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The Savior That Can't Be Saved

Chapter 11:

Execution: The Future before Us, the Truth Revealed!

"So, Naruto," Sarutobi Hiruzen said with Uchiha Itachi beside him, both staring at the blond jinchuriki before them, his hands on his desk while he stared seriously at the young shinobi, "tell me about what happened down there when you appeared before Danzo."

Uzumaki Naruto knew that he needed to finally let go of his secrets as Itachi knows about the Izanagi and he was bound to have seen the many closed Sharingan eyes that covered the arm of Danzo. He sighed and looked at Hiruzen seriously. "Before I can tell you that, Hokage-sama…" When Naruto said this, the Sandaime Hokage's eyes widened slightly and, then, focused completely on the son of the Yondaime Hokage. "…I have to tell you something that you probably won't believe at all."

The old leader laughed at what Naruto said and had a slight smile on his face, almost forgetting the seriousness that emanated from the Uzumaki. "I've seen so many things by now, Naruto-kun… I'm pretty sure I can handle whatever you're saying so throw it at me."

Naruto smiled at the Third and, then, said something that almost made the "God of Shinobi" choke on his pipe. That something was:

"I'm from the future…"

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"So, what happened with the coup that the Uchiha attempted," a masked man asked, his mask showing what looked like the design of black flames coming out of the open eye hole, sitting on a bunch of rocks in a forest near Konohagakure.

A man that was half white and half black stood out of the ground with what looked like part of a plant surrounding his head almost like it was a Venus fly trap, waiting to tear his skull to shreds. "It seems that the coup was a massive failure with the Sandaime and Uchiha Itachi taking care of Fugaku and his forces, but it seems that there was one more interesting fight going on that I was more astounded by."

This definitely grew the masked man's attention. "What fight was this?" He moved toward the man, his long, spikey, dark black hair swaying when he rose from the rocks.

"A fight between Shimura Danzo and Uzumaki Naruto," the plant-like man said, or at least, the black half said it.

"Was Danzo attempting to gain control of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox already, Zetsu," the masked man asked, curious and thinking about what Danzo was doing during the coup.

"He seemed to have many Sharingan on his arm and was using some kind of technique to make reality into an illusion," Zetsu replied. "He had cells from Senju Hashirama on his arm as well."

So, he was planning to take control of the Kyuubi…, the masked man thought as he stared at Zetsu, a crimson red Sharingan showing from the hole in the mask. "Did he capture the Kyuubi jinchuriki then?"

"No," Zetsu merely said, about to go on before the masked man began to talk some more.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen or Itachi must have interfered and ended Danzo's life then." The masked man figured Danzo would be old and not have trained much in years, leading to him losing to one or the other.

"Actually, that jinchuriki seemed to have that Danzo in a corner for a while," Zetsu replied, making the masked man's eyes widen.

"What?!" the masked man raged as he shook the plant man. "How did that little jinchuriki handle Danzo?! How?!"

"He seemed to have Sennin Mode and used pretty good strategies with his Shadow Clone Technique." Zetsu forced out quickly as the masked man let go of him, turned backward, and went away for a moment with a scowl before stopping and looking back at his partner.

"Did you have any knowledge of his abilities beforehand," the masked man asked, a glare coming from his single showing eye. He kept his composure, but inside, in his mind, he was cursing. That damned Jiraiya must have gotten a hold of him somehow when my watchful eye was turned! That can be the only reason that the brat has control over Sennin Mode!

"We didn't even know that he had graduated the Ninja Academy already!" Zetsu screamed out to his leader, making him a little uneasy.

"That we didn't…" the masked man silently said, staring at Zetsu, moving toward him, and grabbing him by the throat, "But we should have known because you are supposed to keep up to date information on the jinchuriki!"

"I've been trying my best," Zetsu squealed out before the masked man threw the rouge ninja on the ground very hard and walked away with a scowl on his face.

"Then try harder than your best," the masked man hissed out from his mask as he left the room, leaving Zetsu there in complete silence.

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Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed as he rubbed his temples and forehead before looking back at the young Uzumaki that was before him. "That is surely a lot to take in, Naruto, but do you think for a moment that I can believe everything that you have said?"

"Not everything is entirely believable, but some of the things that did happen have already been changed by us. The Uchiha Massacre didn't happen, because we took the ones that were planning an uprising out. The massacre would have caused Itachi to become a rouge shinobi and join the Akatsuki as a spy, an organization that Orochimaru is currently in. Also, since we took care of the situation ourselves, we didn't get the masked man involved. We can deal with the situation easier now than what happened back in my timeline."

"Though from what you've said yourself, it seems that you have done some changing as well, graduating early, taking care of Danzo, and forcing the Uchiha to enforce their coup earlier than planned." The Sandaime said looking at Naruto. "I understand that Danzo could have potentially have become a threat from what he was planning and the stories you have told me from your time of seeing him." The Sarutobi had an almost faint glint of regret and sadness in his eyes. "It still makes me feel like I did something wrong, with Danzo…, with Orochimaru…, and even the Kyuubi attack…"

Itachi calmed the old Hokage down, "Don't blame yourself for everything that has happened, Hokage-sama. Just use these experiences and Naruto-kun's knowledge of the future to ensure that nothing like what was already happened happens. That's the only way we can make Naruto's decision to go back in time worthwhile."

