Elza here
A nice review from LightningStrife, I will be sure to analyze the sasuke fic once I have the time, yet any fix and remakes will have to wait, since after this arc, I will be busy with IRL. But thank you very much for taking your time and reviewing this still 9k words fic of mine. I hope in the future this fic may be able to reach the potential that you've said. Although the fic itself may or may not be continued depending on my schedule. Doing this while doing thesis prep really drains the energies and ideas out of me. I hope somebody is willing to adopt it when the time comes.
As to fanfictionfan456, I am reading it, yet if I did make it too similar, then there is no meaning in me writing this fic in the first place. I will just wait for her to finish her chapters and read. As this fic was born and inspired by Second Time's The Charm. It is also the reason why I am bent on using 1st person POV (before I knew it was so damn hard). To make it a different style of fic, give or take.
It's time for the big unveiling then I suppose, the massacre/ rebellion will have multiple POV's and a 3rd Person's POV. It may be somewhat of an annoyance for those who does not read meticulously, so I suggest that you sit tight, and read. Because the show is about to start :V
Let us begin the CROSS VISION
Disclaimer, I don't own naruto, and this fic is purely fanworks, so all legal credits still goes to Masashi Kishimoto, and credits for idea still goes to Reader06
CROSS VISION : The Rebellion Story
(Itachi's POV)
"I'm sorry Itachi, …D..Danzo got me" Shisui murmured while being in great pain.
"Itachi… please… this is my last sharingan, I'll leave it with you"
The final plan failed. Danzo got to us first; it seems he is bent on having the Uchiha clan massacred. There is no other way, there is no saving for the Uchiha. This clan has no more future.
"Itachi….I'm sorry….and goodbye"
"Wait" I screamed desperately.
He threw his body into the river.
"Shisui….Why did it have to end like this" I said, as great pain runs through my eyes.
This feeling is….Mangekyou Sharingan…With this I'll be able to…
Sasuke…Izuna…I will save them.
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(Sarutobi's POV)
"Itachi, are you sure you are willing to do this?" I said, for a fullborn Uchiha for him to kill his entire clan member. It may have been a cruel destiny, yet we don't have anyone else we can depend on.
"Yes" He replied coldly. It must be horrible for him to even come up with the plan, let alone to execute it by himself, without any help.
"Hokage sama, please protect Izuna and sasuke from Danzo for me" he finishes.
"Very well" It is the least that I could do. Neither past nor future, protecting the will of fire cost many sacrifices. As Itachi departs for his mission I can only frown. Am I doing the right thing? Tobirama sensei.
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(Izumi's POV)
As we are walking home from training, I felt tired. For the past one year, for some unknown reason Izuna suddenly increases our amount of training, sometimes I wonder, who died and made him the instructor of our training. During the past few years his improvement has been tremendous, if i was able to catch him easily 2 years ago. Now it will take me and naruto with 5 of his kagebunshin to even find his whereabouts. Even that will take 3 hours.
Izuna had become the most talented within the group. And since last year, he kept on teaching us new jutsus. I was taught the Tenkyuu and some C rank water releases. Really! he kept on pulling these techniques out of nowhere. He said he learned the stuff on the library. But no library would taught us on how the jutsu can be utilized into it's fullest potential.
I swear, if he was 5 years older. Maybe Itachi wouldn't be hailed as a genius.
And today's training was horribly heavy. I feel sore all over. As we are walking down the street I saw mother and Itachi.
Eh, What?
"Look out" A voice from behind me.
Izuna?
After seeing an unbelievable scene I was suddenly in a place I don't know.
"why did Itachi" I murmured as a great pain goes through my eyes.
"Don't lose to the curse of hatred" Izuna said as I barely recognized him. There he goes... the look that he sometimes show. It's a fierce, strong, yet somewhat gentle look. Like he was protecting something really precious and had gone through a lot of hardships to do so.
"Itachi-nii only does the necessary because it is his mission" A look of sadness replaces the fierce look from before. It's as if a great sacrifice had been made. A look one would never expect of a 7 years old to pull any of those looks. I had my doubts before. But I was never more sure until now. Izuna is not a 7 years old.
"Izuna! What happened? Why did Itachi-nii killed Izumi-nee's mother?" Naruto exclaimed. It seems he was transported here with us. The teleport, it is something similar done by the fourth Hokage.
