AN: I got this out a lot later than I thought I would. I guess I'll blame Ch. 462 of the manga for giving me more background information to add in. That and I'm getting ready to go to college so I didn't find time to write. But, here is!

Reviews:
girl-of-anime: thanks, and don't worry, this story is far from done!

Mizuki hikari: I liked writing that too. It does get boring when the only mindscape Kyuubi gets sealed up in is a sewer.

xXxJaycee81196xXx: Yes! The first guy is Ibiki. The second guy is Kakashi. Clues for him are that he uses an 'eye', the sharingan and that he has chidori. I got this from the scene in the manga where Itachi tells Sasuke to go to bed and his parents are surprised they didn't hear him. Sasuke will hear a lot of things he shouldn't know this way.

I should warn you that this chapter has a lot of information in it and is very confusing. Enjoy!


Chapter 3
Conversation With Kyuubi

"Who dares trespass into the deepest corners of my prison?!" the Kyuubi roared, chakra flaring.

Itachi was so scarred he backed up from the cave and fell into the stream flowing from the cave. When he had ventured into Sasuke's mind he never thought that that the Kyuubi no Kitsune would be there. But he now saw what the Yondaime had done. The Yondaime had carved out a place in Sasuke's mind for it and sealed it in there.

He quickly got out of the stream; it was burning hot. The only time he could remember a feeling like this was when the Kyuubi's chakra had been sealed into his brother. This knowledge along with the fact that his right arm was not in any pain made him realize that the black liquid in the stream was the Kyuubi's chakra.

Itachi turned to face the Kyuubi. It was three story tall fox with nine tails that were currently swishing behind it. Fiery blood red chakra swirled around it and through the chakra Itachi could see it's sharp teeth were barred and it's glowing red eyes were filled with anger and malice. The fox made a noise at the same time it moved its head. Itachi realized it was sniffing something.

"Uchiha," said the Kyuubi. It chuckled to itself. "And not just any Uchiha, but the heir of Uchiha Madara himself." It laughed insanely. "So the bastard traps me inside that wretched genjutsu of his again and then has the gall to send his heir to torment me. Oh, that is rich, that is rich." It paused and looked at Itachi. "Now if I could just get out of here I would rip you apart!" It's tails went for Itachi and banged against the iron bars that stretched across the mouth of the cave. "I swear when I get out of this place I will rid the world of that accursed clan!" The Kyuubi raised its claws to bring them down on the bars and Itachi activated his sharingan in fear.

As soon as he did so, the Kyuubi changed. Its chakra became less menacing and its eyes lost their angry look. Instead they were filled with confusion. It surveyed its surroundings a couple times and looked outside the cave. It raised an eyebrow. "Why in all of the Elemental Nations am I sealed in someone's mind? Hold on, hold on," it said, holding up a paw and closing it's eyes. "It's all coming back now." It shook it's head a couple times and narrowed it's eyes. "Okay. Why does that Uchiha Madara have to make my life so... difficult?" It's tone was one of annoyance. "Hey, you with the sharingan," it said, looking with indifference in Itachi's direction. "Stay here until I get back. Got it memorized?" Itachi gave it a frightened nod and the great beast disappeared into the back of the cave.

When the Kyuubi left, Itachi could finally move again. To say it had been a nerve racking experience would be an understatement. One moment the Kyuubi wanted his entire family dead; the next it was suffering from memory loss. Itachi's train of thought was derailed when the Kyuubi started talking to itself.

"Man, the guy who sealed me in here is getting serious points. He really knew how to design a five-star demon containing seal. When I meet up with Ichibi I'm so going to be bragging on him. Now where did he put the... Oh nice! Very clever! I can watch both at the same time." Itachi sighed in relief. The Kyuubi did not sound very dangerous. He deactivated his sharingan and everything changed.

"I will pay back the pain you caused me a hundred fold!" The Kyuubi rammed against the bars and his chakra flared up again. Itachi took a step back and activated his sharingan again. The Kyuubi shook its head and looked angrily at Itachi . "What did you do that for? Your sharingan are the only things that are keeping me sane! Got it memorized?"

"H- Hai." Itachi stuttered.

