Title: The Child of Darkness
Rated: T (most likely going to be changed)
Category: Naruto
Pairings: None
Summary: A rare power bestowed upon him, tainted by the hate he was surrounded by. He wasn't as idiotic and weak as they thought. No… in fact he was strong, raised by the darkness they left him in. Grey!Naruto EventuallyExtremelyPowerful!Naruto
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I'M SORRY EVERYONE! There was a mix up where chapter 10 was here! SO SORRY! Anyway, as you can see the summary has changed. Hopefully, this will attract more readers. Anyway, WE MADE IT TO 40! In fact, we said fuck 40 and went to 47! Love you guys! Also, 77 favorites and 99 follows. Almost there! I still need suggestion on the summary because In all honesty, I want more people to see my ideas and be entertained by them. But you guys are enough for this girl! Shout out to jtcr for the 7 reviews! Thanks! Reply Time!
Stallion6 of Deviantart: Ha! ^_^ I wouldn't be surprised if I decided to kill him off. Not yet though.
TigrezzTail: Thanks! ^_^ Kinda came up with it on the fly while I was looking up the Uzumaki clan on the Naruto Wiki.
Somedayisours: Yesh, your reviews make me very happy! And the more I get, the faster the chapters come out! I like your name by the way. ^_^ It's cute.
Myrddin767: He will but I dunno if I wanna go into detail bout it. Seems like it'd be a little boring. 'Cause I know I don't like training chapters.
Evil-pain: Thank you much! (Yes I say it like that.)
Prettyflower34: Yesh! This is the one story I write that I really want Naruto and Sasuke's relationship to be solid, 'cause in the manga, those two are just ridiculously bipolar when it comes to each other, especially Sasuke. And no problem! I like answering questions! Like I'm having a conversation. ^_^ To answer your final question, yes Itachi is going to leave... (insert dramatic awing in the background) BUT! As always, I have my own little twist to it. Might be in this chapter.
Jtcr: (to all your reviews) Well, I'm not really a NaruTen shipper. _ They just don't interact enough for me. And we barely seen her in the anime/manga. Yes, dark Naru is always awesome. You reviewers always make me feel better bout my lack of rereading my work. ^_^ Sasuke fighting Fugaku = epic. Well it was the day of the ceremony and Iruka has always seemed like the head of the academy to me so I imagined him working with the other parents and such during that moment. And thank you much!
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Posted: February 25, 2013 (I almost forgot this! Whoops!)
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Chapter 9: The Bond of Brothers
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Naruto yawned, rubbing his eyes tiredly as he walked through the alleyways to get to the Hokage Tower, the moon high in the sky. 'Itachi-sensei is a slave driver just like his brother,' he thought, grumbling. Normally, he would have gone to his apartment after his grueling training session with the Uchiha brothers, but the curiosity to ask the Hokage what he knew was killing him. Soon, he arrived at the red tower, climbing the steps to get to the Hokage's office. He huffed silently as the brown hair secretary glared at him but let him knock on the door.
"Come in." He twisted the doorknob and stepped in, his tiredness and soreness disappearing as questions assaulted his brain. "Oh, Naruto-kun. What a pleasant surprise." The blond shuffled into the seat before Hiruzen's desk and stared hard at the wizened leader. "To what do I owe the honor?"
"I want to know what you know about my parents and my clan," he said softly. Hiruzen's eyes widened.
"I can tell you what I know about the Uzumaki clan but no one knows who your parents are. They disappeared when you were born. I told you that."
"You're lying. You wouldn't know where I got my abilities from if you didn't know who my parents were. You wouldn't be able to be so sure I'm an Uzumaki if you didn't know who they were." Hiruzen frowned, trying to form a lie. "And I know the answer to your question." The blond got a nodded from the old man, a notion for him to continue. "The Kyuubi can't be killed because it's a mass of chakra, so they sealed it. It was sealed in me at the cost of the Yondaime's life."
"Yes, that is quite right, Naruto-kun. Now about your parents," Hiruzen begin. Naruto cut him off.
"Stop lying to me!" he yelled. "I know who they are! Sasuke told me his mom worked the Red Death and we couldn't figure out who she was. So I went to go look it up myself. I found out her name was Kushina Uzumaki, the only other Uzumaki in Konoha except the First Hokage's wife. The book said she died in the Kyuubi attack. So I looked up the details of Kyuubi attack and found out the Fourth Hokage's wife was named Kushina as well and that her alias was the Red Death." The blond sighed and lowered his eyes to floor. "I started hyperventilating and passed out. Guess who I met then?" Hiruzen frowned, crossing his fingers over his mouth.
