didn't know where to go from here.
His confusion must have shown on his face as the child picked up on it immediately.
"You can stay with us for the night, I doubt Father and Mother would complain as they are asleep."
Nodding his thanks, he decided to ask for the surprisingly matured child's name. "Itachi' was the reply, he nodded before introducing himself as Satoshi. They talked into the night, two strangely mature children. Ignorant of the Uchiha Patriarch that stood on the roof and watched.
Dawn came and Satoshi found himself asleep on a tatami mat, Itachi beside him still asleep while he wondered where he was to go from here. A knock at the door drew his attention from observing the room as Itachi also started to wake.
The door slid open, and the pregnant matriarch stood there with a kind smile on her face as she observed the two boys before declaring breakfast and humming a tune as she left.
Breakfast consisted of steamed rice, miso soup and grilled fish. He sat quietly with the family as they ate, surprisingly no one brought up his strange presence among them. They made small talks as they ate.
The smiling Uchiha matriarch that introduced herself as Mikoto, Lead the conversation. After breakfast a knock was heard, and the Uchiha patriarch spoke for the first time.
"That should be Old man Kenta, come with me" He stood up, gave a bow to the Uchiha matriarch in thanks for the food, and started walking off with only a glance and a wave back to Itachi. This would not be the last time they would see.
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He woke up sweating, panting for breath and his heart beating a mile a minute, any other time he might have wandered what was going on why was he scared… no why was he terrified.
But he had been trained to react and that's what he did. Rolling from his futon he ignored the screams of pain from outside his building, the earth-shaking explosions and forced himself into a meditation pose.
Sitting cross legged, he felt his chakra, moving rapidly trying to instinctively push of a trace of a trace of a malevolent chakra in his veins, after a few seconds of focused guidance he was able to flush it out.
Forcing himself to stand on shaky legs, he felt his limbs come under his control back. After making sure he was okay, he moved, rushing out of his room ignoring the caved in roof, he ran out of his house and beheld KAMI, for what else could could cause such damage with a flick of its tails.
"Seems like the Uzimaki brat couldn't keep control of the mutt" snapping his head back he saw old man Kenta walking out lazily, hands still buried in his yakuta.
"What is that?" he managed to whisper out as he turned back to behold the destruction that no titan could match.
"That is a tailed beast, the most powerful of them all, I'm surprised you where able to shake off its influence" he finally came to a stop behind him.
Before finally sighing "Run boy, there should be chunins and genins assigned to lead people to bunkers for safety, let me see if this old bag of bones can still do something to aid" he said with a laugh in his voice that didn't match the atmosphere.
Giving a solemn nod to the old man he raced off, jumping over burning wrecks and collapsed structures.
While the Uchiha clan didn't seem to be as badly hit as some other parts of the village, there were still a lot of houses set alight or crumbling from missed jutsu blasts and smacks of the tailed beasts tail.
It was while running pass one of those he saw itachi, gripping tight a bundle of cloth that was likely his baby brother sasuke, few steps away from them Itachi pivoted to face him, stance low like he was expecting an attack, after taking note that he was the one, his stance finally relaxed.
"Satoshi-san…" giving a brisk nod to the future clan head, he gestured for them to continue moving.
As they kept on running, they finally joined the horde of civilians that where heading towards the bunker, few minutes away he heard a scream of pain from a still burning building that was half way crumbled.
He stopped in shock as the scene brought back memories of the aftermath of villages outside the wall found after a titan's attack, Itachi stopped beside him eyes wide as he turned to the building too.
Itachi turned back to him and opened his mouth to say something but Satoshi beat him to it, "go to the shelter Itachi-san, you have your little brother with you" seeing the sense in what he said but not liking it he turned and kept on running.
Taking in a deep breath, he ran with speed that bellied his small frame, using his momentum, he planted his feet on the crumbling wall and took a step and another using the brief burst of speed he defied gravity before leaping for an open window.
His hands griped the burning wood, and he let out a grunt of pain but forced himself to push through the pain, lifting himself up he got in and crouched, he hands were red and most likely blistered but it would take a few minutes to start setting in.
He almost got lost navigating through ash and acrid smoke, his lungs had started burning and it was getting harder to breath when he found them, a mother and child per, the woman's leg was stuck under a falling beam and she covered her child with her body as fire and cinders fell from the burning roof scorching her already burnt skin.
Eyes dizzy and confused by an unholy combination of pain, smoke and blood loss, she still retained enough sight to see him and push her child towards him, she tried to speak but couldn't get a world out but he had a good idea of what she wanted.
The pragmatic thing would have been to just take the child and run, even then his survival was not guaranteed as the house was on its last legs, but he found himself making the less pragmatic choice as his heart broke seeing the child struggle to keep a grip on her mother.
Rushing to the edge of the beam he tried lifting it but it was to heavy for his 6 year old frame, and he found himself cursing the tailed beast, cursing the people that heard the cries for help but chose to ignore, cursing this world that chose to inflict on another what it had inflicted on him and finally cursing his weakness for not being able to change their fate.
He felt a sharp burn in his eyes but attributed it to more smoke getting into his eyes and shrugged it off, he was used to pain.
The woman gave him a sad smile for his effort and shoved the baby in his direction, he shook his head as an idea came to mind and he ran to the bathroom, ripping a huge towel from its hanger and ripping his shirts off he soaked them in a tub of water before rushing out, narrowly escaping a burning beam that tried smashing him.
He slid over to the woman and wrapped he surprised form in towel also using it to cover her mouth, knowing smoke inflation killed more burn victims than the burns themselves, he ignored her look of thanks knowing in his heart that he was just slowing down the inevitable.
"I will be back" he whispered as he took the baby and wrapped her in his soaked cloth before looking for a way out, he found it a few seconds later with eyes that could strangely see through the smoke, ignoring the burns on his leg went for it, a window wide enough to jump through.
Charging towards it with speed born of desperation, he ran and jumped, spinning mid air and bearing his back towards the burning wood as he folded himself into a ball completely protecting the child.
He burst through, strangling a scream just before they left his lips as he could feel his back burn, then he landed on his back hard enough to feel the breath knocked out of him, but the child was safe, and that was all that mattered.
He could see people around as their eyes widen in shock, with a blurry vision he noticed two young shinobi run towards him, the bushy browed one ran to him as the silver haired one ran into the house.
Just few seconds before he he's visions went dark, he saw three huge snake, wrapped around the bipedal tailed beast resistricting its movement, while a heavily armored buffalo almost as large as the tailed beast itself buried a nodachi, scaled for size into its chest.
Yeah Orochimaru is still around, so we are now in AU, never planed on sticking too close to canon, and few things are known bout what went down anyway before naruto began*