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Fallen

In Konoha streets

Walking down the cheerful streets of Konoha, Sakura, flowers grasped in her hand made her way to visit the hospital. She hoped Sasuke and Lee would like the daffodils she had bought them.

To be honest with herself she was looking more forward to seeing Lee. At least he would be glad to see her and not just call her 'annoying', but she knew one day that Sasuke would fall in love with her and she would kick Ino's butt once again.

Wandering still further into the heart of Konoha surrounded by the shops colourful displays, she thought of the days when Sasuke and her would be a happy family and lost in her fantasies failed to notice the man step round the corner. They crashed into each other or rather she crashed into him, he was huge, adorned in a black coat with red markings and a hat, he had a large item covered in bandages on his back. He looked down at the Sakura sprawled on the street and proceeded to give her a flesh-crawling grin, revealing a set of unusually pointy teeth and walked off without helping her up or apologising. She didn't mind though as she got the distinct feeling that she didn't want to be helped by this man. Brushing the feeling off quickly she continued on her way to the hospital, thoughts of Sasuke firmly back in her mind.

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Naruto and Ebisu walked side by side though rather reluctantly, until Naruto decided that this was the place to begin. He was going to win the challenge Ebisu had set and get trained by Kakashi-sensei, nothing would get in his way, especially closet pervert.

'So, are you ready Naruto?' Ebisu was pretty sure that he would win, but you could never be sure with Naruto, he tended to be rather, spontaneous.

'Of course I am, you've no chance of ever catching me!'. The chase was on.

The first thing that Naruto thought was that closet pervert was really good at this. He had run his fastest and used some of his stealthy ninja skills, but he had somehow managed to keep up. The wind rushing through his hair, a smirk creeped up onto Naruto's lip, time to take it to the next level, 'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu', but to his surprise Ebisu copied the technique. Now there was about thirty Naruto's being chased by about thirty Ebisus all over Konoha village. While the chase was going on Naruto spotted the perfect guise, a poster for 'Come Come Paradise' with the beautiful woman on the front. Using one of his 'original' techniques he waited for to Ebisu appear and then he would be out for the count.

By this time Ebisu had managed to catch most of the shadow copy Naruto's and was now looking for the real one when he caught a glance of the poster. Being the pervert he is, he started to drool and his nose was on the verge of bleeding when he noticed the woman on the poster had a shadow and not the man. Naruto apparently had a brain in there somewhere to think of something like this, but thankfully he had noticed in time or this could have been a pretty embarrassing situation.

'Very funny, but I will not fall for your cheap trick Naruto'.

The woman blew a kiss to Ebisu but that still failed to knock him out so she poofed back into Naruto and he jumped away as fast as he could.

He landed on a bridge and being feeling cocky he decided to rest, only to fall off the railing into the stream in surprise when Ebisu appeared next to him. Apparently he wouldn't be able to outrun him so he turned to the next best thing,

'I'll fight you then'

Ebisu had been expecting this and dodged Naruto's first attack, a loud splash echoing when the blonde genin fell in the water once again. He could see that Naruto was exhausted so decided to give him one last chance,

'Do you admit that I am worthy to be your teacher now?'

Naruto, sitting cross-legged in the cold stream remained silent and glared daggers at him. He took that as a yes.

'Well then lets start you training', Ebisu replied with a satisfied smile

Little did they know that they were being watched by someone hiding in the shadows of the nearest buildings, judging the right time, when he and Naruto would meet.

On top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere

Boy, Kakashi had really chose someplace to train. Itachi never wished for something happy and cheerful, he wasn't that kind of guy, but he desperately wished it had been a nice sunny day instead of this. He grasped his cloak closer to him and pulled his hat down as he battled up the open cliff face, against a fierce wind that was determined not to let him pass. Nothing was going to stop him seeing his brother and telling him the truth about their family, about everything and no damned mountain was going to stop him. Loose pebbles slowed him down and he had nearly lost his hat to the brutal winds numerous times, but he was getting there, he could hear the signs of battle and chunks of rock kept flying over the side of the mountain, but thankfully they had enough force behind them to manage to stay in the air past his position, otherwise that would have been another obstacle in his way. He was eventually nearing the top of the mountain which had took him all day to climb and he could hear the distinct sound of chirping birds and the odd flash of blue chakra over the large boulders that littered the summit.

Taking the last few steps up the barely recognizable path he finally reached his brother and Kakashi. He already knew that the silver haired Jounin had sensed his presence, but his brother had not. He was slightly disappointed, but he realised that they had been training for days and that he was probably exhausted, especially since the technique he was teaching him was the Chidori.

'Why don't you come out?', Kakashi said, revealing his presence.

Now that he was here he wasn't sure, he didn't know if he could endure the hatred in his brother's eyes, though he had good reason to. No, he had to face him, but to get him to understand..........

Itachi stepped out from behind the jagged boulder which had hid him from Sasuke's hatred. Kakashi was standing to one side out of the way that Sasuke had been aiming at, where Sasuke was lying on the ground out of breath, his hand red raw from handling the pure chakra.

'What are you doing here?', Sasuke's voice was quiet but laced with venom.

'Well actually he's here to help', Kakashi replied rather seriously.

Sasuke had struggled to his feet and faced his brother, a Chidori already forming in his hand, 'I don't need, nor want any help from you! You're the one that killed our family and I will kill you!'.

With the anger and hate growing within him he could only think of one thing, driving the attack straight through Itachi's heart.

'Sasuke, stop', came Kakashi's voice, but Sasuke chose not to hear it and continued in trying to kill his brother only to find that his teacher had grabbed him from behind, effectively stopping his attack though with some difficulty, Sasuke had improved a lot from when they first met. 'He really is here to help'.

'What are you doing, let me go, why are you.....', he was cut of abruptly by his teacher,

'Because he asked me to, before he left, he asked me to train and look after you and make you ready, to be strong enough'.

'Strong enough for what?'

'Strong enough to face the truth', Itachi replied coldly, 'and now, I'm going to show you'.

He looked at Sasuke, into the eyes full of hatred, his fully mastered Mangekyou Sharingan spinning wildly he yelled, 'Tsukiyomi!', and Sasuke was drawn into the illusion.

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