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Chapter Five: Uchiha Coup Part Two

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Battle of Two Fronts

Today was the third day, the day Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha where to betray their clan and thereby preserve the shaky peace in the Elemental Nations. It would also be the day that a certain demon child's life would change permanently. It would be a day of great sadness for some and great anger for others, but one thing was universal: legends would be born that day

Fugaku Uchiha blinked awake, his cold dark met the ceiling of his bedroom. He new what that day was, what was going to happen, or what he thought was going to happen. Though he felt the cold tinge of despair enter his body but his resolve was steadfast, he wanted to make sure that the Uchiha clan was respected like he believed it ought to be, he believed Konoha needed to see that the Uchiha are superior.

As he thought the intense heat of his wife's naked body against his own crept into his mind. He couldn't ignore it any longer: he was scared for his family. What he had brought upon the clan Fugaku was adamant that the change was necessary, but he realized that the change not only put those who would participate in danger but their families as well and that included his.

He rose from the bed he shook his head ridding himself, even if only temporarily, of his thoughts and fears of destruction of his family, deep down in his psyche he knew that it already had, although he couldn't admit it to himself his banishment of Itachi three days earlier had already destroyed his family and he was afraid of the realization of this truth upon his son's return.

Senju Household; Morning

The two Konoha Loyal Uchiha, Kushina, and the married Sannin where all standing around the island in the Kitchen discussing the plans for the day, every move each was going to make.

"And What will you be doing before assuming your place on the West Flank Shisui?" Jiraiya inquired of the his pupil.

"Well Jiraiya-sensei I will be advising Danzo-san on where to position his Root Anbu Shinobi." The markedly intelligent Uchiha responded as they went over their final plans.

This was when Itachi spoke up "Actually we may not need those flanks."

"Care to explain Itachi?"

"Well Jiraiya-kun three days ago I awoke my Mangekyou Sharingan, its first ability I discovered is called Amaterasu which produces black, all burning flames on whatever I can focus on. With Amaterasu I could focus on the meeting center and take them " The younger Uchiha explained to the group of the most formidable shinobi in Konoha.

Jiraiya was apprehensive of the plan while Shisui didn't display any emotion just the blank face of man who could fail to grasp what it would be like to kill their own entire family. It was Itachi himself who broke the silence "But I suppose we should not alert the higher ups about this plan as if I miss any and we have withdrawn our Shinobi it could mean disaster."

Both of the older men nodded, then Jiraiya took the lead to change the subject "Tsunade you have a plan for the kids right, and Kushina you have one for Naruto correct?

While his wife gave a nod the redhead answered verbally "Yes Jiraiya-kun he should be home before sunset like he always is, although he is supposed to be joining with the Hyuga clan leader, Hiashi, and his eldest daughter, Hinata, for dinner."

"That should be fine Hiashi knows of the plan as the Hyuga forces are, or were, going to be an integral part of the defeating the Uchiha, he should have the Gaki home before dusk. Although Tsunade I would like that you come and retrieve Naruto as soon as he comes home I'm afraid of the Uchiha forces tasking someone with releasing the Kyuubi no Kitsune again." Jiraiya explained before continuing "Kushina that means watch your back as well, if anyone finds out you're alive they might try to release your half as well."

Tsunade gritted her teeth she didn't like what was going to happen, but she knew there was no stopping it. Internally she cursed Danzo, though no one could prove it they all knew he had some part to blame in what was going to happen. She then addressed The rest of the people in the room "I'm gonna need a drink, in fact I think we're all gonna need a drink when this is over."

The Toad Sage gave a light chuckle as he responded "Yes my hime… I think we all will, so you're all welcome back here tomorrow for drinks tomorrow morning."

Just then Tsunade heard the door open and said to the rest of the group "I think it's Hagane and Kaida I'm gonna get them dressed and some breakfast in them."

Kushina was the first to reply "Alright I'm gonna start on breakfast, we can't deal today without a good start." she then turned and started making some breakfast for the group of shinobi.

Once they were done eating breakfast Jiraiya, Kushina, Shisui, and Itachi all left the house, the door closed, the finality of the click of the lock signified that things would change that day.

