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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Whispered phrases"
"Jutsus"
"PHRASES TOLD IN UNISON"
Let's answer the reviews!
shadow: No, that's not that… In these days, in Italy, starting from two days before Halloween till the third of November we have some school-vacations, and I spent them in my mountain cottage. I don't have a PC there, so… But I managed to find good ideas, and this chapter is two times longer than the others!
Irsool: lol I baptized you! XD
MassReader: Yeah, but… 1. Kakashi still could manage to tell the girls before being annihilated. 2+3. Yeah, but Kakashi will publish the book using only the scenes, not the peoples. The characters will be different. And exactly because the girls are from a powerful family they should explain why they decided to cancel the publication of a book.
Kuzo: Sigh… I know, I know…
Fayte Angel: Yes, but Sasuke had no purpose to active the Sharingan. And don't forget we're talking about a Jonin. A pervert and easily tricked one, but still a Jonin.
godoflaugh: XD Well, here I am. I'm friendly… Gimme your blood… Ops! Still the effects of the Halloween party!
"I want to make a novel like Icha Icha Paradise out of your stories."
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"YOU'RE KIDDING ME, RIGHT!"
It's the duty of a ninja!
Chapter12: The diary
In the evening, the same day when the boys returned to Konoha, Sasuke was in his house, seated on a chair. In front of him, on his writing-desk, there was a book. A little book, with a red leather cover. Sasuke knew very well that book. But he had not seen it for years. And now there it was, thanks to an annoying girl.
Flashback
Naruto just fell off the balcony. After a few minutes, while Naruto was being healed, Naruto approached Mayumi and whispered something in her ear.
"About our arrangement…"
"… Yeah. Please, help me to walk. Head for the library."
Sasuke lifted Mayumi and headed for the library. Inside it, Mayumi started to search for something. And then pointed at a shelf, the highest one of all the library.
"The little one with the red cover, between the yellow and green big ones."
Sasuke jumped and grabbed the said book. When he landed, he started to observe it. And his eyes immediately stood in awe at the object in his hands.
"One of my informers told me that this book was found in a place attacked by Mukenins. Akatsuki, to be right. But I never managed to read it, except for the first page. It surely Uchiha Itachi property. Is it of any use to you?"
"… Yeah… You don't know how much…"
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End of the flashback
"… I remember this book… This was… Your personal diary, brother…"
Flashback
A four years old Sasuke is observing his big brother Itachi, which is writing something on a little book. Sasuke is very curious of what that book is.
"Once you finished observing, Sasuke, please go to sleep."
"! You knew…"
"Hey. I'm a genius child, you know."
Saying that, Itachi turns towards Sasuke, smiling at his brother, which is embarrassed and is looking at the floor.
"… Nee-san… What are you doing?"
"I'm writing on my diary. I do it every day."
"… But isn't that something that only girls do?"
"… No… Well, what I can say… There are thing that you can't tell even to your friends, parents or brothers… So, you write them on the diary. It's a system to drop the pressure on your mind. But you must be careful not to let the others read it. So, I put a Genjutsu on it. If you want to read it you must have a complete Sharingan."
"… Why I suspect you made that Genjutsu for me expecially?"
"Eheheh… Go to sleep, Sasuke."
"Ok…"
End of the flashback
'Back then I wasn't enough powerful neither to read your diary, brother… But now…'
Sasuke opened the little diary. With great surprise, he found out that there was something written on the first page not hidden by Genjutsu. It seemed written recently. And the hand-writing was Itachi-one.
"Dear brother
I know I have no right to call you like this. No more. But I want to write this letter to you, before dropping this diary. Yes. I'm dropping it on purpose. Why, do you ask? … Maybe because I want you to read it. Reading this diary is the only way you got to know the truth. The truth about that night… And why I'm acting this way. If I tell you by myself, you will never trust me. But you can surely trust this diary, that you saw me writing day by day.
Itachi"
Sasuke felt a cold chill going down his spine, like afraid of what he could discover in that book. Slowly he activated his Sharingan, and turned the page. The first page of the diary of Itachi stood in front of him.
"Hi, diary! I'm Itachi! Nice to meet you! I'm six years old, but they already tell me that I'm one of the better ninjas they ever saw! Proud to be my diary? Ihihih…"
After all it was been written by a six years old child. Sasuke decided to read carefully all the pages. The first years were written obviously by a child, genius or not. Then Sasuke started to be more interested when he read about his birth.
"Dear diary
Today my little brother has born! I'm a little envious, you know? They hope he'll be even more strong than me… I hope that he will be not, or else I suspect they'll completely forget about me… But it will be fun! I'm sure of this!"
Sasuke felt something, like a puncture at his heart. Itachi had his same problems, in the beginning. Then the things started getting very interesting.
