So my life would appear to be becoming more manageable... :)

I ended up writing this chapter as an escape from writing my dissertation. :') My the gods of studying forgive me.

I'm starting to wrap this part of the story up which is good. The majority of this part has been written off the top of my head and I'm looking forward to getting back to the plan! :D

Responses to Anon reviews *cough* flames *cough*

Darling Anon,

I see you are continuing your mission to save man kind but I do not see my study on the effects my fanfic has had on the world on Nature yet...

Sucks to be you.

As ever, I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 13

It took a few visits for Seiji and Sasuke to find anything worth mention, well lack of something would perhaps be a better way to put it.

"You notice that he has information and alibis for about everyone in the village but there's nearly nothing on us, apart from the notes from your interrogation?" Seiji spoke softly over to him, "I mean, this is Father…. You would think that his priority would be to clear the Uchiha name first."

"Hn." Sasuke replied, "Perhaps he has the Uchiha files elsewhere… You know what he's like when it comes to the privacy of the clan."

"Or if he thinks it was one of us." Seiji replied ponderingly.

Sasuke didn't say anything in response to this, he scanned around the room with his sharingan, hoping to find something he could use.

Seiji's eyes remained their cool black colour as he too distractedly looked around the room, "I mean, I've been thinking about this quite a lot. 'specially since I noticed there was little to nothing on the Uchiha in relation to this case."

Sasuke noticed something written in chakara ink on a postit on the wall next to the map on the wall. To the normal eye, it looked non-descript but to eyes such as Sasuke's it revealed some crucial information.

Public archive basement. Wed. 9pm.

Keeping this information to himself, he tuned back into what his brother was saying to him.

"…there's only one reason why he would be avoiding looking into the clan. He suspects us… but that got me thinking more. All of us love the old man. Even Yuri has a soft spot for him."

Sasuke allowed him to continue- to come to the same conclusion he had all those days ago.

"Aki, Yuri and I don't have the ability over chakara to do those kind of attacks. Mother doesn't have lightening nature chakara. I sometimes think that you love the old man Hokage better than your own family sometimes; you could probably kill anyone in the world without thinking twice, Sasuke, anyone except for the Hokage.

"Then there's Father. He has a major grudge against the old man but the Hokage seems to still have a soft spot for him. He was trained in ninjutsu by Kakashi Hatake and the old man; I'm positive he knows how to do both rasengan and chidori. The only thing that clears his name is an interrogation that we can't find the notes on anywhere."

Sasuke closed his eyes and deactivated his bloodline limit.

"Sasuke… I think our father tried to kill the Hokage."

"Hn."

Sasuke continued towards the room he had witnessed his first set of parents be murdered by his brother. On his way, he noticed the prone bodies of Yuriko and Seiji. His sister had long since passed but in a new twist in the dream world, Seiji was not quite dead yet. Noticing the elder teen trying to tell him something, Sasuke put his ear next to his mouth.

"You have to stop him, Sasuke, you have to-"

Sasuke shushed his brother and told him he would be avenged. Seiji smiled and watched as Sasuke continued down the hallway. Soon… soon everything would be taken care of.

The whispering of the Name rose to cries and Sasuke could no longer hear his brother's desperate breaths.

Despite Seiji reaffirming his belief, Sasuke didn't tell him about the note he had seen in their father's office. His brother had put himself in enough danger and while Sasuke was grateful, he didn't want to put his family in more danger than necessary.

It was for this reason that on Wednesday, Sasuke made his way on his own to the public archives and, after evading the pathetically weak security, reached the basement of said building.

He was not expecting to see what he found there.

Perched on the topside of some ventilation tunnels, sharingan activated, Sasuke saw tens upon tens of people stuffed into the surprisingly large room. There was a makeshift stage set up to one side of the room and upon it was stood one of the last people he expected to see.

Suddenly, a hand forcefully covered his mouth and he was pulled back slightly. Straining his eyes to look around at his assailant, he was met with the deep red of his father's sharingan.

Sasuke let his confusion wash over him as his father asked him what he was doing in that room using ANBU sign language.

"I saw the note in your office." Sasuke hastily replied.

"So you're the one that was snooping around my office. Hn. I thought it was one of the vice-chief's men."

"The vice-chief?" Sasuke raised one of his eyebrows.

Itachi gestured to the far left-hand corner of the stage. Sure enough, the man behind Sasuke's interrogation was stood, looking rather smug.

"But what- I thought-"

"Shhh! They're starting." His father gestured.

Sasuke slowly opened the door to the room he knew he would find his best friend dead in. Like always when he came in, his father was crouched over the body, blood on his hands. The man stood and turned around, eyes burning red with the cursed bloodline limit of their family. Sasuke closed his eyes' he had failed Naruto again. He didn't deserve to live.

"Sasuke!" His father's voice cried.

Blood poured from Sasuke's mouth as a blade slid into his back. He opened his mouth to see his father running towards him. Surprised, Sasuke's legs buckled underneath him as he turned to look at the one that had stabbed him.

The vice-chief of Konoha's police department took the centre of the stage and waited for the applause that had started after his name was announced to end.

"Brothers, Sisters," he began, "The time for non-chakara wielding civilians is coming. Soon, we shall no-longer be viewed as second class citizens in this village. We will take our rightful place as the leaders of this village! The tyranny of the ninja government must end!

"There are those that would stop us. Those that would say that a roof collapsing on our sleeping children is unavoidable because sometimes Ninja make mistakes. For years, we have tried to go about this peaceably, but at every point we have been turned around, ignored or even laughed at. I say enough!

"We have the support of the police, the merchants, even members of some of the most prominent clans have pledged to help us in our plight!"

The man paused for dramatic effect.

"We have the people, we have the power and, most importantly, we have the vision. A village government ran by a council with each group of residents having a representative. The only thing standing in our way is the current regime. A regime that, for our children's sakes, we must destroy."

There was a murmur of voices throughout the room. Some people shifted in an uncomfortable manner but no one left. Itachi and Sasuke kept their eyes trained on the speaker.

"It will not be easy. The Hokage has the majority of the clan's support and the older generations still remember him as a war hero. He was saved after the latest attempt on his life by the Uchiha clan and the Haruno family. To get to the Hokage, we must first remove those closest to him.

"Thankfully, this process is already in place thanks to a young man that will even put aside his own family to ensure that his fellow villagers will suffer no more! Everyone, I want you all to give a warm welcome to one of my most trusted affiliates and one of the great minds behind the plan to remove the current Hokage. Please give a round of applause for Seiji Uchiha!"

Sasuke watched as his brother, the one that he had spent so much time with over the past couple of days with, the one he never would have suspected to be part in a plot on his beast friend's life walked to the front of the stage. The elder teen was smiling warmly at the crowd before him with the same smile he would flash at Sasuke when they were sharing a joke.

Sasuke felt sick.

His brother still had that smile of his in place as he watched his little brother fall. Though the teen had never activated his sharingan, somehow the coolness of his dark eyes glinting in the moonlight made him look all the more sinister. Itachi caught him before he fell to the floor and the last thing Sasuke saw before the darkness took him was the lifeless and yet endless blue of his best friend's eyes.

And so ends the 13th chapter. Honestly, I was planning on dragging this out farther... I haven't really explored Seiji's character properly and I feel that this reveal won't have as big as an effect as it would have had if I had done the job properly. I might go back and add some stuff later on down the line.

All shall be explained in the next chapter. Don't expect Sasuke to take the revelation that his trusted big brother is a traitor. You saw what happened last time he thought that. :P

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