Tsunade watched the door close and bowed her head she couldn't help but be worried. This worry had stemmed from the ways she had lost her brother and her first love, both she lost during war time. A few tears rolled down her cheeks as she thought of the possibilities what could. Hagane, who she was holding at the time, babbled "M-Mommy why you crying?"

"It's nothing my little tadpole, why don't we get cleaned up?" Tsunade said planting a kiss on the boy's forehead.

Training Ground Four

Kushina was sitting in the shade of one various trees in the training ground. A cool breeze made it one of the most comfortable she had, of course other than in Minato's arms. Since she had been seeing Naruto again she couldn't help but remember about what she considered better days, of course she considered these days with her son good too it was just that with Minato she felt safe and secure, and when he died it ripped that sense of safety away.

Other than that the Uzumaki was enjoying seeing how strong her son was, and was happy that after the years of punishing training that he put himself through the results were rather astonishing. A couple of days prior she asked about how strong he was, it turned out that the boy was already at genin level by Jiraiya's estimates and well on his way to being chunin level by the end of Academy. Something that upset her very much however was the years of vitreal from the village which she found out about by talking with her son, and Kushina became resolute on the idea of revealing not only herself to the public, but her relationship with Minato as well. The revelation also had made her job in the last few days very hard she couldn't help but to be obscenely angry when ever she was around the normal village because it bugged the back of her mind whenever she talked to a shop keep or store owner, had they thrown her son out? Was it them who had overcharged him?

She shook away this anger now however because she was more interested in the jutsu Naruto was using. While it was evident that the child was taijutsu focused now, he did use one jutsu that had surprised her: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. What had surprised her more than that was who taught it to him, it wasn't Jiraiya, like she assumed, but Itachi. With this it calmed her, settled within her the idea that Naruto, while battered, was overall fine with her being absent. Of course this didn't stop her from being remorseful about her absence, it just quelled her emotions slightly.

When she asked Itachi about his leaning of the jutsu, he told her quite the endearing story about him learning it…

Flashback: Two months ago; Training Ground Four…

Jiraiya and his three students had an easy training day that morning. Naruto had something bugging the back of his mind: he had down the Henge no Jutsu and the Kawarimi no Jutsu but he couldn't perform the Bunshin no Jutsu. He had excellent chakra control for his age and the size of his chakra pool, but every time he tried to make a Clone he ended up with a sickly looking version of himself that disappeared after he lost focus. The redhead asked his Sensei for help, but the man insisted did he learn the last of the three Academy Jutsu himself as an experience in trial and tribulation.

Something Naruto was particularly interested in was a technique he so not only his teacher using, but the two men he considered big brothers as well. For the past several months he had avoided asking them about it fearing that they might not teach it to him. It wasn't that they refused to teach him jutsu, they had helped him learn the first two of the Academy Jutsu and Shunshin.

He had been working up the courage to ask about it for the past couple days, and today he was going to ask about it. The jinchuriki walled up to Itachi, who was sitting under one of the trees on the training ground eating lunch, the older boy smiled up at the child asking "What's up Naruto?"

"Nothing Itachi-nii I just wanted to ask about that one jutsu you and Pervy Sage are so fond of. You know the one like Bunshin no Jutsu but you can use it to do stuff." the child asked hoping that Itachi would teach it to him.

"You mean Kage Bunshin?" the Uchiha smiled happy that the kid actually inquired about it. The reason that neither he nor Shisui nor Jiraiya had taught him the normal cloning technique was that they wanted to introduce him to the idea of information gathering.

"Yea that one! Can you teach it to me?" Naruto shouted excited.

Itachi scratched his chin as to indicate he was thinking "Umm let me ask Jiraiya-sensei first…" He walked over to the Toad Sage who was currently talking to Shisui. "Hey sensei?"

"Yea Itachi?"

"Naruto finally solved the little puzzle we left for him" The Anbu said smiling happy the kid finally figured the test out.

Jiraiya looked a little confused before remembering what they had set up "Oh has he, let me check his chakra pool just to make sure he has enough, although that's probably pointless seeing as who his mother is and who he houses…"

The White haired man walked over to his young apprentice, saying "Hey Naruto come here I'm just gonna check something real quick"

As Jiraiya ran his test and was happy of the result, Naruto was thinking or rather hoped that Jiraiya would let him learn the jutsu. When the test was over the Sage spoke up "Itachi would you like to do the honors?"

