Chapter 1
Namikaze Naruto was now six years old and was just about to start his first year in the academy. He entered the academy with great expectations to live up to what is father was. He was the son of a legend. Namikaze Minato was considered the strongest shinobi alive, and Naruto felt the weight of that weighing down on him even at the age of six.
"Naruto!" His mother called out. It was the first day of class, and she was going to wake him up. "Naruto?" She slowly opened the door to his room. The bed in his room was empty. "Where are you?" She called out in the dark room.
"Something the matter?" She felt a pair of hands wrap themselves around her waist. She spun around to see her husband with a towel wrapped around his neck and no shirt on.
"Naruto isn't in his room." She gave her husband a kiss, and just as she was enjoying it, the sound of crying came from a room down the hall.
"I'll take care of it." Her husband said after he broke the kiss. "Check out back." He gave her another kiss on the cheek before he walked down the hallway towards the crying. Namikaze Minato, strongest shinobi in the world, was no match for his two year old daughter. She would look at him with those eyes, and he was melt and give her anything she wanted.
"Naruto?" His mother called out the back door. The yard was huge, and he could be anywhere.
"Mom?" Naruto walked around the corner of the house. He wore a white tee shirt with black pants on.
"There you are!" She walked over and hugged him.
"I couldn't sleep, so I went for a walk through the woods." Naruto returned the hug. Kushina put an arm on her sons shoulder and led him back inside. She had breakfast all ready for him. Minato sat at the table with his sister, Tami, in his arms.
"Hey dad!" Naruto called to his dad.
The elder Namikaze grinned at his son. "Eat up quick. Not much time until you have to be at school." Naruto jumped into the seat next to his dad and started to inhale his food.
"Naruto! Chew!" His mother scolded at him. He shrunk back from her with a nod. His dad chuckled at him as he took a drink from his coffee. "You better eat quick too, Minato!" She turned in scorn to her husband.
"Yes, dear." He replied as he put his daughter down to eat his breakfast. Naruto let out a laugh at how the great Yellow Flash of Konoha submitted to his wife so obediently. "Don't laugh. It will happen to you one day too."
"Yeah right!" Naruto shouted at his father.
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Hatake Kakashi leaned against the wall on the roof of a building in Konoha. He let out a sigh and closed his book. "It is impossible to read with this thing on." He removed his ANBU mask to readjust his forehead protector that covered his sharingan. Today was the first day of a several year assignment assigned to him by his sensei. His job was to watch Naruto's every move outside of the Namikaze estate until he graduated the academy.
Kakashi's eyes drifted over the massive house in front of him. Naruto would be leaving soon, his father was going to escort him this morning, but it was still his job to watch over him from a distance. Just as Kakashi's mind was beginning to wander, he noticed movement from the house. His sensei dressed in his full Hokage garb, and Naruto walked out of the house. Minato had an arm on Naruto's shoulder as they walked past the main gate of the estate. The Hokage's eyes glanced up to where Kakashi stood, the white haired ANBU captain gave the forth a quick wave before he disappeared out of sight.
"Are you excited, Naruto?" Minato turned his attention back to his son and ruffled his hair.
"Of course!" The young boy gave his father a grin. The walk to the academy was no different then any other walk with his father. People stopped to thank his father for something, or they would just bow to him. It was the life of being the son of a Hokage.
Naruto and Minato arrived that the entrance to the academy. Many other first year students were there with their parents as well Several of the parents that were shinobi came up and greeted his father. Some were genin, some were chuunin, and only a few were jounin. It didn't matter though, he knew all there names, and he asked questions about their families or friends. They would politely reply before excusing themselves. At around seven o'clock, the head teacher of the school, Umino Iruka, came out to greet them.
"Welcome all new students and future shinobi of Konoha. I'm glad to see that this class looks to be eager and prepared to learn." Iruka eyes moved over the parents that stood with their children, and of course he stopped when he saw the Hokage. "All the students can accompany me into the school, we will get them into their classes for the next several years." With those words, the parents let their children leave and follow Iruka into the academy. The forth caught the attention of the teacher and beckoned him over.
"Good to see you again, Iruka-san." Minato gave the younger man a smile.
"You too, Hokage-sama. Is there something I can do for you?" Iruka returned the smile.
