TimeSkip - One Week

"You-you damned baka! Do you have any idea what you've done?! Do you not understand how utterly stupid this was!"

The familiar masked man let out a bored sigh. His pink mask was hanging at his side as his pastel eyes closed in annoyance. His hair now a light grey color, while his eyes stayed the same pink. He moved his hand to his head, shaking his hair making it messy. "Yeah yeah I know what I did. I'm the one that did it after all." he spoke, the last part coming off as a whisper. "You don't have to worry Akira. I know exactly what I'm doing."

Akira scoffed loudly and looked over at the cloaked figure. Her amber eyes looked over at him in anger. "I don't care if you know what you're doing Yuno! You just went ahead and gave this child our most prized possession! The one thing stopping Akatsuki!" she barked at him. Small beads of spit landing on his face as he remained stoic. The now dubbed Yuno gave a shrug, "The intention of Atarashī was on my mind. Now the urn is out of our possession, Akatsuki doesn't know where it is and cannot target us."

"But you can't just go around and seal-"

"The shinobi world will benefit from my decision. I couldn't have asked for anyone better."

Yuno spoke, cutting her off harshly, but his voice remained smooth. He turned around until his back was facing Akira. If looks could kill Yuno would be a pile of ash right about now. "You seem to trust this Namikaze Naruto, a mere child." she narrowed her eyes at the back of Yunos head. "Was there anything you left out of the report, Yuno?" her tone was dark, but Yuno was unaffected. He raised his hand over his head, giving a small wave as a grin played across his lips.

"Of course not Leader-sama."

KONOHA

Konoha no Sato. The most powerful Hidden Village in all the Elemental Nations. Known for its famous shinobi and great economical advances. Harbrowing some of the strongest clans and bloodline limits that other countries only dreamed of having. But sadly, the village of Konoha had suffered a large blow to her power. Uchiha Itachi, one of the most gifted shinobi that Konoha has ever produced. Graduating the academy at the age of 7, and becoming a full time Anbu captain at 13. Last week the Uchiha prodigy seemingly snapped, in one night, slaying his whole clan in cold blood. From men, women, and any child he could find. The only known survivor of the massacre was Uchiha Sasuke, Itachi's very own little brother. No one knows the exact reason why Itachi did what he did, but the news spread all around the village like wildfire. It was likely that the surrounding counties had also caught wind of the tragedy that had taken place.

Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha had never hated his job more than this past week. The people demanded answers, every council meeting was getting more and more stressful as they tried to calm down the public. Not only that but since the fall of the Uchiha the Hyuga clan had become more arrogant in their attempt to be named the strongest clan. Minato let out a much needed groan, his hair was even more messy, making his spikes more unruly than ever. His Hokage cape was wrinkled and misshapen. There were large bags under his eyes, showing signs that he was sleep deprived. He held his head in his hands, closing his eyes just to get a little rest.

Sadly for him, it only kept getting worse. His son Naruto, has been hospitalized since the beginning of the week. He was found close to two miles away from the Uchiha compound. Next to a burning body that they couldn't identify, traces of Wind and Fire jutsu were used all around the area. He clenched his fists in irritation, he had no idea why his son was over at the Uchiha compound, or how he even got there in the first place. When they found Naruto, he had no damage to his body. Only a large vertical scar over his left eye. It pained Minato to see a scar on his youngest son's body. A sudden pang of guilt rising in him. How could Naruto defend himself if they haven't offered to train him? If Naruto only got away with a scar with no training, then maybe next time…

Suddenly an anbu appeared in the middle of his office letting his train of thought suddenly break.

"Hokage-sama, your son has finally woken up, but something is terribly wrong."

Minato was suddenly gone from his office, the only trace left was a bright flash of yellow.

Hospital Room | With Naruto

It was dark, so dark that even your shadow had to hide away in fear. Naruto looked around himself in utter confusion, looking down he saw his feet were submerged in about four inches of water. Naruto let his eyes wander the sudden abyss. There were no signs of life, no walls, just a large empty cavern. The only sound was a small dripping of water drops, one after another, falling down rhythmically giving an odd relaxing feeling to a tenebrous room. Naruto felt the cold air walk itself over his body as he stepped forward, making him shiver. Each step making the smooth murky water glide across his feet and echo into the chasm. And that's when he saw it, like a thick curtain of darkness that played at a theater. Like the beginning of a play it opened up finally shining in a muted array of light. Then a large gust of wind picked up, forcing Naruto to cover his face as his shirt fluttered from the sudden gust. A strange heavy pressure fell onto his body forcing his knees to buckle. His legs wobbling as his eyes went wide in horror. A lone regal eye stared back at him, like yellow mixed with silver. A proud coin of glory looking at him with an immense amount of pressure. And before he knew it, he was sent flying backwards, a yelp passing his lips as the pitch black abyss swallowed him whole.