"Absolutely, Naruto look at me I'm gonna explain Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" the Uchiha said the redhead's eyes widened to the size of dinner place and he sat down staring at his elder, as he explained it.

When the son of Fugaku finished his explanation he instructed his friend "Alright try it now Naruto"

Naruto then crossed his fingers in a move that would become one of his future trademarks announcing "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" and one clone popped into existence looking exactly like the original. Seeing his success the Uzumaki jumped up and down excited then hugged his clone finding it to be solid, then he turned around and hugged his big brother figure "Thank you Itachi-nii!"

"You're welcome Naruto, I'm glad that you got it so easily." Itachi responded happy the young child achieved a B-class jutsu that if he hadn't been an Uzumaki or the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi he shouldn't have been able to produce.

End of Flashback

After Itachi finished his explanation to the Uzumaki it was lunch time. While they usually ate lunch at the training grounds, today was a special day because Shisui had a date with Shizune. It was actually quite a surprise that in the face of what was to happen that day the eldest of Jiraiya's three students chose to have a second date with the student of the Slug Sannin.

Due to the four others not having any lunch they decided to part ways with Shisui and reentered the village going to Ichiraku Ramen Stand. When they arrived there they were welcomed by the head chef, Teuchi spoke up "Oh hello Jiraiya, Itachi, and Naruto… And who might you miss Anbu?"

Kushina blushed under her mask as she replied "Teuchi, you would know me as the Red Hot Habanero, you know the one who was coming here disguised as blond."

"Ahh then I guess I'll get started on your usual started right?"

"Absolutely" The Anbu sighed.

"Alright we've got one spicy miso ramen with beef, and for you gentlemen?" Teuchi asked waiting for the orders of the rest of group.

Under the assumption that the spicy ramen couldn't be that spicy Naruto spoke up first "I'll have the same thing Teuchi-jiji."

Itachi then spoke up "I'll have miso with chicken please"

Jiraiya was the last one to place an order asking "Can I get miso Ramen with pork please?"

"Alright those will all be coming right up." Teuchi said leaving the counter to go to the kitchen.

Later in the day near sunset

Kushina and Shisui where nearing the meetup location for Danzo, it was just outside the limits of the Shinobi district of Konoha: a dusty way surrounded by woods on every side, something about it tipped them off that they might be in a location primed for an ambush. They stood there for what seemed like an hour and finally when the last streaks of light were visible over the treetops the old decrepit man could be seen hobbling towards the pair and Shisui welcomed him "Hello Danzo-sama you are here to learn where to allocate your Shinobi correct?"

"No whelp my being here is more of a formality of sorts... huh I would've expected the strongest Uchiha wouldn't need a bodyguard" the Village elder spat at the kid

"My guard's being here is not out of fear of lack of power, but just in the case of me needing backup in case of my being found out as a spy and the fear out of your vile hands wanting to rip my sharingan out of my head for its ability." Shisui returned an amount of killing intent coming out with his voice.

"Grrh… It seems the bastard of my old teammate decided that it would be best to tell you that I would've pushed for information on your ability… It seems that you won't give it willingly…" the Root leader addressed leaving the two other Shinobi questioning as they waited for him to finish

"So I'll give you the honor of putting them into the safety of my own hands!" Danzo menaced as he suddenly lunged forward with a speed that was almost too fast for either ninja to react to, almost.

Kushina's eyes widened as she instinctively summoned her chakra chains and defended Shusui by completely wrapping the attacking man and dragging him to the ground.

"Ahhh Kushina-san I was wondering when I would run into you… I must say that your son's progress in over two years is highly commendable, he would make a perfect member of my Root Shinobi" Danzo mired

The chains grasp him even tighter breaking his unbroken arm, squeezing his ribs to breaking bending, and him backwards breaking several vertebrae as Kushina rasped growing angrier "You won't do any such thing!"

Danzo winced in pain managing to continue "Oh then I would suggest that you stay away from your son or else he befell a fate worse than being a Root Shinobi."

This incensed both the redhead, but the Kyubi within her Oh Kit! I will not allow such a thing to happen my container's offspring and my Yang half. Take this power and kill this bastard before he can harm your kit!