This definitely calmed the leader down. "Thank you, Itachi-kun." He looked back at Naruto. "Speaking of Naruto's decision, how exactly did you go back in time again, Naruto-kun? Did you learn some kind of time traveling jutsu or something that even I, God of Shinobi, has yet to learn of or even comprehend?"

Naruto shook his head, "Not exactly, old man. What apparently happened was that before I died, somehow my unknown kekkai genkai kicked in, taking some of my life span to fuel the jutsu, along with part of my chakra, to allow me to go back in time to a set period I imagined whenever I would wake from the bloodline limit's effect."

Sarutobi was thinking about what Naruto said and, then, asked, "Then, what time did you so happen to pick?"

"For some reason, when I started to feel like I was dying, I chose the moment you gave me Ichiraku ramen and allowed me to be registered in the Ninja Academy. It might be because that's when I was finally getting to the first step of heading toward my main dream, becoming Hokage. At least, that was my original main dream until Ero-sennin died and I fought Pain… That's when I decided I wanted to bring the world of shinobi peace, to show that I could do it, make ero-sennin's and tou-san's belief in me turn into a reality. I really just wanted them to see that their trust could allow me to accomplish the goal they originally set out to do."

"I see," Hiruzen merely said, noting the mature look in Naruto's eyes, seeing the struggles and ambitions that the boy held, and smiled, "then we'll both help you accomplish your goal, Naruto-kun." The Sandaime looked at Itachi. "Right, Itachi-kun?"

Itachi nodded with a light smile, "Yes, Hokage-sama, I can help with this."

Naruto smiled at the two, "Thanks a lot, you two…"

The old man looked out toward the sky, noticing the glow of the crescent moon that was resting in the sky. "You should get home, Naruto-kun. It's starting to get late."

"Alright," Naruto said, getting up and as he did, he noticed the still unconscious Fugaku, "what about Fugaku?"

"We'll deal with him until he is executed tomorrow," Sarutobi said with a reassuring smile. "You don't have to worry about him getting out of our hands anyway. Just worry about yourself, go home, and get ready to rest and for tomorrow." Hiruzen let out a heavy sigh. "After all, tomorrow's going to be a long day."

"Right," Naruto said, heading for the door and opening it, only to look back at the two for a moment to say, "See ya, ojii-san, Itachi-san."

"See ya, Naruto-kun," the two said before Naruto shut the door, racing home, awaiting what tomorrow held.

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Uzumaki Naruto awoke with a start, hearing a knocking at his door. He simply grabbed a pair of orange shorts with white stripes down the sides and a black t-shirt with a crimson Uzumaki spiral in the middle that he found on his dresser that looked clean and quickly put them on after stripping off his pajamas. He rushed to the door right as the person beyond the door was knocking again and opened it to see his Ninja Academy teacher Umino Iruka.

"Ah, so you are up, Naruto…," Iruka said with a light smile as he looked at the just-awakened boy. "Well, since there was the whole coup yesterday and the execution of Uchiha Fugaku today at 9:00 a.m., I decided that we'll be running the Academy later today instead of normal time. So, just come to the Academy for your sensei and team at noon today, alright?"

Naruto looked at the clock in his apartment, noting that it said 8:45 a.m. Naruto sighed and grumbled, "Yeah…, thanks for waking me up, Iruka-sensei…"

Iruka grew a tick mark, "Don't you speak to me like that when I'm being kind enough to allow you more time for yourself and not make you come to class, you little brat!"

Naruto just chuckled and smiled at Iruka and Iruka could help but have a melancholy yet proud smile on his face as well. Iruka put his hand on Naruto's head of yellow spikes and ruffled them with the movement of his hand. He, then, stopped, pulled his hand back, turned around, and started to move as the sensei just spoke, "I'm so proud of you, Naruto… I've watched you grow up and become a shinobi." The Umino now had tears coming to his eyes that he didn't want the boy behind him to see. Once he wiped the tears away from his face, he turned his head back to Naruto with a heartfelt smile. "Now, show the rest of the world that you have grown and just what you're capable of, otouto…"

Naruto's smile widened at the term, reminding him of when Iruka said that to him in his time line. That was when Naruto had just figured out about the war that the masked man had declared and exactly why he was hiding, training to learn how to control Kurama and his malevolent chakra. He almost too had tears coming down his face, but they stayed locked inside the socket of his eyes. "You know that I'll do that, onii-san…"

Iruka had a shocked expression on his face for a moment before showing off another smile to Naruto and said his goodbye as he departed, just thinking. I know, Naruto…, I know…

Naruto watched the back of one of his first precious people as he left, smiling until he himself left his apartment, knowing it was close to the execution of Fugaku. With that, the Uzumaki rushed to the center of Konohagakure, the place where Uchiha Fugaku would have his last breath.