"Good. Now stay here and keep your sharingan activated until I get back." The Kyuubi walked back into the cave and Itachi heard it muttering to itself again. "Now where were those lakes? Oh right, here they are. Now, what's been happening to you since you were born?" There was silence for a moment and then the Kyuubi started talking. "You are definitely going on my favorites list... You just went to the top of my hit list... I like you... I hate you... That was mean... Oh, come on... Well the Namikaze fortunately haven't changed... Neither have the Yamanaka, unfortunately... Why did they do that... Oh, that was smart... Nice... That makes a lot of sense... Okay, glad that's done. Now I really need to change before I freak Itachi out any more. At least the style is better than it was."

In an instant the Kyuubi's chakra vanished. In its place, Itachi detected another chakra source. It was very different than the Kyuubi's chakra. The most prominent difference was that it was human chakra and not demon chakra. It wasn't even a large human chakra source; if someone had that much chakra in Konoha, they would be considered to have no chance of becoming a shinobi. As Itachi was determining this he heard human footsteps coming towards him. He looked up and was taken aback by what he saw.

Standing in front of him was a male human in his early twenties with very long, spiky, blood red hair and teal eyes. A black line ran a few inches down from the center of each eye. Under a black leather jacket, he wore a blood red t-shirt. On the back of the jacket was the kanji for nine in red and on the front of the t-shirt was the kanji for fire in black. He wore a pair of jeans and black shinobi sandals. The man was on the tall side, but not tall enough to draw any extra attention to himself. If Itachi had seen him in a large civilian city, he wouldn't have spared him a second glance. Here in Sasuke's mind though, he looked completely foreign. "Who are you?" Itachi asked.

The man chuckled. "I'm Kyuubi."

"No, you're not."

"Oh believe me, I am. Watch this." The man dissolved into blood red chakra that bubbled up to form the now familiar shape of a nine-tailed fox. Killing intent physically pushed Itachi into a kneeling position. "Believe me now?" The Kyuubi grinned. Itachi weakly nodded yes and the Kyuubi's chakra receded into it's human form. "Just for your info, if you had said that in any other place and at any other time I would have killed you. Got it memorized?" Kyuubi sounded as if nothing had happened.

Itachi nodded and got up. "Why do you keep asking that?"

"Asking what?"

"'Got it memorized?'"

"Oh, that. Humans tend to forget what you say unless you either repeat what you said five times over or say something like that the causes them to actually remember what you said the first time. And I really don't like repeating myself. Now that you know why I do that, why don't you ask me whatever questions you might have."

"What?"

"I always try to avoid this..." Kyuubi shook his head. "I mean, you would ask me questions like, why do you have a human form, what was going on when I came in, why did you attack Konoha. Stuff like that."

"Oh." Itachi felt stupid. "Well, if you could answer all of those questions that would be a good starting point. You do know the answers to all of them, right?"

"Unfortunately, I don't... Of course I do!" Kyuubi laughed at Itachi's expression. "Why don't you come and sit down over here. This will take a while in here, but won't take any time outside of Sasuke's head." Itachi went over to where Kyuubi was leaning against the wall of the cave and sat down on the other side of the bars.

"I'll start off with the reason I have a human form because it's the easiest one to explain and because it has the shortest explanation. The main reason I have a human form is to avoid the situation I'm in right now. Most of the bijuu were captured when they accidentally went through a city in demon form that was in between Point A and Point B. If you look like a human and you go through a city, no one bothers you. The other reason is that I find humans fascinating to talk to, but they don't like talking a mountain sized bijuu who leaks demonic chakra for some reason. If you talk to them as a human however, they won't have a problem with you at all.

"The reason why I attacked Konoha and what you saw when you came in are actually related. But the relation between them goes all the way back to the founding of Konoha. That start—"

"You don't have to tell me. I already know." Itachi interrupted. "Oh, sorry."

Kyuubi laughed. "It's okay. Why don't you tell me what you know about it and I'll fill in any blanks that I think there are. It'll be interesting to see what humans say happened," he said to himself.

"Well," Itachi began, "Konoha was founded when the Uchiha clan and the Senju clan formed an alliance with each other."

"Go on," said Kyuubi. He said the same thing after each full sentence Itachi said.