The power flowed through Kushina as the red chakra began to bubble out of her, this was when she moved in for the kill. The yellow chains, which were now streaked with red in a manner that looked inverse of Naruto's hair, began to tighten even further and snake around the man's neck. Fruitlessly Danzo tried to activate his trump card, Izanagi, luckily he didn't have a need for it as his Root finally came to intervene the four shinobi hurling a volley of kunai and shuriken.

Shisui spun around drawing his ninjato blade blocked the volley as he said "Fox get ready I'll create a distraction and teleport us out of hear."

Kushina nodded as Shusui preformed a Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu which the four Root Anbu countered with a Water Release: Gunshot but the distraction was enough for Shisui to grab his guard and Shunshin out of the area to a tag which he had left inside the village.

Back inside Konoha

Shisui and Kushina had arrived at the tag in the middle of the shinobi district of Konoha, the young man immediately let go of the woman as he felt as though his arm was being subjected to an intense heat. Looking down at his arms they looked like he had received slight chakra burns to them and then looked up again to see the receding red coat of chakra before he asked "So is that the power of the Nine tails?"

Its container only nodded as her eyes, which had been transformed into slitted red ones, transformed back into her kind purple eyes.

"Impressive." Shisui noted as they both took off to Shisui's designated position, the last strands of sunlight had gone out and all there was now was a full and bright blood moon in its place. One thing they both thought was certain was that things were about to get messy.

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Two Hours Later

Itachi had climbed a power line adjacent to the courtyard in the center of the Uchiha district from there he looked down at the crowd gathering. Once the force had assembled the young man with the moon to his back shed several tears as looked down at his arm and pressed two seals that were hidden there. Feeling the chakra rush into his body from the storage seals his eyes evolved into a three pointed shuriken before he said "Amaterasu!"

The entire populace of the courtyard, which had been what Itachi thought was every Uchiha except himself, Shisui, and Sasuke, was engulfed in black flames their screams echoing into the night sky.

Their killer wanted to take his own life he had failed his clan, he still felt he could've prevented this... that he could've done something, anything to prevent this conclusion, but this was the way it happened, Itachi understood by the time he found the damage to the clan had been done and it was up to him now to bring those who did that damage to justice.

He decided based on his sensei's advice to turn around and go check up on the East Flank of the village, the one stationed by Elite Jounin and Anbu.

The East Flank, Two Hours later

The Contingent Commander was watching from his location the section of wall where he was supposed be he flared his chakra in a specific pattern and one of the sensors from the rear of the contingent came forward to meet him. When the sensor arrived he spoke to the man "Ah perfect can you check what forces are out there, intel suggested that we should be right on the presipuss of the attack."

"Yes Sir… There's a force of twenty one shinobi, eighteen chunin level and three jounin level. Your orders?" the sensor nin told his superior officer.

"Send two Anbu Squads and a Jounin trio." the commander told him before the ninja turned and shunshin'd away.

The assigned squads silently moved forward until they were in sight of the squads of Uchiha. As they visually inspected their opponents before several of the Anbu drew their weapons and the jounin readied themselves, the jounin trio was made up of Shizune Senju, Hayate Gekko, and Genma Shiranui. Ironically enough Gekko's lover Yugao was among the Anbu as the Cat masked Anbu.

Also among the Anbu was Shisui Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, and Kushina Uzumaki, the three of them had been sitting ready after Itachi gave them of the sitrep on what he did. Needless to say even though Shisui knew that a conclusion similar to what happened was inevitable by the time they reported the coup, he was sad to see the entirety of his brethren be gone in one night. Itachi also said that he would understand if Shisui wouldn't want to associate with him any longer. To that the elder of the two Uchiha was nearly violent at the thought of forsaking his oldest and most dear friend over the thought of doing what they agreed was right. Kushina was sad to see that another group of people would have to go through what she did in regards to their clan, but she knew that if they were let live the ensuing civil war would destroy the peace in the Elemental Nations.

When they all were sent forward the Jounin and Anbu all tensed uneasy at the orders, it was Shisui and Itachi who were especially uneasy as they would have to kill their own brethren again. As all of the ninja moved in on their target the mood became tense with a void of Killing Intent that in itself was suffocating. When the signal was given the trio of Jounin moved in on the direct attack while each of the Anbu squads took a right and left flanks of the group. While they were outnumbered nearly two to one, the numbers didn't matter because the Uchiha nin were at most mid B-class Jounin and the lowest being barely chunin.