"The Kyuubi."
"That's right. And the fox told me everything. How my mom was the previous Jinchuuriki, how you told the villagers that I was a Jinchuuriki but didn't have the balls to back it up with my heritage, and how it was all according to your plan."
"Naruto…"
"How could you! You know what they were going to do to me! Yet you just let it happen!"
"I made a law that stated that no one could mention your Jinchuuriki status."
"And it did NOTHING! I get beat on my birthday every year! Even though they can't say anything, they still call me a demon, a monster, a murderer! And they tell their kids to stay away from me too! Surely, you see all of this?"
"…Your father wanted you to be seen as a hero… He and your mother both knew it wouldn't happen, but I wanted to believe that it would. After I saw what happened, I swore to myself that I would tell you when you became a Chunin," Hiruzen said, sighing.
"But you always told me they disappeared! All those night, I dreamed of them returning to claim me… but it always turned into a nightmare, where they hated and scorned me, just like the villagers. You could have at least said that you'd tell me when I got older… Maybe I wouldn't feel so alone."
"I'm so sorry, Naruto-kun." A knot formed in Naruto throat, making his eyes sting with tears – he didn't want to accept the old man's apology. Those little words would never soothe the ache he felt when he thought about his parents.
"No…" he whispered.
"No?"
"NO! You're not sorry! I won't accept it."
"Naruto…"
"No! I just want my inheritance. I know it's here. Then I'm going home." Hiruzen stared at the little blond Jinchuuriki a long while before sighed and standing. He shuffled over to the painting of the Yondaime and pulled a small safe from behind it and set it in the blonde's arms.
"It's a blood seal, so a bit of your blood will open it right up." The old man smiled but the blond just stood from his chair and stalked to the door, twisting it open. "Naruto, please don't be mad… I'm sorry." Naruto just stepped out and slammed the door shut. Hiruzen sighed and stared out the window at the moon, shining her light on the village. 'Minato, Kushina, I'm so sorry… I'll try my hardest to keep him in the village, if it's the last thing I do.'
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Sasuke waved goodbye to his blond friend as he headed home from school. He was slightly giddy to get home, seeing as he hadn't hung out with his elder brother in a few days due to a mission. Granted, he saw the other raven yesterday but Itachi was already in bed for a nap by the time he got home from his usual training session with Naruto. 'Maybe he can teach me something new he learned while he was gone,' he thought, picking up the pace. When he left the academy, the sun was setting but now the full moon was rising in the sky, bathing everything in an eerie. He shuddered slightly as a cool breeze brushed over his skin. Sasuke soon reached the Uchiha district, entering through the gate. He blinked – all the lights were off in the whole district. 'How odd... I hope everyone is alright.' Another freezing breeze rolled in and he got a whiff of something. "...Blood?" He looked around frantically. 'What's going on here? There shouldn't be some much blood to where I can smell it.' The raven took off running towards his compound, his recent training boosting his speed. He slowed down as soon as he reached his home, slipping his shoes off and padding silently through the hallways. 'It's pitch black in here.'
Sasuke closed his eyes and let his chakra flow, opening his eyes to see a slightly brighter setting. The sound of something metallic hitting flesh startled him and he speed walked to the meeting room, as to not make a lot of noise.
"Itachi... Please don't..." a voice sobbed. Red eyes widened and his breathing started to quicken – that sounded awfully like his mother. He held a shaking hand up to the door handle only to freeze.
'Come on, Uchiha! You can do this! It's just a door,' he tried to convince himself, but he knew it didn't work. He was terrified about what was on the other side of said door.
"Mother... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." That was enough to get his body in action. He burst through the door, coming upon a sight that made his blood freeze and his heart thump loudly.
His brother, his beloved older brother, was standing above his bound mother, a bloodied katana poised to decapitate her. Beside her was a disemboweled heap that he identified as his father. His eyes started stinging and his vision blurred but he blinked away the tears.
"Sasuke... Run away! Escape while you can!" Mikoto yelled frantically, tears and blood smeared across her face. Itachi brought the sword higher above his head.
"No! DON'T! PLEASE, ITACHI, DON'T DO IT!" the younger raven screamed. Itachi seemed to pause for a moment before bringing the sword to his side.
"Otouto... You weren't supposed to see this," Itachi said, an abnormally cold edge on his voice. Sasuke gulped, letting the tears run down his face.
"Itachi... Why? Why'd you do this?"