"Yes." Minato put an arm around the mans shoulders. "Please don't show Naruto any special treatment. I want him to have to earn everything he will get. I don't want him to be given anything because of who I am."
"Absolutely, Hokage-sama. I understand." Iruka gave the Hokage and bow before he left to return to the students.
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In a dark room, three people sat at a table. Several folders laid on the table. "What do we do about this?" One of them spoke, it was a male voice.
"What can we do? They are planning civil war. We have to strike." Another man spoke.
"It won't be easy to destroy them. They are the elite of Konoha." This time a woman spoke.
"From the inside then. We must plant one of our own." The second man said.
"We will leave that to your ANBU." The woman replied.
"Do we tell the Hokage of the plan?" The first man spoke. The room was silent for a few moments.
"No, he will object and he is too strong to go against in this. We will do that as an act on our own." The second man said.
"Whoever we plant in the clan will have to know, should he fail we will not acknowledge anything about this." The first man said.
"He will understand."
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Naruto had taken a seat in the middle of the room. He was seated next to Aburame Shino, a quiet boy that kept to himself, and Yamanaka Ino, a blond girl with a big mouth. Naruto frowned at the prospect of sitting next to her for the next year. She had already attempted to get very friendly with him by placing a hand on his thigh as she introduced herself. Around the room, all the children were laughing and talking until the door swung open and Iruka walked through. Another shinobi followed behind him.
"Quiet down." Iruka stepped in front of the class. "For the next several years, I will be your instructor. You all will stay in the same class to develop friendships and work as a team. When you graduate, all of you will be assigned into teams with people in this class." Naruto sat back in his chair and looked around the class. There was a Uchiha, a Hyuuga, and the son of the Hokage, it was quite the group. After Iruka explained to them about what the next few years would be like, he started going over the schedule they would use over the course of this year. After all of the schedules were taken care of, he told them he would be calling them up one by one to perform a test that he would use to place them in groups for the rest of the year. A weaker student with a stronger student.
One at a time, the class got up to do the test. Iruka had a list of things for them to do and based on how many from the list you could do, he would assign you are rank in the class. First on the list was to perform a clone of yourself, nearly everyone in the class had been able to do that. Second was to use the replacement technique for on themselves. About half the class was able to perform that. The third test was to make another clone, and then have it transform into another person. Only two people in the class could do that.
Namikaze Naruto walked to the front of the class to perform the third part of the entrance test. "Bushin no jutsu!" He called out after making the hand seals. A single clone appeared next to him. The clone stood there for a second, before it called out, "Henge no jutsu!" There was a poof of smoke and after it cleared a perfect copy of the forth Hokage stood there.
"Very well done, Naruto!" Iruka said to the boy as the blond gave a grin to everyone in the class. The second person to be able to do it was Uchiha Sasuke. He made the clone, and then he had his clone simply transform into a copy of Iruka. "You too, Sasuke. Well done." Sasuke smiled at his teacher before returning to his seat. After the rest of the class attempted the test, Iruka began to assign pairs for the students. Sasuke was paired with Yamanaka Ino for which she got glares at from all the girls in the room, and Naruto was paired with Hyuuga Hinata. Naruto was a little shocked to see that the quiet Hyuuga was struggling with such simple techniques.
"H-Hello Naruto-kun." She spoke in a voice that was barely a whisper. Her eyes never making contact with his.
Naruto took a seat next to her, "Hi, Hinata-san." He gave her a big grin which caused the girls pale cheeks to turn a tint of red. Naruto hoped that the shy girl would open up to him eventually.
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It was now several months after the start of the year at the academy. Naruto and Sasuke were still tied for number one in the class. Hinata had improved with the help of Naruto, he had made sure to invite her to his house after every day so that they could work together on training If Hinata was shy around Naruto, meeting the Hokage for the first time in person she nearly passed out.
"Hello, Hinata-chan." The smiling Hokage said to her as she walked in the door behind Naruto.
"H-H-Hokage-sama." Was all she could muster to say. Minato place a hand on the girls shoulder and dropped to one knee.