Shizune took the lead sending a cloud of poison mist out in front of her before shooting senbon through the cloud, unfortunately the attack was blocked by a one of the chunin launching a fireball into the cloud dispersing the poison and deflected the senbon.

Just as the jounin trio pushed forward into their share of the chunin easily slaughtering them, when they reached the three other jounin, the lead of those Uchiha snarled as he saw that they were severely outgunned as the Anbu cut their way through the chunin. However there was a sight that threw the leader into a rage, he poured killing intent out ignoring the fact that Shizune was lunging towards him a chakra scalpel blazing in her leading hand. As he turned his mangekyou sharingan blazed to life as his eyes locked into that of another sharingan he shouted "Omoikane!"

Shisui's world turned pitch black as he was sitting in the a circle of light as he sat there a series of grey chains wrapped around him as he was pinned to the floor, out of the darkness the attacking Uchiha came standing on the edge of the spot of light a katana in his hand. He spoke up a untamed level of vitreal in his voice "So you betrayed us Shisui? Your own family? Your own clan? You disgust me!"

The man suddenly appeared at the younger man's side ramming the katana into the Jiraiya's apprentice's gut, blood gushing out of it onto the white ground. The sword remained there as the uchiha placed his hand on his enemies head. Shisui spat up some blood before retorting "Daisuke, at least I didn't sacrifice peace because of petty schauble, my father died several years ago, my mother is all I had but she had rejected me when I didn't go along with the clan's plan. I understand that we've been wronged, but sacrificing peace would've gotten us nowhere and would've lead to the destruction of the clan and village as a whole."

As he responded he couldn't help but think of Shizune's kind and peaceful nature. After removing the hand from the younger man's head head squatted down and looked directly into Shisui's eyes "Do you think I care about this god forsaken village, they deny the Uchiha their proper place in the spotlight, they deny our power and prestige that we are the elite. It's time for us to show them that we are the elite and deserve to rule."

This caused the young man's mind to be cast to Naruto and how the boy's ambition was pure to the core, he wanted to grow strong to protect those he loved, antithetical to everything the Uchiha had been espousing as they wanted power for the recognition, glory, and to loid it over everyone else's heads. He never told Itachi this but he already saw the seeds of this already in Sasuke. "You see this is the attitude that destroyed the clan, as long as we chase power just for the sake of power we will be doomed to self annihilation. Those who fight monsters simply for the glory and honor of defeating those monsters will become nothing but the monsters they destroy."

"Save me your over thought philosophical bullshit. Now let's get down to business."

Shisui then remember everyone of their little enclave, Itachi Jiraiya, Tsunade, Hagane, Kaida, Naruto, Kushina, and most importantly to him Shizune, everyone he had a deep care for he did this to protect them. He spat back at his attacker "Daisuke, you've clearly lost the flame of love in your heart, I pity you… you clearly no longer know how to fight for those precious to you, you've become a monster."

"Hahaha… I guess you finally got something right." Daisuke said as he stepped to the side revealing Shizune, Naruto, and Itachi. "Now I will show you how right you are"

"Nooo! Don't you dare hurt them!" Shisui spat as the caster of the genjutsu conjured a sword and slowly killed Itachi. Then he slowly killed Naruto. The wielder of Kotoamatsukami thought Out of everyone I must save Shizune, I would give my life to save her.

Daisuke then went to kill the medic nin, but just as he moved to stab the love interest of Shisui he stumbled backwards spitting up blood as a cut drew itself in the red substance on the man's shirt. "H-How… How could you defeat my ultimate jutsu…"

As the Uchiha fell to the ground the chains disappeared around Jiraiya's student and he saw that he was still standing on the edge of Konoha, Shizune had struck the nin right on the chest where his heart was. Shisui was stunned he looked right at the woman he found so much interest in "T-thank yo-"

He was cut off when Shizune smashed her lips on his sending a wave of carnal gratification through each of their beings. Their tongues intermingled for the first time, dancing a dance to familiarize themselves with the other. When tsunade's Apprentice pulled back from their embrace she look down deep into Shisui's black eyes before saying "Your become precious to me, I can't lose you like I lost my uncle."