Naruto awoke from his hospital bed in a rush. A loud scream forcing itself up his throat and echoing in the white room. All occupants were startled in the room and rushed to his side immediately. Naruto didn't notice they were there, all he saw was red. Sudden flashbacks of what happened racing to his mind. All he saw was Shisui fighting a mysterious man he's never seen before. Him jumping in the way and-

Naruto's head suddenly started to throb, his left eye burning. The feeling that it was on fire spreading through his body as the phantom pain of that night returning. He thrashed in his hospital bed, his gown riding down his body as the nurses tried to calm the seemingly hysterical boy down. Suddenly a flash of bright yellow came from the room as the Yondaime Hokage came in to see his son in shambles. His mind went into overdrive and he raced to his son, grabbing the boy's thrashing head in his hands. "Naruto what's wrong are-"

"Get away from me! Where's Shisui-niisan! Where is he!"

Naruto yelled, cutting off Minato mid sentence. His smaller hands gripping Minato's sleeve trying to pull him away. Minato flinched in surprise at his son's outburst. Naruto clenched his hands around Minato's sleeve, grabbing the Hokage's attention as Naruto finally stopped moving. A soft sob escaped his lips as he looked down at his messed up hospital bed. Naruto forcefully removed his father's hands from his head, letting his free hand to once again move over his left eye. This time he finally felt what was there, he traced over his eye socket as if it was his first time. He felt soft bumps going up his eye as he got a glimpse of himself in the far mirror of the room. It was a long vertical scar going up his eye resting just below his forehead. But what shocked him most was the eye that was in his head, he swore he felt it leave his socket. He suddenly grew very pale, the phantom pain now burning his very core. The memories freshly implanted in his brain forever.

Naruto looked over to his father, a loom of worry stretched across the man's face as he waited for Naruto to speak. Naruto gave a small sniffle "Where is Shisui-nissan."

Minato, slightly curious as to why this certain Uchiha was apparently close to his son. He internally frowned at that thought, the more he thought about it the less answers he would receive. Both Namikaze's were ignorant to the black narrowed eyes looking in their direction from across the room. "Naruto last week the whole Uchiha clan was...killed by one of their own. There was only one survivor."

Naruto looked at his dad in utter disbelief. The whole clan slaughtered...one survivor. He had a vague memory of Shisui laying down next to him, his mouth moving but he heard no words. The sudden realization dawned on the boy. Shisui was dead, the only person that cared for him. The only person that treated him with the respect he always wanted. The first person to openly tell him that he loves him. Minato bent down to his son, his hand coming to rub Naruto's head.

"It's okay Naruto. Everything will get better from here on out. You still have us."

Before Minato could touch his head Naruto smacked his hand away. His bloodshot eyes glaring at Minato with new found fury. "Us? When has there ever been an 'us'!" he screamed, taking the nurses by surprise at his sudden outburst. "I don't fucking care about us! All I wanted was to stay with Shisui-niisan!"

Minato felt his spine stiffen in shock at Naruto's sudden rage. While some part of him knew he deserved this, the more irrational side of him started to get the better of him. He put on what he dubbed his 'Dad Face' and locked eyes with his son. "You do not raise your voice at me young man. I'm still your father and you will show me some respect. Or else-"

"Or else what? Your gonna ground me again? Send me to my room without any dinner? Making me apologize for something that Natsu and Narumi did? Or even take away the training you haven't even given me!"

Minato fell silent at his son's words, a sudden spike of anxiety running through his body as his veins turned to ice. Sadly Minato couldn't find any fault in Naruto's statement. He tried to rack his brain around for anything that he has done for Naruto, trying to find anything to convince his son that it wasn't true. Naruto looked over at his father in anger, having to bite his cheek from screaming again. All the grief and sadness that he had stored up into his small body was now leaking out in waves. Without waiting for a response Naruto jumped off his bed and ran out the hospital door in a rush. Needing to get away. Minato made his way to go after him. But one step in, one of the nurses grabbed his shoulder stopping him.