"There is no need to be so shy. I don't bite." He looked her in the eyes. Under his gaze she shrank even more and looked away. Minato let out a soft chuckle and stood up. "Well Naruto-kun, if you guys want I can train with you for a few hours on the weekend." He looked over at his son, who Hinata was now hiding behind. The six year old's eyes lit up at that.
"Really dad?!" He nearly shouted. The forth Hokage gave a nod to his son, who ran over and hugged his waist. "Thank you dad!" Naruto finally broke the hug after a knock came from the door. Minato walked to the door and saw who was behind it.
"Naruto, can you and Hinata go to the kitchen? There is someone here who I have to speak to in private." He asked. Naruto gave his father a nod before grabbing Hinata's hand and leading her to the kitchen. Minato opened the door to reveal a ANBU standing behind it. "Come in." He said as he moved aside to let him come in.
The ANBU walked into the house and stood at attention in front of the Hokage. "What are your orders, Hokage-sama?" Minato let out a sigh.
"Don't be so formal, Kakashi-kun." Minato said as the ANBU removed his mask. Kakashi's eye was half open as it always was when he wasn't fighting.
"What are your orders, sensei?" Kakashi slumped down into a chair in the living room of the Hokage's house.
Minato walked next to him and sat down. "This assignment takes priority over your other mission. Tenzo will be handling that. Starting immediately you are to watch over the Uchiha for anything suspicious."
Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Why?"
"With the death of Uchiha Shisui, I believe something is going to happen." Minato leaned back in his chair.
"They have already question Uchiha Itachi in the death. It appeared to be a drowning." Kakashi told his sensei.
"Is anything ever what it seems when it comes to the Uchiha?" Minato gave his student a small smile.
"You have a point there. Should something happen, what am I to do?" Minato grabbed a box from under a table in front of the chair he was in. He opened it and removed a familiar looking kunai.
"Use this." Minato tossed it to Kakashi. "Start this surveillance right away." Kakashi nodded.
"Of course." Kakashi gave his sensei and bow before leaving.
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The three council members sat in the dark room again. They waited for the man that they had planted in the clan to arrive. The knock at the door signaled the man had arrived. The door slowly opened revealing a person wearing an ANBU mask on the other side.
"Please, come in." The woman of the group spoke to the man.
"Sit." One of the men spoke to the ANBU. The man took at seat at the end of the table across from the three members.
"Thank you." His voice was calm. No emotion at all.
"Tonight is the night."
"Understood."
"Remember if you fail, we will not help you."
"Understood."
"Do not fail us, Itachi."
"I won't."
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Kakashi had been watching over the Uchiha compound for a week now. Nothing of any significances had occurred, but he was still assigned here on an A-Class mission. The sun had been in the sky for about 45 minutes when he noticed a child run from what of the houses. It was Uchiha Sasuke, a boy considered a genius and given who is brother was, he had a lot to live up too. The young boy kissed his mother good bye, a former Jounin herself, and he ran down the road past the normal villagers of the Uchiha. The ones that didn't become shinobi ran the village. Bakers, blacksmiths, and all matter of other jobs.
Several hours had passed and it was just an average day in the compound. The only thing that caught the attention of Kakashi was the arrival of Uchiha Itachi. They had worked together on a few missions with the ANBU before, but they never really got to know each other. Itachi was a quiet boy, a few years younger then Kakashi, and he was the second youngest person to ever graduate the academy.
Kakashi decided to follow Itachi from a distance. He was considered the strongest of the Uchiha, and Kakashi had no idea if he had to fight him could he win. Itachi's walk threw the village brought him to the entrance of the compound as the sun was setting, and it is was then that Kakashi noticed something was wrong. The younger man walked to the gates with a hand on his katana he had on his back and with two quick slices, he cut down the two guards at gate. Kakashi reached into his kunai pouch and removed the triple pronged blade. In a swift motion, he tossed the kunai at Uchiha that was standing over the bodies of the men he just killed. The kunai zipped past the head of Itachi causing him to look in the direction it came from. He noticed Kakashi standing on a nearby rooftop.
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"I need you to sign this, Hokage-sama." Mitokado Homura, one of the elder members of the council in Konoha.
"What is it?" A sighing forth looked up at the old man.
