Here you go, sorry it took 2 weeks to write but I'm not very good at writing fight scenes so i had to get creative.
Disclaimer: i don't own naruto
Can someone let me know if they think i need to change the rating after this chapter? i kept the violence and swearing toned down as far as possible considering the situation, but there is one paragraph that may be a little graphic for my rating of (K+) thanks.
They had no warning, no hint of anything amiss on that beautiful day in Konoha. The first indication that something was wrong came when the door of the main house suddenly exploded inward revealing the rather menacing figure of Fugaku Uchiha in full battle dress. Hinali was in the backyard of the main house, watching Hinata and Naruto enjoy their Saturday as regular children should, free of any cares in the world. Sadly, today would not turn out that way in the end. Hinali heard a sound from the front of the house and could hear the branch family guards trying to stop an intruder from entering, quite unsuccessfully from the sound of it. She turned to the children.
"Hinata, Naruto, hide right now! And no matter what you hear do not come out. I mean it!"
Hinata was worried. "Mom what's wrong?"
Hinali didn't want to worry them any more than necessary but she needed to impress upon them the severity of this situation.
"Somebody is attacking us for some reason. And I need to stop them."
"But why don't we just run and let the guards handle it?"
"No Hinata I don't think they can. And running away from someone who has managed to get this deep into our compound won't do any good, and they've probably planned for that anyways. The only way for you two to stay safe is to hide while I distract the attacker long enough for help to come."
"But you'll get hurt!"
Hinali knelt down to her daughters level and gave her a hug. "I have to do this Hinata, I love you two more than life itself and I can't sit idly by while you are in danger. I would rather die protecting you than live knowing that I could have done something to prevent whatever is about to happen. Now hide in the trees while I do my motherly duty." after she said this she pushed them into the small forest that bordered the yard If I don't make it back, then use the escape tunnel to go find help."
She looked back to the house where the unknown attacker seemed to be finishing up his fight with the guards. Luckily, or unluckily as the case may be, this attack was taking place at a shift change. Not very many guards would die in the attack, but fewer guards to fight meant that the attacker didn't have to waste as much energy getting through to his objective.
The silence coming from the house indicated that the man was finished with the guards and would be coming to find them soon. Hinali calmly walked towards the house to face their attacker head on. She was shocked when she saw that it was none other than Fugaku Uchiha.
"Why are you doing this Fugaku?" she asked hesitantly, already guessing that he wanted Naruto but not wanting to believe it.
"You Hyugas have been protecting the Kyubi brat for too long, I'm just doing something about it. Nobody else has the courage to go against the vaunted Hyuga clan for fear of your supposed power. It sickens me, as if you weaklings could actually pose a threat to an Uchiha. We are the true power in this village, and it's time that you peasants learned your place." he said arrogantly.
Hinali shook her head sadly. "If only you could hear the stupidity and arrogance in that statement. But since you don't seem to know what humility is, I guess I'll just have to teach it to you!" she said as she got into her gentle fist stance. She was nowhere near as good as Hiashi in a fight, but she hoped that it wouldn't matter. All she needed to do was hold him off until help arrived, if it ever did.
"I'll never let you hurt any of my children!" she shouted as she charged.
Itachi ran across the rooftops of the village as fast as his chakra enhanced muscles would carry him. He had suspected that his father was planning on getting rid of Naruto but he had thought that he would have more time to find a way to stop him. Now instead of circumventing his father's plans he would have to stop them himself, not an easy task in the slightest. His father was still more powerful than him at the moment, and Itachi had no plan to get around that small fact. But there was nothing he could do about it except hope that he got there in time to do something other than watch his father kill one of the most inspiring people he had ever known.
Hinali was thrown back for the umpteenth time in the past ten minutes. She was no match for this master of the sharingan and she knew it. But still she got up yet again to face him, her children were depending on her now and she couldn't fail them.
"Why don't you just stay down? It's obvious that you can't win, so just sit over on the side like a good little tramp and wait for me to finish with the demon. I promise to come back and finish this after I'm done with him." Fugaku taunted.
"I'll never let you near them! Not while I still draw breath!" she shouted back.