"I don't have to explain myself to you, Sasuke," Itachi sneered. Sasuke growled and rushed his elder brother only to punched in the stomach hard enough to go flying out the door, into the wall of the hallway. Sasuke gritted his teeth in pain but stood back up running out the front door, forgetting his shoes. He turned in circles, trying to spot his murderer of a brother.
"SHOW YOURSELF!"
"I'm right here." Sasuke whipped behind him and glared. "Does this make you hate me, little brother? Does it make you loathe my existence?"
"Of course it does, you jackass!" he yelled staring defiantly into his brother's Mangekyou with his own, newly developed two tomoe Sharingan.
"Then foster that hatred and when you have eyes same as mine, come hunt me down and kill me."
"Stop talking bullshit! Why did you do it!? HUH!?" Itachi sighed and closed his eyes. He reopened them and stared straight at his brother.
"To test my strength." Sasuke glared hard at his brother, angry and hurt making his heart ache and his head throb. His eyes widened.
"You're lying..."
"What do you mean I'm lying? Did I not just slaughter our whole clan in one night? Do you not see the blood stains everywhere? Are you in denial?!"
"I think you're the one in denial, Aniki. I know you better than anyone else and you wouldn't lose your cool over me questioning you if this was a true attempt at massacre without a purpose." The younger raven's eyes faded back to their original onyx, exhaustion making him shake and tear up. "And, a-and you're crying!" Itachi's own eyes widened before falling to half mass, onyx taking over his irises. The two brothers sat in silence, body racking sobs lowering Sasuke to his knees. "Why'd y-you do it?" There was a pregnant pause before Itachi spoke.
"...It was a mission."
"...A mission?" Itachi sighed heavily and sank to his own knees, the weight of what he'd done finally taking its toll.
"The clan was planning a coup d'état, which was being led by father. The clan was arrogant – because we were the other founding clan and none of the Senju were around, they felt as though they should run the village. I told the Hokage because I didn't know what else to do. But then father, he came to me and told me that I was to lead the coup and that I would make the clan proud... If the clan went through with the coup, there would be war - a civil war. I've lived through war and it's terrible! The deaths, the pain, the grieving, the memories... I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. By this time, Hokage-sama had demanded that the clan be executed. I couldn't bare the thought of the coup getting out to others. Our clan name would shamed forever and it would all fall back on you. So I offered to do it myself – they wouldn't expect anything because I agreed to lead the coup. I was hesitant – I'm strong but would I be able to take down a whole clan? But the thought came – what would they do with you? I know father hates you and he would kill you and take your eyes without hesitation. So I waited until you were at school to do it... So by the time you returned home, I would be long gone and I wouldn't have to meet you face to face..." A sad smile overtook Itachi's face, his own tears streaming silently. "You're my little brother, Sasuke. I couldn't and I can't lose you... The one and only weakness to this cold hard façade I put on everyday for this damned clan!" Itachi pulled Sasuke close in a hug, more emotion portrayed in the contact than the two could ever express in words. "So I killed them all, so I would know they wouldn't do anything to you." They stayed like that for a moment before Sasuke sighed.
"Where are you going to go? I know you can't stay here."
"To an organization that happens to be hunting your friend down."
"Naruto?" Itachi nodded.
"I don't believe he told you his little secret, huh?" Sasuke's eyes widened.
"That's funny, 'cause I made a decision like that a while back."
"What for?"
"When I figure out why, I'll tell you."
"No... no he didn't. He said he didn't know himself but he knew something was up and that he'd tell me when he knew." Itachi grasped Sasuke by shoulders, staring into his eyes with seriousness.
"Now Sasuke, no matter what Naruto tells you, I want you to accept him." Sasuke blinked in confusion.
"Of course I'll accept him. He's my best friend."
"That's not always the case. Fear makes us do crazy things. You know how lonely Naruto is right? He had no friends until you and no family at all. And the village hated him for something out of everyone's control. That boy... He's been through a lot so I just want you to accept him no matter what. I'm sure he'd still accept you after your clan almost started a civil war in the village, would he not?" Sasuke nodded. "Alright then. Now I have to get out of here." He pulled his brother into one last embrace, holding on tightly like he'd never see the young raven again. "I love you, Sasuke."
"'Love you too, Aniki," Sasuke muttered into Itachi Anbu uniform, feeling the tears come on again.
"Be strong, for the both of us, little one." Itachi pinched a nerve in Sasuke's neck, the last the little raven seeing is the smiling face of his brother running back into the compound.
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DAMN! So there it is, the Uchiha Massacre! Excuse the mistakes – I had no time to go back and proofread because I was excited! (Edit: I fixed them! ^_^ There may still be a few I missed though.) I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as much as I like writing it! Review! Ja Ne!