"Izuna...Who are you?" I said softly as the pain in my eyes diminished little by little.
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"I suppose, the time for me to explain everything had come" Izuna stated in a cold yet fierce tone.
"Itachi is doing something I might have to done in the near future" he coldly stated. "Albeit the way things done, what he is trying to do is protecting the will of fire" he continues.
"Killing my mother... and trying to kill me was to protect the will of fire?" Izumi's tone was that of a shocked one and slowly turns into anguish as she finishes.
"Although I didn't expect any uchiha to understand, I didn't imagine Itachi would do it. Either way. It is bound to happen, sooner or later." Izuna said with a cold and calculating tone.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"The Uchiha is planning to rebel." Izuna stated the cold hard truth. Albeit with a small voice. it was stated clear enough for everyone there to hear.
"What Itachi did was only trying to prevent further bloodshed. If the Uchiha were to rebel, succeeded or not, Konoha will be susceptible to attack. Not to mention the number of victims that may be caused by the rebellion." He continues. Izumi and Naruto looked perplexed.
"As I've said. It was something bound to happen. It's just so happens that Itachi was the one doing it. Or the rebellion happens and the Uchiha or konoha will be obliterated" He finishes.
"Then why did Itachi do it?" Izumi questioned. Tears over her eyes as her mangekyo sharingan becomes visible.
"It's because he is an Uchiha, if he does it. he can play the evil part and this way the uchiha name will not be stained and lives saved as a result. It's because he loves the Uchiha and a successor to the will of fire that he does it" Izuna answers.
"The will of Fire. It is to protect and nurture the next generation. If he does not then I might do it" He finishes.
"Why would the uchiha try to rebel?" Naruto asked, confused.
"It has been so since before the beginning of the village. I suppose some of the fault lies in me" Izuna answers.
"Why?" Naruto exclaimed his question.
"I guess there is no point in hiding it now I suppose" Izuna murmured in a soft yet clear tone.
"Earlier Izumi asked me on who I am, right." Izuna said. Izumi looked perplexed as Izuna suddenly dropped her honorifics.
"Well, you might have not believed it. But I was Tobirama Senjuu" he stated.
"You were Tobirama Senjuu? yea right. if you were Tobirama Senjuu then I'd be the fourth hokage incarnated" Naruto sarcastically stated.
"Whether it's right or not, It does not really matter. Since what is done cannot be undone." Izuna sighed as he stated.
"As I was saying, the peace that was made back then is due to my brother managed to defeat madara who was clan leader back then. As both leader actually wants peace. And the members of the clans are only following it. The big problem comes when it is my reign. Perhaps they felt disappointed" he continued flatly.
"Is it because you force them into the outskirts, and made them a police force?" Izumi questioned as she looked at Izuna with lifeless eyes.
"yes you've noticed. I suppose that is why Itachi tried to kill you too, huh" Izuna sighed.
"It was something my mother told me. The reason she returned to the clan is probably related to the rebellion you were talking about, although she never explained anything more. since the clan's treatments towards us isn't exactly the best" Izumi replied. As she has shown a look of despair towards the whole thing.
"She said that by putting the uchiha near the outskirts, and making them police force. You've managed to push the uchiha's political power out of the way. Slowly killing us by putting us near the front-line and doing the police duty when any conflict arises" She explained.
"Why the hell would you do such a thing?" Naruto exclaimed harshly.
"It's because of the Curse of hatred" Izuna calmly stated.
"The curse of hatred?" both Izumi and Naruto asked.
"The Senjuu was once known as the ninja clan with most compassion. But infact it is the Uchiha who wears their feeling like a mask" Izuna explained.
"Their feeling is so strong that sometimes it causes a mutation in the eyes. That is the awakening of the sharingan. Any strong feelings may trigger this." he continues. Naruto and Izumi stayed silent in understanding
"I've awaken mine as well last year as I've found out about the rebellion, triggered by my strong will to try and stop it. But that is not the problem" he stated.
"The main problem is the next stage of the mutation that you've just awakened. The mangekyo sharingan." he stated looking at Izumi.
"That can only be obtained once something Important to the user is lost. The user will then drown in despair. Sometimes there are cases that they will even drown into vengeance. This will make them unstable and dangerous to the village." He explained.