"As you wish you insignificant speck." he said before pulling out a kunai and charging again. This time he made no pretenses as to what he was going to do, he simply ran in and stabbed her in the stomach before she could even react. Hinali collapsed on the ground, unable to stand any longer.
"Don't you go anywhere now. I'm not done with you yet. By my estimates you have about fifteen minutes left before that wound is irreversible and maybe three after that before you finally die. Don't worry, after I finish the brats I'll be sure to come back to you and make your last few minutes enjoyable, at least for me. When I'm done with you, you really will be a whore and a tramp, I'll just be performing a mercy killing after that." he said snidely before moving off to look for Naruto and Hinata. "Can the demon come out to play?" he asked in a sadistic tone. He turned to see a figure emerging from the trees, "So that's the way you want play it?"
Hinata was terrified. Her mother had just been brutally beaten and stabbed right before her eyes, and now the evil man was taunting them, calling Naruto a demon. She knew that he was talking about Naruto, she had heard similar mutterings in the village from passerby while she was out walking with Naruto, but never when she was alone. Hinata had always wanted to know why the village seemed to hate Naruto for no reason whatsoever. But now wasn't the time to dwell on such things, now was the time to protect her most precious person in the world. Nobody was going to hurt her Naru-kun when she had something to say about it. She reached into the inner lining of her jacket and pulled out her deer horn knives from their special sheath sewed into it. Then she gathered her courage and slowly stepped from her hiding place to face the man attacking her best friend.
Fugaku was amazed, the weakling had come out of hiding to face him rather than running away as he had assumed that she would. "So that's the way you want to play it?" he shouted at the forest, "Sending a weakling out to fight your battles for you? So be it! Anyone who tries to protect a demon deserves to die." he said smugly. He noticed the interesting weapons she carried with her, but didn't think much of them. Nothing could stand up to the might of the Uchiha, certainly not such a weak weapon as he saw before him. All the same he pulled out two kunai to match her weapons and defend against them. "Your weapons will be of no help to you here. I'll finish you off even faster than I did your mother, and then the demon brat will die." he said smugly.
"I will not let you hurt Naru-chan!" Hinata shouted at him before charging headlong into the fray.
Naruto was amazed at what Hinata was doing. He was sure that she was terrified at the moment but for some reason that didn't stop her. And if it didn't stop her then he wouldn't let it stop him either. He crossed his arms and poured chakra into the storage seals disguised as Uzumaki clan symbols that were situated on both biceps. As if by magic his tiger hook swords appeared in his hands, ready for action. Naruto knew that if any weapon was capable of outsmarting the sharingan it would be the tiger hook swords. He waited for the opportune moment before charging into the fray just as Hinata had only seconds earlier. As Naruto charged into the fight he silently prayed that both of them working together would be enough to deal with this man. His prayers were answered....sort of.
Itachi reached the Hyuga compound at that moment and saw the damage for himself. The entire front courtyard was demolished, guards laying strewn about the area as if tossed there by a careless child. Itachi wanted to stop and check to see if they were OK but he still had to save Naruto from his fate before he could even think of getting distracted by the injured. He walked up to the destroyed entryway and was greeted by a sight similar to the one outside, the signs of battle were evident as he hurried through the house following the sound of weapons clashing together in battle. The sound led him to the backyard where he could see Naruto and Hinata engaging his father with the strangest weapons he had ever seen. Despite their strangeness Itachi could tell just from watching that the weapons were extremely deadly when used correctly. Unfortunately, Hinata and Naruto were nowhere near the skill level where that lethality could occur, the most they could do was defend against Fugaku's attacks and possibly keep him from injuring them too badly.
As Itachi was admiring the weapons and searching for the correct time to intervene in the battle he saw Naruto make a mistake. It wasn't a big mistake and in a normal situation against a normal opponent it wouldn't matter. But sadly, his opponent was not a normal Shinobi and this was far from a normal situation, since Fugaku had the sharingan he was able to see the mistake and capitalize on it to break down Naruto's defenses. As soon as that happened Fugaku struck out with his kunai and gave Naruto the same wound he had given Hinali not five minutes earlier. Naruto was thrown back to the tree line and lay there unmoving as Fugaku approached him, ready to strike the killing blow. Before he reached the young boy however Hinata jumped in between them and assumed a defensive stance with her weapons. Itachi knew that now was the time to act if he wanted to save Naruto and Hinata and at least give Hinali a fighting chance at survival. He began to move....