"They had peace until the Uchiha clan got Uchiha Madara exiled for some reason. Madara started causing trouble for the village so the Shodaime decided he had to kill Madara so that there would be peace. The Shodaime ended up fighting Madara and killing him in what is now known as the Valley of the End."

"Okay, you can stop there." Kyuubi paused for a moment. "I would call that a bare bones version of what happened. But is isn't your fault you don't know because Madara obviously didn't tell anyone his side of the story and it sounds like the Shodaime didn't tell how he and Madara fought either."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, the Shodaime fought with traditional ninja methods while Madara used me."

"Wait, what?! Madara used you?!"

"Well, actually he forced me."

"How did he do that?"

"With his sharingan. And no, definitely not a normal one." Kyuubi overrode Itachi's question. Kyuubi leaned his head back against the wall and looked up at the ceiling. "Back before Konoha was founded, Uchiha Madara killed his best friend to obtain the most powerful form of sharingan in existence, the Mangekyou Sharingan. Besides slowing down action even more and having better copying abilities than the normal one has, the Mangekyou Sharingan produces Amaterasu, a black flame that burns whatever it's aimed at for seven days and nights, it can't be put out by anything; Tsukuyomi, a genjutsu that puts whoever is caught in it at the caster's disposal, it's the most powerful genjutsu in existence and cannot be broken out of by normal methods; and Susano'o, a special ability that changes according to the person, Madara's was a space/time ability that let objects and jutsus pass through him, while his brother's was a space/time ability that let him go from one place to another instantaneously without warning. The only problem with it is that you go blind after continual use.

"After Madara killed his best friend, he took his friend's eyes because when the eyes of the killer turn into the Mangekyou Sharingan, the eyes of the killed turn into the Sakashima Mangekyou Sharingan which is the only natural defense against the Mangekyou Sharingan. Along with slowing down the action and increasing the copying abilities of the sharingan, it puts out Amaterasu, can break out of Tsukuyomi and negates the affects of any Susano'o.

"Once Madara started going blind because of Mangekyou overuse, he manipulated his younger brother, who also had the Mangekyou Sharingan into giving him his eyes because the only way to stop going blind is to take your brother's eyes to replace your own. Now Madara had the Eien no Mangekyou Sharingan, the same as the Mangekyou, but without the blindness. He also gained his brother's Susano'o ability and is unable to be killed except by another Eien no Mangekyou Sharingan user. Fortunately, that's the result of the combining of his and his brother's Susano'o abilities and will never be repeated in anyone else.

"Now Madara had the ultimate offense, and he wanted the ultimate defense. So he replaced his left Mangekyou Sharingan with his friend's Sakashima Mangekyou Sharingan. Now even if anybody did have an Eien no Mangekyou Sharingan, he could defend against them. It turns out that getting a Mangekyou Sharingan affects both your body and your eye; once Madara had Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi he would have them even if he he replaced both Mangekyou Sharingans with normal sharingans. He wouldn't have his Susano'o though.

"By now, Konoha had been formed. Madara was very angry when Senju Hashirama became Hokage. Why, he thought, should they pick a common ninja when they could pick a god? He felt the Uchihas were treated as outsiders and wanted to plan a coup d'etat that would put the Uchiha on top with himself as Hokage. By then the Uchihas were tired of constant war and wanted peace. They betrayed him to the Shodai who exiled him from the village. Once he was out of the village, Madara started attacking Konoha shinobi out of revenge. Obviously, they could do nothing against him. It got so bad that the Shodaime decided he had to finish it once and for all and went out to fight him at the place which is now called the Valley of the End.

"Madara knew this was going to happen and sought to get the most powerful being he could get to fight for him, namely me."

"Hold on a moment." Itachi's head was spinning from the information. "Let me get this straight. Uchiha Madara had a super powered sharingan that could defeat anyone and another super powered sharingan that could not be defeated by anyone."

"Yeah."

"So how did the Shodai beat him?"

"I'll get to that when it comes up. Right now though, I'm at one of the most important parts of my narrative. Madara sought me out and asked me to fight for him. I told him I didn't fight anyone without good reason. He gave me the reason why he wanted to fight Hashirama, and I flatly refused to fight for him. When he—"

"I thought you said he wanted to fight the Shodai because he exiled him from Konoha."