While the two love birds reconnected Itachi moved to finish off the small band of Uchiha, but in a sudden burst of speed the last of the force shot forward driving their ninjato into the chest of the closest target who happened to be Hayate. Yugao screamed as she witnessed her lover dying in front of her eyes, the cat masked ninja rushed forward but was beat to the Uchiha by Itachi who swiftly beheaded the attacking shinobi. The mangekyou wielder quickly moved and caught Hayate's body and slowly laid his body down on the dirt, he then turned to his left and was caught off guard when the cat masked Anbu nearly tackled him as she collapsed next to her now dead. Itachi caught her as she fell and took her head into his chest so that she couldn't look at it, he was thinking Is this what the ninja system breeds, the hell of loss? Bloodied bodies and broken hearts? Why couldn't I save him? He's just like the clan: he was consumed by their hate… Is this what the ninja system breeds? No there's still chance for this system, look at Hayate-san, if I had acted sooner he'd have a love. I am truly to blame for all of this strife… I must be a monster… at this moment Itachi realized Yugao had slipped from his grasp and was standing near Hayate.

The Uchiha moved to comfort the crying Anbu, but he heard the Jounin's final words to the world "Yugao my love, my entire world, find love again… be happy again… don't allow my death to consume you… think of it as the last way for you to make me happy… I love you…"

The Cat Anbu sobbed as she could feel Hayate's hand go limp, completely unaware that Itachi had heard the final words of one of Konoha's best kenjutsu users. The crow summoner then thought I can fix my mistakes… I can take care of those my mistakes wronged…

A warm welcoming pair of arms wrapped around Yugao as she sobbed. She couldn't explain why but the embrace had the same feeling as the one she had gotten from Hayate when she lost her grandmother, it felt guilty, sorrowful, but deeply consoling and calming. Yugao knew she had to honor her lovers last wish, she had to find love again she would mourn Hayate, but she would move on sooner than normal.

Itachi then grabbed her and shunshin'd away going to drop her at the rendezvous point, but when he returned there was a grizzly sight the contingent commander and three others had been slaughtered, their bodies laying pools of blood with their throats slit. Itachi narrowed his glowing red sharingan when he saw the shape of one of the most nefarious men in Konoha, Danzo Shimura. "Ah… Itachi Uchiha just the man I wanted to see, I'm going to tell you exactly what you are going to do unless you wish to see your younger brother suffer a fate worse than death at the hands of my Root Anbu…"

"Danzo-teme… I should've figured you'd have had a hand in things tonight… Let me guess, your Root was from where the information that the sharingan can control the Bijuu came from... You were the reason the clan was ostracized… But if you lay one hand on my younger brother I will slaughter every one of your Root before murdering you…" a great amount of bile in his voice his sharingan slowly spinning analyzing every detail of the man

"Big words from a man who only has a limited number of choices… You see Itachi you have a set of a two choices: One you and Shisui leave the village and are labeled S-rank missing nin for the murder of the Uchiha Clan. Two, you and Shisui remain in the village and expose the Uchiha Clan's attempted coup and Sasuke suffers as much hate as the Kyuubi Brat." Danzo said his voice virtually emotionless save for a slight tone of entertainment in his voice.

The Uchiha gritted his teeth was right he only had a those two options either Sasuke would be hated or Shisui and himself would have to leave his younger brother. His decision was interrupted by looking up to the Hokage Tower seeing a man sitting atop the tower two red sharingan piercing the night, instantly he shunshin'd away from the Hq as the squads of Anbu arrived back. When they saw Danzo standing over the bodies he gave them an ultimatum: be silent on the matter or them and their families would meet a similar fate.

The West Flank, Half an Hour earlier

Hiashi Hyuga was standing in the front of the Hyuga forces as they stared down the Uchiha forces using their byakugan. Their plan was straight forward enough use the element of surprise to score kill hits on their enemy, a simple Juuken strike to the chest was all it took and nobody knew that except the Hyuga. Hiashi gave a silent signal to his men and they all charged forward swarming the small group of Uchiha.

He landed the first strike as he hit one of the chunin head on with a single strike to the fatal chakra point killing the man instantly. The leader of the force, Shosuke the twin brother of the now deceased Daisuke, eyes nearly popped out of his head when he saw his forces dwindle in a matter of seconds as the taijutsu of the Hyuga clan bloodlessly slaughtered his clan brethren. It was at this moment that he decided that he would go for the secondary objective, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki.