"I wouldn't do that right now Hokage-sama. He's having post traumatic stress episodes. His body is fully healed and he will be okay. He just needs some time alone." Minato gave a small frown at the nurses' words. Looking at the door with a sad expression he disappeared in a bright flash once again.

With Naruto

Naruto looked at the crowded streets of Konoha. Looking down at the people happily walking. Naruto felt his eyes go downcast, circling the black scroll that Shisui had given him around his frame, holding it securely. The last thing that Shisui had given him before he died, and he didn't want to open it. It was hard to comprehend exactly what happened that day. Before he went after Shisui he had a terrible feeling in his stomach. That something was happening at the Uchiha compound. And he was right, now the whole clan was dead. The one person he loved more than anything has died, leaving him. That thought alone made Naruto frown and he quickly shook his head of his thoughts. Not wanting to get emotional, he knew it would happen one day. But not so soon...

Naruto was now at a loss on what he should do. Yes his sensei was now gone, how will he get the proper training? Someone who took care of him? Sure he still has notes and jutsu scrolls that were given to him. Hell, he hasn't even scratched the surface on his elemental jutsu training yet. Naruto sighed as he laid back on the summer grass. Looking up at the bright blue sky, letting his thoughts wander to Shisui.

"Hey your Naruto right?"

Naruto gave a sudden yelp at being addressed to out of nowhere. He looked up upwards seeing a boy about his age walking his way.. He was wearing a plain grey shirt and black pants. His hair was pulled up in an upwards ponytail, resembling a fully grown pineapple. Naruto looked over at the boy in surprise, he swear he's seen this boy before. Naruto nodded his head as he sat up "Yeah that's me."

The boy took a seat next to Naruto and proceeded to lay down on the grass, his hands resting behind his head as he looked at the sky. "I'm Shikamaru Nara, we're in the same class in the academy."

Naruto blushed from embarrassment as he raised one hand to scratch the back of his neck. That's why he looked so familiar to him, Naruto gave the boy a sheepish smile. "Sorry for not remembering you Shikamaru."

The Nara only shrugged, his grey eyes seemingly more calm than annoyed . "It's no big deal. It's troublesome to remember everyone's name anyway."

Naruto gave a sweatdrop at the Nara's attitude, Naruto looked away from Shikamaru and back up to the sky, "So what are you doing here Shikamaru?"

"This spot in the village is the best for cloud gazing."

Naruto tilted his head, he's never heard of anyone cloud gazing. He looked at one of the giant puffy white moisture in the air. His mind flashing to the scream session he had a year ago to the giant blob of moisture."What am I supposed to be looking at?"

Shikamaru sighed, if he knew there would be this much talking he would have stayed in bed for the day. He pointed up at one of the clouds, grabbing the blonds attention.

"It's not really about what you're looking at, it's about how. It's a drag when people force themselves to find some troublesome symbolism when it isn't needed." he said trapping Naruto into his words "Just look at it how it is. A cloud is a cloud, going wherever the breeze takes it. So free."

Naruto digested each word that Shikamaru said separately. Naruto averted his gaze from the cloud and over to Hokage Tower. "Just look at it like how it is…" Naruto thought as he held the scroll tighter in his hands. Shikamaru observed the blonde through a sideways glance. While the Nara was incredibly lazy, not really outgoing and not really much or a talkative person. He was good at observing people and understanding current situations. Naruto wasn't much of a people person when he was at the academy. Most people ignored him altogether for his two siblings Natsu and Narumi. And that scroll he was holding, his grip was tight. Almost as if he was scared it would disappear any second. He traced his eyes upwards until he saw Naruto's left eye. His skin now adorned a vertical scar over his left eye, it was still a little bumpy. Meaning it was relatively new. And the boy hasn't been seen in the academy in the last week.

Shikamaru hummed, the gears in his head turning rapidly. The blonde has been absent from the academy for exactly one week, the same week that the Uchiha clan got massacred. While his other classmate, Uchiha Sasuke was absent made more sense to him, being an Uchiha after all. But Naruto, he had no connection to the Uchiha clan.

Shikamaru then raised his eyebrow in speculation.

