AWAKING SHARINGAN
It had been a few months since the day the genin teams were made. Itachi had already learned to trust both Aya and Koji just like he trusted Shisui.
Aya had a deep attachment for her team. She had organized Itachi's birthday party along with Mikoto, Shisui and Koji. Both Aya and Mikoto convinced Fugaku to let them do a party for Itachi's 8th birthday while Shisui and Koji announced everybody about it, an that birthday turned in one of Itachi's happiest memories of his life.
It was 9th of June. Koji had called them to train and everybody pretended to have forgotten Itachi's birthday, who tried to act tough and didn't say anything, but he did feel bad.
"Well, let's retreat for now, Hokage-sama has no missions for us" Koji said to his students noticing Itachi's mood and he smiled in his insides
"Hey, Itachi let's train a while" Shisui proposed. Itachi nodded and looked at Aya
"Aren't you coming?" Itachi asked her
"Nope" she answered with a smile "My parents have a dinner with some friends and they're making me assist, so I have to go, bye!" she waved them and left laughing. Itachi had fallen for it so easy
"So no one remembers, only Sasuke" Itachi thought bitterly…
FLASHBACK – 1 HOUR EARLIER
"Ni-chan, ni-chan" a voice called him. Itachi opened his eyes slightly to see Sasuke beside him in his bed
"What's wrong Sasuke?" Itachi asked tiredly. Sasuke stared at him and then gave him a sheet of paper. Itachi looked at it. It was a drawing that meant to picture Itachi, but considering Sasuke's age, it didn't look like Itachi at all
"O Tanjoubi Omedetou ni-chan! (1)" Sasuke said almost shouting. Itachi smiled and patted Sasuke's head
"Thanks Sasuke" Itachi thanked getting up from the bed and grabbing the drawing, pasting it in the wall in front of the bed. Sasuke laughed cutely and Itachi grabbed his hand and lead him to the kitchen expecting to see his parents but they weren't there. He and Sasuke ate breakfast alone
END OF FLASHBACK
Shisui and him sparred a while until afternoon when Shisui decided to stop "Let's go back home, my mom asked me to tell something to Mikoto-sama, so let's go"
"Fine" Itachi answered. They walked together and after some minutes they reached Itachi's house "Mom, Sasuke I'm home" Itachi announced but no one answered and Itachi scowled
"Something's wrong?" Shisui asked, holding his laughter when Itachi scowled, pretending he was worry
"I'm thinking two things" Itachi answered "Something happened and they're not here or they're planning something…"
"Damn, he's too smart for his own good" Shisui thought sweat dropping for Itachi's sharpness
Itachi didn't pay attention to his cousin and started to focus his chakra to look for other ones. He sensed a lot of chakras in the back yard, so he started to walk to the yard followed by Shisui. Itachi stood in the door of the back glaring at it "Something's wrong?" Shisui asked once again
"You're not telling me something" Itachi said simply turning around to look at his cousin "What's going on?"
"Ahmm… well… I…" Shisui muttered thinking of an excuse, but that was ruined when a metal sound sounded loudly
"Shit! Fugaku I told you to be careful with that! Itachi could be right now standing in the door and the surprise will be ruined!" Itachi and Shisui sweat dropped. That voice was Mikoto's
"Mom?" Itachi asked slightly surprised by hearing his mother cussing and SCOLDING his father
"Oh he's here!" the immediately recognizable voice of Aya was heard
"What's all this about?" Itachi asked once he opened the door. He looked around and sweat dropped at the scene
His mother had been punching his father in anger, because he had dropped a lemon jelly placed in a metal container. Sasuke was pinching the cake with his finger and then he put that finger in his mouth savouring the cake. Aya was surrounded by gifts, it seemed like the table where the gifts were was overturn over her. Koji was trying to tie a balloon without success and he seemed to have lost patience for the maniac face he had. Finally, Kakashi was reading an orange book and giggling like idiot while he was reading. The rest of the guests were members of the Uchiha clan that also were sweat dropping at the scene.
"Ehmm…" Mikoto started sweat dropping and throwing her husband aside "Well honey it was supposed to be a surprise, but thanks to your father's clumsiness it was ruined"
"Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay…" Itachi scowled processing everything in his mind "So…?"
"Oh yeah! One, two three" Aya counted and everybody started to sing 'Happy Birthday' to him. Itachi just stood there shocked. He had thought that they forgot completely about his birthday, and there were they singing 'Happy Birthday' awfully and out of tune (in his opinion)
Once they finished the song they stared at him waiting for a reaction, but he just stood there without saying a word. He walked towards Sasuke and carried him to get him away from the cake while everyone was still looking at him "Aren't you going to say anything?" Aya asked "At least give us an opinion!"