"No, I didn't." Kyuubi laughed. "I told you the Shodai wanted to fight Madara so that he wouldn't bother Konoha again. Got it memorized?"

Itachi smiled at the reference to his short memory. "So what was Madara's reason for fighting the Shodai and why didn't you like it?"

"I didn't like it because Madara is a fatalist." Kyuubi scowled at the memory.

"What do you mean by that?"

"He believes that anything anybody does, is, and will be are determined by things like what family they were born into, where in the family they were born and things like that. He also believes we can't fight fate and we shouldn't try to find a better set of circumstances then the one we find ourselves currently in. It doesn't have an ounce of truth to it whatsoever. I should know."

"Why would that be a reason for him to fight the Shodai?"

Kyuubi sighed. "Do you want another long history lesson?"

Itachi smiled, "Well, you did say that this won't take any time at all outside my brother's body. So yeah, I want another history lesson. Especially if it explains why you are locked up in my brother's body."

"Okay then, but this one starts way back during the time of the Rikudou Sannin, the Sage of the Six Paths."

"He existed?!" Itachi was shocked.

"Of course." Kyuubi was exasperated. "And if you're wondering why I know, I'm a bijuu; I can't die. I was there for the entire thing. Actually, this starts when the Sage was dying and was picking which one of his sons would succeed him.

"The oldest son had inherited his father's eyes, including a dojutsu, powerful chakras and spiritual energy. He believed that the way to peace was through force and intimidation. The youngest one had inherited his father's body, including a kekkei genkai, life force and physical energy. He believed that the way to peace was through love and trust. When the time came to chose a successor, the Sage felt that it was through the younger son that peace would come and choose him as his successor.

"When the older son heard his younger brother would succeed the Sage he attacked him and promised him that there would be no peace between them until the older son and his descendants would wipe the younger son and his descendants off the face of the earth. Since that time the two son's descendants have fought each other. The name of the older brother was Uchiha and the name of the younger brother was Senju." Kyuubi stopped and looked directly at Itachi. "Do you see what Madara thought and why I refused to fight for him?"

Itachi looked away in contemplation. "Yes. He thought that he and the Shodai had been fated to fight each other because since the day they had been born and the only thing that they had no control over was the outcome. Because he wanted to ensure victory for himself he sought you out because you are the most powerful being in existence. I'm guessing that you disagreed with that because you know that a person's fate is not determined by where they are born, but by the actions they take." He looked at Kyuubi. "Is that why?"

Kyuubi nodded. "Yeah, pretty much. Now where was I..." He leaned back against the wall and stared at the ceiling. "Oh right, I had just told Madara that I wouldn't fight for him. When he heard that he said: 'You will whether you want to or not,' and looked me in the eye with active sharingan and said, 'Tsukuyomi.' I was thrown into the genjutsu.

"Never have I been so helpless in my entire existence. It is painfully obvious that you are in a genjutsu, but there is no escape like there should be. The entire time we were in there, he had complete control of the environment and through that, complete control over my physical body. While he had control of me, he made me fight the Shodai. If it wasn't for the Shodai's mokuton, I doubt he would have survived.

"While he was making my body fight the Shodai, Madara was also fighting me. Fortunately for me, Madara is as cocky as he is a fatalist and thought that while my body was under his control, my mind would also be. While he held me captive in Tsukuyomi, he attempted to go into my mindscape in much the same way you did and force me to revel to him all that I knew about the shinobi arts. After a while he managed to do it. Unfortunately for him, it backfired and I ended up in his mind where I quickly forced him to reveal all he knew about his dojutsu along with his strengths and weaknesses. That's how I know all that stuff about the Mangekyou Sharingan and what his eyes' powers are.

"Once I had finished getting all the information I wanted from him, I knocked him out inside his mind which threw me out of Tsukuyomi and gave the Shodai the chance to supposedly kill him. Once I was in control of my own body again, I resumed human form and healed the Shodai. I quickly explained to him what had happened and he let me go because I didn't hold a grudge and wasn't a danger to him or Konoha.

