So here we go with chapter 4.

I really HAD to fight my laziness to pick up my laptop. Really wish I was shikamaru right now. Moving on. I chose to shorten shisui's little battle because going with the whole thing would be way to much work.

NOW ONWARD TO THE STORY!

After half a month of preparation shisui was prepared to go through with his plan. In all honesty he wasn't really preparing because there was no need to prepare anything. The plan was quite simple, go in cast his kotoamatsukami and stop the coup. It was simple, the past two weeks were just used so he could gather up all his confidence.

It was difficult keeping his plan a secret from his best friend, Itachi, especially with him being as perspective as he is. And once itachi does find out he'll probably be mad at him for doing this without him. But no matter, shisui knew this was necessary to keep everyone together.

He took off into the trees and began to dash from branch to branch. If his plan succeeds everything will be okay, for his clan and the village. Reaching his destination shisui looked out at his clan compound. He watched as families went about their lives happily. Children were running around with their parents living carefree. It brought a smile to shisui's face, but it soon turned into a frown by his next thought. 'I can't believe those power hungry fools would risk this all because of their pathetic pride. Well no more.'

As he was preparing to cast his kotoamatsukami, he sensed a presence. Quickly turning around he saw a pair of kunai hurling towards him. He jumped off the branch he was perched on and began to run deeper into the forest. He entered field presumably a training ground, then turned around to face his pursuers.

They appeared from the forest a second later. There were five of them, they all wore masks like Anbu, but shisui could tell they were not Anbu. 'ROOT ninja. This must be Danzo's doing.'

After finishing that thought Danzo appeared behind the group of masked shinobi that attacked him. "Very well done. Your reputation precedes you shisui of the Teleportation."

"DANZO! What is the meaning of this?"

"Kotoamatsukami a genjutsu that inserts false experiences into a persons mind. Such an ability is wasted on stopping a mere coup, don't you think? It would be in better use in the hands of someone like me."

"So that's what your after. I won't let you ruin my clan for your selfish ambitions!" Shisui was fuming with anger as he stared down this man who dares to stand in his way.

"Selfish? Your mistaken all of my ambitions are for the good of the village. And your clan was ruined to begin with. Once this coup is stopped there will be another not too far behind. So it is best just to get rid of them."

Getting into his fighting stance, shisui looked at Danzo with the intent to kill. "I won't let you!"

The ROOT ninja were prepared to attack, but were stopped by Danzo who put a hand up for them to stand down. "I will handle this, you all stay back." They nodded and disappeared into the forest. Danzo tured his attention back to shisui who had his sharingan blazing and ready. Danzo only smirked at him. "Prepare yourself boy."

"I should be saying the same to you.(Fire style: Fire ball jutsu)" A huge fire came directly toward Danzo who dodged to the side without much effort. He began to weave hand signs and took a deep breath."(Wind style: Air bullets)"

Clear projectiles flew by shisui as he flipped over the deadly bullets, but not without taking minor damage. His arm was cut around his bicep with his ankle, but it was barely a nick.

Shisui began to rush Danzo while weaving hand signs."(Fire style: Phoenix flower jutsu)" Little fire balls headed toward Danzo who kept on dodging not noticing shisui closing in on him. When shisui was in proximity he threw a punch to Danzo's face effectively catching the old man off guard. Danzo quickly recovered and kicked shisui in the gut, then aimed for his face, but the kick was stopped mid-swing by shisui right hand. With his physical strength shisui tossed Danzo toward a tree by his leg causing Danzo to hit the tree head first. Pulling out a kunai shisui ran toward his downed opponent. Danzo got up to see shisui heading his way. Thinking fast Danzo pulled out a few shuriken and threw it at shisui, but not before adding some of his wind nature to it making them look like disks.

Seeing the shuriken coming at him and the wind nature added to them shisui knew they'd cut right threw his kunai. Without a second thought shisui ducked under the shuriken and threw his kunai at Danzo. In retaliation Danzo threw his own kunai at shisui's kunai causing them to collide and proceed to fall to the ground harmlessly.