"Nothing important, just a land dispute with some local lords." The former teammate of the third Hokage was trying to keep him occupied. Danzo made it clear that should the Hokage learn of what was about to happen, he would stop it and perhaps kill Itachi. Minato leaned back in his chair and sighed. He wish he could go home right now. Today was the day that Naruto, Hinata, and himself were suppose to train. Five miles away, the throwing of one of his three pronged kunai caught is full attention.
"Excuse me, Homura-san." Minato stood up and vanished from the office. The older man cursed.
Five miles away, Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi stood ten yards apart. "Kakashi-sempai, what brings you to your little corner of the village?" The emotionless voice of Itachi disturbed his elder.
"I was in the neighborhood. Thought I would stop by." Kakashi said with a smile. Itachi's eyes turned from black to red. Kakashi started to remove the cover over his own sharingan, when someone appeared in front of him. "Sensei?" Kakashi asked, but the blond hair and the robe he wore gave it away.
"Hokage-sama." Itachi bowed. Itachi respected the forth more than anyone.
"Itachi-kun, what is the meaning of this?" Minato saw the bodies behind the boy and the blood dripping from his sword. There were more bodies then when Kakashi had thrown the kunai. Several Uchiha shinobi jumped into stop Itachi and were easily cut down.
Itachi carefully remember the story he was told to tell. "This clan is a disease to the world. I am simply removing that disease. I don't want to, but if I must I will kill you too, Hokage-sama." Itachi's eyes never left the person known as the Yellow Flash.
"A disease? You are going to kill your entire clan?" Minato was shocked.
Itachi nodded. "It must be done for the good of the village. The Uchiha are corrupting everything they touch. You may be feared all over the world, but with my sharingan I should be able to counter your speed." Again, his eyes never left the Hokage. He would not be caught by surprise by this man. One moment the forth was standing before him, the next he could feel the cold blade of a kunai pressed against his throat.
"Your sharingan could counter my speed, if I was actually physically moving." Minato spoke from behind Itachi. Kakashi blinked in surprise. No matter how many times he saw his sensei do it, it always amazed him. One moment he was a few feet in front of him, the next he was twenty yards away with a kunai to Itachi's throat. This all happened in less then a second.
"That is impossible." Itachi stammered as he felt the Yellow Flash grab the hilt of his katana.
Minato forced the Uchiha to his knees and placed a cloth over his eyes taking no chances with the sharingan he commanded. "You just do not understand the jutsu. I do not move any part of my body to move." Minato didn't want to explain the technique that made him who he was. Kakashi understood Itachi's confusion. When Kakashi first saw his sensei use it in the war, he assumed that he was just moving faster than the eye could see, but he slowly began to realize that it wasn't that. Minato had explained that he was moving through space and time, not physical space. There for it would be impossible to intercept him or prevent him from doing it. He can appear anywhere within his field of view and anywhere he has one of his scrolls.
Several ANBU arrived on the seen seconds after the forth subdued Itachi. "Hokage-sama!" Minato looked up with a smile.
"Place him under arrest. Do not under any circumstance remove the blindfold." The forth ordered. The four ANBU that arrived grabbed Itachi and dragged him to their headquarters. Minato dropped to a knee by the bodies of the men and women Itachi had killed. A few of them were shinobi, but some of them were civilians. Minato shook his head, how could someone do this to his on kinsmen.
"What is this!?" An enraged voice roared from behind Itachi. Minato turned his head to see the head of the Uchiha clan and the father of Itachi, Uchiha Fugaku. With him were several members of the police force that the Uchiha ran.
"These are the people that Itachi killed." Minato said calmly as he stood up to face the man.
"Itachi killed them?! You are lying!" He shouted and took a step towards the Hokage. Before he could blink the Hokage was surrounded by five members of the ANBU.
"It is like he says, Fugaku-sama." A Uchiha wearing a leaf forehead protector.
Fugaku's eyes darted to the man that had his head bowed. "Kuno?!" The enraged man gasped when he say the boys face. There was a deep gash going down his face covering his left eye make it useless. "Who did that to you?"
"Itachi did, Fugaku-sama." Uchiha Kuno bowed even lower to avoid the wrath of the head of the clan. Fugaku narrowed his eyes at the boy and glanced at the Hokage before spinning away and walking off.