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Uchiha Mikoto let out a heavy sigh from her lips, feeling the stress of the situation with her clan and the village. Now, that her husband, which she really didn't care nearly as much for anymore, was going to be executed, she would have to take the mantle of clan head or give it to Itachi, her eldest son. The only thing was while Itachi was intelligent and talented; he still was young and had a lot of life ahead of him. She didn't want to thrust this kind of responsibility upon her son like this, even if she had a feeling that he would make a good clan head.

No, she had to do this for herself. She had to show that she was strong, could lead the clan to greatness with her own hands and feet, with her own talent.

And that is exactly what I am going to do, Mikoto thought to herself with a serious face on, ready to meet with the rest of the Uchiha Clan that was left and show that she was capable of leading her broken clan to a better future.

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The crowd whispered among themselves as the execution of one Uchiha Fugaku was about to begin. Uzumaki Naruto was right there, looking at the platform that held a restraint to hold a person's head and arms to restrict movement. Sarutobi Hiruzen came onto the platform with his teammates/advisors behind him and behind them was two ANBU black ops, one that was obviously Itachi and other ANBU Naruto noticed had Yamato's mask as they both carried the still incapacitated Uchiha Fugaku.

So, that ANBU member must be Yamato-taicho…, Naruto thought, noticing the cat-like mask right off the bat.

The Sandaime Hokage approached the stand and coughed into a tight fist before speaking. "As we all know by now, a fraction of the Uchiha Clan that resides in our village of Konohagakure planned and tried to stage a coup or uprising to take control of the village. This was mainly because of how oppressed they feel after being blamed by some of the members in our village for the dreaded attack by the Kyuubi six years ago…" Hiruzen paused for a moment before beginning to speak some more. "But that is behind us and we have to move on, just like the uprising is behind us. The thing that we'll signal the end of this uprising and the beginning of better days for both Konohagakure and the Uchiha Clan is the execution of the ring leader of the attempted coup…" Hiruzen pointed at the unconscious former Uchiha head that was to his side. "… Uchiha Fugaku!"

The old man took a moment to allow the crowd to settle after yelling in their approval before beginning to speak once again. "The lesson that can be taken from what happened to Fugaku and his clan is that we can't judge people for the actions of someone we don't know, even if we have ideas of who it could possibly be. The people of Konohagakure blaming and shunning the Uchiha for one attack that was most likely not done by someone in the village is going to stop this moment forward!" The Sarutobi grew one of his most serious faces that he had ever shown as he spoke with commanding authority. "We are going to start by opening up to the Uchiha and give them more opportunity in the village than just the Police Force, which we'll now be open to any shinobi that wants to be a part of it!"

Some of the crowd were open and liked the changes that their leader brought up, cheering while others were still skeptical about the changes, but knew their leader would do nothing to risk their safety.

"Right now, the remaining members of the Uchiha Clan are picking a candidate for the head of their clan at their meeting and they will send it to me. I, myself, will talk to and see if I approve the candidate and, along with the Uchiha Clan members, I will help select a candidate if the case is the previous one is not approved." Hiruzen, then, stopped as the people cheered once again until they settle down again and we're calm and listening to him. Once they were calm, the elderly Kage looked at the ANBU and nodded.

Yamato and Itachi nodded back as Itachi made a hand sign and applied his hand on his father, making the man awake. Fugaku rose up his head, cursing as he adjusted his eyes and noticed that he saw a crowd of random people of Konoha, whispering to each other as they looked at him. He scowled and found that he couldn't move his hands, that he was bound, which only meant that he was about to be executed for the attempted coup. The Uchiha saw the ANBU beside him and scowled at one of them, knowing that that one specifically was his son, Uchiha Itachi.

"Now, we'll start and end the execution of one Uchiha Fugaku!" Sarutobi Hiruzen said to the crowd as the crowd cheered, making Fugaku angry, especially since he spotted the Kyuubi brat, Uzumaki Naruto, in the crowd.

The two stared at each other, one with a blank, child-like expression and the other had a raging scowl on their face, focusing their hatred, their pure rage on the other. Fugaku heard Hiruzen step back and one of the ANBU slowly yet skillfully pull out a blade from their sheath as he knew his end had come.

No, I can't accept this! Fugaku yelled out in his head, his crimson red Sharingan becoming active, staring straight at the blond jinchuriki of the Nine Tailed Demon Fox.

Itachi noticed this and quickly pulled out a kunai with his free hand. He moved the kunai at a lightning fast pace, stabbing both eyes a few times, making Fugaku scream and thrash in agony.

"Fuck! Fuck you, Konohagakure!" Fugaku screamed as he was about to just yell out curses at the people that he opposed, the Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto, and lastly, his own son, Uchiha Itachi.

As this was done, Itachi swung his blade upward and, then, swung it downward, clashing with the neck and wrists of his father, allowing the crimson life to spew onto the ground below the platform, where everyone stepped back so they didn't get blood on them. The red liquid kept running from the corpse of the former head of the Uchiha Clan, even when people didn't care to watch it flow.