Notes: I don't owe Naruto or any of the characters. Sorry for the grammar errors, I'm from Mexico, so I don't dominate English completely. Hope you like it
Summary: What happened to
Itachi, Why did he kill his clan, Did he ever loved someone?... A
story of the life of Uchiha Itachi since his birth until today
ITACHI
"He's beautiful isn't he?" said a woman with black raven hair. Her face showed that she was extremely tired and she was staring at her arms, where a little baby with very a few black hair visible in his head, was laying. It was a boy and he was sleeping peacefully
"What's gonna be his name Mikoto?" said back a man with cold expression on his face. He had the same black raven hair "He needs a strong one, since he's going to lead the Uchiha clan…"
"That doesn't matter, Fugaku" answered Mikoto "What really matters is that he's our son…"
"Yeah but still…" started Fugaku but Mitoko interrupted
"Itachi…" she said "Uchiha Itachi… is gonna be his name"
"Je… that's a good name" agreed Fugaku with a smile "Uchiha Itachi… welcome to the clan…"
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At the Uchiha clan territory, the full clan was assemble to celebrate the arriving of the new clan member, the boy who was suppose to be the next leader
"So, Mikoto" said one Uchiha girl about the same age as Mikoto that also was pregnant "Seems your baby it's going to be the leader because he was born before ours…" she said that with jealousy
In the Uchiha clan, every 40 years when there were many pregnancies at the clan, the first born baby was suppose to be the next leader, so obviously every pregnant Uchiha member wanted her baby to be the leader. But this time Mikoto had her baby first, so he was going to be the leader now
"Well maybe you, Michiko-san, care about that but…" Mikoto made a pause "The only thing I care it's that he becomes a kind man. I don't care if he's the leader or not, Itachi is going to be a good man…"
"Hmm, you should care" answered another Uchiha member "He has to take us to prosperity; if he doesn't another one of our boys will take the charge. Also, if someone of our boys have more skills…"
"I'm telling you I don't care about that" interrupted Mikoto and she leaved, leaving the rest. Mikoto walked towards her husband, who was showing their son to the main leader of the clan. She arrived towards her husband and touched his shoulder a bit. He turned around to see his wife, and he smiled widely
"Here's my koi (love)" he said proudly to the other Uchiha members, and passing her the little Itachi. She caressed the baby's small cheek
"Congratulations Mikoto" said the main leader to Mitoko with a smile "I hope Itachi becomes a good man with the capacity to even surpass me"
"Hope so" she answered embracing her baby but deep inside her, she didn't want that. Itachi would live a life of pressure from the entire clan, a life where everybody would tell him what to do and what not to do
She smiled just a bite with sadness. She really, really didn't want that life for her son, but that day she promised, no matter what, she would be that child refuge. She would be his best friend, his relief.
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It had been four years since that day. It was Itachi's fourth birthday, but no one seemed to be happy. Recently Obito, an Uchiha member, died in battle. He was only a kid, also he gave his Sharingan to his friend Hatake Kakashi, so many of the Uchiha members weren't agree with another person different from the clan had the Sharingan
"Nee, mom" called a small voice bringing Mikoto back to reality. She looked down and saw her little kid staring at her worriedly "Nee, are you ok?"
"Yeah, sure am I" she answered carrying him "Are you enjoying your birthday?"
"More less" Itachi answered "Everyone's seems to be sad. Are they jealous because I'm going to be the biggest, greatest number one Uchiha leader?"
Mikoto laughed a bit because of her son's innocence "Don't worry about them Itachi, they're sad because Obito died a little ago, but there's nothing wrong with you, ok?"
"Ok" said Itachi with a not completed convincement face
"Nee Mikoto-sama" said another childish voice "Can Itachi play with me?" Mikoto saw Michiko's kid, named Shisui. He was until now Itachi's best friend. They tended to fight because Itachi used to bug Shisui reminding him who was going to be the next leader and stuff like that
"Sure, only if Itachi wants" answered Mikoto putting down her son
"No mom, he's my subordinate, so he can't play with me" said Itachi showing his tongue to Shisui, who turned red and started chasing Itachi. Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui, both best's friends since childhood, they did everything together, they competed for everything… but… suddenly, while Shisui and Itachi were playing, Shisui threw a shuriken that for Itachi was impossible to avoid, Mikoto saw it and ran towards Itachi to protect her son but…
Itachi caught the shuriken with his finger. Everyone at the party stood on silence with wide eyes watching the shuriken on Itachi's finger. Mikoto stopped when she saw this, everyone was staring…
"Itachi" called Mikoto while Itachi was giving everyone a confused look "How did you do that? Did you take some shuriken training with Shisui?"