Shosuke ran through hand signs before announcing "Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu" a massive fireball flew straight at Hiashi, the man started spinning as he completed a Kaiten forming a hemisphere of chakra that deflected the ball of fire into the air. By the time Hiashi finished spinning he looked back to where the Mangekyou wielder was standing and saw that he was nowhere to be found, but by this time the small force of the Uchiha had been decimated and Hiashi figured the man was a coward who simply ran away from the battle and he would meet his end soon enough.

A figure appeared out of the darkness clapping slowly. "I applaud your conviction to the village Hyuga's… Now you have one thing and one thing alone to do… Stay quiet about tonight"

"And what if we don't Danzo-san?" Hiashi questioned unaware as to why he was so invested

"Allow me to give you a little demonstration" Danzo said as he made the half tiger seal, every Branch House member screamed as their Caged Bird Seal lit up flaring pain through their bodies.

Hiashi looked as his brother screamed in pain. His screams rippling through Hiashi's consciousness seemingly unprograming all of the tradition that he had been brought up. He finally saw the cruelty that his clan maintained, the byakugan wielder rushed the man forcing him to drop his hand sign and free the Branch House members. Hiashi's strike was blocked by the decrypted elder of the village, and then the elderly man jumped backwards before saying "You know what you must do Hyuuga's" and disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

Hizashi was stunned as his brother put his own life on the life for those of the branch, it was as if something had suddenly changed in him. Nevertheless he didn't know what to think of Danzo being able to activate their seals, frankly it scared the shit out of him it would mean that he could pressure the Branch House into doing whatever he wanted of them.

The Hyuga forces lingered a little longer before they left the sight leaving the bodies of their enemies behind to be forgotten.

Hokage's Tower Roof

Itachi arrived on the roof to see his father sitting in the lotus position in front of a startling sight, the Sandaime on the ground seemingly unconscious and Jiraiya kneeling as though he was strapped down with invisible chains a clearly pained expression on his face. The young man's mangekyou blazed to life as he stared down the Fugaku's back. He announced his presence "It's over father, the clan's been destroyed I suppose it's your time to go as well."

His father responded "Itachi, do you know how I am able to use my eyes without fear of blindness?" without waiting for a response he said "It was because when my elder brother died in front of my eyes I stole his eyes and implanted them in myself… My point is that our clan has sacrificed so much for this village and we weren't awarded with the respect as elites' that we deserved…"

"Your clan, need I remind you that the clan basically ostracized Shisui and I when they found out that Jiraiya-sensei didn't take us in due to our heritage, but for the fact that he saw in us potential apart from that of the Sharingan?" the Mangekyou user said back. He then drew his blade and finished crying as he knew he had to kill his own father "I-I-I'm sorry father… But its time for you to go…"

"Do one thing for me Itachi, take my eyes as your own… grow from their strength… As much as you hate it you are now the clan… and this clan is one of elites and it always will be…" Fugaku said as he mentally prepared himself to die "Oh and at least I get to go out seeing the fireworks…"

Itachi finally composed himself and drove his blade through his father's chest killing him, but just as he did that an explosion of chakra filled the air with malice that nobody had felt for almost eight years.

Itachi looked up to see a plumage of orange chakra spewing out of the an area near the Senju household…

Near the Senju Household, a few minutes earlier…

Naruto Uzumaki was sitting on top of the one of the building near his home as he watched the night sky, earlier he had dinner with Hiashi and Hinata. He was currently thinking about what he really was: was he a monster like the villagers liked to call him? The reason he asked himself this was that he heard someone whisper something about the Head of the Hyuuga clan being

He watched the moon as it sat high in the sky and he thought What is a monster? I guess it would be someone who abandons everyone who loves them, but I've never abandoned anyone or have I? I don't know… Why don't I know?

His thoughts were interrupted by a figure obscuring his view, before the same mysterious figure announced "Omoikane!"

Naruto saw his world go black before finding himself in a spotlight with only the man standing in front of him "Why hello Kyuubi bastard… let's see who we can play with today?"