Unless Naruto had a connection to a Uchiha and was at the compound the night Itachi slaughtered his clan. That would explain the blemish that Naruto had over his eye. And the scroll he was holding, no doubt a gift given to him before the fall of the clan. And that entails Naruto's sudden demeanor change, by the looks of it he refused to open the scroll. Shikamaru sighed to himself, he hated how damn smart he was sometimes.

"Look Naruto, as troublesome as it is. It would be best if you opened that scroll."

Naruto looked over at Shikamaru in surprise, the blonde looked at the scroll in his hands and frowned. "It's not that easy, it was given to me and I was told to only open it once Shisui-niisan was gone."

Shikamaru was caught off guard by the sudden despair in Naruto's tone. He should have kept his damn mouth shut. Naruto continued, "It's hard. It's hard to believe that he really is gone." Shikamaru averted his eyes from the blonde and frowned. Naruto traced the scroll with his hands.

"Naruto, it's best to remember that this Shisui person left this scroll for you. He knew he was going to leave soon, that's why he prepared this scroll for you, and only you." Shikamaru said as he sat up from the grass. He gave a long stretch before offering Naruto a small lazy smile. "I'm going to get home. If I'm out any later I wouldn't hear the end of it from my mother. Troublesome."

He said walking away from Naruto, waving his hand over his head "See ya around Naruto."

Naruto gave a quiet goodbye watching the boy walk off. Shikamaru did make some pretty good points about Shisui. He looked down at the black scroll again. After Shikamaru left he spent most of his time alone trying to muster up the courage to open the scroll. Each minute making him more and more scared, what would be inside it? The sun was now starting to set. Making the sky have a bright pink hue as the rays of sunlight shone through the clouds. He took a deep breath, with shaky hands he flipped it open.

Two small puffs of smoke erupted from the inside making Naruto cough slightly in surprise. Waving his hand to help rid the smoke from blocking his vision. Another scroll was now seen, this one was much larger and it was red in color. In his other hand was a letter. Naruto felt his heartbeat start to quicken, he felt his eyes become glossy as he gripped the paper in each hand, and began reading quietly.

Dear Turtle-chan,

Hey Naruto how are you doing? I hope you never have to open the scroll I gave you...but if you are reading this now then yes, I am dead. I hope you can one day understand why I had to write this letter, and I'll start with telling you the truth. The Uchiha clan, for the past year, had been planning to overthrow Konoha in a coup d'etat. I was tasked with a mission to spy and help the village stop the clan before it was too late. If my fears have come true then either the coup d'etat has already happened, or I had to take matters into my own hands. Naruto-kun, i'm so sorry I dragged you into this mess. I just wanted you to have a good childhood. After the very first day we met I knew you were someone special to me. But now Naruto, I leave with you my signature jutsu scrolls. In that red scroll are all the more advanced water jutsus I could find to suit your style.

But the main one is my secret to the Shunshin no jutsu. I hope you can master that jutsu to levels that I only dreamed of. Naruto-kun, now is the time where you can live your life. Make your own choices, be who you wanna be. And always remember, no matter what you do, who you become. You will always be my little brother that I love no matter what.

Love Shisui-niisan!

Naruto couldn't stop the sudden tears that fell from his eyes. Each drop falling onto the letter softly, making Naruto sob into his hand.

"I love you too Shisui-niisan. I'll make sure to become a shinobi you will be proud of."

Naruto suddenly froze, his heart going numb as he walked into his house. He saw his family all in the backyard, the slider door open letting a cool breeze travel into his home. The scroll Shisui had given him almost slipping from his hands as he looked at his family outside. His mother was smiling happily, his father had a proud look on his face looking down at Natsu and Narumi. Naruto heard his mother's happy voice echo into the house, making him shiver.

"I'm so proud of you two! It's not everyday that two eight year olds graduate the academy early!"

Naruto's heart threatened to stop beating right then and there. His eyes were wide, the sudden burning sensation returning as he saw the setting sun shine down on his siblings brand new Konoha headbands. Naruto felt a newfound rage gloss over his eyes. The anger trying desperately to block out how inferior he was feeling at seeing his siblings already become shinobi so early. The day he loses the most important thing to him, they get to graduate and become shinobi!? The boiling sensation in his skin was almost too much to bear. He wanted to scream, yell, hate them! He was unaware of the sudden change to his left eye, gone was the sapphire blue that everyone was used to. It was now replaced with a dark crimson. His pupil now pitch black with three tomoe spinning inside.

The Sharingan.

End of Arc 1