"No, dad told me to wait until academy to start shuriken trainings" he answered sincerely with innocence "I just watched it come and caught it. Is that bad? Should I let it hit me? I mean these things seem dangerous"
"No, of course not" said Mikoto caressing her son's hair. Everyone was still watching, but when Michiko came to reprehend Shisui, all the people returned to their activities
"Shisui, don't throw that" started Michiko scolding Shisui "You could have hurt someone!"
"It's ok, Michiko-san" said Mikoto "Their just kids, he didn't know"
"Don't tell me what to do with my son!" Michiko said roughly "Don't get yourself too high just because your son's the next leader!"
Mikoto didn't answer and took Itachi with her to the inside of the house. About some minutes later everyone leaved, Mikoto cleaned while Itachi was watching her. When she finished, Fugaku arrived. He had been in a mission, and until that hour he could come back
"Tadaima" he said. Mitoko went to received him followed by Itachi "Happy birthday Itachi" he said too when he saw Itachi standing there watching him
"Nee, anata (honey :P)" said Mikoto "I need to tell you something. Itachi go to sleep ok?"
"Ok" answered Itachi and minutes later; he was ready. Mikoto said goodnight a returned to her room, where Fugaku was waiting for her
"What did you need to tell me?" he asked once both of them where in the bed
"They are two things" said Mikoto "They first one is about Itachi…"
"What about him?" asked Fugaku, without looking very interested
"Well, today while he was playing with Shisui, Shisui threw a shuriken to Itachi" started Mikoto, Fugaku was about to interrupt, but Mikoto didn't let him "But… I don't know how, Itachi caught it… with a finger…"
"What?" shouted Fugaku very surprised
"It's true, everyone saw it" confirmed Mikoto "I asked him if he took shuriken training, but he said he didn't. He said he just looked it coming towards him and felt like catching it…"
"Wow…" said Fugaku with wide eyes "I think he's more talented than we thought… and… what's the other thing you wanted to tell me?"
"Oh yes…" this time Mikoto seemed nervous and she blushed "Ahmm… well… I…"
"What is it?" asked Fugaku again looking confusedly at his wife
"Fugaku…" she started again "I'm… I'm pregnant Fugaku"
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It had been now two years from that. That day Itachi was going to enter to the academy finally, but his skills were even bigger that they thought. His shuriken technique was terrific; he had surpassed every boy from even the second year of academy. Mikoto was going to the inauguration with his younger son, Sasuke of two years old. They arrived just in time, when the Hokage was giving the welcoming speech
"Become a fine shinobi" the Hokage finished and everyone clapped. Mikoto saw someone pretty familiar with grey hair, black eyes… it was her nephews Obito's team mate, Hatake Kakashi. Mikoto got next to him
"Ano…" called Mikoto. He was already a Jounin and ANBU member, and had a cold gaze. The gifted Sharingan was covered with his cloth "You're Hatake Kakashi right?"
"Yes" he answered coldly looking at her "You're an Uchiha right?"
"Yes, you were my nephew's team mate" she said. Itachi looked at her, he was holding his little brother hand who seemed pretty bored "Oh yeah, these are my sons. Itachi and Sasuke"
"Itachi is very famous… he seems to be very powerful" Kakashi said looking at the kid. Itachi returned the glance and hold his brother's hand tight. Kakashi looked at him straight to the eye, and with no reason, his Sharingan reacted. Kakashi took his hand to his eye
"Are you ok?" asked Mikoto worriedly
"Yeah, it was nothing" he looked again at Itachi… what was that? It was like his Sharingan was trying to tell him something about that kid…
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The next day Itachi woke up early. He was pretty excited for his first academy day; he dressed with a black t-shirt with the Uchiha symbol in the back, and black pants. He went to the kitchen where his family already was
"Good morning" greeted Mikoto at her son "Ready for your first day?"