"Dear diary
Today Sasuke sprained his ankle trying to imitate me! Ahahah! He's so cute… But I wish he was born in a different family. He's a so kind and sweet boy… And this clan is full of power hungry-men."
Sasuke raised an eye-brow to this page. The power hungry-man has ever been Itachi, for him. How could he say something like this about the clan? Maybe it was only an act… But like the same Itachi said this diary was the only thing he could trust. He kept on reading.
"Dear diary
The situation has become impossible to stand. The clan has become even more power-hungry. After placing only Uchiha at the high spheres of the Ninja Police Force, now they want a Uchiha as a Hokage."
And then Sasuke almost fainted. He could not believe it. His relatives, the most powerful and noble clan of the entire leaf was plotting a coup d'état? Sasuke resumed the reading.
"… now they want a Uchiha as a Hokage. They proposed me or my father. And they planned to make the Hokage succession a matter of blood. So the next could even be Sasuke, if me or my father… That's not right. I must do something, but what?"
Sasuke nervously flipped the next page.
"Dear diary
I built a plan. To save Sasuke and the village. This will be painful for both of me and Sasuke… My cousin, Shisui, agreed with my plan. But to do this, I must become even more powerful. It will be terrible… Forgive me, Shisui…"
Sasuke flipped the next page, sweating.
"Dear diary
This night I killed Shisui. And doing that, I obtained the legendary Magenkyou Sharingan. It has been… Terrible… But doing so, thanks to Shisui's sacrifice, I completed the first two parts of my plan: becoming more powerful and starting to make Sasuke think that it's me the villain."
Sasuke was very, very near to an heart attack, when he flipped the next page of the diary.
"Dear diary
My plan isn't working like I thought. I hoped that I could manage to persuade the heads of the Clan to listen to me, seeing that I obtained the Magenkyou, but I only managed to rush the upcoming of their plan. They plan to kill the container of the Kyuubi. So the villagers will see them as heroes, dismiss the Sandaime and place an Uchiha as new Hokage. And worst of all… They figured out that I'll never agree to their plan, so my father started training Sasuke. And they menaced me of death, if I'll interfere."
Sasuke was about to throw up. So all the things that his mother said… The so longed-for attentions of his father were only for making him a new Itachi? And his brother… Was only acting?
Flashback
"Hehe… To be top notch, is really something to think about… To have strength, means you become isolated and become arrogant… Although at first, you only sought for what you have dreamed for."
"An Uchiha member is only seen as an adult when he can use Katon."
"As I expected you are my child. You did well. From now on, you may shamelessly wear the family crest on your back. You must now improve, and then you can soar to great heights. Also… I will say one thing…"
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"Do not follow after your brother."
"When he talks to me, my father only talks about you!"
End of flashback
Now crying, Sasuke was flipping the next page of the diary. The date was the day of the Uchiha Slaughter.
"Dear diary
I know well the Kyuubi container. A child… The same age of Sasuke. I know him because I've been his ANBU guard for a few months. He doesn't deserve to die. He's carrying a burden of this size, restraining a demon to do any harm to the world, and the villagers are treating him like garbage, and he doesn't have relatives or friends… My relatives… I have no other choice. I must kill them. All of them. And I'm going to tell something to Sasuke in a way that he'll dislike power. Seeing what dreams of power do to men, he will surely not become like my father. By I can't kill my entire Clan alone. Even with the Magenkyou Sharingan, I'm not enough powerful. So, I asked for help to some people. They are building a Mukenin organization, and they need members. I agreed to enter it after they'll help me to do this thing."
Sasuke was now crying even harder. For him, and for the village, his brother slaughtered the entire clan and entered a Mukenin organization. Crying and breathing harder, he suddenly realized something. Itachi wrote about a 'Kyuubi Container'. So, the Yondaime didn't kill the Kyuubi but he sealed him into a living being? A child? Sasuke was trying to find out who this child was. He had few clues… He was an orphan like Sasuke, he was his same age, he was being treated like shit and he didn't have any friends… Then Sasuke remembered of a fight. A fight between a certain red-haired sand nin and a certain loud-mouth blonde. And then another one, between him and the same loud-mouth. In the first battle the blonde summoned an enormous frog, and then transformed it into a nine tails fox. In their battle he got surrounded by chakra, which assumed the shape of a fox. And the chakra was acting like it had a free will. The same blonde didn't have any family and started making friends when he became a ninja. The puzzle pieces placed themselves at the right places, and a name suddenly popped up.
"… Naruto… Then… You…"
And Sasuke also remembered of the request made by Mayumi.
Flashback
"… Yeah… You don't know how much…"
"? Well, now don't forget my part of the arrangement. I want you to gather information for me."
"… About what?"
"… I can't tell you why, but…"
"But?"
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"I want you to find out how your Yondaime disposed of Kyuubi."
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