Their battle soon turned into fierce taijutsu with shisui having the upper-hand on the old man. With each punch and kick their movement was getting sluggish and their breathing was getting harder.

Taijutsu soon turned into Ninjutsu and with all their advanced and high level jutsu their chakra was depleting at a fast rate. After their final clash in the air they were standing in the middle of the field trying to catch their breath. Danzo was the first to speak. "I guess it won't be easy taking that eye. In that case I'll have to make an opportunity." He lifted his hand signaling to the ROOT ninja who were hiding in the bushes behind him to come forth. They instantly appeared in front of Danzo who ordered them to attack.

Shisui saw the ROOT ninja heading his way and quickly went on the defense. That was all he could do, he was nearly out of chakra and he was also physically exhausted. His movements weren't perfect causing him to leave a few openings which Danzo took account of.

With a burst of speed Danzo appeared behind shisui with an outstretched arm. Shisui turned around only to feel a stinging pain in his right eye. Dashing away from Danzo he covered his right eye only to realize it wasn't there anymore. Looking back at Danzo with his left eye, he saw Danzo holding his eye in his hand.

Danzo ordered his men to extract shisui left eye as well, but shisui knew he couldn't let that happen.'I've got to get away.' Digging into his pouch shisui took out two smoke bomb and threw them onto the ground. Under the cover of the smoke he used the shunshin jutsu to teleport away.

Once the smoke cleared and shisui was gone, Danzo began to order his ROOT ninja. "Find him he couldn't have gone far." They bowed and took off into the forest leaving Danzo alone in the clearing.

At the ninja academy things were normal and for naruto normal meant boring. The past two weeks went by like the first day. Iruka-sensei would lecture the class on something he already knew, they'd break for lunch, then they would return to iruka-sensei's boring lecture. The only upside would be Hinata. She was the only person he spoke to and it seemed he was the only person that she would speak to. Most of the other girls would be fawning over sasuke who acted indifferent to everyone else. Naruto just passed this on as the uchiha clan's pride or a superiority complex. At the moment he was the best in the class at ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu only because naruto chose not to show any of his real skill this soon.

Besides the girls and sasuke, naruto has had a few interactions with his other classmates. He had met them during his time in detention for spacing out in class. The first was a boy named Shikamaru Nara and like many from the Nara clan he was very lazy and would sleep in class. The other was Kiba Inuzuka, he was quite loud, but he helped out naruto pull a few pranks on Iruka-sensei. The last was Choji Akimichi, he always had a bag of chips with him in class and he almost beat naruto at a ramen eating contest. Kurama wasn't very happy at the amount of ramen naruto had eaten that day so the next day naruto's training was doubled as punishment.

As for Hinata she was the one person naruto talked to the most since she was the only one he called 'Friend'. But even though he didn't call those other guys his friends it still made him happy knowing he could get along with others. Back to Hinata, naruto found her to be as insecure as she is shy. When she made lunch for them last week she kept telling him how it might not be that good, but when he tasted her food he was captivated by how good it was. When he voiced his thoughts on her meal she would just turn away in embarrassment.

He still tried to get her over her shyness, but he had to admit it was a challenge. One time he asked her why she blushed all the time and the next thing he knew she fainted. 'Maybe its an illness.' he thought but chose not to question her any further. She was still kind as ever especially when sparring. It didn't matter who her opponent was she would hold back her punches so she wouldn't hurt anyone. Naruto knew he'd have to fix that at some point.

They were all in lunch at the moment and naruto was with Hinata in their usual place under the tree they had their first lunch. "So Hinata-chan what did you make today?"

Hinata pulled out a box and opened it to reveal her latest delicacy. Naruto just drooled at the sight and he couldn't believe what he was looking at. "Is that ramen?" Hinata just blushed and nodded her head timidly. "I-I m-made it for y-you, N-naruto-kun."