"After he left, I stuck around the Valley of the End because I had some unfinished business to attend to with Madara that I wanted to finish before he regained consciousness and before his Susano'o abilities started working again. I went over to him and plucked his Sakashima Mangekyou Sharingan from his skull and destroyed it with my chakra to assure that it would never work again. That woke him up and he disappeared to who knows where before I could take his Mangekyou Sharingan. And that ends my version of the founding of Konoha and the aftermath." He stretched and looked at Sasuke. "What do you think?"

Itachi blinked. He had been so engrossed in the story that he hadn't noticed when Kyuubi had finished. "What do I think? Well, it fits with what everybody is told happened and it explains what you were saying when you first saw me, but you said you were sane the entire time you were in Tsukuyomi and it doesn't explain why you attacked Konoha four years ago."

"You're right, it doesn't. But if you want to know why I attacked Konoha four years ago, you need to understand what happened at the Valley of the End. Got it memorized? And why don't we get to that seeing as you now have all the necessary background information.

"For the next, lets just say a hundred years, I traveled around, visited each hidden village as it got started, talked with my fellow bijuu, laughed when I heard they got captured, visited them when they got sealed into jinchuuriki, gave away technique ideas to my all time favorite clan, the Namikazes\, and—"

"Wait, why are the Namikaze your favorite clan?" Itachi wanted to know if it was just a coincidence that the Namikazes took his brother in or not.

Kyuubi smiled. "If you're thinking that I had something to do with the fact that they took your brother in, I didn't. But they took him in for the same reason I liked them so much. All they care about is what your actions say about you and not what your background is. They're as far from Madara's way of thinking as anybody could possibly be. Which is probably why I ended up marrying one of them, but that's a different story.

"That was how life went until sometime four years ago in the spring when I met up with Madara in the Kaminari no Kuni. Or rather he met up with me. He had been searching for me for the past decade and didn't find me until he heard rumors of a katon user who's skills surpassed those of everyone. Knowing that fire's my favorite chakra nature to use and that I can't help showing it off he thought it would be me and came to investigate. He was right of course and I set out to finish what I'd started. It turned into a full on duel and because of his blasted Susano'o he managed to get through my defenses and into my mindscape where he entrapped me in Tsukuyomi again.

"Unfortunately for me he had not been idle during the last century. Instead, he had been going over the fight with the Shodaime and learned what his mistakes were that time and had figured out ways to avoid them. When he first pulled me into Tsukuyomi, he was there. But before I could go into his mind he left, but he still had control of my body somehow. The last memory I have of being sane in there was trying to break out of it by force. I probably went insane when I realized I was imprisoned in that wretched world and I couldn't get out. It's my greatest fear. Fortunately, I still have memories of what happened once I went insane, but I see them through a red haze." By now Kyuubi was talking in a very quiet, slow voice and had buried his head in his hands. Itachi leaned closer to listen.

"Once I went insane, it seems I forgot what I thought about the shinobi world. I knew the information about it, but I didn't know what I loved and what I hated. I did know that there was something wrong with me and that Madara was the cause of it.

"Once Madara was confident that I could not regain my sanity he let me out of Tsukuyomi. He had steered me toward Konoha during the time I was in Tsukuyomi and told me that after I destroyed the village, he would undo what he had done to me. Since I didn't know any better I believed him and started to attack the village. Before I could get to close to the village though, a man, who seems really familiar now for some reason, started attacking Madara. If anyone could have killed Madara without the Eien no Mangekyou Sharingan, it would have been him because he had some jutsu that was faster than Madara's Susano'o. Because of that he was able to land a hit on Madara. The hit knocked Madara out long enough that the man could do the Fuuin Jutsu: Shiki Juuin and trap me in here.

"When I got in here I was still insane and was outraged because I thought that I was in Tsukuyomi again."

"You thought you were in Tsukuyomi again? Why?" Itachi was almost afraid to ask the question.

Kyuubi looked up. "The caster of Tsukuyomi has complete control over every aspect of it, time, place etc. But there are some things in it that cannot change no matter what they do and those things let the person trapped in it know that they are in an genjutsu. The sky will always be blood red, there will always be a moon somewhere in the sky and it will always be black, and there will be gray clouds in the sky that look like tattered rags." He and Itachi looked at each one of them as he talked about them. "There is one thing that is in Tsukuyomi that is not in your brother's mindscape and I am very glad that that is not the case. Unfortunately, I did not notice it when I first got here because I was so angry."

