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Four Years Later, Late Evening, Uchiha Clan Head's House

While doing house works and waiting for her family to return home, Mikoto Uchiha for the past four years had been wondering if Naruto and Hinata were safe.

Since the boy was missing and Konoha was at critically vulnerable positions without a jinchuuriki, she had been mobilized from the reserve forces to perform active duties despite being a housewife. A mission, however, had gone terribly wrong and the Uchiha kunoichi was severely wounded. The injury would take her several years to recover. Now she could only do simple chores around the compound, but that was enough for her family and clan.

The Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident added fuel to the tension between the village and the Uchiha clan; people accused and blamed the Uchiha police force for incompetence to stop the abduction of Naruto and Hinata. She greatly appreciated Hiashi and Hitomi's vouching for them, the tension had recently become very severe though. It would be a matter of time it would explode and the Uchiha matriarch truly wished there would be a way to cool down the tension.

To make matter worse, her husband Fugaku and her son Itachi had been acting very strange recently. The Uchiha clan head always stayed at the police headquarter very late with his fellow Uchiha policemen. The father and the eldest son became estranged, and the former often wondered about the latter's duty to the clan since he joined ANBU.

BOOM!

A massive explosion almost obliterated the Uchiha police headquarter, followed by several explosions which rocked the entire Uchiha compound.

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Sasuke Uchiha froze and dropped his school bag when he saw several bodies lying on the streets of the police headquarter. To his horror and distress, one of the bodies was his father's, then he saw a figure holding a blood-stained ninjato. The young boy's mouth dropped in shock unwilling to believe what he was seeing as the figure became clearer.

It was his brother- Itachi Uchiha, reeking of killing intent and death. Scared, Sasuke made a run to get out, to his home or out of the compound for safety. It didn't take Itachi too much effort to grab his brother.

"Why did you do it? Why? Why? WHY?" Sasuke cried and demanded for an answer while looking at his idol brother.

"This is to measure my capacity… foolish little brother," Itachi coldly grabbed Sasuke's collar and put his face closer to his. "You are unworthy to kill, but I will let you see how I slayed those people."

The next thing Sasuke saw was his brother's Sharingan changing into a new form.

"Tsukuyomi!"

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One Hour Later

"Why would Itachi do this?" The dog masked ANBU wondered in disbelief trying to comprehend why his former ANBU teammate would commit this atrocious act.

"Enough talking, now go and find other survivors!" Hiruzen Sarutobi barked out an order, and all ANBU scattered.

"Well, this settles everything," Danzo Shimura quietly walked to Sarutobi from behind.

The Hokage turned to face the ROOT leader angrily. "What does this settle? Don't you see the huge problem this caused?"

"Considered relatively minor, at least the Uchiha clan will recover in a decade or two," the elder shrugged off indifferently and there was no sympathy in his tone. "Thankfully Fugaku only conspired this with the battle-abled Uchihas without the rest of his clan. Had we not lost our weapon, we should wipe the entire clan out."

Hiruzen's eyes widened at his friend's statement. 'Weapon? Is he talking about Naruto?' This touched a very sore subject.

'Wipe out an entire clan? Is he a monster?' The Hokage turned to glower at the Darkness of Shinobi. "Danzo, I can't believe you, a village leader, could have such a genocidal idea, where is your Will of Fire!?"

The ROOT leader was taken aback by the Sandaime's furious glare. "But Hiruzen, I did it…"

"For the good of Konoha?" The Hokage asked furiously over his protest, with volume increased on each of his words. "What you had done had weakened the village further. There might be a way to prevent the coup and prevent this bloodshed. This purge... Not to mention your suggestion on genocide is very horrifying. Tell me, if Naruto IS still in Konoha, you will kill every single CHILD, WOMAN, OLD PEOPLE, EVERY INNOCENT OF THE UCHIHA CLAN, WON'T YOU?"

Hiruzen looked at Danzo's one eye and it confirmed his dreads: the Darkness of Shinobi would really wipe out a clan without a second thought. He set his jaw.

"I appreciate what you did for Konoha in the past, but every clan and every individual is a part of Konoha including the Uchiha clan. You overstepped the bounds this time! You are no longer the second in command and your ROOT organization is to be disbanded. We will talk further about this later!"

Looking at Danzo walking away, the Hokage sighed in relief. 'Thank Kami I haven't told him about the secret negotiation with Takigakure no Sato, otherwise he would really wipe out the entire clan…'

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A few days later the whole world learned the massacre of the famous Uchiha clan by their prodigy and clan heir who went psycho. Prior the massacre the villagers disliked the Uchiha clan, now people's views turned 180 degrees and was sympathetic with the clan.