"Really?! Thanks a lot Hinata-chan I can't wait to try it." Hinata removed the bowl from the box with a pair of chopsticks, handing the bowl over to naruto. She reached into the box to take out her own lunch, but she waited for naruto to taste her homemade ramen before eating her own meal. After he took the first bite he just stared at the bowl without saying a thing. Hinata was getting worried that it wasn't good and that he didn't like it. "I-is it a-alright?"

He still didn't give an answer and hinata was about to begin apologizing before he yelled out. "THIS IS THE BEST RAMEN EVER!" His outburst got the attention of their entire class who began to glare at him for being noisy. He ignored the glares and turned to hinata with a large smile an his face. "This ramen of yours is even better than ichiraku's, but don't tell him I said that."

"R-really?"

"Yep, never tasted anything like it."

On the inside Hinata was jumping with joy. Last night she wanted to make naruto a special lunch and with his love for ramen she thought she could make something he would enjoy. She never expected him to like it this much. It brought a nice warm feeling to her heart knowing she made him happy.

After lunch, class had begun again and naruto was just waitng for the time to run out. It was almost time to leave and Iruka wanted to announce something. "Listen up everyone! Tomorrow we'll be having a tournament to determine where you stand in class so come prepared. You are dismissed."

Naruto walked out along side hinata who seemed worried. "What's the matter Hinata-chan?" She kept her eyes on the ground, but still answered his question. "W-well t-tomorrow-"

"You're worried about fighting, right?"

She only nodded as he continued "Don't worry about it Hinata-chan you'll do great. Your the strongest girl I know."

She lifted her head and looked at him with shock clear on her face. "You think I'm strong." Naruto began to grin noting how she didn't stutter. "Of course I do and you should to."

Getting over her shock she started blushing again and nodded. "T-thank you, Naruto-kun I'll do my best." They came to a crossroads and took off in separate directions after saying their good-byes.

On her way home Hinata had a new found confidence and determination, while thinking about her blond friend. 'I won't disappoint you Naruto-kun.'

'Those were some encouraging words back their kit.' kurama had been listening to the whole thing since he really didn't have anything better to do. When your kept prisoner inside someone you find out that all you can really do with your time is sleep or think. The only activity that you can actually find entertaining is checking on your wardens daily life, which kurama has been doing for the past year training the boy.

So the little moment that transpired between his jailer and the hyuga girl hadn't gone unnoticed by the demon fox. He was rather intrigued with how naruto acted around the girl. Naruto seemed happier than he has ever seen him and it was the girls doing.

'Well I'm glad you think so because they were meant to encourage her.' Naruto sounded rather proud that he could help hinata and he was. It meant that he could help others especially people close to him like hinata.

'Hm, sounds like your quite smitten with her.' Kurama had a nice devious smile adorning his lips as he spoke. His amusement only grew as naruto began to stutter and trip over his own words. 'Its not like that. I just want her to be more confident in herself. We're just friends.'

'Whatever you say kit... I'm sure she'll become a fine mate in the future.' he whispered the last part to himself so naruto wouldn't overhear, but naruto did hear it but not so clearly. 'What was that sensei?'

'NOTHING! Just talking to myself. Now get a move on or I'll double your training again.'

'HAI SENSEI!' Naruto made a sprint toward his secret training ground to begin his daily training regiment. He had doubled his weights that kurama had required him to wear at all times, even in his sleep. It slowed him down more than usual with the added weight, but it made him even faster and stronger. He could basically see the results when he sparred with them off, he amazed himself on how fast he was progressing. 'I guess taking kurama-sensei's offer on advance weight training was a good call'

When he arrived to his training ground he found it a little beat up. There were kunai and shuriken scattered everywhere, some of the grass looked charred, and a few tree were either falling apart or completely destroyed. But what he noticed the most was the blood that had tainted the green grass with its dark rosy red. 'Was there a battle here? But how did they find this training ground?'