"What is that?" Itachi bit his lip.

"In Tsukuyomi, colors are reversed. Black is white and white is black. Here at least everything is the correct color even if it is illuminated by the red light of the sky. Now let me continue; I'm almost done.

"Once I got here, I cursed Madara for trapping me in his genjutsu again and decided to sleep until I got strong enough to break out of here. I woke up when I felt you disrupt the flow of chakra coming from me. And you know the rest." Kyuubi leaned against the wall and focused his intense eyes on the black moon.

Itachi turned around and leaned against a bar and stared at nothing in particular. He's innocent. It was Madara that attacked the village, probably out of revenge, not him. He was just a tool. And he knows more about the sharingan then is in the clan library probably. Then a scary thought ran through his mind and Itachi felt a chill go up his back at the thought of it. Madara is still alive. As long as he is still alive he will continue to try to destroy Konoha. He knew what he had to do. He turned to Kyuubi. "Why did you become sane when I activated my sharingan and go insane again when I deactivated it?"

Kyuubi was biting his nails which seemed to grow at a faster rate then normal. After a long time of thought he said, "The cause of my insanity is the sharingan. Specifically Uchiha Madara's sharingan. It seems that seeing a sharingan in my jinchuuriki's mindscape undoes the effect on my mind as long as the sharingan is activated. I have seen many sharingans outside of this mindscape and have never gone sane."

Itachi thought about the answer. "Is there a way then that you could become sane again?"

Kyuubi cocked his head at Itachi. "Seeing how I'm sane right now, and how I got out of it the last time, I would have to see Madara's sharingan in here, which would make me sane again and then get break out of Tsukuyomi the way I broke out of it the first time in order to keep my sanity. "

"Okay, what are Madara's weaknesses now that he no longer has the Sakashima Mangekyou Sharingan?"

Kyuubi grinned. "Now that I can answer. He's just like he was when he had the Eien no Mangekyou Sharingan, only it's worse this time because he has only one eye; he has a blind spot. And if you were able to predict where he would appear and knock him out just as he arrived there, you would stop his Susano'o effects from working. You would still need an Eien no Mangekyou Sharingan to kill him though. Oh, Tsukuyomi would also work on him if you were able to catch his eye for it."

"I have one more big question for you. How do you think your insane side will affect my brother?" Itachi had genuine concern in his voice.

"It depends... If my insane side thinks he's in Tsukuyomi, he probably won't do anything. If he finds out he's in a jinchuuriki, he'll try to keep Sasuke alive at all costs, because when Sasuke dies, he dies. If Sasuke is emotionally unstable, he'll probably try to take control over his body by overwhelming Sasuke's chakra network with his own chakra. And if there is ever a time when he thinks he can convince Sasuke that his only option is to turn to him for help, he will tell Sasuke that the only way he can help him is for Sasuke to take this seal off." Kyuubi knocked on a bar.

"Huh?"

"There's a seal here that only Sasuke can see. It's what keeps me locked in here. If Sasuke were to take it off, it would release me out of his body. He would be killed in the process. That is what the insane Kyuubi wants the most and he will keep Sasuke alive until he gets it. Other than that, he'll ignore him. Got it memorized?"

"Yeah." Itachi looked thoughtful for a moment. "What would you, the sane Kyuubi do in here?"

"Oh, if it was me? If it was me in here, I would keep him alive, tell him stuff he fails to notice, watch his back in fights, and if he really was in trouble, let him take me out of here to fight for him. Kinda like Hachibi, only a lot more powerful."

"Who's Hachibi?"

"The eight-tailed ox-squid that's sealed up inside Kirabi, the Raikage's brother. Probably my most favorite bijuu to talk to. Is that all your questions?"

"Yeah. You've given me a lot to think about."

"Okay, good." Kyuubi stood up and stretched. "Just one more thing I need to tell you and then I think you should go back to you're own body. Let me see you're right arm." He held out his hand through the bars.