"In the end. All that I tried to do back then is to try and minimize the damage to this. And the reason why I put them into the police force is because of their ability and their strong sense of loyalty. And sometimes justice. Yet they the result does differ from the goal. Leading to this turns of events" Izuna continues regretfully.
"Maybe it was better If I was not Hokage back then. It is probably divine retribution that I am now an Uchiha" Izuna said.
"Izumi. If it satisfies your desire for vengeance, then after I've saved the remaining survivor you may kill me. But after that, please take care of Naruto for me." He said as he does a summoning hand sign, summoning a scroll.
"This here contains the copies of all my jutsu. This room is beneath the hokage stone faces accesible only by my blood. You can get some after you killed me and escape as the massacre is over, this room blocked out all chakra, even saru wouldn't be able to detect you here." He continues.
Suddenly a slap landed on Izuna's cheek.
"you said your life belongs to me right. Then WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU MAKE ME LOSE THE LAST THING I HOLD DEAR. If you are planning on dying I will stop you, or die trying." Izumi exclaimed with teary eyes with her mangekyo still activated.
"My mother died, Itachi wants me dead. If I lose you too then I might as well die" She sobbed.
"Please... Don't ever say that again" she pleaded.
soon the sobbing sound fades and silent grows inside the room.
"So since you're not planning on dying now and all, what's the plan" Naruto exclaimed cheerfully breaking the ice.
"something I've seen and fight so many times that I'd be a dunce to forget how to do, even without the sharingan" he smiled.
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(Izumi's POV)
"Why did you chose to save me?" I said in a small voice.
"part of it was retribution I suppose, But... another part is" Izuna paused.
"It's because, I believed in you. For that you may be a sucessor to the will of fire, together with naruto" He exclaimed
"For that I will do what ever it takes, maybe being an Uchiha has taken on me more than I Imagined. Otherwise I would have killed myself once I've found out about the rebellion just to save saru the trouble" He explained.
"My mistake was not fighting the curse of hatred upfront and tries to mitigate it using the easy way. As Tobirama, I suppose I've never seen the true heart of the problem. It is only something I find being Uchiha Izuna" He continues.
"I suppose saving as many uchiha as possible is my way of retribution. So that you and Naruto will still have a family to go back to." He finishes.
As I looked at him I remembered our conversation from before, It is different then when it was with Itachi. I guess in the end my feelings for Itachi may never be reprociated. He always have something bigger to fight for.
"So how long should we continue to pour chakra into your shadow clone?" Naruto asked as he and I concentrated our chakra into the seal mark inside the clone's hands.
"1 more minute worth of chakra should suffice to get it running for a while, time is of the essence. By my sense there is two dangers running around killing Uchiha senselessly. One being Itachi, the other one may very well be the one that incite Itachi to kill all of them in the first place" He replied.
"Otherwise killing the elder will probably be enough to stop the rebellion. It is a chakra that I've never sense before. Past nor now, yet I can feel that the owner of that chakra is powerful" Izuna finished.
"So what are you planning?" I asked as we've finished charging the clone with chakra.
"Naruto, earlier you asked me if I lied about being the second hokage right? Then it's time to find out" He said calmly as the clone created 4 handsigns that I've never seen before.
"Izanagi" The clone utters the name of the jutsu. I've heard about it from my mother sometime ago. One of the strongest forbidden jutsu the Uchiha has in it's arsenal. Although using it will make you lose one of your eyesight, The usage will allow the user to alter reality to the caster's image. If she had known the seals she would have used it when father died, she said.
I saw as the clone transformed into a tall man with white hair and blue armor. Seen only in history books and paintings. Yet the only visible difference is that the clone's presence is so strong the atmosphere changed.
He really was the second Hokage. I felt a warm feeling in my heart as I saw that scene.
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Finally the first part of the battle, and the secret loophole is out.
this fic is open for adoption, along the wayI realized that creating a fic takes much time. The time I will not have once I've begun to work for my thesis. So I will try to finish this until they become ninja maybe under kakashi or so as an open ending. And hopefully someone will pick up this fic or I will continue it once I've finished my thesis in 8 months or more. And I'll probably give the one adopting this some must follow basic kind of rules and plot pointers, since this fic's plot is the only thing that is good according to the reviews.
It is more fun and takes less energy and reference gathering to read a fic rather than writing one anyways
With that, Elza-out.