Lying on her hospital bed, Mikoto couldn't stop sobbing after the Sandaime Hokage told her what happened which was an S-rank secret and no one else should know: her husband had orchestrated a coup and her eldest son was ordered to kill many Uchiha clansmen including his father.

Worse was that her eldest son was declared a missing-nin and an S-rank criminal. There was a bounty on him, dead or alive. Even being captured alive meant an eventual execution.

"Ah!" The Uchiha matriarch felt a wave of great pain hit her eyes. She quickly grabbed a mirror and looked at her eyes and gasped. Her Sharingan had changed into a new form- four-petal flower in each eye.

'Mangekyo Sharingan! I am one of the few people who unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan.' She thought at her new power.

Not all hope was lost, she still had her younger son, who was sleeping peacefully on a bed next to hers.

'I would use this power to protect everyone, my son, my clan and I will find and rescue my two friend's children.' Mikoto Uchiha thought with a determination.

There were many survivors from the massacre, but the Uchiha clan was not the most powerful clan anymore though. Hence it began the rise of the Hyuuga clan as the most prominent clan in the village.

While Sasuke Uchiha was still in hospital, there were many flowers placed on his bedside cupboard and most of them were from the Sasuke Fan Club members.

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Elsewhere

Thump.

The body of Yomi dropped on the forest ground dead, standing behind him was a young blond-haired Kumo shinobi holding a bloody katana with a pair of icy sky-blue eyes, he was wearing a standard Kumo chunin flak jacket. Three more Cloud ninjas appeared after they took out their respective targets. The blond ninja calmly picked up a scroll from Yomi's body without a word and tossed it to his team leader.

"Excellent! The Raikage will be very pleased with this, Naruto." The team leader G said after he read the scroll's content.

Team G was part of the Jutsu Acquisition Task Force formed by the Raikage to strengthen the hidden Cloud village in every area, including medical. The team just hunted down a wandering medical-nin and his goons and took valuable medical information and now they turned to their next target.

"Who is next on the list, J?" G asked his subordinate.

"Shinno, another medical-nin, and he had been spotted at the Land of Hot Water, not far from here." The chunin replied after he read the list.

"Good, let's go," G led his team on another hunt.

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One Month Later, Lightning Country

Team G had arrived in a town and was on the way to return home after their three months long mission that hunted down all the targets and acquired their jutsus. The Kumo team just passed by a bookshop where many people were lined up for a new volume of a very popular series: Icha-Icha Paradise.

Naruto turned around when he heard a perverted giggle from a man happily holding a copy of the book heading home. He noticed the author of Icha-Icha Paradise: Jiraiya, then a headache struck him and he grimaced.

"Are you all right, Naruto?" The team leader asked in concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just the porn that disgusts me." The blond pointed to a large commercial board posted by the bookshop advertising Icha-Icha Paradise.

'Jiraiya, Jiraiya, Jiraiya, one of the legendary Sannin, of course every ninja in the world knows him, but why do I feel familiar with him…' Naruto remembered the last headache he got was when the academy briefly taught him about the Sannin, but the headache this time was stronger.

G was baffled at Naruto's words. "What? You think Icha-Icha is porn?"

"Well, you see, the adult-only restriction on the cover is a giveaway."

"No, it's a masterpiece! People as young as you probably don't appreciate it yet." G defended fiercely. "Actually, I pre-ordered a copy by mail and it should arrive at my cousin's house tomorrow."

Naruto and his teammates sweat dropped at their leader's revelation.

"Oh, don't let my wife and the Raikage know it, OK?"

"Sure."

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Raikage Office, Kumogakure no Sato

The A-B Combo was in the Raikage's office, and they were having a discussion.

"B, how many more years do you think until Naruto can go to the Turtle Island?" The Raikage asked. The hidden Cloud village had started to take aggressive actions since Naruto became a fully-fledged ninja before he turned five.

The Kumo leader was pleased and impressed at the blond's development, determination and his performance. The boy earned his chunin rank within a year after his graduation and that he was a few days before turning six. He was truly the son of the Yellow Flash Minato Namikaze and the Red Death Kushina Uzumaki.

B was in deep thought and it took him a full minute to answer. "At least two more years. The Kyuubi was extremely hard to control and I doubt Naruto at this stage he could succeed the Waterfall Test at his current level."

The Raikage leaned back in his chair. "All right, two more years. I'll increase his training load and missions to make him as stronger as possible."

Two more years to get the Kyuubi under control and put the hidden Cloud village as the global supreme power. Everything went according to the Raikage's plan.