Itachi held out his arm and Kyuubi took it and pulled it through the bars. Kyuubi rolled up his sleeve and turned the arm until the shiny burn was glinting in the red light. "I see. Itachi, tell me when and where it hurts," said Kyuubi and Itachi felt something flowing through his arm. It wasn't painful until it went through his shoulder.

"Ow!" Itachi jerked his arm back through the bars. He rubbed his shoulder. "What did you do?"

Kyuubi looked up and laughed at him. "When you first stepped in the stream of my chakra, I felt someone that had mostly all human chakra, but also had vestiges of demon chakra mixed in with it. Most interestingly, it was my demon chakra. So, sorry if I kind of wanted to know how it's affected you."

"It's affected me?!"

"Of course! You think that having some of my chakra in you isn't going to affect you in some way?"

"Well, all it did was increase my reserves."

"Oh, it did something more than that, but I'm not going to tell you. Humans like discovering things for themselves and you'd learn it better on your own anyway."

"Are you covering up the fact that I'm a jinchuuriki?"

Kyuubi chuckled. "No, in order to be a jinchuuriki, you have to have a bijuu sealed in you. You definitely aren't that. In fact, my chakra stopped affecting you by the time Fugaku hacked your brother's eyes out."

"Oh, that's good."

"Yeah, well seeing as you don't have any more questions for me and I think I've given you enough to think about for a couple of years, I guess I'll send you back."

"You'll send me back? I thought I was the one who needed to end the jutsu.?"

"You did. It ended as soon as you stopped seeing Sasuke's memories. You didn't leave because you were looking for the exit right?" Itachi nodded. "Well, you missed it back there. Fortunately, I can send you out of my jinchuuriki's mind. Are you ready? This won't hurt a bit. Oh, one last thing. When they're figuring out what type of elemental chakra you have, make sure that you channel chakra through both hands at the same time as well as each hand separately. Got it memorized? Now close your eyes."

Itachi did so and a hand was placed across his forehead. Chakra rushed through him and the hand was removed. He opened his eyes and saw the pale face of his younger brother with his bloody hand over Sasuke's forehead. Itachi held Sasuke close to him and cried.


As soon as he had sent Itachi out of his jinchuuriki's mind, Kyuubi felt the insanity coming back. "No!" he cried as he lost his human form and went into his nine-tails form.

The Kyuubi's tails swirled in anger. Somehow the cursed Uchiha had gotten out of Tsukuyomi. He would remember him, him with his red eyes and black hair and white skin... Wait, if he were an Uchiha inside Tsukuyomi, he would have white hair and black skin... This cannot be Tsukuyomi! The beast looked outside the bars. The world was the color it would be if it was lit by a red sky. That confirms it. Now that he'd thought about it, Tsukuyomi did not have those lakes that showed what was happening in the outside world. The Kyuubi padded back to look at the lakes again. If he was not it Tsukuyomi, where was he?


Sasuke woke up to find himself lying on someone's bed. He looked around the room and froze when he saw the Uchiha symbol on the wall. Footsteps were heard coming toward the room and he turned away from the door hoping that whoever it was wouldn't hear him and would walk by the room. His luck did not hold out.

The door opened and shut and Itachi's voice, emotionless as ever said, "Don't worry. Nobody besides me knows you're here."

Sasuke turned towards Itachi knowing that it was pointless to hide from him. "Where am I?"

Itachi sat on the foot of the bed. "You are in the room of Uchiha Itachi in the Uchiha Mansion." He didn't volunteer any more information.

"What are you going to do to me?" More than anything, Sasuke wanted to get back to his mother. He felt tears coming.

Instead of answering his question, Itachi asked, "Do you know anyone around here who wouldn't have a problem with you staying with them uninvited?"

"The Nara." It didn't take Sasuke any time to come up with an answer.

Itachi nodded and stood up. "Let's go." He gave Sasuke a hand. "In case you are wondering how we'll get out of here without anyone knowing, we are using shunshin."

Sasuke nodded, he'd seen his mother and aunt do it many times before. Itachi held him close and Sasuke felt a ripple of chakra go through him. He blinked and they were standing right outside the Nara's front door. Itachi knocked and the door was opened by Shikaku's wife, Yoshino.