He wore the standard jounin uniform and a black long sleeve shirt underneath. He stood about Five foot Eight, but he towered over the jinchuriki. Shosuke stood there for a moment looming menacingly over the young boy, he then reached out and placed his hand on the boy's forehead and four figures appeared behind him. There was Kushina and Hinata both had a copy of Shosuke behind them. He then began to torture Naruto, killing him and those he loved over and over and over again Naruto was at the edge of insanity when… something happened. A massive flux of chakra entered the illusion. However, Shosuke smiled "I've got you now… Fox"

Despite the Uchiha's smug attitude he quickly realized that he was over his head. His genjutsu shattered as the man reeled back and his right eye exploded in a puff of blood. When he reopened his eyes a nasty sight met him, a blob of bright red chakra with six tails swinging behind it, and a white exoskeleton on top of it. A claw shot out and drove it self through the man's chest cavity, the chakra burning away his body. The blob then tried to scream but was stifled by a glow of blue chakra.

Inside Naruto's Mindscape

Naruto was lying on the water in a large room, the gate that was normally there had multiple holes in it. The Kyuubi standing behind it as though it was just in a battle. The room was actually quite clean, not what someone might expect of Naruto's mindscape. A yellow flash entered the room before the bars glowed a bright blue and fixed themselves. As Naruto got up from the floor, he looked at the man standing in front of him he asked "W-who are you?"

The blonde turned to see who could only be his son, he asked unsure about the boy's appearance "N-Naruto-kun… I-I'm your father… You've grown so much since I saw you last… I can't talk any longer your body has been damaged by the Kyuubi's chakra, I've got to use what I've got remaining to heal your body… good bye my son…"

The world went black as outside the mindscape Naruto's body, which was a red glowing blob, was enveloped in blue chakra that blocked out the light of the red chakra.

The Real World

Naruto looked up at the moon and tried to get up, but fell back into unconsciousness.

Back in the Mindscape

Naruto was kneeling in front of a large golden gate which had a piece of paper that said 'seal' on it. Behind it a pair of piercing red eyes glowed as he took in who was in front of him. As he took in the sight the Demon Fox felt something he never thought he would feel… Fatherhood.

The redhead looked down at the water of his mindscape he saw something that he didn't expect, a pair of glowing blue slitted eyes looking back… He couldn't believe what he was looking at, but something inside him told him it was real, almost out of instinct the Uzumaki raised a hand trembling out of fear and felt the top of his head… he had fox ears. Involuntarily a tail wrapped around his chest… He began to cry as his thoughts rushed in and he let a question exit his mouth "Am I a monster?"

Instinctually, as to ease a scared child, the great Fox spoke "you are no monster"

Naruto brought his eyes up to meet those of the being behind the Gates. Stammering he asked "W-who are you?"

"I am the Great Kyuubi no Kitsune, but you can call me Kurama." the fox said.

"Well Kurama why am I like this? Ears… and Tail... and all?"

"Firstly do not think for a second you are some kind of monster do to your appearance. Second I believe that you were like this because of my chakra being present when your body was healed."

"If I now share your features d-does that… does that kind of make… kind of make you my father?" Now the great fox was turning round and round in his cage, he was so happy he couldn't believe what was happening it was the first time in a long time he had felt happiness, but he quickly saddened realizing he had denied the possibility of love to so many humans because their cruelty to one another.

The Fox smiled at his quasi son saying "I guess it does...Son"

That word brought so much happiness to the being who was filled with malevolence and anger, son, he had a family again. Albeit he was still trapped within his son, but one thing at a time. It was the first time since his time with the Rikudo Sennin. The Great Demon Fox smiled as he realized that he stuck inside of one of the good humans, one that would be raised by his former a host to seek love, in this moment Kurama realized he would help this young boy as if he was the father we wouldn't have.

"A few last things Naruto-kun… I think it might be best if you hide your features behind a henge… Second show those in the academy how strong you are, you wouldn't want to look like a weak 'Demon brat' would you?… Lastly, probable side effects of my chakra, you'll be stronger, faster, have far more chakra than others, I'd speculate your reaction time with those eyes could rival that of the sharingan, you'd find that all of your senses have been heightened to extreme levels, so try not injure anyone too badly."

"Absolutely Kurama-kun! I'll make you proud! Believe it!" Naruto said before closing his eyes and leaving his mindscape.