"Kakashi." Minato turned to his student. The white haired jounin looked up at him. "Bring a squad to take these bodies to their famlies." Kakashi nodded before he jumped off. Minato let out a sigh before leaving the compound. Itachi had always been a nice kid, something wasn't adding up.
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"He failed, but Yondaime didn't kill him." Danzo stood in the office of the main advisor to the third Hokage.
"Him not being dead means nothing. Should he break during interrogation it could be disastrous." The advisor Mitokado Homura spoke.
"We should eliminate him so he can't be broke."
"Root?"
"There is no other way."
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Days later the funeral for those that had be killed by Itachi was held. The Hokage made a speech to the families of the deceased. He spoke of them as people and as friends. He told the families that every day the memory will live on in the hearts of everyone in Konoha.
Unknown to the Hokage a few miles away in the headquarters of the ANBU, a man who looked like a normal member of the ANBU approached the cell that held Uchiha Itachi.
"You aren't permitted to be here." The guard outside the cell told the man.
"My apologies." The man politely bowed before turning around. The ANBU guard watched the man walk away. Just as he was about to round the corner, he quickly turned and threw a kunai at the guard who had now looked away. The kunai struck the guard in the neck and he fell to the floor. "I am sorry." The man pulled the kunai out of the guards neck and grabbed the keys that hung on his waist. He placed the key into the door and turned the knob. Nothing happened.
"Did you think it would be that easy?" Another ANBU leaned against the wall down the hall.
"No." The intruder turned. "Kakashi-sempai." He gave the whited haired man a bow.
"You know me, but I don't know you." Kakashi moved from the wall and began down the hallway.
"I've never actually met you. I only know you by reputation." The man was overly polite. He was trying to lull Kakashi into relaxing. Not to be fooled Kakashi causally moved his hand up acting like he was scratching his head, but he removed the cover from his sharingan.
"I'm honored." Kakashi replied. The jounin stopped a few feet from the man.
"How did you know I was here?" The intruder asked as he gripped at a kunai attached to the back of his belt. Kakashi noticed and lunged at the man with a kunai in hand. The intruder blocked Kakashi's attack before attempting to make an attack of his own. Kakashi grabbed his wrist and twisted forcing him to drop the blade. With the man disarmed, Kakashi forced him to his knees and put his own knife against his throat.
Kakashi press a button on the wall and in seconds four more ANBU were around him. "By the way, I knew you didn't belong because I know everyones mask. I didn't know yours." The defeated man laughed as he was taken away.
"The legendary Copy Ninja does not disappoint." The prison continued to laugh as he was dragged down the hallway. Kakashi turned to the cell, the door was undisturbed and the seal place on it was unchanged, but he had to know for sure. Kakashi made a few hand seals before he placed a hand on the door, it emitted a light glow and the latch clicked.
"Kakashi-sempai." Itachi looked up. Although he wore a blindfold, he still knew who entered the room.
"Someone was attempting to rescue you or kill you." Kakashi told the younger man before he closed the door and reapplied the seal.
Several hours later, Kakashi stood before the Hokage making a report on the event. Minato leaned back his chair and closed his eyes. "Assassination? Or rescue?" He asked.
"Unknown." Kakashi explained. "He is being interrogated as we speak."
"Keep me updated." The forth ordered and with that Kakashi bowed and left the room. The blond haired man looked up at the clock, "Damnit, Kushina is going to kill me!" He quickly jumped out of his chair and rushed home to avoid the wrath from his wife.
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Five years later, Namikaze Naruto was the head of his class, number one in the school, and he was about to become a genin. The test he was going to take was just a formality. Several of his instructors had wanted to give him the test when he was eight, but his father insisted he stay for the full term. No one from his class had graduated early either. Three, including Naruto, could have though. Uchiha Sasuke was just as respected as Naruto in most areas, and Hyuuga Hinata was better at taijutsu then even Naruto. She also had access to her bloodline already. Something that the Uchiha heir didn't have yet.
The young Uchiha heir walked down the road behind his mother and father. Behind him was one of his uncles. They were on their to the yearly visit they had with his older brother Itachi. Sasuke only came because his mother asked him. Sasuke wanted little to do with the traitor as possible. He wanted to become a good shinobi. His father on the other hand dreaded these visits more then anything. Every time he saw Itachi he asked him, "How could you fail us like this?" Itachi never replied. Sasuke didn't know if he didn't have an answer or if he just did want to give his father the pleasure of hearing his reply.