She took a split second look at Itachi and Sasuke and pulled them in the door and closed it in less than a second. She shooed them into the living room. Once they were there, she sat Sasuke down on sofa while her shadow connected to Itachi's to prevent him from moving. Sasuke decided it was probably not a coincidence that the Nara had installed multiple overhead lights in the ceiling; Itachi was held in place by no less than five different shadows.

Yoshino went over to a shortwave radio set and started tuning it muttering the entire time that Shikaku had better have his on him and that he had better have not changed the frequency. She apparently got a hold of him because she said, "You can back home now, he's here... Uchiha Itachi of all people showed up on our door step with him... No, I made sure he wouldn't... Okay, good, see you soon." She walked over to Sasuke who hugged her tightly. "Is Kaa-san coming?"

She smiled at him. "Yes Sasuke, your mom, Kushina, and Shikaku are all coming back." She held him until voices could be heard in the kitchen.

"Kaa-san!" Sasuke ran into the kitchen and flung himself at his mother. "Kaa-san, Kaa-san."

"Sasuke!" She picked him up and held him close. "What happened?"

"There— There were," by now Sasuke was crying. "There were these three Uchi—"

"Perhaps I can explain?" Itachi asked from the living room.

Mikoto nodded at Shikaku and they all went into the living room.

"What happened, and how did you find out?" Mikoto was facing Itachi.

"An Uchiha bumped into Sasuke in the alley that goes around the Uchiha district and called in a few friends to kill him. They took him into the Uchiha district so that no one would know what they had done until afterwards. I saw them just as the leader was about to cut Sasuke's stomach open and reminded them that out clan would be dissolved if they killed them. They left and I caused Sasuke to go to sleep with my sharingan so that no one else would know he was there. I shunshined with him to my room where I left him while I went to find the men who tried to kill him. Once I found them, I asked them what they were doing and they quickly told me the truth. I also verified it with my sharingan to make sure that they didn't leave anything out. After that I told the Hokage and asked him that the incident would not be made public. He agreed and I went back to Sasuke. I asked him if there was anywhere near there where he could go. He told me to bring him here and I did. That is all." The entire time, he was talking in the same emotionless flat voice Sasuke had always heard him speak in.

"Thank you." There were tears in Mikoto's eyes. "Yoshino, let him go. It's obvious that he doesn't mean any harm." Yoshino nodded and the shadows retreated. Itachi nodded to Mikoto and shunshined away, leaving nothing more than a hand full of leaves in his wake.

Mikoto put Sasuke down on the sofa and wiped the tears from here eyes.

"Kaa-san, what's wrong?" Sasuke had never seen his mother cry.

"Nothing." she said and smiled. To Sasuke, it both sounded and looked forced. She put her arms around him."Well, I'm sure you want to go home."

"Yeah. I do."He paused. "Where's Naruto?"

"Naruto already went to bed; he's spending the night. Now hold onto me. We're going home." Sasuke did and Mikoto shunshined back their home, the Namikaze compound.


The purple-haired girl writhed on the floor in agony. What's going on? She thought over and over again. Why did he do this to me? Sensei's never hurt me before, not like this.

After a while the pain receded to a bearable level. She got up cracked all her joints to make sure they were fine. She hissed when cracking her neck caused the pain to flare up again. What did he do to me? My body doesn't feel right. Maybe she would know; she does work with him in the lab after all.

She opened her door and walked through the maze-like passages to the lab and went inside. "Hey Karin," she called and a small girl with long, unnatural blood-red hair lowered the thick medical book she was reading.

"What is it Anko?" She sounded board.

Anko went up to her and pulled the collar of her shirt back to reveal a purplish-black bruise on the juncture of her neck and left shoulder. "You wouldn't happen to know what this is, would you?" she pointed at the bruise.

Karin squinted at the bruise and her eyes widened. She was definitely not board now. "Come here," she said, going towards the back of the lab. "He's got an entire file on it."


AN: The Sakashima Mangekyou Sharingan, the way it works (mostly) and its name are not mine. It is the brilliant creation of Nightblade888 from his story Naruto of the Mirage.

If you were really confused with this chapter, its okay writing it was hard. My advice to you is read it again and tell me what's confusing in a review and I'll straighten the confusion out in my next post. Thanks for reading!