SECRET (Drama/romance/mystery/action/adventure/angst/horror)


DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto

WARNING- YAOI (eventual SasuNaru, meanwhile a little KakaNaru and GarNaru), sex, blood, gore, heavy politics, deception, action, horror, at first evil Sasuke, war, assassins, spies, genetic engineering and a lot of out of character.

The prologue is a bit slow and tedious, but it speeds up and gets more action in the following chapters.

The returns of fools and days of conflict

(Prologue)

Sasuke growled angrily at the target board. He missed two throws and his wrist was sore. "Fuck you, Naruto!" Sasuke screamed at the target board.

Sasuke had been back in Konoha for a year. He'd managed to drag himself back and into the good graces of Konoha, returning to his former position as the village's prodigy and pride. But, the reason Sasuke really came back had left the day before he had arrived.

Sasuke had been discarded by Orochimaru after his sensei witnessed Naruto's prowess. He intended to take Naruto as his container at all costs. Only to be killed by Naruto. So that is how Sasuke lost his one chance to the power that could destroy his brother. He lost it because of Naruto.

He didn't want to kill Naruto… no he wanted to destroy the simpleton, breaking his mind and body until he was useless… until Naruto killed himself out of the feeling of despair Sasuke would provoke in him. Sasuke of course had made up a lame excuse that when Orochimaru discarded him, the seal that controlled him was destroyed.

However, when he had returned Naruto had just left on a month long mission. After five months missing Naruto was declared dead. Tsunade had his name carved into the monument dedicated to heroes who had fallen in the line of duty. The funeral was short and tearful. Everyone remained in a state of depression for months afterwards. Not Sasuke though… Sasuke was furious that he was unable to get his revenge. He didn't cry.

It was a year now since they had Naruto's funeral and Sasuke had refused to mourn him, but something inside him was breaking. Slowly, but surely. Sasuke continue to throw his knives at the target and cursing the monster that Naruto had been. He knew Naruto wasn't a monster, but he refused to think of him otherwise. He knew the pain he would've caused in Naruto if he'd been able to call Naruto that.

"Sasuke, you've been ordered to the Hokage tower!" Sakura called happily waving to him. Sasuke took this opportunity to eye Sakura's curvaceous form. He'd been contemplating an idea about a certain sexual act with her, but was a little hesitant to do it. Sakura flushed bright red from the look Sasuke was giving her. And nervously she spun around and gestured him to follow her. Which he did.

Upon entering the tower, Sasuke encountered a tearful, yet smiling Shizune, she gestured Sasuke and Sakura to follow her to the waiting room outside Tsunade's office. Sasuke heard a voice, which while familiar, he couldn't place. The voice echoes with pain and sadness. It was hard to hear what this person and Tsunade were saying, but the one statement he heard clearly was Tsunade saying "You've been gone for almost a year and five months obviously having been tortured and you won't telling me shit. You fucking idiot, who did this to you? I'm going to fuck-"

"It doesn't matter" the voice cut her off.

"YES it does matter. You look like you the walking dead. Naruto I care about you and all you'll say is I don't want to talk about it. Naruto you-"

Tsunade was abruptly cut off as Sasuke threw open the doors to her office ready to pounce and kill Naruto, but stopped himself, when a strange pang of emotions stole his breath away. Naruto looked half dead. Scars covered all of the visible flesh of his arms. His hair was long and filthy. God, there was even some dried blood in it. He had bruises and cuts around his left eye and a little dried blood was in the corner of his mouth. His orange jump suit was in tatters. A busted lip and a broken arm in a sling completely destroyed Sasuke anger and he was rooted in his spot.

Sakura, however had not been confused by her emotions, she flung herself at Naruto, who promptly fell out his seat and tried to stay away from her. In attempted not to be crushed.

Four hours later, Naruto after a brief examination and healing by Tsunade and Sakura he was allowed to go. Noted by both the women and by Sasuke, Naruto took every opportunity to avoid Sasuke. Was Naruto scared of him?

The VILLAGE hidden in the MIST

The council of five members, who had recently taken the power over the Shinobi militia and destroyed the position of a Kage within their growing political standing, sat at a marble circular table. Piles of paper were placed before each member as they sorted through it. One man looked up and smirked.

"Judging by the reports from our contact Kaymak, the Village Hidden in the Leaves has little political standing and only utilizes their Shinobi as in direct assaults. Their concept of politics in limited to the Hokage and their quest for power is at a minimum. Considering those weaknesses, their strength lay in their number and raw power. This concludes that our attack should not be begin with a direct assault, but rather focus on narrowing their numbers."

Another man spoke up "Judging be their economy, their basis of power relies on the power of their Shinobi. Their daily missions surround payment for protection and threat elimination. If we concentrate on narrowing the Shinobi's numbers it will be easy collapse their village's structure. And in time it would be simple for us to claim it."

"Their greatest strength if correctly utilized is their buji, the nine-tailed-fox's vessel. However, according a contact this vessel has limited capabilities and its access to the power is small. Also following that line of thought. Another of Konoha's strengths is an elite organization that has recently been increasing their power. Frankly not knowing the extents of this power and not their identities has decreased our chances of a direct assault. Thus I would recommend gorilla warfare, until we've gather information on their power."

"So it's decided… our Shinobi and our allies in the Sound will commence the start of the future world within a week's time."