"Sasuke-kun?" His mother called out knocking the boy from his thoughts.
"Yes?" He gave his mom a smile. He loved her very much. When his father never used to give him the time before Itachi was locked away, his mother was always there for him. She was a shinobi just like everyone else in his family. She wasn't on active duty anymore though. There was a rule stating that any mother with two or more children would be removed from active duty if both children entered the academy.
"Is something the matter?" She always asked him as when they visited his brother. The young heir noticed his father's head move slightly to glance at his youngest son.
"I just don't like going to see him." He replied.
"But he is--"
Sasuke cut her off. "I know he's my brother, but he betrayed the village and the clan. I don't want anything to do with a traitor." His mother nodded slowly. She understood, but she still loved her eldest son. Sasuke's father spun his head completely around to look at his sun. His sharingan was showing and his fist was shaking in anger. Sasuke felt fear as his father stopped walking to look at the boy.
His mom placed a hand on her husband's shoulder instantly calming him. She whispered something in his ear that Sasuke couldn't hear, and his sharingan faded to black and he continued to walk. It took several more minutes before they arrived that the prison of Konoha. It was in the basement of the ANBU's headquarters. They never normally allowed visitors to anyone held here, but the leader of the Uchiha had a lot of power.
Sasuke stood in the back of the room as his mother talked to her other son through the glass. His eyes were always blindfolded. They didn't trust him enough to let him see even his family. Should he even attempt to remove the blindfold, he would have been killed on the spot. After a few minutes, his mother called him over.
"He wishes to speak with you." She told him and kissed him on the forehead. Sasuke took a seat as his mother lead his father and uncle from the room.
"Hello, little brother." Itachi spoke through a hole in the glass. Sasuke didn't reply. "I know you are there. My eyes may be covered, but I can still feel you."
"What do you want?" Sasuke's voice was cold.
"Do you hate me?" Itachi had a hint of pain in his voice. There was no reply. "I have something I want to tell you." Sasuke rose an eyebrow. Why would his brother need to tell him anything?
"What is it?" His voice still cold, but he was intrigued.
"Do not trust our clan." Itachi spoke slowly and very clear.
"What?" What could this be about?
"They are planning something terrible, you must not trust them. Do not tell anyone I told you this or they may--" He stopped talking as he heard the door behind Sasuke open.
"You betray me to them and now you betray me to my own son?!" Sasuke's father roared at his oldest.
"I am your son too. Or have you forgotten?" Itachi was calm.
"You are no son of mine. You are trash!" Fugaku yelled as he pounded on the glass.
"Sasuke, close your eyes please." Itachi ordered his little brother, who shut his eye very tight. Before the ANBU guard could even react, Itachi had his hand free and the man pinned against the wall by his neck. "I will not hurt you." The terrified ANBU nodded as Itachi let him go. Fugaku's eldest son turned his attention back to his father who was standing in horror. Itachi's eyes closed slowly as he poured chakra into them. Opening his eyes again, his father backed away in terror at the site of his son's eyes trying to look away but it was too late.
"You can't!" He shouted before he was pulled into another world.
"In this world." Itachi's voice rang through his father's head like canons going off. "I control everything."
"How do you have it? How do you have the Mangekyo Sharingan?!" His father cried out. There was no immediate reply. Fugaku watched as his son appeared before him.
"For the next seventy two hours, you will know what it is like to die. For the next seventy two hours, you will see what it is like to be a piece of trash." Itachi's voice literally made Fuguka howl in pain as it felt like he was being stabbed over and over again with every word.
Sasuke heard his father cry out in pain and then it was over. "Father?" Sasuke overcame the fear and slowly opened one of his eyes. His father was laying on the floor motionless. His back rose and fell so he was still alive, but he showed no signed of life other than that.
"Sasuke." Itachi said in between heavy breaths. The younger brother slowly rose until his eyes saw Itachi. It appeared he had been crying blood. "Do not trust the clan. They are the real traitors. Not me." After the last words, Itachi fell from his chair passed out from exhaustion. The terrified ANBU that Itachi let live slowly walked over to the collapsed man. He had a smile on his face even while unconscious.