"Well I think…" Itachi started and paused to think what words to use "I think it was useless to hide it from me because I sensed your chakras and I think that your entire plan was useless too…" everyone scowled "But… it was nice that you did all this"
Mikoto smiled with relief "Well I'm glad, because Koji-sensei here almost dies trying to blow up and tie the balloons… like 10 exploded in his face" Itachi chuckled slightly handing Sasuke to his mother
"I guess all I have to say is thanks" Itachi said bowing his head to the guests
"Well the let's have some fun!" Shisui said turning on the karaoke "Who wants to be first?"
"Me!" Aya said taking the microphone "This is 'Houki Gumo' (by Rythem)" Aya sang wonderfully and Itachi couldn't help noticing that every time she said 'Kimi dake no hikari' (2) she always looked at him with a weird brightness in her eyes. After her, his mother went on stage and sang a song called Harumonia and so, many Uchihas sang.
Then, the time for opening the gifts came. Mikoto had already picked up the gifts from the floor and put them again in the table. Itachi grabbed one with a purple wrapping and opened it. It was a new kit of kunai
"That's from me" Koji said. Itachi bowed his head and thanked him. Next he opened a pink one; it was a new shuriken, kunai and scroll pocket
"That's mine!" Aya exclaimed "I bought it because the one you had broke in the last mission remember?" Itachi thanked her remembering how he broke the old one
The next one was rectangular with orange wrapping. He opened it and it was an orange book like Kakashi's "Of course that's mine" Kakashi said proudly and then looked at Itachi with a frown "Son, you'll thank me one day for giving you this in the future when you're with a girl in a dark room and…" he didn't finished because Fugaku had just smacked him in the head
"And what?" Itachi and Shisui asked with curiosity
"Nothing you need to know" Fugaku answered and took the book away from Itachi "This is confiscated until your 20th birthday, understood?" Itachi nodded still confused by what happened
Next one was Shisui's, which was wrapped with a forest green paper. Itachi opened it, it was a sketch book and pencil colors. Itachi looked at Shisui with a raising brow "I know you like to draw, I saw your drawings of Konoha and they're really good…" Itachi smiled at him
Itachi kept opening gifts until there was only one. It was a black box. Itachi opened it and saw a necklace with three flowers on it and Itachi raised a brow "That's mine" said Mikoto with a smile
"Mom, this is for a girl" Itachi said softly trying not to hurt his mother's feelings
"I know, but I want you to have it" Mikoto answered shrugging "That necklace was my mother's… she gave it to me in my 8th birthday and told me to give it to my first daughter. I don't have a daughter and you're my first son, so I give it to you. It's the only memory I have from her so take care of it. She also told me that in each flower you had to put a wish, which makes three wishes for the necklace and they'll come true one day"
Itachi looked into his mother's eyes and at that moment he realized how much that necklace meant to her. He took the necklace from the box and put it around his neck while Mikoto smiled at him widely
"I want one too! I want my wishes to come true too" Sasuke said looking at his mother with a jealous look
"I'll give you a necklace like that when you have 8 years" Mikoto answered patting him in the head and Sasuke pouted
"That's all?" Itachi asked scanning the table looking for his father's gift. When he found none he looked at his father with questioning eyes
"We should finish all this now" Fugaku said avoiding his son's gaze. Itachi felt awful but managed to hide it well, but still that night was one of the bests in his life though his father managed to almost ruin it.
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It had been two months since that day Itachi remembered. They were travelling right now to the Lightning Country to deliver a scroll. It was a B ranked mission so they had to be alert, they had received that mission since the team had proved to be capable to manage a B mission. The scroll had some war tactics and some ninja's hideout's location; they were delivering it in hope to avoid the war against Lightning since the incident with the Hyuuga clan some months earlier.
"Halt" Koji said to his team. They were in the middle of a forest that lead to Kumogakure "You guys are slow, I expected you earlier"
"You must be the idiots from Konoha trying to avoid war, how foolish" a ninja had just appeared. He had a Kumogakure hitai ate in his neck and he was wearing a black outfit. He had long black boots, black cloak, black t-shirt and black-pants. There were another two dressed like him at his side.