Naruto prepared his kunai just incase anybody was still in the area. 'Kurama-sensei can you sense anyone nearby?'

'No kit we're the only ones here.'

Naruto put away his kunai and let out a sigh. He was hoping no one would find this place, but since it was discovered he would have to relocate to a different training ground to avoid detection. 'Damn and just when this place was starting to grow on me.'

'Yeah it real sad, now lets get going I already have a training ground in mind.'

Naruto perked up instantly forgetting about his previous depression and wondered what the fox had in mind. 'Really where to?'

'Have you ever heard of The Forest of Death'

Itachi was running through the night at his full speed. He had stayed home until sasuke went to bed until he received a message from his best friend, shisui. Itachi hadn't seen him for about two weeks, he was beginning to get worried. Though they grew up together and were best friends, itachi always thought of shisui as an older brother. Even in times of war they were close. The war actually helped them see beyond the Uchiha Clan's pride and help them see the bigger picture. This is why even now they went against their Clan and their coup for the sake of the village.

After what seemed like forever he finally arrived to their usual spot. They always went here to train or just talk. Sometimes they even brought sasuke out here to help him train, but that was mostly shisui's idea. Itachi won't deny that he has been neglecting sasuke's training but he believed it was for the best.

He really liked this training ground because of the ravine that was right next to it. The falling of the water always gave a sense serenity and peace that he wished would never go away. It was the perfect place to think for him.

Walking into the clearing he found shisui at the edge of the ravine staring at the stream below. Itachi walked up to him making his presence known. When shisui turned to face him itachi took notice of his missing eye. "What happened to your eye?"

Shisui let out a sigh before reverting his gaze to the stream. "The foundation is involved with the coup. Its seems its impossible to stop it now. And if civil war breaks out, neighboring countries will take advantage and start another great ninja world war." He turned back around to face itachi before speaking any further. "Danzo took my right eye, when I was planning to use kotoamatsukami."

He began to raise his left hand up to his remaining eye and pulled it out swiftly. "I'm sure they'll come after my left eye as well, so I'll be trusting you to keep it." He laid his hand out for itachi to take the eye. Itachi put his hand over shisui's and gently took the eye into his palm. Itachi looked at it for a second before turning his attention back to shisui. "That's not the only thing I'm giving you. I have something else for you as well." Itachi looked at shisui expectantly as a moment of silence went by before shisui broke it. "... The Mangekyo Sharingan."

Itachi's eyes widened in surprise. "W-what? Shisui you can't-"

"Take it as a dying wish from me." Itachi surprised expression soon turned into one of sadness and worry as he heard his friend talking about dying. Shisui on the other hand seemed amused and let out a small chuckle. "What's with that look. You know I can still see your face even like this." Putting his hand on itachi's shoulder, he gave him a nice toothy smile. "Come on your itachi Uchiha you shouldn't worry. I'm absolutely certain you can handle this just stay calm like you always are."

Itachi recollected himself and spoke as calmly as he could in the face of his best friends certain death. "I will carry on your will for our clan... "

"I know you can do will I only regret not being their to carry this burden with you." His grip tightened on itachi's shoulder, but he kept talking. "I believe in you to carry on my will and the Mangekyo... Good-bye my friend. Stay strong even in the most darkest of moments."

Shisui let go of itachi's and backed up to the edge of the ravine. "Have faith in yourself itachi... like I do." He fell toward the stream and that was the last time itachi had seen Shisui. But was also the time his Mangekyo Sharingan was unlocked. He closed his eyes in the memory of his fallen friend.

"Rest in peace, Shisui"

So I hope I followed shisui's little adventure to a certain extent.

Now in our next chapter the Uchiha Clan will be no more and naruto will be closer to Graduation than before.

YO that rhymed. I wasn't even trying to do that. COOL!

See you guys next time. :)