"Sasuke-kun!" The young heir heard his mother call out as she ran in the door kicked down by his uncle. She embraced the boy in a massive hug as his uncle checked his father.
"What the hell happened?" His uncled looked at him.
"Itachi told me to close my eyes." Sasuke was visibly shaken. He had never felt so much fear as when he heard his fathers screams. The ANBU guard had reapplied Itachi's blindfold and bound his hands again.
"You!" His uncle shouted. "What happened?" He was talking to the guard.
"I don't know." He explained. He tried to tell the furious Uchiha what he saw, but it made no sense to him.
"Did Itachi's eyes appear different from a normal sharingan?" His uncle demanded. The guard nodded his head. His uncle opened his mouth to speak but before he did he turned and ran from the room. Several ANBU came into the room after his uncle ran out to help his father. When they rolled him over, his eyes were open and unblinking, but he didn't respond to anything they did. The men eventually decided to just take him to the hospital.
The ANBU guard picked the unconscious Itachi up and threw him over his shoulder to return him to his cell. "We may call on you later to get a statement." He told Sasuke before walking out of the room. Sasuke was still shaking in fear as his mother hugged him and stroked his hair whispering things to try and calm the boy.
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Minato sat in a meeting with the head of the Hyuuga clan. He was asking the Hokage to have his daughter and the forth's son on the same team. They were very close friends these days, and Hiashi saw that his was making his daughter try hard.
"You know, Hiashi-san." Minato looked the man in the eyes, his cold, emotionless eyes. "Being that they are both at the top of the class, they would not normally be paired up."
Hiashi nodded his head. "I understand, Hokage-sama, but I believe that it would work to their advantage to be on the same team. You can bend the rules just this once, can't you?"
Just as Minato was about to respond, a shinobi came bursting through the door. "Forgive me for intruding, Hokage-sama." He bowed his head deeply.
"What is it?" Minato asked giving the newcomer a warm smile.
"There was a... incident with Uchiha Itachi at the prison." The man looked up. Minato noticed that for the first time since he came in, Hiashi visibly tensed at the name. It was well know that the two most powerful clans in Konoha did not like each other.
"What kind of incident?" The forth asked.
"It is unknown at this time, but Uchiha Teyaki is on his way here. I do not know what he plans to tell you." The shinobi bowed his head.
"Thank you, you are dismissed." Minato told him and the shinobi left the room. "Hiashi-san, it appears I am going to have to deal with this. I will consider your request, and I do agree that it will help both of them if they are on the same team." Hiashi gave the Hokage a slight bow hearing that he agreed with him before getting up to leave.
"Farewell, Hokage-sama." He said before turning to leave. Moments after the head of the Hyuugas left his office, the brother of the head of the Uchiha burst in.
"Hello, Teyaki-san." Minato gave the man a smile.
"You must order the execution of Uchiha Itachi immediately!" He shouted, but the calm demeanor of the Hokage did not change.
"Why is that?" Minato motioned for the man to sit.
"He is too dangerous to be left alive. He has developed an extremely powerful verison of the sharingan. He could possible beat even you in a fight with it." Teyaki spoke as he sat in the chair.
"How did he obtain this new sharingan?" The forth Hokage asked. Teyaki hesitated. Minato took this as him not wanting to say. Perhaps he didn't want to reveal the secret or maybe it was something he knew the Hokage wouldn't like. "Well?" A hint of impatiences was on his voice.
"Well..." Teyaki clearly didn't want to share the secret, but he had now waited too long to claim he didn't know. "You have to kill someone." Minato rose an eyebrow. "You have to kill a person very close to you."
"Family, or friend?" The forth asked.
"What does it matter?! He must be killed!!" Teyaki yelled as he rose from his feet.
"I will take what you have said into consideration." The forth Hokage said as he too rose to his feet.
"Consideration?!" Teyaki roared as he fought the urge to reveal his own sharingan. "You need to kill him. He is too dangerous to be left alive!"
"I will consider it." He repeated his earlier sentiments. Teyaki turned in disgust.
"If you will not do this..." He did not finish before he left the room. Minato took a seat behind his desk again. Never seemed to be a dull day as Hokage.