"Well, the problem of these Konoha idiots is that they don't like war" Koji answered grabbing a kunai and throwing it at the ninja. The ninja disappeared in a cloud of smoke, it was a bunshin "Itachi, Shisui, Aya handle the other two. I'll fight the leader"
Itachi and Shisui grabbed their kunai while Aya had shurikens in her hands. The enemies charged at them with shuriken and they avoided but it was a Kage Bunshin Shuriken Technique. Itachi and Shisui managed to see the trap but Aya didn't, she was about to get hit but Shisui shield her getting hurt in his back
"What a foolish brat" said one of the enemies "I can't believe we have to fight against this kids, I pity them…"
"Shut up and fight!" Shisui yelled getting out the shurikens in his back with pain
"Ok then I'll finish this quickly, though I don't like to kill kids" said the other one. He made some seals and made a lightning technique and charged at them
"Shit!" Itachi thought. They couldn't avoid it and felt the strong jolts all over their bodies leaving them almost unconscious. Itachi stood up and looked at Shisui and Aya. Shisui was still shielding Aya and she was at the edge of tears, but then both fell unconscious
"This kid seems to be way stronger than the other two, but still must be weak" said the enemy looking at Itachi, who was standing now in front of Shisui and Aya to protect them
"Let's get rid of those two weakling then shall we?" said the other one. Before Itachi could do anything, the guy was behind them. Itachi turned around and looked at the barricade behind them. The guy was going to throw Shisui and Aya to the barricade
Before Itachi could stop him the other one stabbed him from behind and Itachi spitted some blood from his mouth. The pain was terrible, but soon forgot about it when the other one pushed Shisui and Aya to the barricade. Itachi saw it in slow motion while his eyes opened widely and he fell to the ground, while one of the ninjas stepped in his head keeping him on place "Now let's play with this kid, then we'll throw him too with his friends…" the guy laughed
Suddenly Itachi felt a terrible anger. A wrath so big, that if it were possible to feel it, it would hurt. Itachi looked at the ground beneath him and turned his hands onto fists, he was worse than furious… he wanted revenge for Shisui and Aya; he wanted to avenge their deaths.
"Eh? This brat is angry, his chakra is increasing. Pathetic" said the enemy. Itachi started trembling and before the enemy could do something, Itachi had thrown him and was standing up with his head down "What's wrong with this kid?" Itachi looked at him and the guy shut up immediately when he looked at Itachi's eyes. They were deep crimson with three black comatose in each other and they were extremely intimidating and adding Itachi's angry look, it made Itachi look terrifying.
Itachi noticed something different in his eyes; he could see the chakra flow in the enemies and somehow predict his movements. Suddenly he felt powerful, the most powerful person in the world and felt bloodthirsty too.
Itachi charged at them with incredibly speed with a bunshin as backup. Itachi pushed the enemies together and kicked them both hardly throwing them forward, but Itachi appeared in front of them "What?" both said at the same time when they looked at Itachi. Itachi and his bunshin both took a pair of kunai and throw them at the enemies hurting them in the chest
The enemies fell to the ground panting. One of them got angry and stood up facing the real Itachi while the bunshin disappeared, the guy looked at Itachi and smirked "You seem to be more powerful than we thought, but I'll get serious and you'll surely die" He started making seals and somehow Itachi's eyes caught the movement
Itachi stared in awe and realized how he was memorizing the seals and how unconsciously he started making the same seals at the same time and both said at the same time "Raiton: Goraikyuu no Jutsu (3)" Two gigantic balls of lightning emerged from they hands and charged at each other. There was a huge tremble and blinding light started to appear. Itachi saw all blank and was sure that he was going to get hit but it never came. Itachi looked around and saw Koji carrying him and jumping to the barricade, soon an explosion was heard and they landed in a bridge and surprisingly enough Shisui and Aya were there both awake with a confused expression
Shisui looked at Itachi and soon his eyes widened "Itachi you… your eyes…"
"What?" Itachi asked, sure he had felt them different but Shisui looked shocked
"Seems you have awoken your Sharingan" Koji explained. Itachi untied his hitai ate from his forehead then he looked at his reflection and a pair of crimson eyes returned the look. Itachi yelped
"Sharingan?" he muttered. If he remembered clearly, that was the bloodline limit from his family and only elite Uchihas could get it and master it
"I'm very impressed" Koji continued "I think you're the first Uchiha getting the Sharingan at such a young age. Also the fight you did was very good, you defeated the enemy and no one was hurt"
Itachi nodded and then remembered something "Shisui and Aya… how did…?"
"When we fell, Koji-sensei saw us falling from here" Aya told "He had just defeated the enemy and when he saw us he caught us somehow and brought us here. Then we woke up and sensei asked us were you were and we told him you were up there and he went immediately there" then she smiled widely "Itachi-kun you're amazing! And you look so cool with those eyes, they're so pretty!"
Shisui remained in silence and Koji noticed his annoyance and said "Well, Itachi turn off the Sharingan it takes a lot of chakra and you need to rest, we don't want you to collapse. Let's get going to Kumogakure to retrieve this, we'll spend the night there, we'll treat your wounds and then we'll go back to Konoha" The three kids nodded. Itachi somehow managed to turn off his Sharingan and walked behind Koji. Aya walked beside him saying how cool and amazing he was while Shisui stayed behind.
The whole trip to Kumogakure Shisui was fighting back tears of rage and jealousy and never once looked Itachi in the eye…
1 Happy Birthday brother!
2 This can be translated as: your unique light. I intended to make it look romantic hahaha
3 I couldn't think of a name for a jutsu. Translated it's: Lightning Element: Great Lightning Ball
Sorry for the late update and grammar errors! By the way do you think I make Itachi awake his Sharingan too soon?
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