Hiashi was nervous. He somehow knew instinctively that his family was under attack. And Itachi's hasty departure several minutes ago only served to confirm his feelings. But he knew that Itachi was most likely on his side and would stop whatever disaster was trying to beset his family. The boy had, after all, been observing his 'nephew' for nearly a year, if not longer than that. Observing someone like Naruto for such a long time could change a man, almost as much as personal interaction with the blond enigma could. Hiashi knew he had to trust Itachi to do the right thing, and besides, somebody had to keep the council busy to avoid their interference on the side of the attacker. And someone also had to prevent that damned motion from passing through the council, if there wasn't someone in the room actively looking out for Naruto's best interests then the thing might just pass. There would be nothing the Hokage could really do, Naruto wasn't a ninja yet and as such came under civilian control for the time being. The sooner that kid became a ninja the better, then at least the Hokage could protect him as a military asset. Hiashi sighed and sat back as Danzo Daisheki the head of the not so secret ROOT division tried to argue once again for turning Naruto into an emotionless tool that would only be loyal to him, as if anybody would be stupid enough to believe his bold faced lies. On second thought, Hiashi could see several council members nodding their heads in agreement, all civilians of course, but he still couldn't see how could they be stupid enough to fall for the obvious plot by Danzo (or Dastardly DeeDee as he was known behind his back). No, Hiashi had to stay, if only to stop the rampant idiocy of the civilian half of the council from possibly killing Naruto and ruining all of his plans in the process. He would just have to trust Itachi and hope that he got there in time to stop the attack, or at the very least preventing it's success. He looked at Hizashi and they exchanged a mutual nod, confirming their mutual decision to allow Itachi to handle this. The very fact that he had allowed them to know that he was spying on them was enough to warrant this trust. His skill level was so high that even the byakugan couldn't see him unless he allowed it to. Hiashi sighed and cast his vote to stop Danzo's proposal. He could tell that this was going to be a long meeting.
Hinata had no idea what she was doing. She had seen Naruto get hurt and saw Fugaku move to finish him off, and then suddenly she was in between the two, stopping his progress.
She took a deep breath and declared in a voice that sounded much more confident than she felt. "I won't let you hurt him. I don't care what you do to me but you aren't going to lay another hand on my Naru-chan."
Fugaku laughed evilly. "As if you could stop me child! You are nothing more than a hindrance, getting in the way of everyone and never helping things in the slightest."
Hinata seemed to shrink at his words, feeling her confidence eroding away with each syllable.
Just when she was at her lowest point she heard another voice in the yard.
"It would be unwise to continue this course of action Father." Itachi said as he stepped out of the house. "She may not be able to stop you but I certainly can. And I will if you do not give up this foolish plan of yours. There is no way that you can get to Naruto before I take you down."
Fugaku sneered, "I should have known that you would betray me like this Itachi. Your sense of duty has been skewed by this village's weak morals. No matter, I'll deal with you first, then I'll take care of the brats. Not even you can beat an Uchiha, traitor."
Itachi just looked at him with a calm expression on his face. "Father you forget that I am an Uchiha, besides that I am also a prodigy, or did you forget the very words you have been saying since I was six?"
Fugaku sneered, "I didn't forget, and I also neglected to teach you everything I know, right now you are still weaker than me!" He stopped the slow circle that they had been making throughout their conversation and attacked directly, hoping to take Itachi by surprise. It didn't work. He jumped back and tried another tactic. He turned towards the two children who were watching their fight in awe and did the most despicable thing imaginable: "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!" He shot the fireball straight at the defenseless children who had no time to react. Seeing this, Itachi jumped in front of them and shielded them with his chakra so that they wouldn't get hurt. Doing this sacrificed the protection that the shield technique would give him, and he was blown back, hitting a tree with enough force to knock him senseless. Seeing this Fugaku let out a triumphant laugh before advancing on the defenseless children once again. Regaining consciousness Itachi could see his father advancing on Naruto and Hinata's position. In a flash he was standing in front of Fugaku once again, his sharingan eyes spinning to take on a new form: that of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Fugaku was amazed, "How? How is this possible?" Itachi answered, "I do not know father, but I will find out, unfortunately you will not be around to benefit from this discovery... Tsukuyomi!" and with that Fugaku was sucked into the most powerful genjutsu he had ever experienced.