"Yeah" answered Itachi
"That's my boy" greeted Fugaku
"Nii-chan" a little voice called. Itachi looked at his brother with a smile; Sasuke was glaring at him with interest "Where are you going? Play with me"
"I can't, maybe next time Sasuke" answered Itachi caressing his brother's hair. After doing that, Itachi left the house and went to the academy. There were some kids there, he went towards them and noted without interest that, when girls saw him, they blushed. Then, he saw Shisui "Hi"
"Hi" greeted Shisui too "Ready?"
"Of course, remember whose the next leader" joked Itachi, knowing that that commentary would make Shisui upset
"Shut up!" answered Shisui trying to hide his jealousy "You were born just two weeks before me! If I only were born earlier, I would be the next leader!"
"But you didn't" said Itachi laughing. Minutes later, they entered, where a chuunin girl named Anko gave the class
"Well, introduce yourselves" said Anko looking at every kid. Everyone started to introduce until it was Itachi's turn
"Uchiha Itachi" he said, and for reasons Itachi didn't understand, every girl started to scream with excitement when they heard his name. They did the same with Shisui, but not as hard
"Well, we'll start today with basics" said Anko once everyone had introduce "We'll make a shuriken training, of course it will be a basic one. Don't push yourselves too much, ne?"
"Hai" everyone answered
They went to the training field. It was very big; Anko took them to a place where there were many marks for hitting. When they arrived, Anko explained "You'll try to hit the center with a shuriken, but be careful ok?"
Everyone started to pass, and obviously no one hit the center. Anko didn't seemed surprise and laughed sometimes with some funny movement from a kid. Itachi was the last, until now, Shisui had been the closest to the center, and Anko was really pleased at it. Anko gave a small shuriken to Itachi, and he threw it… the shuriken hit the center…
"What?" shouted Anko in surprise. She looked at Itachi, who returned the gaze a little embarrassed "Maybe it's just causality" she thought
"Ne, Itachi-kun" Anko called and Itachi looked at her "Could you please throw another one, but putting on this bandage on your eyes?" Itachi nodded and grabbed another shuriken and put on the bandage in his eyes, but the shuriken also hit the center. Anko was very, very surprised "Itachi-kun, have you take any shuriken training before?"
"Mmm… no" answered Itachi "Dad said I should wait until academy, but mom told me that when I was younger I could caught a shuriken. She told me my skills are above from everyone else's. But I've never trained"
"Mmm…" mumbled Anko "Shisui, Itachi. I want a meeting with your parents, ok?"
"What did we do?" asked Shisui with fear
"Nothing, just tell them to come" answered Anko giving them a smile
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Itachi returned home with Shisui. The split alter entering the Uchiha territory, Itachi went to his house and entered, being received by his mother and his little brother
"So, how was school?" asked Mikoto when all the family was gathered for dinner
"It was fine" answered Itachi "Anko-sensei asked me and Shisui to bring you. She wants to talk to you" His parents glared at him without surprise… they knew something like that would happen sooner
"I'll go" said Mikoto at first, but his husband interrumpted
"I'll go, after all, I'm his father..." he said and Itachi's face was about to smile "And he's the next leader" Itachi's smile intent failed completely after that
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Next day, Fugaku went with Itachi to school. When they arrived, they saw Shisui and his mother waiting with Anko, who greeted them "Good morning Uchiha-san"
"What's all this about?" asked Fugaku once they were in Itachi's and Shisui's classroom
"Well, this is mostly about Itachi, but it also involves Shisui" answered Anko, while Fugaku sent a glance to his older son, who returned it to his father while he shrugged
"Both of them have terrific skills" said Anko "They're above the entire class, that's why I want them to past a few tests. If they approve them, I'll pass them to a higher class according to the results. I just wanted you to know it and to get your permission"
"For me its ok" answered Fugaku "After all he's my child and the next Uchiha leader…"
Itachi looked at his father with an awkward expression. That's what he always said: 'as expected from the next Uchiha leader', those words were the only greetings he could get from his father. Never a 'well done' or a 'good job', always his father had to mention the leadership he'll have to take at his 20th birthday. He just HATED it…
I apologize again for gramma errors. Hope you enjoyed this story, if you did plese review. Next chapter will be Itachi and Shisui's trial.
Ja ne!