Raofee here!
This is my first fanfic, so please nice.
I know that a looooooooot of another-Uchiha-heir stories have already been done, but please give this one a chance!
And no, this isn't going to turn into some kind of Mary Sue fic. It certainly won't. And don't worry, our dear Naruto characters will appear next chapter! Whop-dee-du!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, although that would make me happy enough to die. Kishimoto rocks!
Thirteen years ago, Konoha
Fire blazed on the west side of an Uchiha mansion.
One shadow darted out of the second floor window, followed by another, three others.
The ANBU arrived just moments later, but the intruders had already left.
A simple plan…steal into the house, which was located so far away from the rest of the Uchiha families, while the husband was away on a mission. The wife, not a kunoichi, died the second a kunai plunged into her heart.
A newborn baby, not even a week old, taken away. Another baby's corpse was forced into the lifeless arms of the mother.
Immediately the house was set on fire, and three units, as distraction, escaped.
All this was done within forty seconds.
Kumogakure might receive a warning, or a demand for retribution. That particular branch of the Uchiha family had never been outstanding or important in anyway. The girl child merely had the potential to become a nuisance to the family. But the sharingan would be Cloud's.
Konoha would think one of its newest Uchiha's dead.
She wasn't.
A man sped through the woods, tapping on the branches, taking off, scanning the area around him while his ears strained for any unusual noises. Behind him five boys jumped from tree to tree quickly, but they were falling behind.
"Shingen-sama!"
"Shishou!"
Shingen Kaisho ignored the shouts as he continued on. During his youth, if you fell behind then you were dead. If you were stupid enough to shout a kunai or a shuriken always found you. War looked out for you. It watched you and killed you.
At midnight he finally halted in a denser part of the forest, where the trees hung over the earth like great fingers and blocked out the stars. Tou attempted to tease out a small flame, frowning in concentration. A spark glinted against his headband. The symbol of Kumogakure shone, and the dash through it almost seemed to stretch in the dancing shadows.
All six wore headbands. All six were Kumogakure missing nins.
"Be more serious tomorrow," Shingen told the five as they gathered before the fire, "you could have exposed us already with all the ruckus back there. Remember what our goal is."
"Hai, Shingen-sama!"
In a way, they were the hunters of shinobis.
Midnight drew on to midmorning. By noon the group of six reached the borders of the Thunder Country, where a series of misty mountains peaked into the horizon. They waited.
Reibane had been the first to spot the Kumogakure ANBU, but Shingen felt their chakra first. As one they anticipated the oncoming blood, and when the ANBU jumped right into their traps they sprang.
In such a foggy terrain where sound traveled only so far, no one heard the screams of the Kumogakure shinobis.
When the body of an infant appeared in the Raikage's office a week later, all of Cloud believed the stolen Uchiha dead.
In fact, she was not.
She had escaped death yet again…
Seven years ago, Thunder Country
A revolution swept through the country. Long oppressed by tyranny, morally battered by Kumogakure shinobis' continuously weakening order, the country plummeted into anarchy as a group of missing nins calling themselves Kumorokunikunin emerged to topple the current government and its military counterpart.
Only five months later, the Raikage met a bloody assassination, and the prime minister signed an official peace treaty with the Kumorokunikunin. He was allowed to remain as prime minister, but now another controlled his movements from the shadows.
Hanashiba Ryoki ascended to the position of Raikage, and the Thunder Country entered a new era.
By this time, the missing Uchiha child had been long forgotten.
In her place was a Kumogakure jounin adopted by the late Shingen Kaisho, sensei to the Kumorokunikunin. She was soon to become the youngest, and the fakest, ANBU captain in shinobi history.
TBC.
Ahh...and that was the prologue. This story will get better! I promise!
Another note: obviously I made up a lot of the history for Thunder Country, so don't take those information seriously.
Any questions? Suggestions? Please read and review!
Raofee