(inside the tsukuyomi)
"Where..where am I?" Fugaku asked tentatively, all traces of arrogance now gone.
"Welcome to the world of tsukuyomi father. Here, I am in control of everything. I control how you live, die, and suffer. You will experience all of the suffering that you have inflicted on Naruto and his family before I kill you in the most painful way possible and then bring you back to start the process over again. We have three days. There is much to do, let us begin now." As soon as Itachi said that the faces of the villagers appeared sneering at him, taunting him, glaring at him, doing everything possible to make his life a living hell for what seemed like years before Itachi reappeared and stabbed him in the stomach, spilling the acid it contained into his body. He screamed as the acid from his stomach began to eat him from the inside out. After what seemed like an eternity of excruciating pain he mercifully succumbed to the darkness, gladly accepting death over the torture he had been experiencing. He woke up tied to a stake, Itachi appeared before him. "You have 2 days 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds remaining."
Outside of the genjutsu only a few seconds had passed, while inside it had been three days of torture for Fugaku. When Itachi brought him out of it, the man simply collapsed. Seeing this, Itachi visibly relaxed before going to see what he could do for the injured Naruto and Hinali. He went to Naruto first, but the kid waved him off. "I'll be fine, it's just a flesh wound. Go look at Aunt Hinali she's a lot worse off."
Itachi did as he was told and sighed when he finished his examination. The situation was not good. Hinali had internal bleeding and her stomach had been punctured, causing the acid contained within to leak out into the surrounding tissues. For the moment she could be saved, if someone performed a healing jutsu immediately. Unfortunately, while Itachi knew the required jutsu he didn't have the chakra that would be required for it to work. He looked apologetically to the two children. "I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do for her, I just don't have enough chakra left for the medical jutsu she needs." Naruto looked thoughtful. "What if you did?" He asked. "I mean what if you could magically obtain enough chakra to do the jutsu? Could you save her?"
Itachi looked confused. "Yes, but I don't see how that's possible." Naruto tossed him a packet of seals. "Those are chakra batteries, use them to power the jutsu to save Aunt Hinali."
Itachi nodded. "Very well then, stand back you two." they did so and Itachi wrapped one battery around each of his wrists before activating the jutsu.
Twenty minutes later Hinali was stable and no longer in any danger of dying. Itachi had drained four of the chakra batteries and severely depleted his own chakra but finally Hinali Hyuga was going to be fine. As long as she got to a medic nin in the next several hours of course. But at least she wasn't in danger of dying at the moment. Itachi walked over to the comatose Fugaku and tied him up for later transport to the ANBU lockup, before sitting down with the children to wait for Hiashi and Hizashi to come back. He didn't think it would take long considering that the only reason the proposals against Naruto were even heard was because it was the Uchiha clan making them. Without that support the proposals would most definitely fail, and very quickly too. He was right. Not ten minutes later Hiashi and Hizashi appeared extremely out of breath from running across town to reach the clan compound faster. They didn't seem surprised with the condition of the place, they were more worried about the victims of the attack than the property anyways. After checking to be sure that the guards were still alive (they were, Fugaku only wanted Naruto, so he incapacitated rather than killed the guards). They picked up Hinali and rushed her to the hospital for treatment and to send medic nins to pick up the rest of the wounded.
A/N: well that was certainly a stressful chapter wasn't it? Don't worry about the loose ends that i left open. I'll tie them off in the next chapter before continuing on. I'm pretty sure that i'm the first person to theorize that mangekyo sharingan can be obtained in the way itachi has in this story. 10 points to whoever can guess exactly where i am going with it. unfortunately like everything else on this site everything is made up and the points don't matter (just like Whose Line Is It Anyway?). since the next chapter is more my style of writing i'm pretty sure that i can get it out quicker than i did this one. but i make no promises on that fact, i am after all a victim of College Scheduleitis (as I've come to call my lack of inordinate amounts of free time) so my time is budgeted very carefully. And by that i mean that i have no organization whatsoever so i'm basically screwed.